The Bigger the Government... | 5 Minute Video
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- Опубликовано: 2 мар 2014
- In every society throughout human history the following relationship has held true: as government grows, human freedom and happiness shrinks. Best selling author, Dennis Prager puts it this way: "The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." This has been true in Europe for decades and is becoming ever more so in the United States. But it's not the kind of nation, the Founding Fathers had in mind. Can we get back to the principles of liberty and individual responsibility? It's a big challenge. But first we have to recognize the problem.
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The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen. This is one of the most important realizations about society you will ever have. In fact, this understanding is the primary reason for America’s unique success as both a free and affluent society.
Everything gets smaller as the government gets bigger. Liberty gets smaller, individuality gets smaller, goodness gets smaller, and human character gets smaller. This is not a political point on behalf of a political party. It is simply an observable fact. And it’s just common sense.
Now, no one denies that government can and must do certain things. There’s plenty for government to do. It’s the government that must protect us from foreign attacks. That’s why we have armed forces. It’s the government that must protect us from criminals within our country. That’s why we have police. Likewise fire departments and courts are obviously necessary government institutions. And, yes, when all else fails -- private and religious-based charities, families, friends -- then, too, the government must be there to provide a safety net of last resort. But it must always be “of last resort.” When government is the first resort -- the first place citizens look when they have a problem -- bad things happen.
As government grows almost everything else begins to disappear.
The first thing that goes when government gets bigger than it needs to be is goodness. Yes, goodness. As the state gets bigger, people simply do less good for their fellow citizens. After all, why help others when the government will do it for you?
This is the reason that, as noted by the international non-profit organization, Charities Aid Foundation, and shown in study after study, Americans give more charity and volunteer more time to help others than do Europeans, not to mention just about everybody else in the world.
From the beginning, Americans understood that government must be small and therefore individuals must devote time and money to helping others, as well as non-governmental institutions of goodness, they have to be large and plentiful.
Europeans, on the other hand, with their philosophy of big government, came to rely on the state to help their fellow citizens -- and even their own family members.
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A government can give nothing to a person that it has not first taken from someone else.
+MrBanausos That's not what that means
+MrBanausos The 1% pays over 50% of our taxes
This is true for all nations weather they lean more to the left or to the right.
teraxiel perfect definition of socialism
And the left is supposed to be compassionate. Go figurr
Many ways to express this idea in words.
One of my favorite ways: the more the government can give you, the more it can take away from you.
That's why you have things like rights and laws.
@@spicewilliam9786true, but rights and laws aren’t always upheld.
"This is not a political point" .... you seriously expect us to believe that?
+SomethingRedundant its literally common sense. you cant expect a big government to make things better, that is directly against the american dream, the thing that makes america different
I completely agree with you +SomethingRedundant
It's not political at all. It's common sense.
this video explains why europe is dying.
macaronimick Europe isn't dying. Some countries like Greece and Italy are doing bad however because they spend way more than they would be able on their own, without the support of the EU.
macaronimick You mean the gold age of Europe when the biggest problems are money and Russia, not cruel wars, diseases, poverty and Russia like it used to be?
Jeroen Bollen Yes Europe is dying. They have no resources and no manufacturing.
MRAZ_LT Europe has a services economy. Furthermore, we do have a lot of manufacturing regardless.
You don't need resources to be wealthy. The real profit is made in using those resources.
Jeroen Bollen Lol! A SERVICE ECONOMY IS A FALLACY. A "KNOWLEDGE BASED ECONOMY" IS MADE UP. IT WON'T WORK. Please learn things before talking. Thanks.
I hope today we as a society are not too far gone to revert back to the small government our founding fathers intended
Like tye wild west where theft and murder was common and you had to rely on other theives and murderers for protection. Sounds like a really shitty place.
The EU-Flag does not represent Europe.
then what flag should they use then to represent Europe?
99batran the flags of all European countries
Jason Schneijder
That would be too much. There needs to be a central symbolism for European "pride".
99batran Yeah but the eu flag is kinda misleading
Jason Schneijder
there still should be some form of symbolism for Europe as a whole.
If America is so wonderful, why does its prison system incarcerate more people than the total population of most countries and perennially trails European countries in standardized testing scores, happiness and healthiness of its people, crime rates, etc.?
A large part of that is due to illegal aliens clogging up 1/3 of our prison space and Obama's unwillingness to put an end to the border crises. When you spend 1 trillion dollars on welfare, scabs are going to try to abuse it to their advantage.
+Ronnie Reb All that's wrong in America is because it's not more like Europe.
+Babyloo Bibovski America has big government.
***** You're delusional...
+Babyloo Bibovski If America was so bad then why do we get more immigrants coming to our shores than any other nation on earth?
Big gov = high taxes and high regulations.
Small gov = low taxes and low regulations.
Not complicated.
Ummm thoughts on Twitter and Facebook?
regulations are needed so everything doesn't degrade to slavery and endless exploration
Low regulation means that your corporate overlords can do whatever they want with you.
If you want to see a perfect example of the sense of entitlement, simple look at nonprofit hospitals. My wife deals with people every day with 'entitled' people. These people are so demanding, they act like they are royalty, and everyone else are nothing more than servants. They are so used to receiving free things, they don't even think about it anymore. In their mind they think "If I want it, I deserve it and you will give it to me!” Give me, give me, give me, free, free, free, I want, I want, I want, etc… There is a stark contrast between ‘entitled’ people and people who work for what they have. It is a stark contrast in the way people treat the nursing staff and what they expect from the hospital, plus their attitudes overall. The ‘entitled’ people rarely leave a positive review, because they always feel they are not getting enough. The positive reviews come from the people who do not feel they are entitled.
@MrBanausos What a stupid comment....
