As you get older, things that you have been tought to believe, well, you will see that the machine will keep making more and more people poor. You will not see this thru traditional learning. By the way most of the violent acts were the police beating people. I was there, and I am a former owner of a corporation. You need to read more George Orwell!
You destroy your own point. They don't end up graduating with a job OR they wind up graduating with a job in activism that supports and agenda you disagree with. Nevermind the fact that they might support the political beliefs of OWS, nevermind the fact that the career choice they made is their own decision and not yours.
Job in activism? How much does that pay? As for the career choice being their own, when they graduate with a useless degree in a useless subject, they become our burden. Why? Because when they can't get a job because nobody wants to deal with their dumb viewpoints, they go on welfare. Who foots that bill? I do. I have to pay for them to stay home because they have no other skill, training, or knowledge other than how to hold up a sign and shout nonsense.
@NoamTube Once again, its there choice. If activism is something they love and enjoy doing, than they should not be forced to conform to another job just because what they love doesn't make as much money. They should also be educated on the financial risks they may suffer because of their career decisions. The reason we give them welfare is not because they "made the wrong career choice", we do it because they're HUMAN BEINGS. People don't deserve poverty because they disagree with you
Ok, so by your logic, I love and enjoy making origami. So I'm going to make a little stand and sell my little paper origami hoping some sucker, I mean, customer comes and buys one from me. And if it doesn't work out, hey, I can always go on welfare and you will be happy your taxes go towards my entitlements because, I'M A HUMAN BEING! People who make stupid choices deserve poverty. Maybe they'll be smarter next time.I don't need to pay for other people's mistakes.
@NoamTube Yes...thats exactly what I'm saying. For gods sake look ath your own comment.
"People who make stupid decision deserve poverty". Really? Well what about their children. Do they deserve poverty? They didn't have a choice in who their parents we're. They didn't have any input in their career decisions. Why should they suffer for their parents mistakes?
Your comments are elitist. And even though I know nothing about you. I'd bet that you never have actually lived in poverty.
Here's an idea. If you can't afford to have a kid, DON'T HAVE ONE. I mean we have people popping out kids who they can't even take care of and I have to pay for them? If you care so much about the children, take all your money and go give it to them. Then you can live in poverty with them and talk about how wonderful you were back when you had money and how you gave it to needy people. We have plenty of forms of birth control, I don't need to care for someone's mistake.
@NoamTube So now poor people should not be aloud to have children? Are you even listenign to yourself? What your advocating is downright fascist...
Okay I'm done argueing with you. There is no point. The only reason I ever kept responding is because each time I had hoped that you'd give some sort of intelligent answer. But when we get to "If your poor don't have a kid so I don't have to give you welfare" I think its time to quit.
You are an elitist with zero empathy for poor people.
Absolutely. If you can't afford to take care of yourself, you shouldn't have kids. It's not fair to them. By the way, you're a socialist pussy faggot liberal.
I love how he just assumes what is being taught in this course and what the criteria for grading is.
There is no left-wing conspiracy in universities, you idiot. Becoming less of a right-wing libertarian douchebag is simply the result of a good education. Your hateful, fascist ass believing that colleges indoctrinate students into being stupid hippies is no different than crazy Christians believing that there is an atheist/darwinist conspiracy in all of the world's universities.
@TheDispatcherator How can Lee be both a libertarian-douchebag and a fascist?
He would have to be an extreme leftist-douchebag to be a fascist.
Sheesh, I am guessing you are not a political science major.
Good thing I went to a better university than Columbia (yes, columbia is ranked #10 and University of Michigan is ranked #14 but I would dispute that based on UofM having more higher ranked programs in total than columbia.)
It's a trap. At this years Davos World Economic Forum they were basically flat out saying capitalism needs to change, the top ceos of the world. This week. Just now.
Klauss Schwab invited Occupy into Davos for talks. They are embracing it, Why, cause they are going to use it for their benefit.
They are going to jump ship with their capital and make a killing off the sustainable movements
@df0x1977 YEAH! Obama needs to be out on the street solving everyones own individual problems one by one until everyone is happy! Even though economic recovery takes time no matter what strategy you use...BUT HE'S LAZY AND MADE IT BAD! Even though the plans to stop this we're nullified by the Clinton and Bush Administrations...BUT I DON'T LIKE HIS FACE!
@zzman305 I'm just saying the OWS movement seems to have no message or good results. I'm not sure why they have so many bad things associated with the movement if there's a good sound reasoning for it. It just seems like good things have good results and the opposite for bad things.
Another thing, I'm not sure how you are tying Clinton & Bush's administration with OWS? The demonstrators didn't seem to be around in the Bush or Clinton administrations, to the best of my knowledge.
@df0x1977 I'm not tying Clinton and Bush to OWS, I'm tying them to the cause of the recession. The laws to prevent this recession we're in place, they just refused to enforce them
@zzman305 OK, I got ya now. Yeah, it is too bad Clinton & Bush didn't put their feet down on the issues that arose. I know that at least Bush felt it was morally incorrect to bail wall street out with tax payers money. As for Clinton I'm not sure if understands the meaning of morally incorrect. But we're all here in cooker now aren't we, best do what we can for the right reasons.
@zzman305 You're welcome bro, I'm not totally against everything liberals think. I actually totally agree with eating right, eating more whole vegetables and fruits, and far less meat and dairy products.
The problem in politics is no one is willing to see any other perspective on the issues. It's all or nothing. We all need to step back and take the good from the bad, and make logical decisions based on that perspective. Both sides are so split now almost all logic is being lost in the fray.
I'm curious. How many years will it take for you to stop blaming Bush already? Obama promised to cut our deficit in half his first term. He failed to do so. Exactly how long does it take for you to actually start blaming the person in charge for his own failures? 4 Years? 12 Years? 100 Years? Or will your grandchildren still blame Bush for the failures of this entire government?
@NoamTube I also said I blame the Clinton administration. To be honest the recession we're in is the fault of both parties. The Dems and the Republicans got lazy for 14 years. They stopped enforcing laws and standards that could've prevented this, and then this happened. And now everyone is trying to pin the blame on eachother when truthfully, theres enough to go around for everyone.
@NoamTube On the topic of Obama, my opinion is split. I believed that when I first voted for him he could improve the economy. However as time showed, his naivity and timidness prevented him from making any headway. So no opinion on him is this.
"He's can't fix the economy, but he can damn sure keep us from getting worse"
I don't think Obama is going to be the one to end this recession. I don't think any president can. I think the only thing that can end it is the American people.
As for OWS demands and message, I can agree with your above statement. I don't think OWS has no real message whatsoever. To me it seems like a movement of people who just want to vent frustration
Now some idiotic supposedly reknonwed college is creating credited courses on OWS!?!? Is there some way to lobby or fight against this complete nonsense!? Something has to be done about this kind of wasteful cancerous disease that's destroying simple and pure logic in our society. Are there really that many retards in our country? WTF is happening that people have lost this much brain power. A 5 year old can see how rediculous this is.
That's an outrage! This is horrible, yet very enlightening information. Shouldn't something of that nature be some kind of criminal act? OWS should be a criminal act too! They have done nothing but impede daily life in several state capitols and major cities across the country, all of which has costs millions of dollars in man hours and labor. Many of those extra man hour and labor coming from local law enforcement, which in turn allocates local funding from other needed funding sources.
@Kilendger I want my freedom to make as much money as I want without the government limiting to how much I can make. Money and Freedom what more could a person want.
@oduOX52 It's a complex message covering many subjects based upon a lot of historical, economical, and ethical considerations. It's a subject too complex to adequately discuss in a YouTube comment... probably a topic better suited for something like an undergraduate elective course.
For anthropology, yeah, I could see studying the event, but you're right. When any professor puts their political spin and opinion on it, that's no longer anthropology. Most college and university grads are less intelligent when they graduate anyway. So I don't support "higher" education as it is at all, this just gives me another reason to say "you have a degree, then go work at McDonald's."
@cancerbotX I have a job, pay taxes and for my own insurance. I am not a whining brat who thinks others should pay my way because I majored in Bullshit 101 and couldn't acquire an actual job. I have abetter sense of what goes in the world because I am actually living in it.
this fascist-like point of vue about the men an women being part of the occupy Wall Street, shows, not only that you dont have any knowledg about it but, that you dont apply to yourself the "liberty" principles that you US people are meant to have..
You are attacking a straw-men, he said that taking courses without any regard to what employes search for in an applicant will lead to not finding a job.
You are implying that taking a "wrong" course will block you from getting a job
were as he said that missing out on important courses will block you from getting a job.
He did not imply that otherwise good educated students would be deselected because of them taking a course.
Watch the video again, dude. He literally says that this kind of thing is why graduates can't find jobs. He goes on to talk about students not taking the correct courses either, and just taking whatever they want -- which is also stupid, and shows that he has no idea what he's talking about. Because not having the right courses is why businesses aren't hiring them -- not because businesses aren't hiring in general because there is no demand. What a retard.
