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Lula e um ladrao filho da puta, seu comunistinha de merda!
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How to solve the world's problems.
1. Give everyone a job with a living wage.
2. Free education.
3. Free medical care.
4. No wars.
5. Get rid of inherited wealth.
Why it will never happen--the greed for power by the wealthy elite. -
About Trump's threats to China. I read news organs from many different countries in an effort to "triangulate" news from different points of view. One news organ I read is China Daily, an English language news organ of the Chinese government. I have been interested to see what the Chinese point of view is on Trump's proposals. I get the consistent impression that they don't take it seriously at all. That it would be stupid and counterproductive, so Trump couldn't mean it, it was only something he said to get elected. The phone call to the president of Taiwan (and Trump's subsequent endorsement of the One China policy) was a much bigger deal on their news horizon than Trump's statements on trade.
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I so agree. what a genius!
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this miserable POS is a LENINIST. By definition, he advocates MASS MURDER. Look at him. Ugly, jealous, and neurotic.
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This idiot is a Leninist! He advocates MASS MURDER in the name of the "general welfare"!
"How can you have a revolution without firing squads?" -Lenin
You IDIOTS- We Libertarians are the REAL liberals. We do not start fights- but we know how to finish them.
Luke Sacher
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This guy has always infuriated me with his sanctimonious delusional utopianism. He sees Cuba and venezuela as ideal...
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Suppose your shirt factory calls on Wal-Mart, they’ll need to buckle on their knee pads. I don’t mean to be crass and crude here. To call Wal-Mart “_____suckers” would be a misnomer, the fact is that Wal-Mart always positions itself on the receiving side.
If your shirt factories representative(s) cut a deal, it’s likely they’ll need to combat the taste of Wal-Marts forced concessions in their mouth(s) before returning home with a purchase order. Then to fulfill that PO your factory will need to swallow (no pun intended) the concessions forced (quasi-rape) on your shirt factory.
That might require wage and salary concessions across the board. It might require some automation requiring some new capital, excuse the dirty word. If you can’t green light these obstacles and others, then go to work for a capitalist.
But wait, when you’re producing for Wal-Mart you are working for a capitalist. Okay, change one link at a time but that’s not easy and America has come to want life quick and easy. Remember, there are big screen TVs to purchase and cruises to go on. If America can’t collectively get its STUFF right NOW, it generally has a temper tantrum.
The worker co-op is a terrific model but it requires across the board accountability, trust and cooperation (emphasis added: co-operation) from every person in your worker co-op.
Professor Wolff, show the world a plan of how the worker co-op might work at Apple, Ford or Boeing if that’s even possible. -
at 34:00 starts talking about the current candidacy etc.
37:00 starts about the empty promises of the two parties
43:00 ish. about current administrations plan to directly intervene with market
52:25 plans to change incidence of taxation, control of market/businesses.
1:03:00 chinese tax tariffs and increase in cost of living/global trade issues
1:14:00 sander's offers 'better but still no answer' solutions
1:22:40 taxes, people vs business, corporate tax, global race to the bottom
1:30:00 UK labor party worker co-op -
I've heard that Trumps plans to use the Fed to create money to invest in jobs and infrastructure. What effect will this have?
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wow!! i could tear this guy apart from root too limb.. how sad! this is easy. invite me sir.
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nobody should give money to destroy our sovereignty..
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Realignment of American politics. Whatever. We have political alliances now, all arguing for the same things, using different words, and only to different degrees of the same policies. Elizabeth Warren is a perfect example of what "real liberals" hold up as the example behind Bernie Sanders as their desired direction, but when she had the chance to line up behind his candidacy, one that she lines up with, ideologically, she chose to support the war mongering, race baiting wolf in wolf's clothing.
That political alliance has a foreign policy that is better only by degree and Bernie Sanders had a foreign policy that was a continuation of Obama, Bush and Bill Clinton and until liberals understand that foreign policy is the underpinning of economic and domestic policy, they will continue to dig their hole deeper.
When you can't argue against the established foreign policy because your domestic policy is tied to it, you're left to either lying or intentionally misleading people into believing that you can have a generous public stimulus via infrastructure and manufacturing, without changing the nature of your foreign policy and the democratic party can't call out the lies, misrepresentations or contradictions because they'd have to admit the left has done its part to enlarge the military industrial complex.
Weapons production is one of the last manufacturing hubs we have left, and cutting them out takes a massive amount of GDP from the economy. Therefor, any congress, even the most peace loving doves, can't afford to let those jobs go. That's why cutting back military bases is so difficult to do.
Building roads and bridges isn't enough to sustain a generation with full employment mainly because much of the work can be mechanized, today. If we went full out, we could do it, but we're not going to get the 5 or 10 trillion dollars in public financing we'll need to build out electrical grids, new gen nuclear power to provide a sufficient energy source to power hi speed mag lev transportation and remove us from the carbon and methane nightmare we're now experiencing. We could build that out, we could retro fit all the existing infrastructure and retrofit all the old municipalities. We could build modular hospitals and export them. We could hire 10's of thousands of doctors to cure diseases. We could fund massive joint international space exploration. We could. We could. We could, but we won't because it all takes cash. Even in Richard Wolf's socialist paradise. It takes cash, and we're too busy propping up the old system instead of paying Americans to rip down the old one and rebuild it for the foundation of the next 500 years of history. But we won't. -
A very good analysis based on factual position.. Trump is wild and emotive.. in a world of global economy he needs to think rationaly..
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Family values!!! LOL
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Ringling Brothers just ended , Maybe you can start your own circus.
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Ha ha ! Idiots . Stay out of my News feed.. Your the reason we're in the shape we're in Fuck off you Commie Bastards.. You need to give me $10 because I'm broke Fucker! And so is everybody else.
Democracy at Work now accepts bitcoin! Donate today: https://bitpay.com/267321/donate Special thanks to Franz Pohl of Duesseldorf, Germany (Happy birthday!), who has sponsored this month's episode. Become a sponsor: democracyatwork.info/sponsor --- Global Capitalism, Monthly Economic Update: "Trump's Plans for Jobs, Taxes & Trade" with Richard D. Wolff Co-sponsored by Democracy at Work, Left Forum & Judson Memorial Church Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 7:30pm Judson Memorial Church Assembly Hall 239 Thompson Street at Washington Square These programs begin with 30 minutes of short updates on important economic events of the last month, then Wolff analyzes several major economic issues. This month, these issues will include: 1. Worker coops and jobs; 2. Worker coops and taxes; 3. Worker coops/capitalist firms: a two-sector system . Our goal: To develop all participants’ understanding and ability to explain current economic events and trends to others. We open the floor to questions and comments when time permits.