MrBanausos Nobody is entitled to other people's time, effort, and work, no matter what the reason is. If you're dying, you should be thankful that people are willing to work to help you. They don't have to, but they do.
MrBanausos Sorry, I honestly can't tell if you're being serious or not...
MrBanausos Since you are obviously not up for a discussion and are only interested in echo chambers where you all call the opposing side names: I'm not going to have this discussion.
@MrBanausos Where is your proof that She Accepted Medicaid? Dr Stone is correct. No one is entitled to my time or services without compensation. Same for you. No one is entitled to your time or services without compensation. My time and service is given to my place of employment not to you or others. My place of employment pays me to care for you and others. It was my choice to work where I work. The pay is my compensation. You benefit. You are not entitled to it for free. If you have been given it for free either someone paid for it in time and expense.
Citizens who surrender freedom to get security end up with neither. I forget who said this but I believe it was one of the founding fathers....and it's more true now than it has ever been.
Keep up the great work, Dennis.
Rust, compared to C++, makes you sacrifice your freedom in the name of safety, and Rust is widely believed to be the future of systems programming.
Well said! The smaller the government is, the wealthier the citizens. So let's make America a territory with NO government, , so we all get rich!
Fully agree. As long as capitalism is abolished in accordance. The current system and capitalism should be replaced with Anarchy in my opinion.
@@PottersVideos2 Replace Capitalism with Productivism. Both are Merit Based. But less so, Capitalism. Capitalism, how much you have determines what you earn. If we only switched to Productivism, where what you produce determines how much youearn. Certainly not Communism or Socialism. Yes, you'll say that Productivism doesn't exist. True, but the word says all the meaning you need to know.
By the way. The corrupt part of Capitalism? It's in The Bible. It's called Usury. Not what it means now. What it meant then. No interest. You do NOT earn more than you sow. EVER. Used to be abolished for more than a century. But a certain Tiny Hat Tribe introduced it back and has corrupted economy ever since.
Look it up. USURY = EVIL
@@PottersVideos2 nope either libertarian socialism or Market Socialism
I don't understand the logic behind some of the dissenting comments. Most objections I see on Prager's videos only attack the name of conservatism-they don't address any of the arguments that are actually made. Whether the content is "political" or "conservative propaganda" is an irrelevant and invalid point.
Garrett Benton it’s because they don’t like it when they get a taste of their own medicine (A partisan channel that actually has subscribers), so they’re frustrated and think this channel shouldn’t be allowed to post. Of course, they can’t say that, so they just insult and make stupid insults for an attempt at slander
Garrett Benton yeah, try telling that to the angry conservatives who storm on TYT, CNN, Vox, and anything that resembles the left
@@thoteater1756 Vox??? Recently they managed to get Steven Crowder in trouble just because they didn't like what he was saying. Check ur facts.
@@thoteater1756 Also tell that to angry Communists who come and storm The daily wire, fox news, PragerU, YAFTV, and many more. Hypocrite
@@tigger3914 There are techicly people who act irrational on both sides. (Althogh probly more on the left.)
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But what really matters is which side has the better logical and/or moral argument.
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Part of that involves correctly understanding your opponent's opinion, and how they came to it, in order to effectivly promote and/or modify your own opinion.
Thank you, Dennis. I am assuming that you are THE Founding Father of Prager University. Your Work is GREATLY APPRECIATED. And I am spreading the Message.
He actually said somewhere that the founder was one of his friends, Alan Ester. But he is the leader now :)
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@@orangejuicewhalepuck That's garbage leftist link
@@orangejuicewhalepuck Yes, you see "SOME" Hypocrisy from the Right/Conservatives, that is a True Statement. Also True is the Saying:
"If it wasn't for the DOUBLE Standard, Leftists wouldn't have ANY Standards".
99.999993% of the Hypocrisy is from the LEFTISTS!!!!
@@michaelschultz342 give some examples lmao
He's right. This is why I don't give to charities . I just paid my taxes today, and I think I "give" enough to the poor thank you very much.
I give money to charity all the time. I would give more if 38% of my income wasn't taken away from me.
***** My charity wouldn't buy votes to the democratic party. And I say "charity" fallaciously. Paying lazy people and drug addicts isn't charity.
+zxcnjfrsfg those taxes go through the political bureaucracy and come out the other side that much smaller whereas donations given directly will obviously have less taken out to cover administration expenses. that is just common sense. charities are also incentivizes improve their "business" in order to gain more donations. as always, fair competition brings the best results. taxes have none of these things. a government program can have the most inefficient infrastructure, one that could result in less that 1cent going to those in need for every dollar donated but would still be funded by taxpayers because they have no choice in the matter. also, teach people to not be lazy? really? are we going to forcibly indoctrinate them? brainwash them into being productive members of society? you cannot teach someone who is not willing to learn. and they cannot see that they need to learn if they do not see the consequences of their actions.
TheWearyWarlord We would help them if we were 100% sure that they’d get active. Which isn’t really the majority doing. It is quite their fault, (except their childhood/parents) if they did the wrong choices or decided to quit. If they don’t move on and continue despite what happened to them, they will stay lazy and unproductive, especially if they don’t fight to remove the bad beliefs and the past they had in their minds.
exactly, i never give to charity because they take more than half my salary in tax money. Apparently they know better what to do with my money.
As usual, half truths and half logic. It should be called Prager Half University.
abc64pan "Audi alteram partem"*
* Let the other side be heard as well
abc64pan Can you point these out?
Max Arsenault What do you mean? Arguments or people?
abc64pan Ahh yes, I liked where you provided sources that he is wrong.
World is not just black and white. Remember that.
Denmark, Sweden and Norway are pretty good examples of the falseness of this concept. Denmark has the biggest government in the world, yet we have far more human rights and gain more social benefits from the "big evil government" than in America. And of course it's the happiest country in the world.
