human society improves by challenging the old way of thinking and doing things. However, we need to recognize a valid complaint and a bullshit complaint.
A brilliant man. I recently saw on CSPAN a panel discussion hosted by Leo Terrell featuing Micheal Moore, Cornel West, and couple of other Libtards. All they did was complain about "Republican racism," "the rich" (which they all are), and how evil Mitt Romney is. I'd love to see Mr. Sowell mop the floor with them.
wow....another wonderful intellectual contribution by that "academic" sowell, who charges that those whom challenge the dominant stratification arraignments are simply "parasites". Who cares about the imbalance in opportunities and penalties for a certain class of people, and how some are privileged financially and socially over others. Yup, good ol' Sowell....A champion of the ignorant.
@flipgood89 No the people who act parasitically are parasites and if he is the champion of the ignorant what is it we are ignorant of? Enlighten us oh wise one.
@666or999 ....And how exactly do we define a "parasite". I would say thats a smug, elitist, and condescending characterization but I think thats too mild. Brain dead and ignorant is a start....and that goes double for anyone who invests in his brand of bullshit.
@flipgood89 A parasite is 'A person who habitually relies on or exploits others and gives nothing in return.' and again with the ignorance thing as if you know some special secret that he doesn't but you refuse to state it.
@666or999 ....we all know what hes doing. He is attempting to legitimize the imbalance of opportunity that is inherent in the character of our economic climate, by demonizing any attempt at social advocacy as "parasitical behavior". Its disturbing, only so much as people actually take his commentary seriously. I guess zero examination of economic patterns and trajectories is good for the country? You're a parasite if you imply tat centralized wealth and power and corrupt body politic is bad?
@flipgood89 You seem to be confused for one thing you talk about imbalance of oppertunity in a country with a relatively high opportunity on a global scale and you also seem to be under the impression that government intervention is going to magically increase opportunity through i don't know what means and then imply that you examine economic patterns and a famous economist doesn't.
@666or999 ..Credentials aside, Sowell has consistently displayed amateurish analysis (his explanation of the great depression was embarrassing). Somebody who is interested in advancing intellectual discourse about the trajectory of our economic patterns and examining the implications of distributions, does not project such base language like "parasites". Sowell is a hack, a paid crony of the elite who hide behind "think tanks". Frum, Will, Hitchens...conservatives to take seriously. Sowell? No.
@666or999 .We have a limited character allotment for youtube, so its not as if I can offer a drawn out essay that documents the idiocy of Thomas Sowell. Quite frankly, Im not even interested in that, and Sowell's idiocy is laid bare in this video. "Parasites" is that what Sowell is going with, here? Did Sowell consider the original tea party movement an uprising of "parasites"? LOL. How can anyone not see through his agenda is beyond me.
Don't consider myself a Conservative but I love hearing Sowell speak. He comes off as an extremely intelligent man that knows what's up when it comes to economics.
America must elect someone with a completely different philosophy... you know, a philosophy like .... uh, maybe Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison.
Actually, Ayn Rand takes their ideas and thoroughly affirms them. More people should read the last three chapters of "Capitalism: the UNKNOWN ideal" (my caps). Casually speaking, 90% of Americans have no idea what Capitalism is, and another 9% justify it on the wrong terms.
@Kellogs678 Yes. You're carefully considered riposte will surely send one to the library to do some serious reconsideration of his values and understanding of politics. BTW Thomas Sowell is more in line with Ayn Rand than most economists one might read.
Yale & Harvard produce people like G.W.Bush & B.Obama, respectively. Instead of steeping your brain in their list of Leftist confusion, try reading von Mises & other economists, rather than remaining so egregiously, mentally, lop-sided.
@Kellogs678 Libertarians are fools, with no grasp of politics and only passing grasp of economics. Your page listed foolish sources of knowledge. If you had _understood_ Mises, you would not be a libertarian, nor act as ridiculously shallow. I do not believe you have read them. You are too immature, with nothing smart to say.
@Kellogs678 I gave you the benefit of the doubt, because your youtube page at least suggested an interest in intelligent ideas. Reading involves more than looking at words, and listening to lectures involves more than absorbing whatever is said. Your comments, instead, show no interest in intelligent ideas, and your latest comment is shamefully funny —as you were the one to begin invading MY Inbox.
@RnBramwell Okay, let me be clear then as to my objection....
You're a Randian...
That's all I need say, the Randian Cult has absolutely nothing interesting or provocative to provide. Objectivism in the way Rand describes.. is absolutely NOT objective and basically an amplification of what one could call the roots of Smith Capitalism, ie, individual ambition serves the common good full stop.
@Kellogs678 Ha ha ha. so what you know of Rand is what other people have told you. Meanwhile, 60 American Universities have Ayn Rand Chairs, Oxford University Press prints books by Objectivist authors, and Objectivist speakers are on radio & TV shows, & in newspapers weekly & even daily... making sense.
You pretend to greater knowledge than you actually have —confidently incompetent. Be a grown up, go away, & learn to read outside your little box, properly & thoughtfully. Or... Buzz Off.
@RnBramwell Again, you've made absolutely no defense of your position, just because something is popular doesn't mean it isn't dumb, ie, religion. Objectivism makes no claims that cannot be found elsewhere.
@Kellogs678 Wrong again. E.g. Aristotle identified The Problem of Universals, in trying to understand how men form concepts. No one solved that problem across 2 millennia. Rand did so, in a thorough 'slam-dunk' (see An Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology - 2 smart for u?). Rand admits a debt to Aristotle, to Smith, Locke, Jefferson, Nietzsche et al. (& noted some of their errors). That's normal —Steve Jobs owes a debt to Volta & Galvani.
@RnBramwell I'm well familiar with the question of whether problems exist.. .yes thank you very much. And i'm not sure why you're bringing up steve jobs... but okay.
@Kellogs678 You do not even know what "The Problem of Universals" is, do you?
You claimed that Rand's ideas were "an amplification of ... Smith Capitalism", implicitly suggesting no original thought. All great ideas include previous ideas, but that does not lessen their greatness. Until you begin learning for yourself, and stop echoing what you have heard from others... you will not be smart enough to learn and understand.
@RnBramwell Yes. I am familiar with the problem of universals, I was introduced to it under a different name and concept, although essentially the same. My point isn't that Rand isn't original my issue is that rand states nothing profound that cannot be found elsewhere. Objectivism IS, basically, a form of personal capitalism. Nothing profound. But if you wish to continue to rebut me with insults that's fine too..
@Kellogs678 You began the insults, so my noting that you are a hypocrite is a fact not an insult.
Rand demonstrated:
the unquestionable existence of Reality,
WHY A is A _must_ be,
how it underpins The Law of Causality,
why Individualism is fact,
and MUCH more.
You claim to know the Problem of Universals yet take no interest in understanding the fundamental mechanism of your own thoughts. You are facing a number of contradictions between your second-hand views & reality, go & examine them.
@RnBramwell can we end this conversation... I mean, you're obviously trying to "win" this conversation. You've provided, as far as i'm concerned, 0 defense of Randian thought. And this conversation is apparently upsetting you... I should have expected as much from the Internet.
Point.
Ayn Rand, while I do agree with very little, basically re-introduced what was already there...
So yea... This conversation has become unbelievably tedious and dumbfounding... I appreciate your insights.
@Kellogs678 You are a liar. Providing the argument you asked for is not an attempt to "win" anything. You have been given information that directs you to precisely the defense you supposedly want... but apparently only for argument's sake rather than actual knowledge. I am not upset, but it is always disgusting to encounter lazy and dishonest minds. Everything you have written is evidence you do not appreciate my insights, then in hypocrisy revisited, you say you appreciate my insights. Liar.
@RnBramwell oh btw, my sincerest compliments on the following, Watching Bullshit, too bad it's off the air, sad face. and second, knowing the jeremy brett is the consummate holmes... well fucking done
@bweazel Ayn Rand was a philosopher, who knew philosophy is an inescapable part of every man's life, including those who do not like to think about ideas (they just run on what they learned in kindergarten :-) Philosophy deals with fundamental issues on which all other fields depend. Economics depends on politics (freedom or control) and morality (trade or force).
