Quote: (10-25-2013 06:38 AM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
Quote: (10-25-2013 06:33 AM)iknowexactly Wrote:
Quote: (10-25-2013 05:37 AM)Flint Wrote:
Quote: (10-25-2013 05:18 AM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
Amazing in all the leftist countries and as the western world goes more leftist, the gap between the rich and poor only grows.
I look forward to see the evidence that corroborates your claim.
In the past decades, the UK and the US have introduced the most neoliberal economic policies in the West. Welfare state benefits, too, have been reduced (and no, Obamacare is not gonna change the overall trend) and these two countries have much wider income gaps than "socialist" Scandinavia.
McCarthy-ite intellects don't need evidence.Nor are they capable of integrating it when presented.
To me the amazing thing is how our unseen owners dictate the terms of the debate-- I've never seen a wealth distribution chart on a major media TV show.
The lucky thing is most very wealthy people are very intelligent (and can count lol) and don't want to move further towards third-world wealth disparity levels-- see Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.
Warren Buffett "There's a class war all right, and it's our class-the rich--that's winning."
I am not a far right thinker in the least. But socialist economies simply do not work. They cannot work. They fight against human nature.
Warren Buffett was out there parroting Obama's failed economic ideas. Why? Because it makes him more money.
If Warren Buffett truly wanted to fix the wealth gap, he would push for less govt. regulations that destroy small and medium sized businesses and give large corporations and the elite wealthy an unfair advantage.
The problem with many Americans is that you regard every alternative type of market economy that does not adhere to the free market ideology as the dawn of Soviet-style socialism. In fact, there are many different ideas of how you can balance an essentially capitalist economy with sound social policies (social market economy). Denmark, for example, has a very extensive welfare state yet it ranks higher in the Heritage Economic Freedom Index than the US: http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
Believing that fixing the wealth gap by simply lifting regulations and cutting taxes is downright naive and historically ignorant. If you can give an example of how radical free market policies actually created more social equality, let me know.
The definition of human nature is debatable.