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  • The gas price dropped dramatically, even here in Canada, after the huge crash in August of 2008, I am sick of hearing people say gas was $X before the 'liberals' or 'Obama' took over, it was even higher during Bush for quite a while, people have short memories it seems. And like the government has any pull over the gas price, the gas companies may waiver the price to help one party over the other, though that's because you are not a democracy anymore.

  • There are way too many stupid people in this world!

  • @paunocu666 America is the most violent first world nation on Earth with more blacks sent to prison for nonp-violent drug offenses then are allowed into college. The media is owned by corporations who censor everything. In Somalia, there is no state, only a free market...so why isn't it paradise? Oh, and Denmark is a social democracy, so why isn't it a third world hell hole?

  • Even her colleagues are laughing at her. Who on earth would be stupid enough to elect this woman to office?

  • Listen to this POS.....MAKE SURE YOU DON'T GIVE OBAMA ANOTHER 4 YEARS...WHATEVER IT TAKES!!!!

  • cant stand this skank, race baiting vile winch. yikes.

  • Big deal. She, along with (by the latest polls) 36% of Americans have a positive view on the word "socialism". Bernie Sanders is openly socialist, and he still won a seat in the senate. Ever since the end of the Cold War and the new generation coming up who don't remember the evils of the USSR, Socialism & Social Democracy are becoming more acceptable in America. Give it ten, fifteen years tops, & America, like every other developed country, will have a real socialist/social democrat presence

  • @mysticresistence come to Brazil, Venezuela or Argentina... you're going to love it...

    huahuahuahuahuahuahuahuahuahua­

  • @paunocu666 Venezuela is a semi-autocracy, Argentina is just a mess, and Brazil...Lula de Silva is the most popular elected official in decades. He used Social Democracy to cut poverty rates, grow the economy and spread human freedom. FOME ZERO! Hello!

    Oh, and Denmark is the best example of a Social Democracy. I loved it. hot girls & free healthcare. Want laissez faire economics? Check out Somalia...

  • @mysticresistence HAHAHA... I am brazilian dude, this country is a mess...

    social democracy works until you don't have money to take huahuahua.

    you don't know what it is... to work like a crazy to see other using your money.

  • @paunocu666 I live in America, and it is a mess. You don't know how it is, to see millionaires walk over dying homeless people while they go to $1,000 a plate dinner. Oh, and Brazil was always a mess, only its less of a mess now, as says my Brazilian ex-girlfriend. And you never did explain how Denmark is such a great country even though its a social democracy or why laissez faire Somalia and Kong Kong are so utterly, totally F**** up.

  • @mysticresistence america is not capitalism, america is corporate fascism.

    Who asks for regulations ? Useful idiots and millionaires...

    Name ONE regulations that was not made by a group of corporations lobbying in the governement... huahuahua ZERO!

    It's always the rich people asking for this... and the useful idiots thinks: oohh cool, socialism... HUAHUAHUAHUA

  • i noticed there are a lot of senile people serving the public trust, not just maxine. they cannot finish a sentence, break their thought, start five topics at once, and ask fourteen questions at a time without waiting for an answer. democrat, republican no matter - too many seniles. it just gots to show our elections are not working, the system is broken and corruption is at an unprecedented high. there are maybe 1 or 2 exceptions,

  • Haha. Waters is such an idiot.

  • She means "Nationalize", Nationalize is to take back private corporations and have the government run them. Socialize is close but not quite right. Medicare is Socialized, so is the Fire dept. the police department and public education.

    The most brilliant tactic the wealthy have used is to flood the (corporate owned) airwaves and repeat, over and over that socialism is bad. It's actually operating at a loss to support business or the public, they don't complain when it supports business...

  • @CI9TK ...for instance, the USGS helps oil companies find oil - they don't complain. The Air Traffic Control system is federal but the Airlines don't complain that it keeps their costs down, profits up. The government spends billions at Universities to research medicine then they give that research away to promote drugs, etc. in new areas that drug companies would not otherwise "waste" money on.

    You are being misled because a "growth economy" means not just profit but MORE profit every year.

  • @CI9TK Did Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Samuel Colt, Samuel Morse, Eli Whitney, Jonas Salk, the Wright brothers etc. etc. work with federal grants? No. They invented a good product and it sold. Only in a few cases did they get money from the government but they did not get grants from the government before they even invented whatever they came up with. The point is that those gov groups may keep costs down but that system does not encourage innovation.

  • @billyslo87 Yes! Ideas come from PEOPLE, NOT from corporations.

    Internet was a Gov't innovation.

    Innovation comes from a mind, education is VERY important - the best ideas came from "normal" people, NOT children of the wealthy. Still want to give a tax break (Bush's vouchers) so that wealthy parents can send their kids to school with a discount from the working man?

    Capitalism will CRUSH good ideas if it competes with their profits (see my uploads). Good ideas have a chance if they are funded.

  • Another typical dumb negro. Incredible....

  • See the looks on the faces of the other panel members beside her? Shes yet another traitor that should be hanged.

  • wtf she's retarded.

  • If you rearrange the letters in "Maxine Waters", you can spell "Retarded Communist ghetto trash"

  • she is an absolute illiterate......what a carpet baggin blowhard.

  • She is the most honest liberal i've ever heard.

  • Unbelievable. These people have infiltrated our government, people. Our country is going to dramatically take a turn for the worse.

    Expect the dollar to collapse. Expect extreme hyperinflation. Expect 50% unemployment.

    America will be completely unrecognizable.

  • People (idiots mostly) like to call the republicans fascists, but they don't even know what fascism means. Fascism is a system in which individuals and companies are allowed to maintain ownership if businesses, but the government gets to dictate how the businesses are run.

    It is the liberal democrats who are driving our once great nation to fascism! Stop voting for Fascists! Stop voting for Democrats!

  • True A--hole .. as if it took that to realize this.

  • What an idiot dumbass!

    This is the only time in her life that she actually spoke the truth.

    It is morons like this fool that have taken this country to the brim of no return.

    COMMUNIST-SOCIALIST-MARXIST BUFFOON!

  • They're all rotten! What have they done for us lately? Not a damn thing. Time to start over, get new blood in there and if they don't do the job, vote their asses out.

    No more lifetime politicians!

  • The sad thing is that US citizens elected her into office. I guess she promised to give them a raise in their welfare checks.

  • 0:39...she actually told the truth there..by accident.lol

  • oh .. maxine calm down

  • She sho KNOWS what she be about, no hesitation whatsoever. WIGGING!!!

  • this rep. maxine waters questioned at public forum with live mics whether U.S had really sent astronauts to Mars and she said that she never believed that we had went to mars and what she was alluding to was the extreme doubt in black community of manned trip to the moon but the plot line is to complex for her aboriginal brain and she got details screwed up. This ill informed nut is a discrace to the USA and it is very sad that her constituents send her back.

  • REMEMBER, HE WAS REFERRING TO THE DUMB ASS DEMOCRAT CONGRESS!

  • Do you people even know what socialism is or what it does.

  • @Mrpztron You seem to be too stupid to realize you're being ignored. You never addressed any of my comments and just started off on ad hominem attacks. Why would they want to restructure when they could get free money?

    You're just a crashing bore so just forget I said anything and go shrieking off into the night.

  • @klrdotorg Well, he hasn't deleted his last reply to me....yet. I screencapped, just in case if he does delete it, I have proof he still posted it.

  • @mario54671

    He's a discredited twerp - with an unearned ego. I doubt he'll be back unless you hound him.

  • @klrdotorg If by best he means "best in illiteracy," then he is correct. So far I have no private message from him, but I like how his other comment is still up, basically saying he's looked at six charts and that the lowest gas prices in 2008 was $2.80. I gave him actual proof from three videos, and can testify, as I actually live in southern California and the gas stations right by my house were in the $1.50's at their lowest.

  • And they GIGGLED in the back !!?? IT`s ALL about MONEY & POWER & Who can take it from someone else,"Crook`s Stealing from CROOK`s"....in math it`s like this e.g. Big Gov. X Big Biz.=phuk-U

  • @RobertPhillpott Uh...no. Actually $1.80 would be more accurate. At the VERY end of Bush's term in office, gas dropped really low to about $1.80 if you average it out. In my area, it was about $1.59, in other areas in Los Angeles it was as lows s $1.26. You're referring to about a year before this when the gas prices did go up like crazy when Bush was in office, but towards the end, right before Obama took office, they went down...only to come back up one dollar in a couple months.