Libertarians believe in political freedom &, to a certain extent, Individual Rights. They do not care to examine
... the fundamental basis of Individual Rights, so as to achieve their proper implementation. Thus, anyone of any political persuasion who argues that their system promotes freedom, no matter how spurious their logic, can be a "Libertarian". Eg. anarchists aren't advocates of freedom. Anarchy clears the way for thugs & warlords, as in Somalia. Freedom in a political context means freedom from forcible interference by other men —& politicians are ONLY men with no 'Right' to violate Rights.
@RnBramwell Hmmm, interesting that you argue against a zealot's perception of libertarianism instead of actual libertarianism. So wait... to you, libertarianism is the same as anarchy? If not, why bring it up as an example. I don't think anarchists ever claim to be advocates of freedom, just advocates of no government.
It is my opinion that libertarianism advocates for personal liberty, a small government, and low taxes. You seem to be strawmanning an entire philosophy.
@bweazel Not "strawmanning", just facing 500 character limit. Libertarianism gives great lip service to small 'l' liberty . But VALID liberty & government cannot be achieved without the proper moral & epistemological foundation.
Anarchism was just an *example*.. Libertarianism also attracts communists, anti-IP (Intellectual Property) enthusiasts, foreign policy views that wait for full attack (Ron Paul) & more. These are cherry picked political views, with no _consistent_ rational basis. . . .
@RnBramwell Libertarianism attracts communists? Haha, are we talking about the same libertarianism? And why shouldn't we wait for an attack? Your argument is cherry picked, sir.
@bweazel Google: Organisational Platform of the Libertarian Communists (took ten secs to find, & I know there is more).
Do not confuse Libertarianism, the school of philosophical thought (esp. political thought), with the Libertarian, registered, political party. Even the Party attracts communists etc, because, like the 'school', the Party is improperly founded.
Don't be so quick to be snide... it gains you nothing.
@RnBramwell You're confusing now, what exactly are you arguing against then? Anyone can append a name on to another name or mesh two ideals together that they haven't figured out yet, but that doesn't make them actual philosophies. I haven't, that's why I've been asking you what you are actually talking about the past couple posts, since you're all over the place. Every "party" attracts "communists".
@bweazel You were speaking of "Libertarianism". I explained it (narrowly) above you can wiki it.
I'm not just arguing FOR a rational politics that acknowledges freedom, but for one that understands that Individual (cf egoism) Rights arise from the nature of the human mind, & that reason depends on a proper epistemology. Libertarianism & the Party do not stand for reason or egoism, wavering all over the place on beliefs and policies. That alone explains the confusion you are having with my words.
@RnBramwell The confusion I'm having with your words is that you have not made an argument at all. Instead, you have narrowed libertarianism down to the opinions of people you've talked to on youtube
@bweazel If you allow "small government" or "low taxes" without clear principle, both will increase, in exactly the manner it has, in _every_ Western Nation! Under Rand's Objective politics, government's sole responsibility is to retain a monopoly on _retaliatory_ force for use against those citizens or foreigners who _initiate_ force on its citizens, and to otherwise leave citizens alone. This means only courts, police & military... which can be funded without the initiated force of taxation.
@RnBramwell So wait.... what are you arguing against here? Rand or Libertarianism? Would you please choose a topic and stay on it? You keep hopping all over the place. It might make sense to you, but when you don't connect the two after you jump, it gets hard to follow for the person you're having the convo with.
I like Thomas Sowell. I think he's right about everyone complaining. Also i've noticed that most of the big time socialist liberals are rich as well and are able to protest.Seriously, the real 99% are those of us who are actually working and trying to make a living and make america better.
@koyunbaba73 - here's a link to the article i pencil, I wonder if many will read it though. I think more and more, in our society, people don't want to learn, they just want. It's sad really.
Why is it lost on people that wealth can be created? If an entrepreneur has amassed millions for himself, then he has generated a 100 times ~ that for those he employs and for those who do business with him.
There was an essay written in 1958 by Leonard Reed entitled "i pencil" that shows how the production of an ordinary, simple product employs people from all over the world. It's very powerful. I'd like every Wall street protester to read it.
Metaphorical "house negro" is SO happy with his position he fails to see the "field negro's" (working class) plight. Minimum wage is horrible, people do not have insurance all the while the rich get tax breaks.
@ROMERITO1 While I was watching this video of one of the greatest minds in the country, I was wondering how many comments I would read before some fucking idiot called him an "uncle Tom", or something similar. 12. Minimum wage is horrible, but it is intended for entry level workers. Not a wage to raise a family on. We all have to start somewhere. It is OUR responsibility to achieve from there.
@Stickmodee ....when people such as yourself talk about "freedom", the suggestion is that freedom is simply the special and exclusive property of the rich and elite. Freedom doesnt seem to apply to hard working and those born in a lower economic strata.. Raise issues about market manipulation and centralized wealth, and an imbalance of opportunities and morons such as yourself and Sowell retort by calling us "parasites". Who are you trying to kid here?
@flipgood89 Look, you fucking pussy,I've read all of your whiny-ass comments on here. Obviously you are either a cock licking liberal proff, or an offspring of one. Get off of your priviledged ass and EARN your way in this world. Fucking homo. We are all free to be the best we can be. You are part of the"self-esteem" spoiled bitch generation that has ruined this country. The Founding Fathers would have laughed at your inadequate ass. Fuck you. Move to Sweden. You would still be a pussy there.
@Stickmodee .... *yawn*....A boring, incoherent rant from a raving lunatic. LOL, if you knew anything about anything, you wouldnt use the specter of moving to Sweden as some sort of threat or penalty. Sweeden's model of democratic-socialism has produced a society and economy that shits on ours.
@Stickmodee ....So we go from a comparative analysis of a specific country, to generalizing the economic outcomes of a continent, which feature different currencies, regimes, and structures. Sowell follower you are for sure! He lives off of the challenged. What a racket!
@SolarEXtract Why do you watch it then just watch you Clinton News Network and listen to Gore say we should pay money because our planets heating up yay socialism yaaaaaay
Obumbler says " I dont mind if you call me a warrior for the middle class", is he serious, hey obama zombie idiots, how to hell do you manage to swallow these massive amounts of HORSE SHIT!?!?!
@SSJ3Ulcer I simply cannot understand how ANYONE could buy into this attempt to brand himself a "warrior" of the middle class, good god man, is this guy for real?
As a Marine, I am always proud of brother Marine Thomas Sowell. He has done so much for the country, we should put his portrait in the Marine Corps Museum. I will link to this from my Old Jarhead blog.
Robert A. Hall
Author: The Coming Collapse of the American Republic
(All royalties go to a charity to help wounded veterans)
For a free PDF of the book, write tartanmarine(at)gmail.com
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. We live in a world where 1,050 people who are billionaires own 40% of the wealth and 90% of the power. Wealth buys power and the top .1% have a vested interest to protect their hold on exploiting Earth's resources for their personal gain without caring about how their actions affect everyone else. The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
@nuclide You're just posing an ad hominem attack on me without any proof to back up your assertion.
BTW:(ad hominem attacks involve insulting or belittling one's opponent in order to attack his claim or argument, and can also involve pointing out actions that are irrelevant to the opponent's argument. This tactic is logically fallacious because insults and negative facts about the opponent's personal character have nothing to do with the logical merits of the opponent's arguments or assertions.)
@CryptiCitpyrC No, it's not an ad hominem attack. It's a fact: you're a racist! You can't stand that a black man is thinking for himself and trying to empower other black people to use reason and logic. You think all black people are supposed to be in the Democratic party plantation, to shut up and follow orders like slaves. You are a racist! Deal with it!
