True News: The 'Economist' Defends the US Government

[Equity213]

I just went out for breakfast and coffee. I had the displeasure of reading the local newspaper while I ate.

You have to be a special kind of idiot not to see the hypocrisy and conflict of interest in these media. They're just tabloids for people with slightly higher than average intellegence.

[HeyItzMeDawg]

"The stimulus bill", "advances in green technology", "making it easier to sue for sex discrimination", "averting a depression", "no child left behind"...

It's funny how they quote colossal failures as examples of success. Really, it is.

[brookrenejohnson]

i love it!!!! keep doing what you are doing....some people will wake up, but lets not hold our breath.

[locustsymphony]

What's a good website for news if the Economist does NOT measure up?

[sheeplols]

The writer of this article is probably a freelancer for the Onion having some fun.

This is her/his day job writing gig. Whatever gets the bills payed.

[captaindiesalot]

The insanity!

[ExquisiteDoom]

Yep, the worst it gets , the more rediculous it gets, and sadly the more completely and hilarious it gets. I have the same reaction reading the news at the restaurant. Used to be anger, now i find it rediculously humourous.

[ALittleBitPregnant]

A little bit of drinking with Bob at the end there. :)

[RevolutionaryJam]

ever write letters in?

[1voluntaryist]

@RevolutionaryJam Letters? Surely you jest. Power is not relinquished because the victims beg. The source must be removed. The people's taxes and co-operation keep government going. If they don't revolt no change is possible, except when taxes stop because everyone is broke.

[RevolutionaryJam]

@1voluntaryist just to see peoples reactions really. sometimes I write into the papers just to make a point

[Gromitdog1]

lol the new speech recognition software from youtube can't make sense of what your saying.

[jrgenkratz]

I think they're trying out their new auto-censor software, which will eventually be text-to-voice:d automatically. It's an efficient way to get the statist message out to anarchists. To have Stefan Molyneaux telling everyone things like "Washington has its faults - the snow and ice".

[Diablocazador]

Ok,

1. That intro was realistic and awesome.

2. watch this and many other videos with the Captions on. Youtube has implemented a caption system that fails so horribly that it's hilarious!

[studybox]

The mainstream media is secretly a brilliant collection of satire. Thankfully we can enjoy talking about matters of reality on the internet.

[TokDiYel]

That IS funny! Speaking of mainstream media, how about CNN recently telling listeners that "communism has been good for women." I like sick humor every once in a while, but these things sure are no joke.

Thanks for the laughs and take care.

[DecassyJake]

and the band played on....hmm, what was that tune they played? Was it perchance "Nearer to the Gold..than thee"?!

[truevoice08]

See, this is what I love about this show. It gives a voice to those who still have the ability to think critically about social issues.

Thanks Stef!

[chaseantarctica]

sometimes, in the face of insanity, you just gotta laugh

[Bassmarko]

Nice rant. Thanks I needed that. Trust me many of us are right there with you on this stuff.

Peace!

[deadman12078]

It is probly better that California doesn't have more representation. We would be even worse off.

[InfoGuerilla]

the economist isnt a bad magazine for economic news and they have some great writers (some are even austrian... i know :O), but it is few and far between.

reading the economist is like picking dollars out of shit.

[newperve]

"Satisfying women about sex discrimination lawsuits" - Don't you mean satisfying LAWYERS? Because I'll bet you dollars to donuts (remember when that was really good odds?) that more lawyer money went into supportiing that bill than feminist money.

[woodsofodin]

Even though the American system is broken, it's not broken?! WTF?! Statist double think anyone?

[Individualism101]

I'm not sure I find it funny.

It seems like a matter for concern that obvious contradictions are seriously considered as facts in the msm, and that the readership puts up with this. -- It isn't even particularly the case that stupid mindless people read the economist.

[newperve]

No Individualism 101 it's not a matter of concern that obvious contradictions are seriously considered as facts in the msm. What's a matter of concern is that this has been going on for DECADES and shows no sign of stopping. That's the matter for concern.

[Individualism101]

I would venture that most of the popular contradictions throughout history have been better disguised.

[misiobear77]

Thats the beauty of Internet. Even media are forced to be less biased as people will find out soon or later by this medium the truth.

[leafwatch]

I'd guess they were always apparent to honest, logical thinkers; but now the internet makes it possible to uncover the falsehoods and tell the truth to many.

[gottogochild]

Indignation aneurysm

[wait887]

here in Keene, NH there was a panel discussion where a few elites stood on stage and talked about what the community could do to turn things around. It was an astounding interaction to say the least. The most ludicrous thing I heard that night, was from a professor of economics. He suggested that the government should pay people to dig ditches, burying money and then pay people to dig up the money! And that type of thinking was going to create jobs. He said the government hasn't spent enough!

[NIK4EVA]

Oh man. This video set me up for the day with a big grim on my face.

ty

[Snousage]

Hahaha! :-) Classic!

[jystyle]

amazing that made my day.... lol i haven't laugh so hard in a long while

[audiofeel1]

i had to laugh w/ you, stef...then i cried. genius.

[OpineTime]

Economists? More like Eek, con men, isht!

[RichardDeziel]

I love so much what you're doing!!

[RichardDeziel]

Absolutely right on Stef!!! Of course the Economist rag approves and support the US government cause most of their subscribers are very well off politicians and corrupt businessmen that want to maintain the status quo.

Very riveting and engaging video production!

I love so much what you're!!

[hughtub]

Voting privileges without some merit as prerequisite was the beginning of the end. Without some voting prerequisites to ensure quality decision makers, any system that intends to use democracy to get quality decisions is an impossibility. Ironically, universal suffrage is incompatible with long-term freedom!

