What will real economic change look like?

[NOTAdemocracy]

We all know the Financial Meltdown started with Rubins repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act separating Investment Banks (Goldman Sachs etc), from Commercial Banks (the one you have your checking and savings account with). Glass Steagall was designed to prevent the Investment Banks taking excessive risks and jeopardising the whole system. It worked perfectly for 70 years, irritating the Investment Banks who wanted huge risks/profits, burst the bubble leaving Taxpayers to pick up the Bill.

[mattme020202]

The Administration should give Professor Ellen Frank a job...kill the Creature from Jekyll Island and stop playing the regulate the market game...regulate these crappy companies into bankruptcy and find a way to grow multiple industries (diversify) beyond reliance on the MIC, Banking and Insurance industries.

[NOTAdemocracy]

Ellen Frank appears to be advocating the Government interfering with 'volatile' markets to make the lives of everyone easier and more stable. First, if everyone is aware of real prices and keeps on top of it then we become a well informed public less likely to be exploited. Should speculators cause shortages and price rises they will know they are putting out of work the very people who would be buying from them in a less speculative market place and therefore this would act as a 'cap' on greed.

[patient0Studios]

Your constitution was framed by the only type of people capable of taking a 4 month leave of absence to debate policy in Philadelphia. And don't forget the special considerayions for the "Responsible". But seeing as you are an American I will overlook your inability to reason as it is an innate quality of oligarchs like yourself.

[LetMeScreamLoud]

McCain doesn't really have any economic policy besides continuing of what Bush is doing... VERY PROMISING lol. Finished Naval Academy 894th out of class of 899! OMG *shakes head* oh wait he is good guy, he is "sorry" for first broken marriage (of course, it is horrible to ditch one wife for another that is rich and much younger) Lol why don't he go back to his first wife then

[JizzonTheDark]

I generally agree with this piece except the part where Frank insists we HAD to bail-out these shady mortgage holders.

Let the ball drop! It is going to happen! The longer the government puts it off the worse it will be.

[TheSharpenedPen]

Notice that as with his trip to Europe, Obama is acting like a president here again, even before the sham election has been concluded?

[nartin86]

a depression is coming, everybody stack up your food stock and wait for the beginning of the end!

[failderhorn]

Who is Ron Paul?

[abbaroc]

white people on youtube are soo racist.. i can hardly go on any youtube video with black ppl in it and not read the word nigger somewhere in the comments.. yet i don't see any white racial slurs in any white videos. someones going to give me a thumbs down because white ppl get offended when they're told they're not perfect

[FleshEatingCheerio]

I'm white and I agree with you, though I do think that the majority of people who do it are immature people that get a kick out of offending people with no consequences. Of course, they would never say something like this in real life... the wonders of the internet.

[practicalmagic9]

not to put a damper on the shouting match, but i have wondered why college education cannot be funded by students caring for campuses, working there, and a year after school doing public service employment? near the end of the vid they talk about college ed.

[unit45x]

I am funding my college/gradute education by working on campus, mostly, not all...

[megatron0357]

if i knew conversing with u would be productive i would but u know the old saying ..i cant teach an old dog new tricks..u are stuck on lies so why should i even go there with u. well it was fun but i have to take a nap. u see i have to work for living. and so i can pay for your medicare and your social security. have another beer on me..

[megatron0357]

and you have one lobby that runs the whole dam government....AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committe). U want to know who wins usa presidential elections? dont look at the vote. look at the nominee who goes to israel first and puts on a jew skullcap and kisses the wailing wall first. That determines your president. big usa sucking little israel dick...hahah go get a kneepad dude..

[megatron0357]

All muslims deported? then who are you going to use as scapegoats when everything goes wrong? back to the jews huh? hehe..

[megatron0357]

starcatcher: In my humble opinion. In order to bring USA back to its roots, you would have to make "strange-bedfellow" alliances with people you probably would'nt associate with by their physical apperances (or religion or race or whatever divides humans). There is little in this world that is "black- and white". Would u be willing to form such coalitions to get your(our) country back? If not then the "enemy" wins....

