When you temporarily defund the military, you lose key human capital that moves into the private sector and can’t easily be brought back. You would make the military weaker long term.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vDb7TRKlcU
Odd Arne Westad: How the Past Shadows China’s Future | Foreign Affairs Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubdp8te6rd4
Israel recognized Somalia’s breakaway region, Somaliland, as an independent country. No other UN country has done so. Somaliland declared independence in 1991.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsmbBnHeVDk
Shirley posted videos of childcare centers than he claimed showed they were fraudulent because no one answered when he visited them, but many of them were active daycares, which don’t answer the doors to groups of men for security concerns. Both government investigations and real reporters who followed up on Shirley’s shoddy work found the daycare centers to be active centers taking care of kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=283r6-lUnP4
The West is losing its ability to win wars because: ,among other causes, they believe in fantasies that there will be a technical solution to winning tough wars that don’t involve great loss of life; they no longer have a demographic edge; and they don’t believe in the correctness and goodness of their overarching goals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlZ7cw_9pvc
Mark Cuban’s Blueprint for Affordable Healthcare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDnIYznB6kc
Ghost job posting is when companies post fake jobs for information, fraudulently posting a non-existent job where people who need work waste time applying for a fake job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OPU6byF8e4
Donald Trump said he lied about public health during Covid in order to prevent a panic. He said he played down the deadliness of Covid in order to not create a panic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2tIzp7cvqY
Medicare Advantage allows insurance companies to rip off the taxpayer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWXP9dUKdCw
In rare cases, modern vaccines have negative side effects, and under normal law, people can sue and sympathetic juries can reward huge sums of money. This would make vaccines unprofitable, and without vaccines many many people would die from a variety of diseases. Instead, in the 1980s, we set up a parallel system for vaccines where people with negative side effects can get a payment, but not an exorbitant sum from a normal lawsuit. This system is underfunded and understaffed and could use reform to keep up with claims, but throwing the system out risks for-profit vaccine companies ending the production of vaccines, resulting in many deaths. So, the system is needed, unless the government chooses to manufacture vaccines themselves. People can still sue vaccine manufacturers for negligence, but that is hard to prove.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JCtkwqa64c