On the plastics, let’s not forget that during the 90’s there was a huge push to get away from glass and tin bottles and cans. I still remember being asked for “paper or plastic” at the grocery store and I’m 42.
My grandfather was the single working breadwinner for his wife and two children. He owned a home, two cars and provided quite comfortably for the family. He worked a 9 to 5 until the age of 58 until he retired. It is government waste of the taxpayer dollar that has diminished the quality of life and buying power of the middle class , this country's true functioning economy makers. We live in a country where life long civil servants and politicians become multi millionaires while the standard household relies on multiple incomes just to provide the basics needs. It is time for a government overhaul.
The middle class is the executives and manager type positions. I think your referring to the working class, which technically would be the next one down, right above the poor class.
The working class is indeed the middle class. In what world would the executive populace be considered middle? Its rich , middle, lower when describing class affiliation. There's no debate. The decline of the middle class is possibly why you assume otherwise.
@@maxstone6953 Not all managers are in the "rich" class. Maybe executives wasnt the right word I was thinking of earlier. I was more referring to "white collar" jobs as the middle class, which includes most manager type positions. Then "blue collar" jobs would be considered the "poor" or lower class.
@@PrimalInstinct0704 You do realize there are plumbers with take home pay well exceeding that of some in management, no? My point being, the middle earner is what's considered the working class, its what makes the "middle" moniker self explanatory. Owning a home (a clear indication of at least middle class status) is far less obtainable to middle income workers than in past generations, and my point was for others to acknowledge the real reason for the decline... Governmental malfeasance.
Imo, high medical care in the US is caused by 2 things: Outrageous college costs and Tort laws. Idk how much doctors make in the glorious, perfect European Union, but in the US, they need to make tons of money to pay off student debt and have good insurance to protect them from lawsuits.
Lobbying to get laws that benefit those with the deepest pockets cannot be the answer for record profits with simultaneously insanely high costs of living. I was priced into homelessness six years ago and have only seen rent costs increase by hundreds of dollars in any town with a population higher than 40,000 people. Now, I am almost completely priced out of life. Next thing will be tens of thousands of Americans dying of starvation while Big Food boasts hundred-year record profits.
The problem with the disparity in the cost of healthcare and education has to do with the subsidizing of such. I remember when college used to be 1500 a semester because there's free money given by the government they gradually raised the price and you know basically the plan is just to take all the free money. Same is probably happening with the health care.
Talk to a Canadian or English person about the health care system there, when you make an appointment it’s 6-12 months out. My friend’s dad died waiting for he’s appointment to find out if the tumor was cancerous… is was. It’s not all peaches and cream just because it’s free. Same with college too many get distracted by the idea of having a degree rather than actually looking if there’s market demand for the degree they’re getting. If you’re 100k in student loan debt for a degree that has no job market that’s your fault dummy.
Yup. Im canadian. Our Healthcare is nooooothing like how i see leftist Americans describe it. For starters the Healthcare the people are most likely to need is not covered. We pay out of pocket for dentists, eye doctors, prescriptions, any sort of physiotherapy or chiropractic care, podiatry, mental health therapists ect. Basically unless it's emergency care for like a broken bone or stabbing or something life threatening like cancer or surgery you pay out the ass. Insurance from employers or purchased yourself is a necessity. And the wait times are bad for the care that is covered my our "free Healthcare" my dad was diagnosed with lung cancer. The care he was able to get was palliative home care because the cancer wasn't treated soon enough. They did take care of him at home for the last couple months he was alive and I do appreciate that much, but ya it really misses me off when people that don't actually know what they are talking about go on amd on about how great we have it. We really don't.
@@chesterlestrange7725 the grass aint greener than the other genocide, hun. you live in one of the actual greatest countries on the planet. sad you can't see that. You new here?
Here's the thing, alot of the places she mentioned are completely reliant on other nations in terms of defense, economy, product, etc. The reason "insert country name" is great and taxes are low, work hours are low, etc etc, is because the US allows them to be that way, if something happens they are bringing big brother to the fight and it makes other countries back down. The US needs to stop being the world police, and worry about taking care of our own
This is totally incorrect. The US is not the world police and it does nothing to support other nations economically. Your foreign policy is totally in line with your own interests, as is every other nations. There are a number of nuclear armed nations who basically cannot be attacked, as it would be the end of the world. These nations work together via NATO to protect the free world. The US as a percentage of GDP isn't even the biggest spender in NATO. It's this blinkered attitude thinking the world revolves around and depends on you that gives Americans a bad name.
Bingo. I have to point this out when people talk about communism and socialism. Communism only works when it has capitalism to prop it up from the outside.
In most cases, I have seen the reason stores stopped using plastic bags, or bags in general, is that a local law was passed to prevent them from using them. A few places I have lived have required a "bag" fee for any type of bag.
And this is 30 years after the various environmental groups told us to stop using paper bags due to deforestation. Plastics were far more environmentally friendly. That was the message. And that's why we switched to plastic: Environmental concerns.
@@RaymondSwanson-u9y It just comes down to lobbies at the end of the day. The environment is just a scapegoat. Reality is, both are bad for the environment, just in different ways. Anything we extract and process from the earth is going to have negative side effects.
@@RaymondSwanson-u9yyeah and now plastic is the main problem when it comes to consumer pollution. Time to create some hemp bags to replace plastic. Truly environmentally friendly, and grows much faster than trees and is reusable and washable.
Many people say that public health care is bad, and private is better. But they never reason that you can simply have both services. Where i live we use both. If you need something done fast, you pay private, if you are not in a hurry, you go public. Public health care accepts private prescriptions, so you can get those meds for free if they have it. If you dont have money to pay for private and are forced to wait for the public service, what makes you think that you would be better if private was the only option. You would still be broke and unable to afford it.
This woman has obviously never lived anywhere else. In 1996 Austria, federal taxes were 60%. Gasoline was over 4 dollars a gallon, in 1996! So no, college is not cheap, healthcare is not cheap. You just either pay up front for it or on the back end. The only thing i liked about socialism is mandated 30 days vacation a year the moment you got hired at a job. Otherwise, cd music was 40 dollars each when it was 10 in the US. A simple lunch with a sandwhich was 30 dollars when it was 8 in the US. People did not own big homes except the wealthy because they had no money for it. It was not a cultural thing. Rich people had mansions over there. This lady is so disingenuous.
3:30 yea but the size of the home isn't the issue really and we have plenty of space to build, everything is just too expensive in general... My neighbor had to do his roof again and it cost 30k, like why is that even a thing...
45-60% Taxes, Government Fees, Inspection Costs, Increased Logistics Costs prompted by government policy ect. Over regulation is usually the culprit though there are legitimate greedy people and groups taking advantage too.
Supply and demand. They've imported many people. Some legally, some illegally, and they give those people tax money often so they can work cheaper than Americans. Those people all need places to stay, so we increased demand rapidly without increasing supply. It was really dumb. But the boomers loved it because they already owned houses, so their initial investment boomed.
@@joshbull623 precisely, I’m putting my energy toward cutting taxes and deregulation well before I start suggesting regular size homes are somehow the problem
Don't forget we pay for most of NATO, and have soldiers stationed in these countries. When you don't have to dump tons of money into defense, you can spend it on social programs.
On a fixed income I have to live in rural Louisiana where I can produce food or I would never be able to have fresh fruits and vegetables again. Thankfully it`s still legal to plant fruit trees and vegetables here. I`m sure they`ll find a way to tax it or ban it soon enough.
