@SUpersaiyajinjerkbag Do you know that Christianity is correct? The world around us reveals that G-d DOES exist, and the historical evidence reveals that Jesus Christ really did come to this earth and there is overwhelming evidence that Jesus Christ really did physically rise from the dead. Jesus is coming again and the signs of the end times that were foretold in the Bible are coming to pass.
ahhh that bit there at the end exposing obama for the fraud he is, and how we should have spotted this from a long way off ... now THAT's what the fuck i'm talkin about ... crystal clear noam :)
The effort to undermine and destroy Labor Unions peaked in the "Reagan Years." In the Reagan Years, America simply resended Article 23 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which guarantees elementary Human Rights of workers, including the right to form unions. Under Reagan and Bush '41 our OSHA Agency (Protects the Safety of Workers) was a "hands-off" Agency encouraging lawlessness, and unsafe working conditions. Workplace injuries went through the roof! I saw it myself !!!
Ronald Reagan was a tool that continued Goldwater's & Nixon's racist Southern Strategy. In many ways, Reagan was even more extreme than those other men. For instance, Nixon never contemplated destroying collective bargaining rights or undoing the basics of FDR's New Deal w/ the lowest tax rates since the 1920s.
well and you are just a fucking idiot. A "troll" does not detect geopolitical dialectical mechanisms, a troll offends and attacks, and this man just tries to analyze history while it unravels before our eyes.
When Droneald Reagan's 100th brithday came around last February, I'm proud to say, on a fence in my neighborhood, I anonymously hung a sign reading:
'Ronald Reagan Responsible for Murdering >200,000 Guatemalans & Salvadorans in the 1980s'
Just to let the world know not everyone forgets what happens yesterday; and that senile old sonofabitch was responsible for genocide every bit as much as Pol Pot or Adolph Hitler. You can't let these sons-of-fucks get away with anything.
@bapyou well done. Thats great that you did that. People seem to remember what they want and rationalize fucked up shit, or just conveniently forget about it. Your sign probably reached alot of people and maybe caused some to recheck history to learn more about this. Well done! :)
Oh the irony! Chomsky talking about distorted legacies when he has been exposed over and over again as one of the biggest liars ever to publish a book? All I can do is shake my head. What a worthless, race-baiting old trickster.
@WishCRUS4D3R I dont agree with the tremendous wealth transfer that has gone upward to the richest of the Elite, and I dont agree with the Unions either because their primary interest is to protect their jobs, benefits and earnings all at the expense of the taxpayers. Both Corporations and Unions harm the public, one because they rip us off, and the other cuz they serve themselves first rather than serve us well.
@adrenas - By the way, the racist "white power" videos on your page are really impressive, too. Did you go to college to learn racist hate while you were studying economics? We are probably too ignorant and stupid, as you say, but how does racist hate-mongering look to an "educated economist"? Or do you really hate Dr. Chomsky because he's a jew?
@LogicalFlawDetector Why? If you're not a troll I'd like to know why. If you can give me some credible reasons backed by evidence that aren't steeped in willful ignorance, bigotry, gullibility, or some combination of the three then I'd love to fucking hear it.
Do you have any idea how completely ignorant and stupid you all look to an educated economist? You must not. If you did you would be incredibly embarrassed. The handful of economists that would say otherwise are paid to say exactly that and aren't being paid for real analysis. Noam Chomsky is very articulate but also completely full of shit. He always has been. Instead of watching drivel like this you folks should think about going to school.
@adrenas right on... get into the schools so you can be indoctrinated..... the electorate must not be informed....anything less wouldnt be tolerated.... educated by whom, for what reasons ?
@adrenas thanks so much for cluing us in - I for one am too dumb to know when to feel "incredibly embarrassed". Thank God for real analysis; I'm thinking of Myron Scholes and Robert Merton here. Especially their winning the Nobel in 1997 for the Black-Scholes model of options risk. Of course, a year later they manged to lose 4.6 bllion and almost take down the market, and went bankrupt. I think I'll stick with being incredibly embarrassed than being an incredible asshat .
one man destroyed this country ronald reagan, and we never have looked back, and now the middle and poor, have to pay the price, because the gop, and even some dems just kiss the butt of corporate america, just 1% of the population, controls 99% of the others, this is sick, the top CEO's in this country make 500% more then regular blue collar workers, what a crime, and why are the bankers not in freakin jail?
We have the best politicians money can BUY!! Problem is, by virtue of that, their not up to the task of bringing the integrity we need to office. The only option I can see in the short term, is to deny their existence. For me, they don't exist anyway, whats the differece?
If we cut off funding, the issue will address itself. And THIS is exactly what they are doing to the middle class. Does anyone have the balls to stop paying?
@pjamesbda So what if the average/lower classes don't pay? The CORPORATIONS pay. Due to the 2010 supreme court decision, they can freely fund political candidates wit corporate money. Denying the issue does nothing, in fact, it is exactly what the elite want the lower classes to do.
@Grwida - That argument presumes the CORPORATIONS produce product independent of the working class. They don't have any such power if you think thru your premise. Without the worker bees, the Queen dies. The workers simply stop producing. No money to buy politicians, everything grinds to a halt. Hit the reset button and start over.
Of course this is beyond most people. They wouldn't know where to start being self reliant. Growing their own food, Generating their own power. I don't deny that.
@pjamesbdaBut, the problem is, the central agencies that minimize self reliance, are some of the ones that stop the worker bees from being crushed. Due to the economic system which prevents the workers from accumulating capital, many workers (rely on statist programs to support/protect them. As far as "the objective" I agree, local reliance on the part of the worker bees is the way to go, but the transitional phase is difficult; many people do nood have the skills or capital to be self reliant.
@HoGraz - You bet they are friend, along with their "deeply pessimistic" vision for the future.
Makes you wonder what its like inside their heads....or what about inside their houses? You know, trophys all lined up in the study, 24 point deer antler mounted over the fireplace. You know, the Hummer in the driveway with the gun rack and 3.5 kids with cell phones fighting each other for the 2.5 bathrooms. Dad works at Lockheed Martin and Mom runs the local Right to Life chapter.
@HoGraz - I suppose my comment was negative, but not sure it was overt. I don't conclude destructive choices as "wrong", just destructive. In nature, there is no right or wrong, just consequences. If you live on the promise of war, and the spoils of it, and champion strength above morality, nature tells us by it's own cycles, in time, the strong will fall.
As to Wisconsin, a strike is in order. The powerful need to know where their power comes from, and its not the corporations...its workers.
@pjamesbda No you're fine dude. I was agreeing with you on how pessimistic the right is on most things. It's like they just want people to shut down logic and turn into robots essentially.
I'm a Libertarian (the American kind lol) and I think we should just get rid of limited liability for corporations. Then they no longer have an unfair advantage. The right-wingers win because the market is freer and the leftists win because they hate large corporations. They only people that lose are the neoliberals (i.e. fascists).
Very little quality in teachers unions,go this far,but no further.Unions are a small part of the work force,no wonder students are failing.Unions shouldn't be part of any public sector,just keep substandard teachers in there jobs,when they should be fired.All about the money.Dead sure there are money hoarding democrats as well.Unions in public sectors shouldn't be allowed to strike,as in a few of the better states.Sure glad this is all coming out,tired of paying for substandard work.
@20mantis10 If more teachers were unionized then maybe you could form a proper sentence. Your argument is....not good. We don't even draw in the real talents into teaching, and your solution is to give them LESS money and security?! Wow....just wow.
"If ye love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you...and forget that you were our countrymen..." Sam Adams
If this country is so bad, why don't all you bedwetters just move back to all the other great countries that Noam thinks we ought to be like, where the government wipes your a-s for you and takes care of you from cradle to grave? You obviously have no American spirit. Everthing will be free except for the 70% taxation, $7 gasoline, $40/lb. meat, (if you can get it), etc...
Astonishing how three decades of a densely corporatized social climate has so effectively dumbed-down and brainwashed millions of average income people (and even the dirt poor) to the extent that many fiercely and diligently fight on the side of the wealthy, whose religion is Profit$ Over People. Listen to the language of those who support the right; their defining motive often seems grounded in deep-seated hatred of the less fortunate, anti-authoritarians, & any who oppose the corporate $tate.
