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Originally Posted by MrSparkle001
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The bold part at the end is what's important. Are those countries plagued with people who don't contribute to the system but instead leech off it, sometimes for generations? That's the problem with the US, and it's a cultural problem. They don't want to move away from a welfare existence. It happens in urban cities, in rural trailer parks, in our deserts etc. Too many people just don't give a shit.
Bernie wants to model the US after the nordic socialist systems. Well guess what, it won't work here.
I am not saying the gross wealth inequality doesn't contribute. It's plain wrong for .1% of the population to own nearly 90% of the wealth. Oh, and raising the minimum wage to like $15/hr isn't the answer. A massive, radical cultural change is the answer, and I fear we won't see it in our lifetimes.
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And the worst part about it all is that if/when we try European style socialism here and it fails miserably due to our demographics, it may cause us to push too far back in the opposite direction. Certainly some kind of safety net is ideal from both a moral and practical sense, but if it's done in the wrong way, people may then throw out the baby with the bath water. Currently the government incentivizes those who are least able to take care of themselves to reproduce as early and often as possible and it discourages marriage for those receiving benefits, leading to more and more children being raised by a single parent. This is not a sustainable pattern for a society and it has to change.