Ben Stein - Does America Lack a Sense of Community?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/01/24/Ben_Stein_on_How_Not_to_Ruin_Your_Life

Author, economist and TV celebrity Ben Stein laments what he feels to be America's lack of community values.

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How Not to Ruin Your Life with Ben Stein.

You may know him best for his deadpan delivery in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, or his offbeat game show, "Win Ben Stein's Money." But this active thinker is also a major contributor to current discussions and understanding of business, ethical and social issues in the world of finance, and the political and social content of mass culture. Come hear this polymath speak about the many economic, political and social issues confronting us today - The Commonwealth Club of California

Ben Stein is a lawyer, economist, and commentator on finance (and a well-known actor and Hollywood personality).

Stein served as an economist at the U.S. Department of Commerce. He has been a longtime contributor to Barron's and a columnist and editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal. He has also written extensively about finance for New York magazine and the Washington Post.

In addition to writing for Yahoo! Finance, he currently writes a biweekly column on economics and finance for the New York Times and appears weekly on the Fox News network commenting on finance and economics.

He is the author of several personal finance books, including How to Ruin Your Financial Life, Moneypower: How to Make Inflation Make You Rich, Financial Passages, and - with Phil DeMuth - the best-sellers Yes, You Can Time the Market, Yes, You Can Be a Successful Income Investor, and the forthcoming Yes, You Can Still Retire Comfortably.

Stein is Honorary Chair of the National Retirement Planning Coalition, and lives in Los Angeles, Calif.

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[RealTime88]

That's a scary thought though. You are SUPPOSED to learn at school. Not gossip or have sex or do drugs. I went to a HS like that. It wasn't like that when I walked in but it has now become something of that. We need to listen to our teachers, work hard, study, and do something postive with our life and help others as Ben says we should.

[DyeTyme]

This bastard was one of the people pretending nothing was going to happen before the subprime crisis. Economist? Complete bullshit.

[eraldb12]

Pathetic...

[adrianriviera]

Ben Stein is a jerk

[Electrica990]

Ben Stein--you are a big fat boob with a brain that probably looks like a cow udder that the right have been sucking on too long. I am presently listening to you blather about the 99 percenters. The police just beat the shit out of a soldier fresh from Iraq for God sakes so fuck you! Come down on the streets and we'll show you a message...but no you won't will you? Stay on the TV set where it's nice and safe and spew your venom.

[jowsmith100]

I agree on this also.

[jowsmith100]

i dont agree with him either all that much but he does make some sense on this

[Sumoto999]

@ljp7c4 agree.



[TheMaxkriz]

ben stein for president

[ljp7c4]

I don't agree with this guy on much, but on this I do!

How can some of you people dismiss everything he says just because you don't agree with one of his opinions?!

[MrNewkingjames]

Ben Stien is not"smart " he is intelligent He is an instructor an economist a lawyer an actor and a public speaker. To dismiss him because he rejects Darwinism says more about you than him.The purpose of his recent film is to demonstrate how people are persecuted simply because they don't accept the "religion " of Darwin and apparently you are one of the people who are oppressing dissenters.

[heartlessvietboy]

By the way, that is right.  I was just using examples.