Posted September 02, 2013
Also in the United States, there is no free market anymore. If you don't believe me, look at the thousands upon thousands of pages of rules and regulations that exist on the federal level alone and how the federal government used the backing of subprime loans to buy votes only to result in the financial crisis of 2008 and the current on-going recession. There were already enough basic criminal justice laws against fraud and false advertising along with over 10,000 pages of banking regulations along with enough enforcers in the federal government to enforce them and yet the incident still happened.
If you really believe Keynesian policies save economies, let me remind you that the only thing that ended the Great Depression in the United States was World War 2 and the aftermath that followed. Historians even acknowledge that Franklin D. Roosevelt's economic policies failed in terms of ending the Depression and that the only reason there was a decrease in business failures was because there were less businesses around later in his time in office to fail.
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Oh please, tell me which historians. Other than cato institute hacks that start with the conclusion "the new deal failed" and go from there. You know why WW2 finalized the Depression?
Massive, massive state investment and infrastructure. Not free enterprises
Look at the US presidential election of 2012. Obama's policies were left-wing-leaning despite what liberals you were talking to in the US, Mexico, or the internet. Obama's policies included worse versions of Bush's policies and let me remind you George W. Bush was not this big conservative statesman that people thought he was going to be. Both Obama and Bush blew too much money on federal bureaucracy and they both did next to nothing to reign in on federal overreach. The big difference was that Bush was more fiscally conservative and actually helped end the original recession by enabling small business owners to reinvest more into domestically-made capital goods and domestic labor and let me remind you that most small businesses do NOT get the same tax protections as most corporations. That means that the profits before taxes generated by those businesses get treated by the IRS as the owners' personal taxable income even though the majority of those net incomes have to get reinvested back into the businesses.
As for policies that reek of left wing scandal, Obama was the one who gave out, through his attorney general Eric Holder and the BATFE, thousands of rifles, shotguns, and handguns to the drug cartels of your country who already had strong connections with corrupt law enforcement and military personnel that led to them getting heavily armed in the first place. Obama and Holder then tried to cover up the incident, Operation Fast and Furious, by blaming private civilian gun owners in the United States and the "Ma and Pa" gun shops until BATFE whistleblowers revealed the cover up. Bush never allowed the BATFE to send thousands of government-owned rifles, shotguns, and handguns over the Mexican-American border. That was Obama.
Also, there was the Solyndra scandal and the other scandals involving the so-called "green energy" companies in which the administration gave out over a billion dollars total in faulty loans in the name of "green energy" resulting in the companies' leaderships giving themselves huge bonuses and then declaring bankruptcy. That was fraud but they got away with it because those executives happen to be big pro-Obama donors. Then there was the Benghazi cover-up scandal.
Also what the HELL does Benghazi got to do with green energy? And what cover-up? Hell if anything, from what I've read, that also falls on the Republicans even if they have been pushing the meme of Obama letting them die, they refused to increase the budget for "lesser" embassies. You are throwing every single possible argument out there in hopes that they won't be answered to, but damn.
Seriously, what coverup?
Despite all of these scandals, crimes, and economic fallacies; the left wing in the United States re-elected Obama just because they wanted the government to force someone else at gunpoint to pay for their unnecessary abortions, their contraceptives even though condoms are quite cheap, and their cellphones. They acted as if you were against taxpayer subsidies for Planned Parenthood, then you were automatically against all abortions including rape-related and medically necessary ones. Also, they believed in the myth of "free universal" healthcare despite governmental delays and denial in essential medical procedures in other countries like the UK and Canada or the fact that Obamacare adds over 100 new federal bureaucracies to an already overly expensive centralized government or the fact that Obamacare includes an employer-health mandate that was inconsiderate to any smaller business that already provided decent coverage for employees and that was basically designed to involuntarily switch employees to lesser health plans because the fines are cheaper than the upgrade when combined with a downgrade.
"Unnecessary abortions", unnecessary according to who? You really think that abortion is used as a "casual" contraceptive? Again, your lack of perspective is staggering. The "cellphones" dig, that is continaution of a PROGRAM STARTED BY REAGAN. "They acted as if you were against taxpayer subsidies for Planned Parenthood, then you were automatically against all abortions including rape-related and medically necessary ones." That is because nine times out of ten, it is an attack on that. Limiting them, adding hurdles, diminishing and defunding clinics, that's the end game. ". Also, they believed in the myth of "free universal" healthcare despite governmental delays and denial in essential medical procedures in other countries like the UK and Canada ". Better to wait for care than to not be given care due to not having a billion dollars. Obviously exagerating, but the waiting times in places with socialized healthcare exist, but there are things called "triage" and "prioritizing urgent care", not "rushing just the ones that can pay".
The United States of America pays far more for medicine per capita than every single other country, and the average care is far worse. Sure, the ultra-high-end of medical care IS the best money can buy, but it is what MONEY CAN BUY.
As for Obamacare, yeah, no one defends that as a good thing. It is a BETTER thing since it expands coverage, but it is basically the Republican healthcare proposal of the 90's. Seriously. It was written by and for insurance industry lobbyists, since the option for socialized/single payer health care was not even on the table.
