Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "John Stossel" channel.

  1. Socialism disables the people so that they can't even imagine fending for themselves. The more socialism they have, the more they NEED. It's like a drug that addicts entire generations. They don't realize that their dependence is the problem, and that's why they remain property of the state. Watching the USA descend into this mindset, I'm not sure we're not going the way of South America. Then again, maybe South America will show us the way out, with this lady leading the way.
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  2. Spotted Owl, Polar Bears, Snail-Darters, ... All for propaganda purposes. All to justify use of force to save them. The thing I hate about this is the one side goes too far, gets demonized, and people go on thinking it's just a bunch of scare-mongering, and that the world would be fine if they'd just shut up. We do need to do better wrt the environment, but government action is not how we get to a better place. We get to a better place by free and prosperous people ascending Maslow's Ladder. From higher rungs of that ladder, they have the means to indulge their higher moral values. We're already to the point that the average shopper, given a choice between a company that spews pollution to make their products and a company that's environmentally more responsible, will choose the more responsible company's product. Solutions are going to be many. We're foolish to let the government decide which one or two "solutions" are the best. When the government does the deciding, the same people always cash in, and things don't get better. Oh, you can point to one metric that improves, but you have to sweep all the other metrics that got worse in the improvement of the one.
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  3. The false narrative comes from supposedly "educated" people. The source of the "new religion" is higher education, itself, which is infested by people who don't belong there.
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  4. "We will protect you from everything, with every ounce of our being, until we can no longer protect you from anything, which will be very soon now that we've gotten our way on everything. You're welcome." Love, Every progressive everywhere
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  5. Our politicians are smart. But they use their intelligence for their own power and wealth.
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  6. Sweden is very capitalistic, except where it's not.
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  7. When you have students eager to learn and learning, teaching's a joy.
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  8.  @KPC-123  With the blessing and funding of the government.
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  9.  @f-86zoomer37  You should check out Mike Benz, who cites chapter and verse on how this fake fact-checking is government backed and astroturfed. It all serves the interests of the permanent state, as part of a well-oiled censorship industrial complex that's fighting to do the same thing to the Internet that is has done with all broadcast, cable, and print media for decades (more like a century-plus).
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  10. Remember when the butcher wrapped your meat in paper? Remember when milk came in glass jugs?
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  11. Basic fascism.
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  12. This is why Obama and other top Dems say "You Republicans think there's a magic wand to fix the economy." It's because they can't imagine every smallest detail and adjustment to changing conditions that the free market does, automatically, being possible without a Democrat with a magic wand ordering everything to be the way they want. Free-market economics is not a magic wand. It's that there's a real incentive and a real return for doing things better. It's the democrats who believe in fairy tales when it comes to the economy and socialism.
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  13. The dog's tired of being wagged by its tail.
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  14. The "intelligentsia" pushes the narrative to garner and retain power without merit. Best way not to be judged for your own incompetence or poor training is to not require merit yourself. To hold all people accountable, you must yourself be accountable.
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  15. Cascading emergencies, each caused by previous government 'solutions' to previous made-up "emergencies." Good governance foresees emergencies and avoids them. Bad leadership thrives on emergencies.
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  16. I've always tried to give liberals the benefit of the doubt as to their good intentions. But at SOME point, you have to say "I don't care that you mean well. Your beliefs are toxic to society. If you won't accept the evidence, then I can no longer give you the benefit of the doubt. You're part of the problem.
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  17.  @paulholmes1303  LOTS of people fell through the cracks and continue to fall through the cracks. Obama just came up with a different set of cracks for WORKING people to fall through, and made medical care even MORE expensive for everybody who had any money at all. If you're TOTALLY worthless and do NO work, Obama Care is for YOU.
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  18. "Nobody agrees with me on everything. I'm giving fair warning." - some liberal adrenalin junkie, somewhere
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  19. Yes. Give over our elections to a small unelected body that determines what "qualified" means and runs the "random selection" process.
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  20. Low-cost private education is where it's at. It's just really hard to break the monopoly.
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  21. We know what the establishment wants. We know we're sick and tired of them.
