Comments by "Ōkami-san" (@mweibleii) on "David Pakman Show" channel.

  1. RizenLink Here's what I found from your link: LINK #1: Koch Industries Inc. Awarded at least $16.5 million from 11 grants in 3 states. AND? This is 'evidence' that Koch Industries are 'stealing the wealth' from the bottom 99%?!? LINK #2: The US military bought $35 million worth of guns/hardware from Koch Ind in 2011. AND? Just WHERE and from WHOM do you suppose the US Military buy their hardware?!? Koch Industries pays tax on $115 BILLION in revenue. They employ thousands and thousands of Americans and pay ALSO their income tax/labor tax as part of their wage. So, here we have a company turning over $115 BILLION a year and paying hundreds of millions in taxes and you provided a couple links that shows the STATE awards  Koch industries a few tens of millions in contract. You do understand that given the State took that money FROM Koch industries it's akin to Koch Industries paying the State to make hardware FOR the State FOR FREE. The State doesn't actually DO or MAKE anything. It's steals. That's all it did when we had a King and that's ALL it does NOW. AND worse, you have the gall to claim THIS is the KOCH Brothers fault? It's the KOCH brothers fault that the STATE STEALS YOUR MONEY (and THEIRS) and after taking a hefty cut, gives a small amount back to their industries?!? Give me a break. You live in La La Land. Want to see REAL theft from the bottom 99% take a look at the US Dept of Education/Propaganda - they spend/waste $50 BILLION DOLLARS EVERY SINGLE YEAR. What did 'we' buy? An actual DECREASE in scholastic outcomes! Worse still, Public Education teaches children to be obedient to the State! Exactly the opposite of what the principles are that this country was founded on! Yet, do you notice this? DO you know who runs the USDE? Nope. You just buy into this bullshit cartoon like story about the big bad Koch Brothers. A story only a Public Educated Idiot would be so simple minded enough to believe in. All while the State steals TRILLIONS and TRILLIONS and sells TRILLIONS of debt on your future labor. Yeah, keep blaming the Koch Brothers while the State robs us blind. David's just a leech on the side of the State selling stories for children. Sadly, the State turned you into are one of those children.
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  2. Sweden already has 150+ no-go zones. Anyway, I don't care. I'm just stating my opinion. In a way, I thank Europe, they can stand as an example of what not to do. Particularly in another two decades when the 3 million refugees have brought over their families and had their 3 children. Bye bye Europe. You're done for. But your example will not long be forgetten here in monocultureal Japan. In that much I personally thank you.
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  3. MrDragon1968 Well now you're just being petulant. So, I'll summarize: Sweden and Germany are done for. Let me clarify, what I mean, and this is more easily evident in Sweden, is that soon they'll be like your beloved London. Which I am sure is normal to you, and any other Londoner. See, what you think of as "normal", including living near areas of England where the majority of people are not ethnic British, areas where you would not be welcomed, areas where you'd possibly be mugged at night, robbed maybe beat-up for being the wrong type of person in the wrong part of town. Possibly the wrong color and/or religion. Well, believe it or not, that's not normal. I've been to London a few times. There are areas in and around that are not safe. We both agree to at least this much. See, that isn't actually normal. It's also not "vibrant". Public housing filled with second generation immigrants is not vibrant. It doesn't attract the best. It actually repels the best. Here in Japan, and most of E. Asians, such places are non existent. The very idea people would be okay living like that, is unfathomable here. Unthinkable. Unwanted. I only mention this as a comparison so that it's clear it's possible to live without such areas. And guess what? The Swedish don't want their cities to be like London in that respect. They're just too naive and too complient and have had it too good for too long that they climbed up their own arses. They think they're getting interesting foods, and music and exotic people. Which is fine. They're also going to get generational welfare ghettos, drugs, rapes, murder and millions of people with a backwards bronze age superstitious belief. Just like the places aforementioned in London. They're getting cities with no-go zones just like the rest of Western Nations have. But they didn't have to. They're not here in Asia. You could walk in any area of any city, even mega cities like Tokyo, night or day without a single worry in the world. In many cities you can hold a table by placing your phone on it. It's normal for 7 year olds to walk to the train station alone and ride it into the city to attend school. No supervision, no need to have any. THAT is what I meant by done for. Sweden was once like that. London OTOH is already gone in the respect. No one would let their 7 year old walk unaccompanied in many areas if London. Which is why it's a pointless comparison. You've already normalized to stepping past the beggars. But that isn't normal. A lesson the Swedish can learn the hard way. I really don't see how we even have an argument here. More like a difference in aesthetics.
