I strongly suspect that if this boy was a girl and captain of the girl's netball team or something similar, the principal would have no problem with her success.
The principal shouldn't be involved at all. But a good coach will typically pull his best players when they've got an insurmountable lead to give his 2nd stringers some needed real-game practice/experience.
"I might be off a little bit..." Really? Then LOOK IT UP! He yammers on about how the banks have lost "half their profits" yet a moment before you say you don't know? You're making a video you can pause the damned video and actually do something called fact checking. Yes, that will interfere with making sweeping generalizations but trying to base your opinions on reality is what being an adult is about
Really? In a 5 minute video that's the only gripe you could pick up. That he openly admitted he wasn't sure of the exact amount which is actually not even that important? Must be a damn good video then.
@NoamTube No, it speaks to How the World Works (pretentious fap) is a slop artist who won't do his homework. This is why is videos are such a mess. He uses culture war dog whistles then hits his more simple minded viewers with libertard nonsense after they are in an emotional state. They have been conditioned so well that after hearing such dog whistles they stop thinking and obey whatever a right extremist says.
I agree with the principal! If that kid keeps getting touchdowns his opponents' self esteem may suffer, and as we all know, kids are delicate and oh-so precious. And it's much better to rig the results than to allow kids to experience losing. Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!
See below........ Vote forever. That to me is very sad. I've never heard a left wing person say " hey how can we help the poor get rich" it's always how can we help the poor with more welfare programs? Helping people starts with independence and self worth. We need jobs! 35 million people are on welfare 12 million are unemployed and there are 12 million(estimates) more illegals who work. Problemo!!!
@nathanielclark1981 That's very true, what you wrote. Thomas Sowell, (one of the most brilliant thinkers of our time, and incidentally "a sell-out" according to these same liberals) said that liberals only want to help the poor while they're poor. While conservatives want to help the poor get out of poverty. I would add that consequently, the poor pervceive the Democrats as being kinder to them, and reward them with votes. It's a perfect system: "We help the oppressed, and they elect us."
At my job there is absolutely no affirmative action...it's great! You're actually evaluated based on quality of task completion, attention to detail and your drive to work. US ARMY YOU DA BEST!!! Get rid of racism by ending subsidies... If you think people on welfare are poor... Not true! The notion of what "poverty" in this country is?Is to me hilarious. True poverty is lack of education not lack of basic cable, or organic food. When a political party keeps you poor because they want your vot
Telling the kid he can't score a certain number of points or to not do his best is like Warner Brothers telling Christopher Nolan his next film cannot have more than three good actors, the special effect have to be half-fast, and he can't direct the second half of it as well as the first half just to make Micheal Bay and Christopher Columbus feel better. It makes no sense and makes less money for Warner Brothers because less people will go see the movie.
if the right wing was only a 10th as adamant about an even playing field for rich kids, being born with a spoon up your ass in a plutocracy - now isnt this much more limiting for ones chance to achieve personal success than any affirmative action?
@random0815 Really, so you are saying that us poor (poverty level and lower) are completely incapable of ever learning a new skills set and having any chance in the world because we're poor? Check out my channel before you answer, and watch the uploads in order. .... yeah, I am proud of my achievements, more so because I have a $90 computer to do that on.
@KittenKoder well you should be proud, that is very impressive, did a bit of animation myself, this is great work, you are certainly an exceptional talent and a hard worker (i know its a lot of work), but you certainly wouldnt want me to judge your art solely on the base of it being created on a $90 computer? its certainly additional merit but not necessary for the product, imo the duty of the state is to create level playing fields to enable competition
@random0815 First, yes I would want you to judge my skill on what I can do using inferior equipment. Using a $15,000 computer I could rock your world with less skill, but doing that same level on a $90 inferior computer ... that takes a LOT more skill. So no, it's no one's "duty" to level the playing field, it's already level. What's wrong is the perception that money = skill ... no, I hate money defining my skill in any way.
@KittenKoder well then id say you are a gimmick artist afraid of real competition, if everyone gets a decent computer no one has the excuse or can get extra credit for having a cheap computer
also you are perpetrating the lie of the gifted and successful, not everybody who succeeds is a hard worker, some people are just gifted and/or have this golden spoon up their ass, not just money-wise, even if you arent latter you dont see the difference and you dnt distance yourself from them
@KittenKoder you are good enough to succeed on a non-level playing field, what about those who arent that good, fuck them? they dont deserve the even playing field with the unmeritedly privileged ones?
@random0815 Exactly. If they can't succeed they don't have enough skill, drive, or love for it, they need to focus on something they can succeed. Not everyone can paint the Mona Lisa.
victim of your own logic: so being accepted at a racist college should be a merit on its own? shouldnt your accomplishment at the actual college count? problem is you have to get there to proof yourself in the first place
affirmative action is not about limiting what you can achieve on the field, its about giving everybody the chance to play
They should move the kid up a level in the football league. move him to the C team or JV(I have no idea what league he's in so i don't know what level they should move him to) so he can be challenged.
hmm....how about this example. What if you were playing a football game, and for every touchdown YOU scored, u were awarded 7 pts....but for every touchdown the opposition scored, they were awarded 20 pts. Would that be fair, or is that okay to u?
But isn't the PURPOSE of a sport (especially for Jr. high students) to have fun as a group by working as a team? This handicap seems reasonable at the non-competitive level and it stillenables them to improve: the talented boy and the remainder of the team gain experience using the rich diversity of other strategies. He's nit being told he can't score; they're forcing them to not use the same play 14 times in a row.
@micahstork why doesnt the other team just play the same 14 plays in a row if it works so well? the truth is that even if it doesnt matter now it will matter in the future and he will be more "team player" than badass when his team would love him just as much in the future if all he did was kick ass and make touchdowns...
Only issue I have was the argument that a student getting into a school because of affirmative action would degrade the achievement of someone who got in solely because of their grades.
Don't like banking fees? DON'T USE YOUR DEBIT CARD! There's a new invention called CA$H!!! I love how everyone wants something for nothing...and how we blame the Banks for federal regulations that end up hurting the consumer...BLAME THE FED, it's the root of most consumer angst.
@dustyrhoads1 It's not for nothing we're allowing the bank to use our money for whatever purpose they wish or investment with the trust that we will get it back and for allowing them to use it we should be paid interest and no fees. Just like if you need some money you can borrow it from the bank, which is essentially the same as borrowing it from your neighbors cause where else you think the money came from...
Banks Fuck us in the ASS....government tells them to stop fucking us in the ass.......Banks still end up Fucking us in the ASS by coming in at another angle (adding a fee to make up for lost profits)....THAT'S JUST GREAT....
Banks are JUST USING THIS AS AN EXCUSE TO RAISE REVENUE! the banks make billions in profits. And NOT ALL BANKS ARE DOING IT. the reason why Bank Of America is doing this is because they are under water... The bailout did not work.
I understand that this is a conservative channel and all but some of the people in the comments section have a really warped view of liberals. Trust me, if liberals were half as good at destroying the world as some people think they are we would all be toiling away in reeducation camps years ago.
@howtheworldworks I Am actually a liberal, but I am shocked that our liberal-controlled government would put such a thing into the bill. Under the old system, those 40 cents would be evenly distributed to the price of goods, causing those who buy MORE STUFF end up paying the MAJORITY of the bill. Under the new system, somebody who is barely scraping by, and only makes a few transactions monthly pays the SAME AMOUNT ($5 monthly) as a rich person who buys anything he wants
Well the kid actually came out and said he thinks it's a good thing. And it is harmful, in that the offense of the runner and defense of the opposing team essentially would get a handful of plays the entire game, cause the other half of their teams would be on the field the whole game.
