Government run "anything"......

rickyb

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That's when you disregard facts.
no you might be right, i forgot. i had great stuff in that pension cut page. it would make sense with automation and lower unionization rates that the pension doesnt work, not saying thats the problem.
 

rickyb

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Co-ops exist outside the capitalist system? How do they sell the goods and services they provide? I'm still interested in what yours will be. If you hate working for someone, and co-ops are the answer, you should start one.
they exist within it obviously just like capitalism existed alongside feudalism.
 

rickyb

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rickyb

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so the government made adult education course fees free now for me.

my thoughts now are:
-i dont worry about the cost (it wasnt that much before anyways, maybe a few hundred).
-im more likely to take the course again until i am happy with the grade i got
-i already quit one course to start it again at a different school...so i am more free to choose in that sense.

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in norway the government covers plane tickets for people who live in remote areas that need to see a specialist. this frees people to live where they like without having to worry about costs.
 

rickyb

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“I’ve always opposed trade deals not because I oppose trade,” Saul said, “or because I thought they were about getting a fair balance in the trade, but because the trade deals were about something else. They were about deregulation. They were about handing power to corporations and banks. They weren’t about trade. Trump has again and again attacked the Canadian dairy system. Nobody has stopped to ask him, ‘Why are you opposing this instead of adopting it for yourself?’ A lot of American dairy farmers would like to have the Canadian system.”

“The free market approach to agriculture produces a surplus that drives prices down and destroys the income of farmers,” Saul said. “There are two ways of responding to this. One of them is subsidizing. Europe, following the old social democratic approach, subsidizes their agricultural sector. This drives down the income of farmers, so [the governments] subsidize [agriculture] more. They have enormous surpluses. Periodically, they’re throwing millions of tomatoes on the streets.”

“The United States claims it embraces the free market, but it does the same thing as the Europeans,” Saul said. “It too heavily subsidizes the agricultural industry. This leads to American dairy farmers producing too much milk. This economic argument says the way to win is to mass-produce cheap goods. This is the Walmart argument. You’re not selling your milk or cheese for enough to make a living. The end result is, even though you subsidize them, the farmers go bankrupt. They commit suicide. You have terrible unhappiness in the [U.S.] dairy community.”

“We have a very efficient management system in Canada that keeps the prices up, not so high that working-class people can’t buy milk and cheese, but it keeps the prices up high enough that farmers can make a proper living,” Saul said. “Because farmers can make a proper living they’re not committing suicide. What Trump is saying to Canadians is that they should give up a system that works so Canadian farmers can commit suicide with American farmers.”

“The problem with the Western world is surplus production,” Saul said. “We’re in surplus production in almost every area. But there is a terrible distribution system where people around the globe suffer and die from starvation. This is a distribution problem, not a production problem.”

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rickyb

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so where im from, the government run healthcare is better than the american system.

whats bad is the government car insurance. im paying $1800 a year, my toyota hatchback is 10 years old. and this is with maximum discount. its a tax. plus the government insurance company itself is awful.
 

floridays

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so where im from, the government run healthcare is better than the american system.

whats bad is the government car insurance. im paying $1800 a year, my toyota hatchback is 10 years old. and this is with maximum discount. its a tax. plus the government insurance company itself is awful.
Please supply your driving record.
I was under the impression you loved taxes to provide for the collective good anyway.
 

El Correcto

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so where im from, the government run healthcare is better than the american system.

whats bad is the government car insurance. im paying $1800 a year, my toyota hatchback is 10 years old. and this is with maximum discount. its a tax. plus the government insurance company itself is awful.
Your health insurance is garbage and so is your country.

Have a good day Ricky.
 
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