Few reasons to love America

I suggest you read the story of one blogger, where it provides several reasons to love America. I live in America for 12 years. He left no "for the sausage" and not "for freedom", but mainly because the test from the first marriage and the second child in the same apartment as a not very blended, and the prospects to buy their homes was not. The current Russian swear I will not, I go there almost every year, and not only in Moscow, I see that life has become almost as in the West - the appearance of cities, shops and roads. Friends in most normally earn, buy a new car, go for a vacation abroad, and more. And in America is not all in chocolate, and something in the shit, and if the chocolate is not always the highest grade. But in general, I love America, from the first day, it does not ever go away (well, maybe, retired), and try to explain why. Environment and Nature.
 For me it in the first place. My eldest daughter was ill with asthma two years and up to 15, prior to departure. Do not leave the house without an inhaler several times was in the hospital. In the country it was better, but we can not live all year round in the country. In New York, all over, barely stepped off the plane. Who takes the inhaler only when going to Moscow. It would seem, New York, concrete jungle, but that's such a difference. Now I looked for statistics on the environmental situation here and there, comparable figures are not found (bad looking, probably), but one. Index P10 (whatever that means) in Moscow average 33 in New York 20-21, ie one and a half times better, the maximum value in New York, there were 150, and in Moscow in the summer of 2010 - 500-600. And Moscow is not the dirtiest city in Russia, Magnitogorsk, or in some Nizhny Tagil all much worse.When I come to Moscow with otvychki always feel the stench of gasoline. After a day of getting used to, do not feel. Gardens, parks, forest reserves - everywhere, even in the center of big cities, and no amount of money can not touch them. Mayor Bloomberg to cut a piece of Central Park and built a summer house - even in a nightmare not a dream. Rabbits running around in my work right under the window of the proteins, needless to say. Went for a walk in the woods for the next 3 kilometers from home - met for half an hour three deer, two opossums, raccoons and a skunk. Skunk walked away, just in case. Rest area on the lake, the usual beach full of people, and then go cranes, right there in the grass chipmunks running around, begging for watermelon seeds. Why do so - because people behave like humans, animals are not affected, the trees are not cut, do not litter, barbecue grill only in special brazier. The penalty for an ax stuck in a tree 400 dollars, and not otmazheshsya, necessarily going to love nature. Dogs complete, but no dog shit, its owners immediately collected in bags, tea bags hanging in special boxes on poles, if someone did not take with him.Stray dogs do not exist as a class, they are immediately caught and taken to shelters. In shelters, sick and old are euthanized, and the rest are trying to attach. Now it is fashionable - not to buy purebred dogs, and take shelter of mongrels. Are not taken, those probably also euthanized, but no noise about it, do not tease the crazy grandmas-zhivotnolyubov. There are homes and entire apartment complexes pets free, which can not be allowed, not like a dog's bark - Pay a little more and live. Here's tooth give, someone now joke about nigger free. The answer is: it is, in expensive public complexes clean and white, black, and if found, the educated and intelligent, like Obama.


Medicine
 Yes, prices are sky-high and the organization of medicine is bad. Yes, full of fat people, he is a sinner. Yes, there is the wise Dr. Dolittle, the treatment is similar to the conveyor, the doctor operates strictly according to instructions and the patient pays three minutes. But promptly treat and cure. I will not give figures smetrnosti and life, everyone knows them, give examples. My father's life was suffering from duodenal ulcer. Here, it turns out, treat pills. Month had a drink and forget where the intestine is. All for free, because pensioner. My kidney stones - the same story. I know at least five people who have had cancer. They were treated with the new and expensive drugs, live, work and enjoy life. Money for the operation of the entire world is not collected, the apartment did not sell. Hospitals should have remained a large amount of - well, and live off debt, pay little. Nothing to do with them is impossible, except that the credit history is spoiled, do not give credit, but it can be overcome. You're afraid to call an ambulance once again, until he was dying, is not true. I have a daughter (the other, younger) repeatedly fell into the ER. That failed to ride a roller coaster, it will drop some crap on foot. Ekstremalka. She does not have insurance, because does not work on a permanent job, and like freelancing. Comes out of the hospital bill for 5000, she wrote to them: pity, uncles, I have not so much, here's my income statement. Comes the answer: Okay, if you're so poor, miserable, pay one hundred dollars and go for a walk. Once at the full amount forgiven.


