Deficit and Debt Ceiling

Oct 4th, 2011

Basic of the deficit, debt and debt ceiling
Video Rating: 4 / 5

(link to lesson 3: www.youtube.com Lesson 2 – Revisiting Economics 101 – Debt: Imperial Power and Control discusses the power of debt-based money, emboded in the bond market, and its ability to exert total top-down power and control over the empire. You will learn how our system is not a free market and how neoclassical economics misses so many key points.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

  1. animals0feel1pain2
    Oct 4th, 2011 at 20:35
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    Man, I heard Sal said we had a Triple A rating, then I was like, “What?! We got it back?!!” But then I looked at the date this tutorial was made and my heart sank.

  2. vickiormindyb
    Oct 4th, 2011 at 21:08
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    I know you probably won’t do it, but I’m wondering what you think about the current suggestion to raise the debt ceiling. I mean are you for or against it?
    I would understand if you didn’t want to say, b/c so many people are abusive when you don’t think exactly what THEY do. Anyway, I’m constantly curious.

  3. p4ul1z
    Oct 4th, 2011 at 21:25
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    @MrFlashInvader But the wars are keeping people working in the gun industry busy. And that industry is big in the US

  4. reynoldsmjx
    Oct 4th, 2011 at 22:00
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    Money is imaginary, and who are we paying interest to? Oh our masters, the banks, magic money makers.

  5. reynoldsmjx
    Oct 4th, 2011 at 22:19
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    Money is imaginary, and who are we paying interest to? Oh our masters, the banks, magic money makers.

  6. lefantomedepanam
    Oct 4th, 2011 at 22:43
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    @lordcroesus
    step 4. reset all the bank system

  7. bdhcarbon
    Oct 4th, 2011 at 23:35
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    removing the bush tax cuts will flatten the debt forecast. Increasing taxes on the wealthest as well as renovating the SS and medicare such as increasing retirement age as people are living longer. Lastly, reduce spending on defense and prisons while simultaniously increasing spending on high tech, schools, medical and small business formation. This is the recipe we need to follow, so simple!

  8. TravistheHuman
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 00:16
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    @aydarsh Good question. No. We have both here in Maine and the government still spends crazy, especially under the left. It hurts the poor (not as much as inflation) and is simply immoral. Most forms of tax are theft. We once just did user fees and tariffs. Tariffs are like consumption tax so I don’t promote them. I would like to see the government depend on user fees and donations, but it would need to cut at lest 90% to work, maybe 98%. I think everyone would be richer if it did shrink.

  9. aydarsh
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 00:22
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    @TravistheHuman Do you think that a consumption tax is a better alternative instead of the income tax?

  10. TravistheHuman
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 00:29

    @lordcroesus I agree to cut the military, we have far more than we need and people can take care of themselves, but I believe income tax is immoral. Without it everyone could do whatever they want with their money, the nation would have a sane budget and would try to please donators. (no one gets rich by catering to the rich, the government would do what the vast majority wants) I hope you left-winger one day understand that some rich are honest and deserving and others cheat. I’m not prejudice.

  11. TheRoadsidePicnic
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 00:58

    Lets seriously get this guy as the president. Super smart and a great humanitarian.

  12. Goohuman
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 01:31

    @parkj238 At least the monopoly would be providing services while the dictator in that same 3rd world country is killing the people.

    Never mind. I’m not defending monopolies. I’m defending capitalism. The worst case scenario under capitalism is far less destructive than the worst case under socialist rule.

  13. Dolphinsintheocean
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 01:44

    Salman for president, I second the motion

  14. parkj238
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 02:19

    @Goohuman I don’t understand what you don’t get about monopolies not being accountable for inefficiencies or lack of innovation. There is no internal check when you have total market power. We have an antitrust division, there are lawsuits filed against collusion and monopolistic behavior in the U.S. all the time to try prevent such a thing from coming into being. Go to a third world to see what a company with monopolistic control provides to its citizens in terms of service and support.

  15. Goohuman
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 02:21

    @parkj238 Alright. I don’t care to debate with you as to what you consider a monopoly. Just tell me. Tell us all an example of a monopoly here in the US.

    And then, if your willing, tell us what you consider a dictator.

    I’m sure you will attempt to find the most horrific monopoly and the most mild dictator to make your point. Just know, the only person you are fooling is yourself.

  16. parkj238
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 02:28

    @Goohuman Microsoft isn’t a monopoly, are you crazy? You’re the one who sounds like you have political leanings, if you assume my questioning monopolies is akin to socialism. Monopolies kill competition.

  17. Goohuman
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 02:45

    @spiegelscott Indeed. I would add that I’ve heard some Democrats say that a cut in any such program would also be considered a default.

