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The New Deal was a welfare system. Welfare has never made a country prosperous.

The success of free markets has been replicated many times:

1. the US

2. Japan after WW2

3. Germany after WW2

4. Hong Kong

5. China after it abandoned the cultural revolution

It has nothing to do with geography.

> America is at the top and that can't be replicated

It can be replicated.

> It might be collectivism!

Yet collectivism always fails. No country has managed to feed itself with collective farms, for example. And it isn't for lack of trying.

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> The New Deal was a welfare system. Welfare has never made a country prosperous.

> The success of free markets has been replicated many times:

> 1. the US

> 2. Japan after WW2

> 3. Germany after WW2

> 4. Hong Kong

> 5. China after it abandoned the cultural revolution

4 of those 5 countries have significant welfare programs (Japan and Germany being the most generous among those on your list).

> 4 of those 5 countries have significant welfare programs

Welfare does not correspond with prosperity. It's hard to see how paying people to not work contributes to prosperity.

Try harder then.

Supporting people who have trouble sourcing an income reduces the amount paid out to offset starving hordes doing whatever it takes to survive et al.

There's a balance.

So, you are saying it would be good to have people working? Kind of like, I don't know, propose a programm or policy to very strongly motivate them, for example like a law, to take essentail jobs? I don't know, maybe during wartime to meet production goals?

Just asking, because FDR wanted exactly that in his free market economy only produxing for the war effort to goverment set gials and prices in 1945.

Welfare programs mean that life expectabcy is higher, as is quality of life. The US for examole is loosong on both metrics against Europe and ither parts of the world with solid programs. Germanys ascent to economic hight can be in part be traced back to Soziale Marktwirtschaft, combining very solid welfare and social.programs with a free market economy.

The welfare administrators pay no price for being wrong and thus the waste, fraud, and abuse has collapsed them all, throughout all of history.

> Welfare programs mean that life expectabcy is higher, as is quality of life. The US for examole is loosong on both metrics against Europe and ither parts of the world with solid programs. Germanys ascent to economic hight can be in part be traced back to Soziale Marktwirtschaft, combining very solid welfare and social.programs with a free market economy.

You're just saying this when all the evidence is to the contrary. Is Ukraine depending on Germany or the US? (Rhetorical.)

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