Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Sears Goes Bankrupt, Pays $25M To Execs, Hoses Thousands Of Workers" video.

@randompseudonym4519 , you never took the time to understand my position on the issues, that is your problem.
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@MrGrass97 , not true on any of those points. I pointed out how Hitler was in a league of his own. One can make an argument for him being left wing or right wing. We never had a discussion on Nazis. I pointed out the shortcomings in Australia's healthcare system such as up to 7000 people dying a year waiting for "elective surgery".
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@randompseudonym4519 , I come here to bring a counter viewpoint. Typically I just get mocked. I am a moderate an actually support many left wing ideas. I have admitted to that. But what usually ends up happening is when I come up with a counter viewpoint I just get mocked as opposed to having an intelligent response given to me. This is why Trump is president, most on the left has no desire to actually have a conversation on the issues. Look at Bernie Sanders for example, he has zero desire to have an actual conversation on the issues. He just wants to preach talking points. Until the left learns to have an actual discussion as opposed to berating people, they are going to continue to struggle.
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The reality is that these issues are way more complex than people are willing to accept. Until many on the far left realizes that all you will do is mock me as opposed to having an intelligent counter argument.
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@mrjollyguy25 , Bernie has no desire to actually listen and understand the other side's position. He preaches about "discussing the issues" but that means that all he wants to do is rant about his talking points. To give a couple of example, in a debate with Ted Cruz about Obamacare a hair salon owner from Texas asked how she can expand and afford to pay for her employees' healthcare without raising prices on customers. Bernie's response was saying that he does not know but that she will have to do it. She asked and he said he does not know how but went on this hypothetical rant about some other hair salon business who may have to charge more to pay employees' healthcare to which she responded that the profit margins of the hair business is small. Bernie had no desire to try to understand her profit margins, how many part time to full time employees she had, how many long term to short term employees she had, what her expenses are, etc. All he saw was a business and that she had to pay up. No different than his stance on the min. wage in that they must pay a higher wage no matter what. Compare that to the discussion between Bill Clinton and Herman Cain in 1994 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy542UgSelQ&t=2s Clinton showed he understood the challenges businesses face, that he took the time to understand what businesses go through. I can respect that. I can't respect Bernie. Bernie has no desire to listen to the other side and try to understand their position. If he took the time to understand that business owners' position and how Obamacare is hindering her business practice and still supported Obamacare I can respect that, because the counter argument is that with Obamacare 30 million people have healthcare insurance who didn't have it in the past. But he has no desire to listen to the other side. Another example is in Las Vegas during a town hall discussion someone asked him how he will prevent businesses from raising prices when he raises the min. wage. He went on a rant about how people working full time should not be poor. He did not answer the question so the guy asked it again. He said that prices may go up, but people will be making more money. He did not care to understand that guy's position in how prices could go up for him when he won't be receiving a higher wage. Bernie has zero desire to try to understand the other side's position. I can give more examples if you want, but that is what makes him a radical. You may support one side or the other and I am fine with that as long as you took the time to understand the other side's position and where they are coming from. He does not do that.
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@anticorncob6 1. I support environmental protections, I just want them ran locally and for the federal government to deal with commerce across state lines 2. I don't support the war 3. I do support a free market healthcare system as I feel it would improve our system a lot 4. I support equal rights for everyone. Show me where I did not support lgbt right? At this point you are making things up 5. I support a simplified tax code for all. 6. I don't which is why I support a free market system. 7. I don't Trump is a very moderate president. I am moderate myself. You just never took the time to understand my position on the issues.
