You don't have to be a socialist, to not believe Trump's lies.

You can be to the right of fucking Dzjengis Khan,
and still know that Trump is a filthy pe.do.
You wouldn't care, but you would still know.

Oh damn, I just described you.

Just ask ChatGPT: "Why can a domesticated cow not survive in the wild,
but a domesticated pig can?"

Cows are bred to give huge amounts of milk. No calf can ever drink that much.
A high-producing dairy cow would die within a few days to a week, if not milked.
Pigs are bred for meat, not milk. We only bred them to have large litters and grow fast. They can eat almost anything, so they are pretty successful in nature. Feral populations will actually establish fast, and can develop into an invasive species.
It's actually nature/evolution that is limiting the reproduction rate of e.g. wild boars, because an invasive species would kill nature, which would then kill itself.

You could say that we created cows to be losers and pigs to be winners.
However, too many winners will collapse the ecosystem.
(which is very much what humanity is doing too)

What we don't see is the contrast in color between the clothes of the woman
and the street, because the video blurs her. Either the cop is blind as a bat,
or she was hard to see.

It looks to me like a failure from everyone involved.
Reportedly people urged her to not keep laying there.
If she didn't want to or couldn't get up, at least
stand in front of her, so she doesn't get run over.
Or put your own car in the way, to keep her safe.

The presenter is at least correct to say that this should be investigated.
Police has the tendency to never take responsibility. That should be changed.

They might have given it a sedative.

They were accountable long before your side started attacking them.
Even if the claim itself is true, and lots of them were not,
it's still only a tiny fraction of the money.

The investigation reportedly lasted 11 months and involved the United States Secret Service, the Ohio Investigative Unit (which enforces SNAP fraud laws in Ohio),
and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food & Nutrition Service.
That's looking with a microscope, and they only found $100k that they can point to
as fraud. Congratulations on wasting this huge effort on peanuts, while every single billionaire is scamming the taxpayer consistently for billions.

A judge found Trump and his companies liable in a years-long scheme of inflating
asset values (for banks/insurance) and ordered a penalty of $355 million.
A review by House Judiciary Committee Democrats found that Trump’s pardons,
by canceling restitution payments owed to victims, could cost victims and ultimately taxpayers about $1.3 billion.

You couldn't care less. You only care if some poor people might have received
a couple of dollars too much.

Or it shows that they are running so low on supplies,
that they are using soup cans for munition.
You can take whatever you want from it.
That's why anecdotes like this are useless to understand the complete picture.

Russia Might Soon Run Out of Money for the Ukraine War
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It's a dirty job, but I love them for caring.

The effect of AI in the US is now measurable.
This video shows a gap between rising profits and declining employment:
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True, if you are able to learn how to use AI, it CAN be an opportunity.
Are the people who are losing their jobs able to learn how to use AI?
An economy needs working people, to pay for products, that the economy produces.
If the least intelligent half of the people don't have jobs anymore,
how are the more intelligent half of the people going to care for them?

Even though this might be educational, it's too political for me to comment on here.

There are many projects like that, being organized all over the world.
There are several regreening organizations at work.
They make their money from donations and views on YouTube.
Here are some that I know and watch:

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Their videos are great. They give me some hope, with every video.
I'm thinking about donating to one of them, I just haven't decided which one,
how much, and if I want to get a paid subscription.

Woman Asks Churches If They Will Feed Starving Baby — The Response is Shocking
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She was denied by 26 churches, but the one mosque she called immediately agreed.
It's already picked up by Islamic channels to show how they are better than Christians.
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Pretty damn smart, from a public relations standpoint, isn't it?

However, are many Christians not donating to their church, so they can do CHARITY?
Why are they not helping a mother in need to feed her baby then?

Russians have always been creative and efficient.
Is that a reason to celebrate them in this conflict?
What's the intent of this video?

"oh this baby may have a iq lower than 125" abort abort abort!"
Really? Do you think that people are thinking that, about their pregnancy?
You have strange ideas about people.
If there are people like that, I very much think they shouldn't have children.

But, let me answer your slippery slope fallacy, with a whataboutism.
If murder is illegal, how can people still defend themselves?

The answer: Because we "draw the line" with LAWS.

You may rest easy by killing people in boats, who are drugs smugglers at worst, without a day in court. Those are living and thinking people, the unborn are not.

Your ideas are forcing women to carry and give birth to a child like that,
and then have parents or society care for a vegetable 24/7 for it's life.

