FCC is trying to end net neutrality. This is what it can look like.

[Puppyroach]

fatslob-:O said:

 

Puppyroach said:

Ofcourse you look at other countries and what they do, that is exactly what every country does all the time, including the US =). Why do you otherwise think that you have public schools, public transportation, publically funded police and fire department, a governmental system with inspiration from Europe? You can´t possibly be so naive as to think those ideas formed out of a bubble with no influence from other nations? The same goes with net neutrality: ISP´s in the US will ofcourse look at how ISP´s in other nations have been succesful at monetizing the lack of net neutrality and therefore you need to also look at how other countries does it.

And the example with healthcare, seriously... Medicare and Medicade was formed as an inspiration from how the UK finance its public healthcare.

@Bold LOL, are serious ? The US is one of the very few oldest federal republics that has attained universal suffrage so how much can that be said of other countries who still have either a monarchy or doesn't have any sort of suffrage ? 

FYI, copying what other countries are doing isn't possible in a lot of cases ... (US uses more high end drugs than any other nation so getting the same cost benefits isn't possible) 

Reaching the same per capita GDP as Qatar is nearly impossible since it's the second largest exporter of natural gas ... 

Ofcourse they did. No idea has ever, to the best of our knowledge, been created in a vacuum. The US constitution, as revolutionary as it was at the time (and it was indeed) was a product of the inspiration from free thinkers in France and the UK, from liberalis, conservatism (and without them thinking of it, socialism) and the ideas of universal, inalienable rights. This, combined with their opposition to the crown of the UK and goal of uniting under one nation, formed the basis for the constitution. So the way other countries were run was the inspiration for the document that founded the US.

I am not talking about copying what other countries do. Both Sweden and Norway have universal healthcare, but how we go about implementing it differs between us. The same goes for US and Swedish democracy, both countries have it but go about different ways of implementing it.