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  22. Yes. And by the same token, guys on "my side" shouldn't use it as an example of the actual level of the immigration problem in the USA. It's a problem, and people are getting hurt, because we don't control our border, but Sweden's 10 million is not that large, in proportion to the number of immigrants and refugees they've admitted. If I'm not mistaken, Sweden's pretty socialist about housing, which has resulted in a housing shortage for young people and families in many places. And they've taken in far more people than they can reasonably house, so there're more crowded - packed like sardines - households in Sweden, as I understand. But yeah. Sweden is very capitalistic when it comes to tariffs and taxes. And they use a voucher system that Sweden-philes in USA are generally against. Competition for education dollars is heresy in the USA liberal echo chamber.
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  23.  @thomasandersen5822  : It's an interesting fight. Entire generations have been indoctrinated by largely ineffective public schools. The thing to watch is the red-pill conversion rate by new generations, much like the '60s generation, that got out into the real world and say "Our teachers are full of shit," and rebelled against the regressive establishment. America has a brand-new regressive establishment, consisting largely of a generation of leaders who rebelled against the traditional order, which was good, and replaced it with drek, which is bad. Now they defend it the same way the McCarthyists of the '50s defended THEIR "world order." They were at the peak of their power right before The Fall in the '60s and '70s. The young people, NOW, see those '60s "revolutionaries" as failed prophets. They did their thing, and they're leaving THEIR children with a mountain of debt and an oppressive system of Cultural Marxism infecting education, media and government. The government can turn its Eye of Sauron on any individual it chooses, and RUIN them. It's always been this way, but the hippies, it turns out, are no different than those who came, before, once in power. The wheel just keeps turning. Some progress gets made, some lost. Everybody's pretty much tolerant of gays, women have achieved equal pay for equal work, and so forth. I don't think that ground will be lost, although it needs a f minor/major correction, as LGBTQ and feminism have taken on some toxic aspects that need checking. Intersectionalism needs be seen for the incoherent opinions making their way into academia as canon, and give way to SCIENCE and REASON and FACTS. That will happen. It's so EASY to spoof those guys, because all their stuff is made-up. Sokal, 20 years ago, and more recently, Bogossian and a pair of (pretty brilliant) postdocs. Names are on the tip of my tongue...
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  24.  @dergunter1237  : They live under the penumbra of NATO, I imagine, with lots of free security, backed by U.S. might, however things are structured formally. NATO or not, I don't think it'll much matter before long, because NATO is obsolete.
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  25.  @bldlightpainting  : There are core truths and misconceptions in all ancient texts. They are as much a product of the opinions of the men - and the times - as they are Divine Inspiration. It is well-known how opinions became canon, but it is also generally accepted that there are universal truths as well. The Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution are rooted in the Enlightenment, which is informed by Christianity, but abstracts their best idea of universal truths in essentially secular documents. If your interpretation of Christianity says you must stone a homosexual, the SECULAR law steps in and says "That ain't MY Jesus."
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  26.  @Loundsify  : There's no dividing a man from his spirituality/religion in politics. And that's OK. Until it's not.
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  27.  Austin Martín Hernández  : I think the term "Creator" can be interpreted in many ways. But I think it's essentially saying that however you got here, the government is NOT the Creator and NOT the end-all, be-all. There are things - rights - that supersede the powers of any government, whoEVER "made" us. In the 18th Century, for 90% of the population, it meant something more specific, but it also can serve in a more secular age as something more general.
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  28. I think the prevailing view of the Founding Fathers was Deist. Believed there was something greater than ourselves. Not really sure what it was, exactly. Pretty close to my own superstitions.
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  29.  @RD19902010  : I think government health care was in place before during and after fascism. It was one of fascism's selling points, if I read things right, which I usually don't.
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  30. Wasn't it Bismarck who got that going, back when industrialization was undermining the aristocracy?
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  31.  @jackmcslay  : Russia is not monoethnic.
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  32.  @jacobw446  : The level of ignorance/hypocrisy is monumental.
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  33. The mask of objectivity has been torn away. The news has been slanted for many years. They only just started getting really obvious about it.
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  34.  @robl4479  It's not that the insects don't want it, necessarily. Maybe it just has a chemical that sterilizes the insects who eat it. But it's fine for humans to eat.
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  35.  @theanimehub2180  In the USA, parents "choose" schools by affording to live in better neighborhoods. A poor person can scrimp and save to buy their children (very affordable!) education products. But a poor person can't afford to live in a neighborhood where all the houses sell for $500,000 and above.
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  36. Today they raised the debt ceiling and celebrated the fact. They should all be ashamed of themselves.
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  37. The FDA is a rogue agency, ruled by greed, corruption, and politics. Science and ethics be damned.
