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  • Thanks for your comment.  I am a supporter of the `free market` , this means that failing firms ( including Banks), who are not viable should go bankrupt. If the `free market` was allowed to function without, politicians passing these `failure` Banks so much of taxpayer`s money, even when they know that this economic system will not work, the results are plain to see. We ( our Gov`ts ), are `rewarding` failure and,simultaneously punish the competent who, always get the bill. Simple economics

  • MMMmmm... You have missed the point! Having a `Constitutional Republic` sounds good, however, who decides the content of the Constitution ? Who will enforce that Constitution ? If 51% want to re-introduce the Death penalty in the UK and, 49% do not want it, who should prevail? I ( A supporter of Democracy), believe the 51% should supersede the 49% ! Yes, sometimes the majority are wrong, but that does not mean I want to be `ruled` by a minority . I reject the idea of an elected `ruling elite`

  • The us goverment is controled by the secret society if you think thats crazy look at the dollar bill the eye of lucifer is on it that is the same logo of the freemasons and illumanati. but what you dont know is that the catholic jesuit preists control the secret socity they control all the us presidents and rich us families and leaders of the corporations in the us and europe. They are breaking the world economy so they can install the pope as the anti christ. The lord jesus warned us of this

  • capitalism?? where? when the fed takes 28% of my earnings, state takes 5%, social security 7% (14% from employer), outrageous property taxes, 10% sales tax, over regulation of small business by gov, when we have the highest corporate taxes in the world at 35%, 50 million on food stamps, welfare, medicare, medicaid, public aid, subsidized housing, disability, unemployment, pensions, etc. etc. we have socialism, you know that ideology that you have supported for decades....

  • Ooh, Chomsky is a Keynesian.

    What a shame, I really doubt he has ever studied the works of the Austrian school.

    No talk about the federal reserve, fractional reserve banking, fiat currency, government backing eliminating the incentive for reducing risk, programs like the Making Houses Affordable Act skewing natural supply and demand and causing bubbles?

    Come on guys, no intelligent person should consider themselves educated unless they understand all competing theories.

  • I love how he says so dismissively: "this was combined with a kind of religious market fundamentalism which was based on doctrines of self-regulating markets.. which are pure fantasy."

  • You need defend you self against the goverment, Preservation of the security of the Nation from its enemies, foreign and domestic, Take action so we dont have a new holucust like war world 2

  • you gentiles are Pathetic Always take some jew and make him god or Messiah just like the jesus and kerl marx and know this noam chomsky did you ever wondering why is this all your biggst gods and messiah and your intellectuals from right and left are jewish and you wonder how we the jews call are self the chosen people dont diss this

    comment in 100 yreas from know your kids will things that holly histroy just like your Fathers Though't d even the arebs belive in a jewish idea of god

  • @ehudnold9 Preach it brother!

  • A moneyless,classless,stateless communities of humanity expressing our freedom in creative harmonious cooperation for a world that is so POTENTIALLY AND ACTUALLY nourishing. Capitalism in any form, Statist or Corporatist is the denial of our common humanity in a politically manipulated,tyrannical armed MARKET SYSYTEM of artificial scarcity that is designed to perpetuate the enslavement of immense humanity for material interest of the criminal ruling elite.

  • "What are political motives? Well that means participation of the population in making decisions."

    Okay Noam, that works if the populace is actually taking the time to participate in the decisions, but you and I both know that this wont happen. It would take time away from television, movies, sporting events, etc. etc. People wont take the time to read and educate themselves on a national level in any significant numbers ... and there it breaks down.

  • Real News is Leftist garbage. Chomsky is a hilarious old anarchist buffoon, who lives to hear his own impotent and contradictory trumpeting.

  • @ConservativeAnthem I'm just beginning to study his work. Could you cite where he supports anarchy and where he contradicts himself please?

  • Chomsky is a neo-communist. Thumbs down.

    If entrepreneurs had to take into account the externalities of EVERY action, NOTHING would get done. Ridiculous argument Chomsky...

  • We are in trouble... America... We are in TROUBLE... this guy cannot fix it. Do you understand it?

