The grim state of the states Pt.1

[RogerwilcoFoxtrot]

Public Education and Infrastructure are our only hope to get out of this mess, we need to invest more, not less.

[Piscivorus]

Public education has emerged as a casualty?

lmao!

Students have been the casualties of public education for decades.

[danger0usknowledge]

In NY the recession actually caught the local

organized crime syndicates by surprise.

Joe Bruno, republican, 80 YO, finally got caught

after all this time. Charlie Rangle, mocrat, 70's,

got caught for minor stuff while rangling for decades.

William Thompson of NYC has been raiding NY pensions for yrs. Hows that pension "investment" in Ireland doing, or not doing? Obama steppes into the RNC trap & now has keep bailing...until the RNC "rescues" us again with Jeb Bush & Liz Cheney. )))

[rickbar123]

we let these bastards sell out our kids

we need to take to the streets

[lyndonb]

Its not about right or left paradigms - both parties will be the death of us through spending and swindling the public through the fed reserve and shipping our jobs overseas

[cidrosmith]

I guess when you walk around long enough with dog shit on your boot you forget it's there.

[theGetRealGuy]

Our Education System is not teaching real life skills

and our Media is aimed at 6 year olds that's probably why we have so many Morons in our diaspera. the whole system needs an overhaul, not just money.

[aSheeple]

Thank god for real news, at least theres a little bit of actual information for us

[olgrunt1]

the same fag is here

[rayallin]

The states going broke is part of the correction that is NEEDED. The states are like inefficient businesses that have no savings and overspend beyond their revenue. The states should NOT get a stimulus , instead they need to get rid of their waste and live within a budget in proportion of their tax base. Government will always spend more than it has, its time they learn to live within their means like the rest of us.

[thesparitan]

you have no idea what that would do and you seem to have no idea what you are talking about. states are not businesses the smae model can not be applied. its like the theory of relativity and QED they dont work for each other just there own scales. take a class and please dont be so ignorant.

[rayallin]

Actually its you who is clueless. If you actually have a job and pay state income tax and own your home and pay property tax you know there are hundreds of thousands of dollars per square mile of state income. The problem is the states waste it and you want the fed (which is us) to collectively bail them out ?Government is the cancer that lives off the back of our hard work and must live within a budget. You quote physics then you should know there is no perpetual motion and no free rides.

[thesparitan]

your missing the whole idea. you so ignorant of economics i dont even know where to begin. just read up a little first before you give advice. 

i cannot believe are actually this ignorant.

[rayallin]

Actually your the 24 year old idealist "useful Idiot" who lacks any fundamental understanding how the real world works and yes I am a student of both of Keynesian vs Austrian economics. Bring it on oh ignorant one who things that states have a never ending right to tax and spend without accountability.

[aSheeple]

"you so ignorant of economics"

"i cannot believe are actually this ignorant."

1) its hard to feel insulted when your grammar sounds like your in an English as a second language class. (im sorry I mentioned it if you actually are)

[aSheeple]

2) current economic theory is not terribly accurate and thus it doesn't really matter if you know it or not. in fact the current recession wasn't even foreseen. Even if we assume that Keynesian economics is reasonably useful, it only looks at transactions, averages, gdp, and the like. it doesn't care that 66% of that wealth is held by 10% of our population, or that 10% of our people are unemployed and have been left without the means to provide for themselves.

[sirellyn]

letsee, 190 billion shortfall. Just how much was that giant embassy in Iraq worth? In fact how much did it cost to keep the troops there for this year?

[thesparitan]

can you find out how much it cost to make and run for the last few years. interesting argument i might have to use it myself

[sirellyn]

Well just this year the US spent 494 billion dollars on defense. That doesn't include the money for the iraq and afgan wars. The embassy is expected to go over 1 billion. On Dec 22nd they passed a new war spending bill that came out to 636 billion dollars.

I guess thats why they had to cut 190 billion...

[thesparitan]

thats fucking disgusting. if we live in a democracy I am Elvis. even someone that supporter the war should be upset with those numbers.

thanks i have copied that and saved it. i could have done the research but i am tired thanks.

[sircesare]

ok ok im not sure if i'm looking at things the right way but i agree with MarquisdeBarrabas when he says that the idiots running our country have been the same idiots that started running it 30 years ago but what i got to say is we need to bring the 60's back where we go out to the streets and demostrate...

[qstendious]

All of the problems discussed in this video are a direct result of statism. So good riddance, the state is almost bankrupt. Time for a tax revolt, the last nail in the coffin.

