@turbofritz2 What? Of COURSE Fox supports the Tea Party! They even orchestrated early rallies! Please don't defend FOX. You can't honestly watch that crap? Talk about propaganda, that is the purest example (other than what you see in North Korea).
@turbofritz2 Socialism actually works; you'd rather have the few largest corporations running things (as they are doing here and now)? You really have to stop watching Fox (one of those major corporations).
@turbofritz2 How is this American propaganda if the studies were conducted by INTERNATIONAL organizations? The OECD is NOT American nor is the United Nations Human Development Index. It's funny how you added in "Socialist" into your ignorant comment; because the happiest countries ARE socialist!!! Denmark and Norway aren't happy because they are rich or have business (The U.S. dominates them in that); it's because of SOCIAL programs! Stop watching FoxNews, THAT is propaganda!
@damoninsky INternational propaganda then. It makes perfect sense that internationalists want you under socialism and centralization. Denmark is not that good country the tax is high and the prices are high. i watched a documentary on that and they pointed denmark wrongly in the map and named prince faulty. That is the least of their errors.
@turbofritz2 "internationalists"? Hahaha. It's a scientific study, it's not biased. This is EVIDENCE. The tax is high, you're right, to help pay for social programs that help everyone. They LIKE high taxes, taxes are good, the funds HELP SOCIETY. Documentaries can be biased if that is where you're getting your info from. Go read a book and stop watching Fox!
@damoninsky A study done by some international some kind of institution holds no extra credebility there are many other factors making Denmark and Norway a LITTLE better to live in. Has to do with they don't have an empire of war to run such as USA has. USA is wasting alot of money on wars.
@turbofritz2 Of course the U.S. wasting money on wars, but that's not why the U.S. is also low on the totem pole in happiness, education, health, etc...You need to READ these studies and not just blow them off. There is credibility, much more than your opinion. Sorry you're so unhappy with life.
@turbofritz2 You're from Northern Europe, where people are happier than Americans, yet you think otherwise; it seems to me that you're rejecting the average of the populations and using your self as evidence.
@damoninsky I'm rejecting stupid survayes done in an socialist/globalist agenda.
Scandinaiva is OK. But for other reasons than socialism!!
We don't use alot of money on wars. People are generaly non violent vulentary. It's illigal to hit children. And the people are generaly reason based and educated. non religious. Without socialism and central plannig we would be better off.
@turbofritz2 Better educated hmm, maybe because your education system is SOCIALIZED! It's payed for through taxes. How many hundreds of thousands of people are in debt due to college tuition? And HEALTH CARE! You don't think being healthy or not being in debt your entire life plays a role in happiness here? If you have a surgery in the U.S. and aren't insured, you'll easily own $50,000. Nobody can afford that. In debt, the rest of their lives. 44,000 people die each year without insurance
@damoninsky The reason why you are doing "worse" with helth careis not because you don't have enough of goverment in USA it's rather that you spend your money on war instead.
@damoninsky There is NOTHING wrong with private insureance and the issues Michael moore points out. However he misses to point one thing out that is that the medecine industry in USA has a priveledged monopoly status and you have in addition an unfair brutal WAR on drugs. Marihuana can replace some of those discusting medecine products that they sell you in USA.
@turbofritz2 Legalizing Marijuana is not going to solve the problem. Universal Health Care will solve many more problems than replacing a few drugs on the market. He actually covers the MAIN points.
@damoninsky Stop being so naive. Elect RON PAUL he will end the monopoly on drugs and legalize marihuana witch will replace many expensive chemical products.
@turbofritz2 I didn't say "evil", just immoral. He doesn't believe that government should help its own citizens. He'd rather let them die from sickness than to provide them with free healthcare (even though our country can clearly afford it). He has many great ideas, but has some pretty bad ones. He's great compared to any republican, but NOTHING compared to any liberal.
@damoninsky I don't know how you can take this stand. Ron Paul is a very nice guy and has all credebility to assume moral high ground.
He was in medecine before helth care came about he helped alot of people for FREE this was before the state became involved in health care. He doesn't want people to die!! thats the ridiculous.
@turbofritz2 If you listend to the debates, he clearly didn't care what happens to people who get sick and don't have health insurance; he said maybe the "church" will help them. That is pathetic. He's a LIBERTARIAN. He's all about every-man-for-himself. Who's a nicer person, one who wants to help everyone by providing assistance, or someone who says sink or swim? (I know of many doctors who don't care for patients, but rather money).
@damoninsky Ron Paul helped people vulentarly way before you guys had social welfare!!
Ron Paul is nothing like the greedy drug companies that enjoy goverment protected monopolies!! Ron Paul wants to legalize marihuana and hamp. That can replace many EXPENSIVE and dangerous chemical drugs!!
@turbofritz2 Once again, marijuana is NOT the problem. If anything he should make ALL drugs legal. His ideals at making this country better will only be slight. We need someone WAY more progressive and caring. It doesn't matter that he helped people voluntarily, all doctors do at some point. Right now, he admitted it, that he doesn't care, they are on their own for survival. TOTally immoral.
@turbofritz2 Do you want anarchy? Government is necessary. Yes, Ron Paul is different, and he does have some great ideas, but that doesn't mean he is the best, nice, or going to make things better. By reducing government, you reduce many, many important programs that HELP society! Taxes are GREAT! We NEED taxes, we LOVE taxes. Taxes pay for roads, firemen, police, medicare, EPA, NASA, etc...whoever says otherwise is a fool.
@damoninsky All of those things can be founded privatly and by vulentary action!!
NASA - well they wasted alot of money would you invest in some guy going to the moon? what did you get out of it? While your goverment did that they could for example invested it in new energy sources or farming technologies that would have advenced human kind!!
@turbofritz2 No. The amount of money spent on science and NASA is pennies compared to Military and Health. If we didn't invest in science technology, then we wouldn't have cell phones, internet, satellites, etc...It's actually GOOD to invest in knowledge.
@damoninsky Ron Paul voted no for patriot act and terroist act that will take away americans civile liberty. Ron Paul voted and has spoken against all wars. Ron Paul wants to protect your liberty and minimize this brutalized wars on drugs witch are realy racist wars. And stopping this irrational fearmongery of terrorists you have.
Ron Paul will change the world and expose the money monopoly of the central banks. The establishment fear the hell out of this man!!
@turbofritz2 Great. I agree with him on ALL of those ideas. But every liberal has those as well, but without his ridiculous no-taxes, small government, sink/swim mentality. Why don't you like Nader?
@turbofritz2 You're right, he is different, and this is what makes him appealing. However, I don't support several of his main areas of concern. Nader is also very, VERY much hated. Ron Paul definitely would create REAL change, however not necessarily the BEST change. I prefer Nader over Paul...but personally, I don't think we'll ever get anyone who wants real change elected.
@damoninsky Yeah you're right - we agree opun that.
The establishment wants no change.
I don't know too much on Nader to say anything..
There is for sure an establishment and the media (neither in US or in Europe) would support an alternative view on things even if it could be better for mankind.
@turbofritz2 You should also look into Dennis Kucinich. He's the Ron Paul of the Democrats; but obviously much more amazing (since he's not a republican).
All of the things he put forward in the video seem very attractive...until you realize that they are the reason the EU is in deep financial shit right now, and quite possibly will be fracturing back into separate economies.
@Twizter68 Uhhh, you MUST be joking..."the reason why the EU is in deep financial shit right now" is the same reason why the US is in deep financial shit too...because of the unregulated AMERICAN BANKS!!! This is what you get when you privatize. You really need to start reading more and stop watching FOX news.
@damoninsky UUHH I get my news from Reuters and the Beeb...and maybe you should actually travel to Europe. Been there numerous times over the last 20 years, including 4 of the last 6; Italy, France, Spain, England and Germany. There is a LOT more unrest than your video purports...and the EUROPEAN news agencies report the causes as being the explosion in PUBLIC SECTOR wages and social program outlays.
@Twizter68 This video was made before the American Banks nearly destroyed the world, so yes, you're right, there is much more unrest in Europe now, but NOT because of social "public sector" spending. Do you really believe they just started spending more on peoples wages at the exact same time the US went belly up? Quite a coincidence I say.
@Allisoninsky And the collapse was NOT brought on by the banks (By themselves) Read up on Fannie/Freddie, and the who and why...you will find that the .GOV pressured the banks into issuing loans to those who could not afford them, all in the interests of "social fairness."
@Twizter68 Please show me your source where you think the government "pressured banks" to cause this collapse. There's a whole lot more to read up on than just Fannie/Freddie. The private banks were greedy and totally deceitful (see Credit Default Swaps) and were completely UNregulated. Interesting how North Dakota is doing OK with their GOVERNMENT run bank, huh? Go listen to what they're saying at the Occupy Wall Street. protests. If you want some authors, I can point you to them too.
@damoninsky I believe in living what you preach. You should move. People haven't been immigrating to the greatest nation on God's green earth because we are such an oppressed people. I would rather be free to spend my hard earned dollars the way I see fit. Some of you need a strong arm to tell you how to live. You just aren't real motivated or something. Socialism is probably a good choice for you. I don't want to be referred to as a "useful idiot" .
@lsleveland72 I'm very curious, what exactly makes this country the "Greatest nation on God's green earth"? I would think the level of happiness of the citizens would make it the best, unfortunately, we aren't ranked even the top 20 countries for happiness.
@AllKnowingCreator 1) Then why aren't we the best? We spend more than any other country yet we're ranked 37th! 2) What? Then why wasn't unemployment at 9.4 before the economic crash? 3) I agree, so we shouldn't let corporations and banks get away with deregulations and tiny taxes. 4) Regulating wall street would have prevented this. 5) Uhh, doctors aren't rioting in Europe, what are you reading? Take out insurance companies and regulate Big Pharma to fix our healthcare system.
