Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Delusional Starbucks Billionaire Wants To Be President But Already Lost" video.

  1. Defense spending is less than 4% of GDP, healthcare is 1/6 of that. Cutting defense down to zero will not cover healthcare. Taxing the rich at 100% will not cover it either. Please go back and learn some 2nd grade math.
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  2. Ryne Green, corporations have to understand law, finances, working with others, competition, etc. There is a lot to running a corporation a lot more than just making money. There is a lot of overlap in running a nation and running a corporation.
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  3. They have plenty of experience. Try running a major corporation some day. Within less than a week I bet you will be crying.
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  4. Because basic economics says it doesn't. Sorry Prof. Gruber, people are not going to fall for your same line of BS twice.
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  5. SodaBoy628, define "political experience". That is very vague. That includes interacting with people, understand law, understanding economics, etc.
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  6. jxsilicon9, the economy is doing well under Trump.
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  7. SodaBoy628, we also lead the world in R&D and our quality is higher. You get what you pay for.
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  8. The Greatest Rogue Trader, healthcare is 1/6 of our GDP. What is bigger? 4% or 1/6?
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  9. jxsilicon9, other people besides the president runs the country. The president works with them and at times people disagree. A part of that experience is working with others who have an ego just as big as you do.
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  10. I can see that many in this comment section has never been near the top in anything in life.
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  11. Javier, it isn't. The mindset is very much the same. In the end it requires intelligence. It is why around 30% of CEOs have engineering degrees. They are intelligent and are out of box thinkers.
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  12. Some level of unemployment is good overall. If unemployment was 0% than wages will skyrocket as the supply of labor would be zero. That means massive inflation that will harm the low skilled workers and eventually lead to the other extreme, high unemployment. Some level of unemployment balances the economy.
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  13. Ricardo, medicare has administration cost as well. The difference is that medicare can transfer their costs to other programs. For example, insurance companies pay for fraud prevention which medicare does not where fraud prevention saves money. Insurance companies pay for disease awareness where medicare has the CDC to pay for that. Doctors will not take a paycut. Medical school is not expensive when you consider the payout. But even at that, how do you lower the cost of medical school?
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  14. Nutcase, the US GDP is $18.57 trillion. By your own links the defense budget is $789 billion by the second link and $686 billion by your first link. I will let you do the math.
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  15. SodaBoy628, many factors besides healthcare influence those numbers. For example, if you remove car accidents and murders the US is number 1 in life expectancy. That concludes your statistics lesson for today.
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  16. SkyTechRTS, I have operated a meat grinder. I have done a lot of hard work. That is nothing compared to trying to converse and interact with people where well over half of them think they are better than you and want to get an edge over you.
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  17. Life's Paradox, you do the same in government.
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  18. Life's Paradox, I do not get destroyed. I give an intelligent response and people reply with talking points or easily refutable comments. Like your comment of hiring people. Politicians hire people as well. Do you think politicians come in knowing everything? No. They hire people. That is why we have cabinet members. Next, I am near the top. I am a PhD student a year away from getting my PhD and I have another hobby where I am at a prestige level. I work with people who make 6 figures where one earned closed to a million a year. I work with a person who is the 5th highest paid individual in my state. I see what those people are like, many here haven't.
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  19. G Kaiser, there is a lot of overlap. Having to deal with people, the law, finances, problem solving, persuade people, etc. That is why Trump is having a lot of success right now as president.
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  20. StrikeWing, unemployment is going down, initial claims are going down, worker participation is going up along with the economy. Trump is successful.
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  21. A Alvarez, that is correct. Being a CEO is about leadership and making hard choices much like a president has to. Being a CEO is making hard choices for a large business worth millions or even billions. If they mess up that means millions of shares become worthless where a lot of people will lose a lot of money and a lot of people will lose a lot of jobs. A CEO has not know who to hire and what is going on. In reality running a business is much harder than running the country because a company can go bankrupt. Or using Enron for an example, the CEO can be arrested. The president can just push to raise the debt ceiling and kick the can down the road for the next president.
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  22. Michael, a lot of healthcare and education comes from personal responsibility. The idea that you need government to educate you means you have little chance to be educated. The reason why is because you are depending that heavily on someone else as opposed to finding ways to learn issues on your own. Also, government run education can arguably be indoctrination. As for healthcare, eating healthy and exercising are great ways to prevent yourself from sick.
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  23. G Kaiser, most of the benefits in the tax cuts went to the rich because they are the ones who pay the most. Around half of the country do not pay federal income taxes. You cannot cut from zero. .
