Buenos Aires seems safer and nicer than Los Angeles, what happened to the United States?

[jbeas176]

aztangogirl to you point. resolution trust corporation ring a bell.

 

[Dougie]

Lol uhh it's all because of democrats, it's republicans...anyone have any actual reasons or just regurgitating whatever you heard on Sean Hannity or Rachel Maddow last night?

 

[Alby]

Fiscal has had a massive week. A few days ago he was in Buenos Aires worried about too few Venezuelans in Starbucks. Then he went across to Montevideo with his dog. Now he's in LA wondering about the homeless. What a life.

Is it the same well-travelled dog that got into a dreadful scrap with two other dogs in a small town in Santa Fe back in March?

 

[Newman_ZA]

Lol! The fact that this question is even asked is outrageous. The USA does not give a damn about the less fortunate or those on the edge of society.

Your healthcare system is broken and those who may need it are left with so much debt that they are cast out of society if they cannot afford it. People cannot access mental health services affordably and are in such debt that they can't afford to even buy or rent homes because of low "Credit Scores". They just fall through the cracks. There is no real social assistance for those on the margins.

You have a drug problem that was started by your own pharmaceutical companies. They have fed you so many pills that you have become addicted and then get more pills to fix yourself until you can't take it and have a mental break. You will say "Look at how Portugal decriminalised drugs, We should do that!" then fail to realise that the decriminlisation was the easy part but the free social assistance and mental healthcare provided to those in need is what actually made that programme work.

Your economy is incredibly broken. You work as wage slaves at risk of losing your jobs (which have your medical insurance attached to it). There are third world countries with better worker protection than the USA. Wages have also failed to track to inflation as well as. Minimum wage jobs that many USA expats here may have worked in the 1940s suddenly can't buy you a house, put you through college and support a family in the 2020s.

Student debt has meant that instead of new graduates contributing to society and making meaningful steps to better yourselves you immediately have to service massive loans. Oh and you can't declare bankruptcy on some student loans so they will follow you into one of these camps in LA. There is no upward mobility for these groups as they are saddled with debt for years!

The US has a broken political system that sycophants and the capitalist elite take advantage of. You get two options and only two options. Red or Blue. You literally vote against your own wellbeing because you are on team red or blue and you have no choice other than that. Then these same politicians point to these homeless people, immigrants, blacks, hispanics, arabs, russians and blame them for stealing your job and causing problems. And you all just dance and sing and wave your stupid flags because you are told to.

Thats whats wrong with the USA. Thats why your people live in homelessness in USA. You are a broken country.

 

[lunar]

Minimum wage jobs that many USA expats here may have worked in the 1940s suddenly can't buy you a house ...

Could people really buy a house on a minimum wage back in the 40-ies? I see that the minimum wage was 40 cents, that comes to 832 per year, and average house price was around 3,000. If you could get a loan at 3x of your salary, buying a house does seem feasible. But was it?

 

[jeff1234]

Could people really buy a house on a minimum wage back in the 40-ies? I see that the minimum wage was 40 cents, that comes to 832 per year, and average house price was around 3,000. If you could get a loan at 3x of your salary, buying a house does seem feasible. But was it?

Minimum wage people were renters but firemen, teachers, could afford nice two bedroom apartments in good neighborhoods. In the 50's, 60's mortgages were about 2.5x income. In New York there were also many two family houses where the buyer could have rental income to help with the mortgage.

 

[Dougie]

Lol! The fact that this question is even asked is outrageous. The USA does not give a damn about the less fortunate or those on the edge of society.

Your healthcare system is broken and those who may need it are left with so much debt that they are cast out of society if they cannot afford it. People cannot access mental health services affordably and are in such debt that they can't afford to even buy or rent homes because of low "Credit Scores". They just fall through the cracks. There is no real social assistance for those on the margins.

You have a drug problem that was started by your own pharmaceutical companies. They have fed you so many pills that you have become addicted and then get more pills to fix yourself until you can't take it and have a mental break. You will say "Look at how Portugal decriminalised drugs, We should do that!" then fail to realise that the decriminlisation was the easy part but the free social assistance and mental healthcare provided to those in need is what actually made that programme work.

Your economy is incredibly broken. You work as wage slaves at risk of losing your jobs (which have your medical insurance attached to it). There are third world countries with better worker protection than the USA. Wages have also failed to track to inflation as well as. Minimum wage jobs that many USA expats here may have worked in the 1940s suddenly can't buy you a house, put you through college and support a family in the 2020s.

Student debt has meant that instead of new graduates contributing to society and making meaningful steps to better yourselves you immediately have to service massive loans. Oh and you can't declare bankruptcy on some student loans so they will follow you into one of these camps in LA. There is no upward mobility for these groups as they are saddled with debt for years!

The US has a broken political system that sycophants and the capitalist elite take advantage of. You get two options and only two options. Red or Blue. You literally vote against your own wellbeing because you are on team red or blue and you have no choice other than that. Then these same politicians point to these homeless people, immigrants, blacks, hispanics, arabs, russians and blame them for stealing your job and causing problems. And you all just dance and sing and wave your stupid flags because you are told to.