@TheeUnidentified Well said and I have to say it is a mostly American phenomenon which tries very hard to spread elsewhere. We're suffering in the UK from it at the moment, but there appears to be some violent reactions against it this time. It worries me because the state has the biggest gang and I doubt violence will do much.
@TheeUnidentified You talk about people being dumbed down and yet your entire comment is nothing but one regurgitated talking point after another. Are you so indoctrinated that you are no longer capable of putting together an original sentence? Why don't you try it and see - seriously. Let's see you write one single sentence that's not a series of Big Brother's talking points.
@carolineislands "Big Brother" is an Orwell reference to our massive police state apparatus that Cons obediently champion to "defend the homeland" (fear-based propaganda) Yet these same types rally the Small Govt mantra, but only as it applies to abolishing oversight of corporate malfeasance & removal of social safety nets for the poor. Fascists have long perverted language/meaning in the US via the M$M, and its worst divide/rule characteristics resonate effectively w/authoritarian types.
@TheeUnidentified Yeah, I have a liberal arts degree and I know all the talking points. Problem is, they are not based on facts - but you won't figure that out until you learn to use critical thinking - which you will NOT get in your liberal education. And the sad truth is it's pointless to even try to discuss it with you because you are so thoroughly indoctrinated there is no way that you would even BEGIN to ENTERTAIN any evidence that contradicts what you've been told. Not yet, anyhow...
@TheeUnidentified When President Obama or President Jeb Bush predator drones a MOOOOOOOOOOOOOSLEM stronghold someplace on the world battlefield of the war on terror (say, Harlem, NY) will the American people wake up that the Empire has come home?
@Trauncher Naw but realizing that Ronald Regan was a corporate shill who opened the flood gates more than Nixon to bribery and treason under the guise of gifts and donations, and had an administration full of criminals who left office for the court rooms must suck.
Oh hey how's working to make other people rich and being given only a portion of your earnings as a wage working out? How's that job security as a disposable infinitely replaceable commodity? Cooperatives sounding good yet?
@TheeUnidentified - I despair - Ive worked with these people - its the same thing over and over - they defend the national lottery in the same way, they have been taught to revere extreme (obscene) wealth so effectively if you even try to mention how futile taking part in the lottery is they attack you - like its the only way out - the only dream. Very sad, Gandhi was right about industrialised society.
Psych studies show one-quarter of the US populace as having an Authoritarian Personality (shades of it run higher) and so don't want to hear that the most powerful people are acting against humanity's interests. They'll aggressively defend against any such information that casts unfavorable light on exalted yet poisonous cultural directives. That's why the term Conspiracy Theory is a favored label for views/data suggesting abuses of power & illegal activity by people in high places.
It's amazing with all these great minds-- like Chomsky-- spending decades studying our problems, sounding the alarms, and trying to motivate people to change, there's been no transformation in balance of our power & distribution of wealth. How, when 50% of us languish in poverty, can 1% of us be allowed to hoard & enjoy the benefits of 80% of our collective wealth? The people who do all the real work, 40% of us, only get 14% of the pie they've baked! This is madness!
@FriedDaisy But don't let this fucked up system turn you into a socialist, that just gives the government MORE power to destroy you. America is NOT currently a capitalistic society we live in a CRONY-CAPITALIST society!
Nothing better than listening to some 19 yr. old punk, who's never paid a bill in his life, philosophize about "worker's rights" and why people who make $50k a year, (with no guarantees or tenure), should be paying more to some whiny teacher who makes $86k with health and income guarantees despite their performance. Nice.
In the 1980s Ronald Reagan attacked private sector unions & the wages of working people everywhere have stagnated since. Now the whores are attacking public sector unions, & you & your brainwashed ilk wish THEM to give up their rights.
You are a whore. You are a coward. Unike the Wisconsinites you lack the balls to stand up to power. The powerful will kill you & you will thank them becasue they waved the flag as they did it. Bend over. Fuck you, you whore.
@bapyou Whatever...but I don't depend on some rich, sugar-daddy pimping politician, (acting like he's down with my struggle), to get money from one person and hand it to me for as long as I live. I am a free, grownup individual. I've supported myself since I was 16, even when I've had to move or change jobs to do so. I also have the guts to use profanity against others when I'm in the proximity to back it up. I won't even say what that makes you.....
@TNCelt1 "I don't depend on some rich, sugar-daddy pimping politician, (acting like he's down with my struggle)"
That's what millions of Americans think of Ronald Reagan. That he was "on their side" when in fact he enacted measures that began the dismantlng of America's middle class.
"I am a free, grownup individual. I've supported myself since I was 16"
And the people standing up against Wisconsin's whore politicians are not grown up? Do not support themselves? Which side are you on?
@bapyou First...how old are you? You must not be old enough to remember the 4 years prior to his tenure. I also notice that you left out quite a bit of my response, in particular the part about me doing what I had to do to succeed...and there's the difference. I didn't expect a politician to or some thug union to confiscate "dues" from me so they could launder it BY FORCE to a political party. Do your research regarding the legislation in Wisconsin. They still got it better than most of us.
@TNCelt1 "in Wisconsin ... They still got it better than most of us."
And the reason for this is? I know the answer to that question. You do fucking not.
Your use of language is straight out of the anti-union playbook: "thug unions." The true fucking thugs are people like Walker whose salary is paid by the people & who then turns around & steals the people's rights.
You will get nowhere with me, pal. I'd bust your skull in a heartbeat. Stand with the rich if you want. I never will.
@bapyou ...I'm with the rest of the middle income shlubs like myself who work 10 hr days, 12 months a year who are tired of listening to a bunch of whiny, communistic bedwetters who work 9 months of the year, make more than I do and don't ever share in the economic pain...while telling me that I don't do enough...by the way, you talk pretty tough for a guy sitting in his mommy's basement making threats behind a computer. I'll stand with the rich before the commies like you...cowardly ones too.
@TNCelt1 Everything you've written is a lie and unprovable by any fact. You listen to the Fox News morons who propagandize to you on behalf of the rulling class every day of the week. If you are working class as you claim, you have nothing in common with the wealthy who are the ones TRULY not sharing your economic pain. In case you missed it: Exxon-Mobil has posted record profits the past few years. As I said, you are a coward.
P.S., little boy, my mother lives 2700 miles away from me.
I'm not worried------corporations know what's best for the world------just look at the Gulf Coast-----they're my buddies and they watch out for me and protect me from all the dangerous commies who are trying to steal all my millions-----hahahahahah-----
Noam Chomsky speaks the truth. Wealth is being redistributed to the wealthy. TO THE TOP TINY FRACTION OF THE POPULATION. And it is NOT going to trickle down.
@brewmaster95060 Don't get it twisted .Just because I'm a democrat doesn't mean I'm a fool. Come my way with that bullshit. you want live to tell about.
people are told "if it wasnt for them, the coporate heads you wouldnt have a job " basically without the corporate head the body dies But I think that with unions the realisation comes in that without the body the corporate head dies. Lets keep the unions so that the elete knows that they cant survive without the body that makes up their companies!!!!!!!
Noam is THE MAN. Obama is a sell-out. The middle class better listen Noam and find a leader who is really on their side. They've let themselves becomes slaves to ruling elite.
The middle class is rising up against the elitist union worker. There are more non-union workers in America, and the union expects them to pay for their greed.
WE ARE a nation of maker and takers and the time has come to reduce the takers and increase the makers.
America is a meritocracy.
Meritocracy is a system in which the talented are chosen and moved ahead on the basis of their achievement. Where the leadership is selected on the basis of intellectual criteria.
@TheYoungTurdz "America is a meritocracy. Where the leadership is selected on the basis of intellectual criteria."
Really? Then explain George Bush. Chris Hedges put it best:
"George Bush was a man with severely limited intelligence & no moral core. He exemplifies the legions of self-centered, spoiled, intellectually limited & wealthy elitists churned out by places like Andover, Yale, & Harvard. Bush was, like the rest of his caste, propelled forward by his money & his connections."
@bapyou George Bush vs John Kerry's GPA at Yale. George Bush comes out ahead of Kerry.
Although, I do not put all my eggs in one basket, one comparison or one quote by any ONE are not what I rely on as a measuring stick.
