Dallas Fed Admits to Manipulating housing market

[CA renter]

[quote=Aecetia]Consumer behavior and what might happen if the banks fail and there are food shortages:

http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=70855F9DA9551CA4C8E996A41160FCC7%5B/quote%5D

Which is exactly why “socialist” programs exist in all developed nations — to save the wealthy from these sociopathic freaks. Welfare programs are designed for the benefit of the rich, not the poor.

[Arraya]

First of all, that guy is an idiot. What those mobs of people are experiencing is very similar to bubble psychology – which is a mass delusion where emotion overruns logic. People in crowds tend to mirror emotion of other people in crowds due to mirror neurons – and in todays information society that irrationality can be transfered quickly and to millions. It has nothing to do with “survival instincts”. Sure, people, if removed from the means of survival or perceived removal will change behavior for survival which could manifest in a myriad of ways. For the most part you will not see shopping frenzies in Ecuador or Cambodia because the mass psychological conditioning is not there. Those people are products of conditioning coupled with soft-wried ‘mirroring’ brain chemistry culminating to what took place in the video .

Actually, during crises people tend to increase cooperation and empathy because that is how people are wired. With the exception of a few bad apples that act like sociopaths.

[Arraya]

First of all, that guy is an idiot. What those mobs of people are experiencing is very similar to bubble psychology – which is a mass delusion where emotion overruns logic. People in crowds tend to mirror emotion of other people in crowds due to mirror neurons – and in todays information society that irrationality can be transfered quickly and to millions. It has nothing to do with “survival instincts”. Sure, people, if removed from the means of survival or perceived removal will change behavior for survival which could manifest in a myriad of ways. For the most part you will not see shopping frenzies in Ecuador or Cambodia because the mass psychological conditioning is not there. Those people are products of conditioning coupled with soft-wried ‘mirroring’ brain chemistry culminating to what took place in the video .

Actually, during crises people tend to increase cooperation and empathy because that is how people are wired. With the exception of a few bad apples that act like sociopaths.

[Arraya]

First of all, that guy is an idiot. What those mobs of people are experiencing is very similar to bubble psychology – which is a mass delusion where emotion overruns logic. People in crowds tend to mirror emotion of other people in crowds due to mirror neurons – and in todays information society that irrationality can be transfered quickly and to millions. It has nothing to do with “survival instincts”. Sure, people, if removed from the means of survival or perceived removal will change behavior for survival which could manifest in a myriad of ways. For the most part you will not see shopping frenzies in Ecuador or Cambodia because the mass psychological conditioning is not there. Those people are products of conditioning coupled with soft-wried ‘mirroring’ brain chemistry culminating to what took place in the video .

Actually, during crises people tend to increase cooperation and empathy because that is how people are wired. With the exception of a few bad apples that act like sociopaths.

[Arraya]

First of all, that guy is an idiot. What those mobs of people are experiencing is very similar to bubble psychology – which is a mass delusion where emotion overruns logic. People in crowds tend to mirror emotion of other people in crowds due to mirror neurons – and in todays information society that irrationality can be transfered quickly and to millions. It has nothing to do with “survival instincts”. Sure, people, if removed from the means of survival or perceived removal will change behavior for survival which could manifest in a myriad of ways. For the most part you will not see shopping frenzies in Ecuador or Cambodia because the mass psychological conditioning is not there. Those people are products of conditioning coupled with soft-wried ‘mirroring’ brain chemistry culminating to what took place in the video .

Actually, during crises people tend to increase cooperation and empathy because that is how people are wired. With the exception of a few bad apples that act like sociopaths.

