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So What Asian welfare system do you propose?
Please put one forward, that offers more than a "Western System" and I'm sure lots will flock there.
I know our systems aren't brilliant, but please show us one of the Asian systems that is better or equal.
Also don't come up with the "money" crap, Australia gets 8 million tourists, How many do Thailand get? Also Thailand makes heaps of cars Nissan Navara RHD utes for a start, all Triumph motor bikes, a new Ducati plant has been built there.
Yet you go on and on about how we don't give enough, I hope you have renounced your other citizenship.LOL
Just joking, but don't pull on the heartstrings too much, you will kill us.lol
What are you talking about?
There's no "Asian" or "Western" systems of welfare. There's just a system that either take care of its poor and its elderly or tell them to go tell somebody who cares.
Why do you think Western societies in the modern era (defined as post WW2) became so rich and prosperous?
They don't get there by having the very rich at the very top pissing down on the poor, take money from the poor and shower it on the rich... then have its "leaders" tell the poor to go get a job.
Name any third world, impoverished country in the history of the world, up to now, that doesn't have a tiny few elite owning everything.
So if the US, or Australia, make policies where wealth is taken from the poor, leading to, say, the top 3 richest Americans having the same wealth as the bottom half; or the top 10% owning all the wealth with some 20% at the bottom having negative asset...
If a "Western System" that created that... why is it any more special than what's found in VN or China or the ME etc. etc? Freedom? Democracy?
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It's not about being soft or weak and humane or whatever... even though it is humane. But looking at it from a purely economic point of view... national wealth are not generated by taking from the poor and giving it to the rich.
Give the poor money and they can buy and create demand, increased demand increase investments leading to jobs and increased income, increased tax revenue etc. etc.
That and it's not too bad to have your own people sheltered, fed, educated, less family-breakdown; less crimes and violence.
So listening to those Senators lecturing how the poor, the sick and the elderly being parasites; how children shouldn't have healthcare or their parents food stamp because the gov't is broke and have no money... all during a debate where they literally argues to sign into law a tax code that will hand over some $1.5Trillion [that's with a Tee] to the very rich...
That's not just immoral, it's economic suicide.
You want to see how the West decline into a Third World... that's an example of how.