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nellie_1017 t1_ixu1vr2 wrote

Curse these open borders! Why, you know all these 'furriners' are going to have families, & those people are going to... um... become Americans! You DO see the problem, don't you??

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mjkjg2 t1_ixughpr wrote

people either didn’t understand the sarcasm or didn’t appreciate it

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looncraz t1_ixum9oa wrote

No one is complaining about legal immigration, which this is. The country was in desperate need of people at this time. Hard to say that when you have more people than you can take care of...

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yabadabadoo80 t1_ixunbm4 wrote

The US can take care of much more people than are living here right now. It just doesn’t want to.

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looncraz t1_ixup4f5 wrote

It's heavily in debt trying to take care of its current population, which it does poorly.

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yabadabadoo80 t1_ixuwu6q wrote

Because it spends x2 on health as much as every other OECD member, while maintaining a private health system. Can anyone explain that??

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looncraz t1_ixv0gkw wrote

The debt doesn't even include most medical spending, that's on top of the debt.

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