CORPORATE FASCISM: The Destruction of America's Middle Class

[engineercaseyjones]

England drives on the left side of the road. Europeans drive on the right side as we do. The statement made at somewhere about 1:34: is wrong about that. Japan also drives on the left. A few other nations follow suit.

[belblus]

Fascism FTW!! \o

[akluvr47]

I do not claim to be an expert on any subject but when i watch these types of things or look at facts such as the stock market at 13000 but the jobs never returned even though they got the bush tax breaks that was supposed to create jobs according to the rep house leaders.i would like to ask them all how much profit is enough. corporate greed has already eliminated the middle class . all thats left is haves and have no hope of getting it.

[12gdemos]

@akluvr47 The market is at 13,000 in "nominal" terms, meaning it's not adjusted for inflation, 13000 today is worth 20-25 percent less then 13000 was 5 years ago... Same scam goes for all asset classes including your home, even if your house's price has stabilized, your still losing money because the dollar is losing value, in economics and finance we refer to it as "nominal" vs "real"... In math or science terms the unit of measurement is constantly going down, it's all a scam...

[krillzone]

This intro song is amazing!

[mewimi]

This video is clearly Libertarian. Which ironically libertarianism is all pro "free market" thus no bounds on corporations, absolutely none. So what they do is eliminate the "middle man" ( the government ) and give corporations full reign. Eliminating all but the most basic of government powers federal and state level. What is worse than corporate fascism? Pure corporate power. Would you want your life to be a price-tag determined by corporation(s)? That is what libertarianism proposes.

[12gdemos]

@mewimi Libertarians understand that the only way corporations are allowed to rule and create monopolies is with govt protection, goal of the libertarian if you read Hayek or Rothbard is to decentralize power, if you look at the last 2500 years of history every time power is centralized tyranny follows. More power to state, end the FED and open competing currencies. In a free market cancer would have been cured, and we'd have free energy, instead EXXON & PFiZER own 20000 patents

[mewimi]

@12gdemos Uh, just because you feel like all corruption has come from "Centralized power" that doesn't make it fact. Furthermore "Government protection" of big corporations has nothing to do with libertarian ideology. Infact, quite the opposite, Libertarians want to give corporations free reign, what is worse than having corporations buy politicians? Having corporations have no one to keep them in check, or having corporations have no middleman to go through. Please.

[12gdemos]

@mewimi Another brainwashed liberal blinded by dogmatic conviction. Both parties are owned by bankers, the politicians and the centralized power is what allows the bankers and corporations to rein free, and create monopolies and become oligarchs. I know you think watching MSNBC gives you the illusion your informed just like the idiot neo conservative that watches FOX thinks they know anything. Obama, Clinton, Carter, and LBJ were all whores for the FED, JFK was our last real president

[12gdemos]

@mewimi I suggest you read up on Nikola Tesla, and see what the govt and JP Morgan did to him and his "free energy". Or see what the FDA and big pharma did to Dr Burzynski and his cancer treatments. The world is much more Orwellian then you know, stop being a brainwashed ideological sheep and wake up.  And centralized power isn't "my opinion" you uneducated idiot, it's also the opinion of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Von Gothe, Emmerson, Kant, Locke, Jefferson, Nietzsche, and Machiavelli

[mewimi]

@12gdemos Lawl you are the one that is brainwashed. Furthermore you do not possess enough knowledge about my person to make any judgments about what I believe, or where my information sources are. I have studied libertarianism, it is nothing more than a ploy built by those in power to keep their power, and to get more of it.

Without a government to control a corporation, they can do whatever they want. Don't give me that "they'll do whats right for their reputation" BS

[jscarter79]

If the middle class is being destroyed, then where are they going? Show us the data that says that there are more poor people who weren't previously poor, and not data taken since the recession. I want 20 year data. Good luck finding it.

[TerraDigitalMedia]

@jscarter79 You don't have to look very hard.. want 20 year data go to the census bureau, upon completion go then to the department of labor's website.. not enough? Google wage stagnation.. etcetcetc.. Sorry but your arguing that the middle class isn't slipping obviously because you are middle class and things are working out for you... I'm happy, but don't stick your head in the sand just yet.

[jscarter79]

@TerraDigitalMedia Wage stagnation doesn't equal a "destruction of the middle class," and the labor department relies on studies that refer to the number of people living in "middle class neighborhoods" to describe the "shrinking middle class" and thinks that this perceived decline in the middle class is due to the the decline of unions. I will agree that things are peachy right now, but the middle class isn't going anywhere, and if they are I'd bet that a lot of them are moving up the ladder

[TerraDigitalMedia]

@jscarter79 Well its not my data, and my comment above stands. I don't see how you can look at a flat-lined wage base, a record number of foreclosures per capita, a skyrocketing foodstamp and assistance statistic and hold onto "The middle class if they are going anywhere its up" mentality.. America has a 1% mobility rate.. that ain't up brother... not for the many anyway.

