Free Lunch, Corp Welfare, Bill Moyers and David Cay Johnston

[TelecasterLPGTop]

Johnstone claims that the tax laws forcing Americans to pay tax on their labour are quite clear. He's a liar !

[Therealmitch5511]

@TelecasterLPGTop ... it's obvious you don't don't know what you are talking about!

[blessedfrog]

dcj! you are awesome - keep it up -- thank you!

[Michaelbenoit7]

We are on the same page with corporate welfare.

[12bar145ne]

NASCAR is doing the same thing with tracks being built in major markets as the sports stadium scenario. The Northwest,in Oregon or Washington state I believe, turned NASCAR down on building a track in that area. Good for them. I love NASCAR but hate corporate welfare. We have to vote out the politicians (virtually all of them in office now) that are the lackys of this system & vote in politicians who will not sell us out. WAKE THA FUCK UP AMERICA...

[tomitstube]

this is a brilliant book, it will depress the hell out of you. even when the public is on to unfair subsidies that harm the general public, they can't seem stop the politicians who they buy. the john roberts court is a joke. if you've wondered why it seems the most unproductive laws and idiotic rhetoric are carrying the day? this book explains how you're getting screwed.

i do take umbrage with johnston's term "corporate socialism, a minor detail, but it makes little sense.

[tomitstube]

this is a brilliant book, it will depress the hell out of you. even when the public is on to rip off subsidies they seem powerless to stop them. the public is being rolled and politicians are being bought to protect the few and screw the majority. the john roberts supreme court is a joke, this book has so many compelling stories about blatant corporate theft being legislated.

i do take umbrage with johnston's term 'corporate socialism", it's a minor detail, but the term makes little sense.

[TheBardsofBalance]

I also love Johnston's book, Perfectly Legal. Our band addresses corporate welfare and greed in our own way.

[TheBardsofBalance]

I also love Johnston's book, Perfectly Legal.

[TheBardsofBalance]

I also love Johnston's book, Perfectly Lega.

[thenovascotia20]

9% OF UR GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT IS SPENT ON HEALTH CARE WHEN 30MILLIOM AMERICANS ARE DENIED HEALTH CARE IN MY COUNTRY WE SPEND LESS WHILE EVERY WOMAN MAN & CHILD ARE COVERED NO EXTRA BILLING NO TWO TIER WE DO NOT USE INSULTING Q U GO TO EM HOW MUCH INSURANCE OR MONEY I WOULD SAY I AM NOT BUYING A HOUSE OR EATING AT MCDONALDS WE SHOW OUR HEALTH CARDS THE GOVT PAYS THE DRS IT WORKS. THE HOMELESS ARE TREATED NOT TURNED AWAY NO COLLECTION AGENTS. THINK OF THAT UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE WORKS

[royalplaylist102]

@thenovascotia20 Funny my province spend over 60% of its budget on health care and people are complaining every election and every election they give more. I work in an hospital and to see the amount of stuff wasted on people who suffer from self inflincted illness make me sick. The amount of material wasted on people who will die anyway is insane.Sad to say but single payer is an aberration of nature. I prefer people dying to ecosystems being raped to save zombies.

[sinistar99]

@royalplaylist102 Thank God your system isn't being run by people who hate people as much as you do. What exactly is self-inflicted illness? Did they engineer a virus and infect themselves? As much as you guys pay with single payer --Americans pay twice as much and get less.

[royalplaylist102]

@sinistar99 A self inflicted disease is type 2 diabetes , lung cancer , heart condition, high cholesterol etc. Illness which could be easily avoid with some common sens. It's not that hard to not smoke , walk 1 hour a day and not eat added sugar more than once a week (in fact a one point food with added sugar and salt is just disgusting once you have reduce your consumption).

[royalplaylist102]

@sinistar99 I love the average argument. If you have a lot of old people who are rich and pay a fortune to be treated it kinda jack the average don't you think? Because I don't want to be a slave I'm a hater? Fuck 0ff the retards who engineered this system are the same who broke our baby machine (we had a 5 children average here before the 70's now it's like 1 1/2) and they are the same idiot who exported our job so how the fuck are we suppose to pay for the others if we can't pay for ourself?

[royalplaylist102]

@thenovascotia20 I won't even talk about the aging of population which will only make the things worse and it will keep going on until the government goes bankrupt you know why?BECAUSE THEIR ARE MORE OLD PEOPLE THAN YOUNG SO DEMOCRACY IS SCREWING US.