America is a Meritocracy where the talented are chosen and move ahead on the basis of their achievement. I feel sorry for you that you do not see it, or perhaps are incapable of moving ahead?!
@TheYoungTurdz "George Bush vs John Kerry's GPA at Yale."
Yeah, you prove the point even further: The idiots rule, & your neat idea about "meritocracy" is little more than a fantasy: I've known plumbers with more brains than GWB. In fairness to Kerry, at least his grandfather didn't bump him ahead of the line at the National Guard so he could spend his time during the Vietnam War flying F-111s over Houston, sparing him the indignities of actual combat.
@TheYoungTurdz So you dont like a 40hr work week,minimum pay,workers rights,vacations,safety standards sounds like you like the trickle down aka getting pissed on.
@1canyonguy Actually, no I do not like a 40 hour work week. I created a company where I work 12-14 hours a day. I may take a month off from time to time, but I risked, I earned it. I pay a salary and expect that they get the job done, if it takes them 30 hours or 90 hours, I don't care, as long as the job is done correctly the first time. I am acutally a very fair person to work for, and evey you would be begging for the job. I love trickle down. I think it works, except for the lazy.
If the shoe fits, you should face the facts, and wear it. It looks so good on you.
Public unions didn't create the middle class. Private unions did. Now look what they have done to them; Example: GM and the massive transfer of wealth from the shareholders to foreign interests and the UAW. Americans see it. The nonunion middle class sees what the union elitist middle class are all about, and they are not having it any longer. They voted in November for real change!
@TheYoungTurdz Hey turd I don't know what class you belong too,but i do know that since about 1975 ,around the time union busting began,union membership numbers began dropping along with middle class income as associated with the total proffit estimates for the nation.And the percentages gets worse every year. Unions provide protection from a buffer between us and the super rich.Without Unions you would be working 7 days a week 25hrs a day,for a hole lot less money.
@rois34 I've always worked for myself, so I have never been a taker, only a maker. There is a valid reason that union membership is dropping. This is happening, weather you like it or not. Other states do not have bargaing rights for benes, yet they manage, as well as 2 million federal employees. Cutting spending and creating jobs wont happen if we allow this abuse to continue. IF a union is ever needed again, after children are forced to work in sweatshops, it will come back.
The middleclass was created by the unions.And the public sector unions have members who put thier lives on the line to protect and serve.Some teach .But one thing is for sure .Without them you don't order ,civilization, or Government.You may not like us but you need us.Speaking as a fire firefighter(17.5 years),I'm not looking to get rich,but damn,I shouldn't have to get off work from making emergency calls all night to go work part time.
@rois34 A strong middle class WAS created by PRIVATE unions. What has the unions done for us recently?? Nothing good. 2 million federal empolyees manage just fine without bargaining rights,as do many other states. There are state laws that protect. You do not need an unholy union of a union leader and a politician negotiating with our tax dollars. This has turned the middleclass union American 10-12% on the middleclass & poor nonunion Americans. All for their tax dollars. IT WILL END.
@TheYoungTurdz this is remarkably naive."talented " and "intellectual " in a "meritocracy"..in a country that has a severe league table of universities which are prohibitively expensive ?economic advantage is destiny in the u.s. towing the line amongst the business class and awaiting the propitious gods is more the mark of the upwardly mobile.the number of dullards and creeps amongst the political class speaks for itself and a want of moral seriousness another.
"anti-democratic forces will make an alliance with the Christian right & other extremists; use fear & the spectre of left-wing dissent to impose draconian controls & extinguish democracy. & while they do it they'll [wave] the American flag, chant patriotic slogans, promise law & order, clutch the Christian cross. Orwell: "A society becomes totalitarian when its ruling class [loses] its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud." Soon force is all [our] elites will have left."
(11:45) "..Clinton..had another way of destroying unions. It's called NAFTA. One of the predicted consequences of NAFTA which, in fact, worked out, was that it would be used as a way to undermine unions. *Illegally* of course, but when you have a criminal state, this doesn't matter."
10% of americans own over two thirds of the nation's wealth, and they want to keep that way! And now the GOP who represents this privileged group is voted back into power by "all" americans. Go figure!
@townsendjean Just goes to show you that the numbers that you are seeing in the LSM aren't correct.
The Dems screwed up so badly in under 2 years with their power grab, that Americans RAN back to the R's after they were declared DEAD. It has happened before, it will happen again.
No party is the ansewer Obama is just bush 2.0 and Republican president will do the same things as Obama The white house is one big reality show@TheYoungTurdz
@theabomation The best part about the TEA party is that they aren't the democrats or the republicans. However, the grass roots movement grew so big, so strong, so quickly, that they are now a power, and will keep both sides accountable, so that their words match their actions going forward. That is the CHANGE that Americans want and need.
Tea Party people are just another Republican party in a sense The problem is the entire system there is corruption every where in our government its all owned by Big Oil, Military or the Fed and if something dosent change soon riots will break out@TheYoungTurdz
@theabomation Currently they appear to be closer to the R's than the D's, but they are better than both and will keep politicians accountable. The riots have already begun. Where have you been??? The question is, ARE YOU READY????
The riots are in Wisconsin, I live in Michigan i am surprised Michigan didn't riot first This once great State is now a hell hole there is massive poverty in Michigan many city's like Detroit and Flint look like third world country's so yes i am ready to riot The youth have nothing to lose and everything to gain. @TheYoungTurdz
@theabomation I too have a residence in Michigan and am not at all surprised that they didn't riot, as Detroit learned a lesson in the 60s'. If they riot, they will only have to learn to live within the filth that they create. Just as they do in Detriot now!!!! Detroit has never become a great city as it should have been, after the riots. Try and create something instead of detroying it. However, be ready!! You can always hang the dead around your property to let others know you are serious
When i say riot i mean only on government buildings and Banks most notable the Federal reverse I am sure you have seen Flint and Detroit recently there is nothing to destroy lol@TheYoungTurdz
WOAH slow down Young Turdz I am not a student of William Ayers burning down public schools is pointless I more like Malcolm X then anything@TheYoungTurdz
@theabomation Ayers was know primarily for participatin in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972. If that is your goal, then you may want to contact him for pointers.
reagen was a shifty eyed scam artist! i saw him on the news at a function, he didnt know he was being filmed. and he had the craftiest look you ever saw! weasel eyes shifting from side to side like a thief in an alleyway!.........then he make a public speech and his face had that fake "Nice Guy" look! his voice all condescending lke he was talking to a bunch of kids! what a fucking shithead! spotted that fuckers bullshit a mile away!
@acerb45666555 "he had the craftiest look you ever saw! weasel eyes shifting from side to side like a thief"
LOL! I hate Ronald Reagan beyond all comprehension. I put up a homemade sign in my neighborhood on his 100th birthday reminding everyone of the horrors in Central America for which he was directly responsible. One of his slavish bootlicking lackeys came along and ripped it down. I'll post it again soon.
Only 5 states do not have collective bargaining for educators and have deemed it illegal. Those states and their ranking on ACT/SAT scores are as follows:
Doesn't anyone of you understand that this has nothing to do with private worker unions? Why do public sector unions need a union? Please explain this to me. There are no profits made by government so there is no incentive to exploit the government worker. The logic is that the tax payers are doing the exploiting. It's ludicrous, and I'm not referring to the rapper.
@utubeworms Your are right on! I think you understand that the public unions are just feeding, maybe most unknowningly, the union pot and wasting more of their salarys for nothing. Most public workers forget that it's their neighbor that is paying their salary! Sending your money to Trumpka and his goons is boosting the liberal progressive agenda around the world!
@utubeworms Politicians are principally concerned with representing those that pay for their campaigns (and provide lucrative post-political careers). Businesses don't like paying wages or taxes - it hurts profits. Wage suppression in all sectors is therefore helpful for profits. Also, they don't want the public sector model to be a source of inspiration/envy for their workers, it might make it harder to exploit them. Unions help to protect people from a corrupt anti-democratic political system.
@BeveledSpilchOnion I think your explanation is convoluted. Public sector unions only server to reverse the incentive for exploitation. IN this reversal, the union will try to exploit the tax payer since they will "donate" to the politicians that will, in the end, grant them their unrealistic demands and leave the tax payer on the hook. It makes not sense to have a public sector union since, in effect, the government itself is the union and assures that the worker will not be exploited.
