I love living in a socialist European hellhole, let me tell you...
Hopefully the recurrent protest movements in the USA will help solve some of those issues. And I use the plural, because while I believe that the Tea Party was co-opted, misdirected by their funders and leaders, the kind of energy and anger behind it is similar to the one expressed on the left side of the aisle.
@FilipH86 I suppose you think that Sweden would have been able to stay "neutral" if the US had a military only 1/4 its size, and stayed out of Europe during Nazi expansion? Really?? Nazis wouldnt have taken everything they could? Seriously? You stupid, ungrateful piece of shit.
@luvcheney1@luvcheney1 Ungrateful?? I'm supposed to be grateful for a theoretical situation that never occured WOW. and besides you only invaded normandy when the germans had almost been defeated by the soviets.
And don't call me stupid I have already shown several times that you are the moron not me. strange that you attack me for your made up theoretical/lying reasons and yet you have named yourself in honor of an american traitor
@FilipH86 Fine, you think if the US never went into Europe, killing Nazis, your stinking pathetic "nation" would have been fine. OK, its your opinion, you delusional prick.
Even still red neck, ignorant, selfish morons are still whining about a "socialist, fascist, authoritarian takeover"....... not that these idiots understand the meaning of any of these three things....... or the fact that Obama is trying to change things.......
@sniper1724 LOL the reason for all the hitler moustashes painted on Obama pictures carried by Teabaggers at their rallys ... The morons have no earthly idea of the diffrence in fascism and socialism in political ideaology terms ,useing these words like a snoty nosed kid on the block who has learned a new curse word, they basicly failed middle school civic political class.......
@sniper1724 Not to worry ,should these morons get their way you'l see the double dip to this current recession that'l be a world wide depression of the 1929 epic proportions it'l spread around the world just like this last recesssion.......
@kamphwagon1 yea but thier corporate friends will still remain astoundingly wealthy, no doubt.. At least they won't directly be able to cut my health care. Though i doubt the republicans they will get into power...
They are nothing but sellouts to the greedy, wealthy and powerful. If the founding fathers were still around they would line them up on a firing squad as traitors to the american people. But ppl are so stupid they still vote for more healthcare and social security cuts ..........
@sniper1724 LOL isn't that the truth ,ever since Reagan & his trickle down economics that haven't worked in the last 20 years of republican leadership.. It seems the democrats lack the balls to hammer these kooks into oblivion just on their tax policys and freebees to the rich & the most profitabe corporations like big oil..As of now Obama has given these thugs enough rope to hang theirselves on offering up entitlement cuts for cuting substies to most profitable & the trapdoor needs to open !...
@kamphwagon1 yea, ppl who believe in trickle down economics are morons. The money only trickles down into the owner's swiss bank accounts where they rob ppl further by avoiding taxes. Unless the government raises minimum wage, introduces profit sharing or something like that. But every time that starts the republicans scream that the 10% that have 90% of wealth can't afford it. The democrats dont have the balls but don't forget thier scared that these idiots will go back to the republicans.
@sniper1724 Exactly , to offshore accounts , when in all reality higer taxes on the rich and the big profitable corporations causes them to spend more on their buisnesses in the way of upgrades and other things for a tax write off , once they see they have to spend more to keep from paying taxes thats what they'l do , even the mom & pop private corporations do this at the end of the year.. It amazes me how the republicans keep harping on failed policy ,like where's the jobs after 10 years....
@kamphwagon1 lol, actually the policies are not a total failure. They benefit the wealthy elite, even if they end up screwing the economy, the republican's funders get rich in the process. The promise of jobs and guaranteed astronomically better economy is bullshit to get people to vote themselves into poverty. That's why they keep harping on about these policies.......
@kamphwagon1 I see, if higher tax rates make lower profits, they will spend money on upgrades, and investments? If upgrades and investments make sense economically, they would already do them, at the present lower tax rates. Higher rates will be countered by outsourcing to lower tax nations. As always. Go ahead, the corps and CEO`s will NOT demonstrate, burn cars like Greek Pinkos. They will just send the corp out of the US, as a foreign subsidiary, and avoid the taxes altogether, as usual.
@luvcheney1 Higer tax rates don't have a dam thing to do with the profitability of a product , it has a relationship to investment for tax write offs.So tell me this crap for brains Republitard according to your inept theroys wev'e had 10 dam years of the Dubya tax cuts , and according to your theroy unemployement should be 0% so where are the jobs fundie failure ? When you figure out people don't upgrade or reinvest when they are all ready making as much profit as they want theres no incentives
@kamphwagon1 So, if a Corp makes a dollar profit, and in Calif the Corp keeps 56 cents, and in Canada the corp keeps 86 cents, this has no effect on profitability? Then, the moron says, "When you figure out people don't upgrade or reinvest when they are all ready making as much profit as they". Sure, we just say, "Oh no! We do NOT want any more money! We have enough!". Jeez......... its hard to believe the stupidity.
@luvcheney1 LOL I'l tell you were the jobs are .. there across the border in Mexico and the big pond in China due to republitard give aways to the rich and big corporations... It's called greed and cronieism ,the only swinging dick to warn about the great sucking sound of the American dream and jobs leaveing here was Ross Peroit... Stupidity is a moron who votes republican thats to stupid to realize hes voteing for the demize of America !........
@sniper1724 Great, US per capita GDP about $46,000, and the fucking Dominican Republic is less than $7,000? "consequences of thier stupidity... "?????
@luvcheney1 no the consequences are illustrated perfectly in this video. Yes, U.S. is gonna have more wealth than the Dominican Republic look at the 2 countries their incomparable. The wealth that these policies generate does not reach the average person, it all stays on top,. As many other countries have shown you dont need to put almost evry1 into poverty to have a productive economy. Also, 10% of Americans have 90% of the wealth so they definitely can afford to treat people better than this
@kamphwagon1 Please note you avoid explaining the difference too. Maybe they failed middle school classes, but it looks like you did too. "ideaology"?? "useing"?? "snoty"?? "basicly"?? For Christ`s sake, what a fucking idiot!
@luvcheney1 Avoid explaining the difference LOL ... Most republicans lend theirseves to corporate facist ideas .. Just as you do , facism is a partnership between goverment and big buisness with a fat cat rueling class calling the shots , so in reality those Hitler moustashes belong painted on a facist clown like the one you see in the mirrior !.........
Can't stand that our military industrial complex is horrifically overblown, but we bicker about any spending on the poor or disabled. I really wish i could go to france or sweden to get their healthcare. Health insurance is worthless when they won't treat preexisting conditions. All i freakin need it for is preexisting conditions..
Ron Paul would do well in correcting the main cause of these stats, cutting military expenditures by closing all foreign bases, by shutting down the gestapo services and maybe even live long enough to close the Fed & the IRS with it, both are private agencies who derived their power unconstitutionally from Congress who has no power to delegate that right to a private bank cartel & should be in charge of money & taxes themselves.
@TheEllipsis731 You give me the earliest warning from Sowell or Douglas Holst-Eakins or the American Enterprise Institute, or some other rightwing Republican think tank. I heard no one calling Greenspan incompetent. Quite to the contrary, they called him THE MAESTRO.....
@TheEllipsis731 None of your Great Prophets predicted a massive collapse of the credit system in 2006 or 2007 let alone in 2001-2005 when credit rates were quite low. Your post will be deleted - as I have heard these same predictable worn-out arguments, numerous times, about the Austrian school dogma/ mythology.
@Ralphdraw3 Ron Paul gave a prediction in 2002 on the freaking House floor! Peter Schif wrote his book, "Conquer the Crash" in 2006, and also gave his famous "Peter Schiff to mortgage bankers" speech in 2006! He predicted it the in 2002 when the government used easy credit to pull us out of the dot com bubble (which he also predicted)... Just because no one listened doesn't mean he was wrong... Anyway, Thanks and have a nice day...
@TheEllipsis731 You give me the date in 2002 and/or the quote from good old Doc Paul. I'll see if it checks out. BTW despite Paul's great and towering intellect, I was very disappointed in Paul's opposition to the impeachment of Bush or Cheney from the period 2003 to 2007 - maybe it's a Republican party thing... He refused to co-sponsor any of the bills of impeachment inquiry and he voted against all of them. Despite his long speeches about the abuse of power of the executive branch during
@Ralphdraw3 Peter Schiff, advocate of the Austrian School, predicted the collapse in "Crash Proof" in 2007, markets collapsing late 2008. He advocated precious metals as method of protecting yourself. Gold was $600-$800 in 2007, today $1590. See Mises dot org ( von Mises, Austrian school). There you can read, Thornton, Shustak, Karlsson, Wenzel, Sennholtz, etc as well. As if you fucking care.....They all predicted it. You were absent from class. We are getting rich, as well as being correct.
@TheEllipsis731 Man you sound just like a Paul-bot. THE AUSTRIANS don't even follow the Austrian school of economics!! Re. Peter Schiff (the Great Prophet): why didn't Wall Street, mortgage lenders, bond-holders listen to the Great Schiff??????
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@TheEllipsis731 AGAIN: - I HEARD NO ONE - NOT THE FREE MARKET FAITHFUL NOR ECONOMISTS NOR WALL STREETERS OR ANYONE ELSE COMPLAIN ABOUT LOW INTEREST RATES. In 2006, 2007, the stock market continued to rise (all those smart people in the stock market), home values continued to rise EVERYONE seemingly was happy. Those in the know - the mortgage dealers knew borrows could not repay; and S &P and Moody's knew they were rating krapp/junk as Triple A. - it is a crime
@TheEllipsis731 I didn't any Wall Street people complaining about low interest rates. Nor did I hear free market economists complaining about low interest rates. And Wall Street made a huge amount of money off of low interests and toxic mortgages (which they knew were krapp)
@Ralphdraw3 Lol, take a look at Robert Murphy, and Peter Schiff... Peter predicted the entire recession, and knew the exact culprits, and even the reaction that it would get from the government... Thomas Sowell called real estate a "house of cards" back in 2006 if I recall... And they correctly placed at blame on the Federal Reserve and FDIC and the SEC... John Allison has some videos on YouTube where he explains in a detailed way what happened...
