Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "The Philippines' child miners risking their lives for gold" video.

  1. Americans - THIS is an example of libertarianism and capitalism taken to its ultimate extreme. No social care, no protections, just the wealthy preying upon the poor, and the poor sacrificing their lives to feed their families. How are market forces protecting these workers? Where are the unions? Where are the poor joining together to ensure fair treatment for all?
    19
  2. Gregory Shumaker Unions provide collective bargaining. Poverty is frequently caused by mismanagement of resources. Thailand is fertile, temperate, has a large labour force, but still mass poverty.
    1
  3. ***** I agree. I think the US is a nation on the brink of its own self-destruction, and maybe Ron Paul WOULD be the cold water that they needed, although I doubt he could do enough, even in two terms to really knock them out of their complacency. Maybe two of Ron Paul, then a few more of the Tea Party might get their attention.
    1
  4. +George Calm Russia, country that spent 50% of its budget on the military and fell apart as a result? That nation you mean?Nobody is asking for a free lunch, simply that the wealth is distributed more evenly. For all of your insulting rhetoric, you must be wilfully ignoring the entirety of Europe, Canada, New Zealand and Australia to say something so silly. The fact is, there's enough wealth to go around, but the top 10% exploit the rest of the nation. Even your own nation managed to stop children having to work in life threatening jobs. Of course, now that you have a crazed mongrel in charge whose more interested in posturing, bigotry and hiding his wealth elsewhere, things have taken a turn for the worse and child poverty is on the rise again.I suggest you go ponder a little more deeply before making such silly posts again.
    1
  5. +Atlas Shrugged. Not now, but when it was the USSR, the mass poverty caused by its overspending on the military during the cold war was one of the things that lead to the break up and the end of the cold war.
    1