U.S. Hegemony on the Decline

Oh yeah I remember that graph that showed an increase but it wasn’t sufficient enough to be called an increase, IYO. My mistake for showing a graph that only went back 5 years, instead of another that went back decades.

And this is highlighted in capitalism.

And you’ve measured the pros and cons?

In Capitalism, peoples’ greed tends to somewhat counteract the greed of others; in the economic systems you prefer, some peoples’ greed gets to run roughshod over everyone else.

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Compare to the US to the majority of countries in the World and the US comes out ahead.

Have you not seen want most of the world lives like?

I’m not talking about one specific instance. You have repeatedly shown an inability to comprehend any data that doesn’t support your worldview.

Like i said hypocrisy at its best castoli the clown

Where did I say this?

I’m just not stupid enough to think I can change it, so I just win in the situation I’m given and set up my lineage for success.

Do you try? Is bitching on a lifting forum considered trying?

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Oh, okay.

How so?

And how the U.S. is beginning to live.

I love how people on this forum always seem to have anecdotal examples that goes against the stats. W/O looking at the examples that have been catalogued by others. Your sloppy analysis continues.

And people in the U.S., especially in the southwest, go to Mexico for dental work. Citizens of the U.S. travel outside the U.S. for treatments kept illegal in the U.S. to keep up pharma profits. Because we have a “healthcare” system in the U.S. whose primary concern is profits, not health. What could go wrong?

If it is so horrendous why don’t politicians of that particular country campaign on getting rid of that healthcare system and switch to the for-profit system, U.S. style? Surely, it would be a winning campaign strategy.

Yeah, like selfishness and greed.

Do you mean the government’s N.I.H.?

Or was it all the stock buybacks that Big Pharma made?

  • From 2016 to 2020, the 14 leading drug companies spent $577 billion on stock buybacks and dividends, compared with $521 billion on R&D–a $56 billion difference.
  • Assuming the same rate of spending, these 14 companies are projected to spend $1.15 trillion on buybacks and dividends from 2020 through 2029. This is more than twice the amount the Congressional Budget Office projected would be saved by H.R. 3 over the same period.
  • From 2016 to 2020, compensation for the 14 companies’ top executives totaled $3.2 billion, with compensation growing by 14% over that five-year period.
  • Many drug companies spent a significant portion of their R&D budget on finding ways to suppress generic and biosimilar competition while continuing to raise prices, rather than on innovative research.
    Huh? Not the infallible for-profit “healthcare” system.

Why don’t they do it here if it’s so bad?

Considering inflation for that time period was 9.6% total (Current US Inflation Rates: 2000-2023) 14% is not unreasonable.

Oh and government pumping trillions in currency into circulation over the last three years has significantly contributed to a 18.5% inflation increase over the last 3 years

Also the dollar has lost 26% in value from 2016

Go live anywhere in Africa, Eastern Europe, Haiti, Cuba, South America or most of Southeast Asia for a few years and then come back and tell me we have it bad in the US. US is still near the top for wages.

270 million in India alone live in abject poverty:
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/infographic/2016/05/27/india-s-poverty-profile
Take out Florida and California and that’s the population of the US.

The same way it’s harder to score a touchdown in a game than in walk-throughs the day before.

No, they don’t. There are 117,000,000 families in the United States and about 530k declare bankruptcy/year. For those playing along at home that’s less than half of 1% of families going bankrupt per year and 0.3% due to medical bills or an inability to work.

And here comes the movement of the goal post, right Zep… It’s not like we haven’t done this before or anything…

Lmao, shut up.


You are the absolute dumbest person. We weren’t talking about funding:

I could explain it, but I doubt a simpleton like you would understand it.

Your job as a currency trader provides ZERO economic benefit to society. Holy shit, refer back to:

Okay, and? That has nothing to do with what I believe is morally right and wrong. Again:

Lmao.

Sorry we live in reality.

Try actually proving some and not just linking a YouTube video you don’t understand or CNBC (lmao, I thought MSM was bad).

Um, ya… How do you function?

The problem you’ve always had, besides a low IQ, is that you think everything is black or white. I strongly dislike the pharmaceutical industry. That doesn’t change the fact our system supports all western single-payer systems much like our bloated military spending supports all of NATO.

Ahhhh…so how long have you had the blinders on? Your indoctrination is showing.

Welcome to the oligarchy!

Do regular citizens typically get what they want, outside of a ballot initiative?