The Pentagon cannot account for a 61% of its $3.5 trillion in assets.
Is that an argument for not funding it anymore?

I think Elon knew he was at the limit of breaking the law too much,
that even he cannot be forgiven for.

MAGA men already getting DESPERATE for dates
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".. you just lie a lot .."

An analysis of Tucker Carlson interviewing Ted Cruz.
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If Tucker is motivated to do a good job, he's a damn good interviewer.

Do you think she has a life worth living?

How about knowing early in the development of the zygote/fetus, that the child
will end up like this, and giving the woman the choice to end that pregnancy?

You're not making mistakes, you're INTENTIONALLY lying to yourself.

My country had its fastest development, when it was the most socialist.
My country had the biggest accumulation of problems under right-wingers.
It's the Dutch voters who should learn from their mistakes.

Your country had its “The Golden Age of Capitalism”, “The Postwar Boom”,
roughly from 1945 till 1973. That was actually your MOST SOCIALIST period.
Your economy grew rapidly because of very left-leaning policies.

This was the time when:
- Wages rose along with productivity, so the middle class flourished.
- Unions were strong and represented a large share of workers.
- Income inequality was historically low.
- The government invested heavily in public infrastructure, education, housing,
and science (e.g., the GI Bill, Interstate Highway System, and NASA).

1) High Taxes on the Wealthy
The top marginal income tax rate was over 90% during the 1950s under Republican president Eisenhower.
Corporate taxes were also much higher than today.
These taxes funded public infrastructure, education, and research.

2) Strong Labor Unions
Over one-third of workers were union members in the 1950s.
Unions negotiated better wages, pensions, and working conditions.
Collective bargaining helped distribute productivity gains fairly.

3) Massive Government Investment
The federal government financed housing for veterans, college education (GI Bill), scientific research, and public works.
These policies expanded the middle class and built national wealth.

4) Regulation and Antitrust Enforcement
Industries like banking, transportation, and energy were tightly regulated.
Antitrust laws prevented monopolies and protected small businesses.
This created a competitive but stable capitalist system.

5) Social Safety Nets
Expansion of Social Security, unemployment insurance, and public healthcare programs (later including Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s).
These reduced poverty and stabilized consumer demand.

6) Progressive Consensus
Both major parties (Democrats and Republicans) largely accepted the New Deal consensus — the idea that capitalism should be managed to serve broad social welfare, not just corporate profit.

Your MAGA hats, Make America Great Again, are referring to your most SOCIALIST period in history, and dumb-asses like you are unable to LEARN FROM IT.

Sure, because Trump is the anti-war president.

Good way to get that Nobel Peace Prize, General Bone Spurs!

She still has some brain matter, although it isn't a lot.
I don't think it's possible to live without any piece of brain.

I'm all for democracy run. If people don't like it, they can only blame themselves.
The only problem is making people see the consequences of what they voted for.

Yes, because it's apparently very expensive. So, who are going to be the janitors, groundskeepers, pest control, handymen, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, stockers, delivery drivers, public transit drivers, garbage collectors, police, security guards, lifeguards, nurses, etc, who all take care of those old people, when young people cannot afford to live there. Do they all need to commute from the next state?
Maybe an economy can survive on just service jobs, from old money paying for it,
but people don't want to drive several hours per day to those jobs. When the service people leave, the old people leave too. They are not taking care of themselves.

Ghostbusters!

No, because cows suck at wild animals and buffalo suck as domestic animals.
Humanity should just learn to live within the means nature sets for us.

Most cows are not 'gene modified' directly, but are just the result of hundreds of years of selective breeding. It made them great milk and meat factories, but they would die off very quickly back in nature. If humans all disappeared one day, all the cows would die off very quickly. For some races, in 90% of the cases, if there is no vet to winch out the calf at birth, both the mother and the calf will die. They are bred that way.

Most people don't like goat milk and goat meat is even less popular, so I don't think society is going to shift away from cows, any day soon.

I'm not agreeing with many people on the left, that we should go back to a pasture with 1 cow per acre, because there are 8 billion people on Earth. What we need to do is find a balance between poisoning nature to death and starving ourselves, which prioritizes animal friendliness. We shouldn't be cruel to animals, but we should accept that it is impossible to live from nature, like we did 10,000 years ago, with 8 billion people.

I want progression and innovation to make society sustainable for the world. I don't want to go back to pre-historic times and I also fight against the denialism against the reality that we are destroying ourselves, by destroying the nature that supports us.