SteakOnSpear Also it is not that Norway, Sweden or Denmark are in a deep crisis financially or that people are not free in those countries. I would say that it is just a different mindset. Both systems can work well together. However, it is the mentality of the people that allows them to work! If everyone in Denmark would be sitting on their hands the system would not work and if the US government wouldn't provide some sort of social security, plenty of people would live terrible lives, which would cause riots and social unrest.
It is true that the US a higher income discrepancy between the haves and have nots than plenty of european countries and it is also true that especially the nordic countries seems to do very well in terms of population happiness.
In the end the question is, what matters most for you? I would argue that most would opt for a happy durable life. It is shortsighted to say that either one of the systems only works and the other would be bad. These kind of videos are so short sighted and dogmatic that the only bring out division between something that is in reality not really that much different at all.
Drenched Peaches There is no reason to believe that populations alone is what decides it.
Drenched Peaches Population size does not matter at all in this issue. Whether a country has a small pop with a similar small income or a big pop with a big income, the principle stays the same. Your point does not make any logic and does not explain anything.
Drenched Peaches Actually yes we do, 10% of Denmark population is Arabs, in Sweden it's even more.
SteakOnSpear Sweden is becoming a third world country comes 2030, homelessness and unemployment is rising, test scores are falling, crime reports are outstandingly high, and some of it's areas is out of public order and safety. Dubbed rape capital of Europe. also dubbed, the greatest socialist experiment in the world.
As a non-American, the amount of animosity Americans feel towards their democratically elected representatives is strange and frightening.
Yeah, like those hooligans that stormed the capital building to overthrow their democratically elected leader.
more like elected by corporations. #Lobbyistdemocracy
Ok, I have been reading through this comment section, and I think it is high time someone set the record straight on what the term "conservative" actually means. "Conservative" is not a political party. We have a political party, the Republican party, that tends to have a higher conservative constituency than the other party in our bi-partisan system, but that does not mean that the terms "Republican" and "Conservative" are interchangeable.
Also, the terms "Conservative" and "Christian" are not interchangeable either. Christianity is a religion that happens to push conservative values heavily, so there is a rather strong representation of Christians among conservatives, but this also does not make the two synonymous.
What makes you a conservative is really quite simple.
1. You place a heavy value on the family unit, believing in pair-bonding for life.
2. You believe in fiscal responsibility and supporting yourself financially.
3. You believe in small government and personal freedom.
Point number three also extrapolates to a heavy emphasis on the free market due to the fact that every other economic system in existence requires the government to get involved. This is why it is ridiculous to see someone say that trickle down economics has anything to do with conservatism as it actually violates both #2 and #3 off of the above list. Trickle down economics may be a republican policy, but it is not a conservative policy.
So, simple as that. Coservatism believes in a small government, liberalism believes in a big government. However, Conservative is not synonymous with Republican and Liberal is not synonymous with Democrat. There are quite a few liberal policies in the Republican party recently, and George Bush was a very liberal republican. There have also been some very Conservative Democrats, such as Bill Clinton. The sooner people can start separating these political parties from the common values held by a majority of that party's members, the sooner people can start discussing politics rationally.
Conservatism would be acceptable in Europe and Canada, where these values would actually help and make people more independent, but not in America. America NEEDS social help right now and smart nationalization.
***** The problem with that statement is the US military. The only reason socialism works in Europe and Canada is because they are sitting pretty under the umbrella protection of the US military. They do not spend much money on military, and so they can actually afford social welfare programs. Not so in the US.
@@42jemini There is no socialism in Europe. European countries have a capitalist free market system with a higher emphasis on social security, but that's pretty much it.
@@cristian-si1gb Social “help” can only be doled out at gunpoint. No thanks.
As governments get smaller, big business gets bigger, starts taking over more and from citizens and makes them even smaller. Finally, they even begin controlling the government. Prager's philosophy is music to their ears.
The government must be Big enough to do their Jobs yes,
but small enough so that they Do their Job and ONLY THEIR JOB, No, the government's job is not to give you money just because you majored in liberal arts and therefore can't get a real job to sustain yourself.
It always makes itself bigger. For the US, it started with Hamilton and many followed suit. The only way to stop the growth might be to keep government small, very limited and local. I’m not really sure though.
It's a natural tendency for a democratic society to become a big government. As the economy goes bad, there'd be political pressure from the people to the government to do something. Although free market is an ideal, but it requires patience for economy to fix itself and asking the congressmen to sit back and do nothing is not going to earn them votes.
Concerned Citizen Well said.
therefore I support govt size that is just adequate to do things the video said plus necessary regulations to prevent corporation greedy mistakes from backfiring to the majority middle class,
the government is supposed to provide services and ensure the welfare of its citizens. not to make profit or try to sell a product
@@derenbong6060 It will always grow. It will grow itself and no one will be able to stop it.
@@Individual_Lives_Matter I will. 😝
Any student of history knows this, from the Holy Roman Empire to the powers of the East.
Lydia Xavier Both the HRE and China had like zero government which is why there were so many civil wars
Lydia Xavier Well that isn’t what we were taught in my history classes ever since I started attending school..
The holy Roman empire itself does not make much most of the time. The states in it and their counts decided what happened.
I totally agree that "the bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." The reverse is also true (as it must logically be). So why do so few people follow this undeniable truth to its conclusion? When is the citizen at its 'largest?'
I also note that at the time of the publishing of this video, the US had already surpassed most of Europe as far as statism and collectivism are concerned. Obama has literally 'passed us on the left.'
Because people are afraid of responsibility.
Scandinavian Socialism.....
Mystogan Edolas Is awesome. Although Sweden is an example of a successful capitalist state, low welfare spending on unemployment. But they invest a lot in infrastructure, and are generally awesome. If you are looking for right wing policies base in fact look as Sweden.