@TheEllipsis731 Robert Murphy, and Peter Schiff??? who are they? Why didn't the big investment banks listen? why didn't the Fed listen? why didn't the mortgage dealers listen? why didn't S&P and Moody's listen??
2. Wall Street and commercial banks were driven to keep pace with the rest of the irresponsible banks through competition based on government incentives.
3. The mortgage dealers were reaping huge profits and getting AAA ratings
4. and most of all, everyone that knew how risky their business was, also knew that the government would never let them fail.
The 1st and 4th were absolutely crucial Without these two things we'd be okay
@TheEllipsis731 Fed was incompetent! Why didn't all of the free market economists across the land rise up, and tell Washington that the Fed was incompetent???????????????????????????????????????? Banks irresponsible??? Why were crap investment bonds getting an AAA rating??????????? Lehman failed - gonzo, Bear Stearns failed and was bought out
@Ralphdraw3 When the Fed creates a credit bubble, most people are taken in by it. Only a few students of monetary policy, a few "gold bugs", Austrian School economists get it. You know, people you dont have a fuck of a clue about.
@TheEllipsis731 Your talking points on healthcare are totally insane. Canada is the number 2 healthcare provider in cost per person only behind number 1 the US. It cost an average of $8000 a year per person in the US to have healthcare. Canada spends half at $4000 a year per person. In Europe all these socialized healthcare systems only spend about $2000 a year per person for healthcare. So how is government screwing up the way our healthcare is applied? You are one dumbfuck republican.
@teabaggersblow Like I said, the reason ours costs so much is precisely because our government spends hundreds of billions on Medicare/Medicaid, tax credits for employer-based coverage, tax credits for research, etc... Prices ***could not possibly*** have risen this high without government...
So me ANY area of the economy where prices rise *faster than inflation* every single year for several decades without government intervention...
"Like I said, the reason ours costs so much is precisely because our government spends hundreds of billions"
Wouldn't be a problem if they weren't spending over a trillion on wars and a bloated military budget in general. Oh yea and all those tax cuts for the rich, how'd that work out for the economy? Subisidies for the oil business? Wasted money on a lost drug war( a war on people)? Now they want to cut education and public service jobs HAHA, pieces of shit.
@refuckulate420 Lol I'm against the wars, the drug war, the bloated defense budget, and oil subsidies, as well as agriculture subsidies... And yes, it would still be a problem because all those things that you listed could be eliminated and it would do virtually nothing to the supply/demand principles of healthcare in this country...
It's strange how you can be against oil subsidies and for healthcare subsidies at the same time, just because it hits the hands of the poor before it hits the rich
Sorry but certain things like healthcare are necessary for a well functioning society. The healthier people are, the healthier the economy and mostly everything is. Health insurance does not exist to improve life expectancy or health, it exists to make a profit. Money really is the root of all evil, money will change the best of people into total douchebags.
A society based simply on consumerism will not survive. The accumulation of wealth is not the point of humanity.
@refuckulate420 Obama said tax cuts for rich were $700 bill, in 10 yrs. Thats $70 bill a yr! Thats less than 2% of the fucking Federal Budget for this yr! And, Federal Reserve stated rich spent 88% of income in Clinton Admin, saving just 12% MAX. Wow, taxing the rich adds 12% of $70 bill in spending a yr, $8.4bill?? US economy is $14.7 trill, so that means an extra .0006 of GDP! wow, that will make a boom! Wars budgeted $140 bill in 2011. Get a pencil, stupid. Needs instructions to use it?
Where do you get your information you idiot? What partisan bullshit you've lapped up like the stupid dog you are.
Total cost of war to date is over 1.20 trillion. Both the rich, and corporations end up not paying their through multiple tax loopholes, offshore accounts, investments and more. The wealth gap in the U.S. right now is worse then it's ever been. The spending power in this country IS the middle class, it's the only reason any rich exist. You stupid muppet.
@TheEllipsis731 I think if you tilted your head to the side and took your hand and tapped the side of your head a couple of times a rock would fall out of your ear. Like I said all governments in Europe have socialized medicine and Canada too. Their cost of healthcare is 1/4 of what we pay here in America. Republicans like you remind me of ignorant people living all over the US. Figures by republicans lie and liars like republicans figure.
@teabaggersblow In doing research on severe back injuries ( since I had one, and an operation), I found out that the suicide rate for folks like me is far higher in the UK than in the US. Seems the wonderful, free health care isnt so hot, when you are in fucking agony, you motherfucking creep. You also might learn, that of all the drugs used internationally, 55% are developed in the US, and the entire rest of the fucking world can only manage to develop 45%. EU alone has 60% more population.
@luvcheney1 It may behoove you to read and listen instead of throw stones at people that are not belittling US healthcare.The US has arguably the best healthcare money can buy. The problem is that more and more Americans are not able to buy it, since salaries have decreased. But we all know that Big Pharma, giant healthcare corporations as well as large insurance companies are making profits on the backs of every American that has to use the US healthcare system. Republicans are small minded.
@TheEllipsis731 Please tell me if any healthcare insurance providers have gone out of business from the hard times they have to endure in order to make sure every man woman and child gets a fair deal on their healthcare insurance policies? Please let me know how to not hold them responsible for higher wages since they themselves deicide what they cover and what they don't cover. We all pay high premimiums yet not everyone needs a hospital or doctor. Profits through greed.
@teabaggersblow The average total profits of an insurance company are around 3% of revenue (Oh the humanity).. And premiums go up because the healthcare costs that they have to pay out go up... Those costs are going up because, instead of allowing demand to fall to bring the price down after they've priced people out of the market, the government subsidizes it at the artificial demand, which maintains and even raises the current costs... This causes premiums to go up and the cycle starts over...
@TheEllipsis731 3% of revenue from healthcare insurance policies is profit. Yea just like the oil companies putting all their profits back into research and development. Go look at the salaries of all the players in the too big to fail corporations. CEOs making in the millions while getting millions in stock options. E. Warren trying to make things more fair for the consumer and republicans fight to keep money in the hands of the wealthy. Dude republicans fail at every level.
@Ralphdraw3 Ron Paul is my elected rep from Texas. Him and his home spun yarns about private owners selling public goods but only allowing bald fat white fucks to use their shitter is a trip..................a fucking bad trip if you got a different color skin. Fucking white supremacist racist pure and simple. So you know what you are getting. And I would use his shitter since I am white and then I would piss all over his walls.
@teabaggersblow LOL aren't you the lucky one to have Paul for a rep LOL..:) Yeah he's a cluster fuck of ideas that play into the Koch agenda , not includeing he realy thinks America needs to return to the 1700s with his ideas about our goverment oversite agenceys like the EPA & OSHA when back in the day polution was steping in horse shit and danger in the work place was the possibility of that horse kicking someone............
@kamphwagon1 He came out and said defaulting on the debt ceiling would not be that bad. Many economist believe the US would lose 10% of GDP after only a few days beyond the deadline. I can't say I know one way or the other but it seems reckless of Ron Paul to push that tea party agenda to the limits. Most corporations are telling their bought republican mouthpieces to stop the insanity and raise the debt ceiling. Paul hates the EPA and OSHA for sure and that alone should open many peoples eyes.
@teabaggersblow LOL 90% of Ron Pauls theroys and ideas came from watching to many old B movies that depicted early America and some how merged it with the idea of a time machine trough legislation .... The reason he hates the EPA & OSHA is thats part of the Koch sucker agenda as all liberatarians think the Koch bros are the jesus christ twins,his claim is these agenceys supress jobs LOL ..What good is a job that'l get you killed from it's polution or the lack of saftey regs !.....
@kamphwagon1 He lives in the Sugarland area. The republicans gerrymandered the districts so much around here I live on the coast about 60 miles away from his home. Poe is another dumbass Texas republican that has his district gerrymandered. From the southeast side of Houston to all points leading east to Lousiana we all vote democratic. Good fishing too. And republicans know it. We love unions and the money we made in our lifetime from prevailing wage. We know unions kept our wages up.
@teabaggersblow Yeah I hered about all the redistricting that took place down there .. Ah fishing when I was younger like in my early teens we used to go to port Aransas to gig flounder in the winter when we lived in San Antonio, now I live north of the Red river in the red dirt state that is as red politicly as Texas.. No doubt unions have kept wages up where they have a good membership, there good for the working man whether he has a union job or a non union one......
@kamphwagon1 With all the petro-chemical plants around here we got plenty of union memberships. Many of these members forgot where their bread got buttered from, but now these guys are seeing shit happen in other states that they do not want to happen here. Perry is nothing but a chickenshit republican that will not put his governorship on the line to buck these large unions. I really cannot believe he won again this last time. He lets home ins. go up every year while property values drop.
@teabaggersblow Hmm sounds like he's in the hip pocket of the insurance companys, somewhat like our teabag governor matress Mary Failing Falin who turned down federal money to set up the new health insurance regs& excange.. When the insurace commisioner met with execitives with the exicitives saying ''well some of us may be looking for new jobs'' and the commisoner'' says it's my job to make sure you have one''you know theres some Walker facist BS fixing to take place !......
@Ralphdraw3 Lol, yeah. I like that Ron Paul opposes the war, but his economic ideas are just nuts. I've done a lot of reading on Austrian economics and more importantly the view of Austrian economics from tradition economist' point of view. If you line up economists from Keynsians, Monetarists, classical, neo-classical (all of whom disagree on a lot) all will tell you the Austrians are not real economics.
