Main priority for Russia now is turning the spigot to Europe back on. As for China and Russia I think it's not so absolute but a dwell time for renormilization awaiting the next convulsion of the dieing empire.
Assuming you have the foresight and know how, I guess..?? I've looked into moving abroad and it doesn't seem so easy. Plus who's grandma that is basically unable to walk and having to have assistance with everything is looking into expatriating themselves to half way round the globe to live in a nursing home? Plus, if you live in a multi generational house hold you're just gonna fuck the next generation out of everything when they've already cared for you over a decade? I don't care for private ownership but it's a scheme to move wealth from the poor to the rich. Not a bad idea just doesn't seem feasible. Plus the basic fact people want to stay close to home especially when expecting death.
Sorry. I'm not familiar with Canadian or British HC systems but what you've wrote in this thread sounds horrible. I'm in the US and our universal health programs are like a ponzi scheme to steal wealth from the poor. In the US if you're lucky enough to own a house that's a huge precursor to generational wealth and not just rich very poor people still may own their primary residence and that's it. It's kinda like the enclosure of the commons except for the 21st century there's no commons but now confiscating all private wealth of the working class as a trade off for health care. Brings up issues about rights to housing and etc. Too....
I love the idea of chuds putting themselves in debt to own the libs. Can't not see that back firing. Oh, I bought a 60k dollar piece of shit that's constantly breaking down and then the whole dealership services flop once the bubble bursts.
You basically have to be educated enough to know how to do estate planning or rich enough to hire an attorney to get you through Medicaid has like a 5 year look back and can deny coverage if you try to disperse your assets to your family it has to be 5 years before you apply to Medicaid otherwise you have to pay down for violating that look back period which is tied to the average cost of care for a skilled nursing facility (10,000 a month approximately). There are exceptions for child care givers who live with the applicant but if you're a grandchild or neece/nephew care giver you have no exemption and upon probate court after death the estate is liquidated with the government being the debtor of first priority
I kinda wish we had an option for AD. In the US if you're poor you have to go on Medicaid, part of being accepted means you have to have less than 2000 dollars and sign your house over to the state who will liquidate your estate upon death to recoup costs spent (even though people pay through payroll taxes their whole lives). The states administer a Medicaid estate recovery system and it's essentially a way for the state to steal property from the poor in order to get health care for the elderly. Out of pocket expenses would be around 10,000 a month which only the very wealthy can afford... I'm definitely not for eugenics on the disabled but if I live to be 85 plus I would rather use AD rather than impoverish my family more so.
Everyone knows the West is hopelessly corrupt and ridiculously high on their own supply. Whatever pretense to superiority or impartiality is a simply a lie our bourgeoisie tells itself and tries to sell. No one's buying it.
Capital Strike? Imperialism coming home and all I suppose. Saw some articles suggesting that European stocks were rallying as a reaction to the US volatility (also another was bullish from the Europeans tough talk about doing war Keynesianism following the US de-funding NATO); but how long can the west park stock on that sinking ship?
And they said there's no such thing as a free meal... look at the Press Staff free meal. Zelenski didn't take the deal and now the Press is eating his lunch.. Buh bye
·1 month ago
Vladimir Putin go on cumtown