Comments by "Dan A" (@DanA-nl5uo) on "Демократия в Деле" channel.

  1. If the government just pulled their own contracts it would cripple most companies. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk both built their wealthy off the government accounts along with many others.
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  2. For comparison the min wage in the USA is $7.25 per hour or $15,080 per year. We are becoming indentured servants.
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  3. You can't have extream wealth without extream poverty. One is the cause of the other.
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  4. Two decades ago I was told in a large group meeting by the CEO of a multinational corporation that payroll is a cost to be minimized. This is nothing new the barrons of industry have been squeezing the working class for decades
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  5. This is why I support the movement for the people's party and rank choice voting
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  6. Actually it is even worse the working class is taxed for their debt with property taxes and vehicle taxes. You take a mortgage or car loan and are taxed for the full value of the asset as though the debt wasn't a liability. But the people who own stocks and bonds actually own the asset before they would be taxed.
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  7. Free pain killers to keep you working but no gloves and hand sanitizer pretty much tell you all you need to know about the work environment
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  8. Even Bazos calls it winning not earnings because he knows he didn't earn his way to the title of the worlds wealthiest person. You live in a fancy world if you think the wealthy got there in a meritocracy
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  9. Thanks for calling out that it is never a question of funding but always a question of what our government makes a priority. This should be the lesson learned from the covid pandemic the war in Ukraine and even the too big to fail bailout of 2008. Unfortunately I suspected like in 2008 we wouldn't learn this lesson as a society
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  10. Richard Wolff didn't mention that a for profit insurance company increases it profits by denying your benefits when you need them with denial of service notices. The government insurance doesn't work based on this same profit motive and isn't looking for a reason to not provide the payments when you need them
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  11. Richard Wolf people's party 2024 the president we need
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  12. The median income in the USA comes out to about 2.5 million dollars over a lifetime in the USA. Johnson and Johnson should have to pay that out for each person they murdered for profit with their opioids.
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  13. The Pentagon just announced that military contractors will sue them if we withdraw from Afghanistan on the current timeline.
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  14. Richard Wolff 2024 for the people's party
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  15. American has chosen a national wealth care system instead of a national healthcare system like other developed countries have chosen.
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  16. I recommend they divest from the ff industry and double down on renewable energy. But I suspect the state department would disagree with me.
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  17. One reaction to this is the movement for the people's party.
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  18. We need to fight for rank choice voting along with more parties
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  19. Chase Coleman making 3 billion dollars is the best argument I have seen for a 90% top marginal tax. In a single day he makes more than the avg American can earn in a lifetime
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  20. The move of capital from the stock market to realistate is a sign that the investors class knows the stock market and the US dollar is over valued. It is the only reason they want to own physical assets that hold their value best in unstable markets that being land.
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  21. Move the labor money to the people's party. We need a true left party in the USA.
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  22. The other question about the war in Europe is what happened the last time people in Germany say inflation destroy the wealth of their working class? I fear the current high energy prices will create much the same situation we saw between the world wars.
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  23. We need rank choice voting and more parties
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  24. We are also seeing wealthy people buying undeveloped land because land holds value as currency collapses
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  25. There is also single payer healthcare in Europe. In America we have rugged individualism and medical bankruptcy
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  26.  @iamstartower  that wasn't what the CEO said he wasn't replacing anyone he simply wasn't willing to match inflation. Try reading before making a strawman argument because you totally missed the point of the comment I made.
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  27. Many of the techniques used to make the vaccine for covid are actually held by the US government not the drug companies the government has choose to let the drug companies use the governments patterns without any benefits to the citizens. The drug companies are literally profiting off the government owned patents.
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  28. zombie Corp are also used by the energy sector to dump toxic assets like nuclear power plants that need to be decommissioned.
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  29. Richard Wolf needs to run for president in 2024 on the people's party ticket
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  30.  @jackflack9004  trump and his pandemic has made sure that no Americans can leave the country. Not that I would let you drive me off this land my ancestors where granted for services rendered during the revolutionary war.
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  31.  @jackflack9004  I won't bother trying to explain to you how socialism and communism are not the same thing instead I will just recommend you learn how many people caplistist have killed before you assume the alternative is worse. If Communism Killed Millions, How Many Did Capitalism Kill? https://eand.co/if-communism-killed-millions-how-many-did-capitalism-kill-2b24ab1c0df7
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  32. Richard Wolf needs to run for president in 2024 as the people's party candidate.