Notorious tolerance and political correctness
 In Russia it somehow misunderstood. Tolerance - it's not when all are obliged to love blacks and gays, and they are afraid to say the word across. I did not like them as well as I do not like, no one cares. Tolerance - this is when the state and society do not care, how it should not be the case. At home, you can fuck at least two-meter black man, even though the 80-year old woman, even though their own fist, this one, sorry, do not fuck, except for the very black. You can even pray to Buddha, Allah, even though Jesus, even a flying Spaghetti Monster, it is once again nobody's business. But if you try to force the other to live not as he likes, but as you like - here a tolerant America will unfold with all the tolerance and embeds you in the face. Yes, if a Christian then set fire to a mosque, it will be put. But if a Muslim would set fire to a church or synagogue, it will be put at the same rate. No people first and second grade, all are equal before the law. This, to the central street of Chicago some Arabs pestered passing girls, and the police watched and did not react, or to enter a public school lessons Protestant culture with the obligatory passing an exam, or a whole state of women were afraid to go bare-headed, as in the Russian republic of Chechnya, in a tolerant America this does not happen, and I like it. Another important point - equal rights in employment. Federal law prohibits discrimination on six grounds: race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age and disability.Sexual orientation, as you can see in the list, in 34 states out of 50 people can not take on the job, not because he does not know something or do not know how, but because he was a member of the vanities in the wrong hole, it's not quite good for the country as a whole, but not for me personally. I relate to two points out of six: nationality and age. I am 52 years old, I ineradicable accent, my name sounds to American ears about how Auhilaynen for Russian, that is, they even say it plainly can not - how do you think a lot, I would have no chance of finding a programmer clout in Moscow? Even get an interview? And then neither age nor the name or accent no one cares, I'm not satisfied with the radio announcer, and want to know how to work - work. One should not think that political correctness requires the employment of a certain number of blacks and people with disabilities, even if they know nothing about work. Mandatory representation by a pair of every creature exists only in Hollywood movies. Well, back in the USSR Supreme Soviet, this was: so many workers, so many farmers, so many indigenous people, so many women and young people. In the real America take those who can work. I have never seen a Negro programmer, here's the tech support as many as you like, they do it - infinite patience and repetition of the same instructions. Women fully at the highest levels, but they also work on a par with men. Equal rights mean equal demands. Head is not afraid to take a girl on a job because he is not afraid that she would leave in the decree, and then will sit indefinitely at the hospital with the child. Maternity leave does not exist, with planning meetings in the hospital, two months back on the job, or lay off, and sit with the child, if the salary of her husband's will. The majority lets see p.6. Sick days for men and women equally, even though you are sitting with a child, even though his head toil with a hangover, five days per year on everything about everything. The fact that the allegedly under threat of dismissal can not make a woman a compliment, or hold the door, too, is bullshit. You can not grab the public's ass, can not be fired for refusing to do the secretary blowjob boss - so well that you can not.


