9 CEOs paid 800 times more than their workers

[2aguy]

That is what the article said. Government doesn't fix things, it breaks things and the Great Depression was an example of that.

Obviously you have severe comprehension issues.....

Re-read what YOU wrote above...and then re-read what the article states:

.......that capitalism could not be trusted to recover from depressions and that significant government intervention was required to achieve good outcomes

When has significant government intervention ever produced a good outcome for the people?

What socialist, communist based government has ever resulted in the rising prosperity of the people? There isn't a single example of socialism ever raising the people from poverty. But there are plenty of examples of capitalism doing that. How about we just go with what is proven to work?

yeah...they will point to the social welfare states of Europe...but they are running out of people who want to work to support the state...they have to import their workers...and now they are importing violence into their tranquil countries.....

 

[2aguy]

Exploitation is the very basis of American existence.

Two quick responses:

1. We are resembling France prior to their revolution, and
2. We demonize poor, illegals for washing dishes at our restaurants and exalt greedy CEOs who while collecting millions, sit around trying to figure out how to avoid paying any taxes.

Capitalism works best when human frailties are taken out of the equation.

Socialism works best when human frailties are put into mass graves...by the millions.....

Actually, that doesn't make socialism work either....but they keep doing it.....

 

[nat4900]

When has significant government intervention ever produced a good outcome for the people?

What socialist, communist based government has ever resulted in the rising prosperity of the people? There isn't a single example of socialism ever raising the people from poverty. But there are plenty of examples of capitalism doing that. How about we just go with what is proven to work?

Your problem is both your ignorance and entrenched biases....

• China

• Denmark

• Finland

• Netherlands

• Canada

• Sweden

• Norway

• Ireland

• New Zealand

• Belgium

The above countries are all "socialist"...successful and most are lenders to our huge debts.

 

[2aguy]

When has significant government intervention ever produced a good outcome for the people?

What socialist, communist based government has ever resulted in the rising prosperity of the people? There isn't a single example of socialism ever raising the people from poverty. But there are plenty of examples of capitalism doing that. How about we just go with what is proven to work?

Your problem is both your ignorance and entrenched biases....

• China

• Denmark

• Finland

• Netherlands

• Canada

• Sweden

• Norway

• Ireland

• New Zealand

• Belgium

The above countries are all "socialist"...successful and most are lenders to our huge debts.

You do realize they are all starting to collapse..right?

 

[nat4900]

Among their many, many other flaws right wingers like to lie to themselves by revising history.....
So FDR prolonged the great depression???

(IDIOTS !!)

 

[nat4900]

You do realize they are all starting to collapse..right?

Don't be an eternal idiot....Quit while you can.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

When has significant government intervention ever produced a good outcome for the people?

What socialist, communist based government has ever resulted in the rising prosperity of the people? There isn't a single example of socialism ever raising the people from poverty. But there are plenty of examples of capitalism doing that. How about we just go with what is proven to work?

Your problem is both your ignorance and entrenched biases....

• China

• Denmark

• Finland

• Netherlands

• Canada

• Sweden

• Norway

• Ireland

• New Zealand

• Belgium

The above countries are all "socialist"...successful and most are lenders to our huge debts.

Not a single one of those examples ever raised the quality of life for their people. In any way. The fact you actually listed China first is amazing. Not that the others have done any better but you actually think China of all places is making their citizens lives better. Were you born stupid or did you actually have to work on it?

 

[2aguy]

You do realize they are all starting to collapse..right?

Don't be an eternal idiot....Quit while you can.

Let's look at Europe....

Dark lands the grim truth behind the Scandinavian miracle World news The Guardian

 

[2aguy]

When has significant government intervention ever produced a good outcome for the people?

What socialist, communist based government has ever resulted in the rising prosperity of the people? There isn't a single example of socialism ever raising the people from poverty. But there are plenty of examples of capitalism doing that. How about we just go with what is proven to work?

