Comments by "Jake Johnson" (@ElectronFieldPulse) on "USAF is rushing NGAD's drone fighter jets into service" video.

@patclark2186 - But that is the thing, focusing on growing business yields long term results. Government does not produce, it takes from the productive sector. If you focus on taking, your potential for growth shrinks and shrinks. Eventually you enter a death spiral. Not to mention, the demographics simply don’t exist to carry a heavy welfare state. Europe is already having to raise the retirement age everywhere, and it still isn’t enough to make their programs solvent. It is much easier to create welfare programs than take them away, even when you desperately need to cut back for the good of the nation. People get used to free stuff and they will not listen to reason if it needs cut. This is a recipe for disaster, especially given the demographic time bomb in Western countries. I am not against government help when it is absolutely needed. But it quickly spirals out of control when politicians want votes. Taxes are very high in Europe and they tax the lower class quite a lot. The bottom 50 percent of workers in the US effectively pay no income tax, where in many countries in Europe they would be paying 35+ percent of their paychecks to tax, sometimes a lot more than that. Like I said, it is not a good long term solution, and I think Americans will come around to that as they see Europe’s economy continue to fall behind the US. Pretty soon the different will be very noticeable, and no amount of welfare will gloss over this fact. Targeted and limited welfare which isn’t easily exploitable and actually incentivizes people to work is the optimal solution. Sometimes, proper incentives look cruel if you compare things to Europe. Another thing is that many European countries Americans idolize are tiny, Sweden for example. They are or were very homogenous as well. Since Sweden has seen a surge in immigrants they have modified their welfare program because it was being exploited by people from a different culture which had no intention of giving back to society. Welfare policies need to be examined individually, being libertarian or socialist is just lazy thinking. Yet, if logic is used, the policies will lean towards less government. People are fickle, so they very well may vote for economic decline and a welfare state in the US, but it would be a massive, massive mistake.
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@patclark2186 - You should look at the productivity and recent performance of those economies. Their welfare heavy approach has crippled their growth. Europe is basically an afterthought in tech now. Not to forget institutions like the NHS are crumbling. Like everyone predicted, government controlled healthcare is not good at adapting quickly and improving. Government is slow and inefficient. There is no reason on earth we should emulate that. For healthcare, a mix of private and public is best, but the public should be kept to a minimum, and the government certainly shouldn’t be running the hospitals . Americans have such a distorted view of Europe, they would sacrifice our entire economy so they could get some free stuff
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@WeAllLaughDownHere-ne2ou - DEI should 100 percent be criticized. It is ironically actual systemic racism, some people just don’t mind because it targets the right groups according to them. It should be scrapped entirely
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@nikitatarsov5172 - Spacex just launched a successful test of starship today. They live-streamed the whole thing with help of starlink as before it wasn’t possible. Spacex is also profitable and not a money sink. What are you even talking about?
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