Hmmm, bad things happen after price controls? Where have I seen this before, oh yeah, EVERY TIME it's been tried. (i.e. rent control, gas control, food control)
Whenever liberals smile and sign policies you can be sure it's going to make things worse.
It's not just fairness...I've read this somewhere, and i agree, that there appears to be a hatred in the leftist psychology of everything that has the image of strenght and success or actually is strong and successfull. That's where the paranoid elements in the fight against discrimination come from, that's why there are crazy decisions such as the one that principle made, and that's why there is this witch hunt in general. It's equality of outcome, not opportunity, that is the sickness.
@ComeLeVent I hope you understand how ridiculous it sounds to try and make a psychological analysis of half the country. I think you just haven't bothered trying to understand the other side.
@Bleuski3 Yes, maybe i should have specified: the harted of strength and success applies to the more radical portion of the left - not to everybody who calls himself a leftist. These particular leftists tend to be bigoted in the name of fighting bigotry, so that's why.
@ComeLeVent Still, if you think any significant number of people actually "hate strength and success" then you're just not making an effort to understand the arguments being made.
That doesn't mean i don't look at arguments. I think you reject my argument a priori on the basis that it seems to absurd an insult to you, but you're wrong about that.
@ComeLeVent I reject it "a priori" because you're suggesting that people inexplicably hate inherently good traits in and of themselves.
It would be like saying that there appears to be a hatred of community and humanity in the psychology of the right; it's obviously a little more complicated than that.
@ComeLeVent Most of them are minorities on welfare who don't want to do anything and continually punish those who do. Ironic thing is that successful people pay their checks.
The 11 year old was okay with it, they deemed that the other kids needed to learn how to play too. And he can play next year with no problems, this rule was instated years back for another player who was very good too.
@JoeAuriun ok and an eleven year old is going to tell his principle no. lets see that happen. the other kids will get better based on how hard THEY try not how hard HE tries!
@JoeAuriun Um did watch the video. and what a kid SAY and what he THINKS are different things altogether! how does it make sense in the slightest? you get better at practice not the game day. its the coaches responsibility to train these kids with drills and what not. if you had ever played football you would know game day is 1% of the work.
MIT did a study recently that showed black sounding names got 50% less call backs than white sounding names for job interviews. Think we still dont need affirmative action?
@TheWordOfLife1 Thanks for the comment, but I wasn't trolling. My intention was pure. All I wanted to do, was enlighten some people to how banks work, and that BAC's justification for increasing their fee by $5 is no justification at all. People also don't realize that they can go to their bank, and dispute the fee increase, and the branch manager has the discretion to waive that fee. People don't have to accept the abuse, and they don't have to transfer banks, either. Cont'd...
@TheWordOfLife1 Cont'd 1...If someone has a relationship with BAC, via mortgage, credit cards, loans, investments, bank accounts etc, Bank of America will do whatever they can to keep you as a client. And, if a client comes in with legitimate concerns over the $5 fee, then the FEE CAN BE WAIVED.
The fee is not necessary, and if anyone would like some free advice on how they can approach their bank, I am willing to help them. I have absolutely nothing to gain by this. Cont'd...
@TheWordOfLife1 Cont'd 2... The problem with the pricks on this channel, is that they don't give a shit about hearing solutions, or how they can improve their situation. All they care about is mindlessly supporting Lee, and his spin on the existing government. They aren't part of the solution, they are part of the problem. And I don't get intimidated easily, and I'm willing to stoop.
I'm not on the left, and I'm not here to criticize the right. Thanks again for letting me explain myself.
LEE: I like Wal-Mart, but if I remember right, they et al big businesses lobbied for this price control in Dod-Frank. Liberals are supposedly up-in-arms over crony capitalism, if that's the case then why the heck did they insert this? I don't have to tell you that price controls are counterproductive. After repealing ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank should be next.
Whoever is marking @DoYerBest's comments as spam, please stop.
It's an insult to the meat, hell it's also an insult to unsolicited bulk messages.
Spam meat is nourishing. Spam messages are entertaining and at least you might find SOME that have a benefit. @DoYerBest's comments are mindless repetition of an assumption of righteousness without any cohesive thought, wasting everyone's time.
His position: "You don't have freedom. Why? Because I said so."
@NativeNewMexican You have no idea how much enjoyment I get, to read your last post. I can sense the inner tantrum just going nuts inside, you. When people like you, are out argued by people like me, people like you have nothing left to do, but call names. I love a sore loser!
Funniest thing is, you really had nothing to present at all, and all you could come up with is, because Bank of America is free to do whatever they want, including steal from the people. Man, you are one dum 40yr old
@NativeNewMexican Wtf? Dude, you marked the wrong comment as spam. You marked one of your comments, not mine. Can you be any more busted than you are right now? I'm not even laughing anymore. This is just sad, now...
@NativeNewMexican and I wasn't laughing at your age as a debate tactic. I was laughing at your age because of the juvenile games you were playing, and the immature comments you were posting. That type of behavior is not becoming of a man of your years. But, now I realize I've been arguing with a mental midget, and that makes me sad.
@NativeNewMexican I didn't notice any of my comments marked as spam?? It must be just on your computer! HAHAHAHAHA. You marked my comments as Spam, just so you can crack your joke! HAHAHAHA busted! Do you send yourself love notes too? HAHAHAHA
Bank of America is justified in increasing their monthly debit card fee by $5 because it's a private company and they have freedom to charge for their services what they see fit, just as you have freedom to not buy their services.
The Government of the United States was NOT justified in bailing out Bank of America or ANY other institution.
Failure to separate the two issues is intellectual dishonesty.
@NativeNewMexican "Bank of America is justified in increasing their monthly debit card fee by $5 because it's a private company"
Trading on the NYSE makes them a public company, and they received 97 billion of public money, to stay in business. And for a company whose common shares are worth 62 billion, that represents more than 100% of the controlling value. Every decision they make should technically involve public approval, or, they should file for bankruptcy.
@DoYerBest In the way that I used the term private, I was referring to it as _NOT OWNED BY THE GOV'T_
Who cares if it's traded, those that have been licensed to make decisions have legitimately made these decisions as allowed by the owners of the stock.
Seriously, how ridiculous of a point was that to bring up?
@NativeNewMexican "1. We are guaranteed the right to LIBERTY. How is LIBERTY for the bank owners guaranteed when you FORCE them to not offer their services with the costs that they wish?"
- I have 97 billion reasons.
Your idea of freedom is not freedom. It's anarchy, and willful injustice. And the fact that you keep rewording "because they can", and "take it or leave it" in all of your posts is a little funny.
@NativeNewMexican LMAO What are you talkin about?! Even if I agreed that the bailout was wrong, which I do agree, I knew it was wrong the moment GEORGE BUSH signed off on it, you've completely failed to present how placing price controls on BAC is also wrong.
Whatever dude, don't bother answering that. Your "take it or leave it" argument is well documented.
@DoYerBest It's wrong because it's denying someone freedom. If I am not free to sell my services for the rates that I wish, I do not have freedom. The same is true for the owners of BOA. How hard is this to understand?
NEXT? Is that your attempt to say, "I win by declaration" What a joke.
@DoYerBest i don't think i want to touch that mind. i don't know what it would look like, i'm not a banker, but the point is, violence doesn't solve problems, and tax is theft, the conversation should stop there
1) Banks make money from 2 times in a retail transaction 1) the retailer and 2) the consumer. What reason do they have to pass the burden of their decrease in profit from the retailer to the consumer, when they are already making generous profits from the consumer in every transaction.
BECAUSE THEY HAVE FREEDOM. JUST AS YOU HAVE FREEDOM TO NOT USE THEIR SERVICE. Don't like it, go elsewhere.