@Newenlightenmentnow There is a serious trend toward make believe with libertarians. The idea that the free market regulates itself for instance is silly. Nothing really regulates itself, it's a contradictory notion. The government doesn't regulate itself... the people regulate the government through elections. Why should the free market be any different? The military spending is definitely absurd. I'm all for a strong military, but we're just blowing money building stuff we don't need
@teabaggersblow And btw there have been lots insurance companies that have gone out of business... And tons of others that started putting an end to child coverage because of the costs that will be imposed from the new healthcare law...
@TheEllipsis731 What kind of product (wealth) do insurance companies add to the economy? Seems to me insurance companies create nothing, and just redistribute wealth.
@TheEllipsis731 So now you as a republican are condoning credit default swaps and derivatives as a legit way for these too big to fail insurance companies to go out of business? hehehee Typical republican. they grab your ears and you like it. Do you work for AIG or just let them have their way with you for free?
@TheEllipsis731 Costs - a third party insurer is a complete waste of money, overhead and paperwork. BTW medical care continues to advance - for all countries; and populations, in the developed world continues to get older. Your parroting of free market dogma does not work with health care and it doesn't convince me. AND please tell me how the free market titans of Wall Street completely screwed the economy up... that is the subject of another video..
@TheEllipsis731 yes you're into free market dogma - which doesn't work for healthcare. Perhaps check out how Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany deliver health care. I know that in Canada, prescr. drug are far less expensive than here. With our system we spend far more on health care as % of GDP than any other industrialized country.
@TheEllipsis731 I find that when you are sick, very sick or injured, you are in no condition "to shop around" in the "marketplace". I look at other advanced industrial countries and how they solve this problem. Most solve it with some kind of national health insurance system.
Going through a 3rd party health insurance company is a huge waste of money in paperwork and administration.
@TheEllipsis731 Health care is very different than other "markets". When you are very sick, you do not have the time, ability or the medical knowledge to "shop around" for the best "deal" to help you with your illness. It is what economists call "asymmetrical information" - the patient (lacking information) depends on the doctor's advice and ability. Even with getting second opinions (which cost more money), the patient is not a doctor and has a hard time analyzing the medical information.
@TheEllipsis731 Dumbass the insurance companies play the people so the hospitals play the insurance companies and the feds. Wake up and quit thinking like a child or a braindead republican.
All looks pretty damnably shameful to me.I don't care what all these apologists are puking out.The US has it's priorities ass backwards.Has since the end of ww2.Planetary bullies with an environmental record that is almost as bad as Canada's and that's pathetic.
@TheEllipsis731 If you take how much money we waste on defense spending, wars, and the over-paying/under taxing of the incompetent money shufflers on Wall Street, we would have much more money for health care. I think - politically - to get rid of medicare will be very difficult. And you seem to be talking about severe rationing of care, which I suspect will be quite unpopular.
@Ralphdraw3 By 2050, the entire budget will be consumed by Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security/interest on the debt... You could eliminate the entire military, the entire education budget, all three wars, and return to Clintonian tax levels, (I'm not suggesting that we do this btw) and we still won't have the money to pay for these programs in any reasonable way lol...
And yes, I agree, it would be extremely unpopular to cut one penny of these programs, which is an utter tragedy, in my opinion...
@TheEllipsis731 So you favor rationing of healthcare - the rich get the most health care and the poor are left to suffer.. This is politically and morally unacceptable to most Americans..
Health care has bee rationed for years! I have been out of medicine for six years. I had people refused procedures, many times before 2005. It will only get worse under Obamacare! And it does not matter how poor one is. If you don't have kids or disabled, even with poverty level income, Medicaid won't help you.
@TheEllipsis731 Our healthcare system is very inefficient - the health insurance industry has lots of overhead/red tape and publicly subsidized care has no cost controls. Other countries - Canada and Great Britain for example - with more subsidized health care, spend far less than we do and, frequently, achieve better outcomes.
We've spent trillions to find the ONE MAN osama bin ladin and here in nevada we can't even afford to pay our school teacher's salaries, that is absolutely disgusting!
It's why CNN/FOX/700club/ABC/NBC news is so popular, people huddling around their propaganda TV for warmth, desperately trying to maintain the belief that things are better here.
Why do you switch out the Countries when comparing them to the US?
Because not every Country is perfect, and you put the US next to all of the best to compare it to other Countries.
US isn't so bad if you look at all of these statistics compared to other Countries without swapping them out for other good ones.
IE: A Country might have good infant mortality rate but be horrible in all of the other examples, so you switch that Country out and never show it on the list again.
The far right likes to hide this so that they can tell how well off you are and how the big corporations, their CEO's, and the rich are making things wonderful for us.
Todo, we ain't in Kansas any more! This government is totally out of control causing the disappearance of the middle class. We are headed for a class war. America is finished!
It's also the same with our education. We are looked upon around the world as morons even though we are one of only two countries in the entire world who teaches everyone. Oddly enough no other country can say they test every single one of their students.
Again... I could continue debunking these facts because I have a tiny bit of unbiased knowledge.
The poverty line is different in each country. The world poverty line however is estimated to about $1.25. In the U.S. we have a higher poverty rate because on average we consume more than any other country.
Some of this is speculative. For example in the U.S. every death during live birth is counted. In some countries if there's a complication it's not unheard of for the doctor to eliminate the fetus long before it's given birth. You should also note that these countries do not count still born deaths. Yet in the U.S. we count every single death and that's exactly why the infant mortality rate is higher here.
Watching this I thought surely there are countries with statistics worse than the ones displayed, and there are, but then again if your comparing your country against third world countries there is something wrong.......
@BraniusBalki These are not third world countries - most of them are developed, European democracies. The USA falls far behind most of these advanced countries - that is a fact. These countries are members of the OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Denmark Finland etc...
@BraniusBalki We in AMERICA produce more military weapons and have a foreign policy that promotes death ... we are number one at this.
The fact is we should be number one in making life better for people in our country first and then respecting the sovereignty of foreign nations which we cannot do.
The problem I see with getting down to hard on "third world countries" is though their influence on teh world isn't that great, and though they may not make as much MONEY as us...
Their quality of life may be better, because their cost of living is lower, and the money they do make is spent on healthcare, and not wars..
If I knew spanish, and a skill (maybe a doctor) thatthe costa ricans would accept with open arms, I would be tempted to move..
The other falicy in this vid is the fact that Americas standards for poverty would equate to middle class in a lot of countries. In addition its making comparisons between completely differant socio-econmic entities both in enthnicity and size. Also around 40% of our welfare cost is fraud. A huge number of people whom fall into the poverty catagory should be working and off the welfare rolls.
Of course our high poverty rate is because we allow people to stay poor with ignorant welfare policies. Most of americas poor have free housing, food and health care. Most have luxurys like bigscreen TVs, cell phones and pretty nice cars. The poor in the countrys sited in this video would LOVE to be poor in the US.
@tomitstube Seriously? Europe is absolutely hanging by a thread when it comes to economic survivability. Germany has fared the best because they re-privatized thier HC system, transportation and raised taxes through the roof. Trust me socialism sucks.
@mmac382 ~ you're delusional. germany's health care system takes care of all it's citizens through socialized care. in america our costs are twice as high nationwide and 50 million have no insurance at all, another 50 million have junk policies that are virtually worthless. 20,000 people die every year from lack of access to care or life saving medicine. and these numbers are climbing due to right wing privatized austerity measures. cubans get better care than americans.
@tomitstube Germany has been re-privatizing HC for years because they've Gov control not to be cost effective. Its gradule so most dont see it happening. Actually the CBO reports even after OBAMA care there will still be 16 mil uninsured, however all have access to HC via public hospitals or medicade. Your 20k death toll is a total fabrication. Like so many socialist, you've been duped. The whole Cuban myth is rediculus. Anything more than the flu and your screwed.
@tomitstube Germany has been re-privatizing HC for years because they've found Gov control not to be cost effective. Its incremental so most dont see it happening. Actually the CBO reports even after OBAMA care there will still be 16 mil uninsured, however all have access to HC via public hospitals or medicade. Your 20k death toll is a total fabrication. Like so many socialist, you've been duped. The whole Cuban myth is rediculus. Anything more than the flu and your screwed.
@tomitstube In addition. Our cost are high in America for various reasons however giving care to huge numbers of illegals is definately a contributor to cost. Absolutely nobody dies due to lack of access to HC. All public hospitals are mandated to provide care to whomever walks through the door. I would define a junk policy as one like the Obama care. They already are reducing certain procedures like PAP test in order to save money and it will only be getting worse.
@tomitstube Example of differance in HC. My relative in Germany wanted to be tested for a CPAP machine for sleep apthnea. It took him months to find a doctor who could do the test and months to find a manufacture to provide the machine. I mentioned the same test to my doctor and in three weeks I had two test and a CPAP machine sitting next to my bed. In Cuba you would never be able to get a CPAP. Thats the differance. You can have Europe and Cuba. I'll stick with USA HC (without Obama care)
@mmac382 ~ everything you said is nonsense. a flood of nonsensical opinions i'm not spending all day to debunk, plus you seem quite brain washed, so why bother?. i know a number of dual citizen europeans and canadians for that matter who all say our system sucks. you just make shit up, why? idk, you listen to fox? who knows, people with socialized medicine don't worry about insurance, or deductibles, or what plan they have, or if a doctor is on that plan... they just go without worry.
@tomitstube Its hard to debunk fact. I dont listen to Fox. You people always bring up Fox everytime your discredited in your beliefs. People in socialized enviroments dont worry about anything because they've been lulled into sleep and apathy. But tell them they have to work more than 38hrs a week and they start breaking windows and rioting. And oh yes Canadiens to carry extra personel HC Insurance to cover what the Gov doesnt. Im not making this up sparky.
@mmac382 ~ nah, you're just spouting talking points by fox pundits, who btw are lap dogs for corporations and their propaganda. i know that, and you know that. i'm not going spend time shredding all your fabricated bullet points. it's obvious you have an agenda and there's really no point in me even discussing anything with you.
nobody wants our bullshit private healthcare system, except idiot american conservatives and the oligarchs they worship. it's an embarrassment to democracy.
