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It is the US's free market capitalism that made it the leading world power and a rich country. You may not like what you hear, but Milton Friedman was exactly right.
Continue on your path of government dependency, and you run out of other people's money. It's all about personal responsiblity. Anyone can be down and need assistance, but how many people have kids they can't afford and expect the tax payers to pay for them? We have become way too dependent on government. Government should be for necessary infrastructure, not a place to go to solve all your problems.
Continue on your path of government dependency, and you run out of other people's money. It's all about personal responsiblity. Anyone can be down and need assistance, but how many people have kids they can't afford and expect the tax payers to pay for them? We have become way too dependent on government. Government should be for necessary infrastructure, not a place to go to solve all your problems.
We are "not on a path to government dependency". Our social programs are funded, Canadian finances are amoung the soundest in the world. We had not bank bailouts because our banks didn't crash. There has been no real estate bubble here.
Our health care expenditures, per capita, are about half of what yours are. Our school system is ranked higher than yours, and our quality of living index is higher. Our corporate taxes are lower than the US, and our infrastructure is in good shape.
Canadians believe that their taxes buy our citizens better opportunities and a better quality of life, and by ever measure, that's true. Look at the quality of life rankings, and all of the countries at the top share similar characteristics: All are social democracies, with strong well-funded education programs, government funded health care, and a vibrant middle class.
Before Reagan and the Presidents in thrall to Freidman capitalism, this also described the US, but since the US began moving to Friedman capitalism, the markets have become more volatile, you have high, sustained levels of unemployment, and the middle class is struggling. Now take a look at Chile, Brazil, and Argentina. There is your future.
We are "not on a path to government dependency". Our social programs are funded, Canadian finances are amoung the soundest in the world. We had not bank bailouts because our banks didn't crash. There has been no real estate bubble here.
Before Reagan and the Presidents in thrall to Freidman capitalism, this also described the US, but since the US began moving to Friedman capitalism, the markets have become more volatile, you have high, sustained levels of unemployment, and the middle class is struggling. Now take a look at Chile, Brazil, and Argentina. There is your future.
It is the US's free market capitalism that made it the leading world power and a rich country. You may not like what you hear, but Milton Friedman was exactly right.
We are "not on a path to government dependency". Our social programs are funded, Canadian finances are amoung the soundest in the world. We had not bank bailouts because our banks didn't crash. There has been no real estate bubble here.
Our corporate taxes are lower than the US...
Our health care expenditures, per capita, are about half of what yours are. Our school system is ranked higher than yours, and our quality of living index is higher.
Before Reagan and the Presidents in thrall to Freidman capitalism, this also described the US, but since the US began moving to Friedman capitalism, the markets have become more volatile, you have high, sustained levels of unemployment, and the middle class is struggling. Now take a look at Chile, Brazil, and Argentina. There is your future.
It is the US's free market capitalism that made it the leading world power and a rich country. You may not like what you hear, but Milton Friedman was exactly right.
Not it isn't. It's the exploitation of free market economies by American multi-national corporations that has made the US super-rich. The US isn't super-rich. Some of your people are super-rich, but average Americans are not better off than the average wage earner in Canada, the Scandanavian countries, and most of Europe. In fact, quite the contrary. We all have our health care guaranteed, and at a reasonable cost. The same for the education of our young.
And, in an economic downturn such as this one, the chances of your situation improving, are slim and none. The US is turning against Friedman and his toxic vision. The soul of America has voted and the working and middle class aren't buying this snake oil any longer.
Friedman vilified unions and social programs, government regulation, but those countries with all three are the ones who came through the crashing of the world's economy by the US freemarket practices, in good shape.
All of the strong, mixed economies came through the US based recession, much better than any of the free market countries.
Yet the world still comes to the US when they need the best health care and need it quickly. The snakeoil is what the people voted for recently, as nearly half the people have their hand out in one way or another. There will never likely be a fiscal conservative in office again in my life time, as voters will now go to the polls with the gimmies and hope to elect the givers.
Yet the world still comes to the US when they need the best health care and need it quickly. The snakeoil is what the people voted for recently, as nearly half the people have their hand out in one way or another. There will never likely be a fiscal conservative in office again in my life time, as voters will now go to the polls with the gimmies and hope to elect the givers.
Another myth of US health care. Third world countries - yes. First world countries, people tend to stay at home, unless they're in the market for some experimental treatment which is not available outside the US.
What you haven't discussed are the number of Americans taking "medical vacations" for cheaper treatment outside the US.
There hasn't been a fiscal conservative in office yet. All of the Republican administrations have gone hog wild with deficit spending, lying to you that unfettered capitalism would make it all go away.
Every time a free market government has been overthrown, they've been deeply in debt because multinationals and corrupt governments have sucked the wealth out of the country, and the people are left with debt and poverty. The US is headed down that same track, unless you start regulating the multi-nationals and punishing companies for off-shore manufacturing.
I couldn't agree more. DOWN WITH PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY! !!This whole "personal responsibility" mantra has gotten out of hand.
That must have been terrible, why $1.60 in 1970's dollars only has the buying power of $9.50 today.I worked for a minimum wage of $1.60 back in the early 70's
So what's the solution? I'm not being sarcastic or flippant, I'm actually asking because this is a problem I've thought about msyelf. Do we just ban all unhealthy foods? Put a tax on anything below a certain nutrition level? Hand out military-style MRE's instead of EBT cards?
the failure of the free market to regulate itself is the cause of that dependency. republicans grand scheme was to get out of the way of the market, to let them spread their wings and fly, unhindered by "needless" oversight. problem is that the market acted like a toddler alone in a room with a cookie jar.We have become way too dependent on government.
Do you have access to this facility, or does the invisible hand of the market have you going downtown when you break your leg?People are here from Canada, England, Europe, and billionaire shieks from Saudi Arabia.
If taxes and all that government support are so good for the economy, then why doesn't the government actually raise taxes that high? Because doing so would crush the economy faster than anything else.
Yeah, look at greece, thats what austerity gets you. the republicans debt ceiling crisis's, sequesters and "smaller govt" produces has yielded the same results. Who thinks firing people in a recession is a good thing? republicans.Nah, take a look at Greece.. that's where we are headed with our current government.
no, we are not in a recession because we feed the hungry and have emergency rooms, the housing market was left to regulate itself and so it committed 22 trillion dollars worth of fraud.
If taxes and all that government support are so good for the economy, then why doesn't the government actually raise taxes that high? Because doing so would crush the economy faster than anything else.
tax rate was 94% coming out of ww2, myth busted
Yeah, look at greece, thats what austerity gets you. the republicans debt ceiling crisis's, sequesters and "smaller govt" produces has yielded the same results. Who thinks firing people in a recession is a good thing? republicans.Nah, take a look at Greece.. that's where we are headed with our current government.
