Bill O’Reilly Gets Smacked By Economics Professor - Nanny States Actually Do Better

[kpete]

So, ah, please get your facts right Mr. O’Reilly. The nanny state you call it; the program of countries like Germany and Scandinavia who tax their people heavily by all means, but who provide them with social services that would be the envy of the United States, a national health program that takes care of you whether you are employed or not and gives you proper healthcare.

In France for example the law says when you go to work you get five weeks paid vacation. That’s not an option, that’s the law. You get support when you are a new parent, childcare and so forth.

They provide services and they are successful in Germany and Scandinavia, much more than we are in the United States; and much more than those countries in the south.

So they are not broke in the south because they are nanny states, since the nanny states par excellence are doing better than everyone. The actual truth of Mr. O’Reilly is the opposite of what he says. The more you do nanny state, the better off you are during a crisis, and to minimize the cost of the crisis. That’s what the European economic situation actually teaches. He is just making it up as he goes along to conform to an ideological position that is harder and harder for folks like him to sustain so he has to reach further and further into fantasy.


much more, plus video:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/26/1197004/-Bill-O-Reilly-Gets-Smacked-By-Economics-Professor-Nanny-States-Actually-Do-Better-VIDEO

[fleur-de-lisa]

1. My daughter lives in Germany but is a US citizen . . .

even ex-pats in Germany are eligible for incredibly inexpensive health care and many other benefits that we don't have access to as citizens in the US.

The real truth is that republicans want everything to be privatized (education, health care, mail delivery, disaster relief, etc) so the 1% can continue to steal from the rest of us.

It won't be long until we are forced to EAT THE RICH!