[Arraya]

First of all, that guy is an idiot. What those mobs of people are experiencing is very similar to bubble psychology – which is a mass delusion where emotion overruns logic. People in crowds tend to mirror emotion of other people in crowds due to mirror neurons – and in todays information society that irrationality can be transfered quickly and to millions. It has nothing to do with “survival instincts”. Sure, people, if removed from the means of survival or perceived removal will change behavior for survival which could manifest in a myriad of ways. For the most part you will not see shopping frenzies in Ecuador or Cambodia because the mass psychological conditioning is not there. Those people are products of conditioning coupled with soft-wried ‘mirroring’ brain chemistry culminating to what took place in the video .

Actually, during crises people tend to increase cooperation and empathy because that is how people are wired. With the exception of a few bad apples that act like sociopaths.

[Arraya]

[quote=CA renter][quote=Aecetia]Consumer behavior and what might happen if the banks fail and there are food shortages:

http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=70855F9DA9551CA4C8E996A41160FCC7%5B/quote%5D

Which is exactly why “socialist” programs exist in all developed nations — to save the wealthy from these sociopathic freaks. Welfare programs are designed for the benefit of the rich, not the poor.[/quote]

No, police are for the wealthy. Many developed nations left movements did a lot of work for different social programs. Compared to the rest of the developed world the US social safety nets and programs are at the bottom of the list, precisely because of wealthy people. Which is also part of the reason why that video is strictly and american phenomena- because Americans are conditioned to be hyper-competitive. I would admit, though, Americans are more likely to go crazy in a JIT disruption because that is how they are bread.

In every other modern post industrial economy you would have attended college for free as long as you chose to, and been given free healthcare and a stipend to live on while you did it.

Clawing down basic things like an education in such a competitive, reptilian environment makes people hard. And that’s what the empire wants, hardassed people in the degreed classes managing the dumbed down, over-fed proles whose mental activity consists of plugging their brains into their television sets so they can absorb the message to buy more, and absorb themselves in the bread and circus spectacles provided them through profitable media corporations operating mainly as extensions of the capitalist state’s propaganda system, such as “buy this,” or “you have it better than anyone in the world,” (not at all true).

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/11/americathe-grim-truth.html

Americans, I have some bad news for you:

You have the worst quality of life in the developed world—by a wide margin.

If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you’d be rioting in the streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the typical American white-collar worker.

I know this because I am an American, and I escaped from the prison you call home.

I have lived all around the world, in wealthy countries and poor ones, and there is only one country I would never consider living in again: The United States of America. The mere thought of it fills me with dread.

Consider this: you are the only people in the developed world without a single-payer health system. Everyone in Western Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand has a single-payer system. If they get sick, they can devote all their energies to getting well. If you get sick, you have to battle two things at once: your illness and the fear of financial ruin. Millions of Americans go bankrupt every year due to medical bills, and tens of thousands die each year because they have no insurance or insufficient insurance. And don’t believe for a second that rot about America having the world’s best medical care or the shortest waiting lists: I’ve been to hospitals in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Singapore, and Thailand, and every one was better than the “good” hospital I used to go to back home. The waits were shorter, the facilities more comfortable, and the doctors just as good.

This is ironic, because you need a good health system more than anyone else in the world. Why? Because your lifestyle is almost designed to make you sick.

[Arraya]

[quote=CA renter][quote=Aecetia]Consumer behavior and what might happen if the banks fail and there are food shortages:

http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=70855F9DA9551CA4C8E996A41160FCC7%5B/quote%5D

Which is exactly why “socialist” programs exist in all developed nations — to save the wealthy from these sociopathic freaks. Welfare programs are designed for the benefit of the rich, not the poor.[/quote]

No, police are for the wealthy. Many developed nations left movements did a lot of work for different social programs. Compared to the rest of the developed world the US social safety nets and programs are at the bottom of the list, precisely because of wealthy people. Which is also part of the reason why that video is strictly and american phenomena- because Americans are conditioned to be hyper-competitive. I would admit, though, Americans are more likely to go crazy in a JIT disruption because that is how they are bread.

In every other modern post industrial economy you would have attended college for free as long as you chose to, and been given free healthcare and a stipend to live on while you did it.