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  38. Rent controls mean more housing shortages and more slums.
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  39. Making everything an emergency is our main emergency.
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  40. Progressives look at the ruins their profligate spending creates and concludes they just haven't spent enough other people's money, yet.
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  41. Liberals have an answer to the harm they cause the poor: Make the poor totally dependent on the government.
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  42. When the government money runs out, reality will assert itself, once more. Trouble is, the "free" government money makes people think it's actually working.
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  43. I'm subscribed to "Free to Choose." Imagine my shock that it never appears in my feed.
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  44. They'll still speak of Rand Paul as a fringe politician, even though he was clearly right and Fauci was clearly lying, and cable tv watchers to this day only remember Fauci "putting Rand Paul in his place." It's disgusting. Fauci and many others should be in jail and banned from anything to do with pharma.
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  45. Maybe we shouldn't rely on government to decide product labeling.
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  46. This is a bit disingenuous. Rockefellers and Vanderbilts weren't above unfair trade practices, using their size to sell locally at a loss to wipe out local competition in any region they pleased, more or less systematically, then jack up prices, later, when they had the market cornered. That doesn't mean it was the government's job to fix. I think the CULTURE fixes those things better and with fewer side-effects. Word gets out that you're a cheat, and people will go out of their way not to do business with you. The biggest side-effect is the way the regulatory agency ends up giving future unfair practices a government seal of approval and a government shield. They were also robber barons in the sense that they were in no great hurry to share their largesse with their workers. I agree that people of today don't appreciate that for most of the workers, the alternatives in the countryside were all worse. Nevertheless, I agree with the claim that OSHA isn't what "reformed" the workplace. Things were already trending that way under unregulated capitalism. As Henry Ford realized, if his workers couldn't afford to buy his cars, there was only so much profit to be made catering to the rich. He needed a middle class to keep his markets expanding. That meant paying his workers better. Also, by improving safety conditions, "robber barons" found it easier to hire and retain better workers, and get some loyalty in return. EPA isn't what's making things cleaner. USDA and FDA aren't maximizing the food value or the safety of medicines for consumers. Transparency and tough competition is what make and keep companies moral. Government agencies give companies a blueprint for how to cheat without getting on the wrong side of the law or the regulators. As long as you check all THEIR boxes, everything's supposedly good, even though we KNOW that most of the food we eat is grown by "chemical farming" and GMO. Nutritional value is shrinking and toxins in the food are increasing (They call it "pest resistance" but they're basically getting the crops to create pesticides, abortifacts, sterilization vectors and pest repellants into the crops, themselves. "Totally organic. Didn't spray ANY pesticide. We've engineered it to secrete Roundup from its leaves! Isn't that wonderful?"
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  47. Trump isn't erratic. He's a salesman and a negotiator. You always extoll the virtues of what you're selling, and in negotiations, you never ask for what you WANT. You ask for the MOON and hope to get something CLOSE to what you want. My main problem with Trump was he didn't do his homework on who his closest advisors, cabinet members and generals should be, and he didn't have the right guy advising him in that area of weakness. I think his instincts were generally good, but there were (and are) just too many forces arrayed against him in the "business-as-usual" departments and federal agencies that live in an ecosystem that prospers at the expense of everyone else's (not just at home but abroad). If the feds are offering subsidies to electric car manufacturers, you KNOW it's about their buddies who make or want to make electric cars, but it's NOT to save the environment. It's to funnel resources to the one thing that's profitable politically for people in government and profitable for the pals who are mining Lithium (a nasty business). They'll get around to paying the guys who will ine up for subsidies to pay for the massive cleanup of all those Lithium batteries, later. Everything in its time. People won't realize what it's doing to the environment until it's so bad, it can be considered a crisis for the guys who caused it to get paid solving for us. People can always see the good things they can do with power, and the harm caused is always secondary, because "Look at the good we do." They just waste resources and store up more trouble for the future. Instead, the focus should be on laying the foundation for LETTING good things happen, and the main thing to do there is to do NOTHING. Just do the best you can where you are and share your successes and failures with the world. That's how the Internet is supposed to work. It's the only centralized thing we need, and its purpose is so we can talk to each other! Period!
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  48. Not only that, but blacks were gaining on whites by every measure, except hockey. Lyndon Johnson put a stop to that. Charles Murray's "Losing Ground" was written decades ago, and it's just as true, today, as it was then.
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