Originally Posted by Bladewire

I hate to inform you but the standard of life / quality of living is better in every other western country but America.

I.E. when I lived in Australia 7 years ago the national minimum wage was about $10 an hour, now it's $17.70 an hour minimum. Minimum weekly pay is $672.70 or $2,691 a month.

When I lived there every average older person I knew owned a home and a rental property, this was on the Gold Coast.

The public school my son went to had on site dentist building and nurses building. Flat tax for citizens no IRS bulshit. Puvluc healthcare for everyone and unemployment, etc.

So America being a "dominant world power" has got us what? AND we're squeezing our citizens to death financially and giving a crappier than crap quality of life for most full of stress and anxiety for things as simple as healthcare & childcare.