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  33. We need rank choice voting and more parties
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  34. 59 million dollars to 150 thousand dollars of financial obligation released for a corporation no problem in the USA. But ask for college loans of 100 thousand dollars to be forgiven for citizens or rent forgiveness during a global pandemic no way. Guess citizens united has worked well for the corporations who bought our government
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  35.  @zoomzoom3950  funny how personal responsibility is used against humans but not corporations. They are allowed to go bankrupt on their debts or get forgiveness all the time. But you are literally not allowed to file bankruptcy on your student loans. Renters don't qualify for all the money that the business community got on forgiven loans from the federal government in 2020. So why do you think it is our society prioritized non living corporations over actual living citizens? Why do banks get a bailout and to foreclose on home owners like in 2008 2009 but the federal government can't give the same value to the home owners the bank conned into signing those loans? Why save the people who are paid to understand risk and give expert advice but not the people they conned into bad loans they can't afford to pay? Where is your responsible argument when it comes to banks corporations and billionaires like Trump who filed bankruptcy what 7 times?
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  36.  @jackflack9004  wow you keep deflecting when proven to have bogus talking points have a nice day
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  37. Spoken like a true useful idiot protecting the wealthy elite. Their propaganda machine had done its job well with this one
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  38. Richard in some cases leaving the power grid is less expensive than staying on the grid. I am in that situation in NH. The off grid solar system I am in the process of installing will pay for itself in under 10 years. That means it is less expensive even with a home equity loan or mortgage. It doesn't require wealth if the off grid solar system saves you money it only requires that you use your credit wisely when you buy.
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  39.  @juniorgod321  actually the people making the most profit is the middle man butcher who bought the cow from the farm at live weight. But just like everywhere else the middle man does want to maximize their profits just like your health insurance company between you and your doctors.
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  40. When the right wing troll army attacks you know your message has someone scared.
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  41. The federal government also built renewable energy in the 1930s. They named it the Hover Dam.
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  42. I would only disagree on the Iraqi war. The USA went in to secure the their oil reserves for our market. I believe we did achieve that goal for the last 2 decades. The other two wars where definitely pointless defeats for all but the military industrial complex who profited handsomely from them. To understand the Iraq war you need only understand the connection between Dick Cheney and Haliburton.
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  43.  @ReparationsForImperialism  nice defeatist attitude you have there.
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  44. There is no place for a profit motive in healthcare
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  45. The problem with this theory is that not everyone in an organization has the skills required to fill every role in the organization. It isn't possible to assume everyone at Tesla would be able to do the specialized tasks of choosing the correct battery chemistry for example.
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  46. We need rank choice voting to end the duopoly. It is working in Australia to take power from the establishment parties.
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  47. Yup and it would repay the country with trillions of dollars worth of electricity for decades to come. The Hover dam and the civial works programs planting trees has paid us back for nearly the last full century.
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  48.  @ml3141  you definitely haven't studied history if you can't see the parallels between the rise of fascism 100 years ago and today
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  49. Ben Bernanke went to Japan and forced them to crash their interest rates even to negotiate levels in order to see what the effect would be. It was before he became head of the federal reserve and he later said he wanted to know if negative interest or printing money was a better policy so he forced Japan to test it out. It is discussed in one of Richard Duncan's books I don't remember if it was the dollar crisis or one of the two other books he wrote after it.
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  50. This is why we need the people's party and rank choice voting
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  51. Richard Wolf 2024 people's party candidate!!! This is the president we need in 2024
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  52. Yup this is why small companies under 50 people usually have the best worker creativity. Because the owner works beside the employee and knowns them all personally. As an Engineer I try to stay with the smaller less stable companies for this very reason.
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  53. So Congress voting to force the railroad unions to go back to work and not strike for the 7 sick days they want...
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  54.  @chrisj984  if you can't understand how single payer healthcare and reduced income inequality will help you I can't explain it to you.
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  55.  @deezeed2817  the USA is spending 1.5 trillion dollars on updating our nuclear weapons right now. The cost of new grid scale solar is $35 per megawatt hour. 1.5 trillion dollars divided by $35 you can do the math but that is an insane number of megawatt hours of electricity we could have instead of more nuclear weapons when we already have enough to blow the world up something like 15 times over. It isn't a question of funding it is a question of priorities. We have the money we choose to spend it on nuclear weapons instead of renewable energy.
