Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "" video.

  1. "We want our oligarch to shove his old crinkly thing up our holes! So get off the stage! He's promised me fifty bucks for showing up! I'm a toad who needs his master!" By the way, I die a little everyday on the momentous stupidity of so many people; at work the conversations get so ridiculously wrong and flat dumb it gets spooky. One day I couldn't take it, was a long 13 hour plus workday, a coworker was saying things that were completely to the contrary to reality, I had to stop him and corrected point by point at all he had said; one of the ridiculous things he said: people are afraid to speak out in European countries on policies and laws because they're afraid of being put in jail or shot by their police... HELLO! Yellow Jackets in France! Then I had to explain some of the interesting things the Yellow Jacket protesters did: commandeered a highway toll both and allowed everyone free access through it, even got a police officer to sign their petition. Another group put up a blockade at a port to stop trucks leaving; I remarked in the US our police would literally open fire on them, he agreed that they should open fire on them they're breaking the law, I asked to the point of killing them? He said yes. I said, well the French police see this as a protest and not a murderous offense, they would simply wait them out and arrest them if they feel it necessary charging them of obstructing a road at the most, they wouldn't kill them unless they were literally attempting to kill other people, what the fuck is wrong with you... well they're breaking the law. And I had to explain we have higher crime rates in the US, as well as murder rates, they don't. And we have more mass murders, where that's an extremely rare thing to happen. Since he also ranted about how terrible their hospitals and clinics were and that nobody ever sees a doctor or dentist or is able to get their prescriptions... I explained how their medical works in Germany and UK and France in particular since not only is their data online, but first hand experience, and all nations now have video available online of their medical care they get as well as their own universal healthcare programs; all of them at least 50% cheaper than our own, and covers more items typically. And the few items it doesn't like Canada's dental and outside hospital refill Rx, you can get a very cheap often via employer supplemental insurance that covers it, also the prices without insurance are highly regulated so many medicines even without the insurance in Canada are often cheaper in price than medicines with insurance in the US. And that I often still buy some prescription medicine from Germany as it's cheaper there than here by a substantial amount. But I really wanted him to understaned. So I explained to him that medical sector is an inelastic demand curve (demand doesn't go away by function of price, as you either suffer longer, get worse, or die) so even adding more suppliers doesn't do it on its own. And hospitals require vast economies of scale just to operate as too few a people will ever need a hospital for the amount of cost it is to run; it's like fire and police services. It's cheaper to collectively pitch in, and ensure hospitals are at least break even solvent so that none of us per person bare the full burden of that price tag when we need it. It's again why all other major wealthy nations have a form of universal healthcare; it's cheaper, and even better quality of care, they can keep a rural hospital open as it doesn't need to even break even, it can run at a loss FOREVER so long as there are people living in that region who NEED a hospital for emergencies. He agreed with me that we needed to do something about our ridiculous medical system, he agreed we should negotiate put max profit margins... as he said his sister or mother got a bill that was just over ten thousand dollars. He had ranted on about how they all live in tiny cracker box studio or one bedroom apartments. I had to explain that's only in some large cities like London in particular, but most Germans and even French, and that he should look at some pictures a Serbian coworker's home he still owns in Serbia... they're as big if not bigger than the US, often 1,500 to 2,500 sq ft, and as for apartments they vary from 800 sq to 1,200 sq ft. And recently Berlin passed legislation to stop the ridiculous price increases on rentals as it was effecting the citizens very negatively; prices were becoming well above the median income and affordability of 20% to 30%. Vienna Austria has a public housing program that it has had for quite some time, that even the rich want a unit to rent, they're about 800 to 1,200 sq ft and list in prices around $600 to $700 USD a month and that's their "New York" or "DC" as it's their capitol and main financial city; they build on average 10,000 new units a year, and recently with population in Vienna increase they did 20,000 units in one year to keep up with demand. It is true that housing in Europe particularly major cities are becoming insane rent and house prices, as its happening in our country too, as all the financier bankers as well as all other rich are trying for the last place for return on their funny money; lending isn't enough and at such low interest rates, so they've been buying real-estate as if they're preparing for a Feudalism 2.0. I cited sources such as the Mirror Mirror 2017 report by the Common Wealth Fund as well as the WHO reports, and gave him keywords to look up like Austria public housing... and I did a google and street view of a housing suburb near a hotel I stayed at back in 2001 in Munich, and asked him where's this at? He said Boise? I said no, this is a suburb housing area of Munich Germany, and zoomed out to show him more exactly where it was at. You cannot tell the difference in particular with Germany between US or German homes in many cases, unless you notice a sign in German. It's similar to Canada. You often can't tell. He was in the navy for a while, and he insisted where-ever he went the houses were tiny; and he thinks it was in France or the UK. I explained sure, we have shitty poorer areas in Seattle, Portland, LA, NJ, NY, FL, even in our own wonderfully poor ass state of Idaho. But Europe isn't ALL poor, it's not all living in 1950 rebuild cottage and crack box apartments... other than the inner major cities as is also the case in the US. I also showed him pictures of some farms... yes they farm in Europe too! In fact like the US much of the country side is farmed. I said I don't want to argue just for argue sake, I just want to correct your misconceptions because they're wrong on so many counts. He said he would look up my sources. I have yet to hear from him about any of it. Which is fine. But I hope he did. He's otherwise a very smart guy. But damn is he just wrong on everything else, and seemed just ripe out of his fucking mind. It's beyond dumb... it's a type of psychosis, a type of Stockholm Syndrome.
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