@brewmaster95060 The commies prop up Consky, use a tape recorder, repeating his rambling anti-Western speeches he made for 'world revolution' in order to get the 1960s type leftist radicals in a frenzy.
You have a huge underclass of very desperate people with their minds chemically blown on drugs--crime will soon become exponentially worse, there will be tax revolts, job marches, waves of homeless, food riots, squatters in empty buildings...a revolution of chaos is coming to America.
@JuanVoyce ~ just look at what the drug wars and nafta has done to mexico. and the selling off of the government to the oligarchs in russia. russia and mexico are now a couple of the most corrupt governments in the world. we are heading down the same path. and "free marketer" conservatives are the architects of all of it, america is what they've wanted all along. george orwell's "1984" is closer to reality than most people realize.
@tomitstube Churches don't have to pay taxes because the majority of americans are delusional idiots.
It's a country run by delusional jackasses where pursuing a humanitarian domestic policy is insane and too expensive while there's always money for rich man subsidies and murdering people.
@dffykvn ~ yep, churches, corporations, the wealthy... they get the free rides, but teachers are called "free loaders". the absurdity of what's going on right now is scary. mainly because the majority of people seem to be oblivious of what's being done to them.
have you seen the interview amy had with matt taibbi about his rolling stone article "nobody goes to jail"? it confirms exactly what we've been saying all along. our democracy is really a corrupt oligarchy.
@dffykvn ` true... this isn't news to us. the thing i'm hoping for, is the article getting some traction. it illuminates the whole ridiculousness of conservative ideology in terms that most people can grasp. i'm hoping that it can undermine the agenda of the right diverting blame away from the oligarchs responsible. it's what we have to do to get the national conversation were it belongs. we need some prosecutions, and a big light on the crooks getting away with massive theft.
@tomitstube Even tho this is true, I didn't go to jail and I shouldn't have even been arrested for smoking weed, so its more an issue of people breaking the law should be let go and the real criminals who commit real crimes should go to jail. Speeding isn't a crime until you hit something, same with drinking and driving, I have yet to meet someone who was hit and fucked up by a drunk driver. I think we all just need to be more responcible with our lives, thats all.
This concentration of wealth is now at unpredecented levels. The 10% who own over two thirds of the nation's wealth want to keep it that way. The GOP is in their pockets, yet people voted them back into power! Go figure! .
Chomsky is one of the most important thinkers of our time, and he his all time right.
America and Europe needs a new REVOLUTION, a revolution of middle class.
we need to retake the power that we have 20 years ago, since Regan the middle class have shrink and the billionaires have become more and more stupidity rich, and they do not pay taxes, they have scandal bonus and they are living in a world that do not exist, a world that they have created.
it would be soo cool if he was your grandpa xD
machinevos 1 week ago
He did a piss poor job of debunking reagan
SUpersaiyajinjerkbag 1 month ago
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@SUpersaiyajinjerkbag Do you know that Christianity is correct? The world around us reveals that G-d DOES exist, and the historical evidence reveals that Jesus Christ really did come to this earth and there is overwhelming evidence that Jesus Christ really did physically rise from the dead. Jesus is coming again and the signs of the end times that were foretold in the Bible are coming to pass.
marionetemanJ 1 week ago
FDR was against collective barganing for public sector unions. The Voters run the unions not the unions.
knightschwartz 1 month ago
mass immigration is destroying the west. Noam says nothing about it (outside liking it).
knightschwartz 1 month ago
ahhh that bit there at the end exposing obama for the fraud he is, and how we should have spotted this from a long way off ... now THAT's what the fuck i'm talkin about ... crystal clear noam :)
paragshah2112 1 month ago
Ha. They say chomsky is too crazy; when in fact he is too cautious. He didn't touch upon the full extent of IRan-contra
SUpersaiyajinjerkbag 2 months ago
The effort to undermine and destroy Labor Unions peaked in the "Reagan Years." In the Reagan Years, America simply resended Article 23 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which guarantees elementary Human Rights of workers, including the right to form unions. Under Reagan and Bush '41 our OSHA Agency (Protects the Safety of Workers) was a "hands-off" Agency encouraging lawlessness, and unsafe working conditions. Workplace injuries went through the roof! I saw it myself !!!
CosmicFork 2 months ago
Ronald Reagan was a tool that continued Goldwater's & Nixon's racist Southern Strategy. In many ways, Reagan was even more extreme than those other men. For instance, Nixon never contemplated destroying collective bargaining rights or undoing the basics of FDR's New Deal w/ the lowest tax rates since the 1920s.
ebonics4everyone 3 months ago
CHUMPsky is an idiot.
TAXtheAtheist 3 months ago
@TAXtheAtheist
that a human being can feel this way really makes me sick.
Gonko100 2 months ago
@Gonko100 He is just a troll.
PolitcalIslam 2 months ago
@PolitcalIslam
well and you are just a fucking idiot. A "troll" does not detect geopolitical dialectical mechanisms, a troll offends and attacks, and this man just tries to analyze history while it unravels before our eyes.
Gonko100 2 months ago
@Gonko100 No, TaxtheAtheist is a troll.
PolitcalIslam 2 months ago
@PolitcalIslam
ok, I am sorry I misread you.
Gonko100 2 months ago
She has really weird eyes
Laughingblades 3 months ago
Nice scarf Mary
DJAnthonyillWill 4 months ago
When Droneald Reagan's 100th brithday came around last February, I'm proud to say, on a fence in my neighborhood, I anonymously hung a sign reading:
'Ronald Reagan Responsible for Murdering >200,000 Guatemalans & Salvadorans in the 1980s'
Just to let the world know not everyone forgets what happens yesterday; and that senile old sonofabitch was responsible for genocide every bit as much as Pol Pot or Adolph Hitler. You can't let these sons-of-fucks get away with anything.
bapyou 4 months ago 10
@bapyou well done. Thats great that you did that. People seem to remember what they want and rationalize fucked up shit, or just conveniently forget about it. Your sign probably reached alot of people and maybe caused some to recheck history to learn more about this. Well done! :)
treehuggerdude4 3 months ago
Oh the irony! Chomsky talking about distorted legacies when he has been exposed over and over again as one of the biggest liars ever to publish a book? All I can do is shake my head. What a worthless, race-baiting old trickster.
carolineislands 4 months ago
Screw teachers unions. Do you seriously think they have "smaller classroom sizes and better textbooks" on their list of demands?
SUpersaiyajinjerkbag 6 months ago
Thank you for being factual.
electronsauce 6 months ago
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fuck off old liberal douchebag
London's Burning
/watch?v=W9iauKOKbDQ
Liberal Douchebags
SuperMegaUberGenius 6 months ago
@SuperMegaUberGenius your eloquence shames me
WishCRUS4D3R 5 months ago
@WishCRUS4D3R I dont agree with the tremendous wealth transfer that has gone upward to the richest of the Elite, and I dont agree with the Unions either because their primary interest is to protect their jobs, benefits and earnings all at the expense of the taxpayers. Both Corporations and Unions harm the public, one because they rip us off, and the other cuz they serve themselves first rather than serve us well.
Salsa23PR 5 months ago
@adrenas - By the way, the racist "white power" videos on your page are really impressive, too. Did you go to college to learn racist hate while you were studying economics? We are probably too ignorant and stupid, as you say, but how does racist hate-mongering look to an "educated economist"? Or do you really hate Dr. Chomsky because he's a jew?
dhead64 6 months ago
Most economist in America are junk economists. Neo liberals conservatives neo cons paleo cons, all are junk economists
dfg93353 6 months ago
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LogicalFlawDetector 8 months ago
@LogicalFlawDetector Why? If you're not a troll I'd like to know why. If you can give me some credible reasons backed by evidence that aren't steeped in willful ignorance, bigotry, gullibility, or some combination of the three then I'd love to fucking hear it.