[megatron0357]

Hmmm.. A true libertarian isolationist. Ron Paul would be proud of u. So would Dennis Kucinich. But u and i both know that both the democrats and the republicans are selling this country to the one world government. Borders will not be sealed. They will be opened. USA will become one with canada and mexico. You know the rest. WHat will stop this from happening? Us yelling on youtube? Voting? Vote for who? it will either be a 2nd civil war or we all just follow the sheepeople. baahh. sad but tru

[megatron0357]

Hmm. I agree. Because of prosperrity and wealth since WWII. USA and the people have become lazy. We lack the drive of the former generations. I am 36yrs old and i believe that if we dont stand up and work hard like my parents and their parent's generation. then this country is doomed no matter what. Our leaders dont work for us anymore. our institutions dont work for us anymore and yes my generation was spoiled rotten and we taught bad example to the youth. But a change mut come. WHen? how?

[Daltonius1]

i saw an economic cartoon of a gas station where a sign said "prices change:" and crossed out were weekly, daily, and hourly.

[megatron0357]

starcathcer: "time to learn our own how to pick cotton again..nothing else worked!". Why, whatever do u mean by this statement? Please elaborate.

[Daltonius1]

I think he means we're just entertaining ourselves to death just like the roman empire did. Its like people can't work anymore.

[megatron0357]

Daltonius1: Hmm..ok. I agree with u. We are doing just like roman empire... hire outside to do our own work. We all see the signs. What are the solutions?

[megatron0357]

Hmm. starcatcher. Where do i begin with your obsession with islam. U need to study more. U will find that Islam is not the threat to the planet as u think. what is the biggest threat u say? that is for u to find out. But if u look at the world with blinders on u will not see it. Keep looking.....P.E.A.C.E. (Positive Energy Always Combats Evil) ..Always...

[megatron0357]

Hmm. I reviewed your profile and looked at some of your responses. U are a true isolationist. Some of your positions i agree. But you have too much hatred and arrogance and you are ignorant to a few thing. U also distorted(and outright lied) on your islam info on your site. Usa could get out of its present condition but neither party (dems or repubs or indeps) are willing to do what is necessary. So what do u (we) do when your (our) government is steering the nation down the river?

[mcresearch]

Starcatcher 888:

I declare Tobbe 79 the winner. Seriously, read his posts. He's summed it up for you. The US has been totally and completely fucked by Bush and his Republican opportunists. Your country is in a steep decline and it only took 8 years. Large areas of your cities make the third world look good. Honestly, look around - you are blinded by patriotism and a stubborn lack of knowledge (caused by poorly funded schools). You have the delusion that your taxes are low. They aren't that low.

[unit45x]

-----the Chinese own 28% of our foreign debt in the US...they are financing our wars in Iraq and Aphghanistan, I call that a hate crime against ourselves...who is the REAL enemy????????????

[megatron0357]

deport american born muslims too?

i'm glad u are no where near presidency. u scapegoat everyone. this country will destoy itself from the inside. your own White anglo saxon protestants will do it all by themselves. then who wil u blame?

[mcresearch]

Please don't close the border. How will American guns be smuggled into Canada? This will be very bad for our murder rate which is already too low.

[NewFutureAmerica]

oops they made a mistake. It says "U.S. jobs lost since January 2009" I think they mean 2008.

[unit45x]

no, they meant 2009

[NewFutureAmerica]

They said 'since' you can't say since until after a certain point.

[JMHamilton1]

This is a very good start. What I see out of this is video are, to know how to get out of a hole - you have to understand how you got into the hole. Look at what went wrong and not to do it again. We need someone in office that's about "action" President Obama.

John

[milofonbil]

You are tired of dismal failures and all the moochers. You feel the US should be a really proud country again, bigger and more powerful than others. Don't you just hate the Chinese, Mexicans and especially Muslims? They threaten to take away your gun, job, freedoms, security and even your religion don't they?

Your hatred is so charming. You are so ripe and ready for the next fascist dictatorship. They have even convinced you that the Islamic people are the fascists. How funny.

[milofonbil]

Starcatcher: The NAZI party started as the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP). It was Hitler that changed the name to NAZI.

The S did stand for socialist. But it was there in a very Orwellian way. It was there for the appeal of the masses, everything people wanted - a blend of nationalism and socialism.

NAZI Platform:

tinyurl . c o m /c8wel

Replace German with American and Jew with Muslim and see if it makes sense to you.

[milofonbil]

No ... Liberals don't want to sacrifice precious ecosystems needed for fish and other seafood on the hopes of offshore oil that may or may not even exist. Even if they started to explore, they would not drill any oil for another ten years (if it's even profitable to get it out).

Why don't you work on a way to reduce your dependence on foreign oil? What's keeping you from making a change? Ahhh I see. You have no capital in order to compete. You are the prisoner of debt.