The one of the most important things this video did not mention is that although the US is not controlled by the government but is controlled by the corporations who control the government. Your freedom is pretty much controlled and dictated by the directions of the corporations that don't normally put the concerns and benefits of the people in first priority. In a capitalistic society, the only thing that corporations are concerned is the profitability which can be achieved at the expenses, misery and suffering of populations. This is the main reason, the capitalistic society wants to have less government control and more freedom for the corporations (not the general public) to do whatever they want freely and lawfully. That is the primary reason that more and more homeless people in the US while corporations are making more and more profits and wealth. The riches get richer while the poors get even poorer in the US and other capitalistic society. A good government is a government who is accountable and competent and who can work together with corporations in putting the concerns and benefits for the people and country as first priority.
both big government and big company are problems.
I Like the way you didn’t put a mosque on there as an institute of goodness 🤣
I learn from him more than the public school. Thank you.
That's why Washington D.C. Is getting so wealthy, bureaucrats are leaching off government to make themselves richer at America's expense. Money goes into that cesspool and tends not to come out.
4:21 So please explain how Denmark, one of the go-to examples of 'big government' (with the second largest public sector in the world after Norway), is ranked as the world's LEAST corrupt country? The US is just barely in the top 20, being beaten by the likes of European 'entitlement states' such as the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands.
+MrSquidman007 The U.S. does have a huge govt now, and corporatist policies.
Isn't it obvious why a goverment would regulate how many hours you can keep your store open?
Lets say I operated a store, next to another, and that other store decided to be open for even a single hour more every night past me. Lets say that I don't take that decision too. In that case he takes more of my customers for this one hour, gets more money than me and spends it to update his services to the point of monopoly. And what if I decide to work as much too? Then both of us loose hours that could be spent with our family, or doing other things. That's all. If we both stay late, it's not the kind of competition that makes better things, we all loose in the end.
That's the kind of regulations that exist in Europe. Limiting freedom? How? By giving you more hours to be free to do what you want instead of working all day to make ends meet? I'd rather take that, thank you very much...
Not completely true in practice. Extra opening hours do not necessarily increase profit but with greater liberty, stores will choose the opening hours that are most profitable to them.
In my city in the Netherlands, there has been a experiment where store owners were allowed to keep their stores open for more hours a day (closing time shifted from 6PM to 8PM). But in practice, the only difference that it made was that stores now open two hours later.
Same goes for the idea that stores can't open on Sundays. This is done (so said) to protect store owners. But in reality, stores that are open on Sundays, generally make up for this on Mondays and Tuesdays so it makes no difference to them.
Your value for how many hours of family time is good in conjunction with how much money you make, is an opinion. People value different things. Especially if a mom and pop store is owned by a couple who doesn't have children, or have older children that left home.
Like every concervative, what you're saying is the what if argument. Thinking of extreme individual cases that represent a fraction of the population: " mom and pop store is owned by a couple who doesn't have children, or have older children that left home"
But any reasonable goverment would cater the universal need of their citizens. And most citizens want to wark less, or at least work reasonably long shifts, so they can spend more time with their families. It's simple as that.
Aand there can be compromises too. In some cases people can get permition to keep their stores open for longer, if all workers sign that they do want that, provided that they are payed more for their extra work and that they are not forcing other stores to keep up and compete.
TheThOdOr1s Most people want something so everyone must be forced to be that way too? That's ridiculous. People who work hard don't just help themselves, they help everyone, because we're all consumers. The hardest working people get the most rewards, and the people who want to work less get less rewards, but presumably get rewarded in non-monetary ways. That's already fair, no need to change it!
What you are doing is setting up a system where hard workers are prevented from working hard, thus societal growth is slowed.
Just because it sounds nice to let crappy business owners and their workers have time off, doesn't make it right. If they want time off, they gotta spend some money and hire more workers. If they can't, then they clearly don't deserve to have their business. Let better business people take over and serve customers (and workers). Society will be better for it.
If you choose not to keep your store open for whatever reason then so be it. Does the government need be involved to write and enforce "Time out Laws" for a lack of a better word? Please, I'm not trying to follow the Scrooge and Marley business pattern here. Lots of employees would be glad to work the schedule for appropriate pay and others will value their time off. Can't please everyone so you got to please yourself. Can I have tomorrow off Boss? No? No problem a four day weekend is just a phone call away. My termination will come in the mail !!! Oh boy not again.......
The European governments dwarfs the citizens in those countries. The United States is following a similar path. Smaller governments are better governments, just look at Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland or Australia. Those countries have freer economies than the USA.
www.heritage.org/index/
You seem to forget that those countries are failry small in size and population, it does matter a great deal.
The USA, for exemple, spawns over a very large territory, and counts a large number of citizens, it has much problematics than say Switzerland or Hong Kong
I live in Australia. We have a European style government in terms of our welfare, public education and healthcare systems. NZ is even more socialist. Our countries are amazing, and are considered as having some of the highest standards of living in the world. This Prager stuff is just right wing propaganda
Tom Davis Here's one part of the equation:
www.kpmg.com/global/en/services/tax/tax-tools-and-resources/pages/corporate-tax-rates-table.aspx
Check the trends in the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Finland etc. Yippee for the US! We're #1!
They do this all in the name of liberty and fairness.
Imagine thinking the governments job isn't to serve the public and provide its citizens with everything they need.
Yeah its called common sense
Man that's a lot of rules and regulations!
A Big BLOWUP against EU
If this is not a Conservative ideologically driven "University," I simply don't know what is.
On defence of Europe, of which my nation, the UK is part of, the Second World War was a big reason for this. The collective big government of the European Union, and the development of many European nations’ governments, was because literally had to rebuild themselves. Cities like Paris, Berlin and London had been significantly destroyed by the war. Many nations, my own included, simply couldn’t have survived without many of the social programmes we still have in place. But this was the ‘Last Resort’ you mentioned, and though the nations of Europe have been economically and socially repaired, we still rely on these systems.