STATELESS 2010

[sircesare]

but the Federal government in our constitution is not the one responsible for the problems of the state unless it becomes an emergency so why the hell will the Fed government try to bail out states if states can not run their own books correctly...

[FreakishDonQuixote]

What sense would that make? You don't wait until a cancer has reached it's last stage until you treat it.

[ourpangea]

i live in ny state. the only agencies that got an INCREASE in funding, as always, is law enforcment.

[hamletundone]

This is a great opportunity..when the govt. goes completely broke...dollar crash...we can do away with 90% of the Fed govt. Resurrect the constitution and let the people be free again. Death to the empire! Long live the Republic!

[Psilo007]

@hamletundone i think we get owned by banks then?

[john1230]

@hamletundone

They would let the people starve, than give up war, or their power over you.

They know exactly what they are doing.

They're tearing the civilized world down on purpose, to rebuild it under their conditions.

This moment 1 on 6 of US people are relying on food stamps.

They depending completely on the government they despise so much.

That is not a healthy situation.

[lyndonb]

What lies complete and utter BS. Real news is utterly discredited I'm unsubscribing now. Thanks for the heads up. I would like to see a chart showing tax cuts from the states caused these shortfalls. The shortfalls are because states based spending on real estate taxes which they are no longer recieving.

[elbowbiter1]

Dear Lynd,

You are right Lyndon I am unsubscribing too... I am sick to death of this crap. How is this real news if they are getting points of view from people other than corporate financiers and their think tanks? I don't get it. All I know is that poor people should work harder and get a lot less so that I (a wealthy person) can have it even better! Free Markets Rule! Fuck the real news!

Peace,

Biter.

[Schmauey]

What's up with these Keynes Klowns, Real News? Please host interviews with reliable economy and monetary experts like Schiff, Faber et al. You know, the people who told us years ago what would happen while these Keynes Klowns laughed at them...

Gah! At least two books on the shelf behind Heintz had titles with "MACROECONOMICS" visible & that made my jaw clench. I would have cringed, too, if his voice hadn't already taken care of that.

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

Kindly f*ck off to a channel where like-minded geniuses coalesce around internet celebrities like Chiff. Seriously, if you don't like the RealNews, you should go.

Most of us love TheReaNews the way it is.

Another ***** star video, this one.

[Schmauey]

Oooh, have I offended your globalist sensibilities?

TRN USED TO produce decent work. That's why I subscribed on day 1. This chaff is clearly biased to the same monorchid mouthbreathers that got us into this mess.

Interesting how this change occurred right after their slurry of funding requests. I donated because of the work they HAD been doing.

Now I wonder who their *big* sponsors are?

Now, if you personally don't get it, then don't blame me- blame your school, parents, the TV.

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

Don't worry, you didn't offend me.

Clearly the people who TheRealNews talks to - neo-Marxist college professors, UN officials, leftist think tanks - have been in charge of America for the past 30 years, so your anger at them is more than well-directed.

What I would suggest is that, while I try to personally 'get it' (despite my school, my parents and 'the TV'), you kindly f*ck off to a channel that is more in tune with your enlightened views.

Peace.

[thesparitan]

you think that liberals have been in charge in the last 30 years. can i ask a question, are you high and can i have some of that shit. that is some amazing shit. dont hide it light it

[hobo59]

Liberal policies at all levels of Government will always lead to fiscal crisis and insecurity. You can't spend your way out of a financial crisis as our Federal Government is trying to do and it is taking it's toll at the state level as well. The public school system is a prime example of throwing money at problems like poor education results. The more the schools fail to teach our children the more money has been thrown at the problem with little to no success.

[johnlouisville]

Conservative policies of deregulation and tax give-always to the rich/corporations haven't exactly led to paradise on earth. Intellectual conservatism is dead...and in the USA exists as oligarchs parading around as faux populist "common men" to trick the masses into voting against their own interests....mostly from contrived fear and resentment.

[hobo59]

So I get it, it's Bushes fault, right comrade ? lol

Look it is a very simple thing to understand. Fact 1.)Detroit is in shambles.

Fact 2.) Democrats controlled the city council.

Fact 3.)There have been Democratic Administrations for the last 30 years in charge of not only Detroit, but the state on Michigan.

Final Fact 4.) It was the leaderships responsibility to keep the city from crumbling.

So you can try to pass the blame off on who ever or whatever but the simple facts cannot be refuted !

[johnlouisville]

Detroit has unique problems...so criticizing it is unfair...the city had back to back race riots in 1967 and 1968...by far the worse of any US city during that time. The city has never really recovered...and probably never will...regardless of which political party runs the city.