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  4. LOL Trump is up in the polls across all segments.
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  5. Bush was a loser as well.
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  6. "Constitutional fetishes" - what a jerk off. No wonder David spent the first half of his video with one long ad hominem instead of presenting an actual argument. He's no different, none, from Faux News outlets.  As for the internet, there is ZERO evidence that Comcast or ANY of the ISP ever purposely slowed the internet. People like David have made companies and new careers out of a FREE internet. But, with free markets (like the internet) comes competition and so people like David would love to see regulations used to reduce that competition. As he's already running a successful business, it'd be easy for him to meet any licencing requirements the FCC may require. Thus, when the FCC does start 'regulating' the internet using State licencing fees, State purchased FCC log-on IDs, etc... (which they will) this greatly benefits people like David who are already in this market. Of course David sees the US Constitution as some antiquated waste of toilet paper. Progressive Liberals like him want to see us all living in a hyper-regulated police State. Lucky for the Progressive Liberals, this is exactly what the USA has turned into.
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  7. Xenthoid haha.... who was that masked caped crusader? :) I suppose because I've lived in a few different countries, I can sort of see past the bullshit a bit better than some. Most people don't realize just how much of their world view is shaped by group think. Like David here, his wold view seems to align closely to his home country - who's economy is totally collapsing (yet again) thanks in large part to the very progressive socialist ideas David is proposing and probably WHY he left in the first place? The second answer is more complex, I study logic and science. I understand the difference between deduction and induction. If the words: modus ponens or modus tollens are totally foreign, then perhaps google them and give rational thought a go? If so, let me know how it goes. 
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  8. AJ Beamish Actually, it's government grants that are driving up the costs of education. Not the other way around. In essence, putting generations of students into a lifetime of debt. If government didn't offer these over the top grants, then most universities would have to reduce their tuition and focus on delivering value and not a lot of these 'extras' that are never going to give you a job. A real example would be hiring 'huggers' to encourage students to stay in university (and take more loans) instead of failing students and focusing on giving teachers more resources.
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  9. AJ Beamish If you think life in England is so good, emigrate. I promise you, the working poor in England are locked in their class more tightly than working poor in the USA. That said, you are correct that many American universities have shifted from teaching how to think, towards what to recall. This is true. Why did this happen? Probably because of a few reasons. a) Factories didn't need thinkers, it needed workers. Thus, schools taught children to sit in rows and raise their hand to pee. Essentially, children were taught to become workers. If you look back to the 1800s, when people had to actually know something or starve, when you had to know how to read BEFORE you could enter school, then schools taught children how to think. Of course, most of these were private. b) The administration you blames is made of teachers c) the politicians you blame, basically follow what teacher unions tell them to do - except the few brave that are pushing for chartered schools (often ex-teachers who go into politics).
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  10. This is the Police State needed to redistribute the Fiat paper from the richest 1% (whom the State David worships just bailed out) to the poorest 20%.  Welcome to the ugly underbelly of Progressive Socialism.  Incidentally, since Nazi was used in the video, it stands for Germans's then progressive National Socialist Party.