@AllKnowingCreator Wow, you're actually defending our healthcare system? Your Facts: 1) Europe has more people. 2) Illegal immigrants generate far more for our economy than they cost (you can't honestly criticize our healthcare on "illegals"). 3) What are you talking about? That never happened. 4) So what, Europe helps Europe. 5) Those are called protests or revolutions, and they've happened here too which made this country better than it is. It should be happening more often here.
@damoninsky If I may add to your commentary of point 1) from the other guy (AllKnowingCreator). In Europe they at least get to wait. My understanding of the US system is that if you don't have money, you're not even getting on the waiting list in the first place (that could be my misunderstanding though, correct me if I'm wrong).
@TheRacistsMustDie The way we are "best in care" is the fact that we are able to perform the most difficult procedures, using the most modern technology. If one needed certain brain surgeries or certain organ transplants, one would definitely want to come to the U.S. So the U.S. is better for helping the few, but not the many. The U.S. simply wastes billions by having the middleman of insurance companies rule and letting Big Pharma charge outrageous prices.
these are so skewed I'm appalled. go to the UK Telegraph and read about all the people dying in their health care system. Read about their Euthanasia. Socialism destroys individuals and this country is about the constitution, or at least should be. Please. Europe sucks. Propaganda piece.
@ddsharper Try reading about all the people dying in the U.S.'s health care system (or the 44,000 people who die each year because they can't afford health insurance!!!). Euthanasia isn't a health care problem, it's not even a problem, it's a good thing. This isn't propaganda, these are FACTS. Your quote "Socialism destroys individuals" is right wing propaganda!
Thats why the national debts of most of the european nations are out of control and there are riots in the streets, because they can't keep up the redivuluos spending that they have so tended to spend. Lets see UK 431.5% External Debt to GDP Ratio and Rising, Ireland 986.6%, France 197.6%, and Portugal 263.5%. While America has a 94.7% External debt to GDP Ratio. The answer is for people to take responsibility for themselves and to relize the difference between
@klittle273 Ha, their debt isn't $14 Trillion! People are protesting because their government is becoming more like America's government, which will make their lives more difficult and less happy. Sure some of their countries are in trouble, but that's all thanks to the PRIVATE banking system...oh yeah, sure, the "answer is for people to take responsibility for themselves"...we saw how well that turned out with Enron, AIG, WaMu, Goldman Sachs, GM, etc...people need to be REGULATED.
@damoninsky Yea, more regulation thats a great idea. If it wasn't for Ben Bernanke and keeping mortgage rates so low that people who couldn't normally afford to own a home took out mortgages with interest rates that eventually had to come up, this in turn caused them to default on their mortgages causing the housing bubble and the start of the economic collapse. The fact is the more you regulate people the more opportunity and personal freedoms you take away from, for instance if Bill Gates
@klittle273 Are you honestly saying Ben Bernanke is responsible for the economic collapse? Are you serious??? Where in the world do you get your information from? For the last 2 decades, banks (privately owned), were offering duping people into bade interest rates. Then the Credit Default Swaps between banks screwed EVERYTHING! ALL PRIVATE! There were NO federal regulations, this is why the shit hit the fan. Screw giving "personal freedoms" to private corporations if they ruin everything.
@damoninsky Ok sorry i mistakenly said Ben Bernanke, i was thinking about the prior fed chairman Alan Greenspan. Still though two of the main causes behind the housing bubble in and of itself was the lowered interest rates after the dot-com crash in 2001-2002, and the Community Reinvestment
Act of 1977 that forced banks to give out loans that they normally wouldn't have done. Then in 2006 when the Fed raised the interest rates again It caused a mass of foreclosure and the bubble popped.
@klittle273 Right, under both Clinton and Bush (not Obama). This was a greedy bipartisan mistake to allow private banks to run unregulated...HUGE mistake. There HAS to be regulations. The power of a few doesn't make this a democracy, but an oligarchy.
@damoninsky were to try to start Microsoft today the way he did originally it would have failed. To a certain point regulation is good but we're reaching a point where it is starting to shackle people in place and keep them from progressing up the rungs of society. Oh and as for the personal responsibility of those companies you just named it is also the governments fault for catering to them. If the companies can't sustain themselves they should be allowed to fail which gm for example had to
@klittle273 Your comment regarding Bill Gates is just idiotic. Look at Mark Zuckerberg! There are more millionaires and billionaires now then at any point in US history! I completely agree with you that if companies can't sustain themselves that they should be allowed to fail. But that doesn't mean they should be able do whatever they want. They NEED to be regulated, or else they would monopolize, pollute, and exploit.
There was also a bout o deregulation before the bubble burst which did allow for some of the banks to take advantage of people like you said, but it was only one of the contributing factors. Like i said before to certain extent regulation is good, but at the same time the people that fell into these traps should have paid attention to what they were getting themselves into.
@damoninsky Oh and when it comes to Zuckerberg his case was different because of the fact that he made a free website that makes its money off of advertisement for the most part. Gates had a product that he had to physically sell and if a person were to try to make a business the way he you would find it almost impossible. You can still innovate your way to success but the amount of regulation out there makes it alot harder. Again regulation can be good if it is used to protect people from
@klittle273 I disagree completely. There are so many super successful entrepreneurs out there. If anything, big business will just buy out someone's idea. Who Killed the Electric Car?
The sad fact for Europeans is that the very programs they’ve implemented in order to create a more socialistic society – capitulation to powerful labor unions, higher taxes, more bureaucratic regulation of industries, limitations on employers’ ability to hire and fire, unsustainable welfare benefits, etc. – have had the opposite effect. Because of those policies, Europe has suffered from long-term chronic unemployment, slower growth and less entrepreneurial innovation.
@cfatherton First of all, they are the leaders in green technological advances (which will soon be a dominating global economic export in the world). Second of all, the facts I just provided are very current. Yes they have higher taxes, but they prefer it that way given their great life-enhancing benefits. What, you think private corporations should take over? Hahaha, clearly you aren't paying attention to what's going on here in THIS country.
While it is fashionable in liberal circles to advocate a more EU model for America. According to these self-appointed arbiters of cultural and moral correctness, the U.S. would be better off to emulate the supposedly more sophisticated and happy Europeans. In what may come as a surprise to many Americans, however, the hard facts clearly show otherwise. As is usually the case with leftist thought, the straightforward realities refute their worldview. Not only are we wealthier, we are happier too
@cfatherton Woh there, where is your evidence of these "hard facts"? You just stated an opinion. Several studies clearly show Americans are far less happy. The truth hurts, doesn't it?
Military spending is essential. It give America the resources to fight terrorism around the globe. If we don't "police" the world who will? Who will protect our interest's abroad? You say you don't want something for nothing but let me ask you this. What tax bracket are you in? Top 50% wage earners pay 96% of all the taxes. That's why we don't care what douches like you want. Europe is on fire because of there progressive policies. Socialism simply does not work. Ron Paul for Pres 2012!!!
@cfatherton What right do we have to "police the world"? That's what the U.N. is for. This is why the world despises the U.S., because of foreign policy thinking like that. Aircraft carriers and fighter planes don't fight terrorism. Nobody will protect our interests abroad, they are illegal, and we shouldn't be doing them. I'm almost in the top 5%, but what does that matter, listen to what Warren Buffett is saying. Europe is messed up due to the economy collapse, NOT progressive policies.
You just said you want FREE education and health care didn't you? Education is "Free" K-12. Why dont you join the military and you will get free health care and free higher education. Oh that's right you think you deserve something for nothing. Get a job and quit your bitching you aren't owed a damn thing. People like you disgust me. We the people are Taxed Enough Already and personally I think its your job to take care of you not tax payers job.
@cfatherton Why would I want to join our military to be able to have free education and healthcare when so many other (more progressive) countries (Europe) provide it for free? This is precisely why they are a happier bunch of people then we are. I don't believe we should get something for nothing, NOBODY believes that, we just believe our taxes should be spent helping people as oppose to creating the most obnoxiously large and wasteful spending military of all time (and helping billionaires).
Freedom isn't FREE and neither is anything else worth having. This just in it's not the Governments job to take care of you or give you something for FREE get out there and earn it. I own three small business and all the government does is over regulate and have there hand in my pocket around every corner. People have to wake up and become self sufficient. Don't sit around waiting for a hand out.
@cfatherton Nobody says it's free. NOBODY. If you want to live here, you have to pay taxes. Period. Who the hell wants to live in a society where the super, lucky, rich own and decide everything? That's an OLIGARCHY! It's just idiotic to believe it costs $700 Billion a year for military. Nobody is taking over other countries any more (except us). Free education, free healthcare...THAT's what people want, THAT'S what makes a society a happy society. Pay up!
You have got to be kidding me. Have you seen the riots in the streets of Rome? How about London? Greece? France? Europe is on fire and going to hell in a hand basket. You Libs really are as dumb as I suspected. Great Misinformation dumb fuck why don't you move to Europe pussy
@cfatherton Hahaha...do you know WHY they are revolting? Because the government wants to begin charging for education because of the economy we helped destroy. The PEOPLE want free education, just as they've always had. Isn't the point of governing to host a happy, healthy society? You may want to read the constitution again. Since this country is totally in the crapper, and looking to move back to the 1800's laws, I think I just may.
@SouthOfTen Uhh, did you read this week's Newsweek magazine? Finland? Switzerland? Sweden? Luxembourg? Norway? Netherlands? Denmark? Germany? The U.S. needs a LOT of help, and these countries knows what works.
@MASTERARTGOD just because you "read it" doesn't mean that it's true. It's simply not true, these countries are doing fine. In terms of immigration, NONE of them are considering building a wall along their boarder or especially shipping out illegal immigrants...only a racist, xenophobic country with ignorant intentions would do such a thing.
