"government is too large today" is of course not a scientifically evidenced fact, but pure big business propaganda.
The most successful countries in Europe are Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, all countries with a generous universal welfare state and super-high taxes (compared to American standards). Those countries now in troubles have had super-low tax levels (compared to European standards), whereas they did not spend more than the successful countries, cf. OECD
@TheBandwagonman what a stupid statement, what anyonee means when they say "small government" is that it needs to have just the nessicary functions. IF ITS NOT NESSICARY then we clearly dont need to fund it. sorry but your comment is just stupid. big gov is bad, less gov is good, so long as they still take care of the nessicary things.
It isn't just that tax's are too high,(they are) it isn't just that spending is too high, (it is), and it isn't even that a business plan that includes exponentially increasing deficit spending will obviously end in bankruptcy (it will) . It is because we are financing our own destruction. The spending is on price control. if we don't end socialism now , America will fall.
the government is the problem period, they are two big and two currupt and need to be shrunk, they have to much power, who the president is wont fix that, because they own the president, hes the guy who takes the blame so no one rises against the government, they keep you in there pocket in the dark because thats were they want America if it insures there saftey.
idiots we the people say it is is not going to happen at all again unless goverment is scrapped and rebuilt with humans in mind not the big money makers
its 2012 and may as well be the stone age with the mentality around today
childish ,fools running a great country
RON PAUL i CAN ONLY HOPE WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN HE WINS
WILL BE A GIANT STEP FOR MAN KIND
EVERY ONE i KNOW IS BEHIND THIS MAN AND I CAN SAY FOR SHURE WHY
I think this is half the true. Finland and Germanly controvert your theory. They have big government and high taxes, but their economy seem to be good.
Vote buying legislation, that is SUCH an important thing to take note of...it's incredible how many politicians campaign on increasing spending for xyz and therefore improving welfare, etc
Liberals dont realize that they are destroying democracy by allowing themselves to be pandered to. If the state goes bankrupt trying to pay for a ridiculous amount of welfare and taxation, we could lose the right to vote with an emergence of new leaders.
@clintcastle Pay for taxation? What does that mean? And what's this about losing our democracy? That train left the station a long time ago. Hasn't corporate influence and lobby money already destroyed this mythical democracy you speak of? "What better way to enslave a man than to give him a vote and tell him he's free" ~ Albert Camus.
@judeseamus I meant to say "through" taxation. Im saying the more government you create (no matter how benevolent) It will become corrupted eventually thats why you need smaller government so it is easier to manage. Government cannot manage an economy as large as the U.S. without becoming corrupt and imploding. We should have learned something from the USSR
@NanoEmpyrean If the power of the government is more limited so then will be the power of the corruption. People forgot that along the way and now we have a behemoth of corruption that at some point(may have already passed) becomes impossible to reign in.
Smaller government, is different than limiting Federal power. It's the reason that im concerned with the GOP's approach.
Limiting education, and being non-specific as to which regulations they are opposed to (tho some industries are currently suffering by certain regulations, many regulations are necessary)
Government Jobs are also good. They are jobs that support local economies (within the US) and can't be exported to china. Giving businesses power is regressing to industrial re
This video brought to you by the "Center for Freedom and Prosperity", which are lobbyists. Please excuse me if I laugh at you for believing this bullshit.
@Cornampoo Taking tax reform advice from the Koch Brothers, which sponsored this bullshit, is like taking parental advice from a child molester. The only difference here is that the Koch Brothers are fucking you and your kid.
Government expansion leads to national impoverishment.
My country, Sweden, bears evidence hereof.
During 1870-1970, Sweden boasted the highest GDP growth of all nations.
But in the era of 1970 to 1990, when we strove to turn our nation into the guiding Social Democratic welfare light of the Western World, we displayed the weakest GDP growth rates of all OECD members.
Today, we are lowering taxes and recently have performed GDP growth rates of 7.3%.
@St3v3Patrio7 if only they fought for defence i could believe you. they may get their pay cheque from uncle sam but that's not where the orders come from.
The reason why the US has enormous deficit is because they have been fighting two, more or less, unnecessary wars with taxpayer dollars WHILE lowering taxes. You don't have to be a freaking genius to understand that increased spending and decreased income is bad for the economy. Blaming " big government bureaucracy" for this is pure ignorance.
@Derpman123 You just concentrate on the part you don't like, the military, while ignoring the armies of office rats whose jobs require them to come up with more regulatory burdens, chickenshit rules, etc, and are HATED by those they have harmed. I'll bet you're one of them. Guess what: We don't need you burons. GET REAL JOB THAT PRODUCES something other than being a real DRAG on the rest of us.
@soco13466 You're right that i may have simplified it a little. There is ,of course, a lot of bureaucracy in the US and government jobs that need to be cut in order to decrease spending but i still think it was the Bush government that led the US down the wrong road when they managed to make deficits even during fierce economic growth by fighting wars and lowering taxes. Actually I oppose bureaucracy but I still support programs like medicare and social security. Why? Because they benefit us.
@BootyBot remember norway was lucky enough to be virtually not affected by WWI and WWII. And even with all the advantage, it is facing serious social security problems, lack of jobs in the private sector, and HUGE deficits and debt!
@gabrieow Oh really? Norway was INVADED and OCCUPIED by germany and victimized by the holocaust, lost all trading partners during the invasion destroying the economy, and faced massive food shortages. So ya besides for that they were virtually unaffected.
Oh really lack of jobs? Is that why the unemplyment rate is 3.4% compared to the U.S. at 9.2%?
google it.
Deficit and debt? LOL WHAT???
Norway has an 11% budget surplus compared to the U.S. debt of 11 TRILLION.
@BootyBot OK I didn't research and generalized the skandinavian countries, such as sweden!
Norway is a lucky country, massive income from Oil and gas, and DOES have a free economy!
It's very easy to start a business there, corporate taxes are relatively low (compared to income tax), trade freedom is very high, corruption is NOT a problem...
How do you expect to give MORE power to an inneficient, restrictive and corrupt government? Brazil is facing this, and it's not pretty!
@BootyBot US has to realize that the american people is no longer represented by your government, you are in a path where the government uses wellfare and stimulous to give advantage and oportunity of profit to determined individuals, decided by a bureaucratic or corrupt parameter!
Wars have been started because of it, stimulous of billions to banks, companies... all made by bureaucratic decisions, making a few "good friends" welthier than never before... all with people's dolars!
@BootyBot those defending american spending and wellfare are dreaming about a country where Parliament members live in a small apartment and do their own laundry, and have not more than 1 secretary, and are OK with it! YOu dream with a VERY vigilant and active society that doesn't exist in America (both north and latin)!
@gabrieow I dream of a society where people are not stupid enough to say a WHOLE system is wrong, because it doesn't work in a few places. Socialist democracies CAN be effective if implemented correctly.
In America, I dream of a smaller government, because I believe that's what's best for it. That's why I'm voting Ron Paul.
People are extremely stupid and narrowminded, however, to say ALL big government is bad because I've given plenty of proof that, that's straight up bullshit.
@BootyBot You cannot say a big government is GOOD when you treat such specific cases such as scandinavia!
Almost any kind of government can go just fine in the right situations! But a too big government WILL crumble over time! Norway makes the right investments, but they DO have a deficit on their social security and health programs, even with a stable population over decades!
I got what you said, though! And I agree... for a while things can possibly go OK with big government!
@gabrieow YES YOU CAN!! Norway HAS NO DEFICITS!!! GOOGLE IT! JESUS!! AND NO NOT EVERY GOVERNMENT CAN "GO FINE" IN THE RIGHT SITUATIONS! NOT COMMUNISM!!
oh my god everything you've said so far is complete bullshit. Literally everything you have said has been MADE UP. Let's go through it.
Norway was unaffected by WW2: Bullshit
Norway has lack of jobs: Bullshit (3.4% unemployment)
Norway has HUGE DEFICITS AND DEBT: Bullshit (Norway has 11% SURPLUS)
@BootyBot I fucking said about it! I mixed up norway with sweden, that has problems with empolyment in the PRIVATE sector (the public sector absorbs most of the work force, but it is not eficient) and big debts!
public DEBT in norway is over 60% of GDP, and the external debt is over 500trillion! Is it LOW??? Did the debt fairy gave this to them or it came from overspending?
and I said ALMOST any kind of government! pay more attention!