    Dem party needs Regan. these clowns are lacking. Less Gov. We need economic grouth. You defeat every person with a D next to there name.. meaning Democrat.

  • @onstageagain we are in trouble because some people can not spell............

  • The fundamental principle that we need to grapple with is this , Humanity cannot be treated as batteries of energy so a few can enrich and empower themselves the consequence is a world of war,poverty,exploitation,envio­­­­­rnmental destruction and many other terrible ongoing challenges, or We share the earth for all generations to come in harmony and cooperation for our material and emotional needs, We need to understand our common source and our common destiny.

  • @arzoyan exactly. the rich, productive and creative people should not be used as dairy cows to fund and subsidize the luxuries of the irresponsible, unproductive people of society. help the destitute and let everyone else earn their keep. no complaining!

  • @chrispollock You are barking for your criminal OWNERS,.

  • @arzoyan i own myself and my own labor. i sell it for whatever the market will pay for it. stop petitioning the state to steal the hard earned wealth of others so you can sit back and feel good about yourself. left wing deficit spending economic illiterate.

  • @chrispollock A moneyless,classless,STATELESS world of human communities where we cooperate to take care of our needs and well being. Capitalism is the MARKET MEHANISM of artificial scarcity and employment system of wage slavey for the abstract process of CAPITAL ACUUMULATION and CONCENTRATION for the ruling elite.

  • @arzoyan leftists: lovers of corrupt government monopolies, moral elitism, and theft of hard earned wealth.

  • @chrispollock you are working for thieves.

  • @arzoyan i work for hard working people who earn their wealth and don't ask for government handouts. leftists, on the other hand, are the thieves; they want the government to subsidize their lifestyles using my hard earned wealth and call it "fair". leftists are the enemies of a society of earning and merit.

  • @chrispollock Free and Market is a contradiction in terms, the ruling elite over centuries have conditioned the majority for servitude. The language we are using is the life-blood of the ideological manipulations and distortions of our social reality for wage slavery . The MARKET MEHANISM of artificial scarcity cannot be reformed for the interest of vast majority. We need to SHARE THE EARTH IN COOPERATION FOR OUR COMMON NEEDS AND WELL BEING, a moneyless,classless,stateless world of harmony

  • @arzoyan in a system of voluntary exchange there is no servitude. the left wing hates a society based on merit, earning and freedom. so they try to get government to create a society based on theft, centralized corruption and moral elitism. if you are calling for communist or socialist utopia, it has always failed, time and again. capitalism, meanwhile, for all its imperfections, keeps people fed, clothed and happy better than anything else ever imagined.

  • @chrispollock capitalism keeps people fed? lol you live in the richest "capitalist" country in the world, ever heard of food stamps?

  • @FukCommando capitalism keeps them fed better than any other system. the majority of people are able to afford food, even if they suck at managing money. the abundance of food available to the average person is nowhere greater than in an industrialized capitalist economy where merit and productivity, not political power, determines your access to resources.

  • @arzoyan the matrix has many

    set people free wiht education and technology. if every person can create their own infrastructure then they have no need for government outside of a few small roles (in my opinion, the ones explicitly delineated in the abandoned/distorted US constitution)

  • Chomsky is so clueless. Social security is a PONZI scheme and the financial system is in the S&*tter specifially b/c of government interference.

  • @kotash2 ain't that the truth

  • How can this clown say SS is in good shape when we no longer pay for our own reitirment but someone else who is currently reitred? we have more people taking from it then paying into it, and he thinks its just fine and dandy.

  • @achilles6822

    simple answer: social security: 2.6 trillion dollar surplus.

  • @GnomesAmok You're wrong about that my friend. There is no surplus. There is no Social Security trust fund. That money was raided and spent long ago. The only thing sitting in that account is an I.O.U. in the form of bonds. Why else did Obama threaten to cut SS payments if he couldn't raise the debt celing? Because unless he can continue to borrow more money, they cannot make the payment.

  • ... There is ONE SOLUTION to ALL Problems, and that is a SCIENTIFIC MONEYLESS CONSUMER-BASED ECONOMY that will build IDEAL PRIVATE SOVEREIGN CITIZEN-OWNED CITIES that will be Whole, Durable, Organic, Self Sufficient, Energy Efficient, Petroleum and Automobile Liberated, and Population Limited, as recommended by the builders of The Great Pyramid.