[NoobH8er75]

I'm definitely going out to get this book. Looks like a must read.

[arctos7]

I highly recommend Johnston's book: Free Lunch. American citizens know so little about how the tax system works and where their money goes but what's interesting is that most politicians don't either! What we find out is that the free market is largely a myth that in reality only applies to working people and small businesses that don't make enough money to hire a lobbyist.

[arctos7]

I highly recommend Johnston's book: Free Lunch. American citizens know so little about how the tax system works and where their money goes but what's interesting is that most politicians don't either! What we find out is that the free market is largely a myth that in reality only applies to working people and small businesses that don't make enough money to hire a lobbyist.

[Franc28]

Government is what makes civilization? What nonsense...

[rockondon]

first why watch all blacks in basketball

they hate whites

[vmaxdude2000]

What a joke! This video has been out for almost a year, and only 4,000 something views. Stupid americans are busy watching sports and american idol and dancing with the stars. Ignorant Fucks!!

[JRCrowley]

@vmaxdude2000 It's 06/16/10 now, and it's up to over 6,000 views. Wow, what a jump.  To put this in perspective, the Dancing With The Stars promo video form 2 yeas ago has 14,266,991 views. PEOPLE ARE STUPID. Fact.

[LazerBeef]

Agreed this isn't right, but Major Sports programs bring so much money into the city. Tourism is a big draw to these cites because of this entertainment.

[snowtrot]

Decent interview. Don't think so highly of Moyers but Johnston raises my brows in interest here.

[snowtrot]

government is based on civilization and humanity, not the other way around. Cultural values lie beneath the creation of any government.

[Plutonwolf]

Been screaming about this insanity for decades. We here in western Pa have to be to capital of TIFFs! Hockey arena, Baseball park, Football stadium, shopping malls, industrial parks you name it, we TIFF it and the richies laugh at us as they drive past us in our 15 year old mini vans from the seat of their Ferrarris.

[jfkjrlover]

It wouldn't disgust me and piss me off so much if the wealthy were just men who kept the money for themselves but when I see their spoiled bitch wives and kids living extravagantly without having to work for it! Err!!! I want to slap the diamond-clad whores! Some people have it too good! People say you got to work for a living but what about the wives of these billionaires who spend their days shopping, going out with friends and getting spa treatments? Give me a fucking break! America blows!

[voteDRNO]

NEO-CONed

[mountain19]

privatizing everything puts the tax dollars into the corporate hands while subsidizing to such businesses keeping the general public out. it is now the law. go back to sleep the corporates own us now.

[LuisLomeliMD]

We need a third party to reclaim our nation. Where is our middle class today?

[Garhunt05]

the modern whig party maybe?

[DAHOUSERECORDS]

HE KEEP IT REAL

[powderburnz08]

Catching on yet America??? Keep on sleeping and you will wake up one day, I see it being soon, in a bankrupted country and you will see a very real world that was created for you. Utopia is not far off, Utopia translated means "nowhere land". If you stand now change can be made, if you stand later it will be in an interment camp.

[buckfush12]

I use this information just to piss off Democrats. Seriously the only real choice is Ron Paul.

[o0xst]

Ron is all about letting the states decide. The states will decide to hand out massive subsidies to big companies. He's not the answer.

[Garhunt05]

no one man is ever the answer

[DeepGarageHead]

I've always, ALWAYS been unhappy with the fact that my tax dollars go towards [private] sports-related initiatives. :( As if there isn't enough money in the sports industry already.

[davidglover]

David Cay Johnston is the man. Great book! Read it, get mad, and start making change.

[KremeDeMentia]

I just read it - and i'm down-right-shaking-mad! Damn these corporate socialist hypocrites!

[kujhawkrulz]

The bad thing about this is that no one will read the book and no one will see this on the corporate owned media!

[TheStallion3]

That's the problem with our country. No one gives a shit. People need to become interested and educated in politics, because apathy isn't going to solve anything. I didn't give a crap until a little under a year ago. I couldn't believe the war in Iraq was still going on. The more I read the more I became sick to my stomach. Again and again the same themes run throughout the problems in our country. The rich and powerful screwing the rest of us for more wealth and power.

[peymaania]

Wow thus far only 597 persons have viewed this video. American Sheeple Wake the Hell up!

I'm sorry once again I'm demanding too much from the Sheeple....Ba..ba...ba...Boom!­!!

[ToddBoyle]

Thank you so much. There's also a segment of DC Johnston on Archive org, Democracy Now.

[o0xst]

2 great men right there!