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Ours is so disfunctional that foreign Medical Doctors sometimes wind up driving taxi-cabs or working as a clerk in a gas station because they can't get a job in the medical field but can come to the US because they're related to someone who is already here.

No, it is not. Unless you're soley decended from people who came to the Americas before an Italian named Christopher Columbus conned Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain into funding a Westward expedition across the Atlantic to avoid dealing with the Portugese and/or Arabs when heading to-and-from...

Almost no distinction is made when it comes to talking points. That's one of the problems. The US labor force participation rate 78.3% for people 20-64 and rising. That's a pretty good indicator that most married couples can't afford to have one parent stay at home full-time to raise the kids...

US society has shown a severe unwillingness to support any single mother (be she a widow, divorced, rape victim, just made bad decisions, &c) to allow her to stay home and be a "full-time mommy" unless she's independently wealthy. They get referred to by politicians (especially right wing ones)...

My youngest sis works with stuff so reactive that she once set liquid Nitrogen on fire by accident. Umm ... the kinds of fires she starts when she makes a mistake can not be extinguished by any known means.

A Lieutenant Colonel almost certainly doesn't know the names of everyone who has to follow their orders off the top of their head. A Major or Captain probably doesn't either and a Lieutenant might if they have a really good memory.

If you were to tell any of my sisters that they're not allowed to a job because of a reason like "it's too dangerous for women" or "women need to stay back where it's safe" you would be in for a world of hurt. The last time a guy said something like that to my twin sis when I was around she...