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German pensioners, get ready. The government you've just voted in is about to bleed you white to create a poor replacement. This is, after all, why we "don't ha
by ein0p 2y ago
German pensioners, get ready. The government you've just voted in is about to bleed you white to create a poor replacement. This is, after all, why we "don't have free healthcare" in the US. Or pensions, for that matter.
- Sabinus 2y agoGerman pensioners aren't silly enough to trust their protection to a belligerent and possibly compromised USA.
- EdwardDiego 2y agoNo, your military isn't the reason you don't have free healthcare in the USA. You don't have free healthcare in the USA because of an ongoing concerted effort to prevent it happening by people and companies who make a nice profit from it not happening. This EP is from 1961, featuring the actor Ronald Reagan, and was played at coffee meetings of "concerned mothers" organised by the wives of American Medical Association members. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYrlDlrLDSQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYrlDlrLDSQ As part of "Operation Coffee Cup". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Coffee_Cup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Coffee_Cup These kind of things are why you don't have free healthcare, anything that provides social good but challenges private profit is immediately labelled socialism by vested interests who have sufficient money to propagate their falsehoods. It always amazes me what a sufficient plurality of Americans label as socialism that other countries consider to be "a good investment in society".
- benjymo 2y agoThe government just announced an increase in pension of 3.74%. I think they'll do ok.
- ein0p 2y agoVon Der Leyen: "We will turn the private savings into much needed investments." :-)