America as a whole though!.. A lovely country, nice place to visit, but fuck, the living costs there! I.e.. A fairly young family of 4, medical insurance alone, $1200/month with at least a 15k excess. State education isn't the best, so private schooling 2 kids 20k per year? Other examples... Cable for any decent entertainment, 200/month? Fiber optic broadband - $100+/ month. Soccer school for 5yrs olds $300 per month? PER MONTH!! Things like, a large tin of red bull $6? Then sales tax on top so $6.25. Business owners pay 4 times as much per sq ft than they do in the UK. Then you have state tax, the sales tax then federal tax as well as various other rates and taxes. Rent on a house is 4 times as much as here in the UK. So the American dream where you suppose to be able to free yourself from government control and be rich beyond your wildest dreams is alive and kicking is? Nooooooo! How can you have that when you are taxed to shit on absolutely everything where only the fortunate few manage to escape the tight grip around everyone's neck? And even then you dare not challenge anything or step out of line because everyone wants to sue you. In all honestly ask any group of British people, who thinks it should be up to the general population if they should be able to own guns or think they should get rid of the NHS. I can probabaly guess a room full of 1000 people, I can doubt if one person from the UK would put their hands up!! Yeah you honestly couldn't pay me to live in the the so called land of the free with politicians like that on either side!! Not that our politicians are any better, only we do have a better deal than the average American citizen. So sad!
It's appreciated but defo no joke. This is coming from a guy who has business in the US and have looked into moving out there. Once the true figures come to light, there was absolutely no doubt of my decision. The sad truth is most of the politicians there are lobbied by the HMOs and big pharma, except trump, but he's all against any universal health care anyway. I agree with him quite a lot on his policies but the whole policatal system revolves around medical care because they make so much money from it! I know micheal Moore is a very left wing Hilary supporting democrat, but if you watch his Sicko documentary film about the US heathcare, it puts it all in perspective and how it come about American health care come to what it is today, and you know what, it is such a sad set of circumstances!!
It's disgusting the whole medical system out there. Like I said I do actually have business out there but I wouldn't want to live in that system, how people are denied treatment when it's needed. It's on YouTube mate, full documentary https://youtu.be/xpk9AuJ4J18 Kids are denied life saving treatment because their insurance companies say that is not in the cover. A woman who is denied treatment because she didn't declare when she took out the policy that she had a case if thrush a few yrs eariler. 9/11 volunteers can't get treatment and are suffering because of the things/stuff they were exposed to and breathed in because apparently they shouldn't of been there. Then he comes to the UK and is blown away by the NHS and how the Drs here wouldn't work in a system like they do in the US. Like I said, he's not my favourite cup of tea but it exposes the political system is funded by the insurance companies and the polititions are lobbied by big pharma to basicaly say, I'll put you in a position of power but you do what we want you to do when the time comes for the favour to be returned and how these mega rich HMO medical companies treat their own citizens. Have a watch and you will see how lucky we have it here with things such as the NHS.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn.