This site is such bullsh*t. All it is, is a conservative leaning website that's in favor of further tax cuts for the wealthy.
News flash: we've had the Bush era tax cuts for years now...and if these tax cuts truly did help industry leaders create new American jobs, it would have done so by now. So where are the jobs?
Everyone with half a god damn brain can see these companies are not using their money saved by tax cuts to create new jobs.
@clarkcountysfinest Looks like somebody's a drug addict!!And drugs dont solve anything..once the effect is gone, your problemas are still there. Trust me, i know. My brother used to do a bunch of stuff bc he thought it would get rid of them....
P.S. Idc if you share your opinion..just try not to use cuss words...Thamks(:
im sorry this is the worst commercial i have ever seen.. yea i get the analogy but really?? everytime it comes on i debate throwing a brick threw the screen.
What a stupid commercial! Government finance is nothing like drug addiction. Instead of just cutting spending on those whose depend on it, Senators and Congressmen could stop coddling multi-billion dollar banks. Last year, Bank of America recieved a nearly $1,000,000,000 tax return! While it sat on $17Bil in US profit overseas. It's cheaper for a company to move $ overseas and call it reinvestment than to pay it's corporate income tax. End corporate tax loopholes and pass a transaction tax!
50s, When you control the creation and circulation of the medium of exchange you are 'the power'..the government. Our Constitutional government wrongfully farmed out is authority to monetize the people's production as debt-free wealth to them to the banking industry that monetizes our production as unpayable interest-bearing debts. We are not governed by our government but by the banking industry. Debt is the only 'tool' they need. We need to return that power to the people.
Dear 50sRefugee, I understand what you are saying. At the same time, wealth is what we produce. Debt is what we use for money. The two are not the same.
It is very difficult to have good conversation in e-mail threads. Please feel free to call me and I will try to help you understand how they have switched our medium of exchange from Wealth to Debt and why that is the cause of what's happening. Gregory K. Soderberg 507-440-1015.
Ah, I see your website wealthmoney org, and I'm watching this video from that site:
watch?v=0c7QCinZNgA
It seems to me that I'm generally in agreement with you on the wealth versus debt question. In that context, your initial comment makes perfect sense.
However, rather than saying that substituting debt for wealth is the cause of what's happening, I'd say that it is merely one tool that governments use to concentrate power into their hands.
@gs6285gs: "difficult to have good conversation in e-mail threads"
Youtube does a poor job organizing threads for conversations, it's true, but I'd prefer to keep the debate public, where it began. Also, I personally find it easier to understand arguments and order my thoughts in text than in speech; just a quirk in my wiring.
I should clarify: a properly constituted govt takes a tiny fraction of wealth from its citizens to protect their ability to generate more wealth against enemies "foreign and domestic". The U.S. govt has gone far beyond that, and its agents seem to believe that the citizens exist to serve it, rather than the other way round.
hes saying how fucked our economy is. we keep borrowing money we canot payback. and we still continue. go to new america 15 . com you will see what hes talking about.
some of you guys are retarded. its just making a point. You don't really think theyre saying take advice from a drug addict. Perhaps a recovering drug addict. But its just making a point. you sensitive fucks.
To all the people that want to talk shit about this drug addict or any other drug addict you should think about when you were a kid, like you didn't experimented. Or maybe try and think what the fuck they had to go through growing up, what life they had to live before deciding that using drugs could be a way for them to forget the pain that they had to deal with. they didn't just wake up one day and decide that "oh, I think I want to get loaded today." for the people that talk shit, FUCK YOU!!!!
@clarkcountysfinest HEY i am sorry if you had so much pain . I also actually always felt sorry fro drug addicts because i knew that they must have been hurt and want to forget the pain . But there are also many people who just do it for trying and get caught .
I hope you feel better. Please try not to use bad 4 letter words .
It's like saying the GDP and GNI are the same thing... what I earn and spend has nothing to do with the government's debt... "To borrow less, you need to spend less..." ummm... redundant quote.
Well. when the economy gets bad, one of the best austerity measures is cutting teachers pay! Cannot wait to get out of High School, I am not learning anything useful in Florida.
You can't learn anything from this Junkie. He doesn't even know what it is we actually use for money, how it's created and put into circulation and how that effects our lives. Try to contact and talk with those that created this video and you can't do it.
Spending is not the problem. The root of the problem is that it all has to be borrowed before it can be spent by anyone. All money (numbers) are now created by private comercial banks for their personal profit when they make government, business or individuals loans. "Money is created when loans are issued and debts incurred. Money is extinguished when loans are repaid."-John B. Henderson, Economics Price Specialist, Congressional Research Service.
Borrowing and Debt is the problem not Spending. Special interests lobbied to switch our medium of exchange from an evidence of wealth to evidence of debts owed the private banking system which creates and loans all new money into circulation and uncreates it when it's repaid. No borrowing,no money. The solution is to spend all new money into circulation in lieu of taxation or bonding to build and maintain our public roads and bridges. Convert our medium of exchange back to an evidence of wealth.
You know, this is a great example. America need to get its shit together. China sees the U.S. as its cash cow, and as soon as we're done, they're moving on. And what worries me, is that once we're weakened, china will have no problem invading us.
You know what? 'eff this, i'm going to Japan! i don't care!
Washington KNOWS what they are doing and when they are finished there will be nothing left to "vote" about.. our nation has reached its end.. what will come from Her ashes only time will tell.. now is a good time to seek to make your peace w/God
I wish Congress would leave their little lives for a week and spend it in the shoes of a poor or middle class citizen. Maybe they'll learn how to truly help America, then.
WWPMMediaNet, My point is that every penney anyone in the world spends regardless if it's a County Business or Individual is borrowed. I've done the research. I know how America's money was changed from a debt-free representation of wealth to an evidence of unpayable interest-bearing debt. Call me anytime to discuss it. 507-440-1015.
Come on! 41 cents of every dollar borrowed from China? 100% of what we spend is borrowed. Our money has been changed from wealth to debt. All money is created and put into circulation as loans and uncreated when repaid. If we don't borrow, there is no money.
When debt is used for money there will be debt and lots of it. The solution? Spend the numbers into circulation as a final debt-free payment earned for production that benefits the entire public. Wealth-money. The money of Free People.
@gs6285gs not true - Sweden, Japan, Australia, Korea, Vietnam, Germany, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France, Poland and Portgual own the other debts which comprise of the other 59 cents of every dollar. Do your research, dumbass, before you jump to conclusions.
Ron Paul is the last hope for America, he is the only one with common sense, logical thinking and consistency. This man just speaks the truth even if its not what we want to hear. The system is corrupted by greedy politicians who cant put their country first before their own political party which is why i think we need to do away with democrats and republicans, they both are ruining this country, but until then Ron Paul all the way.
with 7,000,000,000 people on earth it sounds like we need another black plague, or at least another hitler to come in and take care of blood sucking members of our society.
I think it has to do a lot more with our social problems. humans have infested the earth. if you don't have the money to feed yourself you should die if you don't have the money for school you don't go to school if you cant afford lifesaving medication then you should die. I'm so sick and tired of this obama care and I'm 22 years if age with a job and no heath care.
Both the analogy & the main point of the commercial are wrong. 'Raising the debt ceiling' is not the problem, the spending is. The spending is the 'hit'. Raising the debt ceiling is paying the bills. If you don't pay the drug dealer you end up dead just like the economy would be if the debt ceiling was not raised. Not paying credit card bills does not improve your financial situation.
On China, do people really fear a centrally controlled communist country will pass the US economically? No way.
Sham... This entire ad is a sham. 10.2 trilly is owed back to the american public as of October 2011. China (including all foreign govt) doesn't loan us s**t. They purchase bonds with the USD they EARNED, EXPORTING to the USA. Why? Because they don't need a currency that's not used in another country, and critical commodities are paid for in USD only. Wake up people!
After reading some of these post. Apparently people don't know what a analogy is. Wow!!!! Shows how stupid some people really are to what's going on with the higher ups in government. That or you are a bunch of sheep out for the wolf. This video nails it! It's a analogy of what's going on in the government!
Some people just don't get it, No thats not what got us where we are at in the first place, do some research, and stop paying so much attention to cnn! America's problems root from to much government.. Thomas Jefferson said it best..."The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." nuff said!
America should listen to a drug addict? Isn’t that how we got into this economic mess in the first place? Six yrs ago GW’s war was estimated, by a Harvard governmental finance instructor and a Nobel Prize winning economist, as costing us over $2 trillion. We currently owe China $1.17 trillion. Not raising the recent debt ceiling would have caused us to default on our loans and raise our interest rates, causing us to spend MORE. Let’s listen to a drug addict. It worked so well the first time.
The gross U.S. debt is approaching a level equivalent to 90 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, the level at which growth has historically declined.
here is something. Why should Washington listen to you?I'd rather listen to someone who went to school and did something with their life rqather spend all their money on drugs and then bitch that they have no money
@Chris22090 That's not the point. The point is that if you are in debt you don't borrow money to get out of it. Borrowing more money puts you deeper in debt and why have some foreigner make what we can make our self because its cheaper but we lose jobs so we cant buy the product anyway.
Let's look at the operational reality of a fiat monetary system. Govt. issues the currency you use? Yes. So if a govt. issues an entire population currency to use, there is no need to borrow it form anyone. They, after all, create it to begin with. This ad is a straight up lie.
@dav7612r If you print $1.7 trillion per year you'll have massive inflation; the money will rot like potatoes and no one will want to take it, much less hold it for any length of time.
Inflation is controllable through monetary policy. it goes up... it goes down. The government does not borrow from anyone. We reside in a fiat monetary system. Money is a "creation of the state". It is CREATED, NOT borrowed by the federal govt. If the govt. didn't create money you wouldn't have any to spend, period. You also have to consider the amount in savings and population expansion. As people save $ is withheld from circulation. Its far more complex than "debt".
@dav7612r "Inflation is controllable through monetary policy."
Yes, by raising interest rates and not printing money.
"It is CREATED, NOT borrowed by the federal govt."
It is both. The reason the US government is $15 trillion in debt is Because if they printed $15 trillion a loaf of bread would cost $20.
Little green pieces of cotton paper with dead statesmen on them have no intrinsic worth and produce no wealth; they are a medium of exhange. If you print, you get inflation.
@dav7612r "If the govt. didn't create money you wouldn't have any to spend, period."
Bollocks on every level.
Money predates the existance of government.
Money doesn't dissappear, it just changes ownership. Nobody wants little funny green paper notes for their own sake; they want to exchange them for goods and services. I am not dependent on the government printing paper notes; that just depreciates the value of the paper notes I get.
Speaking of "massive inflation", where is it? I've been hearing "massive inflation" all my life. Where is it? This is why the Fed does the things it does. Control.. Check and balances. Don't you think with two QE's and the "twist" inflation would have reared it's ugly head by now???? C'mon! I love the inflation arguers!
@dav7612r The government ISN'T printing that much; it is borrowing to the tune of ~$1.7 trillion/year. What the fed prints is pissed away trying to keep insolvent institutions afloat and reinflating a bubble.
YOU proposed printing that money.
Most money in the economy is NOT fed notes; it is bank money, and that's imploding.
We had massive inflation; that was the housing and commodities bubbles. We SHOULD be having deflation.
The dollar has lost 97% of its value since 1913. That's inflation.
@dav7612r So we dont borrow from China? A foreign country dont make what you buy? Foreign countries dont get our jobs because of cheap labour? Your lying to yourself
@dav7612r So we dont borrow from China? A foreign country dont make what you buy? Foreign countries dont get our jobs because of cheap labour? Your lying to yourself
You can spit numbers like anybody, but can you break down those numbers to who that $ is actually owed to? Once you figure it out you might change your mind.
@RandomPoet86 The U.S. has a lot of debt but not relative to its income. Debt as an abstract number is not very helpful. I could owe a billion dollars and be in big trouble, but when the U.S. government owes a trillion dollars, it's a lower ratio of income to debt so it's not in big trouble. The bigger issue is this: I can't print money, so I actually have to pay off my debts. The U.S. *can* print money, so it can slowly default via inflation without causing much disruption in the short term..
@RandomPoet86 A simpler answer would be this: If I owe you a ton of money but can't pay you back, who is in trouble? Me or you! Not me. I got a lot of free stuff and you got a lot of IOUs. That's why China is screwed, not us.
@jfpress Interesting view, but what do you think will happen when China comes to collect and we have no money to give them? What will they take instead? I mean let's face it, no one would be happy with IOU's forever.
@RandomPoet86 Remember, China IS getting paid. The U.S. has not (not do I believe will it ever) failed to pay the coupon or redeem the par value of U.S. government debt. China gets dollars when it sells stuff to us and has to do something with those dollars, so they buy stuff denominated in dollars (the most obvious of which is our debt). They don't have much of a choice. It's not like they "like" lending us this money. But we won't technically default. We'll inflate the debt away.
Seriously? We create the money! It's is called the "US Dollar" isn't it? China earned their USD through their own exports to the US. They then place that $ into bonds. There's no such thing as the United States "running out" of money you morons. WE PRODUCE THE $ WE USE.
The Govenment is to big and while They sit in their big house and doing nothing people are loosing their life outside. Their greed has gotten the best of them. This Is one reason why are economys so bad.
God do I hope I'm wrong about this, but Gold hit 1800+ yesterday. Does anyone realize what this means? We are in SERIOUS shambles, but everyone walks around, closing their eyes, thinking that if they don't worry about it, it'll just magically go away. We don't need more doctors, lawyers, cashiers, small businesses, we need FARMERS. Because, God help us if it gets to this point, but I don't want the economy to get so bad that someone comes to my house, gun pressed against my head, needing food.
Teabaggers look at a 'drug addict' as human debris, a drag on our society and blight on culture. Small wonder Murdoch/Koch plutocrats use this disturbing visual to frighten people into thinking it's about 'spending too much' (on Social Security, Medicare, Schools, etc.) instead of the REVENUE lost to the Bush Tax Cuts and Corporate Evasion ($2.8 TRILLION+).
Does anybody else see how ironic this advert is? Drug Addicts cut all extraneous spending to afford their drug addiction which is why they live squalor. So Washington should cut all spending so we can live in squalor like the junkies? YOU MUST BE JOKING! It's our demand for high quality and willingness to spend the money that creates our high standard of living. This moron want to choke the economy by cutting all spending!
@iMaDeMoN2012 I'm pretty sure that most of the plans involved cutting out welfare programs like Medicare, instead of taxing the obscenely rich and stopping buying shiny new fighter jets. So this is still apt.
@999newaccount No the plans don't...that is just the bullshit they sell to stupid people. What the plans really do is increase corporate welfare and make corruption legal. Yes, I'm saying you are stupid!
to bad we have tons of billionaires in this country that have so much money they could never touch it no matter how much they spend in a lifetime. money that just sits in the bank... like oprah when she dies she will still have hundreds of billions, in her bank and where will it go ? not to the economy.
Too bad it makes no mention of how China is addicted to counterfeiting the western world's products and stealing intellectual properties for profit. Yet, we are constantly being bombarded by this kind of nonsense designed to have us think we are indebted to the Chinese. Wrong!
Government is NOT a business, and social programs are NOT narcotics.
Speaking of narcotics...wasn't the CIA caught importing them?
@jelinto Um, the US is HEAVILY indebted to the Chinese. You don't borrow trillions of dollars off of somebody without becoming indebted, that's its literal definition.
You can't steal billions worth of intellectual properties, counterfeit billions more worth of goods, and export tonnes upon tonnes of worthless (and even sometimes hazardous & toxic) goods, that never serve the purpose in which they were intended...without people with their heads screwed on properly, saying WTF!!???
And again, social programs and infrastructure are NOT narcotics. Only a right-wing lunatic would make that analogy.
I only came here because I'm so used to clicking "skip this ad" that i just ran on automatic. I clicked the button even though i was interested in the ad. Oops...
did you guys know that the U.S. has lost $35 Trillian in income to abortion! not trying to step on toes but the fact of the matter is that the money that the Government loses from having less Citizens is HUGE! we could've paid our debt TWICE and still had trillions to spare! so...what do you think. wether you think abortion is wrong or not the fact is it has contributed to less income on our nations part! yes I agree washington needs to adjust it's spending plan but we could so much more!
@braveheart6991 Considering who it is that normally has an abortion--the poor, the drug addict, the teen in high school, etc.--it seems more likely that the U.S. saves more in welfare payments than it would have made in taxes from these children who were never born.
@minowekay if you look it up the amount spent in welfare is around $500-600 billion...COMPARED TO $35 trillion!
now lets see here that means that...we would still have $34.4 TRILLION to work with! that sounds pretty good to me! what about you? now even if we subtract 14 trillion we still have $20.4 trillion to work with! so...your point?!
Does anyone else see the irony (real irony, not Alanis Morissette irony) in this ad criticizing government spending from the perspective of a drug addict, when the US government is the primary sponsor of drug rehabilitation facilities?
Not to mention the wealth of other idiocies in this commercial. Wont even get into that now.
¬.¬ Rehab? You mean the revolving door that is like our prison system?
I got some news for you. I had relatives that went through those concentration camps and each of them went back to the habit. And then they went back to see what went wrong...Then they do it again and again. Not not just my relatives... But with everyone who thinks that rehab is the solution...No DEATH is the only rehab... I rather have them close down if they can't help anyone Its my Tax dollars
Look, sorry to here about your relatives, but the fact is that most studies find rehab (depending on the kind) to be at least moderately successful with regards to relapse. Even on a broader social level, they tend to be associated (again, depending on the kind) with drops in violent and non-violent crime. Anyway, I wasn't attempting to argue for the effectiveness of rehab. Just pointing out yet another incongruity in the amazing tower of stupidity that is his commercial.
I believe that a person wants to quit, and will go to rehab to do it. But there are places that call themselves a rehab center and yet they do nothing to prevent the revolving door of death. I just believe that funding should be given to Organization that are effective towards recovery. Ex: For every patient they cure throughout the year they can obtain a lump sum of money. in 5 years they can get a larger amount by the people who are still clean.
Completely agreed. If they don't have any real incentive to actually do a good job with helping recovery (which many don't), then it just doesn't happen. Most rehab facilities definitely do need an overhaul change in their methodology as well as a change in exactly how they are funded.
If our country is an addict, we are the most productive drug addict in all of history. However, we could definitely do a better job of caring for the people around us. So really, do we want a drug dealer to teach us how to be selfish jerks and break promises like those we made to our nation's seniors, or do we want to start making millionaires pay their fair share of taxes?
The Actor is Matthew Vincent Ambrosino, and he absolutely kills this thing...say what you want, but the guy makes you sit up and listen...and think a bit...not only is he speaking from a junkie perspective, but he's speaking for the youth of America...show this thing to as many young people as possible...WAY TO GO DUDE
Watching some of you commenters engage in name-calling instead of discussing the real issue of our nation's disgraceful fiscal situation makes me want to barf. Please get serious, and get off your partisan high horses. We're all in this together.
Now back on topic. This ad is completely accurate and realistic and we are only fooling ourselves if we think that our debtors are not going to ever call our notes do. We are loosing the very sovereignty that this country was founded on and it's time to quit slinging mud at the synthetic "other side" and get real!
@biwmtraveler Listening to you is like KKK guy talking about blacks. U are hopelessly biased. Can't we agree A LOT of politicians take money and do favors. Every party is just as bad. I don't know why we can't get a law banning it. Tea Party are only ones that will push for stuff like that. Big Biz bleeds us dry more than GOV? That logically makes no sense. Ur a SOCIALIST. Maybe u didn't know that? Bush was REP but still a big gov. "Progressive" type. Never woulda got Tea Party support.
@biwmtraveler Wow. Are u insane or misinformed? Who told you all of this. Are you visiting MoveOn.org and Media Matters? And you're attacking FOX news? I personally compared the diff. networks on stories from AP and watched coverage. I stopped watching all other networks about 5 years ago. DIsgusting. People died for free press. Many countries still don't have it. People repeat stuff they hear but they can't name one biased thing FOX news does. I have a laundry list for the other networks.
@scifi3dzoo LOL, 'can't name one biased thing FoxNews does!" That is the funniest thing I have ever heard. The Daily Show basically makes it's living off of showing footage of Fox News contradicting itself/tying itself into pretzels trying to be on both sides of an issue depending on who is in office at the moment.
@biwmtraveler Plus, with FoxNews being specifically created to provide a conservative viewpoint, it is automatically biased. I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me how every single one of the many other competing networks have somehow come together to form a secret 'liberal agenda'. Please, what a joke. It's always true of conservatives that they complain facts that contradict their ego-centric lazy point of view must be biased.
@biwmtraveler That's why they hate the media, the courts, the university system, science and anything but Fox & Religion, since those are the 2 areas where you can make things up.