@tomitstube I doubt you'll find the talking heads covering the things Ive mentioned. Actually your socialist government is much closer to an oligarchy than the right wing styled governmet. Which by the way is a Republic not a Democracy. You probably dont know the differance.
@mmac382 ~ lol, yeah glenn beck doesn't like a "democracy" either, unfortunately that's what we have (barely) with three branches of government and a bill of rights. "republic" is a generic word that means nothing. unless you think we resemble the "republic of china".
america has 1% s.o.e.'s. so 99% is privately owned, what were you blubbering about "socialism"?
and what were you saying about me "knowing the difference"?
@tomitstube Oh by the way my American friend in Germany had children of course who spoke fluent english in grade school. When he asked to have them place ahead a grade or two he was told no because the group must stay together. In other words the collective is more important the individule excelance.
@mmac382 ~ lol, you know someone from germany. so...? give him/her a couple years in america and they'll be begging for their 15% socialism back.
you conserv/libertarians are so clueless to actual facts and how you're being duped by oligarchal despots it's scary. it won't be long and you idiots will turn america into a feudal society with cable. just what wal-mart, bp, and the koch brothers want.
@mmac382 And if you didn't have a decent job that either provided health care, or paid enough for you to afford a private plan, your chances of getting that CPAP machine would be about as good as Cuba.
@bwthor So why cant you just go get a job and pay for your own. Why is it you Generation E People think everything should be free. The only thing free in life is FRELOADERS like you. Stand and get a backbone. If a CPAP was critical for your health you sure would get one.
@mmac382 I am fortunate on a few levels. My wife and I both have jobs that pay pretty well. We also have employer provided health care. We live in a state with a very low unemployment rate. We are healthy, so if we needed to go out and find private health coverage, we would be able to do that. I'm also compassionate.
I do agree with the freeloader concept, just don't lump everyone who has lost a job, or wasn't given the chances you or I have had in life into that freeloader category.
@mmac382 ~ lol, just because you don't understand the subject matter doesn't mean i haven't backed up any "claims". s.o.e. - state owned enterprise. ok, now you can go back and understand how i schooled you on the facts. btw, running around calling people "freeloaders" isn't relevant dimwit.
83% of people who use free clinics, work. many work more than one job because of the failed private market. they don't have insurance or high paying jobs you clueless ignorant fuck.
@tomitstube Its easy to just throwout statements with no backing. Any failure in the private market in theUS was mostly due to Common Welfare influance. i.e. Gov insistance on bad home loans to those whom dont qualify and the Gov allowing know abuses to occur. It wasnt free market principles that failed. Its ioninc you use your 83% free clinic claim because it shows these people haven health care.
@mmac382 ~ lol, pleeeze will you stop grasping at straws with these nonsense arguments? have i not proven to you i'm running circles around this made up crap of yours? have you not caught on to that yet?
free clinics is not health care you moron. maybe you should try to get you cancer operated at one. i can only hope you end up there one day and realize what an idiot you are.
and you know absolutely nothing about the financial collapse except right wing soundbite propaganda.
@tomitstube So then why did you bring free clinics up? Of course its healthcare. I've in the past used Free Clinics. You probably havent. Free Clinis are not intended to treat serious ailments like Cancer. Niether does Obamacare. Grasping at straws would be stateing claims as though it were fact. When in reality its just dribble heard from unreliable sources. I know exactly why our present financial sitiuation exist. Do you?
@bwthor Oh by the way. Putting my tax dollors into unelected beaurucrats hands to manage a health care system, especially one as large as the one the US would have, is just plain crazy. They robbed the Social Security system, they will do the same the HC system. Also we cant afford it. Private systems always work better. We just need to keep the Gov out. Selfish is bankrupting the country for social welfare.
How much do you know about "poor countries" like costa rica? I would really like to see how the quality of life of the average costa rican compares to that of americans..
I'm REALLY, at the very least, am flirting with the idea of moving out of the U.S. I am thinking of making a living in canada, and moving to a "poor country" like costa rica
@thefakeyeti Canada - from what I hear - is not suffering an economic recession, did not go through a mortgage/banking crisis and does not have a huge national debt, as we have.
@Ralphdraw3 Ahh do some research. We have the largest debt we have ever had. 500 billion....doesn't sound like much. We only have 32 million people. per capita we are as bad off as you. We did have a bailout but it was kept quiet and called a market adjustment= 90 billion dollars. multiply by 10 to see comparison to US bailout of 700 billion.
We have a minmum wage of 10$. Trades are hiring new people at 12$. without papers trades make no more than 16-18$
@Ralphdraw3 Move to Canada. One cant compare the two. Not nearly the ethnic pressures, or population in general. High taxes. (not just income but VAT and otherwise) Nice people. They grow lots of Pot.
@Ralphdraw3 I'm Canadian, and we did and still are having a recession, but we did avoid the banking mess, thanks to policies put in place by the Liberals. Our debt is actually pretty large compared to the population. Its around 160 billion, for 30 million people. And just for fun, the dim wits in this country just gave the Conservatives (think Republicans) a majority, so check back in 4 years and ask how its going.
@thefakeyeti You're not the first. US citizens retire but the boat load in South America on a daily basis because in many parts of that area the standard of living is just as high, on average, and the cost of living is tremendously lower. Life is often quieter and more enjoyable too. If I hadn't been born into poverty, I would have left a decade ago.
I love living in a socialist European hellhole, let me tell you...
Hopefully the recurrent protest movements in the USA will help solve some of those issues. And I use the plural, because while I believe that the Tea Party was co-opted, misdirected by their funders and leaders, the kind of energy and anger behind it is similar to the one expressed on the left side of the aisle.
gagaplex 4 months ago
Awesome...
upplsuckimcool16 4 months ago
ooh that little graph is so convincing...to teenagers LOL!
robi2000 7 months ago
@robi2000 Statistics from the OECD nations. We are falling behind in many areas. But we lead in incarcerations!!
Ralphdraw3 7 months ago
@robi2000 It's the extent of most americans understanding. This is perfect,
upplsuckimcool16 4 months ago
As I've said before you should cut 3/4 of your military
FilipH86 8 months ago
@FilipH86 Sure! I really didnt care if the Nazi`s ran your stinking country anyway.
luvcheney1 7 months ago
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FilipH86 7 months ago
@FilipH86 I suppose you think that Sweden would have been able to stay "neutral" if the US had a military only 1/4 its size, and stayed out of Europe during Nazi expansion? Really?? Nazis wouldnt have taken everything they could? Seriously? You stupid, ungrateful piece of shit.
luvcheney1 7 months ago
@luvcheney1 @luvcheney1 Ungrateful?? I'm supposed to be grateful for a theoretical situation that never occured WOW. and besides you only invaded normandy when the germans had almost been defeated by the soviets.
And don't call me stupid I have already shown several times that you are the moron not me. strange that you attack me for your made up theoretical/lying reasons and yet you have named yourself in honor of an american traitor
FilipH86 7 months ago
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FilipH86 7 months ago
@FilipH86 You write like you are 12. Ha. Germany didnt invade the US. Ha. Gotta go to the drag races now, watch the Volvos. Ha.
luvcheney1 7 months ago
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FilipH86 7 months ago
@FilipH86 Fine, you think if the US never went into Europe, killing Nazis, your stinking pathetic "nation" would have been fine. OK, its your opinion, you delusional prick.
luvcheney1 7 months ago
Even still red neck, ignorant, selfish morons are still whining about a "socialist, fascist, authoritarian takeover"....... not that these idiots understand the meaning of any of these three things....... or the fact that Obama is trying to change things.......
sniper1724 8 months ago
@sniper1724 LOL the reason for all the hitler moustashes painted on Obama pictures carried by Teabaggers at their rallys ... The morons have no earthly idea of the diffrence in fascism and socialism in political ideaology terms ,useing these words like a snoty nosed kid on the block who has learned a new curse word, they basicly failed middle school civic political class.......
kamphwagon1 8 months ago
@kamphwagon1 LOL yea, i'm just glad i'm not in America to suffer the consequences of thier stupidity...
sniper1724 8 months ago
@sniper1724 Not to worry ,should these morons get their way you'l see the double dip to this current recession that'l be a world wide depression of the 1929 epic proportions it'l spread around the world just like this last recesssion.......
kamphwagon1 7 months ago
@kamphwagon1 yea but thier corporate friends will still remain astoundingly wealthy, no doubt.. At least they won't directly be able to cut my health care. Though i doubt the republicans they will get into power...
