U.S.A. mom in Germany explains socioeconomic differences

George1959 said:
To criticize one country is always a slippery slope. But as a German I can say that our healthcare system is deteriorating. If the plans of the government come true a third of the hospitals shall be closed during the next two years.
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What plans are they? Please post a link.
 
I found her exceedingly annoying, particularly when she started flailing her hands toward the end of one of the videos :rolleyes:

I also found it hard to swallow that she had been a mother & homeless as she claimed at one point. She sure looked pretty well dressed, well quaffed & living in a moderately posh place for someone who'd been living on the street in the past few years.

The 'cutesy' manner in which she spoke suggested to me she is well practiced at selling herself on the internet. Many presentable young ladies are involved 24/7 on social media trying to become popular influencers with a large volume of followers. For the top influencers, this work can provide significant income & notoriety.

A bit of fluff was how she struck me, I wouldn't put much stock in what she had to say frankly but I wish her luck in her efforts to become rich & famous 🤑
 
SeniorBen said:
What plans are they? Please post a link.
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No problem.
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/krankenhaeuser-reform-lauterbach-101.html
I don't have links in English but this is from the "Tagesschau", the main TV news channel.
I translated a part of it with deepl.com:
"But the system is considered expensive, ailing and inefficient. The last major reform was 20 years ago. Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach therefore wants to restructure the hospital landscape and its financing with a hospital reform. It is a mammoth task. Experts assume that hospital closures and a merger of clinics will also be necessary. Resistance from the various players in the healthcare industry is programmed."
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Or here:
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/...nhausern-in-berlin-droht-das-aus-9247083.html
The headline says: "Exclusive: If Lauterbach's plan is implemented: These Vivantes hospitals in Berlin are threatened with closure.
And the subtitle: "Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) wants fewer small hospitals. But if the idea is strictly implemented, large hospitals would also have to close."
There is a fee for the article, but you get the tenor from headline and subtitle.
 
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George1959 said:
No problem.
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/krankenhaeuser-reform-lauterbach-101.html
I don't have links in English but this is from the "Tagesschau", the main TV news channel.
I translated a part of it with deepl.com:
"But the system is considered expensive, ailing and inefficient. The last major reform was 20 years ago. Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach therefore wants to restructure the hospital landscape and its financing with a hospital reform. It is a mammoth task. Experts assume that hospital closures and a merger of clinics will also be necessary. Resistance from the various players in the healthcare industry is programmed."
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Or here:
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/...nhausern-in-berlin-droht-das-aus-9247083.html
The headline says: "Exclusive: If Lauterbach's plan is implemented: These Vivantes hospitals in Berlin are threatened with closure.
And the subtitle: "Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) wants fewer small hospitals. But if the idea is strictly implemented, large hospitals would also have to close."
There is a fee for the article, but you get the tenor from headline and subtitle.
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This article explains some of it...
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/krankenhaus-lauterbach-101.html

They're having staff shortages and many procedures can now be performed on an outpatient basis, so the hospitals aren't needed. That's their rationale, anyway.
 
Harry Le Hermit said:
I have no doubt things are better in Germany for this individual. Just how much money is she raking in, via her social media accounts, by criticizing the USA?
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I am trying to grasp how someone with a PHD from Kansas in 2014, and was a professor at FHSU in Hayes, Kansas until leaving for Germany, experienced some of the things she claims. It is possible. Her youtube earnings are 6 figures, although I don't know the formula for Tiktok or instagram monetization.
 
I agree with Hermit.

Could it be said that she is the internet equivalent of the bogus homeless who are standing at intersections with signs asking for money? And while doing so, at the detriment of the United States?

Her actions remind me of a CBS evening news had done a report on street beggars some years ago. They followed quite a few & investigated them. One girl walked back to her very nice middle class house where she went in, changed out of her "work" clothes & into other (again very nice) clothes. It didn't look like the same female, but it was her. The news crew walked up to talked to her & told here what they saw & asked for her side of the story. She refused to talked to them.

There were others who were watched that walked to higher end vehicles parked away from public view & got inside. News crew tried to talk them also & had the same response as they did from the girl.

These people were frauds using a sad story (not their story) to make money.
 
I'm glad she likes Germany. She should stay.
I'm sorry she doesn't like the US. She should stay out.
Her words mean nothing to me. No offense, but nothing to me.
I know she's explaining differences.
 
I was curious about this individual & fell down the rabbit hole.

