what does that have to do with Guaranteed Everything Free Stuff?
we have government of LIMITED ENUMERATED POWERS -more over the Declaration doesn't call for
guarantees of happiness; only the freedom to pursue them
We use taxes for the common good - like your example. But that's it. Government should not be driving industry
into what it thinks it the proper path.
Only by trial and error; (successful startups and failures) does the market find it's true path to utilization
First of all you need to be clear on which specific "free stuff" you are compaining about. I do not have school age children but I pay taxes that pay for public schools and playgounds because that is what living in a viable functioning society is all about. A more educated and healthy citizenry benefits everyone and that is a no brainer. There is a reason why the USA is sinking on the world list of happiest nations and it has everything to do with greedy self-centered ideals.
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Bernie has enumerated his free stuff platform.
Everything is guaranteed thru re-distribution; this is classical Socialism,and when you throw in the Green New Deal
government is then controlling the means of production.. That's full bore Communism..
Nobody has any problem with infrastructure spending; by it's nature its for the common good.
But when you start getting into free medical and free education and guaranteed jobs..stipends etc.
that is government micro-managing the economy. And that just doesn't work ( see the list of failed socialists states)
Americans bitch about everything- my term for today's angst is "Pessimistic Plenitude. "
whatever reasons for the angst, it doesn't come from a poor economy, or hopeless intractable poverty.
We are by far the most abundant lifestyle people that ever lived on the planet
Provide the quotes from Sander's speech that back-up your "free stuff" premise but you failed to be specific when I asked about the particulars of this free stuff you speak of in an earlier post. As of now, the USA has morphed into an ideology of "Privatize the Profits/Socialize the Losses due to right wing trickle down bull shit and corporate welfare. Not exactly fertile ground for growing and maintaining a thriving middle class. The American Dream is dead for most folks or at least on life support and it was not social polices that killed it.
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You think Stalin killing millions to bring about Bernie's utopia is "fantasyland"? Ok Jackie. Whatever you say
I know it sounds wonderful to you when people say they are going to take care of YOUR every want and need and you aren't going to have to work for it. Work is hard. And you apparently just don't want to do anymore of it. Do me a favor though will you Jackie? Just come out and admit you want the rest of us to cover your bills. Stop hiding behind children and the poor. It is unseemly
Of course he is giving the illusion of "free stuff". You have this mathematical illusion that the government will be able to pool peoples money together and make it magically multiply. The whole genesis of the leftist platform is taking from others to give some other favored group.
With regards to your comment about privatizing gains and socializing losses? I actually agree with that. That is how you got the financial crisis. That is why you have people building homes on the coastline where tornadoes hit. Because the gobblement has given people the illusion of nanny and last insurer of choice. It isn't a problem with the free market. It is the problem of gobblement and crony capitalism. All parts of the socialist state.
If you want to see what BernieWorld will look like, I encourage you to watch Chernobyl. It is a catastrophic failure of years of socialist rule
Life is Golden (06-16-2019)
Of course you are. There isn't any JPP leftist who says they aren't "doing well living off of his stock portfolio". You are all junior Warren Buffets.
You don't ask for free shit for yourself because you need it. No of course not. You ask because you "care about the poor". You will "gladly" pay higher taxes so the poor has healthcare. It makes you feel good inside to say it. But, the reality is you don't really mean it.
hahahaha ...
It makes me feel good watching you just make shit up, ... and then discussing the shit you just made up.
Let me ask a question. Do you think it is a good idea to educate children so they can read, write, and do arithmetic?
Do you think the most cost effective and easily managed is by providing public buildings, state paid teachers, and spreading the cost to everyone?
This would be 'free' to every child in America.
Do you think this concept is a Good Idea?
Too difficult?
Let me try another.
Do you think just the people that use the road should pay for the road?
That there should be Toll Roads across the Nation so the people that use the road should pay for it.
Or.
Do you believe in a 'communal' concept that we all chip in and all pay for the roads so that none of us have to stop for a Toll Booth. That the road system is 'free' for everybody?
(Now, keep in mind, the Traveling Salesman is probably going to get a better deal out of this than the guy that lives next to his Workplace)
Hello ThatOwlWoman,
Oh, you would totally like her.
I've begun a thread to discuss her candidacy:
Marianne Williamson
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ThatOwlWoman (06-16-2019)
I am happy that you "feel good". Nobody should go through life feeling bad and you leftists have been feeling bad for a long time. I know you think you are being cute and have trapped me in a corner with this typical left wing false choice. Because I won't agree with you, you like all leftists will assume that I don't think children should be educated.
Of course they should be educated. But, it should be the responsibility of the parents to CHOOSE where to send their kids to school. The free market would provide. And for those who couldn't afford it (because I know that will be your next fall back), there would be charities and private scholarships that would fill the void much like we do for College.
You leftists always turn to government presumably because you think it makes you feel safe? Despite all of their failures you continue to turn to them. Our educational system is nothing more than a propaganda arm for the left wing which I assume is why you are so enamored with it. Stalin and Hitler were big fans of public education too. Just sayin
Life is Golden (06-16-2019)
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