The Heritage Foundation

[jmorris724]

anyone know the name of the background music?

[TheNova1960]

I'm surprised that the Heritage Foundation didn't bring up qestions at the GOP Debate on 11/22/2011 about the Malaysian Tribunal Court that convicted George W. Bush and Tony Blair for Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide when they went into Iraq. The mainstream media has yet to report this huge story because they need to protect certain candidates except for Ron Paul who prefers to use diplomacy vs. bombs!

[Explicitboss91]

the federal war on drugs has proven costly and ineffective, while creating terrible violent crime. But if you question policy, you are accused of being pro-drug. That is preposterous. As a physician, father, and grandfather, I abhor drugs. I just know that there is a better way — through local laws, communities, churches, and families — to combat the very serious problem of drug abuse than a massive federal-government bureaucracy.”- Ron Paul.

[CovenantOfLove]

It sounds good but in truth we've lost it all. the clip moved me to tears, but where are the men and women that are and should be fighting this corrupt government? I'm just one guy and most just laugh at me for being an honest American...erick

[Askerban]

@ BNPPeace...seems Obama lives class warfare. Why is it that his policies, cutely named, have hurt the middle class the most? Why when he does turn to the private sector, does he turn to his buddies on Wall Street, not the real private sector on Main Street? Why does Obama restrict our production of energy, and raise energy prices, which hurt the lower classes the most? Why is he pursuing weak dollar, inflationary policies which hurt the lower classes the most....

[BNPPeace]

@Askerban Yes, I agree. It is class warfare. Obama represents corporate America, just as Bush did. We no longer live in a Democracy. We have one political party and that party represents the richest people and corporations in the world. The goal is to drive down wages and benefits of working people and maximize corporate control and profits.

[Askerban]

@BNPPeace When I talk private sector, I mean the real private sector (miid-sized companies, the mom and pop stuff). No matter what government does, the larger corporations can better whether the storms than the smaller, more quality companies. What we need is to not impose rules that harm the smaller companies, rather encourage job creation and entrepeneurship. When you try to attack the big corporations, all too often it is the middle class that feels it worse...

[BNPPeace]

@Askerban I agree. Growth of smaller, quality companies would be healthy for the U.S. Unfortunately, under corporate rule, the larger corporations have gotten all the advantages, forcing the smaller companies out of business. What has happened to the smaller businesses in most American small towns? Forced out of business by WalMart. The laws are written by lobbyists for Halliburton, Exxon-Mobil, Goldman Sachs, health insurance companies etc. These corporations are making record profits.

[Askerban]

@BNPPeace I could care less about the record profits...worrying about somebody else is in itself greed (admiring them). Instead of focusing on harming their success, why don't we encourage real Americans to start their own dreams? We have become obsessed with people making more than us, or having more success than us. Corporate rule and big government are both a major problem. Argue agains the corporations, but the government ultimately makes the rules.

[BNPPeace]

@Askerban The problem is that the mega corporations are the government. Goldman Sachs, for example writes the financial law. Exxon Mobil writes energy policy. The health insurance companies wrote the Obama health care law with one propose, to maximize their profits. Record profits matter because if all the $ is going to profits then very little is going to the workers. Without a living wage, people can't afford homes, cars and healthcare. The U.S. is looking very 3rd world.

[Askerban]

@BNPPeace The reason why they are making and holding onto record profits, is because they dont feel the use in trying to expand in the US. The unpredictable tax climate, the known costs and burdens down the road restrict the ability to make money (you add workers and facilities, it's costing more and more). If you want them to spend these profits on workers and facilities in the U.S., you need to encourage them to do so, not scare them away.

[BNPPeace]

@Askerban The reason why they are holding onto profits is because they only answer to the stock holder who wants more money at any cost. As you mentioned, we need quality companies with good business models. What we have is: unregulated capitalism. We give them tax credits, a pass on environmental regulation etc, so after they have taken our money and polluted freely, they leave for some other country and make their stock holders very happy by increasing profits. Encourage them?