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  56. Look back a century ago to see where we are headed. Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. The last time we had an ecominic crash and war in Europe was just under a century ago.
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  57. One small point home ownership isn't that great a sign of wealth. We call people homeowners who don't have equity in their home. Which would be a better measure of wealth. Both because people use homes for home equity loans but more importantly there is a class of people who have to move every 5 to 7 years to find more work. I know people in their late 40s who have done this for 2 decades and have zero equity to show for 20 years of home ownership. If they had been able to make mortgage payments on one home the entire time they would have generated wealth but having to move for work they lost that wealth.
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  58. You forgot the word national. The nightmare we are living in is the national socialist nightmare come back a century later after the anti fascist allied forces beat it back.
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  59. There are some states that don't let landlords to evict during the winter. NH is one of them
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  60.  @chrisj984  you have allowed the right wing propaganda to rot your brain. You are all for socialist police forces socialist military socialist fire departments socialist highways. Socialist education. If you hate those things you hate America because we have had all of them for centuries now. So stop pretending you hate socialist society because you grew up in a mixed society. The reality is the wealthy have brainwashed you into believing that their greed is more important than the health and wellbeing of the working class who actually created the wealthy they profited from.
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  61. Rank choice voting will allow more parties to be effective in the USA and end the lesser of two evils duopoly which got us here
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  62.  @Marxist2  politicians needing to be pressured doesn't bother me it is our job as citizens to make sure our government is acting in our best interests. The American voters absentee behavior after voting is why our politicians listen to the donors not the voters. So I have no problem with anyone who holds their elected officials accountable and reminding them that we need them to govern as we demand of our leaders.
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  63. Yup I have found the same thing to be true. The longest I have worked in one job is 5 years. It also factors into the issue of homeownership. Hard to earn equality in a home when you have to sell it for a new job first.
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  64. You think they will denounce their American citizenship???
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  65. Well I guess we know where some of the 20 trillion dollars the federal reserve created in 2020 to make the V shaped stock market recovery ended up.
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  66. The war we ended cost 300 million dollars a day #defundthemilitary
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  67. Japan and Tiawan love Americans because of the war crimes that China imposed on their countries during WWII. Both countries view the USA as their saviors not only because of the war ending but also because of the Marshall plan rebuilding their countries after the war was over. It is an example of how well soft power works. This is something you don't fully understand until you travel to these countries and actually interact with the citizens there. I spent 18 months in Tiawan and it gave me a much better appreciation for the value of soft power. Just compare the benifits we get from politics inacted nearly a century ago now compared to the reputation we have in the middle east after 2 decades of hard power military action. Even our allies in SA murder our reporters.
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  68.  @toddfarkman2177  wrong. My sister was married to a director at blue cross both of them working there. But they choose to invest her entire income and to live in a small house. We don't have state income taxes so even though they had the best ability to pay for the services you mentioned with his directors salary at a health insurance company they didn't have much tax burden. Property is a very poor indicator of your ability to pay taxes. Just look at how many elderly people still own a home but are no longer able to work like my mother. Why should my mother pay more taxes in her retirement than my sister and her husband who both had high income jobs at a health insurance company?
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  69.  @horhay3608  only so long as they own all political parties. Which is why we need to end the duopoly
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  70.  D' Essay  you are simply spewing ff industry propaganda. The simple fact that if your logic was true the ff industry would be pushing renewable energy to increase their profits shows how crazy your taking point is. The coal companies would definitely push any new market that helped them out as much as you think renewable energy does.
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  71.  D' Essay  I read your propaganda. I am telling you I cut my electricity costs by going off grid so I am the one saving money. The other shit you are saying is pure propaganda. If you are brainwashed I can't help you.
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  72.  D' Essay  oh and for the record it take more electricity to refine one gallon of gas then it does for an electric car to travel the same distance as the gas car will travel and that is before you include all the energy used to get the gas from the refinery to your gas tank. So no renewable energy and electric cars are less energy intensive than ff.
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  73. That 13 billion was in a single day. I am sure he has made much much more during the pandemic. The wealthy have seen half a trillion dollars worth of growth in their wealth while the GDP suffered the greatest drop in history.
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  74.  @archibald1796  yup it was in a Monday ironically directly after he cut his workers pandemic pay by $2 per hour. Guess wallstreet thought that was a good business move.