[abilityoflove]

There is an overwhelming objective evidence that the free market economy does not work. Do we really need to enumerate it?

Free market economy is inherently unsustainable as it is based on greed not reason, hence it only works for a short time until the bubble bursts...

How many centuries does it take for the leaders and academics to realize this?

[TainaAtheist1]

While "quasi" public/private agreements are great for testing markets, it is clear today that Americans must decide on the future of FNME.

We must either agree to the OLIGARCHY OF FANNIE MAE or we must welcome a new, taxpayer-held federal agency, maybe named the U.S. Department of Federal Mortgages (formly FNME).

What do you think?

[greenbean1984]

theREALnews means well but paul jay is a socialist idiot.

there is no way i will be donating again to these nobs that want more government socialist mess, more regulation and higher taxes.

[abilityoflove]

What people on the top must do is admit that the system, e.g. free market economy, does not work.

That education which is design to support such system fails and that society which serves this system is dysfunctional.

The future belongs to new structures, based not on greed, but on betterment, physical and spiritual, individual and collective.

[greenbean1984]

you're an idiot.

free markets is the only thing that works. the system we have now is NOT free market. the FED, central economic planning, fiat money, medicare, no-child-left-behind and other "in-bed-with-government" corporations are NOT free market.

more government socialism is the last thing we need.

[chromelemon]

You are acting like we have socialism, I can tell you that the U.S. has NEVER had anything close to socialism.

[greenbean1984]

um, do you know what socialism is?

we have government schools dont we?

therefore, by definition, we have socialism.

what did you think socilism was?

[teemuruskeepaa]

greenbean1984 soviet socialism is statism, a form of capitalism. Marxist socialism is sharing of economic capital. My socialism is sharing of economic, cultural and social capital. Soviet socialism contradicts my socialism because the state doesn't share anything but economic, and it results in a totalitarian dictatorship, for the greatness of the communist leader. Just like in China.

[chromelemon]

(slaps head) If u think we have a Socialist by definition because we have state funded schools, then you need get another dicitonary because that is laughable. Socialism is an ecnomic system in which the state has control over essential resources and REDISTRIBUTES WEALTH DOWNWARDS. If you think we're doing that, then you need to pull your head out of Ron Paul's ass. No offense.

[greenbean1984]

the schools was just one example.

"Socialism is an ecnomic system in which the state has control over essential resources and REDISTRIBUTES WEALTH DOWNWARDS"

hello, are you mental? if we stick to the schools example. a state funded school is where the state uses the money it collects through taxes and redistributes the wealth by providing education for those that cant afford it (or "downwards" you fucking snob).

so by your own definition. we have socialism.

your a cunt.

[unit45x]

---bad example, poor argument, and very bad manners, try again and maybe you might get your point accross...we might be headed toward socialism, but public schools hardly define it!

[abilityoflove]

You are a good and intelligent person.

A society based on greed can only end in anarcho-fascism. I think America is a good example. UK is also becoming like that.

Greed is not a virtue, however, I am not saying that greed does not have a role to play, but that it should not be the dominant quality in the society.

[patient0Studios]

Ron Paul is an IDIOT, he wants to move more power to the States because the States are easier for corporate powers to control. Thats the ONLY REASON

[cooll6]

Ron Paul talks about less power to the federal govt. which would allow states to make there own laws. THis is closer to what is known as green grass politics. It allows people living in an area to make there own laws. laws which will affect them as a whole. Do some research you fucking idiot. Im sick of people bagging on Ron Paul cuz they don't know shit about economics and how the monetary system works. If your statement was true, why did RP have very little to know funding from corporations?

[chromelemon]

Because he got money from White supremecists.

[freedomcorp]

Individual states having the power is the way it is supposed to be. Since your Canadian, Ill give you a pass on your ignorance of our Constitution.

[blacksilverjose]

uh huh huh mm send us more money! beavis!

[somecomputergeek]

Barrack should hire Ron Paul as his secretary of the treasury.

[iCITIZEnP0WER]

They both suck.

[teemuruskeepaa]

1.30 I'm surprised to hear an American talking against economic deregulation. It seems to me that most Americans believe in the deregulated markets, where freedom produces opportunities to the low and high classes. But that's explainable by TRNN, who are raising their social democratic agendas.

