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jorb
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Re: Game Development: World 5
Sure, but the welfare state is the reason your country is broke whether you like it or not.
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howyadoin988
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Re: Game Development: World 5
But there's oil there.ewlol wrote:I'd rather my government spend more money on helping people then on pointless fighting that we should never have involved ourselves in. In fact the entire war was started by made up horseshit. (thanks a lot George W. Bush)jorb wrote:imageewlol wrote:Are you honestly telling me that a budget in which war costs skyrocket is balanced? This entire Iraq War has fucked us over.
Medicare & Social Security had nothing to do with it.
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pyrale
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I doubt so. Medical covering is actually quite like education : it refunds itself in the long run. Having healthy workers is a source of profit.jorb wrote:Sure, but the welfare state is the reason your country is broke whether you like it or not.
There was simply no way for america to have a balanced budget with a negative trade balance, even before war in iraq, even before improved health care.
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jorb
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Re: Game Development: World 5
The expenses. Look at them.
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loftar
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Re: Game Development: World 5
Odd, then, that that hasn't happened. :)pyrale wrote:I doubt so. Medical covering is actually quite like education : it refunds itself in the long run. Having healthy workers is a source of profit.jorb wrote:Sure, but the welfare state is the reason your country is broke whether you like it or not.
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Serpensio
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Re: Game Development: World 5
Quoted for Truth.jorb wrote:Sure, but the welfare state is the reason your country is broke whether you like it or not.
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ewlol
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I don't think you understand the repercussions of cutting welfare budgets.
Old people are going to go bat shit crazy. Private insurance companies will NOT insure them so they have to rely on the government for coverage. So what now? We cut it and then ... ? You tell me.
Old people are going to go bat shit crazy. Private insurance companies will NOT insure them so they have to rely on the government for coverage. So what now? We cut it and then ... ? You tell me.
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loftar
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Indeed. That's one of the many problems of instituting it to begin with; people start to invest in it and rely on it.ewlol wrote:I don't think you understand the repercussions of cutting welfare budgets.
Old people are going to go bat shit crazy. Private insurance companies will NOT insure them so they have to rely on the government for coverage. So what now? We cut it and then ... ? You tell me.
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jorb
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Re: Game Development: World 5
I quite well understand the implications of cutting welfare budgets. People who have invested in the ponzi scheme get pissed off. Naturally so. Which is why I don't think the government should be running ponzi schemes to begin with.
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Serpensio
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Re: Game Development: World 5
The only thing Republicans really go over budget on is National Defense. Democrats and their Social Programs are what's bankrupting the country.pyrale wrote:Yeah sure dude, the USA don't have massive debts. And even if they had, none of it would be due to republicans. LoL.Serpensio wrote:keep the government fiscally responsible.
Also, I said "/More balanced/", not "completely and perfectly balanced"