Trump Administration to Announce Plan to Shield Farmers From Trade War

[Fentoine Lum]

Capitalism isn't supposed to provide. You're supposed to work within it to provide for yourself. Since many aren't doing that, tells me they aren't working hard enough and/or don't offer anything worth paying.

Yeah, we know a high tech low profile version of feudalism when we see it.

 

[LV426]

You're supposed to work within it to provide for yourself.

So then you must be opposed to the $12B bailout for farmers Trump is proposing to mitigate the effect of his trade war, right???

 

[LV426]

Since many aren't doing that, tells me they aren't working hard enough and/or don't offer anything worth paying.

Nonsense.

Most people in this country are on employer-provided plans.

Most of the rest are old and disabled people on Medicare, and veterans on the VA and Tricare.

 

[CFM]

Which is exactly why there needs to be state-provided essential services.

Capitalism offers you the opportunity to provide for yourself what you should provide for yourself. If you aren't, do without.

 

[Fentoine Lum]

Which is exactly why there needs to be state-provided essential services.

In his mind, that all goes to undeserving darkies. Only the aristocracy deserves to be subsidized by the corporate state.

 

[Fentoine Lum]

Capitalism offers you the opportunity to provide for yourself what you should provide for yourself. .

That's the shtick, yeah, not the reality for vast swaths of our utterly corrupt society.

 

[TTQ64]

In it's current state in american society, it is a failed economic system.

Why do you think so many Americans believe in capitalism and insist we keep using some form of it?

 

[LV426]

Capitalism offers you the opportunity to provide for yourself what you should provide for yourself. If you aren't, do without.

You JUST SAID that Capitalism "doesn't provide":

Capitalism isn't supposed to provide.

So it doesn't provide the opportunity to provide for yourself. YOU JUST SAID THAT.

You've gaslit your own argument. What a doof.

 

[LV426]

In his mind, that all goes to undeserving darkies. Only the aristocracy deserves to be subsidized by the corporate state.

Yeah, he didn't say squat about the OP, which is Trump bribing farmers with $12B in handouts.

 

[LV426]

Why do you think so many Americans believe in capitalism and insist we keep using some form of it?

People are scared of change and are reticent to learning from their mistakes.

 

[Fentoine Lum]

Nonsense.

Most people in this country are on employer-provided plans.

Most of the rest are old and disabled people on Medicare, and veterans on the VA and Tricare.

He's never been on his own with regard to healthcare. Insurance is socialism, with corporatized profits taken off the top and profit margin rationed care for participants.

 

[Legion]

Yeah, we know a high tech low profile version of feudalism when we see it.

"We" do?

 

[Legion]

People are scared of change and are reticent to learning from their mistakes.

Is that why millions of people waited so long to rebel against Communism and Socialism?

 

[TTQ64]

People are scared of change and are reticent to learning from their mistakes.

interesting.

Or are they scared they will lose their status in society if they actually lose their privilege?

Cause let's face it, capitalism is a privilege for the white and wealthy.

 

[CFM]

Nonsense.

Most people in this country are on employer-provided plans.

Most of the rest are old and disabled people on Medicare, and veterans on the VA and Tricare.

The majority of the non-SSI, non-working Medicaid enrollees aren't disables, old, or veterans.

People on medicaid rely on someone else to provide for them what they should be providing for themselves.

 

[CFM]

He's never been on his own with regard to healthcare. Insurance is socialism, with corporatized profits taken off the top and profit margin rationed care for participants.

Says the one that relies on Medicaid for his healthcare thinking he pays for it himself.

 

[LV426]

He's never been on his own with regard to healthcare. Insurance is socialism, with corporatized profits taken off the top and profit margin rationed care for participants.

Yup.

All private insurance does is tie a profit motive to the administration of payments to providers; a function that doesn't need a profit motive in the first place. Also, a single payer system makes the most sense as it would streamline the administrative workflow. Less than 1% of CMS' budget is administrative, whereas overhead accounts for anywhere between 10-20% of the budget for a single insurance company. Medicare is much more efficient than private insurance in what its function is; administration.

 

[LV426]

Is that why millions of people waited so long to rebel against Communism and Socialism?

Go fuck yourself.

No one's revolting in Canada.

 

[LV426]

interesting.

Or are they scared they will lose their status in society if they actually lose their privilege?

Cause let's face it, capitalism is a privilege for the white and wealthy.

That too.

 

[Fentoine Lum]

Why do you think so many Americans believe in capitalism and insist we keep using some form of it?

Cradle-to-grave indoctrination coupled with a political/economic system that only the affluent have a represented voice in. By design. Go back to the founding. The grand american vision form day one was rule by an entitled aristocracy; only land owning aristocratic white males got a vote/voice.

Now it's just money straight up. Corporations are people too my friend, and you people simply can't cover the cost of "speech".