    … For details, see the classic YOUTUBE Videos: The Great Pyramid, why was it built - Lesson 1c, and Lessons 3,4

    … Please note, bankster Chomski.

  • @CivilizedMan444 Let me guess: Zeitard?

  • Look, each city across America has a unique situation. Here in Lexington, KY, there are no jobs, or there is an great deal of employment discrimination going on. I have applied to about 30 jobs or more, and nothing....one interview.....went great....top 2 candidates.,....I was told I was not a good culture fit.......is that discrimination or what? um hum..

    This county is on its way to dictatorship, I feel it, and I am sure I am not the only one that feels it / a forced society. scary

  • chomsky starts at 1:00

    

  • We live in an `Elected dictatorship`, Democracy is a `Dictatorship`, of the majority of the citizens. We must stop electing people to `Rule` our lives, a parliament should only have the `Right`to pass a Bill, which must then go to the citizens in a referendum; if the people reject the bill,then it doesn`t happen! The US needs another `citizens` revolution! We must get rid of the `Garbage` that `Rules` us.

  • @terrygand The Arabs are trying to do it. Obviously, we Americans are a bunch of morons & cowards. The political Parties are corrupt. Americans are controlled & ruled by corporate owners. The "President" is nothing but a mouthpiece for billionares. His purpose is to APPEAR to care for Americans, & by doing so, to fool Americans. America will remain in the hands of the rich, & its people will only "get dumber" than they already are. Americans are simply too stupid to understand the truth.

  • @terrygand no, democracy in this country is a dictatorship by those few special interest groups that can pay millions to lobby what gets put on the riders, pork barrel and earmarks, propositions, and funds for political candidates.

  • @terrygand Unfortunately it's not practical for people to review and vote on every bill.

  • @mukfay Really? I can tell you sir/madam, I regularly read/write & make decisions;as I am certainly not illiterate. I sometimes make "the wrong" decision but, that does not mean that I want other people to make those decisions for me. It`s time people started to "Think" for themselves & not let "Others" make decisions on their behalf. The confederation of Switzerland has referendum on "many" issues. We should stop deluding ourselves!

  • @terrygand I agree with much of your analysis. What part of my message implied that you're illiterate? I'm not sure why "many" is in quotes, but my point was that with the volume of bills that pass through the US Congress, it would not be practical for voters to research each and every bill thoroughly enough to make an informed decision.

    I too am literate. I too regularly read, write, and make decision. I didn't say "many" I said all, and I stand by that. Hence the need for a Republic.

  • @terrygand A Republic with an informed, involved electorate. The acidic nature of your response (the instant instinct to go on the offensive) contributes a great deal to the dynamic which inhibits the education and sharing of information on the internet and in other venues. I prefer and calmer approach which allows for education and persuasion. Since you seem to be willing to do the work to become informed, I salute you. Please apply that to encourage rather than inciting.

  • @mukfay If I caused you any offence sir/madam, I do apologize! I have recently seen ( on TV) , a US politician in an interview say that they ( politicians), do not actually read the bills that are voted on! I wonder why? Could it be that they can`t be bothered? Or perhaps they just don`t care ! And many people wonder why we are in such a mess. You will have to excuse my grammar, English is not my first language

  • @terrygand I'm not offended. I just think you have something valuable to offer here. Yes, they do vote on bills they haven't read, and yes, sometimes they can't be bothered. Often it's because the bill is so large, and there is so little time, that it's physically impossible to read the bill before it is time to vote on it. Not only that, things are sometimes hand-written into the margins of the pages of the bill just before the vote.

  • @terrygand It's disgusting, but it takes will on the part of the people to fight these practices, and the will has been drained utterly by entertainment, and addiction to "stuff," which costs money (or time in the sense that people have to work long hours to buy the stuff they think they need. It's a damned shame. However, I have a theory that had people in other countries been raised here in the US, they would react in a similar fashion. You needn't excuse yourself for your grammar. It's fine.

