U.s. Healthcare spending 4.9 Trillion, America's health mental and physical, worst in past 50 years. This is the problem with growth of the socialist federal government, pay more and get less
Same thing with unwed, teenage pregnancy and STDs. They were all trending downward at a decent pace, and then the government decided that the American family and social institutions were insufficient to teach young people about sex. Its solution was public school mandatory sex ed, and shockingly - SHOCKINGLY - both of those trends reversed very hard.
I'm not sure random immigration without proper vetting and the largess of the state is going to end well in any scenario. There are some very dangerous ideologies crossing the border with cultures that are very much anti-west. Lawfully, or otherwise...
Part of the reason the COVID confusion developed and continues to exist is that our government is too large. Congress is supposed to oversee the operations of the federal government, but they can't because there are too many governmental operations and few in Congress are competent at overseeing anything. If the federal government was smaller, they might do a better job.
That immigration bill did not address any of the issues in a legitimate way. Until we can distinguish between legal and illegal immigration we cannot have a meaningful discussion which needs to be had. Perhaps Biden and Trump have opened the door to a discussion. We need Congress to quit creating division through legal activities and start working together on meaningful legislation in all areas of governance.
Mine neither. I'm pretty sure they are being shadow banned. I just check their page directly on Tuesday and put everything I haven't watched yet into my watch later list.
Yeah, it’s weird, I have even tried to game the algorithm to keep reminding me of this here show coming out on the webs by interacting with videos but TH-cam just ain’t having it.
I had a discussion with my wife years ago while watching shows like My 600 lb Life. Addiction to food has to be the hardest thing to deal with. Unlike drugs, gambling, alcohol, etc, where you can avoid them, you can't avoid food. You literally need food to survive.
In the 80s and 90s, my family LIVED the shit show that is our immigration system. And it has gotten worse, not better. We need a complete overhaul and I'll support anyone who will do something about it. No employer indentured servitude. No illegal immigration. Increase immigration to a rate that's based on population and unemployment. And promote citizenship by tying it to access to federal benefits.
Fyi... my views are based on being negatively impacted by Reagan's amnesty. Employer exploitation. Being stranded 2,000 miles from home with no legal status. An attempt by INS deport my sister when she was a college student working on her masters degree (in a city filled with illegal immigrants). It's also based on an awareness that our food supply is based on exploitation of those here without legal status.
The plain truth is that we live in a welfare state (anti- libertarian). As such we cannot have an open border (pro libertarian) until we get rid of the welfare state. To the extent we continue to have some sort of safety net we will always have to have some sort of discriminating immigration policy to prevent further fiscal problems. And then there’s the issue of human and drug trafficking…..
i don't understand nick's laissez faire illegal immigration stance - especially when that directly impacts and strains the government assistance programs that he thinks are out of control. at the end of the day, with real libertarianism, if you can't afford to live, you're gonna have to die. and it seems to me that the unseriousness and unwillingness with libertarians to own up to that unpopular inconvenience makes their stances ultimately untenable. let's cut program and let the death chips fall where they may - is what you guys are talking about at the end of the day, isn't it? and that kind of hard nosed pragmatism can't at all indulge in "compassion" can it?
I suppose you believe that big government can actually prevent death, but death is inevitable and comes to all. The question is should we enslave some people to support others or should we remove barriers to people earning their own livelihood? In other words, there are no solutions, only trade-offs.
Immigration should be as simple as boarding an airplane. I'd love to see 1 billion Americans! Your potential should not be limited by the accident of the location of your birth. Private charities can provide a safety net. Federal government can provide national defense, protection of liberties, and get the heck out of the way.
@@toddhansen31311 billion? Hell no! Our culture was formed and our freedoms made possible, indeed imaginable in the first place, by a low population in a vast land.
The “make your own way or die” is not an unserious approach at all. If that were the approach of the USA, then it would be a strong deterrent to people coming with no job, no housing, no money, and no plans (other than to mooch off whoever’s gullible enough to pay for them). It is a very strong attractant, however, to those who have career and life prospects - in short, the kind of people you want. And there’s always a place for compassion. There are all kinds of refugee sponsorship charities (churches, mostly). I know that in Canada a few years ago, they studied government-sponsored refugees vs privately sponsored refugees. After 2 years in the country, 70% of the privately sponsored refugees could speak at least one of our official languages and were employed vs 17% for the government-sponsored.