@PimpingWolfwood Anecdotal statement of the new year nicely done. That's exactly why people cant get jobs -.-
College is a great opportunity to gain a general education and exit with a hopefully more objective view of the world. I personally believe going to college purely for the sake of a better job is kind of sad, what happened to actually wanting to learn about the world.
Regardless, yes it is probably a waste of one's money to study such a young sub-culture.
Sure. We could argue that any elective is a waste of money -- except you have to have them, and culturally relevant courses build socially adjusted people.
I agree the OWLS are a bunch of entitlement junkie invertebrates, but I think, for a scholarly anthropologic study, they are fair game. Much of cultural anthropology is about immersing oneself in a foreign, somewhat incomprehensible society, and trying to find out who these people are, what they value, and what they think. It may not be worth $3000, but IF the class was an unbiased investigation, it could be worthwhile.
@ipwnallnubscuzirock I thought of that myself :) ... then I imagined the conversation: Student: "Professor, since other students are attending OWS for credit, can I attend Tea Party rallies for credit?" 'Professor': "hahahaha ... oh, you're serious? I'm sorry son but the university feels that the Tea Party is an extremist organization."
i think you are bringing up a big problem but i dont think that an occupy wallstreet class is the worst of our worries as it comes to students wasting their time. at my school students can take classes in courses like aliens or yoga or even sometimes entire professions which probably dont require a high level university's degree. The problem is the idea that you can only be successful with a degree and all the happy people have them.
I don't get these kids with functionalist arguments about advanced education. If they're so pleased with their pragmatic and economic ends, then why do they consistently attack outside of their own purview and experience? They seem divided against themselves at someone else's expense; as if mirroring in a false non-dialectical community, pro-immigration liberal diversity voter bases on the left and a republican-religion vote on the other side of the puritan coin. The dummies vs the idiots. Blah.
@lee0122333 Considering the fact I'm having this much trouble getting you to use the shift key properly, any effort for me to dissuade you in anything else seems like a complete waste of time. I'm simply spending my time arguing a point I believe you have a chance (albiet small) of grasping.
And it's also ironic because the students will be joining the protests that are geared towards them because it is likely that these students come from a wealthy family
Lee, have a look around. Blatant consumerism isn't working. Universities are right to begin changing their perspective with the view to changing the minds of others. It is refreshing to see a learning institution take the attitude that it is about time to begin questioning the ethics and intentions of our financial institutions. This is not about creating unthinking, frivolous courses for credit. This is a valid approach to take and perhaps, long past time.
@dynamitemike65 President Obama did not create the economic woes the United States currently finds itself in. The economy was well into it's decline while President Bush was in office. Bush spent money on the war in Iraq and the military at an obscene rate. That combined with few to no regulations safeguarding the profiteers of Wall Street and you had a recipe for impending doom. Don't blame Obama for what was set in motion long before he took the presidency.
@TheJackOfFate I am quite well informed on world economics. It is my take on it that you object to. Difference of opinion brings balance and better perspective. That is a fact.
@TheJackOfFate #1. The war in Iraq was a mistake from the start. And once in it, to President Obama's dismay, it was not as easy as walking away from that tangled web. The people of Iraq now depended for their very lives, on foreign troops running interference. You want to blame someone for Iraq, point squarely at George W., where blame belongs. Obama also provided bail outs to GM and Chrysler, putting those companies on solid footing competing with the importers and saving -cont'd.
@bboots100 - You're so indoctrinated you're BEYOND stupid. You can't even be correct on accident. Stop sucking Obama's dick already you Demwit.
#1 - The Iraq war was supported by the Clinton administration and all of the Democrats during his term. All of the talk of WMDs comes from the Dems in 1998. Everything else is just repetition.
#2 - Obama could have brought all of the troops home, ended the Patriot Act, and closed Gitmo. He didn't. He did the exact opposite.
@TheJackOfFate #2. countless jobs. The taxpayer was spared the tremendous debt the fall of these corporations would have meant to them. Funny you don't want to discuss that. The fiasco that is Wall Street could have definitely been avoided had it not have been for the deregulation and loosening of controls on banks by Republican governments. Had tighter government controls been in place, President Obama would not have found himself in the impossible position he was in, doling out rescue money.
@bboots100 Is this actually what you people believe? Better yet, why am I shocked? Answer this question honestly, please, if you can: do give a damn about the truth, or is all you care about spouting your party line? If the democrat party were to do a 180 degree turn, blame Obama and promote non-Keynesian economics; if CNN, NPR, and MSNBC were to begin talking about how they were wrong, and how logical and consistent the Republic point of view is, would you change? Better yet... (cont.)
@bboots100 if there were no political parties at all, if you had not been raised a democrat, would you still believe as you do?
I could get into line-by-line argumentation with you, and it would go on forever. As soon as I would answer one of your points, you would say, "Well what about..." Now, I have done research. Hell, analysis is what I do. I know what I know, and I know you're deluded and wrong. That's not opinion, it's fact. What I want is for you to take a serious look at (cont)
@bboots100 what you believe, and why you believe it. I want you to do research, REAL research. Don't just find articles, read the sources that those articles use. Read statistics. Read economic theory. Read history. Make a list of your values and goals, and then, after all that, make a plan on everything you know, everything you've read and learned, in order to accomplish that list. Once you have done that, look hard at your party, and see how closely they align with what you have learned
@bboots100 Now, just so you don't walk away from this with some smug sense of self-satisfaction because I didn't respond to your points, here is the last time I shall do so:
Corporatism and lobbyists ensure the govt. passes regulation to increase the entry cost of a business. ~1 million more jobs were lost after the bailout than Obama said would be lost if we did NOTHING. It was not an imp. sit. for Obama- he did the classic Keynesian thing- he threw money at the corporations. CRONYISM.
@TheJackOfFate I am Canadian and have a keen interest in politics; that of my own country, America's and the politics abroad. I have always tried to observe as objectively as possible, understanding that the source of my information will be slanted to the views of that particular paper, magazine or network. My interpretation is as unbiased as I believe it can be. I like your President Obama and though it is clear you do not, I think he came to power at a particularly difficult time.
@bboots100 You are absolutely right! So what has Obama done to make it better? When Obama took office gas was $1.73 a gallon now it's over $3. Unemployment was 5.5% when Bush left now it's 8.5%. He claims he's "saving" and creating jobs yet unemployment has been not even come close to Bush when he left office. BTW all the Wall Street cronies donated twice as much money to Obama than they did to McCain. Wall Street has had Obama in their back pocket since the bail outs, Freddie & Fannie.
@dynamitemike65 I agree with you. One thing I want to point is the unemployment was 7.7% when Bush left. The only reason it's below 9% is cuz of people leaving the work force are not counted. Real unemployment is like 15.6% or something close to that. But I just wanted to correct that wrong number
@dynamitemike65 President Obama is a powerful man, however, he does not dictate to the oil companies. Gas prices are outrageous all over the world, particularly in European countries. Unemployment rates are a result of the recession that has hit large corporations and the Mom and Pop operations alike. They are reducing staff to try to keep profits from nose diving. All Mr. Obama can do is try to lessen the impact of these tough days. But as far as I have heard, he doesn't have a magic wand.
@bboots100 I guess only republicans have the magic wand. Regan inherited an economy twice as bad as Obama's. When he was president unemployment got as high as 11%, inflation was through the roof, and tax revenues were about $900 Billion. When Regan left unemployment was 4.5% and tax revenues were $1.7 Trillion. BTW yes Obama did cause the world's prices to go up. As the saying goes, "If America coughs the rest of the world catches the cold."
@dynamitemike65 China and India are the new economic powers. If America coughs, nobody notices. There are factors at work in today's economy that Mr. Reagan wouldn't have dreamed of. Who would ever have thought GM and Chrysler would be on the verge of collapse because of the imports? In the '70s we were not dealing with corporations who would rather send manufacturing overseas than invest in manpower and expansion at home. This is a new sort of chaos that cannot be compared to Reagan's era.
@bboots100 Ask your self this. Why do these corporations go over seas? Obviously it is to make more money. They are entitled to their share holders to make a profit. But why is it cheaper to build it overseas? Here's your answer; regulations. Did you know that Obama has appointed a Czar that does nothing but make up regualtions. Out of Obama's own mouth he said that he would regulate the coal industries to the point they couldn't stay open, causing yours and mine, electrical biil to double.
@dynamitemike65 You are not actually suggesting a lack of regulations is a good thing. You want to bring that philosophy to North America? Really? Do you have any idea at all of the conditions under which people are working in China or Indonesia? No maximum number of work hours, no bathrooms, no clean safe work environment, no minimum rate of pay. I could go on for several hours. Yes, the Walmarts of the world go there to provide us with $5. t-shirts. But what's the real cost to all of us?
@bboots100 Didn't you already answer your own question? $5. And the conditions in those countries aren't the result of freedom, they're the result of statism. Hong-Kong may be free but the rest of China isn't. Let the people in other countries decide how they want to live, if you decide that you won't do business with someone you disagree with that's a decision you have the right to make for yourself.