  • @mukfay Thank you for your response! I now believe that our current economic system & our legislative system, is coming to it`s end. In the Internet age, how can we elect a few hundred people who make a list of promises that they rarely keep after the election ? we get the usual excuses about why we must wait a `bit longer` & everything will be just great. Today in the UK we have a credit card economy, & nobody cares! Our debts are reducing us to a "second rate" state. Let`s all pretend!

  • @terrygand This is the kind of stuff everyone should be talking about -- not which Republican will win the nomination. No candidate with a chance of winning in 2012 is what this country needs.

    What we need is empowerment of the people.

  • @insteally Thank you for your comments.

  • @terrygand the united states is a democratic republic. there is a big difference that and a pure democracy

  • @omegadisasterman mmmmm...... Really? I suggest that the US is a Republic and not a "Democratic Republic" . If the citizens vote for a particular political party,who have the right to make the law; without asking for the `vox pop", then that is not my idea of a Democracy. We (that includes my country,UK), are still electing people who have the right to `rule over us`,without asking us for our permission about each individual change to our national law. I am a Citizen, not a `Subject` !

  • @terrygand democracy is rule by the mob, power of the 51 to bully the 49, rule by the greatest number over the few. constitutional republic is the only thing that truly protects freedom of individuals from the whims of the majority.

  • notice that chomsky completely ignores the fact that government regulation created false economic indicators, thus leading to unsustainable growth in the housing market, and forced lenders to act irresponsibly through "affordable housing" initiatives. if people could afford their mortgages, none of this would have happened. the market is quite efficient at weeding out things that don't work. but chomsky is a leftist, so there you go.

  • @terrygand The presidential election MASK the DICTATORSHIP OF THE CLASS RULE.

  • @terrygand The simplest revolution is: stop shopping. Not demonstrating, going on strike, or voting will do the trick. By shopping the masses have created a New Nobility. other than Kings, Dukes, or Barons. Today they are called differently. The French had to attack the Bastille, and kill their suppressors. Americans just have to stop shopping.

    Nobody can force you to buy stuff.

  • @terrygand agreed... the constitution has been distorted and abandoned

  • watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w

    Learn the Truth. Watch this.

    Join the Movement and Spread Awareness

  • Freedom is Slavery.

  • @JasonDamisch There is no "freedom", democracy is mob rule.

  • @JasonDamisch

    Yep. and someone made a trip to Africa where sick people are not tolerated, and they are put aside to die. Somebody, whether R or D, will have to do something. God, doe the President not know that there are people suffering right under neath his nose? What is he doing to help? I am so sick and tired of him ordering aide to other countries, when I need help right here in America. If he wants to be a president of another country ,then he should go to another country.

  • The solution: draft all old people and send them to invade Iran. Problem(s) solved.

  • Libertarians of the present day are accustomed to think of socialism as the polar opposite of the libertarian creed. But this is a grave mistake, responsible for a severe ideological disorientation of libertarians in the present world. As we have seen, Conservatism was the polar opposite of liberty; and socialism, while to the “left” of conservatism, was essentially a confused, middle-of-the-road movement.

    ...

    it tries to achieve Liberal ends by the use of Conservative means.

    ~ Rothbard

  • You need a good book about the economy, look for Ha-joon Changs great book about the myths of Capitalism. Great idea for the elites to read this.

  • @buddinganarchist I see you read zcommunications as well ;)

    To clarify, the book is "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism" by Ha-joon Chang.

    Another important book is Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations", largely considered to be the prime text of capitalist theory. Quite a good read, too, considering there are MANY arguments against capitalist market competition, wage labor, and joint-stock companies (analogous to modern corporations) in the very book supposedly supporting capitalism.

  • @buddinganarchist that is such a bad bad book IMO. it is filled with so many fallacies, i don't know where to begin. read 'economics in one lesson' by henry Hazlitt.. read the reviews on amazon. after reading, you will know what i mean.

  • The Rothschilds are enslaving the People of the US via the fraudulent criminal conspiracy known as the illegal, unConstitutional Federal Reserve. The entire US government is now simply a puppet of the Rothschild banking dynasty.