[milofonbil]

When companies like Enron take advantage of a low-regulation environment to steal money from people, then it's clear that the market does need to be regulated. You can't always fix things after the damage has been done. Complete de-regulation does not protect the consumer against predatory companies.

[teemuruskeepaa]

Did you know that Adam Smith believed that corruption is just another form of restriction to the free market? Free market is based on that when the system is deregulated, everybody will grow.

[milofonbil]

That's all nice and theoretical. Adam Smith loved greed. The problem in reality is that once the greedy company has taken people for a ride, it often goes out of business and the people that have been ripped off cannot even have recourse under Smith's theoretical economy. It does not work in real life.

[teemuruskeepaa]

It's not about greed. Don't put such ideas into the books of a theorist from the 18th century. Actually, free market is like socialism. It hasn't been done to see that it is impractical. I would like to sythesize a combination of both, a system where the sharing of economic, cultural and social capital creates a market place where everybody have resources.

[milofonbil]

It's clear you have not read Adam Smith's book set "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations". Smith believed that while human motives are driven by selfishness and greed. He also believed that the competition in the free market would tend to benefit society as a whole anyway.

We have an economic system that is a combination of socialism and free market capitalism. What's your point?

[teemuruskeepaa]

You sound cocky.

[milofonbil]

Well, I sound cocky because I have read all five volumes of the book. From what you are saying, clearly you have never even cracked the cover on it.

The whole book is online. Please read it.

tinyurl . c o m /39zpb

[teemuruskeepaa]

How dear you! I am bothered by your tone of voice and I want you to shut up.

[milofonbil]

I don't mean to offend you. Enjoy reading the online book. Enjoy your free resources for all (although many of them are running out). Have a nice life.

[teemuruskeepaa]

Maybe you can refrase your cocky comment?

[milofonbil]

His book used the metaphor of an "invisible hand" to describe how the aspirations of an individual pursuing his own self-interest tends to also promote the good of his community as a whole. He argued that each individual maximizing revenue for himself maximizes the total revenue of society as a whole, as this is identical with the sum total of individual revenues. Smith thought that free markets should to lead to a perfect equality. (con't)

[milofonbil]

And Smith saw that people employed as wage laborers lose their ability to express their art. Smith noted that the division of labor and saw that government intervention was needed to protect the workers from market forces that "will turn working people into objects as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to be". He saw that man would quickly become machines for the owners of the capital. (con't)

[milofonbil]

What Smith did not foresee was that people would be put in competition with machines and that the fruits of their labor alone would not enable them to compete with the owners of the capital.

Smith did not deal with the power of the monopoly over the free market. He never predicted that the owners of the capital control government. The real fight is not between market and government, but ensuring that people can enter markets and compete. Without competition, there is no free market.

[teemuruskeepaa]

And the rest is history, they say. Of class struggle, actually. But it still wasn't admiration of greed. Such a moral term has no significance in Smith's theory about the free markets. That's what is important in his book, which I'll read some other time. I didn't object the free hand. That's just how the market works, when it is not restricted. I remember reading that emphasis on the restrictions too. There can't be predatory companies in free market, according to Smith.

[milofonbil]

And, yes, in order to curb predatory companies you need regulations that were written for the people instead of the predatory companies themselves. The "free hand" fails to prevent companies from becoming predatory.

[teemuruskeepaa]

No, according to Smith, corruption (predatory et other illegal companies) form because of the restrictions to the free flow of resources in the economic market place.

[VoIPpoetry]

election is a sham.

Obama's already doing it.

They will never get the economy back on track.

they keep smothering innovation with power and control.

bribery, extortion, pushing people around is all they do.

they are in the way of prosperity and they always have been.

govt wont do anything for us. we'd be better off without them.

this bitch is so full of crap.

[ratonnewmex]

YEAP.....you got it VolP! you got it!

[teemuruskeepaa]

Election is a sham to gain legal rights to take out all the other political voices in the state. It is the same in Finland and that's why I don't vote.

[TruthJockey]

Nice "dog & pony" show B.O....what did the C.F.R./Tri-Lateralists tell you to do? Did you sell it, I mean really sell it (like the used car salesman you are)? What about McShame, will he put together a charade for us too, prolly!

PREPAREDNESS PEOPLE...don't leave it up to the vultures, the corporation & banks to save you! IT'S COMING - big changes are coming!

[TheAnarchist33]

Stock up on cans and dry food before they fucking poison it to kill the opposition!

