It's a bit of an unfair comparison. The Netherlands is physically no bigger than Maryland, with a population smaller than that of New York. Your population is more homogenous and older than ours. All of those would contribute to a better...ease of management. You also have a culture that encourages contribution to go along side social spending, we do not. Not that you don't have leeches, they inevitably exist, but I feel comfortable believing that its nowhere close to the number we have. We even have leeches within our government siphoning money to line their own pockets with lucrative contracts that produce nothing. Fewer resources get to the people who need legitimate help and boom, homeless everywhere.
sehvi
Veteran XX
If you actually read what i wrote you'd recognize that i very much believe in the effects of the social world (so yes: culture) has on a person and it's upbringing.
This is a big mistake on the republicans part. This will cost them seats for sure.
youve jumped from one giant, bad faith misrepresentation to another.
instead of making assumptions or automatically demonizing someone, try listening first. youre not demonstrating a good understanding of these opinions or rationality.
and these sweeping generalizations? “The right” “everyone favoring lgbt” like what sort of wonky binary world do you live in? Youve always been like this dude. you defend your ideology as you would defend yourself against a wolf. good people will disagree with you. Bad people can agree with you.
this is a supreme court decision, has nothing to do with congress, but because people are so stupid, you might be right.
sehvi
Veteran XX
I agree there are major differences. I've always said that we are "lucky" to don't have the opioid epidemic going on.. let alone meth and fentanyl. I also think this is very much because of us not being next to Mexico which is cartel territory. On the other hand, they've been trying to push these types of drugs hard over here, but it's difficult for them to make 'em popular because we've spent a lot of money on educating the populace when it comes to certain drugs. Heroin is basically being seen as a loser drug over here (still an unfair comparison because we all know the current opioid crisis comes from farmaceutical companies pushing percs etc). Combined with the fact that of course, my country is the main hub when it comes to drugs like xtc, ghb, mdma, amfetamine etc.. they've always been really cheap and accessible over here. So i fully agree that problems are circumstantial.
And I honestly do appreciate your reply. However, we see the same patterns in most Western-European countries. I personally believe it's not because we have "fewer people" or less people being a burden to society. I believe it's because of the way we govern our countries.
That being said.. i do recognise a lot of American spending goes towards the military. A military that keeps us Europeans safe as well.. very much economically. So i do agree comparisonso aren't always fair. I do think there's ways to improve for America when it comes to governance though. Maybe one of those is for Europe to chime in way more when it comes to NATO etc.
Indeed it does. Anyone can acknowledge the statistical likelihood of an unwanted child having a bad life, but again it's just rationalizing to make oneself feel better. Societal improvement in the long term really. Of course you could get the same societal improvement through forced sterilization of demographics based on those same statistical likelihoods, but somehow that seems a bridge too far even though the result would be the same, because one group you have to look in the face and the other you can pretend never existed.
I believe the way you govern your country is successful because you have fewer people and less diversity. I don't believe the model can simply be applied to America, nor would it be successful here. Your minimum tax rate alone would cause open revolt.
Christians?
Sure let's go.
probably not, because that would be really bad for people that need charity money, since Christians are definitely the most giving of the population.
sehvi
Veteran XX
There is little difference among self-identified atheists, Protestants and Catholics in the percentage donating to charitable groups. However, atheists are substantially less likely than Protestants and Catholics to report volunteering their time to charitable organizations. Atheists and Protestants report similar levels of volunteering with secular charities (50% vs. 49%, respectively). However, 85% of atheists say they have not volunteered with a religious charity in the past 12 months, while nearly six in 10 Protestants (58%) say they have.
Not really apparently. Apart from the fact that religious people tend to do more charity work. Reminds me of Reggs ridiculing atheist me for helping out refugees, lol.
Have you ever volunteered in life havax? But then again you're not really religious, right?
I've never volunteered. Probably never will.Neither of those statements are true.
