Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Bernie Sanders: Media Needs To Focus On Policy Substance" video.

***** It doesn't work on the large scale.
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***** We do have a mix though, it isn't work well. Also, how much of a mix do you support? I bet it is different then mine.
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***** We have medicaid, medicare, and the VA. We have some socialism and it has led to higher cost and worse quality.
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***** Ah, pointing to the Nordic countries. You ended up to the same thing that every other socialist supported does. There are flaws in your argument though. Let us compare the US to those Nordic countries. You can point at certain statistics and claim that they are better than the US, but in reality you can't. Let us look at life expectancy. Denmark for example has a life expectancy of 80 years, the US at 78. Now you may jump up and down and claim that Denmark is better, but considering how the average in the world is 71 years with a standard deviation of a little over 7 years, that 2 year difference is noise due to several variables. You can look at other areas and compare and you see that the US is on par with those other countries. You can't say that they are better because there are too many variables involved. Consider that the US has states with a larger population than those countries. Consider how due to the US larger population it is more diverse. Consider how different the history is. Consider how different the societies are overall. In Denmark military service is mandatory. How different will the US be if we had that? You made the same shallow argument socialist supports make. You point to the Nordic countries and one, claim they are doing better. In reality you can't say that and if you were to break it down you can easily say the US is doing better. But to say they are doing better is like saying the college student with a 3.90 GPA is better than the one with a 3.60 GPA without looking farther in what they both do. The next thing you do is you claim they are doing better by looking at one simple variable and that is simply because they supposedly have more social programs. You disregard every other variable and looked at that. Overall what I am getting at is that you argument of looking at Nordic countries holds no weight.
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The problem is that when one breaks down Bernie's policies one finds that they are completely bogus and he has no clue what he is talking about (or is being deceptive). He claims that that the rich are getting richer and no one else is. In the early 90s only rich people had brick cell phones. Now the majority of the US has smart phones (including the poor). Cars are better and cheaper, people have more disposable income. What he says is based off of nothing. Bernie is too radical to win and his policies are based off of a delusion he likes to create. He won't win so why should the media advertise him? People on the left can push him all they want, he will lose any debate against a republican in no time.
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Juan Madero Having more money without increasing supply of goods and services just lowers the value of the dollar. Demand doesn't need to be generated, creating of wealth does. If people are paid more but produce the same amount then we end up worse off.
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BTDBattles non-tryhard player The term "living wage" doesn't mean anything.
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Dastin ". If a company or business can't afford to pay that much then it's not a successful business. " If a person doesn't earn a higher wage then they are not a successful person. See how easily your shallow, asinine comment was turned around. Businesses don't pay more because they simply can't afford it. And the term "living wage" doesn't mean anything. Less than 5% of workers earn at or below the min. wage. Around 50% of min. wage workers get a raise within a year. businesses already pay more, they can only pay so much, just like you can only pay so much for what you have. The min. wage also contributes to inflation. There is a reason why food prices are going up but cell phone prices are dropping.
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waleuska If all it took was 5 cent raise to pay that much and not lose demand, then why not raise prices 5 cents and earn that much more profit? The reality is that it isn't that easy and any study where you read about the 5 cent raise is complete BS.
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Juan Madero The company is constrained if we create a society that it behooves them more not to work. A reason why we have a growing income inequality problem is because we have people who refuse to work but get paid anyway. Our ability to produce is due to people simply not working up to their ability.
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Alex xeon People on the left simply don't understand economics. They love to make asinine connections. They say that productivity is up thus everyone is working harder totally disregarding every other factor in the economy. It is the same with the min. wage. It goes up like $2 and when overall unemployment decreases they praise the min. wage which had a minute effect. It is like saying the athlete wore Nike socks leading to their faster times. It is complete ignorance their part and they will go to great lengths to push it.
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Juan Madero Actually a problem is that we are no longer on the gold standard. That means the value of money is dependent solely on what society demands. We create a policy of raising the min. wage, for example, to pay a set of workers $15/hr, and society only feels that their value is $10/hr, now those workers are either out of a job or prices the goods and services produce go up to make them worth $15/hr. It seems to me that you don't understand the first thing about money.
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Juan Madero The government can't create demand. Demand for better goods and services are almost infinite, it is high. The problem is that those goods and services don't exist.
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Juan Madero Government can't generate demand, society does that. Take cell phones for example. Society demands an easier life and smart phones play a role in that. When the brick phone came out in the late 80s it cost, in today's dollars, nearly $4000. Now we have people in poverty with smart phones. That shows a couple of things, one is that businesses will push for what society demands and find a way to develop more of that at an affordable price, especially when there is competition. Another is that wages are not flat. Pumping more money into the economy won't do that, it leads to inflation because money is worthless unless it is spent on something people demand. If there is a large supply of something then the price drops. People demand better things, but unless they are produced then it doesn't matter.
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