Disclaimer: Completely off topic
Few have the balls to publicly ask uncomfortable questions, especially those in conflict with the idealized view American's like to have of themselves.
Does loop sided distribution of wealth / the concentration of capital in less and less hands correlate to a measurable uptick in crime? In areas of long term unemployment in former steel/coal etc producing regions that appears to be the case.
The orgie of outsourcing has not always been justified imo.
Germany's specialized work force is one of the highest paid on the planet. There is outsourcing as well, but to a degree. If for example products made in Germany can be sold all over the world at a profit, what are the reasons the US can't do the same?
(collective bargaining with unions and giving their representatives seats on companies boards has worked there)
Some countries insist a better educated population will earn more and therefore return the nations investment with their taxes. So they provide free education (incl higher) for those who want to learn, an apprentice system to supply industry with qualified staff, those who want to employ people have to go for the letter of master craftsman, and take the burden of healthcare off companies shoulders. Most Europeans, see affordable healthcare as a basic human right, period.
Germany's national health plan (btw includes dental and vision) goes back to the year 1880 or so, and while additional insurance to upgrade say to a private room etc can be bought from private for profit insurers, most of us are fairly baffled about about the heated pro and con debate over here.
I think as the only provisio newly minted medical doctors have to work for a year or two in areas with few doctors, but they don't owe $3-400K like their American counterparts, perhaps bringing them a bit closer to the spirit of the hippocratic oath.
No offense, but massive tax cuts that also reduce funding for education make not even sense to the 3 wise monkeys (see new age version).
According to rumor, they used to be one more, but he went into politics