Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "The Hill"
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@ThatWTVGuy Biden literally drafted the 1994 Crime Bill, which Republicans voted against. The Democrat party had a huge majority in the House and Senate with 267 Democrats vs 167 Republicans in the House, and 58 to 42 in the Senate, with Bill Clinton in the WH.
This was all the political mandate you could have asked for to push priority party objectives for the Nation.
Guess what the Democrat Party decided to push?
Harsher prison sentences for "Jive-talkin' ghetto hoodlums" - Joe Biden
Mandatory minimum sentencing for possession of Marijuana (which Kamala happily enforced)
$9.7 billion for more prisons to house more inmates that would be convicted under the new provisions
Expanded the death penalty to a wider range of crimes, which disproportionately affected inner city youths and minorities.
Banning pistol grips, flash hiders, and bayonet lugs from semi-automatic rifles that could be fed with detachable magazines, which have zero connection to crime as stated by decades of data compiled by the FBI and independent researchers.
They rolled this legislation through Congress with Democrat Congressman Jack Brooks in the House, and Democrat Senator Joe Biden in the Senate, with Bill Clinton happily signing it.
Then the media told people for decades after how racist the Republicans are..
That crime bill cost the Democrats the House in one of the biggest turnovers in US history.
The Biden/Harris ticket represents almost 30 years of Democrat legislative and executive approach to crushing minorities with their "tough on crime" policies, while they both violated the law and escaped the consequences with their political privilege.
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If a no-name US citizen was on Russian payroll through various shell companies and money-laundering operations, the FBI would receive referrals from the IRS, NSA, CIA, DIA, UK MI6, and other agencies with their redacted evidence of how they tracked the money, the network of how it was laundered, and who the co-conspirators are. A massive list of indictments would ensue, with everyone being arrested that they could find both in the US and abroad. All the relevant accounts would be seized by the NSA and UK MI6, and the preliminary hearings would be assigned to a special court that covers classified materials, sources, and methods. You would be facing multiple life terms for treason, espionage, money-laundering, receiving bribery payments from hostile foreign governments, conspiracy, tax-evasion, and a laundry list of Federal charges. Even if you agreed to testify against co-defendants, you still would likely face 40 years or more in prison.
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@amano3847 I have zero connection with the healthcare industry other than as a consumer. We have a lot of family in Canada, some of them working in advanced diagnostics in nuclear medicine in BC area. If the healthcare system in Canada is so great, why do Canadian members of parliament prefer to travel to the US for faster care?
You can go look right now on google maps and search for hospitals in Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, and compare the number of hits to any city in the US even in States with relatively small populations. Then do a search for dental clinics and fire departments. Canada, while one of the better nations for healthcare infrastructure compared to the world, doesn't do well even against the poorest States in the US.
There are small States in the US where the major cities have almost twice the number of hospitals as your nation's capitol city. I even tried to bias the searches in favor of Canada by expanding it to the greater metropolitan area of Ottawa.
It gets even worse when you compare dental clinics of your nations capitol to the "poorest" of US States. In a moderate income State even below the National median, Salt Lake City has 18 dental clinics listed, while Ottawa has 2. Vancouver is much more like the US when it comes to dental clinics, comparing well against lower income cities like Little Rock, Arkansas.
You have waiting lists when it comes to public hospital services, even critical diagnostics before procedures can be performed. This would be unheard of in the US:
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Vincent Trivigno Yes, I love it. That's probably one of the most exemplary appointments, although you got it mixed up. He appointed a coal guy as acting EPA Chief! Savage!
If you study the EPA's history of fail, they're more like a Soviet bureaucracy that takes pay-offs from the biggest polluters, while crushing small companies who actually follow the rules. Then they manage to order total destruction of ecosystems like they did in Colorado after local towns and mining companies repeatedly begged them not to spill 3 million gallons of toxic mine waste into the Animus River, then refused to pay for it.
So as a life-long advocate for our environment, I'm filled with pure glee when I see the EPA's budget slashed and energy sector people put in charge of it.