@gabrieow Are you making this stuff up? I have google you know. I just looked up external debt of norway it's 643 billion... not 500 trillion. more bullshit? Seriously? No country has a debt of anything close to 500 trillion dollars. The country with the highest amount of external debt in the world is the U.S. at 13 trillion dollars.
And the public debt of 60% of GDP is a fucking PHENOMENAL statistic for a first world country. The U.S. public debt is 98% of GDP.
@BootyBot obvious typing mistake! OVER 500BILLION! obviously!
OK, If I get 100thousand per year and have 60thousand debt... is it OK? Am I being prudent? Not in MY opinion!
Japan has 100% GDP debts too, Brazil is getting close to 50%, but Greece and Italy went in the same path... and look where it got!
Increasing government and aloowing debt to grow indefinitely is irresponsible and has results only in the short-term. Long-term it causaes lack of efficiency and poor dynamic in the economy!
@BootyBot obvious typing mistake! OVER 500BILLION! obviously!
OK, If I get 100thousand per year and have 60thousand debt... is it OK? Am I being prudent? Not in MY opinion!
Japan has 100% GDP debts too, Brazil is getting close to 50%, but Greece and Italy went in the same path... and look where it got!
Increasing government and aloowing debt to grow indefinitely is irresponsible and has results only in the short-term. Long-term it causaes lack of efficiency and poor dynamic in the economy!
and one more thing. I spent some time in Norway and the only thing I found disturbing was how beautiful and clean the city was compared to any cities in the U.S. It looked like a fairy tale.
Big Government spending on nonsense that Americans didn't want caused the US crisis....yet somehow its due to not stealing MORE money for them to misspend that's to blame in Obama/lefty land?/?!....morons.
@BootyBot ....you don't buy that Scandinavian myth do you? Sweden went backward under their welfare state and have moved to a more private sector approach. Denmark and Norway are repressive society's that people used to the freer ways of the West would find disturbing.
@Riellysdad Not a myth. Norway's economy grew by 3 percent when U.S. was in a recession. it's been steadily growing since. Plenty of info to support this,as described in articles: "Norway's economy grows faster than expected", "Thriving Norway Provides an Economics Lesson", "Mainland Norway's economy stays strong in Q2", all available through google.
Well the people of Norway are very happy for a "repressed society", considering they are third on forbes list happiest countries. U.S. is at 16.
I'm always hesitant to accept these "matter of fact" videos as fact. I know they are with well intentions, but the title is unfortunately untrue in many instances. Such as norway, denmark and finland, all social democracies with big government who also happen to be on the top 3 happiest countries listed on forbes. Norway has also seen economic growth even during the recession. So let's not pigeonhole entire systems of government.Not saying small gov can't work just saying don't be narrow minded.
@sdbxnbbl91 ....no moron....Obama and the big government lovers are doing that re Madeoff and the lobbying corporatist shysters. A free market makes those sort of dodgy deals impossible.
@Riellysdad Interesting assertion you just made considering the top 1% of earners pay less in tax than they did during the Bush years and you assume Obama is a socialist. And how can the free market magically end all corruption when in a country without government and laws can't prevent corporations colluding to fix prices and reinforce barriers to entry for competition. What is interesting is that she didn't use a single fact to back up her claims. Its pure ideology.
@sdbxnbbl91 ......Free markets have Governments and laws dude....just far less and focused on individual rights protection. The Government in a FM stays out of the economy and prosecutes force and fraud...nothing else. Monopolies can ONLY exist is a state regulated economy...a FM has no corners and can't be held static against the will of the fluid choices of the consumers within it.
@Riellysdad Unless the corporations rig the markets to fix supply, raise prices and further there negotiating power when purchasing in an oligopoly which has basically as bad as a monopoly. If a competitor enters the market, the corporations will temporarily slash there prices to force the upstart out of business and then raise the price dramatically to make up the lost revenues. After that, no one will enter the market because no one will invest in that enterprise because they'll lose the money
@sdbxnbbl91 ....an old economic fallacy. If companies try to price cut to stop a new competitor they would be trapped in an endless cycle of cut and rise...it doesn't work. High prices attract new players in a free market which then force prices down. A company that tried to corner the market by playing with prices is stuck in a battle without end....as long as the market is free. Its Governments regulatory power put to the use of certain parties against others that distorts the market.
@Riellysdad So by your logic people will continue to try to compete with corporations in a market in which countless others have gone out of business trying to do the exact same thing with the exact same results. Who's going to fund that? If the bank approved that credit, they would lose there money. The reality is barriers to entry are real and government regulations are necessary so that you know your house won't fall down and your water isn't contaminated. Some aren't necessary but some are.
@sdbxnbbl91 .....No...I said when prices in one area start to rise that attracts new players into that area to try and cash in on the high prices but what happens is that this cause prices to drop so the market always finds a level. State barriers to entry make us all poorer... they keep stagnant monopolies in place and able to fleece the consumer unhindered.....and they don't stop shoddy practices ... indeed they usually encourage them thanks to corruption. See India for an example of this.
@sdbxnbbl91 .....A private water provider has the incentive to deliver me clean water otherwise I go elsewhere...the state provider hasn't the same incentive to deliver as a good a product. Where I live our tap water is provided by a private provider and the water is AAA rated for quality...something that never happened when the state supplied us. Its the profit and LOSS incentives of the market tt cause private providers to strive far harder than state ones to satisfy my wants.
@Riellysdad I fundamentally like the free market but I am not deluded enough to believe it is perfect. In terms of the water example. I think government should make sure it is safe. I don't believe that they should provide it. I'd rather change provider because of a public warning rather than someone I know getting cholera or something.
@sdbxnbbl91 ...its not perfect...nothing is. but its far better than anything else...and that's because its in concert with man and his nature. If someone delivers dodgy water to you then sure,the state should prosecute them...but no Government can ensure everything is safe...that's pie in the sky wishing. The best we can hope for is the least mistakes being made and that's only going to happen when people have the right incentives before them...and the profit motive is the best one yet known.
Enough of this "fighting for freedom" crap, people elect the government so individuals are collectively in charge of the government. Also the "wasted" government expenditure goes to public workers and contracts to private enterprise. Also, gov. can offer "entitlements" like healthcare for less because they don't have to make a profit. And on the subject of entitlements, you do know these people work right? So they don't get this stuff for free. And the deficit is caused not taxing corperations
Politics are so fucking interesting, but I hate politics at the same time!!!!!!! I agree with a couple of the points this lady had, but she is obviously just voicing other peoples opinions. We should focus government spending on creating housing and supplying free food for those that need them, spending money should be the responsibility of individuals. We shouldn't even devote time to the economy, it just feeds the rich and steals from the poor.
If I ran any publicly traded business the same way we allow government to waste our money, I would be in jail yesterday...Great job Blayne...Just ignore the Kool-Aid drinkers...American Idol will be on soon and they will go away.
I knew a girl like this in High School. She came every day in the Volvo her parents bought her, and showed up in first period wearing a pearl necklace. At parties, she would always wind up naked and saying it was not her fault. She went on to a great college. A few years later all she could say was what her parents and boyfriend believed. Last time I saw her she was in therapy.
This video is a fancy bit of brainwashing. All 4 points are easily refuted. Are you really saying that the current 'overly-large' gov't is unconstitutional? Really!?! Things are different in 2011 than they were in 1776, and gov't has evolved with the changes. Remember that back then, corporations only existed by decree of state or federal gov'ts, which could rescind the corporation's charter if it wasn't acting in the best interest of the people. Nowadays, corporations are legal persons.
The reason that gov'ts are so large is because corporations are so large and so they require large gov'ts in order to maintain a balance of power. There would be no democracy today if gov'ts were not large, because corporations do not care about democracy except when it is contributing to an increase in profits.
The re-distribution of wealth from producers to non-producers is the essence of insidious nature of Collectivism. The goal of the global ruling elite is to supplant 'Individualism' that was the foundational structure of the original Constitution with a Fascist Crony (insider) form of Corporatism based on a feudalistic Fabianist model of global Collectivism.
