Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "AOC Slams U.S. Family Leave, 'Treats People Worse Than Dogs'" video.

  1. If she ran she will be destroyed. She isn't that bright.
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  2.  @Godstrumpet2010  , Trump is way smarter than AOC.
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  3. Iceland also has less than 400,000 people. You can't compare their culture to ours.
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  4. Well, she is the enemy of the people. In this rant she showed she has no clue how the market works or business practices.
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  5.  @joemoe974  , the market adjusts based on people's actions, that is true. However, that is very complex. The big problem is when government officials try to implement what people what, where those people don't fully understand the issues, to take on very intelligent and successful people. For example, if you were to mandate paid family leave on employers they will simply raise prices on consumers or hire less staff. You are looking at it from AOC's perspective that all we have to do is mandate it with some government law and nothing bad will happen. However, there will be negative consequences. Take the min. wage for example. Say you were to raise it. Now say a McDonads' franchise owner in a city owns 15 McDonalds where 10 of them are 24 hours. They may decide to instead shut down 3 of them and have only 6 be open 24 hours to avoid raising prices so smaller competitors cannot compete. Now you have less jobs. The problem with these federal government programs is that they perturb the system where typically those that actually benefit are larger companies. When left alone with only minimal government action, mainly at the local level, the market will benefit the people the most. But when a perturbation is added at the federal level typically the programs designed to help the people the most ends up hurting them.
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  6.  @CMDRZero01  , the prices do go down, in many ways. It can be through competition or improvement of quality. For example, cars today are much safer, last longer and get better gas mileage, all which saves money. Things in this nation that has increased the most in costs are also things the federal government has the largest hand it. Healthcare with Medicare, Medicaid and the payroll tax. Housing with HUD, and college tuition with the student loan program. And yes, people do check prices for things.
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  7.  @kirknay  , cars today are better because of advancement of technology. People simply want better cars. Look at computers. No regulations but they are better today. Medicare and Medicaid spending has been increasing for years. Plus, other government regulations are involved in healthcare.
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  8.  @CMDRZero01  , uh, cars today can last a long time compared to the past. Reality is that in the free market there is competition to develop better goods and services. If you don't you will fail as a company.
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  9. Through the market most people have leave. Typically those that don't work part time.
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  10.  @thomasdendtler4077  , you also have this thing called vacation time which most have already.
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  11.  @thomasdendtler4077  , how is it not enough? Define "enough".
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  12. You don't actually equalize the hiring process. A woman goes out of commission for a certain amount of time.
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  13. Wow, AOC is not bright when it comes to business practices and economics.
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  14. You can't answer these complex questions with a "yes" or "no". Besides, some of her questions were asinine. For example, healthcare is not a right.
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  15. Every nation has deaths due to lack of access to healthcare.
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  16.  @henrygustav7948  , instead they lack access to advance care.
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  17.  @scottiyoupe7824  , better outcomes how? For example, the US is superior in survival rates of advance illnesses and access to advance care.
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  18.  @mykehog6646  , in Australia up to 7000 people die a year waiting for "elective" surgery according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
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  19.  @scottiyoupe7824  , sure, the poor get treatment. But the very sick suffer with longer wait times for advance care. That is why people die waiting for "elective" heart surgery in Canada.
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  20.  @henrygustav7948  , they do.
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  21.  @ugeofaltron5003  , how is that book misguided?
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  22.  @henrygustav7948  , life expectancy drops in a lot of nations. For example, from 2012 to 2013 Iceland's life expectancy drop. Many factors play a role.
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  23.  @ykalon  , from 2012 to 2013 it drop in Iceland. From 2014 to 2015 it dropped in Sweden.
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  24.    , why are you afraid of facts and logic?
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  25.    , but we have more access to that care. That is my point. For example, we offer more MRIs and CT scans per capita. So most can afford it. In nations like France they cap how much care one receives which is why private options popped up in France.
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  26.  @henrygustav7948  , if you look at the average life expectancy it is 71±7 years. The US is one standard deviation over the average. At that point any difference between the US and those other nations is impacted by many factors. For example, if you remove car accidents and murders the US is number 1 in life expectancy.
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  27.  @henrygustav7948  , using one indicator, that involves many variables, to make an argument on healthcare is very weak.
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  28.  @henrygustav7948  , how does a for profit system not take care of my basic need? I see it working for my basic needs. Also, define "basic needs".
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  29.  @henrygustav7948  , internet is very free from government and look at how strong it is. Issues like healthcare, education and housing have strong government involvement and thus have high prices. Government, with the student loan program, caused tuition to be high. Government, with medicare and medicaid, cause healthcare prices to sky rocket. We have an obesity problem in the US. We have don't have hungry people as an issue. Homeless is a problem of mental health where the federal government has a large hand in that after the passage of the Community Mental Health Act.
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  30.  @henrygustav7948  , a Fed jobs guarantee will create more problems. Anyone can create jobs, creating wealth is harder. You can create jobs by outlawing the tractor is you want, but now we have less food. Simply saying "create jobs" is a far too simple solution as the market will most likely not demand such jobs and thus wealth is not created.
