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Really? Rapes in India; North Korea generally; wars in the middle east; letting our own homeless and elderly starve or go cold; school massacres; Ponzi schemes

• grecy 14y ago
  Ahh, the old "let's compare ourselves to third world nations so we look good". That's about as useful as comparing a sporting team to the one that always finishes bottom of the ladder... it just confirms you're doing fine, when in fact you are not. What I was saying was, in the context of a developed nation like The United States, using public money for private profit is evil, and if it were not done, the average standard of living would increase and poverty (which is an enormous problem in the US) would decrease. In the context of a first world country, doing that is very evil.
  • Domenic_S 14y ago
    Most of the things I listed happen right here in good ol' America. > What I was saying was No, what you actually said was that if that wasn't evil, you don't know what is. Which is an incredulous thing to say. > using public money for private profit is evil I see, so no government contracts should exist, or they should only go to non-profits. They're using public money for private profit, after all. > if it were not done, the average standard of living would increase and poverty would decrease. Unprovable.