@bboots100 Liberals with their bleeding hearts feel so sorry for the factory worker in China who makes computer parts for $2 an hour so their solution is to limit trade with the countries in which they live thereby removing the $2 an hour job. $2 - $2 = 0. It may be a shit job but its better than no job. The complaint is just another way to wage class warfare, but if you really cared about this you'd hire one of them for a higher wage, but wait - then you'd have to part with money yourself...naa
@default013 What it is about is human dignity. If what it takes for China to produce cheap goods to get work contracts, is for people to have to work under outrageously poor conditions, then that's what they'll do. Your argument that $2. an hour is better than nothing is a sad justification for putting people through hell. We need to stop our mentality that cheap is best and start demanding quality products that last instead. Then manufacturers might be forced to start hiring here again.
@bboots100 i know how you feel about the poor working conditions for chinese workers and how we shouldnt be paying them that much, but the fact of the matter is, default is right. A job really is better than no job in this circumstance. ive worked with anti-sex trafficking organisations such as Greyman and have studied the condition for illicit sex trade to take place. regions/countries that have a shortage of jobs(due to increased wages so employers can't hire as may ppl)have a significantly...
@MTBJester ...higher rate of illegal sex trafficking of children(look at the hill tribes of Thailand, Laos, Cambodia,and Myanmar).I know that region isnt China, but you must understand that free trade does sometimes mean a lower wage, but the trade off is that since there are more employers looking to employ, workers can be more selective of jobs based on wages.it also means that parents will have jobs so that they dont see it necessary to sell their children to brothels to suffer in a REAL HELL
@MTBJester I understand what you are saying, but I still can't agree. We cannot say let's allow for these horrific conditions because if we don't, something worse might happen. I am Canadian and in my country there was a shameful seal trade, where baby seals were clubbed to death for the fur industry. The justification for keeping up this practice, was that people were going to be put out of work if it was stopped. Too bad! Simply put, what is wrong is wrong.
Class credit for something that engages in Class warfare which requires it's participants to have NO class! That's funny. Of course later when these kids who take this class will be complaining they can't get a job. Yeah the gov will subsidize indoctrination for the democrat cause. It keeps getting more and more bizarre
Everyone has an agenda and you are not the exception. If you did not have one, than you could only make your arguments after taking dr. Apple's class. But you won't do that because you don't want to be objective in your reporting.
When I was in school (OSU), it was called a 'well rounded' education. While I admit there are some 'out there' courses, it IS the Choice of the student to take the course or not. Normally I'm with you but here I think you missed the point. A student CAN point to the darker side of the phenomenia and with a proper augument, still do well in the course. They should be teaching how to think critically.
400 instances huh? I suggest you start giving legitimate sources for this. DOn't spew your bullshit about this one buddy. I don't know if you're simply an idiot or trying to build a resume for Fox News.
Uh... genius? The link with the list is in the description. Get whatever's making you tingle off your leg, put down the hooka pipe, get your dirty unwiped ass off the police car, pull out the needles you stuck in your eye just for taking a GLANCE at the Fox News logo, send in that resume for Burger King you promised your mom you'd apply at so you could get off the basement once in a while.... AND THEN TAKE A LOOK AT THE LINK.
@TheOtherAerodeth First of all...genius. I work in law enforcement so your hippie sterotypes aren't really very accurate and your lack of intelligence in responding is unimpressive to say the least. Number one, most of the instances do not include the things he mentioned in the video...the vast majority. Number two, I said legitimate source..."Big Journalism" offers no source for their information. Not credible.
So did a hack video game reviewer who let his ego-trip catch up with him and expose him as the basement-dwelling creepy stalker-type loser that's probably a pure product of the OWS movement.
Or youre lying. I'll say youre lying.
'I said legitimate source..."Big Journalism" offers no source for their information. Not credible.'
Taqiya. The list provides links from actual news sources. Law enforcement, my ass..
@TheOtherAerodeth Jesus man, get a grip. "Actual news sources". Well, first rule of journalism is cite your sources. Secondly, do you believe everything you see in mainstream media. If I'm just a lazy basement dwelling stalker type then I am fairly certain you're another redneck pseudo patriot without a clue of what our nation was founded on because you're too busy drooling over your cousin. Now we can trade insults or just be reasonably skeptical and request the actual sources.
Cite your sources'? Why would you tell ME to cite my sources when you dont even bother to take a look at them. Then you use the most cliched liberal crutch argument of all:
'Do you believe everything you see in mainstream media.'
The mainstream media is what's overshadowing the Tea Party and putting them in such a bright light. How do you think OWS got so popular? So, no I DONT believe everything the mainstream media tells me, hippy.
@TheOtherAerodeth It truly doesn't matter to me, because you have yet to make any intelligent statement.Howtheworldworks has a track record of disingenuous content, and so asking for sources is not at all unreasonable. Furthermore, asking a journalist to identify their sources is NEVER unreasonable. You make a lot of assumptions for someone without a clue in the world about what is happening on this planet. Take your ignorance elsewhere. You are not needed here.
@TheOtherAerodeth (cont.) Thirdly are you aware that police stations and jails were informing homeless people to go to OWS upon their release for completely unconnected incidents because OWS would take care of them? I support law enforcement, as a member of such, but not cronies and assholes abusing their power and neglecting responsibilities and duties. Now, if you would like to give me credible sources of this information, as well as background on each incident, thank you. Otherwise drop it
You couldnt even deduce the news sources within the links on the list! You just shove them aside as non-credible without so much as taking a glance at them.
Somebody like YOU in law enforcement?! That's like somebody like ME endorsing Bowflex!
@TheOtherAerodeth Yes, because sources like "hotair.com" are "real" news sources as you claim. How many links di you click on? Not many I assume. How many of these incidents include the type of thing that he talked about in the video? Not many. But, naturally, because you haven't checked out your side of things you assume I haven't either. Get over yourself man.
....Uh, I hate to break this to you, but even "hotair.com" provides links to the news sources, reports, and articles that they are commenting on. Yes, they cite their sources.
Youre in law enforcement, and they never even taught you to READ the sources?
@TheOtherAerodeth Not to mention that 400 cherry picked incidents in a global movement...not just Wall St. is merely a drop in the bucket. Especially when you consider 24/7 occupancy all over the world by hundreds of thousands. I mean, nevermind the vast majority that has done nothing at all to deserve a heavy dose of OC to the face. Hell, you're more deserving of that
Cherry picked? OWS has to establish RAPE-FREE zones to ensure the safety of their fellow occupiers. The standards of these guys are already low enough as it is to even NEED cherrypicking.
WORLD WORKS MUST BE REPRESENTING THE PRIVATE CORPORATION'S INTERESTS OR SOMETHING. HES GOT 400 VIDEOS. I CANT BELIEVE SOMEONE COULD BE SO CONFIDENT AND SO MISLEAD.
Summary: Bend over and take it in the ass like a real American. Only people that he sees as worthy should be allowed to exercise their constitutional rights.
You are so incredibly ignorant and blatantly biased! One of the fundamental principles of a university is to provide a setting for students to better understand and critically engage with the world and system we live in. I am sorry humanities and social sciences is not the job-training camp that your neo-liberal doctrination wishes to turn the educational system into. Go home and enjoy some not-so well-researched Fox News, you moron. Sincerely, Columbia Grad.
Capitalism causes misery in every nation in the world that employs it. Old white people want to demonize any type of socialism and lump it together with communism and hippies or some shit. Ignorance, propaganda and outright lies. Weak people need lies to convince others of their ways. It's really pathetic.
@Fralcon Completely not true. Every class of people enjoy a far better quality of life in a capitalistic society than any other. If you think socialism is so perfect explain why Europe is facing substantial brain drain as their best and brightest come to the US. Explain to me why 15 of the top 25 universities in the world are in the US? Explain to me why communism failed so miserably in the USSR and is currently failing in China?
The problem with this douchebags logic is he presumes education is a class rich people can buy into, and not a universal human right. Just because capitalism has made college into a for profit system, doesn't make you a better person for having your parents pay for you to be an arrogant dickhead.
@Fralcon Oh great. Another fucking idiot who is going to argue that university is a "universal human right." These are the same fuckstick morons who demand a minimum wage of $20 and hour and an equal share of other people wealth in stead of demanding an equal shot at opportunity.
Fuck you, lazy bastard. I'm sick of your kind leaching off the rest of us. The only right any of us have is that of equal opportunity and capitalism grants that. No other economic system does.
In the same post, you advocated equal opportunity for all and at the same time ridiculed the idea of everyone being able to attend higher education regardless of their income.
@yeebuddeh1 The cold, honest truth is that unless you are entering a highly selective field; law, medicine, math sciences, etc then a high school/vocational education is more than sufficient. The current push for executive secretaries to have a PhD is pure bullshit.
By equal opportunity I mean a lack of barriers. A college education is NOT a human right. Some of the most successful people in business today were either born dirt poor or didn't even finish college.
@yeebuddeh1 2/2 If anyone is truly dumb enough to equate how many years of education they have with success then they have already lost.
That said I am in no way opposed to some form of assistance being made for those who truly need a college education. What I am opposed to is any amount of taxpayer dollars going for bullshit classes such as this. And just for the record I would be just as equally offended if it was for a right-wing cause.