  • @mario54671 Actually... no. The last time the gas was $1.80 was in 2004, when the US invaded Iraq. In the period of time that you claim gas was $1.26 it was actually closer to $3.50. The lowest gas price in 2008 was $2.80. And that's all according to about five or six different charts from different sources I've been looking at. Not to mention the fact that I live and drive in southern california.

  • @RobertPhillpott Do you NOT remember at all towards the end of 2008 around November/December to about January/February of 2009, gas in cities like Inglewood were about $1.50 - $1.60. Eventually in the summer of 2009, they went back up a whole dollar. I have no idea how you don't remember this or what charts you're looking at...

    /watch?v=osW1hlfvewg

    /watch?v=CfeeFoOHBtA

    /watch?v=n9i8eC31PpQ

  • @mario54671

    RobertPhillpott is a lying jackass. Gas prices went down to $1.65 in Dec. 2008. You were right. He's a pompous, arrogant fool ... like Maxine.

  • @klrdotorg Figures.  He deleted his first reply to wiseBRILLIANTgenius, making it look like I replied to no one, and then never replied back to challenge the actual proof I gave.

  • While slavery was wrong (nearly every group of people in history was at one point a slave, only blacks keep complaining about it), blacks here in America should be thankful your ancestors were brought here to the United States instead of stuck in that uncivilized hellhole called Africa. Honestly I can't even think of one good thing blacks have contributed to the United States. They have a high crime rate, low IQ, higher government dependence rate, and ruin neighborhoods.

  • @jerzeyshorestallion Sorry homey, can't hear your tone through typed letters lol. My bad. You do know there are people that say that and mean it though right? Anyway peace out.

  • It's truly amazing that Maxine Waters EVER got into politics

  • Maxine Waters is a terrorist, she should be locked up for contributing to the ideological attack on Americans.

  • My opinion of Maxine Waters: RACE-BAITING NIGGER, UNFIT FOR SERVICE IN CONGRESS. MAY SHE HANG BY THE NECK FOR CAUSING RACIAL DIVISION.

  • Too bad Maxine's mother was not Pro Choice!!! What a BI*TCH Maxine is! Does it come to a shock she admits she is a Socialist.

  • Hey..she opens her mouth..she sticks her feet in (as the expression goes) ... What a HATEFUL, BITTER, RACIST, BIGOT this broad is!! Who in the HELL voted her ASS in AND decided to keep her ASS in office?!

  • OOPS???

  • She only opens her mouth to change feet.

  • She sure stepped in it there didn't she?

  • She is a demon in disguise. The woman doesn't have a clue about reality. She is so deceived.

  • Seeing this has just made me tea party forever

  • She got to Congress because her district is probably mostly black. Blacks vote for whoever has a D by his/her name and if there is more than one, whichever one promises to give the most handouts.

  • @cybersuh1 Some have the D beside their name because that's the grades they made in school, that's if they didn't quit with babies popping out with different last names. But then again, some can only read the alphabet to the letter D so that's why some of the ignorants vote for a "D". 

  • The word you are looking for is called "NATIONALIZING" you dumb bitch. Most of us learned this in Jr. high. Question. Did you get to your position because your so obviously brilliant or does afirmitive action work at the Congress level as well?

  • Well, she sure tried to undo the damage, but you can't spin this. We put these wingnuts in a position of power, time to take them out. This is one decision maker that needs to go, on just this statement alone. She is not an example of what a decision maker should be. Gotta go, gotta go.

  • Marxine tripped over her own dick on that one.

  • Wow that was a real bad slip of the tongue......Did you notice the long pause after??Because she knows the majority of america wants nothing too do with socialism

  • @dougiefreshny The majority of Americans don't have a clue what socialism actually is. Yeah, Waters makes her socialist beliefs clear here, no doubt about it, but a lot of Americans still think that OBAMA is a socialist--a belief that only a total moron would believe after 3 years of Obama's anti-liberal, anti-worker, anti-socialist administration.