Explain this to me:
1. We are guaranteed the right to LIBERTY. How is LIBERTY for the bank owners guaranteed when you FORCE them to not offer their services with the costs that they wish?
2) How would they justify the $5 fee increase to their clients who DO NOT use their debit card for retail transactions? Instead they go to a bank machine once a week, and withdraw their weekly budget and pay cash for everything. Those people aren't using the debit card retail services, and yet they have to pay for the decrease the bank is getting from retailers? How's that fair to those people?
Yes, I can. If you don't want to pay the fee, get a different bank or use cash. If you don't want to pay what someone is asking for in order to receive their service, you have no right to send guys with guns to force them to do it for free.
Yes, I can. If you don't want to pay the fee, get a different bank or use cash. If you don't want to pay what someone is asking for in order to receive their service, you have no right to send guys with guns to force them to do it for free.
@NativeNewMexican Your point is invalid. Your point is, "take it or leave it", and "because they can", and those are not valid justifications for a company who took 97 billion of public money to stay in business. Those are reasons a bully gives to someone whom they just took their lunch money from.
To present an opposing argument to mine, try finishing this statement:
Bank of America is justified in increasing their monthly debit card fee by $5 because...
Wait wait wait.. so you are saying now because they limited how much banks charge business they charge the consumer because it is "to much". So basically you are saying they should be able to stab businesses anytime they want but because of this it is Ok to do it to the consumer? Banks make plenty as it is now they want to charge us to hold our money? Yea no Thanks.
Lee is absolutely right, but i will add one thing that he missed.
Operation Twist, by the Federal Reserve will actually hinder bank profits in the future, and thus BofA (BAC) needed to collect greater revenue in some other way. It sucks, but its necessary (to them at least). People dont realize how much trouble Bank of America is in.
Just a heads up from an insider, they're in a lot of trouble, and if the upcoming recession I'm forecasting comes true, Bank of America will no longer exist.
Is it just me or did Lee choose to talk about this otherwise random football story as a really roundabout way of defending rich people who are "successful?"
Um, it is an accurate parallel. "He's just too damn good, we can't compete, it's not FAIR!" Fuck that. Self righteous losers wanting nothing but to bring down the guy who has the skill and the motivation to succeed. Nevermind the fact that he drives those behind him to push themselves, to become more than they would have been with their complacent self righteous "everyone is equal" nannies.
@NativeNewMexican - exactly. This is purely a case of the meek whining about people with talent, skill or a work ethic. But we live in a culture now where you're punished for being successful, smart, talented or a hard worker. And who wants to punish these people? The losers and the lazy. This is akin to the "everyone gets a trophy" or "we don't keep score" absurdity. We are breeding generations of whiners, losers and the lazy.
@NativeNewMexican Does that have something to do with taxing corporations and high earners? I ask because the only place I've seen the kind of exaggerated socialist persona you're imagining is in the right-wing propaganda opposing such taxes and regulations.
It seems like the football story is just a straw man that grossly oversimplifies our economic system.
The football story is similar, it's not exact, but it shares the same principle.
What is it that prOGREssives have against freedom? How is it that they get so jaded with the idea that people can actually succeed without making it impossible for others to do the same? Why do they empower governments to regulate industries when the only result is the inevitable corruption of the regulators by the regulated creating cartels, monopolies, and kickbacks? Why do they punish success?
You're correct, the ad hominem was unnecessary. That being said, the rest of the questions are valid. You don't want to debate them or answer them, because the truth bears them out. Redistribution of wealth, a progressive idea, punishes success and is based on an irrational belief that there's a limited amount of wealth. Regulations and oversight when done through free markets have far less corruption and are far more effective, but progressives insist that gov't must do it.
@NativeNewMexican "You don't want to debate them or answer them, because the truth bears them out."
No, like I said they're loaded questions. I don't accept the premises. It would be like someone asking "Why do Conservatives hate the poor and middle class? Why do they want to deregulate banks and corporations even after they ruined the economy? Why do they think the free market will solve everything when it obviously doesn't?"
Spewing talking points in question form doesn't lend them credence.
If you believe that it was a GOOD thing that this child was oppressed, please watch a movie based on Kurt Vonnegut's book called Harrison Bergeron. It's on Youtube with part 1 starting at watch?v=XmEOI5zwFMM
It shows what society really becomes when we hinder exceptionalism.
I say that every kid that gets more than 3 A's on a report card has to donate the rest to kids that are getting F's and accept their F's as a move towards equality.
Isn't it funny that when you apply forced equality to athletics, you get a different reaction than you would if you applied it to academics.
My girlfriend grew up in Sweden in the late seventies. She was a top grade student always ahead of rest of the class. She would often comment on how her teachers would always comment to her after every exam/ report card, "Don't think you are better then anyone else!" in the harshest manner possible.
She talks about growing up with this burden with great bitterness and eventually left Sweden. Reminds me of Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron.
@Dontwantlove They are like that in Sweden. I moved here officially to be with my fiance who has lived here for 20+ years. He warned me about how they are here. I can attend Swedish for Immigrant classes here to learn Swedish, but they require you to be in class for 20+ hours a week at odd hours. I could go for 5 hours a week and be ahead of the class and ace any test in about 15mins. Instead of advancing me they got upset that I wasn't in class wasting 20 hours each week & kicked me out.
@verlouria You´ve got all my support and don´t be discouraged. Believe me, I know how it is..
We are currently living and working in Spain where this is pushed even harder..
This leftish ideal of pushing equality mixed with a deep-rooted cultural tendency towards envy makes for quite a cocktail. Working and living here is extremly complicated.. and the loathing of excellence here is even comical.
@Dontwantlove I would be interested in hearing some of these comical situations! That would make a great video if you could ever catch any in action or just talk about them!
@verlouria Ok, just because you asked me... These stories are not made up ( I wish they were).
I had a meeting with a British HR manager who doesn´t speak spanish. My boss is from Madrid and hardly speaks english, and insisted to act as a translator between me and the brit.
In other words, he was a spanish guy acting as a translator between me (a U.S. citizen forced to speak in spanish) and a Brit, just so he could show that he knew two words of english. The meeting was obviously a disaster.
2- The general lack of success (except for rare exceptions) of the spanish movie industry is a big burden for the general public here in Spain...
Whenever mentioned the failure of any given film made here (which is always subsidized by the government), the usual response is "Americans have it so easy. They just make entertaining movies with interesting plot-lines and good actors. That way, anybody can do it.."
I swear this is true, it would be too difficult for me to make up.
@Dontwantlove 1 of 2 Ha Ha! WOW! I cannot believe the first one that is unbelievable! WOW! I am totally floored by that. I have no response for the 2nd one. I just have to shake my head and shake it some more. I like to believe its impossible to throw everyone on an even playing field, some people were just born with the need to excel. Its something you would have to beat out of most, and even then you'll probably just make the drive even greater. I read an article some time ago ...
@Dontwantlove 2 of 2 ... by a child psychologist about this new trend in her young adult patients. Basically she was having 20-25 year olds coming into her office extremely depressed. She couldn't figure out why they all claimed to have wonderful child hoods, did well in school, & so on. Then, she started to dig deeper. She found the problem was basically the parents were the child's best friend and NEVER allowed them to be bad at something and protected them from disappointment. I'll send link.
I've seriously considered homeschooling my kids so they don't get mentally fucked by the public school system. Rewarding failure and punishing achievement seems to be the new American way. And the laughable position of the Left now is to culturally sterilize every school, prohibit them from saying "Merry Christmas," and then tell the kids to be culturally sensitive.