@@va3svdWell said. I've traveled and lived in some of the poorest countries on the planet. It seems odd to me that those who claim to be compassionate don't seem to want to help those suffering in broken, dysfunctional countries. We can enable or ignore the dysfunction, or we can open the opportunity that is America to those willing to make the most of the available possibilities. With 8 billion people on the planet, the scope and effect of welfare is limited; whereas the opportunities offered by work and capitalism are limitless.
Trump's people followed up on the 'green card for college grads' idea to say that it obviously needed more control than that. The "tech bros" (Trump went on the All-In Podcast on YT) agreed that otherwise some colleges become not just degree mills, but also green card mills.
Am I the only person who has noticed that damned near every dollar taxed from the (current) American populace is spent on crass consumption primarily by people who do not work? Oh, and interest on the massive debt that continues to grow from feeding this?
If you believe MMT I guess we can quit taxing the rich alltogether and quit taxing everyone and the federal government can fund everything with money printing
Do you guys understand that the "interest on the debt" isnt a real thing? The federal government pays interest to itself. Its like if you loaned yourself money, promising to pay yourself interest. Obviously you aren't ever going to pay interest that you owe to yourself.
Even if all the interest charges were just transfers to the Federal Reserve (they’re not, btw) they still are real charges involving real money. There are huge amounts of government debt held by bond holders, foreign and domestic. You just can’t say, “sorry, not going to pay anymore.”
@@va3svd okay, so print more money to pay the bond holders. Then more bonds can be sold, which is more of that printed money being returned to where it came. The complexities are engineered to obscure the actual simplicity of the system, which is nothing more than a long-con. People get stuck on the idea that it's similar to a household budget, where the light go off if you don't pay the bill. And it just isn't like that.
@@benjamindover4337 You are aware that the central bank is not a branch of government, right? It is an independent institution. A destructive one, to be sure, but independent.
U.s. Healthcare spending 4.9 Trillion, America's health mental and physical, worst in past 50 years. This is the problem with growth of the socialist federal government, pay more and get less
Same thing with unwed, teenage pregnancy and STDs. They were all trending downward at a decent pace, and then the government decided that the American family and social institutions were insufficient to teach young people about sex. Its solution was public school mandatory sex ed, and shockingly - SHOCKINGLY - both of those trends reversed very hard.
I'm not sure random immigration without proper vetting and the largess of the state is going to end well in any scenario.
There are some very dangerous ideologies crossing the border with cultures that are very much anti-west.
Lawfully, or otherwise...
Part of the reason the COVID confusion developed and continues to exist is that our government is too large. Congress is supposed to oversee the operations of the federal government, but they can't because there are too many governmental operations and few in Congress are competent at overseeing anything. If the federal government was smaller, they might do a better job.
That immigration bill did not address any of the issues in a legitimate way. Until we can distinguish between legal and illegal immigration we cannot have a meaningful discussion which needs to be had. Perhaps Biden and Trump have opened the door to a discussion. We need Congress to quit creating division through legal activities and start working together on meaningful legislation in all areas of governance.
Politicians are always strongly motivated to give away the national treasure to buy votes.
It's cold and lonely here in libertarian land.
The reason longform videos (roundtable and just asking questions) often don't show up in my subscription list.
Mine neither. I'm pretty sure they are being shadow banned. I just check their page directly on Tuesday and put everything I haven't watched yet into my watch later list.
Same. Ever since last week, none of their videos show up in my subscriptions tab but still show up randomly on the home tab. Strange…
Yeah, it’s weird, I have even tried to game the algorithm to keep reminding me of this here show coming out on the webs by interacting with videos but TH-cam just ain’t having it.
An underrated podcast
I had a discussion with my wife years ago while watching shows like My 600 lb Life. Addiction to food has to be the hardest thing to deal with. Unlike drugs, gambling, alcohol, etc, where you can avoid them, you can't avoid food. You literally need food to survive.
In the 80s and 90s, my family LIVED the shit show that is our immigration system. And it has gotten worse, not better. We need a complete overhaul and I'll support anyone who will do something about it.
No employer indentured servitude. No illegal immigration. Increase immigration to a rate that's based on population and unemployment. And promote citizenship by tying it to access to federal benefits.
Fyi... my views are based on being negatively impacted by Reagan's amnesty. Employer exploitation. Being stranded 2,000 miles from home with no legal status. An attempt by INS deport my sister when she was a college student working on her masters degree (in a city filled with illegal immigrants). It's also based on an awareness that our food supply is based on exploitation of those here without legal status.
