[Hoot Gibson]

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/04/us-is-wo...efits.html

The U.S. ranks last among industrialized countries relative to employee benefits like healthcare, paid leave, vacation days, unemployment and retirement, according to Zenefits.

The Czech Republic, Latvia, South Korea and Mexico joined the U.S. among the five least-generous countries. Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland were the top nations for worker benefits.

There is no excuse for the U.S. to be ranked last.  

There is no excuse for American corporations to be ranked first in combined state and federal tax rates but that is what China Joe is proposing, Mr. I am Not a Socialist but...

Cuba and Venezuela once had thriving economies. How has socialism worked out for them? This country is broke and our inflation rate has begun to soar. Even the Biden administration is now acknowledging that interest rates will need to be raised to keep inflation in check. Inflation and interest rates composed two thirds of the Carter misery index. As the rate of inflation and interest rates rise, the unemployment rate will follow. That is the trifecta that Jimmy Carter unleashed on this nation. (Nixon, Ford, and LBJ did their part in crippling our economy, but Carter came to own the misery index, which disappeared during the Reagan administration.

 That May be some of the most dishonest revisionist history ever put Fourth. I bet you think the native Americans sold their land fair and square. 

We have meddled in both of those countries economies hoping to force them to heel. 

there you go with those weak fallacies too. You chose two countries that have been economically depressed by the USA and ignored every other rich country that is more socialist than the US but also more focused on citizens welfare. 

Come on Hooter you love socialism when it benefits you. You just hate poor Americans.  Not a peep with big fat bloated defense contracts and overpaid contractors, but let a morsel of food go to an undeserving child and your hair catches on fire. 

for the record, if debt and deficit bothered you the 2017 tax bill would have been a no, but I’m certain you doglapped it up. Hypocrisy at its finest.

Is there any subject on which you are not profoundly ignorant, Twin Ticks? If so, then why not start a thread on a topic that you half way understand? Venezuela and Cuba both had thriving economies before communists seized power and began to nationalize private businesses and redistribute the wealth of those who earned it. Should the U.S. government supported those actions and ignored the fact that Castro and Chávez stole the property of American businesses?

You are showing your true colors (again) by blaming your own country for the failure of two communist countries. You are placing yourself squarely in the corner of those who believe communism is a good system that has just not been properly implemented yet. The people of Cuba and Venezuela are being victimized but their oppressors are not Americans. Foolish does not begin to characterize the warped logic that you try to sell here.