You didn't include statistics showing how many times the poor have taken vacation to, say, Disneyland!!! The poor deserve fun vacation too! Typical 1% elitist!
He's right...apparently it's good that 1 in 6 Americans live below the poverty line. The media is just a bunch of crazy Liberals out to collaboratively ruin values. Give me a break. There's a reason that media is mostly Liberal because it is the correct way to be. The only reason the Republican party has any hold is because of the south and heartland. The places where museums, universities, culture, and businesses are sparse. As people become more educated they tend to become more liberal.
It's good that 1 in 6 American's live under condition where their children have only a 2.6% chance of being malnourished and they have a 99.7% chance of owning a refrigarator. People don't become more liberals as they become more educated, because older people tend to be conservative. A man who graduated college 20 years ago is more educated than a man who graduated yesterday, because he has his own personal experience in addition to 4 years in a university. People who (cont.)
(cont.) are "cultured" are people isolated from the consequences of what they vote for. They live more cushioned lives, away from the areas where political policy and philsophy are going to have their biggest effects. Soldiers, for example, are the people in the world most effected by who is in office, and they tend to vote Republican.
@ArrogantAmerican333 As people become more educated they do tend to become more Liberal. Karl Rove said that. There is a reason the entire political pendulum has done nothing but shift to the left over the years. Also, more people are getting a college education now than ever before. The old people you speak of have a ton of life experiences, but very few have the same amount of education. I'm not saying all conservatives are stupid, it's just an accurate observation.
@Tikiman03 More likely that more COLLEGE makes people more liberal, because college faculty are overwhelmingly liberal and tenure makes it impossible to fire a professor who talks politics instead of his subject during class. Speech codes are overwhelmingly aimed at conservatives, making it difficult to know whether students even know other valid opinions exist at all.
Now if by liberal you mean "supporting political and economic liberty", as it once meant, how I wish it was so.
@GoblinKnightLeo Yeah. Liberal is a loose term. The U.S. is economically Liberal and socially conservative. I was referring to how education opens peoples' minds. Places that are more educated do things differently.
@Tikiman03 Not clear that they are actually more educated (huge uni subsidies), nor that they make better decisions (Islam, multiculti, EU govt, CAP, and so on), given that teachers in Europe are often unfirable state officials and the fact that the media in Europe not only are less independent than in the US (BBC is tax funded), but they also don't have a vested interest in making their own country look bad like ours does.
@Tikiman03 Which means I take comparisons between Europe and the US with a grain of salt, because many who do such comparisons have a vested interest in making us look bad (a recent WHO report on medical care scored by nation, for example, was rigged to make sure govt healthcare scored higher than nations without it). It could be true, but oftentimes the things that really matter aren't directly quantifiable and thus not reflected in statistical data, such as medical care costs.
@Tikiman03 Sowell pointed out that although med procedures can be expensive in America, depending on your wages it can actually be cheaper than waiting for free treatment in Canada. What Americans pay is money, which is always included in the stats. What Europeans and others pay is in time, and in procedures denied and hidden and otherwise not done, which can't be quantified and thereby makes their costs look artificially lower. In reality, they aren't getting their money's worth.
@GoblinKnightLeo Yeah your right. There is a lot of variable and statistical bias that goes into any study done on either medical or education superiority. Intelligence itself is hard to determine as there are seven different kinds. Someone might be good at taking apart engines and terrible at playing music. However, there is no arguing that education leads to people being open to new ideas and opinions. Which is the basic definition of liberal.
@ArrogantAmerican333 Also, look at European countries that score way better in every education statistical category. Those countries are far more Liberal than the U.S. and there's a reason why. Like I said before, the Republican party would'nt have hold without the south. Compare their education scores with that of more Liberal states and the Liberal states ovarall score way better. Such as Massachusetts #1 and Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina at the bottom.
Very few countries are LESS liberal than the US, economically. Your argument is like saying that because 9 out of 10 billionares are right handed, being right-handed is good for money making. Also, the majors with the highest concentrations of liberals are things like Art or Theater, not things that have anything to do with politics (like history or economics.)
@Tikiman03 If everyone that educates them is liberal, thats hardly surprising. As for the 1 in 6 in "poverty" - the point is that means different things in different places. Its only an artificial arbitary number that the government picked out of a hat anyway. The poor in the US are the richest poor in the world :)
Stats are for 2005, these are not relevant anymore, needs an update with newer statistics, and stop going to poor "households". Take stats that include the people without homes which after the housing crash is a LOT more nowadays.
@Dumpty: "Anti-racist is a code word for anti-White."
Since the true definition for the word "nigger" is someone who is ignorant, stupid, etc., atypically with malicious intent, then that means, given your support for this "human race traitor" ideology, that YOU are a nigger!!
And if you were blue & originally from Neptune, with the same idea's & opinion's, you would be just as much a nigger then as you are now with ANY other ethnicity...
In the 1960's all and only white countries opened up their borders to massive non-white immigration. Then governments and media demanded we all "mix together." Now those same governments and media are saying that be the year 2040, there won't be a single white majority nation left on the planet. If this was done to all and only black countries, people would quickly recognize it for the genocide that it is. "Anti-racism" is a codeword for anti-white.
define poor ? who is poor ? is one that makes 50K a year poorer to someone that makes 75K a year ? is one that has $5 in his pocket poorer than someone that has $10 in his pocket ?
@vandpubsell These are defined by Bureau of Labor Statistics. The poorest of the poor are not workers. These are your welfare recipients. The reason less than 100% are without refrigerators is that these folk tend to destroy any appliances their tax provided residence is furnished.
There is an official, government definition of poverty in America (these statistics being presented were gathered by the US gov). Basically, if you are single and make less than 11,000 a year (far less than what you'd make working full time on minimum wage which would be about 17,000 a year). If you live in a two person household and that household has an income of under 14,000 a year, you are poor. If you live in a three person household, the threshold is about 18,000.
@ArrogantAmerican333 Thanks for the information. That makes things clearer - but even though these are "official", they are still plucked out of a hat, not so? After all, why less than 11000? Why not 10,000, or 12,000? What is the rationale behind these numbers? Is it just reumeration, or does it include other benefits, like food stamps, reduced cost of access to various sites, and so on?
@vandpubsell The name of the report he uses is at the bottom of the chart. Presumably they post that information along with the report, which is public domain.
don't let the leftest trick you into the class warfare trap. fascism is not about public works and it is not about doing things for the poor, or sick, it is about controlling prices and markets, for the purpose of eliminating markets all together. next time a liberal accuses you of being against the poor, ask them what a market order does for the poor. Ask them what taking money away from the poor and choosing insurance and retirement benefits and education for them.
@halloranedward 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.
Wealth is not finite. If that was so the increase of our population would have made us broke a long time ago. GDP is the numeric evidence of growth of wealth. Stop giving yourself excuses for not achieving your goals. Of the many excuses you can use to explain why you’re not rich, someone else being rich is not one of them.
The misleading statements are obvious if you know about technology and use a little brain power.Seems he takes his viewers intellect for granted.Whittle says, "So as a general rule,poor Americans have most everything that the average American has.They only get it about 10-15 years later". Of course.As technology expands, appliances get cheaper.Think about a DVD player or a big screen t.v. 10-15 years ago. Expensive when they were introduced and dirt cheap now.
@wulfmanUNCP and I think you need to think things through before you respond. That wasnt his overall point, nor was it his point when he mentioned the issues I disagreed with. Most countries are unique societies with different monetary systems and governments so of course being poor in America is different from being poor anywhere else. Regaurdless, even if that was Whittles point(which it wasnt), why would I honor it when I clearly have issue with the rhetoric describing it?
@Robbob9933 I'm not an internet warrior. I don't feel a need to prove myself to Youtube warriors. If you don't think that even the poor in America have it better than the poor in pretty much every other country, you're deluding yourself. Despite what Youngton22 says, that is Whittle's point - our definition of poverty is overrated.
