Class 10: “Public Assistance for the Poor” by UC Berkeley Professor Reich

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  • Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024

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  • @challengerRT392
    @challengerRT392 2 года назад +50

    The point that poverty is a result of policy rather than human inclination is especially illuminating , thank you Professor.

    • @sprinkle61
      @sprinkle61 2 года назад +1

      This point is ridiculous. Poverty is a result of how the economy works, or doesn't work, and some of it is by individual choice. Poverty CANNOT be ended with government cash transfers, as the temptation to just print the money is just too great, and inflation and empire collapse is the inevitable result of such policies in the long term, and we are rapidly approaching the day or reckoning regarding our money printing, as covid was the last straw.

    • @Patriot1789
      @Patriot1789 2 года назад +2

      @@sprinkle61 weren’t you watching? We just did end poverty for many families through policy, by paying citizens who had to stay home and not work so that the sudden withdrawal of workers wouldn’t crash the economy. The result was a drop in family and child poverty which then rose again when payments stopped.
      Long term now, more people have been looking for and getting work at a slightly higher pay than before. Some of the assumptions of conservative economists just are not born out by reality, but their assumptions do increase the numbers of super rich through tax policy - and that is OK by you?

    • @coryryder9070
      @coryryder9070 2 года назад

      georgia guild stones to weather munipulation for war not peace

    • @coryryder9070
      @coryryder9070 2 года назад

      @@sprinkle61 feds gonna go brr when kenny g and friends get marge and ricco calls amc gme to the moon

    • @coryryder9070
      @coryryder9070 2 года назад

      not everyone wants to be homeless on the strets like people claim and cant go else where

  • @waynemcmillan5970
    @waynemcmillan5970 2 года назад +59

    Amazon workers made the right decision. Let’s hope American unionism has a revival.

    • @Qriator
      @Qriator 2 года назад +3

      I hope the new unions will avoid the pitfalls of the unions that allow bad apples to keep their jobs. I am thinking of police, teacher, and auto worker inions that protect workers with multiple harassment, violence, or missing work complaints. Unions can be great partners but they have to take some responsibility to check bad behaviors in partnership with company leadership to be respected by their own workers and by the public.

    • @user-cd5wm4ey8n
      @user-cd5wm4ey8n Год назад

      I was in a union that did next to nothing for us. You may want to read the book "On the Clock" written by an undercover journalist who worked for Amazon, McDonald's and a call center. Many of the decisions being made for workers are made by algorithms - something Prof. Reich never mentioned in his lecture.

    • @reijaroberts9958
      @reijaroberts9958 Год назад +1

      unions are usually only as influential as their members (the workers). the challenge, i think, is: how to bring the worker back into unity with their fellow workers? how to demonstrate the folly and pitfalls of individual interests vs. genuine community engagement as a pathway to collective power. we are NOT crabs in the bucket. its up to us to hold space for ALL.

    • @patdaley9098
      @patdaley9098 Год назад +1

      @@Qriator Put it in the collective agreements.

    • @joshuaherner7315
      @joshuaherner7315 11 месяцев назад

      Commenting for relevance of current state of affairs for the American worker.

  • @CynthiaSchoenbauer
    @CynthiaSchoenbauer 2 года назад +39

    I really like the conclusion at the end. It reverses something that has damaged my abilities for a long time. The conclusion at the end says that people are not lazy. Most people, if they are not beat down to an absolute pile of pulp, actually want to work. They take pride in their work. But someone has to give to them to show them what they can do to get them started. Some one has to believe in them and their natural motivation and their need to express their talents. People actually WANT to be independent and have the power over their lives without having to have handouts... IMAGINE THAT! I like to listen to that part over and over.

    • @coryryder9070
      @coryryder9070 2 года назад +1

      its hard to get a job with no address or sin number and more and many people are ignorant saying everyone wants to be homeless and they could just pack up and move else where

    • @DJK-cq2uy
      @DJK-cq2uy Год назад

      It's the RepubliCONS that don't want I deserve dent hard worker..successful.minorities.
      .else who would they denigrate n hate?

    • @DJK-cq2uy
      @DJK-cq2uy Год назад +1

      @@coryryder9070 RepubliCONS

    • @cynthiastarks7161
      @cynthiastarks7161 Год назад +3

      I really like your comments. Very smart and compassionate. (I'm only listening Robert Reich's class now - he's made it available to those who subscribe to his Substack). Love him. What he's teaching is so important. Be well...

    • @reijaroberts9958
      @reijaroberts9958 Год назад +4

      people dont want to work under tyrannical rule. folks want to feel part of something, rather than replaceable. folks can feel the honour that comes with increased responsibilities and sacred trust. BUT not when they are not sufficiently trained or mentored. great leaders are always preparing to replace themselves by identifying talent and training necessary skills. leaders training future leaders.

  • @bikerjohn
    @bikerjohn 2 года назад +21

    A divisive issue in society appears to be the level of empathy and willingness to help the needy. Whether the solution is to provide public assistance or raise the national minimum wage, providing a safety net ensures everyone can participate without being forced to live in a cardboard box under a bridge.

    • @silverforest4682
      @silverforest4682 Год назад

      The divisive issue is who pays for the assistance. Corporations raising pay would put the onus on them. People who have jobs at big businesses like Amazon and Walmart should be required to pay a minimum livable wage.

    • @MrMarinus18
      @MrMarinus18 Год назад +1

      There is something else that Reich somewhat overlooks and that is that public works, government institutions and government welfare as necessary parts of capitalism. Capitalism is good at producing wealth but it's really bad at distributing it effectively and it is inherently self-destructive since it relies on the wealth of those at the bottom but is build to channel wealth only upwards.

    • @Daveyjonesvi
      @Daveyjonesvi Год назад +1

      @@silverforest4682you could always have a maximum wage so those top executives and share holders have no reason to increase profits that would be taxed away

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 11 месяцев назад

      Democrats believe in a livable wage meaning all you have to do is drop out of school get a low skilled job and get healthcare pension paid family leave vacation time and childcare on the other hand if you live in NYC and go to college maney years and work long hours and earn four hundred thousand dollars a year you will between local state and federal pay half your income to the government so according to you your an idiot to work hard enough to become a surgeon in NYC and get half your income taken when all you have to do is drop out of school get a low skilled job and live good how is that fair or sustainable democrats party of handouts vote out handout democrats before it's to late

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 11 месяцев назад

      Then after a certain point why create more if it's just going to be taken

  • @LiiMuRi
    @LiiMuRi 2 года назад +11

    In many other countries labor unions are not restricted to a single job site, but to larger groups of workers, say nurses in general, no matter where they work. To me that's much more efficient way to handle unionization and negotiations. More power to the people.