Why? To turn 'God given rights' into government/corporate 'granted' privileges that can be given or taken away in a whim by the rulers.
1. Tax cuts only provide $0.69 for every $1 put in. (compared to the $1.60 you get from unemployment checks.) -citing the CBO
2. We have one of the lowest tax rates in the developed world, so be thankful government isn't ass-plowing your paycheck.
3. Only if we don't balance the budget.
4. BULL FUCKING SHIT:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the ->GENERAL WELFARE<-"
@Shadowdyce11 "General welfare" doesn't,and never did mean state welfare vis wealth redistribution. The rights to life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness (and property) counter that idea and contradictions don't exist.
@Riellysdad "General welfare" is painfully ambiguous. There are several interpretations to the G.W. Clause, but I base my opinion on the18th century definition of the word welfare: "Exemption from misfortune, sickness, calamity or evil; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; prosperity; happiness; applied to persons."
And with the ability to tax in whatever manner it sees fit, the government can legally "redistribute wealth". (Though I sincerely hope it doesn't.)
@daspolitbuero ...The average American has a higher standard of living than the average Swede....indeed the average American-Swede lives better than his fellow Swede living in Sweden. Sweden is abandoning its welfare state as they found its made them poorer and was killing the work ethic of so many Swedes.
really well done. i agree with the unconstitutionality of the current system; here's a video i want to share, please checkout "America: Freedom to Fascism" by Aaron Russo
Government and corporations are the two-headed fascist beast. The Center for Freedom and Prosperity wants to kill one head of the two-headed beast. Perhaps it's a growing process. One day we hope they will see that governments should be brought down, corporations should be brought down, and worship of the unrighteous mammon should be brought down. Then we won't need girls to dress up and read our propaganda into a camera.
As an economist student from europe it just scared me to watch this video. Its like some pople have just been brainwashed or something like that. The crisis greek are in are not caused by a too big public sector :) Explaining you why not would probably be for speaking to deaf ears so wont bother.
But a few facts for you to look up - One of the riches european countries are scandinavian. They also have the biggest public sector in the world and highest tax rate.
What she's saying is true , it's economic fact , she thinks it's bad , if you think big governments are good , make a video explaining that and then we'll argue
@bananaphone951 STOP LITTERING YOUTUBE WITH YOUR BRAINLESS TROLL MESSAGES, WHAT A FUCKING MORON.....YOU DIDN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND THE VIDEO.....WHAT A LAME CLOWN...THE RECESSION IS A RESULT OF A MULTITUDE OF GOVERNMENTAL DYSFUNCTIONS YOU IDIOT...
@mut The idea is not unaccountability but local accountability. The founders did not envision a massive "ship of state" for the federal government to regulate and tax to death. They envisioned a union of free states with a federal system to protect liberty and property ownership, not at all what we have now. Small government is a liberal/progressive idea? That's pretty funny. Well then, our founders were all progressives since they gave the federal government so few powers.
US Government is printing money to borrow. This leads to hyperinflation! If this massive 1.6 trillion isn't cut, our dollar will be worthless in five years time!!!!
And in this seemingly redemptive offering, Obama may be promising what only God can actually deliver, in the form of yet another, more eloquent, version of the same old utopian dream that started with Rousseau and Marx.
@UTubekookdetector The US GDP is 12 trillion a year. that is 9 times larger the next largest GDP (Germany) It costs a lot of money to manage this ship of state. un accountability and de-regulation are Highly progressive ideas.
@UTubekookdetector there are more useful questions.When is a deficit too big? where is the majority of spending going? what would the cost to the US economy be if you cut military spending? welfare spending? educational spending? research spending? These are very serious issues that when examined show no easy path. Make sure you are ready for unpredictable outcomes of highly unpredictable progressive ideas like small government, and un accountable market forces and corporations.
@mutva The deficit is too big when its cost exceeds its return, as gauged by GDP growth. Defense spending shouldn't be cut, there should be a minimum return on each DOD dollar, maybe 75 cents worth of value. The welfare system is crap,. The state shouldn't teach half of the things it does, shrink curriculum sizes to the minimum and impose high standards on teachers. Also, no federal funding for education, it's not the federal govt's business. Leave research spending to the private sector.
Small government is a Liberal idea. not a conservative idea. It's progressive to hand the mechanics of your entire country over to private uncountable entities.....So.....Good luck with that... hows it working out for you so far.
MUT: Perhaps you mean a "libertarian" or a "classical liberal" (think Friedman) idea? Canada has many, many good ideas. You don't indulge in as much subprime lending as we do & you don't allow mortgage interest to be deduction on taxes. However, your health care system is a big drag. You are right though, big government doesn't work. Your debt as a % of GDP is rather large as well.
@UTubekookdetector Friedman, Rand, Marxism has long been moved past, It's hard to let go of these theories but they are not scientific. The idea that Big goverment is a problem is getting closer to fetishistic than fact based.. If you want to understand GDP and debt read Niall Ferguson. He offers no solutions but examines economic history in a honest light.
Why is the money for robotic bees and other university projects a bad thing?
It is an investment in graduate level research, which produce new technology and more importantly creates experienced researchers for future research in both the public and private sectors.
Note this research funding makes up less than 0.013% of the stimulus package. I would disagree with the majority of the spending, but not the research.
2. The idea that a $ to the gov't takes a dollar away from private investment might make sense, until you realize that a dollar in the hands of rich people & companies might not be spent in the U.S. Instead, they'll take foreign trips, buy foreign luxury products, invest in foreign companies, etc. Most rich are globalists.
That suits libertarian types who make vids like this just fine: few libertarians have any loyalty to their fellow citizens. Their loyalty is to money, not to the U.S.
1. Some (or many) of Europe's problems are due to mass immigration. The makers of this video are linked into the "Kochtopus", those groups funded by the Koch brothers. Most of the groups funded by the Kochs support loose borders, despite how they increase spending. Groups funded by the Kochs are generally not credible for that and other reasons.
If only all Conservatives expressed themselves in such Reasonable & Logical terms... Sadly, the term 'Conservative' has been hijacked by religious loons that want to turn America into a Christian State. The Constitution is the true guiding light of Conservative philosophy, NOT the Bible!
whatever, since when is ecconomic performance the be all and end all.
1.48 lol no what has brought Portugal to it's knees is banks CDS and playing with thier bond markets just as they did with greece, bankers are to blame not the governments spending programmes.
Tired of this corporate propoganda, how much is goldman sachs paying you?
I liked the presentation. I believe political debate is the core of the U.S. Yet, some people who lack the ability to express their opionion will simply call you names or, of course, the standard far left name "you are a racist." I think you hit a nerve, I am 51 years old and I have never in my life seen this type of federal government take over. Gosh, JFK took so much heat for being a Catholic, I thought this name calling was over. Good job Blayne-tell it how it is!!!~
Why didn't O'reilly just flat out ask Obama "Hey, since you were in Congress since 2006 and both Houses were taken over by the Dems, SIX TRILLION DOLLARS HAS VAPORIZED. Where the hell is it Mr. President? there are no new roads, trains, tunnels....VAPORIZED.
Yes, we should abolish the FDA. There was no need to create it in the first place. But really, I can't think of anything that government does that people want done except for defense and a few other items. It's a necessary evil to keep in property rights and the rule of law. So it should be limited to those functions elucidated in the Constitution.
Obama indeed seems to be offering a people's government solution to all human problems. He is, after all, running for President of the United States, not for a pulpit. Substituting the state for God as provider has been the inherent common thread in all Marxist regimes.
Alcohol legal tobacco legal firearms legal so cut out the ATF and save billions legalize all drugs I don't give a damn if you drink battery acid it is body so stop the war on drugs save billions bring all jails back under the the County and state get rid of the privateers and the judges that just puts people in jail for profit save billions we got over 800,000 policemen in the United States on different kinds a.k.a. as pigs lay half of them off because they create two thirds of crime
@KYKIN44 You can legalize all drugs right after you end the welfare state. I work my ass off and I have no intention of paying my hard-earned tax money so someone else can sit around getting high.