Wealth taxes are not a left-wing policy.
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Neither the left, nor the right, are addressing the real problem.

How about ever having a president like that?
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Probably only going to happen in the movies.

They cut down 10,000 trees, to save a forest.
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There are forests all over the world, planted by people for wood and coal,
that have turned into a "green desert". Nothing lives there, besides trees.

Are you thinking that there is something 'natural' about cows?

The "green movement" hates the BIO-INDUSTRY, not the cows.
It's not the differences between the animals that matters, it's the differences
between how they are living.

Bisons are a wild animal, that lives in harmony with nature. Did you even watch the video? They explained about what Bisons do, to improve nature, all over the video.
The modern cow is an over-engineered animal that ruins nature. It produces 10 times
the amount of milk, and therefore also emits much more waste.

Those Bisons are a few hundred individuals, in an incredibly large area, that has very few nutrients in the soil. Everything they drop and let fly gets absorbed by that area of nature, because it needs it. Cows live at best on a pasture that is saturated by nutrients, and they are living there in populations that are thousands of times denser.

The Netherlands has a problem with cows, because we have way too many of them for such a small country. That creates a massive pollution problem. Austria, for example,
a country famous for their Alp-milk, doesn't have the same problem with pollution from cows, because they have 1/8th the number of cows, in a country twice the size.
At that scale, nature is still able to process it.

You're not wrong, but how are you proposing that "Florida built it's economy on manufacturing"? That's you saying to not let the economy run by the laws of capitalism, ruled by billionaires, who are thinking only in short-term profits, but by it's government taking control. Isn't that against the principles you are always supporting?

It's not just due to tourists staying away, as it looks like,
the state is finding out what happens when young people
are not able to afford living there anymore.

Florida Business Owner FURIOUS After Tourism PLUMMETS
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BREAKING: Florida’s Job Market COLLAPSE in 2025
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$12.5B Paradise MELTDOWN - Florida’s Tourism Industry Is on the Verge of Total Collapse
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Florida Is Facing the Biggest Collapse in U.S. History
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Florida’s Tourism Collapse: Florida’s Economic Disaster Explained in 10 Minutes
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Floridians are hurtling towards economic disaster
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The U.S. Released Hundreds of Bison Into the Desert...
What Happened 10 Years Later Is Shocking
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China Buried Tons of Dead Plants Under the Desert Sand
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How Refugees are turning the edge of the Sahara green.
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A good example of solving multiple problems at once.

Not yet, but they will, sooner than later.
Do understand that folks that actually USE trucks for their purposes,
are a tiny minority of truck users.

A study by Strategic Vision found that nearly 90 % of truck buyers said they never use their truck for business towing, mobile-office or worksites.
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Another summary shows:

Only about 7 % of pickup-truck owners frequently use their trucks to tow.
About 28 % frequently haul personal items; 47 % do so occasionally.
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According to a report by the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA), only about 28 % of pickup owners say they see their truck as a “true work vehicle”.
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One statistic cited by an automotive-facts site: “Only 15 % of truck owners use their pickup trucks for work.”
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I don't own an electric car myself, because they don't provide me what I need for the price I am willing to pay. However, looking at the fast pace development of EV's, I'm confident that they will, when my current car has reached the end of it's economic repair lifetime.

President Donald Trump hosts The Great Gatsby-inspired Halloween party, amid government shutdown
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If you don't understand what a big middle finger he is giving you, the average American, then you have to read up on the meaning of the novel. Trump doing this is very much
a self own, which he obviously doesn't understand. It is still completely tone-deaf to hold such a party, when the government shutdown has furloughed many hundreds of thousands government employees, and makes many work without getting paid. It was held just hours before millions of Americans lost their federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits due to a government shutdown.

Maybe Trump saw the movie, and saw Leonardo DiCaprio playing a character who had a dream and won. This is how he sees himself, a winner of the American dream.
(of course he isn't, his father was, and he is just a nepo-baby)
Trump clearly likes the spectacle of the Roaring Twenties, the glittering parties, the jazz, and the dizzying wealth. He is turning the White House in a tacky display of opulence,
just like his homes. This is his ideal, and he doesn't understand how the story, which the movie doesn't do justice much, makes it out to be a hollow and tragic existence.
He doesn't understand how the novel was intended as a social critique, exposing the harm the wealthy inflict on society. Through the characters and events of the novel, it illustrates how wealth leads to moral decay, carelessness, and ultimately, tragic consequences.
The character amassed his fortune during the Prohibition era through an association with the notorious gambler and mobster Meyer Wolfsheim. His main enterprise involved bootlegging, primarily by operating a chain of drugstores as fronts to illegally sell alcohol over the counter. The parties are heavily related to the use of alcohol during Prohibition.

