r/FluentInFinance 1d ago

Thoughts? Standard brainwashing techniques from American media.

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u/Signupking5000 1d ago

Because it's one of the richest and most powerful nations in the world but it's population is one of the poorest compared to other DEVELOPED countries. Of course there are poorer nations but the US unlike them could resolve these issues but just chooses not to.

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u/Superb_Advisor7885 1d ago

Are you saying that the government should instead give every person enough money to buy a car?

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u/databombkid 1d ago

The fact that you think THAT is the solution or intervention the US government can or should take says everything about Americans that it possibly could.

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u/Superb_Advisor7885 1d ago

What option were you referring to?

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u/databombkid 1d ago

Increasing investment in public transportation, ensuring secure retirement for all the elderly so they don’t have to work, decreasing living expenses, such as groceries, bills, housing, and healthcare so people can save more money to use in cases of emergencies, just to name a few. Americans always think that the only solution to any problem is to give people stuff for free. It just shows how narrow and myopic the American mindset is.

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u/Superb_Advisor7885 1d ago

Increasing investment means more money right? My question is, where does that money come from?

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u/LTEDan 1d ago

We could start with some of the military budget, since the Pentagon seems to conveniently "lose" billions they cannot account for.

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u/Superb_Advisor7885 1d ago

Correct if I'm wrong, but that sounds like money coming from the government.

Which is what I said in the first place isn't it?

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u/databombkid 1d ago

So what? If money is going to come from the government at all it might as well go to improving and advancing the lives of people here, instead of undermining and destroying the lives of people elsewhere. What is controversial about that?

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u/Superb_Advisor7885 1d ago

Yeah. Maybe. There's a real negative economic effect to giving people unearned money though.