I couldn't believe it when I saw this linked by a republican/conservative. Total disconnect. Total hypocrisy. These same repubs/cons going on about the evils of big government are the same ones supporting massive government growth and expenditures on trillion$ in 'defence', the endless illegal wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, the multi billion dollar Department of Homeland security and the futile, disastrous war on drug$. I mean total disconnect. Total hypocrisy smh
@shalcall Still living in your 1920's Keynesian world? Check the latest Harvard studies that concede Keynesian economics doesn't work with today's economy.
Government spends money on things people don't want. That's why it can't be made profitable, not because it's "inefficient." Should we be spending money on things people don't want?
@gregerobbins I'm sorry, but you don't have to think very hard to find a plethora of items on which government spends money that people really really want.
"Once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader — the barbarians enter Rome."
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents...
@gregerobbins People want safe food and drugs so we have the FDA. Their inefficiencies are why it takes 10 years and a Billion $ to get a drug to market. A private firm could do this quicker for a tenth of the price. Underwriters Laboratories provides the appliance industry the same service the FDA provides for food and drugs. If we spun that agency off, we would have better pharmaceuticals on the market faster and prices would come down.
@TXKafir You are completely ignorant about the FDA, not to mention UL. Submission to testing for UL is completely voluntary, and many large companies just don't do it. Look at Dell with their exploding Laptop batteries, and yet they still don't submit products for certification to UL.
And you want our food and drugs to run under that system? You're crazy.
Yes, government spending money on things is "inefficient". That's why it's done in the first place. There are some things the private market will not invest money into because those things are not (as) profitable. Profitability should not set the priorities of a civilized society, though. Furthermore bigger government is not equal to big debt. For example, the German government has a constant surplus. Not because they have a 'small government', but because they don't undermine their own budgets.
Right from the get-go it sounded as though I were listening to a female version of Dan Mitchell [same type of speech inflections and vocabulary]. That's not meant to be an insult, so please do not take it as one; it's really a compliment. Oddly enough, a full eight videos by Dan Mitchell are showing up in the 'suggested video' column of my YouTube page. Coincidence?
Anyhow, more voices in support of liberty are always a good thing.
@DreamTiger5 What? Ron Paul sees a need for government. He is not about Anarcho-capitalism. Actually listen to what the guy has to say, and research where he stands. Its actually very appealing to the common man.
@theloniousMac While her assertions are lucid, they are not well thought out, nor supported by actual econometric data. But of course, the troglodytes that will inhabit these comments won't admit, or understand that.
"government is too large today" is of course not a scientifically evidenced fact, but pure big business propaganda.
The most successful countries in Europe are Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, all countries with a generous universal welfare state and super-high taxes (compared to American standards). Those countries now in troubles have had super-low tax levels (compared to European standards), whereas they did not spend more than the successful countries, cf. OECD
schlecksi69 5 days ago
This kind of video should be shown to every economics/history/mathematics class.
MSJewelryAU 5 days ago
Yet another false pro-capitalism video. Basically give all the money to the corporations and the country will be great again. This video is bollocks.
kromed01 2 weeks ago
@kromed01 That's not what the video said. Next time pay attention to what she says, not her pretty eyes.
PissedFechtmeister 3 days ago
I think that the size of government should be appropriate... Not to big, and DEFINITELY not too small. Both are equally bad.
TheBandwagonman 3 weeks ago
@TheBandwagonman what a stupid statement, what anyonee means when they say "small government" is that it needs to have just the nessicary functions. IF ITS NOT NESSICARY then we clearly dont need to fund it. sorry but your comment is just stupid. big gov is bad, less gov is good, so long as they still take care of the nessicary things.
worldwar2history 2 weeks ago
It isn't just that tax's are too high,(they are) it isn't just that spending is too high, (it is), and it isn't even that a business plan that includes exponentially increasing deficit spending will obviously end in bankruptcy (it will) . It is because we are financing our own destruction. The spending is on price control. if we don't end socialism now , America will fall.
halloranedward 1 month ago
Four reasons why you VOTE RON PAUL 2012!
pplystation 1 month ago
@pplystation C4L !
halloranedward 1 month ago
I love the ladies, I really do.
Teach 'em girls, Mises and Friedman couldn't, but you might.
Just wear a low cut top in the next vid ;p
Spjungen 1 month ago
the government is the problem period, they are two big and two currupt and need to be shrunk, they have to much power, who the president is wont fix that, because they own the president, hes the guy who takes the blame so no one rises against the government, they keep you in there pocket in the dark because thats were they want America if it insures there saftey.
risk500 1 month ago
idiots we the people say it is is not going to happen at all again unless goverment is scrapped and rebuilt with humans in mind not the big money makers
its 2012 and may as well be the stone age with the mentality around today
childish ,fools running a great country
RON PAUL i CAN ONLY HOPE WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN HE WINS
WILL BE A GIANT STEP FOR MAN KIND
EVERY ONE i KNOW IS BEHIND THIS MAN AND I CAN SAY FOR SHURE WHY
HAS OBAMA BEAT HANDS DOWN
THANKS TO REVOLUTION WE THE PEOPLE
smokenbudesq 1 month ago
As Ronald Reagan will say that Government is the problem!
BooBop1987 1 month ago
I think this is half the true. Finland and Germanly controvert your theory. They have big government and high taxes, but their economy seem to be good.
tn071280 2 months ago
I love and salute these ladies for campaigning the cause of liberty.
Spread the word of Ron Paul, ladies...now is the time.
Spjungen 2 months ago
Vote buying legislation, that is SUCH an important thing to take note of...it's incredible how many politicians campaign on increasing spending for xyz and therefore improving welfare, etc
Spjungen 2 months ago
Liberals dont realize that they are destroying democracy by allowing themselves to be pandered to. If the state goes bankrupt trying to pay for a ridiculous amount of welfare and taxation, we could lose the right to vote with an emergence of new leaders.
clintcastle 3 months ago
@clintcastle Pay for taxation? What does that mean? And what's this about losing our democracy? That train left the station a long time ago. Hasn't corporate influence and lobby money already destroyed this mythical democracy you speak of? "What better way to enslave a man than to give him a vote and tell him he's free" ~ Albert Camus.
judeseamus 2 months ago
@judeseamus I meant to say "through" taxation. Im saying the more government you create (no matter how benevolent) It will become corrupted eventually thats why you need smaller government so it is easier to manage. Government cannot manage an economy as large as the U.S. without becoming corrupt and imploding. We should have learned something from the USSR
clintcastle 2 months ago
@clintcastle
Smaller government is also easier and cheaper to corrupt, which is good for American business, right?
NanoEmpyrean 2 months ago
@NanoEmpyrean If the power of the government is more limited so then will be the power of the corruption. People forgot that along the way and now we have a behemoth of corruption that at some point(may have already passed) becomes impossible to reign in.
clintcastle 2 months ago 4
@clintcastle
Smaller government, is different than limiting Federal power. It's the reason that im concerned with the GOP's approach.
Limiting education, and being non-specific as to which regulations they are opposed to (tho some industries are currently suffering by certain regulations, many regulations are necessary)
Government Jobs are also good. They are jobs that support local economies (within the US) and can't be exported to china. Giving businesses power is regressing to industrial re
NanoEmpyrean 2 months ago
@NanoEmpyrean Smaller government means that when they are corrupted (as all governments are) they can do less damage.
PissedFechtmeister 3 days ago
Transfer and consumption spending should be abolished. The welfare state must be destroyed, root and branch. No mercy.
UltraConservative298 3 months ago
slash the govt by 50%, except military, judiciary.......get rid of energy, HUD, education...... free yourselves from govt. slavery!! live free...
xerakis 3 months ago
lol, a lobbyist propaganda video...wonder how much she got paid to spit this crap..
rofl
eliwoood1 3 months ago
@eliwoood1 Oh I'm sure it was like a million dollars judging by the audio and video editing qualities. Why don't you debate the facts?
boblikessnapper1 2 months ago
but welfare is bad and I wanna kiss her
bluediablo9 3 months ago in playlist Milton Friedman & General Economics
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1:02 she said robotic bees and turtle tunnels. Not only was it cute, but she needs to have all my children
bluediablo9 3 months ago in playlist Milton Friedman & General Economics
1:03 she said robotic bees and turtle tunnels. Not only was it cute, but she needs to have all my children
bluediablo9 3 months ago in playlist Milton Friedman & General Economics
SHes hot and so is kelly. They make me hornton because all canadian students are stupid NDPs.
bluediablo9 3 months ago in playlist Milton Friedman & General Economics
This video brought to you by the "Center for Freedom and Prosperity", which are lobbyists. Please excuse me if I laugh at you for believing this bullshit.
marley54fd 3 months ago
@marley54fd haven't you learned that you should judge arguments by their merits and not by their source?