@YoungTon22 By being held off the technology leading wave, the poor are actually getting more advanced products for lower prices. I call that a pretty good deal.
@Rob: "By being held off the technology leading wave, the poor are actually getting more advanced products for lower prices. I call that a pretty good deal."
Yes, you're homeless, addicted to drug's, have no job, no saving's, no health care & you are starving to death but, here's an iPhone!
Ya know, those poor ppl can be so ungrateful sometimes! This one guy refused to get down on his knee's and lick the crustiness from between my toes and underneath my toenail's...
@YoungTon22 If you were held off buying a PC, cell phone, TV, protable media players and etc... for 10 or 15 years. Your total entry cost today would be under $2500 for some very good quality equipment and far more powerful and capable . Those who could afford to buy early likely spent that amount every three years.
@Robbob9933 If I had to wait 15 years to buy a personal computer than thats 15 years of being without a critical resource in modern American society. Again, it depends on the technology.
@YoungTon22 It is not a resource problem. When new product design such as flat screen TVs come out. R&D expenses are front loaded into pricing. When Sony first came out with their Plasma TV they cost $25K then by year 20K, 15K, 10K, 5K. Then you had several new entrants now there are about a dozen manufacturers producing hundreds of models. You can get a decent 50" LCD for under $1000. As each new generation arrives they are; better, more capable, and more affordable.
@Robbob9933 Im not disagreeing with what youre saying except for specific appliances or technologies. What Im saying is the poor are disadvantaged (in one way or another) waiting on a specific technology to become affordable.For example, a computer is a critical resource in many factions of American life. If I had to wait another 15 years to buy one, I would be disadvantaged tremendously
@YoungTon22 (1/2) The point I am making is that with respect to technology, the poor are actually being given an advantage by being forced to delay entry. When they truely became a quasi necessity, they were more powerful and more capable. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, Apple, Dell, HP, IBM, Compaq and a couple others gave tens of millions of computers to schools and libraries (but these are evil corporations) along with trainers and software. Apple and IBM targeted poor school districts.
@Robbob9933 Giving computers to schools has nothing to do with what im talking about and pales in comparison to the importance of having a home computer.You lost me on the subject here."evil corporations","poor getting stuff without having to work for it".Who was talking about that?Apparently you have a message youre dying to get across and youre looking right past my comments.I agree with you on certain things,Ive said that, but there is little advantage in being behind and none being poor
Young, if computers are so important, then why was computer ownership differentiated between rich and poor by 30 percentage points while gaming console ownership was differentiated by less than 3? The more important the assets should be closer in percentage of ownership (like refrigarators and televisions). Computers are only "necessary" in the modern world for internet access and printing stuff. It doesn't cost a bundle to get a computer that can do those two things.
@ArrogantAmerican333 Most gaming consoles cost much less than computers. Computers are probably the best tool to find employment. That says enough. Refrigerators come with apartments and televisions are dirt cheap depending on what kind and size. Computers are absolutely necessary to keep up with the modern world. You cant be serious
Bull YoungTron, you obviously have a diseased-hearted need to believe the worst. Google "laptop for under 200" and see what pops up. On the other hand, most gaming consoles cost about 500 when they first come out.
@YoungTon22 (2/2) No matter the industry, new products and innovations will always start out as luxeraries for even the well off. In the past we had the good form of envy, aspiration. Now we are saddled with the bad form, jealousy. I grew up between poor and lower middle class (the screwed over class) and also prior to computers. I've seen what happens when the poor get new stuff whithout having to work for it. They almost universally destroy it, why, becasue someone will give them a new one
@Robbob9933 ha ha ha ! Just google "Exxon subsidies" Typical Republicans like you believe that only corporations controlled by Democrats get benefits from the government while typical Democrats believe that only corporations controlled by Republicans get benefits.
General Electric is controlled by Democrats and paid no taxes. I admit it.
DEMOCRATS = REPUBLICANS = SAME SHIT(ONLY DIFFERENT TYPE OF PROPAGANDA
For the public they may look like "mortal enemies" but it's far from true.
@SuperThe86 Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Goldman Sachs, Leaman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, CITI, BOA, AIG, Soros' hedge fund (well he controls the Dem agenda), were/are all controlled by Dems and these are the casue of our financial crisis. It is funny how the deducting cost of doing business is considered a subsidy only to the oil industry (drilling wells, paying leases, and etc.) EXXON pays massive taxes, an effective rate of 47% last year ~1 million/hour.
@Robbob9933 I never sad only Dem controlled corps get benefits from the government, they were nearly 100% of the bailout money. The truth be told, if the cips were allowed to hit the floor and bankruptcy courts and receivers had been allowed to function as the law intended we would likely have almost fully recovered by now. You see reveivers and trustees could have unraveled all those credit default swap contracts and left the hedge funds holding the bag not us taxpayers.
@SuperThe86 I'm not sure where you have visited, but I have been to Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, and a few more European countries. I have also lived in nine different American states and Japan for three years. What I saw in Europe were broom-closet apartments for three times the rent of an American apartment. In addition, nothing was new. All residences were at least 30 years old and many were in pretty poor condition. Seeing that allowed me to fully appreciate America.
@LordGouda Until the push for ethanol, the price of corn in current dollars had not risen from the 1920 until about 2004. This means the price of corn had been plumeting at teh rate of inflation. Current crop prices are still below where they should be from the 1920s.
@SuperThe86 Good point, but guess what? Most of those things he mentioned that got cheaper were goods made in a free market economy. Food, ie:agriculture is subsidized by the government. Proof positive that government intervention leads to higher prices.
i have a brother (10 years older) on welfare and he says he works hard for his "money" I tell him if it wasn't for you fucks my taxes would not be so high and i could retire early... he then tells me again that he works HARD for his money...Well lets see how the hard work has handled you so far i say... jersey'd, ground and pound and its canadian hard work that put me on top of your pussy ass fucker.... He couldn't last more than 3 seconds.. Welcome back into reality fucker
@watchthemoviefitna But you have computer and internet. Quit bullshitting. Even if you don't own them, they are made available to you obviously. If you can't get a job, MAKE a job, that's what all these "fatcats" do.
In the United States, wealth is highly concentrated in a relatively few hands. As of 2007, the top 1% of households (the upper class) owned 34.6% of all privately held wealth, and the next 19% (the managerial, professional, and small business stratum) had 50.5%, which means that just 20% of the people owned a remarkable 85%, leaving only 15% of the wealth for the bottom 80% (wage and salary workers).
@1950siobhan High risk, high reward. Life is a win-lose game. You work hard early, get a good education, have insight, get a good job, etc. If you piss around in school, and you had fun when you were young, as opposed to someone who studied all day, why should you be entitled to the same amount of fun later on? It takes tremendous discipline to study when young, to work hard when everyone is partying. But it is an investment that grows exponentially.
@1950siobhan This statement only has value if you believe that wealth is finite, that if someone else has more, I must therefore have less. Those of us who believe that wealth can be created also, in turn, believe that the top 1% of workers are proabably a mixture of the most hard working, driven, and talented individuals in the nation.
@Gouda: "...the top 1% of workers are proabably a mixture of the most hard working, driven, and talented individuals in the nation."
For the top 1%, the vast majority of those ppl inherited their money and since they have that money they have intelligent ppl handling the money for them, most of the time, and so it doesn't matter how hard working or driven or talented they are...
It's regardless, based on your apparent justification for it, since they didn't earn their wealth!
@1950siobhan this absolutely makes no sense. i mean theres no limit to wealth, hell we have a president that prints money out his ass so i don't see how there is a limit on wealth.
for all you liberal progressive ....once we can get the 47% of americans who dont pay any ferderal taxes to anti up..i dont wana hear you cry about the fat cats!
he is right. I am envious when I know that I will have to work overtime to get my son through college, when all a woman has to do is pop out a kid or three and she will get education handed to her on a silver platter.