LardGargantuus 8 months ago
Do you have any idea how completely ignorant and stupid you all look to an educated economist? You must not. If you did you would be incredibly embarrassed. The handful of economists that would say otherwise are paid to say exactly that and aren't being paid for real analysis. Noam Chomsky is very articulate but also completely full of shit. He always has been. Instead of watching drivel like this you folks should think about going to school.
adrenas 8 months ago
@adrenas right on... get into the schools so you can be indoctrinated..... the electorate must not be informed....anything less wouldnt be tolerated.... educated by whom, for what reasons ?
irishjuwan 8 months ago
@adrenas If you think it's drivel why did you take the time to watch the clip and comment on it?
jiggity99 7 months ago
@adrenas thanks so much for cluing us in - I for one am too dumb to know when to feel "incredibly embarrassed". Thank God for real analysis; I'm thinking of Myron Scholes and Robert Merton here. Especially their winning the Nobel in 1997 for the Black-Scholes model of options risk. Of course, a year later they manged to lose 4.6 bllion and almost take down the market, and went bankrupt. I think I'll stick with being incredibly embarrassed than being an incredible asshat .
dhead64 6 months ago
Free trade agreement talks with china and south korea this week. We lost, lets go home and read some kafka or something.
frankbergmanII 8 months ago
one man destroyed this country ronald reagan, and we never have looked back, and now the middle and poor, have to pay the price, because the gop, and even some dems just kiss the butt of corporate america, just 1% of the population, controls 99% of the others, this is sick, the top CEO's in this country make 500% more then regular blue collar workers, what a crime, and why are the bankers not in freakin jail?
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We are a REPUBLIC not a Democracy !
lastpatriot4America 10 months ago
We have the best politicians money can BUY!! Problem is, by virtue of that, their not up to the task of bringing the integrity we need to office. The only option I can see in the short term, is to deny their existence. For me, they don't exist anyway, whats the differece?
If we cut off funding, the issue will address itself. And THIS is exactly what they are doing to the middle class. Does anyone have the balls to stop paying?
pjamesbda 10 months ago
@pjamesbda So what if the average/lower classes don't pay? The CORPORATIONS pay. Due to the 2010 supreme court decision, they can freely fund political candidates wit corporate money. Denying the issue does nothing, in fact, it is exactly what the elite want the lower classes to do.
Grwida 10 months ago
@Grwida - That argument presumes the CORPORATIONS produce product independent of the working class. They don't have any such power if you think thru your premise. Without the worker bees, the Queen dies. The workers simply stop producing. No money to buy politicians, everything grinds to a halt. Hit the reset button and start over.
Of course this is beyond most people. They wouldn't know where to start being self reliant. Growing their own food, Generating their own power. I don't deny that.
pjamesbda 10 months ago
@pjamesbdaBut, the problem is, the central agencies that minimize self reliance, are some of the ones that stop the worker bees from being crushed. Due to the economic system which prevents the workers from accumulating capital, many workers (rely on statist programs to support/protect them. As far as "the objective" I agree, local reliance on the part of the worker bees is the way to go, but the transitional phase is difficult; many people do nood have the skills or capital to be self reliant.
Grwida 10 months ago
I noticed a bunch of Koch schills on the Wisconsin videos a while back. They're out there people.
HoGraz 10 months ago
@HoGraz - You bet they are friend, along with their "deeply pessimistic" vision for the future.
Makes you wonder what its like inside their heads....or what about inside their houses? You know, trophys all lined up in the study, 24 point deer antler mounted over the fireplace. You know, the Hummer in the driveway with the gun rack and 3.5 kids with cell phones fighting each other for the 2.5 bathrooms. Dad works at Lockheed Martin and Mom runs the local Right to Life chapter.
pjamesbda 10 months ago
@pjamesbda Yep. That's true. Pessimism. It's this overt negativity that allows for less discussion.
HoGraz 10 months ago
@HoGraz - I suppose my comment was negative, but not sure it was overt. I don't conclude destructive choices as "wrong", just destructive. In nature, there is no right or wrong, just consequences. If you live on the promise of war, and the spoils of it, and champion strength above morality, nature tells us by it's own cycles, in time, the strong will fall.
As to Wisconsin, a strike is in order. The powerful need to know where their power comes from, and its not the corporations...its workers.
pjamesbda 10 months ago
@pjamesbda No you're fine dude. I was agreeing with you on how pessimistic the right is on most things. It's like they just want people to shut down logic and turn into robots essentially.
HoGraz 10 months ago
I say let the rich go to china and mexico.
catbuffalo 11 months ago
I'm a Libertarian (the American kind lol) and I think we should just get rid of limited liability for corporations. Then they no longer have an unfair advantage. The right-wingers win because the market is freer and the leftists win because they hate large corporations. They only people that lose are the neoliberals (i.e. fascists).
CommodiousVicus 11 months ago
@CommodiousVicus Please go convince your misguided counterparts of that.
tstruss912 11 months ago
Very little quality in teachers unions,go this far,but no further.Unions are a small part of the work force,no wonder students are failing.Unions shouldn't be part of any public sector,just keep substandard teachers in there jobs,when they should be fired.All about the money.Dead sure there are money hoarding democrats as well.Unions in public sectors shouldn't be allowed to strike,as in a few of the better states.Sure glad this is all coming out,tired of paying for substandard work.
20mantis10 11 months ago
@20mantis10 If more teachers were unionized then maybe you could form a proper sentence. Your argument is....not good. We don't even draw in the real talents into teaching, and your solution is to give them LESS money and security?! Wow....just wow.
tstruss912 11 months ago
"If ye love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you...and forget that you were our countrymen..." Sam Adams
TNCelt1 11 months ago
If this country is so bad, why don't all you bedwetters just move back to all the other great countries that Noam thinks we ought to be like, where the government wipes your a-s for you and takes care of you from cradle to grave? You obviously have no American spirit. Everthing will be free except for the 70% taxation, $7 gasoline, $40/lb. meat, (if you can get it), etc...
TNCelt1 11 months ago
Astonishing how three decades of a densely corporatized social climate has so effectively dumbed-down and brainwashed millions of average income people (and even the dirt poor) to the extent that many fiercely and diligently fight on the side of the wealthy, whose religion is Profit$ Over People. Listen to the language of those who support the right; their defining motive often seems grounded in deep-seated hatred of the less fortunate, anti-authoritarians, & any who oppose the corporate $tate.
TheeUnidentified 11 months ago 70
@TheeUnidentified Well said and I have to say it is a mostly American phenomenon which tries very hard to spread elsewhere. We're suffering in the UK from it at the moment, but there appears to be some violent reactions against it this time. It worries me because the state has the biggest gang and I doubt violence will do much.
jacksawild 6 months ago
@TheeUnidentified Yea it is called fascism and republicans are carrying the corporate water.
teabaggersblow 6 months ago
@TheeUnidentified You talk about people being dumbed down and yet your entire comment is nothing but one regurgitated talking point after another. Are you so indoctrinated that you are no longer capable of putting together an original sentence? Why don't you try it and see - seriously. Let's see you write one single sentence that's not a series of Big Brother's talking points.
carolineislands 4 months ago
@carolineislands "Big Brother" is an Orwell reference to our massive police state apparatus that Cons obediently champion to "defend the homeland" (fear-based propaganda) Yet these same types rally the Small Govt mantra, but only as it applies to abolishing oversight of corporate malfeasance & removal of social safety nets for the poor. Fascists have long perverted language/meaning in the US via the M$M, and its worst divide/rule characteristics resonate effectively w/authoritarian types.
TheeUnidentified 4 months ago 8
@TheeUnidentified Yeah, I have a liberal arts degree and I know all the talking points. Problem is, they are not based on facts - but you won't figure that out until you learn to use critical thinking - which you will NOT get in your liberal education. And the sad truth is it's pointless to even try to discuss it with you because you are so thoroughly indoctrinated there is no way that you would even BEGIN to ENTERTAIN any evidence that contradicts what you've been told. Not yet, anyhow...
carolineislands 4 months ago
@TheeUnidentified Wow! You said that very well!
rosiethebear300 4 months ago
@TheeUnidentified When President Obama or President Jeb Bush predator drones a MOOOOOOOOOOOOOSLEM stronghold someplace on the world battlefield of the war on terror (say, Harlem, NY) will the American people wake up that the Empire has come home?
Is it already too late?
RPenta 4 months ago
@TheeUnidentified So we all see that you are a Marxist lemming, I just wonder.. does that Koolaid I.V. hurt?
Trauncher 4 months ago
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TheeUnidentified 4 months ago
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@Trauncher Not at all, given that I've been a self-described liberal socialist for over two decades.
