Comments by "EarthSurferUSA" (@EarthSurferUSA) on "Hoover Institution" channel.

  1. The only cure for race relations, is "individual liberty". In fact, I know a few Black families named Washington, Jefferson and Franklin. They have those names not because the slave owner gave the salves their own family names, (as taught today, as silly as that is), but because when they were freed, (as a result of the philosophies of individual liberty of our founding), they realized how great it was to have individual liberty, and named their own families after the people who finally implemented it for a society. Those ex-slaves in the USA, were very happy they ended up in the USA, just like I am very happy my great grand parents moved here from Poland.
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  2.  @kenwilliamsvoice  I am with ya man. Getting older white guy here who spent my life following my desires, (instead of becoming a political activist graduate), and after decades of school and work in manufacturing, I started my own little business. I did it part time for about 3 years, and it took off like it was alive. I was then making 6 figures out of my one car garage, and obama got elected. I turned on the news for the first time in my life, (remember, I was busy chasing my rational desires), and I asked myself, "What country is this from", (even Fox). I loved Trump in 2012 when he would talk for 10 minutes about unfair trade. I would turn the radio volume up all the way, (so my then progressively educated neighbors could, but I am sure was not listening), and dance in my front yard until he stopped talking. After obama got elected, I had a real hard time psychologically for about 3 years, than I discovered the writing of Ayn Rand, and I am not frustrated anymore, (I always hated the outsourcing to china for the last 3 decades, which set up my frustrations). Capitalism belongs to us! Every man woman and even child, not only in the USA, but the world! It is called communism when the governments run, (ruins) the economy. It is our ability to think to create business with individual liberty protected by law that creates a civil and prosperous society, and I have a simple example. Lest say you and I were taught to hate each other. But if we still have the liberty to create our own businesses, we might end up doing business together, (trading money instead of blood), like you own a print shop, and I need printing done. I dig your quality, price, on time delivery, and we start making more money together. What do we become? Friends. Capitalism(free market) belongs to us citizens. We invented it which individual liberty allowed, and it is being stolen from us because the rules of the world don't want us making big money, (a Pizza shop is OK though). If you notice in many industries today, there are no beginners allowed. Maybe that is why I modify small 2-stroke gas engines for a living today, instead of making automobiles. RIP Preston Thomas Tucker. With everybody I do business with, from the store teller to my customers to my bank, after the transaction, I now always say, "It was a pleasure doing business with you.", because I now know how special doing business with each other really is.
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  3.  @markg1531  Thank you Mark. My great grand parents moved to the USA around 1904 from Poland. Not one of the siblings since existed on welfare during their productive years. I was suppose to be the looser, but I started a business and it took off. I am very proud of my Polish heritage, and very proud Casimer Polaski came her to help George Washington win the first American revolution. He failed to save Poland from communism, and met Ben Franklin in Europe to help fight for freedom in the USA. If any nation helped the early USA gain it's independence, and retain it, it has to be Poland. My best wishes to you in Poland also. From what little I know from the USA, Poland is fighting the communistic new world order as well or better than any nation in Europe. I knew the inspiration of our present hero, the outstanding President DJT would spread to the minds of western culture. Let it become a epidemic. :) Love, (because we share values), from a Zajakowski in Michigan USA. :)
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  4. "Shlaes proves that, once again, policies and laws with the best of intentions often have the opposite effect. What makes people think these people had good intentions, and good intentions for who? If policy was based in good intentions, than those good intentions would have fixed the results of those policies a long time ago.
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  5. Good post, but the only thing missing is a definition of what capitalism was before it got distorted. It was a free citizenry who created the free market, and it actually belongs to every citizen. What we are seeing, is government's taking over our capitalism, our right to use our brains to compete in any industry, or build a new industry. Once a government takes over an industry, (that free people built), or over regulates it,---no beginners are allowed. Now since that is reality today, we are now seeing elected government "workers", telling us what we need to do for a living, "Just learn to code", (for one example). Strange, almost 50 years ago as a young boy, I was talking with a friend as we laughed, "In a communist country, you can't even grow up to be what you want to be."
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  6. No study will ever talk me into socialism/communism. I have personal experience with individual liberty and what may be the Lassiez-Faire industry on the planet, (recreational/RC model industry). I became a expert in manufacturing, earned 3 college degrees in manufacturing while working full time, and finally started my own business. I was just modifying small gas engines for racing applications for scooters, then the market changed and RC car companies started making a bigger car with the same engines I was modifying. That was when I was able to quit my job, and do my business full time. For the next three years, I made more money out of my one car garage than any union worker in the world, (and many lawyers too), over 125 grand a year. I think we need to demand our individual liberty back, and our free market back, (from government and their crony business partners), because there is no other system in the world that would allow me to make over 38 grand, (what I last made as a highly skilled, and highly educated employee). I don't even care if you support capitalism after your schooling. If you have not experienced individual liberty and the free market in your hands,----you can not explain it properly, unless your name is Ayn Rand.