    America has a huge socialized military. Yes, SOCIALIZED--they take our resources to provide a military for the common good=socialized military.

  • @paxpaul Obama is a leninist.And yeah your right alot of the libs dont know that they arnt actually libs they are really socialists.But i would have too disagree about the military.We need it too keep us safe just like police officers and firemen.You took it too far there,socialistic programs like welfare,social security(not everyone that gets it pays into it) "free" health care hence the quotations,section 8,food stamps,thats socialism.It takes from 1 too give to the have nots

  • @paxpaul Marxism's whole ideal is based from a PLANNED CONTROLLED ECONOMY. SOCIALISM IS DIFFERENT FROM OTHER FORMS OF MARXISM IN THAT GOVERNMENT ONLY FINANCIALLY OWNES BUSINESS.(auto buyout, bank buyouts, Obama-care)Obama is the MOST Socialistic president we have ever had, he is farthest left and pro-union. Andy stern and the Walrus richard Trumka have advised Obama more than his own cabinet. Paul must be in "wonderland" or "bizzaro World", or he's gullible enough to believe MSNBC's LIES.

  • @Mrpztron How can you possibly equate the government GIVING money to industry with government control of those businesses. For example if you give me $200 buck no strings attached how do you control me?

    No don't bother answering this. You'll probably start spewing about some conspiracy or another and I don't have time for that nonsense.

  • @colddrake80

    There was complete restructuring of All the business that received government bailouts, that's a fact. So your entire argument is what I like to call a BASELESS ANALOGY. Once again, socialism is marked by FINANCIAL and CAPITAL control of business, not daily operational control. Bailouts from Government money on the grounds of supervised restructuring; If that's not socialism it's half a step away.

  • @Mrpztron And the restructuring was organized for the benefit of whom? It was direct intervention to keep those businesses going under their current ownership. If it were socialism then you would see government officials at the helm.

    I want you to think really hard. Obama ran as a centrist and his administration is a centrist one. Government subsidy of business has been an ongoing thing for decades.

  • @colddrake80 Where have you been idiot, this is not conspiracy, many of those company bailouts had a lot of strings attached and many former employees are gone or took pay cuts or other 'things' happened. Total overreach of government into America. GE didn't have to pay taxes after their child corporation MSNBC practically did Obama's campaigning for him.

  • @weseyedwalk Where are these "stirngs"? It certainly wasn't to keep American workers employed. CEO compensation is through the roof and companies are sitting on trillions that they won't spend. Where is the government "overreach" of your delusions? Why haven't they taken all that money?

    Idiot.

    Most big corporations don't pay their share in taxes already and haven't for decades. Your really slow ot figure that out. What is your source for GE not pay taxes because they supported Obama?

  • Our nation needs an IQ limit of 100 for all public servants. GET IDIOTS OUT OF POLITICS!

  • @Mrpztron The GOP already set an IQ limit of 100 for all president candidates: That is, no Republican candidate is allowed to have an IQ higher than 100.

  • @paxpaul We need a president that has ACTUALLY participated in the real world. I would take it a step further and make it MANDATORY for presidential candidates to have non-governmental WORK experience of at least 7years.(bye,bye Obama). As a registered DEMOCRAT and FORMER small business owner from California I can tell you from experience; THERE IS NO MODERATE DEMOCRAT ANYMORE. Our party has unfortunately been hijacked by the elitist progressive left. It's time to take our party back.

  • @paxpaul And the DNC set the limit to IQ no more than 50 for presidents, I'll take 100 over 50. But I'm sure retards like you that are brainwashed will keep cheerleading for dems, because your blindly loyal to them.

  • @weseyedwalk You assume I support the Democrats. You're wrong. I hate them as much as the GOP, but the difference is that the Republican Party is about being ignorant, anti-science, and anti-intelligence. The Democrats are smart, just useless and wrongheaded. Obama is VERY smart, but I can't stand to hear him anymore because he's always lecturing us. Don't assume I'm loyal to them just because I hate the GOP. I just hate the Dems for different reasons. The Dems lack spines. The Reps lack brains.