Thanks for your concern, though.
TheeUnidentified 4 months ago
@Trauncher Naw but realizing that Ronald Regan was a corporate shill who opened the flood gates more than Nixon to bribery and treason under the guise of gifts and donations, and had an administration full of criminals who left office for the court rooms must suck.
Oh hey how's working to make other people rich and being given only a portion of your earnings as a wage working out? How's that job security as a disposable infinitely replaceable commodity? Cooperatives sounding good yet?
Laughingblades 3 months ago
@TheeUnidentified - I despair - Ive worked with these people - its the same thing over and over - they defend the national lottery in the same way, they have been taught to revere extreme (obscene) wealth so effectively if you even try to mention how futile taking part in the lottery is they attack you - like its the only way out - the only dream. Very sad, Gandhi was right about industrialised society.
ginganz13 2 months ago
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TheeUnidentified 2 months ago
Psych studies show one-quarter of the US populace as having an Authoritarian Personality (shades of it run higher) and so don't want to hear that the most powerful people are acting against humanity's interests. They'll aggressively defend against any such information that casts unfavorable light on exalted yet poisonous cultural directives. That's why the term Conspiracy Theory is a favored label for views/data suggesting abuses of power & illegal activity by people in high places.
TheeUnidentified 2 months ago
@TheeUnidentified Can you direct me to this study?
Incognitoification1 1 month ago
It's amazing with all these great minds-- like Chomsky-- spending decades studying our problems, sounding the alarms, and trying to motivate people to change, there's been no transformation in balance of our power & distribution of wealth. How, when 50% of us languish in poverty, can 1% of us be allowed to hoard & enjoy the benefits of 80% of our collective wealth? The people who do all the real work, 40% of us, only get 14% of the pie they've baked! This is madness!
FriedDaisy 11 months ago 37
@FriedDaisy But don't let this fucked up system turn you into a socialist, that just gives the government MORE power to destroy you. America is NOT currently a capitalistic society we live in a CRONY-CAPITALIST society!
Bouchon211 5 months ago
@FriedDaisy Because you let them. All you do is talk.
sarcee1960 2 months ago
A bunch of Marxist know-nothings.
TimeWarp66 11 months ago
Nothing better than listening to some 19 yr. old punk, who's never paid a bill in his life, philosophize about "worker's rights" and why people who make $50k a year, (with no guarantees or tenure), should be paying more to some whiny teacher who makes $86k with health and income guarantees despite their performance. Nice.
TNCelt1 11 months ago
@TNCelt1
Dear Whore:
In the 1980s Ronald Reagan attacked private sector unions & the wages of working people everywhere have stagnated since. Now the whores are attacking public sector unions, & you & your brainwashed ilk wish THEM to give up their rights.
You are a whore. You are a coward. Unike the Wisconsinites you lack the balls to stand up to power. The powerful will kill you & you will thank them becasue they waved the flag as they did it. Bend over. Fuck you, you whore.
bapyou 11 months ago 2
@bapyou Whatever...but I don't depend on some rich, sugar-daddy pimping politician, (acting like he's down with my struggle), to get money from one person and hand it to me for as long as I live. I am a free, grownup individual. I've supported myself since I was 16, even when I've had to move or change jobs to do so. I also have the guts to use profanity against others when I'm in the proximity to back it up. I won't even say what that makes you.....
TNCelt1 11 months ago
@TNCelt1 "I don't depend on some rich, sugar-daddy pimping politician, (acting like he's down with my struggle)"
That's what millions of Americans think of Ronald Reagan. That he was "on their side" when in fact he enacted measures that began the dismantlng of America's middle class.
"I am a free, grownup individual. I've supported myself since I was 16"
And the people standing up against Wisconsin's whore politicians are not grown up? Do not support themselves? Which side are you on?
bapyou 11 months ago
@bapyou First...how old are you? You must not be old enough to remember the 4 years prior to his tenure. I also notice that you left out quite a bit of my response, in particular the part about me doing what I had to do to succeed...and there's the difference. I didn't expect a politician to or some thug union to confiscate "dues" from me so they could launder it BY FORCE to a political party. Do your research regarding the legislation in Wisconsin. They still got it better than most of us.
TNCelt1 11 months ago
@TNCelt1 "in Wisconsin ... They still got it better than most of us."
And the reason for this is? I know the answer to that question. You do fucking not.
Your use of language is straight out of the anti-union playbook: "thug unions." The true fucking thugs are people like Walker whose salary is paid by the people & who then turns around & steals the people's rights.
You will get nowhere with me, pal. I'd bust your skull in a heartbeat. Stand with the rich if you want. I never will.
bapyou 11 months ago
@bapyou ...I'm with the rest of the middle income shlubs like myself who work 10 hr days, 12 months a year who are tired of listening to a bunch of whiny, communistic bedwetters who work 9 months of the year, make more than I do and don't ever share in the economic pain...while telling me that I don't do enough...by the way, you talk pretty tough for a guy sitting in his mommy's basement making threats behind a computer. I'll stand with the rich before the commies like you...cowardly ones too.
TNCelt1 11 months ago
@TNCelt1 Everything you've written is a lie and unprovable by any fact. You listen to the Fox News morons who propagandize to you on behalf of the rulling class every day of the week. If you are working class as you claim, you have nothing in common with the wealthy who are the ones TRULY not sharing your economic pain. In case you missed it: Exxon-Mobil has posted record profits the past few years. As I said, you are a coward.
P.S., little boy, my mother lives 2700 miles away from me.
bapyou 11 months ago
@TNCelt1 them rose tinted spectacles you wear are a real boost to your appearance. unfortunately they let everyone else see what a fool you are.
jmpmcd 11 months ago
What an utter smear. "Wage freeze=tax rise".
A wage freeze could be comparable to a wage reduction, if anything.
youfatstinkypoo 11 months ago
LOL OH MAN THIS IS GREAT,,,, watch?v=gi5EQfo1_vY
hellorodney 11 months ago
People have really tuned against their unions. We should all read Oliver twist to understand ancient capitalism (when unions did not exist).
Wolfman92111 11 months ago
thoes who can do, thoes who can`t piss and moan about thoes that can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jimmybob137 11 months ago
the 60's are OVER!
brewmaster95060 11 months ago
ITS ALL ABOUT THE KIDS,,, watch?v=-dGHFmKjIeI
hellorodney 11 months ago
I'm not worried------corporations know what's best for the world------just look at the Gulf Coast-----they're my buddies and they watch out for me and protect me from all the dangerous commies who are trying to steal all my millions-----hahahahahah-----
metalreign81 11 months ago
What was it that Noam Chomsky said about eating pussy?
iSoLiFTeD 11 months ago
Noam Chomsky speaks the truth. Wealth is being redistributed to the wealthy. TO THE TOP TINY FRACTION OF THE POPULATION. And it is NOT going to trickle down.
rozagain 11 months ago
@SIGN666
our side has all the guns.
brewmaster95060 11 months ago
@brewmaster95060 don't get it twisted. just because i'm a democrat doesn't mean i'm a fool.Come my way with that bullshit. you won't be going back.
rois34 11 months ago
@brewmaster95060 Don't get it twisted .Just because I'm a democrat doesn't mean I'm a fool. Come my way with that bullshit. you want live to tell about.
rois34 11 months ago
These idiots do not even know the meaning of the word "democracy". The United States, for example, is NOT a democracy.
onthewall888 11 months ago
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people are told "if it wasnt for them, the coporate heads you wouldnt have a job " basically without the corporate head the body dies But I think that with unions the realisation comes in that without the body the corporate head dies. Lets keep the unions so that the elete knows that they cant survive without the body that makes up their companies!!!!!!!
sagitarian000028 11 months ago
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sagitarian000028 11 months ago
Noam is THE MAN. Obama is a sell-out. The middle class better listen Noam and find a leader who is really on their side. They've let themselves becomes slaves to ruling elite.
EdiblePlanets 1 year ago
The middle class is rising up against the elitist union worker. There are more non-union workers in America, and the union expects them to pay for their greed.
WE ARE a nation of maker and takers and the time has come to reduce the takers and increase the makers.
America is a meritocracy.
Meritocracy is a system in which the talented are chosen and moved ahead on the basis of their achievement. Where the leadership is selected on the basis of intellectual criteria.