[Askerban]

@BNPPeace To say that we are unregulated is to also state that the US has 57 states. Yeah, extending the current tax rates have helped Obama stave off more job losses and unemployment, but the unending rules, and the fear of what's coming is holding them back. Environmental regulation for the Great Hoax has just been justification for lefties to do whatever they want in the name of "fairness" to cut the US down to size. They instill policies that hurt the private sector, then blame the system

[BNPPeace]

@Askerban No tornadoes in your neighborhood? Hurricanes? How about peak oil, Fukushima meltdowns, as obstacles to our economy? There is plenty of "fear of what's coming." I see the problem as corporate run government. Germany, is developing solar power, employing 1000,000 workers, more than the US steel industry. With Exxon Mobil in charge, the US doesn't even have an energy plan, oil is less plentiful and pricier all the time, spills more likely. How do you decide what is a hoax?

[Askerban]

@BNPPeace Gloabl warming one week, global cooling the next. Climate changes day to day. The US does have an energy plan, not so much under the development by the government, but at the factories and research facilities. Oil is plentiful, but is restricted in the US (though we send taxpayer money to Brazil so they can do the same thing). What is a hoax is based on lack of scientific evidence, or proof of the opposite. Besides, with the rise of China, US pollution will be a drop in the bucket

[Askerban]

@BNPPeace as a final point, I think we seem to agree more than we think. We both agree that we need to help the entrepeneurs and job creators, I just think that all too often programs that are named and designed to punish the larger companies and those on Wall Street, in the end make it painfully difficult for the mid to low sized companies that can't absorb the costs like the larger corporations. We should not use the government to impede private business, rather encourage more business.

[BNPPeace]

The Heritage Foundation is a giant propaganda machine. This is an organization whose goal is to turn the middle class against each other, while the rich enjoy ever greater wealth. The working people will either organize and demand money for education, health care, jobs and rebuilding our infrastructure or we will continue the decline and our descent into poverty. Then we will get all our information from the Heritage Foundation. They will tell us how lucky we are. Some.. will believe that.

[Askerban]

@BNPPeace ...Perhaps we could look state to state. If this leftwing theory of economics worked, why is Texas, not California ending up with more jobs than before the recession? Shouldn't it be the other way around (Texas has the same pressures as California)? Why is Illinois and New York, other high tax (or high "revenue, whichever term you prefer) states going broke? Perhaps more government spending on something does NOT equate to results.

[BNPPeace]

@Askerban Jobs are plentiful in Texas, but what do they pay? What are the benefits offered? The living standard in Texas is low, the public education system is poor and the level of environmental degradation is high. How do you want to measure success? States are going broke because Wall Street and the banks drove the economy into the ground in 2008, and tax rates were lowered for corporate America. The lack of $ is intentional and is due to tax cuts for corporations and the very rich.

[Askerban]

@BNPPeace Just because the companies aren't forced to pay exorbanent amount of benefits or taxes doesn't mean it's a bad job. Id rather know that I have a better chance of keeping the job, and the company is going to last. For the local community, you need to encourage businesses (the largest contributor to the property taxes) to come. Our national deficit is because government is spending too much and pursuing endless regulation and rules restricting job growth...

[BNPPeace]

@Askerban Wars, at $8 billion per month for Afghanistan alone, are a major cause of our national debt. The U.S. now has wars going in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya. Total cost of wars since 2001, over 1 trillion. In a democracy, we the people would decide what we want government to do. I would choose: environmental regulations and enforcement, quality public schools, food safety inspections, roads, worker safety protection, clean water, public sewers, public health, emergency response.

[Askerban]

@BNPPeace Wars are a small monster. The entitlements and legacy costs are the big monsters in the room. We are at war with an enemy that doesn't care about what you do and say, they want to kill. You need to engage them, they will exploit any weakness.

Your arguement about what we the people want the GOVERNMENT to do on our behalf IS THE PROBLEM. I trust the ingenuity of the American people, not a politician who thinks he knows better (but doesn't).