I'm European and have been to America a fair few times. Trust me - America's sense of community is fantastic - and is, in my opinion, the best in the world or at least the best in the Anglo-sphere (the Indians might be fantastic to each other, but not speaking Urdu or Hindi, it rather goes over my head). Also, public healthcare is a scandal (UK's and Canada's are probably the worst, though, and they're my measuring sticks) and not the 'magic-bullet' the American left tend to pretend it is. If I were American, I'd stop complaining about how badly I have it and start being grateful for being a citizen of the most powerful empire the world has ever seen! And, as a Brit, it costs me some to admit that.
Thank you for everything you said. I see people in the US praising the NHS but I also see people in Canada complaining that it takes a LONG time to actually see a doctor and in some cases it's too late. I love America and even though we have plenty of faults I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. ❤
@@VictoriaMarch13 As a Brit, I want little more than to move to live in the US, but haven't, currently, anything to offer. Another thing people tend not to think about is that, as a state-run organisation, the NHS has the power to block patients in hospice it deems as 'beyond treatment' from going elsewhere to procure experimental treatment which, while risky, may be life-saving. There've been a few cases recently in which the Italian NHS has offered care, but the UK NHS has refused and patients have died never having been given the option to try every available route of survival until the very end. Often these sorts of patients are quite young. I see this as nothing short of evil.
@@theallseeingkats6321 I think Americans completely misunderstand the knowledge of America Europeans have. I know more about the American political environment than my own country's, but I also know more about living standards. This is just one example: I'm English - the average square footage of an house in England is about 800 square feet. In the US, it's 2500 square feet and the average house is CHEAPER in the US! You have fixed mortgages for 30 yrs, protecting against inflation, whereas ours are re-adjusted every 2-5 years. - America is much, much better than any European country of which I'm aware with the possible exception of Switzerland. Did you know that the salary of a regional American fast food restaurant is higher than our Prime Minister's and is taxed at a lower rate?
@@Forsthman64 of what fast food worker? The ceo?😝...amerika is gutted out of oppurtunity like a amish buffet on sunday( not being racist ,i love the amish).nobody my age and younger can afford housing wether its to rent or buy...food has gone up rediculusly high the past four years thanks to our very unpopular mr branden..our healthcare system is trash to be generous..its taking me almost ONE YEAR to get approved for government health insurance, while we have to listen to out of touch boomers about how great everything life is the bestest greatist country the US of A is.a single family home SHOULD NOT cost half a million dollars,let alone a million..it just shows how much the dollars buying power has been diluted ..but thanks for the debate🙂
Same here, When to Mexico to get my stomach sleeve surgery. Granted the staff weren't the most emotionally available. Granted there was a language barrier, but they were very "Just doing our job" in attitude about anything. I didn't even get a warning before she forced medication through my IV. I'm already scared of needles so getting surgery literally took my dad doing it with me, to give me the drive to do it. So imagine how frustrating/traumatizing it was when I have to have a needle continue to be in me and I suddenly feel a sharp pain from them pushing the fluids into my veins. Not fun, especially the day after having half my stomach cut out. The one cool thing is the service we used included transportation to and from the airport, medical center, and hotel that you stay at the night before flying back. Even got to sit in the extra leg room seats on the plane back because our surgery qualified us as geriatric patient flyers. So it had it's good and bad, but definitely cheaper than it would have been in the US. It can be up to 38k here but including all that I mentioned with transport and accommodations. We paid just under 10k each for me and my dad to get gastric sleeve surgery.
It's crazy that Americans defend the fact that they have to work harder because they have no family unit to support them. The Waltons wasn't that long ago.
That’s happening here in the states even without the safety nets they have overseas. I work in retirement. Many many families have multiple generations living together.
I encourage the smaller home thing, I totally want a small sized home. And it’s not just Cali that does the bag charge, Oregon and Washington do it too. Not just food stores, I went to buy $900+ at Best Buy and they were trying to needle another .45¢ for a bag big enough to carry it easy. Thankfully the gentleman that helps me was from Texas and just gave it to me.
It’s actually less expensive for my husband and I to stay in our 1720 square foot home than it would be for us to move to a smaller home… because of current housing costs. My generation is the first generation looking at retirement without pension along with the threat of SS being depleted by the generation before us (the woman in the video) and dramatic inflation on the cost of everything. With that inflation, our 401K remaining stagnant or losing money. And when a hospital charges $2000 per hour for “space usage” in the ER, yeah we’re not going there either… so, working until we die is quite likely. But I would rather live here than anywhere else. Just saying.
Just like forcing us to eat bugs, those who are allergic to shellfish will be DEPENDENT on the PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY for an antidote for the allergy.
I left the U.S to live in Thailand but I just turned 40 and I can’t get permanent residency in Thailand and don’t want to do visa runs the rest of my life. So, I just filed for permanent residency in Mexico, which is where I am now and I just got out of the immigration office yesterday. There’s no way I’ll live in the U.S again.
I'm 73 and need to upsize. My husband (76yo) has taken over this small house with all his stuff. Looks like a warehouse in here. I may have to go into my own place. I bought very little, husband is out of control. We have no family units, so luckily, we worked from our teens and retired with good benefits, pensions plus SS. If something happens to us, we have funds for assisted or nursing living. Don't be fooled with healthcare . England and Canada is horrendous. My friend visited from UK , became sick and had to go to hospital. She was overwhelmed with how so much better our care was. She had every test taken, where in UK, that was almost never done. Another friend in UK has been waiting years for surgery. They just push pills, hoping she'll die first. In the meantime, she is getting worse. You go to Sweden, you get healthcare, but the taxes are about 75%. Don't have much to live on and spend. I can't ride bicycle or walk much because of my health. Many countries, I wouldn't feel safe these days. You really have to decide what you want for yourself . Everyone wants different things. Maybe life courses should be taught in school?
Compare the achievements, inventions, innovations of those other countries when you are comparing their cultures/societies to ours. Yes, the USA is different and mankind benefits for it.
She makes a couple of good points but is also completely ignorant of how her voting democrat for the past 20 years has ensured things got worse and not better.
Doesn't she understand that was why Trump won by such a landslide? A landslide in which an unprecedented number of lifelong Democrats voted for him, in fact. Now, you won't hear me say that he's some kind of savior. Far from it. But if he's able to carry out his agenda for this new term, this country has a real chance to turn this ship around and steer her in a much better direction. He was steamrolled and sabotaged around every corner in his first term and yet he still managed to accomplish incredible things, even with all of the snakes that they encircled him with. This term is going to be very different. He has an amazing team around him, who are very familiar with the establishment and their corruption and they want these changes, just as much as he does (and those of us who voted for him do). The Dems and RINOs still can't understand why so many people fled from their far left progressive ideologies and they're actually doubling down on the same rhetoric that caused such an exodus. The more they try to push that failed agenda, the longer its going to be, before another Dem sets their slimy foot in the Oval Office. More eyes and minds are opening every day.