Cornampoo 3 months ago
@Cornampoo Taking tax reform advice from the Koch Brothers, which sponsored this bullshit, is like taking parental advice from a child molester. The only difference here is that the Koch Brothers are fucking you and your kid.
marley54fd 3 months ago
@marley54fd I'm sorry can you please use arguments instead of rhetorics?
Cornampoo 3 months ago
@marley54fd so what?
boblikessnapper1 2 months ago
Government expansion leads to national impoverishment.
My country, Sweden, bears evidence hereof.
During 1870-1970, Sweden boasted the highest GDP growth of all nations.
But in the era of 1970 to 1990, when we strove to turn our nation into the guiding Social Democratic welfare light of the Western World, we displayed the weakest GDP growth rates of all OECD members.
Today, we are lowering taxes and recently have performed GDP growth rates of 7.3%.
A mere coincidence?
scholion 4 months ago
@scholion
didn't Sweden run into economic problems because of over spending and huge debt and the whole economic reform was placed in 1992-1993?
correct me if I'm wrong, they had several methods that help their country re-spark by
1) decrease government spending to 1% surplus
2) deregulation so there wont be any unnecessary restriction on growing industries
2)no more bail out for companies to fall so others can rise and take its place
4) and finally decrease marginal tax rate
darkoutcast 3 months ago in playlist More videos from CFPEcon101
get big corporate overlords out of GOV. AND WILL BE OK.big corporate america produces tyrany as well.
dignerds 4 months ago
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DramaBlock 4 months ago
The military is apart of government too.
St3v3Patrio7 5 months ago
@St3v3Patrio7 if only they fought for defence i could believe you. they may get their pay cheque from uncle sam but that's not where the orders come from.
rsolgtp 3 months ago
This is absolutely ridiculous crap.
The reason why the US has enormous deficit is because they have been fighting two, more or less, unnecessary wars with taxpayer dollars WHILE lowering taxes. You don't have to be a freaking genius to understand that increased spending and decreased income is bad for the economy. Blaming " big government bureaucracy" for this is pure ignorance.
Derpman123 5 months ago
@Derpman123 You just concentrate on the part you don't like, the military, while ignoring the armies of office rats whose jobs require them to come up with more regulatory burdens, chickenshit rules, etc, and are HATED by those they have harmed. I'll bet you're one of them. Guess what: We don't need you burons. GET REAL JOB THAT PRODUCES something other than being a real DRAG on the rest of us.
soco13466 4 months ago
@soco13466 You're right that i may have simplified it a little. There is ,of course, a lot of bureaucracy in the US and government jobs that need to be cut in order to decrease spending but i still think it was the Bush government that led the US down the wrong road when they managed to make deficits even during fierce economic growth by fighting wars and lowering taxes. Actually I oppose bureaucracy but I still support programs like medicare and social security. Why? Because they benefit us.
Derpman123 4 months ago
remember: Norway is a socialist democracy.
BootyBot 5 months ago
@BootyBot remember norway was lucky enough to be virtually not affected by WWI and WWII. And even with all the advantage, it is facing serious social security problems, lack of jobs in the private sector, and HUGE deficits and debt!
gabrieow 5 months ago
@gabrieow Oh really? Norway was INVADED and OCCUPIED by germany and victimized by the holocaust, lost all trading partners during the invasion destroying the economy, and faced massive food shortages. So ya besides for that they were virtually unaffected.
Oh really lack of jobs? Is that why the unemplyment rate is 3.4% compared to the U.S. at 9.2%?
google it.
Deficit and debt? LOL WHAT???
Norway has an 11% budget surplus compared to the U.S. debt of 11 TRILLION.
google "Norway deficit"
BootyBot 5 months ago
@BootyBot OK I didn't research and generalized the skandinavian countries, such as sweden!
Norway is a lucky country, massive income from Oil and gas, and DOES have a free economy!
It's very easy to start a business there, corporate taxes are relatively low (compared to income tax), trade freedom is very high, corruption is NOT a problem...
How do you expect to give MORE power to an inneficient, restrictive and corrupt government? Brazil is facing this, and it's not pretty!
gabrieow 5 months ago
@BootyBot US has to realize that the american people is no longer represented by your government, you are in a path where the government uses wellfare and stimulous to give advantage and oportunity of profit to determined individuals, decided by a bureaucratic or corrupt parameter!
Wars have been started because of it, stimulous of billions to banks, companies... all made by bureaucratic decisions, making a few "good friends" welthier than never before... all with people's dolars!
gabrieow 5 months ago
@BootyBot those defending american spending and wellfare are dreaming about a country where Parliament members live in a small apartment and do their own laundry, and have not more than 1 secretary, and are OK with it! YOu dream with a VERY vigilant and active society that doesn't exist in America (both north and latin)!
gabrieow 5 months ago
@gabrieow I dream of a society where people are not stupid enough to say a WHOLE system is wrong, because it doesn't work in a few places. Socialist democracies CAN be effective if implemented correctly.
In America, I dream of a smaller government, because I believe that's what's best for it. That's why I'm voting Ron Paul.
People are extremely stupid and narrowminded, however, to say ALL big government is bad because I've given plenty of proof that, that's straight up bullshit.
thank you.
BootyBot 5 months ago
@BootyBot You cannot say a big government is GOOD when you treat such specific cases such as scandinavia!
Almost any kind of government can go just fine in the right situations! But a too big government WILL crumble over time! Norway makes the right investments, but they DO have a deficit on their social security and health programs, even with a stable population over decades!
I got what you said, though! And I agree... for a while things can possibly go OK with big government!
gabrieow 5 months ago
@gabrieow YES YOU CAN!! Norway HAS NO DEFICITS!!! GOOGLE IT! JESUS!! AND NO NOT EVERY GOVERNMENT CAN "GO FINE" IN THE RIGHT SITUATIONS! NOT COMMUNISM!!
oh my god everything you've said so far is complete bullshit. Literally everything you have said has been MADE UP. Let's go through it.
Norway was unaffected by WW2: Bullshit
Norway has lack of jobs: Bullshit (3.4% unemployment)
Norway has HUGE DEFICITS AND DEBT: Bullshit (Norway has 11% SURPLUS)
deficit on social security and healthcare: BULL
BootyBot 5 months ago
@BootyBot I fucking said about it! I mixed up norway with sweden, that has problems with empolyment in the PRIVATE sector (the public sector absorbs most of the work force, but it is not eficient) and big debts!
public DEBT in norway is over 60% of GDP, and the external debt is over 500trillion! Is it LOW??? Did the debt fairy gave this to them or it came from overspending?
and I said ALMOST any kind of government! pay more attention!
gabrieow 5 months ago
@gabrieow Are you making this stuff up? I have google you know. I just looked up external debt of norway it's 643 billion... not 500 trillion. more bullshit? Seriously? No country has a debt of anything close to 500 trillion dollars. The country with the highest amount of external debt in the world is the U.S. at 13 trillion dollars.
And the public debt of 60% of GDP is a fucking PHENOMENAL statistic for a first world country. The U.S. public debt is 98% of GDP.
Are you high?
BootyBot 5 months ago
@BootyBot obvious typing mistake! OVER 500BILLION! obviously!
OK, If I get 100thousand per year and have 60thousand debt... is it OK? Am I being prudent? Not in MY opinion!
Japan has 100% GDP debts too, Brazil is getting close to 50%, but Greece and Italy went in the same path... and look where it got!