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  7. Great interview. Thank you Hoover and Ayaan.
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  8. You can read Ayn Rand from 50 years ago, and see the same thing.
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  9. Sharp guy, that Peter guy is. :) Thank you. I am new here, and I love this channel so far. Hero stuff I see so far. Stefan Molyneux and Tom Woods have been falling short for me lately. I was never let down by Ayn Rand, and that kind of integrity is what I am looking for.
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  10. Ohh, Hoover is in Palo Alto Ca.. There is a true HS experiment that was done at the HS there in 1967 by a history teacher, who was fired afterwords, (not in this film). "The Wave", is a true story about indoctrination, and the only place you can see it is here on you-tube. Here, if your interested on how easy it is to mold young minds into something scary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICng-KRxXJ8&t=4s
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  11. Have not heard the vid yet, but I know the fight. We have to call it for what it is, and always is. A communist attack on individual liberty and the free peoples free market. Those are the 2 things communism always attacks when those 2 things exist, every time, in some way.
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  12. No study will ever talk me into socialism/communism. I have personal experience with individual liberty and what may be the Lassiez-Faire industry on the planet, (recreational/RC model industry). I became a expert in manufacturing, earned 3 college degrees in manufacturing while working full time, and finally started my own business. I was just modifying small gas engines for racing applications for scooters, then the market changed and RC car companies started making a bigger car with the same engines I was modifying. That was when I was able to quit my job, and do my business full time. For the next three years, I made more money out of my one car garage than any union worker in the world, (and many lawyers too), over 125 grand a year. I think we need to demand our individual liberty back, and our free market back, (from government and their crony business partners), because there is no other system in the world that would allow me to make over 38 grand, (what I last made as a highly skilled, and highly educated employee). I don't even care if you support capitalism after your schooling. If you have not experienced individual liberty and the free market in your hands,----you can not explain it properly, unless your name is Ayn Rand.
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  13. Question for the pro's: Is it possible to have a monopoly in a Lassiez-Faire economic system, (no government intervention, no government favors), with a court system that keeps people in competition from infringing on another competitors liberty to do business, (a court system that protects our liberty, and keeps us from screwing each other)? In a nut shell, I can't see how a monopoly can be formed if others have the right to compete. Am I right or wrong? Thanks
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  14. By the way, Peter's brain makes a "cow lick" look fashionable. :)
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  15. Miss Rice, 7:44 "One thing that we know, is that's (socialism), only worked at gun point"? Isn't that a failure?
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  16. "Loss of video" at min 36:16 missed some information I wanted to hear. "The world is different", reminds me of something the head of a CNC milling department said to me during one of my 1st jobs in manufacturing in 1987. He asked me, "What do you hope to do in manufacturing?" My reply: "I hope to make a good living." His reply" "Good luck, the rules have changed." I really wanted to hear what was said after "The world is different" when told to Nixon. Mistakes will be made, but they seem to be made when my interest is peaked.
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  17. The only information I know about George Patton is the movie I have called "Patton". But hollywood became more communistic in the 50's, and of course, that is seen in the movie, if you understand the premise of political things said. In a speech at the very beginning of the movie, with the big American flag on the wall behind him, talking about war, in national defense, he said "Individualism is a bunch of bull crap!". That may be true when it comes to commanding an army, but what did the movie writers think we were fighting for? I don't know if the actual George Patton knew what he was suppose to be fighting for or not, but I don't think we have fought in self defense, for individualism ever since.
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  18. Here is the proper argument if you are falsely accused of being a racist: "It is not possible that I am a racist because I believe so deeply in individual liberty protected by law, where every human being is a body with a brain, that racism can not be a part of my philosophy of how man should live here on Earth. Racism is the antithesis of the philosophies of Individual liberty protected by law." Racism comes from collectivist philosophies, not our founding philosophies of Individual Liberty."
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  19. With that argument, you just defined a major difference between the philosophies of collectivism and individual liberty, and if they call you a racist, explain it in public.
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  20. Again, your volume is very low. You are suppose to be intelligent people. Figure it out please. :) I do enjoy your information, (when I can hear it), don't get me wrong.
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  21. Also, about the only thing we can do in any type of capitalism that I can't figure out if it is good or bad,--is "Mergers". Of course, I think we should have a right to merge our company with yours, (It's our business to do with what we wish), but if it keeps new people from being able to compete, creating a monopoly situation, that would not be acceptable. I just don't know if mergers are right or wrong. I can't figure that one out.
