Tax havens & currency speculation Pt.3

[panstriato2]

The thing is to stop growing

[planckbrandt]

Kapoor should go back to work for Lehman (ooops their competitor wiped them out in the "free-market"). He is an apologist for global finance and trying to dress it up.

Too into global system which needs to become more local. That would be sustainable, and less intrusive for people in developing world who don't need our corporations enabled to foist themselves onto them.

Slow Money Alliance has a better idea!

[planckbrandt]

Inequality unsustainable for whom?

It is very sustainable for the top 1% and drives wages down for wage-earners whose democratic party abandoned them decades ago! It was great during the Gilded Age and the 1920s! And will be again.

And, it will take years to build unions now with the Patriot Act in force here, Sound canons,and tazers everywhere.

Wake up Kapoor! Glad Paul Jay is asking the right questions.

[planckbrandt]

And of course they want to make the US a low wage manufacturing economy again. Barron's wrote about that months ago. That is their plan. Undermine the Middle-class that was built here with the GI Bill after WWII. Too much wealth accumulated to the middle-class away from the Top 1%. Well, they've fixed that now with de-regulation to cause a collapse. They are now cutting education for 100M Gen Y kids, and driving them into the military to fight for oil companies this time. Wake up guys!

[planckbrandt]

Of course he would say the "global financial system" is no problem. He has an education and career from there. The truth is that system is the reason US savings get shipped out of local communities and agribusiness and other things get shipped abroad that push people off their land into urban slums. And, now Americans face unemployment while the "global financial system" uses our money in interest rate and currency arbitrage, instead of investing in new technologies and jobs here. Wake up Sony!

[billp1955]

The guy in the blue shirt in the background is disturbing to me for some reason.....

[bbburton]

Paul Jay is would be better off in China. His 'ideas' would be well received there, and the US would be better off without him.

[OnlyIfYouSayPlease]

Burton is would 'generic' superficial. No Burton make comments happy place.

[bbburton]

That's what happens when I press 'post comment' before re-reading what I've typed. But the point is still the same. Paul Jay would be better off in China, and the US would be better off without him here. Does that make you comments happy place?

[OnlyIfYouSayPlease]

The suspect inference of your first comment precludes me from answering. The RN as a whole, rather than pJay specifically, could foresee-ably benefit any society. It advocates for social justice and participation in government.

ps: I <3 citizen journalism.

[bbburton]

TRNN is nothing close to objective journalism, and Paul Jay isn't even close to being a journalist. TRNN is a propaganda spewing internet web site, and Paul Jay is it's leader. It's crap, pure and simple. Social justice is an oxymoron. Justice is for individuals, and society only benefits if individuals are treated justly. You want to advocate for justice? Try advocating for the individual first. Citizen journalism? What a crock of crap.

[OnlyIfYouSayPlease]

Advocacy journalism, seems a more plausible deduction... not considering I used the word nota bene in the last sentence.

As your grammar fails, it follows that your reading comprehension trials no better. *Apostrophe-S doesn't belong on possessive pronouns btw.

The latter segment: no, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, no.

[bbburton]

You're such an authority on english, not. Too bad your an idiot in all other respects as well.

[OnlyIfYouSayPlease]

Blah blah, apostrophe needed, blah blah blah blah blah blah, grammatical, blah, exception, blah blah blah, to colloquialisms.... blah.

[bbburton]

That noise ringing in your ears would go away if you'd only remove your head from out of your ass.

[OnlyIfYouSayPlease]

Two metaphors utilized with a predictable lack of coherency...

Thinking isn't really your thing, have you tried collecting marbles?

[bbburton]

Obviously removing your head from out of your ass isn't something you're interested in accomplishing. The noise must be comforting, and the stench an aroma you're accustomed to. Let me know when you've had enough.

[OnlyIfYouSayPlease]

After more than a week's worth of comments, you've finally conjured one without grammatical error...

Don't pity me, schooling inbred mutants isn't half as exhausting as it's made out to be, and the results are almost worth the effort.

[bbburton]

Having your head so far up your ass must make it difficult for your ego to find room to breath. Your efforts to educate, (and I use that term loosely) are certainly out of place, having nothing to 'teach' at your disposal. Perhaps you should find more suitable subjects to waste your efforts on, assholes like yourself for a start. They are more likely to pity you than I would ever think of doing.

[OnlyIfYouSayPlease]

Where do I begin?!

The second sentence you've stretched beyond the limits of intelligibility.

In the third sentence you characterize yourself as being a waste of effort.

The fourth sentence is tricky: first you assert an illogical scenario, then you incorrectly conjugate the latter part of your sentence to the previous paradox..

Were you home-schooled?

[bbburton]

No, where you begin is where you've always begun, with your head so far up your ass you can't see the sun shine, and the ringing in your ears isn't music.

[ArcticSlicer]

If you hate it so much, why do you spend so much time on every TRNN video posting negative comments?

[jimlaregina]

Bbburton, which news providers do you recommend?

[jotunobsidianeyes]

And we'd be better off without you.

[bbburton]

And you'd be better of without your head up your ass.

[Paetaor]

They can create 60,000 new pages of regulation and it won't do anything but make the problem worse.

The constitution is about 27 pages in pdf format and can be read and understood by anyone of average intelligence.

The tax laws and regulations in place would need to be carried in with a forklift.

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

Are you suggesting a country of three hundred million people and the largest national economy in the world be run without the help of non-constitutional law?

You must be a libertarian.

[RCinPAWA]

Less government regulation over business, especailly small business, is part of the answer but what are the odds of that happening?

We're headed for a coffin-shaped recovery.

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

Less/no government regulation/oversight over business is what brought you the derivatives debacle.

You'd think that some right-wingers would have finally gotten a clue, but no.

[RCinPAWA]

You must be joking. The derivatives market was SANCTIONED by the government. You need to educate yourself. I have seen small businesses fold due to being strangled by excessive government regulation. And who benefits when a small business folds? The big corporations. We are under a corporatocracy.

Amazing that one would think that more government regulation is a good thing.

And to lable one a right winger or left winger is to play into the power elites' "divide and conquer" strategy.

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

You're an idiot and a liar.

For those of you who would actually like to know more about the derivatives markets and how they were allowed to 'thrive' unregulated, watch the PBS documentary Frontline: The Warning.

Greenspan, Rubin and Summers ultimately prevailed on Congress to stop Born and limit future regulation of derivatives. " [...] "Alan Greenspan was the maestro, and both parties in Washington were united in a belief that the markets would take care of themselves."

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

You can watch the documentary for free on PBS' website. Just google Frontline: The Warning.

[blackiron60]

Once again, excellent analysis from Real News.

[xandras1111]

damn... i thought this guy studied the koran in university

[xandras1111]

the guy he is interviewing looks like he works for Al Qaida