    • @davidpeppers551
      @davidpeppers551 Год назад +1

      Sure, but the point of keeping them in lots of separate unions and denying collective bargaining is to keep those unions and their workers weaker.

  • @growthandunderstanding
    @growthandunderstanding 2 года назад +20

    Wow! Dear Secretary Reich, you have hit it out of the ballpark yet again with another brilliant lecture! Thank you!

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 5 месяцев назад

      Reich lies by withholding information from you I can name maney examples

  • @loripadilla1
    @loripadilla1 2 года назад +14

    Thank you Mr. Reich for letting us follow along in your class. Better than any college class I ever took!

  • @janicewallace3728
    @janicewallace3728 2 года назад +18

    The "valued work" idea is what has hurt me, from two sides. I am disabled, physically dependent on others for my daily care needs. The only help care that will cover all I need - in home care, electric wheelchair, medical care - in medicare & medicaid. With SSDI/SSI i am limited in what I can make and save or I will lose the care that would keep me independent. Thus I am kept in poverty. AND the caregivers I am provided are only paid minimum wage. Health care workers should make FAR more than they do, also be more trained. BUT because they are paid to go into my home and do my care and my needs, their work is considered unskilled and thus unvalued. Why? Because they are taking care of ME, a person who does not add to the economy as a worker, because I am literally prevented from doing so. Fast Food workers make more money than caregivers. I am literally less valuable economically than a combo meal. IF the caregivers were paid more, trained better there would be more of them and they would be more dependable, too. Here in AZ at least, there a MAJOR shortage. One caregiver doesn't show up, there is NO ONE to cover shifts. IF I were not limited in my income, I could work, thus making ME more valuable and worthy of the care from those caregivers. It IS all linked and it is currently a vicious circle.

  • @danaschierenbeck499
    @danaschierenbeck499 11 месяцев назад +1

    These classes are fascinating. The simple but powerful statement "poverty is a policy decision" was a profound realization for me. Perhaps every elected official in our country could benefit from hearing or reading it?

  • @CynthiaSchoenbauer
    @CynthiaSchoenbauer 2 года назад +7

    Taking care of children, no matter how they got here, is the highest form of responsibility of a society. Don't cut off our nose to spite our face! We need children and we need children who are raised in enriched environments for the good of all of us, even if you only think in terms of goods and services, not-with-standing all the pain and struggle of full citizens, even though small, to live without enough of anything

    • @weksauce
      @weksauce 2 года назад +1

      I'm torn on this. While I do believe it, I also hate the moral hazard it creates: just have kids and all your other bad decisions are "forgiven". I'm not sure we need (lots of) children. I'm looking forward to no growth and negative growth in populations and economies. The goal of any sane person is infinite wealth, well-enough distributed, and 0 trade/gdp. Growth is not inherently good. In cancer, there's an obvious example of malignant growth. Most of our economic output and trade is bads and disservices, not goods and services. And every trade is evidence of deficiency.
      At the lowest level, you have some amount of stuff, poorly distributed. At the next level, GDP/trade is good, because as you increase trade, you remedy that poor distribution, increasing wealth by redistributing stuff from people who value it less to people who value it more. But at the highest level, you realize trade is deficiency. Every time someone trades for something, it means they lacked something so valuable they were willing to trade something else valuable for it. Ideally, everyone would get the thing they want/value/demand BEFORE resorting to trading something else of value for it. Hence, GDP/trade should be 0.
      I'm aware that there is a slightly different definition of GDP that is what is literally produced, not what is produced and traded. If we're talking about that definition, then GDP isn't bad, but GDP past the level of demand is still waste.

    • @CynthiaSchoenbauer
      @CynthiaSchoenbauer 2 года назад +1

      @@weksauce I like so much that you are a thinker! You fashion your own beliefs and I admire that.

    • @weksauce
      @weksauce 2 года назад

      @@CynthiaSchoenbauer Do you see how it's unresolvable? Like the Republican side is completely true. You can't let someone make choices that harm everyone else and not make them pay for that. At the same time, the Democrat side is also completely true: the child isn't guilty
      AT ALL for the sins of the father. Is there a way to make the parents pay for everything, and still guarantee good life for the children? I don't see how, and both are extremely important. Make children pay for parents' harms, and you get debt slavery passing through generations. Don't make parents pay for children, and forgive their bad deeds just because it's wrong to punish kids and you get the tragedy of the commons in every government service. Citizenship itself is a prime example. Many people from shithole countries pay to go abroad to deliver their babies in good countries with robust social safety nets just to get retirement benefits decades down the line. Chinese do this to USA, for a very large scale, easy to find out about example. If I paid more in taxes than I received in benefits, I would be very unhappy about anyone getting benefits from my government without paying for at least that amount in taxes. As it is, I don't, so I don't care, and also I see no moral standing in being American. It's the same as every other inherited thing; it's completely unearned. By definition, inheritance is mutually exclusive from earned/deserved, and every American either inherited citizenship at birth, or very lucky circumstances to end up here.

  • @jacklanham7311
    @jacklanham7311 2 года назад +9

    Thanks again professor. This is very generous of you. Really appreciate it. Cheers

  • @taknothing4896
    @taknothing4896 2 года назад +5

    So I just watched class #10, and took notes! Here's my comments....
    1. The Black Death (and plagues in general): basically 2 ways for a ruling class to deal with them - either provide some degree of isolation so it doesn't spread too far plus relief to compensate for loss of work, or just force the peasants to keep working (and producing wealth, and dying) no matter what.
    2. Safety Net: I don't recall this term being used before Reagan. Was he the first? In any case, life should not be a high wire act, period. Can we dump the phrase?
    3. Welfare: if it's unpopular, it indicates a failure to connect voters with the reality of poverty, leaving the arena to the right who will be free to demonize the poor.
    4. Job Training: you might remember the Manpower Development and Training Act? I think it was this that produced a very effective job training center in Berkeley in the late '60s and early '70s.
    5. Hillary's political skills: very good at manipulating and influencing local power structures, but absolutely terrible when it comes to connecting with ordinary people, especially the working class.
    6. "Safety Net" vs. Cops chart: doesn't this look one whole lot like the wages vs. productivity chart? Connection?
    7. Robots!: it depends on who owns them, doesn't it? If it's the billionaire class, we're screwed. If it's society in general, work can be what we enjoy doing, rather than what we are forced to do.
    8. The Stockton Experiment: if I'm remembering correctly, city government, and particularly the mayor, came under heavy attack by the right despite the success of the program, and were replaced in the next election. What can we learn from this ultimate failure?

