Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "The Truth Is: Americans Want Progressive Policies" video.

  1. Shad Jones, you are all over the place and, not to be rude, but wrong. Reading you latest comment you said "theorists deal in absolutes". Nothing can be farther from the truth. I am a scientist and theorist make many assumptions and look for trends. Next, runaway debt is due to socialism. In the free market if you don't pay off your debt people will stop loaning you money, period. Major technology comes from investors and innovators and universities, not military. Just because someone is rich does not mean they are bad. Yes, Bezos is rich, but he made life easier for tens of millions by making shopping easier and adding competition to the market where now Walmart is making shopping easier with Walmar pickup. That is what capitalism does, it progresses. Under socialism there is not desire to compete and progress because the government promises you things that it really cannot offer unless it lowers the standard.
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  2. Shad Jones, a lot of homes still have one bread winner. The reason why we are seeing more homes with more than one bread winner is because more women are exercising their freedom to work. We have become a society where we now allow women in the workplace. Is that a bad thing? Also, close to 70% of people live paycheck to paycheck while close to 70% of lottery winners go bankrupt. What that means is that people spend their money as opposed to saving it. Thus two breadwinners means they will simply spend more. Fact is people can still have one breadwinner, downsize and be just fine. Theorists do not deal in absolutes. I work in science, theorists make many assumptions to see a trend. I work in physical chemistry so I know many theorists. Consider, for example, the many models of water we use. On is called the "polarizable continuum model (PCM)" that treats water as dipoles. When you use that model you neglect hydrogen bonding. This model is used to save computational time because if you were to consider how a water model acts physically then you need to account for numerous forces. I am working on a paper right now and I measure vibrational lifetimes. The theorist I work with modeled the lifetimes and produced lifetimes of around 3 ps for one system and two vibrational lifetimes of 1 ps and 7 ps for another. My theorist gets 4 ps for the first system and 0.2 ps for the second. You may say the numbers are off for the second one but in reality it showed a trend, the lifetime is shorter. He could not measure a bi-exponential lifetime as the model could not account for it as that situation is not well understood or accounting for it will add to computational time that will delay projects. So yeah, I know theorists. They do not deal in absolute. Also, why are billionaires unnecessary? You do understand no one has billions of dollars as most of their value is derived from their stocks?
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  3. Shad Jones, you speak about national debt when for years programs like social security and medicare have been increasing in terms of percent GDP and defense spending has been dropping. You are complaining about national debt when Bernie Sanders will explode it. Who is struggling? Most people are fine. The fact is that most people spend what they earn quickly for several reasons which is a completely different discussion in itself. I love how you just go to berating me instead of trying to counter anything I say. I am actually one of the top producers in my lab with the most published papers in my group and near the top in my department. But whatever, like Bernie Sanders and his fans instead of having an intelligent discussion you just do character attacks and resort to talking points. This is why many consider Bernie and his fan base to be a joke.
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  4. It will not transfer to higher wages. Bernie wants to raise the payroll tax to pay for medicare for all which will lead to lower wages.
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