In the words of Abraham Lincoln, "You cannot make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak." But also, to best develop this kids ability, they should have him playing with older kids.
If you're the speaker and happen to be white or from a middle class background, hardcore members of the social justice arena will discount everything you have to say. Their view is we live in a society that's not fair to the minority due to the fact that higher percentage of minorities live in poverty than whites.
The Harrison Bergeron crap that goes on these days is not new. When I was playing baseball in jr. high, I had a very good ERA (1.40) by the middle of the season. My specialty was an inside curve, which I practiced for weeks before the season began. I was told not to make that pitch because it "scared" hitters and they couldn't hit the ball. I hadn't beaned a player since Little League. Getting rid of that pitch killed my average.
They can't just accept to take the cost themselves and not try to keep the same profit?
LMAO this whole system is going to fail, it expects perpetual growth indefinitely. It was good while it lasted though, we had a lot of good decades in America :)
You won't find many people here who agree with you that Dodd-Frank is bad legislation, and that those poor woebegone banks needs to jack up user fees just to get their money back from the big bad government. Not many people feel sorry for bankers, sniffle sniffle. Nice try though.
Re: The Durbin amendment. I might chalk that up to the Law of Unintended Consequences, but I suspect this is a feature, not a bug. get people hating the banks, and you can use them for campaign scapegoats.
Re: The 11 year old football player. Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Begeron" 'is the dystopian logical conclusion of this trend.. ='[.]'=
@Vintexen um, 12 points is two touchdowns. You have a chance to kick for an additional point or go for a two point conversion; the touchdown itself is worth only 6 points.
Just DUMP the major banks and put your money in a good credit union. Why are people so stupid and let a bank charge them to use their own money? All while paying them nothing for having it in the first place? People are stupid... Plain and simple.
I hate this retarded argument. "They are charging me to use my money durrrr!"
No they are offering a service which costs them money, and competition lowers prices. If a Bank offers free Debit cards others will follow. They aren't charging you to use your money, they are charging you for the service of using ATM's. You are not entitled to free ATM use. The machines, the printing of the cards, service, infrastructure all costs money.
I strongly suspect that if this boy was a girl and captain of the girl's netball team or something similar, the principal would have no problem with her success.
VinnyMonster1 21 hours ago
The principal shouldn't be involved at all. But a good coach will typically pull his best players when they've got an insurmountable lead to give his 2nd stringers some needed real-game practice/experience.
nothingmemorable 1 day ago
@nothingmemorable yep it should be left to the Coach not the Principal.
og100glesuxbadly 14 hours ago
so what does banking have to do with 11year old not being allowed to score?
TrueBlueCanuck 2 days ago
"I might be off a little bit..." Really? Then LOOK IT UP! He yammers on about how the banks have lost "half their profits" yet a moment before you say you don't know? You're making a video you can pause the damned video and actually do something called fact checking. Yes, that will interfere with making sweeping generalizations but trying to base your opinions on reality is what being an adult is about
colddrake80 1 week ago
@colddrake80
Really? In a 5 minute video that's the only gripe you could pick up. That he openly admitted he wasn't sure of the exact amount which is actually not even that important? Must be a damn good video then.
NoamTube 2 days ago
@NoamTube No, it speaks to How the World Works (pretentious fap) is a slop artist who won't do his homework. This is why is videos are such a mess. He uses culture war dog whistles then hits his more simple minded viewers with libertard nonsense after they are in an emotional state. They have been conditioned so well that after hearing such dog whistles they stop thinking and obey whatever a right extremist says.
Sloppy and lazy.
colddrake80 2 days ago
The principal had good intentions, he felt that other players we're ignored and underappreciated. But he totally handled it the wrong way.
zzman305 2 weeks ago 2
@zzman305 If you listen to the video carefully (I admit I had to track back to make sure of it) the Principal in question is female.
VinnyMonster1 21 hours ago
I agree with the principal! If that kid keeps getting touchdowns his opponents' self esteem may suffer, and as we all know, kids are delicate and oh-so precious. And it's much better to rig the results than to allow kids to experience losing. Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!
koyunbaba73 4 weeks ago
@koyunbaba73 Are you Fucking serious? Please tell me your joking.
TRUMPHMAN 2 weeks ago
@TRUMPHMAN Of course he's not serious. The sarcasm is just oozing out of that post. You got Asperger's or something?
StewieSwan 2 weeks ago
@StewieSwan With all the Libtards on youtube you can't be to sure.
TRUMPHMAN 2 weeks ago
@TRUMPHMAN STFU you nazi
FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7 2 days ago
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TRUMPHMAN 2 days ago
@FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7 STFU you ball licking libtard.
TRUMPHMAN 2 days ago
@TRUMPHMAN why do your nazis love to talk about balls? i support you gays but i think talking about your sex life is too much
FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7 1 day ago
@FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7 Did you roll out from under your boyfriend to type that?
TRUMPHMAN 1 day ago
@TRUMPHMAN Again with the perverseness.
FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7 1 day ago
@TRUMPHMAN Man, you need help. You are a fucking pervert
FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7 10 hours ago
@FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7 You fuck young boys and have the nerve to call me a pervert?
TRUMPHMAN 2 hours ago
@TRUMPHMAN Yes, I'm joking. But I have met people who would say seriously what I wrote in jest. I think they spawn at PTA meetings.
koyunbaba73 2 weeks ago
@koyunbaba73 I get it and agree with you.
TRUMPHMAN 2 weeks ago
See below........ Vote forever. That to me is very sad. I've never heard a left wing person say " hey how can we help the poor get rich" it's always how can we help the poor with more welfare programs? Helping people starts with independence and self worth. We need jobs! 35 million people are on welfare 12 million are unemployed and there are 12 million(estimates) more illegals who work. Problemo!!!
nathanielclark1981 1 month ago
@nathanielclark1981 That's very true, what you wrote. Thomas Sowell, (one of the most brilliant thinkers of our time, and incidentally "a sell-out" according to these same liberals) said that liberals only want to help the poor while they're poor. While conservatives want to help the poor get out of poverty. I would add that consequently, the poor pervceive the Democrats as being kinder to them, and reward them with votes. It's a perfect system: "We help the oppressed, and they elect us."
koyunbaba73 2 weeks ago
At my job there is absolutely no affirmative action...it's great! You're actually evaluated based on quality of task completion, attention to detail and your drive to work. US ARMY YOU DA BEST!!! Get rid of racism by ending subsidies... If you think people on welfare are poor... Not true! The notion of what "poverty" in this country is?Is to me hilarious. True poverty is lack of education not lack of basic cable, or organic food. When a political party keeps you poor because they want your vot
nathanielclark1981 1 month ago
Telling the kid he can't score a certain number of points or to not do his best is like Warner Brothers telling Christopher Nolan his next film cannot have more than three good actors, the special effect have to be half-fast, and he can't direct the second half of it as well as the first half just to make Micheal Bay and Christopher Columbus feel better. It makes no sense and makes less money for Warner Brothers because less people will go see the movie.
drnogood59 1 month ago
Affirmative action is bullshit! How in the fucking world are we going to rid of racism when skin color dominates everything we do?
MetalSights 1 month ago
if the right wing was only a 10th as adamant about an even playing field for rich kids, being born with a spoon up your ass in a plutocracy - now isnt this much more limiting for ones chance to achieve personal success than any affirmative action?
random0815 1 month ago
@random0815 Really, so you are saying that us poor (poverty level and lower) are completely incapable of ever learning a new skills set and having any chance in the world because we're poor? Check out my channel before you answer, and watch the uploads in order. .... yeah, I am proud of my achievements, more so because I have a $90 computer to do that on.