Doesn’t matter how you vote if you believe voting in the other party changes anything you need to have your head examined our nation is run by foreign agents from Israel and it has been run by foreign agents of Israel since they killed JFK that’s why every president elected has had to go back on all of their promises to the people because the administration doesn’t care about the people. it only cares about Israel what is best for Israel 20 years of us killing Muslims in the Middle East so that Israel can take land today you people are so slow it’s mind-boggling. I’ve literally walked around this nation for the last 20 years as though I’m the last man alive watching everybody arguing bicker over the stupidest shit and nobody paying attention to what’s really happening as though they just don’t understand I’ve come to the conclusion that America is a nation full of brain dead idiots straight up if that hurts your feelings I’m sorry and shit But if you think we got where we’re at because of just the Democrats, you’re a brain dead idiot, straight up. If you don’t understand the two party game, they play bouncing issues off of one party to the next using the emotions of the people to push agendas. If you haven’t seen this clearly then you’re just part of the problem of ignorance in this nation. And sadly too many fools won’t understand it until we’re in a all out revolution which will be the only thing that saves America.
Left or right does not matter, governments themselves are corrupt across the world. Almost all countries are using fiat money. That is why services and quality of life will always go down and taxes will always go up. It is a ponzie scheme. Any government that does not discuss our central banking systems is corrupt. The nonsense they fill our news with is just distractions meant to act as scapegoats and keep us fighting each other
9:21 I can understand the ban on plastic bags, but keeping the water bottles. It's more of a reduction rather than an outright ban. It's like, "OK. We need to cut down on plastic dependency, so what can we do? We can't stop using plastic water bottles, that'll drive the costs up too much for us and the consumers. So let's just use paper bags and/or have people bring in their own bags." BTW, can anyone explain this "walkable cities" they're talking about?
The walkable city she’s referring to is like a place that you can get all needs within a square mile. The thing is… there’s places like that in the US. She’s just never witnessed small town/city places. I live in a town like this. We have sidewalks every and there’s a small grocery store 3 blocks from my house, there’s a little downtown area where you can get clothes, restaurants, etc. about 1/4 mile away… and parks everywhere. There’s pharmacies within walking distance too. Some people just need to explore to understand the diversity of our country.
Ok, as far as the dental thing goes.. you have to look for affordable places. I have a dental office an hour from where I live that charges $65 a tooth. And no it's not a dumpy place. My husband and I both go there as well as other family members and friends.
I had to take more and more for various side effects until my bag of poison from the pharmacy was like a sack of bricks. They couldn`t fill them all. Docs get paid more for prescribing more. My health was nearly ruined and I think I have brain damage and my heart races.
We pay so much for these degrees and Healthcare systems in comparison to these other countries because it covers the costs of the Healthcare services IN most of those other countries. Americans have funded the research and development of the entire industry itself to the point where we "should" be able to just walk in and get extremely cheap goods and services, but we instead afford those costs of goods and services to those aforementioned countries with cheaper prices. Don't believe me? Look where the funding for the vast majority of medicines and medical equipment comes from. It's almost like looking at the NATO budget. It's highly lopsided. As for the higher educational system, it's pure corruption. Most of the taxpayers money they lobby for go towards the paychecks of the board members and the Dean with the bare minimum making its way into the facilities or the students themselves. Hopefully, we can get this shit all straightened out when DOGE gets their hands on those parts of our budget.
The video depicts a citizen that "woke" up. Before the term 'woke' was co-opted it was used to describe an individual who has learned something important and an enlightenment had occurred. Now, who would benefit from co-opting that term, 'woke'? Who would benefit from having a population reject the concept of knowledge, of understanding? Who would benefit from a population rejecting information?
The change in the semantic domain of the word “woke” doesn’t affect the human search for knowledge nor the attitudes about it. You are reaching with a 50 foot pole.
😂 I have to say that you choose what you want to do with your life. Whether it’s bad or good. It’s up to you. 😂 I personally put 20% of my paycheck into a 401k. But everyone’s daily duties are different. And to make a point I highly doubt this lady ever had to really go without nothing. But I say sir you are on point with your views ❤ Okay the tooth removal thing most dental school colleges actually will do it for under $100. I paid $70 in Albany Georgia but a dentist office is higher because they own the business and can charge whatever they want. For example if I wanted to charge $500 for a pack of ramen then I can cause it’s America 🇺🇸 😂
At our dentist, she only charges $75 for a tooth pull. And it’s not a dental school. She also looks for ways to get insurance to cover whatever dental work is needed.
There are hundreds of small things that I can do here that I can't do in other countries. It's always going to be a tit for that situation when it comes to comparing the lifestyle of one country to another.
I agree.. no tipping or side hustles to maintain a standard. Seniors have known their standard, so they should've produced into the tax realm their kids and grandkids lay down the effort to suppor their livihood for the next gen.
People and companies are to blame. The people make the choice to go to expensive colleges bc it’s necessary to go to a big school and companies make it impossible to get a job anyone can do without a degree by making it mandatory you need a degree.
Because the Healthcare system is something i'm more familiar with, I can say a few things. Running hospitals in The US is very very very expensive. When comparing prices, never ignore how much costs contribute to the prices. First is the policies. The liability coverage, because doctors get sued all the time for all sorts of reasons, before we discuss staff wages, cost of equipments and everything else. I'm not certain, but I would imagine running a hospital in The US would probably rank as one of the most expensive. Costs could and should go down, but for that to happen the whole system of healthcare would need reforms, and hospitals would probably need to reduce their headcounts too. As it stands, medtech and pharmaceutical companies are the actual real reason Healthcare cost is so high, policies geared towards reigning costs in those those industries would reduce user end prices drastically. However, hospitals too would need to find creative ways to reduce operating costs outside that.
well get to the reforming then. people dont wanna hear about and hospital expense when people can barely get insurance worth having or gotta wait 5 months for a doc appointment. I'm not gonna say i know the ins and out of the medical field and insurance but I'm pretty sure its like every other corporate field and there are people that are just not willing to take a pay cut but expect us to have sympathy for the price of a hospital bed. just sounds like a long explanation for putting profit over peoples lives
@watergawd2605 Most of the reforms need to come from the government agencies that govern these industries, because it is the loopholes that enable rampant misbehavior in these industries, but it also some of those policies that drive up costs. The govt. would need to break several monopolies in the industry for anything to actually start changing, and so far, I see no desire from the governing agencies that they're interested.
Tipping was fine in restaurants, then they went nuts. It seems everything she is complaining about has turned to crap due to goverment involvement. Get the government money out of it and watch what happens. It used to be God,Family,Neighbors then the government stepped in
Also I work at a small business, the owners have a few locations and they aren’t struggling but they are not super wealthy and they are very kind. Wish they paid us more base pay though!
I also don't like this idea that I have to tip someone who chose a job that doesn't pay well enough for them to live. And before I hear the argument about wages are not keeping up I am not taking about that I talking jobs where tips are an important part of the money you make. In some cases you don't receive good service so when I tip it is because the person waiting on me did a great job. Our society rewards even if you are inadequate and it didn't used to be that way.
Social health care is great I beat cancer got treated real quick. But then in hard economic times and when your Government blows the budget dealing with Covid.. in the following years it's underfunded and wait lists are through the roof, many die as they don't get a simple scan etc early enough and your only hope is to pay private.
Thank you for mentioning private. Many people say that public health care is bad, and private is better. But they never reason that you can simply have both services. Where i live we use both. If you need something done fast, you pay private, if you are not in a hurry, you go public. Public health care accepts private prescriptions, so you can get those meds for free if they have it. If you dont have money to pay for private and are forced to wait for the public service, what makes you think that you would be better if private was the only option. You would still be broke and unable to afford it.
