Interesting comparison

The US is not unique in this, sadly

And yet your leaders speak of democracy internationally like the crusaders in the Holy Crusade.

Well you get out what you put in.

Politicians should never be allowed to touch voter maps.

My brother got sent straight overseas when operation desert shield/ storm started, straight out of boot camp at 19

When I was in my 20s I cut my finger really bad in a broken glass while doing the dishes. I went to prompt med that to get stitches because it wouldn't stop bleeding. They told me it would cost $680 with my health insurance. I was working at Kroger at the time and I was making only $7.25 an hour, in college and living with my soon to be wife in an apartment that cost a little over $1000 a month so this was something we definitely couldn't afford. So I told the people at the front desk "Nevermind, I'll just go home and bleed to death." I had already been waiting for my wife to get off work to take me since we only had the 1 car at the time, I had been sitting with medical tape, gauze and a wash cloth wrapped around my finger while propping it up in the air for 4 hours before she got home. I came back out to the car and she was flabbergasted and we had to shop around online for another hour in the car until we found a cheaper place an hour and a half away.

I'm pretty sure our (UK) forces do send representatives to school/college careers fairs too. Of course they don't have to point out healthcare and education as benefits...

I actually worked for a place in the UK where I was ill on my holiday so they GAVE ME MY HOLIDAY DAYS BACK, the USA is messed up

Price for giving birth in US is absolutely horrible.. but what I find disgusting is that they bill for having a skin contact with the baby. The thing that is best for the baby they ask money for -.- even if the price is small portion of the whole operation, but come on let the parents hold their new born.

But don't worry! Congress will always give themselves a raise! I think they're at $600 an hour.

68 weeks? We have up to 48 MONTHS of paid maternity leave.

New Zealand is a bit strange on this. We charge for ambulance rides, apparently, but in Wellington where I live we have Wellington Free Ambulance and you don't pay. The rest of the country has St John Ambulance and they do.

It's quite tragicomical thing that a country that have de facto invented computers, microchips, internet and so much more can be in some areas an actuallu a late stone-age 3rd world country. Here I just received my 2021 summary of taxes, logged online, corrected few reductions and submitted the form and all that took abut 10 minutes of time.

The first one is not that bad or strange. In Germany you get benefits if you are married too.

Yes that is one thing that makes the least sense to me. What if you get sick and lose your job? You''ll be without a health insurance then just when you would need it the most!

They have lockdown drills in New Zealand too. Have been used to some degree, just when there's a threat in the neighbourhood - never for something in the actual school - so more just staying inside rather than barricading doors and hiding. Touch wood.

We also have a disproportionately enormous prison population. Though prisoners still pay taxes, in 48 states, people can't vote from prison. Knowing this fact could certainly incentivize people with power to create laws that target and lock up people who disagree with them.

It's so weird. The audience often gets really into it too. Y'all, standing for 90 seconds with your hat over your heart doesn't actually support the troops, build community, strengthen our country, or whatever else you think you're doing. Instead, how about funding the VA? Volunteering for nonprofits? Getting involved in local government? 90 seconds of pseudo-patriotism doesn't cut it, y'all.

Nothing to see here. (Corrupt politician stuffs cash in pocket).

If payment equals freedom, crime is only crime if you're poor. The rich can pay their way to freedom. That's not justice.

Husband has had the same job for 10 years at this point, he now has the maximum days allowed, 14. His sick days and pto are all rolled into that number btw.

Free to the end of college (high school) in NZ, but not after that. Not all of these things are uniquely American.

When you make prison as your business then locking as much people up as possible is good for business.

It's sad to see my love of shooting become such a political football. I was a fat kid with breathing problems, never could get into any sports - until I saw a tv special about the Olympic sports, and saw target shooting. When I was old enough, got my licence and went into competition. Won a few, lost a lot; met some great people on the range. And now my government thinks I'm a potential mass murderer, and an easy victim of stupid laws. Sad, really.

Didn't know that. So the poorest areas get the least education funding? America really is some f/8cked up third-world sh)thole, isn't it.

Looks like Mike Lindell is fixing to be in trouble for giving $800,000 to Tina peters, the crooked voter clerk in Arizona.

In UK there is a spending limit per candidate, it’s small compared to US standards.Less than £9000 per candidate, then 6p per registered elector. Spending and donations have to be logged. It doesn’t stop shenanigans though

Andy Hamilton (British comedy writer) once uttered the brilliant idea that politicians, like footballers, should wear shirts with their sponsers on them.