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@Conservatron1 a pee can is what you keep under your bed.

I'm sorry brother but that barely classifies as a desert. Lol.

@alterboogie Before the aca i used Harris county hospital system and got great care a week of heart scans and all my type 1:diabetes meds. There is universal access and far better per capita care for premies, cancer, heart disease, stroke, and transplant. More spending power from paycheck.

@alterboogie If you compare u.s. median income against any other countries system you'd be shocked at the " deduction" amounts even after including the premium. They get no refund as well. I wouldn't switch and ive been at every income level except the top braket. Transplat included.

You would rather your taxpayer dollars went towards a decorative pool that you could get arrested for touching… Instead of school lunches, supporting elderly, disabled, and housing, free education, etc. We are the ONLY country in the World Cup WITHOUT universal free healthcare

@tonyannett "stats"

@tonyannett Look up the states per capita on cancer, heart, stroke, transplant intervention in the us vs europe and see what the big life events entail.

I don’t think this is it at all. The US spends twice the OECD average (in % of GDP) because it does not regulate prices. And the outcomes are worse because a large number remain uninsured and underinsured.

@tonyannett I got most of the laser surgery written off by the doc. Social security covered dialysis ( to save blue cross) and me. Im retired early with a decent savings after returning to college and being a professional for 15 years saving every penny. Where ? Harris county texas.

@UrmstonMeadows @DanielPriestley @jimthegiant Ah, our texas grid is kept competitive. Power providers compete for the contract. Line operators can only charge a tiny usage on top and all companies. They have a strict label they must all post on a website. Powertochoose. When i was a kid it was a regulated monopoly. HLP

@wdcinvstr @DanielPriestley @jimthegiant USA is totally different from Great Britain. I don't know the history of your power supply, I'm guessing it's always been private? Our systems were built and paid for by the Govt. then sold off cheaply to private companies who now rape it for profit. It was an obscene act.

They NEVER understand the actual arguement. Our state is inefficient because of the structure of our state is. It runs through layers and layers of private firms that extort us. This needs to be restructured, the state needs to expand its internal capacity to build and manage things without having to subcontract to dodgy companies in foreign tax havens. We are not just saying we need more money, we need a full restructure of ownership in this country. Taxing the rich stops giving the same rich people more wealth so that they lobby politican's to not restructure the state.

@22carrionl @RockChartrand If the janitor starts a business against the odds and wins, doesn't he deserve his wealth like Ronald Reed ?

@22carrionl @RockChartrand I'm not ATTRIBUTING the value. You and i find it useful so its IS valuable. He drives up the value of the drivers buy hiring them off the market ? Janitors are needed but almost anyone can do it so the supply and demand for janitors is less than doctors.

The socialist regards society much as a child regards supper: he notices with great precision who received the largest slice, while remaining curiously uninterested in who rose at dawn to bake the thing. Socialists always imagine themselves at the table, never in the kitchen.

@22carrionl @RockChartrand Next your going to say actors didn't make the theatre, and singers didn't make the music hall. But who created the value. You can make mud pies all day or apple pies. Some labor, different value.

@22carrionl @RockChartrand Yes, they gathered the ingredients , spent all their time on it worked on it for years, agreed to hire people who agreed to work for a fair salary, and walked away from their own easier path. Bezos worked a lot for a lot of years. Last i checked he was worth 15% of amazon.

@DaleJansse77267 @DanielPriestley All kinds of cheap phones. Right down the line. Until its too hard to turn a profit and stay in business. Diamonds and cubics are the prime example of supply and demand smith couldn't understand at the time. People will pay you for an apple pie but not a mud pie. Same labor.

@DanielPriestley #5 is demonstrably proven untrue if a vendor chooses to withhold supply or offer like products with fewer capabilities at a lower price point. Working examples are collectables, diamonds and phones.