[hobo59]

@ Johnlouisville I believe in the KISS principle, Keep It Simple Stupid ! Again who was in power during the race riots, Republicans or Democrats ? If you answer Republicans then you haven't done your research and your ignorance is showing. If you answer the Democrats which would be the Correct answer. Then it was those Democrats in Power at that time who are responsible for even those race riots !

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

Still polluting the comments pages with your right-wing shit?

Get a life, boy.

[kmg501]

The Keynesians have been thoroughly discredited and exposed. It's interesting that the so called "Real news" keeps going to these people who have been proven completely wrong...

[freesk8]

Wow, this would be great if it reduced state government employment!

I hope it leads to more people homeschooling or attending private schools. We need a privatization of education.

And I'm a high school math teacher. Private school of course!

States must cut spending. Yay!

[rayme4raw]

Is this guy serious?

"There's a lack of hiring at the state level that is contributing to the unemployment crisis."

The states and cities borrowed money during the good years. He states that the states cannot borrow. Here in Illinois, they borrowed in 2009 in order to balance their budget, what is he talking about?

Stop with the Keynesian economists already, they don't have the solutions.

Real news is looking like MSM.

[evanescenselover123]

I get these videos by email. Why don't you post a URL to your Tour Tube post of this video? You make it too hard for me to psot this on another forum.

[ThingNation]

we pay too much for school administrators is why we pay so much per student, we spend less on the actual students than you think ... bertly71

[bertly71]

@ThingNation Good point. We can do better with some outside the box thinking. Everyone out here in the real world is getting by with less, government should do the same. Spend the money smartly.

[blackiron60]

It looks like the Domino Theory applies to the United States today in a way that it never applied to South-East Asia fifty years ago.

[bertly71]

@blackiron60 Good point. I had never thought of it that way.

[ferrozm]

good! cut more government bureaucrat jobs and dumb ass public school teachers!!

[dianarose13]

190 billion? 636 billion was just pledged to the wars! The Federal Government chooses to continue war rather than stabilize state and local governments.

[StevoJN]

Your country is being destroyed from within like a virus. Its flowing on to my country now too (Australia) - we have to cut 20% from my company's budget

[restlys]

in a free market capitalist system, when the private sector fails, the public sector pays.

Wait what?

[jaytheory]

private sector will always fail, so will the public sector,  at least if you get everyone on the same page the public sector can be somewhat fair....better incentives

[btigtime2]

The worst thing we every did to destroy our freedoms was to allow the government to educate our children... Teach your children to mistrust our Govenrment and we might get this horrible Government back right in 20 years

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

Learn to spell 'government' and maybe your children (doubt it) will trust you.

[Tomorer]

They cut state jobs and increase federal jobs. Typical.

[hobo59]

@MarquisdeBarrabas So stupid, your still playing teacher even on this video. Lol What a chump !

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

You must be one of the little worms who thumbed down my 'meaningful exchange' comment.

[mrpatience2007]

190 billion dollars, bah thats nothing, just a lil bailout is needed and we can all go back to our football games.

[IPlayWithFire135]

These videos draw nutty Libertarians like lamps draw bugs in summer.

[DastardlyDimwit]

@IPlayWithFire135 they interviewed Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky..they're pretty radical leftists as far as I'm concerned. This network is preeeetty balanced or it at least it makes an attempt to be.

[intrepgun]

i wouldn't consider zinn or chomsky radical at all. they're both very much in line with the rational opinions in this country and the world. they may seem radical to those who are highly propagandized by the state, the owners, etc.

[DastardlyDimwit]

Well...exactly xP Radical in the sense of different, not incorrect. If they are radicals then so am I. I meant no insult to them for certain.

[Renegen1]

Pretty radical leftists? So what's a guy in the "center" to you, Rush Limbaugh? In fact, why don't you do away with the whole left-right paradigm, it's bullshit.

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

I think they're trying to boycott any kind of meaningful exchange between progressives taking place in the comments section.

Seriously if there's one thing these maggots feel more threatened by than the Big Bad Guvmint, it's a rational discussion between intelligent people.

[intrepgun]

i don't fear the government. there's a saying going round in south america, 'sometimes it is necessary to expand the floor of the cage before you break down the bars.'

i agree. and i'm active in government when it matters to me, and more active to make myself less dependent on the government in my own daily life, simply because that is how i choose to live.

i base my initial statement on opinion polls and stats, and as 'radical' is a fairly elastic term, i place center on the majority opinion.