It's all good but don't let the corporations make you pay. There was a time we all got free bags and they were completely biodegradable. I never asked for the change. The onus is not on the consumer
I think her statement has some validity by mistake. She doesn’t appear to know 💩 about life in other countries and the tax rates they pay coupled with the loss of freedom they incur in order to have a crap medical system that they don’t pay out of pocket but have it extracted from their check at the point of a govt weapon. Nothing is free, you will pay for it one way or the other. Mr Benjamin Franklin said long ago that anyone who would trade freedom for security deserves neither. Toughen up and get over yourself buttercup.
Government waste. If your tax dollars were spent taking care of this country, we wouldnt be in this situation. Business owners dont give money to their competitors. Pretty simple.
We are not satisfied with it, what can we do. We don’t make the rules, the one who has the gold makes the rooms. We can’t stop trillion dollar agency from buying up homes and renting them out.
I have lived off tips before, made some of the best money I have ever made, sometimes $1k a week in the 90's!!! This whole video is bull sugar honey iced tea.
So what im getting since you mentioned its went downhill since the 60s and the nuclear family went to the wayside, is that it lines up with giving women the right to vote....
Go ahead , Believe with everybody tells you😂 , most of the Europe countries your monthly salary, It's a week of pay in the USA! I mean most of countries in Europe... I live there I grew up there I work hard over there, I'm not going back😅😂😂 in the US I can buy a car every month as a regular citizen not even a businessman.... The best thing was my education it's a lot better than the US
Yes. Until shit hits the fan. Then you have nothing and have to beg people for help where in European countries you would get that help from the government. The US is fine until you get sick and/or unemployed.
@thedryparn1279 My friend, in Europe you get the help of the government if you are a piece of s***, just like in the US... I worked all my life never had help neither there or here, You know why because, work You are not qualified for s*** I'm a father and a husband, My family always had everything they need all because of hardworking ... No one is helping anyone trust me ....
Fourth video on this topic. Time for a 6 month vacation ........rejuvenate.. Its not normal, bad food, too entitled, to materialistic. Lack of real community......etc....School shootings
why is everything so negative on youtube ? at times I think about creating a positive only youtube channel, a channel about how bad things used to be and how good it is now...
Sadly I'd have to agree. But also find is not normal is people flying the US war flag everywhere and not the US civil flag of Peace nor their country's flag which is their state. And something that most people don't know is "state is undefine. You must define it yourself.
What is also sad is that people bunch all 50 territories as one country when your country is your state in law Like for me I live in the California territory I don't live in the state of California I don't live in America or the United States of America it's California where I've been my whole life. And I'm only 28 and my so-called country's flag is the California republic.
I think it you don't study law nor don't even know that there is a such thing as the US civil flag of peace. Contradictory to the war flag. The peace flag is blue stars with white and blue stripes. World of war flag is red white and blue. Then you have your States flag your country's flag that represent every territory in the Union. But that's fine I was a bit lazy myself and I only had to start studying for the past 6 years and maybe 7. I knew something but some of the stuff that I'm talking about I just learned about a year and a half ago about flags. Because flags represent jurisdiction
United means no citizen, State is a condition of district "dis"demon god of the underworld. "trict" trickery Everything is Latin that was thrown out of our schools back in 1905. Then we were taught a corrupt language called English most manipulated language ever
Ive heard a waitress say "i would rather make tips than minimum wage, i make more from tips" Like, i really dont care, that is NOT my problem that they think their half assed service is even worth that much. Also, I, THE CUSTOMER AM NOT OBLIGATED TO PAY ANY PERSONS WAGE FOR THEIR EMPLOYER.. If they want to make a high earning salary or wage? They can go get a degree in a market for said high paying job. Public service workers deserve to be paid a living wage, absolutely. But they do not deserve to be making more than the construction workers who built the damn restaurant.
Both her and LBoyd are not correct about the health insurance and doctors here. Sure our health insurance is a scam but we do have the best doctors overall. People literally fly from other countries to come here for major surgeries. Many podcast on Rogan and other platforms with real health professionals explaining it not some armchair... oops bedsitting old lady.
She made some good points but sounded kinda whiny. I WANT people to have to drive to get to me. I think people mistake Insurance for healthcare. They do less care for their health and require more insurance. At the same time we've allowed chemical companies to convince us that they're medical companies and, in turn, have built a legal fortress around themselves and the politicians who approved it, raising the cost.
I retired at 45...after I sold my home and business in America and moved to the UK, it paid 100% no loans for a home I can afford(3 bedroom 2 bath) to own in countryside, a UK residency, retirement savings, a home-based business I can work to save my retirement money until 69, and I have my USA pension, my retirement annuity and savings. If I stayed in America the house would be costing me 6500 a year in state land tax, sure every year in Florida the house prices evolve, but so does your land tax based on the current value of the home, I would be dipping into my retirement savings for part N health insurance and land tax and one good age illness to bankrupt, America is a pipe dream no one can afford.
On the plastics, let’s not forget that during the 90’s there was a huge push to get away from glass and tin bottles and cans. I still remember being asked for “paper or plastic” at the grocery store and I’m 42.
I remember that too.
Liberals pushed for plastic.
I'm only 31 and I remember that.
I still get asked that
My grandfather was the single working breadwinner for his wife and two children. He owned a home, two cars and provided quite comfortably for the family.
He worked a 9 to 5 until the age of 58 until he retired.
It is government waste of the taxpayer dollar that has diminished the quality of life and buying power of the middle class , this country's true functioning economy makers.
We live in a country where life long civil servants and politicians become multi millionaires while the standard household relies on multiple incomes just to provide the basics needs.
It is time for a government overhaul.
The middle class is the executives and manager type positions. I think your referring to the working class, which technically would be the next one down, right above the poor class.
The working class is indeed the middle class.
In what world would the executive populace be considered middle?
Its rich , middle, lower when describing class affiliation.
There's no debate.
The decline of the middle class is possibly why you assume otherwise.
@@maxstone6953 Facts
@@maxstone6953 Not all managers are in the "rich" class. Maybe executives wasnt the right word I was thinking of earlier. I was more referring to "white collar" jobs as the middle class, which includes most manager type positions. Then "blue collar" jobs would be considered the "poor" or lower class.
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You do realize there are plumbers with take home pay well exceeding that of some in management, no?
My point being, the middle earner is what's considered the working class, its what makes the "middle" moniker self explanatory.
Owning a home (a clear indication of at least middle class status) is far less obtainable to middle income workers than in past generations, and my point was for others to acknowledge the real reason for the decline...
Governmental malfeasance.
Where ever you live in the world. It will always be better in some ways, and worse in others.
Imo, high medical care in the US is caused by 2 things: Outrageous college costs and Tort laws. Idk how much doctors make in the glorious, perfect European Union, but in the US, they need to make tons of money to pay off student debt and have good insurance to protect them from lawsuits.
Malpractice insurance is insane
Lobbying to get laws that benefit those with the deepest pockets cannot be the answer for record profits with simultaneously insanely high costs of living. I was priced into homelessness six years ago and have only seen rent costs increase by hundreds of dollars in any town with a population higher than 40,000 people. Now, I am almost completely priced out of life. Next thing will be tens of thousands of Americans dying of starvation while Big Food boasts hundred-year record profits.
The problem with the disparity in the cost of healthcare and education has to do with the subsidizing of such. I remember when college used to be 1500 a semester because there's free money given by the government they gradually raised the price and you know basically the plan is just to take all the free money. Same is probably happening with the health care.