Thats whats wrong with the USA. Thats why your people live in homelessness in USA. You are a broken country.

Pretty accurate in my opinion. Monetary inflation over the years has pumped the value of assets, but not wages. That's why you could buy a house on a firefighters salary in the 40s, but not today.

 

[QuilmesSlo]

Lol! The fact that this question is even asked is outrageous. The USA does not give a damn about the less fortunate or those on the edge of society.

Your healthcare system is broken and those who may need it are left with so much debt that they are cast out of society if they cannot afford it. People cannot access mental health services affordably and are in such debt that they can't afford to even buy or rent homes because of low "Credit Scores". They just fall through the cracks. There is no real social assistance for those on the margins.

You have a drug problem that was started by your own pharmaceutical companies. They have fed you so many pills that you have become addicted and then get more pills to fix yourself until you can't take it and have a mental break. You will say "Look at how Portugal decriminalised drugs, We should do that!" then fail to realise that the decriminlisation was the easy part but the free social assistance and mental healthcare provided to those in need is what actually made that programme work.

Your economy is incredibly broken. You work as wage slaves at risk of losing your jobs (which have your medical insurance attached to it). There are third world countries with better worker protection than the USA. Wages have also failed to track to inflation as well as. Minimum wage jobs that many USA expats here may have worked in the 1940s suddenly can't buy you a house, put you through college and support a family in the 2020s.

Student debt has meant that instead of new graduates contributing to society and making meaningful steps to better yourselves you immediately have to service massive loans. Oh and you can't declare bankruptcy on some student loans so they will follow you into one of these camps in LA. There is no upward mobility for these groups as they are saddled with debt for years!

The US has a broken political system that sycophants and the capitalist elite take advantage of. You get two options and only two options. Red or Blue. You literally vote against your own wellbeing because you are on team red or blue and you have no choice other than that. Then these same politicians point to these homeless people, immigrants, blacks, hispanics, arabs, russians and blame them for stealing your job and causing problems. And you all just dance and sing and wave your stupid flags because you are told to.

Thats whats wrong with the USA. Thats why your people live in homelessness in USA. You are a broken country.

Piss up a rope Newman.

 

[on the brink]

Lol! The fact that this question is even asked is outrageous. The USA does not give a damn about the less fortunate or those on the edge of society.

Your healthcare system is broken and those who may need it are left with so much debt that they are cast out of society if they cannot afford it. People cannot access mental health services affordably and are in such debt that they can't afford to even buy or rent homes because of low "Credit Scores". They just fall through the cracks. There is no real social assistance for those on the margins.

You have a drug problem that was started by your own pharmaceutical companies. They have fed you so many pills that you have become addicted and then get more pills to fix yourself until you can't take it and have a mental break. You will say "Look at how Portugal decriminalised drugs, We should do that!" then fail to realise that the decriminlisation was the easy part but the free social assistance and mental healthcare provided to those in need is what actually made that programme work.

Your economy is incredibly broken. You work as wage slaves at risk of losing your jobs (which have your medical insurance attached to it). There are third world countries with better worker protection than the USA. Wages have also failed to track to inflation as well as. Minimum wage jobs that many USA expats here may have worked in the 1940s suddenly can't buy you a house, put you through college and support a family in the 2020s.

Student debt has meant that instead of new graduates contributing to society and making meaningful steps to better yourselves you immediately have to service massive loans. Oh and you can't declare bankruptcy on some student loans so they will follow you into one of these camps in LA. There is no upward mobility for these groups as they are saddled with debt for years!

The US has a broken political system that sycophants and the capitalist elite take advantage of. You get two options and only two options. Red or Blue. You literally vote against your own wellbeing because you are on team red or blue and you have no choice other than that. Then these same politicians point to these homeless people, immigrants, blacks, hispanics, arabs, russians and blame them for stealing your job and causing problems. And you all just dance and sing and wave your stupid flags because you are told to.

Thats whats wrong with the USA. Thats why your people live in homelessness in USA. You are a broken country.

Yeah, and I guess that must be why everybody and their cousin want to emigrate to the US....

Thanks to Newman for assembling a list of the most tired cliches floating around about the States. Perhaps he could start a business printing anti-USA bumper stickers.

 

[Dougie]

What's wrong?

- Healthcare is broken, and bankrupts people.

- Significant drug problem specifically opioid related, limited treatment programs. Health problem is criminalized.

- Monetary inflation causes asset inflation, pricing out working and middle class from owning assets. Wages don't cover asset inflation.

- Student debt is saddling lots of young people.

- Politicians are morons and blame problems on outside forces, not their own mismanagement.

Yes, many want to emigrate to the US because besides those issues life in general is MUCH better in the US than Haiti, Honduras, Cuba, Guatemala, etc, etc, etc. People can make better wages, save dollars, send back to family.

That doesn't invalidate the points above. You sound like a flag waving triggered boomer.