  • @paxpaul I disagree I see the dems and overly bold like a bully, and the repubs are spineless and in a way kinda dumb to, but at least they know what not to do, where the dems keep driving off the cliff like were gonna grow some magic wings.

  • @weseyedwalk We're going off the cliff, no matter what. At this point, does it matter if we turn to the Left or to the Right? We're still going over.

    Spineless Reps, though? That's a joke, right? In the debt-ceiling fight, Boehner even said he got 98% of what Reps wanted. That's because the Dems are spineless and the Reps know how to stand their ground--their stupid, America-killing ground.

    The Reps know what to do?! Start wars we don't need, skyright our debts, waste surpluses...

  • @paxpaul Spineless, look while people are getting killed over the border nobody on the left or the right has the spine to secure the border, why? no spine, they might be tainted politically and they can't have that now can they? That's just one of many examples. Repubs don't have balls, but dems have a lot of balls, although I am against what they want to do in most respects. I'm not down with socialism domestic or international.

  • She get's paid how much to be unqualified?

  • She's a sick, racist, money grubbing, evolutionist, global warming believing, negro socialist......who hasn't been to church in years, all rights come from man according to her, and hasn't helped the black unemployment problem in her own district-ever.....thank-you congressional black caucus...please direct me to the congressional White caucus to complain.....oh....that's right, you can't, there is no congressional White caucus....that would be racist.

  • maxine waters is a moron. This is what you get for electing this ignorant woman.Mayby she will be going to hell with the rest of the idiots in washington.

  • What a dumb bitch!!

  • Soooooo Maxine. How is your black Messiah helping you out? You thought he was going to help out the black communities. How is your unemployment? How is your educational system? All in the shitter? Obama suckered punched you into thinking he was looking out for you. FAT CHANCE.

  • @4JayeP LMAO! You hit the nail right on the head! Why she hasn't been asked to step down for her ethics violations is a mystery to me lol...but yeah, her district has 12% unemployment and her constituents are tired of obama, and so is she! obama is NOT for the black man, not in the least! He's all about himself, and that's all.

  • JUST FOR MAXINE WATERS(Socialist): According to Lenin, “He who does not work shall not eat” is a necessary principle under socialism, the preliminary phase of the evolution towards communist society. The phrase appears in his 1917 work, The State and Revolution. Through this slogan Lenin explains that in socialist states only productive individuals could be allowed access to the articles of consumption. MAY MAXINE WATERS (THE SOCIALIST) FOLLOW LENIN'S LEAD ON WELFARE.

  • @MrBluegrassfiddler That is not a socialist saying. That is from the Bible in 2 Thessalonians 3:10 "For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat."

  • and what she wanted to say nationalize too. look to the left, and see the blonde female smiling.

  • Our country has many areas that are socialized, so what's the big deal??? 

  • Blacks would vote for the Devil as long as he was black.

  • Maxine Waters, what a JOKE...she was the same nutjob that wanted funding for "Ebonics" becuase she thought black people couldnt learn to speak standard English! Shes INSANE!!!

  • (continued)

    machines, hence the economically dispossessed black man has been on the vanguard of the proletrian struggle. I forsee that as the intelligent white worker sees his own labor value go down, he will see himself as dispossessed as well, and join with the black man in a political revolution (via the polls, not the guillotine wielding mob) to have the fruits of the economy equally redistributed to the masses.

  • Actually, with the labor market value singularity we are in- i.e., the supply of labor always being ahead of the demand, at least in wealthy countries that do not stop labor arbitrage in its many forms (e.g., imported goods, outsourcing, H1B, etc.) - the only way that the common working man can his piece of the pie is through a Marxist type of redistributive economic system. I suppose that the American black had seen the value of hard working self - i.e., the master's "buck" - eroded by ...

  • When B. Osama took over way back in the end of 2008 -early 2009, the price of gas nationwide was under $1.90

    It is doubtful that we will ever see that again.

  • @wiseBRILLIANTgenius And all it took to bring down gasoline prices was the near total collapse of the world economy. Cool, let's ride that pony again!

