Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Senator Bernie Sanders" channel.

  1.  @leiflillandt1488  Once Finland goes into partial operational capability with the F-35A fleet, it will be an unfair advantage against Russia. Finland will have the power to erase any naval vessel in the Baltic, deliver huge warheads all over the St. Petersburg and Murmansk military districts, as well as destroy the sea port at Primorsky. Any Russian Air threat can be written off as a formality in attrition, including the Su-57. Precision surface-to-surface fires can be enhanced with F-35 targeting and networked ISR. This is why FiAF chose the F-35A, as a strategic deterrent system of systems.
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  2.  @msaar1303  I have only gained several lifetimes of experiences with my velit and sisaret in Finland. I'm merely pointing out fundamental faults with Bernie Sanders' silly Soviet ideas.
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  3.  @erinh9267  I never made such a claim. I want more access to Healthcare like I used to have pre-ACA. I want to see more people work hard and gain better housing. I'm providing real education for my family. I want other parents to take responsibility for their children's education too. There's a revolution going on with education now, which is 100 years overdue.
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  4.  @msaar1303  I didn't use any translator. Äitini ei puhu minulle suomeksi.
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  5. No. He’s a massive fraud and always has been. Study his life more. He’s an opportunist who portrays himself as a Marxist, while profiting with millions, multiple real estate investments, and a cushioned lifestyle of the elite. Total sham
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  6.  @zekevarg3043  One of us has read about Bernie's history, and one hasn't. The guy is a total fraud, scamming voters for decades.
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  7. Finland’s 5.5 million up well above 60 degrees north latitude, with long winters and 188,000 lakes, sharing a massive border with Russia, does not even remotely face or solve our toughest issues in the US. Two totally different geographies, climates, genetics, cultures, living styles, languages, and basically every metric for how you would measure a nation or society. This is why any comparison between tiny Finland up on top of the earth, and the 3rd largest population in the world in the temperate zone with better coastlines than any other nation, connected river networks, huge mountain ranges, etc. doesn’t even make the least bit of sense.
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  8.  @you6382tube  Geography and climate determine culture. Policies are wishlist ideas from people who aren't educated about the core fundamentals, and spin their wheels crying about what they can't have. This isn't off in the weeds, but at the heart of the real numbers. For example: Finland has 188,000 lakes of very clean fresh water that are frozen over during the long winters. Finns are the offspring of centuries of tough people who survived each winter. The weak ones died and didn't get to reproduce until modern luxuries like indoor plumbing, electricity, and heating. Finland has access to the sea with half the border being coastline, but no mountain ranges. If you look at it in detail on a map, you will see the glacial recession finger lake topography everywhere. Now take Wisconsin with roughly the same population (5.8 million vs 5.5m Finland), a bit colder climate, partially on the Great Lakes. It has a higher GDP, more EMS and hospital infrastructure, more Life Flight Helicopters, more Doctors, nurses, pharmacies, specialty clinics, dentists, etc. Would you tell Wisconsin they should be more like Finland?
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  9.  @terriej123  So more EMS equals more sickness in your view, not more infrastructure? Median household income is dramatically higher in Wisconsin, and most people are on private insurance through their employers, with greater access to more medical/dental services. You have to ask why that system works better, after Finns are taxed so heavily for NHS. Air Ambulances are used to save lives, whether they're car accident victims, kids choking, falling injuries, poisonings, farming accidents, outdoor recreation accidents, etc. Finns don't own anywhere near as many automobiles because of the price of gas, taxes, and public transportation. Wisconsin has 860 automobiles/1000 people. Finland is unusually high in Europe at 790/1000. Germany is only 628, while Sweden is only 545.
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  10.  @terriej123  It's brutal reality when looking at people who have survived through the extreme cold climates though. Those with weak immunity, weak minds, and laziness didn't survive through the long winters over the past 12 centuries. That's one of the primary contributing factors to Finnish culture of "sisu".
