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All right. Is this proof?🤣😈🖕
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yep,to damn lazy to trim the bushes away from a breaker. you can't fix that place. they won't help themselves by doing simple Maintenace on their equipment.
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why don't they fix it>?
move some manufacturing jobs there so they can earn money and use it to reinvest in their island.
Private investments will just make the private investors rich, not the people. They need public investments increasing their economy, so they can invest in themselves.
at least if they had jobs there would be useful products or services for the betterment of society .they would also learn about self responsibility instead of bumming off the US
Poor people are a burden to an economy, middle class people pay LOTS OF TAXES.
Middle class people also SPEND a lot, which is very important for your economy, since the reciprocal tariffs to Trump's tariffs are destroying your export.
Why are you only for investments when rich selfish assholes do it, to benefit themselves? What's sooooooo bad about public investments, to benefit ALL?
and you go back a few years later and the place will still be a sesspool.
several of my neighbors have done mission work with church groups, going to far away places like porter rico and building a new school or something,only to go back later and the school be gone and a bunch of huts built out of the materials, they tear down the school where their kids can learn things to better themselves and their kids are still uneducated.
they are always wasted on those that won't do for themselves.
and you go back a few years later and the place will still be a sesspool.
Why do you always assume people are lazy?
No, it's wasted on those that ONLY do for themselves!
Why give money to the wealthy, when they don't need it
and only use that money for more wealth for THEMSELVES?
That's exactly what caused the sesspool you are already in.
The US has the highest GDP of the modern world, with poverty
and misery that is comparable with piss poor countries.
You keep thinking that I support a welfare state. I AM NOT!!
I don't want to pay people to sit on their ass, I want to pay for education,
healthcare, infrastructure, public investments in strengthening the economy
and then putting the profits of that back into the system to improve it more
and benefit the people. Not just for short term profit for the few, but long term improvement of civilization. And of course to stop the imminent destruction
of that civilization, or (worst case scenario) humanity completely.
I support equal opportunities, by helping people maximize their potential.
What you are doing is the opposite. But that is a recent development.
When America was at its prime, it did help people maximize their potential.
Then you switched to helping the winners win more and you punished who couldn't.
Now you voted for a guy who says America is broken and who says M.A.G.A..
That's confirming my point. America was great when a mechanic could buy a house and send his kids to university. The policies that you support are making that increasingly impossible. YOU are doing the opposite of MAGA.
Germany: $25.01 billion
United Kingdom: $18.10 billion
European Union: $16.44 billion
Japan: $11.46 billion
France: $11.33 billion
Italy: $5.86 billion
Sweden: $5.56 billion
Netherlands: $4.96 billion
Canada: $4.30 billion
Norway: $4.12 billion
Switzerland: $3.14 billion
Australia: $3.04 billion
Spain: $2.56 billion
Denmark: $2.45 billion
South Korea: $2.20 billion
Belgium: $2.20 billion
Austria: $1.25 billion
Finland: $1.08 billion
Ireland: $840 million
Poland: $680 million
New Zealand: $450 million
Luxembourg: $420 million
Portugal: $380 million
Greece: $310 million
Czech Republic: $300 million
Hungary: $150 million
Slovak Republic: $120 million
Slovenia: $80 million
Iceland: $70 million
what about south korea?
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Elon asked a great question: "How many countries tax their citizens and send money to the USA?"
Does the US need foreign aid?
Your GDP/capita is higher than ours. Why do your people need our help?
Generally speaking, Dutch organizations rarely focus directly on helping people in the United States, because the U.S. is considered a wealthy, developed country.
However, there is definitely some of our taxes going to help Americans, through the global Red Cross network, Médecins Sans Frontières (Known for work in war zones and developing countries, they made an exception in 2020 by providing medical aid to underserved populations in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic). Then there are some donations from Dutch people supporting American Nonprofit Organizations, which are helping uninsured or impoverished Americans, like Remote Area Medical (RAM), The Health Wagon, National Association of Free & Charitable Clinics (NAFC) and Partners in Health.