TheYoungTurdz 1 year ago
@TheYoungTurdz "America is a meritocracy. Where the leadership is selected on the basis of intellectual criteria."
Really? Then explain George Bush. Chris Hedges put it best:
"George Bush was a man with severely limited intelligence & no moral core. He exemplifies the legions of self-centered, spoiled, intellectually limited & wealthy elitists churned out by places like Andover, Yale, & Harvard. Bush was, like the rest of his caste, propelled forward by his money & his connections."
bapyou 1 year ago
@bapyou George Bush vs John Kerry's GPA at Yale. George Bush comes out ahead of Kerry.
Although, I do not put all my eggs in one basket, one comparison or one quote by any ONE are not what I rely on as a measuring stick.
America is a Meritocracy where the talented are chosen and move ahead on the basis of their achievement. I feel sorry for you that you do not see it, or perhaps are incapable of moving ahead?!
TheYoungTurdz 11 months ago
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@TheYoungTurdz "George Bush vs John Kerry's GPA at Yale."
Yeah, you prove the point even further: The idiots rule, & your neat idea about "meritocracy" is little more than a fantasy: I've known plumbers with more brains than GWB. In fairness to Kerry, at least his grandfather didn't bump him ahead of the line at the National Guard so he could spend his time during the Vietnam War flying F-111s over Houston, sparing him the indignities of actual combat.
How far up the ruling class's ass?
bapyou 11 months ago
@TheYoungTurdz So you dont like a 40hr work week,minimum pay,workers rights,vacations,safety standards sounds like you like the trickle down aka getting pissed on.
1canyonguy 11 months ago
@1canyonguy Actually, no I do not like a 40 hour work week. I created a company where I work 12-14 hours a day. I may take a month off from time to time, but I risked, I earned it. I pay a salary and expect that they get the job done, if it takes them 30 hours or 90 hours, I don't care, as long as the job is done correctly the first time. I am acutally a very fair person to work for, and evey you would be begging for the job. I love trickle down. I think it works, except for the lazy.
TheYoungTurdz 11 months ago
@TheYoungTurdz Really? You're trying to champion the union-busting cause under the middle class banner?
Unions CREATED the middle class of America.
Covertghost 11 months ago
@Covertghost
If the shoe fits, you should face the facts, and wear it. It looks so good on you.
Public unions didn't create the middle class. Private unions did. Now look what they have done to them; Example: GM and the massive transfer of wealth from the shareholders to foreign interests and the UAW. Americans see it. The nonunion middle class sees what the union elitist middle class are all about, and they are not having it any longer. They voted in November for real change!
TheYoungTurdz 11 months ago
@TheYoungTurdz Hey turd I don't know what class you belong too,but i do know that since about 1975 ,around the time union busting began,union membership numbers began dropping along with middle class income as associated with the total proffit estimates for the nation.And the percentages gets worse every year. Unions provide protection from a buffer between us and the super rich.Without Unions you would be working 7 days a week 25hrs a day,for a hole lot less money.
rois34 11 months ago
@rois34 I've always worked for myself, so I have never been a taker, only a maker. There is a valid reason that union membership is dropping. This is happening, weather you like it or not. Other states do not have bargaing rights for benes, yet they manage, as well as 2 million federal employees. Cutting spending and creating jobs wont happen if we allow this abuse to continue. IF a union is ever needed again, after children are forced to work in sweatshops, it will come back.
TheYoungTurdz 11 months ago
@TheYoungTurdz Whoops!!
whether not weather. it is late.
TheYoungTurdz 11 months ago
The middleclass was created by the unions.And the public sector unions have members who put thier lives on the line to protect and serve.Some teach .But one thing is for sure .Without them you don't order ,civilization, or Government.You may not like us but you need us.Speaking as a fire firefighter(17.5 years),I'm not looking to get rich,but damn,I shouldn't have to get off work from making emergency calls all night to go work part time.
rois34 11 months ago
@rois34 A strong middle class WAS created by PRIVATE unions. What has the unions done for us recently?? Nothing good. 2 million federal empolyees manage just fine without bargaining rights,as do many other states. There are state laws that protect. You do not need an unholy union of a union leader and a politician negotiating with our tax dollars. This has turned the middleclass union American 10-12% on the middleclass & poor nonunion Americans. All for their tax dollars. IT WILL END.
TheYoungTurdz 11 months ago
@TheYoungTurdz this is remarkably naive."talented " and "intellectual " in a "meritocracy"..in a country that has a severe league table of universities which are prohibitively expensive ?economic advantage is destiny in the u.s. towing the line amongst the business class and awaiting the propitious gods is more the mark of the upwardly mobile.the number of dullards and creeps amongst the political class speaks for itself and a want of moral seriousness another.
hotstixx 11 months ago
@hotstixx Silly one, speaking of dullards and creeps.... you are referring to Noam Chumpsky!!
TheYoungTurdz 11 months ago
@TheYoungTurdz oh dear ! how i wish I had said something that stupid and inane lol
hotstixx 11 months ago
"anti-democratic forces will make an alliance with the Christian right & other extremists; use fear & the spectre of left-wing dissent to impose draconian controls & extinguish democracy. & while they do it they'll [wave] the American flag, chant patriotic slogans, promise law & order, clutch the Christian cross. Orwell: "A society becomes totalitarian when its ruling class [loses] its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud." Soon force is all [our] elites will have left."
bapyou 1 year ago
(4 my archives:)
(11:45) "..Clinton..had another way of destroying unions. It's called NAFTA. One of the predicted consequences of NAFTA which, in fact, worked out, was that it would be used as a way to undermine unions. *Illegally* of course, but when you have a criminal state, this doesn't matter."
wda013 1 year ago
10% of americans own over two thirds of the nation's wealth, and they want to keep that way! And now the GOP who represents this privileged group is voted back into power by "all" americans. Go figure!
townsendjean 1 year ago
@townsendjean
15 % of U$-amis own over 85 % of the wealth of the country, and they do NOT want to keep it that way. THEY WANT MORE !
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unfortunately, people do not tend to vote rationally -- Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal. (R.A.Heinlein)
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wordlwide, the F-richest few own more than the poorer billion(s) ! PECUNIA OLET.
wda013 1 year ago
@townsendjean Just goes to show you that the numbers that you are seeing in the LSM aren't correct.
The Dems screwed up so badly in under 2 years with their power grab, that Americans RAN back to the R's after they were declared DEAD. It has happened before, it will happen again.
Go Figure!
TheYoungTurdz 11 months ago
No party is the ansewer Obama is just bush 2.0 and Republican president will do the same things as Obama The white house is one big reality show@TheYoungTurdz
theabomation 11 months ago
@theabomation The best part about the TEA party is that they aren't the democrats or the republicans. However, the grass roots movement grew so big, so strong, so quickly, that they are now a power, and will keep both sides accountable, so that their words match their actions going forward. That is the CHANGE that Americans want and need.
TheYoungTurdz 11 months ago
Tea Party people are just another Republican party in a sense The problem is the entire system there is corruption every where in our government its all owned by Big Oil, Military or the Fed and if something dosent change soon riots will break out@TheYoungTurdz
theabomation 11 months ago
@theabomation Currently they appear to be closer to the R's than the D's, but they are better than both and will keep politicians accountable. The riots have already begun. Where have you been??? The question is, ARE YOU READY????
TheYoungTurdz 11 months ago
The riots are in Wisconsin, I live in Michigan i am surprised Michigan didn't riot first This once great State is now a hell hole there is massive poverty in Michigan many city's like Detroit and Flint look like third world country's so yes i am ready to riot The youth have nothing to lose and everything to gain. @TheYoungTurdz
theabomation 11 months ago
@theabomation I too have a residence in Michigan and am not at all surprised that they didn't riot, as Detroit learned a lesson in the 60s'. If they riot, they will only have to learn to live within the filth that they create. Just as they do in Detriot now!!!! Detroit has never become a great city as it should have been, after the riots. Try and create something instead of detroying it. However, be ready!! You can always hang the dead around your property to let others know you are serious
TheYoungTurdz 11 months ago
When i say riot i mean only on government buildings and Banks most notable the Federal reverse I am sure you have seen Flint and Detroit recently there is nothing to destroy lol@TheYoungTurdz
theabomation 11 months ago
@theabomation OH, why didn't you say you were a student of William Ayers!!!!
