The welfare state with William Voegeli: Chapter 1 of 5

[GeorgesBarras]

The U.S.A currently has 9% unemployment, while the U.K has 7%. However, thanks to the welfare system in place in the U.K, no one need suffer.

[58robbo]

defense spending decreases with the growth of the welfare state? he can't even say this with a straight face!

[mikeoli]

The welfare state started with Roosevelt. It was in the form of the N.R.A, National recovery assoc, which was pushed by Bernard Baruch, modeled on a program that he implemented in WW1, in which he effectively ran all of the industry in America. Once the engineered collapse of the Sock Market in 1929 came about he 1st approached Hoover with the idea of what he had done for Wilson only on a grander scale, which Hoover turned down staing it was Fascism, Roosevelt accepted and the rest is history

[Timasion]

Dr. Voegeli spoke at my Rotary Club last year. He's a fantastic speaker.

[kmg501]

The welfare state is pure evil promulgated by Wall Street corporatists and is the one of the big drivers of vote purchasing. I have nothing but contempt for this collectivist system that enables such massive fraud, collusion, corporatism, Marxism and generations of broken & incompetent families.

This is NOT the American we are supposed to be living in.

[carlindelco]

@kmg501 The welfare state is the democrats new slavery.. The Vote Plantation also it is the plan to destroy America. see ..Fox & Pivan  capitalist certainly don't want that. It is pure evil...!!

[rawjokes]

@carlindelco milton friedman's ideas saved this country of collapse, it fixed the ails brought on by the free market system that turned into a monopoly and caused a depression. Social programs, and small government regulation is ideal; too much free market like the republicans cram down our throats leads to monopolies, and too much government regulation leads to less free market. Obviously there is a balance that we can reach, but with both parties arguing over issues doesn't get us anywhere.

[kiwitedferny]

You guys think you have a welfare problem in the US? Try coming down to New Zealand. Cradle-to-the-Grave welfare that we have to borrow money to sustain.

[hayden50]

@kiwitedferny well ,this is a huge country,mate. the number of people dependent on welfare is many times the entire population of New Zealand. :D

btw,thats a fantastic channel, impressive collection.:D

[cosascon]

@kiwitedferny Hahaha, I agree with you. Greetings from soft-core communist Europe!

[tabber87]

I love Uncommon Knowledge and the access to the brilliant minds it enjoyed, but Peter Robinson is utterly insufferable.

[greatleaper]

Interestingly, I read recently in a Katharine Graham biography that LBJ admitted that Phil Graham, then publisher of the Washington Post actually wrote the Great Society programs. He also got JFK to choose LBJ as VP (though others dispute this last assertion).