Town Hall Meeting with U.S. Congressman Brian Baird

I, David William Hedrick, a member of the silent majority, decided that I was not going to be silent anymore. So, I let U.S. Congressman Brian Baird have it. I was one questioner out of 38, that was called at random from an audience that started at 3,000 earlier in the evening. Not expecting to be called on, I quickly scratched what I wanted to say on a borrowed piece of paper and with a pen that I borrowed from someone else in the audience minutes before I spoke. So much for the planned talking points of the right wing conspiracy. David William Hedrick www.davidwhedrick.com

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[jayrq2o1]

Yes, the left is going to "take over" health care by giving you the option to choose between a state endorsed program or your own. Yes, they're going to "take over" the car industry and banks by bailing them out (although it was Bush who did that). Tip for Republicans: Please read before blindly following your own party's constituents and learn to spell with a Brain.

[o0xst]

LoL what a saladpuncher

[adayan]

@Drahthaar422 Abolution of unearned income means elimination of social programs. Nationalization of industry means industry is controlled by the state (or single party in this instance), division of profits means the state collects said profits and allocates them accordingly, and communilization of stores is irrelevant. Socialism is a worker controlled state. I highly encourage you to actually read a bit more on the subject: marxists(dot)org

[adayan]

@Drahthaar422 All of which you describe is a command, state-run economy, which is fascism! A socialist state is a state where workers control the means of production. Marx never called for a system like the USSR (Remember also, the Manifesto was written and distributed in the 1840s). The USSR was not a "communist" state but rather a single party state. Again, to say that the Nazi party was leftist is just an outright false interpretation of history.

[mattt1994]

People like this man are why Obama will win 2012. Many Americans are very scared of far right wing candidates who appeal to silly men like this questioner.

[PolishPunk04]

What an idiot. NAZI's were on the FAR RIGHT spectrum of politics. Just because it contained the word "Nationalsozialist" does not mean it was socialist. If they were socialist, why the hell would they have been FIGHTING the Soviet Union. This man is proof of why public schools need more funding. What an embarrassment.

[apkchrissybaby]

@adohara fuck you.

[Drahthaar422]

@adayan The Nazis were certainly "hard right" in the sense of eugenics and not believing that everyone is equal, but their economic program was most certainly leftist/socialist, whether they admitted it or not. A few of their 25 points:

-Abolition of unearned income

-Nationalization of industry

-Division of profits

-Communilization of large stores

If it looks like a duck and talks like a duck...

[zenmachinefilms]

Props to Brian Baird for trying to fight corruption while in Congress. Thanks 60 Minutes.

[adayan]

@cstarsfly Beside the fact that quoting Friedman is irrelevant in response to a comment about how David was grossly incorrect in his recollection of history/political theory of the Third Reich, Friedman isn't accurate. Our capitalist economy has always put "freedom" before equality and we severely lack equality of economic opportunity in this country. Class mobility to the upper class, where individuals have some control over the means of production, is more than rare in the U.S.