The US is a very wealthy country, but it treats its people like shit.
That's a political choice. You still have some form of democracy left, providing Americans a choice in how they are treated by their elected government.
Dutch people prefer helping people who don't get your opportunities.
However, when the Trump/Musk regime takes away all your opportunities to make a good life for yourself, we might change our policies on that. We are however a much smaller country, so our aid to Americans could never be effective.
However, if the US turns into the Axis of Evil, joining Russia, Saudi Arabia,
Iran and North Korea, then we cannot help you, because that would be helping the demise of humanity.
1. Government Support for (International) Charitable Organizations
The Dutch government funds various organizations that are considered charitable through subsidies and grants. Some examples include:
Development Aid: The Netherlands spends billions of euros annually on international aid. This includes funding for NGOs like the Red Cross, Oxfam Novib, and UN organizations such as UNICEF or the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). This is similar to how the U.S. government funds USAID or gives money to the United Nations.
Environmental and Nature Organizations: The government supports organizations that protect nature and the environment. For instance, Natuurmonumenten (a Dutch nature conservation group) and Staatsbosbeheer (a government agency managing forests and nature reserves) receive public funding. These could be compared to organizations like the National Park Service or The Nature Conservancy in the U.S.
Culture and Heritage: Museums, art institutions, and cultural foundations also receive public funding. These are sometimes considered charities, depending on their structure. This is somewhat like how the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts or Smithsonian Institution is publicly funded.
2. Tax Benefits for Donations to Charities
In the Netherlands, individuals can deduct charitable donations from their taxes if the charity has what's called ANBI status (Algemeen Nut Beogende Instelling), which means it serves the public good. This is similar to a 501(c)(3) nonprofit status in the U.S. So in this sense, the government indirectly supports charities by reducing taxes on people who donate to them.
And she's in charge of Homeland Security?🤣🤣
we have enough thieves in washington
You voted for a big thief, who surrounds himself with even bigger thieves.
Trump does nothing besides selling crypto scams and other scams, designed to make corruption easy, while he lets Elon Musk steal people's social security and health care.
They are breaking every law in the books.
Most Americans will not accept this anymore. This will turn into a massive loss in your next election and a huge reckoning with everyone who collaborated with this criminal regime, or civil war. Before that happens, you will be reduced to a very small minority.
Trump is bleeding support like crazy. Your Republicans cannot hold a Town Hall anymore, without it turning into a massive protest towards ANY Republican.
Meanwhile, even weak centrist Democrats are now asking "When Must We Kill Them?"
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He's calling himself "Homo Economicus", for crying out loud.
He was a Neoliberal to the bone, a capitalism loving Democrat.
And you managed to turn him into an extremist. That doesn't bode well for you.
If you still see this ending well for you, "optimism" is an understatement.
You went too far with Trump. Americans don't like fascism, it's Anti-American.
When they beat it back, you'll probably end up with way more socialism.
other presidents being called "fascist" in history. That's a fallacious argument;
just because it might have been hyperbolic for some president, doesn't make it hyperbolic for this president.
You didn't go into arguments explaining why some characteristics of fascism,
as recognized by historians, political scientists, and philosophers, don't match
the ideology and actions of Trump.
hell at least you and annas can carry on a conversation. leo only knows how to mow people down with derogatory names and sarcasm
your reply's are why liberals and democrats get little to no respect nowadays. i just read a blurb awhile ago about the younger generations support for democrats has hit rock bottom.
the way i look at it, folks like ananns might be off in left field, but at least they speak fluently and can make a good point at times. folks like you, i don't know how you function in the world.
They're second-rate humans anyway.
Because they're poor.
They deserve to be hanged.
They're poor because they don't pray hard.
If they prayed they'd be rich.
They're infidel.
So they should rot in prisons.
they should use sticks,stones and fight those that repress them. they should do something to change their home country for the better,not doing so and running here,prompts folks to think they are lazy and not willing to do what it takes to be happy and prosperous
Who would you want to be in charge? Someone with abilities? Get over it.
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