[charlessmyth]

The problem is not a lack of regulation, the problem is fractional reserve banking and associated credit expansion schemes which are not subject to the LAW and limits imposed by the Gold standard. Just because the banking system makes easy credit available, it does not follow that anyone MUST TAKE the credit. Thus, the credit crunch is very much created by 'we the people' who should be seeking to protect and educate themselves at a price they choose to pay on the market. This is valid CHANGE.

[VoIPpoetry]

true.

smartest guy on here

[charlessmyth]

Thanks for the accolade :-)

[Mikey34549]

"Governments do do"

[FarangBalls]

Wrapped into this housing bill was legislation allowing the IRS to legally track ALL credit card transactions. how is that going to help the housing crisis? MAJOR loss of privacy in violation of the Constitution has just taken place.

[sweetpotos]

Obama is a devout follower of the Chicago School of Economics, don't expect any help from him.

Not that it bothers me. As a Marxist, I am glad to know that the ruling class is so myopic and incompetent that it won't even do what's necessary to maintain its rule.

[TheAnarchist33]

They want what you want, a global communist state that will expropriate the people and turn them into industrial slaves. They are controlled by the same clique that made the October Revolution happen. Marx was a Zionist who admitted many times that the goal of this system is to bring about the New World Order, a phrase Hitler and Bush Sr. used... The ruling class is not myopic, they want you to revolt, it's the best way to destroy a country. I like Bakhounine better than Marx...

[VoIPpoetry]

bingo

[ferrozm]

The FED is the problem and as long as this stupid bitch fail to realize this and the american people don't wake up we can never get out of this ordeal.

[lastnymleft]

EXACTLY RIGHT, ferrozm! I can't believe she made it to "Professor". It absolutely horrifies me that she is PAID to spread that bullshit to impressionable young minds. What she said is the exact OPPOSITE of what needs to be done! It was government interference, in the form of Greenspan, and Bernanke, at the Fed, trying to prop up the unsustainable US economy that is causing all these problems through a devalued dollar, which causes price inflation.

We must free ourselves of this yoke, the Fed!

[ferrozm]

all universities teach only keynesian economic theory. Govt interference in markets cause false demand in things like corn for the production of ethanol.

The financial markets are volatile because of intervention by the FED and govt. I can see past your sarcasm.

[teemuruskeepaa]

Wrong. Universities do not teach anything, be it an economic theory or a marxist revolution. Universities have a curriculum that is usually performed by the student, while the staff are involved in research. However, the curriculums do include all theories, so make the students able to synthesize beyond them.

[milofonbil]

Why don't you hold the generalizations about Universities to the one you went to. We learned about economic theories and more than just Keynes.

[lastnymleft]

Sarcasm? Not a word of it! I'm 100% on-message with what you were saying, and meant everything I said. We need to get the r3V0Lutionaries, or some rich liberty lovers to start funding university scholarships and university department "chairs" to get some Austrian economics taught at university.

[joshrain1]

i dont agree with ellen.

[wervasdeferens]

"Now you are sounding like a Street barker that thinks I really believe that Rolex you are pimping is 1. Real 2. Not stolen!"

LOL,sort of like the conservative movement?

'See what we're gonna do is shift all the wealth to the top,then it's gonna trickkkle down to the rest of ya's'

Liberals wanna tax and spend,cut and run,bob and weave.They're appeasers who want mexicans to take your jobs.Liberals wanna give Blacks 40 acres of your hard earned land.

Oh,my millions?,pay no mind to that!'

[wervasdeferens]

starcatcher888,

I don't think I know any gay people, so I can't speak to the issue of gays.

But if the guy hated pedophiles,why didn't he go shoot up some catholic priests?

I don't always agree with the ACLU,but they defend everyone's civil liberties,including the KKK.One has to take the good with the bad when it comes to the ACLU.

Crimes against children are a different matter.Totally unacceptable!

[wervasdeferens]

starcatcher888,

The point is, those extremists Muslims are spouting the same hate that you are. Which came first is irrelavant at this point.You hate them,they hate you, so kill each other.

You want to throw Mexicans out of the country also! How about blacks?Jews?Catholics?Short people?Red heads?Guys with small dicks?

Where does it stop?

[AiresQX4]

The only Candidate that would have been able to do something positive for this Country was Ron Paul!! But the masses of stupid Cattle fucked that up for the rest of Intelligent,informed American's!! Keep voting for the Candidate that gets the most Media coverage and we'll continue to get fucked in the ass by our Imperial Politicians! If you haven't figured out that our Mainstream Media is the tool for Government then you should just kill yourself right now!! SERIOUSLY!! ASSHOLES!!

