Noam Chomsky on US Economic Crisis: Joblessness, Excessive Military Spending and Healthcare Video
DemocracyNow.org - President Obama sent his new jobs proposal to Congress on Monday with a plan to pay for the $447 billion package by raising taxes on the wealthy. Democracy Now! interviews MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky, who says "huge military spending, a very low taxes by the rich [and corporations] ... those are problems, fundamental problems that have to be dealt with if there is going to be anything like successful economic and social development in the United States." As Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, calls Social Security a "ponzi scheme," and Democrats buy into the narrative that the program is in crisis, Chomsky notes that, "To worry about a possible problem 30 years from now, which can incidentally be fixed with a little bit of tampering here and there, as was done in 1983, to worry about that makes absolutely no sense unless you're trying to destroy the program."
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Comments on "Noam Chomsky on US Economic Crisis: Joblessness, Excessive Military Spending and Healthcare"
Unfortunately, all ... Unfortunately, all politicians can do is force people to pay taxes. A 25 year old with 2 kids needs their money a lot more than an 80 year old with a pension. Similarly, a 45 year old terminally ill with cancer and working to make it by shouldn't be made to "contribute" money they earn for when they reach the retirement age. The whole SS system is based on a flawed premise, that enough people will be around to pay in for every successive generation. God help? us.
(12m:35s) " the ... (12m:35s) " the social security is based on? a principal, it's based on the principal that you care about other people " ...
" the preferred doctrines are 'just care about yourself, don't care about anyone else'; That's a very good way to trap and control people "
Chomsky? for ... Chomsky? for President NOW
I think chomsky ... I think chomsky mistakes the roles of the executive branch with legislative branch when he talked about the public option. Obama may have taken the senate bill, and passed it through the House, but the? original house bill did have a PO. After Coakley lost in Mass. .... Losing the super majority...This was the course Prrsident Obama took even though there is video of him preffering a single payer system. President Obama may have discarded what he wants ideally, but he doesnt write laws. He signs
Stock markets are ... Stock markets are measured in dollars not resources. To say the stock market has doubled would make sense because we have literally doubled our money supply since 2009. There are too many ends in everyone's lives? for any democratic government to make economic decisions. What we are doing is moving towards a dictatorship. Btw Thomas Jefferson proposed separation of state and economics. So Chomsky is wrong.
@Theobrothers Oh. ... @Theobrothers Oh. My. God. I love that idea! I would even pay to see it ffs! I love both of them for different reasons, if? they could find common ground we would live in paradise, when it comes to capitalism meeting voluntary socialism. Gogogogo, make the calls already ;) peace
republicans stop ... republicans stop blocking bills...Im ecstatic america is out of recession and out of these endless wars....unemployment down to 8.3% and the stock market has double in value in 3 years....oh and automotors way up and general motors back to number 1 in the world...also delighted that the poorest 50 million do have? healthcare...that is moral , it will save lives galore and will also help? business and general health improves. America has recovered way better than most other western nations
i love this man so ... i love this man so much. he is? a modern day thomas jefferson. please, administration, please let this be your guide...
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Elderly people need ... Elderly people need social security and politicians owe it? to them to fix it.
@tehboyscout ... @tehboyscout YOU're? correct.
@WikeddTung *your? @WikeddTung *your?
Why do? Republicans ... Why do? Republicans hate social security? Think about it.
HOW TO FIX THE ... HOW TO FIX THE ECONOMY
America's economic foundation is crumbling. For this reason, we must lean to the right -- allowing our conservative roots to thrive. We must concentrate on America's traditional foundation -- small farms. Basically, growing food. And we must strengthen? our sense of family and community to build a spirit of brotherhood/sisterhood again, lifting our morale.
Then we must copy the geniuses -- in the arts, technology, sciences, academics, military, learning from their examples.
@ ... @dihydrohydroxycodein I never said they have the same ideology... I meant the illusion that they are diametrically opposed and everything they say must be the opposite of what the other says is a fallacy. Lol, I make one comment and you attack my education system. Don't? worry, I'm on your side there. I'm quite aware they probably disagree on a lot of things too, but that doesn't change the fact that they are both humanitarians and hold humanitarian values above all.