This is a great and informative video. Too bad the leftists can't understand the message though. They take useless courses in college and university and then wonder why they can't use it to get a job. Then they blame society because they have no marketable skills and want the rest of us to bail them out. Sad. A fool and his money are soon parted. Schools now seem to be the modern equivalent of PT Barnums sidshow ready to lie and decieve to fleece ignorant leftists.
Sen Carl Levin (D) Mi, says that Obama admin demanded that they remove the exemption of US Citizens from the NDAA Bill before it was sent to his desk to approve. HE WANTED THIS POWER THE WHOLE TIME! This completely one ups President Bush. You can see the video of Cal Levin saying this on C-Span2 and Ben Swann's Reality Check.
As Thomas Sowell has said those college rankings (especially U.S. News) do not mean much.
I wonder if the Hoover Institute had a course on the Tea Party if "HowTheWorldWorks" would have a problem with that. Instead of being a partisan stooge you should made a video that in general talked about the rational for subsidizing majors that probably will not get you a job after graduation. That is a much larger problem (way too many psychology majors, art history etc, not enough engineers) than OWS.
@moderatesunited #1-Last I checked the Hoover Institution was not a degree issuing institution so the comparison is bullshit. #2-There is nothing partisan about saying classes like the one discussed here are fucking meaningless in the real world and that the primary reason we have so many unemployed college graduates is because their class load does not prepare them for the real world.
@lee0122333 Does anyone have a box of Rid-X for the fucking troll? All this guy has been doing is waving his dick around like we should care about it.
Dude, your arrogance is only surpassed by your ignorance.
@KamekoBruns i dont hear any intelligent answers coming from you. you sound like every one else and write like everyone else too. "troll" lol. real original. your a zombie. wake up. how about responding with something good.
@lee0122333 I've already supplied you with multiple facts pertaining to your incorrect assumptions. You have yet to provide any substantive response to those facts other then idiotic and pedantic stupidity.
Look, we get it. You're a "progressive liberal" idiot who doesn't realize that the vast majority of ills we face as a society are borne of "progressive liberal" legislation designed to force business to operate in ways contradictory to their nature.
This anthrolpology course should be entitled something like "Neanderthal Behaviour in the 21st Century". As worthless as that course would still be, it would at least be accurate.
This actually sounds like, if we didn't have a demonstrably insane educational system, that it could be a good idea, if modified. That is to have a 'current social movement' class with anthropology credit; where you can observe close up various current movements including the Tea Party or gay rights or whatever.
Its to be expected from the indoctrination Czars that they would only want such a study of 'their movement' and probably have a skewed kind of student attending as well as grading system
Anyone paying $45k/yr. to attend one of the best colleges in the country is doing so for a particular reason; those are the avenues to the highest paying jobs. These students all plan to eventually become part of the 1%. They're essentially protesting against their future selves.
Whether or not it's subsidized? Translation he has no clue.
Marketing, Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology and other majors could benefit from such a course. It could also give them hours of field work that they will need towards their degrees. Since it's in town, timely and a rapidly evolving social construct it would be well worth studying.
The fact that "How the world works" (talk about pretentious fap) can't figure that out puts lie to his own channel title.
@colddrake80 You are clearly missing the point. We don't need more marketers, sociologists,psychologists and anthropologists. What we need are more engineers, chemists and scientists or all breeds.
The fact that idiotic college classes of this nature are subsidized by taxpayers just exacerbates the problem that we're producing college graduates who are unable to find a job because they lack the basic skills needed to function in today's world.
@KamekoBruns You fell for it. You really fell for it. I pointed out in the opening sentence of my post how he was being a punk weasel about tax payer funding. Now you're jumping to a conclusion he manipulated you into jumping to. All he had to use was the T-word and you jumped. This is how right-wingers lie. They use weasel words and let the unwary fall into it.
As you get older, things that you have been tought to believe, well, you will see that the machine will keep making more and more people poor. You will not see this thru traditional learning. By the way most of the violent acts were the police beating people. I was there, and I am a former owner of a corporation. You need to read more George Orwell!
MrLoppytop 2 weeks ago
You are out of touch young man!
MrLoppytop 2 weeks ago
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You destroy your own point. They don't end up graduating with a job OR they wind up graduating with a job in activism that supports and agenda you disagree with. Nevermind the fact that they might support the political beliefs of OWS, nevermind the fact that the career choice they made is their own decision and not yours.
zzman305 2 weeks ago
@zzman305
Job in activism? How much does that pay? As for the career choice being their own, when they graduate with a useless degree in a useless subject, they become our burden. Why? Because when they can't get a job because nobody wants to deal with their dumb viewpoints, they go on welfare. Who foots that bill? I do. I have to pay for them to stay home because they have no other skill, training, or knowledge other than how to hold up a sign and shout nonsense.
NoamTube 2 weeks ago
@NoamTube Once again, its there choice. If activism is something they love and enjoy doing, than they should not be forced to conform to another job just because what they love doesn't make as much money. They should also be educated on the financial risks they may suffer because of their career decisions. The reason we give them welfare is not because they "made the wrong career choice", we do it because they're HUMAN BEINGS. People don't deserve poverty because they disagree with you
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@zzman305
Ok, so by your logic, I love and enjoy making origami. So I'm going to make a little stand and sell my little paper origami hoping some sucker, I mean, customer comes and buys one from me. And if it doesn't work out, hey, I can always go on welfare and you will be happy your taxes go towards my entitlements because, I'M A HUMAN BEING! People who make stupid choices deserve poverty. Maybe they'll be smarter next time.I don't need to pay for other people's mistakes.
NoamTube 2 weeks ago
@NoamTube Yes...thats exactly what I'm saying. For gods sake look ath your own comment.
"People who make stupid decision deserve poverty". Really? Well what about their children. Do they deserve poverty? They didn't have a choice in who their parents we're. They didn't have any input in their career decisions. Why should they suffer for their parents mistakes?
Your comments are elitist. And even though I know nothing about you. I'd bet that you never have actually lived in poverty.
zzman305 2 weeks ago
@zzman305
Here's an idea. If you can't afford to have a kid, DON'T HAVE ONE. I mean we have people popping out kids who they can't even take care of and I have to pay for them? If you care so much about the children, take all your money and go give it to them. Then you can live in poverty with them and talk about how wonderful you were back when you had money and how you gave it to needy people. We have plenty of forms of birth control, I don't need to care for someone's mistake.
NoamTube 2 weeks ago
@NoamTube So now poor people should not be aloud to have children? Are you even listenign to yourself? What your advocating is downright fascist...
Okay I'm done argueing with you. There is no point. The only reason I ever kept responding is because each time I had hoped that you'd give some sort of intelligent answer. But when we get to "If your poor don't have a kid so I don't have to give you welfare" I think its time to quit.
You are an elitist with zero empathy for poor people.
zzman305 2 weeks ago
@zzman305
Absolutely. If you can't afford to take care of yourself, you shouldn't have kids. It's not fair to them. By the way, you're a socialist pussy faggot liberal.
NoamTube 2 weeks ago
Free education, you get what you pay for.
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YuppiePrepper 1 month ago
I love how he just assumes what is being taught in this course and what the criteria for grading is.
There is no left-wing conspiracy in universities, you idiot. Becoming less of a right-wing libertarian douchebag is simply the result of a good education. Your hateful, fascist ass believing that colleges indoctrinate students into being stupid hippies is no different than crazy Christians believing that there is an atheist/darwinist conspiracy in all of the world's universities.
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@TheDispatcherator How can Lee be both a libertarian-douchebag and a fascist?
He would have to be an extreme leftist-douchebag to be a fascist.
Sheesh, I am guessing you are not a political science major.
Good thing I went to a better university than Columbia (yes, columbia is ranked #10 and University of Michigan is ranked #14 but I would dispute that based on UofM having more higher ranked programs in total than columbia.)
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You are still in Plato's Cave my dear friend...
It's a trap. At this years Davos World Economic Forum they were basically flat out saying capitalism needs to change, the top ceos of the world. This week. Just now.
Klauss Schwab invited Occupy into Davos for talks. They are embracing it, Why, cause they are going to use it for their benefit.
They are going to jump ship with their capital and make a killing off the sustainable movements
Agenda 21 UN charter 1992 rio de Janeiro Brazil
workingclasssociety 1 month ago
Where the hell is our commander and chief in a crisis situation like this, oh wait my mistake he's the fucking idiot behind it!
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@df0x1977 YEAH! Obama needs to be out on the street solving everyones own individual problems one by one until everyone is happy! Even though economic recovery takes time no matter what strategy you use...BUT HE'S LAZY AND MADE IT BAD! Even though the plans to stop this we're nullified by the Clinton and Bush Administrations...BUT I DON'T LIKE HIS FACE!
zzman305 2 weeks ago
@zzman305 I'm just saying the OWS movement seems to have no message or good results. I'm not sure why they have so many bad things associated with the movement if there's a good sound reasoning for it. It just seems like good things have good results and the opposite for bad things.
