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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam
i've said this a thousand times, socialism is a wonderful idea and a great solution for many countries to expand upon their programs to so-call "bridge" the class stratification. but in a state like the United States, where there are fifty million lower-class citizens to support, it becomes an extremely daunting task.
we've already got multiple social programs to help and feed the impoverished but it's damn near impossible to provide nonessentials for everybody when 1 in 6 are resting primarily on the goodwill of the state.
i'd like to say that universal health care is a good idea, i'd like to think that everybody should have access to quality medical coverage but strictly speaking it's completely infeasible and will bankrupt the United States in the long run.
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The thing is though, in the United States, there's a huge divisions between the rich and poor. That inequity is insane. As I said before, something like the top 10% (I think it's less, more like 5% I've even heard 2%) control 90% of the wealth. That's just insane and it causes a lot of these problems we have with funding programs which work to benefit the underprivileged. This is ignoring all the stupid things the United States does...like have two wars at once AND cut taxes at the same time and the general fiscal irresponsibility of their government.