Clawing down basic things like an education in such a competitive, reptilian environment makes people hard. And that’s what the empire wants, hardassed people in the degreed classes managing the dumbed down, over-fed proles whose mental activity consists of plugging their brains into their television sets so they can absorb the message to buy more, and absorb themselves in the bread and circus spectacles provided them through profitable media corporations operating mainly as extensions of the capitalist state’s propaganda system, such as “buy this,” or “you have it better than anyone in the world,” (not at all true).

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/11/americathe-grim-truth.html

Americans, I have some bad news for you:

You have the worst quality of life in the developed world—by a wide margin.

If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you’d be rioting in the streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the typical American white-collar worker.

I know this because I am an American, and I escaped from the prison you call home.

I have lived all around the world, in wealthy countries and poor ones, and there is only one country I would never consider living in again: The United States of America. The mere thought of it fills me with dread.

Consider this: you are the only people in the developed world without a single-payer health system. Everyone in Western Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand has a single-payer system. If they get sick, they can devote all their energies to getting well. If you get sick, you have to battle two things at once: your illness and the fear of financial ruin. Millions of Americans go bankrupt every year due to medical bills, and tens of thousands die each year because they have no insurance or insufficient insurance. And don’t believe for a second that rot about America having the world’s best medical care or the shortest waiting lists: I’ve been to hospitals in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Singapore, and Thailand, and every one was better than the “good” hospital I used to go to back home. The waits were shorter, the facilities more comfortable, and the doctors just as good.

This is ironic, because you need a good health system more than anyone else in the world. Why? Because your lifestyle is almost designed to make you sick.

[Arraya]

[quote=CA renter][quote=Aecetia]Consumer behavior and what might happen if the banks fail and there are food shortages:

http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=70855F9DA9551CA4C8E996A41160FCC7%5B/quote%5D

Which is exactly why “socialist” programs exist in all developed nations — to save the wealthy from these sociopathic freaks. Welfare programs are designed for the benefit of the rich, not the poor.[/quote]

No, police are for the wealthy. Many developed nations left movements did a lot of work for different social programs. Compared to the rest of the developed world the US social safety nets and programs are at the bottom of the list, precisely because of wealthy people. Which is also part of the reason why that video is strictly and american phenomena- because Americans are conditioned to be hyper-competitive. I would admit, though, Americans are more likely to go crazy in a JIT disruption because that is how they are bread.

In every other modern post industrial economy you would have attended college for free as long as you chose to, and been given free healthcare and a stipend to live on while you did it.

Clawing down basic things like an education in such a competitive, reptilian environment makes people hard. And that’s what the empire wants, hardassed people in the degreed classes managing the dumbed down, over-fed proles whose mental activity consists of plugging their brains into their television sets so they can absorb the message to buy more, and absorb themselves in the bread and circus spectacles provided them through profitable media corporations operating mainly as extensions of the capitalist state’s propaganda system, such as “buy this,” or “you have it better than anyone in the world,” (not at all true).

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/11/americathe-grim-truth.html

Americans, I have some bad news for you:

You have the worst quality of life in the developed world—by a wide margin.

If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you’d be rioting in the streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the typical American white-collar worker.

I know this because I am an American, and I escaped from the prison you call home.

I have lived all around the world, in wealthy countries and poor ones, and there is only one country I would never consider living in again: The United States of America. The mere thought of it fills me with dread.

Consider this: you are the only people in the developed world without a single-payer health system. Everyone in Western Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand has a single-payer system. If they get sick, they can devote all their energies to getting well. If you get sick, you have to battle two things at once: your illness and the fear of financial ruin. Millions of Americans go bankrupt every year due to medical bills, and tens of thousands die each year because they have no insurance or insufficient insurance. And don’t believe for a second that rot about America having the world’s best medical care or the shortest waiting lists: I’ve been to hospitals in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Singapore, and Thailand, and every one was better than the “good” hospital I used to go to back home. The waits were shorter, the facilities more comfortable, and the doctors just as good.