...its vague, generic, abstract, hyperbolic nonsense. Ask any one of them to give a few real life examples of what they mean & they cant. Its like saying 'the reason we're mad is b/c the poor just use the money they get for free to buy crack, they commit crimes, start gangs'
I really dont understand how some people can think this argument has no merit whatsoever. Just completely write it off as soon as they watch it.
All they do instead is fire back w/ 'the reason we're mad is the rich exploit this or that; the rich influence the govt w/ their power blah blah' or some variation there of. It always that same basic line & think they're being original, like that line hasnt been repeated a million times. It'd be one thing if it actually meant something but it doesnt...
Jesus Christ! How in the hell is it the "Rich" think they're single handedly saving poorer Americans by paying their equal percentage. Social Security is Paid BY EVERYONE. You're as disappointed as we are when we see it in our paychecks. The problem we have with Richer Americans. Is you've exploited the system yourself for way too long. Your Global Interest' collided with your systematic hobbling of taxation. And now you want to say "not fair" cause the majority is (surprise) poorer than you!.
@superlucci Unions aren't for public interest, they're for people in Unions. Hence the need to be accepted into one. Unions are also known for being corrupt. Being bought out and owned for the promise of future contracts.
Yes When goods go down in price, people can buy more, and what's a better way to measure poverty than what people are capable of buying? What would do you define wealth as? Having a lot of dollar bills, regardless of what those dollar bills can buy? Even by that logic, or lack there of, the poor Americans would still be the richest Americans in the history of the world.
Bill, people dont actually respond strongly to monetary incentives. see youtube /watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y . You seem to forget that the Fat Cats only make money by exploiting the difference between labour prices and the sales price of the production of those labours. and while your graphs show rising luxuries for the poor, it fails to show that those rising luxuries go hand in hand with rising debt. The poor have sold future labour to keep up with the rich.
Reading all the comments here, it all smacks of one big question: Why should I care? I pull my own weight; work for what I've got. I live well enough. Why should I care if someone owns a learjet or can't afford to bathe regularly? Why are other peoples problems my problems?
@MissMaddyPatty524 Why should my personal shortcomings be someone else's concern? I can't even imagine pushing my own problems on anyone, that's not fair.
Except I am disabled now, and unable to work. I don't get much money from the government, but I make do with what I have. Trust me, the alternative is much worse, and I've been there. Being homeless for four years while Social Security dithers about doing nothing changes a man. Those who bitch about being poor don't have a fucking clue what 'poor' really is.
@IAmTheStein You hit the nail on the head. I do not envy the rich, I aspire to join their ranks. I had no heat in a house in the North East. Too little money to buy heating oil too much to qualify for assistance. Cats were the trick to keeping warm.
Rich people have to consume the same goods & services everyone else has to use. They don't have to worry about paying for health care, but their doctors don't know any more than other doctors.
Yet another 'wing-nut' adding blocks to the wall of the great divide. Now they even find it necessary to defend their position against Stephen Colbert! Laughable!!!
There are two ways you get elected. Good proven ideas based on historical reference that has worked before or.... create an enemy and rally a base to get behind you. The second is unfortunately far too easy. It's soooo easy to believe your live could be soo much better if not for 'these' people. In Germany it was the Jews. Today in America it's the rich. Oboma has nothing to offer but hate.
There are two ways you get elected. Good proven ideas based on historical reference that has worked before or.... create an enemy and rally a base to get behind you. The second is unfortunately far too easy. It's soooo easy to believe your live could be soo much better if not for 'these' people. In Germany it was the Jews. Today in America it's the rich. Oboma attacts them. he has nothing else.
I don't care if you make millions a year. It is immoral for the government to take %80 of their income. Especially in light of how they [ the government ] spends it so wastefully!!
I have also worked for some very wealthy people and can tell you they work LONG hours... they ern what they have. I don't buy into this class warfare Oboma and the dims shovel. It's UN-American! It's the same socialist story line that has worked to get people elected all across the world for decades. See how well it has worked in Greece?
I have worked in thousands of homes. The people who have the least appreciation for my efforts are the poor who got a free zero interest home improvement loan from the government. But they ALL have cell phones and cable.
This guy nails it. I'm 47 and when I was a teenager and even before that I had to work with my dad on weekends ect to help out. When I say work I mean doing asphalt shingle on a 85 degree humid day. Hard to see with the sting from the sweat in your eyes. By 10 am you were exhausted but you can't stop. Or how about carrying drywall up a flight of stairs all day. Digging post holes. It's called.. work!
This report does not make your point Bill Whittle. "liberal rehtoric"; what about conservative rehetoric? Most housing is built with air conditioning now! You can finance a computer or maybe they got one as a gift. 38% is not a majority. The poor are getting poorer. They are more people on food stamps. Poverty is relative but americans standard of living is going down. I am glad Bill you admited you were poor but true poverty is more like the third world.
Yes Mr. Whipple,all those blisters on your hands speak volumes.Let’s see,who would do the work of the poor if there were no poor people,the rich?No,I don’t think so,so while they get richer though the backs of the poor(AND YES,THAT IS THE AMERICAN WAY,see Coal, Steel, Oil history and the use of Child labor),and see that it does not profit,they then release the poor of their HONOR to work for them.Signed.Some poor ASS who couldn’t afford a house so he built his own.
@yellogue Your revisionist history and your exploitation nonsense doesn't hold any water in real life. You know, the life we live now, not liberal la la land. The poor today are richer than the rich were in 1900, that's economic growth. The extreme poor today are WAY better off and are extremely richer than the richest in 1840. Do we have more oil now than we did in 1840? You're an idiot
@USTreasuryBond “The poor today are richer than the rich were in 1900, that's economic growth.” What Planet did that Math come from? “The extreme poor today are WAY better off and are extremely richer than the richest in 1840.” That’s because of Advancement in Technology…not Economics you Moron. What real life Fairy godfather did you ride in on?
@Benjammin822 What a simple statement…dickhead …say something without explaining…of course they’re dependent…usually when a new technology arises (like the phone or public utilities) they improve the infrastructure and society as a whole…economically (so that’s why we are RICHER/WEALTHIER than someone in 1840 w/o the technology?)…right now the computer and the internet has served…for now…as the economic booster, since the earlier tech advances are taken for granted.
GOOGLE The Industrial Revolution and the Standard of Living by Clark Nardinelli, There are Pros and Cons as to its net effect, I probably would not have survived much further than birth,during that time,let alone working 18-20 hr days at a nickel an hour.I know medical advances allowed me to survive to at least age 10. Average income translated to ~$400-$500 a year,but that was average with no benefits and not poverty level,whereas 11K a year is poverty now.
@yellogue Of course it is because of economics shit for brains. How do you think those advancements in technology came about? And what made them widely available to the average user at a affordable price? HERP DERP
Hey MrMentalflossed, those luxury items you now list are the equivalent of the difference between the free $100K and the free $300K in his example. That is the extra $200K. "Where's my fucking Lear Jet bitch!?" Your comment is proof of the irrational envy of which he speaks. You and your comment have proven his point.
Go live in Sub-Saharan Africa for two or three years. Go live anywhere but the USA, for that matter. Then come back home and whine, if you can.
this guy is smart even tho he's talking about me... im basically given everything i want by my parents but im very thankful and respectful for what i have... even tho i take advantage of it, one day i know i will pay it all back 10 fold
what about the own multiple homes column,.. or the limo column, or the vacations overseas stats,.. ya knwo ,.. the ones that show that part of being rich you won't mention ,.. where is the servants owned er um i mean hired ststas,.. give me a break the ceiling fan was listed as a lux item ,.. really?
this video is propaganda. the thought experiment about people getting upset that they only got $100k instead of $300k is completely false. if you don't believe me, search youtube for 'RSA drive' and watch the top result.
@wdrose The RSA drive video has nothing really to do with the 100k vs 300k. "$100k instead of $300k is completely false" how so? It is human nature. People always want more. it shows with kids on Christmas. A kid gets a nice toy and likes a lot then hears his friend got an even better toy then he doesn't like his toy that much and all he wants is his friends toy.