Always is.
Talk to a Canadian or English person about the health care system there, when you make an appointment it’s 6-12 months out. My friend’s dad died waiting for he’s appointment to find out if the tumor was cancerous… is was. It’s not all peaches and cream just because it’s free. Same with college too many get distracted by the idea of having a degree rather than actually looking if there’s market demand for the degree they’re getting. If you’re 100k in student loan debt for a degree that has no job market that’s your fault dummy.
Yup. Im canadian. Our Healthcare is nooooothing like how i see leftist Americans describe it. For starters the Healthcare the people are most likely to need is not covered. We pay out of pocket for dentists, eye doctors, prescriptions, any sort of physiotherapy or chiropractic care, podiatry, mental health therapists ect. Basically unless it's emergency care for like a broken bone or stabbing or something life threatening like cancer or surgery you pay out the ass. Insurance from employers or purchased yourself is a necessity. And the wait times are bad for the care that is covered my our "free Healthcare" my dad was diagnosed with lung cancer. The care he was able to get was palliative home care because the cancer wasn't treated soon enough. They did take care of him at home for the last couple months he was alive and I do appreciate that much, but ya it really misses me off when people that don't actually know what they are talking about go on amd on about how great we have it. We really don't.
It used to be great in the 90s before mass migration
It's not quite as bad as all that in Wales, but maybe it's dependent on what condition you have.
Danish here the Max amount of time you would wait is 8 weeks and that's on small things if it's cancer ore things like that there no waiting time
@@chesterlestrange7725 the grass aint greener than the other genocide, hun. you live in one of the actual greatest countries on the planet. sad you can't see that. You new here?
Here's the thing, alot of the places she mentioned are completely reliant on other nations in terms of defense, economy, product, etc. The reason "insert country name" is great and taxes are low, work hours are low, etc etc, is because the US allows them to be that way, if something happens they are bringing big brother to the fight and it makes other countries back down. The US needs to stop being the world police, and worry about taking care of our own
Yep. We need to stop being a parent to other nations.
Well said. I agree.
This is totally incorrect. The US is not the world police and it does nothing to support other nations economically. Your foreign policy is totally in line with your own interests, as is every other nations. There are a number of nuclear armed nations who basically cannot be attacked, as it would be the end of the world. These nations work together via NATO to protect the free world. The US as a percentage of GDP isn't even the biggest spender in NATO. It's this blinkered attitude thinking the world revolves around and depends on you that gives Americans a bad name.
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Bingo.
I have to point this out when people talk about communism and socialism. Communism only works when it has capitalism to prop it up from the outside.
In most cases, I have seen the reason stores stopped using plastic bags, or bags in general, is that a local law was passed to prevent them from using them. A few places I have lived have required a "bag" fee for any type of bag.
We have had that in UK for years now..
And this is 30 years after the various environmental groups told us to stop using paper bags due to deforestation. Plastics were far more environmentally friendly. That was the message. And that's why we switched to plastic: Environmental concerns.
@@RaymondSwanson-u9y It just comes down to lobbies at the end of the day. The environment is just a scapegoat. Reality is, both are bad for the environment, just in different ways. Anything we extract and process from the earth is going to have negative side effects.
@@RaymondSwanson-u9yyeah and now plastic is the main problem when it comes to consumer pollution. Time to create some hemp bags to replace plastic. Truly environmentally friendly, and grows much faster than trees and is reusable and washable.
Many people say that public health care is bad, and private is better. But they never reason that you can simply have both services. Where i live we use both. If you need something done fast, you pay private, if you are not in a hurry, you go public. Public health care accepts private prescriptions, so you can get those meds for free if they have it.
If you dont have money to pay for private and are forced to wait for the public service, what makes you think that you would be better if private was the only option. You would still be broke and unable to afford it.
This woman has obviously never lived anywhere else. In 1996 Austria, federal taxes were 60%. Gasoline was over 4 dollars a gallon, in 1996! So no, college is not cheap, healthcare is not cheap. You just either pay up front for it or on the back end. The only thing i liked about socialism is mandated 30 days vacation a year the moment you got hired at a job. Otherwise, cd music was 40 dollars each when it was 10 in the US. A simple lunch with a sandwhich was 30 dollars when it was 8 in the US. People did not own big homes except the wealthy because they had no money for it. It was not a cultural thing. Rich people had mansions over there. This lady is so disingenuous.
This… this is stuff people aren’t understanding or talking about.
That was before the EU came of age. It is different now.
Well, if it's better elsewhere then go live there!
Please don't stay in USA
Jealous
Just remember to send your taxes back to us. Lol.
I wouldn't move just because my roof leaks, I would fix the roof. Same principle. Nothing will get fixed until we get the money out of politics.
@@hotpepper7782 why would I be jealous when I live in the best country on Earth USA🇺🇲
3:30 yea but the size of the home isn't the issue really and we have plenty of space to build, everything is just too expensive in general... My neighbor had to do his roof again and it cost 30k, like why is that even a thing...
45-60% Taxes, Government Fees, Inspection Costs, Increased Logistics Costs prompted by government policy ect. Over regulation is usually the culprit though there are legitimate greedy people and groups taking advantage too.
Supply and demand. They've imported many people. Some legally, some illegally, and they give those people tax money often so they can work cheaper than Americans.
Those people all need places to stay, so we increased demand rapidly without increasing supply. It was really dumb. But the boomers loved it because they already owned houses, so their initial investment boomed.
The profit margin isn’t there for smaller square footage homes. Builders will not build that which won’t sustain the profitability of their business
@@joshbull623 precisely, I’m putting my energy toward cutting taxes and deregulation well before I start suggesting regular size homes are somehow the problem
Don't forget we pay for most of NATO, and have soldiers stationed in these countries. When you don't have to dump tons of money into defense, you can spend it on social programs.
On a fixed income I have to live in rural Louisiana where I can produce food or I would never be able to have fresh fruits and vegetables again. Thankfully it`s still legal to plant fruit trees and vegetables here. I`m sure they`ll find a way to tax it or ban it soon enough.
I'm European and have been to America a fair few times. Trust me - America's sense of community is fantastic - and is, in my opinion, the best in the world or at least the best in the Anglo-sphere (the Indians might be fantastic to each other, but not speaking Urdu or Hindi, it rather goes over my head). Also, public healthcare is a scandal (UK's and Canada's are probably the worst, though, and they're my measuring sticks) and not the 'magic-bullet' the American left tend to pretend it is. If I were American, I'd stop complaining about how badly I have it and start being grateful for being a citizen of the most powerful empire the world has ever seen! And, as a Brit, it costs me some to admit that.
Thank you for everything you said. I see people in the US praising the NHS but I also see people in Canada complaining that it takes a LONG time to actually see a doctor and in some cases it's too late. I love America and even though we have plenty of faults I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. ❤
@@VictoriaMarch13 As a Brit, I want little more than to move to live in the US, but haven't, currently, anything to offer. Another thing people tend not to think about is that, as a state-run organisation, the NHS has the power to block patients in hospice it deems as 'beyond treatment' from going elsewhere to procure experimental treatment which, while risky, may be life-saving. There've been a few cases recently in which the Italian NHS has offered care, but the UK NHS has refused and patients have died never having been given the option to try every available route of survival until the very end. Often these sorts of patients are quite young. I see this as nothing short of evil.
