The modern corporate quarterly greed machine was supercharged under Saint Ronald Reagan. They successfully started a brilliant marketing campaign against unions and raising wages to keep pace with productivity gains.
Billy Batson stop being a dum dum, corporate entities are in every country on earth. Open your eyes to how other governments, with much higher standards of living than us deal with their corporations. Because of the ways they are regulated, and not be allowed to rig the political system, they are much better corporate citizens. Lobbying is another word for corruption, we have a quid pro quo system in place that makes “we the people” irrelevant. Maybe try leaving this country once in a while and see how people enjoy life outside this country. And for the countries that do suck, usually our dirty fingers are all over that.
@Jean 7777 no they need to change it. Because it's a much better country, don't want to be tied to the US in anyway its so terrible according to the left
When I moved out of the United States and came to Korea, I was finally able to take care of my dental work and also go to the hospital to take care of other health issues without going into debt.
Over 20 years ago, as I was working for US employer in France, they offered me to transfer to their headquarters in the US with a pretty decent salary and a green card. I politely declined the offer and decided to remain in Europe where I can afford being sick, I had 6 weeks vacation/year and a reasonable work/private life balance.
Sameeee, I am Mexican,30 YO, married. I was offered to move to NJ to the HQ. But I declined. I'd much rather stay here and live a much higher quality of life (healthcare, housing, my family) we actually own a very comfortable house here. If I went to the US, I could not afford to have the same house I have in Mexico. Plus, my husband would need to be a stay at home husband because he would not be allowed to work. It's a no brainer for us, I declined and we are more than happy with our decision 😊
@@ivanavasquez2475 I wonder...why does the United States (I'm a native US citizen that's why I'm asking) portray your country as some sort of poor third world wasteland? What is it actually like there?
@@kassandraofodyssey6475 because of ignorance 🤷🏼♀️ we have our issues as any other country, but to me the solution is to stay and make a change as a Mexican, rather than leave. If you wanna know how it's like living here, try watching fellow US citizens TH-cam channels where they tell their experience. Oh, btw, did you know that aside the US, Mexico is the #1 country where more US natives live? Over 1MM I believe. Wonder why they come to live here (and not only retirees since the pandemic) if it is such a "third world wasteland"? 🤔
@@ivanavasquez2475 mexico is a shit hole though I was there 10 years ago not in the cities but in the real “mexico” we couldn’t take showers, crime is at a constant, couldn’t drink water and a lot of crazy stuff…would never go back to mexico.
@@ivanavasquez2475 Oh please, Mexico has one of the highest crime rates in the world akin to the worst 3rd world, corruption, poverty rampant. Just look at what goes on in cities with the cartels. Wouldn't live there for all the money in the world. Comparing it to US is ludicrous. You talk about 1M Americans living there while thousands of Hispanics, Mexicans cross into America daily for over 50 years.
I don't think its arrogance. Its believing the lie that diversity is a strength. As a minority, I think USA should make English an official language. At least language can be a unifying factor. Otherwise, bye bye USA.
I remember as a kid i wanted to move to America because it looked cool in the movies and video games, now i can’t help but feel privileged that i don’t live in America
@@xxxprofortnitegaymerxxx2691 The USA is the best place in the world. Don't believe the BS. Privilege doesn't come from where you live. It comes from family and friends and your inner circle. America just so happens to be where the best people live.
I live in Australia, I get 4 weeks paid annual leave, 15 days paid sick leave and 12 days paid public holidays. I get free medical and ambulance. My employer has to pay 10 percent into my retirement fund. I’m 58 and have almost a million dollars. I get a pension for the rest of my life too. Plus I was a Reservist in the ADF, that means I get a military pension on top of my old age pension, approximately $ 1600 a month all up plus my own retirement fund. Go America. Losers.
In America if you get sick and can't afford healthcare , your options are A. Die B. Go into debt and become a debt slave. In fact America still allows slavery in many forms. Thirteenth Amendment Section 1 Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2 Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
@@Kami-cw7enlol. Tell me you never lived in the US without saying so. EVERYONE has access to healthcare. If one cannot afford insurance, it is given freely by the government in the form of Medicaid or Medicare. Plus we have clinics, doctors and hospitals that use sliding scale fees for those that are above the threshold but can’t afford much.
It's a winner take all mentality and what's sad is the differences in lifespans between the rich and poor, sometimes a 15-20 year difference in neighborhoods just a mile or 2 apart.
Not everyone does. You are snared in the television/tabloid world of worthless celebrity. Keep away from this and you'll enjoy your life much more. Most of those touted in the media, I have no idea who they are, nor do I care. The worst of it all is that those useless celebrity make TOO MUCH MONEY for what they're worth.
I was born and raised in America and have lived here my whole life. I’m a nurse and have been for 21 years. I’ve worked full time in this country for 32 years and I can give you one BIG HUGE reason to say away from this country...GREED! The people at the top are sick, disgusting and unbelievably greedy. Our healthcare system is off the rails insane. I don’t have health insurance because it would cost me as much as my rent every month and I still would not be able to use it because in addition to paying that much every month there is this thing called a deductible that we also have to pay. In my case I have to rack up $10,000 in medical bills before the insurance pays anything and that $10,000 does NOT include the monthly amount I would have to pay just to say, oh, I have insurance. It’s total bs. Did your read what I said I do for a living? I am a Registered Nurse. This is SICK!! Don’t even get me started on the cost of living in this country. I have always loved my country. I served in the military when I was young but I am OVER it. Unless you are wealthy and healthy, this place is a mess.
@@ghassanjenainaty4212 any city in the USA. the private insurance companies are a joke. you pay high premiums but before the insurance company pays anything, you have to meet the deductible. private insurance is a for-profit business. think about it, for-profit insurance only makes money if you never get sick. those annual check-ups are just a way for private insurance companies to determine how much you will cost them later on. yet in many cases, they charge you for anything other than what they consider an annual visit. need a splinter removed? that will cost you. it's the same in every city and state. if our country had universal health care it would not be good for businesses. many people stay in jobs they hate simply because they offer insurance at a low cost to their employees. BUT, they pay them low wages. this country caters to businesses, not consumers
@@MrRosiesfavorites Thank you for taking your time to explain. But even if you were 100% covered by insurance company for medical coverage, there is deductible cost which means i have to pay copayment or coinsurance for covered services from my own pockets and the insurance company pays the rest ? Oh my God ! Lets suppose God forbid i had to make heart operation which cost average 100 k$ . I imagine how many deductions i should pay from my pocket before they start the operation. It could be fairly expensive for middle class people like me ! According to my humble opinion: If you tell average American citizen that his country need reformations on some aspects including the health care system, he/she will automatically start shivering and the repeated feedback is : "Oh you want to impose socialist game on me" ! This is the problem. There is a sort of socialist phobia on many people in the US
@@ghassanjenainaty4212 BTW. most of those Americans who see socialism at every turn are simple-minded. they have no idea what real socialism is. many probably grew up on government assistance. 🙄🙄
My dream was always to live in America. I’m Irish and grew up thinking that it was the the best place in the world. Just as we were about to move there, my girlfriend got pregnant and it was put on hold. The plan to emigrate never went away but somehow years later, I moved to Australia. A place, I had never even considered. I’m here 15 years now and no regrets. I finally got to visit The stares 3 years ago and saw I dodged a bullet. Loved the place but couldn’t believe the homeless problem. Old people who should be enjoying retirement still working just to live and just talking to people who work night and day just to make rent. Here, we have Medicare which is free and a system that looks after everybody. There are problems here too but nothing on the scale of the USA. Hopefully it can turn around. The richest country in the world should be able to look after its own.
Exactly, I dont pity them because americans(those with slavery like jobs) dont complain and think their country is the best, meanwhile vast majority dont travel abroad to know anything else. Americans have become pawns of their capitalist system. They dont like to acknowledge it because it used to be a great country and that granted them huge ego but deep down they know its turning to 💩 hole thats why they voted for a big mouthed "successful" businessman like trump. right now pretty much everywhere else in the western world has a better life quality according to the metrics. I've seen super old people, like 70s or 80s carry refrigerators for a living here, carry loads of bricks....this wont happen in my third world country, the bosses have something called "humanity" that prevents them from issuing such commands. But in the US, no one blinks an eye. Thats why I don't give a damn about them. They willingly want to remain unconscious.
Yeah I doubt it. Oligarchs have a strong grasp on this country. They actively censor books here. Cause division between people in the same place. We’re going the dystopian oligarchic dictatorship route here.
I had the same.... as a kid I really looked up to america. Still want to visit, but I'll never live there. Everything is way better here. and BTW, too many Ed Hopkins type of people there now. they used to be a little arrogant, now they are just plain old mean assholes.
@@lop1657 in Europe not at all.. People work to live, enjoy their 5/6 weeks of paid holidays per year, they often have long weekends ( not working on Friday afternoon for instance), they don't have high mortgage, loans, to pay to the bank so they can enjoy the money they earn..
@@robertopezzutto5843 that is just an illusion. As a european myself thar has lived in UK and Sweden and for a short time in Austria. I tell ya only the educated(not alot) are somewhat happy. At the end of the day the goverments make it so that you live to work and hide it with vacays. Im telling you man, life everywhere has you trapped.
The Only thing superior in American "culture" (can't really say they have their own culture, just parts of other cultures they stole) is their army. Besides that, the USA is one big artificial failure.
Man help me. I was born and raised in the usa and its so depressing, stressful, the people here are really depressing, selfish, rude, and extremely shallow and mean. They all think that the universe revolves around them and the culture makes fun of people who are ugly, short, poor, fat, etc. I want to get out of here!
Everything you mention is caused by competition, which trains a person to view other people as obstacles to their own success. Competition is inherently destructive. See Alfie Kohn's "No Contest".
Political campaigns need to be limited to like 6 months before election . And no midterms. This nonstop political campaigning surely makes people mentally sick.
@@omar90s91 I lived in Germany....and campaigning is only allowed a few months before the elections. For the rest of the time, people live their lives peacefully.....without the 24/7 political drama.
@@ameyas7726 It works to some degree in the places that limit campaigning . What you see in the news, social media and internet are pro/con discussions about policies, day to day issues. You don't see 24/7 election coverage like in the US. Our US media has been talking about 2024 since 2016 , and discussing possible candidates. That is just sickening.
Lazy people don't accomplish their dreams but their are plenty of people out there getting their american dream. Millions of people flock here from around the world, more than anywhere else in the world to accomplish their dreams and many do. Just cause u aren't willing to work for it don't ruin the country for everyone else
@@theprophetofputdowns8114 then work for yourself or if u don't want to work at all than don't work. Collect SSI disability, food stamps, medicaid and live in public housing. Or go live in a hippie commune. Nobody is forcing u to do anything
I'm glad you have the courage to say this. I congratulate you for protecting our right to freedom of speech. I tried repeating this to someone and it didn't go too well. I was testing that person and he failed the test. I congratulate you for being a well educated American and someone that can criticize our country and keep a straight face. You rule!
😂 I’ve been living in the US for almost 15 years I am a US citizen I loved it in the beginning. Once I started going to college, entering the workforce, dealing with middle management and experiencing the intoxicating mentality of competition and gaslighting I started hating it. People under constant anxiety and stress pill pooping, fake it till you make it attitudes; that is another way to deal with competition I guess. I just hate it now
The middle management/supervisor/gatekeeper thing is probably the worst thing about American work culture. There's a great book called Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber that talks about this. Allegedly because I haven't actually read it but did read an interview with the author and it was pretty spot on.
You can tell a lot about what is wrong with people by little things, like how they drive. Someone who tails you on a country road while you’re going the legal speed limit, passes you and floors ahead of you like they’re in the Daytona 500 without regard for anyone else’s safety really says a lot about that driver’s character. America has a crisis of character.
@@Ryan-pz4dh If you wanna call that living! You could die by driving slow and all that, too. Tomorrow is not promised, might as well have fun today, but be safe about it. I drove fast like that for four years, doing it 3-4 times a week. I'm still alive, no accidents, no mistakes. But, I've known that 12 mile stretch of highway for 20 years. I won't do that on unfamiliar roads.
Unless we wish to destroy ourselves, we must implement a permanent UBI now. Then we can transition to a RBE. Also support the Money Free Party and The Venus Project so we can go beyond politics poverty and war.
it is true that many ignorant people are influenced by the media and mainstream without finding out what really happened. Like Black Lives Matter is controlled by a political agenda. Even though I am a Democrat, I don't care about BLM. Look at humans always killing in brainwashing by politicians.
The American people have been infiltrated by an insidious enemy. The forces of good and evil are ever doing battle every where. In the United States, we began as a moral society. I know, I know, “What about slavery?! What about the Indigenous Natives of America?!” We began as a moral nation not a perfect nation. Justified sins have a way of destroying everything we worked for don’t they? Anyway, if one studies our history, The US was well on its way toward being a genuine beacon of freedom and light, a force for good, in the world. Some would argue that She was for a time... About a hundred years ago, there were some intellectual influencers on the world stage who under the guise of helping the disenfranchised and poor, pushed forward a movement or school of thought referred to as progressivism. Study the beginnings of this movement and all of its iterations and you will find an insidious intent for American society. Also, study Karl Marks and the other thought leaders of his period. Our society is the product of the implementation of many intellectual experiments. We have been brought to this place for a reason. And yes, the media and politics are definitely tools used to control us.