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  24. StrikeWing, it isn't just unemployment. Initial claims are going down, worker participation is going up, and interest rates are going up now. With Obama unemployment was going down but so was worker participation rate meaning people simply stopped looking for work.
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  25. Michael, a lot of people cannot afford a lot of things. It is on you to find a way to afford healthcare. I do. With education, that is on you as well. It goes beyond the dollar amount. You can help out your healthcare situation by living a healthy life style. You can help out your education situation by educating yourself. In the end life requires work. You can't just sit there and expect things to be given to you. I support policies that make healthcare and education more affordable, I just feel that the free market is the route to go, not through government intervention which has raised the prices to begin with. K-12 education is run and funded locally. That alleviates any indoctrination, especially with competition between states and free speech/press. There is some level of indoctrination such as obeying orders all the time, lack of freedom in some schools, regurgitation, etc. There is a lot to it but the reason why K-12 education is not a drastic form of indoctrination is because it is ran and funded by the states.
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  26. Because it is far more complex than just saying "other countries have it". They established those systems decades ago when they were still developing.
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  27. Kyle apparently did not learn through the 2016 election and the current election, people do not want these radical leftists, period. Also, just because this guy is rich does not mean he is out of touch. Kyle is starting to lose it at this point.
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  28. To be honest Kyle probably does. He supports Bernie who he has said is the "poorest senator in congress", and Bernie was poor before he became mayor.
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  29. Dan A, if you cut CEO pay to zero for almost every major business the workers will not see a significant raise. For example, if you cut the top 6 executives of Walmart down to zero dollars and spread their salaries to the 525,000 lowest paid employees of Walmart, they will earn an extra $147 a year. That's it. It cost me $103 to register my car.
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  30. Dan A, that is the labor rate. He does not pay his employees more for one simple reason......he can't afford it.
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  31. Dan A, businesses cannot pay more, that is the reality. Also, a "livable wage" is 100% subjective. It is a meaningless talking point.
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  32. Dan A, corporations have to cater to share holders. Without shareholders those companies will have to downsize meaning less jobs. A company like Hy Vee pays as much as Walmart. However, Walmart pays the same as Hy Vee. Why is Walmart so much bigger? Because of their shares outstanding. If it weren't for the shares than Walmart would be no bigger than Hy Vee. In a capitalist society there is a lot of incentive for businesses to pay workers more. If they don't then that company will have low skilled workers who are disgruntled and thus the company will not do well. Your point of businesses paying little is easily debunked in that less than 4% of workers earn the min. wage. Companies pay more by choice. If companies wanted to pay less than the vast majority of workers will be paid the min. wage. Starbucks pays above the min. wage. The term "living wage" is 100% subjective. I can, in my city, live off of $6/hr and save $200 a month if I wanted. It isn't mean being dense, it is me understanding economics where you have to resort to talking points.
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  33. Why? So he can get destroyed? Shapiro has a larger following, is known nationally, and has debated many people including members of Congress. Kyle has a little youtube video and lives in a bubble.
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  34. To start, Kyle is not smart. He is very immature and repeats the same things over and over again. But that aside, Kyle has no experience compared to Shapiro. Shapiro would win on experience alone. He would know how to dismantle Kyle's talking points.
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  35. StrikeWing, Shapiro has debated professors from Harvard and members of Congress. Kyle debates a guy whose name is "Razorfist". Also, what logical fallacies does he use? Give examples. And most members in Congress are not idiots, they are very intelligent. They are politicians but they are intelligent. I saw his discussion with Pakman, I saw it as a push where both sides had great points. Pakman did what he always does and that is push to the extreme end on topics. Pakman, in debates, does not take a stance but instead uses a tactic where he pushes the other guy to the extreme side. On their discussion on guns Pakman supports gun laws and pretty much gun confiscation. Shapiro supports gun rights. Pakman led the discussion to grenade launchers and RPGs placing Shapiro in the corner of that if he opposes citizens having those than he admits that there needs to be some restrictions on the 2nd amendment where Shapiro was placed in the debate to be the gun rights supporter. It is a clever tactic by Pakman but Shapiro was smart in saying it depends on the definition of an "arm". Both sides did well in that debate, no one argued in circles.