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  31.  @scottiyoupe7824  , define "elective surgery". Some issues like heart and neurosurgery are elective and even when considered elective major issues still come up. Read the paper entitled "A messy reality: an analysis of New Zealand's elective surgery scoring system via media sources, 2000–2006" Where they write " Research has also considered the impact of waiting on patients, with findings that those awaiting necessary treatments often face considerable costs. These may be financial if the ability to work is affected and if there is a need to pay for additional care and therapeutics while awaiting treatment. Costs for the health system may arise if patients are not treated in a timely manner and develop more serious conditions or co-morbidities as a consequence of waiting. There may also be quality-of-life impacts, as well as impacts on family or caregivers" Just because it is listed as "elective" does not mean it really is and also does not mean it can't cause major damage to the patient. So saying they can just wait is a poor argument. "There are to many reasons to name as to why those people died waiting. " I agree, and the same goes for the US system. In the book "Being Mortal" the author writes people seek out modern medicine to live another 5 or 10 years but may live only 5 or 10 months. The issue is that healthcare is very complex. The talking points on the far left show they don't realize that and feel that we can just offer healthcare to all and you get a utopia situation. However, universal healthcare systems have just as many flaws. On "elective" care it is very challenging to determine what is elective and what isn't. That is why research continues to be done on it. You say I should read facts when I appear to be the only one on this comment section that is.
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  32.  @TheNathanielDurand  , it is true, read the paper entitled "True versus reported waiting times for valvular aortic stenosis surgery" But who needs facts?
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  33.  @ykalon  , in the US it is around 1 or 2 years as well.
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  34.  @henrygustav7948  , I do care about others. But you don't seem to care about others. That is a problem with the far left. They claim to care about others but refuse to understand other people's situation. You don't understand my situation and if I were to tell you my situation you will say to stop crying. The far left are hypocrites.
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  35.  @henrygustav7948  not much of a rebuttal
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  36.  @henrygustav7948  there is always going to be unemployment due to friction
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  37.  @henrygustav7948  , the market does address that unemployment. Around 3.5% is the frictional level. Also, again, jobs do not mean wealth creation. Asking people to dig holes in the desert are jobs, but does it create wealth?
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  38.  @scottiyoupe7824  , M4A will make a major difference, both good and bad. But after all the dust settle everything suggest we won't be better off in the end. And if so not by much. The major problem with M4A is how it is being pushed right now. It is being pushed on complete misinformation and deception. You claim you are trying to teach me something when I am the one constantly pointing to studies and experts saying the flaws of universal healthcare systems. First off, healthcare is not a right. Rights in this nation are there to limit government and let people have control of government. Such as free speech, you can say what you want without fear of oppression of government. Right to bear arms allows you to defend yourself from an oppressive government. Next, the harsh reality is this. No matter what the system someone has to suffer, period. Yes, a universal healthcare system does give some sort of access to all for very basic care. But it caps that to where advance testing is very limited. Again, that is why people die in other nations waiting for "elective" care. Thus the very sick suffer. In the US system they very sick have a ton of access to advance care. However, the very poor suffer with limited access. However, as Prof. Katherine Baicker pointed out, bad health is associated with being poor. Thus they are sick due to poor lifestyle choices. So even if you give those poor access to care, are they better off? The same can be said about the very sick. In the book "Being Mortal" the author writes how people seek out modern medicine to live another 5 or 10 years, but will really live only 5 or 10 months. So in both cases is it worth giving healthcare to those people? Maybe M4A is the best system, but those pushing it are not saying the whole story. This is a difficult topic because it involves life or death and the far left doesn't want to discuss it. That is why you simply dismiss me as opposed to have an actual conversation.
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  39.  @henrygustav7948  , the U6 is low as well. But unemployment can be too low and cause problems. Read the article entitled "Effects of low unemployment rates on businesses." From WGU. Yes, around 3.5% is friction and is arguably too low. That friction is simply temporary unemployment. There is plenty of work to do, especially in the private sector. However, they are skilled jobs were we lack skilled workers. And again, creating jobs is easy. Creating wealth is harder. Just making government jobs does not mean they are necessary.
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  40.  @ugeofaltron5003  , I didn't ignore you. I didn't see you respond. What is wrong with that book? You have to give me details on how the data is wrong. Simply saying it is doesn't make it true.
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  41.  @scottiyoupe7824  , except I am the one posting studies.
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  42.  @ugeofaltron5003  , Aaron Carroll is not an economist. He doesn't study the same filed as Ohsfeldt and Schneider.
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  43.  @henrygustav7948  , WW2 the entire world demanded our goods and services. There lies the difference. Also, the war prevent FDR from doing destructive things to the economy (like create worthless jobs). Full unemployment is impossible.
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  44.  @henrygustav7948  , again, there was a demand for our services. There lies the difference. You can't just create jobs, there has to be a demand for it. With the federal government that usually comes from foreign affairs. What the US was doing at that time was within the design of this nation which is why the economy got better. Foreign nations demanded our goods and services so we provided. The Federal Reserve is private. What you are saying about federal taxes is incoherent and wrong.
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  45.  @henrygustav7948  , you struggle with economics. You have no clue what the Federal Reserve is or does. The US government does not have freedom to create their own money supply.
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  46.  @henrygustav7948  , the Federal Reserve, which is a private entity, controls the money supply. Not the federal government. Even if the federal government prints money the money supply is still controlled by the Fed. I suggest you study economics more.
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  47.  @henrygustav7948  , Congress does not have the power to mandate full employment. Plus, full employment is not possible.
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  48.  @henrygustav7948  , also, still waiting for a peer reviewed study on MMT.
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  49.  @henrygustav7948  , I can't take you seriously if you don't know how our monetary system works.
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  50.  @ugeofaltron5003  , you claimed he was an economists when he clearly isn't. Also, I rather listen to experts on the issue. How did they lie? I need details. Also, you can have an opinion on issue even though you are not an expert, but you should admit that you are not an expert. Carroll does not do that. I do. I am willing to admit that I am not an expert on many things, but I point to experts and welcome any counter arguments from experts. You calling them "two retards" says a lot. Atlas is a professor at Stanford. How about you apply there.
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