@damoninsky yet you base what you think on what you read. A non racist country that wants to let legal immigrants will do that to protect itself against illegal invasion. Notice how they dont care about legal immigration but illegal immigration?
As for shipping out illegals is that not what france just did with the roma? Is that not what most of the people in Europe want for the muslims?
@MASTERARTGOD You are correct, I should have rephrased that to mean multiple sources. I am not saying all of Europe's ideas are perfect or morally correct; but it's definitely not true that all of Europe wants Muslims out. For the record, illegal immigration is a superficial talking point the Republicans want you to fear. They know half of our country is racist and will support them if they provoke enough fear in us. Illegals cost us only $20Billion/yr. Though Reps steal $700B in taxes.
I'd prefer to stay here and try to make things better. Taking good ideas from other places and incorporating them into our own sounds like a pretty smart idea. We obviously have massive problems here.
i live there. it's kansas. i moved here 6 months ago and it sucks. i've gone the longest in my adult life without a job, there is no public transportation and homophobia and racism is the norm. and that is coming from someone who has spent all but a few years in the south east.
i don't think radical liberalism has all the answers, but i need look no farther than this state to know extremist conservatives are dangerous.
You're wrong on more people accepting diversity It is only the white countries that are still trying it, but the Tea Party itself is proof that even they are getting fed up with it. Events like that NYC suspect is yet another nail in diversity's coffin. I don't like diversity because it means high crime, Affirmative Action, and a possible big mess to clean up in the future.
@GarthanSaal444 The Tea Party is proof that a small population (amongst a larger one) is blatantly racist. The Tea Party exists simply because they are freaked out that a black man made it to office. You can't honestly believe that diversity is an issue here or affirmative action or even immigration...these are trivial, petty, insignificant problems compared to health care, financial reform and our outrageous military spending. FOX has scared you into overlooking the real problems.
@damoninsky Of course they freak out that a black man made it to office. They realize what happens to any city or country where a certain kind are in charge. Does Haiti, Zimbabwe, Detroit, etc. ring a bell? Racist? Yeah, so what?
By the way, how is that European style liberalism working for Greece? I told you the bottom was going to fall out, starting with one country.
My prediction, next, the Greeks will start blaming foreigners, as it moves further to the Right.
@GarthanSaal444 Greece is one country of many within the EU (and is receiving bailout money). That's how it works, countries helping each other out. We required 1.5 Trillion in bailout money...compare that to Greece (only needing 50 some Billion). Compare our per-capita income, literacy, health, homicides, violent crime rates, to Western Europe; they blow us out of the water. Surely you must ask yourself why we are so different from them??? Your reasoning please?
@damoninsky They apparently blow us out of the water ,but Europe is quickly closing the gap. As the percentage of it's nonwhite population grows, the literacy rates and per capita income falls, while the crime increases. No bailout of any amount will help Greece recover. You read it here first. 365 days from now, the riots will be more violent, more frequent, just like France.
@damoninsky you call immigration reform petty then you really have no idea what the hell is going on. The military should be brought back to the US and let the rest of the world go hang and fix the problems in the US.
@MASTERARTGOD Whatever is going down at our border has NOTHING to do with illegal immigrants, but the Drug War in Mexico. I'm all for military coming back and working with Mexico to put an end to it. Part of the problem is that WE are hanging other countries...so we definitely need to stop meddling and work on much bigger problems (immigration is petty). We need to end Tax-Cuts for the rich, get universal healthcare and crackdown on Wall Street much much more.
@damoninsky illegal immigration is the issue. Health care is not a right. Cutting back the military is needed I agree thou. Rebuild the infrastructure of the US fix the education system
@MASTERARTGOD I'm sorry, I completely disagree. How can illegal immigration be an issue when the total economic damage inflicted by it is less than $19 Billion a year (from prisons, education, healthcare)? That's a drop in the bucket compared to how much we waste in healthcare and military. We spend $20 Billion every few weeks in the military!!! We've wasted TRILLIONs in healthcare and military over the last decade. Illegal immigration is a red-herring. A republican scare tactic.
@mrbinga That is a very good and important question. Our health care system has virtually no regulation on Big Pharma and insurance companies, wastes $ trillions. Laws could lower drug costs, procedures, reduce the ease of people suing for malpractice, computerize medical records...the list is endless. The money that can be saved there can be spent to help other people that can't afford it. Reducing our military budget is another way (see my video on that).
oh, and how can you be so self assured that you rest on the moral high ground when you resort to calling your enemies a synonym for putting balls in someone's mouth? if you are confident you are in the right then you should have no problem having a conversation without throwing insults
well, actually at the university i go to i have quite a few friends and professors that seem to love everything about cuba. but all that aside i think comparing our "happiness" level with that of cuba or even european democracies is absurd. why do you have such a problem with people disagreeing on tax policy? oh, and why the glenn beck thing? can you have a debate without throwing petty stuff like that out?
@mrbinga I like Cuba too, though having been there, I wouldn't want to live there under those conditions. Your comment regarding Cuba sounded very facetious; sounding exactly like the rightwing talking point of how Obama is a communist. I apologize if that wasn't your intention; but either way, we definitely don't want to be like Cuba.
@damoninsky i'm sorry that you misunderstood my comment about cuba, as i stated previously i was poking fun at the video for throwing out cuba's literacy rate as if the two countries are remotely comparable. on top of that one could argue that there is quite a bit more to cuban life than a high literacy rate, such as an overly oppressive government. and on to the communist thing...
@mrbinga I beg to differ about Cuba and the U.S. not being comparable. Why is it that their literacy rate is so good? Let's compare and contrast? It may have to do with the universal/public education system (something Teabaggers want to get rid of here). Nobody has ever said or suggested that our government should be more like Cuba; but merely pointed to an important detail that works better than here. Maybe we should adopt that good idea?
@mrbinga He didnt misunderstand, he deliberately misrepresented your previous comment because he is trying to suggest that the communist government in cuba has its virtues.
@damoninsky and on the communist thing, i don't think its an unfair label at all for someone who has appointed self avowed communists and people who study chairman mao's teachings. seriously, if a bush appointee said he like mussolini's philosophies you guys would be all over it. even though he is really a corporatist, and his policies don't fully meet marxist labor theory doesn't mean you guys don't own it. also, why did you ingnore my questions: why is wanting lower taxes so bad?
@mrbinga So if you study history by reading Mao's teachings or Hitlers' book, that makes you their equal? People study to seek knowledge; that doesn't mean they adopt their philosophies. What people are you referring to?
If you lower taxes, that removes money from social systems/organizations/foundations which provide vital assistance to communities and low-income people. Just look up all the great things our country pays for.
@damoninsky Thats all you fucking communists are about is 'social welfare' 'social programs' because youre all a bunch of fucking socialist. You idiots dont take about creating jobs or driving an economy. In fact, thats nowhere in your vocabulary.
@ThunderAppeal Yes, we want to help people; where you just want to make the rich, richer. Sure, the economy grew during the those last 8 years because of republican tax-cuts; but the mean income for Americans dropped $2000! What's the point of having a growing economy of a "great country" when only a very few people have it all and everyone else suffers? Tuition debt! Health care debt! I tend to like social programs (police, education, firemen, medicare, social security, mail, roads, etc...
@damoninsky So you dont deny that youre a communist?
Save your 'firemen, police, education' etc etc etc horseshit. Youre commie scum, you cant tell the difference between state services and federal services. My family resisted the soviets when we were in eastern europe. You can tell your butt fucking buddy bill ayers that he has another thing coming if he and you think that communism will take over America.
@ThunderAppeal Dude, you're the one that is bashing up social programs which are provided by GOVERNMENT! Both state AND federal. Just admit that you approve of those social services because they help you, but you don't want other ones helping people that can't afford it because you already can afford (thus making you an angry, selfish conservative).
@damoninsky actually, if you lower taxes you increase tax revenue, which for some reason pisses off you libs. um, do you even understand why people feel uneasy about anita dunn and the mao reference? if your political philosophies come from a guy who is the largest mass murderer in the 20th century, and you don't know why people call you a moron, then there is nothing else to say.
@mrbinga Actually you are so wrong it's embarrassing. I know the rich-right wants you to believe this, but just look at what all your republican presidents with those tax-cuts have done to the country. They only help the wealthiest top %. Read Tax Cuts: Myths and Realities at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities website to get started on your education. GBeck has you so scared, it's hilarious. Just look at all the Euo countries that have the same philosophies and how well they WORK!
@mrbinga When idiots like damoninsky start making an argument like 'I like to have firemen, police, mail, social security roads' There is no point in arguing with them, that is proof they are too far gone and completely oblivious to reality. When they start to combine federal programs and systems with programs and systems that are under state control then you know youre arguing with commie scum. Worse still assholes like that would love to combine all those services under a single system.
@ThunderAppeal You want to take away taxes from social programs that help low-income people! You want the wealthiest 1% own all and rule all. You're actions support huge corporations to do virtually whatever they want. All you're doing is widening the gap. Why are you so selfish?
@damoninsky Yes, the corporations can do whatever they want, because that is the hysteria dujour. Please tell me more, I've never heard this argument before.
@ThunderAppeal So you've heard the argument, and? Don't you have any rebuttal? We just saw these wealthiest people and corporations make more money than ever before in the history of the world these last 8 Bush years, while the mean American family income declined. These lowering of taxes simply help the top 3% and hurt millions of low and middle-income Americans.
@mrbinga Please give reasons why you think anyone wants to be like Cuba (note: if you're reasons are simply paraphrases of Glenn Beck, then you are hilarious).
Well, if 12 % of the American population weren't Black, and another 13% weren't nonwhite Hispanic, then our literacy rate would be much higher, wouldn't it?
