I would rather have their oil than their dope.

Central Florida, where all the big attractions are like Disney, Universal, and many more, employ mostly Republicans and many are MAGA Republicans. But, what the heck, they can all go work for McDonalds.

As of late 2025, Walt Disney World Resort has approximately 80,000 employees, while Universal Orlando Resort has about 32,000 employees.

well hopefully to a better place, because you have only been a pawn in the game of life for so long now.

You re-surfaced. Glad to see it.

They were accountable long before your side started attacking them.
Even if the claim itself is true, and lots of them were not,
it's still only a tiny fraction of the money.

The investigation reportedly lasted 11 months and involved the United States Secret Service, the Ohio Investigative Unit (which enforces SNAP fraud laws in Ohio),
and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food & Nutrition Service.
That's looking with a microscope, and they only found $100k that they can point to
as fraud. Congratulations on wasting this huge effort on peanuts, while every single billionaire is scamming the taxpayer consistently for billions.

A judge found Trump and his companies liable in a years-long scheme of inflating
asset values (for banks/insurance) and ordered a penalty of $355 million.
A review by House Judiciary Committee Democrats found that Trump’s pardons,
by canceling restitution payments owed to victims, could cost victims and ultimately taxpayers about $1.3 billion.

You couldn't care less. You only care if some poor people might have received
a couple of dollars too much.

yep, don't work don't get paid,

Not the point.

How many Americans suffered under the demented old fool that had no idea where he was at most of the time?

I think the answer to my question is TMTC.

You forget that if you lose your job you were not covered by ANY insurance. That’s why “Obamacare” was brought forth. The fact that your employer held that power over your head kept employees from being treated with fairness. I guess you could claim you were lucky that your employer provided you with health insurance, but, if the month before your accident your employer decided to lay you off, right now you’d be living under a bridge. And that’s if you would have gotten medical help to survive.
You, Phart, always hint people are lazy and that they don’t work. About 63% of the work force either have a job or are actively looking for work.

There are private clinics in Canada too.

"Approximately 80,000 visits to U.S. health care facilities by Canadians occur each year, but most are for emergency care, not elective procedures." A lot of them are "snowbirds", Canadians, who migrate from the colder northern regions of North America to warmer southern destinations during the winter months. Millions of Canadians vacation or spend winters in the U.S.. Accidents and illnesses happen, and the nearest hospital is often the only immediate option. Their Canadian provincial insurance covers very little (sometimes only a fraction of the actual cost), so these travelers rely heavily on private travel insurance.

That means they are not crossing the border for YOUR healthcare, they are IN your country when they need healthcare and then are stuck with yours.

However, in some border areas, the nearest U.S. hospital is geographically closer than the nearest Canadian one. For genuine emergencies, people go to the closest facility.

A small, wealthy minority may travel for a non-emergency procedure to access specific cutting-edge treatments, particular specialists, or bypass Canadian wait times. However, this number is a small fraction of the 80,000 visits.

So, there is only a small bit of truth to your claim. I have told you before that American healthcare is ONLY good for VERY RICH people.

[In 2024, the Dutch government paid $118 Billion for healthcare related expenses.
It goes to:
- The Long-term Care Act (Wlz - Wet langdurige zorg): Care for vulnerable elderly people and people with a chronic illness or disability is largely paid from general funds.
- Youth Act and Social Support Act (Wmo - Wet maatschappelijke ondersteuning): This care falls under the responsibility of municipalities, but is funded by the national government via the Municipalities Fund, which also comes from tax money.
- Healthcare allowance (Zorgtoeslag): The government pays a healthcare allowance to people with a low income to help them pay the nominal premium for healthcare insurance, which is an indirect contribution from taxes to the healthcare system.
- Income-related contribution (IAB - Inkomensafhankelijke bijdrage): Although this is called a "contribution", it is paid by employers or benefit agencies and flows via the Health Insurance Fund (Zvf) back into healthcare, which is a form of collective financing via a levy.]

ALL other care is paid for by our health insurances. My monthly premium is $194,11.
If I have an emergency, I pay NOTHING, it's all covered by my insurance. For all non-emergency care, I pay at maximum $444 in a year. My premium includes a small supplemental insurance package, which costs me less than $100/year, but pays me $173 for part of my chiropractor costs.
Your situation would cost our insurance $6,470. Our hospitals are more affordable, but provide a better quality of service than yours. However, that is considered a medical necessity. The base insurance covers it, and it will cost the patient $444. If they need anything else that is covered by the base insurance, it would be fully covered.

We don't get our health insurance from our employer, we pay for it ourselves.
We don't lose our insurance when we lose our job. Employers cannot use health insurance as a negotiation tactic, when we negotiate wages and other benefits.

The US does have lower taxes, but we get lots of tax returns, if we have a low income. And higher income people often own their home, which allows them to deduct their mortgage rent.

Don't forget that the US government also pays for healthcare with tax-dollars.

True, about 70% of Dutch people own their own home. That means the other 30%
are renting their home.

As I told you before, The Netherlands HAD a very good system of public housing. The social rental sector was massive, reaching over 40% of the total housing stock by 1990. In cities like Amsterdam, this share was even higher. Most social housing was owned and managed by "woningcorporaties" (Non-Profit Housing Associations), which operated under a strict regulatory framework and were heavily dependent on government financial support. These housing associations were created after the war, to build a large number of affordable homes to address post-war housing shortages.

My girlfriend and I lived in one of those social houses for 9 years. The rent was $380/month. It enabled us to improve ourselves, save up a lot of money, and buy a house.

Many people cannot afford to buy a house. Also a lot of people never wanted to.
Many people will regret not buying a house when we did, because the rent has at least doubled and the price of owner-occupied houses almost doubled in less than 20 years, because the right-wing parties privatized the housing market.

We would never be able to buy our house anymore, if we tried today. We have an income between 1.5x and 2x the median. We would be able to get a mortgage of up to about €375,000 ($432,776). There are still houses being sold at that price, but not a lot and not ours. The mortgage would be €1700/month ($1962), which would be €1264 ($1459) after tax returns, if we started today. Those tax returns decline to 0 in 30 years.

However, because we bought that house in 2008/2009, and paid off a lot, our mortgage payments are now $473/month, and we still get $189 mortgage interest deduction.
That means that the $284/month we pay now is less than our rent back then.

My gosh, Not knowing where you might be living in 4 months is a headache to. IF your landlord decides to sell where you are living, he can evict you. and then you have to pickup your life and move around. kids can't stay in the same schools, your commute to work may increase, rent at a new place may be higher. so many don't knows with rent, plus you have NO equity, you try to borrow money, On what? your cell phone for collateral?
something as simple as having a vineyard for your grape vines for jellies, your garden soil that takes years to prep to get a good harvest, your hobbies? How can you have a hobby that requires a garage with stationary equipment if you don't own the building-land? how can you have live stock on rental property for milk ,eggs ,meat?
How do you folks live and actually have any concept of peace of mind ,happiness, security anything? If you rent ,you are dependent on someone for everything ,including the roof over your heads!
I can't help the dutch don't want the peace of mind of owning where they live.

You're right, of course, you live there. I haven't spent any considerable amount of time in the Netherlands during the recent years. But I used to know Amsterdam well and had friends who lived in rented apartments there. They were very happy. They raised families, they enjoyed their work, they didn't have cars, they relied on public transport and bikes, they walked a lot. Public services made life so good. They were happy. I forgot that right wing penetrator the Netherlands too and fucked it up for most of the people.