Sorry

[jscarter79]

@TerraDigitalMedia Dude, we're in a recession and we're still in the midst of a housing bubble that is slowly bursting. We're also dealing with the decline in our manufacturing base due to globalization. Everything you just said has an explaination rooted in our current economic situation. but I don't think it means that the middle class in being destroyed.

[TerraDigitalMedia]

@jscarter79 w w w dot tennessean com/article/20111215/NEWS08/31­2150055/America-s-middle-class­-shrinking-census-shows

[jscarter79]

@TerraDigitalMedia Helped me make my point: “There’s no doubt the recession has thrown a lot of people out of work and incomes have fallen,” Rector said. “As we come out of recession, it will be important that these programs promote self-sufficiency rather than dependence and encourage people to look for work.”

[TerraDigitalMedia]

@jscarter79 Tennessean d o t com.. put the dots in the right places and check out the data on this page... again no denying hard data. And if you are going to dismiss this based on how its calculated you might as well say there never was a middle class because this has always been the metric used to gauge the progress of the American citizen... The middle is in decline.. and it was not established by free market businesses.. the Middle is the product of social engineering,

[jscarter79]

@TerraDigitalMedia I don't deny that things are bad, and I can't disagree with the data, but I do disagree with the statement that the middle class is shrinking. I'll put it this way: when times are good and people are doing well, do we ever get articles that claim "the middle class is bulging" or "the middle class is exploding?" I will say that I think that the opportunities that those who aren't poor or rich will be fewer no that we've lost so much of our manufacturing base, but that's a dif

[TerraDigitalMedia]

@jscarter79 sorry, you're wrong about reporting on middle class growth. When employment is low, GDP up and Interest rates stable, the middle's growing and its in everyone's best interest to hype the news...a cause and effect.

Conversely starting in about 05 private sector job creation dropped off and its been MIA ever since. With somewhere between 8 and 10 million "Well Paying" jobs lost, the middle's been the hardest hit and reporting on its been spotty

It is shrinking, its not just semantics

[TerraDigitalMedia]

@jscarter79 unemployment..excuse me

[TerraDigitalMedia]

@jscarter79 send me a message if you want to talk this out some more ....we've completely hijacked this thread and its not fair.. I'll be glad to discuss this all you like..

Thank you and keep working America God Bless you all and may 2012 be our best year ever!!!!!

[TerraDigitalMedia]

The Film Maker seems conflicted to me.. he uses Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul as examples.. at 36 minutes, he decries military spending and says "Military and Banking beasts are eating up money that we could be using rejuvenating the school systems, the health care system, maintaining bridges and roads, developing fusion, solar and ethanol energy technologies allowing saving and capital formation to reduce the costs of products" I'm not against any of this.. but libertarians call me a socialist?

[TerraDigitalMedia]

@TerraDigitalMedia OK Never mind.. this is the problem with Capitalists. They split hairs over who's way is right but then lean on very specific moments in history to support their specific agenda. Alexander Hamilton, was an Industrialist, that believed in central banking, aristocracy, protectionism and he promoted all of this using pseudonyms and aliases. He was antithetical to the free willed democracy of Thomas Jefferson and his "industrialists" Utopia ultimately led to the great depression

[retrop75]

The Cheney/Halliburton thing is a prime example.

[telemetry9]

Ron Paul is not change. He's more of the same - if not worse. He has the vulnerable and sick in his sights. He is developing hatred towards people who are disabled or depend on welfare in order to survive. He wants to whip up tax payers (all of us); against people who can't defend or stand up for themselves.

Illness and poverty ARE NOT a choice and people should not be criminalized because of the inequalities in our societies.

Ron Paul is worse than Bush.

[LordoftheKaty]

@telemetry9 Go troll somewhere else

[telemetry9]

ha - we have to put up with endless videos about ron paul and how brilliant he is. i'm surprised you weren't glad of a diversion from the usual bullshit about lauding up this rather lame duck with a scorpions tail.

activism and waking up is everyone's right - isn't it? or do ron paul supporters get upset when people tell the truth?

Aren't you tired of the "if we vote for the right guy" mentality? You're being conned and lied to. Wake up

[electrostatic1]

@telemetry9 Look, the truth is Ron Paul and Dennis Kuccinich completely agree on the Federal Reserve, Wars of Aggression, Corporatism, and the Bailouts.

They disagree (honestly) on whether the best way to help poor people is through charity or govt programs.

Rep. Kuccinich feels that with private charity too many people can fall through the cracks.

Rep. Paul feels that govt programs always end up corrupted.

NEITHER of them is the enemy, and either would be better than what we have now.

[yakyakyak69]

@electrostatic1 Watch: “G. Edward Griffin: Individualism & Capitalism vs. Collectivism & Monopolies” here on YouTube!