Another thing, I'm not sure how you are tying Clinton & Bush's administration with OWS? The demonstrators didn't seem to be around in the Bush or Clinton administrations, to the best of my knowledge.
df0x1977 2 weeks ago
@df0x1977 I'm not tying Clinton and Bush to OWS, I'm tying them to the cause of the recession. The laws to prevent this recession we're in place, they just refused to enforce them
zzman305 2 weeks ago
@zzman305 OK, I got ya now. Yeah, it is too bad Clinton & Bush didn't put their feet down on the issues that arose. I know that at least Bush felt it was morally incorrect to bail wall street out with tax payers money. As for Clinton I'm not sure if understands the meaning of morally incorrect. But we're all here in cooker now aren't we, best do what we can for the right reasons.
df0x1977 2 weeks ago
@df0x1977 God it feels so good to see someone respond to a comment I make on a Lee Doren video that doesn't call me "a socialist pussy faggot liberal"
Thank you for that...
zzman305 2 weeks ago
@zzman305 You're welcome bro, I'm not totally against everything liberals think. I actually totally agree with eating right, eating more whole vegetables and fruits, and far less meat and dairy products.
The problem in politics is no one is willing to see any other perspective on the issues. It's all or nothing. We all need to step back and take the good from the bad, and make logical decisions based on that perspective. Both sides are so split now almost all logic is being lost in the fray.
df0x1977 2 weeks ago
@df0x1977 I don't actually consider myself liberal or conservative. My political beliefs are a mix mash of the two.
zzman305 2 weeks ago
@zzman305
I'm curious. How many years will it take for you to stop blaming Bush already? Obama promised to cut our deficit in half his first term. He failed to do so. Exactly how long does it take for you to actually start blaming the person in charge for his own failures? 4 Years? 12 Years? 100 Years? Or will your grandchildren still blame Bush for the failures of this entire government?
NoamTube 2 weeks ago
@NoamTube I also said I blame the Clinton administration. To be honest the recession we're in is the fault of both parties. The Dems and the Republicans got lazy for 14 years. They stopped enforcing laws and standards that could've prevented this, and then this happened. And now everyone is trying to pin the blame on eachother when truthfully, theres enough to go around for everyone.
zzman305 2 weeks ago
@NoamTube On the topic of Obama, my opinion is split. I believed that when I first voted for him he could improve the economy. However as time showed, his naivity and timidness prevented him from making any headway. So no opinion on him is this.
"He's can't fix the economy, but he can damn sure keep us from getting worse"
I don't think Obama is going to be the one to end this recession. I don't think any president can. I think the only thing that can end it is the American people.
zzman305 2 weeks ago
As for OWS demands and message, I can agree with your above statement. I don't think OWS has no real message whatsoever. To me it seems like a movement of people who just want to vent frustration
zzman305 2 weeks ago
Now some idiotic supposedly reknonwed college is creating credited courses on OWS!?!? Is there some way to lobby or fight against this complete nonsense!? Something has to be done about this kind of wasteful cancerous disease that's destroying simple and pure logic in our society. Are there really that many retards in our country? WTF is happening that people have lost this much brain power. A 5 year old can see how rediculous this is.
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That's an outrage! This is horrible, yet very enlightening information. Shouldn't something of that nature be some kind of criminal act? OWS should be a criminal act too! They have done nothing but impede daily life in several state capitols and major cities across the country, all of which has costs millions of dollars in man hours and labor. Many of those extra man hour and labor coming from local law enforcement, which in turn allocates local funding from other needed funding sources.
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How to demonize OWS. Take a few bad apples here and there and multiply them by a million.
GarrisonHat 1 month ago
I'm glad Columbia is getting involved with the moment. Fight for freedom.
Kilendger 1 month ago
@Kilendger I want my freedom to make as much money as I want without the government limiting to how much I can make. Money and Freedom what more could a person want.
AZsportshut 1 month ago
@AZsportshut Well said.
aadeeza 1 month ago
@Kilendger of socialism
tRicKyTuRok 1 month ago
@HowTheWorldWorks
Your videos play like a 2nd year university student's essay. desperately trying to get to his decided point at any cost. Here is you:
1. Columbia University is a highly ranked school
2. Anthropology educator seeks to explore the true message of OWS with willing students. Columbia approves the course.
3. ???
4. Columbia is handing out useless degrees. Educator is brainwashing kids to become OWS activists. Oh, and the true message of OWS is rape and murder.
TheSidjilimasa 1 month ago 7
@TheSidjilimasa and what is the "true message" of ows?
oduOX52 2 weeks ago
@oduOX52 It's a complex message covering many subjects based upon a lot of historical, economical, and ethical considerations. It's a subject too complex to adequately discuss in a YouTube comment... probably a topic better suited for something like an undergraduate elective course.
TheSidjilimasa 1 week ago
For anthropology, yeah, I could see studying the event, but you're right. When any professor puts their political spin and opinion on it, that's no longer anthropology. Most college and university grads are less intelligent when they graduate anyway. So I don't support "higher" education as it is at all, this just gives me another reason to say "you have a degree, then go work at McDonald's."
KittenKoder 1 month ago
being a very liberal, it pisses me so much that you always have an interesting perspective thats usually correct....
peacesellsstevebuyin 1 month ago
HE DOESN'T BLINK!!!!
colemanrc92 1 month ago
@colemanrc92 totally
cancerbotX 1 month ago
OWS'ers are spoiled brat trust fund babies. Their 15 minutes of fame is over.
aadeeza 1 month ago
@aadeeza A person with no sense of what's happening on the world says what?
cancerbotX 1 month ago
@cancerbotX I have a job, pay taxes and for my own insurance. I am not a whining brat who thinks others should pay my way because I majored in Bullshit 101 and couldn't acquire an actual job. I have abetter sense of what goes in the world because I am actually living in it.
aadeeza 1 month ago
this fascist-like point of vue about the men an women being part of the occupy Wall Street, shows, not only that you dont have any knowledg about it but, that you dont apply to yourself the "liberty" principles that you US people are meant to have..
SIESTUPENDO 1 month ago
Those hippies and their rape, and or murder
freeofavia 1 month ago
Dude nobody ACTUALLY pays 45,000 at Columbia. Their aid is ridiculous.
cheezitstandard 1 month ago
THIS is why students can't get jobs? Are you fucking retarded? Seriously?
PimpingWolfwood 1 month ago
@PimpingWolfwood
You are attacking a straw-men, he said that taking courses without any regard to what employes search for in an applicant will lead to not finding a job.
You are implying that taking a "wrong" course will block you from getting a job
were as he said that missing out on important courses will block you from getting a job.
He did not imply that otherwise good educated students would be deselected because of them taking a course.
(Sorry in case i misunderstood you)
unamaxify 1 month ago
@unamaxify
Watch the video again, dude. He literally says that this kind of thing is why graduates can't find jobs. He goes on to talk about students not taking the correct courses either, and just taking whatever they want -- which is also stupid, and shows that he has no idea what he's talking about. Because not having the right courses is why businesses aren't hiring them -- not because businesses aren't hiring in general because there is no demand. What a retard.
PimpingWolfwood 1 month ago
@PimpingWolfwood Anecdotal statement of the new year nicely done. That's exactly why people cant get jobs -.-
College is a great opportunity to gain a general education and exit with a hopefully more objective view of the world. I personally believe going to college purely for the sake of a better job is kind of sad, what happened to actually wanting to learn about the world.
Regardless, yes it is probably a waste of one's money to study such a young sub-culture.
Zaimk 1 month ago
@Zaimk
Sure. We could argue that any elective is a waste of money -- except you have to have them, and culturally relevant courses build socially adjusted people.
PimpingWolfwood 1 month ago
I agree the OWLS are a bunch of entitlement junkie invertebrates, but I think, for a scholarly anthropologic study, they are fair game. Much of cultural anthropology is about immersing oneself in a foreign, somewhat incomprehensible society, and trying to find out who these people are, what they value, and what they think. It may not be worth $3000, but IF the class was an unbiased investigation, it could be worthwhile.
mephamphetamine24 1 month ago
wonder if they had the same sort of course for the tea party.
ipwnallnubscuzirock 1 month ago
@ipwnallnubscuzirock I thought of that myself :) ... then I imagined the conversation: Student: "Professor, since other students are attending OWS for credit, can I attend Tea Party rallies for credit?" 'Professor': "hahahaha ... oh, you're serious? I'm sorry son but the university feels that the Tea Party is an extremist organization."
default013 1 month ago
Once they get their degree they'll know exactly where to go and how to complain about not having a job
Vintexen 1 month ago
Five seconds in:
*spits out coffee*
WHAT??????
zieben64 1 month ago
i think you are bringing up a big problem but i dont think that an occupy wallstreet class is the worst of our worries as it comes to students wasting their time. at my school students can take classes in courses like aliens or yoga or even sometimes entire professions which probably dont require a high level university's degree. The problem is the idea that you can only be successful with a degree and all the happy people have them.
doggamer5 1 month ago
Ugh... Youre such a DOUCHE !
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@Schoening91 - "Ugh... Youre such a DOUCHE !"