This is ironic, because you need a good health system more than anyone else in the world. Why? Because your lifestyle is almost designed to make you sick.

[Arraya]

[quote=CA renter][quote=Aecetia]Consumer behavior and what might happen if the banks fail and there are food shortages:

http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=70855F9DA9551CA4C8E996A41160FCC7%5B/quote%5D

Which is exactly why “socialist” programs exist in all developed nations — to save the wealthy from these sociopathic freaks. Welfare programs are designed for the benefit of the rich, not the poor.[/quote]

No, police are for the wealthy. Many developed nations left movements did a lot of work for different social programs. Compared to the rest of the developed world the US social safety nets and programs are at the bottom of the list, precisely because of wealthy people. Which is also part of the reason why that video is strictly and american phenomena- because Americans are conditioned to be hyper-competitive. I would admit, though, Americans are more likely to go crazy in a JIT disruption because that is how they are bread.

In every other modern post industrial economy you would have attended college for free as long as you chose to, and been given free healthcare and a stipend to live on while you did it.

Clawing down basic things like an education in such a competitive, reptilian environment makes people hard. And that’s what the empire wants, hardassed people in the degreed classes managing the dumbed down, over-fed proles whose mental activity consists of plugging their brains into their television sets so they can absorb the message to buy more, and absorb themselves in the bread and circus spectacles provided them through profitable media corporations operating mainly as extensions of the capitalist state’s propaganda system, such as “buy this,” or “you have it better than anyone in the world,” (not at all true).

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/11/americathe-grim-truth.html

Americans, I have some bad news for you:

You have the worst quality of life in the developed world—by a wide margin.

If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you’d be rioting in the streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the typical American white-collar worker.

I know this because I am an American, and I escaped from the prison you call home.

I have lived all around the world, in wealthy countries and poor ones, and there is only one country I would never consider living in again: The United States of America. The mere thought of it fills me with dread.

Consider this: you are the only people in the developed world without a single-payer health system. Everyone in Western Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand has a single-payer system. If they get sick, they can devote all their energies to getting well. If you get sick, you have to battle two things at once: your illness and the fear of financial ruin. Millions of Americans go bankrupt every year due to medical bills, and tens of thousands die each year because they have no insurance or insufficient insurance. And don’t believe for a second that rot about America having the world’s best medical care or the shortest waiting lists: I’ve been to hospitals in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Singapore, and Thailand, and every one was better than the “good” hospital I used to go to back home. The waits were shorter, the facilities more comfortable, and the doctors just as good.

This is ironic, because you need a good health system more than anyone else in the world. Why? Because your lifestyle is almost designed to make you sick.

[Arraya]

[quote=CA renter][quote=Aecetia]Consumer behavior and what might happen if the banks fail and there are food shortages:

http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=70855F9DA9551CA4C8E996A41160FCC7%5B/quote%5D

Which is exactly why “socialist” programs exist in all developed nations — to save the wealthy from these sociopathic freaks. Welfare programs are designed for the benefit of the rich, not the poor.[/quote]

No, police are for the wealthy. Many developed nations left movements did a lot of work for different social programs. Compared to the rest of the developed world the US social safety nets and programs are at the bottom of the list, precisely because of wealthy people. Which is also part of the reason why that video is strictly and american phenomena- because Americans are conditioned to be hyper-competitive. I would admit, though, Americans are more likely to go crazy in a JIT disruption because that is how they are bread.

In every other modern post industrial economy you would have attended college for free as long as you chose to, and been given free healthcare and a stipend to live on while you did it.

Clawing down basic things like an education in such a competitive, reptilian environment makes people hard. And that’s what the empire wants, hardassed people in the degreed classes managing the dumbed down, over-fed proles whose mental activity consists of plugging their brains into their television sets so they can absorb the message to buy more, and absorb themselves in the bread and circus spectacles provided them through profitable media corporations operating mainly as extensions of the capitalist state’s propaganda system, such as “buy this,” or “you have it better than anyone in the world,” (not at all true).

