Comments by "Robert Smith" (@journeyon1983) on "Caller: America Doesn't Need Another Tax!" video.

  1. How so?
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  2. Tumblr suckss You lost me. Why are the baby boomers the worse generation? I'm one of them, BTW so try not to generalize.
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  3. Tumblr suckss Believe me when I say that I played no part in any of those things you mentioned so try to not broad brush because it makes you sound foolish. The baby boomers came from all walks of life all across the country. The span of this group was, I believe, over 25 years and I'm sort of at the tail end of it. It seems that you're upset with governmental decisions and, yes, most of those elected are baby boomers but today, there are more younger people who just don't participate in the electoral process, meaning do you ever vote? The data that comes back always show that the youth in this country don't go to the polls in large numbers. So you don't get to say you care about this and that and not vote. If you do vote, then it's still sad to say that many in your age group don't. Yes, politics suck in this country and that's mostly do to people not watching the news and therefore don't know what's going on until it's too late. As I've aged, I've become more of a cynic about everything people do. If you want to know what's in my head look no further than some old YouTube clips of George Carlin. I am like him in almost every way. As for our national debt, it will never be paid off. Why? Because, capitalism is a pyramid scheme. When Ronald Reagan was elected president is when he gave huge tax cuts to the wealthy and said that it would result in trickle down economics. Well it didn't. He also tripled the national debt 300% during is 8 years in office. After Reagan we've had 2 presidents who outsourced jobs by the millions creating multinational corporations and they were Bill Clinton (NAFTA), George W Bush (CAFTA). Now we have Barack Obama who wants to pass something called The TPP aka (SHAFTA). If that happens, more american jobs will be lost. These were good paying jobs that went overseas and you wonder why the debt cannot be paid off. Both parties suck, IMHO. And, yes, I wholeheartedly believe that capitalism will soon fall apart completely and it will because we are already an oligarchy and plutocratic runned country. All our politicians have been bought off by corporate special interests. You can entirely thank our Supreme Court for giving personhood to corporations which allow them to give unlimited sums of money for campaign contributions. And, in return, after those bought politicians become elected, then political favors are repaid to the corporations in the form of tax cuts creating the income inequality we have today. Yes, the USA is spiraling out of control with absolutely no end in sight. Who's to blame? The public voter, that's who.
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  4. Tumblr suckss The best answer is the media and the Supreme Courts decision to give corporations personhood. None of that had anything to do with baby boomers. American people drink what they want to hear and most of it is hate coming from the radical right wing party. For example Fox News and right wing owned radio.. In the past, our government used to break up monopolistic corporations that got too big. I think you'd have to go back to president Jimmy Carter as the last president who broke up a controlling corporation.  The biggest problem, as I've already said, are not so much the boomers but the young in this country who DO NOT VOTE AT ALL. Ever since that movie "Wall Street" came out in 1987 with the character Gordon Gekko saying "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." It wasn't long after that that it came to fruition in this greedy country. My best forecast for capitalism? IT WILL COLLAPSE do to it being a pyramid scheme. Look no further than here:  http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mo-oxfam-world-economic-forum-income-inequality-20140120-story.html That's right, "85 richest people own as much as bottom half of population" What does that tell you? It tells you that I'm right about capitalism and IT WILL GET A LOT WORSE.
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  5. That's what I was thinking.. LOL. The caller sounds like he has an IQ of 50.. He's definitely brainwashed by right wing media..
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