The plain truth is that we live in a welfare state (anti- libertarian). As such we cannot have an open border (pro libertarian) until we get rid of the welfare state. To the extent we continue to have some sort of safety net we will always have to have some sort of discriminating immigration policy to prevent further fiscal problems. And then there’s the issue of human and drug trafficking…..
Mass immigration will end the welfare state. Chicken : egg
Doritos were my first case of "the munchies!" Clearly a triumph of capitalism.
i don't understand nick's laissez faire illegal immigration stance - especially when that directly impacts and strains the government assistance programs that he thinks are out of control.
at the end of the day, with real libertarianism, if you can't afford to live, you're gonna have to die. and it seems to me that the unseriousness and unwillingness with libertarians to own up to that unpopular inconvenience makes their stances ultimately untenable.
let's cut program and let the death chips fall where they may - is what you guys are talking about at the end of the day, isn't it? and that kind of hard nosed pragmatism can't at all indulge in "compassion" can it?
I suppose you believe that big government can actually prevent death, but death is inevitable and comes to all. The question is should we enslave some people to support others or should we remove barriers to people earning their own livelihood? In other words, there are no solutions, only trade-offs.
Immigration should be as simple as boarding an airplane. I'd love to see 1 billion Americans! Your potential should not be limited by the accident of the location of your birth.
Private charities can provide a safety net. Federal government can provide national defense, protection of liberties, and get the heck out of the way.
@@toddhansen31311 billion? Hell no! Our culture was formed and our freedoms made possible, indeed imaginable in the first place, by a low population in a vast land.
The “make your own way or die” is not an unserious approach at all. If that were the approach of the USA, then it would be a strong deterrent to people coming with no job, no housing, no money, and no plans (other than to mooch off whoever’s gullible enough to pay for them). It is a very strong attractant, however, to those who have career and life prospects - in short, the kind of people you want.
And there’s always a place for compassion. There are all kinds of refugee sponsorship charities (churches, mostly). I know that in Canada a few years ago, they studied government-sponsored refugees vs privately sponsored refugees. After 2 years in the country, 70% of the privately sponsored refugees could speak at least one of our official languages and were employed vs 17% for the government-sponsored.
@@va3svdWell said. I've traveled and lived in some of the poorest countries on the planet. It seems odd to me that those who claim to be compassionate don't seem to want to help those suffering in broken, dysfunctional countries.
We can enable or ignore the dysfunction, or we can open the opportunity that is America to those willing to make the most of the available possibilities. With 8 billion people on the planet, the scope and effect of welfare is limited; whereas the opportunities offered by work and capitalism are limitless.
Trump's people followed up on the 'green card for college grads' idea to say that it obviously needed more control than that.
The "tech bros" (Trump went on the All-In Podcast on YT) agreed that otherwise some colleges become not just degree mills, but also green card mills.
Clap, clap, clap!
Am I the only person who has noticed that damned near every dollar taxed from the (current) American populace is spent on crass consumption primarily by people who do not work? Oh, and interest on the massive debt that continues to grow from feeding this?
Not a sports guy. Thought you meant Mark Russell.
If you believe MMT I guess we can quit taxing the rich alltogether and quit taxing everyone and the federal government can fund everything with money printing
lolbertarians can't understand the brutality of international criminal syndicates
Nacho Cheese Doritos are one of the greatest things on the planet.
The Reason Roundtable cast enjoy all the benefits of mass immigration and suffer none of the harms. It's good to be the elite.
Do you guys understand that the "interest on the debt" isnt a real thing? The federal government pays interest to itself. Its like if you loaned yourself money, promising to pay yourself interest. Obviously you aren't ever going to pay interest that you owe to yourself.
Even if all the interest charges were just transfers to the Federal Reserve (they’re not, btw) they still are real charges involving real money.
There are huge amounts of government debt held by bond holders, foreign and domestic. You just can’t say, “sorry, not going to pay anymore.”
@@va3svd okay, so print more money to pay the bond holders. Then more bonds can be sold, which is more of that printed money being returned to where it came. The complexities are engineered to obscure the actual simplicity of the system, which is nothing more than a long-con. People get stuck on the idea that it's similar to a household budget, where the light go off if you don't pay the bill. And it just isn't like that.
@@benjamindover4337 You are aware that the central bank is not a branch of government, right? It is an independent institution. A destructive one, to be sure, but independent.
These people talk to much about nothing, and their inside jokes are not at all funny.
Another week of delightfully cringey puns by the John Ritter lookalike! #fax