That and a lot of assistance from the United States in rebuilding the European countries while providing for the defense of those European countries.
I hope some day all governments have the right size.
The "right size" is JUST big enough to prevent Mad Max.
@bcubed72
That is the best way to put it I'm going to use that from now on
I usually agree with this channel, but almost all of the arguments here are based on emotion.
yes yes yes i wish more people could see this so they would understand how corrupt are government is getting.
Is denying gay-marriage an example of small government which promotes liberty, individuality, etc.,
or an example of big government??
I think most people promote social authoritarianism when they simultaneously promote economic deregulation. Hence, the first part restricts the right of the individual, and the second gives them to the large corporations.
When did he mention gay marriage in this video? I must have missed it.
+Brody Doan I was asking how his broad philosophy applies given a specific issue.
Care to proffer an opinion?
***** Some of the stuff is interesting. Sure, most of it is BS, but I think some of the videos are worth it. Just be careful what you click on.
Pragmatism Pugilism I don't see legalizing gay marriage expanding the government other than kinda expanding the jurisdiction of who they can legally marry
The EU way is much better. A State needs to have a big Social Programms, such as best Education, free and best health care for all, a family help found and to receive a secure pension.
The State is not the enemy - The real enemy is the free economy which has to few regulations to be there for the humen and not the stock numbers.
Absolutely. GravelU did a video about this
few regulations are good if you're the ceo of a behemoth corporation. but not everyone can afford to be a business owner
Smaller government when it comes to protecting the rich, and bigger government when it comes to getting into people's bedrooms, schools, and doctors offices. #Conservativelogic
The libertarians are much more sane, they think that we should be able to, marry anybody we want, smoke anything we want and, have all the guns you WANT.
Not once did he imply that the government should do anything of the such. This isn't supporting conservative beliefs its supporting libertarian beliefs which thanks to the tea party are now thought to be just as kooky as republicans.
***** Nope, I'd much rather uneducated bigots like you complian, than making laws taking away my rights. It doesn't matter how much you hate it but the human race is evolving and progressing. We don't live in the 1800's anymore ;)
***** By the way, since we don't live in a theocracy there is no reason why gay marriage shouldn't be allowed. If that upsets you try moving to a 3rd world country in the Middle East or Africa. You'll fit right in.
***** yep, and you are based on bullshit.
theodore roosevelt on why small government is bad:
The difference between Mr. Wilson and myself is fundamental. The other day in a speech at Sioux Falls, Mr. Wilson stated his position when he said that the history of government, the history of liberty, was the history of the limitation of governmental power. This is true as an academic statement of history in the past. It is not true as a statement affecting the present. It is true of the history of medieval Europe. It is not true of the history of 20th Century America.
In the days when all governmental power existed exclusively in the King or in the baronage, and when the people had no shred of that power in their own hand, then it undoubtedly was true that the history of liberty was the history of the limitation of the governmental power of the outsiders who possessed that power. But today, the people have actually or potentially the entire governmental power. It is theirs to use and to exercise if they choose to use and to exercise it. It offers the only adequate instrument with which they can work for the betterment, for the uplifting, of the masses of our people.
The liberty of which Mr. Wilson speaks today means merely the liberty of some great trust magnate to do that which he is not entitled to do. It means merely the liberty of some factory owner to work haggard women over hours for under pay and himself to pocket the proceeds. It means the liberty of the factory owner who crowds his operatives into some crazy deathtrap on a top floor, where if fire starts the slaughter is immense. It means the liberty of the big factory owner who is conscienceless and unscrupulous, to work his men and women under conditions which eat into their lives like an acid. It means the liberty of even less conscientious factory owners to make their money out of the toil, the labor, of little children. Men of this stamp are the men whose liberty would be preserved by Mr. Wilson. Men of this stamp are the men whose liberty would be preserved by the limitation of governmental power.
We propose, on the contrary, to extend governmental power in order to secure the liberty of the wage-workers, of the men and women who toil in industry, to save the liberty of the oppressed from the oppressor. Mr. Wilson stands for the liberty of the oppressor to oppress; we stand for the limitation of his liberty thus to oppress those who are weaker than himself.
African countries could LEARN FROM THIS.
I'M TAKING NOTES
But in a democracy citizens are the government...
Not quite
The US isn't a democracy, it's a constitutional republic
not really. you are basing your assertion of the basic falsehood of '"all men are created equal". Men will always fight to increase their own powers and resourses. If a man favors the right abortion he will fight to grant it even if he knows a lot of people desagree with him (and vice versa). That's why, in a democratic system, those with more resources and more "selling skills" will always find a way to impose their views, even if their numbers are low. So if you think you are being protected by the fact that you live in a democracy, be sure never to cross the ones who's ideas prevail at any time. If you are on the side of the strong and popular, sit back and relax. If you are on the side of the weak and unpopular, you will suffer even if they all are forced to recognize you were right all along;
Yes in theory, but then you have two things
1.Birocracy
2.Coruption
+pedro correa: that does not change the fact that people still are the ones voting, even if others try to convince them of their candidate. At the end of the day, the citizens still decide who makes the decisions.
Vote Libertarian
No
@@alexandrakollantai4146 Even if the candidate was Ron Swanson?
its not about about small vs big government, its about optimizing government
I'm Black... and this REALLY hits home
Smaller governement=more responsabilities
More responsabilities=more consciousness
More consciousness=more responsable person
More responsable person=better citizen
In theory, yes. In practice, no.