It would be even worse, if Trump does understand the meaning of the movie. It means that he knows what role he is playing in the world. It's a possibility, because he has been talking about not going to heaven. However, then he must also understand the image he is leaving with this party. Since he cares a lot about how he is remembered (he wants a Nobel Peace Prize and his face on Mount Rushmore), I don't think he is capable of the self-mockery.

To be clear, I didn't read the novel, I just saw the movie, understood the idea behind it, and found people on YouTube talking about it. When I heard that Trump had a Great Gatsby party, I first thought that people who criticized him for it, called it that. I thought that was very appropriate. I just found out that Trump himself INTENDED the reference to The Great Gatsby, because he called it "A little party never killed nobody", which is the title of the song by Fergie, which was made for the movie. My reaction was of deep contempt. It's not his worst act of disrespect to the American people, by a long shot, but it might be one that gets recognized as it, by most Americans. So, I'm here talking about it, to hear about it from you. How do you like your president holding a lavish party, with wealthy people, that he himself referenced to The Great Gatsby, (now) knowing the meaning of it?

Has anyone heard of Ismo Leikola? He's one of the most popular upcoming comedians,
right now, and he is from Finland. He cracks me up.

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Probably your friends had enough money to rent in Amsterdam.
Everything is great in my country, for people who have enough money.
It just takes more and more money, every year, to beat the onslaught.
Too many people, who were lucky to do that, don't realize that they did.
Still, they feel the problems around them, and are misplacing blame.
They are thinking: "Our country is great, why are you complaining?
I made it, so why don't you? Go get an education and get a job!"

They don't see that people with a higher education than them,
will never be able to reach the same living standard as they did.
And the only reason is that they are just 10-20 years younger.
That's the difference, only 10-20 years.

The problem is that both the young people who are living it,
and the older people who saw it develop, don't understand it.
It requires some knowledge of politics and economics, and they don't bother.
They only listen to some loudmouth who blames immigration.
They don't want to know the cause of it, just want to stop it.
And then they think people like me LIKE immigration. WHY would I?

I think we NEED to help desperate people, but I DON'T like it.
I want to improve the world, so there are LESS desperate people.
I prefer to help desperate people, without helping them directly.
I want to improve the system, so they can help themselves.
Other people just want to close their eyes for their existence.
They don't understand that it's a sure way to let the world go to shit,
so you'll end up yourself as one of those desperate people.
It's only a matter of time, before the people who beat the onslaught,
also don't manage to beat it anymore.

It is really hard to have to live with such ignorant people.
Mostly, because it's very difficult to SOLVE the very problems
that they are angry about, even immigration, when there are
too many people who don't understand, that you need to understand
the CAUSE of a problem, if you want to FIX a problem.

What's the common root cause of most of those problems, you ask?
Mostly; exploitation and authoritarianism, the very ideals many support.

Emergent Self-Awareness in Vegetables: A Concerning Development

Earlier this month, researchers at the University of Helsinki reported what appears to be
the first case of sentient plant matter: a bell pepper exhibiting facial expressions consistent with fear. Subsequent tests showed measurable electrical activity when the specimen was approached with a knife.

Within days, similar phenomena were observed in other produce, particularly root vegetables and leafy greens. One cabbage was recorded rotating itself slowly away
from sunlight, “as if attempting concealment,” according to the study.

The implications are profound. Ethical committees worldwide are now debating whether harvesting vegetables constitutes harm, effectively rendering veganism, long considered the most ethical dietary choice, a moral paradox.

As of today, no safe, guilt-free food source has been identified. Experts recommend consuming only minerals “until further notice.”

The statement you quoted is partially true but also contains elements of unverified claims and sensationalism that should be treated with caution. Here’s a breakdown of what is known and what is not fully substantiated:

✅ What is true

1. The feed additive Bovaer (active ingredient 3-nitrooxypropanol, 3-NOP) is being used in Denmark in dairy cattle feed as part of efforts to reduce methane emissions.

2. Denmark has put in place policies to reduce methane emissions from dairy farming — including subsidies/confidence for feed additives — as part of its climate / agricultural emissions strategy.