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/11/americathe-grim-truth.html

Americans, I have some bad news for you:

You have the worst quality of life in the developed world—by a wide margin.

If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you’d be rioting in the streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the typical American white-collar worker.

I know this because I am an American, and I escaped from the prison you call home.

I have lived all around the world, in wealthy countries and poor ones, and there is only one country I would never consider living in again: The United States of America. The mere thought of it fills me with dread.

Consider this: you are the only people in the developed world without a single-payer health system. Everyone in Western Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand has a single-payer system. If they get sick, they can devote all their energies to getting well. If you get sick, you have to battle two things at once: your illness and the fear of financial ruin. Millions of Americans go bankrupt every year due to medical bills, and tens of thousands die each year because they have no insurance or insufficient insurance. And don’t believe for a second that rot about America having the world’s best medical care or the shortest waiting lists: I’ve been to hospitals in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Singapore, and Thailand, and every one was better than the “good” hospital I used to go to back home. The waits were shorter, the facilities more comfortable, and the doctors just as good.

This is ironic, because you need a good health system more than anyone else in the world. Why? Because your lifestyle is almost designed to make you sick.

[Djshakes]

[quote=Arraya][quote=CA renter][quote=Aecetia]Consumer behavior and what might happen if the banks fail and there are food shortages:

http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=70855F9DA9551CA4C8E996A41160FCC7%5B/quote%5D

Which is exactly why “socialist” programs exist in all developed nations — to save the wealthy from these sociopathic freaks. Welfare programs are designed for the benefit of the rich, not the poor.[/quote]

No, police are for the wealthy. Many developed nations left movements did a lot of work for different social programs. Compared to the rest of the developed world the US social safety nets and programs are at the bottom of the list, precisely because of wealthy people. Which is also part of the reason why that video is strictly and american phenomena- because Americans are conditioned to be hyper-competitive. I would admit, though, Americans are more likely to go crazy in a JIT disruption because that is how they are bread.

In every other modern post industrial economy you would have attended college for free as long as you chose to, and been given free healthcare and a stipend to live on while you did it.

Clawing down basic things like an education in such a competitive, reptilian environment makes people hard. And that’s what the empire wants, hardassed people in the degreed classes managing the dumbed down, over-fed proles whose mental activity consists of plugging their brains into their television sets so they can absorb the message to buy more, and absorb themselves in the bread and circus spectacles provided them through profitable media corporations operating mainly as extensions of the capitalist state’s propaganda system, such as “buy this,” or “you have it better than anyone in the world,” (not at all true).

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/11/americathe-grim-truth.html

Americans, I have some bad news for you:

You have the worst quality of life in the developed world—by a wide margin.

If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you’d be rioting in the streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the typical American white-collar worker.

I know this because I am an American, and I escaped from the prison you call home.

I have lived all around the world, in wealthy countries and poor ones, and there is only one country I would never consider living in again: The United States of America. The mere thought of it fills me with dread.

Consider this: you are the only people in the developed world without a single-payer health system. Everyone in Western Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand has a single-payer system. If they get sick, they can devote all their energies to getting well. If you get sick, you have to battle two things at once: your illness and the fear of financial ruin. Millions of Americans go bankrupt every year due to medical bills, and tens of thousands die each year because they have no insurance or insufficient insurance. And don’t believe for a second that rot about America having the world’s best medical care or the shortest waiting lists: I’ve been to hospitals in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Singapore, and Thailand, and every one was better than the “good” hospital I used to go to back home. The waits were shorter, the facilities more comfortable, and the doctors just as good.

This is ironic, because you need a good health system more than anyone else in the world. Why? Because your lifestyle is almost designed to make you sick.

[/quote]

Is that why so many people from Canada come to the US for healthcare?

