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re: Do Americans Know What a Massive Ripoff American Life Really Is?
Posted on 9/28/21 at 4:35 pm to TigerDog83
Posted on 9/28/21 at 4:35 pm to TigerDog83
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This may be the wrong winter to espouse how good the European utility companies are. Europe is facing an energy disaster this winter.
Unfortunately if you read Bloomberg.. the headlines over the last few days are suggesting that U.S. may experience the same energy crisis. Shame considering that we were energy independent just 1 year ago..
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Posted on 9/28/21 at 4:35 pm to Shorter Yards
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They’ve spent a lifetime paying off debts that they can never fully make good on — precisely because the system is rigged against them.
Posted on 9/28/21 at 4:35 pm to Shorter Yards
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How much does it cost to just…have a place to live? The average American rental is about $1200. That’s for an apartment. Again, that’s a particularly high figure. It doesn’t cost that much to rent in Europe. In France, the the average house rental costs less than that — it’s about 800 euros, or maybe $1000 dollars.
Posted on 9/28/21 at 4:37 pm to PrimeTime Money
quote:Put more succinctly, he's a total fricking liar!
My take is that guy is being extremely disingenuous.
Posted on 9/28/21 at 4:39 pm to Shorter Yards
You know what’s gotten really expensive?
Columbian hookers.
Very expensive these days.
Columbian hookers.
Very expensive these days.
Posted on 9/28/21 at 4:50 pm to Shorter Yards
The minute I get a $500 utility bill I'll take a nice long look at Europe, I promise.
Posted on 9/28/21 at 6:09 pm to Shorter Yards
Then go live somewhere else ya cuck.
Posted on 9/28/21 at 6:19 pm to Shorter Yards
I bet every single one of his "solutions"* involves governmental action.
* to problems that don't exist
* to problems that don't exist
Posted on 9/28/21 at 6:27 pm to Shorter Yards
He has a point about internet though. The internet I had in Japan was half the price and just as fast as my LUS fiber internet and 2× the speed of the Comcast I had in Texas.
Posted on 9/28/21 at 6:36 pm to Shorter Yards
Dude, You are full of shite! My daughter lives in England. She and her husband are PhDs, and with two incomes and two kids, they don’t live anywhere near as well as my other kids who live in the States. Puny house in Nottingham that is actually half of a double. I’m guessing it is 1400 square feet.
I’ve rented Air B&Bs all over Europe, and it’s very difficult to find anything close to a basic middle class American home.
As PJ O’Rourke once wrote, “We live better, walk taller and frick longer than any of you needle-dick foreigners. When we snort Coke in Houston people lose their hats in Caps D’Antibes. And our bank accounts are bigger than your piss-arse metric numbers go!
I paraphrase, of course.
I’ve rented Air B&Bs all over Europe, and it’s very difficult to find anything close to a basic middle class American home.
As PJ O’Rourke once wrote, “We live better, walk taller and frick longer than any of you needle-dick foreigners. When we snort Coke in Houston people lose their hats in Caps D’Antibes. And our bank accounts are bigger than your piss-arse metric numbers go!
I paraphrase, of course.
Posted on 9/28/21 at 6:41 pm to Shorter Yards
He’s not wrong….we paid 3200$ a month once for a 2 BR apt in Arlington, va…. 2300 for 700 sqft apt in downtown dc for 2 years.
This post was edited on 9/28/21 at 8:08 pm
Posted on 9/28/21 at 6:42 pm to Shorter Yards
Go back where you came from Asshat
Posted on 9/28/21 at 6:43 pm to Shorter Yards
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I’ve recently moved to the States
Go back home, you foreign POS.
Posted on 9/28/21 at 7:07 pm to MaximillianPayne
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Now let's talk about how much most Europeans pay in taxes for all of their "free" stuff like universal healthcare.
I despise this talking point. If you take into account what we pay for income taxes, medical insurance, sales tax, property tax, child care, take into account the difficulty of maternity or paternity leave, etc., and compare all of that to what extra Euros pay in taxes, we come out WWWAAAYYY behind.
This is also why we consistently fall behind many Western European nations in the OECD Happiness Index.
OECD Better Life Index
Posted on 9/28/21 at 7:13 pm to Friscodog
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Shame considering that we were energy independent just 1 year ago..
We became energy independent, and became a net exporter of oil, under Obama.
Posted on 9/28/21 at 7:16 pm to dawgfan24348
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America has basically become an oligarch at this point, you have the corporations and ultra rich buying lobbyists and politicians through backroom deals, donations, among other tactics. The media also has become the biggest cheerleader for the new oligarchs, watch anytime some bill is proposed that would vastly benefit the middle class and poor. We get the same old argument, "Oh how can we afford this or oh this is socialism", you never hear this when massive bailouts are proposed or we invade a new country of course not.
Speaking of "socialism" let's talk about some actual socialism. Why is it that if people want everyone to have access to proper healthcare there's always this ridiculous take about how we'd basically be Venezuela or Cuba. But, when we spend trillions on wars Americans don't want or we use tax payer money to bail out companies that were doing shady shite that's not socialism at all when it's quite literally socialism for the rich.
And the media does this great little trick too, to distract Americans from all this shady shite. Get your average voter worked up about random bullshite like statues or mean tweets meanwhile the oligarchy just keeps on chugging along
TL:DR America is currently and has been run by an very wealthy few who love bailing each other out and using taxpayer money for their own interests and have used the media to distract the average American into thinking their fellow Americans are the true enemy because they vote dfferently
Enlightened take. People should read this.
Posted on 9/28/21 at 7:20 pm to mmmmmbeeer
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We became energy independent, and became a net exporter of oil, under Obama.
So.. doesn't matter when we became independent.. We lost that in the last 9 months when we did not need to.
Posted on 9/28/21 at 7:39 pm to Friscodog
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We lost that in the last 9 months when we did not need to.
Some rando on TD states we are facing an energy "crisis" this winter and, without doing any research whatsoever, you come here and not only echo the "fact" have we lost our energy independence but also jump to the conclusion that if it actually occurred, it only occurred in the last 9 months under a POTUS you don't like.
frick outta here, baw. C'mon. Be better.
Posted on 9/29/21 at 8:40 am to mmmmmbeeer
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Some rando on TD states we are facing an energy "crisis" this winter and, without doing any research whatsoever, you come here and not only echo the "fact" have we lost our energy independence but also jump to the conclusion that if it actually occurred, it only occurred in the last 9 months under a POTUS you don't like.
frick outta here, baw. C'mon. Be better.
I said that if you look at Bloomberg.. in my first post.. you can see 3-4 articles stating that it could happen here in U.S. That is all that I said.. That we are no longer energy independent is also a fact.. Just pointing that out..
Bloomberg article
This post was edited on 9/29/21 at 8:45 am
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