@CryptiCitpyrC The 1% constantly change and anyone in this country can amass wealth, but none have power without government intervention. 88% of millionaires are self made. Thank God we all have the chance to become rich and successful. That's not a curse, it's a blessing and made us the best country on the planet. The 1% became the 1% by providing a service, making the world better. Thomas Sowell is a genius for knowing this and you're a stooge for thinking he is a puppet.
@decypher3 The US had 2.8 million millionaires in 2009(about 0.9% of Americans, about one in 106 people). In the same year, 391 Americans were billionaires - that's about one in 785,166 people (0.0001% of the population). Given these numbers, how good do you think your odds are that you could join the ranks of the wealthy?
@decypher3 Your chances of being an American billionaire are similar to your chances of being an American who gets struck by lightning. The National Weather Service estimates that the odds of an American being struck by lightning in a given year are approximately one in 750,000, and the odds of being struck if you live to be 80 are one in 6,250.
@CryptiCitpyrC So because my chances are being a billionaire are low that means I get to steal from actual billionaires? Get over yourself and grow up. You want success? Go and get it, you don't need a billion dollars before you're successful. And the fact that other people went out and became billionaires doesn't give you the right to take what they earned. Your entire economic system is based on jealousy and greed.
@decypher3 this isn't just about fairness, and those of us who talk about this massive redistribution of wealth aren't just “sore losers,”. There's a practical issue here: the economy simply doesn't function well when working America is taking home less than half of our national income in wages.
@CryptiCitpyrC fairness is a trick word. Who gets to decide what is fair? Do you get to enjoy the fruits of my labor? Is that fair? Guess what, kiddo. Life isn't fair. Deal with it and grow up. You are a sore loser. You want what others have because you are unwilling to go ear it yourself. The economy functions just fine. YOU don't. YOU are the problem.
@decypher3 About two-thirds of our economy is driven by consumer spending, and studies have shown that unlike ordinary people, when the very wealthy get a tax break, they don't spend more money as a result. They bank it.
In1947 the top 1% of U.S. households made 12 percent of the nation's income, the other 99% shared the other 88%. in 2007, the year before the crash, they were pulling in 23.5% of income, leaving the other 99% to share just 76.5% of the fruits of our output.
@CryptiCitpyrC Your mistake is thinking that the top 1% never changes. As I stated before, they change constantly. Bottom line, you want to make more, then do it, but the "rich" (read: anyone making more than you) are not stopping you. You need an economics course dearly.
@CryptiCitpyrC Uhh, I already am in the ranks of the wealthy. I started from scratch and I'm worth about 1.3 million. I made 165,000 dollars last year. That's ENTIRELY self made. In 1997 I made 24,000. I'm everything you hate about this country - I'm successful and I did it without taking from someone else.
@decypher3 "Thank God we all have the chance to become rich and successful. That's not a curse, it's a blessing and made us the best country on the planet."
Well, you're dreaming there Mr. The US has the 4th largest income gap in the world behind Chile, China and Turkey. The American dream of old is long gone and it isn't happening. The media is perpetuating this myth that anyone can become rich because the decision on what is broadcast is controlled by the rich.
@CryptiCitpyrC No dream here, just facts. 88% of millionaires are self made. We live in a society where you can achieve success if you want it. Of course there are income gaps. Thank God for those gaps. It means some are working hard and some are slacking off. We reward hard work and punish laziness. That's what a free society does. The American dream is alive and well. Oh and the American media is biased heavily to the Left - they are nattering nabobs.
I wish it was not only "minorities" (as they're called) that can publicly state that the government can and should do nothing to "help" a specific ethnicity, and in fact when attempted does nothing but harm those groups. If a politician Republican or Democrat stated this basic and necessary truth publicly they would lose the Latino and African American vote, which is an enormously depressing fact.
People want to make it seem like protestors are ignorant quasi-socialists that just want to make noise. No! We're intelligent people that see the injustices in our society that affect the MAJORITY of Americans. I totally agree with @keverc. These protests are necessary and PROPER coverage of it needs to be displayed. Not this one-sided, derogatory coverage I'm seeing all over the news.
Thomas sowell is amazing!! I love his book "basic economics" I want to get the Thomas sowell reader mentioned in this video...it sounds really good!!!
This country is melting down faster than chernobyl. If we had more actual SMART people like Sowell instead of the inflated credential blimps up in the whitehouse, we'd have a much better world.
I wonder if Herman Cain has seen this and written it down? Thomas Sowell's contrasting of Barack Obama & Herman Cain was plain truth and common sense.
no more giant loans to shady corporations. no more bailing out banks who are to big to fail. if they fail let them fail. no more wall street bail outs. the FED prints money out of thin air loans it to the Gov and then charges us (the taxpayer) crazy interest rates and all that does it add to our debt. there are reasons for the people of this country to protest. but the media only interviews the morons to try to make them all look like slackers looking for a handout. THE MEDIA LIES!!!!!
@keverc These people aren't protesting the bail-outs. If they were, they would be at the White House. Bush gave 700 billion and Obama has spent who knows how much, trillions? The people protesting SUPPORT Obama because he's a socialist. It has been both the Democrats and Liberal Republicans that have supported the bailouts. There are both communist and nazi groups as well as a band singing F*** America that have stated their support for the protests. That says a lot about the protesters.
@dandingo13 i am sure some of the people there are just how you say ( turds in the punch bowl as i call them) but there are some people there protesting the real issues. i am a veteran who served honorable and the way it looks to me is this country is in big trouble because we have a gov who is hell bent on stripping us of our rights. we need to kick these people out. kick the corporations out of washington. end the FED. get rid of the TSA and the DHS. and end the war on drugs
@keverc I completely agree with you on every point. The problem is that these people want MORE government. They want the government to take even more money from the people that create jobs. The free market is no longer free once the government gets it greedy hands in it.
@keverc You're absolutely correct. None of this should be happening. But why aren't you protesting the government, who is providing all of these things? Is a Vice Squad's main goal the user or the dealer?
@tehatemachine do something with my life? i am a former military police officer who has done alot with my life. everything i have i went out and worked for. i have never asked for or accepted a hand out. so you need to worry less about what i have done with my life and more about what you are doing with your life. so go F your self
alot of the protesters are morons but there are a few who really know what is going on. i do think that there are reasons to occupy wall street. we need to take the corporations out of the political process. because they can pay people to lobby for them and donate millions of dollars they have more influence than they should. we need to take the right to print money away from the FED and give it back to the department of the treasury. no more bailouts. balance the budget. lower the debt.
@sybilll Clone him? You going to raise him the exact same way too? Most of the people responsible for making him the man he is today are dead, the society that made him into the man he is today is also dead. This is the one and only Thomas Sowell. Enjoy him and learn from him while you still can.
Don't make sense, You could be suffering from a slight case of retardation. You might want to have that checked out by a professional other than Uncle Tom Sowell. You smoke crack. you might want to get help for that too. try AA or NA.
He a betrayal to the black people of America and to the Citizens of this great country we call america. You don't hear whites denouncing white people like this idiots do black folks, He would probably be shot if he was white and denounced his own race like that. Thomas Sowell is an idiot. and in my opinion a sociopath. He like a pimp. he tells the women anything they want to hear.
@comptonproduction Wait.... since he is an educated black man, he is betraying other blacks? Haha, do explain, sir. Ummm, whites denounce whites all the time, so yes, I hear it quite often.
@comptonproduction And if you don't mind, I'd like some links to him denouncing blacks, as you say he does. I've never heard him denounce blacks. He denounces the system that condescends minorities.
@comptonproduction Ahh, ok, so you don't have any actually footage or quotes of him denouncing blacks. Gotcha. No, I doubt you catch his drift, you just sound overly sensitive to me.
Digg this sir; Blacks are a minority here in this country. Why the heck is Uncle Tom Sowell just saying that black folks are on welfare. There are a heck of lot more White and other minorities on Welfare than Blacks. Blacks are also discriminated against in this country.
