The Canadians and the British have to think we are idiots!

[KansasVoter]

I am sure they wonder how in the hell we can be debating something as necessary as Health Care for our citizens!

It is so sad that we cannot make this work in a country this great.

We have to look like a joke Internationally.

[Shagbark Hickory]

1. Not a day goes by where I don't imagine the same thing only...

it's not just canada and the uk, it's every other nation on earth including afganistan which has universal healthcare

[rockymountaindem]

2. Yeah, that thought crosses my mind a lot

Not to mention *every other industrialized country*.

[KansasVoter]

3. True

[percussivemadness]

4. i`m British, I don`t think Americans are idiots

I just think the majority of politicians are corrupt...

[KansasVoter]

7. And how sad is it I don't even want to argue with you??

[MindandSoul]

16. You are being very generous!

I've lived in Britain for several years before coming back to the States. . .and I have had a chance to experience British health care first hand. . .I have never had any complaints with any of it!
And I would give up my costly private insurance in the States any day to get the same care I got in England for FREE!
And actually, if I had to pay for both equally. . .I would still select the British health care system!

[polly7]

5. No, not a joke at all. We have our own trying their hardest to privatize ours.

Just feeling sad watching it, hoping it turns out better than what I understand it to be.

[HipChick]

6. I think the people in goverment are stupid dont see how they can pass a call for War based on lies

but not pass laws to help with healthcare..

[BrklynLiberal]

8. No doubt amost of the "industrialized" world thinks that...

[Libertas1776]

9. If anything,

we are a benefit to the world. We stand as a leading example of what can happen when your citizenry become indifferent to widespread corruption and corporate manipulation in their government. We're kind of like the international bogeyman to modern, industrialized nations and their citizens should they dare let their guard down to the wolves. If anything, we scare them back into vigilance.

[KansasVoter]

10. Great point!

[bigwillq]

11. Oh, wow, great point.

Never thought about it that way.

[grantcart]

12. The Malaysians have to think we are idiots

Everyone has to think like we are idiots.


When you act like idiots then people think that you are.

[demosincebirth]

13. In a true democracy, 51 % would be enough to pass any law.

[Oregone]

14. Add in ex-pats for accuracy

[MindandSoul]

15. Yes, and so do the French, the Belgians, and the Italians!

[KansasVoter]

17. So true! I should have listed more!

[AspenRose]

18. And New Zealand....

Don't forget Poland! :rofl:

[dysfunctional press]

19. they'd be correct.

[spanone]

20. the real stupidity is the citizens protesting universal healthcare...now that is fucking stupid

a program designed to HELP the very stupid fucks protesting

[Heywood J]

21. You're right about that.

We don't think all Americans are idiots, just that there are scattered groups of people who couldn't find a clue if it hit them in the face. From my point of view, the American government machine itself seems to have been fundamentally broken over the last thirty years.

Fix your education system first and you'll automatically fix large parts of other problems like healthcare.