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Thanks for the insight, but its worth pointing out that Germany has a universal muti-payer system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Germany
Its just in need of a four hundred year service.
Capitalism is a made up thing.
And people have figured out how to game it.
Greed is an addiction. So is the hunger for power.
Until we admit this to ourselves history is going to repeat itself.
socialism is facade where those who whine the most about capitalistic greed, use a pretext of caring for others as a why to hide their own desire to gain wealth and power
". . . SOCIALIST GOVERNMENTS TRADITIONALLY DO MAKE A FINANCIAL MESS. THEY ALWAYS RUN OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. . . ."
--Margaret Thatcher
Socialism has proven a very potent populist tool. The greatest threat from it is that the economy degenerates only slowly and that the population gets used to the seeming freebies to react violently, if the punch bowel is removed. So, once into social programmes, there isalmost no way out till the economy falters or even implodes.
Bernie's Medicare for all bill is nonsense. If you introduce a bill that fundamentally changes nearly 1/5th of the economy and you don't have a funding mechanism, then you don't have a serious bill. It's just like the "repeal and replace" garbage we heard for years out of Republicans. Their ideas were never serious and it showed this year.
People need to get it through their thick heads, we will not have single payer in this country... ...He correctly pointed out we pay for more per-capita in this country for healthcare than any of our peer nations and do not get better results. Yes, that is absolutely true. He then put the blame for it on insurance companies and big pharma.
1. Pharmaceuticals are 10% of healthcare costs. You could give every drug away for free, and healthcare costs would still be far higher than our peer nations. That is not to say that drugs are not expensive and something needs to be done, but its not a panacea.
2. Even if you take out every dollar of profit from private insurers, every bonus they give out, all of it, you will take a family health insurance down from day 21k a year to 19k a year. Still way more than our peer nations...
socialism is facade where those who whine the most about capitalistic greed, use a pretext of caring for others as a why to hide their own desire to gain wealth and power
I have a problem with greed and the hunher for power and have no desire for wealth and power.
So your argument, fails.
when all the socialists and communists, progressives and far lefties actually believe as you claim we do, then perhaps we won't have as many problems. until then, socialism sucks
The way out? The implosion is the end game.
The way out? The implosion is the end game.
In Germany it took the government till there were 5 milliin plus unemployed and the country was being called 'The Sick Man of Europe" before Schröder made some adjustments to the social system. The reaction has been that his party lost about a third of its voters and has never recovered.
Germany is still not in very good shape. Merkel and the EU can't be considered good models.
Here in the USA, the more we become a Country of citizens dependent on redistribution to facilitate a series of codified entitlements, the more difficult it will be to reverse.
Entitlements are not easily reversed ... even after an "implosion".
Once the "implosion" occurs, that'll be the end sought by Bernie's army.
We'll be eating our pet rabbits here too.
That Senator BS ist a catastrophe is doubtless. But to make it easier to deal with the entitlement culture one should possibly make clear that the entitlements are not entitlements in future and that grandfathered welfare will phase out as the grandfathers die.
It's been like that forever, but hey there was no Black guys 'name' attached to it. .
Jesus Christ. What is wrong with you
socialism is how slick talking pimps with no real skills convince the slow witted -by appealing to envy-gain wealth and power by whining about wealth and power
Current government aid to FL and TX hurricane victims are socialist policies. Ron Paul wanted to get rid of FEMA and other government aid to areas which are hurricane, flood, or tornado prone. If people are going to build houses there, they should accept the risk, and not look for big nanny government to help them once disaster hits. That's what personal responsibility means.
Do you agree with such a policy?
I agree if you build in home in a high risk area you should either buy high risk insurance or not demand the government bail you out.
I see. So you are against the current federal aid to TX and FL hurricane victims?
I see. So you are against the current federal aid to TX and FL hurricane victims?
I am not versed well enough of the area damaged to know the history of the area Some areas were obviously in high risk areas. Some not so much
Regardless, why is it our job to help them? It shouldn't matter. It's not federal government's job to worry about such things, right?
Some are innocent victims of circumstance; others are foolish victims of their own poor decisions. I favor aid to the former.
I think this is the proper answer
Who's going to be the judge and jury?
Seems like the entire city of Houston, at least, was a victim of its own poor decision making.
"Urban design caused the Hurricane Harvey disaster"
Houston's Flood Is a Design Problem - The Atlantic
Houston's Flooding Problem Reflects Shortfalls In City Planning : NPR
They wanted to be the "city with no limits", meaning they were free from regulations and had no zoning laws. Well, maybe we should let them face the consequences of their freedom. Freedom, after all, comes with risk. You can't take all the freedom, and leave everyone else holding the bag when the risk blows up in your face, right?
Ditto for the Florida Keys. All the people living there certainly knew this was hurricane country. And yet they chose to build rickety houses there anyway. So why should we help?
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