[wervasdeferens]

starcatcher888,

Did you hear about the guy who shot up a Knoxville,TN church last week? Did you hear about the books found in his home or the crap he was saying as he fired off his shotgun?

We don't need that in this country! Nor do we need more Tim McVeigh's. As the "trickle down" economy continues to take it's toll,the more misinformed people will result to hate crime. Muslims,mexicans,blacks,libera­ls? Sounds like Nazi scapegoating to me!

[wervasdeferens]

starcatcher888 &Tobbe79, You guys had a pretty good debate going,but in typical right- wing fashion "star" had to turn down the low road.

starcatcher888, You ARE a racist and if you think the conservative movement and deregulating the markets hasn't detroyed our economy, then you're ignorant.

Lastly, if you're white,which I assume you are, you're of European ancestry. Euro-trash?

[truthspeaker2000]

"Lastly, if you're white,which I assume you are, you're of European ancestry. Euro-trash?"

haha, I guess you hit the nail on the head :)

[bbburton]

WTF?! Everything she said about what the gov should do was nothing short of endorsing socialism. The gov has engineered all of the problems in the economy and now it's dumb bitches like her that advocate more gov interference. Give me a break. We need less gov interference, not more.

[Tobbe79]

Your not an american. Your a racist, fascist, warmongering, islamophobic, homophobic, evangelist, lying, republican, bush-sucking, cultureimperialistic motherfucker.

[Tobbe79]

lol motherfucker in 20 years the oil addiction will be over, try to think progress you medieval slut. And the only threat to world peace is USA and your cronies Israel and the UK, but except from that all other countries in the developed world are thinking about more important issuss. After world war 2 you engineered every fucking war this planet has seen, you have to fucked up right wing, lobbyist, support whoever pays the bills, corrupted, fucked up, lying political parties and a bunch of fat.

[Boondockflyfish]

W O W !!!

[Tobbe79]

Keep your inuendos for yourself you dont know me motherfucker. As far as russia goes that shit ended a long time ago, your stuck in your warmongering, uncle tom, cold war mentality and if you see me I fuck you diagonally. Nato? That´s also a cold war remnant arent you up to speed of whats happeing anymore. Some 12 year old girl told you that muslims are scary and they fuck goats so grandpa shit for brains start dissing them with your hillbilly rhetoric. Who gives a shit if u leave nato?

[keptyeti]

Without a doubt more finiancial regulation and increased social services would be an improvement for the vast majority of Americans. I have no sympathy for the minority who would initially bear the largest portion of the financial burden. I'm cold that way.

[Tobbe79]

Nobody with both their tits in their bra would say your a sucess story. And dont try to pawn yourself off as a person who knows shit about anything outside Hickville, Georgia. You havent left your caravan except going for your daily cabbage and bean run, who the fuck eats that shit huckleberry? Fish and meat and potatoes you keep your fava beans and stinking cabbage. The quality of your posts are detoriating, I have already proved that you are a two time liar. Afraid of russians, your afraid...

[Tobbe79]

Do your telling me 3500 dollars a month is a fucked up wage after taxes? And gas is no problem we have deductables on work travels. And the food mumbering I cant even follow. You telling me the fat white trailer trash motherfuckers up in Minnesota are eating well? Maybe til they day from cardiac failure at 37 but thats not a coveted price. And hey stop dissing the russians they are actually trying to be you.

[nytehawx]

Wow, at this point, the U.S. needs Obama to be president. All McCain will do is destroy America like Bush did.

[Tobbe79]

41 945/Capita 2006 for Sweden, bogus numbers from a degenerate liar. We have better than GB, France and Germany. But GNP is not a measure of quality of life. HDI is and we rank 6th in the world your only 12th. And here to even take into account the GNP figures. I mean a war or a natural disaster would boost GNP, that make you happier? Your healthcare sucks your like 39th in the world, of course if you can pay top dollar you move up to number one in your demented country. But im not selling anyth

[Tobbe79]

Your a fucking joke I made 28000 swedish crownes last month and I kept 20900 swedish crownes you do the math ignorant conspiracy breeding motherfucker. We have a high price in petrol it´s 13 swe/crownes per liter but we dont have subsidies covering this peak oil shit, that you have. And as far as the french go concerning philisophy, literature and art well we dont even wanna go there at all huh Captain Starbucks. They were british colonies but you started the wars, colonilism is evil shit and..