Ugh... Youre such a BUTT-FUCKED LIBERAL IDIOT !
thomaserossi 1 month ago
They aren't paying the tuition.... duhhhhh
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@sellingmypokecards The 60's protesters ended the war, you guys didn't accomplish SHIT!
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dynamitemike65 1 month ago
I don't get these kids with functionalist arguments about advanced education. If they're so pleased with their pragmatic and economic ends, then why do they consistently attack outside of their own purview and experience? They seem divided against themselves at someone else's expense; as if mirroring in a false non-dialectical community, pro-immigration liberal diversity voter bases on the left and a republican-religion vote on the other side of the puritan coin. The dummies vs the idiots. Blah.
antuerius 1 month ago
@lee0122333 Considering the fact I'm having this much trouble getting you to use the shift key properly, any effort for me to dissuade you in anything else seems like a complete waste of time. I'm simply spending my time arguing a point I believe you have a chance (albiet small) of grasping.
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Wow wtf if I were a student there I would be so pissed XD
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And it's also ironic because the students will be joining the protests that are geared towards them because it is likely that these students come from a wealthy family
BlueTeamTV 1 month ago
Capitalism. There's a demand for a course. People pay for it. Whining is unnecessary.
Utopor 2 months ago
Lee, have a look around. Blatant consumerism isn't working. Universities are right to begin changing their perspective with the view to changing the minds of others. It is refreshing to see a learning institution take the attitude that it is about time to begin questioning the ethics and intentions of our financial institutions. This is not about creating unthinking, frivolous courses for credit. This is a valid approach to take and perhaps, long past time.
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@bboots100 You are right as Obama is president it isn't going to work.
dynamitemike65 1 month ago
@dynamitemike65 President Obama did not create the economic woes the United States currently finds itself in. The economy was well into it's decline while President Bush was in office. Bush spent money on the war in Iraq and the military at an obscene rate. That combined with few to no regulations safeguarding the profiteers of Wall Street and you had a recipe for impending doom. Don't blame Obama for what was set in motion long before he took the presidency.
bboots100 1 month ago
@bboots100 Please watch 10000pennies video "The National Debt Road Trip." Then read economists and become informed. Then make youtube comments.
TheJackOfFate 1 month ago
@TheJackOfFate I am quite well informed on world economics. It is my take on it that you object to. Difference of opinion brings balance and better perspective. That is a fact.
bboots100 1 month ago
@bboots100 It is you and your ilk that perpetuate blatant lies under the cover of differing opinions. You want actual facts?
Fact: Obama has been exceeding his 2009 budges estimates, which projected triple the spending under Bushes administration.
Fact: The "regulation" you seek for Wall Street comes in the form of cronyism and tax-payer bailouts.
Fact: According to the CBO, Bush spent 622 billion dollars in Iraq. Obama surpassed that by 178000000000 just in the money he gave to Wall Street
TheJackOfFate 1 month ago
@TheJackOfFate #1. The war in Iraq was a mistake from the start. And once in it, to President Obama's dismay, it was not as easy as walking away from that tangled web. The people of Iraq now depended for their very lives, on foreign troops running interference. You want to blame someone for Iraq, point squarely at George W., where blame belongs. Obama also provided bail outs to GM and Chrysler, putting those companies on solid footing competing with the importers and saving -cont'd.
bboots100 1 month ago
@bboots100 - You're so indoctrinated you're BEYOND stupid. You can't even be correct on accident. Stop sucking Obama's dick already you Demwit.
#1 - The Iraq war was supported by the Clinton administration and all of the Democrats during his term. All of the talk of WMDs comes from the Dems in 1998. Everything else is just repetition.
#2 - Obama could have brought all of the troops home, ended the Patriot Act, and closed Gitmo. He didn't. He did the exact opposite.
Stop sucking dick!
thomaserossi 1 month ago
@TheJackOfFate #2. countless jobs. The taxpayer was spared the tremendous debt the fall of these corporations would have meant to them. Funny you don't want to discuss that. The fiasco that is Wall Street could have definitely been avoided had it not have been for the deregulation and loosening of controls on banks by Republican governments. Had tighter government controls been in place, President Obama would not have found himself in the impossible position he was in, doling out rescue money.
bboots100 1 month ago
@bboots100 Is this actually what you people believe? Better yet, why am I shocked? Answer this question honestly, please, if you can: do give a damn about the truth, or is all you care about spouting your party line? If the democrat party were to do a 180 degree turn, blame Obama and promote non-Keynesian economics; if CNN, NPR, and MSNBC were to begin talking about how they were wrong, and how logical and consistent the Republic point of view is, would you change? Better yet... (cont.)
TheJackOfFate 1 month ago
@bboots100 if there were no political parties at all, if you had not been raised a democrat, would you still believe as you do?
I could get into line-by-line argumentation with you, and it would go on forever. As soon as I would answer one of your points, you would say, "Well what about..." Now, I have done research. Hell, analysis is what I do. I know what I know, and I know you're deluded and wrong. That's not opinion, it's fact. What I want is for you to take a serious look at (cont)
TheJackOfFate 1 month ago
@bboots100 what you believe, and why you believe it. I want you to do research, REAL research. Don't just find articles, read the sources that those articles use. Read statistics. Read economic theory. Read history. Make a list of your values and goals, and then, after all that, make a plan on everything you know, everything you've read and learned, in order to accomplish that list. Once you have done that, look hard at your party, and see how closely they align with what you have learned
TheJackOfFate 1 month ago
@bboots100 Now, just so you don't walk away from this with some smug sense of self-satisfaction because I didn't respond to your points, here is the last time I shall do so:
Corporatism and lobbyists ensure the govt. passes regulation to increase the entry cost of a business. ~1 million more jobs were lost after the bailout than Obama said would be lost if we did NOTHING. It was not an imp. sit. for Obama- he did the classic Keynesian thing- he threw money at the corporations. CRONYISM.
TheJackOfFate 1 month ago
@TheJackOfFate I am Canadian and have a keen interest in politics; that of my own country, America's and the politics abroad. I have always tried to observe as objectively as possible, understanding that the source of my information will be slanted to the views of that particular paper, magazine or network. My interpretation is as unbiased as I believe it can be. I like your President Obama and though it is clear you do not, I think he came to power at a particularly difficult time.
bboots100 1 month ago
@bboots100 You are absolutely right! So what has Obama done to make it better? When Obama took office gas was $1.73 a gallon now it's over $3. Unemployment was 5.5% when Bush left now it's 8.5%. He claims he's "saving" and creating jobs yet unemployment has been not even come close to Bush when he left office. BTW all the Wall Street cronies donated twice as much money to Obama than they did to McCain. Wall Street has had Obama in their back pocket since the bail outs, Freddie & Fannie.
dynamitemike65 1 month ago
@dynamitemike65 I agree with you. One thing I want to point is the unemployment was 7.7% when Bush left. The only reason it's below 9% is cuz of people leaving the work force are not counted. Real unemployment is like 15.6% or something close to that. But I just wanted to correct that wrong number
31guitar 1 month ago
@dynamitemike65 President Obama is a powerful man, however, he does not dictate to the oil companies. Gas prices are outrageous all over the world, particularly in European countries. Unemployment rates are a result of the recession that has hit large corporations and the Mom and Pop operations alike. They are reducing staff to try to keep profits from nose diving. All Mr. Obama can do is try to lessen the impact of these tough days. But as far as I have heard, he doesn't have a magic wand.
bboots100 1 month ago
@bboots100 I guess only republicans have the magic wand. Regan inherited an economy twice as bad as Obama's. When he was president unemployment got as high as 11%, inflation was through the roof, and tax revenues were about $900 Billion. When Regan left unemployment was 4.5% and tax revenues were $1.7 Trillion. BTW yes Obama did cause the world's prices to go up. As the saying goes, "If America coughs the rest of the world catches the cold."
dynamitemike65 1 month ago
@dynamitemike65 China and India are the new economic powers. If America coughs, nobody notices. There are factors at work in today's economy that Mr. Reagan wouldn't have dreamed of. Who would ever have thought GM and Chrysler would be on the verge of collapse because of the imports? In the '70s we were not dealing with corporations who would rather send manufacturing overseas than invest in manpower and expansion at home. This is a new sort of chaos that cannot be compared to Reagan's era.
bboots100 1 month ago
@bboots100 Ask your self this. Why do these corporations go over seas? Obviously it is to make more money. They are entitled to their share holders to make a profit. But why is it cheaper to build it overseas? Here's your answer; regulations. Did you know that Obama has appointed a Czar that does nothing but make up regualtions. Out of Obama's own mouth he said that he would regulate the coal industries to the point they couldn't stay open, causing yours and mine, electrical biil to double.
dynamitemike65 1 month ago
@dynamitemike65 You are not actually suggesting a lack of regulations is a good thing. You want to bring that philosophy to North America? Really? Do you have any idea at all of the conditions under which people are working in China or Indonesia? No maximum number of work hours, no bathrooms, no clean safe work environment, no minimum rate of pay. I could go on for several hours. Yes, the Walmarts of the world go there to provide us with $5. t-shirts. But what's the real cost to all of us?
bboots100 1 month ago
@bboots100 Didn't you already answer your own question? $5. And the conditions in those countries aren't the result of freedom, they're the result of statism. Hong-Kong may be free but the rest of China isn't. Let the people in other countries decide how they want to live, if you decide that you won't do business with someone you disagree with that's a decision you have the right to make for yourself.
