The poor, poor rich

**triggerhappy2005** · 11-08-10, 01:54 PM

Originally Posted by asianator365

Every British person I've ever talked to hates their universal health care system. Granted, I've only met about a dozen, and one of them was Margaret Thatcher's policy advisor....

What a retarded response. I'm not surprised though.

British like their healthcare, don't care what you think - War Room - Salon.com

How does US healthcare compare to the rest of the world? | News | guardian.co.uk

Why do British people defend the NHS so stridently? - Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers

Get this through your thick skull, no citizen of any Western European country would ever trade their healthcare system for ours.

**Fovezer** · 11-08-10, 02:25 PM

Originally Posted by asianator365

Trigger did I ever say that an increase in tax rates was socialism? Nope, don't think I did. I do think I posted a link to a video of Great Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher explaining that it is better to have a wider income gap where everyone is better off then a smaller one where everyone is poorer.

And that's a load of bullshit. Reagan had the same idea with "trickle-down" economics, which is where the poor wait for the rich to piss on them, essentially. The idea is that by concentrating more wealth with the already-wealthy, it will trickle down to the poor. And like GHWBush said, that's voodoo economics. All the poor and middle-class get are bread crumbs. So it really is a system to help the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and Thatcher's defense of that is laughable, at best, which probably explains all the laughter I heard in the video...

**Thorsen** · 11-08-10, 02:44 PM

Originally Posted by triggerhappy2005

What a retarded response. I'm not surprised though.

British like their healthcare, don't care what you think - War Room - Salon.com

How does US healthcare compare to the rest of the world? | News | guardian.co.uk

Why do British people defend the NHS so stridently? - Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers

Get this through your thick skull, no citizen of any Western European country would ever trade their healthcare system for ours.

Take it easy Trigger. Calm down. You're getting close to crossing a line. You've made a good response, don't water it down with useless antagonizing.

But on the topic, Asianator what you posted is anecdotal evidence ("I know this or that person who says this or that.") which is not real evidence at all. You would need to find some polls or studies to back up your claim.

**HeavyG** · 11-08-10, 08:44 PM

Originally Posted by asianator365

Every British person I've ever talked to hates their universal health care system. Granted, I've only met about a dozen, and one of them was Margaret Thatcher's policy advisor....

That's a great sample size for a survey. Sounds like a Fox News poll. I can see it now... "Fox news surveys 10 Tea Baggers on Obama's Approval Rating... News at 11"

I keed, I keed, but asking 12 people something is a pretty crappy example.

**HeavyG** · 11-08-10, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by Fovezer

And that's a load of bullshit. Reagan had the same idea with "trickle-down" economics, which is where the poor wait for the rich to piss on them, essentially. The idea is that by concentrating more wealth with the already-wealthy, it will trickle down to the poor. And like GHWBush said, that's voodoo economics. All the poor and middle-class get are bread crumbs. So it really is a system to help the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and Thatcher's defense of that is laughable, at best, which probably explains all the laughter I heard in the video...

John Kenneth Galbraith Quote - "If one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows." Galbraith is an economist who taught at Princeton and then was the Professor of Economics at Harvard.

If you have taken any college level economics class, they will talk about the trickle down affect and will more than likely mention Galbraith's horse/sparrow example. They will also mention that this method is more effective in developing countries than large sustained countries.

Edit: I am agreeing with you as I don't see trickle down economics as a viable way to help balance the rich/poor balance.