Europe has diversity problems of their own. They too, are heading for a fall.
@GarthanSaal444 Wow, that's just completely racist! You're saying that these minorities are the problem with the literacy rate? Why don't you consider the SOURCE of the problem??? The gap between the wealthy and poor? The fact that the republicans (and Teabaggers) only increase this gap, providing fewer opportunities for minorities people IS THE PROBLEM!
If anyone is heading for "a fall", it's the U.S., by not investing in Green Technologies while the rest of the world does.
@GarthanSaal444 When a people ("the white man") have committed a holocaust against the natives, and incorporated slavery as their culture to acquire obscene wealth and power for 100's of years; I just can't see how anyone can honestly deny assistance after what we've done. You can think that everything is equal now (what Fox preaches), but if you read any literature on equality and/or civil rights in America; you'd see how unequal it still is. Of course Diversity can work anywhere on earth.
@damoninsky Once, I may have felt "White Guilt", but that was before I realized that Africans were equally responsible for the slave trade, and that there are millions of black african slaves alive and not so well this very minute.
You preach about a holocaust, yet seem totally unaware of the Black Death back in the 1300s. It was deliberately spread by asian invaders. the result was approximately 50% of Europe's population dead.
@GarthanSaal444 I'm not sure what relevance other countries committing horrific crimes hundreds of years ago has anything to do with helping the undeserved and unfortunate people in our own country right now. Just because other people were involved in our condoned slavery atrocities doesn't make us less guilty. Your twisted logic has quenched your "white guilt", so sad.
@damoninsky Unfortunately, programs such as Affirmative Action punishes people like myself who had nothing to do with slavery, which ended in this country over 100 years before I was born. We have all tried to help the unfortunate, but too many of them refuse to help themselves. Europes system worked when the majority of the population were contributors. The Third World, however, are not, and they have brought more problems than benefits.
@GarthanSaal444 It's really unfortunate you don't know the importance and implications Affirmative Action has had in this country. Your "punishment" is minuscule compared to the grand scheme of its benefits for creating equality and acceptance of diversity. To say they "refuse to help themselves" is just racist. You really need to read a book, any book on civil rights or social liberties. We have the ability to help Third World and low-income populations; but you want to stifle it.
@GarthanSaal444 Neolliberalism is the worst; those philosophies have totally screwed up this world. However; the liberal views that are prevalent in our politics these days (universal health care, anti-war, pro-environment, pro-civil-rights etc...) are the antithesis of Neoliberalism. If anything, republicans now condone Neoliberalism by wanting to privatize everything. You've gone to the dark side, you should come back.
@damoninsky Despite the horror of WWII, it did cull the population. By the 1950's, Europe was already rebuilt, and it was not overcrowded. They granted independence to the colonies, but the former colonies didn't really want it did they?
I expect Europe to be in full scare war again by mid century. It is too overcrowded, and resources are limited.
@GarthanSaal444 Uh...India wanted Independence. What countries didn't want independence? Resources are becoming limited all over the world due to overpopulation all over the world...it's not just Europe. Europe uses half the amount of energy we do; if anyone is going to throw a fit, it'll be the U.S., China or Russia.
@damoninsky All nations (ALL!) in sub Saharan Africa, became worse when colonialism ended. Wasn't South Africa supposed to have gotten better after Apartheid? How is Zimbabwe these days since they started kicking out the whites?
@GarthanSaal444 I'm not sure what your point is. There's a dictatorship and prolific corruption in Zimbabwe (just as in other parts of the world). Check out S.American (Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia) and Central American countries that have dropped the "white influenced" neoliberalism and are totally rebounding. Get rid of the Mugabe, and things can change.
@damoninsky Perhaps my point is that nations that are of a mixed race like Hispanics, Arabs, and other Middle Easterners or in fact still run by a mainly white elite who are genetically 75% or more caucasian. It's called a caste system. Despite being part nonwhite, these elitists treat the darker members of their own kind as inferiors. Being part white, they have no problem marrying whites, guaranteeing that race will never be on the bottom of any society.
@GarthanSaal444 Your point is very much true. For most of human history different races haven't been able to mix very peacefully; but that is obviously coming to an end (U.S. for example). With vast capability of communication and travel now; it's only a matter of time before then entire human population will be one color (I'm exaggerating quite a bit here, but we are totally accepting diversity more than ever before; and that mentality is never going away).
@theforbiddentruth01 Israel is in a different situation than us. Israel is protecting themselves from suicide bombers; we aren't. One of the main reasons for the immigration flood from Mexico here is because of our crap NAFTA doings. I am unfamiliar with the Jewish slavery history...but if there still exists a population that have been held down due to that, then of course there should be aid of some sort.
@MarcNeilsen Good point, yet people that can't afford health care or other social services do get it for basically free. There are 6.5 plus billion people in the world, not everyone can afford these necessities. Health care should be a right, not a privilege for the few lucky.
@damoninsky No health care should not be a right. Please go fuck yourself, shoot yourself and die you commie nazi scum. Fuck you and your family commie fuck. My family fought the nazis during WW2 and resisted and fled the soviets in the 70s. Commienazi scum like you make me sick.
@ThunderAppeal I'm sorry you think that people shouldn't have certain basic rights on this planet (such as health care) and instead only the very few, lucky ones that are born in the right place and right time should live a comfortable life. You are a perfect example of an selfish, angry person, bringing down the happiness level of this country. You may want to try being more kind to others.
@damoninsky You should be sorry, commie scum like you are the reason America is in the sad state that its in. If you want soviet style medicine move to russia.
Fox news is NOT on the side of the Tea Party. Ron Paul freindly reporter god kicked out.
Fox news is on the side of the status que of the millitary industrial complex.
turbofritz2 1 week ago
@turbofritz2 What? Of COURSE Fox supports the Tea Party! They even orchestrated early rallies! Please don't defend FOX. You can't honestly watch that crap? Talk about propaganda, that is the purest example (other than what you see in North Korea).
damoninsky 1 week ago
Socialism, globalism and cetnralization is a disaster. It's what make dictators job easier.
turbofritz2 1 week ago
@turbofritz2 Socialism actually works; you'd rather have the few largest corporations running things (as they are doing here and now)? You really have to stop watching Fox (one of those major corporations).
damoninsky 1 week ago
Pure shit and propaganda. I'm from Northern Europe.
Denmark is NOT any happiest nation in the world. Simply American Socialist propaganda.
Denmark and Norway is rich because of buisnesses.
The Danes do alot of suicide, drink alot and are heavy drug users! Don't believe everything about this.
turbofritz2 1 week ago
@turbofritz2 How is this American propaganda if the studies were conducted by INTERNATIONAL organizations? The OECD is NOT American nor is the United Nations Human Development Index. It's funny how you added in "Socialist" into your ignorant comment; because the happiest countries ARE socialist!!! Denmark and Norway aren't happy because they are rich or have business (The U.S. dominates them in that); it's because of SOCIAL programs! Stop watching FoxNews, THAT is propaganda!
damoninsky 1 week ago
@damoninsky INternational propaganda then. It makes perfect sense that internationalists want you under socialism and centralization. Denmark is not that good country the tax is high and the prices are high. i watched a documentary on that and they pointed denmark wrongly in the map and named prince faulty. That is the least of their errors.
Believe me socialism is not right.
turbofritz2 1 week ago
@turbofritz2 "internationalists"? Hahaha. It's a scientific study, it's not biased. This is EVIDENCE. The tax is high, you're right, to help pay for social programs that help everyone. They LIKE high taxes, taxes are good, the funds HELP SOCIETY. Documentaries can be biased if that is where you're getting your info from. Go read a book and stop watching Fox!
damoninsky 1 week ago
@damoninsky A study done by some international some kind of institution holds no extra credebility there are many other factors making Denmark and Norway a LITTLE better to live in. Has to do with they don't have an empire of war to run such as USA has. USA is wasting alot of money on wars.
turbofritz2 1 week ago
@turbofritz2 Of course the U.S. wasting money on wars, but that's not why the U.S. is also low on the totem pole in happiness, education, health, etc...You need to READ these studies and not just blow them off. There is credibility, much more than your opinion. Sorry you're so unhappy with life.
damoninsky 1 week ago
@damoninsky am i unhappy with life?
What the fuck are you talking about haha=) ?
turbofritz2 1 week ago
@turbofritz2 You're from Northern Europe, where people are happier than Americans, yet you think otherwise; it seems to me that you're rejecting the average of the populations and using your self as evidence.
damoninsky 1 week ago
@damoninsky I'm rejecting stupid survayes done in an socialist/globalist agenda.
Scandinaiva is OK. But for other reasons than socialism!!
We don't use alot of money on wars. People are generaly non violent vulentary. It's illigal to hit children. And the people are generaly reason based and educated. non religious. Without socialism and central plannig we would be better off.
turbofritz2 1 week ago
@turbofritz2 Better educated hmm, maybe because your education system is SOCIALIZED! It's payed for through taxes. How many hundreds of thousands of people are in debt due to college tuition? And HEALTH CARE! You don't think being healthy or not being in debt your entire life plays a role in happiness here? If you have a surgery in the U.S. and aren't insured, you'll easily own $50,000. Nobody can afford that. In debt, the rest of their lives. 44,000 people die each year without insurance
damoninsky 1 week ago
@damoninsky The reason why you are doing "worse" with helth careis not because you don't have enough of goverment in USA it's rather that you spend your money on war instead.
turbofritz2 1 week ago
@turbofritz2 No, it's because we have PRIVATE insurance companies and pharmaceutical industries that have control.
damoninsky 1 week ago
@damoninsky There is NOTHING wrong with private insureance and the issues Michael moore points out. However he misses to point one thing out that is that the medecine industry in USA has a priveledged monopoly status and you have in addition an unfair brutal WAR on drugs. Marihuana can replace some of those discusting medecine products that they sell you in USA.
turbofritz2 1 week ago
@turbofritz2 Legalizing Marijuana is not going to solve the problem. Universal Health Care will solve many more problems than replacing a few drugs on the market. He actually covers the MAIN points.
damoninsky 1 week ago
@damoninsky Stop being so naive. Elect RON PAUL he will end the monopoly on drugs and legalize marihuana witch will replace many expensive chemical products.
turbofritz2 1 week ago
@turbofritz2 Hahaha, that ass would rather let people die! He's better than any other republican, but is still an immoral bastard.
damoninsky 1 week ago
@damoninsky So Ron Paul is evil? For what exacly?
