American tax payers will now pay for a hospital ship which will be sent to Greenland, Trump claims on Truth Social.

[notsoloud@expressional.social]

@StOnSoftware
China is already sending solar cells, a longer term solution.
@randahl

[mhartle@mastodon.online]

@randahl I have a hard time understanding the intended audience and desired effect for that particular tweet on that channel.

His MAGA base? The American public without free healthcare? Greenlanders with free healthcare? The remaining European public with free healthcare?

[sr_antwerp@mastodon.social]

@randahl

Not entirely stupid.

Healthcare in Greenland is:

• Good and dependable for everyday medical needs and emergencies
• Well-organized given the extreme conditions
• ️ Not comparable to large European countries for specialist or high-tech care
• ️ Heavily dependent on evacuation to Denmark for complex treatment

[roenby@mastodon.social]

@randahl

[notsoloud@expressional.social]

@markus_falk
And there are no limits to this process? At all? Where?

Let's say the US government prints a trillion trillion trillion dollars tomorrow. They go shopping for a high speed rail network, health care for everyone, full cleanup of any polluted area, a completely new renewable energy system and throws in arts funding enough to generate a new Renaissance for good measure. Right now. At any cost.

There would be no rise in inflation?
@Vonskinnback @randahl

[markus_falk@rollenspiel.social]

@Vonskinnback @notsoloud @randahl many countries in the world function this way. This is how the Biden admin managed to get out of the Covid recession before.

The short story is, there are different schools in macro #economics and the dominating one favors the rich, small powerless governments, free markets and is afraid of government deficits. If you like to learn more you can start here: https://youtu.be/TANEzcjNDvc?si=huuKADzDJ_66JlnT

#neoliberalism

[eetschrijver@mastodon.social]

@randahl He knows they don't need it. He trusts that his moronic followers don't.

Also, Denmark won a speed skating medal! Glad you guys were so fast in taking my advice!

[markus_falk@rollenspiel.social]

@notsoloud @Vonskinnback @randahl

The amount of money governments like this can create has no limit.

Inflation becomes a problem when the resources a market can provide do not match that investment.
This is the real limit to government spending: the people doing the work, the missing specialists for difficult tasks, the materials that are needed, missing infrastructure and so on.

Anything a government can produce can always be financed.

[randal_silversword@mastodon.social]

@bonehead @randahl I totally agree

[beandev@social.tchncs.de]

@randahl
Fun fact: both hospital ships are currently under maintenance. It is not possible to send these to Greenland.
@isotopp

[kaithefox4@mastodon.uno]

@randahl what a sad day for being american... "fortunately" i'm italian

[elyastorah@ruhr.social]

@randahl My first (and only) thought was:
Trojan Horse.

[randahl@mastodon.social]

@Stephenleader nope.

[hermannus@stegodon.nl]

@Eetschrijver @randahl why doesn't anybody in the US get mad about this? You should have Dems in every news-channel/paper...
#ohwait ...

[jumpmed@mastodon.social]

@bougiewonderland @deadDuck @AnnieBuddy @randahl Cocaine on all the toilet seats!

[vampirdaddy@chaos.social]

@randahl
I am not aware of a hospital icebreaker existing anywhere in the world.

Besides that the US has only veryvery few arctic-capable ships anyway, none of them even remotely resembling a hospital ship. It has a reason why Greenland's/Denmark's marine mostly consists of coast patrol sized boats: ever tried evading the many icebergs around Greenland with a bigger ship?

(Edit : sentence had double parts had have)

[ikuturso@mastodon.social]

@randahl I wonder what the people of Greenland think when they see this...

[hettwolf@hessen.social]

@beandev @randahl @isotopp The ships' names are Mercy and Comfort. They're being overhauled in docks in Mobile, Alabama, a state where health officials prepare for a possible measles outbreak. Satire is dead.

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@randahl Maybe he meant "love boat", after he's seen the series during the night on TV. If you think I'm silly, compare the silliness with the original message - I can't win, I know it

[vonskinnback@mastodon.social]

@markus_falk @notsoloud @randahl thanks for this, I will give it a watch...