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  11.  @you6382tube  Name me just one Finnish minister of Parliament who grew up out in the forest, took an extension cord from their neighbor's electricity and ran it into a root cellar, kept running for mayor and repeatedly losing until finally getting elected, then climbed up into National politics with the help of Soviet money to finance his campaigns. There's a tiny Communist Party in Finland, even after the White Nationalist Finns crushed them in the Finnish Civil War. Bernie would be a member of that party in Finland, if Finns ever let him into government at all. He likely would have been arrested in rural Finland for his antics.
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  12.  @ullasofia9432  We know social democracy doesn’t work. One of the worst principles you can adopt in government is to govern by majority-rules. If 51% of the people vote to have a specific right taken away, then it becomes law. That’s amateur-level governance and extremely bad policy. Socialism has failed in every nation that adopts it as the primary mechanism of economic and political function. None of the European "socialist democracies” are actually governed by pure socialism. I think everyone who has studied economics recognizes all systems are hybrid in nature. For starters, the most important role of the state (defense), was handled by the United States post-WWII. US force presence in Europe was gargantuan, with military bases filled with fighters, tanks, artillery, and theater ballistic missiles all over the continent. This allowed Europe to re-build, with billions of US loans and aid packages, and focus on more of a free-market economy that later evolved into an international coalition of quasi-free markets, with a shared exchange and cross-border travel agreement. I still remember Europe when you had to show passports every time you crossed a border, and couldn’t just live or work anywhere you want. Social Democracy is a very naive concept in political philosophy that doesn’t square well with market and cultural realities. Those are dictated by geography, climate, and demographics (age/male/female balance).
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  13.  @ullasofia9432  As I have looked at the metrics, I don't accept the premise that they are "happier". How does one scientifically measure happiness, for example? Sounds like a fool's errand, but trust the experts, they know! See how silly that is? And again, these "happier" countries with tiny homogenous populations that watch state-owned media, are propped-up by the US in many ways, Healthcare, industry, and defense being key pillars to their economies, while people on the US don't even realize how much they contribute to these nations.
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  14.  @ullasofia9432  YLE was started by communists. It's a propaganda arm of the state. That's central to the problem of perception vs reality.
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  15. @mnbvcxzlkjhgfdsapoiuytrewq Name me one communist-heavy country where things worked out better for the poor people.
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  16. @mnbvcxzlkjhgfdsapoiuytrewq Those were or are all failed states. I said name some successful nations that adopted communist political-economic models.
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  17. @mnbvcxzlkjhgfdsapoiuytrewq Basic needs of the people met, security, opportunity, education, and favorable trade to create economic growth. Those places failed at that. East Germany had the Stasi. You could end up in prison or lose your job for your own family members reporting you for wrong think. Venezuela is a failing state. Vietnam is in abject poverty, as is Cuba. Cuba used to be a destination vacation spot with a growing economy and mobility. Now they have gas and fuel shortages, food shortages, extreme poverty after Castro ruined it.
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  18. @mnbvcxzlkjhgfdsapoiuytrewq The Soviet economy was a disaster. It had regular food shortages, supply chain mismanagement, command economy with inefficient operations, bureaucrats galore doing nothing but scamming the system for self-benefit, while people were left out of the equation. It was a fundamentally-flawed system in every respect, and most of what allowed it to function was work-arounds and black market. During the Soviet times, they murdered 40 million of their own people, especially during the Holodomor and mass executions ordered by Stalin. China adopted trade with the West and became a hybrid communist-free market system that is collapsing before our eyes, mainly because of structural problems with their geography and demographics after 35 years of One Child Infanticide. 80 million of their own people have been murdered or starved to death before One Child. These are just some of the reasons why I wonder where people are getting their information from when they talk about the joys of communism.
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  19. @mnbvcxzlkjhgfdsapoiuytrewq Study Karl Marx’s life more and you will be ashamed you ever bought into his retardation.