@biwmtraveler If you think that Faux News is a "Conservative Viewpoint" then you are a total moron. They are only self-proclaimed conservatives but neo-cons is more like it. That's why they cut out part of Ron Paul's speech when they reaired the 08 Debates. What he said went against all the programming and propaganda that the network stood for. biwmtraveler is right to an extent, but it's not the fault of religion or politics; it is the fault of corruption and ignorance.
@furthermore, Rupert Murdoch is not even a natural born US Citizen and yet these fools blindly hang off of every single world that his corrupt "news" company says. There is so much double speak and hypocrisy in Faux News that it's just absurd. As for all the other networks having a "liberal agenda" well which ones aren't owned by GE again? I think these buzz words like liberal and conservative, democrat and republican are just thrown around to have a fall guy to blame for all the economic woes.
I believe in the values and documents our country was founded on, if that's liberal then so be it. As far as people that want to talk about fair, I don't see how it's "fair" to tax one person more than another because of their achievements, You want fair, put a flat tax rate on all products and stop taxing everything else. That would fix any "illegal Immigrant" complaints along with biased class taxing. Not to mention fixing the numerous "wtf-taxes?!?"
If you got proof somebody is doing some illegal sue them. You don't like how they do business don't buy their product. Don't like how they treat you work somewhere else. It's not Obama's or anybody else in government job to make life "fair". All they do is screw up everything they touch. Government is way too big right now. Too invasive in our lives. And all the Democrats can think of is making it all much much bigger. It's their ideology. So we'll see you guys at the voting booths.
This site is such bullsh*t. All it is, is a conservative leaning website that's in favor of further tax cuts for the wealthy.
News flash: we've had the Bush era tax cuts for years now...and if these tax cuts truly did help industry leaders create new American jobs, it would have done so by now. So where are the jobs?
Everyone with half a god damn brain can see these companies are not using their money saved by tax cuts to create new jobs.
Mikeanglo 3 days ago
this is why we need the venus project
juanlmesl 1 week ago
@clarkcountysfinest Looks like somebody's a drug addict!!And drugs dont solve anything..once the effect is gone, your problemas are still there. Trust me, i know. My brother used to do a bunch of stuff bc he thought it would get rid of them....
P.S. Idc if you share your opinion..just try not to use cuss words...Thamks(:
dixiebaby4eva 1 month ago
im sorry this is the worst commercial i have ever seen.. yea i get the analogy but really?? everytime it comes on i debate throwing a brick threw the screen.
PGoldmofo 2 months ago
Too bad few want to acknowledge that BEFORE any money can be spent it must be BORROWED.
gs6285gs 2 months ago
What a stupid commercial! Government finance is nothing like drug addiction. Instead of just cutting spending on those whose depend on it, Senators and Congressmen could stop coddling multi-billion dollar banks. Last year, Bank of America recieved a nearly $1,000,000,000 tax return! While it sat on $17Bil in US profit overseas. It's cheaper for a company to move $ overseas and call it reinvestment than to pay it's corporate income tax. End corporate tax loopholes and pass a transaction tax!
LegionnaireEtrangere 2 months ago
In debt? Spend more, borrow more.. In debt? Spend more, borrow more.. In debt? Spend more, borrow more.. In debt? Spend more, borrow more..
ElJefer 2 months ago
50s, When you control the creation and circulation of the medium of exchange you are 'the power'..the government. Our Constitutional government wrongfully farmed out is authority to monetize the people's production as debt-free wealth to them to the banking industry that monetizes our production as unpayable interest-bearing debts. We are not governed by our government but by the banking industry. Debt is the only 'tool' they need. We need to return that power to the people.
gs6285gs 2 months ago
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hailtothewaif 2 months ago
Dear 50sRefugee, I understand what you are saying. At the same time, wealth is what we produce. Debt is what we use for money. The two are not the same.
It is very difficult to have good conversation in e-mail threads. Please feel free to call me and I will try to help you understand how they have switched our medium of exchange from Wealth to Debt and why that is the cause of what's happening. Gregory K. Soderberg 507-440-1015.
gs6285gs 2 months ago
@gs6285gs:
Ah, I see your website wealthmoney org, and I'm watching this video from that site:
watch?v=0c7QCinZNgA
It seems to me that I'm generally in agreement with you on the wealth versus debt question. In that context, your initial comment makes perfect sense.
However, rather than saying that substituting debt for wealth is the cause of what's happening, I'd say that it is merely one tool that governments use to concentrate power into their hands.
Power is the real addiction.
50srefugee 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
@gs6285gs: "difficult to have good conversation in e-mail threads"
Youtube does a poor job organizing threads for conversations, it's true, but I'd prefer to keep the debate public, where it began. Also, I personally find it easier to understand arguments and order my thoughts in text than in speech; just a quirk in my wiring.
50srefugee 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
If we don't borrow there is nothing to spend.
gs6285gs 2 months ago
@gs6285gs: "don't borrow...nothing to spend"
First of all, this ad is about govt debt. The business of the govt is telling you what you must and must not do. I don't want much spent on that.
Second, businesses borrow, yes, but then they pay it back out of the profits they earn providing products and services. Businesses generate wealth.
The govt borrows and either borrows again, or services the debt by sticking you up at gun point for taxes. It steals or destroys wealth.
50srefugee 2 months ago
@50srefugee: "[govt] steals or destroys wealth"
I should clarify: a properly constituted govt takes a tiny fraction of wealth from its citizens to protect their ability to generate more wealth against enemies "foreign and domestic". The U.S. govt has gone far beyond that, and its agents seem to believe that the citizens exist to serve it, rather than the other way round.
50srefugee 2 months ago
lol its funny, all the negative responses are people that didn't understand the message.
juancook1 2 months ago
This ad made more sense to me, than any other ad I've seen PRO/or ANTI-Government for that matter. Finally, something that makes sense.
juancook1 2 months ago
hes saying how fucked our economy is. we keep borrowing money we canot payback. and we still continue. go to new america 15 . com you will see what hes talking about.
Christwillrize 2 months ago 3
some of you guys are retarded. its just making a point. You don't really think theyre saying take advice from a drug addict. Perhaps a recovering drug addict. But its just making a point. you sensitive fucks.
usarestuff 2 months ago
To all the people that want to talk shit about this drug addict or any other drug addict you should think about when you were a kid, like you didn't experimented. Or maybe try and think what the fuck they had to go through growing up, what life they had to live before deciding that using drugs could be a way for them to forget the pain that they had to deal with. they didn't just wake up one day and decide that "oh, I think I want to get loaded today." for the people that talk shit, FUCK YOU!!!!
clarkcountysfinest 2 months ago 7
@clarkcountysfinest HEY i am sorry if you had so much pain . I also actually always felt sorry fro drug addicts because i knew that they must have been hurt and want to forget the pain . But there are also many people who just do it for trying and get caught .
I hope you feel better. Please try not to use bad 4 letter words .
niloo64 2 months ago
It's like saying the GDP and GNI are the same thing... what I earn and spend has nothing to do with the government's debt... "To borrow less, you need to spend less..." ummm... redundant quote.
Republicraticparty 2 months ago 2
True the US government is sad they are not helping thinks at all if they want to help quit spending money that they dont have
mazdarx327 2 months ago
Greatness!
tuxradio 2 months ago
Dumbass ad.