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  11. The Pauls make this case: The State has the legal obligation to initiate force against innocent Citizens of the State through the State's representative government. An example of this would be the so-called Drug Wars where an innocent adult who grew some weed in his/back yard and gasp smoked it is put in a rape-cage by the militant arm of the State. This is an example of how the State, and only the State, has this legal obligation to enact the will of the people even when such will it to initiate force against innocent people who had the misfortune of being born in the same geopolitical location. This is why the State's government was originally limited.  As for Law, AFAIK The Pauls make this case: laws that protect property and against fraud are fundamental to society. As opposed to regulations which actually protect industries - from us suing them. Limited liability is to protect them from being sued by us when are harmed by them. They can say they met the regulations and that reduces their exposure to litigation. Which is fair enough. It'd be impossible to run a business when the general public is so sue happy. We all remembered when McDonald's was sued for hot coffee. I mean, come on. That's bullshit.  Not that any of this matters. We all know the voting public are barely literate morons. Most don't even know their basic civil rights as citizens. Which is fine TTYTT. Thank the Gods I don't have to have too much contact with them. They're revolting. So long as the general public keeps paying their income tax I'm fine with them voting in whomever the hell they like. If anything we need to raise their income taxes a bit higher and rewrite some of the US Constitution - amending the amendments. The voting public can't expect us in government to do everything on a shoestring budget. We need more money and they need to start paying their fair share. Also, I'm not sure if shows like Davids here should necessarily be legal. They sort of stir up the lower classes - whom, we agreed, are morons. Best to leave the news for the State approved outlets and let those of us in the Public Service do the thinking. I mean, we actually understand what needs to be done - not David or other 'alternative' news like Alex Jones. They're all just a side show nuisance for the idiot class. The sooner we eliminate unapproved news outlets by restricting their speech the better the lower class general public will be served by those of us in power positions to take care of them properly. 
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  12. Grant Exploit So, in your opinion, the meaning of human existence is to toil in an unneeded job? How about this? Creating new stories, new forms of entertainment, spending time with family and friends, visiting new places, trying new foods, etc.... 
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  13. Terry Kuek So your argument is we should limit our access to more resources because 'money'? Producing LESS of things and LESS efficiently is going to make us MORE prosperous because 'money'? Money is a tool. For the most part it's an abstract concept used to measure subjective value. Iron ore on the other hand is a real thing. Pulling it out of the ground using efficient machines makes us MORE prosperous.  Think of it like this, if jobs and money are what's important, then just send all these people into open pits and let them dig the iron ore out of the ground with their bare hands. I mean, think of all the 'money' you could spend on them! Think of all the 'jobs' that would create! Not much iron ore, but my Gods there would be a ton of money spent on useless jobs. I don't disagree we have a problem with money. Making things less efficient isn't going to solve that problem. 
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  14. Terry Kuek Also, as machine replace humans things we want to buy become cheaper, which means less money needed. Imagine buying a new car for $500 instead of $50,000. As an example. Or buying a weeks groceries for $2 instead of $200. That's the natural cycle in a free market. We of course live in progressive socialists States with central banks that sell T bonds and drive the price of things up at 2 - 4% per year. We don't really have "Capitalists" more like "Debtists". You can thank the Progressive Socialists for giving us our monetary system. 
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  15. israel blasczak You're not making any sense. No one is going to ship goods around in a truck (on autopilot or otherwise) unless people buy those goods. This is one of the things you don't get, our money is a fiat currency controlled by the State for the good of the Banks that make it. In a world where trucks drive themselves, a new PS4 would cost around $50 dollars. A decade later, a PS5 would cost $5. And eventually a PS6 would cost $0.50 cents. But that would require free people, free markets and real money. We NEED money, real money, to replace our fiat currency. But doing that would return the power to the people - real power. Not the power to vote for bullshit, or to labor 50 hours a week / work, but the power to trade. Once protected by the US Constitution - since long taken away by the State. If you're me, have an IQ nearly 140, life is pretty good. But if not, then you should support free markets. Because otherwise, people like me will always out compete you. ONLY freedom and sound money can bring prosperity to the most people. Most people in my position - they'd never think or wish such a thing to occur. I do though. I'll quit my job and go open a school for children in a few years in a different country. Because I find value in that. Anyway, if you think driverless trucks, and 3D printers, and nearly free solar energy (all of which will eliminate 100s of millions of jobs) will make our lives LESS prosperous - you are wrong. The only thing they might make us is sedimentary, sloth, maybe uninspired and self-centered. Small minded. Which is what we already are. Or most of us anyway.
