Overall, 39% of U.S. adults say they are “extremely proud” to be American in the most recent poll.
Meanwhile, only 18% of those aged 18-34 said the same, compared to 40% of those aged 35-54 and 50% of those 55 and over.
18% is still too high. As Obama’s pastor said, God damn America! Americans have very little to be proud of at this point.
We don’t even have healthcare. Even what we think of as developing or third world countries have that.
American healthcare is far too overpriced and inefficient, but in a lot of ways it is more humane to patients(before the bill comes of course) than at least the country I live in now. Hospitals are notorious for horrible living conditions, difficulty getting to see a doctor, etc. A relative of mine had to sneak in food because her mom was only getting basically 2 slices of bread and apple sauce twice a day. Also, they basically had patients on chamberpots that were overflowing. This is in the capital city of a fairly well of European country.
It’s just messed up that we have the resources to support universal healthcare and it would actually save us a shit ton of money, but we can’t have it…
Yeah, but unfortunately every country everywhere has significant failures. It’s just easiest to point out those of the biggest economy.
That sounds like a lot of American hospitals tbh. Also like practically every nursing home over here.
I don’t know about all of course, but from my family who’ve been in US hospitals and my friends who have worked in US nursing homes they seem somewhat better. Although I’m sure there are plenty that are bad- what I’m talking about is a wide spread problem across hospitals in the country.
We give around a billion a year to Israel because after they pay for universal healthcare and free tuition for college they don’t have enough to buy a bunch of shit from our “defense” manufacturing industry…
America has been full blown capitalist for decades now, our government cares more about corporation’s profits than the well being of Americans.
You mean we give them money so they can buy from stuff from our military industrial complex? Basically meaning that we give money to companies that make weapons and tons of money? The same kind of corporations that use said money to lobby Congress for things that favor them? You’re definitely right that our government cares more about corporations profits than us.