No, that was my exact point lol.
I donât encourage anyone to do anything with their money other than spend it at my business with advertisingâŠ
I have never campaigned or pushed for anyone else to not spend money somewhere. How people spend their time / money is their decision.
Also, I donât care about businesses views honestly. If you provide a good product or service and I desire it - I am buying it.
Taking your example to the extreme though - is donating to certain politicians not cancel culture? I think we have gotten far off the mark on what cancel culture actually is.
And all other developed countries have a healthcare system where the insurance part has been a government run entity. In that communist country called England has a healthcare system where not only the insurance portion is run by the government but if you are a doctor or nurse you most likely work for the government. And they scored highest in a study done by The Commonwealth Fund. The U.S. scored last. Huh? But I thought the government couldnât do anything right and privatization was the gold standard. Overall the U.S. ranked 37th in the world. We pay about twice as much as anyone else per capita and we rank 37th overall. Can someone say rip-off.
Have you ever experienced the healthcare in Europe firsthand? I have and it was an absolute shit show in both London and Rome. Hint - I bypassed multiple day waits for a semi-serious issue of friends with money. $1000 US dollars to the Dr. on call and miraculously we were seen immediately. Then was told by an actual physician in both places (both issues required surgery) to call the US Embassy because we were American as he wouldnât operate on his dog in the hospital there given the choice.
Do you have any idea of the long term feasibility of single payer there? The prognosis is not good.
Anyone championing the healthcare in Europe obviously has very little clue about how it operates or how terrible it is.
The wealthy still get the best care they just have to pay more for it while also being taxed to death.
US healthcare needs reform, but the European single payer model isnât it. Tort reform would be a good start.
Careful, you might slip.
I prefer slopes to flatness.
You live in the Midwest, right? You should really move haha
I live practically in the MS delta 
Doesnât get much flatter lol.
European health care system sucks. Government charges you monthly and if your are even unemployed for a month you are fucked up. I was in non EU country for 5 years, I had to work for 5 years in my country to receive my âfree health careâ, or pay taxes equalling 6 montly wages. You still pay for most procedures even if you have health care.
Hospitals are fucked up. For example a friend of mine had rotator injury. He visited 3 hospitals for diagnosis and all 3 of them gave him the same diagnoais but different threatment, based on hospitals plan for threatment, which gets the most money from the government. He chose operation as he was in a rush to compete as he is a world class athlete and top prospect here.
My wifes mother was basically prematurely killed with procedures. She had cancer, but probably was going to live a couple more years but hospitals decided to threat, do useless procedures and operate her, so they can collect government money from these. Every retired person in my country is on meds, which are basically useless. My grandma is prescribed supplements as if she is a world class athlete and she just has knee pain from not walking enough and living very sedentery lifestyle.
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That is not conducive to a civilized society. In a nation where people complain about a lack of civic mindedness among the population, that attitude makes a nation weaker and less civil. Maybe businesses, and people, should see American first and not some other label. Machiavelli wrote about this centuries ago, albeit with regard to a divided Italy, and he had the Roman Republic as his guide.
If a person can be told to fight and possibly die for this country, then he should come back to a nation where he isnât discriminated against by a business which relies on the government, and the sacrifice of soldiers, to exist. I think Rand would call that business an example of a moocher.
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Anyone should be able to consider something abhorrent as itâs subjective and we canât, or shouldnât, tell people how they are supposed to feel.
There is a definition of racism so anything considered racist should rely on the definition. There may still be room for interpretation but itâs a start. However, in the real world right now we have the whole my truth bullshit so the person who believes something is racist gets to also decide if itâs racist. An individualâs perception is taken as truth. This is why, where I work, when issues about race, politics, socioeconomic problems, etc., inevitably get brought up in meetings, I never add any input. Itâs interesting to see which individuals tend to keep quiet and which ones speak freely. Heterosexual men usually keep their thoughts to themselves in mixed company. Women will spout the typical woke orthodoxy.
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I agree. If a âbusinessâ receives more from the government than it pays, it should be run however the government decides.
Maybe this will eventually apply to Ukrainian businesses, if our bosses get their way(i.e., we get to send troops to actually fight the warâŠundeclared, of course).
This was never written, it was understood. Back when politics werenât an identity or personality trait.
The people who tout the European model usually have zero clue other than what they are fed via the media and feel good emotions about âhurr durr free healthcare / healthcare is a rightâ.
Nothing is free, nothing. Somebody is paying.
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Slavery is an example of politics and business being in bed with one another.
Over there, health care is a right. People ultimately decide what are considered rights. And all rights come with a price.
If they truly fit the definition of a right - they shouldnât cost you money to provide that right for someone else that isnât contributing.
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It costs us money to protect all rights. If a fetus has the right to live, then who is going to pay to ensure it is born healthy if the mother canât afford it?
All of our freedoms are protected by the government. It doesnât matter if you pay taxes or not. Poor people can own guns legally.
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I donât even know where to begin here on how fucked and completely incorrect the entirety of this comment is.
Protecting a right and providing a right are two entirely different things.
Does the government buy poor people guns with tax dollars?
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