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Anjeru said:
Awwe, I'm sorry! I wish I could do something for you. D:

Fact: I'm lonely.
Fact: Feeling very flirtacious! Somehow craving to flirt with ze womans~ <3

Fact: On another note, why does the world have to be so big? It sucks being so far away...bleh. >.<
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If you're lonely, come kick it with DJ and I.
 
Fact: Annoyed very very annoyed
Fact: I WANT SNOW DAMN IT!!
Fact: It's fucking cold but we get no snow and it looks like we won't be getting any...
 
Info: I feel angry and vaguely vindicated in my beliefs.

According to the OECD, an international organization that's been compiling and sharing economic and social statistics for 40 years (older than me!), the USA has the lowest life expectancy of the wealthy nations, a year less than the OECD average and just barely ahead of Poland, Mexico, and the Czech Republic.

However, our health care spending per person (their statistics include personal, business, and government spending) is absolutely the highest, twice the OECD average. We are far and away the biggest spenders, topping Norway and Switzerland by a large margin, but their life expectancy is several years more than ours.

This data suggests that we are really, really not getting a good deal for our money, i.e. we're wasting a whole hell of a lot. That money's going somewhere, it's making somebody rich, but we're not getting the benefit we ought to be getting out of it.

Our record for infant mortality is also incredibly sucky for the vast amounts of cash we pay for it; only Mexico and Turkey had worse infant mortality rates, out of the nations they compile data on. And we all knew pharmaceuticals are vastly overpriced here, even though they're often produced here (it's the airport economics again: nobody's stopping them from inflating the price many hundreds of times what it's worth in other nations, so they do), but I didn't know we spent $848 per person, versus the international average of $461.

I'm vindicated, because I've long believed that the US healthcare system is screwing us over, and this is an internationally respected data clearinghouse that not only agrees with me but does so quite decisively.
 
MM, a group in my class did a presentation on death and that death rates amongst the US has lowered. I can't remember exactly, but mortality rates and such had been lowered considerably in the past ten years, I believe.

Info: I'm tired and have work I gotta do today that won't take long, but I still don't want to do it.​
 
I have no doubt they're better than they were, no question. So is everyone's. And we're still doing better than Mexico, right? So anyone doing worse than Mexico, we're doing better than, too. We're not in decline in terms of service, it's just we're not improving as much as other people, but our costs for that marginal improvement are shooting up way out of proportion to what we get from it.

I'm just saying compared to the rest of the first world, we are sorely lacking. Paying much, much more and getting much, much less. These are the recent numbers, you see, for everyone.

We have pride like we're leaders of the pack, but it only seems that way because we're almost a full lap behind. The only thing we're excelling at is having big business fleece us for stuff we need, as opposed to stuff we want. You can't live without food, shelter, some way of staying healthy, and you put those basics, those utilities, in the hands of private business without any sort of oversight or limitation, you gonna get (economically) raped. Just like at the airport food court.

Which is what we've let happen to us, and now we pay the price. Literally. I just think this country can do better than that for ourselves. But there's people getting rich off the way things are, and that's the first board we have to beat before we can level up to the fight the next boss.

Like I said, I'm just feeling vindicated that I have statistical evidence from an internationally respected objective source that shows the same thing I've been saying for years now.
 
Info: I'm actually very patriotic, but I'm also realistic about my country.

It's like my mom. My mom has a chemical imbalance that makes her brain all depressive and makes her very mood-swingy. It's been diagnosed, and there's meds, but she didn't like them, so instead she self-medicates, takes like a half-pill of my aunt's behavioral meds every so often and claims she's just fine. While she sometimes still flies off the handle at my dad or me or goes on crying jags or whatever, and makes it difficult for me to want to visit, even though I'm trying to be a good son and foster a closer relationship with my parents.

So my mom has definite problems, but I still love her dearly, and I want her to get better. So when the subject comes up, I try and convince her to get a scrip from her doctor. She won't do it, but I have to try.

This is an actual fact about me, but it also serves as a metaphor for how I feel about the USA.

When everything is working the way it's supposed to, this country is fantastic. The ideals it was founded on are sound, and the potential is incredible.

But there's nothing so good and pure that humans can't fuck it up, and money has done that quite handily throughout this nation. There are serious flaws throughout our great, noble country, and the people who got rich off these flaws are braying on the TV and the newspapers and anywhere else they can, that any sort of change is going to threaten the "American Way," by which they mean the way they got rich and stay rich. But not everybody is rich, and the way things currently are keep it that way.

These people believe in the zero-sum game, the idea that there's only so much success to go around, and if someone else gets any, that takes some away from them. But it's not like that; life isn't a zero-sum game, and this country wasn't founded on that ideal, either. The very system that let these people succeed is open-ended, and they want to close it and lock it into the way it is, because they're on top. And I don't believe it works like that.

That's why I'm hard on America sometimes. Because it's better than it's been allowed to be, because it needs to wake up and see who's lying to it. Change is inevitable; if you don't change, you die, in nature. And it ought to be the same with societies, with nations. Change is going to happen; you can either plan for it, guide it, direct it in ways that will benefit the most while penalizing as few as possible as little as possible, or you can fight it and just make it worse when it has to happen anyway.

So that's what I'm going for. And now you know.
 
FACT: Aku loves her BMR family...
FACT: If Aku stabs you it means she really loves you...unless she is just in a staby mood...then the love might be slightly deminished but still there.

FACT: Aku hates most christmas music, most especially the songs about Maria's bird which dies and the little boy who wants Shoes for his mom...who dies.
FACT: Aku has threatened to burn down the radio station in the past for playing both in the same hour while she was stuck at work...surprisingly they no longer do it.
 
Gilveaux Von Spiral said:
Fact: I went to get my swine flu shot today, noticing many things intrinsically wrong about the bureaucracy through the whole process
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*RAPES*
I am hurt that you give Nihlly as your referer when I was the one bugging you at the movie theater.
Welcome to the group!
 
AkumaTsuki said:
Gilveaux Von Spiral said:
Fact: I went to get my swine flu shot today, noticing many things intrinsically wrong about the bureaucracy through the whole process
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*RAPES*
I am hurt that you give Nihlly as your referer when I was the one bugging you at the movie theater.
Welcome to the group!
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ah hey! Well he was online when I was registering and I didnt know yours.
so yeah, I got my flu shot, but here's the kicker; I signed all my forms Gilveaux Von Spiral, and it was never questioned, I gave a social security # consisting entirely of 7's.
This world is a sad sad place. I only went to see how far I could push the ass-hattery. Apparently said ass-hattery can go the whole way through
Hell, maybe I should try to go back tomorrow for seconds.
 
Fact: I wanna be in chat. *sad*

Fact: I'm still so tired.

Fact: My shoulder hurts, must have slept on it wrong.

Damnit. ><
 
Fact: My laptop decided that it doesn't want to get charged up anymore... which means that I either have to replace the power supply, replace the battery..... or just replace the whole goddamn thing.


I mean, just great. Another thing that I need to replace.




.............This is not my week....
 
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