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@blacksabbath4life , Bernie just rants on talking points. He has no desire to try to understand the other side's position. To give another example when he talks about businesses he goes on rants about millionaires and billionaires and big corporations as if every business out there is a big corporation and ran by millionaires and billionaires. He pushes for a higher min. wage feeling every business can afford it when they can't. There are a lot of small businesses out there that simply can't. But Bernie has no desire to try to understand their position. In a debate with Ted Cruz on healthcare Cruz talked about how expensive Bernie's plan will be and that even after raising taxes on the rich 100% or seizing the wealth of these major corporations that it won't be able to pay for his plan. Bernie's response was to say that Cruz is cutting taxes for the rich. Not really a counter argument. It took a guy from Denmark to get Bernie to admit he will have to raise taxes on everyone. It isn't so much that I don't like Bernie's policies, is is that he refuses to understand the other side's position. That his policies will harm others or that other people disagree with his policies for legit reasons. Bernie never takes the time to try to understand their position.
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@OfficialSeth , why would Trump debate Bernie? Bernie was not a presidential candidate. Same as in why would AOC debate Ben Shapiro? Bernie's town all discussions are him ranting on his talking points.
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@ianbenjiman , very true.
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@stratecaster547 , how so? Ridiculing me does not show that my opinions are ridiculous. If my opinions are that bad than others should be able to criticize them with intelligence.
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@GordieKat , if the executives leave the company's stock will go essentially to zero and when they try to sell the company the owners will not get any money out of it at all. Right now they are looking to sell Sears and gain some money off of it and also save some jobs. If they don't than not only will they lose money but they will also lose jobs. Also, the CEO already stepped down for Sears, the other executives are in charge now. As for the other workers, that's life. They should have went after more stable jobs. As it the current executives are trying to work with this bankruptcy to save jobs by selling the company to another corporations. I guess they could let all of the executives go but that means the entire company goes under and everyone loses their job. This is more complex than what you make out to be. This is simply another example of "fuck the rich" by Kyle and his fan base without trying to dig deeper on the issue and try to understand what is really going on.
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@GordieKat , Bernie Sanders is a radical.
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@OfficialSeth ,as a cashier the chances of you messing up that bad is zero.
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@Korean_Autist_AbsoluteMF , I didn't agree with the Obama bail outs.
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@mrjollyguy25 , here is the Sanders one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bapp45Vx0UE&t=2130s Go to the 35 minute mark. You can also watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rS-zp3_QrE
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@Korean_Autist_AbsoluteMF ,spending money on defense does not mean spending money on war. You do know that the military does a lot more than just fight in wars?
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@mrjollyguy25 , can you point me to those videos? And I want videos of him answering questions for people on the other side showing he understands their position. I don't want talking points.
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@GordieKat , under Bernie's plan private insurance will be banned, he never mentioned that. He also never mentioned how everyone's taxes will go up until he was pushed by a guy from Denmark. Despite that the issue was Obamacare, a law he voted on. He does not care about how a business will have to provide insurance for their employers. He should care if he is going to vote for that law. That is the problem. Also, Medicare is covered by the payroll tax, a tax businesses pay.
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They do this to retain top talent to manage the bankruptcy. Without the executives the stock prices will drop to zero and the entire company will be worthless. With this they can keep stock prices to have value and look to sell the company in some way.
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@stratecaster547 , the issues are way more complex than what you are willing to accept. Saying "other nations do it" is not an argument as you are ignoring a plethora of variables, especially culture. There are many examples of the free market doing very well and one can argue that the areas which we struggle in are due to government intervention. Two strong examples are college tuition and healthcare prices. They are going up and they also so happen to be two areas where the federal government subsidizes the most.
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@GordieKat , "extra coverage" is all it allows. It bans private insurance that allows similar to what Medicare covers which forces everyone to be on Medicare. Is that really the right thing to do, force people to use a government program? And why isn't Bernie exposing that?
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@GordieKat , basically what Bernie wants to do is similar to banning private schools and forcing everyone to use public schooling.
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@randompseudonym4519 https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1804/text In Section 107.