They are nothing but sellouts to the greedy, wealthy and powerful. If the founding fathers were still around they would line them up on a firing squad as traitors to the american people. But ppl are so stupid they still vote for more healthcare and social security cuts ..........
sniper1724 7 months ago
@sniper1724 LOL isn't that the truth ,ever since Reagan & his trickle down economics that haven't worked in the last 20 years of republican leadership.. It seems the democrats lack the balls to hammer these kooks into oblivion just on their tax policys and freebees to the rich & the most profitabe corporations like big oil..As of now Obama has given these thugs enough rope to hang theirselves on offering up entitlement cuts for cuting substies to most profitable & the trapdoor needs to open !...
kamphwagon1 7 months ago
@kamphwagon1 yea, ppl who believe in trickle down economics are morons. The money only trickles down into the owner's swiss bank accounts where they rob ppl further by avoiding taxes. Unless the government raises minimum wage, introduces profit sharing or something like that. But every time that starts the republicans scream that the 10% that have 90% of wealth can't afford it. The democrats dont have the balls but don't forget thier scared that these idiots will go back to the republicans.
sniper1724 7 months ago
@sniper1724 Exactly , to offshore accounts , when in all reality higer taxes on the rich and the big profitable corporations causes them to spend more on their buisnesses in the way of upgrades and other things for a tax write off , once they see they have to spend more to keep from paying taxes thats what they'l do , even the mom & pop private corporations do this at the end of the year.. It amazes me how the republicans keep harping on failed policy ,like where's the jobs after 10 years....
kamphwagon1 7 months ago
@kamphwagon1 lol, actually the policies are not a total failure. They benefit the wealthy elite, even if they end up screwing the economy, the republican's funders get rich in the process. The promise of jobs and guaranteed astronomically better economy is bullshit to get people to vote themselves into poverty. That's why they keep harping on about these policies.......
sniper1724 7 months ago
@kamphwagon1 I see, if higher tax rates make lower profits, they will spend money on upgrades, and investments? If upgrades and investments make sense economically, they would already do them, at the present lower tax rates. Higher rates will be countered by outsourcing to lower tax nations. As always. Go ahead, the corps and CEO`s will NOT demonstrate, burn cars like Greek Pinkos. They will just send the corp out of the US, as a foreign subsidiary, and avoid the taxes altogether, as usual.
luvcheney1 7 months ago
@luvcheney1 Higer tax rates don't have a dam thing to do with the profitability of a product , it has a relationship to investment for tax write offs.So tell me this crap for brains Republitard according to your inept theroys wev'e had 10 dam years of the Dubya tax cuts , and according to your theroy unemployement should be 0% so where are the jobs fundie failure ? When you figure out people don't upgrade or reinvest when they are all ready making as much profit as they want theres no incentives
kamphwagon1 7 months ago
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@kamphwagon1 So, if a Corp makes a dollar profit, and in Calif the Corp keeps 56 cents, and in Canada the corp keeps 86 cents, this has no effect on profitability? Then, the moron says, "When you figure out people don't upgrade or reinvest when they are all ready making as much profit as they". Sure, we just say, "Oh no! We do NOT want any more money! We have enough!". Jeez......... its hard to believe the stupidity.
luvcheney1 7 months ago
@luvcheney1 LOL I'l tell you were the jobs are .. there across the border in Mexico and the big pond in China due to republitard give aways to the rich and big corporations... It's called greed and cronieism ,the only swinging dick to warn about the great sucking sound of the American dream and jobs leaveing here was Ross Peroit... Stupidity is a moron who votes republican thats to stupid to realize hes voteing for the demize of America !........
kamphwagon1 7 months ago
@sniper1724 Great, US per capita GDP about $46,000, and the fucking Dominican Republic is less than $7,000? "consequences of thier stupidity... "?????
luvcheney1 7 months ago
@luvcheney1 no the consequences are illustrated perfectly in this video. Yes, U.S. is gonna have more wealth than the Dominican Republic look at the 2 countries their incomparable. The wealth that these policies generate does not reach the average person, it all stays on top,. As many other countries have shown you dont need to put almost evry1 into poverty to have a productive economy. Also, 10% of Americans have 90% of the wealth so they definitely can afford to treat people better than this
sniper1724 7 months ago
@kamphwagon1 Please note you avoid explaining the difference too. Maybe they failed middle school classes, but it looks like you did too. "ideaology"?? "useing"?? "snoty"?? "basicly"?? For Christ`s sake, what a fucking idiot!
luvcheney1 7 months ago
@luvcheney1 Avoid explaining the difference LOL ... Most republicans lend theirseves to corporate facist ideas .. Just as you do , facism is a partnership between goverment and big buisness with a fat cat rueling class calling the shots , so in reality those Hitler moustashes belong painted on a facist clown like the one you see in the mirrior !.........
kamphwagon1 7 months ago
anyone noticed how Sweden scored good in almost everything?
gulbirk 8 months ago
wow thats bad
fallbread 8 months ago
Can't stand that our military industrial complex is horrifically overblown, but we bicker about any spending on the poor or disabled. I really wish i could go to france or sweden to get their healthcare. Health insurance is worthless when they won't treat preexisting conditions. All i freakin need it for is preexisting conditions..
ashleypoo1319 9 months ago
The only thing I have to say is that there are better ways to raise people out of poor conditions other than government spending.
Lately the growing trend is the creation of new currencies which work for communities rather than for the banksters and wall street gamblers.
MirageScience 9 months ago
unsurprising...also, don't send me another video or i will report you as spam.
MobileThinker 9 months ago
@MobileThinker You can, probably, just unsubscribe, and fix that.. Too bad more people know these things on how well we rate in our world, though!
mlang52 9 months ago
@mlang52 i am not subscribed to "Ralphdraw3".
MobileThinker 9 months ago
@MobileThinker
That is strange! I would proceed with the actions you planned
mlang52 9 months ago
@mlang52 mobilethinker is just one of those millions with their heads in the sand..and don't you dare tell them any facts.
zenbrenzz 8 months ago
Ron Paul would do well in correcting the main cause of these stats, cutting military expenditures by closing all foreign bases, by shutting down the gestapo services and maybe even live long enough to close the Fed & the IRS with it, both are private agencies who derived their power unconstitutionally from Congress who has no power to delegate that right to a private bank cartel & should be in charge of money & taxes themselves.
ZionistWorldOrder 9 months ago 2
Choice stats - so many trying to leave; so many coned into coming; so many hated for being coned - the psycho-mess just keeps growing!
PhotonDrive 9 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 You give me the earliest warning from Sowell or Douglas Holst-Eakins or the American Enterprise Institute, or some other rightwing Republican think tank. I heard no one calling Greenspan incompetent. Quite to the contrary, they called him THE MAESTRO.....
Ralphdraw3 9 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 None of your Great Prophets predicted a massive collapse of the credit system in 2006 or 2007 let alone in 2001-2005 when credit rates were quite low. Your post will be deleted - as I have heard these same predictable worn-out arguments, numerous times, about the Austrian school dogma/ mythology.
Ralphdraw3 9 months ago
@Ralphdraw3 Ron Paul gave a prediction in 2002 on the freaking House floor! Peter Schif wrote his book, "Conquer the Crash" in 2006, and also gave his famous "Peter Schiff to mortgage bankers" speech in 2006! He predicted it the in 2002 when the government used easy credit to pull us out of the dot com bubble (which he also predicted)... Just because no one listened doesn't mean he was wrong... Anyway, Thanks and have a nice day...
TheEllipsis731 9 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 You give me the date in 2002 and/or the quote from good old Doc Paul. I'll see if it checks out. BTW despite Paul's great and towering intellect, I was very disappointed in Paul's opposition to the impeachment of Bush or Cheney from the period 2003 to 2007 - maybe it's a Republican party thing... He refused to co-sponsor any of the bills of impeachment inquiry and he voted against all of them. Despite his long speeches about the abuse of power of the executive branch during
Ralphdraw3 9 months ago
@Ralphdraw3 Peter Schiff, advocate of the Austrian School, predicted the collapse in "Crash Proof" in 2007, markets collapsing late 2008. He advocated precious metals as method of protecting yourself. Gold was $600-$800 in 2007, today $1590. See Mises dot org ( von Mises, Austrian school). There you can read, Thornton, Shustak, Karlsson, Wenzel, Sennholtz, etc as well. As if you fucking care.....They all predicted it. You were absent from class. We are getting rich, as well as being correct.
luvcheney1 7 months ago
I wonder where we'll be in 20 years if things keep going the way they are.
NsaneNtheNbrane 9 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 Man you sound just like a Paul-bot. THE AUSTRIANS don't even follow the Austrian school of economics!! Re. Peter Schiff (the Great Prophet): why didn't Wall Street, mortgage lenders, bond-holders listen to the Great Schiff??????
Ralphdraw3 9 months ago
@Ralphdraw3 So now, its Schiff`s fault nobody listened?
luvcheney1 7 months ago
The present pays for past abuse, the future suffers for present action. Positive deeds create peace, negative acts build catastrophe.
PeaceProfit 9 months ago
Political infighting will soon be swept aside by necessity 4 Many natural recovery limits have been exceeded Climate cycle is beyond human control & requires much of the land mankind now inhabits Mass migration to higher ground is inevitable as R solar events earthquakes etc. 2 avoid major pandemics & resource depletion humanity must rapidly depart from their ego fear based agenda centric methods of conducting their affairs Developing a cooperative sustainable peaceful society. Or perish as U-R
PeaceProfit 9 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 AGAIN: - I HEARD NO ONE - NOT THE FREE MARKET FAITHFUL NOR ECONOMISTS NOR WALL STREETERS OR ANYONE ELSE COMPLAIN ABOUT LOW INTEREST RATES. In 2006, 2007, the stock market continued to rise (all those smart people in the stock market), home values continued to rise EVERYONE seemingly was happy. Those in the know - the mortgage dealers knew borrows could not repay; and S &P and Moody's knew they were rating krapp/junk as Triple A. - it is a crime
Ralphdraw3 9 months ago
disgusting american politics just typical bullshit talk talk talk and nothing really getting done ...... America - Slowing down social progress .
PVBOG 9 months ago
Meanwhile on Fox: USA, USA, USA!!!
RBLA818 9 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 I didn't any Wall Street people complaining about low interest rates. Nor did I hear free market economists complaining about low interest rates. And Wall Street made a huge amount of money off of low interests and toxic mortgages (which they knew were krapp)
Ralphdraw3 9 months ago
@Ralphdraw3 Lol, take a look at Robert Murphy, and Peter Schiff... Peter predicted the entire recession, and knew the exact culprits, and even the reaction that it would get from the government... Thomas Sowell called real estate a "house of cards" back in 2006 if I recall... And they correctly placed at blame on the Federal Reserve and FDIC and the SEC... John Allison has some videos on YouTube where he explains in a detailed way what happened...
TheEllipsis731 9 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 Robert Murphy, and Peter Schiff??? who are they? Why didn't the big investment banks listen? why didn't the Fed listen? why didn't the mortgage dealers listen? why didn't S&P and Moody's listen??