@whothaplaya not everyone wants more all the time. this might come as a shock to you, but many people feel they have enough. not everyone wants 10 cars and a mansion and a butler. but you seem to think that adults act exactly like immature, selfish children. no wonder you believe this shit. not everyone is as selfish and immature as you think. did you even watch the RSA video? it really sounds like you either didn't or didn't pay attention.
@wdrose I did watch the video. What does the rsa video have to do with 100k vs the 300k argument? All I got from the video is that money is not the best motivator for creative work. "not everyone is as selfish and immature as you think" I know not everyone is but the vast majority is.
This guy is an absolute clown. Who the hell is the Heritage foudation, let me google that..oh a conservartive American think tank. Lets do a survey on what is in the fridges of rich v poor, or hours airconditioners are run in New Orleans v the Hamptons. In Australia we have these lap dogs to institutionalized wealth. Nothing but propaganda mouth pieces.
@TheOzzieRob why is it that the world hates america? because we dont keep our nose out of other people's business? take your own advice and keep your mouth shut.
He says people are envious of rich people because they have more money. I'm not envious of rich people but I don't like how the rich and the corporatists have bought our politicians and enact legislation that benefits them and hurts everyone else.
You won't hear that from this video though, it wouldn't fit his corporatist propaganda.
My wife works at a public school cafeteria. For a record amount of students, it's the only meal they'll have for the day. For Friday, it's the only one they'll have till Monday. Mr. Bill thinks he is so clever. I have never seen so much arrogance in all my life. So, disconnected. Millions have lost their homes, but they have fridges. Oh boy. Why don't you just kick a man in a wheel chair. You would have more dignity.
You left hippies wanna cry about being poor yet you'll blow 2500 on your mac book so you can be trendy. Your hearts are just filled with envy for the things you don't have. You have yourself to blame and no one else.
You should really stop crying about the poor. Look at the facts half of us citizens pay 0 income tax 0! The people that are getting the shaft here are the middle and upper middle class. I bust my ass for the things I have... then pay for everyone else.
Very true...ENVY is the root of all evil..not money.
bozomonster 1 week ago
@bozomonster
actualy i would say its its pride but i can understand why you think envy is.
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Tikiman03 1 week ago
You didn't include statistics showing how many times the poor have taken vacation to, say, Disneyland!!! The poor deserve fun vacation too! Typical 1% elitist!
friendlyfire53 1 week ago
He's right...apparently it's good that 1 in 6 Americans live below the poverty line. The media is just a bunch of crazy Liberals out to collaboratively ruin values. Give me a break. There's a reason that media is mostly Liberal because it is the correct way to be. The only reason the Republican party has any hold is because of the south and heartland. The places where museums, universities, culture, and businesses are sparse. As people become more educated they tend to become more liberal.
Tikiman03 2 weeks ago
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It's good that 1 in 6 American's live under condition where their children have only a 2.6% chance of being malnourished and they have a 99.7% chance of owning a refrigarator. People don't become more liberals as they become more educated, because older people tend to be conservative. A man who graduated college 20 years ago is more educated than a man who graduated yesterday, because he has his own personal experience in addition to 4 years in a university. People who (cont.)
ArrogantAmerican333 2 weeks ago
@Tikiman03
(cont.) are "cultured" are people isolated from the consequences of what they vote for. They live more cushioned lives, away from the areas where political policy and philsophy are going to have their biggest effects. Soldiers, for example, are the people in the world most effected by who is in office, and they tend to vote Republican.
ArrogantAmerican333 2 weeks ago
@ArrogantAmerican333 As people become more educated they do tend to become more Liberal. Karl Rove said that. There is a reason the entire political pendulum has done nothing but shift to the left over the years. Also, more people are getting a college education now than ever before. The old people you speak of have a ton of life experiences, but very few have the same amount of education. I'm not saying all conservatives are stupid, it's just an accurate observation.
Tikiman03 2 weeks ago
@Tikiman03 More likely that more COLLEGE makes people more liberal, because college faculty are overwhelmingly liberal and tenure makes it impossible to fire a professor who talks politics instead of his subject during class. Speech codes are overwhelmingly aimed at conservatives, making it difficult to know whether students even know other valid opinions exist at all.
Now if by liberal you mean "supporting political and economic liberty", as it once meant, how I wish it was so.
GoblinKnightLeo 1 week ago
@GoblinKnightLeo Yeah. Liberal is a loose term. The U.S. is economically Liberal and socially conservative. I was referring to how education opens peoples' minds. Places that are more educated do things differently.
Tikiman03 1 week ago
@Tikiman03 Not clear that they are actually more educated (huge uni subsidies), nor that they make better decisions (Islam, multiculti, EU govt, CAP, and so on), given that teachers in Europe are often unfirable state officials and the fact that the media in Europe not only are less independent than in the US (BBC is tax funded), but they also don't have a vested interest in making their own country look bad like ours does.
GoblinKnightLeo 1 week ago
@Tikiman03 Which means I take comparisons between Europe and the US with a grain of salt, because many who do such comparisons have a vested interest in making us look bad (a recent WHO report on medical care scored by nation, for example, was rigged to make sure govt healthcare scored higher than nations without it). It could be true, but oftentimes the things that really matter aren't directly quantifiable and thus not reflected in statistical data, such as medical care costs.
GoblinKnightLeo 1 week ago
@Tikiman03 Sowell pointed out that although med procedures can be expensive in America, depending on your wages it can actually be cheaper than waiting for free treatment in Canada. What Americans pay is money, which is always included in the stats. What Europeans and others pay is in time, and in procedures denied and hidden and otherwise not done, which can't be quantified and thereby makes their costs look artificially lower. In reality, they aren't getting their money's worth.
GoblinKnightLeo 1 week ago
@GoblinKnightLeo Yeah your right. There is a lot of variable and statistical bias that goes into any study done on either medical or education superiority. Intelligence itself is hard to determine as there are seven different kinds. Someone might be good at taking apart engines and terrible at playing music. However, there is no arguing that education leads to people being open to new ideas and opinions. Which is the basic definition of liberal.
Tikiman03 1 week ago
@ArrogantAmerican333 Also, look at European countries that score way better in every education statistical category. Those countries are far more Liberal than the U.S. and there's a reason why. Like I said before, the Republican party would'nt have hold without the south. Compare their education scores with that of more Liberal states and the Liberal states ovarall score way better. Such as Massachusetts #1 and Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina at the bottom.
Tikiman03 2 weeks ago
@Tikiman03
Very few countries are LESS liberal than the US, economically. Your argument is like saying that because 9 out of 10 billionares are right handed, being right-handed is good for money making. Also, the majors with the highest concentrations of liberals are things like Art or Theater, not things that have anything to do with politics (like history or economics.)
ArrogantAmerican333 1 week ago
@Tikiman03
Not to mention many European countries, due to their liberalness, subsidize college education, so you're probably reversing the causality.
ArrogantAmerican333 1 week ago
@Tikiman03 If everyone that educates them is liberal, thats hardly surprising. As for the 1 in 6 in "poverty" - the point is that means different things in different places. Its only an artificial arbitary number that the government picked out of a hat anyway. The poor in the US are the richest poor in the world :)
vandpubsell 1 week ago
Stats are for 2005, these are not relevant anymore, needs an update with newer statistics, and stop going to poor "households". Take stats that include the people without homes which after the housing crash is a LOT more nowadays.
Gondus 3 weeks ago
@Dumpty: "Anti-racist is a code word for anti-White."
How does it feel to be a nigger!? Do you like being a nigger??
SpookeyR 3 weeks ago
African countries for Africans.
Asian countries for Asians.
Israel for Jews or you’re an anti-semite!
White countries for everyone or you’re a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews!
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-White.
HarumphtyDumpty 3 weeks ago
@Dumpty: "Anti-racist is a code word for anti-White."
Since the true definition for the word "nigger" is someone who is ignorant, stupid, etc., atypically with malicious intent, then that means, given your support for this "human race traitor" ideology, that YOU are a nigger!!