[elandsh]

I'm glad you had so much fun with that one. I know I did.

[lonewolf4252]

Not all of us Americans are oblivious to our plight.  The whole world is being affected.

[wait887]

He's still yelling at the end even though the video ends. lol.

[audiofeel1]

@wait887 you should be too!!!

[audiofeel1]

@wait887 i should have said, 'you WILL be too'.

[navtel]

after the JFK, RFK and MLK assassinations america turn the corner and fell into an abyss from which they will never emerge as they once were. dumber by the day and poorer by the minute. the political system has been hijacked by the corporations and lobbyists. the military industrial complex has morally bankrupted the country, they are nothing but walking zombies.

[DeArmeStudent]

Yep, America is like a parachutist without a parachut, falling down to earth...who shouts to the crowd in the plane (=the world economie that is almost crashing):

"See? i'm fine! Everything is ok!"

[MRSketch09]

@Vid

I am glad you exist... its good to look out across the vast wasteland of desert and see a little light out there.

[rivenrock]

God that was self-indulgent. I wish I could rate the (useful) last 90 seconds separately.

I asked Chomsky once whether there were actually any objective news sources out there. He said no, & that the key is not to reject one and rely on another, but rather to read/watrch widely (including mainstream media) because it's only in the comparison that patterns, biases and inaccuracies became apparent. It was good advice, even if I agree with you that some news sources make your brain hurt.

[MRSketch09]

@rivenrock

I think that is some good advice. +1 to ya stranger.

[clayvessel]

The Economist is illuminist/NWO owned and operated... I read it just so that I can see what the illuminati's latest obsessions are..LOL.

[deadman12078]

I love America...I just can't stand Americans.

[MrDorkusMaximus]

I loved this video, as I do Stef's others. Mainly, the reason I'm commenting is to boost this video's ratings.

By the way, I would really appreciate it if someone could help me. This damned new "autoplay the next video" YouTube feature is driving me crazy. How do I set it to default to "off" instead of "on"? Having to find the button and click it off every time is heinously bogus. Extremely annoying and waste of time. I'm seriously considering abandoning YouTube and going back to LiveVideo

[TeslaGenius]

Install firefox there are PLENTY of useful add-ons on their site & among them few block youtube auto-run not to mention those that block publicity or remove images one doesn't like

It's much faster than Explorer btw

[MrDorkusMaximus]

@TeslaGenius,

Thanks for the reply. I have been a long-time Firefox user, and I will check out their add-ons. I use the ad-blocker add-on, (it works well for me), but it didn't occur to me to check for an add-on which would subvert the new YouTube "auto-play the next video" feature. Thanks for the tip.

[TeslaGenius]

If you take closer look choice of options is so huge that Firefox probably has add-ons even for scratching ones back or feet massage LoL! :)

[TeslaGenius]

the fact that daily landscape of information consists of insanity and disinformation

actually is really not funny but depressing

thanks 4 video

[NeuroParadise]

@TeslaGenius yes , uk has loads of sattire which laughs at these issues , which doesnt help to expose the seriousness or the opportunities to change it.

[l1xx3r]

Canada isn't much better...

[Nickelodeon2002]

There has been progress made....think about the last time you saw a gov't mouthpiece even write an article defending the concept of gov't.....

[dweber66]

the "Economist" is published from London and is complete propaganda from the British Empire / International Banksters

[broeman]

Especially Keynesian economics, but there is really no difference.

[curiouschem]

yes, to them all is fine. we are in a jobless recovery. since a jobless recovery has never happened before, most people don't know what that is. A jobless recovery is when banks and wallstreet have lots of money and the unemployment lines continue to grow for most Americans. so, it's pretty simple. maybe easier to state that the rich get richer and the poor get even less than nothing.

[RPFS2008]

Hey, I'm good at spending money, vote for me and i'll fix the system!

I'll even print up a million quid for every single person and we can all be rich!

[debaiona]

I'm not even in the UK, but can I vote for you anyway?

I'd LOVE a million quid. It's worth so much more in dollars.

[ganymedic]

The problem with cynicism, as Zizek explains, is that its point of departure is a belief in self-enlightenment vis-à-vis everyone else who is just wrong.

[quakergamer]

@ganymedic How exactly is this a problem?

[RenegadeTimes]

hah hahah hhaaa so right..agree ~

[bertly71]

That is why we have a Republic.

[enotdetcelfer]

HAHAHA great post. LMAO

+150pts for assclown.

[babaluto]

YES, WE CAN!!!

[TotalAnomy]

This video reminds me of a fundamental aspect of keynesianism that is quite ridiculous: by the keynesian account, "countercyclical policy" via government spending is good for the working class (provides jobs) and for the entrepeneurs (avoids bankruptcy). And since they are government programs, also good for government workers and politicians. In other words, it's good for everyone! One wonders then why people don't clamor for countercyclical policy on the streets.

[DaveDoggOwns]

It's conveniant doublethink.

[scareglow77]

Couldn't agree with you more! Too much lobbying and favoritism goes on for this publication to claim that the system is "working".

[Twiggy269]

2:04

Did he say assclown?

LoL

[undefinedego]

@Twiggy269

according to the transcribed audio beta feature on youtube he said

"say the snow and ice often times you guy"

[TripperLV]

Excellent video! I appreciate your remarks. I'm an accountant and studied economics in college. I listen occasionally to mainstream media sources and feel the same as you. Much of the analysis is just ludicrous. Thanks for posting! RJ

[kevinanity]

And in just eight months we'll have the opportunity to go to the polls and vote in the most critical mid-term election of our lifetimes (because it always is) for either more of the same or pretty much more of the same.

[hydralisk125]

Isn't democracy lovely...

[boxant]

Shit opals!!!!