When you hear anything about America’s “economic growth” or “wealth” they are measuring by business and just assuming it benefits everyone here, but we have an actual higher ratio of poor to rich people than almost anywhere else. We have the highest costs and highest debt for both medical care and education. We also have the largest percentage of people in prison, mostly for nonviolent charges, and more *ways* to go to prison than the global norm.
We also do not measurably have “the most freedom” of any country, if you can even figure out how that’s supposed to be defined, but the idea sure gets hammered into us our whole lives. Americans both right and left genuinely think they’d be less free living in ANY other place on the planet. We’re never actually taught any examples of how.
Funny as hell to see the notes full of arguing with debkorvelus, the same user who outright said that water should never be a human right.
god, literally none of you dumbasses know what “third world” means. We in the third world are not backwards, we are EXPLOITED. EXPLORED. COLONIZED. The fact that our nations’ wealth gets stolen (by the first world) doesn’t mean we are stupid, or that we don’t try and take care of our people, or that we lack [X public service]. The US *IS* the wealthiest nation in the world, and it got all that wealth through slavery, genocide, colonialism, and imperialism. The reason why it has so many “mega-wealthy” people is due to exploiting the labor and resources of the third world.
The US is as “first-world” as a nation can possibly be. It is the literal Imperial Core of the capitalist world. The fact that it fails to provide for its own citizens (or rather, provide as much as it should. $600 is still MILES above what most third world poor people got) is another matter entirely. Don’t fucking pretend that 1) you’re at our level and 2) “Third-world” is synonym with “shitty country”. Fuck off with this “America is actually a third-world nation” bullshit already and just admit that your country *will not* provide for it’s own citizens *despite* plundering our countries.
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Opinion | Distinguished persons of the week: Defying anti-mandate nuttiness -
It looks like vaccine mandates are working. It also looks like many businesses are implementing them ahead of the final OSHA rules and in defiance of the anti-life dictates of certain Republican governors.
According to Jennifer Rubin, writing for The Washington Post:
More than 218 million Americans have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine. Cases and deaths are coming down. And a large part of the credit goes to American businesses.
“Every day, we see more businesses implementing vaccination requirements, and the mounting data that shows they work,” President Biden said on Thursday. “Businesses and organizations that are implementing requirements are seeing their vaccination rates rise by an average of 20 percent or more to well over 90 percent — the number of employees vaccinated.”
But to the credit of businesses, many have not waited for the OSHA rule to begin implementing mandates. In some cases, this has meant going up against a MAGA governor bent on pandering to the base at the expense of the health and lives of residents. [….]
(How someone calling himself a “conservative” can claim the power to micromanage private businesses to make them less safe is beyond me.)
Companies as diverse as BlackRock, McDonald’s, Cisco, IBM, Citigroup, CVS and Goldman Sachs have instituted some form of vaccine mandate. So have Google and Walmart. Many universities have done so as well — even before Biden announced the federal directive. [….]
In defying the MAGA death cult, business leaders are demonstrating what “pro-life” actually means.
The good news is that mandates are quite effective. Reuters reported: “Vaccination rates against covid-19 in the United States have risen by more than 20 percentage points after multiple institutions adopted vaccine requirements, while case numbers and deaths from the virus are down.” Roughly 66 million eligible Americans still are not vaccinated, but that is a huge improvement from 80 million or so before Biden rolled out his directive on vaccine mandates in early September.
This is a fine example of presidential leadership inspiring responsible, private-sector conduct. If only red-state governors would care as much about saving lives as businesses, local government officials and medical professionals in their states do, we might end the pandemic once and for all.
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