Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "TED-Ed" channel.

  1. That's how leftists operate.
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  2. Exactly.
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  3. Remember when income tax was a temporary measure?
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  4. LOL. No. Charity just further perpetuates poverty as the poor will eventually no longer bother to improve their situation.
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  5. In other words, he was naive and delusional.
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  6. Charity doesn't work. It just encourages laziness and co-dependency.
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  7. @ Shruk Pls And before that was the Khmer Rouge.
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  8. Exactly.
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  9. You wouldn't be saying that if he had conservative political views.
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  10. And this is why all revolutions aside from the American one have been proven failures. If anything, they have consistently proven Robespierre right in it will eventually eat its own.
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  11. Corruption is not going anywhere as long as humans are around. By the way, the poor are every bit as corrupt as the rich.
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  12. Because of its 104-plus year track record of failure in every country it has been practiced?
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  13. @ SpazzKid Which was caused by his forced collectivization of farmland policies.
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  14. So, what were the labor camps for then?
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  15. What he's saying is that the only reason why Lenin is seen is such a positive light is because he didn't live long enough to have more of his policies materialize and become the monster that he truly was like his successor, Stalin. So far, the only atrocity that happened under his watch was the Red Terror.
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  16. Leftists can do no wrong. And when they do wrong, there's always someone else or something to blame.
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  17. But communists meant well. LOL
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  18.  @link7417  Not as much as forcing those who work to pay for those who don't especially by choice. Now that's truly inhumane.
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  19. <it's sad. the social inequality is so obvious that it makes people more selfish> Inequality is natural. Humans don't have the same abilities or aspirations. <Empathy is an unknown word ...> A person can have only so much empathy. At some point in time, people are going to have to get their act together and stop being a burden to others.
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  20. LOL. Only 11.4% of Americans are poor.
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  21.  @jdubo1998  No it isn't. Was Castro equal to the average citizen he condemned to squalor?
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  22. You have only Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Democratic Party to thank for that.
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  23. LOL. No. Democratically owned means of production doesn't solve poverty. Especially by people who have no idea how to run said means of production. Yugoslavia actually had such after Tito's death to rather unflattering results.
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  24. <people use to live really A LOT better in USSR than in US and any other capitalist country.> Which lasted for a brief period of time. The problem with communism is that whatever success it does achieve is often short-lived requiring tyranny, foreign aid or reforms to sustain itself.
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  25. Poverty is a symptom and consequence.
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  26. Not really. Not everyone's interested in inbreeding or living like them.
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  27. LOL. And where's the money going to come from to pay for all that?
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  28.  @ExpatriatePaul  Collectivism = stagnation and tyranny.
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  29. LOL. Like England in the 1970's?
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  30.  @phelhadsu4080  Too bad they happened to be selfish themselves.
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  31. But the Soviet Union had forced labor.
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  32. Inflation.
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  33. Name a society that doesn't have a hierarchy.
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  34. Poor people will always exist independent of what system the world operates on.
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  35. Namely government bureaucrats.
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  36. <but then the left-leaning government didn't win re-election> Because of how they turned Ontario into a have-not province.
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  37. <Going left wing or asking for more government control is dangerous, communism killed 60 million people out of starvation, soviets went to deep poverty and so did the Chinese when they applied those ideals.> Also communism left every other country bankrupt.
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  38. But poverty is a symptom of bad luck exacerbated by bad choices.
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  39. But people don't do themselves any favors.
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  40. <3-punish divorce 4-disincentivize single motherhood> Eliminate alimony and child support. Award unconditional custody to the father.
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  41. LOL. Governments cannot create jobs. They can only create an environment that supports and encourages job-creation.
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  42. Like Somalia post-Barre? It had a moneyless (no formal economy), stateless (no functioning government) and classless (just warlords, pirates, goat-herders and ordinary folk) society.
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  43. Impoverish the population, enrich the government.
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  44. Ditto for Cuba.
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  45. <The rent there is ridiculous compared to the rent in a rural area or even a small town.> That's because the city has higher land values, more amenities and opportunities and people are willing to pay the price to live there. Rural areas and small towns have little going for them, too remote, and while housing prices are cheaper there are a lot of things one will have to do without which all but completely negates the benefits.
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  46. Not really. What may work in Sweden may not work in the US.
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  47. Because everyone is greedy themselves. This world will never work, because the people calling for greed to be checked are hardly saints and are motivated by envy and delusions of grandeur which are products of greed.
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  48. Yet interestingly, Sweden has more crime than the US.
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  49.  @iampiyushsingh7544  Communism failed even on a small scale.
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  50. Tax hikes actually protect the wealthy by undermining any attempt by the poor to improve their financial situation.
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