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  36. StrikeWing, Kyle's talking points are easily debunked. For example, him saying medicare for all will save $17 trillion is based off of a "study" that looked at two sets of numbers. The one number that produced the $32 trillion admitted that their value is an underestimate and that single payer healthcare would cost much more as they ignored how demand would increase prices along with other variables. The $49 trillion number simply looked at healthcare costs now and made the assumption that it would continue to go up in price at the same rate when in reality the cost of healthcare changes as different rates depending on the economy. As a whole the two numbers were developed using completely different methods and are not comparable at all. Kyle just throws out numbers with zero perspective or zero analysis and fools by into it. He works in a bubble. Shapiro was willing to be challenged by going on Pakman's show, or debate in Congress. Kyle doesn't.
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  37. StrikeWing, I saw that article and it does not take long to easily debunk it. For example, if you go down to the paragraph that discusses racism, the article cited the study that says black men receive 20% longer sentences for the same crime. That same source says that correlation does not equal causation and that there are other variables that are not measurable that play a role. In comparison there is an around 20% gap in high school graduate rates between blacks and whites. If this guy is going to cite an article he should understand what it is really saying and not play identity politics. This guy talks about how black people cannot get jobs where Shapiro's argument is that you will not be poor if you graduate high school, have kids after you are married, and get a full time job. But again, there is an around 20% gap in high school graduation rates between blacks and whites and blacks are less likely to pursue an advanced education. Saying they cannot get jobs supports Shapiro's idea that the reason why they are poor is because of personal choices they make. And that is just from one small section. The author starts out by saying "It's easy to laugh, as some of us do, at the phrase "conservative intellectual"." There are many intellectuals on both sides. I do not like the left these days for their actions but I would admit there are intellectuals. I do not like Elizabeth Warren but I would admit that she is intelligent. This author doens't. This author immediately smears the right from the very first sentence which means that this article is extremely bias where they would twist words and misrepresent articles and studies to push propaganda. In short, that article is worthless and is a great example of why Shapiro is so popular and many people on the left aren't. When you dismiss your opponent like that you do not have an argument.
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  38. StrikeWing, I can also give more examples of Kyle having talking points that are easily debunked.
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  39. Nick, "green energy" jobs require a lot of skills. Infrastructure jobs require a different set of skills. You will have to train many people first. Also, you have to convince them to work to begin with. Many would rather take a pay cut and collect welfare than work manual labor. And our those jobs even worth anything? Digging holes provides no value.
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  40. Conquering Thought, in the 60s and 70s we saw unemployment dropping and inflation increasing. Why? Because wages were going up due to lack of supply of workers. Eventually, however, inflation went up too high and it caused stagflation which is why the Fed jacked up interest rates in the late 70s and early 80s. Sorry, but economics does not agree with your thought process.
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  41. Neon, medicare for all will not save us money. Actually read the methods for where those numbers came from.
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  42. SodaBoy628, defense spending is around $600 billion. Cutting it in half will not put a dent in government spending nor the debt. I can see you struggled in math.
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  43. They don't. They just feel government is not the source.
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  44. Define "basic" and define "decent". That is subjective. You complain about talking points from the right but you have talking points yourself. Healthcare is a commodity, someone has to provide it.
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  45. Not true. To start, many do not provide healthcare because they can't afford it. Next, medicare for all would require a higher payroll tax meaning that businesses will have to pay more in taxes or cut wages.
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  46. It is easily arguable that capitalism raises the quality of life in society and that programs like single payer healthcare lower it.
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  47. Easy. Under our healthcare system we lead the world in R&D. Healthcare is very dynamic and we understand very little about the human body, especially with evolving diseases. R&D leads to new drugs and techniques and technology that are better and can drive prices down. When you look at other countries with universal healthcare systems they lack in R&D and they lack in specialists such as surgeons which is why they have much longer wait times for surgeries and MRIs. The quality drops. The capitalist system creates the incentive for people to produce which creates more wealth to go around. The socialist system reduces the incentive because why work when 1. You are going to have to give up your income to the government and 2. You can still be given things from the government in some way That is why in the US we have better doctors who are specialists, we lead the world in R&D, and we are a powerhouse overall in technological advancements. Sure, the capitalist system may create this rich CEO, but I can get my coffee almost anywhere now. Starbucks created convenience and jobs. Socialism doesn't.
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  48. Paul, universal healthcare is socialism. Insurance companies are not charities. No nation covers everyone due to lack of resources.
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  49. LinusMLGTips, research done at universities is broad. I am paid on an NIH grant. I produce nothing in terms of drugs or healthcare innovation. It is the private sector that develops that. Medical research is needed as healthcare is dynamic and requires new technology and medicine to improve the quality and counter the evolution of diseases. They are related.
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  50. I respond to most comments who respond to me. I do have limits in time so sometimes I miss some comments. What is your point? The person saying we do not lead the world in R&D is wrong. It is well known that the US does lead the world in R&D not just in healthcare but also in technology.