3. There are reports from Danish farmers of animal health problems (e.g., reduced milk output, cows „sluggish“, some rumen-failure, some culls) after the introduction of Bovaer in some herds.

4. The manufacturer (DSM‑Firmenich) and Danish authorities have acknowledged and are investigating the reports of problems (though they do not conclude causation yet).

⚠️ What is not (yet) clearly proven

1. While farmers report cows “collapsing” and being euthanized, I did not locate independent, peer-reviewed or official veterinary data that confirms widespread collapses/euthanization directly caused by the additive. The media reports and farmer complaints are there, but causality is not established.

2. The claim that the policy “after Jan. 1 2025” mandated the additive in “large dairy farms” and that cows “started giving less milk, collapsing and in some instances getting so ill that they need to be euthanized” is a strong version of the claim and appears to be more sensational than the evidence currently supports. For example:

- The requirement noted in ­Agriland: “Since January 1, 2025, all conventional dairy farmers in Denmark with more than 50 cows are required to reduce methane emissions by either adjusting feed (increasing fat) or adding Bovaer for 80 days a year.”

- The phrase “collapsing cows” appears in certain farmer-complaint articles and blogs,
but not in official statistical data indicating a systemic collapse across Danish dairy herds.

Also be aware: Some of the articles you quoted (and similar ones) come from outlets with strongly charged language (“cows drop like flies,” etc). These may amplify or interpret anecdotal reports without full vetting.

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Feeding cows "processed food" has been going on for a long time, with the goal
of maximizing profits. Your mental image of cows grazing in the pasture is obsolete.
31% of cows in The Netherlands never comes outside, the rest only (a small) part
of the year.



When they are inside, they are eating processed feed. Most farmers have their own production pasture or grain field to grow ingredients for the feed, but almost all of them
add large scale produced feed and additives.

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The animal feed industry in The Netherlands has an estimated annual revenue of approximately $16.5 Billion.

Cows are milk and meat factories and don't get treated as animals that can suffer.
It's your side of politics that created that, and it's NOT your side of politics that is
aiming to make farming less cruel to animals. You celebrate 'profit over people',
so why would you care that profit hurts animals?

Feed additives like Bovaer are an alternative for reducing cattle.
Denying the reality of climate change is not helping anyone.
At least in Denmark they are trying a compromise. You better hope it works,
or you can say goodbye to milk and beef altogether.

And they are friends with the scientists? Explain how it works.

Suffered from WHAT?
The same things they are still suffering from?
You just replaced one demented old fool for a worse one.
This old demented fool is destroying people's healthcare and social security.
Americans will suffer and die much more because of him.

Do you not understand that you are describing YOUR reality, not ours?
"Not knowing where you might be living in 4 months" Not in my country.
Our renting system might be broken, but not like that.
We still have laws to protect people from that.

It's also not a choice for most people. There is no IF you rent.
When you are not rich enough, you rent, or you live in a tent.

There is nothing to ignore, because you don't have any arguments,
besides simplistic thinking as "A enemy of a free country".

It's just a stupid straw-man, not an actual argument.

I am a socialist. What am I ignoring?

What freedom are you giving up, if you replace the wealthy people who exploit you with public funding from the bottom up?

The facts say that he won ONE time and cheated himself to victory the last time.
He should be in prison for his treason, the second time.

I know you believe bullshit. There is nothing I can do about that.

True, about 70% of Dutch people own their own home. That means the other 30%
are renting their home.

As I told you before, The Netherlands HAD a very good system of public housing. The social rental sector was massive, reaching over 40% of the total housing stock by 1990. In cities like Amsterdam, this share was even higher. Most social housing was owned and managed by "woningcorporaties" (Non-Profit Housing Associations), which operated under a strict regulatory framework and were heavily dependent on government financial support. These housing associations were created after the war, to build a large number of affordable homes to address post-war housing shortages.

My girlfriend and I lived in one of those social houses for 9 years. The rent was $380/month. It enabled us to improve ourselves, save up a lot of money, and buy a house.

Many people cannot afford to buy a house. Also a lot of people never wanted to.
Many people will regret not buying a house when we did, because the rent has at least doubled and the price of owner-occupied houses almost doubled in less than 20 years, because the right-wing parties privatized the housing market.

We would never be able to buy our house anymore, if we tried today. We have an income between 1.5x and 2x the median. We would be able to get a mortgage of up to about Ђ375,000 ($432,776). There are still houses being sold at that price, but not a lot and not ours. The mortgage would be Ђ1700/month ($1962), which would be Ђ1264 ($1459) after tax returns, if we started today. Those tax returns decline to 0 in 30 years.