  • @wiseBRILLIANTgenius Sorry. Stupid question, but: per gallon? We pay about 1.80$ per litre in norway

  • @wiseBRILLIANTgenius The price of gas the summer of 2008 reached over 4.00 a gallon. It has almost nothing to do with the president.

  • If we had known this would happen, we would have picked our own tobacco

  • @wiseBRILLIANTgenius Nasty slavery jab.

  • Ape

    

  • How stupid do you get..

  • My All Time Favorite - Dumb N*, bleeding heart, Progressive Liberal, Re Distributional Democrat - She Speaks the Truth, From the Left.

  • She said it best Socializing...then taking over.  Are you sure you want to vote Democrat?

  • Socialists may be outnumbered here in America, but they're sneaky. America hasn't been a capitalist nation in a long time. Look at the unholy union between big business and government, where the best, most efficient companies don't come out on top. The ones with the most lobbyists do, like General Electric. Look at the size of government, notably the growth of government under Obama. Look at the impending crisis (and cost) of Obamacare. Capitalism is ever-shrinking in America, sadly.

  • @cybersuh1 I couldn't agree with you more, it's a slow but sure trend in the wrong direction. This is just how liberals work: They make a huge step in the socialist direction and then when us republicans object, they only take a small step back. So they're constantly gaining ground. The only question now is when will it all come tumbling down..

  • This old communist bitch Maxine Waters sounds just like Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.

  • Nationalize Everything and put the end to this Capitalism once and for all !!

  • @Nenadnash Go back to reading Marx you nutjob. I wouldn't let this woman run a childcare.

  • well there ya go....

  • But that's not even socialism. That's Facism. Much worse.it not just the dems.

  • AH come on, give her a break, haven't you ever accidentally told the truth?

  • Freudian slip

  • Most DemoRats today are really Socialists.

  • HAHA! YOU OUSTED YOURSELF!

  • So Maxine Waters says that if prices go higher, which they will, because the Obama White House refuses to allow sufficient drilling to maintain a steady reserve, that the government will take over. Excuse me....that''s not just socialism, that's marxism. Isn't her time up yet?

  • Communist 3rd world hell-hole here we come-change you CAN believe in!

    They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white.

    Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.

  • Communist cunt

  • This is what Affirmative Action got America! Unfit and unquailfied to serve the public at large. She out for herself and her brethen and if your skin is NOT black your screwed!

  • @GlobalMinority Honestly, now. Just think before you spew more garbage than an incompetent politician.

  • What kind of lie is this. Stop creating fear and trying to separate races. The republican party in like an oligarchy they always want to control something they isn't there's. The democratic party is like a socialist regime that want everyone to have the same amount of things. Everybody forgot about the republic. The republic survives through capitalism, which means the separation of classes. Every has a chance it ain't perfect, but you can make something of yourself. (freedom)

  • And can you believe that we actually have people that vote socialist, rat bastards such as this sorry excuse for a woman into office.

    At the very least, she needs to be removed from office and sent to jail.

    God help us and God bless America.

  • @GutpileCharlie

    Those socialists are simply unproductive African Americans of sub par intelligence. They need socialist entitlement programs to make it in the world b/c they're unfit to compete in a free market system. This woman is a shining example of that. That's the reason for the pay gap b/w blacks and whites, not racial discrimination. If blacks and whites as a whole were equally productive no pay gap could long endure b/c a free market system always moves toward equilibrium.

  • @GutpileCharlie

    That's not to say that there aren't productive intelligent blacks in this country, but as a whole African Americans are less intelligent and less productive than whites and even less productive and intelligent than those of Asian or Indian decent.

  • (cont.)

    Please pick your politics with more sense than you pick your favorite sports team. Democrats or republicans. Cowboys or Steelers.

    In the end, it's all just a distraction.

  • Prior to the Dems taking over in '06 the economy was NOT good.

    People: please knock off this "sports team" mentality ( hooray for our team, boo for your team ) that the political parties and their fawning media cultivate.

    BOTH parties are responsible for our condition. BOTH supported NAFTA, GATT and other treaties that have stripped us of our economic wealth. NONE of them do anything more than TALK about what you want to hear!