  • @yvonnefarrell1029
    @yvonnefarrell1029 2 года назад +3

    HQ2 didn't go to NY either. God bless NY. Thank God for poverty-reducing programs from our government; people need more help especially with housing expenses. People deserve a decent standard of living and not to have to worry about homelessness or retiring into poverty after a lifetime of work. It should not matter to the wealthiest or the movers-and-shakers how poor people spend their time. We are so thankful for this course, Professor.

    • @littleredpony6868
      @littleredpony6868 2 года назад

      When Alan Greenspan was still fed chair said while talking to congress said that we need a system to get real goods and services to the retired people. What we have is a system that moves cash around

    • @rustyshackle917
      @rustyshackle917 2 года назад +2

      @@littleredpony6868 move cash to the 1%

  • @boombot934
    @boombot934 Год назад +4

    Thank❤🌹🙏 you, dear professor Robert Reich. Social Security is a human right!

    • @donnanelson2967
      @donnanelson2967 Год назад +1

      It’s our benefits subtracted from every paycheck. Too bad it never kept up with real time cost of living and inflation.

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 5 месяцев назад

      You are stealing from our children here is the proof if you draw fifteen hundred dollars a month in ss till your eighty that's over two hundred thousand dollars and you did not pay that much in ss taxes and the average person draws out three dollars for every dollar paid in medicare taxes the difference between what you pay and what you recieve in ss and medicare is added to our debt our children will have to pay for why do you not pay enough taxes to cover the cost of the social programs democrats want ​@@donnanelson2967

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 5 месяцев назад

      Democrats want social programs Democrats don't want to pay for social programs why is that vote out handout Democrats before it's to late

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 5 месяцев назад

      Pay your fair share of taxes for the social security and Medicare you will receive stop bankrupting our nation for our children our debt is bigger than our entire economy because you won't pay enough taxes for the handouts Democrats want why is that why do Democrats hate our children

  • @dancorkill7033
    @dancorkill7033 2 года назад +2

    Wealthy people have lots of money. Poor people don't have much money. Congratulations, you passed the class!

    • @georgegates526
      @georgegates526 Год назад

      Dan, rich people can't understand your basics.

    • @dancorkill7033
      @dancorkill7033 Год назад

      @George Gates you must be one of the latter.

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 11 месяцев назад

      I can name maney formerly homeless people who are now rich what's our excuse

  • @fazlirahman6122
    @fazlirahman6122 2 года назад +5

    Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰 Sir! Listening to your lectures and getting updated about the most important subject “economics “ and its importance in current era...

  • @marc-andredesrosiers523
    @marc-andredesrosiers523 2 года назад +5

    It would be invaluable to examine Invisible Women for the purposes of this class. There are plenty of discussions in the book that bear on this topic. The pink tax comes to mind. Differential on care expectations is another.

  • @mikematusky7717
    @mikematusky7717 2 года назад +5

    Please can we build an economy that doesn't include desperation?

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 5 месяцев назад

      If you pay high enough taxes we can otherwise we add to our debt our children will have to pay for

  • @alexwood7277
    @alexwood7277 2 года назад +7

    Is it possible to do more split screen in future edits? The slides are hard to read in the larger shots of the lecture hall.
    Regardless, thanks again for another enlightening lecture, and for making it available to the world! Public intellectuals (not selling a book) are hard to come by these days.
    Thanks again,
    A frontline healthcare worker and union organizer

    • @thedivomeister6308
      @thedivomeister6308 10 месяцев назад

      You can expand screen with 2 fingers for bigger readings

  • @bolt5564
    @bolt5564 10 месяцев назад

    Thank you. This is so much better than last week.

  • @belmiris1371
    @belmiris1371 2 года назад +4

    Thank you again for these wonderful videos.

  • @CynthiaSchoenbauer
    @CynthiaSchoenbauer 2 года назад +3

    Prof. Reich, I just turned 65 and thanks to self care I don't look a day over 35. Would you find another noun to describe our category other than "elderly". Senior describes me so much, much better and validates the contribution that I give as someone who has lived longer than most others.

    • @DJK-cq2uy
      @DJK-cq2uy Год назад

      Pffft!!! Yeah and Santa Claus n I and the Easter Bunny say your pants are on fire. 🤣 at u

    • @janeteague-urbach3297
      @janeteague-urbach3297 Год назад +1

      BUT for some people "elder" implies wisdom. The elders in many cultures are the ones that call the shots. I know..not this one, but I agree, I don't like "elderly"...that implies decrepit

  • @kathiebrobeck3426
    @kathiebrobeck3426 2 года назад +9

    Why are important people so opposed to showing any compassion? Our selfishness makes me nauseous.

    • @georgegates526
      @georgegates526 Год назад

      Because you don't make any money by having sympathy and being honest. Basically you have to be evil.

    • @ashjay7793
      @ashjay7793 11 месяцев назад

      I asked a friend of mine about this and tho he (nor I) personally condone it, there's a very simple explanation.
      Rich people show compassion for their pets and friends and children. But who shows compassion to the ants beneath their feet?
      We're the ants, btw. Good luck.

  • @hollystump1
    @hollystump1 2 года назад +1

    The historical policy information (with analysis of results) is eye-opening. Lessons for the future...

  • @Gerugon
    @Gerugon Год назад

    55:40 i was kinda stressed about the outcome of the poll, but the next generation continues to make me proud 🥰

  • @jeant5616
    @jeant5616 Год назад +3

    The same opportunities need to be available for everyone, like good schools, and a more positive mindset needed to succeed. Poverty does not breed confidence and comes with much negativity we do not take this into consideration instead labeled it as inferior by society. The rich are expected to succeed at all costs. I believe people generally want the same but are not given the chance.