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  16. Rathelm MC  Yes, we surely do not live in a free-market (which is to say, we are not free people). Free markets meant that other Americans were legally allowed to purchase cars and trucks made by other humans (say, Japanese). I see no problem with this. Why should it be legal for people living in MI to force the rest of the USA to purchase overly priced low quality cars? What gives people like my father the right to turn the State's security apparatus against those who 'dare' to trade freely with one another? I personally think it was undesirable that my father, through the UAW, was able to secure such prosperity while leaving his children in a desolation. Like many of my generation, we Gen-X/Y enjoyed a life of welfare in white-trash trailer parks surrounded by single mothers who drank and smoked while our 20-something fathers partied like it was 1979 (which it was).  So, again, private unions (UAW) may or may not be undesirable. In a free market, I think they are moral groups. Public unions OTOH are immoral groups. Being composed of the same 'type' of middle class as my father isn't their problem - what makes them immoral is their legal access to the State's security apparatus. Unlike UAW, public unions carry the power of the State with them - they literally have the power over life and death to ensure they can take as much from the next generations as is physically possible. Their union members are even worse than the private unions members - if you can believe that. Having never had to produce value for pay, they wouldn't understand what it even means. At least with a private company, at one time, long ago, in its founding - was someone who knew how to produce value. Over time this culture is lost. Private institutions rarely, if ever, start with such individuals. The opposite actually. I know, I've worked at high levels in both. IMO the same fate of GM awaits the rest of the USA, and for very similar reasons. 
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  17. Darca1n That's a fallacious argument. Catastrophic health insurance was cheaper BEFORE ObamaCare. 1) If someone had something worth losing, they could afford catastrophic health insurance as some polices were a few hundred dollars a year. Less than most people spend on coffee.  2) If they had no money, they are still treated by emergency. In short, you're crapping out your mouth hole again with post-hoc confirmation biases to fulfill your wishful thinking that everyone can have everything and no one has to pay the price. ObamaCare is not about catastrophes. It's about forcing Millennial to pay for their Baby Generation grandparents healthcare needs. This means their Grandparents had good cheap insurance, jobs, and opportunities, and the Millennials have just been handed the bills.  
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  18. Isn't it interesting that for all of our history, even during the depression (caused by the Central Bank) we never had mass starvation. Now, in 2014, we actually would have mass starvation thanks to 40 years of Progressive government 'services'.  As for needing as many calories per dollar - bullshit. The poor WANT to eat cheap fastfood, therefor those shops thrive in Government slum projects. It's INSANE to pretend the poor are so stupid they don't know they should buy fresh chicken and vegetables and rice. Jesus F-ing Christ, do Progressives actually believe the poor are this f*cking stupid!?
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  19. karl john What's wrong with anime? It's an aesthetic and is irrelevant to any argument that I should make. 
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  20. Most Chinese support the Communist Party. Just as most Americans supported GW Bush's War on Terror. Just as most people support the Federal Reserve and Big Government. - Most people are Cattle.
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  21. David doesn't seem to know what the difference between the words "Evidence" versus "Proof". Not to mention, there are good and bad evidence. Blood at crime of scene may equal good evidence. Hearsay is bad evidence. They're both types of evidence.
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  22. whyamimrpink78 The State (federal or local) has no business interfering with adults personal relationships. That it does says something. 