Your problem is both your ignorance and entrenched biases....

• China

• Denmark

• Finland

• Netherlands

• Canada

• Sweden

• Norway

• Ireland

• New Zealand

• Belgium

The above countries are all "socialist"...successful and most are lenders to our huge debts.

Not a single one of those examples ever raised the quality of life for their people. In any way. The fact you actually listed China first is amazing. Not that the others have done any better but you actually think China of all places is making their citizens lives better. Were you born stupid or did you actually have to work on it?

Well...for the 70 million murdered..yeah...life wasn't so great......

Sweden, the rape capitol of Europe...

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Among their many, many other flaws right wingers like to lie to themselves by revising history.....
So FDR prolonged the great depression???

(IDIOTS !!)

He did. Maybe we should look at obies prolonged depression. It's the same thing only the media is presenting it as different.

 

[2aguy]

And why Denmark sucks....

DENMARK

Why do the Danes score so highly on international happiness surveys? Well, they do have high levels of trust and social cohesion, and do very nicely from industrial pork products, but according to the OECD they also work fewer hours per year than most of the rest of the world. As a result, productivity is worryingly sluggish. How can they afford all those expensively foraged meals and hand-knitted woollens? Simple, the Danes also have the highest level of private debt in the world (four times as much as the Italians, to put it into context; enough to warrant a warning from the IMF), while more than half of them admit to using the black market to obtain goods and services.

Perhaps the Danes' dirtiest secret is that, according to a 2012 report from the Worldwide Fund for Nature, they have the fourth largest per capita ecological footprint in the world. Even ahead of the US. Those offshore windmills may look impressive as you land at Kastrup, but Denmark burns an awful lot of coal. Worth bearing that in mind the next time a Dane wags her finger at your patio heater.

I'm afraid I have to set you straight on Danish television too. Their big new drama series, Arvingerne (The Legacy, when it comes to BBC4 later this year) is stunning, but the reality of prime-time Danish TV is day-to-day, wall-to-wall reruns of 15-year-old episodes of Midsomer Murders and documentaries on pig welfare. The Danes of course also have highest taxes in the world (though only the sixth-highest wages – hence the debt, I guess). As a spokesperson I interviewed at the Danish centre-right thinktank Cepos put it, they effectively work until Thursday lunchtime for the state's coffers, and the other day and half for themselves.

Presumably the correlative of this is that Denmark has the best public services? According to the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment rankings (Pisa), Denmark's schools lag behind even the UK's. Its health service is buckling too. (The other day, I turned up at my local A&E to be told that I had to make an appointment, which I can't help feeling rather misunderstands the nature of the service.) According to the World Cancer Research Fund, the Danes have the highest cancer rates on the planet. "But at least the trains run on time!" I hear you say. No, that was Italy under Mussolini. The Danish national rail company has skirted bankruptcy in recent years, and the trains most assuredly do not run on time. Somehow, though, the government still managed to find £2m to fund a two-year tax-scandal investigation largely concerned, as far as I can make out, with the sexual orientation of the prime minister's husband, Stephen Kinnock.

 

[KissMy]

Private corporations can pay CEO's what they want. It's none of your business and if you don't like it then don't patronize them

Up yours asshole! Government subsidizes them with my tax dollars. If we don't patronize them them Government bails them out with my tax dollars.

 

[2aguy]

Finland....

With its tarnished crown jewel, Nokia, devoured by Microsoft, Finland's hitherto robust economy is more dependent than ever on selling paper – mostly I was told, to Russian porn barons. Luckily, judging by a recent journey I took with my eldest son the length of the country by train, the place appears to be 99% trees. The view was a bit samey.

 

[2aguy]

And more on the way the wheels are coming off the social welfare paradises.....