    “End the Fed”

    Every political candidate must be evaluated based upon this single all telling crucial issue. You are either with the People or you are with the Rothschilds and their agents, the international bankers.

    This is the new American litmus test.

  • @Lentenlands watch?v=541bajR4k8g

  • @JakeMansonNYC How so? I would argue that the deregulation of financial institutions is directly responsible for the '08 financial crisis, and deregulation combined with lack of oversight will be responsible for the next.

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  • @CytherLynx only if you say please

  • For those who are confused about all the political interpretations and mud-flinging you are likely to find on forums.

    read classics from every perspective.

    communist manifesto, leviathan, the republic, economics in one lesson, the law.. etc.

    however, that said, i oppose almost everything Chomsky said, i don't even know where to start. i believe he has fallen for some very important economics fallacies.

    he is trying to pin economic instability on markets, not government.

  • @CytherLynx You're turning conditionality on it's head, as if it is government which is largely responsible for policy. The very people in government would not be there if not for the massive support and financing of campaigns by corporate capitalist funding. To paraphrase Smith himself, a laissez-faire economy would quickly turn into a conspiracy of business and industry against consumer, scheming to influence politics and legislation. That's Adam Smith, you know, that notorious commie.

  • @rtnslnd i have actually read 'the wealth of nations', but you've lumped me into one catagory of 'capitalists' it seems. i don't support most of adams ideas.

    this massive push for selfish interests, via lobbying occurs because they are sucessful a lot of the time. And they are successful because people cannot possibly review the thousands of legislation put forth by both sides (they're both corrupt)

    all i can say is read 'economics in one lesson' short and excellent book that deals with this

  • @CytherLynx

    Lol I've read Hayek and Rothbard before, I really am not compelled to read them again via Hazlitt. The issue is whether their economic models fit with human behavior. They do not. Humans are predictably irrational, and their only rebuttal is that we act "as if" we follow the rationalist economic model, even if agents do not use rational models in their everyday lives. Behavioral economics is far more accurate on how humans behave regarding economics.

  • @rtnslnd no, you've got it all wrong. Economics isn't just about predicting behavior. As Hume, Weber, etc has explained, the social sciences cannot be treated like the natural sciences because of the fact-value distinction.

    even if Austrian economics did not lead to the most wealth, i'd still support it 100% !

    why? Because it's also about the rights of the individual.

  • @rtnslnd and that being said. hazlitt book fully takes into account people's irrational behaviour. It isactually the Austrian school that gets this, and neo-classical that don't. it is highly ironic that you attack with that criticism

    behavioural economics on the other hand has limited usages. human behaviour is complex & unpredictable. individuals randomly affect macro trends all the time. on top of this, behavioural economics can NEVER explain ethics or rights.

    You clearly know NOTHING argh

  • @CytherLynx And yeah, I know NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. That's why I'm able to respond on youtube comments. That's how I can speak. That's how I can comment on economics in any manner, even if I'm wrong. It's cuz I know NOTHING. The scope of your comment is ridiculously inaccurate, and makes it evident that you have not taken a class in philosophy (or did not pay attention), which is absolutely pivotal to critical thinking skills.

    I'm not gonna argue with somebody that has no standards. G'day

  • @rtnslnd AND on top of this, you say "The issue is whether their economic models fit with human behavior. They do not."

    The Austrian school does not develop models of behaviour! you've attacked something that doesn't exist, a testament to your lack of understanding.

    A/E understand that individual choice is unpredictable, and the only thing that can be done is treat it for what it is, a social science, and thus use the right methodology unlike neo-classical theory and B/E.

  • @rtnslnd It's amazing what you've said, because it is so self refuting and inane.

    where you say Austrian economics fails, is actually what Austrian economics criticises of other economic schools.

    and then what you claim B/E as a solution. it is the exact school of economics that falls for this error of not understanding complex human individuality.

    it is like me criticising the catholic church for being unscientific, and then saying the need the see the Darwinian light of god.

    frustrating!

  • @rtnslnd

    actually,

    it's like criticising the catholic church for being FAITHLESS, then saying they need the see the Darwinian light of god.

    twice as stupid.

