President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Sep 16
th, 2018 at 6:41pm:
SadKangaroo wrote on Sep 16
th, 2018 at 6:35pm:
Is there any opinion you hold that is your own Mech?
Clearly, you don't watch Real Time, that's far too an intellectual and fact-based piece of media for you so you won't have watched the entire segment, so you're just taking the word of a known fake news site taking quotes of his out of context then twisting his intentions to make an argument?
Bravo.
what are you even talking about yo blithering retard... ??
Venezuela is in ruins because of Socialism you forkwit ...
the end... it doesn't get any simpler than that...
your mummy should turn your computer off... special needs people don't understand the internet..
Firstly, clearly, I hit a nerve to elicit such an insulting reply. Yes, I'm a retard and I need my mummy to turn off my computer because I'm unable to use or understand the Internet.
But no matter how special I am, I can still research the facts and form my own opinions.
For you, who is told how to think (if you can call it thinking) by the like of TGP clearly isn't capable of individual thought or critical thinking, if I'm a "forkwit" and a "retard", what does that make you?
Secondly, your claims about Venezuela don't tell the full story, as usual. But this time, I'm not sure if it's because you're being deliberately misleading to try and prove a point of if you're just too lazy or ignorant to research anything you're fed from the likes of TGP to get the full story.
There are so many mistakes in your claims that I'll only focus on the most glaring ones.
The progressives who you're claiming (well not "you're claiming" we've established the "opinions" you post aren't your own and you're simply "on script") are socialists are not actually advocating for true socialism. That will never work in the US.
But Socialist style policy to help level the playing field and have equality of opportunity for all Americans, everyone should want that.
Everyone.
Yes they support spending tax dollars people pay on services that will benefit others in the community not just the taxpayers via things like Universal Healthcare and in some of the more extreme (but some would argue future proofing given the changes in the jobs sector due to better AI and automation) a universal basic income, what forgetting is this is the entire point of the tax system.
Roads, Schools, looking after Veterans etc etc, these are all forms of Socialism going by your loose definition.
But more importantly, you hold Venezuela as the inevitable outcome of Socialism.
But what about Bolivia?
Since 2006, Bolivia has been run by socialists every bit as militant as Venezuela’s. But as economists have argued, the country has experienced a spectacular run of economic growth and poverty reduction with no hint of the chaos that has plagued Venezuela.
While inflation spirals toward the thousand-per cent mark in Venezuela, in Bolivia it runs below 4 per cent a year.
Shortages of basic consumption goods - rampant in Caracas - are unheard of in La Paz. And extreme poverty - now growing fast in Venezuela - affects just 17 per cent of Bolivians now, down from 38 per cent before the socialists took over 10 years ago, even as inequality shrinks dramatically.
In the meantime, Bolivia was running budget surpluses every year between 2006 and 2014. This allowed it to draw down the public sector’s debt, which fell from 83 per cent of GDP in 2003 to just 26 per cent in 2014, even as Bolivia built up its international reserves dramatically, from $1.7 billion in 2005 to $15.1 billion at the end of the boom in 2014.
Turns out the difference between Bolivia and Venezuela has nothing to do with abstract ideological labels, and everything to do with fiscal prudence.
It also doesn't help that Venezuela is a dictatorship.
Socialism isn't the big bad evil you're claiming it to be. It's not a death sentence for a country, quite the contrary.
The reason you have all these bad things to say about Socialism is because that's the official attack line against the Dems for the Midterms.
You clearly don't even understand the issue, hence your petty personal attacks.
Again, you're not thinking for yourself and just repeating the lines you've been fed. You've demonstrated a glaring inability to comprehend the facts if you are even trying.
We might as well just replace you were with an auto-posting RSS bot just posting TGP blogs.
I won't bother insulting you as you've done me, the truth about you is far more shameful and insulting than any lame name calling.