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@racineg33 1. From what I read the CEO of Sears was not good and would not listen to other execs. As a result the company went bankrupt so to save what they have left they are pushing to keep other execs on board to manage the bankruptcy which could save the business, or sell it off which would also.....wait for it......save jobs. 2. Yes, they are expendable. Define "adequate compensation". You are making an appeal to emotion statement at that point. 3. I am not oblivious, I just understand that appealing to emotions and playing this whole "fuck the rich" game is not a solid argument.
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@GordieKat , Medicare is funded by the payroll tax. Expanding it means expanding the payroll tax which a lot of businesses can't afford. Also, many people would like to have private insurance as private insurance means better outcomes. Just like why a lot of people send their kids to private schools.
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@stratecaster547 , humans are vastly different. They all have different lifestyles, ideas, experiences, etc. Norway has nowhere near the diversity than we do. We have states that are larger than Norway. Compare NV to UT, two neighboring states of similar sizes, they are vastly different. To reduce any argument down to "this country does it and they are happy" is very ignorant. The people of N. Korea are happy, should we copy what they do? In comparing NV and to UT, NV is rank very poorly in education. Many will blame that state when in reality where is the desire to become educated when you can make $80,000 a year parking cars or serving drinks? That is a challenge that state faces and thus their culture is one of not favoring education. How would the federal government account for that? Less educated people are also less healthy. Does the federal government give more money to NV? I can easily demonstrate how complex it is. In a three week span I went to TX, than MO, than MN. In TX there were signs written in spanish due to their large hispanic population there. In MO it was very country where I was at. In MN I meant a lot of people from Canada having to deal with a lot of snow and playing curling. The culture is all different there. You reducing people down to "they all eat and shit" is not an argument. You are completely ignoring the diversity and experience they all face which is very anti-liberal of you. I can provide alternate solutions. I support states and local governments to manage these issues as I realize they are too complex for the federal government to handle. But answer my question from above, should the federal government give more money in education and healthcare due to that state's culture not valuing education? Or how TX has one of the highest obesity rates in the US. Should the federal government give more money to that state for healthcare?
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@GordieKat , Sears still has a lot of jobs. Overall, there is an argument to be made that the workers should get some money. The problem I have hear is that Kyle and his fan base are treated this as another "fuck the rich" issue as opposed to actually having a discussion on it. There are arguments on both sides.
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@GordieKat , the free market do have better outcomes. The problem is that healthcare is not a free market system in the US, it is a heavily regulated and subsidized system.
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@mrjollyguy25 , the issue is that Obamacare is the law right now. Even though Bernie supports single payer it is no where near here, Obamacare is and Bernie should be able to address her concerns. He passed a law that placed restrictions on businesses without considering what challenges those businesses face. If he supports single payer and not Obamacare then why did he vote for Obamacare? His vote for Obamacare clearly shows he supports it thus it is his responsibility to understand how it will influence essentially everyone in this nation including business owners. He doesn't because he doesn't care. Getting support from an ignorant crowd is not a success. That is the crap Cenk and TYT does in saying "we have a lot of followers!" as if that is an argument. Bernie has little idea about the issue of climate change. Watching that video you linked me is just him going on talking points. He first starts says "climate change", and then says "wealthiest country in the history of the world", and then saying "decent paying jobs". What does that all mean? Those are all of his talking points. What is a "decent paying job"? And why does he feel that coal miner should change jobs? Bernie's talking point on climate change is very foolish. He really needs to stop talking about it because he has no desire to understand the counter points on climate change. Of course, to be fair, Bernie did say he struggled in science class in school. By the way he talks about climate change is shows.
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@stratecaster547 , state rights isn't arbitrary, it is in the constitution
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@stratecaster547 , there are several arguments against single payer
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@stratecaster547 , we don't have a free market system in healthcare. In reality we are closer to a single payer system.
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@stratecaster547 , the constitution sets boundaries for all government.
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@randompseudonym4519 , you have no clue what the 97% stat means. Stop preaching talking points and actually break down the issue.
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