KittenKoder 1 month ago
@KittenKoder well you should be proud, that is very impressive, did a bit of animation myself, this is great work, you are certainly an exceptional talent and a hard worker (i know its a lot of work), but you certainly wouldnt want me to judge your art solely on the base of it being created on a $90 computer? its certainly additional merit but not necessary for the product, imo the duty of the state is to create level playing fields to enable competition
random0815 1 month ago
@random0815 First, yes I would want you to judge my skill on what I can do using inferior equipment. Using a $15,000 computer I could rock your world with less skill, but doing that same level on a $90 inferior computer ... that takes a LOT more skill. So no, it's no one's "duty" to level the playing field, it's already level. What's wrong is the perception that money = skill ... no, I hate money defining my skill in any way.
KittenKoder 1 month ago
@KittenKoder well then id say you are a gimmick artist afraid of real competition, if everyone gets a decent computer no one has the excuse or can get extra credit for having a cheap computer
also you are perpetrating the lie of the gifted and successful, not everybody who succeeds is a hard worker, some people are just gifted and/or have this golden spoon up their ass, not just money-wise, even if you arent latter you dont see the difference and you dnt distance yourself from them
random0815 1 month ago
@KittenKoder you are good enough to succeed on a non-level playing field, what about those who arent that good, fuck them? they dont deserve the even playing field with the unmeritedly privileged ones?
random0815 1 month ago
@random0815 Exactly. If they can't succeed they don't have enough skill, drive, or love for it, they need to focus on something they can succeed. Not everyone can paint the Mona Lisa.
KittenKoder 1 month ago
victim of your own logic: so being accepted at a racist college should be a merit on its own? shouldnt your accomplishment at the actual college count? problem is you have to get there to proof yourself in the first place
affirmative action is not about limiting what you can achieve on the field, its about giving everybody the chance to play
random0815 1 month ago
They should move the kid up a level in the football league. move him to the C team or JV(I have no idea what league he's in so i don't know what level they should move him to) so he can be challenged.
redbarron718 1 month ago
hmm....how about this example. What if you were playing a football game, and for every touchdown YOU scored, u were awarded 7 pts....but for every touchdown the opposition scored, they were awarded 20 pts. Would that be fair, or is that okay to u?
flipgood89 3 months ago
But isn't the PURPOSE of a sport (especially for Jr. high students) to have fun as a group by working as a team? This handicap seems reasonable at the non-competitive level and it stillenables them to improve: the talented boy and the remainder of the team gain experience using the rich diversity of other strategies. He's nit being told he can't score; they're forcing them to not use the same play 14 times in a row.
micahstork 4 months ago
@micahstork why doesnt the other team just play the same 14 plays in a row if it works so well? the truth is that even if it doesnt matter now it will matter in the future and he will be more "team player" than badass when his team would love him just as much in the future if all he did was kick ass and make touchdowns...
BEcartercole 4 months ago in playlist Videos from HowTheWorldWorks
Only issue I have was the argument that a student getting into a school because of affirmative action would degrade the achievement of someone who got in solely because of their grades.
jwickard 4 months ago
Banks, lol what a joke. If you still have one that's pretty funny. I put most of my money at a credit union where I am a member.
gotitans999 4 months ago in playlist More videos from HowTheWorldWorks
you are awesome
BabyEater9000 4 months ago
Have you ever heard of Clark Howard? You should be his second hand man. the Joe Blow Amendment should insure that employment.
BallsInYourJawsBitch 4 months ago
What the hell?? Let the kid SCORE!!
Jean0987654321 4 months ago 13
@Jean0987654321 That just sounds wrong in a different context.
IamaRifle 2 weeks ago
Don't like banking fees? DON'T USE YOUR DEBIT CARD! There's a new invention called CA$H!!! I love how everyone wants something for nothing...and how we blame the Banks for federal regulations that end up hurting the consumer...BLAME THE FED, it's the root of most consumer angst.
dustyrhoads1 4 months ago 13
@dustyrhoads1
Very well said. There's nothing intrinsically corrupt about banks themselves. CENTRAL banks are dangerous because they represent CENTRALIZED power.
The problem isn't the banks; it's the fed.
Just like the problem isn't capitalism; it's corporatism and fascism.
Cheers.
ResistDeception 4 months ago
@dustyrhoads1 It's not for nothing we're allowing the bank to use our money for whatever purpose they wish or investment with the trust that we will get it back and for allowing them to use it we should be paid interest and no fees. Just like if you need some money you can borrow it from the bank, which is essentially the same as borrowing it from your neighbors cause where else you think the money came from...
LCaesars92AAA04 3 months ago
Banks Fuck us in the ASS....government tells them to stop fucking us in the ass.......Banks still end up Fucking us in the ASS by coming in at another angle (adding a fee to make up for lost profits)....THAT'S JUST GREAT....
phester061594452 4 months ago
Oh no, we're discouraging the use of credit. What forced us into this situation in the first place?
pnarey 4 months ago
Banks are JUST USING THIS AS AN EXCUSE TO RAISE REVENUE! the banks make billions in profits. And NOT ALL BANKS ARE DOING IT. the reason why Bank Of America is doing this is because they are under water... The bailout did not work.
politicaljuda 4 months ago in playlist More videos from HowTheWorldWorks
I understand that this is a conservative channel and all but some of the people in the comments section have a really warped view of liberals. Trust me, if liberals were half as good at destroying the world as some people think they are we would all be toiling away in reeducation camps years ago.
fanaticmoron 5 months ago
@howtheworldworks I Am actually a liberal, but I am shocked that our liberal-controlled government would put such a thing into the bill. Under the old system, those 40 cents would be evenly distributed to the price of goods, causing those who buy MORE STUFF end up paying the MAJORITY of the bill. Under the new system, somebody who is barely scraping by, and only makes a few transactions monthly pays the SAME AMOUNT ($5 monthly) as a rich person who buys anything he wants
gohoggyourself 5 months ago
@gohoggyourself correction, the 20 cents or so still gets factored in, but my point still stands.
gohoggyourself 5 months ago
Well the kid actually came out and said he thinks it's a good thing. And it is harmful, in that the offense of the runner and defense of the opposing team essentially would get a handful of plays the entire game, cause the other half of their teams would be on the field the whole game.
gohoggyourself 5 months ago
What happened to the American Dream?
ButlerLewis 5 months ago
If Affirmative action was targeting black people or mexicans everyone would have a problem with it. Pro Affirmative action means anti-white.
Luigi84289 5 months ago
Hmmm, bad things happen after price controls? Where have I seen this before, oh yeah, EVERY TIME it's been tried. (i.e. rent control, gas control, food control)
Whenever liberals smile and sign policies you can be sure it's going to make things worse.
bsharker 5 months ago
It's not just fairness...I've read this somewhere, and i agree, that there appears to be a hatred in the leftist psychology of everything that has the image of strenght and success or actually is strong and successfull. That's where the paranoid elements in the fight against discrimination come from, that's why there are crazy decisions such as the one that principle made, and that's why there is this witch hunt in general. It's equality of outcome, not opportunity, that is the sickness.
ComeLeVent 5 months ago
@ComeLeVent I hope you understand how ridiculous it sounds to try and make a psychological analysis of half the country. I think you just haven't bothered trying to understand the other side.
Bleuski3 5 months ago
@Bleuski3 Yes, maybe i should have specified: the harted of strength and success applies to the more radical portion of the left - not to everybody who calls himself a leftist. These particular leftists tend to be bigoted in the name of fighting bigotry, so that's why.
ComeLeVent 5 months ago
@ComeLeVent Still, if you think any significant number of people actually "hate strength and success" then you're just not making an effort to understand the arguments being made.