    • @georgegates526
      @georgegates526 Год назад +1

      The average person just wants enough to be comfortable. Pay their bills on time. Maybe go out once in a while to a cheap restaurant.. (Forget Vacations.).. I guess that is TOO MUCH for the RICH to take.

  • @hirumbiffidum9145
    @hirumbiffidum9145 2 года назад +2

    12:16 That was the year 1347. My opinion on this strengthens defining moments in my life. It's a conversation I don't like having if I know that it will make people upset. This is a very large part of the reason why I dedicated the machzor holiday cycle books I donated to you Mr Reich as well your childhood friend Michael Schwerner 😥😥😥

  • @johnbarker5009
    @johnbarker5009 3 месяца назад

    I'd love to hear Professor Reich speak on Thomas Pikkety's concept that through policy we have deliberately created a Dual Economy in the developed world. Much of what he's discussing goes to that concept, of deliberately maintaining a vast pool of poor and underutilized labor in order to keep wages down way up the income ladder.

  • @cartoonygothica
    @cartoonygothica 2 года назад +3

    If we had a universal basic income, I might finally feel free to decide how I want to live, hopefully with less pressure to make money.

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 11 месяцев назад

      We already have a debt so big it defies belief because of democrat handouts don't you care we are leaving our children a bankrupt shell of a nation this universal income would be added to our debt our children will have to pay for don't you care democrats liveing off our children

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 5 месяцев назад

      Free money at our childrens expense because they are the ones who will have to pay for the unbelievable unimaginable debt Democrat programs have brought us why do you think you have the right to live off our children shame on you free free free living off our children the Democrat way

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 5 месяцев назад

      Why should you get free money at our childrens expense we have a debt that's bigger than our entire economy don't you care about our children who will inherit a bankrupt shell of a nation because you want something for nothing shame on you

  • @C-Span222
    @C-Span222 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you!

  • @Alitari
    @Alitari 2 года назад +3

    Around 36:00 it would have been useful, IMO, to include in the graph the # per 100 families that were in poverty (perhaps to show that the need was still there, it just was no longer being met?)

  • @nowthenzen
    @nowthenzen 2 года назад +4

    You can't have rich people without poor people

    • @georgegates526
      @georgegates526 Год назад +1

      Money travels from the bottom, up.

    • @Combatwhombat
      @Combatwhombat Год назад +1

      ​@@georgegates526 Wealth comes from the bottom; and is created by costing them everything.

  • @johns.7297
    @johns.7297 2 года назад +2

    Stories that confirm prior biases seem to beat evidence most all of the time.

  • @NoraGermain
    @NoraGermain 2 года назад +6

    Curious about how many students watch your lectures in person? Thanks :) Love the series!

    • @Gerugon
      @Gerugon Год назад +2

      You can see that when they are voting, should be 500 ish

  • @charlesstones1608
    @charlesstones1608 2 года назад +25

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      @jameschase7213 2 года назад

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  • @lauradawson7737
    @lauradawson7737 2 года назад +3

    UBI was presidential candidate Andrew Yang’s platform to adjust to the changing ‘State of Work’ which will haunt policymakers in elections to come. Aa a woman of Reich’s generation and a single parent, while holding a Master’s degree and expertise in my field, have not been paid a living wage for years. This is partially due to a disabling factor and now with racial issues. My work is often if not exclusively done in the background and without financial reward, as it relates to HIPPA protected recognition. So when policymakers fail to understand the significant cost of healthcare by licensed providers and provide meaningful pay, they will be building on a foundation of shifting sands.

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 11 месяцев назад

      Free money for adults is horrible consumption without production will bankrupt us we have a debt so big it defies belief because of democrat handouts our children will inherit a bankrupt shell of a nation don't you care

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 11 месяцев назад

      Do you believe in a livable wage

  • @i2really1der
    @i2really1der 2 года назад +1

    Thank you for the class.

  • @bikenraider99
    @bikenraider99 11 месяцев назад

    George Carlin would be all in on this. Bravo!

  • @samarayelle9240
    @samarayelle9240 2 года назад +1

    I'm an accountant so I could talk about the EITC all day.

  • @karlabritfeld7104
    @karlabritfeld7104 11 месяцев назад

    I'm from Oregon and we had a poorhouse in Oregon. Not that long ago!

  • @jenniferlee6955
    @jenniferlee6955 2 года назад +2

    Let's keep EITC boring. Don't excite politicians to be rid of it. Yes, it's "earned income" (I know - that work qualifier again 🙄), yet if it's the biggest tool we have - expand and improve that boring thing!

  • @charlesbrown6664
    @charlesbrown6664 2 года назад +1

    We have a wall Street government, not a main street government. Follow the money for your answers, who benefits. Money= power, the more money , the more power.

  • @karenquinn3937
    @karenquinn3937 Год назад

    Thank you for this part in your course. In my small sphere of influence I am noting wages have risen dramatically because of a dearth of workers. Does this put the lie to the practice of such a meager minimum wage? $7.50/hour is not a living wage. Period

  • @user-cd5wm4ey8n
    @user-cd5wm4ey8n Год назад +1

    I listened to the lecture and have experienced some of what the professor is discussing. For example, I was employed as a TA at a community college campus 50+ years ago and my pay was low - I was still living at home with my parents. I was informed that my pay was low because public institutions did not have to pay the minimum wage. This was in 1973. The other point is during Covid people were given money, no questions asked, to help them survive the pandemic. Out where I live (Hercules, CA) there was a story of a homeless family living at a hotel and their baby was brought to the hospital and discovered had digested fentenyl. The baby died and both parents went to jail - this was well publicized in the news. The parents took the money that was supposed to help them survive and bought drugs with it. No strings attached has consequences.

    • @patdaley9098
      @patdaley9098 Год назад +2

      That is an anecdote. It does not provide any information as to the statistical significance of misuse. Or, it may be that the parents would be using drugs, anyway.

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 5 месяцев назад

      Some Democrats simply want something for nothing at our childrens expense who will have to pay for the unbelievable unimaginable debt Democrat programs have brought us vote out handout Democrats before it's to late our childrens future depend on it and with the size of debt time grows short

  • @Elocess
    @Elocess 11 месяцев назад

    Is there sufficient evidence against the argument that the post-pandemic rise in poverty is unrelated to inflation?

  • @BeeBop1029
    @BeeBop1029 Год назад

    Are the various charts all inflation adjusted?