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  75.  @bluewater454  so you think the federalist society supreme court will come down on the side of workers. Trump's first supreme court judge wrote a decent before getting on the court saying that trucking companies literally had the right to demand drivers freeze to death on the side of the road when the truck broke down and where correct to fire the driver for abandoning the load to save their life in below freezing temperatures after the truck broke down and lacked heating. That court is what you believe will overturn the railroad act??? 🤣
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  76.  @bluewater454  you clearly have no clue about the federalist society and who they where paid to hand pick for the courts.
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  77. We need a minimum living wage linked to the median wage in America and a tax structure which which taxes excessive earnings at 90% to end extream income inequality. We have a minimum wage but is is a a starvation wage.
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  78.  @richardsprout9259  the green party has proven to not challenge the Democratic party.
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  79.  @chrisj984  like I said if you can't understand why the structure we have today designed to protect the wealthy isn't helping you I can't help. Just keep listening to Richard Wolff and Chris Hedges they can explain much better. But you have to be willing to listen.
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  80.  @chrisj984  you think reducing income inequality means you will get no reward for your invention? Wow talk about a black and white world view. I am simply saying that a society where the person working full time at minimum wage and unable to afford housing and healthcare while creating the wealth of the wealthiest people on planet earth has serious problems. That doesn't mean no one will be rewarded for their efforts it means we have better balance between those at the top and those at the bottom. More like the 1960s when the CEO made 20x the avg pay of their employees not the 200x to 1000x they make today. So clearly you don't understand the goals of the people's party movement if you think those of us who want things like Medicare for All are looking for a free ride. Actually what we are looking for is what other countries like Norway has proven give you to opportunity to take the risk of starting your own company building your intention without the fear of being one illness from bankruptcy. Something I know full well having been forced to make that very choice in order to help and elderly parent. I live without health insurance in the only country in the world to have a condition know as medical bankruptcy because the alternative was to not be self employed and not have the time I need to take care of family. Medicare for All isn't free stuff it is simply paying taxes at half the cost of our for profit healthcare system to get the same service. It is economy of scale and the removal of profit motives from protecting lives. Something you just admitted you understand when it comes to the police fire roads and military. So why you lack understanding of that same thing applying to healthcare is willful blindness and propaganda brainwashing by the wealthy elite who profiteer off your healthcare today.
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  81.  @chrisj984  the fact is we have long waiting lines in the USA today. How many people do you personally know who refuse to get medical care for fear of the bill they will receive even with healthcare? My uncle died of bone cancer partly because even with health insurance in the 90s he was worried about the cost. That is before you get to the denial of service issues comming from our for profit health insurance companies who have a fiduciary duty to deny any claims to minimize their expenses. As to waiting lines in other countries like Canada the reality is they do not have waiting lines for critical care. There are waiting lines for elective surgery when the citizens choose to defund the healthcare system. That is a choice of the society like the UK where they choose to under fund the NHS. But google the videos of them reacting to the cost of our for profit system you will rapidly see their citizens say there is no way they would trade either the Canadian healthcare system or the British system for what we have here. I know people who live in Canada and when we discuss healthcare issues like a friend of mine who refused to get tested for a medical condition her mother suffers from because while there are medications that would help her it would be a pre existing condition as soon as she is tested which will effect her ability to afford healthcare in our society. People in Canada look at you like you are insane when you tell them that and say that simply doesn't happen here you would go get tested and get the meds that will help delay the development of the disease. As to the transition to renewable energy. I can tell you on a personal level I cut my power bill in half by installing solar panels and batteries here on my farm. I literally pay the bank half what I was paying the power company each month and at the end of the loan payment the solar panels will have years of life left the only thing that I will have to replace is the batteries. As to how do we handle workers transitioning the green new deal is clear there will be pay at the previous pay rate for displaced workers for 18 months IIRC while they are trained with new job skills. If you don't think that plan is acceptable I ask you what has been the caplistist alternative when a coal mine closed or any company declares bankruptcy and lays off their labor force what responsibility does the former management team have to help the ex employees find work. I will tell you before you have to look it up. Good caplistist believe in rugged individualism in that situation. Meaning sorry bad luck for the coal miners the fact that natural gas is cheaper for electric companies is just the free market at work. So before you shoot the massager for not having all the details in a concept proposal you should consider what the status quo is that you are by default defending. Because by rejecting the green new deal you are saying you support the free market rugged individualism solution to the energy transition because at the moment wind and solar are the cheapest forms of new energy and and EV has the lowest total cost of ownership. So the free market and rugged individualism is your current alternative to the green new deal.
