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To global citizens, do you think American politics are ugly because of partisanship or corruption?

AmyJung said:
Hey, global citizens
I’ve lived in America for ten years and realized the life here is a kind of consistent struggle all the way. Health care is provided from private insurance companies so the cost is super high. More than half of personal bankruptcies are due to sickness or injuries. My son’s one year college cost is over 70,000.00 American dollars. It literally made me and my son to trap in a huge debt already. The housing cost is so expensive as well. I am a single mom who always worked hard but recently I fell down from stairs unfortunately and my son went to college last year so I had to give up life in America and had to come back to South Korea. To me and many millions of Americans( more than half of Americans live paycheck to paycheck with a panicky fear of getting sick or bankrupt according to the politician, Bernie Sanders ), life seems to be never improving and going more difficult as time go by. What’s your thought about that? America needs a rescue from you, guys. Special interest groups are so powerful and they will never allow people to be educated enough to challenge the broken American system. Some young people are trying to change with the lead of Bernie Sanders but not enough. American system is falling apart and people are waking up that there is a huge systemic problems under but we need more help.[emoji17] Some Americans are more busy fighting with their partisanship for some reason instead of addressing real issues. (P.S. Partisanship induced useless argument is not welcomed in this thread. Thank you in advance. Please focus on the reasons and solution in your replies because this is a very serious important issue to so many real people)


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Is it important to "real people"?
 
AmyJung said:
Basically your mindset is so different than many people. It is hard to discuss any issues with your closed mind. I’m moving on. By the way, taxing should be planned more carefully. It is not that simple.


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Yes. It is that simple!
 
It's important to many rational people (like the child from Seinfeld named Seven), a few irrational people (someone named Pi for example) and maybe one or two imaginary people (perhaps someone called the square root of negative one).

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Is it important to "real people"?
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AmyJung said:
College in America was free back in 1950. College in most developed countries is free which means it is funded by smart taxing. Fair opportunity is given to people regardless of their parents income or current status. That means true democracy.

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Go look up “true democracy” and get back to us.
 
Bodhisattva said:
Is it important to "real people"?
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What is that mean? You mean Real people who are struggling every day lives have no room to think about politics? If that’s what you meant, I agree with you. Formal Sweden prime minister, told to people that If we don’t have basic economic rights, we are not democracy. American special interest groups probably may want real people to be struggling to survive and not think of any politics at all and remained uninformed. It is easy to control them in that way. Many Americans never went abroad or know about other world’s politics. Some people are trapped in a small cage which is called ‘partisanship’( I never understood why there are only too big parties dominate AMERICAN politics. Not healthy. ) and waist their time arguing and hurting. When partisanship contributes only disruption instead of healthy wise decision making, that’s toxic. Many Medias in America is very biased due to their owners or advertisers. Money donated from special interest groups for politicians ruin their wills and good intentions. Bernie is the only one who doesn’t take corporate money. He has no private fundraisers.


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OrphanSlug said:
Go look up “true democracy” and get back to us.
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Democracy ranking on 2018
( look up Internet )
Norway - 1st
Sweden -3rd
United States of America - 25th


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AmyJung said:
Democracy ranking on 2018
( look up Internet )
Norway - 1st
Sweden -3rd
United States of America - 25th

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No, not ranking... go look up “true democracy” and get back to us on what that means?
 
AmyJung said:
What is that mean? You mean Real people who are struggling every day lives have no room to think about politics? If that’s what you meant, I agree with you. Formal Sweden prime minister, told to people that If we don’t have basic economic rights, we are not democracy. American special interest groups probably may want real people to be struggling to survive and not think of any politics at all and remained uninformed. It is easy to control them in that way. Many Americans never went abroad or know about other world’s politics. Some people are trapped in a small cage which is called ‘partisanship’( I never understood why there are only too big parties dominate AMERICAN politics. Not healthy. ) and waist their time arguing and hurting. When partisanship contributes only disruption instead of healthy wise decision making, that’s toxic. Many Medias in America is very biased due to their owners or advertisers. Money donated from special interest groups for politicians ruin their wills and good intentions. Bernie is the only one who doesn’t take corporate money. He has no private fundraisers.


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Not sure what you angle is yet...
 
OrphanSlug said:
No, not ranking... go look up “true democracy” and get back to us on what that means?
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A true democracy is when everyone votes on everything. ... Now we have representative democracies, where we elect representatives to run the government. I found this when I googled it in the first line.

But the problem is the politicians in America doesn’t represent real people. Lol [emoji23] I see why America’s democracy ranking is 25th.


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Could you please tell us something about the healthcare system in the Republic of Korea?



Thank you
 
TheParser said:
Could you please tell us something about the healthcare system in the Republic of Korea?



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South Korea government runs universal health care. Totally different than America but needs more improvement. We can learn from Sweden. Annual cap around 500 hundred dollars for Sweden citizens’ medical cost. The Rest of the cost is taken care of by Goverment and doctors and nurses are public workers so they don’t try to profit over vulnerable patients. They are more interested in preventing diseases and make people healthy:)


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AmyJung said:
The Rest of the cost is taken care of by Goverment and doctors and nurses are public workers so they don’t try to profit over vulnerable patients. They are more interested in preventing diseases and make people healthy:)


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Thank you, Ms. Jung:

1. I hope that you are now getting the medical care that you need.

2. I think that many Americans (including me) are worried about the quality of care that we would receive from some (many?) "public workers."

