Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Jimmy Dore Truth Bombs TYT About Syria!" video.

@scratchpenny Agree, David. Although the monetary system is a cluster-fuck. Fiat currency and unlimited debt ceilings allow our government to spend money it doesn't have, and to steal it from us while we sleep, through inflation, which is the cruelest, most regressive tax of all. Just remember this quote, the next time you see somebody testifying before congress that "We have to DO something!" "The urge to save the world is invariably the urge to RULE." - H.L. Mencken
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@BobWidlefish "State capitalism" is the fascist form of socialism. Just because the fascists let you own some stuff doesn't mean you control the stuff you own. Control > ownership-in-name. "Capitalism" couldn't play that imperialist game without the aid and support of the government. The problem with our system is that we run to the federal government to fix everything. We give it power it shouldn't have, and that makes it possible for a handful of big corporations to run everything by buying off a handful of crooks in government. This is the big problem with progressivism. Progressives can SEE how messed-up our foreign policy is, but they don't realize that the same motherfuckers are doing the same thing to the people here at home. They think it's OK to give government unlimited size and scope and then they wonder why things keep going more and more big-corporate. They don't understand that giving government too much power is the problem, not who's in charge.
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@anima94 You're an economic and political illiterate. The features of capitalism that you despise are due to government interference in the economy. The people pushing for what you are talking about are globalist socialists.
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@BobWidlefish I'm not an anarchist. As long as there are nation states who wish us ill, we need the military. Where our freedoms get infringed is when we support politicians who promise us free stuff, when everybody knows we're lucky to get 20 cents on the dollar back in actual services, when we farm out what we should do for ourselves to the federal government. No. We need some form of limited government. The problem is that everybody wants something for nothing and the feds are the only cats who can print money and spend beyond their means for DECADES. We used to understand this. Back when Davy Crockett was in Congress, there was a bill on the floor to help out the widow of a war hero. It was about to pass unanimously, when Crockett stood up to make a speech. He said "I'll give up one week's salary to help this poor woman. If everyone in this house did the same, that woman would be provided for. The People's money isn't ours to spend on even this very good cause." This shamed the Congress and they dropped the matter. None of them put up a week's salary for the widow, except maybe Crockett. This is what we're up against, only we don't have ANY Davy Crocketts any more. These politicians prance around like lords and ladies, as if it's THEIR money they're giving away. It's NEVER their money they're giving away. It's OURS. We don't need to eliminate government. What we need is to reduce the federal government to its proper role and scope. That would mean eliminating about 80% of federal programs and at least 50% of the budget. Let them focus on defending the Constitution, PERIOD. Then the main thing they did would be the military, and ALL of our attention could be focused on making sure that the Department of Defense is just that. A department of DEFENSE. But hell, we don't even need a declaration of war to go to war, any more. All conservatives, libertarians and progressives should be PISSED about that.
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Because originally, they were all joined-at-the-hip socialists. Jimmy has the sense to realize when things aren't working right. But he still makes the mistake of thinking things will work better if we give the jack-offs in government More Power. It's a cognitive dissonance of epic proportions. Why do you think the government can get away with its illegal war-making and push GMO foods on us under labels of 'organic?' It's because we let it get bigger than the people.
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He's still a centralize-everything-for-our-own-good socialist, without a CLUE about economics and liberty. Government is invariably the enemy of BOTH. The founders of this country didn't kid themselves about the ruling class being more enlightened and virtuous than everybody else. They KNEW that the people would be better off the less the federal government did to "help" them. That's what the American Revolution means to the common folk. Progressives would (and have) usher(ed) in a new form of tyranny by bureaucracy. The bureaucrats are the new aristocracy and don't you dare contradict them.
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