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Flip it however you wanna flip it . 500,000 out 85,000,000 seems insanely worse than 770,000 out of 347,000,000 which is the USA homeless numbers according to google. What the fuck happened? The whole country is only the size of a large state lol. How is the largest EU economy so incompetent it produces A homeless rate on a scale of a super power?
Well 16 years basically nothing, then a little bit before the government imploded. But don't worry there is an election soon and the top 2 parties are populists and one of them is openly fascist. So give us another couple years and everything will surely fall into place... any moment now...
You know how Germany has universal healthcare? Well, doesn't mean shit if you have to wait for a specialist (like a psychologist) months to years. Oh but don't worry, Politicians (+some others) have a different, better Version. They can get any specialist in days and most cost is covered by the state. So they surely have the best interests at heart for the 90% of population who just get the basic healthcare.
And if that isn't enough our pension system is dying pretty fast as well, as it is basically a pyramid scheme. So we currently have lots of old folks not getting enough money, and not enough young people to pay for that, even though the young have to pay more and more. But don't worry, if you think this is bad: it will be getting a lot worse. Because this trend is continuing, young people paying a lot right now, will receive even less later. I honestly do not think I will have enough money to even eat when I am older, despite having a good job and paying 18,6% (50/50 split with the employer) of my income towards the pension system. Oh, and take a guess who is exempt from that. Politicians (+some others) again. Who get as much pension for 4 years of "work" as the average person gets after their whole work life. So surely, they will fix that too.
Germany was trending upwards until 1982, then our version of Reagan put the downfall in motion. Any time now.
Dude, that's not different in the U.S. Even if you can afford healthcare, you have to wait months for a specialist. I had to wait 9 months and have my GP take over my medication to get in with a new neurologist when my old one retired. And we have "good" insurance.
It's not a contest...
Nor did I intend it to be. It was a sad note that even in a socialized medicine system things have ended up like the U.S.