The people love him he is honest, a true constitutionalists conservative.
True hero and a revolutionary to your country.
turbofritz2 1 week ago
@turbofritz2 I didn't say "evil", just immoral. He doesn't believe that government should help its own citizens. He'd rather let them die from sickness than to provide them with free healthcare (even though our country can clearly afford it). He has many great ideas, but has some pretty bad ones. He's great compared to any republican, but NOTHING compared to any liberal.
damoninsky 1 week ago
@damoninsky I don't know how you can take this stand. Ron Paul is a very nice guy and has all credebility to assume moral high ground.
He was in medecine before helth care came about he helped alot of people for FREE this was before the state became involved in health care. He doesn't want people to die!! thats the ridiculous.
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turbofritz2 1 week ago
@turbofritz2 If you listend to the debates, he clearly didn't care what happens to people who get sick and don't have health insurance; he said maybe the "church" will help them. That is pathetic. He's a LIBERTARIAN. He's all about every-man-for-himself. Who's a nicer person, one who wants to help everyone by providing assistance, or someone who says sink or swim? (I know of many doctors who don't care for patients, but rather money).
damoninsky 1 week ago
@damoninsky Ron Paul helped people vulentarly way before you guys had social welfare!!
Ron Paul is nothing like the greedy drug companies that enjoy goverment protected monopolies!! Ron Paul wants to legalize marihuana and hamp. That can replace many EXPENSIVE and dangerous chemical drugs!!
turbofritz2 1 week ago
@turbofritz2 Once again, marijuana is NOT the problem. If anything he should make ALL drugs legal. His ideals at making this country better will only be slight. We need someone WAY more progressive and caring. It doesn't matter that he helped people voluntarily, all doctors do at some point. Right now, he admitted it, that he doesn't care, they are on their own for survival. TOTally immoral.
damoninsky 1 week ago
@damoninsky What i think you have misunderstood - (This is the same in europe where i come from and USA) this is general.
Politics and specialy socialism is not about helping those in need.
It's about control. If traditional politicians once solved every problem permenently what do you think would happen? They would be out of work!!
Ron Paul is however not a traditional politician. He has never voted for any raise in taxes and never voted for any more restriction.
turbofritz2 1 week ago
@turbofritz2 Do you want anarchy? Government is necessary. Yes, Ron Paul is different, and he does have some great ideas, but that doesn't mean he is the best, nice, or going to make things better. By reducing government, you reduce many, many important programs that HELP society! Taxes are GREAT! We NEED taxes, we LOVE taxes. Taxes pay for roads, firemen, police, medicare, EPA, NASA, etc...whoever says otherwise is a fool.
damoninsky 1 week ago
@damoninsky All of those things can be founded privatly and by vulentary action!!
NASA - well they wasted alot of money would you invest in some guy going to the moon? what did you get out of it? While your goverment did that they could for example invested it in new energy sources or farming technologies that would have advenced human kind!!
turbofritz2 1 week ago
@turbofritz2 No. The amount of money spent on science and NASA is pennies compared to Military and Health. If we didn't invest in science technology, then we wouldn't have cell phones, internet, satellites, etc...It's actually GOOD to invest in knowledge.
damoninsky 1 week ago
@damoninsky Ron Paul voted no for patriot act and terroist act that will take away americans civile liberty. Ron Paul voted and has spoken against all wars. Ron Paul wants to protect your liberty and minimize this brutalized wars on drugs witch are realy racist wars. And stopping this irrational fearmongery of terrorists you have.
Ron Paul will change the world and expose the money monopoly of the central banks. The establishment fear the hell out of this man!!
turbofritz2 1 week ago
@turbofritz2 Great. I agree with him on ALL of those ideas. But every liberal has those as well, but without his ridiculous no-taxes, small government, sink/swim mentality. Why don't you like Nader?
damoninsky 1 week ago
@damoninsky excuse me. who is Nader?
turbofritz2 1 week ago
@turbofritz2 Wow, you obviously don't know much about American politics if you don't know who Nader is. Go look up Ralph Nader.
damoninsky 1 week ago
@damoninsky I know i don't know whole lot of american politics aside from the policicians who have been front runners in the natonal elections.
Ron Paul on the other hand is diffrent. Hated by the establishment loved by the people and has credibility and will bring REAL change.
turbofritz2 1 week ago
@turbofritz2 You're right, he is different, and this is what makes him appealing. However, I don't support several of his main areas of concern. Nader is also very, VERY much hated. Ron Paul definitely would create REAL change, however not necessarily the BEST change. I prefer Nader over Paul...but personally, I don't think we'll ever get anyone who wants real change elected.
damoninsky 1 week ago
@damoninsky Yeah you're right - we agree opun that.
The establishment wants no change.
I don't know too much on Nader to say anything..
There is for sure an establishment and the media (neither in US or in Europe) would support an alternative view on things even if it could be better for mankind.
turbofritz2 1 week ago
@turbofritz2 You should also look into Dennis Kucinich. He's the Ron Paul of the Democrats; but obviously much more amazing (since he's not a republican).
damoninsky 5 days ago
All of the things he put forward in the video seem very attractive...until you realize that they are the reason the EU is in deep financial shit right now, and quite possibly will be fracturing back into separate economies.
Twizter68 4 months ago
@Twizter68 Uhhh, you MUST be joking..."the reason why the EU is in deep financial shit right now" is the same reason why the US is in deep financial shit too...because of the unregulated AMERICAN BANKS!!! This is what you get when you privatize. You really need to start reading more and stop watching FOX news.
damoninsky 4 months ago
@damoninsky UUHH I get my news from Reuters and the Beeb...and maybe you should actually travel to Europe. Been there numerous times over the last 20 years, including 4 of the last 6; Italy, France, Spain, England and Germany. There is a LOT more unrest than your video purports...and the EUROPEAN news agencies report the causes as being the explosion in PUBLIC SECTOR wages and social program outlays.
Twizter68 4 months ago
@Twizter68 This video was made before the American Banks nearly destroyed the world, so yes, you're right, there is much more unrest in Europe now, but NOT because of social "public sector" spending. Do you really believe they just started spending more on peoples wages at the exact same time the US went belly up? Quite a coincidence I say.
Allisoninsky 4 months ago
@Allisoninsky test
Twizter68 4 months ago
@Allisoninsky Nope; those had been increasing for years; the financial collapse brought to light the spending as a % of GDP, was unsustainable.
Twizter68 4 months ago
@Allisoninsky And the collapse was NOT brought on by the banks (By themselves) Read up on Fannie/Freddie, and the who and why...you will find that the .GOV pressured the banks into issuing loans to those who could not afford them, all in the interests of "social fairness."
Twizter68 4 months ago
@Twizter68 Please show me your source where you think the government "pressured banks" to cause this collapse. There's a whole lot more to read up on than just Fannie/Freddie. The private banks were greedy and totally deceitful (see Credit Default Swaps) and were completely UNregulated. Interesting how North Dakota is doing OK with their GOVERNMENT run bank, huh? Go listen to what they're saying at the Occupy Wall Street. protests. If you want some authors, I can point you to them too.
damoninsky 4 months ago
If you were truly a reasonable (and honest) American, you would move to Europe! We would all be happier!
lsleveland72 4 months ago
@lsleveland72 Actually, only half of you would be happier (the republicans).
damoninsky 4 months ago
@damoninsky I believe in living what you preach. You should move. People haven't been immigrating to the greatest nation on God's green earth because we are such an oppressed people. I would rather be free to spend my hard earned dollars the way I see fit. Some of you need a strong arm to tell you how to live. You just aren't real motivated or something. Socialism is probably a good choice for you. I don't want to be referred to as a "useful idiot" .
lsleveland72 4 months ago
@lsleveland72 I'm very curious, what exactly makes this country the "Greatest nation on God's green earth"? I would think the level of happiness of the citizens would make it the best, unfortunately, we aren't ranked even the top 20 countries for happiness.
damoninsky 4 months ago
@AllKnowingCreator 1) Then why aren't we the best? We spend more than any other country yet we're ranked 37th! 2) What? Then why wasn't unemployment at 9.4 before the economic crash? 3) I agree, so we shouldn't let corporations and banks get away with deregulations and tiny taxes. 4) Regulating wall street would have prevented this. 5) Uhh, doctors aren't rioting in Europe, what are you reading? Take out insurance companies and regulate Big Pharma to fix our healthcare system.
Allisoninsky 9 months ago
@AllKnowingCreator Wow, you're actually defending our healthcare system? Your Facts: 1) Europe has more people. 2) Illegal immigrants generate far more for our economy than they cost (you can't honestly criticize our healthcare on "illegals"). 3) What are you talking about? That never happened. 4) So what, Europe helps Europe. 5) Those are called protests or revolutions, and they've happened here too which made this country better than it is. It should be happening more often here.
damoninsky 9 months ago
@damoninsky If I may add to your commentary of point 1) from the other guy (AllKnowingCreator). In Europe they at least get to wait. My understanding of the US system is that if you don't have money, you're not even getting on the waiting list in the first place (that could be my misunderstanding though, correct me if I'm wrong).