Society naturally lends itself to big government through its shortcomings and downfalls. Technically, we could let the idiots suffer and fade into the abyss, but you risk civil unrest and a demise of the entire system.
smaller government doesn't entail more responsibilities. but it makes for a recipe for unbridled greed and workers' exploration
@@user-ej3iw8lw3w It's crazy how capitalism= greed but socialism never equals laziness. Aren't both sins? Socialism promises good things it cannot afford so that people are like "cool I don't have to work for my healthcare". So it promotes sloth, just as bad as greed
The bigger the corporation the smaller the worker we must demand justice and equality america wake up the only the thing we have to lose is our chains!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's funny how he doesn't talk about how businesses exploit their workers. They just say "you dont have to work there" but then every other big business follows suit.
Kindness is gone because people think "why should I help others when the government takes money from my paycheck to help them"
Yeah, unlike now where people are too poor to help themselves.
This video is a PERFECT foundation for any discussion of TERM LIMITS for Congress. Nothing will change until Term Limits come for these career politicians.
While i agree term limits are a good idea, its still a weird idea. Imagine you could only do your profession for 10 years. And if you kick out career politicians, all you are left with, are amateur politicians, and i am not sure which one is worse
@@ziglaus Do you think Term limits should be removed for the President? These limits prevent the migration to a Monarchy. Congress NEEDS Term Limits to stop these corrupt career power brokers from voting themselves and their cronies the best of all benefits in the backs of taxpayers.
The larger the corporation the smaller the worker.
Oooh, I'm stealing this
unfortunately, prager u is outright against workers' rights, as evidenced by their video "the problem with unions". like they only want to favour business owners while screwing over the people who really keep the company afloat.
The only drawback is that an economy with only enterprise owners is impossible.
I dont have a problem with the laws in germany. It just helps to keep local busnisses to keep up with mega stores like walmart. After all its illegal to force your employees to work on sunday. And that is not some liberal agenda, its biblical law transfered into german state law.
How is focing a store to close and open at certain hours helping them compete with mega stores?
Why the hell should the government pick winners and losers (ie help a smaller store)?
In no way are those two sentiments shown in the Bible. Quote it.
Abba Okoro I'll have you know, my Muslim friend told me it's on Friday.
I demand the state enforce mandatory three day weekends from all employers, or you're not respecting my religious freedom!
I do agree with closing MOST businesses on sunday but some places that close on sunday can end lives, like government buildings or hospitals.
wolflover1000able Do you think that the government should force them to close on Sundays, or that they should willingly not open on Sundays? I really appreciate places like Chick-fil-a for closing on Sundays, but I'd never support the government forcibly telling a business when it can or cannot operate.
LawlessNate Laws like that are more requesting kind of laws where it isn't forced but its still on the books that it would be a pretty good idea.
If Bigger government gives people a sense of entitlement, then why does Scandinavia with their big government philosophies have the lowest poverty and incarceration rate in the world? The logical assumption would be that they would have the highest because people in poverty would fell no reason to get out as the government would provide them basic living necessities.
+Ethan Davies a lot and mean a lot of people are misinformed about Fascism. They get it mixed up with National Socialism and Nazism because of ignorant news anchors, politicians (not all), celebrities, internet columnist etc... Many people in the world don't use their brain very well. People need to start thinking for themselves and start doing extensive research. People also need to learn the difference between a government system and a political system. Under a Fascism, which is a political system. There are rights to private property and owning business. You can also have a big business as well, but if your business becomes too big. The government can step in and make sure you're not becoming too powerful, breaking the law, and exploiting workers. A lot of ignorant people who don't know anything about Fascism love to misuse and over use the term. Many of them use a fake Benito Mussolini quote that says Fascism is the merger of state and corporate power. It is not. I wonder, have these people ever heard of something called Crony Capitalism? Probably not by the looks of it. That doesn't make sense anyways because Fascism doesn't allow corporations in it's society.
plus....bigger the government, smaller your paycheck
I'm sorry but all of those examples that you give of government being required are not necessary and can be fulfilled by the private market on a voluntary basis.
And this is why I will never throw in with any party or organization that espouses extreme libertarianism or anarcho-capitalism, because I cannot take seriously the notion that there is no place for the state or the nation.
What do we do about the common defense? To include defense of the public from common criminals? And national interests abroad? What do we do about public health? By which I mean plague prevention, not socialized medicine.
Provide me some answers to these questions that aren't laughable, and I might begin to take the anarcho-capitalists seriously.
Defense is provided by military insurance as required in mortgage and loan contracts, similar to hazard insurance. Only people who pay cash for houses, skyscrapers, and factories are free-riders - a very small percentage. People who do not get their plague shots can be excluded from any establishment. It's in their best interest to be immunized. Read the book (or see RUclips video) "The Machinery of Freedom" for a deeper explanation, also "Chaos Theory".
***** I presume there would be various PMCs competing for the contracts to protect various regions or even prominent persons? Why do you think this would be more effective than, and therefore preferable to, a state-controlled and taxpayer-supported military force?
"It's in their best interest to be immunized," and this is why I don't like libertarianism. It assumes humans are fundamentally rational actors, when we are anything but. It also reduces all human relations to economic interactions, essentially being Marxian in nature, therefore utopian, and I despise utopian ideologies. It removes things like altruism, honor, duty, citizenship, and love.
I'll keep my ideology of strict constitutionalism, federalism, conservatism, and citizenship in a republic, I think, thank you.
Unfortunately Government is a necessary evil. I think we can maintain a Constitutionally controlled Government. But we have got to look through everything else they are involved in and stop it, and privatize all those agencies and branches. Most importantly we have to vote for equal opportunity not equal outcome. Select your representatives wisely.
Government is NOT a necessary evil. It is not necessary at all. Our current government was supposed to be constitutionally controlled, but whether the constitution enabled our current government to exist or was powerless to stop it, one thing is for certain, it is not fit to exist.