@comptonproduction So are many others. He tells you exactly why he thinks more blacks per capita are on welfare in other videos. He says it is simply because blacks came to this country poorer than any other minority. Not because there is something wrong with blacks. When a welfare state is set up, it will inevitably hurt those who are poorest first, and works it way up the ladder. Stop being so sensitive, brother. Look at this stuff objectively. I really think you misjudged Sowell.
He should be talking about the government than talking about what blacks are doing. why don't he talk about the poor whites in appalacian mountains. May be I should start talking about it. That's what you want me to do. Don't start no shit and it want be no shit.
@comptonproduction He is talking about what the government is doing to minorities, and not even minorities, he is talking about what the government is doing to the poor. Blacks just happen to be a more disadvantaged group than others. They were brought here as slaves, and could not bring any valuables with them to give them a leg up on everyone else, like many other immigrants got to do.
Hah, you make a vid about that, bro, I'll watch it. But I still think you're looking at this the wrong way.
This guy don't care about you, me or the country. The wealthy don't care about this country, me or you. The government had to give them some welfare. you hear Uncle tom sowell talking about that welfare money that the government gave to the super rich.
@comptonproduction More assumptions, bro. First off, I couldn't care less if the rich or Sowell care about me. I'm interested in the points they make. You bring too much emotion into this.
You want the thruth don't you. Well you can't handle the truth. Go read Allison in wonderland or something. watch the teletubies. That's a good show by the way.
Thomas Sowell is 1000% right. Most of the protestors can't even be called socialists, they don't even know enough to qualify. They're lost in the clouds. They've never had to think rigorously in their lives. Corporatism is not Capitalism! Disassociate the two for the sake of your country. Read a book!
Who's talking about 'making' anybody do anything? I don't think you are getting my point. ... and regrettably I'm not getting yours. Have you ever read the Tao Te Ching? This topic is covered very well in it. Chapter 38
He is exactly right--the more the gov't tries to fix things for us the worse it is for us. Also, I watched the video clip with Mary Beth Hicks and although she is correct about the indoctrination of our children (and us!), I don't like the way she is emphasizing morality (virtue) as the counter--it's just another form of rigid indoctrination into a belief system.
@everydayppl101 Give me a single parent (a real one, not the worthless pieces of shit that have been popping up in western society) throughout all of history who doesn't "indoctrinate". Your parents have the right to do so, with the help of religion or not. Just as you have the right to disregard it once you're on your own.
@Rensune Just because parents have the 'right' to indoctrinate their children doesn't mean it is in the best interests of that child. When parents overreach, it is just like the gov't trying to fix things and making it worse. P.S. There is a difference between indoctrinating and teaching (to think for oneself).
@everydayppl101 You can't "make" someone think for themself. That is a realization people come to at different points in their lives. Normally when they have to (which is why I said when you're no longer living with your parents.)
The U.S. experienced such extraordinary growth and prosperity because we were a robust appreciation based culture. American has become a whiny-ass complaining and pity based society. Unless this changes there is no hope. Whining, pity and negativity are death. Appreciation and recognizing opportunity are the ticket to growth and success.
human society improves by challenging the old way of thinking and doing things. However, we need to recognize a valid complaint and a bullshit complaint.
lysol5555 2 weeks ago
"Vote sb who gets the government out of things" -> Ron Paul 2012!
lessiv 4 weeks ago 4
A brilliant man. I recently saw on CSPAN a panel discussion hosted by Leo Terrell featuing Micheal Moore, Cornel West, and couple of other Libtards. All they did was complain about "Republican racism," "the rich" (which they all are), and how evil Mitt Romney is. I'd love to see Mr. Sowell mop the floor with them.
NoGuff 1 month ago 2
wow....another wonderful intellectual contribution by that "academic" sowell, who charges that those whom challenge the dominant stratification arraignments are simply "parasites". Who cares about the imbalance in opportunities and penalties for a certain class of people, and how some are privileged financially and socially over others. Yup, good ol' Sowell....A champion of the ignorant.
flipgood89 1 month ago
@flipgood89 No the people who act parasitically are parasites and if he is the champion of the ignorant what is it we are ignorant of? Enlighten us oh wise one.
666or999 1 month ago
@666or999 ....And how exactly do we define a "parasite". I would say thats a smug, elitist, and condescending characterization but I think thats too mild. Brain dead and ignorant is a start....and that goes double for anyone who invests in his brand of bullshit.
flipgood89 1 month ago
@flipgood89 A parasite is 'A person who habitually relies on or exploits others and gives nothing in return.' and again with the ignorance thing as if you know some special secret that he doesn't but you refuse to state it.
666or999 1 month ago
@666or999 ....we all know what hes doing. He is attempting to legitimize the imbalance of opportunity that is inherent in the character of our economic climate, by demonizing any attempt at social advocacy as "parasitical behavior". Its disturbing, only so much as people actually take his commentary seriously. I guess zero examination of economic patterns and trajectories is good for the country? You're a parasite if you imply tat centralized wealth and power and corrupt body politic is bad?
flipgood89 1 month ago
@flipgood89 You seem to be confused for one thing you talk about imbalance of oppertunity in a country with a relatively high opportunity on a global scale and you also seem to be under the impression that government intervention is going to magically increase opportunity through i don't know what means and then imply that you examine economic patterns and a famous economist doesn't.
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666or999 1 month ago
@666or999 ..Credentials aside, Sowell has consistently displayed amateurish analysis (his explanation of the great depression was embarrassing). Somebody who is interested in advancing intellectual discourse about the trajectory of our economic patterns and examining the implications of distributions, does not project such base language like "parasites". Sowell is a hack, a paid crony of the elite who hide behind "think tanks". Frum, Will, Hitchens...conservatives to take seriously. Sowell? No.
flipgood89 1 month ago
@666or999 ...(cont) Sowell has zero integrity from what I've seen and read and thats real.
flipgood89 1 month ago
@flipgood89 What your saying is a list of contentless ad hominum attacks nothing more.
666or999 1 month ago
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@666or999 .We have a limited character allotment for youtube, so its not as if I can offer a drawn out essay that documents the idiocy of Thomas Sowell. Quite frankly, Im not even interested in that, and Sowell's idiocy is laid bare in this video. "Parasites" is that what Sowell is going with, here? Did Sowell consider the original tea party movement an uprising of "parasites"? LOL. How can anyone not see through his agenda is beyond me.
flipgood89 1 month ago
@flipgood89 I know I'm not the first person to say this, but.. you are such a douchebag!!!!!!!
Stickmodee 1 month ago
Thomas Sowell >>>>> Robert Reich
fds9931 1 month ago
Don't consider myself a Conservative but I love hearing Sowell speak. He comes off as an extremely intelligent man that knows what's up when it comes to economics.
TheAnonymousAnomie 1 month ago
America must elect someone with a completely different philosophy... you know, a philosophy like .... uh, maybe Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison.
Actually, Ayn Rand takes their ideas and thoroughly affirms them. More people should read the last three chapters of "Capitalism: the UNKNOWN ideal" (my caps). Casually speaking, 90% of Americans have no idea what Capitalism is, and another 9% justify it on the wrong terms.
RnBramwell 2 months ago 7
@RnBramwell wow you're retarded.
Kellogs678 1 week ago
@Kellogs678 Yes. You're carefully considered riposte will surely send one to the library to do some serious reconsideration of his values and understanding of politics. BTW Thomas Sowell is more in line with Ayn Rand than most economists one might read.
Yale & Harvard produce people like G.W.Bush & B.Obama, respectively. Instead of steeping your brain in their list of Leftist confusion, try reading von Mises & other economists, rather than remaining so egregiously, mentally, lop-sided.
RnBramwell 1 week ago
@RnBramwell I'm a libertarian you moron, yes I'm quite familiar with Mises/Hayek/Friedman/Sowell... Thank you much.
I'm not a leftist...
I just think that you're a moron.
