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originally posted by: PublicOpinion
a reply to: DBCowboy
Sanders wants to make the government bigger and more powerful.
I see that myth a lot on this site. Prove it!
You had your fun with commies, SJWs and big gubbermint tales for years. There must be something tangible to debate by now?
originally posted by: PublicOpinion
a reply to: DBCowboy
Sanders wants to make the government bigger and more powerful.
I see that myth a lot on this site. Prove it!
You had your fun with commies, SJWs and big gubbermint tales for years. There must be something tangible to debate by now?
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: pexx421
Here's the problem.
Our government is corrupt.
Sanders wants to make the government bigger and more powerful.
So in essence, he wants to create even further corruption that will impact our lives.
If you want Sanders, then you'd have to believe our government is not corrupt.
If you don't think our government is corrupt, then you'd be all for growing the size and scope of government.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: pexx421
If you want the economy of the Nordic countries, why not move there? No one forces you to stay in the US? Could it be that the Nordic countries don't want you?
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: pexx421
*shakes head*
If you think government is only corrupt because of business then have a nice day.
All of that needs to be paid for.
originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: PublicOpinion
a reply to: DBCowboy
Sanders wants to make the government bigger and more powerful.
I see that myth a lot on this site. Prove it!
You had your fun with commies, SJWs and big gubbermint tales for years. There must be something tangible to debate by now?
If government takes over the health care system, then all the jobs currently performed by private health care employees suddenly become government jobs not to mention the added ones needed to form the bureaucracy to oversee the functioning of the whole system and payment structure.
Often in our government, that means layers of bureaucracies for something like that not counting the added jobs in other bureaucracies that will need to spill over into the expanded area.
And that's just a small taste of the expansion.
Bernie wants to completely finish taking over education too by co-opting all college on top of K-12 which is already pretty nearly 100% socialized meaning all the teachers, administrators, and bureaucrats are also government employees.
For every environmental program ... you're looking at new government jobs and bureaucrats. That's expansion.
All of that needs to be paid for. Not just in terms of manpower, but also in terms of material. Where do you think that comes from? It's easy to say taxes, but every time he nationalizes a new sector of the economy, the part that remains to be taxes shrinks making the base to pay even smaller meaning with either make do with less in the programs leading to eroded services and quality and possible rationing or we make do with less meaning those of us who form the tax base pay a LOT more than advertised to support the new government cancer eating away at our lives.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: pexx421
I didn't attack. I asked you an honest question.
If you don't like it here, why not move there where you claim you do like it?
My comment about them not wanting you is because very often, countries with those types of economies are very strict about their legal immigration. If you do not have the skills they need, then they will not let you in because they have to be very careful in the balancing act of their social systems or else they get overloaded.
Perhaps you've tried to emigrate and were not needed there was what I was saying. If you think that's a personal attack, it says more about what you think of yourself than anything I said about you. Whatever skills you have may not be skills they need, and sometimes, those can be very good skills indeed.
I didn't attack. I asked you an honest question.
If you don't like it here, why not move there where you claim you do like it?
originally posted by: pexx421
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: pexx421
I didn't attack. I asked you an honest question.
If you don't like it here, why not move there where you claim you do like it?
My comment about them not wanting you is because very often, countries with those types of economies are very strict about their legal immigration. If you do not have the skills they need, then they will not let you in because they have to be very careful in the balancing act of their social systems or else they get overloaded.
Perhaps you've tried to emigrate and were not needed there was what I was saying. If you think that's a personal attack, it says more about what you think of yourself than anything I said about you. Whatever skills you have may not be skills they need, and sometimes, those can be very good skills indeed.
You’re full of sht. It was a dick statement meant to be a dick statement, just like your attempted disparaging psychoanalysis of me in this post. Just be honest and engage in honest debate, don’t be a smug dick slinging sideways insults and acting innocent. And when you do, at least own it and don’t play the victim. My prepubescent kid has more balls and honesty.