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Other countries who are capitalist already have socialist programs

Something I don't get is how Norway and others already have programs for awhile now but if the US tries the same thing, people freak out. I don't get how people don't realize that over half the world already has things like low cost free health care or low to no cost transportation etc. I just don't really get what it is. Hell, even Iran was one of the first countries to do something for UBI for its citizens that needed fuel and food. They were one of the first even.

It's like the boy who cries wolf, all these maga or similar people be crying about programs that are already elsewhere but they act like if it's instituted it will be our demise but in other countries it kinda looks like they doing quite well.

Once you lie a few times and nothing happens, nobody is going to believe you. It's getting harder and harder for conservatives to keep this up
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The starkest example of the US being behind and out of step has to be medical care.

Kinda looks like there might be room for improvement, wouldn't you say?
Note the graph goes 1970-2018.
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure

Infant mortality in 2020. This is to show that the disparity between the US and the rest of the developed world isn't due to treating infant mortality differently.
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low
Waveney · M
It's easy. Under Republican rule, America is always broke if regular people need something.
AdmiralPrune · 46-50, M
If it didn’t already exist, a proposal for a fire brigade would be seen as communism.

“My tax dollars putting out other people’s fires?

Banjos and harmonicas play themselves into a fury.
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
Pretty soon the rest of the world will move on and it will be harder to say that there's consequences when the US gets left in the dark, time to change. Have to catch up to the rest of the world, it's painful but must be done and fkk your feelings

 
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