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  20. @mnbvcxzlkjhgfdsapoiuytrewq There are no real poor in the US-not by global standards. If you make what people in Switzerland make, you're considered in "the poverty bracket" in the US. Median household income in the US was $70,784 in 2021.
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  21. @mnbvcxzlkjhgfdsapoiuytrewq Are you able to work? You can make $1600/day online if you’re willing to work and have a smart plan. With “low-paying” jobs in the US, you make well over $140/day. Crap jobs pay more than that.
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  22. Everything that is being told about Finland (5/5 million people), or manipulated into a message about how to do things in the US (330 million people, temperate zone, connected river networks, provides much of Finland’s defense, etc.) is erroneous and incorrectly portrayed. I have lived in Finland at various times since 1979, since my mom is from there. It’s a wonderful country if you like the cold and long, dark winters, lots of forest, 188 000 lakes, and quiet people. I would choose US healthcare over Finnish any day of the week, or use the Finnish private sector. US VA hospitals are better than Finnish hospitals, which is saying something.
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  23.  @huuppone  Another thing you will see is that infant mortality and life expectancy will always be lower in a giant sample size of a 330 million diverse population, than a 5.5 million, or 82 million, or 10 million relatively homogenous populations. That is basic statistics, nothing to do with the types of healthcare. US isn't far behind in any of those metrics either. They're all very close with minimal standard deviations and extreme spreads, with multiple variables like diet, exercise, stress, and accidents that are the prime factors, not types of healthcare systems. Finland has an extremely high ownership rate of lake cottages, for example, called kesämökit. They also have high rates of sauna bathing, which is great for your health. They are relatively healthy despite their inefficient and dated NHS, not because of it.
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  24.  @wiltzu81  Private and public insurance covers those costs in the US, and the US finances a lot of them in Finland at the same time. Finland is effectively a ghost welfare state of the US for defense and medicine.
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  25.  @leiflillandt1488  For EMS in the US, there is such a thing called Life Flight. One of the nearest Level 1 Trauma Centers near me has 2 Life Flight helicopters. They are staffed with a Flight Medic who is a Paramedic with additional life-saving skills, most of which have been pioneered in the military. You are in a far better position in the US if you live far from a Level 1 Trauma Center than in many places in Europe. Most distant or rural towns simply don't have good trauma infrastructure because it's extremely expensive, requires dedicated staff with trauma surgery training and equipment. This is reality anywhere in rural US, Canada, and Europe. That's why we have Life Flights. Finland has FinnHEMS Air Ambulance services with 5 EC135 helicopters for the whole nation. My State in the US has a much smaller population than Finland, and we have 6 Life Flight Helicopters covering roughly 65% of Finland's land area, so we have more Life Flight Helos for a smaller population over smaller area. You find this same ratio playing out when you look at costs, quality of care, and availability of care. Finland does not compare well in reality. In a political confirmation bias approach like Senator Sanders uses, it seems to have merits, but with a detailed analysis, these fall apart quite quickly.
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  26.  @ahtoapajalahti1333  Your definition of efficiency is not what we use in any services market. Efficiency means delivery of service in a timely and effective manner, where the patient is less likely to return for the same condition, at an affordable cost. It's always interesting to me how proponents of NHS focus on cost, while proponents of private care focus on quality and effective treatments.