@@thetrumpnewsnetwork7503 well, excuse me, sir I'm a very poor third world citizen with a -100K of usd of debt. Seems like my understanding of economics is kinda outdated, maybe I should cash out and go to the casino so I can accumulate more debts like a regular American Citizen?
I was born in America, and I can say the parent thing is true, both of my parents are in jail, for drugs and abusing me and my siblings. The education system is bad, at school I feel I'm doing 3rd graders work, but then I turn around and everybody else is struggling in my grade. And my school food is so bad, its not that nutritional, and is horrible to eat. In Texas, half of my highschool aren't in GYM class. And the students don't exercise on their own time. So many of us teenagers aren't even exercising a day of our lives. And then the media. We get told all this stuff like being fat is okay and healthy, and you can be any gender you want. Oh and not to mention but SO MANY of my class mates smoke weed, or vape, or smoke cigarettes. And there is even this guy that my school who sells me+h. Our future is fucked.
Cannabis and shrooms are very healthy and fine in moderation and many shamans and early Christians' use them in their religious scarcement and ceremonies. The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross by John M. Allegro and "Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge" by Terence McKenna. Everything else you said is true. I would recommend you move to europe and start a better life for yourself than corrupt pedo america.
As an American who has spent half his life in various other countries, I can say that Americans could stand to learn a lot from other countries...IF they would listen. Part of the issue is that Americans have an arrogant know-it-all attitude, like "America, love it or leave it", "f off and don't let the door hit you on the way out", "the whole world wants to come here" (actually they don't), etc. Wisdom comes from being able to have some introspection and willingness to improve. No country is perfect. I love my homeland, but as an old guy now, I don't know if I could live there anymore. I've seen how it is in other places...and it would be hard to go back to some of the basic struggles Americans have, which frankly are 3rd world level problems, not 1st world ones. I also don't want to deal with the constant race-baiting insanity and political litmus tests every time you talk to someone in America. It's boring, irritating, and narrow-minded.
The solution to the problems America faces is to Abolish Public Schools, Social Security, Public Roads, and Child Support. Dissolve Native American Reservations, public forests, and the excessive regulating bureaucracy. It's a fairly simple solution, all things considered.
I'm planning on leaving America I'm tired of the culture and I want to see more of the world and I don't want to brainwashed like the others into thinking American is the only country. I am searching for a country to move to.
Yeah it is very expensive, I fucking hate when people "oh California is too expensive, but other USA states are much "cheaper" when literally every single USA state besides California is super expensive to live in
America's slow demise started in the 80's with the outsourcing of jobs and the trickle down economics of Ronald Reagan. This country is done, by done I mean America will never be great again.
America has many countries in itself - some very poor and dangerous, some very rich, clean and safe. Traveling to another state sometimes feels like you're in a different country altogether. That is in stark contrast to Canada where the standard of living is pretty much the same from coast to coast.
This statement is extremely true having lived in Rhode island most my life and then moving to Florida holy smokes.....and even living within Florida this certain areas in Florida where it's like another country and to itself
America is tearing itself apart. The political divide has reached an extreme level where neither side wants anything to do with the other. Unfortunately splitting the country may be necessary in the near future.
@@nolimitarmani That assumes everyone in New York and everyone in Texas are the same ideologically. They aren't. So...we get a split...what? People deemed not "politically acceptable" in each state are forced to sell their homes and leave?
Nailed it. The Right Wing Dings should stay South of the Mason/Dixon and quit attempting to inflict their sadistic will upon their coastal betters. I have no desire to regulate the lives of the Rubes in their rural shitbergs, they merely need to get out of the way of those who wish to replace the barbarism of corporate market capitalism with a humane socialism. Nearly 160 years ago the moral necessity of abolishing the institution of slavery led to civil war. Why should we kill each other when we can have an amicable divorce due to irreconcilable differences.
The USA is like a squabbling couple that is 6 weeks short of lawyering up. The USA should split into 3 nations along red-blue lines: Blue West (all states with Pacific coastline except Alaska, Las Vegas Arizona, New Mexico Colorado), Blue East (Maine to Minneapolis), and Red (everywhere else).
@@Proud_Dane then strive to educate yourself or learn a useful skill and you won’t make childrens wages. You’re your own problem. Stop looking for handouts and make something of yourself.
@@bnalive5077yeah I'm sure all the poor people are more than capable of overcoming a system that relentlessly beats them into the ground. You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
There might be a DOZEN MAIN CAUSES! Or forty-three! Thinking that you have found THE THING that's wrong, it's a sign of being a crank. Doesn't prove anything, but it's a strong hint.
@@ethanstewart6086 But you just change the party and it's literally the same. If we had dictators that were selected and raised from an early age it would've been better.
I’m from Norway and I agree with you about the vacation and parental leave in the US. The homeless situation is also pretty bad, especially in some states😕German in Venice here on TH-cam has some interesting videos about that on his channel. (Skid Row in LA, Venice Beach etc.) I love USA as a country to visit on a holiday though, and I’ve always dreamed about living in a cozy small town over there or something💯🇺🇸 I like a lot about the American culture, the different landscapes, movies, diversity and whatnot❤️But - I have to say I really appreciate my country’s welfare system, vacation weeks, great health care, parental leave etc. I will never give that up and move somewhere else. So happy I can travel instead. Greetings from 🇳🇴to 🇩🇪
@Ken Burks I know it can be very scary for US Americans not to have to worry about going bankrupt in every medical emergency or having enough vacation and paid sick days or employee rights yes yes that can be really scary for an US American
We need to start over under an oak tree with Socrates. Throwing money at education is communist. The system has been rigged to churn out red hacks in the teacher colleges. This was identified in 1950. Now you see the results. The public schools have been predending to teach literacy all my my life. When you throw money at them, they produce more illiterates because when they do that they get paid. They don't educate, they count heads. The more heads, the more money. The squeaking wheel gets the grease. The biggest propaganda mill wins, and guess who owns them? Some of the biggest communists are the old money that has pulled out all the stops to destroy the middle class and liberty. The Communist Party is not the party of the poor, it is the party bought by the rich to control the poor. They do this by destroying the economy, installing corrupt legislators by the silver or lead process, and getting laws passed to cheat us out of the national wealth and loot the treasury, this concentrating all the wealth in few hands. You live on money. What did public school ever teach you about it?
@@johnhardin4358 I don’t recall Socrates pontificating under an oak tree, he seemed fonder of caves. Still, if we’re going with him and his student, does that mean you want to abolish democracy? Plato certainly did.
@@JW-uy2on We reached out peak in the 90's. China will soon rule the world. I'm sure there is nothing wrong with China. ;). The U.S. is about to be crushed by the debt accumulated under Trump, Obama, and Bush.
While he is pointing out facts, he failed to actually go down to the source of our problems, corporate greed and corruption in our government has a lot to do with everything he have mentioned
True, but the population is to blame as well: the general public has a distorted value system, not rooted in the desire to sustain, cultivate, and preserve goodness, truth, love, and righteousness. Immoral things are uplifted as good, and bondage to drugs is prevalent everywhere. It's not only the United States which is on the decline... there is no holy land to be found anywhere on this earth. Even Israel is only an exoskeleton of what it used to be. The world is ICHABOD.
@@ezj8262 YES AGREED. It's not always the government. The leaders often reflect the people. Too many Americans hate righteous, morality, and goodness while praising degeneracy. They hate upright people and shun Judeo-Christian values. I would know; even from childhood, you are disdained by those who shun morality.
@@Pharaohinthecut dude, as I tell all you new (THEY) ONES, DO YOU... However AS, the surveys say, and I'd, surmise your, to your life as well, which I SURMISE, directly or indirectly, ain't dat GOD..ANYWAY 🇺🇲 AT THIS POINT..REV 19.. AS, IF AIDS AND COVID19 and all the other SOCIETAL, signs aren't enough. 🇺🇲s.fallen society and political system..as others commented. 🇺🇲s.MORAL DECLINE..facts What you got, better be GOD. Doubt, if it will. Waiting Semper Fi 💪♥️
@@NickJohnson You are doing the right thing! My salutes. Acknowledging the crisis and starting to analize is the first step of a cure. Best regards from Germany.
I used to envy the United States, and wished that I lived there. What I've seen transpire over the past 15-20 years has convinced me that it's in a downward spiral, and no f@c^ing way would I want to raise a family there now. It's sad.
@@UCeddWhat Countless times for the past 40 years. I lived in NYC for 5 months back in '99. Love the eastern seaboard. Boston, NYC, Miami, Raleigh, as well as Dallas, Chicago, and practically grew up in my youth spending summers in southern Maine. Nice place to visit, but fucking tearing itself apart with its bullshit politics. Good luck 👍
The gun culture puts me off. Plus the healthcare system stinks. Is it a developed country ? These days it just seems a run down nation with the wealthiest pretending everything is ok.
We have failed to invest in our people. Lack of public health, mental health. Lack of infrastructure investment. Tax cuts for the wealthy. What a pathetic record.
What a economic disaster, what is taking our government so long to help us during these difficult times. WHY THE HELL ARE WE PAYING TAXES IF MANY OF US Don't make it past 50 years of age thanks to the GMO FOODS , AND CONSTANT financial stress having to work practically for a few dimes left of change for 40 hours a week just to survive and live a peasants lifestyle.😠😠😠
@@ultimateedgelord3586 at what point has privatized healthcare shown itself to be a good idea? All the other 1st world countries have socialized medicine.
@@Rougeelite74 "at what point has privatized healthcare shown itself to be a good idea?" Everywhere? When I lived in Canada, Malaysia and South Korea, I always visited private hospitals and paid through my own pocket. Way better than visiting a government hospital. Visited a government funded hospital in Sweden 2 yrs ago. Big mistake, felt like a moron waiting in line for more than 2 hrs just for an ECG. Yeah, 1st world socialized medicine for you, thank god it was just an acid re-flux or I could have been dead. Thanks a lot Stockholm.
@Jessica Smith The reason people have to look down on each other to begin with is because they know they become looked down upon if they don't "stay on top". You're taught to shame people that aren't making it and don't get access to things they should as a right because the amendments and corporations won't give it to them
There are entitled people all over the world. Seriously. Seen them myself. Entitlement is a generational issue and generally seen in affluent societies as well as any society that props up one class over another, which is every where, unfortunately.
As a person who was raised by a single mom (she did her absolute best and is great), one parent households are the biggest problem facing this country. At least in my opinion anyway.
Well folks when you get rid of the middle class....(Nafta, look into it :) this is what happens, you got the rich and you got the poor, and a huge divide in between. Idiocrasy everywhere.
I am middle class. I didn't go anywhere. :) And I used to be poor when I was a kid. I still believe it's possible if you work smart, not hard, and stay away from drugs. Yeah I'm one of those geeks that even stayed away from marijuana (though smoked a few times). And I recognize my personal bias. I was lucky to be born in a relatively well off part of the country (Las Vegas), my life would have been drastically different if I was born in some coal mining town, but I like to think I would have done the same things (join the military, develop work skills etc.).
I've lived in the USA all my life. Please don't move here. Its really really not worth it. You can do better. I want to leave but idk what place is best for me.
@@trevsreacttv3370 america is a third world country. Constant shootings, highest costing healthcare and college tuitions in the world. Massive homeless problem. It is a third world country.
America is in decline, last thing we need is a bunch of morons who don't know how to vote correctly. Yes there is a correct way to vote, and socialism communism isn't the answer.
@@kitten_582i live in america and it’s not that bad depending on where you live. i could not imagine living in big corrupt cities that would be hell, but in smaller cities with good quality of life, food, nice people, and decent healthcare it’s very nice
Not all the people, but yes, a lot of the problem is the people .... hedonists, communists, socialists, extreme left wing liberals, extreme weak or corrupt demoncrats and wimpy republicans, those that rejected Jesus and the 10 commandments, those that don't love this country and don't bother to learn about the law and help make this a better place cause we're a 'melting pot' full of america haters.
The US has a misuse of capital problem, from an over large defence budget, a badly managed health care system, to too much debt and too much central bank intervention.
Basically , you are correct . But, the debt is designed to enrich the criminals who manage the money . So, for the them , a fat , scared , and dumbed down populace is perfect .
@@NickJohnson I like how you compare America to the countries that only exist(or exist in their current forms) because of the US liberating, defense or both. How about we let these countries fend for themselves then we'll see who is on top in your purposely specific categories? BTW the countries you are comparing us to like in Europe and Asia are literally dying out, there birth rates are abysmal.
Theres a problem in the USA that seems overlooked a lot, or at least it doesn't get the weight it deserves: culture centered around work. It's no joke, americans really only seem to think about work, the whole of american life revolves around it. Americans move and change everything else to fit it, love life, entertainment, even children. To me that is one of the main issues in the USA, and a lot of other problems stem from it. Sure it's in part the reason why the country is wealthy, but it has also sprang up a lot of problems that are no easy to see.
I am European and I can agree with what you are saying. Although I think the USA is a better place to live when you are rich, I will never understand how you can leave behind the poor people. It will backfire.
