"Unfortunately that's the only language you speak, probably"
Nice, always great way to start, is to paint someone with a brush. I live in a spanish speaking area, but my spanish is terrible. My wife is French, my french is better, but also not great. But yeah, English is my dominant language.
"You think govt spending in social programs for poor people is "pure evil for the country""
Sorry, can you point to the place in my comment where I said that? I mean, you used quotes and everything. I said omnibus bills are pure evil. That's because they are. Everyone gets what they want, so no one votes against them.
" I couldn't care less how your oligarchy spends your tax money, tbh, so I only look at the big picture"
You and me both, but I don't make assumptions about you, just about what you wrote. I pointed out that I have actually read budgetary bills. I'm guessing you have not.
"What I do know is that they spend half of my country's entire GDP under "healthcare" and unfathomably you don't have free, public and universal"
Medicaid, medicare, as well as a bunch of other state programs, etc. We do not have ONE program, we have many, they provide rationed, and inadequate healthcare, pretty equally for everyone who needs it. That is why they are maligned.
"Math doesn't add up, does it?"
Nope, that is why they are opposed. I don't know where you are from, but the countries that match the US in size (india, china, brazil, russia) are NOT well known for adequate healthcare quality or distribution despite having 'universal healthcare' programs. Why is that? Could it be that larger countries have variying economic realities within such that "one size fits all" is a failed methodology?
"I daresay a good half of your social expenditure must be appropriated by capitalist middlemen that don't actually produce anything"
Why do you think this is a daring thing to say? It's exactly true, but it is not capitalism. Anything where corporations (not even a capitallist construction) influence a government that deploys regulations and barriers to a populace, is basically the opposite of capitalism, yet, again, that's the brush you use. I wonder what word you would use to describe a government badly providing social services for everyone. It ain't capitalism.
If you are comparing capitalism to feudalism, the chances are high that you don't know what either are. To illustrate this... creating a tax, is not an act of capitalism, thus providing a tax subsidy is also not capitalism either. I agree, Oil subsidies suck,but they sure as hell are not indicative of a capitalist economy.
You can call it crony capitalism, feudalism, fascism or whatever. And you would be right, because none of those things are capitalism.
Your english is fine.
