Comments by "C_R_O_M__________" (@C_R_O_M________) on "They Say Scandinavia But They Mean Venezuela | 5 Minute Video" video.

@acortes7771 propaganda is a tool and creation of the left. Go read who first invented and implemented it. Hint: the National Socialists got it from them....
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@hafk1n anyone who thinks that others formulate political opinions JUST from YT videos is hopeless too.
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Greece’s socialism bankrupted our country and destroyed business and industries.
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@gemmahudack6182 there’s nothing free! They pay dearly in taxes and that’s why they don’t have innovative industry and big corporations. Scandinavian countries would have nothing without US innovation. Imagine their healthcare system stripped from all American technology. They wouldn’t have most medical devices and machinery, most drugs and vaccines, nothing. Why is it so? I wonder! You are most likely a young individuals that sees the world through immature eyes. You know nothing lad. Those figures you mentioned may be so but not because America’s capitalism is to blame. It’s because the US government interferes TOO much with healthcare and insurance companies. Ever wondered why in the US you can’t “shop around” for healthcare? For how many surgical procedures and hospitalization schemes do you see a price quota beforehand? (a rhetorical question of course). That’s the government’s fault and you want even more government in that mix! Figures! BTW I live in a country with the system you’d want to see in the US and it’s horrendous. I also lived in the UK and the US. If I was to save my skin I’d choose the US any day of the week! That’s when you want exquisite healthcare, in an emergency, not for a guide on how to swallow an aspirin. Everything that’s worth here where I am currently (Greece), is of the free market and we do have great and affordable healthcare services from private practitioners that compete with each other for the best value-for-money services. We have probably the cheapest and best dentists, orthopedists, GPs, on the planet and the worst or one of the worst public healthcare systems. What the government touches it turns into manure (all countries) . “If governments were in charge of the Sahara it would soon be in shortage of sand!”.
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@erikg5776 sometimes when the government takes away too much people under it will try to take some of it back - hence the many people that get welfare and don't REALLY need it. I agree with you overall. High taxation and especially VAT which is the most sweeping tax that predominantly affects lower incomes (because if I am a millionaire I can afford to pay +25% VAT for milk and bread everyday - not so if I am at the lowest income bracket), is a way to establish an undemocratic statism that, if needed, is extremely difficult to uproot. That's the sneaky way of statism to corrupt democracy because if you vote in benefits and state controlled services, good luck voting them out in the future with all vested interests behind it!
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@wanimations7488 I don't think you understand how much capitalist that version of Democratic socialism (which is an oxymoronic term btw - socialism is, by definition, antidemocratic) really is.
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@zwiebelface185 I am sorry but you are wrong. When Andreas Papandreou got elected he changed everything (back in the early 80s) to be run by the State. His simple but effective recipe : “give people free stuff and when the bill reaches them I’ll be long gone!”. It worked but the bill IS here. Before him, Greece’s debt was way below 100% of GDP which is a sustainable figure. Papandreou was the leader of the socialist party of Greece. Unfortunately he affected the whole society AND politics with the socialist virus and subsequent governments offered just another variety of Papandreou’s recipe. Same results of course. You’ll have to get a bit older and/or wiser to get to where I am now (having lived all that!). Consider how undemocratic is socialism when you get to vote in something that gives you short-term benefits (you and your generation of voters) while depriving future voters of more options. When for example you vote in a universal healthcare system it’s there to stay. It’s essentially impossible to vote out if it proves to be a disaster (which it always is) because of the vested interests behind the system (bureaucrats, workers, some citizens that free-ride on others’ contributions, etc). Historically, a State never got to willingly shrunk itself. Never! Only wars and destruction have managed to do that and that says a lot! Don’t vote in things that will deprive more personal options for future voters. That is egotistical and undemocratic.
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@snyder1171 because if you do the socialists would go berserk . In many ways they are more capitalist than the US.
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@gemmahudack6182 if there’s one thing that does not work well in Scandinavia that’s their healthcare. You get in to an advanced age and you are treated like shit because you are considered a burden for society. Their education, at least in Sweden, is based on a voucher system that is an idea of ...........guess who ............not a socialist, but Milton Friedman himself.
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@gemmahudack6182 listen! I am not even going to spend time to read your nonsense. Ylou know it all? Try it an weep! I am talking from a bankrupted country right now. N Bankrupted because idiots like you voted in something that's extremely difficult to vote out once vested interests settled in. BE MY GUEST! TRY THE FREE MEAL ROUTE!
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