Remember: Peter Schiff will be on The Daily Show tonight

[He Who Pawns]

He did a great job using duh, duh, duh, logic. It sounds like he's really considering going against Dodd. I hope he does, and hope he destroys that bailout mongering assclown.

Schiff is going to put his size 11 boot half a mile up Chris Dodd's ass in the debates!

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

Schiff is going to put his size 11 boot half a mile up Chris Dodd's ass in the debates!

With Mizulo and Company indited... the next chess piece to fall is Senator Chris Dodd. That scumbag should retire, unless Dodd has Diebold on his side.

How that Scumbag is not in Prison, indicates the corruption in the Judicial branch too!

Schiff hit a homerun... Slammed the FEDERAL RESERVE!

I hope the people catch on and call their Senators and representatives for HR 1207

 

[RonPaulVolunteer]

Better quality:

YouTube - Peter Schiff on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart 6/9/09: "The Economy"

 

[Imperial]

It comes on again in 45 minutes at 12:30 AM CT

 

[FSP-Rebel]

Schiff is such a badass... I wanna be like Pete. In fact, that was such a great interview that I think I'll go all in on his potential Senate run. I just died when he was talking s**t about Dodd. His mortgager is being indicted... Priceless!

 

[Athan]

Holy Schiff man that was sweet.

 

[Spike]

I liked that house of lords comment.

Schiff knows exactly what to say.

First senator, then maybe president or vice president.

 

[anaconda]

Nice interview. And he worked in some anti-Fed material.

 

[amonasro]

It's on again, if anyone is still up Watching now.

 

[Imperial]

Just watched it. AWESOME

 

[He Who Pawns]

I liked that house of lords comment.

Schiff knows exactly what to say.

First senator, then maybe president or vice president.

Schiff in the White House... oh man! Maybe by 2016 the country will be so broke that Peter CAN get elected.

 

[vodalian]

I was reading the daily show forums and most of the time I was shaking my head in utter amazement. Some of those people are so ridiculous. They literally believe that all of our problems were caused by capitalism and that the problem with the bailouts was that they didn't spend enough money bailing out the companies. If you argue against that, they accuse you of being an evil, dirty, republican. Very sad..

 

[Allan Bartlett]

That was an awesome appearance by Peter. I hope he runs for Senate in Connecticut.

 

[Liberty Rebellion]

I was reading the daily show forums and most of the time I was shaking my head in utter amazement. Some of those people are so ridiculous. They literally believe that all of our problems were caused by capitalism and that the problem with the bailouts was that they didn't spend enough money bailing out the companies. If you argue against that, they accuse you of being an evil, dirty, republican. Very sad..

That's because the definitions of words have become so convoluted that even people that think they agree with each other on socialism and capitalism don't realize that they are opposed to each other due to their different interpretations of the words they think they agree on.

Concepts and "isms" have to be defined and agreed upon before even engaging in a discussion like that. The meaning of free-market capitalism is a "dirty" word to many people even though they wouldn't be able to properly define its true meaning.

Heh, my aunt was over here not too long ago talking about Cramer on The Daily Show. She started saying how the free-market allowed these businesses to do what they wanted. I quickly rebuted that there was no free-market in America, to which she fluttered her eye lashes at me in an apparent, "Excuse me?!"

Lol. Ah, this is a tough battle. So many years of mis/disinformation about free-market capitalism.

 

[Liberty Rebellion]

eg:

Pleeease...this guy is just another one of those "leave the markets alone and everything would have been alright" kind of rich businessmen. Jon needed to remind this guy that the free market failed us big time, because of lack of regulation and proper management by the government.



I hate to tell you all this, but if left to its own devices, a capitalism concentrates capital (and the wealth that comes from it) in the hands of a very small number of super-rich people. It's the role of the government to mitigate that tendency, and, more importantly, redistribute that wealth through progressive taxation and (yes) government spending.



The free market isn't going to build me new roads, or sewers, or pay for our schools, or keep our bridges from collapsing. Everybody acts like taxes are evil and government spending benefits no one, when it actually benefits the poor and middle class more than anyone. Progressive taxation and government spending created the middle class--haven't you ever wondered why so many capitalist countries have very small numbers of rich and middle class, but a huge percentage of the population lives in poverty? It's because they don't re-distribute wealth.



So get over it. Capitalisms screw the poor and middle class, unless government regulates markets, taxes progressively, and spends on services and infrastructure. We did precisely that for most of the 20th Century---and it was the greatest economic century experienced by any country in the history of mankind.





Moderator: Language...

http://forum.thedailyshow.com/tds/board/message?board.id=14077&thread.id=1

If I wasn't going to bed, I would have to educate this poor misinformed person...

 

[Texan4Life]

eg:

http://forum.thedailyshow.com/tds/board/message?board.id=14077&thread.id=1

If I wasn't going to bed, I would have to educate this poor misinformed person...

The thread that you quoted is wrong on so many levels it makes my head spin...

edit: Its almost like that post was on purpose trying to be sarcastic? I noticed the poster had only 1 post count. or just a complete douche who knows.