Kellogs678 1 week ago
@Kellogs678 Libertarians are fools, with no grasp of politics and only passing grasp of economics. Your page listed foolish sources of knowledge. If you had _understood_ Mises, you would not be a libertarian, nor act as ridiculously shallow. I do not believe you have read them. You are too immature, with nothing smart to say.
RnBramwell 1 week ago
@RnBramwell yep you're right i've never read a thing... you've bested me. now fuck off you're filling my inbox
Kellogs678 1 week ago
@Kellogs678 I gave you the benefit of the doubt, because your youtube page at least suggested an interest in intelligent ideas. Reading involves more than looking at words, and listening to lectures involves more than absorbing whatever is said. Your comments, instead, show no interest in intelligent ideas, and your latest comment is shamefully funny —as you were the one to begin invading MY Inbox.
RnBramwell 6 days ago
@RnBramwell Okay, let me be clear then as to my objection....
You're a Randian...
That's all I need say, the Randian Cult has absolutely nothing interesting or provocative to provide. Objectivism in the way Rand describes.. is absolutely NOT objective and basically an amplification of what one could call the roots of Smith Capitalism, ie, individual ambition serves the common good full stop.
Kellogs678 6 days ago
@Kellogs678 Ha ha ha. so what you know of Rand is what other people have told you. Meanwhile, 60 American Universities have Ayn Rand Chairs, Oxford University Press prints books by Objectivist authors, and Objectivist speakers are on radio & TV shows, & in newspapers weekly & even daily... making sense.
You pretend to greater knowledge than you actually have —confidently incompetent. Be a grown up, go away, & learn to read outside your little box, properly & thoughtfully. Or... Buzz Off.
RnBramwell 6 days ago
@RnBramwell Again, you've made absolutely no defense of your position, just because something is popular doesn't mean it isn't dumb, ie, religion. Objectivism makes no claims that cannot be found elsewhere.
Kellogs678 6 days ago
@Kellogs678 Wrong again. E.g. Aristotle identified The Problem of Universals, in trying to understand how men form concepts. No one solved that problem across 2 millennia. Rand did so, in a thorough 'slam-dunk' (see An Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology - 2 smart for u?). Rand admits a debt to Aristotle, to Smith, Locke, Jefferson, Nietzsche et al. (& noted some of their errors). That's normal —Steve Jobs owes a debt to Volta & Galvani.
Now read for yourself; don't parrot others.
RnBramwell 6 days ago
@RnBramwell I'm well familiar with the question of whether problems exist.. .yes thank you very much. And i'm not sure why you're bringing up steve jobs... but okay.
Kellogs678 6 days ago
@Kellogs678 You do not even know what "The Problem of Universals" is, do you?
You claimed that Rand's ideas were "an amplification of ... Smith Capitalism", implicitly suggesting no original thought. All great ideas include previous ideas, but that does not lessen their greatness. Until you begin learning for yourself, and stop echoing what you have heard from others... you will not be smart enough to learn and understand.
RnBramwell 6 days ago
@RnBramwell Yes. I am familiar with the problem of universals, I was introduced to it under a different name and concept, although essentially the same. My point isn't that Rand isn't original my issue is that rand states nothing profound that cannot be found elsewhere. Objectivism IS, basically, a form of personal capitalism. Nothing profound. But if you wish to continue to rebut me with insults that's fine too..
Kellogs678 6 days ago
@Kellogs678 You began the insults, so my noting that you are a hypocrite is a fact not an insult.
Rand demonstrated:
the unquestionable existence of Reality,
WHY A is A _must_ be,
how it underpins The Law of Causality,
why Individualism is fact,
and MUCH more.
You claim to know the Problem of Universals yet take no interest in understanding the fundamental mechanism of your own thoughts. You are facing a number of contradictions between your second-hand views & reality, go & examine them.
GO.
RnBramwell 6 days ago
@RnBramwell can we end this conversation... I mean, you're obviously trying to "win" this conversation. You've provided, as far as i'm concerned, 0 defense of Randian thought. And this conversation is apparently upsetting you... I should have expected as much from the Internet.
Point.
Ayn Rand, while I do agree with very little, basically re-introduced what was already there...
So yea... This conversation has become unbelievably tedious and dumbfounding... I appreciate your insights.
Kellogs678 6 days ago
@Kellogs678 You are a liar. Providing the argument you asked for is not an attempt to "win" anything. You have been given information that directs you to precisely the defense you supposedly want... but apparently only for argument's sake rather than actual knowledge. I am not upset, but it is always disgusting to encounter lazy and dishonest minds. Everything you have written is evidence you do not appreciate my insights, then in hypocrisy revisited, you say you appreciate my insights. Liar.
RnBramwell 6 days ago
@RnBramwell oh btw, my sincerest compliments on the following, Watching Bullshit, too bad it's off the air, sad face. and second, knowing the jeremy brett is the consummate holmes... well fucking done
Kellogs678 6 days ago
@RnBramwell Ayn Rand was an economist? What's your beef with libertarianism?
bweazel 6 days ago
@bweazel Ayn Rand was a philosopher, who knew philosophy is an inescapable part of every man's life, including those who do not like to think about ideas (they just run on what they learned in kindergarten :-) Philosophy deals with fundamental issues on which all other fields depend. Economics depends on politics (freedom or control) and morality (trade or force).
Libertarians believe in political freedom &, to a certain extent, Individual Rights. They do not care to examine
(cont'd)
RnBramwell 6 days ago
... the fundamental basis of Individual Rights, so as to achieve their proper implementation. Thus, anyone of any political persuasion who argues that their system promotes freedom, no matter how spurious their logic, can be a "Libertarian". Eg. anarchists aren't advocates of freedom. Anarchy clears the way for thugs & warlords, as in Somalia. Freedom in a political context means freedom from forcible interference by other men —& politicians are ONLY men with no 'Right' to violate Rights.
RnBramwell 6 days ago
@RnBramwell Hmmm, interesting that you argue against a zealot's perception of libertarianism instead of actual libertarianism. So wait... to you, libertarianism is the same as anarchy? If not, why bring it up as an example. I don't think anarchists ever claim to be advocates of freedom, just advocates of no government.
It is my opinion that libertarianism advocates for personal liberty, a small government, and low taxes. You seem to be strawmanning an entire philosophy.
bweazel 6 days ago
@bweazel Not "strawmanning", just facing 500 character limit. Libertarianism gives great lip service to small 'l' liberty . But VALID liberty & government cannot be achieved without the proper moral & epistemological foundation.
Anarchism was just an *example*.. Libertarianism also attracts communists, anti-IP (Intellectual Property) enthusiasts, foreign policy views that wait for full attack (Ron Paul) & more. These are cherry picked political views, with no _consistent_ rational basis. . . .
RnBramwell 6 days ago
@RnBramwell Libertarianism attracts communists? Haha, are we talking about the same libertarianism? And why shouldn't we wait for an attack? Your argument is cherry picked, sir.
bweazel 6 days ago
@bweazel Google: Organisational Platform of the Libertarian Communists (took ten secs to find, & I know there is more).
Do not confuse Libertarianism, the school of philosophical thought (esp. political thought), with the Libertarian, registered, political party. Even the Party attracts communists etc, because, like the 'school', the Party is improperly founded.
Don't be so quick to be snide... it gains you nothing.
RnBramwell 6 days ago
@RnBramwell You're confusing now, what exactly are you arguing against then? Anyone can append a name on to another name or mesh two ideals together that they haven't figured out yet, but that doesn't make them actual philosophies. I haven't, that's why I've been asking you what you are actually talking about the past couple posts, since you're all over the place. Every "party" attracts "communists".
I wasn't being snide, please stay on topic.
bweazel 6 days ago
@bweazel You were speaking of "Libertarianism". I explained it (narrowly) above you can wiki it.
I'm not just arguing FOR a rational politics that acknowledges freedom, but for one that understands that Individual (cf egoism) Rights arise from the nature of the human mind, & that reason depends on a proper epistemology. Libertarianism & the Party do not stand for reason or egoism, wavering all over the place on beliefs and policies. That alone explains the confusion you are having with my words.
