What do Democrats mean by “care for the poor”?
Usually expansion of welfare programs, which give money to the poor in the hopes that it will lift them out of poverty.Which unfortunately doesn’t really work.The War on Poverty was one of the biggest expansions of welfare programs in U.S. History. What was the result?The poverty rate decreased at the rate that it was already going, and then stagnated at around 10–15%, where it’s been going up and down consistently ever since.And despite these mediocre results, the rate of spending keeps increasing.$700 billion and we’re still not any better than when we spent around $50 billion.So to answer your question, Democrats care for the poor by keeping 10–15% of the population consistently poor.I guess they can claim improved stability?-Seth Harris.
What is it like to be an Indian living/working/studying in America?
It feels somewhat home. I have spent nearly 10 years in the US. Went to a couple of gradschools, worked for a big company and spent rest of the time in startup world. Regarding geography, I split my time living in the west, north east and south east.Studying: Many of the US universities are way better than any of the Indian universities. The professors are more committed, better paid and less hampered by redtape. The universities are much more well rounded than India's homogeneous institutes of higher education.Working: I have no experience working in an Indian corporate environment. But from what I learned running my business and from my friends working in corporations, India is way more prone to office politics. Although US corporate environment involve a considerable degree of red tape and office politics, India is way worse than the US.Living: It is a quite a predictable life with a lot less chaos. The biggest thing is the visa issue that is always on your mind for the first few years. Also, it takes a bit of bootstrapping effort (drivers license, credit score). But once that is set, things are reasonably direct. In India, things are much more spontaneous and chaotic. Cost of living in most US cities is only a little more expensive than India's major cities, if you ignore the education and health expenses.People are much more friendly than in many other countries. I have not encountered any major bout of racism while driving through 48 states. Touchwood. Also, each major city has a thriving Indian community to get you the grocery needs. If you can avoid missing the family and the spontaneity, you might find the US cities ok.Compared to most other minority communities, Indians are doing fairly ok. Indians quickly latch on to the American dream and reasonably active on the political & entrepreneurial space. When it comes to political involvement, we are probably second only to Jewish Americans.While I lived a third of my life in India, I still don't understand the present India as it is so dramatically changing. I tried moving back to India for good, but then had to rebound as the India I left was completely different from the one I went back to. My next attempt will hopefully land safely.
Why doesn’t China have a democracy?
Let’s be clear about one thing: democracy does not mean ‘voting’. As Gwydion Williams explains, a multi-party competitive electoral system with an unregulated media is not the same as democracy. It’s just a multi-party competitive electoral system with an unregulated media.It’s also a system that works poorly, and, in most countries using that system, only 30% of their people even trust their governments. Does it make any sense to call a country a ‘democracy’ when only 30% of its people support it?It makes even less sense to call any country a ‘democracy’ if it routinely overthrows and attacks other democracies when its own people don’t want it to. And it makes even less sense to attack other countries when the unregulated media lie about other countries (as in Iraq’s ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’).Democracy is government of the people, by the people, for the people.If citizens don’t trust their government then, by definition, it’s not a democracy. It cannot be, because it’s obviously not government of the people, by the people, for the people, is it?But China does have government of the people, by the people, for the people. Any poor boy can rise to the top in China and many have, but do they govern for the people? Do they do what the people want them to do?The way to find out is to ask its citizens this question: Overall, are you Satisfied or Dissatisfied with the way things are going in [our country] today?Pew Charitable Trusts has been asking both Americans and Chinese the same question since 2002. Here’s how they’ve been responding:Which one is more democratic?
I don't want to live in the USA anymore?
I really think I want to move out of the United States, I've really had enough of this country. I don't agree with any of our politics really anymore. I hate going for a walk around outside and seeing bums and homeless people begging for money. I hate seeing obese people in wheel chairs everywhere I go. I hate seeing nobody being courteous to each-other anymore. I hate that our military has to be all over the world getting involved in stuff that's non of our buisness. I hate seeing chain stores all over the place and individual business's vanishing. I hate the mass amount of crime that keeps on happening everywhere. Is the rest of the civilized world like this, or is it just the US? And if you recommend some countries that don't have these problems, I would love to hear it.