Arianna Huffington: Third World America

Arianna Huffington, cofounder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, discusses the future of American prosperity and her new book, Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream.

Our industrial base is vanishing, taking with it the kind of jobs that have formed the backbone of our economy for more than a century; our education system is in shambles, making it harder for tomorrow's workforce to acquire the information and training it needs to land good twenty-first century jobs; our infrastructure—our roads, our bridges, our sewage and water, our transportation and electrical systems—is crumbling; our economic system has been reduced to recurring episodes of Corporations Gone Wild; our political system is broken, in thrall to a small financial elite using the power of the checkbook to control both parties.

And America's middle class, the driver of so much of our economic success and political stability, is rapidly disappearing, forcing us to confront the fear that we are slipping as a nation—that our children and grandchildren will enjoy fewer opportunities and face a lower standard of living than we did.

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[simpaticaism]

Fine until she starts telling people they need homeland security against terrorists !! Oh bot the only security the people in the USA needs is for its constitution to be put back into practice by the courts governments and people like this who speek a good deel of good and then blow themselves up by getting it OH SO WRONG !

[socoolbob]

@azzy314159

The World's Ugliest Dog Contest Video gets that many views in a few hours. That does tell us that the audience prefers shorter unusual videos ... with music. SoCooLDotSoCooLDotCom

It doesn't mean it's the ONLY thing the audience prefers.

[azzy314159]

ONE YEAR after this interview was posted it has been seen by 2232 people. At the same time a video showing a couple of stupid girls cavorting has had 27 million views. Who should be censored? We, the average folk, hold the largest share of blame for the state of affairs.

[fcarabat]

@WTCnucleardemolition and that's just a small piece of the pie. there is so much that soo many people don't want to believe.

[jamesriepe]

I highly respect this lady, but I really think she should learn to speck clearly.

[WTCnucleardemolition]

Everyone needs to learn that 9/11 was the American regime nuking its own largest city, and it created the China Syndrome which then poisoned thousands of responders and millions of NY residents.

Google "9/11 Cancers"