Im american and if you live in this country long enough,you can see its a damn sinking ship😒
@@theallseeingkats6321 I think Americans completely misunderstand the knowledge of America Europeans have. I know more about the American political environment than my own country's, but I also know more about living standards. This is just one example: I'm English - the average square footage of an house in England is about 800 square feet. In the US, it's 2500 square feet and the average house is CHEAPER in the US! You have fixed mortgages for 30 yrs, protecting against inflation, whereas ours are re-adjusted every 2-5 years. - America is much, much better than any European country of which I'm aware with the possible exception of Switzerland. Did you know that the salary of a regional American fast food restaurant is higher than our Prime Minister's and is taxed at a lower rate?
@@Forsthman64 of what fast food worker? The ceo?😝...amerika is gutted out of oppurtunity like a amish buffet on sunday( not being racist ,i love the amish).nobody my age and younger can afford housing wether its to rent or buy...food has gone up rediculusly high the past four years thanks to our very unpopular mr branden..our healthcare system is trash to be generous..its taking me almost ONE YEAR to get approved for government health insurance, while we have to listen to out of touch boomers about how great everything life is the bestest greatist country the US of A is.a single family home SHOULD NOT cost half a million dollars,let alone a million..it just shows how much the dollars buying power has been diluted ..but thanks for the debate🙂
Same here, When to Mexico to get my stomach sleeve surgery. Granted the staff weren't the most emotionally available. Granted there was a language barrier, but they were very "Just doing our job" in attitude about anything. I didn't even get a warning before she forced medication through my IV. I'm already scared of needles so getting surgery literally took my dad doing it with me, to give me the drive to do it. So imagine how frustrating/traumatizing it was when I have to have a needle continue to be in me and I suddenly feel a sharp pain from them pushing the fluids into my veins. Not fun, especially the day after having half my stomach cut out. The one cool thing is the service we used included transportation to and from the airport, medical center, and hotel that you stay at the night before flying back. Even got to sit in the extra leg room seats on the plane back because our surgery qualified us as geriatric patient flyers. So it had it's good and bad, but definitely cheaper than it would have been in the US. It can be up to 38k here but including all that I mentioned with transport and accommodations. We paid just under 10k each for me and my dad to get gastric sleeve surgery.
It's crazy that Americans defend the fact that they have to work harder because they have no family unit to support them.
The Waltons wasn't that long ago.
That’s happening here in the states even without the safety nets they have overseas.
I work in retirement. Many many families have multiple generations living together.
I encourage the smaller home thing, I totally want a small sized home. And it’s not just Cali that does the bag charge, Oregon and Washington do it too. Not just food stores, I went to buy $900+ at Best Buy and they were trying to needle another .45¢ for a bag big enough to carry it easy. Thankfully the gentleman that helps me was from Texas and just gave it to me.
It’s actually less expensive for my husband and I to stay in our 1720 square foot home than it would be for us to move to a smaller home… because of current housing costs.
My generation is the first generation looking at retirement without pension along with the threat of SS being depleted by the generation before us (the woman in the video) and dramatic inflation on the cost of everything. With that inflation, our 401K remaining stagnant or losing money.
And when a hospital charges $2000 per hour for “space usage” in the ER, yeah we’re not going there either… so, working until we die is quite likely.
But I would rather live here than anywhere else. Just saying.
Just like forcing us to eat bugs, those who are allergic to shellfish will be DEPENDENT on the PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY for an antidote for the allergy.
Walkable cities, she means 15 minutes cities, no thank you. All cities have side walks use them.
@@afisanaatrue, but good usable sidewalks would be a 💩 reason for 15 minute cities.
@@hamfox9714 I don't understand that term, so like, a "city" with only like, a mile diameter?
@@ElderonAnalas you’re either a bot or obtuse. Drop the feigned ignorance boomer routine or look it up.
I like my autonomy
I left the U.S to live in Thailand but I just turned 40 and I can’t get permanent residency in Thailand and don’t want to do visa runs the rest of my life. So, I just filed for permanent residency in Mexico, which is where I am now and I just got out of the immigration office yesterday.
There’s no way I’ll live in the U.S again.
Couldn't hack it and is envious. Order the manic panic!!! Champagne taste with a beer budget.
I'm 73 and need to upsize. My husband (76yo) has taken over this small house with all his stuff. Looks like a warehouse in here. I may have to go into my own place. I bought very little, husband is out of control.
We have no family units, so luckily, we worked from our teens and retired with good benefits, pensions plus SS. If something happens to us, we have funds for assisted or nursing living.
Don't be fooled with healthcare . England and Canada is horrendous. My friend visited from UK , became sick and had to go to hospital. She was overwhelmed with how so much better our care was. She had every test taken, where in UK, that was almost never done. Another friend in UK has been waiting years for surgery. They just push pills, hoping she'll die first. In the meantime, she is getting worse.
You go to Sweden, you get healthcare, but the taxes are about 75%. Don't have much to live on and spend.
I can't ride bicycle or walk much because of my health.
Many countries, I wouldn't feel safe these days.
You really have to decide what you want for yourself . Everyone wants different things.
Maybe life courses should be taught in school?
Unfortunately, you don’t need a bigger home, but rather your husband needs a specialized therapist who helps hoarders.
Compare the achievements, inventions, innovations of those other countries when you are comparing their cultures/societies to ours.
Yes, the USA is different and mankind benefits for it.
She makes a couple of good points but is also completely ignorant of how her voting democrat for the past 20 years has ensured things got worse and not better.
I missed the part where she said who she voted for.
Doesn't she understand that was why Trump won by such a landslide? A landslide in which an unprecedented number of lifelong Democrats voted for him, in fact. Now, you won't hear me say that he's some kind of savior. Far from it. But if he's able to carry out his agenda for this new term, this country has a real chance to turn this ship around and steer her in a much better direction. He was steamrolled and sabotaged around every corner in his first term and yet he still managed to accomplish incredible things, even with all of the snakes that they encircled him with. This term is going to be very different. He has an amazing team around him, who are very familiar with the establishment and their corruption and they want these changes, just as much as he does (and those of us who voted for him do). The Dems and RINOs still can't understand why so many people fled from their far left progressive ideologies and they're actually doubling down on the same rhetoric that caused such an exodus. The more they try to push that failed agenda, the longer its going to be, before another Dem sets their slimy foot in the Oval Office. More eyes and minds are opening every day.
@@TruckStopLaybyliterally everything she said is talking points from the Democrat party.
Doesn’t matter how you vote if you believe voting in the other party changes anything you need to have your head examined our nation is run by foreign agents from Israel and it has been run by foreign agents of Israel since they killed JFK that’s why every president elected has had to go back on all of their promises to the people because the administration doesn’t care about the people. it only cares about Israel what is best for Israel 20 years of us killing Muslims in the Middle East so that Israel can take land today you people are so slow it’s mind-boggling. I’ve literally walked around this nation for the last 20 years as though I’m the last man alive watching everybody arguing bicker over the stupidest shit and nobody paying attention to what’s really happening as though they just don’t understand I’ve come to the conclusion that America is a nation full of brain dead idiots straight up if that hurts your feelings I’m sorry and shit But if you think we got where we’re at because of just the Democrats, you’re a brain dead idiot, straight up. If you don’t understand the two party game, they play bouncing issues off of one party to the next using the emotions of the people to push agendas. If you haven’t seen this clearly then you’re just part of the problem of ignorance in this nation. And sadly too many fools won’t understand it until we’re in a all out revolution which will be the only thing that saves America.
