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WTF Is Wrong With Americans?
Sep 6, 2014 2:16 PM
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rossimus
Things are a lot easier when only have a few million homogenous people to look after.
generikwannab
the reposts...
mkyner
Finishing seven years of higher education with zero debt remains one of my greatest accomplishments.
WeHaveZeppelins
as a US citizen... fuck this country (who has two thumbs and just got put on a watch list? this guy!)
revscrj
I have been trying to marry a Canadian for years now.
fnoigy
Nobody will wake up until it kills us, and even then we're so dumb most people will have no idea what went wrong.
mariomario42
The problem with student debt is that people assume that they have to take it on. There's things like trade school that work well for many.
DorcusAurelius
I feel that this was written by an American.
raspymorten
...Yay Nordic countries!
CyberSybar
Ummm, because taxation is theft? And, y'all are socialists!! We don't want no nanny state. And, we won two world wars.
Rastabot
Also, the NFL!
vandamal
Iceland is also part of the Nordic countries. Here the only thing for students is student loans. Those loans are below poverty lines and...
vandamal
be only for rich people.
vandamal
if students try to make ends meet by working as well, those loans will diminish alongside it. Here, the education is starting to...
Abracaderpa
Oh not this shit again. Even combined, the Nordic countries are so, so much smaller than the US. What works for a small country won't work
Jacki2play
bullshit ain't about size of population, it's about redistribution of funds. use funds on education over the expenditure of the military.
Jacki2play
and raise taxes ofc:)
Abracaderpa
for something that's fucking metric shit-ton bigger like the US. The cost of building and maintaining infrastructure in the US fucks you up.
Glumerlink
uneducated and unhealthy people. (2)
Abracaderpa
There are hundreds of reasons why you can't make something that works for a 5mil country like Finland to work for the ~320 mil in USA.
WilfredoMelendez
There are 5 million people living in NYC alone. Let that sink in
Glumerlink
But this isn't about infrastructure. This is economics 101. Educated and healthy people help the economy SIGNIFICANTLY better than (1)
Abracaderpa
The cost of creating & maintaining *EVERYTHING* the government is require to provide their citizens with is exponentially greater
Glumerlink
That's stupid though. By making it expensive and extremely difficult to get an education you force the majority of people to never do it.(1)
Glumerlink
You end up costing us MORE by not offering affordable education. (2)
Abracaderpa
than it is in a small country like Finland. You just can't compare Apples and Oranges.