Increasing government and aloowing debt to grow indefinitely is irresponsible and has results only in the short-term. Long-term it causaes lack of efficiency and poor dynamic in the economy!
gabrieow 5 months ago
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@BootyBot obvious typing mistake! OVER 500BILLION! obviously!
OK, If I get 100thousand per year and have 60thousand debt... is it OK? Am I being prudent? Not in MY opinion!
Japan has 100% GDP debts too, Brazil is getting close to 50%, but Greece and Italy went in the same path... and look where it got!
Increasing government and aloowing debt to grow indefinitely is irresponsible and has results only in the short-term. Long-term it causaes lack of efficiency and poor dynamic in the economy!
gabrieow 5 months ago
and one more thing. I spent some time in Norway and the only thing I found disturbing was how beautiful and clean the city was compared to any cities in the U.S. It looked like a fairy tale.
BootyBot 5 months ago
Big Government spending on nonsense that Americans didn't want caused the US crisis....yet somehow its due to not stealing MORE money for them to misspend that's to blame in Obama/lefty land?/?!....morons.
Riellysdad 5 months ago
and off the subject, why do I feel like I've seen this girl in a porn?
BootyBot 5 months ago
@BootyBot ....you don't buy that Scandinavian myth do you? Sweden went backward under their welfare state and have moved to a more private sector approach. Denmark and Norway are repressive society's that people used to the freer ways of the West would find disturbing.
Riellysdad 5 months ago
@Riellysdad Not a myth. Norway's economy grew by 3 percent when U.S. was in a recession. it's been steadily growing since. Plenty of info to support this,as described in articles: "Norway's economy grows faster than expected", "Thriving Norway Provides an Economics Lesson", "Mainland Norway's economy stays strong in Q2", all available through google.
Well the people of Norway are very happy for a "repressed society", considering they are third on forbes list happiest countries. U.S. is at 16.
BootyBot 5 months ago
I'm always hesitant to accept these "matter of fact" videos as fact. I know they are with well intentions, but the title is unfortunately untrue in many instances. Such as norway, denmark and finland, all social democracies with big government who also happen to be on the top 3 happiest countries listed on forbes. Norway has also seen economic growth even during the recession. So let's not pigeonhole entire systems of government.Not saying small gov can't work just saying don't be narrow minded.
BootyBot 5 months ago
You're not defending the little guy, you're defending Bernie Madehoff and the Koch brothers.
sdbxnbbl91 5 months ago
@sdbxnbbl91 ....no moron....Obama and the big government lovers are doing that re Madeoff and the lobbying corporatist shysters. A free market makes those sort of dodgy deals impossible.
Riellysdad 5 months ago
@Riellysdad Interesting assertion you just made considering the top 1% of earners pay less in tax than they did during the Bush years and you assume Obama is a socialist. And how can the free market magically end all corruption when in a country without government and laws can't prevent corporations colluding to fix prices and reinforce barriers to entry for competition. What is interesting is that she didn't use a single fact to back up her claims. Its pure ideology.
sdbxnbbl91 5 months ago
@sdbxnbbl91 ......Free markets have Governments and laws dude....just far less and focused on individual rights protection. The Government in a FM stays out of the economy and prosecutes force and fraud...nothing else. Monopolies can ONLY exist is a state regulated economy...a FM has no corners and can't be held static against the will of the fluid choices of the consumers within it.
Riellysdad 5 months ago
@Riellysdad Unless the corporations rig the markets to fix supply, raise prices and further there negotiating power when purchasing in an oligopoly which has basically as bad as a monopoly. If a competitor enters the market, the corporations will temporarily slash there prices to force the upstart out of business and then raise the price dramatically to make up the lost revenues. After that, no one will enter the market because no one will invest in that enterprise because they'll lose the money
sdbxnbbl91 5 months ago
@sdbxnbbl91 ....an old economic fallacy. If companies try to price cut to stop a new competitor they would be trapped in an endless cycle of cut and rise...it doesn't work. High prices attract new players in a free market which then force prices down. A company that tried to corner the market by playing with prices is stuck in a battle without end....as long as the market is free. Its Governments regulatory power put to the use of certain parties against others that distorts the market.
Riellysdad 5 months ago
@Riellysdad So by your logic people will continue to try to compete with corporations in a market in which countless others have gone out of business trying to do the exact same thing with the exact same results. Who's going to fund that? If the bank approved that credit, they would lose there money. The reality is barriers to entry are real and government regulations are necessary so that you know your house won't fall down and your water isn't contaminated. Some aren't necessary but some are.
sdbxnbbl91 5 months ago
@sdbxnbbl91 .....No...I said when prices in one area start to rise that attracts new players into that area to try and cash in on the high prices but what happens is that this cause prices to drop so the market always finds a level. State barriers to entry make us all poorer... they keep stagnant monopolies in place and able to fleece the consumer unhindered.....and they don't stop shoddy practices ... indeed they usually encourage them thanks to corruption. See India for an example of this.
Riellysdad 5 months ago
@sdbxnbbl91 .....A private water provider has the incentive to deliver me clean water otherwise I go elsewhere...the state provider hasn't the same incentive to deliver as a good a product. Where I live our tap water is provided by a private provider and the water is AAA rated for quality...something that never happened when the state supplied us. Its the profit and LOSS incentives of the market tt cause private providers to strive far harder than state ones to satisfy my wants.
Riellysdad 5 months ago
@Riellysdad I fundamentally like the free market but I am not deluded enough to believe it is perfect. In terms of the water example. I think government should make sure it is safe. I don't believe that they should provide it. I'd rather change provider because of a public warning rather than someone I know getting cholera or something.
sdbxnbbl91 5 months ago
@sdbxnbbl91 ...its not perfect...nothing is. but its far better than anything else...and that's because its in concert with man and his nature. If someone delivers dodgy water to you then sure,the state should prosecute them...but no Government can ensure everything is safe...that's pie in the sky wishing. The best we can hope for is the least mistakes being made and that's only going to happen when people have the right incentives before them...and the profit motive is the best one yet known.
Riellysdad 5 months ago
@Riellysdad I agree, but prevention is better then the cure.
sdbxnbbl91 5 months ago
Enough of this "fighting for freedom" crap, people elect the government so individuals are collectively in charge of the government. Also the "wasted" government expenditure goes to public workers and contracts to private enterprise. Also, gov. can offer "entitlements" like healthcare for less because they don't have to make a profit. And on the subject of entitlements, you do know these people work right? So they don't get this stuff for free. And the deficit is caused not taxing corperations
sdbxnbbl91 5 months ago
The Government should fear the people. Not the other way around
ImPooping101 5 months ago
Politics are so fucking interesting, but I hate politics at the same time!!!!!!! I agree with a couple of the points this lady had, but she is obviously just voicing other peoples opinions. We should focus government spending on creating housing and supplying free food for those that need them, spending money should be the responsibility of individuals. We shouldn't even devote time to the economy, it just feeds the rich and steals from the poor.
drummerforpeace 6 months ago
If I ran any publicly traded business the same way we allow government to waste our money, I would be in jail yesterday...Great job Blayne...Just ignore the Kool-Aid drinkers...American Idol will be on soon and they will go away.
Webcollege 6 months ago
Her one eye is fucked up. But true as hell
rg37 6 months ago
I knew a girl like this in High School. She came every day in the Volvo her parents bought her, and showed up in first period wearing a pearl necklace. At parties, she would always wind up naked and saying it was not her fault. She went on to a great college. A few years later all she could say was what her parents and boyfriend believed. Last time I saw her she was in therapy.
piechart503 6 months ago
Perfect example of how cute does not equal smart. She does have a possible career in acting: playing a role for money. She is just mouthing a script!
piechart503 6 months ago
TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
dbloch6592 6 months ago
This video is a fancy bit of brainwashing. All 4 points are easily refuted. Are you really saying that the current 'overly-large' gov't is unconstitutional? Really!?! Things are different in 2011 than they were in 1776, and gov't has evolved with the changes. Remember that back then, corporations only existed by decree of state or federal gov'ts, which could rescind the corporation's charter if it wasn't acting in the best interest of the people. Nowadays, corporations are legal persons.
sborau5bucks 6 months ago
The reason that gov'ts are so large is because corporations are so large and so they require large gov'ts in order to maintain a balance of power. There would be no democracy today if gov'ts were not large, because corporations do not care about democracy except when it is contributing to an increase in profits.
sborau5bucks 6 months ago
The re-distribution of wealth from producers to non-producers is the essence of insidious nature of Collectivism. The goal of the global ruling elite is to supplant 'Individualism' that was the foundational structure of the original Constitution with a Fascist Crony (insider) form of Corporatism based on a feudalistic Fabianist model of global Collectivism.