Bleuski3 5 months ago
That doesn't mean i don't look at arguments. I think you reject my argument a priori on the basis that it seems to absurd an insult to you, but you're wrong about that.
ComeLeVent 5 months ago
@ComeLeVent I reject it "a priori" because you're suggesting that people inexplicably hate inherently good traits in and of themselves.
It would be like saying that there appears to be a hatred of community and humanity in the psychology of the right; it's obviously a little more complicated than that.
Bleuski3 5 months ago
@ComeLeVent Most of them are minorities on welfare who don't want to do anything and continually punish those who do. Ironic thing is that successful people pay their checks.
Luigi84289 5 months ago
The 11 year old was okay with it, they deemed that the other kids needed to learn how to play too. And he can play next year with no problems, this rule was instated years back for another player who was very good too.
JoeAuriun 5 months ago
@JoeAuriun ok and an eleven year old is going to tell his principle no. lets see that happen. the other kids will get better based on how hard THEY try not how hard HE tries!
gibblets17 5 months ago
@gibblets17 I'm not kidding, watch the news video. The kid was okay with it. Everyone was okay with it and it made sense why it happened.
JoeAuriun 5 months ago
@JoeAuriun Um did watch the video. and what a kid SAY and what he THINKS are different things altogether! how does it make sense in the slightest? you get better at practice not the game day. its the coaches responsibility to train these kids with drills and what not. if you had ever played football you would know game day is 1% of the work.
gibblets17 4 months ago
Socialdemocracy, or liberalism, is the perfect thief of dreams and hope.
larsiemannen 5 months ago
MIT did a study recently that showed black sounding names got 50% less call backs than white sounding names for job interviews. Think we still dont need affirmative action?
Farf420 5 months ago
@Farf420 Yes, we dont need it.
brreed82 5 months ago
@Farf420 That just proves Liberal Universities are Racist.
Nationofhonor 5 months ago
@Farf420
Did the study focus on credentials, or did it just focus on what MIT considered "black sounding names?"
elsquibbs 5 months ago
@DoYerBest haha, nice trolling.
TheWordOfLife1 5 months ago
@TheWordOfLife1 Thanks for the comment, but I wasn't trolling. My intention was pure. All I wanted to do, was enlighten some people to how banks work, and that BAC's justification for increasing their fee by $5 is no justification at all. People also don't realize that they can go to their bank, and dispute the fee increase, and the branch manager has the discretion to waive that fee. People don't have to accept the abuse, and they don't have to transfer banks, either. Cont'd...
DoYerBest 5 months ago
@TheWordOfLife1 Cont'd 1...If someone has a relationship with BAC, via mortgage, credit cards, loans, investments, bank accounts etc, Bank of America will do whatever they can to keep you as a client. And, if a client comes in with legitimate concerns over the $5 fee, then the FEE CAN BE WAIVED.
The fee is not necessary, and if anyone would like some free advice on how they can approach their bank, I am willing to help them. I have absolutely nothing to gain by this. Cont'd...
DoYerBest 5 months ago
@TheWordOfLife1 Cont'd 2... The problem with the pricks on this channel, is that they don't give a shit about hearing solutions, or how they can improve their situation. All they care about is mindlessly supporting Lee, and his spin on the existing government. They aren't part of the solution, they are part of the problem. And I don't get intimidated easily, and I'm willing to stoop.
I'm not on the left, and I'm not here to criticize the right. Thanks again for letting me explain myself.
DoYerBest 5 months ago
LEE: I like Wal-Mart, but if I remember right, they et al big businesses lobbied for this price control in Dod-Frank. Liberals are supposedly up-in-arms over crony capitalism, if that's the case then why the heck did they insert this? I don't have to tell you that price controls are counterproductive. After repealing ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank should be next.
UTubekookdetector 5 months ago
why does this video seem like it's 45 clips glued together? it looks like he pauses every 5 seconds or so and restarts the film.
labulldog5 5 months ago
@HowTheWorldWorks Hey Lee have you seen S.1619? (Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act of 2011) I would love to see your opinion on this one.
5that1dude5 5 months ago
The kid is "too good to fail"
Yaheuben66 5 months ago
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SuperSneakySteve 5 months ago
Whoever is marking @DoYerBest's comments as spam, please stop.
It's an insult to the meat, hell it's also an insult to unsolicited bulk messages.
Spam meat is nourishing. Spam messages are entertaining and at least you might find SOME that have a benefit. @DoYerBest's comments are mindless repetition of an assumption of righteousness without any cohesive thought, wasting everyone's time.
His position: "You don't have freedom. Why? Because I said so."
NativeNewMexican 5 months ago
@NativeNewMexican You have no idea how much enjoyment I get, to read your last post. I can sense the inner tantrum just going nuts inside, you. When people like you, are out argued by people like me, people like you have nothing left to do, but call names. I love a sore loser!
Funniest thing is, you really had nothing to present at all, and all you could come up with is, because Bank of America is free to do whatever they want, including steal from the people. Man, you are one dum 40yr old
DoYerBest 5 months ago
@DoYerBest
Look idiot, it's not STEALING if it's VOLUNTARY.
NativeNewMexican 5 months ago
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NativeNewMexican 5 months ago
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@DoYerBest
Wow, agism, are you serious? Your debate skills are amazing.
NativeNewMexican 5 months ago
@NativeNewMexican Wtf? Dude, you marked the wrong comment as spam. You marked one of your comments, not mine. Can you be any more busted than you are right now? I'm not even laughing anymore. This is just sad, now...
DoYerBest 5 months ago
@NativeNewMexican and I wasn't laughing at your age as a debate tactic. I was laughing at your age because of the juvenile games you were playing, and the immature comments you were posting. That type of behavior is not becoming of a man of your years. But, now I realize I've been arguing with a mental midget, and that makes me sad.
DoYerBest 5 months ago
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@NativeNewMexican I didn't notice any of my comments marked as spam?? It must be just on your computer! HAHAHAHAHA. You marked my comments as Spam, just so you can crack your joke! HAHAHAHA busted! Do you send yourself love notes too? HAHAHAHA
DoYerBest 5 months ago
Bank of America is justified in increasing their monthly debit card fee by $5 because it's a private company and they have freedom to charge for their services what they see fit, just as you have freedom to not buy their services.
The Government of the United States was NOT justified in bailing out Bank of America or ANY other institution.
Failure to separate the two issues is intellectual dishonesty.
NativeNewMexican 5 months ago
@NativeNewMexican "Bank of America is justified in increasing their monthly debit card fee by $5 because it's a private company"
Trading on the NYSE makes them a public company, and they received 97 billion of public money, to stay in business. And for a company whose common shares are worth 62 billion, that represents more than 100% of the controlling value. Every decision they make should technically involve public approval, or, they should file for bankruptcy.
DoYerBest 5 months ago
@DoYerBest In the way that I used the term private, I was referring to it as _NOT OWNED BY THE GOV'T_
Who cares if it's traded, those that have been licensed to make decisions have legitimately made these decisions as allowed by the owners of the stock.
Seriously, how ridiculous of a point was that to bring up?
NativeNewMexican 5 months ago
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@NativeNewMexican "1. We are guaranteed the right to LIBERTY. How is LIBERTY for the bank owners guaranteed when you FORCE them to not offer their services with the costs that they wish?"
- I have 97 billion reasons.
Your idea of freedom is not freedom. It's anarchy, and willful injustice. And the fact that you keep rewording "because they can", and "take it or leave it" in all of your posts is a little funny.
DoYerBest 5 months ago
@DoYerBest
Again, the bailout was wrong. It doesn't justify another wrong.