TheRacistsMustDie 9 months ago
@TheRacistsMustDie The way we are "best in care" is the fact that we are able to perform the most difficult procedures, using the most modern technology. If one needed certain brain surgeries or certain organ transplants, one would definitely want to come to the U.S. So the U.S. is better for helping the few, but not the many. The U.S. simply wastes billions by having the middleman of insurance companies rule and letting Big Pharma charge outrageous prices.
damoninsky 9 months ago 2
these are so skewed I'm appalled. go to the UK Telegraph and read about all the people dying in their health care system. Read about their Euthanasia. Socialism destroys individuals and this country is about the constitution, or at least should be. Please. Europe sucks. Propaganda piece.
ddsharper 9 months ago
@ddsharper Try reading about all the people dying in the U.S.'s health care system (or the 44,000 people who die each year because they can't afford health insurance!!!). Euthanasia isn't a health care problem, it's not even a problem, it's a good thing. This isn't propaganda, these are FACTS. Your quote "Socialism destroys individuals" is right wing propaganda!
damoninsky 9 months ago
@damoninsky - look. you keep your ideology and judgements and I'll keep my common sense.
ddsharper 9 months ago 4
@ddsharper Good deal. Enjoy your "common sense".
damoninsky 9 months ago
You did a good job on this video, thanks for uploading it.
Xsublime28xX 10 months ago
needs and wants before the problens and social unrest of europe come here.
klittle273 1 year ago
oh yea europe is the model.
Thats why the national debts of most of the european nations are out of control and there are riots in the streets, because they can't keep up the redivuluos spending that they have so tended to spend. Lets see UK 431.5% External Debt to GDP Ratio and Rising, Ireland 986.6%, France 197.6%, and Portugal 263.5%. While America has a 94.7% External debt to GDP Ratio. The answer is for people to take responsibility for themselves and to relize the difference between
klittle273 1 year ago
@klittle273 Ha, their debt isn't $14 Trillion! People are protesting because their government is becoming more like America's government, which will make their lives more difficult and less happy. Sure some of their countries are in trouble, but that's all thanks to the PRIVATE banking system...oh yeah, sure, the "answer is for people to take responsibility for themselves"...we saw how well that turned out with Enron, AIG, WaMu, Goldman Sachs, GM, etc...people need to be REGULATED.
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky Yea, more regulation thats a great idea. If it wasn't for Ben Bernanke and keeping mortgage rates so low that people who couldn't normally afford to own a home took out mortgages with interest rates that eventually had to come up, this in turn caused them to default on their mortgages causing the housing bubble and the start of the economic collapse. The fact is the more you regulate people the more opportunity and personal freedoms you take away from, for instance if Bill Gates
klittle273 1 year ago
@klittle273 Are you honestly saying Ben Bernanke is responsible for the economic collapse? Are you serious??? Where in the world do you get your information from? For the last 2 decades, banks (privately owned), were offering duping people into bade interest rates. Then the Credit Default Swaps between banks screwed EVERYTHING! ALL PRIVATE! There were NO federal regulations, this is why the shit hit the fan. Screw giving "personal freedoms" to private corporations if they ruin everything.
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky Ok sorry i mistakenly said Ben Bernanke, i was thinking about the prior fed chairman Alan Greenspan. Still though two of the main causes behind the housing bubble in and of itself was the lowered interest rates after the dot-com crash in 2001-2002, and the Community Reinvestment
Act of 1977 that forced banks to give out loans that they normally wouldn't have done. Then in 2006 when the Fed raised the interest rates again It caused a mass of foreclosure and the bubble popped.
klittle273 1 year ago
@klittle273 Right, under both Clinton and Bush (not Obama). This was a greedy bipartisan mistake to allow private banks to run unregulated...HUGE mistake. There HAS to be regulations. The power of a few doesn't make this a democracy, but an oligarchy.
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky were to try to start Microsoft today the way he did originally it would have failed. To a certain point regulation is good but we're reaching a point where it is starting to shackle people in place and keep them from progressing up the rungs of society. Oh and as for the personal responsibility of those companies you just named it is also the governments fault for catering to them. If the companies can't sustain themselves they should be allowed to fail which gm for example had to
klittle273 1 year ago
@klittle273 Your comment regarding Bill Gates is just idiotic. Look at Mark Zuckerberg! There are more millionaires and billionaires now then at any point in US history! I completely agree with you that if companies can't sustain themselves that they should be allowed to fail. But that doesn't mean they should be able do whatever they want. They NEED to be regulated, or else they would monopolize, pollute, and exploit.
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky
There was also a bout o deregulation before the bubble burst which did allow for some of the banks to take advantage of people like you said, but it was only one of the contributing factors. Like i said before to certain extent regulation is good, but at the same time the people that fell into these traps should have paid attention to what they were getting themselves into.
klittle273 1 year ago
@damoninsky Oh and when it comes to Zuckerberg his case was different because of the fact that he made a free website that makes its money off of advertisement for the most part. Gates had a product that he had to physically sell and if a person were to try to make a business the way he you would find it almost impossible. You can still innovate your way to success but the amount of regulation out there makes it alot harder. Again regulation can be good if it is used to protect people from
klittle273 1 year ago
@klittle273 I disagree completely. There are so many super successful entrepreneurs out there. If anything, big business will just buy out someone's idea. Who Killed the Electric Car?
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky physical harm or from corporations literally stealing peoples money, but it should not protect people from bad decisions that they make.
klittle273 1 year ago
@klittle273 It depends on how bad their decision is. The punishment should fit the crime.
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky file bankruptcy anyways. In the end all this spending is going to come back around and cause even more problems if we don't stop now.
klittle273 1 year ago
The sad fact for Europeans is that the very programs they’ve implemented in order to create a more socialistic society – capitulation to powerful labor unions, higher taxes, more bureaucratic regulation of industries, limitations on employers’ ability to hire and fire, unsustainable welfare benefits, etc. – have had the opposite effect. Because of those policies, Europe has suffered from long-term chronic unemployment, slower growth and less entrepreneurial innovation.
cfatherton 1 year ago
@cfatherton First of all, they are the leaders in green technological advances (which will soon be a dominating global economic export in the world). Second of all, the facts I just provided are very current. Yes they have higher taxes, but they prefer it that way given their great life-enhancing benefits. What, you think private corporations should take over? Hahaha, clearly you aren't paying attention to what's going on here in THIS country.
damoninsky 1 year ago
While it is fashionable in liberal circles to advocate a more EU model for America. According to these self-appointed arbiters of cultural and moral correctness, the U.S. would be better off to emulate the supposedly more sophisticated and happy Europeans. In what may come as a surprise to many Americans, however, the hard facts clearly show otherwise. As is usually the case with leftist thought, the straightforward realities refute their worldview. Not only are we wealthier, we are happier too
cfatherton 1 year ago
@cfatherton Woh there, where is your evidence of these "hard facts"? You just stated an opinion. Several studies clearly show Americans are far less happy. The truth hurts, doesn't it?
damoninsky 1 year ago
Military spending is essential. It give America the resources to fight terrorism around the globe. If we don't "police" the world who will? Who will protect our interest's abroad? You say you don't want something for nothing but let me ask you this. What tax bracket are you in? Top 50% wage earners pay 96% of all the taxes. That's why we don't care what douches like you want. Europe is on fire because of there progressive policies. Socialism simply does not work. Ron Paul for Pres 2012!!!
cfatherton 1 year ago
@cfatherton What right do we have to "police the world"? That's what the U.N. is for. This is why the world despises the U.S., because of foreign policy thinking like that. Aircraft carriers and fighter planes don't fight terrorism. Nobody will protect our interests abroad, they are illegal, and we shouldn't be doing them. I'm almost in the top 5%, but what does that matter, listen to what Warren Buffett is saying. Europe is messed up due to the economy collapse, NOT progressive policies.
damoninsky 1 year ago
You just said you want FREE education and health care didn't you? Education is "Free" K-12. Why dont you join the military and you will get free health care and free higher education. Oh that's right you think you deserve something for nothing. Get a job and quit your bitching you aren't owed a damn thing. People like you disgust me. We the people are Taxed Enough Already and personally I think its your job to take care of you not tax payers job.
cfatherton 1 year ago
@cfatherton Why would I want to join our military to be able to have free education and healthcare when so many other (more progressive) countries (Europe) provide it for free? This is precisely why they are a happier bunch of people then we are. I don't believe we should get something for nothing, NOBODY believes that, we just believe our taxes should be spent helping people as oppose to creating the most obnoxiously large and wasteful spending military of all time (and helping billionaires).
damoninsky 1 year ago
Freedom isn't FREE and neither is anything else worth having. This just in it's not the Governments job to take care of you or give you something for FREE get out there and earn it. I own three small business and all the government does is over regulate and have there hand in my pocket around every corner. People have to wake up and become self sufficient. Don't sit around waiting for a hand out.
cfatherton 1 year ago
@cfatherton Nobody says it's free. NOBODY. If you want to live here, you have to pay taxes. Period. Who the hell wants to live in a society where the super, lucky, rich own and decide everything? That's an OLIGARCHY! It's just idiotic to believe it costs $700 Billion a year for military. Nobody is taking over other countries any more (except us). Free education, free healthcare...THAT's what people want, THAT'S what makes a society a happy society. Pay up!
damoninsky 1 year ago
You have got to be kidding me. Have you seen the riots in the streets of Rome? How about London? Greece? France? Europe is on fire and going to hell in a hand basket. You Libs really are as dumb as I suspected. Great Misinformation dumb fuck why don't you move to Europe pussy
cfatherton 1 year ago
@cfatherton Hahaha...do you know WHY they are revolting? Because the government wants to begin charging for education because of the economy we helped destroy. The PEOPLE want free education, just as they've always had. Isn't the point of governing to host a happy, healthy society? You may want to read the constitution again. Since this country is totally in the crapper, and looking to move back to the 1800's laws, I think I just may.
damoninsky 1 year ago
Uhh Greece?
