News Flash – It’s not socialism.
A lady named Mariana Hernandez wrote the following post. It’s a good analysis of why American debt is now 100% of GDP. Sadly, there are still incredibly stupid people in our population who think that we can stop spending money on everything except defense, and somehow our lives are better.
There is a word for those kinds of people: Selfish Idiots.
Anyway, take it away, Mariana:
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“Delayed flight. Gate C14. And God himself decided to entertain me by placing two men directly behind me, solving America’s $39 trillion debt problem between bites of a $22 airport sandwich.
Guy #1 turns to his friend:
“If capitalism is so great, why are we $39 TRILLION in debt?”
Guy #2, without missing a beat:
“Because of socialist programs, obviously.”
I closed my laptop. I needed a moment.
Because let’s actually look at where the $39 trillion came from. Not feelings. Not talking points. Numbers.
No WMDs found. No democracy built. Two countries left in chaos. That’s not socialism. That’s bipartisan warmongering with a Lockheed Martin logo on it.
Wall Street gambled with your mortgage, crashed the global economy, then got handed a check with YOUR name on it. The banks kept their bonuses. You kept your debt. That’s not socialism for the poor — that’s socialism for the rich.
Sold as a gift to the middle class. Apple alone saved $47 billion. Your check? Maybe $40 a month. The debt? $1.9 trillion heavier.
America spends MORE per person than any country on Earth — and gets LESS. A hip replacement in Spain? €6,000. In the US? $40,000. Medical bills are the #1 cause of personal bankruptcy in America. That’s not too much socialism. That’s the cost of having none.
Larger than the next 10 countries COMBINED. Meanwhile, your bridge is crumbling, and your kid’s school has a GoFundMe for pencils.
Now. Let’s talk about socialism “failing.”
Claudia Sheinbaum became president in 2024. She has a PhD in climate science. An actual scientist running a country. Not a TV personality. Not a failed businessman. A scientist.
She expanded universal pensions, free internet nationwide, and scholarships for millions of young Mexicans. Foreign investment is flooding in. Nearshoring is making Mexico one of the hottest manufacturing destinations on Earth.
And she’s navigating Trump’s tariffs and border provocations with more dignity than any US politician has managed in years. She doesn’t tweet at 3 am.
Must be infuriating for some people. 
Lula was a factory worker. A union leader. A man who lost a finger in a machine press and turned his pain into a political movement. He was imprisoned on charges later thrown out by Brazil’s Supreme Court — many believe to keep him from power.
He came back. Won the election. Returned to the presidency at 77.
Under Lula:
• Bolsa Família restored — lifting millions out of extreme poverty
• Minimum wage raised above inflation for the first time in years
• Amazon deforestation dropped 50% in his first year back
A man who came from nothing, survived prison, and came back to feed the poor and protect the rainforest.
That’s not a communist villain. That’s a story Hollywood would make a movie about — if he were American and right-wing.
Nominally communist. And yet:
• 45,000 km of high-speed rail. The US has zero.
• 5 million engineers graduated per year. The US graduates 200,000.
• BYD just outsold Tesla worldwide.
• 800 million people lifted out of poverty in 40 years — the greatest anti-poverty achievement in human history.
Someone forgot to tell the second-largest economy on Earth that socialism always fails.
While America spent $8 trillion blowing up the Middle East, China was building infrastructure, educating engineers, and buying up the debt America kept creating.
Who’s actually winning here?
And yes — Venezuela. We know.
A corrupt petro-dictatorship that printed money, destroyed private institutions, and was strangled by US sanctions. Not a social democracy. Not what any serious economist proposes. Comparing Venezuela to these countries is like comparing a gas-station hot dog to a Michelin-starred restaurant and concluding that the food is dangerous.
Here’s what those two guys at Gate C14 — and half of Facebook — can’t grasp:
America doesn’t have too much socialism.
America has socialism for the wrong people.
Subsidies for oil companies that made $200 billion in profit? Socialism.
Bailouts for banks that gambled and lost? Socialism.
Tax breaks for private jets and yachts? Socialism.
Free school lunch for a hungry 7-year-old? Suddenly, that’s communism.
The $39 trillion wasn’t built by teachers, nurses, food stamps, or public libraries.
It was built by wars nobody wanted, tax cuts nobody needed, bailouts for people who needed them least, and a healthcare racket that would make the mafia blush.
But sure. Blame the socialism.
Flight’s still delayed. They’re still talking.
I ordered another coffee. 
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The money is in the economy to improve our wretched country. We lack the will, NOT the resources.
That has to change.