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  23. Of course he LOVES a minimum wage increase, as he can economize the extra cost across his chain stores. A minimum wage increase means he'll able to put more small competitors (who lack the advantage chain-store franchises have to economize costs and can ONLY compete on wage costs) are taken OUT of business. AND thus, to the cheer of the Social Progressives America continues to homogenize into one big chain-store franchise poo smear across the "Land of the Free" where mom and pop / competition is 'regulated' out of business leaving our Public Schooled cogs "free" to work as a cog at their nearest Chain-Store Franchise. Of course, as the minimum wage cost is passed through to the customers - the poorest are left with an even lower standard of living. Yippie for Keynesian Demagoguery! Hitlary 2016!!!
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  24. It's the same bs they all say. Regardless, stop focusing on wives and kids and etc..... all that matters is what the bullshitting politicians say.
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  25. For the 5 generations of Americans on welfare, we do live in a post-work society. Sure, some others of us have to work 40+ hours a week to do it. Which is to be expected.
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  26. Still reporting this fake news I see. What next? Fake WMD?
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  27. ***** Again, looks like a case of ZERO evidence - just like the ZERO evidence of WMD. Oh, and just like then, the CIA was 'pretty certain' they existed (seeing as in the CIA sold them to Saddam in the first place). So, until I see actual EVIDENCE - then this is merely more fake news from a fake news caster faking it on YouTube. Not to mention, it's already known that the DNC wasn't hacked, it was a pissed off employee who LEAKED the corruption of the DNC because he/she/they were pissed over how Bernie Sanders was being cheated out of the nomination by a corrupt Hillary Inc.
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  28. If you had some actual evidence, you'd present it. You don't, because you're a faker.
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  29. I live in Australia, I can promise you, this is a slanted view of Australia. The firs thing to notice, BOTH he and his wife work. This is a MUST to get by in Australia. The AU government gives vouchers to put your infant in "daycare" beginning at 6 weeks! And you'll probably need to do that because you will be paying out the arse for everything you buy. Take the price in the USA, double it. Prices in AU are at least 40% higher. Most young Australians can not afford a home - and many never will own one. It's normal to see adults sharing house to make rent and bills.  Most Aussies will tell you this is not the lucky country any longer. Healthcare is NOT 'free' and the levy is going to go up again this year. Public hospitals are NOT where you want to go for anything serious. They're training grounds for surgeons on their way to private practise. Do NOT go to a public hospital for anything serious if you can manage not to. The AU economy is built on a fake housing bubble, minerals being sold hand over fist to China (who is also buying up a LOT of land and property in AU) and the massive immigration (1/4 - 1/3 are from overseas, mainly Asia) and the cities are showing the wear and tear. I've been mugged  at knife point downtown Hyde Park in Sydney. Expect to see homeless begging just like any major city - particularly around Central Station.  Pubic schools are next to useless - unless you want to be a waiter. Inflation is ungodly out of control. Private school cost $20-25,000 a year and this is a a MUST if you want your child to have a decent education. Anyway, David and his simplistic view of the world again where the magic government takes care of everything. IF it were THAT easy, then all multinational countries would follow Australia's example. They don't because it doesn't work. AU is a resource rich country like KSA, Kuwait or UAE. Almost any idiot can run it and there's still enough money to go around - but, those times are coming to an end. Life in AU is tough. Which is why we can't wait to leave.
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  30. EssentialPedagogy They're educated to take standardized tests. Much like pretty much everyone else in the world.  Ask 10 graduates log base 10 of 1000. Most can't answer because they don't remember as they never really 'learned' it. They learned how to take standardized tests but has no longer term memory. They've memorized a bunch of facts that they'll promptly forget as soon as they leave school. Believe me, conversation in Australia isn't exactly known for being highbrow.  "I like me sports, mate". Is where most Aussies are coming in at.
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  31. ***** I am Australian and I've probably lived in more areas of the country than you. I've lived in Canberra, Brisbane and Sydney as well as visited just about every corner of the country.  It used to be a lovely country - it's now a superficial consumerist crap-hole like everywhere else. I've also lived in Asia and the USA and I speak more than one language. Oh, and I'm a doctor. So, if you think you know something - good for you. Keep thinking that.
