Venezuela on the brink of collapse.
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mateo222 wrote:U.S. isn't socialist? Not like Norway or Sweden. But what about Obamacare? Or medicaid. Teddy Roosevelt broke up the trusts, oil, steel. The same is coming for the likes of Amazon. Maybe a little socialist?
Norway and Sweden aren't socialist. Both countries have a market economy and their economy is the cornerstone of their prosperity.mateo222 wrote:U.S. isn't socialist? Not like Norway or Sweden. But what about Obamacare? Or medicaid. Teddy Roosevelt broke up the trusts, oil, steel. The same is coming for the likes of Amazon. Maybe a little socialist?
The Prime Minister of Denmark had this to say, "I know that some people in the US associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy.” “The Nordic model is an expanded welfare state which provides a high level of security for its citizens, but it is also a successful market economy with much freedom to pursue your dreams and live your life as you wish,”
https://www.thelocal.dk/20151101/danish ... -socialist
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The least we could do is organize an airlift of a few thousand vulnerable young women out of that god-forsaken hell-hole? How much to charter an Ilyushin or an Antonov?
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Some people say that we are socialist. Therefore I would like to clarify that we are totally not.
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My point, sorry a little obtuse, is that everything is on a spectrum. The nordic model are market economies and high taxes that take care of the vulnerable in their countries. I gather that many citizens think these systems are just and proper. I agree with them. Maybe the U.S. will move more in this direction, I would support this.Harold wrote:mateo222 wrote:U.S. isn't socialist? Not like Norway or Sweden. But what about Obamacare? Or medicaid. Teddy Roosevelt broke up the trusts, oil, steel. The same is coming for the likes of Amazon. Maybe a little socialist?Norway and Sweden aren't socialist. Both countries have a market economy and their economy is the cornerstone of their prosperity.mateo222 wrote:U.S. isn't socialist? Not like Norway or Sweden. But what about Obamacare? Or medicaid. Teddy Roosevelt broke up the trusts, oil, steel. The same is coming for the likes of Amazon. Maybe a little socialist?
The Prime Minister of Denmark had this to say, "I know that some people in the US associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy.” “The Nordic model is an expanded welfare state which provides a high level of security for its citizens, but it is also a successful market economy with much freedom to pursue your dreams and live your life as you wish,”
https://www.thelocal.dk/20151101/danish ... -socialist
Apples and oranges. The Nordic countries have very low birth rates and very strict immigration. The don't have tens of millions of illegals already living there and adding million more every year sneaking across their borders or overstaying tourist visas and draining their government service budgets.
You can have a generous welfare state or you can have unfettered illegal immigration but you can't have both without going insolvent very quickly....and the US all but is financially insolvent now. Just getting by on borrowed time and borrowed money from China these days. It won't last much longer. All US government entitlement programs will be bankrupt in the next decade and unable to make promised payments. Then sit back and watch the riots. The next inevitable illegal immigrant amnesty in the US will add some 20 million more people to become eligible for general government services like public schools, welfare payments, medicaid, unemployment benefits, and social security payments & medicare for life after age 62, having paid next to nothing into the entitlement system to support it. Democrats love such high profile amnesties. It adds millions to their voter ranks overnight.
You can have a generous welfare state or you can have unfettered illegal immigration but you can't have both without going insolvent very quickly....and the US all but is financially insolvent now. Just getting by on borrowed time and borrowed money from China these days. It won't last much longer. All US government entitlement programs will be bankrupt in the next decade and unable to make promised payments. Then sit back and watch the riots. The next inevitable illegal immigrant amnesty in the US will add some 20 million more people to become eligible for general government services like public schools, welfare payments, medicaid, unemployment benefits, and social security payments & medicare for life after age 62, having paid next to nothing into the entitlement system to support it. Democrats love such high profile amnesties. It adds millions to their voter ranks overnight.
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Interesting take. What if the U.S. had a single payer health care system? How much are we wasting every year to pay insurance companies, drug companies, and providers that a single payer system would eliminate. Not even considering the morality or our system and what it does to the poor and sick....Edwardo wrote:Apples and oranges. The Nordic countries have very low birth rates and very strict immigration. The don't have tens of millions of illegals already living there and adding million more every year sneaking across their borders or overstaying tourist visas and draining their government service budgets.
You can have a generous welfare state or you can have unfettered illegal immigration but you can't have both without going insolvent very quickly....and the US all but is financially insolvent now. Just getting by on borrowed time and borrowed money from China these days. It won't last much longer. All US government entitlement programs will be bankrupt in the next decade and unable to make promised payments. Then sit back and watch the riots. The next inevitable illegal immigrant amnesty in the US will add some 20 million more people to become eligible for general government services like public schools, welfare payments, medicaid, unemployment benefits, and social security payments & medicare for life after age 62, having paid next to nothing into the entitlement system to support it. Democrats love such high profile amnesties. It adds millions to their voter ranks overnight.
^ I don't know, but as a pharmaceutical company, why invest billions of dollars in research and development costs for finding new blockbuster drugs if you will be limited by the clueless government health care bureaucrats in how much you can sell the drug for and never recoup your investment, much less make a profit? The government can't run anything without fucking it up. Tell me when the US government has done anything cost effectively in-house? The best and brightest don't go to work there and all key decisions that affect people's lives are based on the ever-changing political mood of the day.
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+1Edwardo wrote: You can have a generous welfare state or you can have unfettered illegal immigration but you can't have both without going insolvent very quickly....and the US all but is financially insolvent now.
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Sweden does not have a strict immigration policy and the lack of a strict immigration policy is arguably a big reason why the country now has many problems that they never had before.
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