Comments by "Dan A" (@DanA-nl5uo) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder" channel.

  1.  C J  the status quo government today is in favor of the wealthy elite. The status quo is to expand funding for the military industrial complex. Cut taxes on the wealthy and corporations. Also to protect the for profit healthcare system. It is an illusion that protecting the status quo politicians will protect the American dream of working 40 hours a week. Owning a home with 2 kids and a dog. Politicians gave up on that dream in the 80s when they realized that accepting bribes from the barrons of industry and allowing them to export our jobs was more profitable for the politicans and the barrons of industry. If you are a working class American who wants to protect your current quality of life you need to vote for Bernie Sanders. His policies will protect the working class.
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  2. God " I am so upset my own son was a socialist who gave away his healing for free. You just can't teach this younger generation how to be good capitalists who rob the poor."
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  3.  @michaelmorningstar8645  nuclear power is the single most expensive form of energy.
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  4. We need to end the demand for oil by using the defense production act to build renewable energy EV manufacturing capacity and heat pumps to transition away from the ff industry.
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  5.  @ryand8338  well 40 other people where able to figure it out so keep working on it eventually you will figure it out.
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  6.  Mister Guy  you listen to too many conspiracy theories. This is a simple case where you apply occam's razor. Trump supporter gets all dressed up in trump gear goes to trump rally and gets involved with a conflict with protesters who where getting thrown out of the event. Trump being a bully sees the schermish and does what bullies do looks for an easy target to pick on so he picks on the overweight older man. But trump was to stupid to realize the guy was wearing one of his relection shirts. Simple and correct if you watch the video of the event. Most things don't actually fit into complex conspiracy theories life just isn't that complex.
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  7. More likely Brazil. But the sad truth is the Democratic party answers to the same oligarchy. It is why we don't see any actual legislation comming out of the house of representatives. Nancy Pelosi could pass legislation to address the grievances of the protesters if she wanted but she doesn't want to. Why the only attack ads against trump come from Republican organizations. The system has been coopted by the oligarchy who want a police state to protect their wealth and pillage.
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  8. This guy is an idiot I lived in China for over a year. They consider a stray dog good luck and it is your duty to take care of them or you will have bad luck. There was an entire pack of stray dogs which would come to the factory and the people working there would feed the dogs from their own lunch.
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  9.  @satriakurniawandjaenal9676  nope your thinking of Korea and it is one of the reasons the Chinese people look down on them.
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  10. Wow the white nationalists actually managed to get a smaller showing then trumps inauguration. I didn't think it was possible for any group to have a smaller showing in DC.
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  11.  @willdasilva4459  oh and you most definitely are triggered
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  12.  @willdasilva4459  you didn't expose anything except your own level of triggered by mentioning Kyle Kulinski. Tell me did you watch the Lawrence O'Donnell video or are you too scared you will be triggered by him as well?
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  13. Switching to renewable energy is the answer you can market it as high tech jobs and in the interest of national security. I would much rather see hundreds of billions of dollars spent on wind and solar.
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  14. I suspect everyone in the region will become climate refugees long before Israel and Palestine resolve their conflict.
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  15.  @fredsmith6401  I just hope draining the swamp is the one campaign promise he actually keeps and the Turttle is one of the Republicans who goes down with this ship. If they continue to expose themselves as putting party before country we could well see most of them removed from office in 2020 by the voters.
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  16.  @VMonkies  Nixon was only guilty of federal crimes. Trump did better he violated state and federal laws.
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  17.  @fredsmith6401  his base is irrelevant. They are a minority of the voting public who will never move so don't bother worring about them. The independent voters have already forgotten they ever voted for trump. His base can't win the election.
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  18.  @fredsmith6401  it is far more likely that Pence would follow Theodore Agnew and resign as VP clearing the door for trump to appoint a new VP who isn't cought up in the scandal already. This is how Ford became VP. Today 3 people come to mind as free enough of the trump scandals to play that role. Mitch McConnell, Graham or Matt Gaetz. I don't see many other people willing to go down in history beside Ford.
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  19.  @VMonkies  we will see how involved Pence really is as Trump looks around for the last person to throw under the bus. He has already hinted about phone calls Pence made. My guess is trump asked Pence to do illegal things and Pence definitely told trump he did them. So far all that is proven is how Pence spent government funds to enrich the president. There is a time when publicly taking part in self dealing would have been enough. Clearly we have fallen a long ways as a society since they forced Jimmy Carter to sell his peanut farm.
