“The benefits package is terrible. You offer two weeks of vacation if we are lucky; we get five. Your maternity leave is ‘good luck,’ while we get a year. Your healthcare plan is GoFundMe, while ours is free. And your safety plan is just ‘thoughts and prayers. Moving to the US right now feels like leaving a spa to go work in a burning hot dog stand. Thanks, but we will stay in the snow.”
crapbag29 on
“Only white imports, please”
neverpost4 on
The way it is going, maybe the US Marines will raid Bergen and take a bunch of Norwegians and bring them to Wisconsin.
Somewhat Ironic since the Norwegian ancestors did the same.
samsonsreaper on
If he does invade Greenland he can forget about ANY scandies going to the US
bbqduck-sf on
The US used to be the goal for many people to migrate to. And for good reason.
We have now become a joke of a nation. I hope we can recover.
Angeret on
_”America is the greatest country in the world”_
Yeah, you just keep telling yourself that. Most everyone else sees you for what you are.
Think-Hospital7422 on
What a ‘masterful’ response from the half-a White House They decided this would be a good time to double down on racism.
penguished on
Trump is copying the most hated man in history’s Aryan race babble… Did Hitler’s ghost crawl up the ass of the only man dumb enough to listen or what.
Q-burt on
“The American Dream” is dead. I haven’t taken a vacation in years because I have chronic health issues and I use up my PTO every year doing medical things. And I have around 30 days a year.
mdcbldr on
Americans have an insular conception of how our country is viewed abroad. We are reviled in many parts of the world. We are feared in other parts for our unpredictability. Even our friends view us as a well meaning but bumbling, poorly educated slob.
Most Europeans have 4 plus weeks of vacation, maternity and paternity leave, a dozen paid holidays, health care, life insurance, dental, disability, educational programs, etc.
They sneer at our programs. They are all astounded that we have no healthcare. Worse they are agog at our private systems inefficiencies and poor outcomes. We spend more on healthcare per capita than anyone (I haven’t checked the numbers in a few years, maybe we have improved). Yet we don’t rank in the top ten categories that are traditional measures of population health (maternal health, birth weights, life expectancy, etc.). If you need incredible, risk it all, novel surgical intervention, we are the place to be. If you need routine care, not so much.
We attract people because we were considered to be a country of laws, opportunity, stability, and the economic engine of the world. We are attractive to people from countries with unstable regimes, limited economic opportunity, predatory governments, predatory cartels, unstable government.
We also attract skilled people who want to get into our venture capital and entrepreneurial support systems. Musk came from money and wanted to access more capital. He did not come here for the 2 weeks of vacation. Heck, our billionaires complain that Americans are lazy and overpaid.
We are underpaid by most European standards. They make similar wages, but are free from crippling healthcare costs. They also tend to pay less for phone service, “cable” TV, public transport. The do pay more for gas and housing. I
am not up on what has happened to their educational costs recently. The Universities had government support. Education was more merit based because tuition fees affordable tlfor working class families.
The some US states supported state University systems so that most working class families could pay. California, Massachusetts, in particular. Until the 70s when supply side economics and anti tax sentiment led to the massive increases in tuitions that have made a college degree unattainable, or graduates come out owing what used to qualify as a hefty mortgage.
Yeah, Europeans have lifestyles that are far better that we give them credit for.
The_Nice_Marmot on
Correction: no company is obligated to offer any vacation in the US. Those who get 2 weeks are the “lucky” ones.
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“The benefits package is terrible. You offer two weeks of vacation if we are lucky; we get five. Your maternity leave is ‘good luck,’ while we get a year. Your healthcare plan is GoFundMe, while ours is free. And your safety plan is just ‘thoughts and prayers. Moving to the US right now feels like leaving a spa to go work in a burning hot dog stand. Thanks, but we will stay in the snow.”
“Only white imports, please”
The way it is going, maybe the US Marines will raid Bergen and take a bunch of Norwegians and bring them to Wisconsin.
Somewhat Ironic since the Norwegian ancestors did the same.
If he does invade Greenland he can forget about ANY scandies going to the US
The US used to be the goal for many people to migrate to. And for good reason.
We have now become a joke of a nation. I hope we can recover.
_”America is the greatest country in the world”_
Yeah, you just keep telling yourself that. Most everyone else sees you for what you are.
What a ‘masterful’ response from the half-a White House They decided this would be a good time to double down on racism.
Trump is copying the most hated man in history’s Aryan race babble… Did Hitler’s ghost crawl up the ass of the only man dumb enough to listen or what.
“The American Dream” is dead. I haven’t taken a vacation in years because I have chronic health issues and I use up my PTO every year doing medical things. And I have around 30 days a year.
Americans have an insular conception of how our country is viewed abroad. We are reviled in many parts of the world. We are feared in other parts for our unpredictability. Even our friends view us as a well meaning but bumbling, poorly educated slob.
Most Europeans have 4 plus weeks of vacation, maternity and paternity leave, a dozen paid holidays, health care, life insurance, dental, disability, educational programs, etc.
They sneer at our programs. They are all astounded that we have no healthcare. Worse they are agog at our private systems inefficiencies and poor outcomes. We spend more on healthcare per capita than anyone (I haven’t checked the numbers in a few years, maybe we have improved). Yet we don’t rank in the top ten categories that are traditional measures of population health (maternal health, birth weights, life expectancy, etc.). If you need incredible, risk it all, novel surgical intervention, we are the place to be. If you need routine care, not so much.
We attract people because we were considered to be a country of laws, opportunity, stability, and the economic engine of the world. We are attractive to people from countries with unstable regimes, limited economic opportunity, predatory governments, predatory cartels, unstable government.
We also attract skilled people who want to get into our venture capital and entrepreneurial support systems. Musk came from money and wanted to access more capital. He did not come here for the 2 weeks of vacation. Heck, our billionaires complain that Americans are lazy and overpaid.
We are underpaid by most European standards. They make similar wages, but are free from crippling healthcare costs. They also tend to pay less for phone service, “cable” TV, public transport. The do pay more for gas and housing. I
am not up on what has happened to their educational costs recently. The Universities had government support. Education was more merit based because tuition fees affordable tlfor working class families.
The some US states supported state University systems so that most working class families could pay. California, Massachusetts, in particular. Until the 70s when supply side economics and anti tax sentiment led to the massive increases in tuitions that have made a college degree unattainable, or graduates come out owing what used to qualify as a hefty mortgage.
Yeah, Europeans have lifestyles that are far better that we give them credit for.
Correction: no company is obligated to offer any vacation in the US. Those who get 2 weeks are the “lucky” ones.