@T if drama queen ... @T if drama queen is the best insult you can manage, i can live with it. wit is hard, i know. my point about "candidates" is that politicians, paul incl, aren't intellectuals/academics (certainly not repubs), you might as well ask chomsky? to debate doormen or janitors. still confused? & here we come to the backpeddling part of your "argument": someone else wrote "they'd probably agree on more things than you'd expect" & YOU replied "I was actually? trying to hint at that". clearer?
@WikeddTung
" ... @WikeddTung
"hyperbole is a rhetorical device"
Ah Yes, the favourite figure of speech of the Dramatis Reginam.
Perhaps, "republican candidates" might fit into the statement "every other politician who argues with him". I'm confused, are you arguing that it doesn't?
I liked "chomsky is? a SOCIALIST & unlikely to agree with ANYTHING paul has to say" better when it was stated as "Being on opposite sides of the spectrum on these issues"
Does Implication by question tend to win you debates?
@T hyperbole is a ... @T hyperbole is a rhetorical device. i don't expect you to know much about the FORM an argument takes as opposed to its content. ron paul "destroys" whom? republican candidates? that's like stepping on an ant hill. you know chomsky's positions from watching youtube clips. that speaks for itself. which part of what i wrote do you need "explained" to? you? the fact chomsky is a SOCIALIST & unlikely to agree with ANYTHING paul has to say? not obvious enough? maybe i'll make a video 4 u
@WikeddTung
LoL.
... @WikeddTung
LoL.
Ever on youtube, wow, drama queen much?
A) Ron destroy's every other politician who argues with him. He would do fine in a debate with Noam and? I feel they would come together on quite a few points as they are not humble truth seekers.
B) I know what Noam's positions are...
watch?v=wriQGI5NGOM
watch?v=YDHBvQRyOr0
So explain to me why having; "Ron and Noam debate some of these issues of entitlement" is the dumbest thing you have ever read on youtube?
@Theobrothers this ... @Theobrothers this is the dumbest comment i've ever read on youtube. A) ron paul doesn't have the intellectual chops to debate michele bachmann let alone noam chomsky and? B) chomsky is an avowed pro-DEMOCRACY socialist. you'd know that if you read anything other than ayn rand.
@ ... @dihydrohydroxycodein lol. right, because everybody buys the 6 million myth.
haven't you people been "corrected" repeatedly at intervals for thousands of years for arrogantly forgetting not to expose yourselves by your own? "god"?
wow, if the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over & over hoping for a different outcome each time, it's no wonder you're the most neurotic people on the planet.
@WikeddTung
You ... @WikeddTung
You obviously have thumbed up your comment a dozen times. Pathetic.?
@fingerspear
There ... @fingerspear
There is a big difference between Left-libertarianism and right-libertarianism. (Look up at wikipedia for the basics).
Should the wealthy minority's property be protected from the poor or the other way round? What about paying taxes for public services (your education system is very worrying)? Concentration of so much power in private hands shouldnt be allowed. It's hard to realize what an? intense class war the elite is fighting to gain more profits.
@fingerspear
I ... @fingerspear
I was actually trying to hint at that. As, how often do you see people with differing points of view on the same subject come together to find? a solution that both may not find perfect but it better in reality than disagreeing entirely.
@Theobrothers I ... @Theobrothers I think they'd probably agree on more things? than you'd expect.
I would love to see ... I would love to see Ron and Noam debate some of these issues of? entitlement. Being on opposite sides of the spectrum on these issues and both being extremely polite, well read and thoughtful, would make for an amazing debate.
Something we haven't seen for a long, long time.
@markuskentwood ... @markuskentwood Hell even that Nazi Henry Ford knew that his workers needed to be able to purchase? the product they made, or he would be broke.
technology is ... technology is replacing jobs and no one is saying s**t about it. some new jobs will emerge due to technology but not NEARLY enough. why is it not COMMON SENSE that technology is meant to? make life EASIER? if we had robots that could make all our food, gather it, deliver it, and make houses, etc, would there really be a need for jobs? NO