  • @CytherLynx Right. Psychology (which is what behavioral economics is based on) is not relevant to human behavior, but complex mathematical models are.

    You're really grasping at straws there.

    I did not say the Austrian school developed models of behavior. I said the Austrian schools developed mathematical models about how we supposedly act as if we were rational agents, and it fails to take into account that actual human behavior is not reflected in these models.

  • @rtnslnd no! 'Austrians' don't develop mathematical models at all!

    even wikipedia describes this under the methodology, on 'Austrian economics' page.

    "rational agents"?

    Austrian's are the one's who reject this rational agent view, 'Homo economicus' who somehow knows everything and makes perfect decisions.

    behavioural economics has very limited specific uses, and it is the one using mathematical models more than any school.

    you've got it back to front, it's kinda funny.

  • @CytherLynx You're right, I was confusing the Chicago school with the Austrian school.

    However, Mises said of the Austrian method: "its statements and propositions are not derived from experience... They are not subject to verification or falsification on the ground of experience and facts."

    Friedman: "The Hayek-Mises explanation of the business cycle is contradicted by the evidence. It is, I believe, false."

    I don't see a whole lot of consistency among Austrian supporters.

  • @rtnslnd the business cycle has been confirmed time and time again. it is no coincidence that the majority of the people who predicted the economic crisis were Austrians, that understood the business cycle.

    Freidman wasn't an Austrian economics supporter. he supported the neo-classical methodology, which i believe is wrong.

    what books have you read on Austrian economics?

    watch this to understand it: watch?v=wCmwRN5gjOo

  • @CytherLynx You are making the same argument against behavioral economics that the rational choice supporters use, that it has "limited applications". I fail to see how that's even remotely true, as one of the prime tenets of behavioral economics is the concept that economic agents are subject to cognitive bias in their market interactions, thru limited access to information. Therefore their market interactions are guided by rules of thumb, not necessarily strict logic. Seems applicable to me.

  • @rtnslnd its also good to remember that the marginalist revolution occurred in the 1870s, overturning Adam smiths ideas as surely as Einstein overturned Newtons theory. there's been many other changes since, and thus the wealth of nations is best read as a historical book.

  • This analysis is now know to be wrong. We now know that those controlling the American government orchestrated the financial collapse so that they could obtain three trillion dollars from the goverment. The latest is that it is the big bankers from Wall street (like the Rockerfeller's who own J.P.Morgan) that are responsible.

  • I hear a lot of people talk about how bad a new world order will be. i think that is the only way forward. Gooooooooooo World! :P

  • Love the Real news

  • MOST OF THE COMMENTS BELOW ARE CORRECT!!!

    WE DONT NEED A GOVERNMENT!!!!! WE NEED A NEW SOCIAL SYSTEM!!!!

    ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT

  • We don't need socialism, we need individual Liberty.

  • @specialkornflake i need to win the lottery then i wont care about any of you

  • @simpleearthling I'm glad you care now, lol

  • Truly free market advocates would completely disagree with Chomsky's premise here. His premise is that free market fundamentalism has been the status quo. When in fact, what we've been enduring is "crony capitalism". Free market capitalism implies RISK. Where is the RISK for federal government-subsidized financial institutions? Where is the RISK when failure just means you'll get a bailout from the "lender of last resort"?

  • continued- So yes, Chomsky is correct when he says "risk taking is underpriced", of course it is when a business knows it can reap all the profits but not worry about the penalties of its actions. No, those penalties are given to the American people to bear, those are the "externalities".

  • continued- This form of capitalism is not "free market" or "self-regulating markets"; placing all the blame for our current economic problems on these ideas is intellectual dishonesty, the kind of which you don't expect from a distinguished linguistics professor.

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  • democracy is the road to socialism.

  • Primary residence, food, and utilities must be profit-free. Otherwise, whatever workers profit, will be snapped up by these necessities, and workers have nothing to spend to help boost business. No money = no business.

  • How can you talk about market fundamentalism when the biggest culprits (and among the biggest loosers) were freddie and fannie - government-sponsored enterprises?