RnBramwell 6 days ago
@RnBramwell The confusion I'm having with your words is that you have not made an argument at all. Instead, you have narrowed libertarianism down to the opinions of people you've talked to on youtube
bweazel 6 days ago
@bweazel If you allow "small government" or "low taxes" without clear principle, both will increase, in exactly the manner it has, in _every_ Western Nation! Under Rand's Objective politics, government's sole responsibility is to retain a monopoly on _retaliatory_ force for use against those citizens or foreigners who _initiate_ force on its citizens, and to otherwise leave citizens alone. This means only courts, police & military... which can be funded without the initiated force of taxation.
RnBramwell 6 days ago
@RnBramwell So wait.... what are you arguing against here? Rand or Libertarianism? Would you please choose a topic and stay on it? You keep hopping all over the place. It might make sense to you, but when you don't connect the two after you jump, it gets hard to follow for the person you're having the convo with.
bweazel 6 days ago
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Thomas Sowell is a parasite. What is he producing. He is just running his mouth.He kissed some white people ass now he is an ordane niggar.
comptonproduction 2 months ago
@comptonproduction Dear logical fallacy left infected racist twerp...That'll do.
gmakepiece 1 month ago
I wish the rest of TV news did stellar interviews like this...
asphyxiafeeling 2 months ago
Thomas Sowell for President!
Estese 2 months ago
Excellent.
NDXUFan 2 months ago
I like Thomas Sowell. I think he's right about everyone complaining. Also i've noticed that most of the big time socialist liberals are rich as well and are able to protest.Seriously, the real 99% are those of us who are actually working and trying to make a living and make america better.
bpolacek89 2 months ago 2
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schadenfreude9 2 months ago
And people cavil against Fox. Well, why don't people like Thomas Sowell appear on other mainstream news channels?
amamerc 2 months ago
Thomas Sowell is such a gentleman
beefstu2822 2 months ago
"Good grief" indeed!!
djb5255 2 months ago
Basically this whole mess can be summed up in 3 words....haters be hating
jwka2001 2 months ago
THOMAS SOWELL! YOU ARE THE MAN!
tehatemachine 3 months ago 2
@koyunbaba73 - here's a link to the article i pencil, I wonder if many will read it though. I think more and more, in our society, people don't want to learn, they just want. It's sad really.
thefreemanonline. org/featured/i-pencil/
mightyenterprise 3 months ago
Why is it lost on people that wealth can be created? If an entrepreneur has amassed millions for himself, then he has generated a 100 times ~ that for those he employs and for those who do business with him.
There was an essay written in 1958 by Leonard Reed entitled "i pencil" that shows how the production of an ordinary, simple product employs people from all over the world. It's very powerful. I'd like every Wall street protester to read it.
koyunbaba73 3 months ago
Stop bailouts/stimulus, cut spending, abolish the income tax.
Ron Paul 2012
Cornampoo 3 months ago
"40% of all tax revenue come form the top 1%" good info
rigatony019 4 months ago
Metaphorical "house negro" is SO happy with his position he fails to see the "field negro's" (working class) plight. Minimum wage is horrible, people do not have insurance all the while the rich get tax breaks.
ROMERITO1 4 months ago
@ROMERITO1 While I was watching this video of one of the greatest minds in the country, I was wondering how many comments I would read before some fucking idiot called him an "uncle Tom", or something similar. 12. Minimum wage is horrible, but it is intended for entry level workers. Not a wage to raise a family on. We all have to start somewhere. It is OUR responsibility to achieve from there.
Stickmodee 3 months ago
@Stickmodee ....when people such as yourself talk about "freedom", the suggestion is that freedom is simply the special and exclusive property of the rich and elite. Freedom doesnt seem to apply to hard working and those born in a lower economic strata.. Raise issues about market manipulation and centralized wealth, and an imbalance of opportunities and morons such as yourself and Sowell retort by calling us "parasites". Who are you trying to kid here?
flipgood89 1 month ago
@flipgood89 Look, you fucking pussy,I've read all of your whiny-ass comments on here. Obviously you are either a cock licking liberal proff, or an offspring of one. Get off of your priviledged ass and EARN your way in this world. Fucking homo. We are all free to be the best we can be. You are part of the"self-esteem" spoiled bitch generation that has ruined this country. The Founding Fathers would have laughed at your inadequate ass. Fuck you. Move to Sweden. You would still be a pussy there.
Stickmodee 1 month ago
@Stickmodee .... *yawn*....A boring, incoherent rant from a raving lunatic. LOL, if you knew anything about anything, you wouldnt use the specter of moving to Sweden as some sort of threat or penalty. Sweeden's model of democratic-socialism has produced a society and economy that shits on ours.
flipgood89 1 month ago
@flipgood89 Yeah, that 1% growth rate throughout Europe is fantastic......dumbass.
Stickmodee 1 month ago
@Stickmodee ....So we go from a comparative analysis of a specific country, to generalizing the economic outcomes of a continent, which feature different currencies, regimes, and structures. Sowell follower you are for sure! He lives off of the challenged. What a racket!
flipgood89 1 month ago
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ROMERITO1 4 months ago
yay, more fake news propaganda from the most fake news outlet in the world. yaaaaaaaaaaay.
SolarEXtract 4 months ago
@SolarEXtract Why do you watch it then just watch you Clinton News Network and listen to Gore say we should pay money because our planets heating up yay socialism yaaaaaay
ifuckingfarted 3 months ago
@ifuckingfarted socialism > fascism, any day
SolarEXtract 3 months ago
@SolarEXtract socialism = fascism, any day
corrected.
MRKetter81 2 months ago
@MRKetter81 hooray for fake news!
SolarEXtract 2 months ago
END THE FED END THE FED END THE FED. THIS IS NOT ABOUT SOCIALISM. IT'S ABOUT THE LEECH BANKERS.
mershad 4 months ago 2
Who's got Sowell power?
bweazel 4 months ago 2
They still missing the point...
davebarso 4 months ago
Obumbler says " I dont mind if you call me a warrior for the middle class", is he serious, hey obama zombie idiots, how to hell do you manage to swallow these massive amounts of HORSE SHIT!?!?!
duanescot 4 months ago
@duanescot ...the irony.
SSJ3Ulcer 4 months ago
@SSJ3Ulcer I simply cannot understand how ANYONE could buy into this attempt to brand himself a "warrior" of the middle class, good god man, is this guy for real?
duanescot 3 months ago
@duanescot Well, alright, you've got a point there.
SSJ3Ulcer 3 months ago
this guy is dead on, we have a nation of whiners now
duanescot 4 months ago
As a Marine, I am always proud of brother Marine Thomas Sowell. He has done so much for the country, we should put his portrait in the Marine Corps Museum. I will link to this from my Old Jarhead blog.
Robert A. Hall
Author: The Coming Collapse of the American Republic
(All royalties go to a charity to help wounded veterans)
For a free PDF of the book, write tartanmarine(at)gmail.com
tartanmarine 4 months ago 14
@tartanmarine Thanks for your service and your comment,I don't come to the comment boards often,and the comments below are why...
libertywriters 4 months ago 2
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. We live in a world where 1,050 people who are billionaires own 40% of the wealth and 90% of the power. Wealth buys power and the top .1% have a vested interest to protect their hold on exploiting Earth's resources for their personal gain without caring about how their actions affect everyone else. The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Sowell is a corporate puppet mouthpiece.
CryptiCitpyrC 4 months ago
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@CryptiCitpyrC You're just a racist! Go back to your neo nazi meeting!
nuclide 4 months ago
@nuclide You're just posing an ad hominem attack on me without any proof to back up your assertion.
BTW:(ad hominem attacks involve insulting or belittling one's opponent in order to attack his claim or argument, and can also involve pointing out actions that are irrelevant to the opponent's argument. This tactic is logically fallacious because insults and negative facts about the opponent's personal character have nothing to do with the logical merits of the opponent's arguments or assertions.)