NativeNewMexican 5 months ago
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@NativeNewMexican LMAO What are you talkin about?! Even if I agreed that the bailout was wrong, which I do agree, I knew it was wrong the moment GEORGE BUSH signed off on it, you've completely failed to present how placing price controls on BAC is also wrong.
Whatever dude, don't bother answering that. Your "take it or leave it" argument is well documented.
NEXT!
DoYerBest 5 months ago
@DoYerBest It's wrong because it's denying someone freedom. If I am not free to sell my services for the rates that I wish, I do not have freedom. The same is true for the owners of BOA. How hard is this to understand?
NEXT? Is that your attempt to say, "I win by declaration" What a joke.
NativeNewMexican 5 months ago
@DoYerBest anarchy literally means "no rulers", it is the definition of freedom, open your mind
gradiu3rox 5 months ago
@gradiu3rox ok Charlie, why don't u open it for me? What would banking look like in an anarchist society?
DoYerBest 5 months ago
@DoYerBest i don't think i want to touch that mind. i don't know what it would look like, i'm not a banker, but the point is, violence doesn't solve problems, and tax is theft, the conversation should stop there
gradiu3rox 5 months ago
@gradiu3rox
"the conversation should stop there"
LOL! Fair enough. See you the next time I want to cross your bridge.
DoYerBest 5 months ago
@NativeNewMexican Your reason is still, "because they can".
DoYerBest 5 months ago
@DoYerBest Yes, it's called freedom. I happen to like it.
NativeNewMexican 5 months ago
@NativeNewMexican Explain this to me:
1) Banks make money from 2 times in a retail transaction 1) the retailer and 2) the consumer. What reason do they have to pass the burden of their decrease in profit from the retailer to the consumer, when they are already making generous profits from the consumer in every transaction.
cont'd...
DoYerBest 5 months ago
@DoYerBest
BECAUSE THEY HAVE FREEDOM. JUST AS YOU HAVE FREEDOM TO NOT USE THEIR SERVICE. Don't like it, go elsewhere.
Explain this to me:
1. We are guaranteed the right to LIBERTY. How is LIBERTY for the bank owners guaranteed when you FORCE them to not offer their services with the costs that they wish?
NativeNewMexican 5 months ago
@NativeNewMexican
2) How would they justify the $5 fee increase to their clients who DO NOT use their debit card for retail transactions? Instead they go to a bank machine once a week, and withdraw their weekly budget and pay cash for everything. Those people aren't using the debit card retail services, and yet they have to pay for the decrease the bank is getting from retailers? How's that fair to those people?
DoYerBest 5 months ago
@DoYerBest WAAAAH! It's not fair! Boo frigging hoo. Nobody is forcing their customers to remain customers.
NativeNewMexican 5 months ago
@NativeNewMexican Don't you think your WAAAH chant would sound better if you put a more suitable chant to your intellect together. Just go back to:
-Gimme an L
-Gimme an E
-Gimme an E
What does it spell?! LEE! lmao
DoYerBest 5 months ago
@DoYerBest
Wow, what a great retort. How can I possibly come back from that? I'm _sooooo_ destroyed!
NativeNewMexican 5 months ago
Billions, billions of transactions. Making money sitting down on there ass basically and it's not enough?
gtenhave 5 months ago
Can anyone on this channel actually defend Lee's position on justifying this new bank fee? Or, are you all just cheerleaders? ( @mixmastermeeks )
DoYerBest 5 months ago
@DoYerBest
Yes, I can. If you don't want to pay the fee, get a different bank or use cash. If you don't want to pay what someone is asking for in order to receive their service, you have no right to send guys with guns to force them to do it for free.
NativeNewMexican 5 months ago
@DoYerBest
@DoYerBest
Yes, I can. If you don't want to pay the fee, get a different bank or use cash. If you don't want to pay what someone is asking for in order to receive their service, you have no right to send guys with guns to force them to do it for free.
NativeNewMexican 5 months ago
@NativeNewMexican Your point is invalid. Your point is, "take it or leave it", and "because they can", and those are not valid justifications for a company who took 97 billion of public money to stay in business. Those are reasons a bully gives to someone whom they just took their lunch money from.
To present an opposing argument to mine, try finishing this statement:
Bank of America is justified in increasing their monthly debit card fee by $5 because...
DoYerBest 5 months ago
Wait wait wait.. so you are saying now because they limited how much banks charge business they charge the consumer because it is "to much". So basically you are saying they should be able to stab businesses anytime they want but because of this it is Ok to do it to the consumer? Banks make plenty as it is now they want to charge us to hold our money? Yea no Thanks.
Monarch816 5 months ago
Anyone reminded of the movie "The Incredibles"?
bar1scorpio 5 months ago
BLAME Dick Durbin of Illinois!
The5thNinjaTurtle1 5 months ago
Lee is absolutely right, but i will add one thing that he missed.
Operation Twist, by the Federal Reserve will actually hinder bank profits in the future, and thus BofA (BAC) needed to collect greater revenue in some other way. It sucks, but its necessary (to them at least). People dont realize how much trouble Bank of America is in.
Just a heads up from an insider, they're in a lot of trouble, and if the upcoming recession I'm forecasting comes true, Bank of America will no longer exist.
treysparker 5 months ago
@treysparker How will it hinder bank profits?
DoYerBest 5 months ago
If my bank charged me to have a debit card, I would find a new bank. Capitalism at work!
Rajaat99 5 months ago
It's like that Vonnegut story, Harrison Bergeron or something.
WOLF333999 5 months ago
No one is forcing me to work with Bank America...I can go anywhere. Try that with the IRS.
captaindiesalot 5 months ago
Is it just me or did Lee choose to talk about this otherwise random football story as a really roundabout way of defending rich people who are "successful?"
Bleuski3 5 months ago
@Bleuski3
Um, it is an accurate parallel. "He's just too damn good, we can't compete, it's not FAIR!" Fuck that. Self righteous losers wanting nothing but to bring down the guy who has the skill and the motivation to succeed. Nevermind the fact that he drives those behind him to push themselves, to become more than they would have been with their complacent self righteous "everyone is equal" nannies.
NativeNewMexican 5 months ago
@NativeNewMexican - exactly. This is purely a case of the meek whining about people with talent, skill or a work ethic. But we live in a culture now where you're punished for being successful, smart, talented or a hard worker. And who wants to punish these people? The losers and the lazy. This is akin to the "everyone gets a trophy" or "we don't keep score" absurdity. We are breeding generations of whiners, losers and the lazy.
RocktheStageNYC 5 months ago
@NativeNewMexican Does that have something to do with taxing corporations and high earners? I ask because the only place I've seen the kind of exaggerated socialist persona you're imagining is in the right-wing propaganda opposing such taxes and regulations.
It seems like the football story is just a straw man that grossly oversimplifies our economic system.
Bleuski3 5 months ago
@Bleuski3
The football story is similar, it's not exact, but it shares the same principle.
What is it that prOGREssives have against freedom? How is it that they get so jaded with the idea that people can actually succeed without making it impossible for others to do the same? Why do they empower governments to regulate industries when the only result is the inevitable corruption of the regulators by the regulated creating cartels, monopolies, and kickbacks? Why do they punish success?
NativeNewMexican 5 months ago
@NativeNewMexican "...prOGREssives..." Real classy.
Get back to me when you can provide something other than name calling and loaded questions based on fallacious right-wing talking points.
Bleuski3 5 months ago
@Bleuski3
You're correct, the ad hominem was unnecessary. That being said, the rest of the questions are valid. You don't want to debate them or answer them, because the truth bears them out. Redistribution of wealth, a progressive idea, punishes success and is based on an irrational belief that there's a limited amount of wealth. Regulations and oversight when done through free markets have far less corruption and are far more effective, but progressives insist that gov't must do it.
