Jon Stewart is Dead Wrong!

Andrew Napolitano, host of Freedom Watch on the Fox Business Network and Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst, was on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart recently to promote his new book, "Why It's Dangerous to Be Right When the Government is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom". John Stewart made some tired talking points which I debunk here.

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[EarnestLamb]

dude, i like you, but youre too young to know whether youre parrotting neat ideas, or really having an educated opinion "by" having understood and invested enough time into actual research of American problems (you havent) and then then researching the good points of both sides of "the center", and not the points of the extremes; get it?. I'm 40, and I've seen so many bright minds be too lazy by investing their lives in blindly hacking for one side, whether its pro or anti governement.

[EducatoriumEuphorium]

@EarnestLamb

Thanks for taking time to comment. One of my favorite books is "The Story of Stuff", a enviromarxistic treatise which I'm in great disagreement with. I love it because it presents a challenge to my beliefs. I will listen to Maddow, Schultz, O'Donnell, etc. (though I admit I'm more inclined to watch Stossel) because of the exercise it gives me. I enjoy it. I may come back some day as a raging communist, but what I've seen makes me think that voluntary institutions work.

[EarnestLamb]

@EducatoriumEuphorium Of course, no one wants you to become a raging marxist. Common people who are so far into the right's ideology succeed well in protecting someone else "in being" ultra-rich while "hard working" meek people are punished for not being greedy. Stewart implied there, a business owner isnt doing most of the work; it actually is a team effort. How about this... Housing, food & transportation are expensive, but Government makes it legal to under-pay people.

[EducatoriumEuphorium]

@EarnestLamb I love a good YouTube comment debate! The market is not a machine that doles out money to the superrich and punishes the working man. The market is a mechanism that responds to individual action. Business IS a group effort...but not every team member contributes equally. Subsidies are not solutions; they simply shift costs to a different sector. Free enterprise can bring about a higher standard of living for the poor. GOVERNMENT made housing expensive through its laws.

[SavoirSelph]

People are not born equally capable of providing for themselves. Sometimes people get bad breaks in life. Human kindness and empathy are necessary in this world. Government is really just people and people have a moral obligation to help those in need. It's easy to look down from the mountain of plenty and scoff at the less fortunate. I hope your perception softens toward your fellow humans as you come into adulthood.

[EducatoriumEuphorium]

@SavoirSelph

First off, thanks so much for commenting. But to address your points, I don't advocate eliminating subsidies for the mentally and physically disabled until we are sure private charity can make up the difference. I also believe in a certain form of unemployment insurance, but not our current system. I have nothing against people on welfare, I have a problem with the welfare system which violates the liberty of taxpayers and recipients. A truly free market system would improve lives.

[runelord37]

@EarnestLamb i see a great deal of maturity in this young mans understanding and logical posits.

[TheHuntress909]

This is the coolest video ever! I -3 u brother!

[EarnestLamb]

@alaw911 maturity

[alaw911]

@EarnestLamb And what's your qualification for knowing how much time and research he's put into something? I hope you're not just blindly hacking.

[EarnestLamb]

@EducatoriumEuphorium I'm not for equal wages, I'm for fair wages. Strange thing is that in reality "we both" believe in proportionate wages... its just that within the American paradigm, our Government legitimizes anyone in depriving people from getting proportionate wages; and then sends Police to throw those little people out of thier homes and into the streets for loosing their jobs due to the Market throwing itself and the American people under the bus.