[brder4ev]

It is not constitutional for the Government to control the economy in any manner. Obama should be impeached for stealing money from us and giving it to the Gangster Banksters

[updownleftrightinout]

No, but the bank bailout should never have happened. IStill, they did pay it back. So it was a good bet.

The wars, on the other hand, are a giant sucking black hole that increases debt unnecessarily. Surely you can see they were a bad call.

[AreYouConcerned]

@updownleftrightinout

The companies paid back the government loans, but were allowed to tease up the loans 30x over the loan. (no wonder they were able to pay it off) According to bloomberg news the banker bailout has cost the us taxpayers over 27 trillion in the last year. Both parties sold us out. America is now a third world country and very few even realize it.

[bboucharde]

updownleftrightinout,

Yes, these oil wars & proxy wars for Tel Aviv are going to be expensive--The Feds will have to borrow (during six years or so) around 3 $trillion for the Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Somalia, & Yemen wars, Predator strikes, Black Ops, etc.--not including the $700 billion per year for "normal" defense budget. My numbers are approximate, but they illustrate the HUGE expenditures for the military-industrial complex. However, this money does not disappear--See page 2.

[bboucharde]

updownleftrightinout, Page 2: So, my question or thought is this: These massive federal "defense" expenditures pump federal contract money to military contractors & military bases in those parts of the US that are militarized. So, even though these massive defense budgets are maintained by federal borrowing, they pump money into places like San Diego, Norfolk, Orange County, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio---While they SUCK money out of non-militarized places. What do you think?

[minteko]

America should try a two party political system, so they have a choice when they vote. lol

[Paetaor]

"It's the governments job stimulate economic activity."

WRONG!!!

The government has no money. It's the peoples job to create jobs.

The government can only take money away from productive activities.

[thesparitan]

you need to learn more about economics. without the simulus bills this naton would be in a great depression.

[Paetaor]

Without the stimulus bills this nation would be in a great depression....

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Do you seriously believe that?

The last time there were equivalent programs was when? Right, the 1930s and we know how that worked out.

Obama will be as big a failure as Roosevelt unless he wakes up.

[IPlayWithFire135]

What your ilk fail to mention, however, is that the New Deal era was the most prosperous time for the US. When the American right moved right, the middle class started to lose ground.

[thesparitan]

there is no reason arguing with someone without reason. you are too ignorant of these things to engage with in conversations.

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

'Obama will be as big a failure as Roosevelt'

If by 'Roosevelt' you mean 'Herbert Hoover': could be.

If by 'failure' you mean 'success': he wishes.

You libertarian idiots keep trying to destroy America, don't you? Well, maybe one day...

[Idefaulttofreedom]

You can't blame these critics for their lack of knowledge in economics. Most of them went to public (Government) schools and I would bet 99% do not own their own business and support themselves off of it.

If government has been taking care of them their whole life-of course they're going to expect it to keep taking care of them. Self reliance does not even enter the equation.

[FreakishDonQuixote]

Idefaulttofreedom

What has owning a business has to do with understanding micro and macro economic concepts? Right, nothing. I doubt you know shit about economics. You probably don't even have a degree in economics, but you watched 100h of youtube videos... I guess that makes you an expert.

[intrepgun]

you don't need to know much about anything at all to have a firm grasp of the concepts needed for any socio-economic happening. a child knows everything necessary. things have been overcomplicated by those on the 'inside' of these systems, so as to close out participation by the standard person, the worker. but there's nothing involved that people couldn't deal with.

[Renegen1]

you talk big and yet you just work for a college. So much for owning your own business. I agree with some of the things you said.. the tennis analogy.. but tell me what your economic ideas are, probably just as dogmatic and ignorant as everyone here.

I think it was Keynes who said that even the most rational well meaning man is frequently slave to some long dead economist's ideas. In other words, you are all sheep. (and that includes the libertarians)

[mikem1234]

@Idefaulttofreedom So what I'm getting from this is that those who aren't privately educated and/or aren't businesspeople automatically have no say in the economy? Maybe that part of the problem - economic matters in the era of globalization are far too complex for the average person to understand. Most people can read Adam Smith and understand the basics, but how many can understand the international finance system? Over-complexity breeds classes of elites, people who will think for the masses.

[Paetaor]

Make the schools more efficient and reduce the need to borrow 10's of thousands to go to school.

The governments willingness to fund and lend for education just increases the amount the schools spend on programs that produce no value.

[dmp079]

The policies over the last 30 years by the retard policies of the government at local and federal levels has made it to where the top 1% controls the bottom 99%. Trickle-down economics my ass!