Why on earth would anyone listen to a drug addict?
aimpointvw 2 months ago
Fuck no we can't. Fuck you and your damn sponsers damn liberalists!!!!
bikeboy0012 2 months ago
Well. when the economy gets bad, one of the best austerity measures is cutting teachers pay! Cannot wait to get out of High School, I am not learning anything useful in Florida.
Gwunt 2 months ago
The political agenda aside, who, in their right mind, takes advice from a drug addict, regardless of what he's talking about?
C4rea 2 months ago
So who are the donors behind this 501-c-3? They aren't saying. Why not?
NiceHandTick 2 months ago
You can't learn anything from this Junkie. He doesn't even know what it is we actually use for money, how it's created and put into circulation and how that effects our lives. Try to contact and talk with those that created this video and you can't do it.
gs6285gs 2 months ago
Spending is not the problem. The root of the problem is that it all has to be borrowed before it can be spent by anyone. All money (numbers) are now created by private comercial banks for their personal profit when they make government, business or individuals loans. "Money is created when loans are issued and debts incurred. Money is extinguished when loans are repaid."-John B. Henderson, Economics Price Specialist, Congressional Research Service.
gs6285gs 2 months ago
Couldn't have been said any better!!!! Wow thats one heck of an eye opener if i have ever seen one!
jrobinson892003 2 months ago
This is great!!!!!
MissChrissy2007 2 months ago
Borrowing and Debt is the problem not Spending. Special interests lobbied to switch our medium of exchange from an evidence of wealth to evidence of debts owed the private banking system which creates and loans all new money into circulation and uncreates it when it's repaid. No borrowing,no money. The solution is to spend all new money into circulation in lieu of taxation or bonding to build and maintain our public roads and bridges. Convert our medium of exchange back to an evidence of wealth.
gs6285gs 2 months ago
Very true!!
kaptinkrunkktk 2 months ago
You know, this is a great example. America need to get its shit together. China sees the U.S. as its cash cow, and as soon as we're done, they're moving on. And what worries me, is that once we're weakened, china will have no problem invading us.
You know what? 'eff this, i'm going to Japan! i don't care!
ShadowNinjaMaster93 2 months ago
Spending? like how Regan tripled the deficit? How Bush destroyed the surplus? Conservatism has not and will never work.
underthenorthernstar 2 months ago
Washington KNOWS what they are doing and when they are finished there will be nothing left to "vote" about.. our nation has reached its end.. what will come from Her ashes only time will tell.. now is a good time to seek to make your peace w/God
randywatchingbush 2 months ago
I wish Congress would leave their little lives for a week and spend it in the shoes of a poor or middle class citizen. Maybe they'll learn how to truly help America, then.
Xxmoonlightmusic16xX 2 months ago
More rightwing claptrap.
Rickinsf 2 months ago
Wow! Think about it America!
...and our Congress are the primary junkies!
lroberge0 3 months ago
WWPMMediaNet, My point is that every penney anyone in the world spends regardless if it's a County Business or Individual is borrowed. I've done the research. I know how America's money was changed from a debt-free representation of wealth to an evidence of unpayable interest-bearing debt. Call me anytime to discuss it. 507-440-1015.
gs6285gs 3 months ago
The analogy doesn't really work.
JennyMulhenny 3 months ago
@JennyMulhenny for people who have no understanding of financial markets it does ;)
arhusum 2 months ago
Come on! 41 cents of every dollar borrowed from China? 100% of what we spend is borrowed. Our money has been changed from wealth to debt. All money is created and put into circulation as loans and uncreated when repaid. If we don't borrow, there is no money.
When debt is used for money there will be debt and lots of it. The solution? Spend the numbers into circulation as a final debt-free payment earned for production that benefits the entire public. Wealth-money. The money of Free People.
gs6285gs 3 months ago
@gs6285gs not true - Sweden, Japan, Australia, Korea, Vietnam, Germany, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France, Poland and Portgual own the other debts which comprise of the other 59 cents of every dollar. Do your research, dumbass, before you jump to conclusions.
WWPMMediaNet 3 months ago
Ron Paul is the last hope for America, he is the only one with common sense, logical thinking and consistency. This man just speaks the truth even if its not what we want to hear. The system is corrupted by greedy politicians who cant put their country first before their own political party which is why i think we need to do away with democrats and republicans, they both are ruining this country, but until then Ron Paul all the way.
cuhzitslikethat 3 months ago
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dfaast93 3 months ago
Washington could learn a lot from Ron Paul & OWS, the system is sure corrupt!!!
JoseTwitterFan 3 months ago
this is hilarious
kekojonez787 3 months ago
I bet the 60 people who dislike this work in washington.
alerorush03 3 months ago
@alerorush03 Nah. Talk to your friends and family. Almost no one really wants spending cut. They just like to talk big.
mmaier2112 3 months ago
with 7,000,000,000 people on earth it sounds like we need another black plague, or at least another hitler to come in and take care of blood sucking members of our society.
xa305 3 months ago
I think it has to do a lot more with our social problems. humans have infested the earth. if you don't have the money to feed yourself you should die if you don't have the money for school you don't go to school if you cant afford lifesaving medication then you should die. I'm so sick and tired of this obama care and I'm 22 years if age with a job and no heath care.
xa305 3 months ago
Both the analogy & the main point of the commercial are wrong. 'Raising the debt ceiling' is not the problem, the spending is. The spending is the 'hit'. Raising the debt ceiling is paying the bills. If you don't pay the drug dealer you end up dead just like the economy would be if the debt ceiling was not raised. Not paying credit card bills does not improve your financial situation.
On China, do people really fear a centrally controlled communist country will pass the US economically? No way.
123jkjk123 3 months ago
@123jkjk123 Idiocy. If we hit the debt ceiling, we have to cut spending. We're not "dead".
mmaier2112 3 months ago
The people who are saying that America doesn't owe money to other counties obviously has no Idea how the world works.
Just4yall 3 months ago
@Just4yall
So tell me, just how does it work? I can't wait to hear this!
dav7612r 3 months ago
just saw this for the first time on CNBC
UcantBeSerious03 3 months ago
Sham... This entire ad is a sham. 10.2 trilly is owed back to the american public as of October 2011. China (including all foreign govt) doesn't loan us s**t. They purchase bonds with the USD they EARNED, EXPORTING to the USA. Why? Because they don't need a currency that's not used in another country, and critical commodities are paid for in USD only. Wake up people!
dav7612r 3 months ago
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@dav7612r You are stupid.
