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Originally Posted by Bureda
No offence like but your standard of living is quiet bullocked in the sense that your nation has the highest obesity rates in the world, among with a history of school massacres and all that.
Now, I don't know about you, but having a gun and affording McDonalds is not a high standard living.
Okay, lets not be bias, even for the rich Americans who work and are healthy - wait! they have issues too. They are uptight and selfish individuals who live in a big country.
Finally, the only person that will have to give an arm and a leg to live there is a poor American who cannot afford his health check pay.
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http://siteresources.worldbank.org/D...rces/GNIPC.pdf This lists gross per-capita pay in dollars and purchasing parity, which takes into account things like health care and other expenses. Where is your country located on this list?
Think before you speak. School shootings make the world headlines frequently enough, but what is less often reported is that rates of violent crime in England surpassed those in America some years ago.
Telegraph | News | Britain the most violent country in western Europe The numbers have only increased since this article was printed.
Obesity in England has quadrupled in recent years, and England is closing the obesity gap with American very quickly.
As for being a selfish country, how much did the UK spend in foreign aid last year as compared to the US? As for health care, an illegal immigrant from Mexico can swim across the river and go to an American hospital for $150,000 worth of bypass surgery. He will be treated immediately, regardless of his lack of citizenship or ability to pay. We have hospitals that are treating illegal immigrants with drug resistant tuberculosis, at a cost of one million dollars per year per patient. Illegal immigrants in America receive much more timely health care that legal citizens in the UK do, and these immigrants are not forced to pay so much as a single cent.