  • @user-ug9bd8sf5d
    @user-ug9bd8sf5d Год назад

    I remember I had a job making donuts on third shift I was making 4.25 $ an hour I still had to get EBT, my husband was working at a low paying job too ! We still had to get EBT,! Four a family of four!

  • @glendavis1266
    @glendavis1266 Год назад

    Interestingly in Iowa some counties wanted to raise the minimum wage but the state legislature overruled it. Legislators don't get it!

    • @I.AM.JUPITER
      @I.AM.JUPITER 6 месяцев назад

      Because you don’t have a voice, they’re only working for the top 1%

  • @derekmiller8564
    @derekmiller8564 Год назад

    Is this class about "I" iiiii?

  • @coryryder9070
    @coryryder9070 2 года назад

    i am still "able" to work but boarder line disabieled with nerve damage in shoulder

  • @user-ug9bd8sf5d
    @user-ug9bd8sf5d Год назад

    When I went to apply for EBT the case worker ask how werewemaking it!

  • @UrFaveMF
    @UrFaveMF 2 года назад

    Poverty is a policy choice ❤️

    • @landontesar3070
      @landontesar3070 Год назад

      There was a conversation about WalMart employees being subsidized by public funds due to their low incomes. Seems an illustration. Think it was Jon Stewart.

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 11 месяцев назад

      Do you believe in a livable wage

  • @lfarnham6990
    @lfarnham6990 11 месяцев назад

    I'm wondering if Professor Reich would resign if he had it to do over.

  • @macanoodough
    @macanoodough 2 года назад +1

    This is where I separate from Robert. I don't believe the argument is what's nicer or more humane. That's a bonus that often comes part & parcel with good policy. If a policy works, if it makes financial sense, which welfare absolutely does, then it does not matter how popular it is. You keep it because it's proven to better our society, improve our economy and hurts not a single solitary individual. It's only negative effect is taxing the top 0.1%. I hardly call that a negative effect. This is what I like to call Leadership. One's ability to educate, illuminate and build a consensus, not pander...

    • @jimallen8186
      @jimallen8186 2 года назад

      Popularity matters to the politicians that have to pass it in order to have the policy, so yes, popularity matters. Leadership of the sort you think there is doesn’t exist in our adversarial intentionally dysfunctional political system. Educating, illuminating, consensus building can’t be done in our polarized environment. The mere fact one supports it automatically makes others oppose it by reflex. Only popularity can counter such. Now, if we had Congress having secret sessions…

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 11 месяцев назад

      It Leeds to less production and lowers liveing standards for everyone if you can live for free than why work hard enough to take a skilled job

    • @macanoodough
      @macanoodough 10 месяцев назад

      @@fritzforsthoefel8031 You should do some research outside of the news media before making statements. We are and always will be a Welfare State. The choice is: will it be for the people, or for industry? Because nobody gets more welfare than our banks and mega-corporations. The U.S.A. was also shot to prominence only in the 30's, and it lasted 40 years until they began dismantling it. So no facts support your opinion. You're still entitled to it, but many say it's our sense of entitlement that is destroying us.

  • @berrytrenzy
    @berrytrenzy 2 года назад +1

    Mr Brian Nelson is the best, recommending him to all beginners who wants to recover losses like I did

  • @midori6756
    @midori6756 3 месяца назад

    Elimination of AFDC led directly to the militarization of the police and the prison economy 😢

  • @anthonymorales842
    @anthonymorales842 Год назад

    who grades the papers ?

  • @aboutdawntoday
    @aboutdawntoday Год назад

    Yes to unions!!!

  • @charlesbrown6664
    @charlesbrown6664 2 года назад

    Talk about employee abuse, burnout

  • @harrisonwintergreen1147
    @harrisonwintergreen1147 Год назад

    Reich is a lawyer. What does any of this have to do with law? Is he qualified to teach this topic?

    • @fig1115
      @fig1115 Год назад

      Reich has a master’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics. you have access to the internet the same as me , he also has decades of real world experience.

  • @kimberlychodur3508
    @kimberlychodur3508 Год назад +1

    That’s why I feel social programs need to be for everyone, not based on income.

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 11 месяцев назад

      Who would pay for it we already have a debt so big it defies belief our children will have to pay for

    • @kimberlychodur3508
      @kimberlychodur3508 11 месяцев назад

      @@fritzforsthoefel8031 that excuse is used all the time, but yet we spend billions on Defense, more than the next ten countries combined, we find the money to give subsidies and bailouts to big corporations. Yet we do nothing for the people, the only country without universal healthcare, universal childcare, college free tuition, paid family leave, paid maternity leave, or any of the social safety net programs that other countries have enjoyed for years. If we keep saying we’re the richest country in the world, we sure don’t prove it.

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 11 месяцев назад

      We are not the richest country in the world and have huge deficits brought on by democrat handouts how do you think we should reduce our debt

    • @kimberlychodur3508
      @kimberlychodur3508 11 месяцев назад

      @@fritzforsthoefel8031 why don’t we go back to the tax code of the 50s and 60s where the big corporations and rich paid 90%, right now with their off shore accounts and tax breaks they pay less than the middle class does, and I’m talking percentage wise.

    • @kimberlychodur3508
      @kimberlychodur3508 11 месяцев назад

      @@fritzforsthoefel8031 funny how you say we can’t afford social programs like other countries because of our deficit but don’t answer the question of how we keep affording subsidies, bailouts and huge defense spending budgets. So the deficit only matters when it comes to things that help the people?

  • @CBT5777
    @CBT5777 9 месяцев назад

    We need UBI to pay for our healthcare.

  • @user-ug9bd8sf5d
    @user-ug9bd8sf5d Год назад

    And employers don't like giving raises either my husband ask for a raise after a year he was told he would have to be fired first!

  • @drd4059
    @drd4059 Год назад

    Poverty is not a policy decision, it is a consequence of a sequence of personal choices. The difference between poverty and wealth is work ethic. My grandfather was a dirt poor farmer, in the bottom 10% economically, but he passed his work ethic and intellect to following generations. My aunt chose to be a socialist politician. She never had a functional car. Those of us that chose to work hard built successful careers in the trades, education and STEM. The "secret" to success is simple: get an education (we did well enough academically to win full scholarships), work as hard as it takes to get the job done, and do a better job than anyone else. Even if the playing field is tilted as Reich says, you just need to work harder to climb the hill.