@Sam Sam, it's the government and the populace that make a country what it is. A country cannot be amazing with a horrible government and populace. If the government and populace are horrible, then the country itself is horrible. I'm sorry but that's just the way things are.
most great empires in history were not defeated from outside but from within and when they were defeated from outside it was only because they had become so weak from within
This is so true. Many of them did fall from the outside but because they were weak from the inside. Take the Roman Empire for example. There was a long unstable period of emperors, where there were 27 emperors in a matter of a hundred years. The population of the empire was declining, therefore not enough soldiers could be conscripted to guard its borders. The main reason it fell though, was because of climate change. The climate was getting colder, and the tribes to the east of the Rhine could not raise as much crops as they used to. Therefore, they decided to move into the Roman Empire. The only thing standing in their way was the Rhine River. However, because the climate was getting colder, one winter, the Rhine froze over. It is normally an impossible river to cross because of the currents and the size of the River. But, because the Rhine was frozen, thousands of them poured into the Roman Empire with little resistance, because the Roman Empire had very little soldiers to defend it with. And that is how the eastern part of it dissolved.
I moved to St Thomas in 2010 and it was the best decision I ever made in my whole life, and I was 41. For the 1st time in my life I made friends! Friends who truly cared for me. I work at a local bar 4 days a week and it's the best job I ever had. America is good but not great anymore. Down here we don't care for left and right, just humans. Meanwhile, my brother is struggling to keep up with his family. For once I became free!
@GORILLA_PIMP Good question, it was a spare of the moment for me when I left America. I experienced a HUGE Burn Out at my job and decided to just leave before they can fire me for the 4th time. I had $1500 saved up for emergency. Once I moved to St Thomas, the people there were so embracesive. It was like a twilight zone for me. I was never alone, depressed, nor stressed. Apartments are way cheaper and work life is minimal. I'm at peace. I had NO friends, girl friends, nor support in America so it was easy for me to just leave. Btw, St Thomas has a lot of American jobs there especially the US VA, you can apply if you want. As for me, bar tender is best suited for me. Check out the Caribbean especially Aruba. 😊
@@masken8355 that’s true but America is not a great place to be at the moment. And say that as someone who truly loves America. American forebears lived better lives than modern Americans do today. The only thing we have better is technology that is making people’s lives miserable.
I was born in America, and currently reside within it's boarders. I didn't grow up here though, I spent all but the first six months of my formative years and adolescence in Germany as a dependent of an Officer in the U.S. Army. I returned stateside in the early 90s as a young adult, only to find the precise state of affairs that you have described. Sociatal dealing here are depressing and getting worse. The vast majority of people who call the U.S. home willfully segregate themselves, and openly flaunt a general hatred toward anyone that doesn't align with their conditioned norms. This mindset exist from coast to coast, from small rural towns to the big cities, I state this from a position of personal experiences throughout my own travels within these boarders over the last 30 plus years. I've lived in over 10 different States and visited more than 40 others. This is the land of the free, only by name, for most here have little to no understanding of the true meaning therein. The generally uncaring, unconcerned, corruption based mindsets are pervasive and deeply embedded. When, on occasion, I encounter someone on vacation from another country, I have an immediate and genuine underlined sense of embarrassment, for I'm completely aware of the experiences they are witnessing in the interactions with my close-minded compatriots. Warning* to all would be visitors, this country is a powder keg, enter at you own risk.
My former boss said, "USA is the land of milk and honey but you'll never get the milk and honey". As someone who studied and lived in the US for 10 years, when I returned back to Indonesia to work I was amazed at how far Indonesia has developed.
@PROXY The developing rate is higher because it is going from undeveloped to developed at a steady rate. Because the USA is already well developed and has been for decades at this point. The rate of development of infrastructure is obviously going to be lower. Do you understand more or less where I am coming from?
I'm from the US originally, moved back not even six months ago amid a ton of issues in Canada, and now about to accept a job in Germany to hopefully get out and never come back
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A couple of things that pleases me most about not living in the United States, is that my children (and all other children in my country) have access to higher education and health care regardless of their parents' income. It should be a right in every country.
You do not have a right to free health care. Most european countries that have "free" health care, are in a state of decline because the real cost of health care (plus other government benefits) is being financed by debt. The bubble is about to pop, and you don't want to be around when that happens. Also, that's the reason why I'm leaving Germany because I don't want to pay for your health care 😂
@@kallaji7383 So you don't agree that all children should have the same right to education and health care? Which country are you about to move to, the United States, one of the world's most debt-ridden countries?
@@arne1958 "So you don't agree that all children should have the same right to education and health care?" Yes, because communism sucks. Ask anybody would tried it and you will figure out why. "Which country are you about to move to?" Eastern Europe.
@@billybatson8657 Nowhere as much as prior to the Reagan Administration. Countries that are currently doing better than the U.S. are Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Australia, just to name a few.
@@brianb.8295 remember that time Sweden teamed up with Germany in world war 2... bunch of nazi tratiors. australia is owned by china norway and denmark are almost non existant America will always be number 1, stay mad communist... US#1
I'm American and love the good things about my country, but I'm also well aware of the problems we have, problems that a lot of my countrymen ignore or deny. The truth hurts, but we need to face it and try to make things better.
Talking to friend from Seattle who's a navy vet made me realize how good life is in Ireland compared to USA. Most people have the Hollywood movie impression of USA.
Yup, and I have an English friend that wants to move to America. I keep trying to talk them out of it, but it’s deaf ears. They’ll learn soon enough when they have to move back to England.
Living in Ireland where you are LOCKED DOWN! Petrol and everything is a rip off and the knackers and knifers are lurking. Scenery and most people are great though. I have an excellent quality of life in Massachusetts. Don’t even get me started on quality of health care.
I live in America. You don't want to get stuck here. It's like a roach motel. Don't believe are government's over hyped Propaganda. I'm still trying to get out. They keep making it hard to get out.
@Astro Mars thats a very bad analogy. The ship isn't actually sinking. The stock market is increasingly exponentially while the general economy has more or less stayed the same, thus creating further class divide.
@@jimtalbott2894 Haven't traveled much Jim? We went to Spain a couple of years ago. Not perfect, but seeing their well kept infrastructure, speedy trains system, and absolutely gorgeous museums, we fell in love. Not to mention that people there are pretty friendly. Also, laid back. There are nice places in the U.S. too. Unfortunately, the culture as a whole is pretty caustic.
Lived in PA for a year with wife and kids. Decided to move back to Europe after 1 year. Reason: too much physical and verbal violence. A country is not a business. To be a healthy society life should not be organised as a match with one winner and many losers. Sold house and car and both of us worked hard in Europe. Both children went to university without making debts, we encountered some major medical issues, but are retired now, own our own house, can drive a car, have good healthcare and do not have to pack groceries in supermarkets due to a solid retirement income. We enjoy gardening, nature, travelling, culture, and live in a safe environment. One might say; the American dream... but to us the European one is a lot better.
Because Europeans for the most part see the big picture, and understand what’s basic and most important to run a civil and modern society. They’re also a lot more cultured, and plan long term with holistic thinking in mind. They think about consequences, something the here-and-now American culture only see’s with instant gratification, greed, and a ton of short-sightedness. The “elites” brainwash and control the population through multiple forms of manipulation. They treat this place as a giant garbage can: fracking, pulverizing nature along with its people to discard them like trash along crumbled roadsides. Very “Patriotic.”
Of course you retreated back to your white continent. Lmao at the Europeans that come to America and retreat back to their white paradises as America's diversity scares them...
You must have lacked a certain working skill-set when you came. When I worked in Europe I was only paid an equivalent of $3500+ but ever since returning to US working for the same company I am earning $7300+. I'm clearly better off here than in Europe. And yes just like most things in life, there's one winner with many losers, think of the entertainment industry, book publishing, entrepreneurship, winner takes all, too bad Europeans don't understand that.
@@ultimateedgelord3586 It seems you didn't understand Jacobus Hubertus Kirchner 's comment. It wasn't about the money, and he's clearly better off in Europe. You have a very provincial American mindset, and I don't believe for one minute that you ever worked in Europe.
My partner is American and we live in my country now. When we visit my in-laws and stay in the way most middle-class families are living here, hanging out with my in-laws and doing normal errands or socialising with them as they normally live…I get the distinct understanding that I have saved my partner from a much lower quality of life by marrying them and taking them to live in my own country. We don’t feel that way when we are home, but returning to the states is now very jarring and a reminder of how lucky we are not to live here. Their family are totally unaware that we feel this way and don’t love visiting them mostly due to the fact that their part of America feels like such a horrible place compared with our own life. It is both boring, yet very intense and we even notice how unwell we feel due to the food choices here being mostly fast food/fried/high sugar diets. We put on weight quickly during a visit. I joked with my partner that we wish their parents lived in Italy/any other EU country, because our visits wouldn’t cause nearly as much anxiety for us and we know we’d enjoying it more as a holiday instead of it feeling like a sacrifice.
Cos fast food is the real problem, right? Have a read of the rest of the comments. The issues described in the majority of people’s comments are not limited to one area of the states only.
I was brought here by my family when I was 8 yrs old. From a nice country. Nearly half a century later. The country is GONE. Wish they never brought me here. Too much info to go into specifics. But after nearly half a century. I know what I am talking about.
@@quentinschannel9469 most people live in China and India(37% of world population combined). Most people moving in America are coming from China and India... US population in world is... 4%..and theirs is... 37%. Yeah...
If you have ever been to another country, and you come back, you KNOW how great we have it. Those of you that think we suck, check out other countries, you will come crying back to Mother US!
The things I like least about the US is the out of pocket cost of healthcare, the extreme isolation of suburbs and lack of connectivity to city centers you have in European suburbs, the unpaid maternity leave, unrealistic university tuition costs per the rewards getting out of college, the divide between crime and posh sections of towns, some attitudes on racial prejudice (and not just Conservatives and red states but all 50 states and particularly Boston Minneapolis SF Chicago and Connecticut’s cities where it’s a mess by zipcode of systematically segregated school districts) and worst of all the awful choices we have (on BOTH of the 2 oligarchical Political parties) and the binary forced choices for leadership, and US vs Them mentality on BOTH parties with BOTH breeding career politicians elected and re-elected over and over and over whether it be Elizabeth Warren/Nancy Pelosi or it being a political pawn on the rightwing side. I feel like a lot of these issues are due to maybe too much power in Federal Govt and maybe states rights are for a reason, but I’m saying this from a Liberal perspective. Why is states rights a Conservative thing to be? I want states rights also so that a city like Berkeley California can do things that European cities do and emulate choices of model living they want. I want local municipal rights as well. Neighborhood rights, and individual rights. Why do we only have 2 parties? What does having guns have to do with freedom to practice religion? Why do we correlate social and fiscal conservative as one or do the opposite? We have good ideas from registered Republicans and we have good ideas from registered Democrats but the party national platform campaigns on BOTH are annoying and divisive …. BOTH national parties and the political attacks sicken me. Do we need a filibuster in the Senate ? Yes we do ! We need it regardless which party controls Congress, We need to change the way our political leaders think! If you are a Democrat, your prime focus should be to LISTEN to all of the majority of wants and needs among ALL 50 states and satisfy the best path for America’s future for ALL Americans from Liberal to Conservative, with a perspective of a more Liberal vantage point, NOT an Attack campaign US VS THEM!!! And Conservative politicians no different the goal should be to appease as much of the country and across as many representative groups as possible without alienation, for unity of the country , but with a Conservative vantage point. We need this unity. We are one country in the end, we need to make it better.
I am 88 years old and fat, dumb and happy in Central Texas. I helped make the US great and now it is going downhill. The young kids never had it so good, but they don't realize it. If they can't make it in the US, they can't make it anywhere. I am not white and started off poor, but I owe everything to the US for giving me an opportunity to excel. i travelled the world over and the US, that I knew, is the best in the world.
I am 88 also! We saw a lot, didnt we? So much was better in the past...you and I lived through the Depressing, but I think the country has never been so poor as today..!!
I'm 64, and I wouldn't blame the kids. Yes, they "never had it so good" in terms of toys, gadgets, and child labor laws, but in terms of the things that really matter to kids, they've got it much harder than we ever did--they didn't grow up in stable, loving homes, for way too many reasons. They fail because we failed them. That's the biggest takeaway from this video--children are way too low on our priorities. Tests with lab rats show that the only instinct stronger than parenthood is the instinct to reach air when suffocating. We're doing worse than the rats.
@@violetgruner707 I kept saying that I am glad to be born in the year I was born because I have enjoyed the Golden Age of the USA. Armstrong, Cernan and I graduated from Purdue in the same year, got naval commission and worked for NASA. Who can ask for more.
We have higher inflation, low wages in relation to cost of living, highest university tuition cost in the world, high student debt. We have messed up mental health, drug culture and not to mention prescription drugs here are consumed more than anywhere else in the world. We’re also the most obese nation and have awful food purity laws in terms of preservatives and fake food. There are many better places my man. Going to Europe could make anyone realize America isn’t that nice unless you are rich.
@Danny Horworth in my country, there will be frequent rebelions and and terrorism that killed thousands of innocent filipinos. While the U.S mainland has no wars since the civil war which occurred two centuries ago ( +it mainly fighting for slavery which is shocking for a country that is relatively young )
@Danny Horworth the problem for making healthcare free is that "who will gonna pay for it?" And I know that poeple fundamentaly hated two things: death and taxes
I was struggling to get American citizenship for years Now I'm looking forward to move out from this country so I can get some sleep again, not being constantly stressed out, not working nights, being able to afford dentist, have friends available and willing to go have fun etc.
getting the citizenship was a mistake, you should've stayed permanent resident. I don't wanna become a US citizen, I don't want my future children to have US citizenship automatically, since I see having US citizenship as a negative, not as a positive for them
@@marcosvidal2797 What's the difference? As a citizen I can go to my home country and stay as long as I want, as a resident I couldn't do it. Also you can lose g.card but not citizenship. I'm more protected this way
I am Brazilian now married to an American for a few years but even before that, I had the opportunity to travel extensively throughout the country and spend some time in several states. I agree with most of what you said and not for millions of dollars I would live in the US. The food is awful, the healthcare is a joke and the social and cultural lifestyles are literally pathological. My husband is an American from NY, we have been living in the Northeast of Brazil and he LOVES IT. The healthier food and lifestyle, street markets everywhere, better private healthcare for more affordable prices, gyms and exercise culture makes a huge difference. Whoever thinks that the US is the best place to live in the world is simply delusional or ignorant.