CryptiCitpyrC 4 months ago
@CryptiCitpyrC No, it's not an ad hominem attack. It's a fact: you're a racist! You can't stand that a black man is thinking for himself and trying to empower other black people to use reason and logic. You think all black people are supposed to be in the Democratic party plantation, to shut up and follow orders like slaves. You are a racist! Deal with it!
nuclide 4 months ago
@CryptiCitpyrC The 1% constantly change and anyone in this country can amass wealth, but none have power without government intervention. 88% of millionaires are self made. Thank God we all have the chance to become rich and successful. That's not a curse, it's a blessing and made us the best country on the planet. The 1% became the 1% by providing a service, making the world better. Thomas Sowell is a genius for knowing this and you're a stooge for thinking he is a puppet.
decypher3 4 months ago
@decypher3 The US had 2.8 million millionaires in 2009(about 0.9% of Americans, about one in 106 people). In the same year, 391 Americans were billionaires - that's about one in 785,166 people (0.0001% of the population). Given these numbers, how good do you think your odds are that you could join the ranks of the wealthy?
CryptiCitpyrC 4 months ago
@decypher3 Your chances of being an American billionaire are similar to your chances of being an American who gets struck by lightning. The National Weather Service estimates that the odds of an American being struck by lightning in a given year are approximately one in 750,000, and the odds of being struck if you live to be 80 are one in 6,250.
CryptiCitpyrC 4 months ago
@CryptiCitpyrC So because my chances are being a billionaire are low that means I get to steal from actual billionaires? Get over yourself and grow up. You want success? Go and get it, you don't need a billion dollars before you're successful. And the fact that other people went out and became billionaires doesn't give you the right to take what they earned. Your entire economic system is based on jealousy and greed.
decypher3 4 months ago
@decypher3 this isn't just about fairness, and those of us who talk about this massive redistribution of wealth aren't just “sore losers,”. There's a practical issue here: the economy simply doesn't function well when working America is taking home less than half of our national income in wages.
CryptiCitpyrC 4 months ago
@CryptiCitpyrC fairness is a trick word. Who gets to decide what is fair? Do you get to enjoy the fruits of my labor? Is that fair? Guess what, kiddo. Life isn't fair. Deal with it and grow up. You are a sore loser. You want what others have because you are unwilling to go ear it yourself. The economy functions just fine. YOU don't. YOU are the problem.
decypher3 4 months ago
@decypher3 About two-thirds of our economy is driven by consumer spending, and studies have shown that unlike ordinary people, when the very wealthy get a tax break, they don't spend more money as a result. They bank it.
In1947 the top 1% of U.S. households made 12 percent of the nation's income, the other 99% shared the other 88%. in 2007, the year before the crash, they were pulling in 23.5% of income, leaving the other 99% to share just 76.5% of the fruits of our output.
CryptiCitpyrC 4 months ago
@CryptiCitpyrC Your mistake is thinking that the top 1% never changes. As I stated before, they change constantly. Bottom line, you want to make more, then do it, but the "rich" (read: anyone making more than you) are not stopping you. You need an economics course dearly.
decypher3 4 months ago
@CryptiCitpyrC Uhh, I already am in the ranks of the wealthy. I started from scratch and I'm worth about 1.3 million. I made 165,000 dollars last year. That's ENTIRELY self made. In 1997 I made 24,000. I'm everything you hate about this country - I'm successful and I did it without taking from someone else.
decypher3 4 months ago
@decypher3 "Thank God we all have the chance to become rich and successful. That's not a curse, it's a blessing and made us the best country on the planet."
Well, you're dreaming there Mr. The US has the 4th largest income gap in the world behind Chile, China and Turkey. The American dream of old is long gone and it isn't happening. The media is perpetuating this myth that anyone can become rich because the decision on what is broadcast is controlled by the rich.
CryptiCitpyrC 4 months ago
@CryptiCitpyrC No dream here, just facts. 88% of millionaires are self made. We live in a society where you can achieve success if you want it. Of course there are income gaps. Thank God for those gaps. It means some are working hard and some are slacking off. We reward hard work and punish laziness. That's what a free society does. The American dream is alive and well. Oh and the American media is biased heavily to the Left - they are nattering nabobs.
decypher3 4 months ago
@decypher3 You can't reason with a know it all like @CryptiCitpyrC He's a commie moron,probably a, yuk,professor
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Col316Sing 4 months ago
I wonder if Sowell would endorse Ron Paul...
gshooting 4 months ago
@gshooting he's on the same website as ron paul in lew rockwell com. And he's called out the FED.
Superseadragon 3 months ago
I wish it was not only "minorities" (as they're called) that can publicly state that the government can and should do nothing to "help" a specific ethnicity, and in fact when attempted does nothing but harm those groups. If a politician Republican or Democrat stated this basic and necessary truth publicly they would lose the Latino and African American vote, which is an enormously depressing fact.
VentMultimedia 4 months ago
People want to make it seem like protestors are ignorant quasi-socialists that just want to make noise. No! We're intelligent people that see the injustices in our society that affect the MAJORITY of Americans. I totally agree with @keverc. These protests are necessary and PROPER coverage of it needs to be displayed. Not this one-sided, derogatory coverage I'm seeing all over the news.
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Huck9534 4 months ago
Thomas sowell is amazing!! I love his book "basic economics" I want to get the Thomas sowell reader mentioned in this video...it sounds really good!!!
oh16ful 4 months ago 4
This country is melting down faster than chernobyl. If we had more actual SMART people like Sowell instead of the inflated credential blimps up in the whitehouse, we'd have a much better world.
mysock351W 4 months ago
I wonder if Herman Cain has seen this and written it down? Thomas Sowell's contrasting of Barack Obama & Herman Cain was plain truth and common sense.
TheSalCuri 4 months ago 8
no more giant loans to shady corporations. no more bailing out banks who are to big to fail. if they fail let them fail. no more wall street bail outs. the FED prints money out of thin air loans it to the Gov and then charges us (the taxpayer) crazy interest rates and all that does it add to our debt. there are reasons for the people of this country to protest. but the media only interviews the morons to try to make them all look like slackers looking for a handout. THE MEDIA LIES!!!!!
keverc 4 months ago 12
@keverc These people aren't protesting the bail-outs. If they were, they would be at the White House. Bush gave 700 billion and Obama has spent who knows how much, trillions? The people protesting SUPPORT Obama because he's a socialist. It has been both the Democrats and Liberal Republicans that have supported the bailouts. There are both communist and nazi groups as well as a band singing F*** America that have stated their support for the protests. That says a lot about the protesters.
dandingo13 4 months ago
@dandingo13 i am sure some of the people there are just how you say ( turds in the punch bowl as i call them) but there are some people there protesting the real issues. i am a veteran who served honorable and the way it looks to me is this country is in big trouble because we have a gov who is hell bent on stripping us of our rights. we need to kick these people out. kick the corporations out of washington. end the FED. get rid of the TSA and the DHS. and end the war on drugs
keverc 4 months ago 4
@keverc I completely agree with you on every point. The problem is that these people want MORE government. They want the government to take even more money from the people that create jobs. The free market is no longer free once the government gets it greedy hands in it.
dandingo13 4 months ago
@keverc You're absolutely correct. None of this should be happening. But why aren't you protesting the government, who is providing all of these things? Is a Vice Squad's main goal the user or the dealer?
dandingo13 3 months ago
@keverc And this is why he doesn't go to the comments that often. Because of whiners like you. GO DO SOMETHING with your life.
tehatemachine 2 months ago
@tehatemachine do something with my life? i am a former military police officer who has done alot with my life. everything i have i went out and worked for. i have never asked for or accepted a hand out. so you need to worry less about what i have done with my life and more about what you are doing with your life. so go F your self
keverc 2 months ago
@keverc Go do something fagot. GO DO IT NOW!
tehatemachine 2 months ago
@tehatemachine lol get a life troll
keverc 2 months ago
alot of the protesters are morons but there are a few who really know what is going on. i do think that there are reasons to occupy wall street. we need to take the corporations out of the political process. because they can pay people to lobby for them and donate millions of dollars they have more influence than they should. we need to take the right to print money away from the FED and give it back to the department of the treasury. no more bailouts. balance the budget. lower the debt.
keverc 4 months ago 2
Thoman Sowell -- one of the smartest men to live EVER.