Why? To turn 'God given rights' into government/corporate 'granted' privileges that can be given or taken away in a whim by the rulers.
AffinityNetNews 6 months ago 5
1. Tax cuts only provide $0.69 for every $1 put in. (compared to the $1.60 you get from unemployment checks.) -citing the CBO
2. We have one of the lowest tax rates in the developed world, so be thankful government isn't ass-plowing your paycheck.
3. Only if we don't balance the budget.
4. BULL FUCKING SHIT:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the ->GENERAL WELFARE<-"
Shadowdyce11 6 months ago
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Shadowdyce11 6 months ago
@Shadowdyce11 "General welfare" doesn't,and never did mean state welfare vis wealth redistribution. The rights to life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness (and property) counter that idea and contradictions don't exist.
Riellysdad 6 months ago
@Riellysdad "General welfare" is painfully ambiguous. There are several interpretations to the G.W. Clause, but I base my opinion on the18th century definition of the word welfare: "Exemption from misfortune, sickness, calamity or evil; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; prosperity; happiness; applied to persons."
And with the ability to tax in whatever manner it sees fit, the government can legally "redistribute wealth". (Though I sincerely hope it doesn't.)
Shadowdyce11 6 months ago
In comparison to "big government" countries like Finland, Sweden, Norway, Danmark, is the U.S. a failed state...
daspolitbuero 6 months ago
@daspolitbuero ...The average American has a higher standard of living than the average Swede....indeed the average American-Swede lives better than his fellow Swede living in Sweden. Sweden is abandoning its welfare state as they found its made them poorer and was killing the work ethic of so many Swedes.
Riellysdad 6 months ago
really well done. i agree with the unconstitutionality of the current system; here's a video i want to share, please checkout "America: Freedom to Fascism" by Aaron Russo
deathlogic1 6 months ago
great job - shared, tweeted and +1'ed :)
catonalake 6 months ago
Government and corporations are the two-headed fascist beast. The Center for Freedom and Prosperity wants to kill one head of the two-headed beast. Perhaps it's a growing process. One day we hope they will see that governments should be brought down, corporations should be brought down, and worship of the unrighteous mammon should be brought down. Then we won't need girls to dress up and read our propaganda into a camera.
HuckleberryCaptain 6 months ago
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Viva Hugo. Viva Venezuela
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Someideasandstuff 6 months ago
Entitlement is bad ? Damn, so much for popular sovereignty.
Remember the Tea act of 1773 was a Tax Cut for the rich....
Time for a real Tea party to emerge and take out these sophists.
Torakization 7 months ago
Big government is bad? Then George W Bush is bad because he was probably the largest big government president we ever had.
jmkpns 8 months ago 6
@jmkpns, yes, Bush was a fiscal liberal, but Obama leaves him in the dust in relation to overspending.
oilhammer04 4 months ago
@oilhammer04 tax cuts for rich people yeah really liberal. the only thing bush did that obama doesn't is enact policies regardless of consent.
rsolgtp 3 months ago
@jmkpns
Bush certainly wasn't good but Obama is winning the largest government war by a mile.
lancelot1954 4 months ago 17
@lancelot1954 He's already won the worst president in history award, having stolen it from Jimmy Carter xD
Hey, at least he had the retro disco/Eagles and black sabbath 70's going for him xD
What's obama got?
The lady gaga/chris brown/dubstep days...
Spjungen 1 month ago
As an economist student from europe it just scared me to watch this video. Its like some pople have just been brainwashed or something like that. The crisis greek are in are not caused by a too big public sector :) Explaining you why not would probably be for speaking to deaf ears so wont bother.
But a few facts for you to look up - One of the riches european countries are scandinavian. They also have the biggest public sector in the world and highest tax rate.
Analthaabe 8 months ago
What she's saying is true , it's economic fact , she thinks it's bad , if you think big governments are good , make a video explaining that and then we'll argue
bigmangiff 8 months ago
check out the brain on Blondie!
liltimy1850 8 months ago
You know what, this really makes sense. Heck, if we could handle ourselves with NO economic regulation, I would go for it.
Sadly, the recent economic recession shows we just can't handle that ourselves.
bananaphone951 9 months ago
@bananaphone951 STOP LITTERING YOUTUBE WITH YOUR BRAINLESS TROLL MESSAGES, WHAT A FUCKING MORON.....YOU DIDN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND THE VIDEO.....WHAT A LAME CLOWN...THE RECESSION IS A RESULT OF A MULTITUDE OF GOVERNMENTAL DYSFUNCTIONS YOU IDIOT...
whothehellgivesadamn 9 months ago
Good presentation . . . . keep up the good work!
oilhammer04 9 months ago
They haven't cared about the Constitution for almost 100 years.
KenMacMillan 10 months ago
Kudos, a refreshing approach to an old problem. Well done, keep it up!
ConservativeUtopia 10 months ago
@mut The idea is not unaccountability but local accountability. The founders did not envision a massive "ship of state" for the federal government to regulate and tax to death. They envisioned a union of free states with a federal system to protect liberty and property ownership, not at all what we have now. Small government is a liberal/progressive idea? That's pretty funny. Well then, our founders were all progressives since they gave the federal government so few powers.
majesticmalfeasance 10 months ago
US Government is printing money to borrow. This leads to hyperinflation! If this massive 1.6 trillion isn't cut, our dollar will be worthless in five years time!!!!
a10of20borg 10 months ago
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teton99 11 months ago
@UTubekookdetector The US GDP is 12 trillion a year. that is 9 times larger the next largest GDP (Germany) It costs a lot of money to manage this ship of state. un accountability and de-regulation are Highly progressive ideas.
mutva 1 year ago
@UTubekookdetector there are more useful questions.When is a deficit too big? where is the majority of spending going? what would the cost to the US economy be if you cut military spending? welfare spending? educational spending? research spending? These are very serious issues that when examined show no easy path. Make sure you are ready for unpredictable outcomes of highly unpredictable progressive ideas like small government, and un accountable market forces and corporations.
mutva 1 year ago
@mutva The deficit is too big when its cost exceeds its return, as gauged by GDP growth. Defense spending shouldn't be cut, there should be a minimum return on each DOD dollar, maybe 75 cents worth of value. The welfare system is crap,. The state shouldn't teach half of the things it does, shrink curriculum sizes to the minimum and impose high standards on teachers. Also, no federal funding for education, it's not the federal govt's business. Leave research spending to the private sector.
ariuszarim 9 months ago
I am in a little bit of debt right now and I am to borrow more and more to spend myself to prosperity.
hellotommy 1 year ago
Dear America
Small government is a Liberal idea. not a conservative idea. It's progressive to hand the mechanics of your entire country over to private uncountable entities.....So.....Good luck with that... hows it working out for you so far.
Love Canada.
mutva 1 year ago
MUT: Perhaps you mean a "libertarian" or a "classical liberal" (think Friedman) idea? Canada has many, many good ideas. You don't indulge in as much subprime lending as we do & you don't allow mortgage interest to be deduction on taxes. However, your health care system is a big drag. You are right though, big government doesn't work. Your debt as a % of GDP is rather large as well.
UTubekookdetector 1 year ago
@UTubekookdetector Friedman, Rand, Marxism has long been moved past, It's hard to let go of these theories but they are not scientific. The idea that Big goverment is a problem is getting closer to fetishistic than fact based.. If you want to understand GDP and debt read Niall Ferguson. He offers no solutions but examines economic history in a honest light.
please write back if you want to talk more
mutva 1 year ago
MUT: Thanks. Do you think the US' current debt levels are a problem and if so, what would you do to fix it?