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  32. ***** Well, we'll see. I'd be more than happy to find a job somewhere other than Westfield's infested here. As far as I'm concerned this country was very nice, but it is going straight into the shitter. If you're poor and looking for a place to suck off the dole, this is the country for you. You'll do better than most places. But, if you actually want to work hard and get ahead and make something of yourself - best to go elsewhere.
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  33. EssentialPedagogy Abbott? I'm sure he won't be any better or worse than the last two idiots. The PM doesn't actually "do" anything other than babble and raise taxes. So, I expect he'll raise taxes even higher. You know  for all the babyboomers 'free' healthcare. Jesus, this country is a walking heart attack, everyone is as fat as your typical Yank. This means LESS money for schools and universities (the Universities are some of the most underfunded in the western world - hence all the skilled migrant visas).  There is no free anything. Someone, somewhere, has to pay. We have subsidized healthcare, therefore people don't eat or exercise enough, therefore public healthcare is burdened by cardiovascular disease, thus schools and universities has to go with less. 
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  34. ***** Firstly, YOU being born in Australia is an accident of birth. Luck. You'r apparent 'love of country' is mindless. If you were born in some other country you'd be crapping on about how great that country is. I OTOH have lived in many countries across the world in both the West and the East. Secondly, yes, it is true that unemployment is low - for now. This is going to change. Australia can not compete, GM is leaving (as an example). I means AU is left with doing three things (1) selling off minerals, produce and resources (2) selling citizenship to Asians (3) propping up the fake housing market.  Australians have more personal debt than Americans. The living-standard is dropping and will continue to drop. Expect less government services and more taxes. 
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  35. ***** As for you thinking I'm 'fake' or otherwise. Well, you can think whatever you like. As I work in healthcare field, I understand the system from the inside out. I won't bother with the statistics, but I'll tell you this much: if you can buy private insurance - do it. However, due to your childlike petulant reply I will delete any further comments from you without being read. IOWs don't bother replying to this comment - you'll be wasting your time, I will not read it.
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  36. I'm not sure why you propose this is a 'conundrum'? If wages are going down and productivity is going up, then items being sold are simply sold for less - or not sold at all. As an example, see your smart phone. You get much more for the same, or less money, compared with 10 years ago. A second example could be (where I live) avocados. They used to be expensive, now there's more sellers and the price is less - the price to pick avocados has in relative terms gone down due to inflation.  There seems to be this mantra that we 'need' 2% inflation - as if most Americans care about saving 2% annually. Hell, many have CC with 18-25% annual interest.  IMO the reason why we have low paying, low quality jobs is because of our educational system. With 1 in 5 Americans functionally illiterate, the massive amount of regulations required to be met to open a business, the restriction on wage regardless of business, and the unsound fiat currency we use - why would anyone want to open a business? It's just too much of a hassle - just get a high paying job with security and benefits in Government. 
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  37. LTrotsky 21st Century My apologizes, but as soon as I read 'you have a child's view' I stopped reading. While this may have formed an ad hominem illogical fallacy (at best) why bother continuing to read and find out? My guess is you don't know how to form an argument, so I'll not further waste my time. Have a nice weekend.
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  38. Persuasive Barrier haha... 
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  39. ybrix101 Yes, he did grab her. Which, as  you will find, was legal. As a matter of fact, given she was harassing a presidential nominee, he actually acting in HER self-defense. Why? Because if she had continued, and one of the federally funded official guards decided to, he could legally level her to the floor. In that way, by Lewandowski physically moving her back (as she and all the reporters were instructed to do) he may have saved her from serious harm. Of course the MSM never tells anyone this, and also our crap Public Schools are so shit most Americans have no idea what is and is not legal. So, we'll wait for the case and then watch as she loses. We know she'll lose, because Trump has a policy of never, ever, paying out. He always goes to trial. Who knows? Maybe she'll be the one charged? Particularly given she showed bruises on her wrist as 'evidence' when the tape shows she was grabbed on the upper arm. Not to mention she has a history of making false claims for attention and was fired from her job for exactly these reasons. 