Left or right does not matter, governments themselves are corrupt across the world. Almost all countries are using fiat money. That is why services and quality of life will always go down and taxes will always go up. It is a ponzie scheme. Any government that does not discuss our central banking systems is corrupt. The nonsense they fill our news with is just distractions meant to act as scapegoats and keep us fighting each other
Weird....
I can fish in the southern gulf, but not face the b.s. that media says I will.
Interesting..
9:21 I can understand the ban on plastic bags, but keeping the water bottles. It's more of a reduction rather than an outright ban. It's like, "OK. We need to cut down on plastic dependency, so what can we do? We can't stop using plastic water bottles, that'll drive the costs up too much for us and the consumers. So let's just use paper bags and/or have people bring in their own bags."
BTW, can anyone explain this "walkable cities" they're talking about?
Ok
The walkable city she’s referring to is like a place that you can get all needs within a square mile.
The thing is… there’s places like that in the US. She’s just never witnessed small town/city places. I live in a town like this. We have sidewalks every and there’s a small grocery store 3 blocks from my house, there’s a little downtown area where you can get clothes, restaurants, etc. about 1/4 mile away… and parks everywhere. There’s pharmacies within walking distance too.
Some people just need to explore to understand the diversity of our country.
Ok, as far as the dental thing goes.. you have to look for affordable places. I have a dental office an hour from where I live that charges $65 a tooth. And no it's not a dumpy place. My husband and I both go there as well as other family members and friends.
I had to take more and more for various side effects until my bag of poison from the pharmacy was like a sack of bricks. They couldn`t fill them all. Docs get paid more for prescribing more. My health was nearly ruined and I think I have brain damage and my heart races.
I am a plumber of 20 years, this last four years I have built more “small” houses than my entire career.
We pay so much for these degrees and Healthcare systems in comparison to these other countries because it covers the costs of the Healthcare services IN most of those other countries. Americans have funded the research and development of the entire industry itself to the point where we "should" be able to just walk in and get extremely cheap goods and services, but we instead afford those costs of goods and services to those aforementioned countries with cheaper prices. Don't believe me? Look where the funding for the vast majority of medicines and medical equipment comes from. It's almost like looking at the NATO budget. It's highly lopsided. As for the higher educational system, it's pure corruption. Most of the taxpayers money they lobby for go towards the paychecks of the board members and the Dean with the bare minimum making its way into the facilities or the students themselves. Hopefully, we can get this shit all straightened out when DOGE gets their hands on those parts of our budget.
It started strong, but once the moral grandstanding hit, I tuned out. Tried to finish it for you, but it was a struggle
The video depicts a citizen that "woke" up. Before the term 'woke' was co-opted it was used to describe an individual who has learned something important and an enlightenment had occurred. Now, who would benefit from co-opting that term, 'woke'? Who would benefit from having a population reject the concept of knowledge, of understanding? Who would benefit from a population rejecting information?
The change in the semantic domain of the word “woke” doesn’t affect the human search for knowledge nor the attitudes about it. You are reaching with a 50 foot pole.
😂 I have to say that you choose what you want to do with your life. Whether it’s bad or good. It’s up to you. 😂 I personally put 20% of my paycheck into a 401k. But everyone’s daily duties are different. And to make a point I highly doubt this lady ever had to really go without nothing.
But I say sir you are on point with your views ❤
Okay the tooth removal thing most dental school colleges actually will do it for under $100. I paid $70 in Albany Georgia but a dentist office is higher because they own the business and can charge whatever they want. For example if I wanted to charge $500 for a pack of ramen then I can cause it’s America 🇺🇸 😂
At our dentist, she only charges $75 for a tooth pull. And it’s not a dental school. She also looks for ways to get insurance to cover whatever dental work is needed.
Oregon and California charge 10¢ for a bag so people will bring reusable bags, but she's right, it isn't solving the plastic consumption
There are hundreds of small things that I can do here that I can't do in other countries. It's always going to be a tit for that situation when it comes to comparing the lifestyle of one country to another.
I agree.. no tipping or side hustles to maintain a standard.
Seniors have known their standard, so they should've produced into the tax realm their kids and grandkids lay down the effort to suppor their livihood for the next gen.
People and companies are to blame. The people make the choice to go to expensive colleges bc it’s necessary to go to a big school and companies make it impossible to get a job anyone can do without a degree by making it mandatory you need a degree.
Because the Healthcare system is something i'm more familiar with, I can say a few things. Running hospitals in The US is very very very expensive. When comparing prices, never ignore how much costs contribute to the prices.
First is the policies. The liability coverage, because doctors get sued all the time for all sorts of reasons, before we discuss staff wages, cost of equipments and everything else. I'm not certain, but I would imagine running a hospital in The US would probably rank as one of the most expensive.
Costs could and should go down, but for that to happen the whole system of healthcare would need reforms, and hospitals would probably need to reduce their headcounts too. As it stands, medtech and pharmaceutical companies are the actual real reason Healthcare cost is so high, policies geared towards reigning costs in those those industries would reduce user end prices drastically. However, hospitals too would need to find creative ways to reduce operating costs outside that.
well get to the reforming then. people dont wanna hear about and hospital expense when people can barely get insurance worth having or gotta wait 5 months for a doc appointment. I'm not gonna say i know the ins and out of the medical field and insurance but I'm pretty sure its like every other corporate field and there are people that are just not willing to take a pay cut but expect us to have sympathy for the price of a hospital bed. just sounds like a long explanation for putting profit over peoples lives
@watergawd2605 Most of the reforms need to come from the government agencies that govern these industries, because it is the loopholes that enable rampant misbehavior in these industries, but it also some of those policies that drive up costs. The govt. would need to break several monopolies in the industry for anything to actually start changing, and so far, I see no desire from the governing agencies that they're interested.
This is the problem with these people. They see what they want not what is really happening. They don't ever want to see behind the curtain.
There's a reason they fear us, it's our resolve. We live as we must, because we didn't have a choice till now.
"Holistic" medicine over American? Idk about them Cherokee Hair Tampoons 😂
Plastic bags were banned in NJ as well
We have a card only business that tips. Because our salary is low but we are not a franchisee
So you'll have nothing and like it ,...eat zee bugs 😂😂😂😂😂
Tipping was fine in restaurants, then they went nuts. It seems everything she is complaining about has turned to crap due to goverment involvement. Get the government money out of it and watch what happens. It used to be God,Family,Neighbors then the government stepped in
I wish people didn’t need to tip me! I would not pay my rent without it, I get paid 7.25 an hour base pay, without tips I’m utterly screwed.
Also I work at a small business, the owners have a few locations and they aren’t struggling but they are not super wealthy and they are very kind. Wish they paid us more base pay though!
Mfs in Italy with the two hour lunches. 12 weeks of paid vacation. 😢
Feminism and Charles Manson changed the United States.
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I also don't like this idea that I have to tip someone who chose a job that doesn't pay well enough for them to live. And before I hear the argument about wages are not keeping up I am not taking about that I talking jobs where tips are an important part of the money you make. In some cases you don't receive good service so when I tip it is because the person waiting on me did a great job. Our society rewards even if you are inadequate and it didn't used to be that way.
Social health care is great I beat cancer got treated real quick. But then in hard economic times and when your Government blows the budget dealing with Covid.. in the following years it's underfunded and wait lists are through the roof, many die as they don't get a simple scan etc early enough and your only hope is to pay private.