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  27.  @rafm3068  We are repeatedly brow-beaten with claims about utopian life in Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Canada when it comes to healthcare/NHS.  So yes, these claims are very common in the public discourse in the US and must be refuted with mathematical analyses. Life expectancy is higher in Greece, Portugal, Spain, Hong Kong, Japan, Switzerland, Singapore, Australia, Iceland, South Korea, Israel, Sweden, France, Malta, Canada, Norway, Ireland, New Zealand, Netherlands, and Luxembourg when compared to Finland. Would you conclude that all of those countries have better healthcare than Finland? Some do, some don’t. United States (79.05 years), with its 335 million population, is within 3.26 years of Finland (82.31 years) for life expectancy. From a mathematical and statistical analyses position, that tells me the US has something better overall that is able to maintain such a high life expectancy over such a massive and ethnically-diverse population. The US is the only top 10 nation among the largest populations in the world with high life expectancy. Japan, with its 11th highest population, is the only other high life expectancy population of the top 60 nations in the world (that range from 73.65 - 85.16 years). None of the top 10 world populations fall within the top 60 except for the US. This is immensely-significant from a mathematical perspective. We typically see ethnic factors playing a big role in life expectancy, even when standard of living might be lower, though clean water and modern medical services do play some role that can’t be ignored. The question is, if I applied US healthcare options to Finland, would Finland’s life expectancy increase? Since there are far more specialists and healthcare options in the US, more EMS services even in States with smaller populations that Finland, I propose that Finland would benefit with higher standard of living by continuing to adopt more US healthcare options. I also would expect to see higher standard of living if more people in the US had access to summer cabins and sauna baths, but the cabin option just isn’t a reality because of population density and geography in many areas.
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  28.  @rafm3068  And yet, the US is the #1 choice destination for immigrants from around the world, including from Finland. Weird how people vote with their desired place of living, despite these arguments.
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  29.  @rafm3068  Developing nations tend to be closer to the tropics, so tribalism and low standards of education are the norm. Temps are hot, access to clean water is extremely limited, life expectancies are low, home construction often involves repurposed trash, violent revolutions are common, everything is quite versatile.  Ideas about government structure are relatively meaningless because corruption will be the norm, no matter who is helping them. The US has lifted up many of these nations since World War II, brought in more stability, plugged them into global trade, allowed free passage of their students to the US and other developed nations, and subsidized most of their economic growth. Amateurs talk about policy and forms of government. Analysts look at real data with dispassionate mathematical observations and metrics.
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  30.  @rafm3068  Now explain why a huge percentage of Finns move to the US every year. My mom immigrated to the US, as did her cousin, and multiple friends who we keep in contact with. There are places in the US with Finnish street names on the signs, like in the Upper Peninsula in Michigan. 12% of the Finnish population lives in the US. The US has so many more opportunities than Finland can every possible hope to offer. That is why my mom and her family and friends immigrated to the US. She scored the highest on the Finnish national exams and was on national TV, along with the Finnish UN ambassador’s son and one other girl. The 3 of them were the top students in Finland that year. She speaks and can write at a collegiate level in 7 different languages, which is extremely rare for Finns.
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  31.  @rafm3068  11.7% of the Finnish population lives in the US. If you're looking at this from a partisan political perspective, while ignoring the math, you're part of the problem. Fix your thinking by looking at the numbers and critical metrics.
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  32.  @hubbeli1074  My family members in Finland are taking medication developed in the US, using US private and tax revenue. Contribution from Finland towards developing those meds: $0 Same for defense. Finland invested $0 into the F/A-18C Hornet RDT&E, $0 into JSF, while US invested over $100 Billion into both programs before Finland even considered acquisition. US not only bears the costs of defense program development, but drugs and medical diagnostics too. Finland benefits without ever having invested, then purchases at bulk discount rates. This is great for Finland, while the US doesn't even notice.
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  33.  @hubbeli1074  How many millions of Central American immigrants with tuberculosis, venereal diseases, and other 3rd-world health issues do you have immigrating illegally into Finland? Finland is extremely tight on immigration compared to the US, no anchor babies allowed. Also look at demographics among the highest maternal mortality rates. You again see how ridiculous it is to draw conclusions about who has better Healthcare between a tiny 5.5 million sub-arctic glacial recession land, vs a giant economic and industrial hegemon in the Americas. Then to state any conclusions from these comparisons as validation for public policy is not only scientifically invalid, but a case study in confirmation bias.
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  34.  @rafm3068  You don't seem able to be capable of separating facts from political ideology, while calling other people's IQs into question. Time to mute your comments. They are not at an adult level.