[BNPPeace]

@Askerban More than half of the budget goes to the military and there is plenty of corruption in that business.The enemy would be hard to define at this point. The US is in the Middle East is to protect the oil pipelines, so Americans can have cheap gas. So, if you lost your job, then your health insurance, then your family member got sick, then bankrupcy followed, and your car was wrecked, a tornado hit, how would your ingenuity handle that? I would prefer a "safety net", just in case.

[Askerban]

@BNPPeace That "safety net" thinking is the problem. Your thinking is so narrow about oil and gas, that you overlook the fact that there is an enemy that wishes harm upon us regardless of what we do or dont do. They attack and commit acts of violence against anybody who believes different (Hindus, Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Europeans, etc). That is the enemy we are fighting. If we are interested in oil and gas pipelines, why are we in Afghanistan as well?

[BNPPeace]

@Askerban Why do they wish to harm us? Could it be the drone attacks, the bombs and the corrupt leaders the US backs in so many countries. The US government is responsible for much of this hatred and violence and it is rooted in the US attempt to control the world's resources. Afghanistan has pipelines. We bail out the banks and the corporations but we leave individual American to fend for themselves. "ingenuity of American people" translates to "you are on your own sucker" .

[Honeypott310]

The Heritage Foundation was created by and is Financed by the Koch Brothers, Nice Propaganda Piece Dude!!!!

[jmorris724]

is there some place i can go to listen to the theme song?

[birsterj]

Where can I get the theme music? I'd like to make it my ringtone

[kennny732]

@jamestaylorguy don't be duped by these lying conserv-a-rods

[bakersfieldmusicnow]

well..the video sounds good...hope they are for real.

[Houston912ers]

You don't like this country and what it has to offer? THEN LEAVE.

[13otany13ay]

The Heritage Foundation is anything then educational. Its a nationalist, chauvinist, zealot association of fascist hypocrats who know just one mission: Bring as much destruction, suffering and war to the globe as possible! Fill the pockets of the rich and leave the dumb peasants with menslaughter, desease, warcrime and mass destruction!

Some men just want to watch the world burn!

Is that the american heritage? Buggers!

[ancestralyuba]

Yeah. But they know how to spell.

[5150Revolutionary]

haha they know how to spell, no concrete response but godammit they know how to spell haha you really did heritage a solid on that one lmao

[PhantomLord1901]

Are you on drugs?

[NJRocks281]

wow your a tool

[kennny732]

there are 3 types of conservatives...xenophobes, greedheads and religionists...these are religionist type conservatives, they practice the deadly sin of pride.

[zomgFletch]

These aren't not lies... they may be wrong, but they're not lies

[Vrai01]

Well would you look at what we seem to have found here?

Oh that's right. Lies.

I commend you MagnumSerpentine

[Jimmyhendrick2]

America is a Republic, not a Democracy in its purest sense.

[MagnumSerpentine]

Let me clarify my remarks... You can replace Concerned with Afraid. I am more afraid of the Heritage Foundation than I am with any Terrorist Organization.

[MagnumSerpentine]

I am more concerned with the Heritage Foundation than I am with any terrorist organization. Someone needs to inform them that the United States is a Democracy, not a Theocracy.

[firefx99]

This crap is a joke. Freedom? These corporations that drop money into foundations like these are the problem. These type of foundations only cater to Caucasians. Period! Paranoid...Caucasians! When you say "you and me", I'm looking to see MORE diversity in your presentation. I thought I saw one of the block head FOX news pundits in there too.

[ncbookz]

i have a question! these words are they sincere and are they calculated for alterior motives or do you guys really believe this, i heard freedom less taxes and family is center! is this the truth from you guys? if so then you got it from the bible for sure

[RealPaulitik]

In 2005 alone Heritage brought in about 35 million, only about 2-3 million of that came from corporations.

[ParanoidMystic]

Heritage has received a long and steady flow of support from nearly 100 major corporations, including Chase Manhattan Bank, Dow Chemical Company, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Mobil, Procter & Gamble, and GlaxoSmithKline[3] -- WIKIPEDIA