    • @landontesar3070
      @landontesar3070 Год назад

      It's not clear those same opportunities are available and illustrated to all. School system A vs School system B. They are inherently different so inherently unequal. They will prepare students differently. A mouse on a wheel may work hard and not accomplish a lot.

    • @drd4059
      @drd4059 Год назад

      @@landontesar3070 A good student teaches himself or herself. A good school makes the climb easier, but does not determine the outcome. Playing the blame game rather than looking in the mirror only rationalizes poor performance.

    • @SandfordSmythe
      @SandfordSmythe Год назад

      You forget the job market is a pyramid. Only so many good jobs. You grabbed one that maybe others can't have now.

    • @drd4059
      @drd4059 Год назад

      @@SandfordSmythe Its not a zero sum game: you can wait like a baby chick for mother government to drop a worm in your mouth (zero sum) or you can leave the nest and find your own worm.

    • @fig1115
      @fig1115 Год назад

      lol how very conservative ,and also a position that is shallow and lacks any empathy .
      "Poverty is not a policy decision" what is the largest predictor of criminality in any society ? i will tell you , poverty
      policy is not everything but it is significant when it comes to wealth inequality in any society.
      "it is a consequence of a sequence of personal choices" so a poor person whos family need them to work just to keep the roof over there head has the same opportunity to make personal choices as a person who does not have to work and get there education paid for by there family ?
      do you do any critical thinking at all ? your claim is laughable absurd ,woefully ignorant and typically lacking in empathy ,the old conservative "because i can or did every one can" its crap
      btw shallow man if every one climbed the pyramid there would still be a bottom and a top ffs.
      low iq , dyslexia, autism, bipolar, depression, physical disability, poor verbal skills, anxiety, etc etc etc you would have them at the bottom of society because they don't have your ability's,and i would have them be all they can be with the help of government and our society would be enriched by it .
      people like you very often change there tune when they have child that has all the drive in the world but no realistic option to be the best they can be . i have seen it time and time again .
      i dont have to have any skin ion the game to be empathetic to see what's best for society.
      i guaranty if a person like you had a treatable terminal illness that the insurance company ducked out of paying for you would go straight to mother government with your mouth open bagging for a worm .
      you and people like you think your the cure when in fact you are the cause.

  • @tptp5118
    @tptp5118 2 года назад +2

    Treasures in Heaven Matthew 6 NIV
    19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
    22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy,[c] your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eyes are unhealthy,[d] your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
    24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
    Do Not Worry
    25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?
    28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you-you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.ll

  • @weksauce
    @weksauce 2 года назад +1

    Minimum wage shouldn't exist, BUT only within the context of robust social safety net. As long as we have no robust social safety net, then minimum wage is a less-bad bandaid.

    • @Qriator
      @Qriator 2 года назад +2

      I feel like UBI would do what minimum wage was meant to do, only better.

    • @weksauce
      @weksauce 2 года назад +1

      @@Qriator My only criticism of UBI is it should be UBW, universal basic wealth, instead. You can stay poor on a basic income. Not nearly so on a basic wealth.

    • @Qriator
      @Qriator 2 года назад

      @@weksauce I might get behind the idea if I understood it better, but I do not know the differences. I have some sense still that work should reward workers for important contributions, and that capitalism can be helpful to determine some of that value. So, not disagreeing, but curious I guess as to the meaning.

    • @weksauce
      @weksauce 2 года назад

      @@Qriator Wealth is valuable stuff, income is money. Because wealth is what we want, it's the whole point of participating in an economic system.
      For example, would you rather get your share of all the land, companies, patents, produce, and stuff that our economy creates/has, or are you content with some USD transferred to your account every month/quarter/year?
      I'm trying to minimize income, because it's (mostly) taxable. Obviously, every rational human is trying to maximize wealth. But it's less obvious that every rational actor, individuals and collective organizations, should be minimizing (taxable) income at the same time.

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 5 месяцев назад

      Ubi is nothing more than free money for adults that will add to our debt our children will have to pay for adults living off our children vote out handout Democrats before it's to late our childrens future depend on it

  • @georgegates526
    @georgegates526 Год назад

    You know that Corporations can do anything they want to workers. Like Professor Wolf said. Once you step over the threshold of the door you work at. ALL of your rights are gone.

  • @normalizedaudio2481
    @normalizedaudio2481 2 года назад

    I am on food stamps and can't afford to comment on Prof. Reich's Substack. Substack is just for rich people.

    • @idfubar
      @idfubar 2 года назад

      Contact the course staff (they'll likely accommodate you if your interest is sincere!)...

  • @7628739
    @7628739 Год назад

    As long as we elect the same career political patriots for their own greedy agendas. The song will remain the same

  • @user-ug9bd8sf5d
    @user-ug9bd8sf5d Год назад

    Then I got a new job cleaning office building s on the AFB I was living near a third shift job at 6.20 $ a hour we my family still had to get EBT cause everything else took our money, car insurance, rent electric bill, gas, water bill, clothes, intertainment,which was renting movies,going to movies houses cost too much so did bowling! We stayed at home and watchef rentals movies!

  • @rbj5767
    @rbj5767 2 года назад +1

    The Sibling Society was the most important thing that was going on (please read Robert Bly 🐗👑💙🗡️🇺🇲💔👹❣️). Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich were BOTH man-children and siblings with much in common.

  • @Pallasathena-hv4kp
    @Pallasathena-hv4kp Год назад

    There is a 4th and 5th way employers can avoid minimum wage. Use prisoners and employ the mentally/physically disabled.

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 11 месяцев назад

      Who does that your talking nosense no wonder you vote democrat

  • @onceagain6184
    @onceagain6184 Год назад +1

    He makes a lot of sense but he is wrong about the effects of illegal immigration on American citizens!

  • @johns.7297
    @johns.7297 2 года назад +3

    Sure enough, cash transfers to the poor is an effective way to reduce poverty. It's policy science, not rocket science.

    • @sprinkle61
      @sprinkle61 2 года назад

      Not so fast, have you adjusted poverty statistics for inflation ? Those cash transfers came from printed money, and now that money printing has caused wages to grow much less than inflation, and MUCH less than rents (!!) The end result of this free money boondoggle is very likely to be MORE people in poverty and homeless, as the lower middle class are priced out of homes, and onto the streets. This 'experiment' can't be looked at in a vacuum, as the long term effects of money debasement are only now hitting the economy, and the results of cash transfers may ironically be MORE poverty, because of the long term damage it has done to the economy, and the lack of permanent improvements in the lives of the poor, which are now once again poor, as the cash payments have bee stopped for now.