CasperCee 4 months ago 2
I SO wish we could clone this man. Thank you Thomas Sowell.
sybilll 4 months ago 2
@sybilll Clone him? You going to raise him the exact same way too? Most of the people responsible for making him the man he is today are dead, the society that made him into the man he is today is also dead. This is the one and only Thomas Sowell. Enjoy him and learn from him while you still can.
bweazel 4 months ago 12
@bweazel - AMEN! I love Thomas! As a black person, he goes on my List of Most Influential Black People. He's at the top.
JoyceJeffersonTV 1 week ago
@bweazel Clone an idiot. you are really brillent. What kindergarden did you gratuate from.
comptonproduction 1 week ago
@comptonproduction I'm sorry, you didn't make any sense. Try again, and this time put down the crack pipe.
bweazel 1 week ago
Don't make sense, You could be suffering from a slight case of retardation. You might want to have that checked out by a professional other than Uncle Tom Sowell. You smoke crack. you might want to get help for that too. try AA or NA.
comptonproduction 6 days ago
@comptonproduction LOL. Uncle Tom Sowell. Good one ;)
bweazel 6 days ago
He a betrayal to the black people of America and to the Citizens of this great country we call america. You don't hear whites denouncing white people like this idiots do black folks, He would probably be shot if he was white and denounced his own race like that. Thomas Sowell is an idiot. and in my opinion a sociopath. He like a pimp. he tells the women anything they want to hear.
comptonproduction 6 days ago
@comptonproduction Wait.... since he is an educated black man, he is betraying other blacks? Haha, do explain, sir. Ummm, whites denounce whites all the time, so yes, I hear it quite often.
bweazel 6 days ago
@comptonproduction And if you don't mind, I'd like some links to him denouncing blacks, as you say he does. I've never heard him denounce blacks. He denounces the system that condescends minorities.
bweazel 6 days ago
You can fraze that BS anyway you want to, but it's still denouncing Black folks. I catch his drift, as we say in the hood.
comptonproduction 6 days ago
@comptonproduction Ahh, ok, so you don't have any actually footage or quotes of him denouncing blacks. Gotcha. No, I doubt you catch his drift, you just sound overly sensitive to me.
bweazel 6 days ago
Digg this sir; Blacks are a minority here in this country. Why the heck is Uncle Tom Sowell just saying that black folks are on welfare. There are a heck of lot more White and other minorities on Welfare than Blacks. Blacks are also discriminated against in this country.
comptonproduction 6 days ago
@comptonproduction So are many others. He tells you exactly why he thinks more blacks per capita are on welfare in other videos. He says it is simply because blacks came to this country poorer than any other minority. Not because there is something wrong with blacks. When a welfare state is set up, it will inevitably hurt those who are poorest first, and works it way up the ladder. Stop being so sensitive, brother. Look at this stuff objectively. I really think you misjudged Sowell.
bweazel 5 days ago
He should be talking about the government than talking about what blacks are doing. why don't he talk about the poor whites in appalacian mountains. May be I should start talking about it. That's what you want me to do. Don't start no shit and it want be no shit.
comptonproduction 5 days ago
@comptonproduction He is talking about what the government is doing to minorities, and not even minorities, he is talking about what the government is doing to the poor. Blacks just happen to be a more disadvantaged group than others. They were brought here as slaves, and could not bring any valuables with them to give them a leg up on everyone else, like many other immigrants got to do.
Hah, you make a vid about that, bro, I'll watch it. But I still think you're looking at this the wrong way.
bweazel 5 days ago
This guy don't care about you, me or the country. The wealthy don't care about this country, me or you. The government had to give them some welfare. you hear Uncle tom sowell talking about that welfare money that the government gave to the super rich.
comptonproduction 5 days ago
@comptonproduction More assumptions, bro. First off, I couldn't care less if the rich or Sowell care about me. I'm interested in the points they make. You bring too much emotion into this.
bweazel 5 days ago
You want the thruth don't you. Well you can't handle the truth. Go read Allison in wonderland or something. watch the teletubies. That's a good show by the way.
comptonproduction 5 days ago
@comptonproduction Sorry, man. I've enjoyed the conversation, but now you're just throwing ad hominems. Have a good day
bweazel 5 days ago
Thomas Sowell is probably someone Uncle. I see you studied law.You know what fraud is ?
comptonproduction 5 days ago
Thomas Sowell is 1000% right. Most of the protestors can't even be called socialists, they don't even know enough to qualify. They're lost in the clouds. They've never had to think rigorously in their lives. Corporatism is not Capitalism! Disassociate the two for the sake of your country. Read a book!
suitabledude 4 months ago
Who's talking about 'making' anybody do anything? I don't think you are getting my point. ... and regrettably I'm not getting yours. Have you ever read the Tao Te Ching? This topic is covered very well in it. Chapter 38
everydayppl101 4 months ago
I wish more parents would "indoctrinate" their kids with a sense of personal responsibility and a work ethic.
javaguy418 4 months ago 4
@javaguy418 lol I agree!
everydayppl101 4 months ago
He is exactly right--the more the gov't tries to fix things for us the worse it is for us. Also, I watched the video clip with Mary Beth Hicks and although she is correct about the indoctrination of our children (and us!), I don't like the way she is emphasizing morality (virtue) as the counter--it's just another form of rigid indoctrination into a belief system.
everydayppl101 4 months ago 2
@everydayppl101 Give me a single parent (a real one, not the worthless pieces of shit that have been popping up in western society) throughout all of history who doesn't "indoctrinate". Your parents have the right to do so, with the help of religion or not. Just as you have the right to disregard it once you're on your own.
Rensune 4 months ago
@Rensune Just because parents have the 'right' to indoctrinate their children doesn't mean it is in the best interests of that child. When parents overreach, it is just like the gov't trying to fix things and making it worse. P.S. There is a difference between indoctrinating and teaching (to think for oneself).
everydayppl101 4 months ago
@everydayppl101 You can't "make" someone think for themself. That is a realization people come to at different points in their lives. Normally when they have to (which is why I said when you're no longer living with your parents.)
Rensune 4 months ago
The sooner we vote out Obama and his goons and all these liberals, the better off America will be. Nov 2012 can't get here soon enough.
andrewpalandrew 4 months ago
Sowell is da mang!
benzaintarental 4 months ago
Love this guy ;-)
wolfeatworld 4 months ago
The U.S. experienced such extraordinary growth and prosperity because we were a robust appreciation based culture. American has become a whiny-ass complaining and pity based society. Unless this changes there is no hope. Whining, pity and negativity are death. Appreciation and recognizing opportunity are the ticket to growth and success.
carcabe 4 months ago
@PapaLuvTLC Man,and I thought you had something between your ears brother,but I guess I was wrong...bye bye
libertywriters 4 months ago
Thomas Sowell always says the truth!
Elmgren76 4 months ago
Mr. Sowell is a Wonderful Patriot.
USA problems have their Roots in the Successful Implementation of this:
The 45 Goals of Communist Party USA were Exposed in 1963, and published in the Congressional Record.
3martijns 4 months ago
I love Sowell's clarity and dispassionate ways of viewing things.
trekkerperson 4 months ago
@PapaLuvTLC "Fools rush in.........." - Alexander Pope
zombies8u 4 months ago
This guy makes perfect sense to bad liberal Occupy protestors are to stupid to understand him.
KenyanImport 4 months ago
I posted before listening in it's entirety, this video is A-W-E-S-O-M-E! More clear than similar who try to explain, but this one, wow!
ProVeterans2010 4 months ago