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I will say that this is a different topic for a different thread...
How much are the various Pension funds in the world financed is quite interesting...
I will say, Norway is probably the best funded...
People are not a fungible resource. THat is the insanity of the modern political elite and it will cause massive harm to us all.
Countries have been using immigrants for centuries too power their economies...
You kind have to loo at US on this one... They continuously cite immigration as the pillar they built on...
And yes, immigrants at that time were labeled as denigrating society...
Fearing immigrants isn't a new thing... It has been going on for thousands of years..
Look at the US Federal Land reserve... i.e. the amount of land the US Federal Governemnt owns, that is assets...
Sweden? Not sure that is a good country to compare the US to. They are small and until recently quite homogenous.
Sweden has 10 million people... It isn't that small and it was only an example country..
Look through all of the Scandi countries and northern western Europe...
I think the stay at home mom thing, DOES stand up.
"Studies have shown that parent engagement in schools can promote positive education and health behaviors among children and adolescents. Research shows a strong relationship between parent engagement and educational outcomes, including school attendance2 and higher grades and classroom test scores."
That has nothing to do with Working Moms or home schooling....
Sweden is a massive proponent of of parent engagement, that is why they have parental leave (something US doesn't really understand never mind do.) In Europe, when you have a child under 5 years, one of the parents can go into there employer and ask that they have a day off and receive 80% of their salary (it varies by country but in a lot it is a right).
That is how you promote parental engagement.
Are you thus not advocating for seizing control of existing schools, but massively expanding the already existing public ones?
Not really advocating, I am just explaining the way it is in Europe...
In Ireland, UCD(Dublin) is the swap college for Harvard, UCC(Cork) is Yale, Belfast is Princeton, Limerick is Limerick, Stanford is Galway... This is more general and they swap a lot... All those Irish Universities are Government owned and ran, access to them is strictly by academic merit while the feeder schools are funded by need rather than how wealthy the locality (i.e. poorer areas get more funding, meals, evening study...)
And yes I will tell you, parents push kids, especially immigrants and rural... Rural kids are especially motivated and have changed the fabric of the country (would need longer explaination).
It is worth noting that the current status quo is what YOU are supporting, I am the rebel here, MAGA is the peasant revolt against the ruling class.
I understand your motive and I truly look at inequality and lack of social movement in America.
I would ask you to look at the policies of both GOP and Dem...
Which party has done more to protect the status quo?
Which makes education more financially expensive and more private?
We can see it from Europe because we have no problem saying an unequal society is an unfair society. We don't have large corporations running our media... Look at the media, it is not as liberal as everyone makes out...
Rich people (ones that owns shares) like the status quo.
I just think that a bunch of Billionaires that have shown next to no empathy does... Tax Cuts effectively push more inequality, it gives rich people more money... Trickle down is a hoax, laughed at around the world...
Look at this
Thomas Piketty’s new book examines historical and modern inequality, suggesting a “potentially terrifying” trajectory.
www.newyorker.com
Now when people say when was America Great...
And yes Democrats are far from the perfect party... They would be piss poor by European standards...
Generally the US type of Democracy is very poorly set up. problems are:
- One Man One Vote v Preference voting
- Single seat v Multi-seat districts
- Lobbying (who pays the piper calls the tune)
- Media (US has a justified deep lack of trust in the media, it is too commercially led, News Media is about eyeballs not truth )
That is just a possible start... I know I don't have fixes but that seems to be source problem...
The immediate issue is seems to be...
US as a Global Superpower in charge of a Globalisation....
List the pros and cons (And this will need its own thread), I know MAGA talk about the Cons of it but nobody (including the left) is really talking about the pros...
I don't think US has thought of the consequences of to America of not being the Global
Reserve Currency.