[Djshakes]

[quote=Arraya][quote=CA renter][quote=Aecetia]Consumer behavior and what might happen if the banks fail and there are food shortages:

http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=70855F9DA9551CA4C8E996A41160FCC7%5B/quote%5D

Which is exactly why “socialist” programs exist in all developed nations — to save the wealthy from these sociopathic freaks. Welfare programs are designed for the benefit of the rich, not the poor.[/quote]

No, police are for the wealthy. Many developed nations left movements did a lot of work for different social programs. Compared to the rest of the developed world the US social safety nets and programs are at the bottom of the list, precisely because of wealthy people. Which is also part of the reason why that video is strictly and american phenomena- because Americans are conditioned to be hyper-competitive. I would admit, though, Americans are more likely to go crazy in a JIT disruption because that is how they are bread.

In every other modern post industrial economy you would have attended college for free as long as you chose to, and been given free healthcare and a stipend to live on while you did it.

Clawing down basic things like an education in such a competitive, reptilian environment makes people hard. And that’s what the empire wants, hardassed people in the degreed classes managing the dumbed down, over-fed proles whose mental activity consists of plugging their brains into their television sets so they can absorb the message to buy more, and absorb themselves in the bread and circus spectacles provided them through profitable media corporations operating mainly as extensions of the capitalist state’s propaganda system, such as “buy this,” or “you have it better than anyone in the world,” (not at all true).

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/11/americathe-grim-truth.html

Americans, I have some bad news for you:

You have the worst quality of life in the developed world—by a wide margin.

If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you’d be rioting in the streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the typical American white-collar worker.

I know this because I am an American, and I escaped from the prison you call home.

I have lived all around the world, in wealthy countries and poor ones, and there is only one country I would never consider living in again: The United States of America. The mere thought of it fills me with dread.

Consider this: you are the only people in the developed world without a single-payer health system. Everyone in Western Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand has a single-payer system. If they get sick, they can devote all their energies to getting well. If you get sick, you have to battle two things at once: your illness and the fear of financial ruin. Millions of Americans go bankrupt every year due to medical bills, and tens of thousands die each year because they have no insurance or insufficient insurance. And don’t believe for a second that rot about America having the world’s best medical care or the shortest waiting lists: I’ve been to hospitals in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Singapore, and Thailand, and every one was better than the “good” hospital I used to go to back home. The waits were shorter, the facilities more comfortable, and the doctors just as good.

This is ironic, because you need a good health system more than anyone else in the world. Why? Because your lifestyle is almost designed to make you sick.

[/quote]

Is that why so many people from Canada come to the US for healthcare?

[Djshakes]

[quote=Arraya][quote=CA renter][quote=Aecetia]Consumer behavior and what might happen if the banks fail and there are food shortages:

http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=70855F9DA9551CA4C8E996A41160FCC7%5B/quote%5D

Which is exactly why “socialist” programs exist in all developed nations — to save the wealthy from these sociopathic freaks. Welfare programs are designed for the benefit of the rich, not the poor.[/quote]

No, police are for the wealthy. Many developed nations left movements did a lot of work for different social programs. Compared to the rest of the developed world the US social safety nets and programs are at the bottom of the list, precisely because of wealthy people. Which is also part of the reason why that video is strictly and american phenomena- because Americans are conditioned to be hyper-competitive. I would admit, though, Americans are more likely to go crazy in a JIT disruption because that is how they are bread.

In every other modern post industrial economy you would have attended college for free as long as you chose to, and been given free healthcare and a stipend to live on while you did it.

Clawing down basic things like an education in such a competitive, reptilian environment makes people hard. And that’s what the empire wants, hardassed people in the degreed classes managing the dumbed down, over-fed proles whose mental activity consists of plugging their brains into their television sets so they can absorb the message to buy more, and absorb themselves in the bread and circus spectacles provided them through profitable media corporations operating mainly as extensions of the capitalist state’s propaganda system, such as “buy this,” or “you have it better than anyone in the world,” (not at all true).