@@alexandragoldstein7019 Então é que eu acho engraçado o fato de que muitos brasileiros conversam com outros brasileiros em inglês quando o vídeo em questão é inglês. Apenas uma observação.
@@miguelfonseca2341 Eu geralmente respondo a pessoa na língua q ela iniciou a conversa. Aqui nos eua tem pessoas, principalmente os Hispanos, que ficam irritados se vc responder em espanhol mesmo sabendo q eles entendem. Se sentem ofendidos. Não tenho sentimentos junto a língua nenhuma, é só uma ferramenta, mas confesso q meu português é mais enferrujado do que o inglês.
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When we started outsourcing jobs to take advantage of foreign workers who work for less, it was the beginning of the end. We've raised the standard of living for other countries while our middle class has considerably shrunk. More people are struggling than ever before.
@@moniho6907 Because it doesn't pay enough and the owner class doesn't want to raise the wage since there is always a class of people who will work more for less.
They need a class of Serfs to till the fields, make their food, clean their multiple mansions, maintain their land, move their luggage, etc. etc. "You will own nothing, and you will be happy"
under CURRENT laws, we could arrest EVERY POL and JOURNALIST who LIED bout moving all the jobs to COMMUNIST china (I thought the capitalists said communism didn't work, ha ha!) (they needed COMMUNISM to prop up Capitalism, ha ha) (just like all Amerikkkan Hyper-Capitalists get more $ocialism than anyone else!)and we taxpayers PAID to move all the factories there!!! THE VERY IDEA THAT YOU WOULD MOVE FACTORIES TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE PLANET IS ILLEGAL INSANITY.....and then SHIP GAZILLIONS OF GOODS....BACK ACROSS HALF THE PLANET (!!!!) oh wait, the whole planet cuz round trips.......every day every decade? ANYONE COULD KILL these pols and MSM under SELF DEFENSE STATUTES!! The amount of POINTLESS WASTE and pollution is incomprehensible. ANd nevermind the environment: it would be ILLEGALLY INSANE IN EVERY WAY even if it didn't HARM THE PLANET! EX: HOW DO WE NOT TAKE THE 5 BILLION PLASTIC BOTTLES A DAY....and put them together to create millions of NEW ISLANDS and millions of houseboats! THEY FLOAT!! And I hear plastic takes a while to degrade! WIN/ WIN!
The truth hurts!! I went to Nigeria and found peace and my body started healing. I had cyst on my elbow and my left ovary that are now gone from spending a month in 🇳🇬. I’m leaving this country and never coming back.
Here's my entire all about America playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLq-_cmf3H6yoRYg-ZZSFNFo4dBKxg85JC.html
Shut up.
@Alao Belo is great was to you not me? Stroke?
So other countries who are doing well has unions on jobs?
@@thistime7234 Lmao shut up.
@@thistime7234 Stop drinking beer too much, manchild.
Corporate greed had sucked the soul out of the United States.
The modern corporate quarterly greed machine was supercharged under Saint Ronald Reagan. They successfully started a brilliant marketing campaign against unions and raising wages to keep pace with productivity gains.
america is better than any place in the wrold
@@emed1977 Trump and W Bush have only made things worse
"Corporate Greed" is exactly why America is the greatest country on the planet. Go to any country that has no corporations - they suck!
Billy Batson stop being a dum dum, corporate entities are in every country on earth. Open your eyes to how other governments, with much higher standards of living than us deal with their corporations. Because of the ways they are regulated, and not be allowed to rig the political system, they are much better corporate citizens. Lobbying is another word for corruption, we have a quid pro quo system in place that makes “we the people” irrelevant. Maybe try leaving this country once in a while and see how people enjoy life outside this country. And for the countries that do suck, usually our dirty fingers are all over that.
"It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."
- George Carlin
Thank you! The man was a genius
I dream about not living here.
@@internetconnection9290 overused but true as heck
Amen brother
@@internetconnection9290 Does it matter if it's overused? No. It's very relevant and true. Your comment is pointless.
I moved to Germany 5 months ago and theres no way in hell im going back to the states. i had no idea life could be like this...
howd you do it?
i wanna live in germany too but my german is still in progress
enjoy, I loved Germany when I was there. Don't forget to change your citizenship
@@ehouse430 you don’t have to change your citizenship, the US and Germany allows dual citizenship.
@Jean 7777 no they need to change it. Because it's a much better country, don't want to be tied to the US in anyway its so terrible according to the left
When I moved out of the United States and came to Korea, I was finally able to take care of my dental work and also go to the hospital to take care of other health issues without going into debt.
South korea is a better place to live, i wanna go there too
@@trongthep9287 Me too brother!
Sounds like a salary issue, since i have health insurance and it didnt cost me an arm and a leg.
@A I hear you brother, me too!
Thats exactly what I'm doing as soon as I move to Panama 💯💯💯💯. Applying for my Pensioners Visa right now
Over 20 years ago, as I was working for US employer in France, they offered me to transfer to their headquarters in the US with a pretty decent salary and a green card. I politely declined the offer and decided to remain in Europe where I can afford being sick, I had 6 weeks vacation/year and a reasonable work/private life balance.
Sameeee, I am Mexican,30 YO, married. I was offered to move to NJ to the HQ. But I declined. I'd much rather stay here and live a much higher quality of life (healthcare, housing, my family) we actually own a very comfortable house here. If I went to the US, I could not afford to have the same house I have in Mexico. Plus, my husband would need to be a stay at home husband because he would not be allowed to work. It's a no brainer for us, I declined and we are more than happy with our decision 😊
@@ivanavasquez2475 I wonder...why does the United States (I'm a native US citizen that's why I'm asking) portray your country as some sort of poor third world wasteland? What is it actually like there?
@@kassandraofodyssey6475 because of ignorance 🤷🏼♀️ we have our issues as any other country, but to me the solution is to stay and make a change as a Mexican, rather than leave. If you wanna know how it's like living here, try watching fellow US citizens TH-cam channels where they tell their experience. Oh, btw, did you know that aside the US, Mexico is the #1 country where more US natives live? Over 1MM I believe. Wonder why they come to live here (and not only retirees since the pandemic) if it is such a "third world wasteland"? 🤔
@@ivanavasquez2475 mexico is a shit hole though I was there 10 years ago not in the cities but in the real “mexico” we couldn’t take showers, crime is at a constant, couldn’t drink water and a lot of crazy stuff…would never go back to mexico.
@@ivanavasquez2475 Oh please, Mexico has one of the highest crime rates in the world akin to the worst 3rd world, corruption, poverty rampant. Just look at what goes on in cities with the cartels. Wouldn't live there for all the money in the world. Comparing it to US is ludicrous. You talk about 1M Americans living there while thousands of Hispanics, Mexicans cross into America daily for over 50 years.
I live here in USA. Our own arrogance will be our downfall.
I don't think its arrogance. Its believing the lie that diversity is a strength. As a minority, I think USA should make English an official language. At least language can be a unifying factor. Otherwise, bye bye USA.
In my childhood, I would always want to move to usa cause I thought it was the most developed country but then now, I don't even wanna talk bout it
@@dheva1502 you can indian’s that live here. They love it. I would never want to live in a country that didn’t care about their citizens, for real.
How living in usa did its safe? can poor people survive?
Every country has his own problems. You shouldn't disparage a country of millions of people when you only get to meet thousands.
I remember as a kid i wanted to move to America because it looked cool in the movies and video games, now i can’t help but feel privileged that i don’t live in America
And where u live?
You're not!!
@@xxxprofortnitegaymerxxx2691 bro, scandinavian countries are much better than usa
@@davelewis9795 what are you trying to imply??
@@xxxprofortnitegaymerxxx2691 The USA is the best place in the world. Don't believe the BS. Privilege doesn't come from where you live. It comes from family and friends and your inner circle. America just so happens to be where the best people live.
I live in Australia, I get 4 weeks paid annual leave, 15 days paid sick leave and 12 days paid public holidays. I get free medical and ambulance. My employer has to pay 10 percent into my retirement fund. I’m 58 and have almost a million dollars. I get a pension for the rest of my life too. Plus I was a Reservist in the ADF, that means I get a military pension on top of my old age pension, approximately $ 1600 a month all up plus my own retirement fund. Go America. Losers.
yes, that may sound good, but I have more guns bro and we have more nukes
@@marcosvidal2797🤣
And yet your politicians won't let you own a gun. Which means they can kill you any time they want. So cool story bro.
In America if you get sick and can't afford healthcare , your options are A. Die B. Go into debt and become a debt slave. In fact America still allows slavery in many forms.
Thirteenth Amendment
Section 1
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
@@Kami-cw7enlol. Tell me you never lived in the US without saying so.
EVERYONE has access to healthcare. If one cannot afford insurance, it is given freely by the government in the form of Medicaid or Medicare. Plus we have clinics, doctors and hospitals that use sliding scale fees for those that are above the threshold but can’t afford much.
When a culture glorifies selfishness and greed, this is bound to happen.
It's a winner take all mentality and what's sad is the differences in lifespans between the rich and poor, sometimes a 15-20 year difference in neighborhoods just a mile or 2 apart.
Not everyone does. You are snared in the television/tabloid world of worthless celebrity. Keep away from this and you'll enjoy your life much more. Most of those touted in the media, I have no idea who they are, nor do I care. The worst of it all is that those useless celebrity make TOO MUCH MONEY for what they're worth.
Greed is good.
No, this culture glorifies jealousness, ignorance, and lacks any real work ethic.
"How dare that sob have more than me" type of culture.
@@brucemarsico6 facts
In the 1980's I was a teenager and said the usa was on a slow downward spiral. I was wrong, it's on a FAST DOWNWARD SPIRAL.
Calvin G - what are you talking about you strange silly person
@Calvin G Merica!
@Calvin G Oh I got u
@Karl Marx Tovarisch marx
Dude 1980s USA was way better than today’s USA
I was born and raised in America and have lived here my whole life. I’m a nurse and have been for 21 years. I’ve worked full time in this country for 32 years and I can give you one BIG HUGE reason to say away from this country...GREED! The people at the top are sick, disgusting and unbelievably greedy. Our healthcare system is off the rails insane. I don’t have health insurance because it would cost me as much as my rent every month and I still would not be able to use it because in addition to paying that much every month there is this thing called a deductible that we also have to pay. In my case I have to rack up $10,000 in medical bills before the insurance pays anything and that $10,000 does NOT include the monthly amount I would have to pay just to say, oh, I have insurance. It’s total bs. Did your read what I said I do for a living? I am a Registered Nurse. This is SICK!! Don’t even get me started on the cost of living in this country. I have always loved my country. I served in the military when I was young but I am OVER it. Unless you are wealthy and healthy, this place is a mess.
May i ask what city and state are you living?
dang, thanks for your honesty
@@ghassanjenainaty4212 any city in the USA. the private insurance companies are a joke. you pay high premiums but before the insurance company pays anything, you have to meet the deductible. private insurance is a for-profit business. think about it, for-profit insurance only makes money if you never get sick. those annual check-ups are just a way for private insurance companies to determine how much you will cost them later on. yet in many cases, they charge you for anything other than what they consider an annual visit. need a splinter removed? that will cost you. it's the same in every city and state. if our country had universal health care it would not be good for businesses. many people stay in jobs they hate simply because they offer insurance at a low cost to their employees. BUT, they pay them low wages. this country caters to businesses, not consumers
@@MrRosiesfavorites Thank you for taking your time to explain. But even if you were 100% covered by insurance company for medical coverage, there is deductible cost which means i have to pay copayment or coinsurance for covered services from my own pockets and the insurance company pays the rest ? Oh my God ! Lets suppose God forbid i had to make heart operation which cost average 100 k$ . I imagine how many deductions i should pay from my pocket before they start the operation. It could be fairly expensive for middle class people like me ! According to my humble opinion: If you tell average American citizen that his country need reformations on some aspects including the health care system, he/she will automatically start shivering and the repeated feedback is : "Oh you want to impose socialist game on me" ! This is the problem. There is a sort of socialist phobia on many people in the US
@@ghassanjenainaty4212 BTW. most of those Americans who see socialism at every turn are simple-minded. they have no idea what real socialism is. many probably grew up on government assistance. 🙄🙄
My dream was always to live in America. I’m Irish and grew up thinking that it was the the best place in the world. Just as we were about to move there, my girlfriend got pregnant and it was put on hold. The plan to emigrate never went away but somehow years later, I moved to Australia. A place, I had never even considered. I’m here 15 years now and no regrets. I finally got to visit The stares 3 years ago and saw I dodged a bullet. Loved the place but couldn’t believe the homeless problem. Old people who should be enjoying retirement still working just to live and just talking to people who work night and day just to make rent. Here, we have Medicare which is free and a system that looks after everybody. There are problems here too but nothing on the scale of the USA. Hopefully it can turn around. The richest country in the world should be able to look after its own.
