Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Democrats Are To The Left Of Socialists" video.
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1 and 2. Recessions happen, we saw one under Carter and a democrat congress. Recovery is key. All other recessions took around 5 years to recover from except for two. The Great Depression and now. Both involved democrat policies of higher taxes, higher spending and regulations to "fix" it. Recovery has been slow under democrat policy.
3a. Obamacare is leading to higher insurance rates. The US has arguably the best healthcare system in the world. The US is number 1 in responsive care, number 1 in cancer survival rate, and when you remove murder and accidents, things not tied to healthcare, we are number 1 in life expectancy. The only problem is cost. The high cost is due to federal government policies typically supported by democrats dating back to around the 40s at least. I can get into more detail if you are interested but basically democrats create federal policies leading to higher healthcare cost, and now with Obamacare they are making it worse.
Remember, healthcare coverage does not equal healthcare.
3b. On gays the only issue was gay marriage. Gays were treated equal under the law except for gay marriage. Democrats could have handled the situation better to make gay marriage legal. Instead they played the victim card and went as far as call marriage a right, it isn't though. Equality under the law is, not marriage though.
4. What was wrong with Reaganomics? We recover from a recession in a few years, under Obamanomics we still haven't recovered.
5. Regulations hinder growth
6. Taxes hinder growth.
7. Both parties voted for the war and supported it
I guess you have a lot to learn about democrats.
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***** Depression happen all the time. We have had them before the great depression and after. Recovery is key. When we have massive spending, higher taxes and regulations recovery is slow. Look at the Panic of 1837 and 1873 and after Jimmy Carter. We had terrible recessions with quick recoveries. Recovery has been slow under Obama and the democrat congress for his first 2 years.
In other countries people die because of lack of care. So would you rather be dead or bankrupt? In the US we are number 1 in life expectancy when murder and accidents are removed, things not tied to healthcare.
The problem is cost and that is due to the federal government. In the 1940s businesses wanted to give out higher wages to workers due to a growing economy. Doing so met a higher tax on them though. A loop hole was offering benefits such as healthcare insurance. 100% tax free.
Instead of giving workers more money to go out and buy their own healthcare insurance that was more personalized and could compete with other companies driving down cost, people were stuck with a generic plan their business offered. With that insurance companies raised rates, and when someone changed plans later in life they were denied due to pre-existing conditions. You know, insurance companies don't like the risk of getting a new customer who is in their 40s. Thus democrats of higher regulations and taxes cause an increase in healthcare cost.
"No gays can be fired for being gay,and gays don't have equal tax rights either."
Gays have equal tax rights. Plus you don't have special rights at a job. If a business wants to fire you for any reason that should be allowed. I would rather have that so I know who fires people for being gay and avoid their business.
"Why isn't marriage a right?"
Not listed in the constitution. You have a right to pursue happiness, but legally marriage is a state issue. Now under the 14th amendment states can't discriminate thus if they do recognize marriage they should recognize gay marriage. But marriage itself isn't a right, and no on is stopping two gay people from getting married.
"Reaganomics caused a massive increase between the rich and the poor and a stock market crash."
Reagan was dead when the stock market crashed.
"Regulation prevents slave labor, child labor, overproduction and makes sure employees have a minimum wage."
Advancement in the market does that. Child labor laws are pointless in today's established market and there isn't one single good reason to even have a min. wage.
"Higher tax rates on the rich make sure the poor don't have to fill in the gap."
All that does is create more income inequality
And democrats voted for the wars, you can simply look up the voting results of congress.
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