Big governments are bad? Thats a very big claim to make, considering the Scandinavian countries are doing quite well in their socialist economies with big governments. This video is Biased, big governments doesent always bring corruption, Denmark and New Zealand are the lowest in corruption, so get the facts straight,
Scandinavian and European countries are undeniably different. But to say their economies are socialist is a stretch. Compared to America they have lower taxes and less stringent regulations. This helps give them economies strong enough to employ people which the government then taxes at very high rates to fund the sections of the country that are socialized. Everything hinges on those lower tax rates and subsidies for the areas that are harmed.
It is also important to understand that while European countries have universal healthcare systems, in a country like America the government has put the burden of health on the private sector. A move that has resulted in larger government and more government spending in America than in European countries.
Hell, Sweden even has some hospitals on the stock market. That would be considered free-market radicalism here in the states. They even have a more market oriented education system allowing for more choice with better results. Meanwhile the U.S. is stuck in a strict draconian method of education more closely resembling eastern European communist block countries from a few decades ago than anything else.
Look! It's one of those posts all the OCD people read, and click thumbs-up because it sounds good, without knowing the facts or doing any research.
ok hold on. first of all, i dont know politicians in scandinavian countries but i assume they are less of bullshit corrupt liars then the american ones so thats probably a big reason why.
hahahaha, a European that area can't go 20 years without Genocide or some war happening over there.
Can't afford buy cars there
My question is how are we going to make government smaller when politicians in both sides, will not be willing to give up their own? Aside from a new American revolution, I don't see how that will happen.
when government is the bottom, it's called a safety net, but when government is on the top, it's called a capture net.
Should government tell us which drugs we can take? If we can pay a person for sex?
+Rose NoHo Depends on where you live. I would say no. But then again have you ever lived in a neighborhood with a heroine epidemic? My father was a heroine addict, he would rob people to get his fix. He didn't give a shit. I think there should be laws to control those types of people, get them help etc. Prostitution wouldn't be illegal if it wasn't so violent, or created so many orphans which become other peoples responsibility often enough. Then some prostitution is legalized but guess what, its also highly regulated, and the violence is monitored or eliminated from the equation through regulation. Of course if you are talking about smoking weed, who cares, it should be legalized, but I still wouldn't want kids smoking that stuff before/during/after school, their priorities should be learning and becoming a smart person instead of focusing on how to get stoned all the time with their buddies because they think its what cool kids do.
+Rose NoHo Proving the point about character.
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But there are laws to control those type of people, and they only make the problem worse. They make heroine addicts criminals. They might be afraid of ending up in jail if they go for help. Also, if they have a criminal record due to their use, it's harder to find a job, So those people might turn to crime to get money.
Again, one of the reasons prostitution is so violent is *because* it's illegal. Where can a prostitute go for help?
*****
What point about character?
Rose NoHo Many heroine addicts are criminals, not because they are using the drug but because they are robbing other people. Is a person a criminal because they are addicts? No, but are they when they rob, steal and mug innocent people? Yes. Not that they want to do that, but their addiction is so bad that many times thats the only way they can get their fix is to steal from someone else like my father did so he can pawn it off for money to buy more heroine.
Welcome to Quebec, Canada.... looking for the perfect society causes unbelievers to step in wherever problem exist... the farther people are from God the more insecure they are, and the more laws are created.... so much opposite to the perfect law of liberty that is in Jesus our Christ...
"But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does, James 1:25.
I watched this like 5 times because this guy's voice is too satisfying. I don't even think I was paying attention to what he was saying.
people shouldnt give power to a government that they have no power to control after that…
Alexandria Cortez needs to have this truth "water boarded" into her soul (if she still has one)!
If prager didn't so often speak such tripe when it comes to it's political biases, it would be much easier to take it's good videos seriously.
I mean this was nonsense, what about Germany, where government is pretty big, they're not exactly languishing in a socialist hell, and china, a communist state, is hardly struggling for growth right now.
It's better to use Denmark as an example. Never use China, they are not communist in the slightest, just authoritarian.
Alonglong Way They're not strictly communist but they have a lot of state run businesses which pretty much run their perspective markets.
Alex R-T So does Russia but that hardly makes them communist any more. They are both oligarchies.
Alonglong Way I think China is closer to an industrial technocracy.
That's the best way to describe them not Russia, so I just group them both as oligarchies if I need to use one term.
Ben Franklin developed a fire department without the government.
The only problem is that Jeffersonians were always saying the government is too big even under the Articles of Confederation, you know, that thing that literally could only do two, meaningless things?
Obvious we don't want Big Brother, but there's also a sense of too small; the government could be stripped of literally all of its power except that you get nifty nametags, and there would be plenty of republicans who would say that the free market should supply those nametags, not the government, and therefore the government has too much power.
+The Count of Menea Calais How can you strip a government of it's power ??I mean it is pretty hard to do whether it is small or big.Small government tends to evolve into a big one and then people will be unhappy demanding a smaller government,then the government will expand again.You have no need to fear it losing it's power,it was never supposed to have any real power ,only regulating criminals ,having an army an that's mostly it.Government has never faced the fear of being extinct because it is inconceivable.I would have them be extinct but most of us will not.If most of us revolt against it then it is our will to destroy it so it shouldn't be a problem.....
When you state that "this is an observable fact" but without evidence, and is merely common sense, you should probably ask yourself is it really?
Observable indeed. Nazi Germany (big left wing government), Rome (A small democracy that grew in size and power, leading to a dictator and corruption), North Korea (All government, no civilian), Soviet Russia (communism is when socialism fails, also big government)... just do a google search on the effects of big government, lots of statistical data.
"Americans give more money to charity and volunteer more time than Europeans" - twisting statistics to make the argument. I could easily say that that is a result of the sickening inequality in the US. It would be difficult for not to support charities with poverty on your doorstep, whilst living a relative life of luxury. In Europe, where people are more equal, there is less of a need for charities.