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  82.  @chrisj984  oh by the way my 75 year old neighbor just told me yesterday that he has waited over a week for a hospital to schedule a follow up test for the surgery he had recently. The test is to insire they fixed his kidney problems if they delay he will likely end up on dialysis as he told them he is pissing blood now. So there are your waiting lines in our for profit healthcare system. He has private insurance to cover his healthcare needs too which combined with Medicare makes his the top of the pay pool in the USA. A friend of mine in Canada told me this morning that is insane here if that happened they would drop everything to get you back in after the surgery to see what happened but in the USA he has waited over a full week to just schedule the follow up ultrasound having called the hospital multiple times
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  83. Too bad non of the progressives are running against Nancy Pelosi for speakership to take away the argument that voting against Nancy is by default voting for the Republican.
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  84.  @ReparationsForImperialism  🤣🤣🤣 the fact is there is a problem with curruption. The feeling is you saying it is hopeless. Nice projection of your feeling over fact onto me though.
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  85. Time to invest those saving in an off grid solar system or an EV so you get a good return on your investment. A heat pump will also return nicely for you as our society suffers ff industry caused inflation.
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  86.  @jw7075  they should look at value added and productivity. Because telling people you don't value their labor tells them they don't need to put in more effort. Which means the company gets less profits.
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  87.  @jackflack9004  there is no point in talking to someone who isn't listening
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  88.  @isorokudono  anyone who doesn't understand that the country which has 4% of the worlds population and 20% of the worlds covid 19 deaths suffers from a failure of leadership is a moron. Trump has failed us and we have 220,000 corpses to prove it. In trump's own words his failure to take actions to control the pandemic will kill 2 million Americans before this is over. Literally every other country on planet earth has done a better job protecting the health and wellbeing of their citizens.
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  89.  gregtubez  trump's pandemic cost him the election. He lost get over it.
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  90. I would be happy with a one time payment of 1 million dollars. But the politicians these people making millions per week bought will only approve a one time payment of $1400 and no adjustment of our minimum wage.
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  91.  @ml3141  economics and forms of government are linked arm and arm. Check out Chris Hedges drawing the parallels between The Weimar Republic and today. The ecominic repression of the working class in both cases opened the door to fascism. Chis Hedges and Richard Wolff have done interviews together they are mostly in agreement on their world view
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  92.  @intuitionz1198  the point to realistate is that they are not making more land. People need food and shelter so regardless of what happens to currency land will have value.
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  93. So did the current president.
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  94. Did you get vaccinated? I am just trying to understand your time frame as the right seems to be commiting mass suicide by pandemic now
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  95. The groups he is talking about have a pool of money as they are organizations providing insurance for their own members. Not the rugged individualism of the right wing but the social responsibility of the left where everyone works together for the betterment of all.
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  96.  @smokedbeefandcheese4144  I am on the grid and leaving it makes since depends on your local power company. Mine has over half my bill as fees not power so I can't offset those fees with net metering. All depends on your situation but as storage drops in price o suspect more people will save money by not being on the grid
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  97. We call that capitalism.
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  98. We did that is what has made Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk more wealth than Rockefeller and his fellow barons of industry. The wealth have seen their wealth continue to grow in 2020 just like the roaring 20s a century ago. History tells you what fallows that...
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  99. How do we get the establishment politicians to fix HR1 I wrote to both of the Democratic party senators in NH and they both just told me they will support it the way it is not add amendments to fix these issue with the legislation.
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  100.  @itsfreerealestate15  I think you missed my point this nightmare happened once before a century ago.
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  101.  D' Essay  the green in renewable energy is going directly into my own pocket. I installed an off grid solar system this year. The batteries are rated for 12 years the rest of the system rated 85% at 25 years and the payback based on my current electric bill before telling the power company to take down their lines is 9 years. So sorry but the ff industry can suck it my power comes from the sun and the saving go into my pocket
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  102.  @1MarkKeller  unfortunately it seems fear of change is all that motivates the "conservatives". The other poster is correct that some are paid trolls but all too often it is simply people who can't afford to replace their old car fearful that they will need to do so. My brother thought he would own me once by telling me all the ff things he uses in a single day. That was when I realized that he is in his 50s and worried that he can't afford to replace all those things. I didn't feel owned I felt pitty for him to feel so fearful for his own financial situation.