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bboots100 1 month ago
@bboots100 Liberals with their bleeding hearts feel so sorry for the factory worker in China who makes computer parts for $2 an hour so their solution is to limit trade with the countries in which they live thereby removing the $2 an hour job. $2 - $2 = 0. It may be a shit job but its better than no job. The complaint is just another way to wage class warfare, but if you really cared about this you'd hire one of them for a higher wage, but wait - then you'd have to part with money yourself...naa
default013 1 month ago
@default013 What it is about is human dignity. If what it takes for China to produce cheap goods to get work contracts, is for people to have to work under outrageously poor conditions, then that's what they'll do. Your argument that $2. an hour is better than nothing is a sad justification for putting people through hell. We need to stop our mentality that cheap is best and start demanding quality products that last instead. Then manufacturers might be forced to start hiring here again.
bboots100 1 month ago
@bboots100 i know how you feel about the poor working conditions for chinese workers and how we shouldnt be paying them that much, but the fact of the matter is, default is right. A job really is better than no job in this circumstance. ive worked with anti-sex trafficking organisations such as Greyman and have studied the condition for illicit sex trade to take place. regions/countries that have a shortage of jobs(due to increased wages so employers can't hire as may ppl)have a significantly...
MTBJester 1 month ago
@MTBJester ...higher rate of illegal sex trafficking of children(look at the hill tribes of Thailand, Laos, Cambodia,and Myanmar).I know that region isnt China, but you must understand that free trade does sometimes mean a lower wage, but the trade off is that since there are more employers looking to employ, workers can be more selective of jobs based on wages.it also means that parents will have jobs so that they dont see it necessary to sell their children to brothels to suffer in a REAL HELL
MTBJester 1 month ago
@MTBJester I understand what you are saying, but I still can't agree. We cannot say let's allow for these horrific conditions because if we don't, something worse might happen. I am Canadian and in my country there was a shameful seal trade, where baby seals were clubbed to death for the fur industry. The justification for keeping up this practice, was that people were going to be put out of work if it was stopped. Too bad! Simply put, what is wrong is wrong.
bboots100 1 month ago
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bboots100 1 month ago
@dynamitemike65 But taxes were higher under Reagan...
SubVLPer 1 month ago
Class credit for something that engages in Class warfare which requires it's participants to have NO class! That's funny. Of course later when these kids who take this class will be complaining they can't get a job. Yeah the gov will subsidize indoctrination for the democrat cause. It keeps getting more and more bizarre
carlindelco 2 months ago
Everyone has an agenda and you are not the exception. If you did not have one, than you could only make your arguments after taking dr. Apple's class. But you won't do that because you don't want to be objective in your reporting.
arashdeepsingh1 2 months ago
When I was in school (OSU), it was called a 'well rounded' education. While I admit there are some 'out there' courses, it IS the Choice of the student to take the course or not. Normally I'm with you but here I think you missed the point. A student CAN point to the darker side of the phenomenia and with a proper augument, still do well in the course. They should be teaching how to think critically.
NewFrambian 2 months ago
400 instances huh? I suggest you start giving legitimate sources for this. DOn't spew your bullshit about this one buddy. I don't know if you're simply an idiot or trying to build a resume for Fox News.
TheBananamanAssassin 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
@TheBananamanAssassin
Uh... genius? The link with the list is in the description. Get whatever's making you tingle off your leg, put down the hooka pipe, get your dirty unwiped ass off the police car, pull out the needles you stuck in your eye just for taking a GLANCE at the Fox News logo, send in that resume for Burger King you promised your mom you'd apply at so you could get off the basement once in a while.... AND THEN TAKE A LOOK AT THE LINK.
TheOtherAerodeth 2 months ago
@TheOtherAerodeth First of all...genius. I work in law enforcement so your hippie sterotypes aren't really very accurate and your lack of intelligence in responding is unimpressive to say the least. Number one, most of the instances do not include the things he mentioned in the video...the vast majority. Number two, I said legitimate source..."Big Journalism" offers no source for their information. Not credible.
TheBananamanAssassin 2 months ago
@TheBananamanAssassin
'I work in law enforcement'
So did a hack video game reviewer who let his ego-trip catch up with him and expose him as the basement-dwelling creepy stalker-type loser that's probably a pure product of the OWS movement.
Or youre lying. I'll say youre lying.
'I said legitimate source..."Big Journalism" offers no source for their information. Not credible.'
Taqiya. The list provides links from actual news sources. Law enforcement, my ass..
TheOtherAerodeth 2 months ago
@TheOtherAerodeth Jesus man, get a grip. "Actual news sources". Well, first rule of journalism is cite your sources. Secondly, do you believe everything you see in mainstream media. If I'm just a lazy basement dwelling stalker type then I am fairly certain you're another redneck pseudo patriot without a clue of what our nation was founded on because you're too busy drooling over your cousin. Now we can trade insults or just be reasonably skeptical and request the actual sources.
TheBananamanAssassin 2 months ago
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@TheBananamanAssassin
Cite your sources'? Why would you tell ME to cite my sources when you dont even bother to take a look at them. Then you use the most cliched liberal crutch argument of all:
'Do you believe everything you see in mainstream media.'
The mainstream media is what's overshadowing the Tea Party and putting them in such a bright light. How do you think OWS got so popular? So, no I DONT believe everything the mainstream media tells me, hippy.
TheOtherAerodeth 2 months ago
@TheOtherAerodeth It truly doesn't matter to me, because you have yet to make any intelligent statement.Howtheworldworks has a track record of disingenuous content, and so asking for sources is not at all unreasonable. Furthermore, asking a journalist to identify their sources is NEVER unreasonable. You make a lot of assumptions for someone without a clue in the world about what is happening on this planet. Take your ignorance elsewhere. You are not needed here.
TheBananamanAssassin 2 months ago
@TheOtherAerodeth (cont.) Thirdly are you aware that police stations and jails were informing homeless people to go to OWS upon their release for completely unconnected incidents because OWS would take care of them? I support law enforcement, as a member of such, but not cronies and assholes abusing their power and neglecting responsibilities and duties. Now, if you would like to give me credible sources of this information, as well as background on each incident, thank you. Otherwise drop it
TheBananamanAssassin 2 months ago
@TheBananamanAssassin
I WERK IN LAW INFORSEMENT.
You couldnt even deduce the news sources within the links on the list! You just shove them aside as non-credible without so much as taking a glance at them.
Somebody like YOU in law enforcement?! That's like somebody like ME endorsing Bowflex!
TheOtherAerodeth 2 months ago
@TheOtherAerodeth Yes, because sources like "hotair.com" are "real" news sources as you claim. How many links di you click on? Not many I assume. How many of these incidents include the type of thing that he talked about in the video? Not many. But, naturally, because you haven't checked out your side of things you assume I haven't either. Get over yourself man.
TheBananamanAssassin 2 months ago
@TheBananamanAssassin
....Uh, I hate to break this to you, but even "hotair.com" provides links to the news sources, reports, and articles that they are commenting on. Yes, they cite their sources.
Youre in law enforcement, and they never even taught you to READ the sources?
TheOtherAerodeth 2 months ago
@TheOtherAerodeth Not to mention that 400 cherry picked incidents in a global movement...not just Wall St. is merely a drop in the bucket. Especially when you consider 24/7 occupancy all over the world by hundreds of thousands. I mean, nevermind the vast majority that has done nothing at all to deserve a heavy dose of OC to the face. Hell, you're more deserving of that
TheBananamanAssassin 2 months ago
@TheBananamanAssassin
Cherry picked? OWS has to establish RAPE-FREE zones to ensure the safety of their fellow occupiers. The standards of these guys are already low enough as it is to even NEED cherrypicking.
TheOtherAerodeth 2 months ago 2
@TheOtherAerodeth This Channel is a RAPE-FREE zone right X.x?
fbibarbie 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos
@fbibarbie
Apparently not. We've got plenty of OWS moochers brutally raping our monitors with their moronic b.s.
TheOtherAerodeth 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos
@fbibarbie
...ESPECIALLY the ones in law-enforcement!
TheOtherAerodeth 1 month ago
ALOT OF THIS GUYS VIDEOS HAVE DISLIKES. IVE BEEN WATCHING CORNELL WEST, CHRIS HEDGES, MICHAEL MOORE, RICHARD WOLFF
lee0122333 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
THEY SHOULD SPEND 30 MINUTES AT THE BEGINNING OF EVERY CLASS TEACHING THIS STUFF. SO IMPORTANT.
lee0122333 2 months ago
WORLD WORKS MUST BE REPRESENTING THE PRIVATE CORPORATION'S INTERESTS OR SOMETHING. HES GOT 400 VIDEOS. I CANT BELIEVE SOMEONE COULD BE SO CONFIDENT AND SO MISLEAD.
lee0122333 2 months ago
HOWTHEWORLDWORKS REPRESENTS A MINORITY
lee0122333 2 months ago
Summary: Bend over and take it in the ass like a real American. Only people that he sees as worthy should be allowed to exercise their constitutional rights.
tyrrax 2 months ago
LEE: Did they offer a course on the Tea Party too?
