mai said:
Well, there's grain of truth in your words :D American patriots, know them very well, practically lika a family to me, are indeed people with contradicting points in their thought patterns sometimes. Free health insurance? You're commie. Free education? You're filthy commie. At the same time the very same person could use Medicaid, Medicare and food stamps, like half of Americans do. Nobody hates social state more than they are. Truth be said though, social welfare has been overbudgeted in past few decades in many countries outside of the US (or should I say used to...?). It actually in some way answers why the "Elysium" is what it is. Social solidarity is perceived by Hollywood and various other kinds of "intellectual bomonde" only in the form of social welfare programmes aka philanthropy, not a different social structure or social revolution. They think that resources are limitless "and no one will go away unsatisfied", it's only some evil system or machine that is exploiting people and won't let them be happy. |
Extremism from both sides is what is refraining this world to have a balanced form of politics that could benefit all actors.
When I think about social welfare I think about: school funds, cheaper healthcare, better prison reintegration to release citizens not animals and help for the needy that is really debilitated. Of course there's no limitless funds and other utopian ideas. However, I would rather see spent 80% of "War budget" to better engineers/scientists/professors and students and give our country a better chance to strive with more qualified professionals. That's the way we prosper, investing in a handful of mega companies will only make rich richer and the rest you know.
