The exchange rate for currency has always fluctuated, and the only reason why their aren't massive foreclosures in other countries is because no other country makes it as easy to get a house as in the US. Econ 101, just for you: The foreclosures are just the market operating to take back houses from people who bet on continuously rising real estate market, who weren't really qualified buyers, and has nothing at all to do with US long term economic prospects.
The reason that the Euro is worth nearly twice what the dollar is, is that peoples of the world have lost faith in the stability of the dollar because of the American (Conservative administrating caused), recession. The reason people are losing their homes is that they have
lost their jobs because of the recession. Most of the people losing their homes are not speculators, but family single-home buyers.
I'm not going to spend hours repairing your ignorance. Google NHS and "horror story", or canadian health service and "horror story" and READ.
I conceded waiting lists in U.K. and Canada. However, other countries that have socialized heath care do not have as you stated: "eight month waiting lists". Wait lists are defacto evidence that the programs are generally underfunded...if sufficiently funded, there would be no waiting lists. When it comes to "horror story"'s, we have enough of them concerning the poor in
this country.
Ditto - tons of this stuff is on the net - go read.
Bull**** dodge.
Google "medical tourism" and Britain.
Bull**** dodge. What of other countries? France, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden?
You prove your original claim. Do not use UN stats.
Bull**** dodge. Or, as you say: "Ditto - tons of this stuff is on the net - go read." What stats do you want me to read? Some artical by a conservative?
I worked there in 2001 - almost everyone lives in state built apartments.
No homeless in every medium to large city like in the U.S., how primitive!
Prices for consumer goods are way higher than in the US.
What! no food banks, church sponsored soup kitchens like in the wonderful ole USA!
Many of the houses that do exist have iron roofs.
Iron [sic, steel] roofs are a new innovation that is just beginning to be use in the U.S. Fewer joints for leaking, more resilient, longer lived than asphalt shingles. Wow! Sweden seems more advanced in roofing technology than the U.S.
There isn't anything like vast suburban tracts of houses as in the US.
No, but they are a small country with public transportation that does not lend itself to spread-out suburban living. Nor do they have the problem like the U.S. losing vast amounts of farm land to suburban sprawl.
Everyone there has a
personnummer - other than foreigners, you have to have one for everything you do, so that they can track you - something that US libs would say was a plot by "neocons".
We also have a personal number...it is called a Social Security Number...where the hell have you been?
Car ownership isn't anywhere near the US.
Because 1. They are a small country with good public transportation. 2. They live in apartments that lend themselves to centralized public transportation. They do not need individual automobiles. To bad they do not...then they would have the problems like in the U.S. with pollution caused by cars.
Much of Sweden's prosperity was built on their WWII "neutrality". They emerged unscathed from the war, and ready to fill Marshall Plan contracts to countries that were devastated because they valiantly fought the Nazis.
We profited with a prosperity after the war because we did not have our infrastructure of factories and shipping destroyed like virtually every other industrialized country in the world. But where is our prosperity now that we have pissed away 3 billion a week on the Iraq war. Whereas Sweden seems to still be prosperous. Go figure?
They also profited hugely from supplying the nazi war machine that murdered half of Europe.
Other than Iron Ore, of course you are not going to prove that either are you? And of course you are not going to mention that Sweden violated its neutrality by making it possible that American and other allies could easily "escape" and return to England when supposedly interned in Sweden. Likewise, ignore the fact the Sweden had to cooperate some with the Nazi's to keep from being invaded because it was the safe haven for thousands of Jews from Denmark and other parts of Europe.