    • @johns.7297
      @johns.7297 2 года назад

      @@sprinkle61 Yes, increase M1 by $4+ trillion and you get inflation. There is little doubt about that. I was thinking about ordinary times with TANF, SSI, food stamps, and Medicaid. .

    • @sprinkle61
      @sprinkle61 2 года назад

      @@johns.7297 Yes, these are trying times. I was referring to the video saying that the much larger child tax credit during covid was a perfect experiment for poverty prevention, but my point was that the experiment must include the results of the inflation it caused, because the two things are directly linked. Even in ordinary times, these programs you mentioned are more of a 'poverty band-aid', in that the poverty is still there, its just covered up with the cash payments, so its hard to see them as a long term solution, since paying people not to be poor does not deal with the root issues of the loss of good middle class jobs, and wages declining in real terms. These things will cause poverty to reassert itself, any time there is a disruption in the payments, and there WILL be disruptions in payments, as the budget deficit seems to be spiraling up infinitely, and that may have been semi-sustainable before covid, but the shock of covid seems to have broken the 'stable prices' camel's back, and now the inflation is raging, and this genie seems pretty pissed, and not in any way being forced back into its bottle by the Fed's piddily 0.25 % rate increase...

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 11 месяцев назад

      It does nothing to encourage the poor to take skilled jobs that there is a shortage of skilled labor for it simply allows one group of people to live off some else's labor and is the cause off our debt being so big it defies belief why do you not pay high enough taxes to support social programs we have already democrats party of handouts

  • @bikerjohn
    @bikerjohn 2 года назад +1

    Minimizing those dramatic pauses are best accomplished by listening to your lectures at 1.5x playback speed.

    • @CynthiaSchoenbauer
      @CynthiaSchoenbauer 2 года назад +2

      Whatever works for you and how you consume information and your learning style... Personally, I learn in a very experiential way with Prof. Reich and at times like to slow him down to .75x. His energy helps me glean yet deeper messages for my life. It is nice to see people manipulating learning tools in a way that works for them and their goals for learning and retaining information and experiences.

    • @idfubar
      @idfubar 2 года назад

      ... or select the three dots near the lower right-hand corner of the video window, select 'Show transcript', copy/paste to a file that's comfortably readable, & 'viola!': roll your own pause.
      (Lecture is, anyway... optional, yes?)

  • @user-ug9bd8sf5d
    @user-ug9bd8sf5d Год назад

    I didn't have to pay childcare my kid were in school or my husband watched the kids and they would go to bed early

  • @ArslanOtcular
    @ArslanOtcular 16 часов назад

    Davis Thomas Garcia Matthew Harris Carol

  • @BoydGilbreath
    @BoydGilbreath 2 года назад

    The EITC comes from the taxpayers. Raising the minimum wage comes from the rich and big business.

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 11 месяцев назад

      A doctor in NYC who goes to college maney years and works long hours and earns four hundred thousand dollars a year will pay between state local and federal taxes half his money to the government on the other hand democrats say if you drop out of school get a low skilled job you should have a livable wage healthcare paid family leave vacation time and pension and childcare so according to democrats your an idiot to work hard enough to take a skilled job when you can drop out of school get a low skilled job and live good democrat party of handouts vote out handout democrats before it's to late our children's future depend on it

  • @coryryder9070
    @coryryder9070 2 года назад

    i so would love to be your student and pick your brains lol

  • @user-ug9bd8sf5d
    @user-ug9bd8sf5d Год назад

    Because the wages are so low people still need EBT or welfare, especially if people are working at McDonald's, burger king and Wendy's slot of people don't have college degrees or high school diplomas people who don't get diplomas get paid the lowest wages!

  • @fightthepower4648
    @fightthepower4648 Год назад

    Real SOLUTION: RUclips video "Global Declaration of Independence - Fight the Power"

  • @user-ug9bd8sf5d
    @user-ug9bd8sf5d Год назад

    People who have drug offences won't get hired either,of a person has theft on their records they won't get hired either Evan at vonvient storees!

  • @udsw2003
    @udsw2003 2 года назад

    Just acknowledge that profits should rise by inflation in the long-run. That means both rev and cost rise...however they don't do it at the exact same time. Of course the company would like rev to go up first.

    • @sprinkle61
      @sprinkle61 2 года назад +1

      Inflation is theft, and theft primarily from the poor. Profits should be measured in percentages, and not dollar value, otherwise they can't be judged over time. If the profit margin is the same, the dollar amount really doesn't matter, as its debasement is continuous, so if companies are not making record profits every few years, they are actually in decline, at least in real terms.

  • @user-ug9bd8sf5d
    @user-ug9bd8sf5d Год назад

    But then the children are not happy especially toddlers and infants , ifmom is working two jobs,there is chaos in the home!

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 5 месяцев назад

      Before big government big Democrat handouts it only took one person working to support a family of four after big government big Democrat handouts it took two people working to support a family of four a big drop in liveing standards vote out handout Democrats before it's to late our debt is at dangerous levels because you won't pay enough taxes to cover the cost of Democrat programs why is that vote out handout Democrats before it's to late

  • @unpopularmoviereviews3622
    @unpopularmoviereviews3622 2 года назад +1

    "the only way Congress can give one American one dollar is to first, through intimidation, threats, and coercion, confiscate that dollar from some other American. If a private citizen did the same thing that Congress does, we would call it...theft" -Walter E Williams

  • @CynthiaSchoenbauer
    @CynthiaSchoenbauer 2 года назад

    I think the person who handles the slide is conservative and thinks we do not really NEED to see the slides... or not all of them... It's quality apparently that we don't need. Someone is saving time and money on us and us receiving the information or is there "bad forces" of witches and warlocks doing this and does not want the message to get out. It really make you wonder sometimes. I am however enjoying all the talk about equality that Prof. Reich can give us despite all the obstacles.

    • @idfubar
      @idfubar 2 года назад +1

      One could send a short note to the course staff asking for a small change to the materials provided?
      Lectures have - thus far - included a 'Table of Contents' cueing to various topics of the lecture; having a 1-to-1 correspondence with the slides would obviate the concern... ("closed mouths don't get fed, as they say-")

    • @CynthiaSchoenbauer
      @CynthiaSchoenbauer 2 года назад +1

      @@idfubar I think you are supporting my complaint. If so, Thank You!