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  20.  @fraserwatson3034  if you give everyone in society x dollars per month all you did was devalue the dollar while adding to the federal budget. UBI is the same failed concept as saying poor people need to pay taxes on the income they need to just survive but in reverse. Both plans fail because they refuse to realize that income inequality is the problem and our tax code and socal safety nets only stabilize our society when they address this basic issue. By the way calling it universal when it is means tested is Orwellian. Anytime someone has to use language tricks to make their idea sound like something it isn't they know they have a bad plan and are trying to trick you.
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  21.  @fraserwatson3034  there was not notable inflation when the government printed money to bail out the banks because the money went to the wealthy elite. The top 3 people in the USA own more wealth then the bottom 50% of the population. When you give 0.1% of the population 3 trillion dollars there is no way they can spend that money so it is pulled out of the economy and exists only as larger numbers in their investment portfolio. If you give that same 3 trillion dollars to the remaining 99.9% of the population most of us will have to spend it simply to pay our daily expenses. That is what causes hyperinflation in places like Zimbabwe. The USA does have a buffer in the fact that our currency is the international currency of trade but that is a longer discussion. I will just say that fact has been a key factor in why we have run up 20 trillion in national debt since WWII without having the austerity problems Spain or Greece have. By the way we are still doing quantitative easing as we speak in the financial sector which is printing money to bail out the banks. Dylan Ratigan discussed it recently on the Jimmy Doore show. But to your other point about the VAT funding the UBI. VAT is a tax on consumption same as a sales tax and will by definition drive up the cost of goods. Like all consumption based taxes it is regressive by nature because the wealthy elite do not spend anywhere near the same percentage of their wealth to buy the goods and services they need every single day. Then as others have pointed out Yang wants to cancel out the UBI for poor people who use other forms of government assistance. That is clearly regressive it in effect is giving the wealthy elite the same food stamps benefit that a poor person gets only as UBI checks. His entire system sounds great if you don't dig into it but if you know the real problem is income inequality you quickly realize that Yang is someone who benefits from income inequality trying to trick you into voting to increase the problem and continue the flow of wealth to the top of our society. If the Bernie Sanders and Warren are correct that you have to restructure our tax code to address income inequality. Yang is wrong with his approach of taxing consumption not wealth. You can do a study of the effects of VAT taxes in Europe and income inequality and you will quickly see that a VAT increases the costs of goods and is regressive. Yang is a pludocrat trying to trick you into voting for a system which continues to help his class out. What we need is programs like Medicare for All which have greater benefits for the poor and working class then the wealthy elite. This is because it gives the poor something they currently lack that the wealthy currently have. We also need to raise funding from wealth and progressive income taxes which will close the income inequality gap. Yang's plans don't do this.
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  22.  @fraserwatson3034  you don't care if a rich person gets the same benefit you get because you don't understand how income inequality had damaged our society. You need to spend more time listening to Bernie Sanders. Your argument that no poor person would not Benifit from an extra $1000 per month is easy disprove by anyone who has studied any economy going through hyperinflation. Giving the same addition money to all members of society will just result in inflation. Yang hides that inflation in the form of Taxation with the VAT but the reality is if you give 100% of society $1000 per month and raise that same money from a tax on spending then the poor who spend the $1000 each month because they spend 100% of their money pay more of the VAT tax then the wealthy elite who put that $1000 UBI check into an investment account because there in no tax on investment with a VAT only on consumption. That system has to inflate prices by the amount of the VAT and increases income inequality by the ratio of spending vs saving of the UBI across the wealth spectrum.
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  23. That is because any blue didn't do.
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  24.  @businessbuilder92  you clearly didn't understand my comment. You are just now learning why we need government regulations and a social safety net. You know all those horrible things you fear monger about calling them socialism. The federal reserve just dumped 1.5 trillion dollars into the falling stock market to save billionaires money. You didn't ask how we will pay for that. But when Bernie Sanders saids people shouldn't have to file bankruptcy in order to get treatment for the pandemic you will scream socialism how do we pay for savind lives? Saving oil companies from the free market stress of Saudi Arabia flooding the market sure you are all in. You care more about companies than human lives that is the point. The right only cares about budgets when it benifits corporations. Tell them that the drug companies can't profiteer and you hear free market Free market supply and demand. Tell them that consumers save money because their is a surplus of oil and no government quotas on production and 1.5 trillion is released by the fed with no discussion to save wallstreet.
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  25.  @businessbuilder92  you can't even read 1.5 trillion is not just 1 trillion dollars. You are off by half a trillion dollars. But clearly as you think is is trivial you will be happy to pay off all student debt as it is the same amount of money and would do more for the economy than priced a one hour bounce to the stock market. The 20 billion per year to pay for college education wouldn't even be a drop in the buck so clearly you agree we can do that without thinking. Medicare for All saves $450 billion per year so clearly you have no problem with that either. Nice to see you don't mind funding things which cost far less than the 1.5 trillion trump jumped in a failing stock market.