    I guess Mirriam-Webster should just start rewriting the whole language right away .. then do it again in 3 years.

  18. Goohuman
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 03:42

    @parkj238 You don’t?
    If we compare Microsoft to Edi Amin, you might get a small picture of how a dictator, any dictator, is far FAR worse for a countries population than a monopolizing company.
    I personally find it amazing you don’t see that. You have to ignore a LOT of stuff to equalize the two.
    I’m trying to think of a justification for your thinking and all I can come up with is that you either don’t know much about monopolies or dictatorships, or your socialist leanings are blinding you.

  19. Markitos203
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 03:46

    BEN BERNANKE didn’t like this video

  20. cchessmaster
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 03:55

    Get rid of your fiat debt dollars and buy silver or gold. All of these revolutions in North Africa are useless. They are going after the puppets and ignoring the true rulers, the central banks.

  21. gunthaarz
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 04:34

    Do you think the bond market is possible to crash? Would it even be in the interest of any of the large players to crash it? To lets say force a sort of new version of SDR currency to back the world economy, reset debt/trade deficits and perhaps even avoid the obvious scam of having printed and inserted vast amounts of dollars into the system?

  22. WJValente
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 04:46

    It doesn’t have to be this way! People, RESISTANCE IS VICTORY.

  23. DavidAKZ
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 05:11

    Respond to this video…Compounding Interest and ownership

  24. suutari13
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 05:13

    Foreign = International jew

  25. gl0bal74
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 05:16

    extremely good job in detailing the problems with supply side economics and those who attempt to use neoclassical economics to justify it

  26. Snarfoidosis
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 05:25

    Thank you! Exactly what I’ve been looking for.

    It’s amazing how oblivious – perhaps deliberately so – the majority of those in power and those in the major media seem to be of the critical underlying problem with many of the monetary and economic systems worldwide.

    It pains me greatly! Thanks for some truthful and informative videos.

  27. dynagravitomagnetic
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 05:51

    @seminar7 Might also want to mentioned “Repo-Transactions”. Chase had lendt wells twenty odd billion in exchange for a faux collateral of junk assets of bad debt. The gall-stegal act had been eliminated along with a requirement to have asset to gain credit. Once wells had the cash, it immediately embezzled it and said the cash was “lost” and thus it was to be paid back by the American taxpayers because of the FDIC.

  28. youraslave
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 06:15

    I just wish you Americans would undrstand that its all over the world and not just Americe because you are falling into to trap of devide installed into the rest of the world that the Yanks think they are the only country in the world! Its is clever tool used to discredit Americe and you all fall for it so wake up my fellow human being brother and love your niegbours ;o)

  29. olrailbird
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 07:11

    Watched the first 2 so far, very nice. You have missed the mark, though. Our problem isn’t debt, it is interest. The “owners” couldn’t scam the lower rungs without interest.

    Simple debt is actually a power source for those of us too small to succeed. This explains why little credit is extended to us and why it costs 29%.

    Only when interest is added does debt become a living curse. Think, please.

  30. freeyourcrt
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 07:45

    @jhiken and replace it with what? The whole “end the Fed” movement has it’s proponents at the top of the pyramid. It is a solution which will usher in a global, more internationally pervasive control mechanism. The “end the fed” is a question. The answer is “but replace it with what?”

  31. SGTbull07
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 07:46

    If we could get the views on this series of vids up from 20K each to 200 million each there might be a Revolution by morning.

  32. tripplethrendo
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 08:27

    I can’t get over how good this explanation is.

  33. amcanmike
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 09:14

    GOOD INFO

  34. ourearthhome
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 09:36

    The other flaw in neoclassical economics is that land is considered to be capital. In classical economics it was land, labor and capital. Now it is only capital and labor. For this reason no analysis except one incorporates the correct understanding that the value of land is created 100% by the community unlike the value of real capital which is created by individuals. This means that private ownership of the value of land and income from it is wholly unearned. Your model is incomplete.

  35. 407buddy
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 10:32

    Guess we have all been had, big time. Think I’ll quite my “job”.

  36. TheWarrior1986
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 10:49

    Excellent!

  37. PoketsOfagenius
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 11:01

    Kennedy understood this and was shot for wanting to do away with the Fed.

    Awesome Video!

    Love to all

  38. birkhauer
    Oct 5th, 2011 at 11:42

    DUDE, THIS IS BRILLIANT!!!!! WOWOWOWOWOWOWOOW!!!!!!!
    ITS RIGHT UP THERE WITH “MONEY AS DEBT”, “MONEY MASTERS”, AND “SECRET OF OZ”

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