Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "FRONTLINE PBS | Official" channel.

  1.  @oldslowjim  Social Security needs to be expanded to include public employees and benefit need to be raised. Then you have a national system that covers everyone. To counter inflation we need a cost of living escalator every 3 months. Their is no reason why everyone shouldn't have a job at union scale ans a secure retirement. We need to rebuild union power and workers control of industry.
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  2.  @DolceFareNiente1  They are always waiting for a new hand to play at their capitalist Black Jack table. I want to shut down the whole casino.
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  3.  @deadfriendyouforgotabout8434  His dad was like Elon Musk who bought his citizenship.
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  4.  @louiswhite805  This is capitalism's finest hour.
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  5.  @nonnobissolum  Some of us have had to work for theses thieves.
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  6.  @justmissjamey  Build the trade unions to fight back against the world capitalist crisis of production and trade. Make the bosses pay.
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  7.  @newyorkcity76  The goal of every banker is to put his competition out of business. This is the way capitalism works. Its a game that the rich play among themselves and we don't count.
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  8.  @mrsatire9475  One law for Ms Trump and another law for everyone else.
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  9.  @jackccrofootjr7228  I crossed the Mexican border from the US without even opening my passport for Mexican immigration.
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  10.  @k.h.6991  This is the natural way capitalism works.
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  11.  @lisahoffman4075  Its a matter of creating confidence in a confidence game. This is the way capitalism works. Boom and Bust each worse than the last. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. War, fascism and revolution.
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  12.  @Eric-sn4qz  Capitalist bosses own the two parties and write the rules for themselves. That is why Ms Trump is a citizen and the women in the video is not.
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  13.  @snsm6730  When business controls and buys everything what do you expect? AOC and Sanders are nothing more than Social Imperialists. Socialists in name only.
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  14.  @barefootprofessor3455  Someone will have to replace them because the birth rate has dropped below replacement.
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  15.  @MijoShrek  Actually we need to enact an Amnesty program like Reagan did.
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  16. If you rich your always legal. Just ask Trump's wife.
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  17.  @PerspectiveEngineer  Finance capital is the most parasitic of all capitals because it demands a return on investment unrelated to the success of the business to which it makes the loan. In other words it is simple a matter of calculating and avoiding risk. But when you the owner of a mortgage contract that is seen as less of a risk since if the borrower doesn't pay you get back the home or land which you can now sell to a new owner. It only becomes a problem when you run out of customers to sell the forclosed homes or land to. Its also like investing in government bonds. Government is assumed to be infallible. It will pay despite what it does with the money borrowed like the 2.3 trillion borrower to pay for the Afghanistan war. The war produced nothing but 100,000 dead and millions were displaced as internal refugees but that money is to be repaid despite it having done almost nothing of value in one of the poorest countries on earth.
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  18.  @ericcsudduth5166  Plenty of American citizens break laws that they don't even realize exist. Plus many people who break laws pay fines or go on probation. Jail should be retained for serious crimes since it is a social and economic cost that the rest of us have to pay.
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  19.  @karlagarcia1851  If you were born on earth your not an alien.
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  20.  @thetruthwillsetyoufree9209  A revolutionary overthrow of the capitalist system is what is needed.
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  21.  @AT-zl6dk  Social Security is the real solution.
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  22.  @GomerBarnFloyd  They said the same thing about the original computer technology. Its not going to create a perpetual motion machine. Nor will it solve the essential problems that capitalism creates.
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  23. Ya rich people get to do whatever they want when crossing most borders.
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  24.  @jackccrofootjr7228  People with money can buy US citizenship or any most any other citizenship. Billionaires aren't refused entry since they are covered by a different set of laws.
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  25.  @d.h.4778  Those laws were written by rotten capitalist politicians.
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  26.  @kenyat6419  If you were born on Earth your not an alien.
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  27.  @Eric-sn4qz  Native Americans never spoke English, French or Spanish before the arrival of the Europeans.
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  28.  @Eric-sn4qz  Europeans didn't eat corn or potatoes either.
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  29.  @mrsatire9475  Its the capitalist system that is failing and that's why the bosses like Joe Biden or Donald Trump can't fix capitalism. Biden is using the FBI to criminalize polical dissent and immigrants are just another working class group they have their eyes on. The goal being to drive down wages of all workers and to halt the rising tide of strikes and protests.
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  30.  @Eric-sn4qz  No one is here living off Bennies. That is just rightest propaganda. You have to work to get Social Security and only the old and disabled qualify for it. They are working and making some fat boss a fat profit. Most likely someone like you.
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  31.  @BUDDYSHADOW  Its the time pressure that the bosses who like Warren Buffet who sit in offices all day driving a desk and demanding bigger profits that is the cause of these "accident" which are NOT accidents at all but do to greed of the capitalist bosses. The capitalist government is totally ineffective the same way it can not stop any other of the social castropies caused by the Bosses greed and their crisis ridden system. Only workers control of industry and our use of the trade union can begin to address these problems.
