But, but walls don’t work.
Our Swiss friends visited recently. The dad, a farmer and vintner, said, “In ten years you will not recognize Switzerland, it is so overrun with immigrants.’ When we were last in Switzerland, things were so expensive that we did not even buy chocolate. Not Utopia, I’m just saying. Our other friends were moving to Basel, but they were not happy because it is illegal in Basel to homeschool.
just saying.
Plus their flag looks like the stars and bars (to libtards).
AND ALL SWISS MEN ARE ARMED, AND YET, THERE IS NO MASS SHOOTINGS IN SCHOOLS. THERE ALSO IS NO WAR ON CHRISTMAS.
Health care is all about making good personal decisions with respect to diet, physical activity, personal relationships, work environment.
Medical care has only a marginal influence on lifespan. Most of US healthcare is profit driven by big pharma and large hospital corporations.
We have to stop conflating the two.
A heritage, some say, due to the Knights Templar who escaped there from France when being oppressed by King Philip IV. If so, Islam is now destroying their work from within.
Lots very groovy,some things very stark.
cite, not sight
I used to work for a guy who grew up in Switzerland during the War, in Basel. He told me that the German radio propaganda broadcasts used to taunt that only “We Germans and the Cow-Swiss (Kuhschweiss) prepared for this war.” Basel was the recipient of a “misdirected” bombing raid towards the end of the war. Basel was the site of a lot of Nazis’ second homes, apparently they intended to flee into Switzerland and live off their Swiss bank accounts. He thinks the raid was intended as warning to the Swiss to not become a haven for Nazis post-war. (The U.S. had no need to invade, they could have leveled every building in Switzerland and destroyed every railroad and barge from the air. Please don’t post any encomia to the invincible Swiss Air Force. )
They will be overwhelmed by mussies
The only time I was in Switzerland was in the late eighties. Zurich was a mess. Needle Park which has since been cleaned up was a cess pool
With a population less than New York,they can control everything with ease...and do.Sorry, I wouldn’t trade us for them EVER!
“don’t like it when I sight that life expectancy number.“
Gil needs an editor.
L
In 1848, my great great grand father and many others religiously persecuted fled Vaud, Switzerland for America
This article is completely true. The Swiss are doing some of the things we think we are alone to do, and doing it better. While hygiene is better here, and while you can’t sue doctors, access to their (slightly poorer, less advanced) health care system is cheaper and easier. They have 3 levels of insurance. Ward care, semi private, and private. Most seniors on fixed incomes have ward care. It is the same care but the patients are in one large ward (think WWII movies). Most middle class workers have semi private, as I did when I was there, and I experienced two hospitalizations, brain surgery and C section. Not bad at all.
We think we are Federal but there is little comparison. Each Swiss canton is quite individual in everything, from holidays to cantonal religion to all kinds of laws. The country is run by a group of 7 (I think) Bundesrsat and they choose one each year to act as President for official meetings etc.
Their Air Force (which my Swiss husband was a part of) is amazing and other countries forces often come to train there.
Every male is in the military until his late 40s I think. They report for 2 years at 18, and then a month every year and then every few years. There are obligatory numbers of hours you must have yearly on the shooting range.
I worked in Human Resources and the work ethic is so huge. Every worker gets 13 months’ salaries. That extra month is given out in November so the worker can use it for Christmas or taxes. Every worker gets 4 to 6 weeks paid vacation so everyone travels a lot. Every worker can miss up to 2 years due to medical issues and get paid. And they never misuse that! They come in sick instead! I had to tell people to go home with their fevers and coughs and stop bringing illnesses to the office.
There is no workman’s comp. All accidents are paid for by the employer regardless of how the injury occurred. It doesn’t matter if the broken leg or hurt back happened on the job or on the ski slopes. They present the bill to the employer and we pay. Easy peasy, no more detectives and cottage industry workman’s comp lawyers.
I prefer the idea of the free United States and our amazing forthright, earnest, brave, open people. But my second country is pretty awesome as well.