And if you were blue & originally from Neptune, with the same idea's & opinion's, you would be just as much a nigger then as you are now with ANY other ethnicity...
SpookeyR 3 weeks ago
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In the 1960's all and only white countries opened up their borders to massive non-white immigration. Then governments and media demanded we all "mix together." Now those same governments and media are saying that be the year 2040, there won't be a single white majority nation left on the planet. If this was done to all and only black countries, people would quickly recognize it for the genocide that it is. "Anti-racism" is a codeword for anti-white.
RoderickBateman 3 weeks ago
I notice he doesnt actually define what the poorest americans are. Presumably its a bottom percentage of earners - but is it 20%, 10% or 5%?
vandpubsell 3 weeks ago
@vandpubsell
define poor ? who is poor ? is one that makes 50K a year poorer to someone that makes 75K a year ? is one that has $5 in his pocket poorer than someone that has $10 in his pocket ?
Hoschi0913 3 weeks ago
@Hoschi0913 Well, quite.
vandpubsell 3 weeks ago
@vandpubsell These are defined by Bureau of Labor Statistics. The poorest of the poor are not workers. These are your welfare recipients. The reason less than 100% are without refrigerators is that these folk tend to destroy any appliances their tax provided residence is furnished.
Robbob9933 3 weeks ago
@vandpubsell It says on the link in the description that the poor households are: (those with cash incomes below the official poverty thresholds).
666or999 2 weeks ago
@666or999 OK fair enough, but the official poverty threshold is a made up number anyway.
vandpubsell 2 weeks ago
@vandpubsell
There is an official, government definition of poverty in America (these statistics being presented were gathered by the US gov). Basically, if you are single and make less than 11,000 a year (far less than what you'd make working full time on minimum wage which would be about 17,000 a year). If you live in a two person household and that household has an income of under 14,000 a year, you are poor. If you live in a three person household, the threshold is about 18,000.
ArrogantAmerican333 2 weeks ago
@ArrogantAmerican333 Thanks for the information. That makes things clearer - but even though these are "official", they are still plucked out of a hat, not so? After all, why less than 11000? Why not 10,000, or 12,000? What is the rationale behind these numbers? Is it just reumeration, or does it include other benefits, like food stamps, reduced cost of access to various sites, and so on?
vandpubsell 1 week ago
@vandpubsell The name of the report he uses is at the bottom of the chart. Presumably they post that information along with the report, which is public domain.
GoblinKnightLeo 1 week ago
don't let the leftest trick you into the class warfare trap. fascism is not about public works and it is not about doing things for the poor, or sick, it is about controlling prices and markets, for the purpose of eliminating markets all together. next time a liberal accuses you of being against the poor, ask them what a market order does for the poor. Ask them what taking money away from the poor and choosing insurance and retirement benefits and education for them.
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@halloranedward 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 4 weeks ago
Wealth is not finite. If that was so the increase of our population would have made us broke a long time ago. GDP is the numeric evidence of growth of wealth. Stop giving yourself excuses for not achieving your goals. Of the many excuses you can use to explain why you’re not rich, someone else being rich is not one of them.
kuhioffxi 1 month ago
Good People: research FEMA and NDAA. Wake up?
ManosOceano 1 month ago
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Not till one starts appreciating what they have, even if they have
the most humble of circumstances, will they ever can hope to
have more. Being Poor Sucks...
I know what it's like not to have the money for rent, utilites,
and not enough food, however a negative attitude and being
envious of others, isn't going to improve your lot in life. Blooming
where you are planted will improve things! Blaming and being
envious of others will not.
gabbydeb 1 month ago
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gabbydeb 1 month ago
what a horrible job Time magazine did of "ranking" the top countries for quality of life.
3rdEyeSpeaks 1 month ago
The misleading statements are obvious if you know about technology and use a little brain power.Seems he takes his viewers intellect for granted.Whittle says, "So as a general rule,poor Americans have most everything that the average American has.They only get it about 10-15 years later". Of course.As technology expands, appliances get cheaper.Think about a DVD player or a big screen t.v. 10-15 years ago. Expensive when they were introduced and dirt cheap now.
Plus, "working poor" exist.
YoungTon22 1 month ago
@YoungTon22 that poll wasn't saying how many people could afford them but how many people have dvd players or other appliances.
firinmahlaza 1 month ago
@firinmahlaza I wasnt talking about the poll, I quoted what Whittle said.
Also, if they have the appliance, they bought the appliance hence, it was affordable
YoungTon22 1 month ago
@YoungTon22 I think you missed the point. Poor in America have more than poor anywhere else. That's it, summed up pretty quick.
wulfmanUNCP 1 month ago
@wulfmanUNCP and I think you need to think things through before you respond. That wasnt his overall point, nor was it his point when he mentioned the issues I disagreed with. Most countries are unique societies with different monetary systems and governments so of course being poor in America is different from being poor anywhere else. Regaurdless, even if that was Whittles point(which it wasnt), why would I honor it when I clearly have issue with the rhetoric describing it?
YoungTon22 1 month ago
@wulfmanUNCP Really??? Prove it. Provide evidence.
Robbob9933 3 weeks ago
@Robbob9933 I'm not an internet warrior. I don't feel a need to prove myself to Youtube warriors. If you don't think that even the poor in America have it better than the poor in pretty much every other country, you're deluding yourself. Despite what Youngton22 says, that is Whittle's point - our definition of poverty is overrated.
wulfmanUNCP 3 weeks ago
@YoungTon22 By being held off the technology leading wave, the poor are actually getting more advanced products for lower prices. I call that a pretty good deal.
Robbob9933 3 weeks ago
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@Rob: "By being held off the technology leading wave, the poor are actually getting more advanced products for lower prices. I call that a pretty good deal."
Yes, you're homeless, addicted to drug's, have no job, no saving's, no health care & you are starving to death but, here's an iPhone!
Ya know, those poor ppl can be so ungrateful sometimes! This one guy refused to get down on his knee's and lick the crustiness from between my toes and underneath my toenail's...
Shame!
SpookeyR 3 weeks ago
@Robbob9933 Maybe. Depends on what technology we're talking about.
YoungTon22 3 weeks ago
@YoungTon22 If you were held off buying a PC, cell phone, TV, protable media players and etc... for 10 or 15 years. Your total entry cost today would be under $2500 for some very good quality equipment and far more powerful and capable . Those who could afford to buy early likely spent that amount every three years.
Robbob9933 2 weeks ago
@Robbob9933 If I had to wait 15 years to buy a personal computer than thats 15 years of being without a critical resource in modern American society. Again, it depends on the technology.
YoungTon22 2 weeks ago
@YoungTon22 It is not a resource problem. When new product design such as flat screen TVs come out. R&D expenses are front loaded into pricing. When Sony first came out with their Plasma TV they cost $25K then by year 20K, 15K, 10K, 5K. Then you had several new entrants now there are about a dozen manufacturers producing hundreds of models. You can get a decent 50" LCD for under $1000. As each new generation arrives they are; better, more capable, and more affordable.
Robbob9933 2 weeks ago
@Robbob9933 Im not disagreeing with what youre saying except for specific appliances or technologies. What Im saying is the poor are disadvantaged (in one way or another) waiting on a specific technology to become affordable.For example, a computer is a critical resource in many factions of American life. If I had to wait another 15 years to buy one, I would be disadvantaged tremendously
YoungTon22 2 weeks ago
@YoungTon22 (1/2) The point I am making is that with respect to technology, the poor are actually being given an advantage by being forced to delay entry. When they truely became a quasi necessity, they were more powerful and more capable. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, Apple, Dell, HP, IBM, Compaq and a couple others gave tens of millions of computers to schools and libraries (but these are evil corporations) along with trainers and software. Apple and IBM targeted poor school districts.
