White House creates Trumps <3 NK propaganda video for summit.

[trenchfoot]

So now I have come to realize that Trump, like Kim Jong Un, they're living and operating at a level far removed from the reality that I thought WAS reality and that little commercial that I assume Trump produced and directed proves it beyond all doubt.

Genius. Sheer genius. lol

That commercial should be an integral part of Trump's reelection campaign because it makes just as much sense as his promising that Mexico would pay for his wall and that he was going to give the working class and the poor a much better health care plan than Obama could ever come up with.

 

[BoomerD]

here's another link to the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYsaC2CADs0

Sounds like North Korea might become Asia's new "Low labor cost" manufacturing haven if Trump gets his way...

I'm an old fart...I remember when "Made in Occupied Japan" was the label on all the cheaply made junk...then "Made in Japan," then "Made in Hong Kong," followed by "Made in Taiwan," and then "Made in China." Add in "Made in Korea," "Made in Thailand," "Made in Vietnam," and it's easy to see that as each developing country gets more and more prosperous, labor costs rise...and manufacturers find cheaper places to make the junk they sell to us.

 

[compuwiz1]

here's another link to the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYsaC2CADs0

Sounds like North Korea might become Asia's new "Low labor cost" manufacturing haven if Trump gets his way...

I'm an old fart...I remember when "Made in Occupied Japan" was the label on all the cheaply made junk...then "Made in Japan," then "Made in Hong Kong," followed by "Made in Taiwan," and then "Made in China." Add in "Made in Korea," "Made in Thailand," "Made in Vietnam," and it's easy to see that as each developing country gets more and more prosperous, labor costs rise...and manufacturers find cheaper places to make the junk they sell to us.

I still look at where stuff is made. When it comes to audio electronics, I prefer Japan and Taiwan. If it says made in China, I pass, as it's normally gonna be shit. When we built our house, we chose Denon gear for our home theater system.

 

[theeedude]

Yeah, the unregretted attrition of homicides from drug dealers and gang members doesn't help those numbers. Thankfully the life expectancy of productive folks is higher than ever (there's a 12 year delta in life expectancy between employed and non-employed 25 year olds for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1403677/ )

Yes if you ignore all the unhealthy people, we are very healthy.

 

[Thebobo]

NYTs made a trailer about the trailer. Has some F words ~

 

[glenn1]

Yes if you ignore all the unhealthy people, we are very healthy.

I'm sure a lot of the people who were victims of gang and drug shootings last year were very healthy and had few if any terminal diseases. Universal healthcare would do precious little to change either their health condition or the fact that your life expectancy drops precipitously when a rival gang member perforates you with a bunch of 0.32" or 9mm holes. Similarly many of the factors otherwise driving down our life expectancies aren't things which are going to be magically solved by someone else paying for the medical care of an unemployed person.

 

[theeedude]

I'm sure a lot of the people who were victims of gang and drug shootings last year were very healthy and had few if any terminal diseases. Universal healthcare would do precious little to change either their health condition or the fact that your life expectancy drops precipitously when a rival gang member perforates you with a bunch of 0.32" or 9mm holes. Similarly many of the factors otherwise driving down our life expectancies aren't things which are going to be magically solved by someone else paying for the medical care of an unemployed person.

Cool story, too bad our healthy life expectancy is doing worse than our overall life expectancy in the rankings, but you keep looking for those excuses.

 

[MrSquished]

"Good homes" with lower quality of life and a tax burden twice as high as ours and population densities in the double digits multiples higher range. Sounds like what your average Manhattanite aspires to.

still waiting

What's your first chart based off of. The OECD website has lots of statistics related to spending and that could both be bad or good. Chart is too vague to cross-reference.

Also I won't mind paying more taxes when I move overseas if I am getting a lot more for my money, plus a more egalitarian society to live in. Otherwise yeah, obviously, it would be a rip off to pay more taxes but get the same level of services. I have started to realize that just acquiring stuff is very pointless after a readily achievable level, and wouldn't care if I can buy less of it necessarily.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Yeah, the unregretted attrition of homicides from drug dealers and gang members doesn't help those numbers. Thankfully the life expectancy of productive folks is higher than ever (there's a 12 year delta in life expectancy between employed and non-employed 25 year olds for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1403677/ )

And yet the U.S. ranks incredibly low in preventable death rankings. Improving to match the top three countries would save 85,000 people a year. Several times above the total homicides in the country for any reason.

But yeah. It’s the bad guys bringing the numbers down.