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 11 месяцев назад

      Why do you not pay high enough taxes to pay for the social programs we have now our debt is huge getting bigger and is unsustainable our children will inherit a bankrupt shell of a nation because of democrat handouts vote out democrats before it's to late

  • @TedApelt
    @TedApelt Год назад

    Funny how no one seems to say that we need generous welfare benefits so that employers will have an incentive to provide good paying jobs!

  • @satxsatxsatx
    @satxsatxsatx Год назад

    As I comment, this lecture is one year old
    Professor Reich if he were teaching in today's Confederate and Red States, he would be fired for cause, Even if he had tenure, due to political pressure being financed by the oligarchy

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 5 месяцев назад

      Reich lies by withholding information from you vote out handout Democrats before it's to late

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 5 месяцев назад

      Reich is for affordable housing unless its in his neighborhood where opposes it Reich lies by withholding information from you I can name maney examples

  • @user-ug9bd8sf5d
    @user-ug9bd8sf5d Год назад

    Trump said if the wages went to 15.$ hour the business would have to close down!

    • @I.AM.JUPITER
      @I.AM.JUPITER 6 месяцев назад

      Trump lies, they all lie, every politician lies, they are all in the hands of the wealthy and the corporations.

  • @joeldwest
    @joeldwest Год назад

    Stopped a leftist movement

  • @lizannewhitlow1085
    @lizannewhitlow1085 Год назад

    Vote blue. ✊🏻✊🏻

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 5 месяцев назад

      Then pay enough taxes to cover the cost of the social programs Democrats want instead of bankrupting our nation for our children vote out handout Democrats before it's to late

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 5 месяцев назад

      We have a debt at record levels our interest payments alone is over a half a trillion dollars our bond status was downgraded for the first time ever under Obama and Biden our debt is bigger than our entire economy our children will inherit a bankrupt shell of a nation because you won't pay enough taxes to pay for the government services Democrats want why do Democrats hate our children

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 5 месяцев назад

      Will you pay half your income to the government to pay for the social programs Democrats want if not you who should pay or do you think it's ok to live off our children because they are the ones who will have to pay for the debt Democrat programs have brought us vote out handout Democrats before it's to late

  • @facitenonvictimarum
    @facitenonvictimarum 2 года назад

    The poor what?

  • @davidcorbett9851
    @davidcorbett9851 Год назад

    Get life basics and Job training in all high schools decent min wage that gos up with the cost of living and true equal rights and u won't need much help cause there. Would be tons less poverty. The rich take too much for nothing stole it hoarding cause they did not do 10 times more better more important work and did not do 10 times more hrs àndnd we can replace them all with 2 average paid people at 40 hrs a week

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 11 месяцев назад

      The rich pay almost all the federal taxes what are you talking about

    • @I.AM.JUPITER
      @I.AM.JUPITER 6 месяцев назад

      So just because one person abuses the the system, we are all punished for that?

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 5 месяцев назад

      We live off the rich they pay almost all the federal taxes and get next to nothing in return what are you talking about

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 5 месяцев назад

      Elon musk paid over 12 billion dollars in taxes last year and what did the government do with his money things like paying Harvard university seven hundred thousand dollars to blow lizards off trees with leaf blowers musk on the other hand lives frugally and reinvests most of his money back into the corperations he runs employing thousands of people makeing environmentally friendly products mabey musk should get a tax cut so he can create more environmentally friendly products and employee more people or should lizard blowing government get more of his money vote out handout Democrats they are destroying us

  • @tommyselbe1999
    @tommyselbe1999 Год назад

    1:10:02 give everyone $30.00 an hour 😂 think about it! No welfare. No Homeless No unemployed! Everyone spending cash and paying bills. Okay so there is still mental health and addiction but I bet we can handle it better

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 5 месяцев назад

      Democrats say that if you work you should have a livable wage healthcare paid family leave vacation time and pension and childcare so according to Democrats drop out of school get a low skilled job and live good why put forth extra effort to take a skilled job when you can drop out of school get a low skilled job and live good

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 5 месяцев назад

      A surgeon in NYC who goes to college maney years and works long hours and earns four hundred thousand dollars a year will pay between state local and federal half his money to the government and Biden says it should be more

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 5 месяцев назад

      On the other hand according to Democrats if you work you should have a livable wage healthcare paid family leave vacation time and pension and childcare so according to you a person is an idiot to work hard enough to be a surgeon in NYC when all you have to do is drop out of school get a low skilled job and live good vote out handout Democrats before it's to late

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 5 месяцев назад

      In china under communist leader mao rich people's money was taken and gave to the masses and low skilled workers wages rose dramatically result millions starved now under capitalism low skilled workers make low wages and there are billionaires result china has one of the fastest growing economies in the world explain that

  • @youtubesucks1499
    @youtubesucks1499 2 года назад

    Yeah, don't have kids you can't afford.

  • @donaldobrien9171
    @donaldobrien9171 2 года назад

    Some people disagree with the professor. He should be " moderated"

    • @Patriot1789
      @Patriot1789 2 года назад +1

      If you disagree, let us hear what you have to say. In short, do the “moderating” you say you want.

  • @sprinkle61
    @sprinkle61 2 года назад

    You can't judge the 'success' of the covid 'free' money payments, without including the persistent long term inflation created by them. The middle class will be MUCH worse off in the end, once all the cost increases are pushed into the rent payments. I suspect that permanent poverty will be MUCH higher in 5 years, so you have to look at the totality of what the policy did, not just the initial sugar high caused by free dollars, that both didn't last, and caused costs to rise far faster than wages.

    • @Combatwhombat
      @Combatwhombat Год назад +1

      97% of tenants paid their rents. With no other sources of income and businesses shut down. The 'success' of stimulus payments was that it bailed out the majority of landlords while scapegoating the poor for accepting assistance. Combined with PPP grants, caused a near instant transfer of wealth towards the top.

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 11 месяцев назад

      The stimulus money added 800 billion dollars to our debt our children will have to pay for

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 11 месяцев назад

      ​why do you think some people should be able to consume without producing democrats party of handouts that is destroying us our debt is so large it is unimaginable because of democrat handouts

  • @outbacktrek
    @outbacktrek 9 месяцев назад +1