About 250 years ago a quirky moral philosopher named Adam Smith discovered a chain of logic whereby the selfish desires of man would result in widespread prosperity. It’s one of the greatest discoveries of all time. Here’s how it goes… 1.Selfish desire seeks wealth, status, security. No virtue required. This is the raw material, as unpromising as it sounds. 2. In a market with property rights, you can’t take, you must trade. Theft and fraud are policed, so the only legal route to someone else’s money is offering them something they want more. Self-interest is channelled through voluntary exchange. This is the crucial valve: the baker serves your bread not from benevolence, but because it’s how he gets paid. 3.Every voluntary trade creates value for both sides. Nobody trades unless they prefer what they’re getting to what they’re giving. So each transaction is positive-sum by construction. Wealth isn’t moved; it’s made. 4.Competition forces the selfish to serve better. You’re not the only one chasing that customer’s money. To win, you must offer more value, lower prices, or something new. Greed disciplined by rivalry becomes, functionally, service. The customer becomes the boss of every capitalist. 5.Prices emerge as signals of what people actually want. Millions of trades compress dispersed knowledge - scarcity, preference, urgency - into a single number. No planner needed. High prices shout “make more of this” and falling prices say “stop making this.” The cure for high prices IS high prices. 6.Profit directs capital toward unmet needs. Profit is the reward for spotting something people want but can’t get, and losses are the punishment for guessing wrong. Capital flows automatically toward solving problems and away from waste - a self-correcting search algorithm running on selfishness. The profit motive pulls the greedy person towards genuine service and efficiency. 7.The pursuit of advantage drives innovation. The only durable way to out-earn competitors is to do something new - create a better product, a cheaper process. Each entrepreneur trying to get rich makes the previous solution obsolete and the average person’s life better. 8.Specialisation and scale compound productivity. Competition pushes everyone toward what they do best; trade lets them exchange it. Output per person rises. 9.Rising productivity spreads as falling prices and rising wages. Competition doesn’t let producers keep the gains forever - they’re competed away to consumers. The luxuries of one generation (cars, flights, antibiotics, computing) become the staples of the next. The rich get richer, but the poor get richer too. 10. Prosperity becomes self-reinforcing and civilising. Wealth funds education, health, science, and even the welfare state that redistributes it. Commerce rewards trust, reliability, and cooperation with strangers (doux commerce). A system built on self-interest ends up producing the most extensive cooperation network in human history: millions of strangers coordinating to put breakfast on your table. The hockey stick after 1800: from ~$3/day for all of human history to a 30-fold rise in living standards wherever this system took hold is pure magic.

@ThePeterPrime @TXREC0N1 @SecRubio @StateDept None have freedom of speech. Except one. Yet this person thinks those countries have the moral right to claim jurisdiction over our citizens.its precisely controversial and heated speech that must be protected. We have our own laws.

@TXREC0N1 @SecRubio @StateDept You're 4% of the planetary population. There's 96% of the world ready to hold criminals from EVERY country accountable. Including the USA.

The International Criminal Court seeks to become the unaccountable arbiter of a new global law — empowered to prosecute and arrest our citizens at will and existentially threaten American sovereignty. We will teach the ICC the full meaning of American resolve.

@jcelden @SecRubio @StateDept Based on what you say? We have every right to defend our citizens operating under our law. A foreign court can't subvert our own laws. Then arrest a citizen. NUTS.

@SecRubio @StateDept Ps. USA har ikke jurisdiksjon utenfor landets grenser. Det må ivaretas av en uavhengig internasjonal domstol eller de nasjonalstater et lovbrudd begås i.

@Deukish @ChaseTheTruth @SecRubio Not really? Why shouldn't humans choose their own leaders ?

@ChaseTheTruth @SecRubio >The United States recognizes no authority higher than the Constitution. That's a pretty loaded statement.

@toujoursyucky @ChaseTheTruth @SecRubio No, more like saying the natural rights of humans mean they have a say in who is in charge.

@ChaseTheTruth @SecRubio That’s a lot of jargon for “We exempt ourselves from international law and we’re touching home-base!”

@kasjirui @bbyfacemarch @Salar1 @ChaseTheTruth @SecRubio Both iraq wars? And bosnia, grenada, panama ? And south korea is free, so crack a book. Although i guess we never had a war without a declaration.

@bbyfacemarch @Salar1 @ChaseTheTruth @SecRubio buddy you lost every war you had since ww2

@PangburnKeith @JohnStossel @yaronbrook Ha ! you must be single !

This is evolutionary psychology in action. In the EEA, Women create a communal environment within the family, as the infants can't compete for resources with bigger, older children. This makes sense, of course. Everything must be shared to each child's needs, and the burden must be spread as to each child's ability. Men operate in a completely different environment; competitive reality. Men must take as much as they can from this world, for their family. They may cooperatively compete with each other in the EEA, but they are always competing, it is always the "free market" of the environment. The Women's system cannot work in the men's world, and the Men's system cannot work in the women's world. The two systems (Sharing v. Competing) are for completely different purposes and situations. We have let a good-intentioned application of the women's system erode and collapse the natural order. We should share with our kin, but we should compete with everyone else.

Kids are taught, “sharing is caring.” You MUST share, or you're selfish. But that selfishness “is what makes the world progress, and makes our lives better,” says @yaronbrook:

@ParalyzingR @JohnStossel @yaronbrook i dont recall jesus forcing anybody to share. he didn't tell peter and andrew to sell there boats or james and john who left their dad in charge with employees ????

@JohnStossel @yaronbrook Tell them John you don't share a damn thing with anybody. Fuck Jesus.