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  35.  @hubbeli1074  I see you didn't look at the demographic break-down of infant mortality in the US. You start to see how the numbers don't add up when you look at who has healthy population growth, and who doesn't. The "developed countries" aside from the US, are in demographic decline, most entering or well into demographic winter. They are failing at replenishment rate, yet the US is worse for infant mortality....while exceeding replenishment rate and growing with a healthy younger population. You've been lied to, and lap it up without checking the data.
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  36.  @tjmtor  I've literally benefitted from advanced medical research multiple times throughout my life in the US. Where are these crazy lies coming from about how bad US Healthcare is compared to Europe and Canada?
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  37.  @rafm3068  US isn't hyper-capitalist, but a hybrid between a free market, crony-capitalism, and socialism in practice. US Medicare and Medicaid cost over $1.2 Trillion per year, taxpayer-funded. Social Security (largest expenditure in the US budget) is a gigantic socialist scheme enacted during FDR's Administration.
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  38. Sanders is a fraud who kept running for public office until idiots finally elected him mayor. He was living in a root cellar stealing electricity from his neighbors with an extension cord, but somehow he has the answers to large scale problems. Reminds me of Karl Marx. Everything is always someone else’s fault, and he’s here to distract from the fact that he offers nothing, while wanting to take from people that work harder, rather than allow them to manage charity organically. He steered this conversation away from the core realities that make Finland what it is (not a Utopia, no the happiest place), which revolve around its 188,000 lakes, forests, clean air, super clean water pumped in from the lakes, sauna bathing, quiet people, and hundreds of years of winter hardening them against the elements.
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  39.  @Warutteri  These are simply erroneous on all counts. Taxation is way too high in Finland. VAT, income, and capital gains depresses the economy and stifles Finland's potential. These stupid policies are a result of Finland's prime age male population being severely wiped out during Talvisota and Jaktosota, leaving the weaker people to pick up the pieces after the war. Look at Finnish Parliament, or any European Parliament for that matter. Shopkeepers and low T types with no spine, emotionally-driven into self-hatred and the worst legislation imaginable. Remember the Kreikkilainen bail-outs? Finnish treasury sent cash. Brits couldn't believe it, swallowed it up and sent IOUs to Greece. "This will help Finnish pensioners, not hurt them." Finnish government is a weak and pathetic joke. The presidential elections make the US races seem professional and noble.
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  40.  @Warutteri  I'm married with 5 kids, 2 of them adults (who live in Finland), and none of this is based on some internet forum. I'm talking about a dispassionate analysis of the history of Finland. Women are strong as nurturing caregivers. Strong men are valued as protectors and providers. The 2 working together in harmony to build strong family units are what makes a strong society. Finland and most of Europe have moved away from that model because such a large population of prime age males were slaughtered in The Great War, Finnish Civil War, and World War II. Look at how weak Finnish Parliament is. Look at how absent Sanna Marin is at her job-a disgrace just from a professional point of view. Who in Finnish Parliament has a spine?
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  41.  @77sailordude  You will never find someone in Russia with a command of English like mine. They don't exist. Same in Finland. We lost at least 5 close family members on my mom's side alone during Talvisota and Jatkosota. 3 of my great uncles were killed, 1 went missing, and my grandfather's younger sister, Irma, was murdered and thrown into the sea. While he was in the Finnish Army, he had to go to Helsinki to the main Lutheran Cathedral downtown and identify her body. There are 2 outbuildings on the front corners of that cathedral. Her body was in the one on the West. I have been there many times kuin olen asunut Helsingissä. Nothing I'm saying is pro-Russia. Bernie Sanders is a Russian plant within the US Senate and has been all along. Look at his travel history with them and his policy alignment with the Soviets.
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  42.  @valtter1234  Sadly, the demographic trends in industrial-scale infanticide support your statement. Finland became very weak as a society as soon as traditional family values were eroded, and worldliness was worshipped over kinship. Our grandparents wouldn't recognize the country.
