Corporatism and Reforming the Welfare State

Hi this one is a bit longer, but I think the info is worth the watch, let me know what you think!

This takes on from this video on Distribution of Wealth:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=327u-6wYMto

Which follows this video on Economic Growth:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XaA9T_8G-P4

Michael Parenti - Welfare for the Welfare:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jcTYoxLXQiQ


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• corporatism
• welfare
• state
• capitalism
• socialism
• free
• market
• ron
• paul
• kucinich
• economics
• distribution
• wealth
• basic
• income

[09SRILANKA]

Ant its SRILANKA, are you from a working family or a totally supported by the welfare state family, I've asked you once or twice and you still havnt answered.

The lazy welfare type family robs from the taxpayer too, many of the working folks on plenty of money are earning this cash as they work for this. A welfare state supported family get their money for doing nothing! Am I right or wrong?

[RevolutionaryJam]

don't be a bloody pain Srilanka you can tell perfectly well from my accent and the fact that I'm an elloquent speaker that I'm painfully middleclass

my dad still runs his own business in his 70s

I'm a piano tutor and a student of music and philosophy which you could have found out anywhere on this channel by looking into the conversations

[09SRILANKA]

@RevolutionaryJam.

Hi Ant its SRILANKA. Got your message just didnt think you were interesting enough to look into your channel that deeply. I bet your dad tells the tax man about every single penny he earns eh just to make sure the poor get their cut. NOT! If I was him I'd declare about 25% of what I earned as he's the one busting his nuts to pay for the pramfaces out there eh mate. PS Sorry for being a pain in the bum!

[RevolutionaryJam]

@09SRILANKA I don't support tax on income, I support a flat tax on land and wealth, In this country 6000 people own 69% of the land and they don't have to contribute anything to society at all. You talk about earning wealth? I'd be surprised if most of these elites have ever lifted a finger in their life. But of course I forgot, you don't are about people being lazy as long as they are rich, you just hate poor people.

[Intangible88]

Thanks for sending me a video - but every time I tried to read he message you sent it disappeared! I am a great Ron Paul supporter as well and tried to go on his march the other year but they changed the date of the march after I'd booked my trip! Alaistair Darling looks so plastic - someone said he looks like a pupet from "Thunderbirds"! You make some good points here by the way!

[RevolutionaryJam]

@Intangible88 thankyou for your imput! I also appreciate Ron Paul's work but I'm not as "conservative" as him,

I hope this video provides a compromise for right and left which is better than the present system from the point of view of both sides of the political spectrum!

[VexingDaftJim1]

Another problem with corporatism is that companies are often given exemptions from certain statutes. For example, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 made it so that all employers must provide some form of health insurance for their workers. Several large corporations, namely mcdonalds, and the United Agricultural Benefit trust were given exemptions. Guess Who picks up the tab for these poor underpaid workers? Us of course. The US needs to do a better job defending people.

[VexingDaftJim1]

Thank you so much. I live in the United States and a report from the Congressional Budget Office found over 100 billion dollars in missed revenue from businesses. The US spends about 60 billion dollars on the SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program) and about 20 billion on direct welfare payments. In a time when we are running a deficit in excess of 1 trillion dollars, that much revenue shouldn't be let go.

[528hertz]

The poverty trap could be overcome by protectionism and credit controls to stop companies developed here, from moving to slave-production in the Far East. We then have to regulate banking and create a government credit system of money, as opposed to the financier oligarch's Bank of England. Added to that, creating a superior education system, not one that dumbs children down or bores them to death, will develop the youngs creative minds - hence more productivity.

[santomon07]

I enjoyed your video ;) Especially the part about the Elite being the biggest parasites!!!! What exactly does the Royal family do for their money?....And how many hedge fund managers do anything but shuffle a bunch of numbers around and rob investors by betting on companies collapsing and then manipulating the market to make sure it happens...which is exactly what caused the current crisis..kind of like betting on a sporting event and then bribing some of the players to throw the game...

[JusticeSeeker1000]

The welfare state is the biggest problem in the world today. In the UK, USA, New Zealand, pretty much everywhere it exists, it causes huge problems.

Welfare = dependancy, idlesness, anti-social behaviour, illiteracy, higher crime, higher need for immigrants(which in turn leads to higher social cohesion and racial problems) unhealthy and uneducated children, depression, violence.

A huge number of ppl on welfare are criminals, it's like we fund the lifestyles of the ppl who make life hard.

[09SRILANKA]

Fulltime jobs for everyone, theres many of folk who never will work as they dont want to & dont need to. The state provides very well for these people who are allowed to get away with this by a succession of Governments. School lunches perhaps mum and dad could pay instead of spening on chips, fags & booze. Kids in poverty are there because their parents put them there.

[09SRILANKA]

@RevolutionaryJam I guess you hit the nail on the head, I do hate the lazy free 4 all mum & dad with 5 kids milking the country for every penny, dad with bad back but just lazy realy. Lets face it would have to get a job paying £700 a week just to equal what they would get from the state. So if you think this type deserve an equal share you need to head looking at. When you get your land make sure you share it out with a single mum & her runts!