Democrat's major messaging problem with their government shutdown temper tantrum.... its all for foreigners

On that note it's funny how things are done in other countries.... Like free education, free healthcare, and free housing,,,... Wonder how they could afford to do all that, granted individuals live in apartment type community dwellings.. still crazy stuff.

I have a pretty good theory on the point you raised. At least I think it's a pretty good theory. 🤪

Our govt, especially the dems, are very good at taxing and collecting money. What they're not good at is spending it.

They do the initial, easy work of identifying the problem, then in true, wasteful libtard fashion, they don't do anything to ensure the money they throw at the problem actually goes to what it's intended for. This allows them to use things like USAID as a giant slush fund, so naturally the dems are quite happy with that arrangement.

These other countries you're referring to are likely the Nordic countries who are super liberal. Not socialist by any stretch, just way far to the left. It's been a while since I did research into their tax rates, but they are very oppressive. Even by our liberal standards.

The difference, imo, is that these countries, unlike our leaders here, do not spend money like drunken frat boys with daddy's Amex card. These countries spend the money they take from their citizens wisely, because they are accountable to them, unlike our politicians here.

If we take Norway as an example, they're sitting on nearly $2 TRILLION (in US dollars) worth of oil fueled revenue for their pension fund. If they were to divide that up among their citizens, it would be about $340K per person. And all the while they're banning ICE vehicles in their country. The hypocrisy is off the scale.

One final point to make is scale. Maybe the Nordic countries systems would work in a small state here in the US (I nominate Minn. to be the guinea pig...) but certainly not when scaled up to a big state like Taxifornia, and absolutely not when scaled up for a country the size of ours.

If a politician came out with an approach to handle the scaling problem, I'd be very interested to hear their ideas. But just throwing good money out the window and convincing ourselves that we're the good guys because we allocate money to solve problems (that never get solved) as our politicians do, is not even close to the answer. We're deluding ourselves to the fact that we've just crossed the next $TRILLION threshold and are now $38 TRILLION in debt, which even an ill-informed dem should realize is not sustainable.

A: Health is a human right
B: Oh, the homophobic people on imageflip
C: This is all bullshit

A. Health care (not health... good grief...) is not a human right. No human right can require the time and labor of others.

Besides, why would any doctor want to sign up to be a govt healthcare provider? It would limit their income and likely increase their workload a great deal. Libs don't understand achieving excellence, so they're more than happy to take the fruits of an individual's excellence and use it for one of their wasteful govt spending scams, like single payer healthcare.

B. I can see why you think that way, but you should peel away the onion layer just a bit to look at the root of what those folks are mostly saying. The religious folks hate the act, not the person. Or so they say. Others are like me, and I don't care one bit if a person is homosexual. The one thing about this, that the left has gotten all rolled up into the issue, is the crap like drag queens in kids' story time, etc. The left would find much more tolerance out of the right, imo, if they could just leave the kids out of it.

C. If the water is a little too deep for you here on the mighty imgflip in the politics stream, maybe consider switching over to one of the many humor streams available? That should, hopefully, ease the overload of your bullshit detector.

A: health IS healthcare, did that never cross your tiny conservative brain, and do you really think that people shouldn't have health, yes cos you support Israel.

B: Kids should be taught that diversity is completely okay, kids shouldn't be taught that LGBTQIA+ is different and thus get different treatment, they should be taught they are equal and normal.

C: I meant that its lies, not that that I find it... honestly I don't get the argument you are trying to put across.

P.S that was my alt acc.