In the link below, two of several things she said was that she wouldn't ever return to the US & that she no longer has to worry about paying for her student loans. This is a direct quote taken from the link below, "Speaking to the Independent, Aly said ultimately she wants to be clear that the purpose of her TikTok account is 'to slam, drag, or put down the USA.' "

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/american-mom-germany-tiktok-b1986691.html

It appears this is one way she is making money off of her rants. When you bring up a website called "Direct Me", scroll down to "Buy me a Coffee". By clicking on that you get: Buy me a coffee 🥰 --- Send usa.mom.in.germany a gift and show them your support. Your gift will be sent directly to usa.mom.in.germany along with your message.

https://direct.me/usamomingermany#

Is it me, or is it just sad how some people take just one persons idea/opinion about the US as a fact? Especially a woman who owes money on her student loan that she took out herself & left the country to avoid paying that debt. What does that action show the world?
 
I worked in & with areas that she would consider low-income. I can't recall any of the residents having a pity-party about what someone else had that they didn't. These people went to work & went about their lives. Nor would I be scared or have a problem walking around day or night in those areas.

I grew up in similar neighborhood made up of a lot of hardworking people from Appalachia who came into the area during WW2 for jobs. It wasn't exactly middle class, but these people didn't have a chip on their shoulder either. Most of the houses were built during the war & known as Defense Cabins. If you're not familiar, these were substandard due to the lack of material & manpower & weren't built to standards of the time. It hasn't changed too much since I moved years ago. I still wouldn't be afraid to walk there any time.

A lot of my friends who grew up there like me moved up & out to other areas of the country. No one belly ached about what we had or didn't have compared to those in "richer" areas we went to school with. If I wanted something, I worked for it. It was something I earned & was mine. I did not, do not want or expect handouts.

IMO, USA Mommy is looking for handouts that she thinks she is entitled to. She didn't get what she wanted here, so she left & found them she says in Germany. She is also making money through her criticism of this country through her internet videos. What people are seeing in her videos is HER own preconceived ideas & biases that she is presenting as "facts".
 
Lilac said:
I was curious about this individual & fell down the rabbit hole.

In the link below, two of several things she said was that she wouldn't ever return to the US & that she no longer has to worry about paying for her student loans. This is a direct quote taken from the link below, "Speaking to the Independent, Aly said ultimately she wants to be clear that the purpose of her TikTok account is 'to slam, drag, or put down the USA.' "

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/american-mom-germany-tiktok-b1986691.html

It appears this is one way she is making money off of her rants. When you bring up a website called "Direct Me", scroll down to "Buy me a Coffee". By clicking on that you get: Buy me a coffee 🥰 --- Send usa.mom.in.germany a gift and show them your support. Your gift will be sent directly to usa.mom.in.germany along with your message.

https://direct.me/usamomingermany#

Is it me, or is it just sad how some people take just one persons idea/opinion about the US as a fact? Especially a woman who owes money on her student loan that she took out herself & left the country to avoid paying that debt. What does that action show the world?
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In the same article she says

“My videos are meant to combat US propaganda that sells the USA as the best country in the world and, through this rhetoric, discourages a realistic view of other countries who often have social systems that function better for their people,” she said.

She added: “Along those same lines, I would certainly consider moving back to the USA if it were to adopt many of the policies and changes in the social system and structure that Germany has enacted, but in don’t imagine that will happen in my lifetime.”

Every financially successful person in America is a gold digger. The Walton's, Musk, Gates, Zuckerberg, Westley Wexner : Victoria's Secrets CEO ( exploits women ) Epstein, etc. What about the welder that makes $30 an hour, but the customer is charged $200 by the welder's employer? What about leaders of corporations that make 100's of times what their average worker make's? Isn't this gold digging? Why do so many people respect and allow and even celebrate this kind of extreme inequality?
Instead of attaching the messenger, why can't you hear the message she is trying to convey. Capitalism is benign in itself, but America is ruled by unbridled capitalism which is not benign or designed for the masses. Thus the increasing homelessness, infant mortality, skyrocketing cost of education, healthcare and loss of quality. It might be true that anyone can make it in America, but not everyone. It feels like we are being farmed to serve the wealthy and that is why people don't want to work.
Somebody that makes $200 million a year makes $96,000 and hour ( 40 hour work week ). Fair?
 
"America is the wealthiest nation on earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves...Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters."
~~from Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

It appears that some young Americans may no longer be glorifying their "betters" as Vonnegut put it; and since by "betters" I think he meant the inherited wealthy, I think it's a good thing.
 
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