  • The most vital of those would be cutting employee salaries, which make up 75 to 80 percent of the city’s expenses, Cain said.

    “The current salary structure is unsustainable,” Cain said, adding that city employees make an average of more than $100,000 a year in salaries and benefits. “The salaries are out of whack with the private sector...You can’t run a city on those numbers.”

  • Its like we are in a parental rebellion, having continuous examples of their dislike of us, but needing the elusive final straw to form our final judgment. Wake up America, your under attack on several fronts and yet you are unable to regain your god given rights to rule your own house. Of the people for the people has been hijacked by the self intersted rule of the elite.

  • @stickitupyourasteric "If only we could have a completely socialized system!" they say, even while the failure of government is all around them, and examples of that type of government have been proven to be much worse than the opposite.

  • @stickitupyourasteric Yes America is still like a teenager, it hasn't matured. A mature, grown up America is one that is FREE- not still relying on some authority to take care of them from cradle to grave, and then complaining about the inevitable inefficiencies and corruption that result because of it. People like Chomsky think that we need more of that authority.

  • @b2bdown

    Bush was the most socialist President ever he nationalized the Banks the Auto industry!

  • @b2bdown

    What a bunch of garbage. America is like it is because of the relations between politicians and corporations. Republicans love government, when it makes them tons of money and furthers their agenda. Dems are corporate whores too, just in a different way.

    What we need is campaign finance reform and a few other things.

  • @refuckulate420 We need a resource based economy. Youtube for "zeitgeist addendum".

  • @refuckulate420 I think that's half of it. The other half is the relations of production between the owners of industry (capitalists) and the producers within industry (workers). As long as workers remain in a subservient role, and do not free themselves from the shackles of state-capitalism, no amount of reform will truly free us. It has long been known that business dictates state policy, regardless of who is in power or how much "democracy" we have. True democracy is direct democracy.

  • @b2bdown - Perhaps a free America could prosper, but their would have to be a major intellectual change in education. As in improve it.

  • Self-regulating markets are fantasy? Ha! Chomsky's understanding of economics is fantasy! Don't get me wrong, Chomsky is extremely intelligent and is excellent on foreign policy but he has no idea what he is talking about when it comes to economics.

  • @bolognamof

    Yup he is crap on economics, but on foreign policy he is beastly..

  • @xMaXiMuSx Completely agree with that statement!

  • Self Regulating Markets is Balogny.

  • Businesses and Corporations making too much money should lower the price or cost of their products or services.

  • @heartlessvietboy That would end up being a limit on corporate (private) profits, essentially. That would require a revolution, as it would effectively end speculation and likely democratize fascist corporations. Probably not in our lifetimes.

  • We are not limiting profits of those making too much money, they can make however money they want. What we are doing is taxing because they are taking all the resources and all it takes is for us to pass a legislation.

    Sometimes in life, there is no pleasing everybody. When one harms the system, that one must listen for the good of humanity even when they argue that they are free human beings and can do whatever they want.

  • dis guy b smart

  • The self regulating market would charge higher interest. This why money would cost more, GS, homenbuyers, business would not take those risks due to cost of money. The FED caused this, not the free market. If rates were allowed to be set by the market, the market would not have lent money at 2% for NIJIA loans. Truly free markets regulate, markets that are not free like the ones run by the FED lead to distortions and bubbles.

  • @nmud externalities still aren't covered. there were bubbles and booms even during times when the government simply couldnt regulate effectively even if it tried such as the 19th century. markets work in certain cases, but not it others. they're also so short term based that the future can be sacrificed such as with the environment. you could argue that markets could fix the environment, but that misses the point that they destroy the environment in the first place. why not try to prevent such?

  • @099749..Your stats are wrong, the US uses about 25% and Europe uses about the same.

  • Sorry I dont trust Jews!

  • @carnypimp why stop at jews? just say white people.

  • @lamaya43 Jew is not a race reject. It is a slave religion! They ruined Germanys economy now ours.

  • @carnypimp wow, that's really profound. so do you sound like that in person, or does the anonimity of the internet make you an ass-hole?

