4 ms·

America is not Germany. We have different people, and different problems. We have a uniquely violent and psychotic homeless population. You have probably not se

• munk-a 4y ago
  I believe this is extremely untrue - during the 70's it was (depressingly) actually accurate as stupid American politics kept leaded gasoline legal far beyond when it was known to be dangerous and caused a significant jump in violent crime but, for the most part, people are people. If you think Americans are unable to function as well as Germans then I hope you're speaking out loudly at PTA meetings because it must mean the American education system is utterly broken.
• TaylorAlexander 4y ago
  Let’s say that you’re correct, and the homeless population in the USA is more psychotic than the homeless population in Germany. Can you possibly imagine any reasons why the German population, who has universal healthcare and a variety of other social services, would have better mental health than the US population? Could it possibly be that social spending absolutely does work? Like, you want to spend $60k/year or whatever throwing these people in prison for struggling to make it in the current system, and I’m here saying “spend that money on services, like Germany does”, and you say “no our people are way worse off than the German population” and you cannot seem to connect the dots that German social spending is exactly the reason Germany doesn’t have these problems… social spending works!