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  22. The USA already proved that "individualism and free people creating their free market" works the best with only about 140 years of the existence of the USA, winning WW1. The rest of you dopes had all the time in the world, and lost.
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  23. More volume please. OK, I may be the only guy in the world listening to Hoover vids when working on my little machine shop. The volume is good with almost no ambient noise, but I have the noise of a quiet hand drill, with a 320 amp stereo cranked to the top, and still have a hard time hearing many of your most valuable vids. Please, the more volume the better. We can turn it down on our end if needed. Thanks for all the great minds you showcase. :)
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  24. The philosophies of "Individual Liberty", (which founded the USA), are color blind, and it was those philosophies that freed the Black slaves after 1863. Now I doubt any Black person today, with the last name of "Washington", "Franklin", "Jefferson" understand how they got those last names of our founding fathers of Individual Liberty, but the Black families that were freed by our founding philosophies knew exactly why they named their own families after the founders of Individual Liberty. Our schools teach that the slave owners, the founding fathers of individual liberty, gave the slaves their family name. But that has never happened in all the worlds history of owning human beings as slaves.
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  25. When you are the President of the USA and against a communistic new world order, and the press is over 95% negative about you,-----you better be tweeting, or else you will never be heard in your context. There is no other tool for effective communication to the citizenry for President Trump.
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  26.  @donhansen1175  So you want our free market to continue doing business with communism, (which is not compatible), as long as there are tariffs?
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  28. How do you negotiate with that?
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  29. Speaking of "no beginners allowed" in a nation with too much government influence, does anybody know who Preston Thomas Tucker was? I wonder why the anti-capitalists do not cry for him? (and do not cry for the liberty to be like him)
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  30.  @skaruts  Thank you. We all have our degree of political and economic confusion, and I think you are closer to the top of the bell curve. :)
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  31. Which also allows him to seemingly agree with poor philosophy that he also has on his show, (I have noticed), as if, "all values are the same". They are not.
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  32. Man, this guy is not Lassiez-Faire at all. Get out of our way please.
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  33. You lost me at "pandemic". The hospitals are empty and the numbers are fudged and paid for. There is no pandemic with this "Trojan Horse virus". I can't trust Judges anymore, and I can't trust health care workers anymore. Can we get to something that is in reality, like the marxist attack on what is left of our free market, (pizza shops and hair salons). That is one hell of a precedent set, for elected marxists to shut down our economy over any whim they may have.
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  34. A suggestion for the producers of the show. From the ears of the listener to the sound managers. It might be a good idea to let the panel turn on and turn off their own individual microphone at will, so they can cough and clear their throat and not overwhelm the person speaking at the moment. A cough is the loudest noise of the moment on our end.
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  35. By the way, it was his own "Individualism" that made him a outstanding commander.
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  36. Ohh, Hoover is in Palo Alto Ca.. There is a true HS experiment that was done at the HS there in 1967 by a history teacher, who was fired afterwords, (not in this film). "The Wave", is a true story about indoctrination, and the only place you can see it is here on you-tube. Here, if your interested on how easy it is to mold young minds into something scary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICng-KRxXJ8&t=4s
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  37. I am starting to think the "loss of video" is censorship as it happens when great information is about to be aired. Maybe I spoke too soon about the "Hero stuff". I guess it is back to the integrity of Ayn Rand. It's like being the ball in a tennis match, looking for people who actually protect liberty, between Ayn Rand of the rest of everything out there. I will watch/listen to a few more of HI's vids, but I am going to keep looking. Bummer for being new here, huh?
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  38. The protection of individual liberty is morality.
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  39. Timeline: We and the rest of the world were lied to for 2 months, (including the WHO saying it was not contagious from person to person, so keep your borders open.), and then President Trump shut down travel from china to the USA. The USA response was as good or better than anybody in the world, given the faulty information that was feed to the world.
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  40. So you thought communism, which does not recognize individual liberty at all, was compatible with our free market which was invented by individualism. I have no idea why you people think you are smart. You folks stole our lives, and gave our lives to communism. Didn't effect you much huh?
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  41. Why do the counties of Michigan, (excluding Detroit and Grand Rapids), have cases of 1 and 2 in every country, 1 or 2 days of them having none, (a week ago)? Is a virus intelligent enough to implement such equal distribution over such a large land mass in a matter of a day or two? I could not have distributed those numbers much more equally myself. How is it possible for a virus to spread so equally over an entire state in a matter of 2 days, or any time frame for that matter? Viruses do not distribute equally across a state in any amount of time.
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