SouthOfTen 1 year ago
@SouthOfTen Uhh, did you read this week's Newsweek magazine? Finland? Switzerland? Sweden? Luxembourg? Norway? Netherlands? Denmark? Germany? The U.S. needs a LOT of help, and these countries knows what works.
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky Did u read it now those countries are going broke and dont want to support immigration either from people who will not assimilate
MASTERARTGOD 1 year ago
@MASTERARTGOD just because you "read it" doesn't mean that it's true. It's simply not true, these countries are doing fine. In terms of immigration, NONE of them are considering building a wall along their boarder or especially shipping out illegal immigrants...only a racist, xenophobic country with ignorant intentions would do such a thing.
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky yet you base what you think on what you read. A non racist country that wants to let legal immigrants will do that to protect itself against illegal invasion. Notice how they dont care about legal immigration but illegal immigration?
As for shipping out illegals is that not what france just did with the roma? Is that not what most of the people in Europe want for the muslims?
MASTERARTGOD 1 year ago
@MASTERARTGOD You are correct, I should have rephrased that to mean multiple sources. I am not saying all of Europe's ideas are perfect or morally correct; but it's definitely not true that all of Europe wants Muslims out. For the record, illegal immigration is a superficial talking point the Republicans want you to fear. They know half of our country is racist and will support them if they provoke enough fear in us. Illegals cost us only $20Billion/yr. Though Reps steal $700B in taxes.
damoninsky 1 year ago
Then move to Europe if you like it so much.
forrester203 1 year ago
@forrester203
I'd prefer to stay here and try to make things better. Taking good ideas from other places and incorporating them into our own sounds like a pretty smart idea. We obviously have massive problems here.
damoninsky 1 year ago 2
good video! Well done!
GhostOfTheWriter 1 year ago
@GhostOfTheWriter Thanks!
damoninsky 1 year ago
Great video!
barbtube01 1 year ago
Someone tell me where Teapartystan is?
So this modern western state with a small government and low taxes. Where is it?
Where and when did such a state ever exist?
SamWiseGingy 1 year ago
@SamWiseGingy
i live there. it's kansas. i moved here 6 months ago and it sucks. i've gone the longest in my adult life without a job, there is no public transportation and homophobia and racism is the norm. and that is coming from someone who has spent all but a few years in the south east.
i don't think radical liberalism has all the answers, but i need look no farther than this state to know extremist conservatives are dangerous.
they also teach intelligent design, by law.
83niteowl 1 year ago
You're wrong on more people accepting diversity It is only the white countries that are still trying it, but the Tea Party itself is proof that even they are getting fed up with it. Events like that NYC suspect is yet another nail in diversity's coffin. I don't like diversity because it means high crime, Affirmative Action, and a possible big mess to clean up in the future.
GarthanSaal444 1 year ago
@GarthanSaal444 The Tea Party is proof that a small population (amongst a larger one) is blatantly racist. The Tea Party exists simply because they are freaked out that a black man made it to office. You can't honestly believe that diversity is an issue here or affirmative action or even immigration...these are trivial, petty, insignificant problems compared to health care, financial reform and our outrageous military spending. FOX has scared you into overlooking the real problems.
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky Of course they freak out that a black man made it to office. They realize what happens to any city or country where a certain kind are in charge. Does Haiti, Zimbabwe, Detroit, etc. ring a bell? Racist? Yeah, so what?
By the way, how is that European style liberalism working for Greece? I told you the bottom was going to fall out, starting with one country.
My prediction, next, the Greeks will start blaming foreigners, as it moves further to the Right.
GarthanSaal444 1 year ago
@GarthanSaal444 Greece is one country of many within the EU (and is receiving bailout money). That's how it works, countries helping each other out. We required 1.5 Trillion in bailout money...compare that to Greece (only needing 50 some Billion). Compare our per-capita income, literacy, health, homicides, violent crime rates, to Western Europe; they blow us out of the water. Surely you must ask yourself why we are so different from them??? Your reasoning please?
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky They apparently blow us out of the water ,but Europe is quickly closing the gap. As the percentage of it's nonwhite population grows, the literacy rates and per capita income falls, while the crime increases. No bailout of any amount will help Greece recover. You read it here first. 365 days from now, the riots will be more violent, more frequent, just like France.
GarthanSaal444 1 year ago
@damoninsky you call immigration reform petty then you really have no idea what the hell is going on. The military should be brought back to the US and let the rest of the world go hang and fix the problems in the US.
MASTERARTGOD 1 year ago
@MASTERARTGOD Whatever is going down at our border has NOTHING to do with illegal immigrants, but the Drug War in Mexico. I'm all for military coming back and working with Mexico to put an end to it. Part of the problem is that WE are hanging other countries...so we definitely need to stop meddling and work on much bigger problems (immigration is petty). We need to end Tax-Cuts for the rich, get universal healthcare and crackdown on Wall Street much much more.
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky illegal immigration is the issue. Health care is not a right. Cutting back the military is needed I agree thou. Rebuild the infrastructure of the US fix the education system
MASTERARTGOD 1 year ago
@MASTERARTGOD I'm sorry, I completely disagree. How can illegal immigration be an issue when the total economic damage inflicted by it is less than $19 Billion a year (from prisons, education, healthcare)? That's a drop in the bucket compared to how much we waste in healthcare and military. We spend $20 Billion every few weeks in the military!!! We've wasted TRILLIONs in healthcare and military over the last decade. Illegal immigration is a red-herring. A republican scare tactic.
damoninsky 1 year ago
actually i want to see if you can answer one simple question: how are we going to pay for all this stuff?
mrbinga 1 year ago
@mrbinga That is a very good and important question. Our health care system has virtually no regulation on Big Pharma and insurance companies, wastes $ trillions. Laws could lower drug costs, procedures, reduce the ease of people suing for malpractice, computerize medical records...the list is endless. The money that can be saved there can be spent to help other people that can't afford it. Reducing our military budget is another way (see my video on that).
damoninsky 1 year ago
oh, and how can you be so self assured that you rest on the moral high ground when you resort to calling your enemies a synonym for putting balls in someone's mouth? if you are confident you are in the right then you should have no problem having a conversation without throwing insults
mrbinga 1 year ago
@mrbinga What are you referring to?
damoninsky 1 year ago
@mrbinga When idiots like damoninsky start arging the virtues of cuba you know youre arguing with a brainwashed idiot commie scum.
ThunderAppeal 1 year ago
well, actually at the university i go to i have quite a few friends and professors that seem to love everything about cuba. but all that aside i think comparing our "happiness" level with that of cuba or even european democracies is absurd. why do you have such a problem with people disagreeing on tax policy? oh, and why the glenn beck thing? can you have a debate without throwing petty stuff like that out?
mrbinga 1 year ago 2
@mrbinga I like Cuba too, though having been there, I wouldn't want to live there under those conditions. Your comment regarding Cuba sounded very facetious; sounding exactly like the rightwing talking point of how Obama is a communist. I apologize if that wasn't your intention; but either way, we definitely don't want to be like Cuba.
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky i'm sorry that you misunderstood my comment about cuba, as i stated previously i was poking fun at the video for throwing out cuba's literacy rate as if the two countries are remotely comparable. on top of that one could argue that there is quite a bit more to cuban life than a high literacy rate, such as an overly oppressive government. and on to the communist thing...
mrbinga 1 year ago
@mrbinga I beg to differ about Cuba and the U.S. not being comparable. Why is it that their literacy rate is so good? Let's compare and contrast? It may have to do with the universal/public education system (something Teabaggers want to get rid of here). Nobody has ever said or suggested that our government should be more like Cuba; but merely pointed to an important detail that works better than here. Maybe we should adopt that good idea?
damoninsky 1 year ago
@mrbinga He didnt misunderstand, he deliberately misrepresented your previous comment because he is trying to suggest that the communist government in cuba has its virtues.
ThunderAppeal 1 year ago
@damoninsky and on the communist thing, i don't think its an unfair label at all for someone who has appointed self avowed communists and people who study chairman mao's teachings. seriously, if a bush appointee said he like mussolini's philosophies you guys would be all over it. even though he is really a corporatist, and his policies don't fully meet marxist labor theory doesn't mean you guys don't own it. also, why did you ingnore my questions: why is wanting lower taxes so bad?
mrbinga 1 year ago
@mrbinga So if you study history by reading Mao's teachings or Hitlers' book, that makes you their equal? People study to seek knowledge; that doesn't mean they adopt their philosophies. What people are you referring to?
If you lower taxes, that removes money from social systems/organizations/foundations which provide vital assistance to communities and low-income people. Just look up all the great things our country pays for.
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky Thats all you fucking communists are about is 'social welfare' 'social programs' because youre all a bunch of fucking socialist. You idiots dont take about creating jobs or driving an economy. In fact, thats nowhere in your vocabulary.
ThunderAppeal 1 year ago
@ThunderAppeal Yes, we want to help people; where you just want to make the rich, richer. Sure, the economy grew during the those last 8 years because of republican tax-cuts; but the mean income for Americans dropped $2000! What's the point of having a growing economy of a "great country" when only a very few people have it all and everyone else suffers? Tuition debt! Health care debt! I tend to like social programs (police, education, firemen, medicare, social security, mail, roads, etc...
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky So you dont deny that youre a communist?
Save your 'firemen, police, education' etc etc etc horseshit. Youre commie scum, you cant tell the difference between state services and federal services. My family resisted the soviets when we were in eastern europe. You can tell your butt fucking buddy bill ayers that he has another thing coming if he and you think that communism will take over America.