Goodwill
 The notorious fake smile again. In my opinion, it can irritate the only one whom has not zadolbala Russian liberty. Meeting with the child. Grandma goes to meet Russian: "Why are you not wearing a hat to him, he also will catch a cold." Or, depending on the season, "he also napechet head."American granny goes: «Oh, he is so cute!». What a cute, that is. Do you think that's good to hear? Even if the child is not very pretty, and it really cold. My daughter studied in Moscow for the 18th French special school, and on arrival went to the worst public school in New York. It happened.About her in all the papers, and was disbanded a few years later, desperate to fix something. 3/4 black students, bars on the doors and windows at the entrance of each scours the police not to smuggle weapons and drugs, and yet every day some emergency. We then came to a month, did not yet understand, otherwise I would not give them back. A year later, when mastered, I tell them: Let us translate you into a better school. No, the answer is we like it here, we've got all the teachers love. That is the worst school in New York, they feel more comfortable than in one of the best schools in Moscow. What can we say about the more or less decent American schools in decent areas. Kids love to go there, can not wait for the end of the holidays. I do not care if they're formulas will learn less than when the Russian drill. What is not a fact, then the junior solid fooling around, and begins normal in older studies. For good students have advanced classes who wants to learn, he learns. I will say more about the service. Here salesman, waiter, or any service provider sees no problem in the fact that from the client to tear a little more, but the fact that the client liked and he came again. Now I have a friend flew to San Diego. The flight was delayed, arrived in repeating the night, rolling office in which he ordered the machine shut down. The others are closed, one works. He is there, ask the car. He said: $ 100 (notional figure). He: and here in this offering over 50, but it is closed. What would you have done in absolutely any Russian office? A man in a desperate situation, to spend the night at the airport, he will not. Would have said, you do not want to 100, take over 300. And then she rummaged in the papers and said, 50 I can not, but here we have a special offer, if you take a class above the car will be 75, and even GPS will give for free. How then do not love America?


Respect for our country and its history
It shocked me on a tour of Virginia. It is worth the Lincoln Memorial, and across the road - a monument to General Lee. Mortal enemies seem to have been, but both belong to American history, and both are worthy of remembrance and respect. We now also be found Kolchak monument on the main avenue, but all the same people who would respect both Lenin and Kolchak, you will not find. The same is true of all American presidents. In the history of American presidents have been unsuccessful, the same Hoover, in which the Great Depression, or Johnson, who started the war in Vietnam, or Bush, who is a fool. But none of them Americans call or bloody tyrant, no traitor, or even some epithet which accrue to almost any Russian former governor. However, their presidents and chudili as ours. None of them blew half the country, and no one took them a million of its own citizens. For 4 years and under the control of Congress, and such cases are not frills, but a democracy - it is a separate issue, we will not touch it, and then go away far.


Decent pay for work of 
 I started with this - that in Moscow, working as a programmer in no worse a company could not afford to buy an apartment. Remove neither could I, with two children and a third cash on the approach needed at least two-bedroom. This, however, was in 2001, the situation has changed, but still every now and then I hear about the wages in thousands of 8-10-15. How can they live? In America, the minimum wage is 7.25 an hour. It is about 1160 dollars a month, or 35,000 rubles. Minimum, repeat. That is, people, 8 hours a day wiping tables makdachnoy can afford one-bedroom apartment in half with the girl or the other, used car class "Corolla" and once a year trip to Florida. Food, clothes, phones, and other little things meant. Anyone who even knows how to do something with your hands or head, earns 3 times more and can buy a house without fear, get married and have children. Are there those who earn less than the minimum? Yes, there is. Illegals. Students rabotayushie full week. Alcoholics, drug addicts and creative individuals who broke work 8 hours a day. I do not feel sorry.


Compliance with laws and regulations
Here I read PL and different forums. What people have a problem that they resent the most? Cattle clipped other cars. Cattle, overtaking on the sidelines. Cattle, park their tachily across the street and on lawns. Cattle-traffic cops, extort money. Brutes in red Macas pestering girls, and even rape them. The beasts are neighbors with punches. Brutes with bultererami without a leash. Hamyashie brutes behind the counter. And most of all enraged that these brutes no council. The most popular on Yap are stories in which the hero was cool enough to give such brutes on merit. I will now try to imagine what I would do if any of these situations have seen in America. Would call the police (in the case of a neighbor - in management at home, in case the seller - in the management of the store). Everything. In reality, even the call would not have to, because I have already called up to ten times. In Russia to respect yourself, you have to be a hero. If you're not a hero, then a coward. Here, life does not require heroism. Enough to pay taxes (which include professional and characters), and most follow the rules. That's what I like the most.