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  103.  @bluewater454  they spent the last year doing that. This was the end of the constraints built into the contract which is why Congress had to pass legislation in less than one week to make the strike illegal. If Congress didn't act the union had every right under their labor contract to start a strike on December 9th. The same thing happened in the middle of the summer when Biden declared mission accomplished in avoiding the ability of labor to strike because they passed a 90 day cooling off period through Congress forcing the railroad workers back to work for the last 3 months without a contract agreement.
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  104.  @bluewater454  The Railway Labor Act, enacted in 1926, allows the president to intervene in disputes that “threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive any section of the country of essential transportation service" There is long stand law that saids what Congress has done is legal in the USA
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  105.  @bluewater454  apparently you don't understand the concept of selection bias. You seem to have fallen victim to the falsity of neutrality.
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  106.  Cardinal Sin  you move to non liquid assets when you have lost faith in the currency that the liquidity is held in. This is about a lack of faith in the USA dollar and the stock market being over inflated not low interest rates. The wealthy where never putting their fortune in bank saving accounts.
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  107. Don't forget that the fractional reserve banking system means that the banks making the loan only had 10% of the value of the loan to start with. The other 90% of all loans is new money created by the federal reserve.
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  108. Well atleast that will give them jobs and stop them crossing the border. Guess trump did a good job with his new trade agreement
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  109.  @richardsprout9259  how many seats in the house and Senate do they hold after all these elections cycles??? How many presidents have the put on the oval office? Oh right zero.
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  110.  @chrisj984  well unemployment is paid for while you work for the company before they lay you off. It isn't a government handout to the ex employees it is a government mandated and managed insurance plan paid for by the employer. I have once in my life been eligible and I had no trouble taking the payment because I knew my former employer was paying the unemployment benefits. In my case I actually gave my two week notice and the department head met me at the door and walked me out the next day not allowing me to work my notice and not paying me for the 2 week notice which changed it into them firing me on the spot not me quiting. I almost didn't apply for unemployment because I knew where I would be working in a few weeks already but someone talked me into it and after I filed my former boss caught up with me and actually thanked me for doing it. He said we paid that unemployment insurance anyway and his boss was wrong to not let me work the 2 week notice it hurt the company as I had spent the night with my boss and the other employees able to fill my job laying out a training program for the next 2 weeks to make sure that could do the work I had been doing. So that is my take on unemployment it is a insurance program your former boss paid for you are wasting their insurance premiums by not taking it. Now as to public utilities and the green new deal. Everything I have read and I have read the full transcript of the orginal concept which isn't too long. Google green new deal text cleantechnica you will find it from about a year ago I guess in the orginal text word for word. But anyway the proposal is to mandate that the current utility companies switch their power generation over to renewable energy. It isn't a government take over of the energy sector it is simply government mandated change of energy sources by the private sector. There is government funding for the new infrastructure but as far as I know the Tennessee valley power authority is the only government run power system in the USA outside of the military I guess. But the TVA is actually well liked by the citizens of Tennessee who both work there and get power from them. There was some talk about expanding the TVA but I think it's charter is limited in scope. It was started because at the time there was no private sector power company willing to provide power to the area IIRC. But I am far from an authority on the TVA. So I am not sure what public utilities you are concerned about if you are asking will the government become your employer as a member of the cable company no the cable company isn't part of the green new deal at all as far as I know.
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  111.  @chrisj984  oh as to property taxes I am with you there I live in NH we have no sales or income tax so our property tax is insanely high and it is worse because I live in a tourist trap with tons of shopping centers that get onto the town government and make sure the tax burden is on the home owners not the businesses. The same business that bring all the traffic that destroys our roads and all the tourist that make our police and fire departments bigger than any other town in a huge radius around us. So yes I am not at all a fan of property taxes they are regressive as they tax the wealth of the working class far more than the wealth of the caplist class. Meaning far more of my wealth is tied in in my home than Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos. So property taxes are regressive by nature.
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  112. My power company in NH is a co op it hasn't lowered my costs. Infact it is cheaper to be off grid solar. Which is what I am doing.
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  113. Did the government end up with a surplus I am unaware of already?
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  114.  @jgalt308  the Defund the government plan of Mitch McConnell hard at work. To protect the wealthy elite not wanting to pay taxes. Is that your point?
