30 Other Nations Enjoy All These Human & Worker Rights, Making Them FAR HAPPIER Than Us
Big Money Politics Blocks All These Things, Making Our Government Mean—FAR LESS KIND Than Other Nations
30,000 Americans die each year while waiting for Social Security federal disability decisions and benefits.
For-profit health insurance kills over 65,000 Americans each year.
Medicare & Medicaid are less generous than health care in other developed countries.
Every other developed country got universal health care in the 1930s or 1940s.
½ million people in the US go bankrupt each year because of medical bills.None do in other developed nations.
People in Europe don’t even know what a deductible is!
We have the highest rates of child, senior and overall poverty, hunger, and birth mothersdying of any developed nation.
About half of homeless people in the US are working.
More equal developed countries with good social services often have:
• 1/3 the rate of mental illness • 1/10 the rate of violence as we do
Early prevention with social services can save 28 to 100 times their cost by preventing later disability benefits, adult psychiatric services, crimes, jail costs, special education programs, etc.
Jesus was a thrilling, relatable new kind of God, a simple peasant who suffered the agonizing pain and humiliation of crucifixion. This radical new religion erased all hierarchies of power, seeing everyone as equal in the Lord, with immense dignity, even women and slaves.
In a mean, chaotic world, early Christians quickly became famous as a loving family with no poor. They took in orphans and widows, ministering to anyone sick even during pandemics, and feeding the poor, whether Christian or not.