Several years ago there was a clinic that decided they were going to offer a subscription service that would cover all of the services they offered along with all of your prescriptions. They charged $75 per patient.
The insurance companies sued them claiming they had become insurance providers. Because the insurance companies have tons of money and all sorts of friends in the government, they won their lawsuit. The clinic offered a compromise and said they would charge extra for prescriptions. The insurance companies didn't like that and had the government shut that down.
In the end the free market was less free, the consumer suffered immensely and the health insurance companies and government fat cats got richer.
This is why I want the government 100% out of the way on private business. If the health insurance companies can't compete with a clinic offering a subscription then it sucks to be a health insurance company.
Bad businesses must be punished by the free market, not propped up by the government.
It's a great song. Danny Elfman is a great songwriter and movie soundtrack composer. One of the best in our time. I've always wondered if he actually believes the lyrics he wrote, when he wrote that song. He doesn't seem to be a conservative but I don't know. Regardless, he nailed that song.
Did you grow up outside of the U.S.? Because if you're claiming "abject poverty" then you didn't grow up in the U.S. You also don't seem to know what causes abject poverty. You still think socialism is all fun and games and that you can live with the same level of freedom that you currently have.
If only you could have your cake and eat it.
Name a socialist nation that you think is doing great. Don't get all Bernie Sanders on me and point to Denmark or some other Scandinavian country because they're not socialist. They're more socialist than we are but they are not socialist. Even so, perhaps you should live in one of those nations and tell me how wonderful they are. And if that is the type of government you want, you can just stay there.
I would rather you be happy in some psuedo-socialist nation than to stay here and vote for our demise as a free nation.
And you may not have been a "socialist brat" but the takeaway from those two words is that "brat" is NOT the derogatory word, "socialist" is.
The fact that you claim to have worked so hard to build 2 businesses and travel internationally and you believe in socialism means that "you've got yours and nobody else can have theirs". You want to shut the door behind you so that no matter hard someone else works they'll never achieve your success.
You win the meme of the month. But I'm just some guy on ImgFlip, I'm no one important. The only award I have to give is an upvote. Even though I can only give 1 upvote I smashed the heck out of that upvote button.
I really wish that instead of just cutting off subsidies to Obamacare for illegal aliens that they would just completely dump every single word of the Obamacare bill. Totally repeal it and any support legislation that jas been passed since the unAffordable Care Act was forced on us.
I would even go back further and repeal any legislation that benefits or harms the health insurance industry in any way.
Then everyone would be able to afford healthcare care. Let the free market and competition give us the best healthcare at the lowest cost. Keep the government out of it altogether. Competition always benefits the consumer.
It's just a pipe dream. Trump likes the idea of government run healthcare care. He may not like Obamacare but he still thinks the government should do something.
Trump's the closest president to free the market in my lifetime but he's still got a long way to go.
This meme is true of all variations of socialism, including democratic socialism and national socialism.
There's no difference at all. Those who worship at the alter of Karl Marx will point out all sorts of differences to try to make on variation sound better than the others. In the 20th century they would even kill each other over those insignificant variations. Given the chance and they'd do it in the 21st century also.
Sitting here on the right they all look identical. They're all "ideas so great they have to be forced on us".
Individual freedom, the ability to fully take care of your own needs without government interference or involvement is the best solution
"There's nothing wrong with capitalism
There's nothing wrong with free enterprise
Don't try to make me feel guilty
I'm so tired of hearing you cry
There's nothing wrong with making some profit
If you ask, I'll say it's just fine
There's nothing wrong with wanting to live nice
So tired of hearing you whine
About the revolution, bringing down the rich
When was the last time you dug a ditch, baby
If it ain't one thing, then it's the other
Any cause that crosses your path
Your heart bleeds for anyone's brother
I've got to tell you, you're a pain in the ass
You criticize with plenty of vigor
You rationalize everything that you do
With catchy phrases and heavy quotations
And everybody is crazy but you
You're just a middle class, socialist brat
From a suburban family and you never really had to work
And now you tell me that we've got to get back
To the struggling masses, whoever they are
You talk, talk, talk about suffering and pain
Your mouth is bigger than your entire brain
What the hell do you know about suffering and pain"
- Excerpt of the song, "Capitalism" by Oingo Boingo, written by Danny Elfman.