Exactly, I dont pity them because americans(those with slavery like jobs) dont complain and think their country is the best, meanwhile vast majority dont travel abroad to know anything else.
Americans have become pawns of their capitalist system. They dont like to acknowledge it because it used to be a great country and that granted them huge ego but deep down they know its turning to 💩 hole thats why they voted for a big mouthed "successful" businessman like trump. right now pretty much everywhere else in the western world has a better life quality according to the metrics. I've seen super old people, like 70s or 80s carry refrigerators for a living here, carry loads of bricks....this wont happen in my third world country, the bosses have something called "humanity" that prevents them from issuing such commands. But in the US, no one blinks an eye. Thats why I don't give a damn about them. They willingly want to remain unconscious.
Im sorry to tell you but, The Strongest Country isn’t gonna change because 85active told it to
@@nikijijivDude. He just told his hopes. Shut up.
Yeah I doubt it. Oligarchs have a strong grasp on this country. They actively censor books here. Cause division between people in the same place. We’re going the dystopian oligarchic dictatorship route here.
This is why we have the right to bear arms, to stop tyranny. The problem is that the government has most Americans brainwashed.
When I was a kid, I dreamed of living in the US. I'm 26 now, wouldn't want to live there for all the money in the world...
Most of it is great
it is not as bad as the news media depicts things.
Why did you want to come here to sponge?
I had the same....
as a kid I really looked up to america.
Still want to visit, but I'll never live there.
Everything is way better here.
and BTW, too many Ed Hopkins type of people there now.
they used to be a little arrogant, now they are just plain old mean assholes.
Brave
“The US is a third world country wrapped in a Gucci belt”
wtf does that even mean?
@@deadguy718 basically a poor person with an iPhone 13 in other words.
did not know that one, pretty accurate
Dang.............pretty accurate 👀👀
Hahahaha
Most countries work to live, here most people live to work. We have the illusion of freedom probably.
Trust me all countries are like that. If you are working class citizen in any country you live to work.
@@lop1657 in Europe not at all.. People work to live, enjoy their 5/6 weeks of paid holidays per year, they often have long weekends ( not working on Friday afternoon for instance), they don't have high mortgage, loans, to pay to the bank so they can enjoy the money they earn..
@@robertopezzutto5843 that is just an illusion. As a european myself thar has lived in UK and Sweden and for a short time in Austria. I tell ya only the educated(not alot) are somewhat happy. At the end of the day the goverments make it so that you live to work and hide it with vacays. Im telling you man, life everywhere has you trapped.
The Only thing superior in American "culture" (can't really say they have their own culture, just parts of other cultures they stole) is their army. Besides that, the USA is one big artificial failure.
I work for pharma, did a project in Spain and want to go back...in the USA you live to work...in Spain people enjoy more life and work...
Man help me. I was born and raised in the usa and its so depressing, stressful, the people here are really depressing, selfish, rude, and extremely shallow and mean. They all think that the universe revolves around them and the culture makes fun of people who are ugly, short, poor, fat, etc. I want to get out of here!
Try Thailand , very affordable
..just do a reasearch about it .
Especially religion there in USA. They think all the world is USA, most of americans think that europe is moon.
Try some Asian countries :)) I love Asia
Everything you mention is caused by competition, which trains a person to view other people as obstacles to their own success. Competition is inherently destructive. See Alfie Kohn's "No Contest".
I wanna be out of here too.And i'm an american citizen , so does my mom
Political campaigns need to be limited to like 6 months before election .
And no midterms.
This nonstop political campaigning surely makes people mentally sick.
Here in mexico you would get bombarded day and night with political campaigns
@@omar90s91
I lived in Germany....and campaigning is only allowed a few months before the elections.
For the rest of the time, people live their lives peacefully.....without the 24/7 political drama.
@@Dangic23 Jeez seems lovely.
Except with social media and internet, such limitations are nearly impossible to enforce..
@@ameyas7726
It works to some degree in the places that limit campaigning .
What you see in the news, social media and internet are pro/con discussions about policies, day to day issues.
You don't see 24/7 election coverage like in the US.
Our US media has been talking about 2024 since 2016 , and discussing possible candidates.
That is just sickening.
Born here 40 years ago. It gets worse every year.
I’m 10 years behind you and agree.
My neighbors said that America is great in economy is that true?
@Hay Bell Uk is great we would be glad to have you m8
That's what the internet wants you to believe. But this country isn't bad. But ok 🤷
@@dwayne1859 YAY I'M MOVING
"It's the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."
It’s the American dream come true if one is awake. But if people are asleep and don’t know how to make fortune than it’s nothing more than a dream.
Lazy people don't accomplish their dreams but their are plenty of people out there getting their american dream. Millions of people flock here from around the world, more than anywhere else in the world to accomplish their dreams and many do. Just cause u aren't willing to work for it don't ruin the country for everyone else
LOL
@@ericg4915 yeah if you dream of slavery.
@@theprophetofputdowns8114 then work for yourself or if u don't want to work at all than don't work. Collect SSI disability, food stamps, medicaid and live in public housing. Or go live in a hippie commune. Nobody is forcing u to do anything
I'm glad you have the courage to say this. I congratulate you for protecting our right to freedom of speech. I tried repeating this to someone and it didn't go too well. I was testing that person and he failed the test. I congratulate you for being a well educated American and someone that can criticize our country and keep a straight face. You rule!
Yet people don’t let conservative Christians to say why abortion is wrong…
I'm leaving the country. I honestly can't take it anymore
Nobody will care 🤪 the less people in here that don’t like it the better for everyone including the ones leaving
@zerinho49 animações as someone that use to live in Venezuela I’d say otherwise
@zerinho49 animações y’all only say it’s bad because you don’t k ow truly how bad countries can be.
@@LowkeyUzi2614 k
When I start to feel that I'm going to be living in eastern Europe, it's going to be better to live than in the U.S.
😂 I’ve been living in the US for almost 15 years I am a US citizen I loved it in the beginning. Once I started going to college, entering the workforce, dealing with middle management and experiencing the intoxicating mentality of competition and gaslighting I started hating it. People under constant anxiety and stress pill pooping, fake it till you make it attitudes; that is another way to deal with competition I guess. I just hate it now
Stress pill pooping?
@@NickJohnson sry “pill popping”
The middle management/supervisor/gatekeeper thing is probably the worst thing about American work culture. There's a great book called Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber that talks about this. Allegedly because I haven't actually read it but did read an interview with the author and it was pretty spot on.
Same here. I hate to fake it to make. But that's how the American Dreams are about
@@mikeseal3053 they are over man made illusions actually
You can tell a lot about what is wrong with people by little things, like how they drive. Someone who tails you on a country road while you’re going the legal speed limit, passes you and floors ahead of you like they’re in the Daytona 500 without regard for anyone else’s safety really says a lot about that driver’s character.
America has a crisis of character.
This relates too much to me
That was probably me! lol. Country roads are made for speeding. Save your grandma driving for the suburbs.
@@themdamngorgonites5159 I will, and I’ll enjoy a much longer life.
@@Ryan-pz4dh If you wanna call that living! You could die by driving slow and all that, too. Tomorrow is not promised, might as well have fun today, but be safe about it. I drove fast like that for four years, doing it 3-4 times a week. I'm still alive, no accidents, no mistakes. But, I've known that 12 mile stretch of highway for 20 years. I won't do that on unfamiliar roads.
@@themdamngorgonites5159 case and point ^
I am planning on moving out of the US before 2030.
Yes. Smart thinking. Wish I could leave that soon
Profit comes first in our medical system.
The hypocrites oath replaced the hippocratic oath in the USA. Profit over saving, and caring for peoples health, sickening in every way.
Our healthcare system really is awful in so many ways.
Unless we wish to destroy ourselves, we must implement a permanent UBI now. Then we can transition to a RBE. Also support the Money Free Party and The Venus Project so we can go beyond politics poverty and war.
My health insurance is $18,000 a year. With HUGE co-pays too.
@@krowlandable1 it's questionable if we even have a health system in the 1st place
Social media & politics are causing the downfall.
it is true that many ignorant people are influenced by the media and mainstream without finding out what really happened.
Like Black Lives Matter is controlled by a political agenda.
Even though I am a Democrat, I don't care about BLM.
Look at humans always killing in brainwashing by politicians.
The American people have been infiltrated by an insidious enemy. The forces of good and evil are ever doing battle every where. In the United States, we began as a moral society. I know, I know, “What about slavery?! What about the Indigenous Natives of America?!” We began as a moral nation not a perfect nation. Justified sins have a way of destroying everything we worked for don’t they? Anyway, if one studies our history, The US was well on its way toward being a genuine beacon of freedom and light, a force for good, in the world. Some would argue that She was for a time... About a hundred years ago, there were some intellectual influencers on the world stage who under the guise of helping the disenfranchised and poor, pushed forward a movement or school of thought referred to as progressivism. Study the beginnings of this movement and all of its iterations and you will find an insidious intent for American society. Also, study Karl Marks and the other thought leaders of his period. Our society is the product of the implementation of many intellectual experiments. We have been brought to this place for a reason. And yes, the media and politics are definitely tools used to control us.
....... and listening to tv news media
Republicans ruined the Economy.
And the 40,000 gun deaths annually.
Being a debit slave is the American way. Social media isn’t helping either.
That's certainly what they want you to think.
@@thetrumpnewsnetwork7503 that payday loan is making me wealthy I guess.
THAT IS BECAUSE WAGES ARE TOO LOW, MOST HRLY WALMART WORKERS NEED TO COLLECT FOOD STAMPS.
Debt is the chain while the social media is the heroin.
It numbs them of their pain/reality that they are in
@@thetrumpnewsnetwork7503 well, excuse me, sir
I'm a very poor third world citizen with a -100K of usd of debt.
Seems like my understanding of economics is kinda outdated,
maybe I should cash out and go to the casino so I can accumulate more debts like a regular American Citizen?
I was born in America, and I can say the parent thing is true, both of my parents are in jail, for drugs and abusing me and my siblings. The education system is bad, at school I feel I'm doing 3rd graders work, but then I turn around and everybody else is struggling in my grade. And my school food is so bad, its not that nutritional, and is horrible to eat. In Texas, half of my highschool aren't in GYM class. And the students don't exercise on their own time. So many of us teenagers aren't even exercising a day of our lives. And then the media. We get told all this stuff like being fat is okay and healthy, and you can be any gender you want. Oh and not to mention but SO MANY of my class mates smoke weed, or vape, or smoke cigarettes. And there is even this guy that my school who sells me+h. Our future is fucked.
Cannabis and shrooms are very healthy and fine in moderation and many shamans and early Christians' use them in their religious scarcement and ceremonies. The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross by John M. Allegro and "Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge" by Terence McKenna. Everything else you said is true. I would recommend you move to europe and start a better life for yourself than corrupt pedo america.
My father used to be in jail , but he got out and has a new family
As an American who has spent half his life in various other countries, I can say that Americans could stand to learn a lot from other countries...IF they would listen. Part of the issue is that Americans have an arrogant know-it-all attitude, like "America, love it or leave it", "f off and don't let the door hit you on the way out", "the whole world wants to come here" (actually they don't), etc. Wisdom comes from being able to have some introspection and willingness to improve. No country is perfect. I love my homeland, but as an old guy now, I don't know if I could live there anymore. I've seen how it is in other places...and it would be hard to go back to some of the basic struggles Americans have, which frankly are 3rd world level problems, not 1st world ones. I also don't want to deal with the constant race-baiting insanity and political litmus tests every time you talk to someone in America. It's boring, irritating, and narrow-minded.
The solution to the problems America faces is to Abolish Public Schools, Social Security, Public Roads, and Child Support. Dissolve Native American Reservations, public forests, and the excessive regulating bureaucracy.
It's a fairly simple solution, all things considered.
So true.....and maybe so to late I fear....
You say you couldnt “live there” so does that mean you aint there?
Because of big company s who has more power than White House. My opinion
@Marshall Kinnaird sorry
I'm planning on leaving America I'm tired of the culture and I want to see more of the world and I don't want to brainwashed like the others into thinking American is the only country. I am searching for a country to move to.
Same planning to completely move out by 2025 New and fresh start Japan
@@manouell26 yes
@@manouell26 ok
Same fed up leaving in the us myself want to travel or see the world.
Try New Zeland, or an Afrikan country if you not white😅
Nicanor Parra, a Chilean poet pretty much summed it up:
"America, where liberty is a statue."
Because thats a name of a fucking statue
Yoooooooo I’m free to swear even if.... I’m a minor
Brilliant 👍
@@texasballunofficial that was completely over your head. 😂
@@grantbuchanan7295 Sadly, it was.. he will get it when he grows up. Ah hell. I will explain it to him now.
The USA is very stressful country to live in, everything got very expensive and is getting hard to have a decent live. I can't take it anymore 😪
Maybe the flintstones were onto something with those cars. These gas prices are raising too much
@@olderalt.4066
Or maybe design cities for people and not for cars!
Yeah it is very expensive, I fucking hate when people "oh California is too expensive, but other USA states are much "cheaper" when literally every single USA state besides California is super expensive to live in
Yes😢
Same😨
I lived in the US for almost seven years and I have seen things only going worse.
@Ululu Kululu Keynes era. Enter Friedmann era.
