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A Boring Dystopia
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I don't think americans realized that they are paying for the biggest strongest army in the world, that can literally chose to invade any country, but they themselfs have to pay for life saving medication without a job because they don't have free health care nor medical paid leave, all this while spending their whole lifes paying for student loans. When people question this thay say "we are protecting our way of life"
DUDE... WTF...Do something
From Dwight Eisenhower's Cross of Iron speech:
...Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.
It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.
It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.
We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.
We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking.
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron...
I’m an American immigrant in Germany. What I didn’t realize is how fucking cheap everything about healthcare is, not just insurance, but the various other costs. I take (generic) vyvanse, which cost me about a hundred bucks a month, in addition to monthly doctors visits and urine tests, totaling about $200-300 (it was still around $90 a month after hitting the deductible). In Germany, I go to a doctor every other month for free, don’t have to do any testing, and the prescription costs ~16€/month.
Germans have healthcare insurance?
Everything is free here in Scotland, including prescriptions.
Germans have insurance and pay for prescriptions, but it’s not a huge amount (from my perspective, I hear a lot of people complaining about how expensive insurance is). However, insurance isn’t tied to your job and afaik, the government pays for your insurance if you lose your job (and the less you earn, the less it costs).
Depends on which American you're speaking to. It's a big country.
Yeah, I’m too poor to have even those problems