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  26.  @businessbuilder92  you don't need to see a country with the same size population to know how it works. Per capita spending is what matters it levels cost based on population. It shows that across the board single payer countries pay half what we pay cover 100% of their population and have better medical outcomes. Case closed we have the worlds most expensive healthcare system because maximizing profits when someone dies without your service means you put them in medical bankruptcy. Because clearly their life is worth everything they own.
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  27.  @businessbuilder92  you are funny got rid of income taxes. Totally unrelated. But if it makes you happy just count the entire EU the countries that make it up all have single payer healthcare and the combined population is much higher than the USA. If you combine all countries in the world with single payer vs private insurance you will see that single payer system far out number for profit.
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  28. 5 million dollars from APAC is behind Harris
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  29. We need to end the intellectual property rights for the vaccine. 500 million doses won't vaccinate 8 billion humans. When you consider that it is 2 doses per person 250 million people out of a global population of 8 billion is lost in rounding error. Give a man a fish and he eats for today teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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  30.  @Aaron-fy4wo  clearly you didnt follow 2016 he did pick her for VP on the California ballot.
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  31.  @collinlawrence3767  great we found one of those people who think rape jokes are funny
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  32. If you are thinking of not voting you need to show up and vote green party. The Democratic party needs to see that they lost the voters. Otherwise you give your power to those who do show up.
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  33. Jared Kushner made up a plan that gives Netanyahu everything he wants? How could anyone see that comming Jarad only gave Netanyahu his own bedroom when he would visit the USA.
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  34. Is she starting a investigation into trump's latest order to buy votes from the elderly? Oh she doesn't actually believe it applies to both parties equally as she said.
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  35. It failed because the neoliberals don't want to pass legislation to help the working class. We need rank choice voting and the people's party
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  36. 1 billion dollars given to companies like Amazon. The state could have done more for themselves by putting that money into the socal safety net.
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  37.  @stickjohnny  I actually think Tulsi Gabbard is a better candidate. We know how the right will attack Warren much the same as Hillary once the get one photo of her sick they will blow up. Besides Tulsi is a war veteran from our middle east wars. As much as people attack her foriegn policy for not being in favor of the endless war she has the background to make the case. Have her explain her service defending this nation and make the pro military right wing choose between her and a draft Dodger who insulted the memory of John McCain. I am not s big McCain fan but there are some out there.
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  38. Does anyone actually watch 2 hours a day of trump? I have not watch 1 minute of his press conference short of a night show making a joke about how stupid he is.
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  39.  @waterandafter  well Congress runs about a 12 to 20% approval rating so clearly simply saying vote them out is a failed tatic.
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  40.  @waterandafter  wow nice spam that comment doesn't say anything about term limits. Are you worried about losing your job?
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  41.  @waterandafter  because YouTube showed it as the only comment under one of my comments.
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  42. We will stop once they follow Pruitt and resign... the video of the woman with a child asking him to resign just days before he does is priceless.
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  43. Oh sure than Mitch McConnell could have stolen her seat 4 years ago instead of today.
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  44. Don't worry corporations and banks got paid first. The federal reserve literally has access to their accounts and just adds the money in electronically.
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  45.  @rrobjchilds  you are wrong to assume the Democratic party is entitled to my vote simply because they are not the Republican party. You fail to understand that simple fact. If the Democratic party will not earn my vote by backing the policies I want they have failed us not me. If the best they can do is neoliberalism which gave us trump in the first place direct your anger at them not the green party voters who are fighting for a platform that supports the working class.
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  46.  @TRivera13  if you live in the USA you do have a member of the Congress you need to tell it to in your district. Tell them not to vote for Nancy Pelosi as speaker without getting a vote on Medicare for All. We have to have it in a pandemic of all times. Tell them to force her hand it is the leverage we have if everyone demands the same thing they will be forced to give it to us.
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  47. If only she realized that the real problem is the lack of health insurance for those women not even being able to get the emergency c section in the first place. Medicare for All is what she really needs to fight for.
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  48.  @juanpaulr  I don't think you understand the meaning of the term mop the floor. Bernie beats trump at the ballot box.
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  49.  @TheNaqoyqatZ  yes because Biden will only shoot you in the leg not the heart... Sorry the oligarchy made sure social democracy was off the ballot before half of all Americans even had a chance to vote. What we are left with is the choice between neoliberalism. The administration that gave us trump in the first place and fascism. The oligarchy has made sure that voting is a heads they win tails you lose game of class warfare. We need a 3rd party and rank choice voting before the ballot box will change anything.
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  50. I have wondered how the fascist would respond to gas masks and vests but I suspect it would be with more deadly force. After all they are already using weapons not allowed in war on civilians and less lethal weapons not non lethal.
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