Six-weeks annual vacations, paid parental time off, guaranteed healthcare, safety, no guns in the streets, no mass shootings at schools .... Why would a European want to move to the US?
Trump's US is turning aways millions of (im)migrants the country desperately needs because Americans are either too lazy or not too smart.
In Europe, there is so much security and social trust that parents leave their children unattended outside on the sidewalk when they go inside a coffee shop or restaurant.
In the US, there is so much violence and fear around that cops will stop and question mothers walking with their children on the street. Everyone is a suspect of one thing or another. This is, according to Trump, the "hottest" country on earth. See two articles below:
- Walking with your child in the street is a highly suspicious activity, not just for cops, but for other ordinary citizens who rat on you. (State of Georgia). The story below turns this incident into a "transportation" issue, when it is really a cultural American puritanism issue.
- Back in 1997, Danish mother visiting New York left her child in a stroller outside while she went inside a shop. SHE GOT ARRESTED because "concerned" Americans called the cops.
Pretty much anywhere around the world, you'll see children playing in the streets. Not in America. Pretty much anywhere else in the world, children walk to their schools unaccompanied. In America, it's one big choreographed spectacle when a school bus with untold numbers of lights, sounds, stop signs, crossing "lollipop" seniors.....picks up children. Elsewhere, they teach children personal responsibility. In the US, they infantilize children so much that the children no longer make their own decisions... Why? There is so much violence in American culture that fear for one's children spoils them and sedates them into a false sense of security and overrides any sense of self-awarness and responsibility.
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Mom confronted by police while walking across town with 3-year-old: 'It's been frustrating every time it's happened'
The United States is notoriously car-dependent: 92% of households have access to a car, but only 55% have viable public transit options.
Those statistics underscore how vehicles shaped norms and dictated urban planning — but a post on an anti-car subreddit evidenced how stifling American "car culture" has become.
"I got the cops called on me for walking," the original post's title stated.
Reddit post titles occasionally belie their contents; claims like this can signal a misleading omission by the poster.
Not here, though.
The user explained that her pediatrician was "a 45-minute walk" from their home. Anticipating rain, she packed weather-appropriate clothing and bundled her toddler into a stroller. On the way back, however, the woman was "pulled over" by the chief of police in her small Georgia city.
"He asked where I'd been, where I was going, and told me that they'd had a call from a 'concerned citizen' regarding a woman walking with her young child in the storms. Keep in mind, it HAS NOT rained yet," she continued.
Immediately, the poster's story got even more infuriating — she added that the bizarre traffic stop marked the third time in five years she'd been stopped by police for the highly suspicious behavior of walking short distances.
"It's been frustrating every time it's happened," she admitted.
On Oct. 1, the Natural Resources Defense Council noted that, despite high rates of car ownership, nearly 16 million Americans had no access to a car. A third lacked "reliable" access to a car amid broadly poor public transportation options.
Public transportation isn't just about getting to work; a British study showed that increasing access to services like bus routes reduced social isolation, and researchers observed a 12% decrease in depressive symptoms.
Another recent study linked time spent driving, such as a daily commute, to higher rates of depression and divorce, lower sleep quality, and poorer mental health overall.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, transportation is the source of "the largest portion (28%)" of planet-warming pollution in the U.S., with 57% of that pollution attributed to "light-duty vehicles," also known as "cars."
Treating pedestrians as presumptive criminals is surprisingly not uncommon, but Redditors were enraged on the poster's behalf.
"The call from a concerned citizen is b*******. The cop just lied to interject themselves," one replied.
Another advised the original poster to contact their local lawmakers. "I would complain to your local elected officials. They spent money on all that walking infrastructure, and the cops are harassing people for using it?" they wrote.
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Meanwhile in "liberal" New York, back in 1997 (I can't imagine it got any better with the great Moron drenching the US in government-induced violence. Today the Danish mother below would be arrested by ICE or CBP, detained for several weeks, and separated from her child.
nbcnewyork.com/news:
Danish Mom: I Was Unfairly Vilified For Leaving Baby Outside in Stroller
A Danish mother whose 1997 arrest for leaving her baby outside an East Village restaurant sparked an international debate about parenting styles says she still feels she was unfairly vilified.
"(My) case that happened 20 years ago is even more relevant today," Anette Sorensen told the New York Post for a story published Saturday. She said American parents "live in fear," and she still wants "to show it's possible to live another way."
Then an actress in her 30s, Sorensen parked her 14-month-old daughter in a stroller outside a Dallas BBQ while she and the baby's father, a New York-based playwright, had margaritas inside on a chilly May evening. Sorensen said she repeatedly checked on the blanket-covered baby during the hour they were at the restaurant before a patron summoned police.
The parents were arrested on child-endangerment charges that were eventually dropped. Child welfare authorities briefly took charge of the girl.
"I don't think there's any greater punishment than to have your child taken away from you," Sorensen told the Post.
The episode sparked outrage from New York, where residents were astounded at the idea of parents depositing a child alone on a sidewalk, to Denmark, where residents were equally stunned by the notion of being arrested for leaving a child unattended for a spell while shopping or dining.
Sorensen filed a $20 million false-arrest lawsuit against the city. A jury in 1999 awarded her $66,000, rejecting many of her claims but agreeing that she should not have been strip-searched, among other findings.
Sorensen, who now lives in Hamburg, Germany, is trying to raise money online to get an English translation of a novel she wrote based on her 1997 experience.
"I always had a big longing for an apology," she says in a fundraising video that also features her now 21-year-old daughter. "I probably never will get this apology."
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