    Republicans or Democrats. Cowboys or the Steelers. Please pick y

  • @ArianWhite

    Your understanding of free trade and its effects on the economy is sophomoric. Protectionists like you make me sick. Find some domestic union blog and spew your nonsensical tripe there. Free markets and free trade are the reason this country was able to achieve the prosperity it has. Protectionism does nothing but make it harder for US companies to sell their goods overseas and stifle competition.

  • @roonalwazlib Why don't you read a book and educate yourself. You will note that there is NOTHING mentioned about "Free Trade" in the U.S. Constitution. In fact, there is no mention of a personal income tax mentioned there, either.

    Know why?

    The Founding Fathers expected the revenue necessary for the basic governmental infrastructure to come from duties. (Article 1 Sect. 8) a duty is a kind of tax, often associated with customs; a tax on certain items purchased abroad.

  • @ArianWhite

    Non sequitur. The absence of any mention of free trade from the Constitution does not mean that it was not a major factor in the prosperity of this nation. Free markets weren't mentioned in the Constitution either and yet we have them and they've helped to make this nation prosperous as well. Secondly, I never said anything about personal income tax. I happen to believe they should lowered for all income brackets and that many deductions should eliminated.

  • @roonalwazlib Correct, but just because there is no mention of free trade in the Constitution doesn't mean that it's ultimate creation negates the Constitution outright! What are you smoking?

    Sure, we had the ability to trade "freely" with nations prior to the "Open borders free trade" (zero tariffs) that has only been around since the second half of the 20th century.

    Free trade in THAT sense of the word is only killing us. Explain how the outsourcing of American jobs via "free trade" helps.

  • @ArianWhite

    I also happen to believe that entitlement spending is out of control and that defense spending should be reduced. That said if you believe that a modern military or modern infrastructure can be maintained simply by levying customs duties, you're dumber than dog shit. Have you even read Article 1 Section 8. I don't think you have.

  • @roonalwazlib I've read the entire Constitution many times. While I do NOT believe that we can maintain a "modern army" with bases in hundreds of sovereign nations around the world, I don't believe for a minute that the Founders ever envisioned that it would ever come to that.

    "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations – entangling alliances with none."

    -- Thomas Jefferson

    Pretty much sums it up.

  • It states in the opening clause as follows: "The Congress shall have the power To lay and collect TAXES, Duties, Imposts, and Excises to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States."

  • @roonalwazlib Yes, now show me evidence that the word "TAXES" in the meaning of the Constitution had anything at all to do with "personal income", which is a false term since the exchange of money for labor is an equal exchange and therefore not really "income" in the truest sense of the word.

    Care to offer any supporting documentation that the Founders were open to such an idea? Or are you just parroting what a latter-day tax court would argue?

  • The "necessary and proper clause of that same article goes on to state: "The Congress shall have power... To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof." Income taxation has been regarded by many as necessary for Congress to carry out its powers.

  • @roonalwazlib "Income taxation has been regarded by many as necessary for Congress to carry out its powers."

    Who are these "many"? I'm sure there are MANY MORE who disagree with that assertion! And aren't income taxes supposed to be voluntary - something about 'apportionment'? If it truly is voluntary why do you end up in jail if you choose to no longer 'volunteer' your funds?

  • Thirdly, whether the founding fathers were or were not opposed to a direct tax on income is irrelevant. The founding fathers were aware that they could not in one single document provide for all future eventualities and necessities. That is why they prescribed an amendment process within the Constitution (see Article 5). In 1913 the American people (acting either by direct vote or through their duly elected legislatures) did just that when the required 3/4 of the states ratified the amendment.

  • @roonalwazlib

    16th* amendment

  • That amendment states as follows: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration." The only thing this amendment actually did was to remove the requirement (found in Article 1 Section 9) that income taxes by apportioned among the states according to their respective populations.

  • Congress always had the power to lay an income tax. Arguably the system that Congress has adopted is far too complex, rewards stupid people for breeding through subsidies mislabeled as tax credits (EITC), and should be greatly simplified b/c the current tax code invites skulduggery and corruption,

  • but that does not mean that Congress lacks the power to tax income or that customs duties were envisioned by the founding fathers as the sole source of federal revenue (a notion directly refuted by any common sense reading of Article 1 Section 8). The next time you attempt to debate the Constitution you'd do well to choose someone who didn't earn an A in Constitutional law. It's you that needs to read (many books as opposed to just "a book") and educate yourself.