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  51. Seattle is more conservative than you think. They have low taxes on the rich and not many business regulations.
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  52. MasterBlood187, medicare is more expensive. Also, you will not be saving money. You will be increasing demand without increasing supply. Medicare for all will be more expensive unless you lower the quality.
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  53. Evan, medicare for all will not save us money. Those number Kyle gets are from a source that is unreliable due to how they actually did the comparison. The $32 trillion in the cost for medicare for all admitted that they underestimated the costs due to ignoring the prices going up with increase demand along with other factors. I read the reports, you should as well. Kyle is not comparing apples to apples, he is comparing apples to tuna. Uh, the 1% pay a large portion of the federal income tax. I agree, everyone should pay. That is why I support a federal flat income tax.
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  54. SodaBoy628, read the book "The Business of Health", there two professors presented their work showing that.
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  55. Boutneus12, GDP is tied to government spending and taxing.
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  56. LeftyEX, GDP is more important as it is the gauge for the overall economy. For over 50 years defense spending has been decreasing.
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  57. Rihannalslluminati, it isn't that easy. Collecting taxes and spending does not grow the GDP. There are many arguments against single payer. Saying it makes "more sense" is a weak argument and really a way to try to silence opponents. You talk about "corporate interests" but fail to consider government interest.
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  58. LeftyEX, you have to talk about the economy. People want our government to fund healthcare and want to cut defense to do so. You have to compare defense spending to cost of healthcare. You need a solid baseline to do that. GDP is that base line.
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  59. Daniel Pierik, care to point that out as in page number?
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  60. Spencerwalker21, rankings are arbitrary. Is it fair to compare us to Malta?
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  61. Evan, medication is expensive to make up for the fact that at lot of people lack insurance. Also, what the US has over other country are more specialist. That is why in other nations they have longer wait times. Universal healthcare is great for very very very basic care. Problem is that the price of healthcare is priced at that basic care. You do see more practitioners in other nations, but they lack specialists such as surgeons. Talking to someone from Canada he said that healthcare there is great if you are a pregnant woman, but terrible if you need surgery. That is why people die in Canada waiting for "elective" surgery. It was why this guy received surgery in the US for his knee as opposed to in Canada. In universal healthcare there is little to no incentive to become a specialist which is why they lack them. CEOs' salaries and profits are not to blame here.
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  62. I know many doctors and nurses and those in the medical field. They agree there is price gouging but the reason is because our healthcare system pays for people without insurance. Going to single payer is not going to solve the problem, it will just transfer the cost elsewhere.
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  63. Evan, that is how the market works. That is why a band aid cost so much in the hospital. Compare it to a restaurant, they charge more for fries and fountain drinks than what they are actually work. Or a movie theater, they make most of their money from food. Same with healthcare except there are people who pay zero thus they make up the cost by price gouging. As long as insurance covers it people do not care. If we had medicare for all that is how healthcare providers will price gouge the government or say medicare does not cover for things like a band aid.
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  64. Evan, government will price gouge because politicians will look out for special interest groups. My comparison to healthcare to a restaurant is based on the idea that both are commodities. Someone has to provide it meaning someone has to get paid. If government is not willing to pay enough for healthcare the quality will drop, that is a fact. So yes, they are in the same ballpark. Many "needs" are negotiable such as a home and food. It is a part of life. Someone has to provide healthcare. If you do not create the incentive to become a doctor than you will not have them. Other countries face that problem in their healthcare systems as they are not willing to pay doctors more.
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  65. Ethan, healthcare is close to $4 trillion a year, defense is $700 billion. The federal government spends around $1 trillion by itself in healthcare.
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  66. Evan, what makes you think that government can actually negotiate down the price? And why would they when providers can just use those same politicians to keep prices high and profit even more?
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  67. Spencerwalker21, money in politics will always exist. What you you need to do is limit the powers the government has.
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  68. Name and Address Supplied, meanwhile Trump is successful and ultra leftists like Allison Hartson are being destroyed. All evidence shows that I am right.