Ralphdraw3 9 months ago
@Ralphdraw3 They didn't listen because:
1. The Fed was incompetent
2. Wall Street and commercial banks were driven to keep pace with the rest of the irresponsible banks through competition based on government incentives.
3. The mortgage dealers were reaping huge profits and getting AAA ratings
4. and most of all, everyone that knew how risky their business was, also knew that the government would never let them fail.
The 1st and 4th were absolutely crucial Without these two things we'd be okay
TheEllipsis731 9 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 Fed was incompetent! Why didn't all of the free market economists across the land rise up, and tell Washington that the Fed was incompetent???????????????????????????????????????? Banks irresponsible??? Why were crap investment bonds getting an AAA rating??????????? Lehman failed - gonzo, Bear Stearns failed and was bought out
Ralphdraw3 9 months ago
@Ralphdraw3 When the Fed creates a credit bubble, most people are taken in by it. Only a few students of monetary policy, a few "gold bugs", Austrian School economists get it. You know, people you dont have a fuck of a clue about.
luvcheney1 7 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 Your talking points on healthcare are totally insane. Canada is the number 2 healthcare provider in cost per person only behind number 1 the US. It cost an average of $8000 a year per person in the US to have healthcare. Canada spends half at $4000 a year per person. In Europe all these socialized healthcare systems only spend about $2000 a year per person for healthcare. So how is government screwing up the way our healthcare is applied? You are one dumbfuck republican.
teabaggersblow 9 months ago
@teabaggersblow Like I said, the reason ours costs so much is precisely because our government spends hundreds of billions on Medicare/Medicaid, tax credits for employer-based coverage, tax credits for research, etc... Prices ***could not possibly*** have risen this high without government...
So me ANY area of the economy where prices rise *faster than inflation* every single year for several decades without government intervention...
TheEllipsis731 9 months ago
@TheEllipsis731
"Like I said, the reason ours costs so much is precisely because our government spends hundreds of billions"
Wouldn't be a problem if they weren't spending over a trillion on wars and a bloated military budget in general. Oh yea and all those tax cuts for the rich, how'd that work out for the economy? Subisidies for the oil business? Wasted money on a lost drug war( a war on people)? Now they want to cut education and public service jobs HAHA, pieces of shit.
refuckulate420 9 months ago
@refuckulate420 Lol I'm against the wars, the drug war, the bloated defense budget, and oil subsidies, as well as agriculture subsidies... And yes, it would still be a problem because all those things that you listed could be eliminated and it would do virtually nothing to the supply/demand principles of healthcare in this country...
It's strange how you can be against oil subsidies and for healthcare subsidies at the same time, just because it hits the hands of the poor before it hits the rich
TheEllipsis731 9 months ago
@TheEllipsis731
Sorry but certain things like healthcare are necessary for a well functioning society. The healthier people are, the healthier the economy and mostly everything is. Health insurance does not exist to improve life expectancy or health, it exists to make a profit. Money really is the root of all evil, money will change the best of people into total douchebags.
A society based simply on consumerism will not survive. The accumulation of wealth is not the point of humanity.
refuckulate420 9 months ago
@refuckulate420 Obama said tax cuts for rich were $700 bill, in 10 yrs. Thats $70 bill a yr! Thats less than 2% of the fucking Federal Budget for this yr! And, Federal Reserve stated rich spent 88% of income in Clinton Admin, saving just 12% MAX. Wow, taxing the rich adds 12% of $70 bill in spending a yr, $8.4bill?? US economy is $14.7 trill, so that means an extra .0006 of GDP! wow, that will make a boom! Wars budgeted $140 bill in 2011. Get a pencil, stupid. Needs instructions to use it?
luvcheney1 7 months ago
@luvcheney1
Where do you get your information you idiot? What partisan bullshit you've lapped up like the stupid dog you are.
Total cost of war to date is over 1.20 trillion. Both the rich, and corporations end up not paying their through multiple tax loopholes, offshore accounts, investments and more. The wealth gap in the U.S. right now is worse then it's ever been. The spending power in this country IS the middle class, it's the only reason any rich exist. You stupid muppet.
refuckulate420 7 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 I think if you tilted your head to the side and took your hand and tapped the side of your head a couple of times a rock would fall out of your ear. Like I said all governments in Europe have socialized medicine and Canada too. Their cost of healthcare is 1/4 of what we pay here in America. Republicans like you remind me of ignorant people living all over the US. Figures by republicans lie and liars like republicans figure.
teabaggersblow 9 months ago
@teabaggersblow In doing research on severe back injuries ( since I had one, and an operation), I found out that the suicide rate for folks like me is far higher in the UK than in the US. Seems the wonderful, free health care isnt so hot, when you are in fucking agony, you motherfucking creep. You also might learn, that of all the drugs used internationally, 55% are developed in the US, and the entire rest of the fucking world can only manage to develop 45%. EU alone has 60% more population.
luvcheney1 7 months ago
@luvcheney1 It may behoove you to read and listen instead of throw stones at people that are not belittling US healthcare.The US has arguably the best healthcare money can buy. The problem is that more and more Americans are not able to buy it, since salaries have decreased. But we all know that Big Pharma, giant healthcare corporations as well as large insurance companies are making profits on the backs of every American that has to use the US healthcare system. Republicans are small minded.
teabaggersblow 7 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 Please tell me if any healthcare insurance providers have gone out of business from the hard times they have to endure in order to make sure every man woman and child gets a fair deal on their healthcare insurance policies? Please let me know how to not hold them responsible for higher wages since they themselves deicide what they cover and what they don't cover. We all pay high premimiums yet not everyone needs a hospital or doctor. Profits through greed.
teabaggersblow 9 months ago
@teabaggersblow The average total profits of an insurance company are around 3% of revenue (Oh the humanity).. And premiums go up because the healthcare costs that they have to pay out go up... Those costs are going up because, instead of allowing demand to fall to bring the price down after they've priced people out of the market, the government subsidizes it at the artificial demand, which maintains and even raises the current costs... This causes premiums to go up and the cycle starts over...
TheEllipsis731 9 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 3% of revenue from healthcare insurance policies is profit. Yea just like the oil companies putting all their profits back into research and development. Go look at the salaries of all the players in the too big to fail corporations. CEOs making in the millions while getting millions in stock options. E. Warren trying to make things more fair for the consumer and republicans fight to keep money in the hands of the wealthy. Dude republicans fail at every level.
teabaggersblow 9 months ago
@teabaggersblow of course - RON PAUL IS T-H-E SHAMAN, THE SEER, THE PROPHET. I bow down to Ron Paul's wisdom and power!!
Ralphdraw3 9 months ago
@Ralphdraw3 Ron Paul is my elected rep from Texas. Him and his home spun yarns about private owners selling public goods but only allowing bald fat white fucks to use their shitter is a trip..................a fucking bad trip if you got a different color skin. Fucking white supremacist racist pure and simple. So you know what you are getting. And I would use his shitter since I am white and then I would piss all over his walls.
teabaggersblow 9 months ago
@teabaggersblow LOL aren't you the lucky one to have Paul for a rep LOL..:) Yeah he's a cluster fuck of ideas that play into the Koch agenda , not includeing he realy thinks America needs to return to the 1700s with his ideas about our goverment oversite agenceys like the EPA & OSHA when back in the day polution was steping in horse shit and danger in the work place was the possibility of that horse kicking someone............
kamphwagon1 8 months ago
@kamphwagon1 He came out and said defaulting on the debt ceiling would not be that bad. Many economist believe the US would lose 10% of GDP after only a few days beyond the deadline. I can't say I know one way or the other but it seems reckless of Ron Paul to push that tea party agenda to the limits. Most corporations are telling their bought republican mouthpieces to stop the insanity and raise the debt ceiling. Paul hates the EPA and OSHA for sure and that alone should open many peoples eyes.
teabaggersblow 7 months ago
@teabaggersblow LOL 90% of Ron Pauls theroys and ideas came from watching to many old B movies that depicted early America and some how merged it with the idea of a time machine trough legislation .... The reason he hates the EPA & OSHA is thats part of the Koch sucker agenda as all liberatarians think the Koch bros are the jesus christ twins,his claim is these agenceys supress jobs LOL ..What good is a job that'l get you killed from it's polution or the lack of saftey regs !.....
kamphwagon1 7 months ago
@kamphwagon1 He lives in the Sugarland area. The republicans gerrymandered the districts so much around here I live on the coast about 60 miles away from his home. Poe is another dumbass Texas republican that has his district gerrymandered. From the southeast side of Houston to all points leading east to Lousiana we all vote democratic. Good fishing too. And republicans know it. We love unions and the money we made in our lifetime from prevailing wage. We know unions kept our wages up.
teabaggersblow 7 months ago
@teabaggersblow Yeah I hered about all the redistricting that took place down there .. Ah fishing when I was younger like in my early teens we used to go to port Aransas to gig flounder in the winter when we lived in San Antonio, now I live north of the Red river in the red dirt state that is as red politicly as Texas.. No doubt unions have kept wages up where they have a good membership, there good for the working man whether he has a union job or a non union one......
kamphwagon1 7 months ago
@kamphwagon1 With all the petro-chemical plants around here we got plenty of union memberships. Many of these members forgot where their bread got buttered from, but now these guys are seeing shit happen in other states that they do not want to happen here. Perry is nothing but a chickenshit republican that will not put his governorship on the line to buck these large unions. I really cannot believe he won again this last time. He lets home ins. go up every year while property values drop.
teabaggersblow 7 months ago
@teabaggersblow Hmm sounds like he's in the hip pocket of the insurance companys, somewhat like our teabag governor matress Mary Failing Falin who turned down federal money to set up the new health insurance regs& excange.. When the insurace commisioner met with execitives with the exicitives saying ''well some of us may be looking for new jobs'' and the commisoner'' says it's my job to make sure you have one''you know theres some Walker facist BS fixing to take place !......
kamphwagon1 7 months ago
@Ralphdraw3 Lol, yeah. I like that Ron Paul opposes the war, but his economic ideas are just nuts. I've done a lot of reading on Austrian economics and more importantly the view of Austrian economics from tradition economist' point of view. If you line up economists from Keynsians, Monetarists, classical, neo-classical (all of whom disagree on a lot) all will tell you the Austrians are not real economics.
