but yea kat, we do have programs in place to financially help students for various fields. I wouldn't say the system is inherently broken, but just under lots of pressure with various parts of the system bearing a greater load than the others
well that's what happens when your system hasn't been demolished to the ground at some point : instead of fixing problems from the stem, we partially fix it while bandaging most of it to save money *shrug* it's human nature. Humans tend to not fix things until they're broken, then overcompensate afterwards.
well that's honestly what made America such a great place awhile ago.... Such a huge chunk of the population were middle class, so you could easily afford poor relief. But nowadays, the middle class has effectively been thinned out like a starving horse. We may still have people who think they're middle class, but their comparative income/living standards are more similar to lower middle class from years past...
Yeah but any poor guy would be able to afford hearing aids here? And you need to actually seek help from some association or something.... What about other people then? Or poorer people?
well back then, various things hadn't become full fledged problems yet. Insurance companies and medical service industries hadn't started getting into their fight (for example insurance companies refuse to pay the majority of the cost, so service industries charge 300% just so they have a chance of seeing a % of the money they need).
They were merely tiny cracks in the foundation that simply weren't fixed over time, and given to us, the new generation, as a fully blown problem because of their stop-gap measures
Yeah but you guys never had principles like free education, state healthcare, etc. It doesn't matter that it was good for a while, it was only good because your country had money not because your country was great, otherwise it wouldn't have gotten this bad.
@Katsono it's not that we didn't have them... we were working towards it but every time we started to try, we'd be called communists *shrug* people are very proud of their ignorance in the rural areas...
to be fair, when our system was created, colleges were still religious institutes. You forget that we never had a restart button where we beheaded a bunch of people XD
eh, democracy might be a crappy system, but it's the best one we got where changes to our society don't involve bloodshed and terror most of the time...
a second problem is that people grew compliant. The capitalist system was able to function because of things like employee provided health care. That only happened because of a growing fear of a communist revolution occurring. But, like I said, people grew compliant. They let themselves slowly be cheated of their benefits. and now we're here back where we started 90 years ago
The committee of public salvation really deserves its name. It might have been brutal and radical, but that's what you need in a revolution. Permanent revolution is merely an ideal that has never been shown to work so far.
The biggest advantage is that they've bought a lot of our politicians. It's reached a point where they give pre-written documents they want passes as law, law that will benefit them. Congressmen then sponser said bill and try to get it passed. IF they don't, their donations stop.
yep, and then our previous pres didn't go through with making campaigns un-donatable.... People on both sides think Obama was liberal, but his policies were pretty centrist.
Not saying I'm blaming him for playing it safe when he was the first "colored" president of the USA, but simply that a lot of the results were pretty disappointing, including that health care thing where insurance companies managed to wedge in their agendas because of the congressional block..
what the U.S. needs are politicians that say "no" to large big company donations. The whole, "corporations are people and have the right to speech through donations" is what first started this problem. Until that get's over turned, this will continue for a while longer
Agreed majorly about the corporations are people bullshit. Not to mention that that originated from the shitty days of monopolies and trusts -.- leftovers from that shitty era where most people were essentially serfs still screw us over today...
The concept of Liberal in american politics is actually centralist. Lots of so called Liberal presidents were central. My opinion is that the U.S. is so used to conservatisim that even the smallest edge away from that gets blown out of proportion. This is probably connected to the deep rooted fear of socialism and communism
well it honestly depends on the political spectrum you are using. When I'm using those terms, I'm using them on a line scale of US politics specifically, but it's true given a more global perspective, US "liberals" are simply trying to catch up to most civilized counties in many ways
well rather than stepping back, I'd say the whole thing is more of a series of cycles that goes forwards in the long run but can go backwards for quite awhile in the short run (long run being 100 years, short run being 20 years) We're simply on a down cycle *shrug*
it's not like I don't vote just because I feel it's pointless. I just still feel it's pointless even after voting XD (I live in cali so my vote matters less than others from small states, not to mention how rarely we go right)
I live in LA, (the state) so my vote is desperately needed. I've actually considered going to town halls if my representative didn't show to them. Fun fact, in my state at least, you don't have to live in the district your representing
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