  • @roonalwazlib Well I'm quite sure that the Federal courts are going to find in favor of the Federal attorneys especially when Federal judges and Justices depend upon Federal taxes to pay for their daily sustenance. No big surprise there.

    And when Congressional "representatives who supposedly represent the best interests of their constituents also get paid by Fed tax dollars, it's apparent that the "fix is in". The Constitution means..."what we say it means". Glad to hear you agree with them!

  • This is why a limitation on federal powers were written into the constitution. So that people like this women would only be the problem of the state that elected her.

  • She meant to say nationalizing, not socializing...which is just as bad.

  • Stupid government mindset. Get a real job and stop pimping the great unwashed. BTW, Exxon made 7 cents per gallon. The government made 48 cents per gallon!!! #STFU Maxine...they are paying for your elitist public lifestyle...

  • She is UN-AMERICAN and she NEEDS to be voted out! California, wake up for GOD"S sake!!!! How long are you going to remain stupid and unintelligent? You are sinking the USA and YOU will live to regret it, I promise you.

  • That sure would make one hell of a good campaign commercial for any good opponent

  • She's just being honest. She really feels that way. She didn't want to call it "socializing" but then hesitated, realized she had no better word, and then just explained what she'd do....government take over of the oil industry. They are currently trying it with health care.

  • this video blames liberals for the high price in gas which they are partly responsible but then again so are the republicans people seem to forget that both parties endorse the same inflationary monetary policy of the Federal Reserve. All commodities are going up not just oil, which are a direct result of too much money printing by the Fed And this bimbo congresswoman along with all the brain dead liberals and conservatives want to point fingers at each other while the Fed goes on unchecked.

  • Finally, the first time a Democrats lips were moving & telling the truth at the same time. I knew it had to happen once.

  • Oops. Looks like she accidentally told the truth about her intentions. Liberals aren't supposed to do that. She'll learn from her mistake.

  • The only industry that should be nationalized is the entertainment one, Maxine. Way too left wing and anti-American.

  • @mrblacksheep1o1 it's been reported that hugos revolution is causing all kinds of devastation to the state and the economy. he devalued the money and is handing out pieces of cardboard as currency instead of money. trying to nationalize the oil company from another country. and they wont give them any more oil. taking peoples land away from them to give it to everyone else and forcing people to work

  • comeeeee on socialism all the way comeeeeeeeeeee onnnnnn!

  • Would this be a bad thing? Is this not what Mr.Hugo Chavez did in Venezuela?Gas is very afordable there.

  • @mrblacksheep1o1 yes it would be a bad thing. if the united states government takes a step forward it trips on it's big fat fuckin ass it's so fat. yeah i dont know about that over there. venezuela is on fuckin fire. and i do know someone there. if you want to leave you can leave but you cannot take any of your belongings with you. maybe just the clothes on your back. this government cant run anything efficiently and our gas prices demand efficiency.

  • @carnation038 I've been tryiing to find accurate info. on Chavez and Venezuela but cannot. Most of what I find seems to be quite biased one way or the other. I'd really like to learn about this topic.

  • @mrblacksheep1o1 and venezuela is broke, has rolling black out, runaway inflation, but gas is cheap if the pumps are not empty on that day.

  • Shows that NO ONE has a Backbone.

  • @Thehabit00: Speak for yourself scumbag!...You don't even know what Socialism is all about!

  • greece looks fine! ireland looks fine! please socialism don't work

  • lol i have never seen this! the news must of hid this from everyone

  • @FistsOfFury21: ..Do you have any idea how outnumbered you right-wing reactionaries really are in the world? If we really wanted to overthrow you we would have done so long time ago! Instead we will follow the democratic way! Just like is happening in Egypt right this moment!

  • @ATG0009 that wasn't a democratic movement.. that was mob rule btw.

  • 0:40....whoopsie..lol

  • THAT'S RIGHT! TELL IT LIKE IT IS...AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT ...GET OUT OF THE USA!.....SOCIALISM NOW!