ChadAMcCormick 3 months ago
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thumbs up if after watching this commercial you would rather be an addict instead of a politician.
anthonyfinger 3 months ago
Yes!
crutt1026 3 months ago
this was the only youtube ad that actually had a point
azz75sl 3 months ago
After reading some of these post. Apparently people don't know what a analogy is. Wow!!!! Shows how stupid some people really are to what's going on with the higher ups in government. That or you are a bunch of sheep out for the wolf. This video nails it! It's a analogy of what's going on in the government!
moncier77 3 months ago
Some people just don't get it, No thats not what got us where we are at in the first place, do some research, and stop paying so much attention to cnn! America's problems root from to much government.. Thomas Jefferson said it best..."The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." nuff said!
kyresearcher 3 months ago
America should listen to a drug addict? Isn’t that how we got into this economic mess in the first place? Six yrs ago GW’s war was estimated, by a Harvard governmental finance instructor and a Nobel Prize winning economist, as costing us over $2 trillion. We currently owe China $1.17 trillion. Not raising the recent debt ceiling would have caused us to default on our loans and raise our interest rates, causing us to spend MORE. Let’s listen to a drug addict. It worked so well the first time.
battyinbackwater 3 months ago
@battyinbackwater Obama admitted to being a "user" himself, so we're STILL listening to a drug addict in the white house to this day.
lockmuertos 3 months ago
Just saw this on tv. I loved the in-your-face aspect of it. The truth has to come out. Whoever made this/got it aired has got some serious guts.
TheSaibre656 3 months ago
The gross U.S. debt is approaching a level equivalent to 90 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, the level at which growth has historically declined.
hofnerman1 3 months ago
I wonder where the funding for this ad came from??
hofnerman1 3 months ago
@hofnerman1
I'd guess the Tea Party.
dav7612r 3 months ago
here is something. Why should Washington listen to you?I'd rather listen to someone who went to school and did something with their life rqather spend all their money on drugs and then bitch that they have no money
Chris22090 3 months ago
@Chris22090 That's not the point. The point is that if you are in debt you don't borrow money to get out of it. Borrowing more money puts you deeper in debt and why have some foreigner make what we can make our self because its cheaper but we lose jobs so we cant buy the product anyway.
MrJaeden07 3 months ago
@Chris22090
Let's look at the operational reality of a fiat monetary system. Govt. issues the currency you use? Yes. So if a govt. issues an entire population currency to use, there is no need to borrow it form anyone. They, after all, create it to begin with. This ad is a straight up lie.
dav7612r 3 months ago
@dav7612r If you print $1.7 trillion per year you'll have massive inflation; the money will rot like potatoes and no one will want to take it, much less hold it for any length of time.
That's why the government borrows.
soylentgreenb 3 months ago
@soylentgreenb
Inflation is controllable through monetary policy. it goes up... it goes down. The government does not borrow from anyone. We reside in a fiat monetary system. Money is a "creation of the state". It is CREATED, NOT borrowed by the federal govt. If the govt. didn't create money you wouldn't have any to spend, period. You also have to consider the amount in savings and population expansion. As people save $ is withheld from circulation. Its far more complex than "debt".
dav7612r 3 months ago
@dav7612r "Inflation is controllable through monetary policy."
Yes, by raising interest rates and not printing money.
"It is CREATED, NOT borrowed by the federal govt."
It is both. The reason the US government is $15 trillion in debt is Because if they printed $15 trillion a loaf of bread would cost $20.
Little green pieces of cotton paper with dead statesmen on them have no intrinsic worth and produce no wealth; they are a medium of exhange. If you print, you get inflation.
soylentgreenb 3 months ago
@dav7612r "If the govt. didn't create money you wouldn't have any to spend, period."
Bollocks on every level.
Money predates the existance of government.
Money doesn't dissappear, it just changes ownership. Nobody wants little funny green paper notes for their own sake; they want to exchange them for goods and services. I am not dependent on the government printing paper notes; that just depreciates the value of the paper notes I get.
Inflation is just a dishonest form of taxation.
soylentgreenb 3 months ago
@soylentgreenb
Speaking of "massive inflation", where is it? I've been hearing "massive inflation" all my life. Where is it? This is why the Fed does the things it does. Control.. Check and balances. Don't you think with two QE's and the "twist" inflation would have reared it's ugly head by now???? C'mon! I love the inflation arguers!
dav7612r 3 months ago
@dav7612r The government ISN'T printing that much; it is borrowing to the tune of ~$1.7 trillion/year. What the fed prints is pissed away trying to keep insolvent institutions afloat and reinflating a bubble.
YOU proposed printing that money.
Most money in the economy is NOT fed notes; it is bank money, and that's imploding.
We had massive inflation; that was the housing and commodities bubbles. We SHOULD be having deflation.
The dollar has lost 97% of its value since 1913. That's inflation.
soylentgreenb 3 months ago
@dav7612r So we dont borrow from China? A foreign country dont make what you buy? Foreign countries dont get our jobs because of cheap labour? Your lying to yourself
MrJaeden07 3 months ago
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@dav7612r So we dont borrow from China? A foreign country dont make what you buy? Foreign countries dont get our jobs because of cheap labour? Your lying to yourself
MrJaeden07 3 months ago
typical low life. But he does have a point. but if you want more money, get a job and quit using drugs. Simple huh?
Chris22090 3 months ago
Yeah. I've learned something. i learned you are a drug addict
Chris22090 3 months ago
$15 trillion now, not $14 trillion.
It also seems that 55 people in denial need rehab.
KcKommunistisch 3 months ago
@KcKommunistisch
1. The video was posted in July. Learn to read kid.
2. The only ones who need rehab are these low lifes like the guy in the video.
Chris22090 3 months ago
@Chris22090 you truly are ignorant!!!
moncier77 3 months ago
@KcKommunistisch
You can spit numbers like anybody, but can you break down those numbers to who that $ is actually owed to? Once you figure it out you might change your mind.
dav7612r 3 months ago
Probably one of the most out spoken and powerful commercials I have ever seen! I thank this company so much!
ZackHutchins 3 months ago 17
Like I'm going to take any political advice from a frigging junkie. WTF?
bcbock 3 months ago
@bcbock I dont listen to drug addicts. All they care about is getting their fix.
Chris22090 3 months ago
Just saw the tv ad for the 1st time. Really powerful and a great message.
wannabstrong 3 months ago
RON F**KING PAUL
drewjacobsen 3 months ago 25
Cutting spending during a recession leads to a worse recession; even depression. See: Mistake of 1937.
Washington could learn a lot (more) from a history book.
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RandomPoet86 4 months ago
@RandomPoet86 The U.S. has a lot of debt but not relative to its income. Debt as an abstract number is not very helpful. I could owe a billion dollars and be in big trouble, but when the U.S. government owes a trillion dollars, it's a lower ratio of income to debt so it's not in big trouble. The bigger issue is this: I can't print money, so I actually have to pay off my debts. The U.S. *can* print money, so it can slowly default via inflation without causing much disruption in the short term..
jfpress 4 months ago
@RandomPoet86 A simpler answer would be this: If I owe you a ton of money but can't pay you back, who is in trouble? Me or you! Not me. I got a lot of free stuff and you got a lot of IOUs. That's why China is screwed, not us.
jfpress 4 months ago
@jfpress Interesting view, but what do you think will happen when China comes to collect and we have no money to give them? What will they take instead? I mean let's face it, no one would be happy with IOU's forever.