3. Here in Los Angeles, we once had a hospital funded by the government (I shan't name it) that gave such horrible care that our local very liberal (AKA Democratic party) newspaper led the demand for its closure. Some patients did not get treatment because the technicians did not know how to run the machines! Some doctors checked in for the day and then left the premises! The receptionists were rude and indifferent! Reportedly, police officers told their buddies: "If I am ever wounded, don't take me to Killer [name of hospital]!"

4. Generally speaking, private enterprise seems to deliver the best service. If, for example, Amazon customer reps were "public workers," I doubt that Amazon would offer such high-quality customer service.


Have a nice new week!
 
AmyJung said:
That’s a very difficult question. I just moved back to South Korea so I don’t know much about Moon’s policies so much. In my opinion, he seems to focus too much on North Korea issue( which it doesn’t go anywhere ). South Korea has a serious air pollution issues due to heavily China and Korea’s own pollutants. Moon needs to focus on that more since many people are suffering and dying from it. That is another reason we need Bernie in America because he cares about the environment more than Trump. Environment issue is getting too serious!!
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China and India are the worst environmental polluters because they are also the two highest populated countries in the world. The USA is 3rd, and our population is projected to top 400 million by 2050. How can we increase environmental regulations, while simultaneously needing to add tens of millions of jobs to the workforce, to accommodate a nation of 400 million people?

President is important to your life. The government affects every single part of your life. I think you got cynical because this American government really didn’t help individuals so much.


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I'm not worried about myself; I have saved money since I began working at 16, and invested a percentage of what I've saved. Of course, anything can happen. What I'm really concerned about, is the future economy and quality of life in a country of 400 million people who will suddenly find themselves jobless, due to outsourcing American jobs, and the coming automation age.
 
TheParser said:
Thank you, Ms. Jung:

1. I hope that you are now getting the medical care that you need.

2. I think that many Americans (including me) are worried about the quality of care that we would receive from some (many?) "public workers."

3. Here in Los Angeles, we once had a hospital funded by the government (I shan't name it) that gave such horrible care that our local very liberal (AKA Democratic party) newspaper led the demand for its closure. Some patients did not get treatment because the technicians did not know how to run the machines! Some doctors checked in for the day and then left the premises! The receptionists were rude and indifferent! Reportedly, police officers told their buddies: "If I am ever wounded, don't take me to Killer [name of hospital]!"

4. Generally speaking, private enterprise seems to deliver the best service. If, for example, Amazon customer reps were "public workers," I doubt that Amazon would offer such high-quality customer service.


Have a nice new week!
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1. Thank you. Here in Korea, getting X-rays is very chip. It was over 300 dollars in America so I couldn’t get X-rays there when I fell from stairs and broke my bone.

2. Quality in health care in Sweden seems to be working well. You can research it by yourself

3. That is the reality of public schools in America as well. Huge gap between neighborhoods. Public hospital itself is not a problem. The government who manages it has no will due to the corruption.

4. Public workers in America are usually depressed maybe because American society doesn’t make people happy in general. Life in America is a struggle. Public workers in other countries are different.


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truthatallcost said:
China and India are the worst environmental polluters because they are also the two highest populated countries in the world. The USA is 3rd, and our population is projected to top 400 million by 2050. How can we increase environmental regulations, while simultaneously needing to add tens of millions of jobs to the workforce, to accommodate a nation of 400 million people?



I'm not worried about myself; I have saved money since I began working at 16, and invested a percentage of what I've saved. Of course, anything can happen. What I'm really concerned about, is the future economy and quality of life in a country of 400 million people who will suddenly find themselves jobless, due to outsourcing American jobs, and the coming automation age.
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More sustainable jobs can be created with new energy system.


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AmyJung said:
Public workers in other countries are different.
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Thank you very much for your thoughtful comments.

I am so glad that you are receiving the care that you need.

I have read that "public workers" in some countries are even worse than some here in the States. That is, I have read that one must give bribes to get service in some countries (which, of course, I shan't name).

Here in the States, some postal workers used to be very rude and even lazy. With the advent of email, some postal workers have realized that their jobs are at stake, so there has been some improvement in their behavior.


Have a nice day!
 
Healthcare works quite good here in Germany and I don´t want to miss it

may be each country has it´s own best solutions

there are good and bad examples for both systems

Since the public train system in Britain was privatized, it´s completely ****ed up. They did not invest and let the rails get rotten because they had only interst in quick money.

Some parts of public live shall in no way be private in my opinion. Like water supply and other essential things for living.
 
german hick said:
Healthcare works quite good here in Germany and I don´t want to miss it

may be each country has it´s own best solutions

there are good and bad examples for both systems

Since the public train system in Britain was privatized, it´s completely ****ed up. They did not invest and let the rails get rotten because they had only interst in quick money.

Some parts of public live shall in no way be private in my opinion. Like water supply and other essential things for living.
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I am glad you have a good health care system in Germany. America will get a good one as well with the lead of Bernie Sanders. Health related matter should be public, I think.


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