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  40. bigraviolees LOL Spoken like a true Democratic Socialist. Speaking of which, it's fantastic to see you guys finally coming out of the closet and showing your true colors.  For other examples from history see: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the National Socialist German Workers' Party. Nothing new here with your comment. As a matter of fact, it's actually the statuesque with Democratic Socialists. 
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  41. Persuasive Barrier What are you complainging about? The NSDAP is a historical example of Democratic Socialism. So is the USSR. But, perhaps you'd prefer an example from modern times? How about The Korean Social Democratic Party? Or, how about that Socialist Utopia Sweden? LOL
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  42. Gabriel Moline What are you on about? The best way to raise wages is to reduce labor supply. This means reducing regulations and making it easier to open more businesses. You may raise wages to 15, but if a person cannot produce over 15 dollars in profit (actually more to cover other expenses) then they will NOT be hired. Which is why fastfood is replaces people with machines - this will continue. No one is a 'slave' who agrees to work. So called Chinese 'slave labor' is making Chinese rich and lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty. Lastly, your idea of making money off the sweat of others is asinine. Some people sell coffee, other sell cars and others sell labor. Again, NO ONE is going to buy a coffee, car or LABOR unless they get value out of the purchase. And in the case of labor, they must be able to produce MORE value, then they are being paid or they will not be paid. It's that simple.
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  43. Gabriel Moline Singapore doesn't have a minimum wage, either do most highly paid European nations - because it doesn't make sense. What makes sense are private unions, low regulations and competition. But, anyway, watch as prices rise and inflation eliminate the artificial wage gains while machines continue to eliminate more and more low end jobs.
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  44. Courtney L If she earns $42, 000 then she is worth that much. This means she generates more than $42,000 worth of value to her employer. That said, 42K will not buy you much in some countries, in AU for example, where a small 2 bedroom cost nearly 400,000. But, as I said, with unions and competition, the price of labor goes up. Which is the real price, not a contrived price. As for me, I'm a doctor. But I have worked in restaurants when I was at University - these jobs were meant to be transition jobs to higher paid skilled jobs. I won't blame Obama for the mess that is our supposed 'free' markets. That blame sits squarely on the shoulders of Americans. The real reason why there are no good jobs, is because government regulations have made it less valuable to create jobs in the USA. I for one, plan to leave the USA an open a business in Asia. This means that the value I produce (service) as well as the jobs and skills and training will all be in Asia. Again, not Obama's fault on this one. But a fact nonetheless. Look at China, how sad, freer than the USA. Or Japan. Or Korea. All freer in terms of markets as well as civil liberties. Yes, it's sad, but true. Oh well.
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  45. Emery Kennedy What does Trump have to do with anything? He's not going to change the system - that's not what politicians do. People create value, not politicians. They just attempt to steal it for redistribution. Well, we can see how that is working out for us.
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  46. And the implosion continues..... almost daily now. Can't wait to see a solid 8 years of Trump gains do a head-spin on what's left of the Progressive movement.
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  47. Red Firefly hahahahaha.... I can still go back and correct a typo, you OTOH are going to live a decade minimum of Trump's policies. :-))))
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  48. Jennifer Hunter 1) You agree we don't really have 'competition' in healthcare? It's not like you're going to go out and provide a healthcare good or service in a 'free' market. The market is highly regulated. 2) Under a 'fixed' price system you can still have surgeons suggest (in their 'professional' opinion) you need a surgery that you do not need. The only solution in today's market is a second and third opinion. A doctor is of course taking a HUGE risk suggesting a surgery you do not need. Incidentally, this DID happen to me with my dentist. That ass would say I have a cavity (sometimes 5) and drill and fill. I finally moved a different area and magically never had a cavity again. 3) The same can be said of all complex products. The solution is a free market. We don't live in a free market, we don't live in a free society. We live in a highly regulated tax farm. We now work harder and longer and are taxed more and have less civil liberties than our forefathers - and even less than peons of 500 years ago. With a free market priced come down due to competition and quality goes up. The AMA has ensured we do not have a free market. One example would be midwives. OBGYN were complaining about midwives taking away their business. The AMA, through JAMA stated they would run a study with the goal of showing that midwifery was 'dangerous' to women. This is how crony capitalism works. Unfortunately for the AMA, they found the opposite was true! You're safer delivering with a midwife. THIS is the LAST time the AMA ever tried running a scientific study, from here on out they only do hit peaces. I actually train MDs. I know how the system works. I know how screwed up it is, from the ground up. I'll tell you right now, there is no 'fixing' it. It's impossible to fix. There's too much money and power involved. The only solution is a free market. Allow free people to choose the goods and services that they want and to spend their money where they want to. This is the ONLY way the healthcare in the US (and AU) will be fixed. 