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  69. Evan, saying you don't negotiate with the government will mean they set the price and that's it. That will lead to one of two things. One, that would lead to slavery as government would force people to work in healthcare. Or two, it would lower the quality because there would be less of an incentive to work in healthcare. We see that in other nations where they lack in doctors. As for corruption, this is going down the path of a different discussion, but government has been corrupt for all of history. The founding fathers knew this which is why they wanted limited government. Simply saying "get those corrupt politicians out of office" is not a solution. People have been trying for all of history to do that, it doesn't work unless you have a very local government. That is why you need to limit the powers of government and make it as local as possible. This is the crazy thing I see in ultra leftists. They complain about a corrupt government, but then say that government needs more power to control our healthcare. It is like the wife with the abusive, drunk husband. They complain about them but instead of leaving the husband they end up having a kid with them making matters worse. The government does not have a strong influence on food prices. I have no idea where you get that idea that they do. I said the republican tax bill is good as it allows people to have more money and it simplifies the federal tax code.
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  70. SmashStomp Inc, if the government has a hard time managing a defense budget, something it is constitutionally allowed to do, what makes you think they can manage a much larger budget in healthcare? Also, yes, we pay more than other nations, we also have better quality.
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  71. Spencerwalker21, money in politics has always existed all throughout history. The founding fathers saw how corrupt and evil government can be which is why they set standards to limit it.
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  72. Evan, police are locally ran and funded, and even at that we has a shortage. Fire fighters are locally ran and funded and 70% of them are volunteer. And with police, fire fighters and military, none of them have to go through the same level of schooling and training that doctors do. Becoming a doctor is much more challenging than becoming a police officer or someone in the military. There is a reason why many can join the military at the age of 18 where med schools have a less than 50% acceptance rate. And again, 70% of fire fighters are volunteer. Government creates monopolies. That is the reality. Making government local does alleviate the problem of corruption. When you are active in your community you can personally know your local representatives. You can see if what they are doing is actually helping locally, you can attend town hall meetings and you have a louder voice. I met my mayor and the person she was running against and it persuaded me to vote for her. I met my local sheriff. I am involved in the school district and it persuaded me how to vote when it came to taxes. As for the tax bill raising the debt, it was out of control to begin with. The idea of the tax bill is long term plans. Long term it will grow the economy leading to more revenue to tax leading to more money. Again, what is higher, 10% of 1000 or 50% of 100? As for your comment on economists, economists have different opinions on the tax bill. What you said about every economists saying it is "horrendous" is 100% not true. You can never get economists to agree like that.
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  73. Ivantheterrible r, defense spending has been dropping for over 50 years from 10% of GDP in the 60s to less than 4% now. Healthcare a around $4 trillion a year. You can cut defense spending to zero and you would cover less than 1/4 of healthcare.
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  74. nooberrific, doing my job is a choice. No one is forcing doctors to work. If you make healthcare a right than you will have to force them to work.That is the reality.
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  75. nooberrific, I understand how universal healthcare works and I understand that it is not a right in other nations. My point I am making is that if you make healthcare a right than you have to force doctors to work like we force people to do jury duty. I am sorry you cannot read and comprehend my comments.
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  76. Canada does get better results. Also, using GDP as the standard, defense spending has dropped. Defense spending is 16% of federal government spending.
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  77. Spencerwalker21, again, I am talking about if you make healthcare a right. If you make healthcare a right than you have to force doctors to work like we force people to do jury duty. Also, they will not be working for 6 figures, and if they are they will be working very long hours. But again, I am talking about if healthcare is defined as a right. So my slavery comment is 100% correct.
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  78. Spencerwalker21, again, if you make healthcare a right that means the government has to provide it like they have to provide a jury. They provide a jury by forcing people to serve. Even if you decided to work in a private hospital the government can come in and force those doctors to serve people if you make healthcare a right. I noticed you have never countered my jury duty argument meaning you have no argument. I have countered everything you have said.
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  79. Spencerwalker21, I have not been corrected. Why are you not countering my comparison of jury duty? You are ignoring that point. I just covered your point on private hospitals. You are ignoring my legit point in jury duty in how government forces people, private citizens, to serve on a jury. You have yet to prove me wrong bud. That is why I keep coming back. That is why you have to resort to name calling.
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  80. Spencerwalker21, your only argument is that there will still be private hospitals in which I agreed. There will be private hospitals. But if you make healthcare a right the government will have to force healthcare providers, such as doctors, to serve people. Just like the government does in jury duty. You have the option of having a jury, you do not have to have a jury. Just like you would have the option of using the private healthcare option or the public. But if you choose the public the government will demand doctors to serve you if healthcare is classified as a right. Your argument of there being private hospitals does not counter mine.
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  81. Spencerwalker21, not they can't. That is the point. If you make healthcare a right than the government will force those doctors to work like they force people to do jury duty. They can work for the private sector but the government can still come in and force them to work.
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  82. Spencerwalker21, if you make healthcare a right they can just like they can make you do jury duty.
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