Robbob9933 2 weeks ago
@Robbob9933 Giving computers to schools has nothing to do with what im talking about and pales in comparison to the importance of having a home computer.You lost me on the subject here."evil corporations","poor getting stuff without having to work for it".Who was talking about that?Apparently you have a message youre dying to get across and youre looking right past my comments.I agree with you on certain things,Ive said that, but there is little advantage in being behind and none being poor
YoungTon22 2 weeks ago
@YoungTon22
Young, if computers are so important, then why was computer ownership differentiated between rich and poor by 30 percentage points while gaming console ownership was differentiated by less than 3? The more important the assets should be closer in percentage of ownership (like refrigarators and televisions). Computers are only "necessary" in the modern world for internet access and printing stuff. It doesn't cost a bundle to get a computer that can do those two things.
ArrogantAmerican333 2 weeks ago
@ArrogantAmerican333 Most gaming consoles cost much less than computers. Computers are probably the best tool to find employment. That says enough. Refrigerators come with apartments and televisions are dirt cheap depending on what kind and size. Computers are absolutely necessary to keep up with the modern world. You cant be serious
YoungTon22 2 weeks ago
@YoungTon22
Bull YoungTron, you obviously have a diseased-hearted need to believe the worst. Google "laptop for under 200" and see what pops up. On the other hand, most gaming consoles cost about 500 when they first come out.
ArrogantAmerican333 2 weeks ago
@ArrogantAmerican333 Who said the poor had fresh NEW $500 gaming consoles?Didnt hear that in this video so youre assuming
Think arrogantignorance333! You just told me to use a COMPUTER so i can find a cheap computer.WOW the irony. I rest my case
YoungTon22 2 weeks ago
@YoungTon22
Not to mention they are hardly "necessary" by any definition of the word if you don't have a student at home and work at a blue collar job.
ArrogantAmerican333 2 weeks ago
@YoungTon22 (2/2) No matter the industry, new products and innovations will always start out as luxeraries for even the well off. In the past we had the good form of envy, aspiration. Now we are saddled with the bad form, jealousy. I grew up between poor and lower middle class (the screwed over class) and also prior to computers. I've seen what happens when the poor get new stuff whithout having to work for it. They almost universally destroy it, why, becasue someone will give them a new one
Robbob9933 2 weeks ago
Wow, Bill. All I can say is "Tell it like it is"!
phillymacify 1 month ago
LONG LIVE CORPORATE WELFARE FOR OIL COMPANIES !
LONG LIVE CRONY CAPITALISM !
SuperThe86 1 month ago
@SuperThe86 The oil companies DID NOT RECEIVE A DIME. It was only corporations controlled by Democrats.
Robbob9933 3 weeks ago
@Robbob9933 ha ha ha ! Just google "Exxon subsidies" Typical Republicans like you believe that only corporations controlled by Democrats get benefits from the government while typical Democrats believe that only corporations controlled by Republicans get benefits.
General Electric is controlled by Democrats and paid no taxes. I admit it.
DEMOCRATS = REPUBLICANS = SAME SHIT(ONLY DIFFERENT TYPE OF PROPAGANDA
For the public they may look like "mortal enemies" but it's far from true.
SuperThe86 3 weeks ago
@SuperThe86 Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Goldman Sachs, Leaman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, CITI, BOA, AIG, Soros' hedge fund (well he controls the Dem agenda), were/are all controlled by Dems and these are the casue of our financial crisis. It is funny how the deducting cost of doing business is considered a subsidy only to the oil industry (drilling wells, paying leases, and etc.) EXXON pays massive taxes, an effective rate of 47% last year ~1 million/hour.
Robbob9933 3 weeks ago
@Robbob9933 I never sad only Dem controlled corps get benefits from the government, they were nearly 100% of the bailout money. The truth be told, if the cips were allowed to hit the floor and bankruptcy courts and receivers had been allowed to function as the law intended we would likely have almost fully recovered by now. You see reveivers and trustees could have unraveled all those credit default swap contracts and left the hedge funds holding the bag not us taxpayers.
Robbob9933 3 weeks ago
And Europe is overpopulated compared to USA
SuperThe86 2 months ago
Americans drive big and shitty cars and live in big and shitty houses .Europeans live in smaller but nice apartments.
SuperThe86 2 months ago
@SuperThe86 I'm not sure where you have visited, but I have been to Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, and a few more European countries. I have also lived in nine different American states and Japan for three years. What I saw in Europe were broom-closet apartments for three times the rent of an American apartment. In addition, nothing was new. All residences were at least 30 years old and many were in pretty poor condition. Seeing that allowed me to fully appreciate America.
LordGouda 1 month ago
Computers, refrigerators, TVs etc got cheaper because of technological progress.
Food got more expensive.
SuperThe86 2 months ago
@SuperThe86 When you factor in population growth and inflation, America's agribusiness actually made food more affordable.
LordGouda 1 month ago
@LordGouda Until the push for ethanol, the price of corn in current dollars had not risen from the 1920 until about 2004. This means the price of corn had been plumeting at teh rate of inflation. Current crop prices are still below where they should be from the 1920s.
Robbob9933 3 weeks ago
@SuperThe86 Good point, but guess what? Most of those things he mentioned that got cheaper were goods made in a free market economy. Food, ie:agriculture is subsidized by the government. Proof positive that government intervention leads to higher prices.
PartiallyEnlightened 1 month ago
i have a brother (10 years older) on welfare and he says he works hard for his "money" I tell him if it wasn't for you fucks my taxes would not be so high and i could retire early... he then tells me again that he works HARD for his money...Well lets see how the hard work has handled you so far i say... jersey'd, ground and pound and its canadian hard work that put me on top of your pussy ass fucker.... He couldn't last more than 3 seconds.. Welcome back into reality fucker
SnowmanR72 2 months ago
@watchthemoviefitna But you have computer and internet. Quit bullshitting. Even if you don't own them, they are made available to you obviously. If you can't get a job, MAKE a job, that's what all these "fatcats" do.
ASteveVaiFan 2 months ago
Bill Whittle is a very smart man.
omgwaffels96 2 months ago
In terms of financial wealth (total net worth minus the value of one's home), the top 1% of households had an even greater share: 42.7%.
1950siobhan 2 months ago
@1950siobhan so what?
nathan9384 1 month ago
In the United States, wealth is highly concentrated in a relatively few hands. As of 2007, the top 1% of households (the upper class) owned 34.6% of all privately held wealth, and the next 19% (the managerial, professional, and small business stratum) had 50.5%, which means that just 20% of the people owned a remarkable 85%, leaving only 15% of the wealth for the bottom 80% (wage and salary workers).
1950siobhan 2 months ago
@1950siobhan High risk, high reward. Life is a win-lose game. You work hard early, get a good education, have insight, get a good job, etc. If you piss around in school, and you had fun when you were young, as opposed to someone who studied all day, why should you be entitled to the same amount of fun later on? It takes tremendous discipline to study when young, to work hard when everyone is partying. But it is an investment that grows exponentially.
ASteveVaiFan 2 months ago
@1950siobhan This statement only has value if you believe that wealth is finite, that if someone else has more, I must therefore have less. Those of us who believe that wealth can be created also, in turn, believe that the top 1% of workers are proabably a mixture of the most hard working, driven, and talented individuals in the nation.
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@Gouda: "...the top 1% of workers are proabably a mixture of the most hard working, driven, and talented individuals in the nation."
For the top 1%, the vast majority of those ppl inherited their money and since they have that money they have intelligent ppl handling the money for them, most of the time, and so it doesn't matter how hard working or driven or talented they are...
It's regardless, based on your apparent justification for it, since they didn't earn their wealth!
SpookeyR 3 weeks ago
@1950siobhan this absolutely makes no sense. i mean theres no limit to wealth, hell we have a president that prints money out his ass so i don't see how there is a limit on wealth.
firinmahlaza 1 month ago
@firinmahlaza If wealth is finite. how is it that EVERYONE of every income class keeps gaining wealth?
Robbob9933 3 weeks ago
@Robbob9933 so what are you getting at?
firinmahlaza 3 weeks ago
@1950siobhan There isn't a set amount of money that only a few people can get ahold of. it's not a Monopoly game.