RandomPoet86 4 months ago
@RandomPoet86 Remember, China IS getting paid. The U.S. has not (not do I believe will it ever) failed to pay the coupon or redeem the par value of U.S. government debt. China gets dollars when it sells stuff to us and has to do something with those dollars, so they buy stuff denominated in dollars (the most obvious of which is our debt). They don't have much of a choice. It's not like they "like" lending us this money. But we won't technically default. We'll inflate the debt away.
jfpress 4 months ago
@RandomPoet86
Seriously? We create the money! It's is called the "US Dollar" isn't it? China earned their USD through their own exports to the US. They then place that $ into bonds. There's no such thing as the United States "running out" of money you morons. WE PRODUCE THE $ WE USE.
dav7612r 3 months ago
he speaks the truth
ckane151 4 months ago
IS HE TRYING TO SAY PRESIDENT OBAMA IS A CRACK HO?!
wow, so president obama is whoring himself out to get his crack...? or is the president pimping out michelle?
i guess that's what this "this is your brain on drugs" ad is trying to say?
dude!
monk22yrs 4 months ago
it's true i heard the same thing from an alcoholic.
sgtmjames 6 months ago
The Govenment is to big and while They sit in their big house and doing nothing people are loosing their life outside. Their greed has gotten the best of them. This Is one reason why are economys so bad.
demon424671 6 months ago
why dont all the billionairs in the US get together put some money together and get us out of debt? I bet it could be done.
XxMadMax593 6 months ago
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You're probably right, I bet they could get us out of debt... but if the right changes aren't made we could never expect to STAY out of debt.
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@XxMadMax593 not quite when its 14 trillion
mowestban 3 months ago
God do I hope I'm wrong about this, but Gold hit 1800+ yesterday. Does anyone realize what this means? We are in SERIOUS shambles, but everyone walks around, closing their eyes, thinking that if they don't worry about it, it'll just magically go away. We don't need more doctors, lawyers, cashiers, small businesses, we need FARMERS. Because, God help us if it gets to this point, but I don't want the economy to get so bad that someone comes to my house, gun pressed against my head, needing food.
theatreluv09 6 months ago
Apparently, Standard and Poor has staged an intervention for Congress spending addiction.
skye820 6 months ago
Teabaggers look at a 'drug addict' as human debris, a drag on our society and blight on culture. Small wonder Murdoch/Koch plutocrats use this disturbing visual to frighten people into thinking it's about 'spending too much' (on Social Security, Medicare, Schools, etc.) instead of the REVENUE lost to the Bush Tax Cuts and Corporate Evasion ($2.8 TRILLION+).
mrpixelator 6 months ago
Does anybody else see how ironic this advert is? Drug Addicts cut all extraneous spending to afford their drug addiction which is why they live squalor. So Washington should cut all spending so we can live in squalor like the junkies? YOU MUST BE JOKING! It's our demand for high quality and willingness to spend the money that creates our high standard of living. This moron want to choke the economy by cutting all spending!
iMaDeMoN2012 6 months ago
@iMaDeMoN2012 I'm pretty sure that most of the plans involved cutting out welfare programs like Medicare, instead of taxing the obscenely rich and stopping buying shiny new fighter jets. So this is still apt.
999newaccount 6 months ago
@999newaccount No the plans don't...that is just the bullshit they sell to stupid people. What the plans really do is increase corporate welfare and make corruption legal. Yes, I'm saying you are stupid!
iMaDeMoN2012 6 months ago
This is crazy xenophobic rhetoric. China is not out to take down America/take over the world.
pfitge1 6 months ago
This shit's deep. Love it man. Need more like this out there. Washington COULD learn a lot. It just refuses to.
nachoguy5 6 months ago
to bad we have tons of billionaires in this country that have so much money they could never touch it no matter how much they spend in a lifetime. money that just sits in the bank... like oprah when she dies she will still have hundreds of billions, in her bank and where will it go ? not to the economy.
jake1111walmer 6 months ago 2
this is like 100% true unfortunately :T we suck with money lol
ExCaptainSosukeAizen 6 months ago
Dude, I showed this to about ten freinds and family members, and they all f***in' agreed!
EagleSpirit88 6 months ago
Nice piece of extreme right-wing propaganda.
Too bad it makes no mention of how China is addicted to counterfeiting the western world's products and stealing intellectual properties for profit. Yet, we are constantly being bombarded by this kind of nonsense designed to have us think we are indebted to the Chinese. Wrong!
Government is NOT a business, and social programs are NOT narcotics.
Speaking of narcotics...wasn't the CIA caught importing them?
jelinto 6 months ago
@jelinto Um, the US is HEAVILY indebted to the Chinese. You don't borrow trillions of dollars off of somebody without becoming indebted, that's its literal definition.
999newaccount 6 months ago
@999newaccount
You can't steal billions worth of intellectual properties, counterfeit billions more worth of goods, and export tonnes upon tonnes of worthless (and even sometimes hazardous & toxic) goods, that never serve the purpose in which they were intended...without people with their heads screwed on properly, saying WTF!!???
And again, social programs and infrastructure are NOT narcotics. Only a right-wing lunatic would make that analogy.
It was Nixon who began selling the US to China.
jelinto 6 months ago
I only came here because I'm so used to clicking "skip this ad" that i just ran on automatic. I clicked the button even though i was interested in the ad. Oops...
EssentialCookie 6 months ago
better watchout when china starts pimp smacking america for its money. oh not a pretty sight...
yurianne07 6 months ago
did you guys know that the U.S. has lost $35 Trillian in income to abortion! not trying to step on toes but the fact of the matter is that the money that the Government loses from having less Citizens is HUGE! we could've paid our debt TWICE and still had trillions to spare! so...what do you think. wether you think abortion is wrong or not the fact is it has contributed to less income on our nations part! yes I agree washington needs to adjust it's spending plan but we could so much more!
braveheart6991 6 months ago
@braveheart6991 Considering who it is that normally has an abortion--the poor, the drug addict, the teen in high school, etc.--it seems more likely that the U.S. saves more in welfare payments than it would have made in taxes from these children who were never born.
minowekay 6 months ago
@minowekay if you look it up the amount spent in welfare is around $500-600 billion...COMPARED TO $35 trillion!
now lets see here that means that...we would still have $34.4 TRILLION to work with! that sounds pretty good to me! what about you? now even if we subtract 14 trillion we still have $20.4 trillion to work with! so...your point?!
braveheart6991 6 months ago
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braveheart6991 6 months ago
Does anyone else see the irony (real irony, not Alanis Morissette irony) in this ad criticizing government spending from the perspective of a drug addict, when the US government is the primary sponsor of drug rehabilitation facilities?
Not to mention the wealth of other idiocies in this commercial. Wont even get into that now.
whatever38609 6 months ago
@whatever38609
¬.¬ Rehab? You mean the revolving door that is like our prison system?
I got some news for you. I had relatives that went through those concentration camps and each of them went back to the habit. And then they went back to see what went wrong...Then they do it again and again. Not not just my relatives... But with everyone who thinks that rehab is the solution...No DEATH is the only rehab... I rather have them close down if they can't help anyone Its my Tax dollars
BatWeaselPresents 6 months ago
@BatWeaselPresents
Look, sorry to here about your relatives, but the fact is that most studies find rehab (depending on the kind) to be at least moderately successful with regards to relapse. Even on a broader social level, they tend to be associated (again, depending on the kind) with drops in violent and non-violent crime. Anyway, I wasn't attempting to argue for the effectiveness of rehab. Just pointing out yet another incongruity in the amazing tower of stupidity that is his commercial.
whatever38609 6 months ago
@whatever38609
Thank you for your condolences.