Thank you for mentioning private. Many people say that public health care is bad, and private is better. But they never reason that you can simply have both services. Where i live we use both. If you need something done fast, you pay private, if you are not in a hurry, you go public. Public health care accepts private prescriptions, so you can get those meds for free if they have it.
If you dont have money to pay for private and are forced to wait for the public service, what makes you think that you would be better if private was the only option. You would still be broke and unable to afford it.
yea in NY... no more plastic bags. i think the Dmv area too
It's all good but don't let the corporations make you pay. There was a time we all got free bags and they were completely biodegradable. I never asked for the change. The onus is not on the consumer
Young 60's socialist grows into old socialist. MOVE to Germany.. p l e a s e 🙏❕️
I think her statement has some validity by mistake. She doesn’t appear to know 💩 about life in other countries and the tax rates they pay coupled with the loss of freedom they incur in order to have a crap medical system that they don’t pay out of pocket but have it extracted from their check at the point of a govt weapon. Nothing is free, you will pay for it one way or the other. Mr Benjamin Franklin said long ago that anyone who would trade freedom for security deserves neither. Toughen up and get over yourself buttercup.
Government waste. If your tax dollars were spent taking care of this country, we wouldnt be in this situation.
Business owners dont give money to their competitors. Pretty simple.
A lot harder to repurpose plastic bags than bottles, etc
We are not satisfied with it, what can we do. We don’t make the rules, the one who has the gold makes the rooms. We can’t stop trillion dollar agency from buying up homes and renting them out.
Hair says it all. You should go and see how better it is.
winston churchill lied to you
I have lived off tips before, made some of the best money I have ever made, sometimes $1k a week in the 90's!!! This whole video is bull sugar honey iced tea.
So what im getting since you mentioned its went downhill since the 60s and the nuclear family went to the wayside, is that it lines up with giving women the right to vote....
wow im early. pity a young fella with a pin?
hahah where are these seniors downsizing? Most I know are buying bigger homes even after their kids leave lol
10:30...Are you asking "Why care about the world and other people"?
What shocks me is you can lose your home if you can't pay your medical bill.
Where does that happen?
Go ahead , Believe with everybody tells you😂 , most of the Europe countries your monthly salary, It's a week of pay in the USA! I mean most of countries in Europe... I live there I grew up there I work hard over there, I'm not going back😅😂😂 in the US I can buy a car every month as a regular citizen not even a businessman.... The best thing was my education it's a lot better than the US
Yes. Until shit hits the fan. Then you have nothing and have to beg people for help where in European countries you would get that help from the government. The US is fine until you get sick and/or unemployed.
@thedryparn1279 My friend, in Europe you get the help of the government if you are a piece of s***, just like in the US... I worked all my life never had help neither there or here, You know why because, work You are not qualified for s*** I'm a father and a husband, My family always had everything they need all because of hardworking ... No one is helping anyone trust me ....
As far as cheap healthcare and crime safety is concerned, there is no better country than South Korea.
She's wright people in other countries are living far better than the U S but it's not the U S it's the entities running the U S
A mill ticket is in your future.
The goal is not always about being wealth. She explains and you still don't get it
If everything, everywere in the world cost 1$ then how long you need to work to live good life on your retirement? 🤔
Richest country in the word. I seriously doubt that mrlboyd
Mrlboyd hello . N1177Lima here.
Fourth video on this topic. Time for a 6 month vacation ........rejuvenate.. Its not normal, bad food, too entitled, to materialistic. Lack of real community......etc....School shootings
The answer is not mass illegal immigration, so her points are irrelevant if she didn't vote Trump
In Japan it's an offence to try and tip
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why is everything so negative on youtube ? at times I think about creating a positive only youtube channel, a channel about how bad things used to be and how good it is now...
TIP SHAMING, lol.
I bet Churchill loved the US in his lifetime, you still had segregation up until the year before before he died.
Is it weird that I see her commentary as her being lazy and at retirement age?
Not if you're American.
She's probably worked her ass off most of her life.
@@shylathielI doubt it
True but it selling people body mind soul.
The fact that you have a lot of money and you don't like tipping it's just crazy and ignorant if he asks me selfish
Sadly I'd have to agree. But also find is not normal is people flying the US war flag everywhere and not the US civil flag of Peace nor their country's flag which is their state.
And something that most people don't know is "state is undefine. You must define it yourself.
What is also sad is that people bunch all 50 territories as one country when your country is your state in law
Like for me I live in the California territory I don't live in the state of California I don't live in America or the United States of America it's California where I've been my whole life.
And I'm only 28 and my so-called country's flag is the California republic.
Not a single thing in either of your comments is factually correct. Impressive.
…I take that back. You probably do live in California, so you got one 👌
I think it you don't study law nor don't even know that there is a such thing as the US civil flag of peace.
Contradictory to the war flag.
The peace flag is blue stars with white and blue stripes.
World of war flag is red white and blue.
Then you have your States flag your country's flag that represent every territory in the Union.
But that's fine I was a bit lazy myself and I only had to start studying for the past 6 years and maybe 7.
I knew something but some of the stuff that I'm talking about I just learned about a year and a half ago about flags.
Because flags represent jurisdiction
United means no citizen, State is a condition of district "dis"demon god of the underworld. "trict" trickery
Everything is Latin that was thrown out of our schools back in 1905. Then we were taught a corrupt language called English most manipulated language ever
Ive heard a waitress say "i would rather make tips than minimum wage, i make more from tips"
Like, i really dont care, that is NOT my problem that they think their half assed service is even worth that much.
Also, I, THE CUSTOMER AM NOT OBLIGATED TO PAY ANY PERSONS WAGE FOR THEIR EMPLOYER..
If they want to make a high earning salary or wage? They can go get a degree in a market for said high paying job.
Public service workers deserve to be paid a living wage, absolutely. But they do not deserve to be making more than the construction workers who built the damn restaurant.
You can eat at home also. Lol
Both her and LBoyd are not correct about the health insurance and doctors here. Sure our health insurance is a scam but we do have the best doctors overall. People literally fly from other countries to come here for major surgeries. Many podcast on Rogan and other platforms with real health professionals explaining it not some armchair... oops bedsitting old lady.
She made some good points but sounded kinda whiny. I WANT people to have to drive to get to me. I think people mistake Insurance for healthcare. They do less care for their health and require more insurance. At the same time we've allowed chemical companies to convince us that they're medical companies and, in turn, have built a legal fortress around themselves and the politicians who approved it, raising the cost.
Lots of things sound great, but if they're impossible, why bother?
Who's Spain???......
I retired at 45...after I sold my home and business in America and moved to the UK, it paid 100% no loans for a home I can afford(3 bedroom 2 bath) to own in countryside, a UK residency, retirement savings, a home-based business I can work to save my retirement money until 69, and I have my USA pension, my retirement annuity and savings. If I stayed in America the house would be costing me 6500 a year in state land tax, sure every year in Florida the house prices evolve, but so does your land tax based on the current value of the home, I would be dipping into my retirement savings for part N health insurance and land tax and one good age illness to bankrupt, America is a pipe dream no one can afford.
This woman is part of the problem.
Turn away from the system
Just go
No sh😮t
We live in a capitalist driven society where “greed” is top priority. The elites and those with aspirations of becoming elite can’t have enough.