ThunderAppeal 1 year ago
@ThunderAppeal Dude, you're the one that is bashing up social programs which are provided by GOVERNMENT! Both state AND federal. Just admit that you approve of those social services because they help you, but you don't want other ones helping people that can't afford it because you already can afford (thus making you an angry, selfish conservative).
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky actually, if you lower taxes you increase tax revenue, which for some reason pisses off you libs. um, do you even understand why people feel uneasy about anita dunn and the mao reference? if your political philosophies come from a guy who is the largest mass murderer in the 20th century, and you don't know why people call you a moron, then there is nothing else to say.
mrbinga 1 year ago
@mrbinga Actually you are so wrong it's embarrassing. I know the rich-right wants you to believe this, but just look at what all your republican presidents with those tax-cuts have done to the country. They only help the wealthiest top %. Read Tax Cuts: Myths and Realities at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities website to get started on your education. GBeck has you so scared, it's hilarious. Just look at all the Euo countries that have the same philosophies and how well they WORK!
damoninsky 1 year ago
@mrbinga When idiots like damoninsky start making an argument like 'I like to have firemen, police, mail, social security roads' There is no point in arguing with them, that is proof they are too far gone and completely oblivious to reality. When they start to combine federal programs and systems with programs and systems that are under state control then you know youre arguing with commie scum. Worse still assholes like that would love to combine all those services under a single system.
ThunderAppeal 1 year ago
@ThunderAppeal You want to take away taxes from social programs that help low-income people! You want the wealthiest 1% own all and rule all. You're actions support huge corporations to do virtually whatever they want. All you're doing is widening the gap. Why are you so selfish?
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky Yes, the corporations can do whatever they want, because that is the hysteria dujour. Please tell me more, I've never heard this argument before.
ThunderAppeal 1 year ago
@ThunderAppeal So you've heard the argument, and? Don't you have any rebuttal? We just saw these wealthiest people and corporations make more money than ever before in the history of the world these last 8 Bush years, while the mean American family income declined. These lowering of taxes simply help the top 3% and hurt millions of low and middle-income Americans.
damoninsky 1 year ago
this video is freakin hilarious. golly gee i sure wish we were more like cuba.
mrbinga 1 year ago
@mrbinga Please give reasons why you think anyone wants to be like Cuba (note: if you're reasons are simply paraphrases of Glenn Beck, then you are hilarious).
damoninsky 1 year ago
Well, if 12 % of the American population weren't Black, and another 13% weren't nonwhite Hispanic, then our literacy rate would be much higher, wouldn't it?
Europe has diversity problems of their own. They too, are heading for a fall.
GarthanSaal444 1 year ago
@GarthanSaal444 Wow, that's just completely racist! You're saying that these minorities are the problem with the literacy rate? Why don't you consider the SOURCE of the problem??? The gap between the wealthy and poor? The fact that the republicans (and Teabaggers) only increase this gap, providing fewer opportunities for minorities people IS THE PROBLEM!
If anyone is heading for "a fall", it's the U.S., by not investing in Green Technologies while the rest of the world does.
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky When a people have to rely on another race to provide opportunities for them, they will never truly be equals, will they?
You want racists? 99.9% asian China is all the proof you need.
What's up with those Paris riots? Cronulla riots in Sydney? Does Diversity work anywhere on Earth?
GarthanSaal444 1 year ago
@GarthanSaal444 When a people ("the white man") have committed a holocaust against the natives, and incorporated slavery as their culture to acquire obscene wealth and power for 100's of years; I just can't see how anyone can honestly deny assistance after what we've done. You can think that everything is equal now (what Fox preaches), but if you read any literature on equality and/or civil rights in America; you'd see how unequal it still is. Of course Diversity can work anywhere on earth.
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky Once, I may have felt "White Guilt", but that was before I realized that Africans were equally responsible for the slave trade, and that there are millions of black african slaves alive and not so well this very minute.
You preach about a holocaust, yet seem totally unaware of the Black Death back in the 1300s. It was deliberately spread by asian invaders. the result was approximately 50% of Europe's population dead.
GarthanSaal444 1 year ago
@GarthanSaal444 I'm not sure what relevance other countries committing horrific crimes hundreds of years ago has anything to do with helping the undeserved and unfortunate people in our own country right now. Just because other people were involved in our condoned slavery atrocities doesn't make us less guilty. Your twisted logic has quenched your "white guilt", so sad.
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky Unfortunately, programs such as Affirmative Action punishes people like myself who had nothing to do with slavery, which ended in this country over 100 years before I was born. We have all tried to help the unfortunate, but too many of them refuse to help themselves. Europes system worked when the majority of the population were contributors. The Third World, however, are not, and they have brought more problems than benefits.
GarthanSaal444 1 year ago
@GarthanSaal444 It's really unfortunate you don't know the importance and implications Affirmative Action has had in this country. Your "punishment" is minuscule compared to the grand scheme of its benefits for creating equality and acceptance of diversity. To say they "refuse to help themselves" is just racist. You really need to read a book, any book on civil rights or social liberties. We have the ability to help Third World and low-income populations; but you want to stifle it.
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky Unfortunatley. I am all too aware of what AA has done. I'm far enough in my career to have seen the failing scores get hired and promoted.
Furthermore, I was ultra lib until 22. I know better now. Look at the 3rd World. Has our help really helped them?
GarthanSaal444 1 year ago
@GarthanSaal444 Neolliberalism is the worst; those philosophies have totally screwed up this world. However; the liberal views that are prevalent in our politics these days (universal health care, anti-war, pro-environment, pro-civil-rights etc...) are the antithesis of Neoliberalism. If anything, republicans now condone Neoliberalism by wanting to privatize everything. You've gone to the dark side, you should come back.
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky Despite the horror of WWII, it did cull the population. By the 1950's, Europe was already rebuilt, and it was not overcrowded. They granted independence to the colonies, but the former colonies didn't really want it did they?
I expect Europe to be in full scare war again by mid century. It is too overcrowded, and resources are limited.
GarthanSaal444 1 year ago
@GarthanSaal444 Uh...India wanted Independence. What countries didn't want independence? Resources are becoming limited all over the world due to overpopulation all over the world...it's not just Europe. Europe uses half the amount of energy we do; if anyone is going to throw a fit, it'll be the U.S., China or Russia.
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky All nations (ALL!) in sub Saharan Africa, became worse when colonialism ended. Wasn't South Africa supposed to have gotten better after Apartheid? How is Zimbabwe these days since they started kicking out the whites?
GarthanSaal444 1 year ago
@GarthanSaal444 I'm not sure what your point is. There's a dictatorship and prolific corruption in Zimbabwe (just as in other parts of the world). Check out S.American (Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia) and Central American countries that have dropped the "white influenced" neoliberalism and are totally rebounding. Get rid of the Mugabe, and things can change.
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky Perhaps my point is that nations that are of a mixed race like Hispanics, Arabs, and other Middle Easterners or in fact still run by a mainly white elite who are genetically 75% or more caucasian. It's called a caste system. Despite being part nonwhite, these elitists treat the darker members of their own kind as inferiors. Being part white, they have no problem marrying whites, guaranteeing that race will never be on the bottom of any society.
GarthanSaal444 1 year ago
@GarthanSaal444 Your point is very much true. For most of human history different races haven't been able to mix very peacefully; but that is obviously coming to an end (U.S. for example). With vast capability of communication and travel now; it's only a matter of time before then entire human population will be one color (I'm exaggerating quite a bit here, but we are totally accepting diversity more than ever before; and that mentality is never going away).
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky slavery was a jewish industry, they should sue them for reparations
also do you support a "multicultural" open border israel? or is that only for western countries?
theforbiddentruth01 1 year ago
@theforbiddentruth01 Israel is in a different situation than us. Israel is protecting themselves from suicide bombers; we aren't. One of the main reasons for the immigration flood from Mexico here is because of our crap NAFTA doings. I am unfamiliar with the Jewish slavery history...but if there still exists a population that have been held down due to that, then of course there should be aid of some sort.
damoninsky 1 year ago
ONEWORLDGOVERNMENT
docgspot69 1 year ago
we can point fingers at greece but....um what about us.
boxofrocksful 1 year ago
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MarcNeilsen 1 year ago
love it!
boxofrocksful 1 year ago
Yeah, Europe is "holding up pretty well," that's why Greece is falling apart and there is nothing the EU can do to prevent it.
And something isn't "free" when you have to pay for it via tax dollars.
MarcNeilsen 1 year ago
@MarcNeilsen Good point, yet people that can't afford health care or other social services do get it for basically free. There are 6.5 plus billion people in the world, not everyone can afford these necessities. Health care should be a right, not a privilege for the few lucky.
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky No health care should not be a right. Please go fuck yourself, shoot yourself and die you commie nazi scum. Fuck you and your family commie fuck. My family fought the nazis during WW2 and resisted and fled the soviets in the 70s. Commienazi scum like you make me sick.
ThunderAppeal 1 year ago
@ThunderAppeal I'm sorry you think that people shouldn't have certain basic rights on this planet (such as health care) and instead only the very few, lucky ones that are born in the right place and right time should live a comfortable life. You are a perfect example of an selfish, angry person, bringing down the happiness level of this country. You may want to try being more kind to others.
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky You should be sorry, commie scum like you are the reason America is in the sad state that its in. If you want soviet style medicine move to russia.
ThunderAppeal 1 year ago
@ThunderAppeal
1. Why do you think we are in a "sad state"? What makes it sad?
2. Liberals aren't asking for "soviet style medicine" so please be more accurate instead of repeating Glen Beck disinformation.
3. I'm not a communist.
damoninsky 1 year ago
@damoninsky If you cant see why America is in a sad state then you are hilarious.
ThunderAppeal 1 year ago