Newenlightenmentnow 9 months ago
@Newenlightenmentnow There is a serious trend toward make believe with libertarians. The idea that the free market regulates itself for instance is silly. Nothing really regulates itself, it's a contradictory notion. The government doesn't regulate itself... the people regulate the government through elections. Why should the free market be any different? The military spending is definitely absurd. I'm all for a strong military, but we're just blowing money building stuff we don't need
ashleypoo1319 9 months ago
@teabaggersblow And btw there have been lots insurance companies that have gone out of business... And tons of others that started putting an end to child coverage because of the costs that will be imposed from the new healthcare law...
TheEllipsis731 9 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 What kind of product (wealth) do insurance companies add to the economy? Seems to me insurance companies create nothing, and just redistribute wealth.
Ralphdraw3 9 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 So now you as a republican are condoning credit default swaps and derivatives as a legit way for these too big to fail insurance companies to go out of business? hehehee Typical republican. they grab your ears and you like it. Do you work for AIG or just let them have their way with you for free?
teabaggersblow 9 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 Costs - a third party insurer is a complete waste of money, overhead and paperwork. BTW medical care continues to advance - for all countries; and populations, in the developed world continues to get older. Your parroting of free market dogma does not work with health care and it doesn't convince me. AND please tell me how the free market titans of Wall Street completely screwed the economy up... that is the subject of another video..
Ralphdraw3 9 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 yes you're into free market dogma - which doesn't work for healthcare. Perhaps check out how Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany deliver health care. I know that in Canada, prescr. drug are far less expensive than here. With our system we spend far more on health care as % of GDP than any other industrialized country.
Ralphdraw3 9 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 I find that when you are sick, very sick or injured, you are in no condition "to shop around" in the "marketplace". I look at other advanced industrial countries and how they solve this problem. Most solve it with some kind of national health insurance system.
Going through a 3rd party health insurance company is a huge waste of money in paperwork and administration.
Ralphdraw3 9 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 Health care is very different than other "markets". When you are very sick, you do not have the time, ability or the medical knowledge to "shop around" for the best "deal" to help you with your illness. It is what economists call "asymmetrical information" - the patient (lacking information) depends on the doctor's advice and ability. Even with getting second opinions (which cost more money), the patient is not a doctor and has a hard time analyzing the medical information.
Ralphdraw3 9 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 Dumbass the insurance companies play the people so the hospitals play the insurance companies and the feds. Wake up and quit thinking like a child or a braindead republican.
teabaggersblow 9 months ago
All looks pretty damnably shameful to me.I don't care what all these apologists are puking out.The US has it's priorities ass backwards.Has since the end of ww2.Planetary bullies with an environmental record that is almost as bad as Canada's and that's pathetic.
TERRYMCKINNEY32 9 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 If you take how much money we waste on defense spending, wars, and the over-paying/under taxing of the incompetent money shufflers on Wall Street, we would have much more money for health care. I think - politically - to get rid of medicare will be very difficult. And you seem to be talking about severe rationing of care, which I suspect will be quite unpopular.
Ralphdraw3 9 months ago
@Ralphdraw3 By 2050, the entire budget will be consumed by Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security/interest on the debt... You could eliminate the entire military, the entire education budget, all three wars, and return to Clintonian tax levels, (I'm not suggesting that we do this btw) and we still won't have the money to pay for these programs in any reasonable way lol...
And yes, I agree, it would be extremely unpopular to cut one penny of these programs, which is an utter tragedy, in my opinion...
TheEllipsis731 9 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 So you favor rationing of healthcare - the rich get the most health care and the poor are left to suffer.. This is politically and morally unacceptable to most Americans..
Ralphdraw3 9 months ago
@Ralphdraw3
Health care has bee rationed for years! I have been out of medicine for six years. I had people refused procedures, many times before 2005. It will only get worse under Obamacare! And it does not matter how poor one is. If you don't have kids or disabled, even with poverty level income, Medicaid won't help you.
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mlang52 9 months ago
@TheEllipsis731 Our healthcare system is very inefficient - the health insurance industry has lots of overhead/red tape and publicly subsidized care has no cost controls. Other countries - Canada and Great Britain for example - with more subsidized health care, spend far less than we do and, frequently, achieve better outcomes.
Ralphdraw3 9 months ago
this is why I'm Canadian :D
themw2montager 9 months ago
We've spent trillions to find the ONE MAN osama bin ladin and here in nevada we can't even afford to pay our school teacher's salaries, that is absolutely disgusting!
thegr8pulido 9 months ago
@tstruss912 adios, amigo
Ralphdraw3 9 months ago
America #1 Ha Ha Ha.
It's why CNN/FOX/700club/ABC/NBC news is so popular, people huddling around their propaganda TV for warmth, desperately trying to maintain the belief that things are better here.
Turtleproof 9 months ago
Our political system has been overrun by greedy coporate heads and the representatives who serve THEM.
voyzovrezon 9 months ago
Shocking!
y2knoproblem 9 months ago
Why do you switch out the Countries when comparing them to the US?
Because not every Country is perfect, and you put the US next to all of the best to compare it to other Countries.
US isn't so bad if you look at all of these statistics compared to other Countries without swapping them out for other good ones.
IE: A Country might have good infant mortality rate but be horrible in all of the other examples, so you switch that Country out and never show it on the list again.
bernie23232323232323 9 months ago
We spent MORE THAN CHINA on military expendatures? Even considering the war in the Middle East that's fucking insane...
FrostbittenWolf 9 months ago
Thank you for posting this information..!!
fleetingdays 9 months ago
The far right likes to hide this so that they can tell how well off you are and how the big corporations, their CEO's, and the rich are making things wonderful for us.
exsinor 9 months ago
Well, at least we are number one in a few things.
connerjd 9 months ago
Nice work my friend! Keep it going! Thanks
ERICRIPPER1 9 months ago
We are great at helping other countries,but not very good at helping our own.Great info Ralph.
blair227 9 months ago
Thanks for the info; it's good to get the reality of our situation down so we know how to proceed.
ComicallySanePolitic 9 months ago
Todo, we ain't in Kansas any more! This government is totally out of control causing the disappearance of the middle class. We are headed for a class war. America is finished!
UtwoBed 9 months ago
It's also the same with our education. We are looked upon around the world as morons even though we are one of only two countries in the entire world who teaches everyone. Oddly enough no other country can say they test every single one of their students.
Again... I could continue debunking these facts because I have a tiny bit of unbiased knowledge.
davitodude 9 months ago
The poverty line is different in each country. The world poverty line however is estimated to about $1.25. In the U.S. we have a higher poverty rate because on average we consume more than any other country.
I could go on but I think you get my point.
davitodude 9 months ago
Some of this is speculative. For example in the U.S. every death during live birth is counted. In some countries if there's a complication it's not unheard of for the doctor to eliminate the fetus long before it's given birth. You should also note that these countries do not count still born deaths. Yet in the U.S. we count every single death and that's exactly why the infant mortality rate is higher here.
davitodude 9 months ago
Watching this I thought surely there are countries with statistics worse than the ones displayed, and there are, but then again if your comparing your country against third world countries there is something wrong.......
BraniusBalki 10 months ago
@BraniusBalki These are not third world countries - most of them are developed, European democracies. The USA falls far behind most of these advanced countries - that is a fact. These countries are members of the OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Denmark Finland etc...
Ralphdraw3 10 months ago
@BraniusBalki We in AMERICA produce more military weapons and have a foreign policy that promotes death ... we are number one at this.
The fact is we should be number one in making life better for people in our country first and then respecting the sovereignty of foreign nations which we cannot do.
ben5017 10 months ago
@BraniusBalki
"third world countries?" You're joking, right?
Hereticbooks 9 months ago
@BraniusBalki
The problem I see with getting down to hard on "third world countries" is though their influence on teh world isn't that great, and though they may not make as much MONEY as us...
Their quality of life may be better, because their cost of living is lower, and the money they do make is spent on healthcare, and not wars..
If I knew spanish, and a skill (maybe a doctor) thatthe costa ricans would accept with open arms, I would be tempted to move..
thefakeyeti 9 months ago
fascinating......
aldp 10 months ago
The other falicy in this vid is the fact that Americas standards for poverty would equate to middle class in a lot of countries. In addition its making comparisons between completely differant socio-econmic entities both in enthnicity and size. Also around 40% of our welfare cost is fraud. A huge number of people whom fall into the poverty catagory should be working and off the welfare rolls.
mmac382 10 months ago
Of course our high poverty rate is because we allow people to stay poor with ignorant welfare policies. Most of americas poor have free housing, food and health care. Most have luxurys like bigscreen TVs, cell phones and pretty nice cars. The poor in the countrys sited in this video would LOVE to be poor in the US.
mmac382 10 months ago
looks like privatized america is resoundingly getting it's ass kicked by the socialist welfare states of europe.
tomitstube 10 months ago
@tomitstube Seriously? Europe is absolutely hanging by a thread when it comes to economic survivability. Germany has fared the best because they re-privatized thier HC system, transportation and raised taxes through the roof. Trust me socialism sucks.
mmac382 10 months ago
@mmac382 ~ you're delusional. germany's health care system takes care of all it's citizens through socialized care. in america our costs are twice as high nationwide and 50 million have no insurance at all, another 50 million have junk policies that are virtually worthless. 20,000 people die every year from lack of access to care or life saving medicine. and these numbers are climbing due to right wing privatized austerity measures. cubans get better care than americans.