Agree there isn't anything but the poor left to destroy in the D or F.
TheYoungTurdz 11 months ago
WOAH slow down Young Turdz I am not a student of William Ayers burning down public schools is pointless I more like Malcolm X then anything@TheYoungTurdz
theabomation 11 months ago
@theabomation Ayers was know primarily for participatin in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972. If that is your goal, then you may want to contact him for pointers.
TheYoungTurdz 11 months ago
let me ask you this Do u Believe that the Federal Reverse is bad for the u.s economy and causes a system of debt money? @TheYoungTurdz
theabomation 11 months ago
reagen was a shifty eyed scam artist! i saw him on the news at a function, he didnt know he was being filmed. and he had the craftiest look you ever saw! weasel eyes shifting from side to side like a thief in an alleyway!.........then he make a public speech and his face had that fake "Nice Guy" look! his voice all condescending lke he was talking to a bunch of kids! what a fucking shithead! spotted that fuckers bullshit a mile away!
acerb45666555 1 year ago
@acerb45666555 "he had the craftiest look you ever saw! weasel eyes shifting from side to side like a thief"
LOL! I hate Ronald Reagan beyond all comprehension. I put up a homemade sign in my neighborhood on his 100th birthday reminding everyone of the horrors in Central America for which he was directly responsible. One of his slavish bootlicking lackeys came along and ripped it down. I'll post it again soon.
But thanks for sharing your mutual disgust. LOL
bapyou 1 year ago
Only 5 states do not have collective bargaining for educators and have deemed it illegal. Those states and their ranking on ACT/SAT scores are as follows:
South Carolina - 50th
North Carolina - 49th
Georgia - 48th
Texas - 47th
Virginia - 44th
JuanVoyce 1 year ago
Doesn't anyone of you understand that this has nothing to do with private worker unions? Why do public sector unions need a union? Please explain this to me. There are no profits made by government so there is no incentive to exploit the government worker. The logic is that the tax payers are doing the exploiting. It's ludicrous, and I'm not referring to the rapper.
utubeworms 1 year ago
@utubeworms Your are right on! I think you understand that the public unions are just feeding, maybe most unknowningly, the union pot and wasting more of their salarys for nothing. Most public workers forget that it's their neighbor that is paying their salary! Sending your money to Trumpka and his goons is boosting the liberal progressive agenda around the world!
coleyman1 1 year ago
@utubeworms Politicians are principally concerned with representing those that pay for their campaigns (and provide lucrative post-political careers). Businesses don't like paying wages or taxes - it hurts profits. Wage suppression in all sectors is therefore helpful for profits. Also, they don't want the public sector model to be a source of inspiration/envy for their workers, it might make it harder to exploit them. Unions help to protect people from a corrupt anti-democratic political system.
BeveledSpilchOnion 1 year ago
@BeveledSpilchOnion I think your explanation is convoluted. Public sector unions only server to reverse the incentive for exploitation. IN this reversal, the union will try to exploit the tax payer since they will "donate" to the politicians that will, in the end, grant them their unrealistic demands and leave the tax payer on the hook. It makes not sense to have a public sector union since, in effect, the government itself is the union and assures that the worker will not be exploited.
utubeworms 1 year ago
Noam Chomsky I thought he was dead.
brewmaster95060 1 year ago
@brewmaster95060 The commies prop up Consky, use a tape recorder, repeating his rambling anti-Western speeches he made for 'world revolution' in order to get the 1960s type leftist radicals in a frenzy.
Geostrategic1 1 year ago
@brewmaster95060 Noam Chomsky will never die.
omar8845 1 year ago
@omar8845 Even rust falls off a bucket.
frio109 1 year ago
Search the following since this channel will apparently not allow my video response here.
"Introduction to Teaching 101"
1293drive 1 year ago
You have a huge underclass of very desperate people with their minds chemically blown on drugs--crime will soon become exponentially worse, there will be tax revolts, job marches, waves of homeless, food riots, squatters in empty buildings...a revolution of chaos is coming to America.
JuanVoyce 1 year ago
@JuanVoyce ~ just look at what the drug wars and nafta has done to mexico. and the selling off of the government to the oligarchs in russia. russia and mexico are now a couple of the most corrupt governments in the world. we are heading down the same path. and "free marketer" conservatives are the architects of all of it, america is what they've wanted all along. george orwell's "1984" is closer to reality than most people realize.
tomitstube 1 year ago
Inequality is the mother of all evils.
JuanVoyce 1 year ago
noam chomsky for president.
tomitstube 1 year ago
@tomitstube Hee Hee, chumpski for head the UAW. He'd fit in quite nicely.
TheYoungTurdz 1 year ago
@tomitstube President of where? North Korea, Russia?
Geostrategic1 1 year ago
Norm Chumpski talking outta his ass again.
TAXtheAtheist 1 year ago
@TAXtheAtheist ~ noam chomsky is above your pay grade. clown.
tomitstube 1 year ago
@tomitstube Both You & the Chump are overpaid.
TAXtheAtheist 1 year ago
@TAXtheAtheist ~ atheists do pay taxes, when are the free loading churches going to pay their fair share? freeloading hypocrite.
tomitstube 1 year ago
@tomitstube Churches don't have to pay taxes because the majority of americans are delusional idiots.
It's a country run by delusional jackasses where pursuing a humanitarian domestic policy is insane and too expensive while there's always money for rich man subsidies and murdering people.
dffykvn 1 year ago
@dffykvn ~ yep, churches, corporations, the wealthy... they get the free rides, but teachers are called "free loaders". the absurdity of what's going on right now is scary. mainly because the majority of people seem to be oblivious of what's being done to them.
have you seen the interview amy had with matt taibbi about his rolling stone article "nobody goes to jail"? it confirms exactly what we've been saying all along. our democracy is really a corrupt oligarchy.
tomitstube 1 year ago 31
@tomitstube I wish I could say that that was news to me.
Matt Taiibis article would be breaking news in the early 1800's "Americas new aristocracy."
dffykvn 1 year ago
@dffykvn ` true... this isn't news to us. the thing i'm hoping for, is the article getting some traction. it illuminates the whole ridiculousness of conservative ideology in terms that most people can grasp. i'm hoping that it can undermine the agenda of the right diverting blame away from the oligarchs responsible. it's what we have to do to get the national conversation were it belongs. we need some prosecutions, and a big light on the crooks getting away with massive theft.
tomitstube 1 year ago
@tomitstube Even tho this is true, I didn't go to jail and I shouldn't have even been arrested for smoking weed, so its more an issue of people breaking the law should be let go and the real criminals who commit real crimes should go to jail. Speeding isn't a crime until you hit something, same with drinking and driving, I have yet to meet someone who was hit and fucked up by a drunk driver. I think we all just need to be more responcible with our lives, thats all.
mmaaxx1198 11 months ago
We should show the egyptians how america is governed...
As an example of how not to run a country.
dffykvn 1 year ago
watch?v=oxE7wozxLtg
FDR knew what to do
hellorodney 1 year ago
This concentration of wealth is now at unpredecented levels. The 10% who own over two thirds of the nation's wealth want to keep it that way. The GOP is in their pockets, yet people voted them back into power! Go figure! .
townsendjean 1 year ago
Chomsky is one of the most important thinkers of our time, and he his all time right.
America and Europe needs a new REVOLUTION, a revolution of middle class.
we need to retake the power that we have 20 years ago, since Regan the middle class have shrink and the billionaires have become more and more stupidity rich, and they do not pay taxes, they have scandal bonus and they are living in a world that do not exist, a world that they have created.
we need a REVOLUTION
LET´S BURN WALL STREET NOW
raseclarbac 1 year ago
@raseclarbac You have my sword!
Vlad the Impaler 2012: The only man in history who knew how to properly handle a noblemen.
dffykvn 1 year ago
If only we worked as well as the bees.
wisconnoisseur 1 year ago
OCTOBER 03, 2008
Where Does American Public Education Rank In The World?
Per-Student Primary School Spending: #3
Per-Student Secondary School Spending: #4
Math Test Scores: #25
Science Test Scores: #21
Graduation Rates: #21