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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean it is truly remarkable how bad it is to live in the USA yet so many people think it is still great to live here.  Many Americans are ignorant how much the world has advanced becuae they've never left the country or probably haven't traveled more than 2 states away.

We have Americans taking Ubers to the ER instead od an ambulance because it is cheaper and they don't want to be saddled with debt.  Meanwhile, in many parts of the world, having kid is virtually free at the hospital, an ambulance ride costs $20, and people go to the doctor on average 10 times a year for less than $100.

Public infrastructure in US is like 60 years behind at this point.  Japan has had high speed rail that functions on time and has had zero fatalities in basically its entire existence.  We went to Taiwan and took an hour long train ride.  Total cost: $3 for TWO PEOPLE. Shenzen China? Makes US look like a third world bbehind by decades.  So many roads and other areas of the country look like the 2nd world.  I mean just drive around parts of Baltimore to vast swaths of the country in smaller towns.  Everything is so run down and dilapidated. Look at how many water crises the US has from Jackson, MS to Flint, MI.   The US is garbage for infrastructure.

Then there is the crime and violence. Non stop shootings and murder.  So much out of control drug use from presciption opioids, to weed, to booze, to shoots.  Garbage education. Crippling debt laden higher education.  Far less healthier people who are fatter than most in the world.

But thank god the US dumps trillions of dollars on state of the art killing machines to bomb goat herders for 25 years in Afghanistan.

Travel the world more.  Developed countries have blown thr US out of the water for the last 30 years.  The US stopped developing in like the late 1960s and is more like a 2nd world country. We are honestly closer to countries like Brazil and Honduras than we are to advanced first world countries. The only thing that keeps us here are elderly parents....which of course in the good old USA are impossible to care for because there is zero affordable long term care here due to the craptastic healthcare system.[/quote]

Reading your post is sobering because I agree with it - It's pretty ridiculous to think that we have become what we are - lack of infrastructure, affordable health care, education system that is lagging...not to mentioned the addiction issues.  What a video filmed in Kensington, Philadelphia area.  It's truly awful.  Our focus just seems to be on the wrong things and there's such a lack of a clear vision - we just whipsaw from left to right and back again.  [/quote]

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