I believe that a person wants to quit, and will go to rehab to do it. But there are places that call themselves a rehab center and yet they do nothing to prevent the revolving door of death. I just believe that funding should be given to Organization that are effective towards recovery. Ex: For every patient they cure throughout the year they can obtain a lump sum of money. in 5 years they can get a larger amount by the people who are still clean.
BatWeaselPresents 6 months ago
@BatWeaselPresents
Completely agreed. If they don't have any real incentive to actually do a good job with helping recovery (which many don't), then it just doesn't happen. Most rehab facilities definitely do need an overhaul change in their methodology as well as a change in exactly how they are funded.
whatever38609 6 months ago
@whatever38609
Glad we can agree upon something. We don't get this very often on the interweb. Lol.
BatWeaselPresents 6 months ago
I think it's funny how most of the people on here are name calling and being ignorant as opposed to actually discussing/disputing his point.
KiraJeanRAF 6 months ago
Wow how fitting, the Republicans are taking their economic advice from drug addicts. Sounds about right.
yourmox 6 months ago
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yourmox 6 months ago
I noticed he kind of sounds like the guy from Call of duty Elite commercials.
jonathan619rey 6 months ago
"Public Notice Research and Education Fund?" Who is really bankrolling this astroturf?
goatburgler 6 months ago
yeah republicans suck
MultiRump 6 months ago
If our country is an addict, we are the most productive drug addict in all of history. However, we could definitely do a better job of caring for the people around us. So really, do we want a drug dealer to teach us how to be selfish jerks and break promises like those we made to our nation's seniors, or do we want to start making millionaires pay their fair share of taxes?
abkadefgee 6 months ago
The Actor is Matthew Vincent Ambrosino, and he absolutely kills this thing...say what you want, but the guy makes you sit up and listen...and think a bit...not only is he speaking from a junkie perspective, but he's speaking for the youth of America...show this thing to as many young people as possible...WAY TO GO DUDE
4brando1 6 months ago
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4brando1 6 months ago
Watching some of you commenters engage in name-calling instead of discussing the real issue of our nation's disgraceful fiscal situation makes me want to barf. Please get serious, and get off your partisan high horses. We're all in this together.
Empedoclesianbeans 6 months ago
Now back on topic. This ad is completely accurate and realistic and we are only fooling ourselves if we think that our debtors are not going to ever call our notes do. We are loosing the very sovereignty that this country was founded on and it's time to quit slinging mud at the synthetic "other side" and get real!
Leonicdragon 6 months ago
@biwmtraveler Listening to you is like KKK guy talking about blacks. U are hopelessly biased. Can't we agree A LOT of politicians take money and do favors. Every party is just as bad. I don't know why we can't get a law banning it. Tea Party are only ones that will push for stuff like that. Big Biz bleeds us dry more than GOV? That logically makes no sense. Ur a SOCIALIST. Maybe u didn't know that? Bush was REP but still a big gov. "Progressive" type. Never woulda got Tea Party support.
scifi3dzoo 6 months ago
@biwmtraveler Wow. Are u insane or misinformed? Who told you all of this. Are you visiting MoveOn.org and Media Matters? And you're attacking FOX news? I personally compared the diff. networks on stories from AP and watched coverage. I stopped watching all other networks about 5 years ago. DIsgusting. People died for free press. Many countries still don't have it. People repeat stuff they hear but they can't name one biased thing FOX news does. I have a laundry list for the other networks.
scifi3dzoo 6 months ago
@scifi3dzoo LOL, 'can't name one biased thing FoxNews does!" That is the funniest thing I have ever heard. The Daily Show basically makes it's living off of showing footage of Fox News contradicting itself/tying itself into pretzels trying to be on both sides of an issue depending on who is in office at the moment.
biwmtraveler 6 months ago
@biwmtraveler Plus, with FoxNews being specifically created to provide a conservative viewpoint, it is automatically biased. I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me how every single one of the many other competing networks have somehow come together to form a secret 'liberal agenda'. Please, what a joke. It's always true of conservatives that they complain facts that contradict their ego-centric lazy point of view must be biased.
biwmtraveler 6 months ago
@biwmtraveler That's why they hate the media, the courts, the university system, science and anything but Fox & Religion, since those are the 2 areas where you can make things up.
biwmtraveler 6 months ago
@biwmtraveler If you think that Faux News is a "Conservative Viewpoint" then you are a total moron. They are only self-proclaimed conservatives but neo-cons is more like it. That's why they cut out part of Ron Paul's speech when they reaired the 08 Debates. What he said went against all the programming and propaganda that the network stood for. biwmtraveler is right to an extent, but it's not the fault of religion or politics; it is the fault of corruption and ignorance.
Leonicdragon 6 months ago
@furthermore, Rupert Murdoch is not even a natural born US Citizen and yet these fools blindly hang off of every single world that his corrupt "news" company says. There is so much double speak and hypocrisy in Faux News that it's just absurd. As for all the other networks having a "liberal agenda" well which ones aren't owned by GE again? I think these buzz words like liberal and conservative, democrat and republican are just thrown around to have a fall guy to blame for all the economic woes.
Leonicdragon 6 months ago
@Leonicdragon compared to Fox News,REALITY has a "liberal bias"
warpedwiselegoman 6 months ago
Oh, I forget, Rush Limbaugh is a junkie.
biwmtraveler 6 months ago
At least taking advice from a junkie is a step up for Conservatives from FoxNews & Talk Radio.
biwmtraveler 6 months ago
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How about the 46% of Americans that pay no federal income tax at all??????? Everyone should had some skin in the game.
crquest 6 months ago
heh...hey guys... lets tax the rich...
RarEndangeredCrabSpy 6 months ago
August 2nd :)
Viper2026 6 months ago
So true.
SIUltimate 6 months ago
Why don't people get this in our country. We continue to elect people that don't get this. Seems straight forward to me.
smanHD 6 months ago 2
I believe in the values and documents our country was founded on, if that's liberal then so be it. As far as people that want to talk about fair, I don't see how it's "fair" to tax one person more than another because of their achievements, You want fair, put a flat tax rate on all products and stop taxing everything else. That would fix any "illegal Immigrant" complaints along with biased class taxing. Not to mention fixing the numerous "wtf-taxes?!?"
korilee13 7 months ago
I wrote the recovery book in 2009, bout time people are paying attention: Look for 12 Steps to Reclaim a Nations Soul
vandie100 7 months ago
If you got proof somebody is doing some illegal sue them. You don't like how they do business don't buy their product. Don't like how they treat you work somewhere else. It's not Obama's or anybody else in government job to make life "fair". All they do is screw up everything they touch. Government is way too big right now. Too invasive in our lives. And all the Democrats can think of is making it all much much bigger. It's their ideology. So we'll see you guys at the voting booths.
SCIFI3D 7 months ago