Comments by "Debany Doombringer" (@debanydoombringer1385) on "The American Dream DEMANDS Hard Work, My Response To Shoe0nHead And Dr Karlyn" video.

@2tarcha2er60 That's an interesting opinion. It's really interesting how the chose only 2 countries from the EU. What's more interesting is that every year the EU does a study of how well the healthcare in every country is performing. They use wait times for hip replacement surgery because the faster it's fixed the better the outcome. The US out performs on all counts except a couple. The average wait time in the US is less than 30 days. The UK has the closest wait time at 45 days.The longest was over a year. Imagine having a broken hip for that long. They rank everything as acceptable if every stage is 30 days. That's PCP 30 day wait, specialist 30 days, and surgery 30 days. Very few meet that. In Vancouver, CA, (it's still part of the commonwealth) for example, the average ER wait time was over 2 days. The EU loses about 500,000 a year to lack of care. Mostly for waiting for treatment for cardiac issues, a stint or bypass surgery. The US is under 70,000 a year. I'd suggest looking for the results they put out every year. The last one I saw was 2017 I believe.
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@LaughingMan44 You get a pension? Wow! Hardly anyone does anymore. Here I am putting 12% of my income in a 401K. We'll retire early with between 1.7-2 million. How? My husband works on average 60+ hours a week doing a dangerous job in an oil refinery (the more dangerous the more you get paid),I'm self employed, we forgo expenses like eating out often or going to the movies, we fill our freezer with meat we hunt and kill, we grow a lot of our own vegetables (I can or freeze them), and only have one responsible car payment at a time. We've been on food stamps before, I'm disabled (not on disability), and he's an immigrant that barely graduated high school.
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@ジョジョさま The solution to your "problem" is to purchase land and build the house yourself. That's what my family did. It took years and you have to pass expectation, but it's doable. It's built with lumber from a 3 story home that was torn down. It's the first house we had with indoor plumbing.
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That's the issue though. They buy the iPhone, the gaming systems, the games, eat out all the time, and complain they can't get ahead. Shoe posted that from the newest iPhone. So she can spend $1,00+ on a phone but can't save for a down payment on a house? No she's not right.
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So those countries have no poor or homeless? I beg to differ.
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Muiri MacDuff You're an idiot and most of Tim's audience are libertarians. You are a prime example of why immigrants do better here than people like you.
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BIRTHDAYFACE046 You can grow them in a container if you don't have a yard. Even if you only have access to a fire escape.
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Where did these people live? My family was still using an outhouse then because indoor plumbing hadn't been here long.
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The minimum wage here is $11. You can live without much struggle on that here. You can buy a home for $40,000. That's a 1-2 bedroom 1 bath small home. The average income in my state is around $35,000. Where my husband works is the top payer and employer in our town. They've been trying to hire 20 people for at least 2 years. The top pay is $36 an hour. They can't get people to stay because it's too much work, too dangerous, they don't want to work shift work, they don't want to bother studying to pass the tests, etc. It's been so hard to get people to stay they've lowered the requirements for employment. The one thing these applicants have in common is their age range. I've come to realize they don't have to settle for minimum wage jobs, they want to. Your 1,000 years ago scenario is how I grew up. Contrary to your opinion we did have fun. We did more than just survive. Not all farming can use big equipment because they aren't large enough and many crops can't be done by machine. I want you to tell all the tomato farmers how easy they have it. You pick by hand or you ruin the produce. The only thing you've proven is how ignorant you are of how people in different areas than you live.
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So you think people should own homes now while ignoring that the highest point of homeownership was 69.2% in 2004 and is 64.1% now and rising? When was this period that all these people owned their own home that was so much higher than now? It's higher than when I was growing up in the 80s. It's higher than when my mother grew up in the 50s. You are also wrong in that everyone wants a house and family. There is a very large portion of the population that don't want any of that. They don't want the responsibility of having the upkeep of a home. Marriage rates are way down and so are birth rates. I'd like some facts to back up your claims rather than just your feelings.
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That's why he said you should take a second job to save up to buy a home if you're current budget puts you living paycheck to paycheck. It's also not indefinitely because a house payment is usually less than rent.
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