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/11/americathe-grim-truth.html

Americans, I have some bad news for you:

You have the worst quality of life in the developed world—by a wide margin.

If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you’d be rioting in the streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the typical American white-collar worker.

I know this because I am an American, and I escaped from the prison you call home.

I have lived all around the world, in wealthy countries and poor ones, and there is only one country I would never consider living in again: The United States of America. The mere thought of it fills me with dread.

Consider this: you are the only people in the developed world without a single-payer health system. Everyone in Western Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand has a single-payer system. If they get sick, they can devote all their energies to getting well. If you get sick, you have to battle two things at once: your illness and the fear of financial ruin. Millions of Americans go bankrupt every year due to medical bills, and tens of thousands die each year because they have no insurance or insufficient insurance. And don’t believe for a second that rot about America having the world’s best medical care or the shortest waiting lists: I’ve been to hospitals in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Singapore, and Thailand, and every one was better than the “good” hospital I used to go to back home. The waits were shorter, the facilities more comfortable, and the doctors just as good.

This is ironic, because you need a good health system more than anyone else in the world. Why? Because your lifestyle is almost designed to make you sick.

[/quote]

Is that why so many people from Canada come to the US for healthcare?

[Djshakes]

[quote=Arraya][quote=CA renter][quote=Aecetia]Consumer behavior and what might happen if the banks fail and there are food shortages:

http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=70855F9DA9551CA4C8E996A41160FCC7%5B/quote%5D

Which is exactly why “socialist” programs exist in all developed nations — to save the wealthy from these sociopathic freaks. Welfare programs are designed for the benefit of the rich, not the poor.[/quote]

No, police are for the wealthy. Many developed nations left movements did a lot of work for different social programs. Compared to the rest of the developed world the US social safety nets and programs are at the bottom of the list, precisely because of wealthy people. Which is also part of the reason why that video is strictly and american phenomena- because Americans are conditioned to be hyper-competitive. I would admit, though, Americans are more likely to go crazy in a JIT disruption because that is how they are bread.

In every other modern post industrial economy you would have attended college for free as long as you chose to, and been given free healthcare and a stipend to live on while you did it.

Clawing down basic things like an education in such a competitive, reptilian environment makes people hard. And that’s what the empire wants, hardassed people in the degreed classes managing the dumbed down, over-fed proles whose mental activity consists of plugging their brains into their television sets so they can absorb the message to buy more, and absorb themselves in the bread and circus spectacles provided them through profitable media corporations operating mainly as extensions of the capitalist state’s propaganda system, such as “buy this,” or “you have it better than anyone in the world,” (not at all true).

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/11/americathe-grim-truth.html

Americans, I have some bad news for you:

You have the worst quality of life in the developed world—by a wide margin.

If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you’d be rioting in the streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the typical American white-collar worker.

I know this because I am an American, and I escaped from the prison you call home.

I have lived all around the world, in wealthy countries and poor ones, and there is only one country I would never consider living in again: The United States of America. The mere thought of it fills me with dread.

Consider this: you are the only people in the developed world without a single-payer health system. Everyone in Western Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand has a single-payer system. If they get sick, they can devote all their energies to getting well. If you get sick, you have to battle two things at once: your illness and the fear of financial ruin. Millions of Americans go bankrupt every year due to medical bills, and tens of thousands die each year because they have no insurance or insufficient insurance. And don’t believe for a second that rot about America having the world’s best medical care or the shortest waiting lists: I’ve been to hospitals in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Singapore, and Thailand, and every one was better than the “good” hospital I used to go to back home. The waits were shorter, the facilities more comfortable, and the doctors just as good.

This is ironic, because you need a good health system more than anyone else in the world. Why? Because your lifestyle is almost designed to make you sick.

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Is that why so many people from Canada come to the US for healthcare?

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