[SKClouD]

What does your reply have to do with my question? Simply answer it.

[Tobbe79]

Nationalsozilismus, so what I answered your question. To appeal to the genral masses. Just because a country or prty calls themselves democrats or socialists doesnt make it so. Bush must be laughing all the way to the bank, having stupid subserviants slaves like u sucking his dick till you choke from his cum and die.

[Tobbe79]

Stop the ad hominem attacks I can be civil didnt your mother teach you to be at age 66? I know what the NSDAP stood for and invoking socialism was a way to appeal to the general masses, Germany has always hosted a strong socilist movement as in any country well educated at the time- Look at RAF and how they shook the remaining nazis in the 1960´s. But Stalin turned the revolutionary police aginst the socilists, so I wouldnt actually call him a socialist. Hey I know I teach history.

[Tobbe79]

Hitler and Stalin were not socialist you ignorati. Im through wasting my time on you, and you can suck a dick if you think I ended it wrong, fuck you and I´m gone.

[eldogg4life]

quoting Immortal Technique???

[Tobbe79]

Im ´not a conspiracy nut but you brought that shit on yourselfs and now your begging europe for help. I dont think Bush did it because he is not that smart, a puppet like Reagan taking orders on his cellphone. And as far as Russia goes it is as corrupt and way beyond salvation as you are and communism ended in 1991, pick up a history book or maybe ýou dont read so good?

[Tobbe79]

You seem to be sensitive and angry about the shit that I wrote. Motherfucker my words damage and slaughter raging alcoholic like the presidents daughter. And hey if you think you thrashing europe has any bearing on me your wrong, I dont give a shit.Hey and as far as tax rate we have 30% income tax, and in France they only work 35 hours a week and have 35 days vacation, they dont crumble like you do. Beside the point you want NATO, we dont. Your the country trying to sell your war in afghanistan.

[Tobbe79]

Man Obama and McCain are the same parts of the sevenheaded dragon. And as far as liberals go the obly thing standing between you gay neo conservative fake christians are not only liberals, the rest of the world hate your guts too. Drilling for oil in the open sea or in the national reservations in Alaska? Go right ahead I guess you have the afterlife to look forward to huh? You "earth only existed for 6000 years and Darwin is a hoax" ignorant cracker.

[Tobbe79]

We dont want your warmongering. And please stop your foreign aid to Israel so it may rot in hell where it should go.

[Tobbe79]

Your 66 years old and still a fascist scumbag, how is that working out for you? As for dhimmi land and raping women, I guess that´s your reality, not mine. Of course I just live here so I guess I don´t have any say in the matter. Bail these Fanny Fag and Bonny Gay out so they can keep fukking you up the ass for the next century, stupid ignorant no college degree motherfukkers.

[Tobbe79]

You americans are so lost in your so called democracy. You have to right wing parties only working for the lobby interest not giving a shit about the general population. You hide in your gate communities and buy firearms to make you feel safer. Then you blame the muslim religion when it was your own government that profited from 9/11. You have seriuos issues over there, how about making some real change? Obama and McCain when they speak tho AIPAC they both sound the same. That was a rhyme sry.

[thbyrnes]

How the hell does socialism make anyone's life (save the few that are running things) any better?

Socialism is tyranny wrapped in the name of the "greater good". Of course the people making the video love the idea, they are the ones deciding what the "greater good" is, but as for us hard -workers feeding three moochers in NEED it is pure robbery.

Moochers NEED hard-workers, hard-workers DO NOT NEED moochers.

[Boomer1949]

Let's take a look at these "moochers" shall we, government funded programs, starting with the Fed. Military, Congress, Intelligence, State Dept, Homeland Security, Appointed Judges. Now consider our country without them, or the guys that run the snow blower in winter, or keep the parks in city, county and state land. Want to privatize all that? Think about it real hard first.

[Tobbe79]

I will answer your question. Socialism works pretty good for us here in scandinavia, and has worked good for the rest of europe during history. Of course it havent performed miracles like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and their not so free market economy. "In late 2004, Fannie Mae was under investigation for its accounting practices. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Ov. alleging widespread accounting errors, including shifting of losses so senior executives could earn bonuses."

[SKClouD]

And what the hell does this have to do with socialism?

[danoking69]

TRUTH!!!