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  115.  @jgalt308  funny how the same government you fearmonger about insolvency has 2 trillion dollars to spend modernizing nuclear weapons we have literally only ever dropped 2 of in war and that was almost a century ago. The same government spends over a trillion dollars a year on the military and gave over 6 billion dollars in weapons and support to Ukraine in the last year. Cleary the government in the USA can afford to do things that our elected officials feel is a priority. If you are so worried about the funding for the items you mentioned you need to think long and hard about why those are not a priority to the government before you vote in November.
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  116. The board of directors should be required to work beside the cleanup crews when there is such a disaster.
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  117.  @jgalt308  wow so you don't understand the difference between the federal government and the federal reserve amazing
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  118.  @penelopejewell-ferrer13  when the head of GM went before Congress and declared that they didn't need to recall the ignition in my 2005 duramax because it was built by the old GM pre bankruptcy and they where the new GM I decided that would be the last GM product I would own because my loyalty was to the old GM not to this new GM that would publicly say they don't stand behind their products or history. At the moment I still own that same truck I bought new in 2005 and am waiting for an EV which can do the same work to replace it with. Could well be the Tesla or the ford depending on cost and battery technology
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  119.  @maxentirunos  I know many EV owners who can clarify that situation for you because they have owned them for close to 10 years and never replaced the batteries. They also pay about 1/5 the cost per mile in fuel for the EV compared to the ICE they owned before it
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  120. 20 billion dollars would end homelessness in America. A 90% top marginal tax rate on income or earnings over 1 million dollars per year and the person who made 3 billion dollars in 2020 could have solved more than 10% of the homelessness in America with his taxes alone. This is why the 40s through the 60s was the golden age of economic growth in America. We did tax the wealthy to fund the needs of our society.
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  121.  @JohnT.4321  with rank choice voting you can. It is the biggest thing we need. But you really should research what the movement for the people's party is because your question shows you don't know what they stand for.
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  122.  @JohnT.4321  established seem like a stretch for the green party or the DSA in US electoral politics. How many senate or house seats have they ever won? I think it is time for a new approach because clearly theirs has not worked.
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  123.  @JohnT.4321  wow you say there is no difference between the movement for the people's party and the DSA than point out that DSA isn't a political party.
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  124.  @JohnT.4321  I am not the one who saids that there was no difference between the DSA and the people's party.
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  125.  @JohnT.4321  you are the one who compared them to political parties. So you are arguing with yourself
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  126.  @walden6272  good luck overthrowing the worlds biggest military. The will stick to forming a new political party it seems less hazardous to my health.
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  127.  @walden6272  wow you cheer for a military coop? You should study what life is like under military rule. Spoiler alert most every one has not improved the lives of the citizens
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  128.  @walden6272  you should move to a country that has suffered a military coup. By the way the revolutionary war wasn't a military coup those are very different things. A military coup results in a military dictatorship. That is not a society I want to live in so please study modern history not the romanticized idea of what happened hundreds of years ago when then avg citizen with a hunting rifle was as well armed as the worlds superpower.
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  129. The next step in the correct direction is helping Nina Turner win her race for Congress to fill a seat opened by Biden's cabinet appointment.
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  130.  @walden6272  well good people will definitely not win if they accept defeat before they start.
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  131.  @walden6272  so when someone cheats you you simply accept it as the way life has to be. Not me I choose to find a way to fix what is broken.
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  132.  @walden6272  wow so once there is curruption it is game over. What a sad outlook you have on life
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  133. Interesting it would follow that our service based society is no longer a caplistist system as no goods are produced by service jobs.
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  134. I respect Norm Chomsky but thinking we can move Joe Biden is denialism. Joe made it clear that he will veto Medicare for All that is supported by over 80% of all Democratic voters and over the majority of all Americans. Joe's voting history proves what he values it is the defense of the corporations and their profits not the working class. We need to fight for Rank choice voting and the people's party if we want change. The Democratic party let a red states choose their nominee in 2020 to end the Bernie Sanders working class movement within their party. I will fight for progressives like AOC and Nina Turner because getting them in Congress is the most important part. But I have zero belief that we can move Joe Biden or the other centrist corporatist politicians. They answer to their donors not their voters. Profit positive of that is Biden saying he will veto Medicare for All during a global pandemic that has killed over 400,000 Americans. If he won't fight for healthcare now he never will.
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  135.  @ingelarson6738  1706 called they want your industrial revolution fearmongering talking points back.