America's slow demise started in the 80's with the outsourcing of jobs and the trickle down economics of Ronald Reagan. This country is done, by done I mean America will never be great again.
True
America has many countries in itself - some very poor and dangerous, some very rich, clean and safe. Traveling to another state sometimes feels like you're in a different country altogether. That is in stark contrast to Canada where the standard of living is pretty much the same from coast to coast.
Indeed
I would like it that way. Because if I move to another state then I feel like an immigrant who left for a better life.
This statement is extremely true having lived in Rhode island most my life and then moving to Florida holy smokes.....and even living within Florida this certain areas in Florida where it's like another country and to itself
@@JesusChrist-xk9ee Because the gap between the rich and your normal average joes is bigger than ever in this country.
True except the native reserves seems no matter what those never change still love living here wouldn't live anywhere else
America is tearing itself apart. The political divide has reached an extreme level where neither side wants anything to do with the other. Unfortunately splitting the country may be necessary in the near future.
@@nolimitarmani That assumes everyone in New York and everyone in Texas are the same ideologically. They aren't. So...we get a split...what? People deemed not "politically acceptable" in each state are forced to sell their homes and leave?
@Geoffrey Harris Telling people to sell their property or else IS the quickest way to get one, I'll give you that. lol.
45 has placed a cement block in between the 2 parties....its like bloods and crips in congress, smh
Nailed it. The Right Wing Dings should stay South of the Mason/Dixon and quit attempting to inflict their sadistic will upon their coastal betters. I have no desire to regulate the lives of the Rubes in their rural shitbergs, they merely need to get out of the way of those who wish to replace the barbarism of corporate market capitalism with a humane socialism. Nearly 160 years ago the moral necessity of abolishing the institution of slavery led to civil war. Why should we kill each other when we can have an amicable divorce due to irreconcilable differences.
The USA is like a squabbling couple that is 6 weeks short of lawyering up. The USA should split into 3 nations along red-blue lines: Blue West (all states with Pacific coastline except Alaska, Las Vegas Arizona, New Mexico Colorado), Blue East (Maine to Minneapolis), and Red (everywhere else).
Trust me if Americans could actually afford to move out of the U.S we would
@@Proud_Dane then strive to educate yourself or learn a useful skill and you won’t make childrens wages. You’re your own problem. Stop looking for handouts and make something of yourself.
@@bnalive5077yeah I'm sure all the poor people are more than capable of overcoming a system that relentlessly beats them into the ground. You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
I wouldn’t
@@SusieLostHerDognobody cares
@@justinratcliffe947 You cared enough to reply. Lol hypocrite.
Every other comment wants to leave but when somebody wants to stay you get offended.
USA: Don’t do drugs!!!
Also USA: Here’s some painkillers
Also USA: Here’s a huge hospital bill and a crippling addiction from our pain killers!
LMAO
The whole neighborhood went downhill when drugs (and the above-mentioned turf war) came in.
Here's the bill . Oh some more pain killers I guess
Want some Xanax?
Too many military spending abroad. And the politicians forget domestic problems. That's the main cause.
There might be a DOZEN MAIN CAUSES! Or forty-three! Thinking that you have found THE THING that's wrong, it's a sign of being a crank. Doesn't prove anything, but it's a strong hint.
@@leonardpearlman4017 we got a trumper up here
@@xochxrry6857 lol what?
That's what they do! People abroad, can't vote for Biden...... well they can, but not legally.
@@xochxrry6857 u being smartastic? R u being serious?
American democracy is like going to the supermarket and “choosing” which generic drug to poison your liver with.
Both parties suck
Better than being forced with a crappy leader till he's either dead or assassinated. 2 years for a switch is nice.
lmaoo
Yup! The biggest DISEASE is the false right/left paradigm!
@@ethanstewart6086 But you just change the party and it's literally the same.
If we had dictators that were selected and raised from an early age it would've been better.
Insightfull yes. Need more..thanks.
I'm not trying to be cruel but most of the kids don't even know their parents
Well emotionally no
I've never met my dad ahaha
Sorry about that
I've never met my grandfather. He left my grandma, my aunt, and my mom when they were little.
@Johnny Boy That's
BS!
For me as a German it was frightening to see how little vacation Americans have and that many don't even know what parental leave is
To add Germans are clean. It's unreal to look at what 🇺🇸 has become...trashy
I’m from Norway and I agree with you about the vacation and parental leave in the US. The homeless situation is also pretty bad, especially in some states😕German in Venice here on TH-cam has some interesting videos about that on his channel. (Skid Row in LA, Venice Beach etc.) I love USA as a country to visit on a holiday though, and I’ve always dreamed about living in a cozy small town over there or something💯🇺🇸 I like a lot about the American culture, the different landscapes, movies, diversity and whatnot❤️But - I have to say I really appreciate my country’s welfare system, vacation weeks, great health care, parental leave etc. I will never give that up and move somewhere else. So happy I can travel instead. Greetings from 🇳🇴to 🇩🇪
@Ken Burks 😂 pure soule
@Ken Burks the more i learn about the US the less i want to move into this 3rd world country
@Ken Burks I know it can be very scary for US Americans not to have to worry about going bankrupt in every medical emergency or having enough vacation and paid sick days or employee rights yes yes that can be really scary for an US American
We need to stop being the World's police and start investing in technology and education
But how to steal oil then
?
Infrastructure as well.
We need to start over under an oak tree with Socrates. Throwing money at education is communist. The system has been rigged to churn out red hacks in the teacher colleges. This was identified in 1950. Now you see the results. The public schools have been predending to teach literacy all my my life. When you throw money at them, they produce more illiterates because when they do that they get paid. They don't educate, they count heads. The more heads, the more money. The squeaking wheel gets the grease. The biggest propaganda mill wins, and guess who owns them? Some of the biggest communists are the old money that has pulled out all the stops to destroy the middle class and liberty. The Communist Party is not the party of the poor, it is the party bought by the rich to control the poor. They do this by destroying the economy, installing corrupt legislators by the silver or lead process, and getting laws passed to cheat us out of the national wealth and loot the treasury, this concentrating all the wealth in few hands. You live on money. What did public school ever teach you about it?
@@johnhardin4358 I don’t recall Socrates pontificating under an oak tree, he seemed fonder of caves. Still, if we’re going with him and his student, does that mean you want to abolish democracy? Plato certainly did.
Communism is another scapegoat
As an active duty member of the US military, I’ve been counting the days for the past 7 months to leave the USA. 4 years left to go.
tell me more about it. I want to join the US army
@@travismaguire1349 why not? whats your experience??
Reminds me of the height of the British Empire. In the 1800's Britain ruled the waves but most people in Britain lived in crushing poverty
Yes they did .No income tax ,as such , we're 100 times more equal now . If you've kids ,and a poor income ,work isn;t a necessity .
In the 1800's most people everywhere lived in crushing poverty.
@@istvanglock7445 because of the British empire in many cases.
@@JW-uy2on We reached out peak in the 90's. China will soon rule the world. I'm sure there is nothing wrong with China. ;). The U.S. is about to be crushed by the debt accumulated under Trump, Obama, and Bush.
Well we would not have got on board the ships if everything was cosy at home.
While he is pointing out facts, he failed to actually go down to the source of our problems, corporate greed and corruption in our government has a lot to do with everything he have mentioned
True, but the population is to blame as well: the general public has a distorted value system, not rooted in the desire to sustain, cultivate, and preserve goodness, truth, love, and righteousness. Immoral things are uplifted as good, and bondage to drugs is prevalent everywhere. It's not only the United States which is on the decline... there is no holy land to be found anywhere on this earth. Even Israel is only an exoskeleton of what it used to be. The world is ICHABOD.
And I believe also political aspirations
Lack of education. Period. And that’s way the government and the rich want it
I love the poorly educated
@@ezj8262 YES AGREED. It's not always the government. The leaders often reflect the people. Too many Americans hate righteous, morality, and goodness while praising degeneracy. They hate upright people and shun Judeo-Christian values. I would know; even from childhood, you are disdained by those who shun morality.
He probably doesn’t want to get too political
This country is rotting from within because of a precipitous moral decline.
Facts dat's no God..get it
@@kingmaafa120 you wanna go back to the Christian crusades because people don’t believe what you believe😭 progression huh
@@Pharaohinthecut dude, as I tell all you new (THEY) ONES, DO YOU...
However
AS, the surveys say, and I'd, surmise your, to your life as well, which I SURMISE, directly or indirectly, ain't dat GOD..ANYWAY
🇺🇲 AT THIS POINT..REV 19..
AS, IF AIDS AND COVID19 and all the other SOCIETAL, signs aren't enough.
🇺🇲s.fallen society and political system..as others commented.
🇺🇲s.MORAL DECLINE..facts
What you got, better be GOD.
Doubt, if it will.
Waiting
Semper Fi 💪♥️
tRump is proof of that
America never had morals to begin with, and this is coming from someone who loves America
Someday, if I can figure out how to make *REAL* money, I want to escape America. But for now, I'm trapped in this hell.
make a business
Much respect for trying to make this as unpolitical/biased as possible! Difficult to do for sure. Great video!
i try i try :)
@@NickJohnson You are doing the right thing! My salutes.
Acknowledging the crisis and starting to analize is the first step of a cure.
Best regards from Germany.
I agree, it made me subscribe
I used to envy the United States, and wished that I lived there. What I've seen transpire over the past 15-20 years has convinced me that it's in a downward spiral, and no f@c^ing way would I want to raise a family there now. It's sad.
Have you ever been to the USA ? 😂
@@UCeddWhat Countless times for the past 40 years. I lived in NYC for 5 months back in '99. Love the eastern seaboard. Boston, NYC, Miami, Raleigh, as well as Dallas, Chicago, and practically grew up in my youth spending summers in southern Maine. Nice place to visit, but fucking tearing itself apart with its bullshit politics. Good luck 👍
@@Caffeine_Club ikr the politics is disgusting
The gun culture puts me off. Plus the healthcare system stinks. Is it a developed country ? These days it just seems a run down nation with the wealthiest pretending everything is ok.
@@Caffeine_Club our politics are BS.
FATHERLESS homes is a HUGE one!
so sad huh?
@Believe on Jesus Christ For Eternal Life skydaddy is not gonna save us
Preach it!’ & teach it!!😇
dathip yes it is make it happen don’t complain be like sweetie or Jeff bezos
@@mrike5651 huh?
We have failed to invest in our people. Lack of public health, mental health. Lack of infrastructure investment. Tax cuts for the wealthy. What a pathetic record.
blame Regan for that he removed all safety nets for americans and the idiots think he saved us.
What a economic disaster, what is taking our government so long to help us during these difficult times. WHY THE HELL ARE WE PAYING TAXES IF MANY OF US Don't make it past 50 years of age thanks to the GMO FOODS , AND CONSTANT financial stress having to work practically for a few dimes left of change for 40 hours a week just to survive and live a peasants lifestyle.😠😠😠
Government should not be involved in healthcare and infrastructure, it should be the private sector on urban planning with the local government.
@@ultimateedgelord3586 at what point has privatized healthcare shown itself to be a good idea? All the other 1st world countries have socialized medicine.
@@Rougeelite74 "at what point has privatized healthcare shown itself to be a good idea?"
Everywhere? When I lived in Canada, Malaysia and South Korea, I always visited private hospitals and paid through my own pocket. Way better than visiting a government hospital. Visited a government funded hospital in Sweden 2 yrs ago. Big mistake, felt like a moron waiting in line for more than 2 hrs just for an ECG. Yeah, 1st world socialized medicine for you, thank god it was just an acid re-flux or I could have been dead. Thanks a lot Stockholm.
We're slowly losing our freedoms here in USA. We're not really that much of a family oriented Country either.
back in the day the nuclear family was the norm
Thats old school 🏫
@@janstaes2172 Nuclear family, not atomic.
@Jessica Smith The reason people have to look down on each other to begin with is because they know they become looked down upon if they don't "stay on top". You're taught to shame people that aren't making it and don't get access to things they should as a right because the amendments and corporations won't give it to them
A lot of people who live in the USA have an entitled attitude. This is one factor I believe is contributing to the decline of the USA.
There are entitled people all over the world. Seriously. Seen them myself. Entitlement is a generational issue and generally seen in affluent societies as well as any society that props up one class over another, which is every where, unfortunately.
We have a LOT of FACTORS! We have factors WITHIN factors! Every comment here seems to have picked one out, they're all factors! Roh-oh!
Only in the cities.
America is falling apart from within.
Yup those are the Karens
USA is a first world country but behaving like a 3rd world country. I rather Canada than United States.
As a person who was raised by a single mom (she did her absolute best and is great), one parent households are the biggest problem facing this country. At least in my opinion anyway.
How do you figure? If you ask me a severe decline in moral fiber and common sense is the US's biggest problem
@@dakotastein9499 These go hand in hand.
And you would have figured out that two parents are the best family unit...
@@JW-uy2on
Why just say that they are all huge mix of bad problems.
Capitalists suckered the women in2 working & cut wages in half
As an American I approve this message. It was better 20-30 years ago.
HIGHLY AGREED
It was better 40/50 years Ago actually
30 years ago i thought we sucked too.
@David David I dont think It was I know It was because i spent a Lot of time there in the mid 70s tô 80s.
@David David Life isnt Just about money and anyway I have earned enough in my lifetime we ALL have differente values and thats a good thing.
Well folks when you get rid of the middle class....(Nafta, look into it :) this is what happens, you got the rich and you got the poor, and a huge divide in between. Idiocrasy everywhere.
