Europe is poor the same way your neighbour is poor because he doesn’t own a rocket ship. But we do own rocket ships.
Here’s the thing about American wealth. If a man walked into a bar and told you he earned brilliantly, lived large, and was absolutely thriving, but happened to carry credit card debt forty times his annual salary, you wouldn’t call him wealthy.
And frankly, nobody over here is particularly envious. That ship sailed sometime around 1980. Americans have two settings: work and home. That’s it. That’s the whole life. You commute, you consume, you collapse. Europeans have cities designed for humans, six weeks of holiday, lunch that lasts two hours, and the radical notion that a Tuesday evening might be worth living.
No thanks. I’ll have my beer in Europe.
America has somehow spent more on healthcare than any country on earth and still dies younger than Slovenia. It has the most food, in the largest portions, available at 3am, and is simultaneously one of the most food-insecure developed nations on the planet.
A Belgian losing his mind at a Waffle House is not civilisational proof of anything. That’s novelty and portion size.
Yes, Americans got richer after 2008. Tremendously richer. In aggregate. Which is doing the structural work of a single bolt holding up the Golden Gate Bridge. The gains went to people who didn’t need them. The median American works longer, retires later, goes bankrupt from hospital bills, and dies sooner than his counterpart in Germany or the Netherlands.
We have no idea how rich we are, says the country where forty percent of people can’t cover a $400 emergency.
Remarkable.
@Nigel_Farage Nige, your mate is in prison for taking bribes to push a pro-Russian propaganda, the exact same propaganda you were pushing at the same time.
#5million#faragebung#farageriots
@Nigel_Farage Hi Nigel .. Tory governments downsized and defunded the Armed Forces between 2010 and 2024, shrinking the regular army to its smallest size since the Napoleonic era. This 14-year period saw deep personnel cuts and delayed equipment upgrades !
Ahh but Reform are all ex-Tories !
Nigel Farage talking about Britain’s weakened defence is a bit like an arsonist complaining about the smoke.
Fourteen years of Conservative governments cut personnel, delayed procurement and hollowed out capability.
Criticise Labour by all means.
But do not rewrite history. Britain remembers who was in charge.
Cippenham Green by-election result, Thursday 11 June.
Green Party: 24.5% - GAIN
Conservative: 24.2%
Labour: 21.3%
Reform UK: 19.5%
Lib Dems: 10.5%
The Green won by five votes. Reform finished fourth.
Six days to Makerfield.
@Nigel_Farage “The first duty of government is to keep us safe and secure.”
Indeed
You’re not in government and you’ve already demonstrated that you wouldn’t. #FarageRiots2
@Nigel_Farage Actually the Tories spent 14 years undermining the Armed Services.
The was in the same time frame as two of your MPs fast tracked migrants through Ireland.
maybe time to face your own demons and truths instead of using others as deflection
@Nigel_Farage Liar.
YOU cozied up to Putin.
YOU gave him the BrexitDisaster
YOU attacked the EU
YOU helped ensure the British economy was screwed
YOU gave us hyper-immigration & the #FarageBoats.
YOU sold yourself to the billionaires
YOU are a globalist money-obsessed traitor.
@dread_stunlock@RangersBear55 How many women are injured or killed by people who are on a restraining order? They are easily broken. This happens so many times. When the worst happens people will speak of "lessons learned" but the lessons never are.