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  136. You forgot the /s Because clearly you are joking
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  137. Last time I checked they each get one vote. Join the people's party and fight for rank choice voting so we have candidates who don't take bribes
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  138.  @advandepol7537  the exceptions you speak of like medicine will quickly fall apart without speciality skills in other fields like designing the manufacturing equipment that makes green technology like solar panels. I am all for worker cooperatives and a simplier lifestyle but our modern society will simply not function without specialized skills.
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  139.  @KMFDM_Kid2000  that doesn't help the accounting department or the CFO understand what it takes to do the job of the electrical engineer or software engineer. So no you didn't solve it you just duplicated the problem with the current business model.
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  140.  @PCFLSZ  actually Richard Wolff had talked about the need for specialized skills and the value of them before that is why I made the comment it is upsetting to see him not see the problem with this as he has said before we live in a society which depends on specialization.
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  141.  @romanrussia5653  totally irrelevant to the point I made but nice deflection to inflame the new Cold war well done
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  142.  @daniellarson3068  I am pretty sure you need to fix who is in government before you can get Medicare for all passed.
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  143.  @daniellarson3068  the fact that Bernie Sanders never became the nominee is proof we need to fix the voting system first. The duopoly will make sure they control who you can vote for so long as they can limit ballot access. See what the Democratic party just did in NC to keep the green party off the ballot
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  144.  @isorokudono  only a right wing extremists would not accept that fascist are right wing extremists
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  145.  @isorokudono  so you tried to talk to yourself I see.
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  146.  @isorokudono  you need a new source for data. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ Because you clearly have no clue what the trump death toll is. As to pre existing conditions the fact that Americans have them doesn't mean they would have died if they didn't have covid. You are an idiot if you think otherwise.
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  147.  @isorokudono  why should anyone blame China when trump has failed to do like every other world leader and protect the citizens from this same virus? You can't answer that because you know we have 20% of the deaths with 4% of the population.
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  148.  gregtubez  you live in denial. The federal government can infact help with national emergencies. 240,000 dead Americans definitely qualifies as a national emergency. Just wait you will see come January how the federal government can help with a pandemic. The same as we saw how the Obama administration stopped H1N1 from becoming the pandemic Trump failed to stop with covid.
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  149.  @minniewipster8130  we join the people's party and fight for rank choice voting. The people's party doesn't take corporate bribes
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  150. @Mike Arnold I guess you didn't read my post about the 1.5 trillion dollars the USA is spending on nuclear weapons. You haven't thought about the 5.5 trillion dollars we spent in 2020 and 2021 in covid relief. Or the 20 trillion dollars in newly minted money the federal reserve created in 2020 becoming the buyer of last resort for the stock market. It was 20 trillion dollars to make the V shaped recovery in stocks in 2020. That figure comes from Dylan Radigan you can Google him to find the details as YouTube deletes links. So the question of how do you pay for it was destroyed by the trump administration in 2020. Clearly we have the ability to install many megawatts of solar at $35 per megawatt hour when I just listed 7 trillion dollars the federal government found to spend in 2020 and 2021 for covid and nuclear weapons plus 20 trillion dollars that the federal reserve dumped into the stock market as brand new money. The government has proven beyond question that we can pay for the green new deal we just need to make it a priority.
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  151. Opt out is trying to do just this
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  152.  @CraigDeLarge  sorry YouTube won't allow links. But there is an Android app and an iPhone app for them in both app stores for free download
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  153.  @son-of-the-republic3723  you mean the result of a failed oil based economy that has suffered sanctions from the USA designed to bankrupt them so Koch industries could benifit from cheaper prices on the crude oil used in their refineries? There I fixed it for you. Not sure what you think the gop sanctions to benifit their donors has to do with a wealth tax though.
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  154. You must love Kushner's apartment building
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  155. The solar tariff was intended to keep the ff industry in the USA in business. It has been successful at keeping the USA driving the 6th mass extinction event for profits.
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  156. Pete and the Biden administration are not embarrassed they are doing exactly what the barrons of industry paid them to do with the campaign financing. We need ranke choice voting and publicly funded elections to end the duopoly of evil bought by the capitalist class
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  157. Unfortunately the only thing that would bring us a boom is rebuilding our energy sector with renewable energy. That would create jobs across the entire country. But both parties are bought by the ff industry and the military industrial complex so we will spend 1.5 trillion dollars on nuclear weapons that have zero return on investment because if we use them we all die.
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  158.  @politicallil7060  I love that idea and had commented before hearing the full video. Both would be great actually
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  159. Propaganda has worked well on you.
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