Marxism’s worst enemy is a thriving, expanding middle class.
Big government high taxes shrunk middle class in Australia and Europe
I am middle class. I didn't go anywhere. :) And I used to be poor when I was a kid. I still believe it's possible if you work smart, not hard, and stay away from drugs. Yeah I'm one of those geeks that even stayed away from marijuana (though smoked a few times).
And I recognize my personal bias. I was lucky to be born in a relatively well off part of the country (Las Vegas), my life would have been drastically different if I was born in some coal mining town, but I like to think I would have done the same things (join the military, develop work skills etc.).
@@jimmym3352 in Australia working class is huge and government like to keep it that way equally poor renters ( that socal democracy for ya
Yes, and rich soon get tired of the poor bugging them, so out come the guillotines.
I've lived in the USA all my life. Please don't move here. Its really really not worth it. You can do better. I want to leave but idk what place is best for me.
It’s not that bad (I live in third world country)
@@trevsreacttv3370 america is a third world country. Constant shootings, highest costing healthcare and college tuitions in the world. Massive homeless problem. It is a third world country.
@@trevsreacttv3370 you dont live in America so you dont know what your talking about period
America is in decline, last thing we need is a bunch of morons who don't know how to vote correctly. Yes there is a correct way to vote, and socialism communism isn't the answer.
@@kitten_582i live in america and it’s not that bad depending on where you live. i could not imagine living in big corrupt cities that would be hell, but in smaller cities with good quality of life, food, nice people, and decent healthcare it’s very nice
Nick I'm so glad you admitted our problem which is actually us, the people. It takes guts to tell someone that they are the problem.
Can you give examples on the things you are doing that have contributted to all the problems in the US?
Not all the people, but yes, a lot of the problem is the people .... hedonists, communists, socialists, extreme left wing liberals, extreme weak or corrupt demoncrats and wimpy republicans, those that rejected Jesus and the 10 commandments, those that don't love this country and don't bother to learn about the law and help make this a better place cause we're a 'melting pot' full of america haters.
I think you mean liberals are the problem
The US has a misuse of capital problem, from an over large defence budget, a badly managed health care system, to too much debt and too much central bank intervention.
Basically , you are correct . But, the debt is designed to enrich the criminals who manage the money . So, for the them , a fat , scared , and dumbed down populace is perfect .
I love how you inform others on serious topics while making it fun and interesting! You are such a great channel!
Hey there!! Miss you sooooo much!!!!! When can you sneak down here to see us???? ❤️❤️
@@NickJohnson I like how you compare America to the countries that only exist(or exist in their current forms) because of the US liberating, defense or both.
How about we let these countries fend for themselves then we'll see who is on top in your purposely specific categories?
BTW the countries you are comparing us to like in Europe and Asia are literally dying out, there birth rates are abysmal.
Theres a problem in the USA that seems overlooked a lot, or at least it doesn't get the weight it deserves: culture centered around work. It's no joke, americans really only seem to think about work, the whole of american life revolves around it. Americans move and change everything else to fit it, love life, entertainment, even children. To me that is one of the main issues in the USA, and a lot of other problems stem from it. Sure it's in part the reason why the country is wealthy, but it has also sprang up a lot of problems that are no easy to see.
The fact that it costs a huge amount of money just to revoke your citizenship tells you alot about how the country works.
yes
Every country is treated as a business model not a country.
Exactly
💯👌
Freedom ain’t free. Be grateful you live in the best country. I would love to swap my New Zealand passport with an American
I am European and I can agree with what you are saying. Although I think the USA is a better place to live when you are rich, I will never understand how you can leave behind the poor people. It will backfire.
Yep. "Just because my side of the boat has no hole, I am fine." THE WHOLE BOAT IS SINKING!!
@Sam America still have HUBRIS
even millionaires are on food stamps....and in debt...
@Sam Sam, it's the government and the populace that make a country what it is. A country cannot be amazing with a horrible government and populace. If the government and populace are horrible, then the country itself is horrible. I'm sorry but that's just the way things are.
Jura Queen, I couldn't agree more!
most great empires in history were not defeated from outside but from within and when they were defeated from outside it was only because they had become so weak from within
This is so true. Many of them did fall from the outside but because they were weak from the inside. Take the Roman Empire for example. There was a long unstable period of emperors, where there were 27 emperors in a matter of a hundred years. The population of the empire was declining, therefore not enough soldiers could be conscripted to guard its borders. The main reason it fell though, was because of climate change. The climate was getting colder, and the tribes to the east of the Rhine could not raise as much crops as they used to. Therefore, they decided to move into the Roman Empire. The only thing standing in their way was the Rhine River. However, because the climate was getting colder, one winter, the Rhine froze over. It is normally an impossible river to cross because of the currents and the size of the River. But, because the Rhine was frozen, thousands of them poured into the Roman Empire with little resistance, because the Roman Empire had very little soldiers to defend it with. And that is how the eastern part of it dissolved.
@@cameronpinney1816 Like the Mexicans flooding in?
@@cameronpinney1816 Napoleon was betrayed from within. Russian Empire ended by rebellion. Byzantine rulers literally killed each other. Etc...
I moved to St Thomas in 2010 and it was the best decision I ever made in my whole life, and I was 41.
For the 1st time in my life I made friends! Friends who truly cared for me. I work at a local bar 4 days a week and it's the best job I ever had. America is good but not great anymore. Down here we don't care for left and right, just humans. Meanwhile, my brother is struggling to keep up with his family. For once I became free!
Wow nice
How much money did you have saved up when you left the US?
Was getting a job in ST easy?
@GORILLA_PIMP Good question, it was a spare of the moment for me when I left America. I experienced a HUGE Burn Out at my job and decided to just leave before they can fire me for the 4th time.
I had $1500 saved up for emergency.
Once I moved to St Thomas, the people there were so embracesive. It was like a twilight zone for me. I was never alone, depressed, nor stressed.
Apartments are way cheaper and work life is minimal. I'm at peace.
I had NO friends, girl friends, nor support in America so it was easy for me to just leave. Btw, St Thomas has a lot of American jobs there especially the US VA, you can apply if you want. As for me, bar tender is best suited for me.
Check out the Caribbean especially Aruba. 😊
I visited Sweden & Finland 2 years ago, I’d leave the US for one of those two countries in a heartbeat! 🇸🇪🇫🇮
The grass is always greener on the other side
So, it’s been many heartbeats since you posted your comment. How do like living in Sweden/Finland? You did get out, didn’t you?
@@masken8355 that’s true but America is not a great place to be at the moment. And say that as someone who truly loves America. American forebears lived better lives than modern Americans do today. The only thing we have better is technology that is making people’s lives miserable.
Nothing is stopping you...go
The best country in the world for an American expat is New Zealand.
I was born in America, and currently reside within it's boarders. I didn't grow up here though, I spent all but the first six months of my formative years and adolescence in Germany as a dependent of an Officer in the U.S. Army. I returned stateside in the early 90s as a young adult, only to find the precise state of affairs that you have described. Sociatal dealing here are depressing and getting worse. The vast majority of people who call the U.S. home willfully segregate themselves, and openly flaunt a general hatred toward anyone that doesn't align with their conditioned norms. This mindset exist from coast to coast, from small rural towns to the big cities, I state this from a position of personal experiences throughout my own travels within these boarders over the last 30 plus years. I've lived in over 10 different States and visited more than 40 others. This is the land of the free, only by name, for most here have little to no understanding of the true meaning therein. The generally uncaring, unconcerned, corruption based mindsets are pervasive and deeply embedded. When, on occasion, I encounter someone on vacation from another country, I have an immediate and genuine underlined sense of embarrassment, for I'm completely aware of the experiences they are witnessing in the interactions with my close-minded compatriots. Warning* to all would be visitors, this country is a powder keg, enter at you own risk.
My former boss said, "USA is the land of milk and honey but you'll never get the milk and honey". As someone who studied and lived in the US for 10 years, when I returned back to Indonesia to work I was amazed at how far Indonesia has developed.
Its true. Indonesia is far more developed than the US in terms of infrastructure.
@@athletemusician8098 I disagree with that statement.
@PROXY but yet you can’t challenge our army.... we OWN YOU. LOL!
@PROXY The developing rate is higher because it is going from undeveloped to developed at a steady rate. Because the USA is already well developed and has been for decades at this point. The rate of development of infrastructure is obviously going to be lower. Do you understand more or less where I am coming from?
@@athletemusician8098 well our houses are mostly not modern but atleast we dont suffer bills
I'm from the US originally, moved back not even six months ago amid a ton of issues in Canada, and now about to accept a job in Germany to hopefully get out and never come back
welcome in Germany🍻
Diana Verry
Life in Germany
both are great channels from Canadians living in Germany
My Merry Messy Life
Black Forest Family
are US american Familys living in Germany
A couple of things that pleases me most about not living in the United States, is that my children (and all other children in my country) have access to higher education and health care regardless of their parents' income. It should be a right in every country.
Agree with you buddy.
If you come here from another country you get everything for free. And we taxpayers will pay for it whether we like it or not.
You do not have a right to free health care. Most european countries that have "free" health care, are in a state of decline because the real cost of health care (plus other government benefits) is being financed by debt. The bubble is about to pop, and you don't want to be around when that happens. Also, that's the reason why I'm leaving Germany because I don't want to pay for your health care 😂
@@kallaji7383 So you don't agree that all children should have the same right to education and health care? Which country are you about to move to, the United States, one of the world's most debt-ridden countries?
@@arne1958 "So you don't agree that all children should have the same right to education and health care?"
Yes, because communism sucks. Ask anybody would tried it and you will figure out why.
"Which country are you about to move to?"
Eastern Europe.
To think that only 40 years ago, the U.S. was the place to go to. How the mighty have fallen.
Looks to me like the US is still the place everyone ultimately wants to move to. Name a better one?
@@billybatson8657 Nowhere as much as prior to the Reagan Administration.
Countries that are currently doing better than the U.S. are Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Australia, just to name a few.
Shocking how fast it/is happening
@@brianb.8295 Except their suicide rates.
@@brianb.8295 remember that time Sweden teamed up with Germany in world war 2... bunch of nazi tratiors.
australia is owned by china
norway and denmark are almost non existant
America will always be number 1, stay mad communist... US#1
Twerking in tiktok won't make America great again you know.
Hey Americans aren’t the only ones doing that on tik tok!
Agent Smith, don't play the DDR!!!
@@bobcosb21 tik tok ain't the problem, the people who using it are
Exactly
@@hestitate4902 they get brainwashed very easily, thanks for living up to your name.
I'm American and love the good things about my country, but I'm also well aware of the problems we have, problems that a lot of my countrymen ignore or deny. The truth hurts, but we need to face it and try to make things better.
Agreed But I don't know how it's gonna get better
Its not going to get better because people are to set in their ways, ideologies, prejudices and such.
I love America to but I haven't got anything bad
Talking to friend from Seattle who's a navy vet made me realize how good life is in Ireland compared to USA.
Most people have the Hollywood movie impression of USA.
Yup, and I have an English friend that wants to move to America. I keep trying to talk them out of it, but it’s deaf ears. They’ll learn soon enough when they have to move back to England.
Same. I wish I didn't have that impression tbh
Well Seattle isn't the best representation of America. There are many problems, but Seattle is just a bad city atm.
@@sevenpointsixtwo9707 Tell him that it's gonna be easy to get girls 😁
Living in Ireland where you are LOCKED DOWN!
Petrol and everything is a rip off and the knackers and knifers are lurking. Scenery and most people are great though. I have an excellent quality of life in Massachusetts. Don’t even get me started on quality of health care.
"So this... is what the dreams feel like.. is this the victory we longed for?"
~Niko Bellic 2008
Definitely one of the best fictional stories ever!
This game and it's social commentary were ahead of it's time.
@Lewis Hughes Yessir
@@DowellPa true
I love how this game managed to predict what our current society is lmao/mirroring what life is rn
Didn’t want to see this, but I forced myself too. Truth hurts. My poor kids 🙁
Thank you for your honesty.
I live in America. You don't want to get stuck here. It's like a roach motel. Don't believe are government's over hyped Propaganda. I'm still trying to get out. They keep making it hard to get out.
Or maybe you can fix it instead of running
@Astro Mars thats a very bad analogy. The ship isn't actually sinking. The stock market is increasingly exponentially while the general economy has more or less stayed the same, thus creating further class divide.
If you think other countries are better or easier to live in, you are wrong.
Dude, seriously this place is like a fucking prison.
@@gregorteply9034 Depends but there are way better countries.
the first time I see an American making a constructive criticism about their own country. Keep it going!
It's been going on for years
Well America is not the same America as it use to be but I'll take America over all the foreign on this planet. 😉
@@jimtalbott2894 Haven't traveled much Jim? We went to Spain a couple of years ago. Not perfect, but seeing their well kept infrastructure, speedy trains system, and absolutely gorgeous museums, we fell in love. Not to mention that people there are pretty friendly. Also, laid back.
There are nice places in the U.S. too. Unfortunately, the culture as a whole is pretty caustic.
@@pineapplemoon9049 I've found it quite the contrary
I really miss the 90s America. You guys we're the pinnacle of luxury.