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  43.  @Tespri  When you look at Finland's capital gains tax laws on real estate, it isn't very free market at all. It's very depressed through artificial pressure from the government that effectively prevents ownership from one generation to the next. The US is far more free market in that respect.
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  44.  @Tespri  Real estate is one of the top 10 industries in the US. It also would be in Finland if they didn't have real estate capital gains. You lose about 50% of your property every time you sell real estate in Finland. My grandpa bought multiple properties that the government taxed into forced sales after his death.
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  45.  @Tespri  When you scale the supply chain for real estate, you see what a huge industry it is. Since Finland suffered from negative population growth before importing Somalis, it might not seem that big. Concrete, timber, hardware, electrical, plumbing, appliances, fixtures, windows, heating, roofing, insulation, etc. start to stack up volumetrically into a multi-billion market even in tiny nations.
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  46.  @Tespri  I'm talking domestic housing with no direct foreign investment. The numbers are still in the billions to supply everything, and pay the labor. When you scale it even in Finland, it's huge.
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  47.  @msaar1303  US spends billions doing Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation on them. Finland and other nations buy drugs, equipment, and military hardware at bulk, discounted rates. For example, with the F-35A deal, it was lower cost than the Saab Gripen package. There has been over $62 Billion RDT&E put into the F-35 program, and Finland's Block 4 F-35As will have had many billion more of US money invested in them between the contract date (Dec 2021) and fulfillment period (2026-2030). Additionally, Finland negotiated a 400 unit forward fuselage assembly deal, so Finland will be getting paid billions to make huge sections of F-35s for other customers. Finnish taxpayer's bill for F-35 RDT&E: $0 Same is true for drugs, medical devices, diagnostic equipment like MRI, electronics, semiconductors, etc. Finland doesn't live in a vacuum. Finland's biggest trade partner for many decades was Russia, because Russia built its rail network into Finland in the 1860s, which is a different, wider rail base than the rest of Europe. Finland is geographically isolated from mainland Europe by the Gulf of Finland and from Scandinavia by the Gulf of Bothnia. The ground truth nuts and bolts are missing from these discussions, because politicians and media don't have the education to discuss them properly.
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  48.  @77sailordude  How much of the F/A-18 RDT&E did Finland pay for from 1977-1995? How much of the $62 billion for F-35 RDT&E did Finland pay for from 1983-2021? US private companies and DoD budget combined to pay for that. Same for JASSM, AIM-9M/X, AIM-120C7, JDAM, etc. That’s the biggest defense package Finland has ever purchased, and all of it was developed with US money that Finland never had to pay for, other than the final products. A very similar relationship exists in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostic equipment, and services. There are European-based research products as well for sure, but the US bears the weight of research and development for drugs, devices, diagnostic equipment, and processes. EU countries bundle together to purchase medical products from the US at bulk rates, while US States and hospitals get charged full retail much of the time. Even still, the services and treatments available in the US are greater in quantity and quality, even when you only compare Finland with States that have a similar population size. This should make sense to anyone who looks at the raw math, rather than listening to policy amateurs. 5.5 million people is a rounding error in the US (335 million).
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  49.  @77sailordude  Nokia developed transistors, batteries, digital screens, and injection-molding machines? No, that’s all US technology. Data burst transmission? US encrypted Radio technology I used in the military all the time way before Nokia. Engineers in Nokia took data burst RF transmission, and packed it into the cell phone (US technology), marketed it in the private sector, and did really well until allowing themselves to be bought out. This again reinforces my position that Finland benefits from US developments in defense, healthcare, telecomm, whatever. Finland is a ghost techno-vassal state of the US without any political obligations to the US, so it gets all the benefits with no sacrifice. US doesn’t know about this and doesn’t care, because again, 5.5 million people is a 1.6% rounding error.
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  50.  @zedski  By that logic, Finland would owe the US for the RDT&E. The US already paid for it. Now you want more freebies?
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