LisaBaby67 1 month ago
Bill Whittle for President!!!
TheSelfeDestruct 2 months ago
for all you liberal progressive ....once we can get the 47% of americans who dont pay any ferderal taxes to anti up..i dont wana hear you cry about the fat cats!
MrFernandonyc 2 months ago
@watchthemoviefitna you are so full of shit your eyes are brown. no one with half a brain believes you are in this condition
kburns002 2 months ago
@watchthemoviefitna Wow, I'm really sorry. People like me should always look out for people in need like your family.
Coolbunny203 2 months ago
he is right. I am envious when I know that I will have to work overtime to get my son through college, when all a woman has to do is pop out a kid or three and she will get education handed to her on a silver platter.
fingersmcoy 2 months ago
Now why in the world would possibly be angered by someone who works hard and expects to be paid for his labor? I feel the same way!!!
kesselster 2 months ago
...its vague, generic, abstract, hyperbolic nonsense. Ask any one of them to give a few real life examples of what they mean & they cant. Its like saying 'the reason we're mad is b/c the poor just use the money they get for free to buy crack, they commit crimes, start gangs'
mikedd56 2 months ago
I really dont understand how some people can think this argument has no merit whatsoever. Just completely write it off as soon as they watch it.
All they do instead is fire back w/ 'the reason we're mad is the rich exploit this or that; the rich influence the govt w/ their power blah blah' or some variation there of. It always that same basic line & think they're being original, like that line hasnt been repeated a million times. It'd be one thing if it actually meant something but it doesnt...
mikedd56 2 months ago
@mikedd56
STFU you fact-worshipping, logic peddaling, dogma-hater! Let us spread our unsubstantiated claims in peace!
ArrogantAmerican333 2 months ago
@ArrogantAmerican333 DAMN YOU Bill Whittle!! You fact-worshipping, logic peddaling, dogma-hater! DAMN YOU!!
kesselster 2 months ago
This guy is Bang On!
OTULP62 2 months ago
Jesus Christ! How in the hell is it the "Rich" think they're single handedly saving poorer Americans by paying their equal percentage. Social Security is Paid BY EVERYONE. You're as disappointed as we are when we see it in our paychecks. The problem we have with Richer Americans. Is you've exploited the system yourself for way too long. Your Global Interest' collided with your systematic hobbling of taxation. And now you want to say "not fair" cause the majority is (surprise) poorer than you!.
Fryopns 2 months ago
@Fryopns How have the rich exploited us?
superlucci 2 months ago
@superlucci Lobbyists, they own All The Lobbyists
Fryopns 2 months ago
@Fryopns And unions arent lobbyists?
superlucci 2 months ago
@superlucci They are really, but not just any lobbyists, but the BEST lobbyists, that's what some Unions are like.
CyberTechWolf 2 months ago
@superlucci Unions aren't for public interest, they're for people in Unions. Hence the need to be accepted into one. Unions are also known for being corrupt. Being bought out and owned for the promise of future contracts.
Fryopns 2 months ago
You got sooo angry, it turned you into a lying vampire.
relationswon 3 months ago
So basically you are saying that the fact the poor arent poor is that the consumer goods go down in price?
TrolLTrollsky 3 months ago
@TrolLTrollsky
Yes When goods go down in price, people can buy more, and what's a better way to measure poverty than what people are capable of buying? What would do you define wealth as? Having a lot of dollar bills, regardless of what those dollar bills can buy? Even by that logic, or lack there of, the poor Americans would still be the richest Americans in the history of the world.
ArrogantAmerican333 2 months ago
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Correction: I meant to say "The richest POOR in the history of the world."
ArrogantAmerican333 2 months ago
Afterburner should have its own channel.
ProudtobeAmerican17 3 months ago
Love 7:30 - 8:00
dizkoteck 3 months ago
Too true.
loonerBot 3 months ago
Bill, people dont actually respond strongly to monetary incentives. see youtube /watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y . You seem to forget that the Fat Cats only make money by exploiting the difference between labour prices and the sales price of the production of those labours. and while your graphs show rising luxuries for the poor, it fails to show that those rising luxuries go hand in hand with rising debt. The poor have sold future labour to keep up with the rich.
HaloAngelBoy 3 months ago
Reading all the comments here, it all smacks of one big question: Why should I care? I pull my own weight; work for what I've got. I live well enough. Why should I care if someone owns a learjet or can't afford to bathe regularly? Why are other peoples problems my problems?
IAmTheStein 3 months ago 7
@IAmTheStein Would you not want others to care if you couldn't care for yourself? How does selfishness benefit our country?
MissMaddyPatty524 3 months ago
@MissMaddyPatty524 Why should my personal shortcomings be someone else's concern? I can't even imagine pushing my own problems on anyone, that's not fair.
IAmTheStein 3 months ago
That isn't the question. We are talking about those who CAN care for themselves. Selfishness (businesses) creates jobs in America.
1) Support yourself, if you can’t
2) Get support from family/friends/community (Hopelink - many people donate to community organizations, I do and millions of others do too)
3) If the community can’t help, then as a LAST result, get LIMITED support from government.
This country is becoming backwards and if we don’t watch it, we WILL become Greece.
GBsHumpbackWhale 3 months ago
@IAmTheStein I am the same as you.
Except I am disabled now, and unable to work. I don't get much money from the government, but I make do with what I have. Trust me, the alternative is much worse, and I've been there. Being homeless for four years while Social Security dithers about doing nothing changes a man. Those who bitch about being poor don't have a fucking clue what 'poor' really is.
bayushizero 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
@IAmTheStein You hit the nail on the head. I do not envy the rich, I aspire to join their ranks. I had no heat in a house in the North East. Too little money to buy heating oil too much to qualify for assistance. Cats were the trick to keeping warm.
Robbob9933 3 weeks ago
So much truth! So much fact! So much reality! So much logic! It burns!
ArrogantAmerican333 3 months ago
this guy is a douche
03alexp 3 months ago
well try me give me a hundred thousand I do'nt care who else gets it as long as I get mine.
mosurec 3 months ago
Rich people have to consume the same goods & services everyone else has to use. They don't have to worry about paying for health care, but their doctors don't know any more than other doctors.
MrAdvancedAtheist 3 months ago
Yet another 'wing-nut' adding blocks to the wall of the great divide. Now they even find it necessary to defend their position against Stephen Colbert! Laughable!!!
bluewatertc 3 months ago
people want to see real poor? go to africa.
agnostaxian 3 months ago
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There are two ways you get elected. Good proven ideas based on historical reference that has worked before or.... create an enemy and rally a base to get behind you. The second is unfortunately far too easy. It's soooo easy to believe your live could be soo much better if not for 'these' people. In Germany it was the Jews. Today in America it's the rich. Oboma has nothing to offer but hate.
govsux1 3 months ago
There are two ways you get elected. Good proven ideas based on historical reference that has worked before or.... create an enemy and rally a base to get behind you. The second is unfortunately far too easy. It's soooo easy to believe your live could be soo much better if not for 'these' people. In Germany it was the Jews. Today in America it's the rich. Oboma attacts them. he has nothing else.
govsux1 3 months ago
I don't care if you make millions a year. It is immoral for the government to take %80 of their income. Especially in light of how they [ the government ] spends it so wastefully!!
govsux1 3 months ago
I have also worked for some very wealthy people and can tell you they work LONG hours... they ern what they have. I don't buy into this class warfare Oboma and the dims shovel. It's UN-American! It's the same socialist story line that has worked to get people elected all across the world for decades. See how well it has worked in Greece?
govsux1 3 months ago
I have worked in thousands of homes. The people who have the least appreciation for my efforts are the poor who got a free zero interest home improvement loan from the government. But they ALL have cell phones and cable.
govsux1 3 months ago
I can"t beleive anyone takes this person seriously.