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  32.  @Lando-cb9ol  It's actually comes from English law as the King wanted everyone born on English soil to be subject to his rule. The only exceptions are the children of diplomats. Other countries have their own laws but most of those who were influenced by England like Canada have birthright citizenship. If you are a private sector worker you are producing more than what you are paid. Plus the US birth rate has fallen below replacement.
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  33.  @jackccrofootjr7228  I write from experience not facts you read on the internet. Only the US intercepts people coming in from Mexico. Its easier to enter Mexico than Canada since Mexican Immigration just waves you into the country and they don't even ask what you name is. Sure I had to pay the toll on the bridge over the Rio Grande but that was it for entering Mexico from Texas. Now if I was going to use my vehicle in Mexico I'd get the all the necessary papers and insurance because I wouldn't want to be scammed by Mexican police corruption.
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  34.  @stonesibbett7857  If you were born on earth your not an alien.
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  35.  @bigdtravellers2287  In other words bring them in so the bosses can exploit them and send them home when the bosses are done taking the surplus value their labor created. Big business loves people with your ideas that serve as cover for driving down wages and working conditions. Instead of recognizing full human rights give them a special paper that says your only a temporary human for temporary work purposes only. .
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  36.  @bigdtravellers2287  Capitalism is world system and it creates its own problems. The advanced capitalist countries can no longer even sustain their own population without immigration. Countries like South Korea, Japan, and China which have no source of immigration are seeing aging populations. The same would be true for the US, Canada and Western Europe without immigration. The reason being is with capitalism we are paid a wage to sustain us to the next pay period not to reproduce a new generation. It's in the interest of the working class to have both equal political rights and social benefits. So we have Social Security and the next step is to have a payment for every child to lift the workers children out of poverty. Karl Marx saw this coming a long time ago when he noted the tendency of the capitalist to pay only the social minimum required to reproduce the social labor of the working class. That the natural tendency of capital is to impoverish the working class. After noting this tendency he asked what would prevent the workers from being paid less than what is needed to reproduce the next generation? Of course the class struggle comes into play and that is why socialism is the next step in the evolution of humanity. The nation state is to small of an economic organization. The capitalist are divided into nations while the workers have no nation in the same sense that the capitalist do. For us the nation is our language and the place we grew up. Their is nothing all that special about the borders drawn between nations anymore than states within a nation.
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  37.  @bigdtravellers2287  Law like a nation develops out of culture. All nations have laws that one is expected to abide by so to say we are a ""nation of laws" that must be adhered" to sounds strange either you think other nations don't have laws that one must adhere too or that your nation is only made up of laws. Culturally the United States is overwhelmingly Christian but that is not the only religion and Christianity is only a general term referring to a general religious belief system rather than a single specific religion. In order for people of different religions to get along in the United States laws and customs have developed to allow religious freedom. The Government: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
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  38.  @jsoo67  The US is a signatory to International law including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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  39. De link registration and licensing from immigration law since government will never stop "illegal immigration." Otherwise your underinsured drivers insurance rate will be higher.
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  40.  @orvil9223  Connecticut will issue a driver's license, registration and you can buy insurance without proof of citizenship. Instead of a yellow star my license says not for federal identification.
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  41.  @lindacarroll10  The birth rate has dropped below replacement. You can enter Mexico past the border officials without showing the inside of a US Passport.
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  42. People like you are fair game for the cops.
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  43.  @cyrilkarpenko691  Civil forfeiture where cops take you money and property because they are cops.
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  44.  @seanfraid2675  The FBI and the Intelligence agencies are "The Enemy". The whole "Russian connection" Steele dossier is now in doubt as indictment of the sourse come down. Once again lying to the FBI is one of the charges. If you don't talk you can't lie.
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  45.  @Googlesucks  Investing money into pensions is the wrong way to look at the economy as workers. We get paid for what we produce the elderly and disabled need to be paid out of that that is produced. Money does not grow in a bank or on Wall Street. They call pension money dumb money because its invested blindly while the growth takes place among insiders and financial crisis guarantee losses for the dumb investor. Let Wall Street take the losses we should never accept wage cuts or pay cuts to save bankers mismanagement.
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  46.  @456myer  Since the US birth rate is below replacement someone will need to take care of you in your old age.
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  47.  @karlagarcia1851  The cops get a reputation that they deserve of being a bunch of goons who protect the rich capitalist bosses.
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  48.  @kevinkiso4579  Cops need to back off from doing Hitlerite like stops.
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  49. Should you just say, "Beam me up Scotty."?
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  50. @@CMLAFLAMME Basic immigration law is civil not criminal law. Otherwise the standard of proof would be much higher and the government would find deportation much more difficult.
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