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

A nation of Haves and Have Nots in the making. Thank goodness for neoliberalism and the apathetic masses, eh?!

It's no wonder educated Americans are jumping ship and moving to Europe, though things are also getting grim on this side of the pond.

[Pussymcfats]

why is this news? Everything is going according to plan.

[StephinRazin]

Exactly. Just wait. The middle class must be completely destroyed for the conditions to be right. We must be so broken economically, morally, and emotionally so that we beg to be ruled. It has to be bad enough for a global central bank to "save" all national economies. Once it gets at 40% unemployment nationally, and inflation causes shortages we will break. Americans I am sorry to say have no backbone. When it gets bad enough we will get on are knees for our global aristocracy and bow down.

[TheSkinzilla]

@spikebravo, I'd have to search for statistics, but I'm fairly sure it's the administrative costs of school boards that are the big problem. I agree that there are incompetent teachers, and they have too much vacation/sick time, however financially I'm fairly sure the big salaries and costs of operating large school boards are the biggest culprit. It's like health care here in Canada, the cost problems aren't due to doctors/nurses, it's the hospital boards/administrations.

[Pomeray8]

@TheSkinzilla @spikebravo: Another admin problem is that school is now so full of test preparation, which only looks at memorization and not retention. I agree with both of you, but I think the way schools are is partly intentional, to keep kids subservient to their future wage slavery. Because of one great teacher I had in 11th grade, I got interested in questioning the status quo, and politics. So, it's not all bad. She was a diamond in coal.

[ZedAlfa273]

Legalize all drugs, and tax them heavily.

Release all non-violent drug offenders.

Cut defense spending and end the so-called 'wars'.

This would be a start.

[Gunnarsguns]

Maybee if we are lucky the whole education racket will implode. We would be better off if it did.That dude needs speech therapy....i think some teacher spent to much after school time with him in the broom closet

[anamericanstory]

Exactly what government wants an educated population?

[RCinPAWA]

Bingo!

[chris3443]

Agreed...

[chris3443]

Government violence in action again.

[gringodeltoro1]

USA in 2010 = URRS in 1990

[rring88]

I always love how bad the contradictions are in our system.

[RyRyVids]

So says wolfgang0070 the...

[freedomfighterone]

Reduce the cost of education. The current corrupt system is not sustainable.

[bertly71]

@freedomfighterone They could educate our children with much less money if they learned to manage their resources better.

[j0hnwi11iams]

Oh yeah, pay the teachers less and have more students per teacher. Then complain about how poor it is. Typical brain dead republican talking points.

[bertly71]

Nobody said anything about paying the teachers less. We spend more than all of the industrialized nations per student, and rank at the bottom of the list in educating the students. We can do better.

[mediasmoker]

That could be said about every part of Govt, but the system wasn't designed to do that. It was designed to make people smart enough to pull the levers and push the buttons, yet dumb enough to not recognize the agendas of the disinformant agents, and those who wish to control the masses. The numbers will continue to increase, as the vast majority will become even more enslaved and dependent on that system. Few will recognize this, and most will surrender what little freedom they have for safety.

[Pomeray8]

@mediasmoker There is a chance for us to change, and I think we are changing (quite a few of us). With the internet, vast amounts of information are free like never before. I agree with you, but I think there is hope yet, if we can band together on the internet, start thinking differently, and then start getting active in the streets. I know of few whom fully trust the gov't, but have been fragmented like the rest of us behind TV's and want created PR-based consumerism.

[bertly71]

"When you rob Peter to pay Paul, Paul will always be your advocate." " It is easy to be generous with other peoples money." We are at the tipping point where the takers outnumber the givers.

[lovingit1000]

@freedomfighterone - Republican motto: Make prisons, not schools!

[DavidAKZ]

When are you Americans going to take your country back ?

[dangerouslytalented]

@DavidAKZ It's in hock. To China, thanks to deregulation.

[PersonalJesus348]

I know right?

[krum369]

@DavidAKZ Some Americans do want our old country back, Sadly we are outnumbered and most Americans are busy with stupid stuff or are uneducated about the situation, even fewer well do nothing.

[zoticus1]

very soon

I PROMISE YOU

[imnotanrtard1]

After the next season of american idol is over.

[mediasmoker]

Perhaps, after people realize that the two party system has been Hi............jack.....ed, or when hell freezes over.

...I'm leaning toward the latter.

[mediasmoker]

Oh wait...Sarah Palin has #1 selling book...so we might be okay. Yhea!!!!!!!

[rickbar123]

Well the boys at Goldman Sachs want the public stupid. It makes it easy to steal when the folks cant read.