tomitstube 10 months ago
@tomitstube Germany has been re-privatizing HC for years because they've Gov control not to be cost effective. Its gradule so most dont see it happening. Actually the CBO reports even after OBAMA care there will still be 16 mil uninsured, however all have access to HC via public hospitals or medicade. Your 20k death toll is a total fabrication. Like so many socialist, you've been duped. The whole Cuban myth is rediculus. Anything more than the flu and your screwed.
mmac382 10 months ago
@tomitstube Germany has been re-privatizing HC for years because they've found Gov control not to be cost effective. Its incremental so most dont see it happening. Actually the CBO reports even after OBAMA care there will still be 16 mil uninsured, however all have access to HC via public hospitals or medicade. Your 20k death toll is a total fabrication. Like so many socialist, you've been duped. The whole Cuban myth is rediculus. Anything more than the flu and your screwed.
mmac382 10 months ago
@tomitstube In addition. Our cost are high in America for various reasons however giving care to huge numbers of illegals is definately a contributor to cost. Absolutely nobody dies due to lack of access to HC. All public hospitals are mandated to provide care to whomever walks through the door. I would define a junk policy as one like the Obama care. They already are reducing certain procedures like PAP test in order to save money and it will only be getting worse.
mmac382 10 months ago
@tomitstube Example of differance in HC. My relative in Germany wanted to be tested for a CPAP machine for sleep apthnea. It took him months to find a doctor who could do the test and months to find a manufacture to provide the machine. I mentioned the same test to my doctor and in three weeks I had two test and a CPAP machine sitting next to my bed. In Cuba you would never be able to get a CPAP. Thats the differance. You can have Europe and Cuba. I'll stick with USA HC (without Obama care)
mmac382 10 months ago
@mmac382 ~ everything you said is nonsense. a flood of nonsensical opinions i'm not spending all day to debunk, plus you seem quite brain washed, so why bother?. i know a number of dual citizen europeans and canadians for that matter who all say our system sucks. you just make shit up, why? idk, you listen to fox? who knows, people with socialized medicine don't worry about insurance, or deductibles, or what plan they have, or if a doctor is on that plan... they just go without worry.
tomitstube 10 months ago
@tomitstube Its hard to debunk fact. I dont listen to Fox. You people always bring up Fox everytime your discredited in your beliefs. People in socialized enviroments dont worry about anything because they've been lulled into sleep and apathy. But tell them they have to work more than 38hrs a week and they start breaking windows and rioting. And oh yes Canadiens to carry extra personel HC Insurance to cover what the Gov doesnt. Im not making this up sparky.
mmac382 10 months ago
@mmac382 ~ nah, you're just spouting talking points by fox pundits, who btw are lap dogs for corporations and their propaganda. i know that, and you know that. i'm not going spend time shredding all your fabricated bullet points. it's obvious you have an agenda and there's really no point in me even discussing anything with you.
nobody wants our bullshit private healthcare system, except idiot american conservatives and the oligarchs they worship. it's an embarrassment to democracy.
tomitstube 10 months ago
@tomitstube I doubt you'll find the talking heads covering the things Ive mentioned. Actually your socialist government is much closer to an oligarchy than the right wing styled governmet. Which by the way is a Republic not a Democracy. You probably dont know the differance.
mmac382 10 months ago
@mmac382 ~ lol, yeah glenn beck doesn't like a "democracy" either, unfortunately that's what we have (barely) with three branches of government and a bill of rights. "republic" is a generic word that means nothing. unless you think we resemble the "republic of china".
america has 1% s.o.e.'s. so 99% is privately owned, what were you blubbering about "socialism"?
and what were you saying about me "knowing the difference"?
tomitstube 10 months ago
@tomitstube You need to back your claims .... oh you cant. OK s.o.e?
mmac382 9 months ago
@tomitstube Oh by the way my American friend in Germany had children of course who spoke fluent english in grade school. When he asked to have them place ahead a grade or two he was told no because the group must stay together. In other words the collective is more important the individule excelance.
mmac382 10 months ago
@mmac382 ~ lol, you know someone from germany. so...? give him/her a couple years in america and they'll be begging for their 15% socialism back.
you conserv/libertarians are so clueless to actual facts and how you're being duped by oligarchal despots it's scary. it won't be long and you idiots will turn america into a feudal society with cable. just what wal-mart, bp, and the koch brothers want.
tomitstube 10 months ago
@tomitstube Your Troll City.
mmac382 10 months ago
@tomitstube No point in arguing with a sociopath.
bamboo4tameshigiri 10 months ago
@mmac382 And if you didn't have a decent job that either provided health care, or paid enough for you to afford a private plan, your chances of getting that CPAP machine would be about as good as Cuba.
Think about it, and quit being selfish.
bwthor 9 months ago
@bwthor So why cant you just go get a job and pay for your own. Why is it you Generation E People think everything should be free. The only thing free in life is FRELOADERS like you. Stand and get a backbone. If a CPAP was critical for your health you sure would get one.
mmac382 9 months ago
@mmac382 I am fortunate on a few levels. My wife and I both have jobs that pay pretty well. We also have employer provided health care. We live in a state with a very low unemployment rate. We are healthy, so if we needed to go out and find private health coverage, we would be able to do that. I'm also compassionate.
I do agree with the freeloader concept, just don't lump everyone who has lost a job, or wasn't given the chances you or I have had in life into that freeloader category.
bwthor 9 months ago
@mmac382 ~ lol, just because you don't understand the subject matter doesn't mean i haven't backed up any "claims". s.o.e. - state owned enterprise. ok, now you can go back and understand how i schooled you on the facts. btw, running around calling people "freeloaders" isn't relevant dimwit.
83% of people who use free clinics, work. many work more than one job because of the failed private market. they don't have insurance or high paying jobs you clueless ignorant fuck.
tomitstube 9 months ago
@tomitstube Its easy to just throwout statements with no backing. Any failure in the private market in theUS was mostly due to Common Welfare influance. i.e. Gov insistance on bad home loans to those whom dont qualify and the Gov allowing know abuses to occur. It wasnt free market principles that failed. Its ioninc you use your 83% free clinic claim because it shows these people haven health care.
mmac382 9 months ago
@mmac382 ~ lol, pleeeze will you stop grasping at straws with these nonsense arguments? have i not proven to you i'm running circles around this made up crap of yours? have you not caught on to that yet?
free clinics is not health care you moron. maybe you should try to get you cancer operated at one. i can only hope you end up there one day and realize what an idiot you are.
and you know absolutely nothing about the financial collapse except right wing soundbite propaganda.
tomitstube 9 months ago
@tomitstube So then why did you bring free clinics up? Of course its healthcare. I've in the past used Free Clinics. You probably havent. Free Clinis are not intended to treat serious ailments like Cancer. Niether does Obamacare. Grasping at straws would be stateing claims as though it were fact. When in reality its just dribble heard from unreliable sources. I know exactly why our present financial sitiuation exist. Do you?
mmac382 9 months ago
@bwthor Oh by the way. Putting my tax dollors into unelected beaurucrats hands to manage a health care system, especially one as large as the one the US would have, is just plain crazy. They robbed the Social Security system, they will do the same the HC system. Also we cant afford it. Private systems always work better. We just need to keep the Gov out. Selfish is bankrupting the country for social welfare.
mmac382 9 months ago
Ralph, I love your vids and believe they're valid, but I don't understand why you don't SOURCE them?
Unfortunately, YouTube is filled with undocumented lies. By sourcing your graphs you would vastly elevate their credibility.
If you don't want to put the sources in your video, it's easy to put them in your Uploader's description.
goog2k 10 months ago
How much do you know about "poor countries" like costa rica? I would really like to see how the quality of life of the average costa rican compares to that of americans..
I'm REALLY, at the very least, am flirting with the idea of moving out of the U.S. I am thinking of making a living in canada, and moving to a "poor country" like costa rica
thefakeyeti 10 months ago
@thefakeyeti Canada - from what I hear - is not suffering an economic recession, did not go through a mortgage/banking crisis and does not have a huge national debt, as we have.
Ralphdraw3 10 months ago
@Ralphdraw3
IDEALLY, what I THINK i want right now, is a canadian living, with a costa rican retirement...
thefakeyeti 10 months ago
@Ralphdraw3 Ahh do some research. We have the largest debt we have ever had. 500 billion....doesn't sound like much. We only have 32 million people. per capita we are as bad off as you. We did have a bailout but it was kept quiet and called a market adjustment= 90 billion dollars. multiply by 10 to see comparison to US bailout of 700 billion.
We have a minmum wage of 10$. Trades are hiring new people at 12$. without papers trades make no more than 16-18$
Mcdicks 10$ or risk life 12$
Come up!
buddcinder 9 months ago
@Ralphdraw3 Move to Canada. One cant compare the two. Not nearly the ethnic pressures, or population in general. High taxes. (not just income but VAT and otherwise) Nice people. They grow lots of Pot.
mmac382 9 months ago
@Ralphdraw3
Yes I read a few pieces a while back, that the Canadian banking laws are very strict.
ERICRIPPER1 9 months ago
@Ralphdraw3 I'm Canadian, and we did and still are having a recession, but we did avoid the banking mess, thanks to policies put in place by the Liberals. Our debt is actually pretty large compared to the population. Its around 160 billion, for 30 million people. And just for fun, the dim wits in this country just gave the Conservatives (think Republicans) a majority, so check back in 4 years and ask how its going.
herpiethelovebug 9 months ago
@thefakeyeti You're not the first. US citizens retire but the boat load in South America on a daily basis because in many parts of that area the standard of living is just as high, on average, and the cost of living is tremendously lower. Life is often quieter and more enjoyable too. If I hadn't been born into poverty, I would have left a decade ago.
bamboo4tameshigiri 10 months ago
@rts4761 Laugh Out Loud!
HolyCity2012 10 months ago
ahahah yay go land of free
managarm1349 10 months ago
0:40 is wrong, it's way above 16%. Last we checked it was hovering around 18% and we are still not covering or under insuring a whole lot of people.
ninuxy 10 months ago