UTubekookdetector 1 year ago
blayne bringin down the hammer of truth once again
eccentricity00 1 year ago
If we live like this, we'd be broke? Um, we ARE broke.
worldwidebum 1 year ago
Why is the money for robotic bees and other university projects a bad thing?
It is an investment in graduate level research, which produce new technology and more importantly creates experienced researchers for future research in both the public and private sectors.
Note this research funding makes up less than 0.013% of the stimulus package. I would disagree with the majority of the spending, but not the research.
Thoughts?
charliebrown1887 1 year ago
o wait, she isnt a racist?...really.... well why in the hell am i watching this then..... well done Students for Liberty
croger145 1 year ago
2. The idea that a $ to the gov't takes a dollar away from private investment might make sense, until you realize that a dollar in the hands of rich people & companies might not be spent in the U.S. Instead, they'll take foreign trips, buy foreign luxury products, invest in foreign companies, etc. Most rich are globalists.
That suits libertarian types who make vids like this just fine: few libertarians have any loyalty to their fellow citizens. Their loyalty is to money, not to the U.S.
NoMoreBlatherDotCom 1 year ago
Regarding just the first few seconds:
1. Some (or many) of Europe's problems are due to mass immigration. The makers of this video are linked into the "Kochtopus", those groups funded by the Koch brothers. Most of the groups funded by the Kochs support loose borders, despite how they increase spending. Groups funded by the Kochs are generally not credible for that and other reasons.
(cont'd)
NoMoreBlatherDotCom 1 year ago
If only all Conservatives expressed themselves in such Reasonable & Logical terms... Sadly, the term 'Conservative' has been hijacked by religious loons that want to turn America into a Christian State. The Constitution is the true guiding light of Conservative philosophy, NOT the Bible!
timeoftroubles 1 year ago
Wow! This one brought out frustration from deep in me. I am with you.
Echoboy2002 1 year ago
whatever, since when is ecconomic performance the be all and end all.
1.48 lol no what has brought Portugal to it's knees is banks CDS and playing with thier bond markets just as they did with greece, bankers are to blame not the governments spending programmes.
Tired of this corporate propoganda, how much is goldman sachs paying you?
099749 1 year ago
4th, government is too big because it violates the constitution ... wow, I'm used to better reasoning from the center dude lol
Nice presentation, dear student, but how about letting go of the eyerolling @ 4:38 LOL
nilsca 1 year ago
I liked the presentation. I believe political debate is the core of the U.S. Yet, some people who lack the ability to express their opionion will simply call you names or, of course, the standard far left name "you are a racist." I think you hit a nerve, I am 51 years old and I have never in my life seen this type of federal government take over. Gosh, JFK took so much heat for being a Catholic, I thought this name calling was over. Good job Blayne-tell it how it is!!!~
TheNancy114 1 year ago
Why didn't O'reilly just flat out ask Obama "Hey, since you were in Congress since 2006 and both Houses were taken over by the Dems, SIX TRILLION DOLLARS HAS VAPORIZED. Where the hell is it Mr. President? there are no new roads, trains, tunnels....VAPORIZED.
btwall60 1 year ago
Yes, we should abolish the FDA. There was no need to create it in the first place. But really, I can't think of anything that government does that people want done except for defense and a few other items. It's a necessary evil to keep in property rights and the rule of law. So it should be limited to those functions elucidated in the Constitution.
gregerobbins 1 year ago
Obama indeed seems to be offering a people's government solution to all human problems. He is, after all, running for President of the United States, not for a pulpit. Substituting the state for God as provider has been the inherent common thread in all Marxist regimes.
Obama's Politics of Collective Redemption
By Kyle-Anne Shiver
teton99 1 year ago
Alcohol legal tobacco legal firearms legal so cut out the ATF and save billions legalize all drugs I don't give a damn if you drink battery acid it is body so stop the war on drugs save billions bring all jails back under the the County and state get rid of the privateers and the judges that just puts people in jail for profit save billions we got over 800,000 policemen in the United States on different kinds a.k.a. as pigs lay half of them off because they create two thirds of crime
KYKIN44 1 year ago
@KYKIN44 You can legalize all drugs right after you end the welfare state. I work my ass off and I have no intention of paying my hard-earned tax money so someone else can sit around getting high.
TXKafir 1 year ago
I couldn't believe it when I saw this linked by a republican/conservative. Total disconnect. Total hypocrisy. These same repubs/cons going on about the evils of big government are the same ones supporting massive government growth and expenditures on trillion$ in 'defence', the endless illegal wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, the multi billion dollar Department of Homeland security and the futile, disastrous war on drug$. I mean total disconnect. Total hypocrisy smh
rfalfonse 1 year ago
Holy shit, I'm guessing this lady failed both micro and macro economics.
shalcall 1 year ago
@shalcall Still living in your 1920's Keynesian world? Check the latest Harvard studies that concede Keynesian economics doesn't work with today's economy.
tyvon2000 1 year ago
Government spends money on things people don't want. That's why it can't be made profitable, not because it's "inefficient." Should we be spending money on things people don't want?
gregerobbins 1 year ago
@gregerobbins I'm sorry, but you don't have to think very hard to find a plethora of items on which government spends money that people really really want.
shalcall 1 year ago
@shalcall
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw, 1944
Hello Paul...
MaxSplinters 1 year ago
@MaxSplinters
I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
shalcall 1 year ago
@shalcall
"Once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader — the barbarians enter Rome."
~Robert A. Heinlein~
MaxSplinters 1 year ago
@MaxSplinters
"The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.'' — James Madison, U.S. President
shalcall 1 year ago
@shalcall
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents...
-- James Madison
MaxSplinters 1 year ago 2
@gregerobbins People want safe food and drugs so we have the FDA. Their inefficiencies are why it takes 10 years and a Billion $ to get a drug to market. A private firm could do this quicker for a tenth of the price. Underwriters Laboratories provides the appliance industry the same service the FDA provides for food and drugs. If we spun that agency off, we would have better pharmaceuticals on the market faster and prices would come down.
TXKafir 1 year ago
@TXKafir You are completely ignorant about the FDA, not to mention UL. Submission to testing for UL is completely voluntary, and many large companies just don't do it. Look at Dell with their exploding Laptop batteries, and yet they still don't submit products for certification to UL.
And you want our food and drugs to run under that system? You're crazy.
shalcall 1 year ago
What a racist.
KellyM3lton 1 year ago
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KellyM3lton 1 year ago
Yes, government spending money on things is "inefficient". That's why it's done in the first place. There are some things the private market will not invest money into because those things are not (as) profitable. Profitability should not set the priorities of a civilized society, though. Furthermore bigger government is not equal to big debt. For example, the German government has a constant surplus. Not because they have a 'small government', but because they don't undermine their own budgets.
Tetragrammaton8 1 year ago
Right from the get-go it sounded as though I were listening to a female version of Dan Mitchell [same type of speech inflections and vocabulary]. That's not meant to be an insult, so please do not take it as one; it's really a compliment. Oddly enough, a full eight videos by Dan Mitchell are showing up in the 'suggested video' column of my YouTube page. Coincidence?
Anyhow, more voices in support of liberty are always a good thing.
LowcountryJoe2 1 year ago
Blayne, you need to come up with the Sesame Street version of this video so liberals can understand it!
dikedo65 1 year ago 36
@dikedo65 Republicans are just as bad...Ron Paul is the only Republican that actually wants a smaller government.
asg102 8 months ago 23
@asg102 .....Gary Johnston is better than Paul on this.
Riellysdad 6 months ago
@asg102 More like no government.
DreamTiger5 5 months ago
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asg102 5 months ago
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@DreamTiger5 What? Ron Paul sees a need for government. He is not about Anarcho-capitalism. Actually listen to what the guy has to say, and research where he stands. Its actually very appealing to the common man.
asg102 5 months ago
Just the way it is!
8902654 1 year ago
Extremely lucid, well thought out, clearly stated. I guarantee someone will accuse you of racism.
theloniousMac 1 year ago 24
@theloniousMac While her assertions are lucid, they are not well thought out, nor supported by actual econometric data. But of course, the troglodytes that will inhabit these comments won't admit, or understand that.
shalcall 1 year ago
@theloniousMac HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
achalmers 1 year ago