Originally Posted by RedFred

America is a 3rd world country compared to Switzerland. When I was in my 20's I stayed in Lucerne for about a month. It's funny because we grew up always hearing how America was the greatest country in the world and that experience certainly opened my eyes. First thing I noticed were the condition of the roads, smooth as silk and you would never see a pothole anywhere. The people I knew there all had an education, 20 year olds were nurses, computer programmers, etc, all trained in high school and were career ready by the time they got out of school. No one got out of school having to work at McDonalds for slave wages to survive. My friend that I was staying with said the only people that work those jobs were migrants. Oh, and you never saw jackasses walking around with guns like Republicans would like you to believe. Matter of fact there were very harsh penalties for someone carrying a gun in their glovebox, etc.