The government is not an insurance company ...

[NetJedi]

I don't vote Republican.

Welcome to the binary world of modern American Politics wherein if you criticize government or shameless con artists like Krugman, you MUST be a Republican.

"People enjoy talking about Paul Krugman because you can learn economics sometimes by thinking the opposite of what Krugman claims." -- Bob Murphy

 

[BrokeLoser]

Brown man gonna get ya, BL! Better run and hide!

Like many of your threads the premise of this one is nonsensical coming from you…You can’t lecture about how government should spend and also support the importation of tens of millions of needy illiterate thirdworlders.

 

[22lcidw]

It is if you are wealthy or connected.

S&L bailouts
Bank bailouts
GM bailout
Chrsyler bailout
Hedge fund bailouts right now for Argentina

Things go bad for different entities. Fiat currencies have inflationary effects with mismanagement. When it comes to banking institutions, if the economy tanks, we only guarantee a few per cent of the system. So, when we printapalooza inflation will be like the Weimer Republic. You actually think we get something for nothing as your party deals with economics. I appreciate what I receive as an aging person.

 

[struth]

It is if you are wealthy or connected.

S&L bailouts
Bank bailouts
GM bailout
Chrsyler bailout
Hedge fund bailouts right now for Argentina

Yes Obama’s bank bailouts were very fascist

And now the demafasict have shut the gov down because the gop won’t extend the big insurance bailouts we out in place during COVID

Vote these Demafascit out

 

[dblack]

Welcome to the binary world of modern American Politics wherein if you criticize government or shameless con artists like Krugman, you MUST be a Republican.

Believe me, I'm familiar with the landscape. The two party system has created an electorate convinced that we must choose one of two shitty alternatives. Like frightened lemmings they glom on to whichever side seems "lesser". Kinda pathetic.

 

[dblack]

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That's a very large meme. Are you triggered again?

 

[struth]

Exactly. It's got to stop. "Free shit" is not the way to run a government.

Agreed, the way to stop it is, for us to realize there is no such thing as free shit

That won’t happen until you have everyone in the game. The demafacist in their typical oppressive stance, created a “war on poverty” spending trillions and only driving up poverty and more dependence.

 

[Hafar1014]

It is if you are wealthy or connected.

S&L bailouts
Bank bailouts
GM bailout
Chrsyler bailout
Hedge fund bailouts right now for Argentina

Oban care needs a bailout every year

 

[dblack]

Is there any topic that partisans can't turn into a circle jerk?

 

[struth]

Welcome to the binary world of modern American Politics wherein if you criticize government or shameless con artists like Krugman, you MUST be a Republican.

"People enjoy talking about Paul Krugman because you can learn economics sometimes by thinking the opposite of what Krugman claims." -- Bob Murphy

It’s only binary because we have two successful parties

Which actually works, the point of a two party system is to bring in the extremist of both sides to a more centralized candidate

This is why people are fleeing the Dem party

 

[struth]

Is there any topic that partisans can't turn into a circle jerk?

Please don’t do that while on the thread

 

[dblack]

Please don’t do that while on the thread

I think maybe that's mostly what's going on here.

 

[NetJedi]

Believe me, I'm familiar with the landscape. The two party system has created an electorate convinced that we must choose one of two shitty alternatives. Like frightened lemmings they glom on to whichever side seems "lesser". Kinda pathetic.

In war, it's prudent to choose the side that is the lesser threat to your principles, livelihood, freedom and family else one may find oneself alone in no-mans land shouting into the wind.

As a libertarian, I find conservatives and Republicans in general far more desirable as allies given that they don't have a tendency to stab you in the back over uttering a sentence that goes outside their accepted dogma or burn your neighborhood to the ground because they had a bad day.

Wasn't always so but the lunatics on the left have left me no choice.

 

[dblack]

FWIW the point of the thread was to discuss the widespread presumption that the government IS an insurance company and is there to "cover" all our losses.

 

[NetJedi]

It’s only binary because we have two successful parties

We only have one successful party, the other one is a lunatic asylum currently engaged in self-destruction.

 

[dblack]

In war, it's prudent to choose the side that is the lesser threat to your principles, livelihood, freedom and family else one may find oneself alone in no-mans land shouting into the wind.

If a war breaks out, I'll keep that in mind. The idiotic divide that the two-party system has created isn't a war. It's a mistake. It's our nation, taking a shit and falling back in it.

As a libertarian, I find conservatives and Republicans in general far more desirable as allies given that they don't have a tendency to stab you in the back over uttering a sentence that goes outside their accepted dogma or burn your neighborhood to the ground because they had a bad day.

Uh .... not sure what world you're living in.

Wasn't always so but the lunatics on the left have left me no choice.

Lunatics abound. The culture war has turned both parties into revenge seeking, amoral dipshits.

 

[struth]

We only have one successful party, the other one is a lunatic asylum currently engaged in self-destruction.

Well, let’s be clear, there was a time we had the “new democrat” bill Clinton really connected to jfk…but that was short lived

Leftist killed jfk and frankly, Clinton would be called a teabagger by the folks that run the demafasict today…frankly bill was to the right of Trump

 

[Etymology gaslight]

... and we need to stop pretending it should function as one.

For years socialists like Paul Krugman have been trying to sell the notion that government is "an insurance company with an army". He proclaims this as though it's a good thing. It's not.

But it is
for the first time in American history,
being run as a successful business,
an efficient one at that.

 

[g5000]

If Health Insurance costs are skyrocketing, then so are dividend payments ... [ka'ching] ... sounds like sour grapes ... yeah, you sure should have invested ... I bet you wouldn't be crying right now if you were sitting on a pile of money ...

Typical asshole. Who care if more and more millions are being ass-raped and priced out of the market as long as you get yours, right?

And I am sitting on a pile of money, dipshit.

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[dblack]

But it is in the first time in American history,
That it's being run as a business.
an efficient one at that.

Yep. But government is not a business. Treating it like one is a failure.