Statist POLITICIANS with the power to Debase, Redistribute & Regulate will ALWAYS benefit THEIR “special interest” campaign backers; Banks, Wall Street, Military-Industrial Complex, Marxist Unions, Giant "Green" Corps, Big Oil, the 50% of people who pay NO taxes etc.

Progressivism = Political Cronyism.

FIAT (counterfeit) debt-currency from the Fed just FUELS THE FIRE!

[TerraDigitalMedia]

@yakyakyak69 And Business allowed to participate through petition in our Democratic process will always create all of the points you've listed. This is not "Progressivism" this is Crony Capitalism turned corporatism turned Fascist. There is nothing Progressive about capitalism, and there has never been a "FREE" market.

Markets do not deliver freedom, they deliver consolidation.

Capitalism is a failure..sorry you all, Communism isn't possible either

Infinite Growth vs. Finite resource is death

[Bodhidharma1986]

@TerraDigitalMedia Yup. That's the only obvious point that destroys all state-systems, capitalist or not. Finite resources on a finite planet means those state-systems are limited and doomed to fail.

[TerraDigitalMedia]

@electrostatic1 Absolutely correct if we are to keep a "Capitalist" society.. we must have regulation (public) regulation.. else the cronyism that is inherent in all business (we all want to help out our friends) runs amok. We cannot look at entitlements without looking at the central banks and the corporate military ... this is where the Tea Party folks by and large lose their way. Starving the poor will not bring back the "Ideal" America.. and it did not exist prior to the central banks either

[TerraDigitalMedia]

@TerraDigitalMedia We have seen wealth redistribution..upward. We have seen Suffering redistributed downward, and the vilification process serves exactly the corporate entities discussed in the film.

GET RID OF THE FED

LIMIT TERMS

BREAK UP THE OLIGARCHIC CORPORATE MASTERS

Pat Buchanan is a Corporate puppet.. and his participation in this film debases it.. other than that I find this film near perfect

[TerraDigitalMedia]

@telemetry9 Exactly... He named his son Rand... Ayn Rand wrote the "Virtue of selfishness" These people call for an end to entitlements.. and then talk about half trillion Military budgets.. we will spend 1.2 trillion in 2012 alone. Again I like much of this film, but Pat Buchanon and Ron Paul are Friedman devote's and are willing corporate servants simply by virtue of their very public opposition to social safety-nets, while pointing a dull finger at corporate Militarism.

[cobias]

This was good until the Ron Paul overload. He gets support from american neo nazis AND wants to deregulate things even more. Thanx but no thanks.

[Wrisky2]

insane philosophy anti fed blames monet suplly and leverage on congress, sya wrong for banks to lend more than they have on deposit, huh? credit cards history challenged baby boomers. vs baby boomers drove world wide economic expansion share with lionel.

[VincenzoPickatelli]

I am constantly amazed at how much of a simpleton Ron Paul is.

[OriginalIntentDoc]

Almost everything the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstraters are addressing is in this film.

[DerStechaDeinaMAMA]

@OriginalIntentDoc But they still dont get that we live in a Corporatism not a Kapitalism. Kapitalism,Real free Markets and a Gold/Silver backed Currency can Save us from Total Gouverment/Bankers controll.

[LordoftheKaty]

@DerStechaDeinaMAMA It's Capitalism

[DerStechaDeinaMAMA]

@LordoftheKaty Just saying it is Capitalism doesn't make it Capitalism. Whats your explication?

When Corporations make the Law it is no Longer Free Kapitalism. Its Corporate Monopolism. Globalisation and Monopolisation are the Problems. Not Capitalism

[LordoftheKaty]

@DerStechaDeinaMAMA No, lol, I'm correcting your spelling. It's spelled capitalism, not kapitalism. I already know all that lol

[thomaserossi]

@OriginalIntentDoc - you mean like when they raped the deaf man at OWS and Code Pink instructed them to keep silent?

[sharlenemusiclover]

Be a "people" instead of a "U.S. Citizen" and take them all to court for monetary damages....check out my vids, How to Make and File a Fee Schedule for Protection Against Corporate Abuse; also, Are You in Jail by Your Own Consent? Peace, Ven

[homer1co]

We should all start building guillotines! Traditionally, 20% of the people have controlled 80% of the wealth. But the rich begin coveting the 20%, and start moving to own that too. Historically, that's when the poor rise up and kill the rich. Until that happens, we are all at the mercy of the banks.

[Riddlerx333x]

7:52 = George Bush's Grandfather with Hitler?

[mvn591014]

Examples of Corporate Fascism were the invasions of the banana republics in Central America by CIA trained guerrillas and later by US troops from 1928 to 1984.

The United Fruit Company, Standard Fruit Company, and Dole heavily lobbied for the Eisenhower administration to use the US military to overthrow leftist governments while, at the same time, seeking to repress workers and peasants struggle for better wages and working conditions in the Caribbean region.