Comments by "Marcus W" (@Mawyou) on "Nightly News Full Broadcast - October 3rd" video.

And yet when we try to fix these issues, half the country screams "Socialism". Somehow public interest became a bad thing that supposedly makes people lazy.
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@Alis_Grave_Nil No that's actually not true. No one is forcing anyone to take any help they don't want. It's just that 40 percent of America feels like they need something to be against.....something to be upset about. They need something or someone to be angry at since they don't have ideas of their own for fixing these problems. Complaining about other people's solutions but never coming up with their own.
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@truth-dickhead3306 Everything you said is factually wrong. The people of the US still have the highest income per capita. The only differences with Norway are they have better childhood education (college there is free btw) and people in Norway are happier (clearly money isn't everything).
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@nancyreichenbach2938 Not correct. The United States does still have the largest economy. China is catching up (they have a lot more people who can contribute to the economy)....but they have not caught us yet. Check the numbers, it's literally public info.
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@nancyreichenbach2938 Check the GDP numbers. China's GDP (the usual measure of the size of a country's economy) is $14.7 trillion. The US has a GDP of $21 trillion. The numbers don't lie. China has NOT caught up to us yet. Not to mention the fact that the average person's income in China is a fraction of what it is in the US. However, China's economy probably will truly pass ours within 5 years. But they also have 4x the population we do. So it's hard to compete with that. Not to mention that they actually spend a lot of money on stuff to grow their economy. In the US, we are always looking for ways to not spend money on stuff. But then we get mad that China is catching us.
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@truth-dickhead3306 That may be true. But the reason those countries are like that is because they are the #socialist countries that half the country is so afraid of. We always talk about how other countries are surpassing us in different areas...but we refuse to copy how they got there because "WE AMERICAN PATRIOTS HATE GOVERNMENT, TAXES, AND SOCIALISM". Lol. When you don't find a happy balance between capitalism and socialism, you end up with extreme wealth inequality like we have here.
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@truth-dickhead3306 It's funny because all your complaints have to do with how capitalist we are and how our politicians are paid off by big business. It sounds like you prefer the "more government" control approach, but you just don't like our government because our politicians are being paid off. I forgot, but which of the two parties was it that is most focused on making it easier for big business to pay off politicians by making big secret campaign donations? 🤔 And which party keeps trying to pass laws to get big money out of politics but they keep being blocked by the other party? 🧐
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@nancyreichenbach2938 Well stop waiting for stuff to be fed to you and go look it up on the proper databases. That's what we were supposed to have learned how to do in school. If you are getting your news from Facebook, cable TV, or niche YouTube channels, thats your fault. Reliable information should be boring, not exciting or anger-provocing.
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@truth-dickhead3306 First of all, Russia has not been a socialist (actually communist) country for 30 years. So you're off there. Second of all, you bring up Cuba and Venezuela as the two other "bad" socialist countries, but you ignore the 20+ socialist countries in Europe (like Germany, Luxembourg, the UK, France, Switzerland, and Sweden...also Canada) that have not failed. Cherrypicking statistics to spread fear AKA disinformation.
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@nancyreichenbach2938 It's because you were putting out false information without checking your facts. Just because you heard something somewhere that fits what you want to believe doesn't make it true. Americans always fall for the exciting headline instead of just doing a Google search to see if it's true.
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@truth-dickhead3306 Bro, you keep sending mixed signals like you don't really know what you want. Once again, you literally just told me you would prefer live under the European model. I'm glad we can agree that socialism is not completely bad. Because the European model is LITERALLY what Bernie Sanders wanted to do. But I'd be willing to bet $100 you didn't vote for Bernie Sanders. And in all those European countries we mentioned, he would be considered a conservative. Why not actually vote for what you keep saying you want? Honestly you seem to be more content to have something to complain about rather than vote for actual solutions to those problems. It's insane bro. You sound super conflicted and confused like you kinda like socialism but people around you keep telling you that you're supposed to hate it.
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Increasing interest rates too fast will destroy the value of stocks and most existing bonds. It's a one-two gut punch to the entire stock market and that will also slow economic growth. High inflation mixed with slow economic growth is a no-man's-land we need to avoid at all costs. So the Fed needs to be VERY careful about how they handle interest rates. Especially given the fact that delta-Covid could do quite a number on the economy as winter comes again.
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