Paris Climate Accords have nothing to do with the environment other than using it as a lever against US competition as the world's 2nd largest exporter. China happily signed Paris Climate Accord. China, where the pollution and environmental mismanagement is so horrible, it puts out 30% of the entire world's air pollution, most of the plastic in the ocean, untold tons of chemical waste into the pacific, and even into its own rivers. You can't breathe in many of the cities if you go outside on a bad air day.
Signatory treaties that affect trade are a cutthroat business. The US is one of the only nations that actually combats pollution.
In Russia, instead of having emissions test centers, you pull in so they can pull your cadmium catalytic converter for resale, while giving you a certificate of compliance.
The disparity in environmental management in the US even with EOA corruption/incompetence is night and day compared with the 10 largest populations on earth.
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@amano3847 You've been to 3rd-world countries where many of them have better healthcare than the US? Please name these countries, because not even the Scandinavians or Canadians have better healthcare than the US. Do a simple search on nearby hospitals and dentists in population and rural areas, fire department distribution, diagnostic equipment and access times, elective surgeries, specialists, multiple layers of care available in the US private and public sectors, life flight helicopters per capita, Level 1 Trauma centers, and it's not even close. I've lived abroad in most of the countries where politicians in the US tell us healthcare is so much better, and they're simply ignorant or lying. I and many members of my family have used healthcare services in Germany, Finland, Sweden, Spain, Japan, and Italy. It's always a breath of fresh air to be in the US when needing healthcare.
Nothing in Central America, Africa, Asia, India, or the Middle East compares well with Switzerland, Scandinavia, Canada, Austria, Germany, or Japan. Even the Southern European sh*tholes are better than the 3rd world, and you don't want to go to the hospital for anything serious in Southern Europe if you can help it. The US is just in a different league entirely compared to these places, for the same reasons we outclass them all economically, militarily, and GDP (PPP).
We also exceed the volunteerism and humanitarian relief of all other nations by a wide margin, including foreign medical relief aid to 3rd world countries. Wherever you're getting your information on healthcare from, I would recommend ditching it.
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@JB-kx9bx Yes, but the Finnish studies where they audit their own NHS are in Finnish. They found that patient care was prioritized effectively at the bottom of the list, wait times are excessive (we've experienced this numerous times across all ages within our family), and care was nowhere near what was expected and funded by parliament.
In the US, I get an MRI within hours of going into the ER if it's part of the diagnostic protocol. Doesn't matter if I can't speak English, don't have citizenship, whatever. Not so in Finland. Once we finally got my son into the MRI 47 days after his accident in Finland, I looked on the machine. "MADE IN USA".
My cousin in Sweden had a rare condition where his ribcage didn't grow and expand with his body as he got older, so he ended up having to be taken to Spain where a Spanish specialist had learned how to treat this with some advanced surgery and equipment he had learned and accessed in the US, where the procedure and apparatus was pioneered.
When we take our own children to the dentist here in the States, the dental clinics tell the families who are on Medicaid to bring the kids in every month since the taxpayers are paying for it without any oversight. Immigrant families take advantage of these services more than others, since most natural-born citizens are busy working during the day, whereas many of the low income family structures include grandma in the home so kids can visit as often as the dentists tell them to.
In Finland, healthcare is a national bureaucracy/jobs program more than anything, where patient care gets the least amount of attention. Think more of something like the DMV running hospitals and clinics, where employees are comfortable with their job security, no incentives to provide timely and focused patient care.
We just use the private sector clinics when possible now whenever visiting. You get seen usually within 15 minutes, meet with the doctor, they prescribe whatever or perform whatever procedure is called for, then bill you 65 euros per 15 minutes or 975 euros per hour.
I've lived there multiple times throughout my life. Have also lived in Germany, Japan, and South Korea. US hospitals are generally superior to any of those, and wait times are almost non-existent compared to those places. A lot of people suffer worse injuries due to delayed care outside of the US. The US health trends are largely driven by over-eating more than anything else.
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