NativeNewMexican 5 months ago
@NativeNewMexican "You don't want to debate them or answer them, because the truth bears them out."
No, like I said they're loaded questions. I don't accept the premises. It would be like someone asking "Why do Conservatives hate the poor and middle class? Why do they want to deregulate banks and corporations even after they ruined the economy? Why do they think the free market will solve everything when it obviously doesn't?"
Spewing talking points in question form doesn't lend them credence.
Bleuski3 5 months ago
If you believe that it was a GOOD thing that this child was oppressed, please watch a movie based on Kurt Vonnegut's book called Harrison Bergeron. It's on Youtube with part 1 starting at watch?v=XmEOI5zwFMM
It shows what society really becomes when we hinder exceptionalism.
NativeNewMexican 5 months ago
Mission COIllege baseball has a similar rule.
aarondirebear 5 months ago
I say that every kid that gets more than 3 A's on a report card has to donate the rest to kids that are getting F's and accept their F's as a move towards equality.
Isn't it funny that when you apply forced equality to athletics, you get a different reaction than you would if you applied it to academics.
thereprieve 5 months ago
The solution is worse than the problem.
bertly71 5 months ago
Love the football comment, Lee.
My girlfriend grew up in Sweden in the late seventies. She was a top grade student always ahead of rest of the class. She would often comment on how her teachers would always comment to her after every exam/ report card, "Don't think you are better then anyone else!" in the harshest manner possible.
She talks about growing up with this burden with great bitterness and eventually left Sweden. Reminds me of Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron.
Dontwantlove 5 months ago
@Dontwantlove They are like that in Sweden. I moved here officially to be with my fiance who has lived here for 20+ years. He warned me about how they are here. I can attend Swedish for Immigrant classes here to learn Swedish, but they require you to be in class for 20+ hours a week at odd hours. I could go for 5 hours a week and be ahead of the class and ace any test in about 15mins. Instead of advancing me they got upset that I wasn't in class wasting 20 hours each week & kicked me out.
verlouria 5 months ago
@verlouria You´ve got all my support and don´t be discouraged. Believe me, I know how it is..
We are currently living and working in Spain where this is pushed even harder..
This leftish ideal of pushing equality mixed with a deep-rooted cultural tendency towards envy makes for quite a cocktail. Working and living here is extremly complicated.. and the loathing of excellence here is even comical.
Dontwantlove 5 months ago
@Dontwantlove I would be interested in hearing some of these comical situations! That would make a great video if you could ever catch any in action or just talk about them!
verlouria 5 months ago
@verlouria Ok, just because you asked me... These stories are not made up ( I wish they were).
I had a meeting with a British HR manager who doesn´t speak spanish. My boss is from Madrid and hardly speaks english, and insisted to act as a translator between me and the brit.
In other words, he was a spanish guy acting as a translator between me (a U.S. citizen forced to speak in spanish) and a Brit, just so he could show that he knew two words of english. The meeting was obviously a disaster.
Dontwantlove 5 months ago
2- The general lack of success (except for rare exceptions) of the spanish movie industry is a big burden for the general public here in Spain...
Whenever mentioned the failure of any given film made here (which is always subsidized by the government), the usual response is "Americans have it so easy. They just make entertaining movies with interesting plot-lines and good actors. That way, anybody can do it.."
I swear this is true, it would be too difficult for me to make up.
Dontwantlove 5 months ago
@Dontwantlove 1 of 2 Ha Ha! WOW! I cannot believe the first one that is unbelievable! WOW! I am totally floored by that. I have no response for the 2nd one. I just have to shake my head and shake it some more. I like to believe its impossible to throw everyone on an even playing field, some people were just born with the need to excel. Its something you would have to beat out of most, and even then you'll probably just make the drive even greater. I read an article some time ago ...
verlouria 5 months ago
@Dontwantlove 2 of 2 ... by a child psychologist about this new trend in her young adult patients. Basically she was having 20-25 year olds coming into her office extremely depressed. She couldn't figure out why they all claimed to have wonderful child hoods, did well in school, & so on. Then, she started to dig deeper. She found the problem was basically the parents were the child's best friend and NEVER allowed them to be bad at something and protected them from disappointment. I'll send link.
verlouria 5 months ago
After reading your ebook, I went out and picked up "Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell and cannot thank you enough for recommending it. Thanks!
251251 5 months ago
I've seriously considered homeschooling my kids so they don't get mentally fucked by the public school system. Rewarding failure and punishing achievement seems to be the new American way. And the laughable position of the Left now is to culturally sterilize every school, prohibit them from saying "Merry Christmas," and then tell the kids to be culturally sensitive.
smiledammit24 5 months ago 2
howtheworldworks = mega dumb ass tool.
tooosweeet 5 months ago
In the words of Abraham Lincoln, "You cannot make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak." But also, to best develop this kids ability, they should have him playing with older kids.
jjdec05 5 months ago
does this include visa debit cards? or just bank cards?
assmonkey626 5 months ago
@Lonesharck generic hater comment much?
qdog1342 5 months ago
What a douche. Throws aside his supposed "better" ideology when it doesn't fit.
This guy is a con. Have fun making this guy money by buying his ebooks.
Lonesharck 5 months ago
If you're the speaker and happen to be white or from a middle class background, hardcore members of the social justice arena will discount everything you have to say. Their view is we live in a society that's not fair to the minority due to the fact that higher percentage of minorities live in poverty than whites.
sigworth223 5 months ago
The Harrison Bergeron crap that goes on these days is not new. When I was playing baseball in jr. high, I had a very good ERA (1.40) by the middle of the season. My specialty was an inside curve, which I practiced for weeks before the season began. I was told not to make that pitch because it "scared" hitters and they couldn't hit the ball. I hadn't beaned a player since Little League. Getting rid of that pitch killed my average.
MaxxTheMerciless 5 months ago
@ 1:28
They can't just accept to take the cost themselves and not try to keep the same profit?
LMAO this whole system is going to fail, it expects perpetual growth indefinitely. It was good while it lasted though, we had a lot of good decades in America :)
john5246 5 months ago
You won't find many people here who agree with you that Dodd-Frank is bad legislation, and that those poor woebegone banks needs to jack up user fees just to get their money back from the big bad government. Not many people feel sorry for bankers, sniffle sniffle. Nice try though.
shmiggen 5 months ago
Re: The Durbin amendment. I might chalk that up to the Law of Unintended Consequences, but I suspect this is a feature, not a bug. get people hating the banks, and you can use them for campaign scapegoats.
Re: The 11 year old football player. Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Begeron" 'is the dystopian logical conclusion of this trend.. ='[.]'=
Raycheetah 5 months ago
Just so anyone who doesn't play football knows 14 points is two touchdowns
Vintexen 5 months ago
@Vintexen um, 12 points is two touchdowns. You have a chance to kick for an additional point or go for a two point conversion; the touchdown itself is worth only 6 points.
salmonking007 5 months ago
@salmonking007 Oh, okay my mistake
Vintexen 5 months ago
That's some Harrison Bergeron stuff.
WildWest1122 5 months ago
Just DUMP the major banks and put your money in a good credit union. Why are people so stupid and let a bank charge them to use their own money? All while paying them nothing for having it in the first place? People are stupid... Plain and simple.
BikerBry 5 months ago
@BikerBry
I hate this retarded argument. "They are charging me to use my money durrrr!"
No they are offering a service which costs them money, and competition lowers prices. If a Bank offers free Debit cards others will follow. They aren't charging you to use your money, they are charging you for the service of using ATM's. You are not entitled to free ATM use. The machines, the printing of the cards, service, infrastructure all costs money.
fishblades 5 months ago