@Lash,
Lash wrote:
Middle Ground on Climate Change = Uninhabitable Planet
Green New Deal would create lots of jobs for people to get together and talk about change, which would then be blocked by people in positions of technical expertise, who would say the changes were unfeasible. In the process, all the people in the meetings would be getting paid and buying new cars, new places to live, running lots of heat and a/c, and going shopping for new stuff with their money, not to mention traveling to conferences, etc. all of what would add to resource/climate problems.
Quote:Middle Ground on Healthcare = 30K+ Die Each Year
Look at what happened with ACA: individual mandate to buy insurance caused investors to forecast bigger revenues in insurance industry, so they invested more and stock prices rose causing the stock market generally to grow. Rising stock market = intensifying rat race where people compete harder for access to the scarce privileges of health care and pharmaceutical medicine, whose prices went up.
The only way to have universal health care without it causing runaway inflation and other economic problems is to make it cheaper and eliminate barriers to lower-cost providers entering markets. Bills have been put forth that would require pharmaceuticals to charge the same in the US as elsewhere in the world, but Dems are against that because charging more in the US is how the pharmaceuticals fund global socialist redistribution schemes.
Quote:Middle Ground on Social Security = Work Until You Drop Dead
Middle Ground on Housing = 553K homeless
In general, costs of living, housing, etc. have been driven up by undisciplined borrowing/spending in the economy. Many legal and illegal purchases/investments are responsible for undermining fiscal discipline that leads to price spirals in everything from housing to healthcare.
The current war on trafficking and sex (e.g. #metoo, abortion restrictions) will have a positive effect if significant numbers of people are deterred from engaging in economic activities predicated on abuse of drugs and sex, as such activities are very wasteful and undermine fiscal discipline in all the markets where people throw away their futures to intensify their pleasure in the present moment.
As the social-cultural economy embraced more conservative values that involve less spending and waste, the rest of the economy and social programs should become more manageable, i.e. because there won't be massive leaks in the system that allow for abuses, including economy-wide spending at levels that aren't sustainable, which is itself an abuse of resources that hurts the economy and environment(al) sustainability.