Stop the Scandimania Nordic nations aren t the utopias they re made out to be - The Washington Post


I suspect that few Americans would truly embrace a Scandinavian-style society. The tax rates alone would likely be a sufficient deterrent. Though I’m a freelance journalist, I essentially work until Thursday lunchtime for the state. And it’s not as if the money that is left in my pocket goes all that far: These are fearfully expensive countries in which to live.

The Scandinavians’ collective modesty, distrust of boasting and self-censoring of ambitions would also be hard for Americans to comprehend, I suspect. A Danish acquaintance who lives in Washington was recently back in Copenhagen having coffee with friends. She remarked, proudly, that her son was doing especially well in math. “There was a silence, and then someone changed the conversation,” she told me. “If I had said he was great at role-playing or drawing it would have been fine, but it was totally wrong to boast about academic achievement.”

 

[nat4900]

Not a single one of those examples ever raised the quality of life for their people. In any way. The fact you actually listed China first is amazing. Not that the others have done any better but you actually think China of all places is making their citizens lives better. Were you born stupid or did you actually have to work on it?

I listed China because that country is one of our bankers.....The issue was and is whether socialist countries work.....they do. Get off your jingoism.....flying a flag on your front lawn on the 4th of july does not make you some great American.;

 

[2aguy]

Not a single one of those examples ever raised the quality of life for their people. In any way. The fact you actually listed China first is amazing. Not that the others have done any better but you actually think China of all places is making their citizens lives better. Were you born stupid or did you actually have to work on it?

I listed China because that country is one of our bankers.....The issue was and is whether socialist countries work.....they do. Get off your jingoism.....flying a flag on your front lawn on the 4th of july does not make you some great American.;

The government run economy is about to go belly up.....

 

[jon_berzerk]

9 CEOs paid 800 times more than their workers
This story doesn't surprise me.
The normal nature of American capitalism. Exploit workers an benefit off the backs of their labor. Meanwhile families rely on credit and struggle to provide a decent chance at opportunity for their children.
Exploitation is the very basis of American existence.

Meanwhile wages are stagnant for workers and the economy is slow.

obama admin = stagnant wages

Was stagnant before that.

that is not what you pointed out before

 

[danielpalos]

Not a single one of those examples ever raised the quality of life for their people. In any way. The fact you actually listed China first is amazing. Not that the others have done any better but you actually think China of all places is making their citizens lives better. Were you born stupid or did you actually have to work on it?

I listed China because that country is one of our bankers.....The issue was and is whether socialist countries work.....they do. Get off your jingoism.....flying a flag on your front lawn on the 4th of july does not make you some great American.;

The government run economy is about to go belly up.....

you mean like after 1929?

 

[Flash]

That is what the article said. Government doesn't fix things, it breaks things and the Great Depression was an example of that.

Obviously you have severe comprehension issues.....

Re-read what YOU wrote above...and then re-read what the article states:

.......that capitalism could not be trusted to recover from depressions and that significant government intervention was required to achieve good outcomes

Like most Libtards you are either very confused or suffer from a lack of reading comprehension. Probably both.

Here is the statement you are quoting:

"The fact that the Depression dragged on for years convinced generations of economists and policy-makers that capitalism could not be trusted to recover from depressions and that significant government intervention was required to achieve good outcomes," Cole said. "Ironically, our work shows that the recovery would have been very rapid had the government not intervened."

The study proved that the assumption that economist had for years that capitalism "could not be trusted" was absolutely wrong and that government interference caused the depression to continue.

Please learn to read before you post on an internet discussion forum. That way you won't look like a fool whenever you do post.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Not a single one of those examples ever raised the quality of life for their people. In any way. The fact you actually listed China first is amazing. Not that the others have done any better but you actually think China of all places is making their citizens lives better. Were you born stupid or did you actually have to work on it?

I listed China because that country is one of our bankers.....The issue was and is whether socialist countries work.....they do. Get off your jingoism.....flying a flag on your front lawn on the 4th of july does not make you some great American.;

Socialist countries only work for the dictator's you moron. The people all suffer under socialism.