That's not really something you can guarantee, though. People never choose to have sudden medical emergencies.

One of the main grievances I have with conservatives here in the US is that they complain constantly about taxation, yet they'll gladly take their fill of all the services those taxes help pay for. Especially Social Security and Medicare, but also of course including public parks and highways.

 

Note: I'm somewhat necrobumping a post of mine from something I said on page 8, and which was halfway off-topic to begin with (meaning: ignore this post if you don't care). Sorry for the confusion, but I grossly underestimated things. It's not fun to admit being wrong, but it has to be said: the truth is a whole lot closer to what @supersonicwaffle claimed than my own post.

About a week ago, I said...

Since it was met with criticism (by @supersonicwaffle ), I decided to check with our HR department. Monthly contributions to the medical sector in Belgium - or at least for me (which is still about the median for a Belgian employee) - are around 13% of gross monthly income.
...and that's way above 50 euro's indeed. It's actually around 390-400 euro per month. So my yearly contribution to the sector is around 4850 euro's. Still cheaper than the US, but the margin is far less than I'd had hoped.

/offtopic

 

Wow, I completely forgot the whole Health Care thing was in this thread. I was a lot calmer and less attacky then till a certain person ticked me off. And I read others saying the same thing about him in other threads so I know I’m not the only one that thought the same.



You know when it comes to Obama Care Rep. Jim Jordan makes a good point, peoples premiums went way up and their Health Care choices reduced. Deductibles didn’t decline, people didn’t get to keep their doctor if they liked them, they didn’t get to keep the plan they liked.

They said Co-ops were these wonderful things, 23 were created but most, 19, went bankrupt and only 4 are left now. A failed thing of Obama Care.

https://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/888844/579

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fo...-op-disaster-an-unfunny-comedy-of-errors/amp/



Jonathan Grubber the architect of Obama Care called Americans stupid for buying the lies of Obama care.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d44ff59cb2e8



Now that Trump wants to get rid of Obama Care and replace it with something better, he’s getting a lot of resistance just because he is Trump.





Just like the border issue Democrats are so busy resisting Trump that they wouldn’t sign off more funding to help the kids no matter how much boarder agents begged for more money and resources. Now that they barely got the resources conditions have improved.

They don’t want to close loop holes cartels are abusing, the family are contained for 20 days then released loophole which cartels are taking advantage of to smuggle kids in for slave labor.


And they say they are keeping kids separated to deter people, but the Trump administration reunited 95% of kids with their families. They separated kids to verify they are not victims of cartels. And to not imprison them for their parents crimes of illegally entering. Asylum seeking should be at ports of entry. Not in between ports where there is miles of dessert where people can dehydrate and die. There is a reason why it’s discourage.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailywire.com/news/49632/report-trump-administration-has-reunited-95-ashe-schow?amp



And the “cages” they complain about they were all built under the Obama administration. Not a single one under the Trump administration. The facilities built under the Trump administration all have air conditioning, water, and people to administer health care supplies.

 

It feels a bit weird and ironic that people in US are against immigration when the majority of them are immigrants. Europeans, Africans and Asians all travelled from their own continents over to US, what's also known as the New World. Native Indians are the indigenous people of the Americas continent.

The natives of US lost their own country as the colonizers were too many and well armed to take over. So, don't hold a grudge at the word 'immigrant' but rather if it's a legal or illegal immigrant, legals have the right to stay while illegals tend to be deported as their application was rejected.

Some might not know that European-Americans went through the process of picking the definitive flag for the country they snatched from the Native Indians.

Warning: Spoilers inside!

And Brazil, too.

Warning: Spoilers inside!

I really wish my ancestors had just stayed in their own country and mind their own business than 'discover' land (despite there was people already living in).

P.S. Changing from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day was a good call, but not enough.

P.P.S. I listen to the Texas radio "The Ranch" for its country music (one of most European-American things you can get) but the moment they play FOX News and how 'America is the greatest country in the world that we made and them immigrants ain't gonna take it from us' leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I already explained why.

At the very least I'd just wish people would be respectful and get along.

 

1. Many of the asylum seekers are not committing a crime by coming here.
2. The "crime" of coming here doesn't fit the punishment of family separation.
3. The border family separation policy did not exist before Trump.
4. The family separation policy exists solely as a punitive measure and deterrent, which is immoral.
5. There are crimes in the US that don't involve jail, let alone family-separation.
6. Children typically aren't forcibly separated from their families here in the US, unless there's an actual good reason and it's in the best interest of the child. There is nothing about the child's best interest involved in the child separation policy at the border.
7. Border separations are being done with no real system in place to reunite families.
8. Children at the border are being held in deplorable conditions.
9. Children at the border are dying.

Don't be stupid. If you are going to be stupid, you probably shouldn't tag someone who is going to call you out on it.

 

They brought their kids to a criminal endeavor. You know if i commit a felony they would put my kid in foster care if there wasn't an appropriate responsible LEGAL adult to watch him.

Illegally crossing the border is a crime. They are illegal. They should have left their spawn at home.

LACIUS. Obama separated kids too.

Closely monitoring the boarder is necessary. Don't be stupid. I don't like trump but the border is an issue. All the bleeding hearts will be sorry in the end. You better hope we protect your wishy washy ass when the shit hits the fan. secure the country.

 

No, there actually isn't. At least, not for a Mexican living in poverty. There is only the "wrong way" for those.

 

While you are correct that both governments need to be fixed there is an unnnice and long history of USA messing about in South America. What responsabilities that amounts in afterwards is not easy to say. Not to mention what Spain and Portugal did there before the US where running wild...

 

In my personal opinion, these "sanctuary cities" that are just running rampant with illegals need to be cracked down on. There's no reason to protect them. If anything, it would help us get out of the housing crisis our own people are in.