Lived in PA for a year with wife and kids. Decided to move back to Europe after 1 year. Reason: too much physical and verbal violence. A country is not a business. To be a healthy society life should not be organised as a match with one winner and many losers. Sold house and car and both of us worked hard in Europe. Both children went to university without making debts, we encountered some major medical issues, but are retired now, own our own house, can drive a car, have good healthcare and do not have to pack groceries in supermarkets due to a solid retirement income. We enjoy gardening, nature, travelling, culture, and live in a safe environment. One might say; the American dream... but to us the European one is a lot better.
Agree with you 100%. Unfortunately for me im stuck here.
Because Europeans for the most part see the big picture, and understand what’s basic and most important to run a civil and modern society. They’re also a lot more cultured, and plan long term with holistic thinking in mind. They think about consequences, something the here-and-now American culture only see’s with instant gratification, greed, and a ton of short-sightedness. The “elites” brainwash and control the population through multiple forms of manipulation. They treat this place as a giant garbage can: fracking, pulverizing nature along with its people to discard them like trash along crumbled roadsides. Very “Patriotic.”
Of course you retreated back to your white continent. Lmao at the Europeans that come to America and retreat back to their white paradises as America's diversity scares them...
You must have lacked a certain working skill-set when you came. When I worked in Europe I was only paid an equivalent of $3500+ but ever since returning to US working for the same company I am earning $7300+. I'm clearly better off here than in Europe. And yes just like most things in life, there's one winner with many losers, think of the entertainment industry, book publishing, entrepreneurship, winner takes all, too bad Europeans don't understand that.
@@ultimateedgelord3586 It seems you didn't understand Jacobus Hubertus Kirchner
's comment. It wasn't about the money, and he's clearly better off in Europe. You have a very provincial American mindset, and I don't believe for one minute that you ever worked in Europe.
My partner is American and we live in my country now. When we visit my in-laws and stay in the way most middle-class families are living here, hanging out with my in-laws and doing normal errands or socialising with them as they normally live…I get the distinct understanding that I have saved my partner from a much lower quality of life by marrying them and taking them to live in my own country. We don’t feel that way when we are home, but returning to the states is now very jarring and a reminder of how lucky we are not to live here. Their family are totally unaware that we feel this way and don’t love visiting them mostly due to the fact that their part of America feels like such a horrible place compared with our own life. It is both boring, yet very intense and we even notice how unwell we feel due to the food choices here being mostly fast food/fried/high sugar diets. We put on weight quickly during a visit. I joked with my partner that we wish their parents lived in Italy/any other EU country, because our visits wouldn’t cause nearly as much anxiety for us and we know we’d enjoying it more as a holiday instead of it feeling like a sacrifice.
I can tell your in-laws live in the south the worst part of the country the northeast and the west isnt full of fried foods and fast food joints
Cos fast food is the real problem, right? Have a read of the rest of the comments. The issues described in the majority of people’s comments are not limited to one area of the states only.
I was brought here by my family when I was 8 yrs old. From a nice country. Nearly half a century later. The country is GONE. Wish they never brought me here. Too much info to go into specifics. But after nearly half a century. I know what I am talking about.
Where you move from?
We have time, share your. Experience
Agree, things sure have changed.
@sppok you do not know anything
Just step one feet out of USA then you will see the terror. Spoken from a Canadian.
People who have to Shout about Being No 1 are trying to convince themselves
agreed
And extremely obnoxious
I just smh every time I see these mindless fools chanting.
They are ignorant people who have never lived anywhere else.
This applies to every country, right?
Nick Johnson: I talk about America, and what it's like to live here!
Also Nick Johnson: Don't move here
Lol most people live in this country
Never excepted you to comment here I know your a marble youtuber I remember your previous channel name is EvaristeWK
@@quentinschannel9469 most people live in China and India(37% of world population combined). Most people moving in America are coming from China and India... US population in world is... 4%..and theirs is... 37%. Yeah...
haha true.
If you have ever been to another country, and you come back,
you KNOW how great we
have it. Those of you that think we suck, check out other countries, you will come crying back to Mother US!
The things I like least about the US is the out of pocket cost of healthcare, the extreme isolation of suburbs and lack of connectivity to city centers you have in European suburbs, the unpaid maternity leave, unrealistic university tuition costs per the rewards getting out of college, the divide between crime and posh sections of towns, some attitudes on racial prejudice (and not just Conservatives and red states but all 50 states and particularly Boston Minneapolis SF Chicago and Connecticut’s cities where it’s a mess by zipcode of systematically segregated school districts) and worst of all the awful choices we have (on BOTH of the 2 oligarchical Political parties) and the binary forced choices for leadership, and US vs Them mentality on BOTH parties with BOTH breeding career politicians elected and re-elected over and over and over whether it be Elizabeth Warren/Nancy Pelosi or it being a political pawn on the rightwing side. I feel like a lot of these issues are due to maybe too much power in Federal Govt and maybe states rights are for a reason, but I’m saying this from a Liberal perspective. Why is states rights a Conservative thing to be? I want states rights also so that a city like Berkeley California can do things that European cities do and emulate choices of model living they want. I want local municipal rights as well. Neighborhood rights, and individual rights.
Why do we only have 2 parties? What does having guns have to do with freedom to practice religion? Why do we correlate social and fiscal conservative as one or do the opposite? We have good ideas from registered Republicans and we have good ideas from registered Democrats but the party national platform campaigns on BOTH are annoying and divisive …. BOTH national parties and the political attacks sicken me. Do we need a filibuster in the Senate ? Yes we do ! We need it regardless which party controls Congress, We need to change the way our political leaders think!
If you are a Democrat, your prime focus should be to LISTEN to all of the majority of wants and needs among ALL 50 states and satisfy the best path for America’s future for ALL Americans from Liberal to Conservative, with a perspective of a more Liberal vantage point, NOT an Attack campaign US VS THEM!!! And Conservative politicians no different the goal should be to appease as much of the country and across as many representative groups as possible without alienation, for unity of the country , but with a Conservative vantage point. We need this unity. We are one country in the end, we need to make it better.
🤣🤣🤣, At the end of the day it's not gonna work out, We might end up like countries in Africa but I'm ok, I'm not afraid of poverty
Answer: Corruption at the highest levels in Government.
"The richest third world country"
I am 88 years old and fat, dumb and happy in Central Texas. I helped make the US great and now it is going downhill. The young kids never had it so good, but they don't realize it. If they can't make it in the US, they can't make it anywhere. I am not white and started off poor, but I owe everything to the US for giving me an opportunity to excel. i travelled the world over and the US, that I knew, is the best in the world.
I so agree with you and I am 38. It breaks my heart to see what is happening to our country.
I am 88 also! We saw a lot, didnt we? So much was better in the past...you and I lived through the Depressing, but I think the country has never been so poor as today..!!
I'm 64, and I wouldn't blame the kids. Yes, they "never had it so good" in terms of toys, gadgets, and child labor laws, but in terms of the things that really matter to kids, they've got it much harder than we ever did--they didn't grow up in stable, loving homes, for way too many reasons. They fail because we failed them. That's the biggest takeaway from this video--children are way too low on our priorities. Tests with lab rats show that the only instinct stronger than parenthood is the instinct to reach air when suffocating. We're doing worse than the rats.
@@violetgruner707 I kept saying that I am glad to be born in the year I was born because I have enjoyed the Golden Age of the USA. Armstrong, Cernan and I graduated from Purdue in the same year, got naval commission and worked for NASA. Who can ask for more.
We have higher inflation, low wages in relation to cost of living, highest university tuition cost in the world, high student debt. We have messed up mental health, drug culture and not to mention prescription drugs here are consumed more than anywhere else in the world. We’re also the most obese nation and have awful food purity laws in terms of preservatives and fake food. There are many better places my man. Going to Europe could make anyone realize America isn’t that nice unless you are rich.
2 reasons are enough :
Laughtable healthcare system
Overpriced Education
Its a problem to all countries, especially in the uk
@Danny Horworth lol in the philippines, its much more economical to die than to go to a doctor
@Danny Horworth in my country, there will be frequent rebelions and and terrorism that killed thousands of innocent filipinos. While the U.S mainland has no wars since the civil war which occurred two centuries ago ( +it mainly fighting for slavery which is shocking for a country that is relatively young )
@Danny Horworth the problem for making healthcare free is that "who will gonna pay for it?" And I know that poeple fundamentaly hated two things: death and taxes
@Danny Horworth if capitalizing is not the solution. Then what is? I would like to hear your answer
What about the lack of social connection in America? You aren't even allowed to flirt or talk to strangers. That totally sucks.
As a wise person once said "A third world country with a Gucci belt"
Great comment!!
Yup, the us is a 3rd world country
Youve clearly never been to a third world country. This is extremely offensive to people who are actually suffering in poor nations
It’s officially 1st world so...
@@dishappywithlife2556 that has been overused 1,000 times...
As a European I can tell you that if in the 90s young generation dreamed of living in America now they prefer to stay in Europe.
Indeed
Hell yeah,
During 1960 , I saw what was heaven on earth, the mighty us... But now mighty hell😩
Can I tell you how very much I love amd enjoy your 80s & 90s references. Thank you for all you do. Stay well.
It's the best time ever!
I was struggling to get American citizenship for years
Now I'm looking forward to move out from this country so I can get some sleep again, not being constantly stressed out, not working nights, being able to afford dentist, have friends available and willing to go have fun etc.
getting the citizenship was a mistake, you should've stayed permanent resident. I don't wanna become a US citizen, I don't want my future children to have US citizenship automatically, since I see having US citizenship as a negative, not as a positive for them
@@marcosvidal2797 What's the difference? As a citizen I can go to my home country and stay as long as I want, as a resident I couldn't do it. Also you can lose g.card but not citizenship. I'm more protected this way
I am Brazilian now married to an American for a few years but even before that, I had the opportunity to travel extensively throughout the country and spend some time in several states. I agree with most of what you said and not for millions of dollars I would live in the US. The food is awful, the healthcare is a joke and the social and cultural lifestyles are literally pathological. My husband is an American from NY, we have been living in the Northeast of Brazil and he LOVES IT. The healthier food and lifestyle, street markets everywhere, better private healthcare for more affordable prices, gyms and exercise culture makes a huge difference. Whoever thinks that the US is the best place to live in the world is simply delusional or ignorant.
I agree. I'm Brazilian as well, but can't move back because of family. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't live in the US.
@@alexandragoldstein7019 Tell one thing, I'm Brazilian too and why we don't talk here in Portuguese?
@@miguelfonseca2341 Por mim tudo certo!
@@alexandragoldstein7019 Então é que eu acho engraçado o fato de que muitos brasileiros conversam com outros brasileiros em inglês quando o vídeo em questão é inglês. Apenas uma observação.
@@miguelfonseca2341 Eu geralmente respondo a pessoa na língua q ela iniciou a conversa. Aqui nos eua tem pessoas, principalmente os Hispanos, que ficam irritados se vc responder em espanhol mesmo sabendo q eles entendem. Se sentem ofendidos. Não tenho sentimentos junto a língua nenhuma, é só uma ferramenta, mas confesso q meu português é mais enferrujado do que o inglês.
If you love something you got to be honest about it.
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@Efexzium: Exactly. I believe in being honest about the problems we're dealing with in the US. If I didn't care, I would be silent.
This, seriously
The way things are going, pockets are already running dry in this country and nobody seems bothered enough to do something about it.
@@tonywinston4743 If you trade forex and buy bitcoin you wouldn't be having this problem
When we started outsourcing jobs to take advantage of foreign workers who work for less, it was the beginning of the end. We've raised the standard of living for other countries while our middle class has considerably shrunk. More people are struggling than ever before.
That is a side effect of globalization and every developped country in the world suffers from that
Because you wont do the job!!!!!!
@@moniho6907 Because it doesn't pay enough and the owner class doesn't want to raise the wage since there is always a class of people who will work more for less.
They need a class of Serfs to till the fields, make their food, clean their multiple mansions, maintain their land, move their luggage, etc. etc.
"You will own nothing, and you will be happy"
under CURRENT laws, we could arrest EVERY POL and JOURNALIST who LIED bout moving all the jobs to COMMUNIST china (I thought the capitalists said communism didn't work, ha ha!) (they needed COMMUNISM to prop up Capitalism, ha ha) (just like all Amerikkkan Hyper-Capitalists get more $ocialism than anyone else!)and we taxpayers PAID to move all the factories there!!!
THE VERY IDEA THAT YOU WOULD MOVE FACTORIES TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE PLANET IS ILLEGAL INSANITY.....and then SHIP GAZILLIONS OF GOODS....BACK ACROSS HALF THE PLANET (!!!!) oh wait, the whole planet cuz round trips.......every day every decade?
ANYONE COULD KILL these pols and MSM under SELF DEFENSE STATUTES!!
The amount of POINTLESS WASTE and pollution is incomprehensible.
ANd nevermind the environment: it would be ILLEGALLY INSANE IN EVERY WAY even if it didn't HARM THE PLANET!
EX:
HOW DO WE NOT TAKE THE 5 BILLION PLASTIC BOTTLES A DAY....and put them together to create millions of NEW ISLANDS and millions of houseboats! THEY FLOAT!! And I hear plastic takes a while to degrade! WIN/ WIN!
The truth hurts!! I went to Nigeria and found peace and my body started healing. I had cyst on my elbow and my left ovary that are now gone from spending a month in 🇳🇬. I’m leaving this country and never coming back.
Im trying to leave too looking at other countries in africa or china..Im so happy for you...Blessings&Respect
@@patiencealltheabove5671 come to kenya.