To the Americans:
I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.
And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:
You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.
This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.
Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.
This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.
But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.
This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.
And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:
Thank God for the United States.
Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.
Long may your admirable country dominate the world.
Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.
May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.
Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.
Thank God for the USA.
Happy 250th.
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
Let me help rephrase for you Bernie.
Need a loan for college so you can party for a semester and drop out? Taxpayers will loan you money for it.
Need an SBA loan for your business ? Taxpayers will guarantee it.
For a house ? Taxpayers will guarantee it. And local gov will give you money for your first down payment !
Get sick or are in an accident and you can’t afford your deductible, insurance company denied prescribed care or are uninsured ?
You are on your own 😤
Let me add Bernie, the one debt not a single one of us will ever pay off till the day we die ? Our health insurance premiums
And before you go in and on about single payer, ask @claudeai to take a look at your proposed Single Payer legislation.
You want the Sec of HHS to run it. You can’t have a political appointee run an apolitical position
And you expect every provider and doctor to accept whatever rate is set by Medicare. Big hospitals don’t know their costs. They couldn’t do a BOM for any procedure. They have negligible transparency.
If they don’t know their costs, and you don’t know their costs, how is it possible for taxpayers, caregivers and patients to get a fair deal ?
And the concept of “every other country does it “ ignores the fact that they all converted decades and decades ago, long before you and your peers allowed the extreme vertical integration we face now.
Which leads to the question. @BernieSanders , why have you not advocated for the Break Up Big Medicine Bill ?
I took @elonmusk’s promise seriously. I contacted X’s legal team, had several meetings, was promised their support, but then their lawyer (with pronouns in her email footer) started ghosting me and my lawyer. I eventually still won the main case against SINTEF in Norway, but I’m stuck with six figures in legal costs. I relied on Elon’s word, I wouldn’t have sued without it. A broken promise, after being fired for exercising free speech on this platform.
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