However, because we bought that house in 2008/2009, and paid off a lot, our mortgage payments are now $473/month, and we still get $189 mortgage interest deduction.
That means that the $284/month we pay now is less than our rent back then.

Canada was expecting their resistance to hurt Canadians.
They don't want to be your cuck, because that would hurt more.

Not completely true; renting used to be just as good and more affordable. Some people still benefit from that, if they have rented the same house for decades, but for new people it's very expensive. The waiting lists for social housing are very long and the public sector is even more expensive.

That's because right-wing governments fucked up our social housing.
Since just 2010, wages climbed by 8%, while social rent house prizes climbed by 22%.
However, many of the social rent houses have been sold.
Many of them were bought up by private renters, which are MUCH more expensive.

The average rental price in the private sector varies, but in the fourth quarter of 2024
it was around Ђ1730 ($1997) per month, or Ђ18.01 ($20,79) per square meter.

That, combined with far too few houses having been built, exploded the prices.
The price of an average home was Ђ239,530 ($276,365) in 2010.
The price of an average home is around Ђ486,000 ($560,681) in 2025.
(They didn't become bigger. What they mostly build now is apartments)

I saw it coming, so I bought my house in 2008/2009, at Ђ265,000 bare ($305,710).
Neighbors are selling their house for Ђ475,000 ($547,970), but we are expecting
that people will overbid that.

There are private clinics in Canada too.

"Approximately 80,000 visits to U.S. health care facilities by Canadians occur each year, but most are for emergency care, not elective procedures." A lot of them are "snowbirds", Canadians, who migrate from the colder northern regions of North America to warmer southern destinations during the winter months. Millions of Canadians vacation or spend winters in the U.S.. Accidents and illnesses happen, and the nearest hospital is often the only immediate option. Their Canadian provincial insurance covers very little (sometimes only a fraction of the actual cost), so these travelers rely heavily on private travel insurance.

That means they are not crossing the border for YOUR healthcare, they are IN your country when they need healthcare and then are stuck with yours.

However, in some border areas, the nearest U.S. hospital is geographically closer than the nearest Canadian one. For genuine emergencies, people go to the closest facility.

A small, wealthy minority may travel for a non-emergency procedure to access specific cutting-edge treatments, particular specialists, or bypass Canadian wait times. However, this number is a small fraction of the 80,000 visits.

So, there is only a small bit of truth to your claim. I have told you before that American healthcare is ONLY good for VERY RICH people.

[In 2024, the Dutch government paid $118 Billion for healthcare related expenses.
It goes to:
- The Long-term Care Act (Wlz - Wet langdurige zorg): Care for vulnerable elderly people and people with a chronic illness or disability is largely paid from general funds.
- Youth Act and Social Support Act (Wmo - Wet maatschappelijke ondersteuning): This care falls under the responsibility of municipalities, but is funded by the national government via the Municipalities Fund, which also comes from tax money.
- Healthcare allowance (Zorgtoeslag): The government pays a healthcare allowance to people with a low income to help them pay the nominal premium for healthcare insurance, which is an indirect contribution from taxes to the healthcare system.
- Income-related contribution (IAB - Inkomensafhankelijke bijdrage): Although this is called a "contribution", it is paid by employers or benefit agencies and flows via the Health Insurance Fund (Zvf) back into healthcare, which is a form of collective financing via a levy.]

ALL other care is paid for by our health insurances. My monthly premium is $194,11.
If I have an emergency, I pay NOTHING, it's all covered by my insurance. For all non-emergency care, I pay at maximum $444 in a year. My premium includes a small supplemental insurance package, which costs me less than $100/year, but pays me $173 for part of my chiropractor costs.
Your situation would cost our insurance $6,470. Our hospitals are more affordable, but provide a better quality of service than yours. However, that is considered a medical necessity. The base insurance covers it, and it will cost the patient $444. If they need anything else that is covered by the base insurance, it would be fully covered.

We don't get our health insurance from our employer, we pay for it ourselves.
We don't lose our insurance when we lose our job. Employers cannot use health insurance as a negotiation tactic, when we negotiate wages and other benefits.

The US does have lower taxes, but we get lots of tax returns, if we have a low income. And higher income people often own their home, which allows them to deduct their mortgage rent.

Don't forget that the US government also pays for healthcare with tax-dollars.