UTubekookdetector 2 months ago
You are so incredibly ignorant and blatantly biased! One of the fundamental principles of a university is to provide a setting for students to better understand and critically engage with the world and system we live in. I am sorry humanities and social sciences is not the job-training camp that your neo-liberal doctrination wishes to turn the educational system into. Go home and enjoy some not-so well-researched Fox News, you moron. Sincerely, Columbia Grad.
vqye 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
VQYE: You sound angry son. Tell me, is the Federal Dept. of Education unconstitutional?
UTubekookdetector 2 months ago
@UTubekookdetector Yes. It is.
ManOfDeath567 2 months ago
MANOF: I concur, the Fed. Dept. of Education is unconstitutional.
UTubekookdetector 1 month ago
FREE BOOK SEE CHANNEL , PEACE
matmicmj 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
swag!!!
nawreally561 2 months ago
Fuck you!
JimBarris1 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
Do you know what anthropology is?
Strophios 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
HOWTHEWORLDWORKS HAS 40,000 SUBSCRIBERS. THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND!
lee0122333 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
Capitalism causes misery in every nation in the world that employs it. Old white people want to demonize any type of socialism and lump it together with communism and hippies or some shit. Ignorance, propaganda and outright lies. Weak people need lies to convince others of their ways. It's really pathetic.
Fralcon 2 months ago
@Fralcon
MOVE TO CUBA, YO :)
shatwood 2 months ago
@Fralcon Completely not true. Every class of people enjoy a far better quality of life in a capitalistic society than any other. If you think socialism is so perfect explain why Europe is facing substantial brain drain as their best and brightest come to the US. Explain to me why 15 of the top 25 universities in the world are in the US? Explain to me why communism failed so miserably in the USSR and is currently failing in China?
Face it fool, capitalism rocks.
KamekoBruns 2 months ago
The problem with this douchebags logic is he presumes education is a class rich people can buy into, and not a universal human right. Just because capitalism has made college into a for profit system, doesn't make you a better person for having your parents pay for you to be an arrogant dickhead.
Fralcon 2 months ago
@Fralcon Oh great. Another fucking idiot who is going to argue that university is a "universal human right." These are the same fuckstick morons who demand a minimum wage of $20 and hour and an equal share of other people wealth in stead of demanding an equal shot at opportunity.
Fuck you, lazy bastard. I'm sick of your kind leaching off the rest of us. The only right any of us have is that of equal opportunity and capitalism grants that. No other economic system does.
KamekoBruns 2 months ago
@KamekoBruns
In the same post, you advocated equal opportunity for all and at the same time ridiculed the idea of everyone being able to attend higher education regardless of their income.
yeebuddeh1 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
@yeebuddeh1 The cold, honest truth is that unless you are entering a highly selective field; law, medicine, math sciences, etc then a high school/vocational education is more than sufficient. The current push for executive secretaries to have a PhD is pure bullshit.
By equal opportunity I mean a lack of barriers. A college education is NOT a human right. Some of the most successful people in business today were either born dirt poor or didn't even finish college.
1/2
KamekoBruns 2 months ago
@yeebuddeh1 2/2 If anyone is truly dumb enough to equate how many years of education they have with success then they have already lost.
That said I am in no way opposed to some form of assistance being made for those who truly need a college education. What I am opposed to is any amount of taxpayer dollars going for bullshit classes such as this. And just for the record I would be just as equally offended if it was for a right-wing cause.
KamekoBruns 2 months ago
This is a great and informative video. Too bad the leftists can't understand the message though. They take useless courses in college and university and then wonder why they can't use it to get a job. Then they blame society because they have no marketable skills and want the rest of us to bail them out. Sad. A fool and his money are soon parted. Schools now seem to be the modern equivalent of PT Barnums sidshow ready to lie and decieve to fleece ignorant leftists.
cobalt545 2 months ago
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Sen Carl Levin (D) Mi, says that Obama admin demanded that they remove the exemption of US Citizens from the NDAA Bill before it was sent to his desk to approve. HE WANTED THIS POWER THE WHOLE TIME! This completely one ups President Bush. You can see the video of Cal Levin saying this on C-Span2 and Ben Swann's Reality Check.
TaldrenDR 2 months ago
As Thomas Sowell has said those college rankings (especially U.S. News) do not mean much.
I wonder if the Hoover Institute had a course on the Tea Party if "HowTheWorldWorks" would have a problem with that. Instead of being a partisan stooge you should made a video that in general talked about the rational for subsidizing majors that probably will not get you a job after graduation. That is a much larger problem (way too many psychology majors, art history etc, not enough engineers) than OWS.
moderatesunited 2 months ago
@moderatesunited #1-Last I checked the Hoover Institution was not a degree issuing institution so the comparison is bullshit. #2-There is nothing partisan about saying classes like the one discussed here are fucking meaningless in the real world and that the primary reason we have so many unemployed college graduates is because their class load does not prepare them for the real world.
KamekoBruns 2 months ago
U SUCK HOW THE WORLD WORKS
lee0122333 2 months ago
@lee0122333 Does anyone have a box of Rid-X for the fucking troll? All this guy has been doing is waving his dick around like we should care about it.
Dude, your arrogance is only surpassed by your ignorance.
Go.
The.
Fuck.
Away.
KamekoBruns 2 months ago
@KamekoBruns i dont hear any intelligent answers coming from you. you sound like every one else and write like everyone else too. "troll" lol. real original. your a zombie. wake up. how about responding with something good.
lee0122333 2 months ago
@lee0122333 I've already supplied you with multiple facts pertaining to your incorrect assumptions. You have yet to provide any substantive response to those facts other then idiotic and pedantic stupidity.
Look, we get it. You're a "progressive liberal" idiot who doesn't realize that the vast majority of ills we face as a society are borne of "progressive liberal" legislation designed to force business to operate in ways contradictory to their nature.
We get it. Now go away.
KamekoBruns 2 months ago
@KamekoBruns no youve mostly done insults. point me to a good video which supports your POV. never act lke you "get" anything.
lee0122333 2 months ago
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@lee0122333 Unlike you I do not base my opinions off of YT videos. I'm actually capable of reading.
And wrong, I've done mostly facts but as most liberals are incapable of recognizing a fact when they see one I understand your confusion.
"U SUCK HOW THE WORLD WORKS"
That's you. You're the one with insults. I tried to provide you with statistical facts but you preferred the insults so I obliged you.
KamekoBruns 2 months ago
I saw the title of this video and immediately thought, 'You got to be kidding me' !!
weseyedwalk 2 months ago
This anthrolpology course should be entitled something like "Neanderthal Behaviour in the 21st Century". As worthless as that course would still be, it would at least be accurate.
jr2020yt 2 months ago
This actually sounds like, if we didn't have a demonstrably insane educational system, that it could be a good idea, if modified. That is to have a 'current social movement' class with anthropology credit; where you can observe close up various current movements including the Tea Party or gay rights or whatever.
Its to be expected from the indoctrination Czars that they would only want such a study of 'their movement' and probably have a skewed kind of student attending as well as grading system
asderathos 2 months ago
Anyone paying $45k/yr. to attend one of the best colleges in the country is doing so for a particular reason; those are the avenues to the highest paying jobs. These students all plan to eventually become part of the 1%. They're essentially protesting against their future selves.
BlipDesign 2 months ago 19
@BlipDesign perhaps but society wants a more equitable distribution of wealth.
lee0122333 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
@BlipDesign LOL. So true.
tuoempeerc 2 months ago
@BlipDesign There is no problem beeing in the top 1% if you work for the 99%, right?
Ishinaz 2 months ago
Whether or not it's subsidized? Translation he has no clue.
Marketing, Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology and other majors could benefit from such a course. It could also give them hours of field work that they will need towards their degrees. Since it's in town, timely and a rapidly evolving social construct it would be well worth studying.
The fact that "How the world works" (talk about pretentious fap) can't figure that out puts lie to his own channel title.
colddrake80 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
@colddrake80 You are clearly missing the point. We don't need more marketers, sociologists,psychologists and anthropologists. What we need are more engineers, chemists and scientists or all breeds.
The fact that idiotic college classes of this nature are subsidized by taxpayers just exacerbates the problem that we're producing college graduates who are unable to find a job because they lack the basic skills needed to function in today's world.
KamekoBruns 2 months ago
@KamekoBruns You fell for it. You really fell for it. I pointed out in the opening sentence of my post how he was being a punk weasel about tax payer funding. Now you're jumping to a conclusion he manipulated you into jumping to. All he had to use was the T-word and you jumped. This is how right-wingers lie. They use weasel words and let the unwary fall into it.
colddrake80 2 months ago