  • @lamaya43 Im a asshole 24-7, at work, shopping, baseball games, at home. Im a proffessional asshole. If I was to die tomorrow my wife would say he was good at being an asshole and that was it.

  • Chomsky is cool. All jews are cool. Chomsky is a jew. Since I am a jew, therefore I am cool.

    All gentiles MUST DIE.

  • @LongliveSnak2e The only Jews that are true children of Israel are Sephardic, so if you're Ashkenazi chances are you are a gentile that has been lied to.

  • Going to add here actually what should happen here

    is that the banks give back the money if they fall they fall! Others will take over from them.

    That's free market captialism!

  • @099749 cont..

    Too big to fail.... Too important to fail- That's not capitalist!

  • @099749 cont..

    Wanna know what really funny they couldnt pay it back now anyway as they've blown it on themselves, and done a nice little runner with the peoples money!

    Whole thing is a joke!

  • @099749 cont...

    I quiet like stats you know. Did you know America accounts for around 5% of the worlds population- Yet America consumes around 50% off all the petrol(oil) on the market.

    Leaving everyone else the other 95% of the world population to consume the other 50%.

    If america stopped using oil- then limited world reserves would have a life span twice as long as they currently are!

    And they do all of that by borrowing all the money to do so!

  • @099749 cont...

    Just thinking actually that I read back in 1999 I think might have been slightly later 2000 or 2002. That the america sercurity stratgy for the future, an nsa report I believe, stated that in the future america would look to the military to enforce and protect it's position in this world.

    So looking at that the idea about America dumping the dollar in the future and impoverishing many- many would be annoyed about it, and no doubt would think they'll never do that I could....

  • @099749 cont...

    It could mean war, yet in a situation where america has borrowed to build it's military up, and seeks to use that military to protect its position.

    and where many of the people(countries) upset probably wouldn't have the funds needed for war or their funds would be highly limited, as a result of the dollar dumping- The army becomes the ace in the whole in getting the world to except it- after the fact

    Is there a way to force America to keep the dollar? and so pay their debts 

  • @099749 sorry it was the nss the natonal security stragity I do believe

  • Why is Chomsky talking about democracy? I heard at another conference say: "America is not a democracy, and was never intended to be". Chomsky said that America was a "Polyarchy"- a system were the sole purpose of society is to maintain the power of the elite. He said the same families that were rich 200 years ago are the same families that are rich today.

  • @tothatextent

    He talks about democracy- as it's Rich fascism(tyranny) or tyranny of the richest, verse democracy.

    Understand that america isnt a democracy- america is not run by the government- america is run, by the banking corporations and other corporations- they make the decisions, and they are not elected by the people nor do they work for the people or in the peoples interest!

    America is not a democracy- and with the crisis they corporations have weakened the sham-democracy even more

  • @tothatextent cont....

    It is to say that America is not a democracy yet the elected people in office still have some things they can do, very little yet some-they can change laws, and spend some of the tax as they want to, they can raise tax or reduce it.

    Corporations with the crisis are attacking more and more the state- and so, taking away the very little things the democratically elected can do.

    That's what he means!

  • @tothatextent cont...

    Understand that, as the government has bailed out the banks public finances are crippled- therefore the government has to bring in spending.

    this means that things that government was running are now cut and will either no longer be done or will be taken over by private interests- you guessed it the corporations- will take them over!

    What little democractic powers the elected have reduced and the corporates power increased!

    the crisis was a con to achieve that- A LIE!

  • @tothatextent cont...

    notice also that in a free market ecconomy the government should not be bailing out the banks at all- they should have been allowed to fail all of them. Other smaller banks would have taken over, that's the free market- that's how it works.

    Winners and losers all the banks that are up top today should not be there:- They are not capitalists these people- they do not believe in the free market!

    They are business tyrannts- business fascists!

    Not Business capitalists!

  • @tothatextent cont..

    understand that america is not a democracy no negative freedom country is: What you have is seudo-democracy where the elected Mps- have more or less ability to act- and we are moving into a situation where the elected Mps of the future will not be able to do anything really.

    Ergo the total death of democracy- although some would say it's already dead- I am inclined to agree. because truly policy is set by the system ergo the corporations not the elected- none work in....