TheOzzieRob 3 months ago
This guy nails it. I'm 47 and when I was a teenager and even before that I had to work with my dad on weekends ect to help out. When I say work I mean doing asphalt shingle on a 85 degree humid day. Hard to see with the sting from the sweat in your eyes. By 10 am you were exhausted but you can't stop. Or how about carrying drywall up a flight of stairs all day. Digging post holes. It's called.. work!
govsux1 3 months ago
so you also think that america is a terrible country
mdsklls 3 months ago
This report does not make your point Bill Whittle. "liberal rehtoric"; what about conservative rehetoric? Most housing is built with air conditioning now! You can finance a computer or maybe they got one as a gift. 38% is not a majority. The poor are getting poorer. They are more people on food stamps. Poverty is relative but americans standard of living is going down. I am glad Bill you admited you were poor but true poverty is more like the third world.
InspiredMuse74 3 months ago
This has got to be the best, simply the best. And yes... It is so true. The only question that remains... What's next?
14Shamus 3 months ago
Yes Mr. Whipple,all those blisters on your hands speak volumes.Let’s see,who would do the work of the poor if there were no poor people,the rich?No,I don’t think so,so while they get richer though the backs of the poor(AND YES,THAT IS THE AMERICAN WAY,see Coal, Steel, Oil history and the use of Child labor),and see that it does not profit,they then release the poor of their HONOR to work for them.Signed.Some poor ASS who couldn’t afford a house so he built his own.
yellogue 3 months ago
@yellogue Your revisionist history and your exploitation nonsense doesn't hold any water in real life. You know, the life we live now, not liberal la la land. The poor today are richer than the rich were in 1900, that's economic growth. The extreme poor today are WAY better off and are extremely richer than the richest in 1840. Do we have more oil now than we did in 1840? You're an idiot
USTreasuryBond 3 months ago 3
@USTreasuryBond “The poor today are richer than the rich were in 1900, that's economic growth.” What Planet did that Math come from? “The extreme poor today are WAY better off and are extremely richer than the richest in 1840.” That’s because of Advancement in Technology…not Economics you Moron. What real life Fairy godfather did you ride in on?
yellogue 3 months ago
@yellogue that is economics you dolt. technology and economics are dependent upon one another.
Benjammin822 3 months ago
@Benjammin822 What a simple statement…dickhead …say something without explaining…of course they’re dependent…usually when a new technology arises (like the phone or public utilities) they improve the infrastructure and society as a whole…economically (so that’s why we are RICHER/WEALTHIER than someone in 1840 w/o the technology?)…right now the computer and the internet has served…for now…as the economic booster, since the earlier tech advances are taken for granted.
yellogue 3 months ago
@yellogue I don't understand what you're trying to say. Go look up 'standard of living' and what it's compromised of.
Benjammin822 3 months ago
@Benjammin822
GOOGLE The Industrial Revolution and the Standard of Living by Clark Nardinelli, There are Pros and Cons as to its net effect, I probably would not have survived much further than birth,during that time,let alone working 18-20 hr days at a nickel an hour.I know medical advances allowed me to survive to at least age 10. Average income translated to ~$400-$500 a year,but that was average with no benefits and not poverty level,whereas 11K a year is poverty now.
yellogue 3 months ago
@yellogue Of course it is because of economics shit for brains. How do you think those advancements in technology came about? And what made them widely available to the average user at a affordable price? HERP DERP
USTreasuryBond 3 months ago
@yellogue Illegal Immigrants... Which up if you google it.. IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW
Darkeklaw 2 months ago
Hey MrMentalflossed, those luxury items you now list are the equivalent of the difference between the free $100K and the free $300K in his example. That is the extra $200K. "Where's my fucking Lear Jet bitch!?" Your comment is proof of the irrational envy of which he speaks. You and your comment have proven his point.
Go live in Sub-Saharan Africa for two or three years. Go live anywhere but the USA, for that matter. Then come back home and whine, if you can.
pmcnamara1954 3 months ago
this guy is smart even tho he's talking about me... im basically given everything i want by my parents but im very thankful and respectful for what i have... even tho i take advantage of it, one day i know i will pay it all back 10 fold
EvokeDawn 3 months ago
@EvokeDawn
Try thinking for yourself and don't let propaganda dictate to you who YOU are.
You were born an original, don't die a copy...
sierraz36 3 months ago
@sierraz36 heh lost me there, but i wont die a copy? I'll die a free man (hopefully)
EvokeDawn 3 months ago
what about the own multiple homes column,.. or the limo column, or the vacations overseas stats,.. ya knwo ,.. the ones that show that part of being rich you won't mention ,.. where is the servants owned er um i mean hired ststas,.. give me a break the ceiling fan was listed as a lux item ,.. really?
MrMentalflossed 3 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
How do you look at this and want to hate it? Why? Because it destroys your liberal worldview.
GermanConquistador08 3 months ago
this video is propaganda. the thought experiment about people getting upset that they only got $100k instead of $300k is completely false. if you don't believe me, search youtube for 'RSA drive' and watch the top result.
wdrose 3 months ago
@wdrose The RSA drive video has nothing really to do with the 100k vs 300k. "$100k instead of $300k is completely false" how so? It is human nature. People always want more. it shows with kids on Christmas. A kid gets a nice toy and likes a lot then hears his friend got an even better toy then he doesn't like his toy that much and all he wants is his friends toy.
whothaplaya 3 months ago
@whothaplaya not everyone wants more all the time. this might come as a shock to you, but many people feel they have enough. not everyone wants 10 cars and a mansion and a butler. but you seem to think that adults act exactly like immature, selfish children. no wonder you believe this shit. not everyone is as selfish and immature as you think. did you even watch the RSA video? it really sounds like you either didn't or didn't pay attention.
wdrose 3 months ago
@wdrose I did watch the video. What does the rsa video have to do with 100k vs the 300k argument? All I got from the video is that money is not the best motivator for creative work. "not everyone is as selfish and immature as you think" I know not everyone is but the vast majority is.
whothaplaya 3 months ago
I'm sorry you feel the world hates America, I certainly don't. That is not what this debate is about at all.
TheOzzieRob 3 months ago
This guy is an absolute clown. Who the hell is the Heritage foudation, let me google that..oh a conservartive American think tank. Lets do a survey on what is in the fridges of rich v poor, or hours airconditioners are run in New Orleans v the Hamptons. In Australia we have these lap dogs to institutionalized wealth. Nothing but propaganda mouth pieces.
TheOzzieRob 3 months ago
@TheOzzieRob why is it that the world hates america? because we dont keep our nose out of other people's business? take your own advice and keep your mouth shut.
bcneff08 3 months ago
Weak lazy people just hate hearing the truth and being reminded that they are a burden to their fellow man
ttjunker06 3 months ago
This guy is evil.
TylerThrashPeace 3 months ago
@TylerThrashPeace
or.. he's a robot spitting out the propaganda he's been programmed to spew...
sierraz36 3 months ago
He says people are envious of rich people because they have more money. I'm not envious of rich people but I don't like how the rich and the corporatists have bought our politicians and enact legislation that benefits them and hurts everyone else.
You won't hear that from this video though, it wouldn't fit his corporatist propaganda.
xdroog 3 months ago
My wife works at a public school cafeteria. For a record amount of students, it's the only meal they'll have for the day. For Friday, it's the only one they'll have till Monday. Mr. Bill thinks he is so clever. I have never seen so much arrogance in all my life. So, disconnected. Millions have lost their homes, but they have fridges. Oh boy. Why don't you just kick a man in a wheel chair. You would have more dignity.
1dreamingfrog 3 months ago
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This guy deserves his own tv show
crazyangrygaming 3 months ago
You left hippies wanna cry about being poor yet you'll blow 2500 on your mac book so you can be trendy. Your hearts are just filled with envy for the things you don't have. You have yourself to blame and no one else.
Wakesetter1421 3 months ago 2
@johnnoise
You should really stop crying about the poor. Look at the facts half of us citizens pay 0 income tax 0! The people that are getting the shaft here are the middle and upper middle class. I bust my ass for the things I have... then pay for everyone else.
Wakesetter1421 3 months ago