Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Thinkers Forum" channel.

@aneurindavies5943 Runaway government spending is not a feature of capitalism. It's a feature of socialism and its fascist cousin.
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I understand everything you're saying, but nobody listens to me. They all want their free stuff, and think this sort of nonsense can go on forever.
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@danielhutchinson6604 The USA is pretty self-sufficient in resources. So is Russia. We don't NEED to be imperialists and our people don't WANT to be imperialists.
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I'll have to listen to the end, but it sounds like he's proposing socialism as economically superior to free-market capitalism. The failures of the U.S. system are not due to free-market capitalism. They're due to crony capitalism, which is just another way of saying fascist economics.
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@DragonYang01 The U.S. hasn't yet started just printing money. It sells bonds, which are basically promissory notes, which keep the illusion going a bit longer.
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How about each nation look to itself for leadership that wants peace and trade.
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@kko-punch7059 China is rife with corruption. The only thing that makes China even a little bit competitive with the USA is the USA's departure from free markets and limited government.
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9/11 ushered in the surveillance and brazen censorship state. Meanwhile, the Internet made it a lot harder to hide their shenanigans, because it was no longer a matter of getting the Party Line pushed on legacy media (who've been in the bag since WW II, at least) and being done with it. Now there are critical voices with viewerships surpassing the viewership and readership of legacy media. There are still a lot of people who just watch the boob tube in the traditional way. These people still believe Donald Trump works for Putin, mRNA vaccines are safe and effective, and that anyone who criticizes the establishment is a right-wing radical white supremacist. This caricature world view still persists on dying legacy media and the U.S. Government still behaves as though legacy media represent the will of the people, which they do NOT. I think the old ways of manufacturing consent are being used to the fullest extent possible, but legacy means are waning. Too many people at home and around the world see through what's being done for the benefit of a very small group of people who consider themselves elite, but the only thing elite is their bank accounts. And 90% of the rest of the world is sick and tired of their destructive, greedy and corrupt ways.
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@GlobalDrifter1000 Ronald Reagan actually put us on a trajectory to balance budget 7 or 8 years after he left office. He understood that the only way out was to revitalize the economy. The Laffer Curve is real. You don't tax your way out of debt. Unfortunately, after maybe a year or two of balanced budgets, spending started accelerating far beyond the growth of revenues. Wars abroad, but also the welfare state. Before you think I'm a Reagan fan, I'm not. He was an FDR Democrat, who was just as in love with the power of government as FDR was.
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