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  49. Dan Mac 1) I live in a country that provides public healthcare. 2) I work in the healthcare field. 3) I am a doctor. 4) I train doctors. 5) I see the medical profession from the ground up. It's much worse than you probably believe it is.  We need free market competition in ALL aspects of medical and healthcare goods and services. You simply would not believe how poor the entire system is.  You talk about 'all other advanced nations have public healthcare'. Yes, this is true. Why don't you compare Public Housing in the USA with Japan and Germany. Notice any difference? Why don't you compare Public Schooling in the USA with Korea or Finland? and etc....  I'm not sure if you live in the USA or not. But get this, if you do, you are LESS free compared to these other places. They generally have a freer market - including in healthcare. The USA has more healthcare regulations than any other nation in the world. The solution is a free market. Which isn't to say a free for all. We need to reduce the role of government in all aspects of society including healthcare - but also education. With a free society, based on sound money, we will produce healthcare goods and services (including insurance) that are high quality and low price.  The Government cannot fix this problem. It will only make the problem worse. There's too much money and power involved. The people who work in the Government, the ones you want to fix the problem - are purposely causing healthcare to BE a problem. There is NO fix coming from Government. Just watch, in 5 years you'll be paying more and getting less. In 10 years you'll be normalized to paying a lot more and not expecting much AND you'll be paying out of pocket for anything non-essential. In 25 years, public healthcare will look like public housing and be as useless as a public "high" school degree.  From my experience, and I have quite a bit of it, this is my prediction. It's not that I don't wish we could pray to the magic thing called "Government" and have It fix everything - it's that it cannot and will not. I also WANT everyone to have good cheap high quality healthcare (and education etc...). The only solution is a free society with free people providing goods and services in competition. Exactly the opposite of our society. Lastly, YES I'd be more than happy for you and your mates to provide public security through a security company.  If you can do the job and cost less - why not? If you don't live up to your end of the contract, out you go and let another company try to compete. The worse service is public police. I mean, they sit on the god damn side of the road funnelling cars by the 100s over to a catchment area just to give tickets to make up for what they can't steal in taxes. It's f*cking sickening. They do this in AU and the USA and I've even seen them in Japan now. Anyway, you'll see.  
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  50. Jennifer Hunter Firstly, we both agree we want the most affordable healthcare for the most people at a high quality. Secondly, do we both agree we do not have any free markets in the USA (or AU or Japan etc...)? All markets, including healthcare, are highly regulate. In my opinion healthcare is just one example of many aspects of a society in decline due to loss of freedom (and now personal privacy). The solution is more freedom, not less. More.  If we want to turn this society around we need to return to the free market. We simply do not know what the free market would produce. Perhaps insurance will improve so that they are the Goliath that will fight in behalf of the David. Or maybe it'll be cooperative friendly societies where doctors are paid as long as people stay healthy and pay when people get sick. Or many programs like IBM's Watson will change the information access?  We simply cannot know. It's been my experience that, in AU, private practice is of higher quality than public. Of course it cost a lot more - the ONLY way I see the price coming down while at the same time retaining the quality is competition. If the government regulated the price - then private would be as poor quality as public.
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