EU poverty rate 16.4%. USA poverty rate 15%
80 million Europeans and 46 million Americans live below the poverty line.
Google is your friend my young child.
My main point is the inequality, which is unquestionably higher in the US. Poverty is difficult to define, so it's hard to compare countries with definite figures, for example, Kazakhstan has a poverty rate of 8% in comparison to the USA's 15% (both figures according to the CIA).
Marcelo Garcia An Norwegian under poverty level is much richer than an american that is under poverty level.
In Croatia we are equally unemployed (more than 50% of youngs) , everywhere always the state and the state. Stata agencies for everything (state universities, state health care, state minimal wage, state help for agricolture, state pensions, state rules for gas price, state rules for water service, and taxes, taxes, taxes....), corrupted because you get to work for state agencies only if you are member of a certain political party, etc. And speaking about equality, we are more equal than Americans, but you certainly wouldn't like to live in this equal European country
Carla Konta I don't think a large public sector necessarily means more corruption. I think all countries need to demand for greater transparency with regard to the state's behaviour, along with more decentralization, more local democracy - ultimately less power to politicians and the state bureaucracy. We need to fight for these things.
I don't see the private sector as a solution - giving corporations more power to exploit their workers is not good thing in my eyes.
Tell that to Singapore. The government owns most of the land and property in Singapore. BIG GOVT, HIGH INTERVENTION AND AVAILABILITY OF PUBLIC SERVICES
Wait this is so odd, why do countries in Europe and Canada have such as HDI and their governments are much bigger then ours? I’m not saying we should increase the power of government neither we should lower it. And corporations are just as capable of corruption as well.
a government that provides opportunities and social security furnishes its citizens with the right tools to be productive members of society.
"We need smaller goverment"
"Ok, let's defund police and armed forces"
"No, not like that"
So in your tiny little brain there’s a logical inconsistency to want smaller government by defunding the stuff it shouldn’t be responsible for but not defunding the stuff that are fundamentally a part of its role. Did you sleep through civics class or are you just stupid?
Has anyone read the Constitution? Does that "We the people" thing mean anything. Government is not the other, it is us. The typical right-wing, anti-government rant strikes me as grossly cynical, contemptuous of the constitution and disloyal or unpatriotic. Government needs to be accountable to the people, but government is not the problem we the people are the problem and we are getting the government we deserve, it seems.
The bigger the government the smaller the citizen. Not true.....unless you are very rich - then government definitely clips your wings, as it should! Good government, the rule of law and democracy are what keep us free - free from exploitation at the hand of those with money and power.
+David J Gill You are naive.
You do know most of all the presidents are insanely rich, we aren't free from the rich
+Bob Jones Real progressives like FDR wanna help people by using the government and are anti corruption like myself.
@@sanniepstein1007 shalon goldstein
you don't want a small government, you want anarchy and chaos
The government has nothing to do with the goodness of ones life. A persons own state of mind has everything to do with goodness.
Ah yes America has given the people many freedoms, such as the freedom to die because of your skin color 😍
Example lad
@@masinissaibrahimi5569 ?
you mean from melanoma?
What are you referring to?
@@richie9878 to the police killing people just because they're black
Norway.
Lot's of rules and lot's of taxes.
I follow rules and I pay my taxes.
I live in country ranked best in world.
Norway.
And you're a tool of the government ... and a fool.
Knowing that fact, you would think people want to rely on themselves instead of the government.
Take power away from government and you give it to oligarchs! Lol
+Peter Perfect Nothing keeps the oligarchs in place like government, rigging the game to handicap new businesses.
I disagree, government should not be the last resort. It shouldn't be depended upon period, for monetary assistance, that is only for churches and charities. If they fail government has no responsibility to step in because once you let it in under any circumstance it will take over. Last resort is the back door of big government. Government has used the excuse of last resort, temporary/emergency power to take rights away from ppl on a permanent basis consistently throughout history. If you ever concede that government should have access to redistribution of wealth or power over redistribution of rights even as a last resort you undermine the whole american philosophy against big government.
"The more rules, the less liberty".
This only applies to the perspective of the capitalist. For example, holiday entitlement (a rule) allows workers a few weeks where they have the freedom to do as they please (often limited of course by shit wages) and do not have to surrender their liberty to the capitalist, as they do every working day. On the other hand, the capitalist does not have the freedom to make more profit by making the workers work every week of the year.
As is mentioned in the video, in France and Germany, the store-owner (i.e. the capitalist) is limited to a certain amount of opening hours, which while is to the detriment of the owner, is to the benefit of workers. Clearly the makers of the video have no regard for the interests of mere wage slaves.
Wage-Slaves?
Who's forcing someone to do labor?
The freedom is on both sides: 1. The store owner can keep his store open longer, hiring more people. 2. The individual can choose to work longer hours to improve their economic standing and then utilize the stores that are open late once said individual gets off work.
The individual "Wage Slave" as you call them is free to leave the job at any time, and of course find a better job where they can work fewer hours.
IBUILTTHAT Well in order to survive a wage labourer has to rent out their labour to a capitalist. Once the contract has been signed you have very little autonomy over your work. A capitalist business is basically just a centrally planned tyranny.
It's a very similar concept to voluntary slavery which was at one time very common. Poor people had to sell themselves in order to get the subsistence that was owned by the wealthy. Difference now being that you only sell yourself temporarily.
Um....you can quit? Unless you live in soviet russia, where job quits you.
"little autonomy" duh, you're getting paid to do such things. "In order to survive" anyone can live on welfare, it sucks, but that's what happens when you don't work.
Look at it the other way around, why should somebody else pay for said "wage slave" to do nothing? Would you?
IBUILTTHAT Welfare isn't common in developing countries - so you quit, you die and in developed countries for most it's just a choice between taking a paltry amount of money with the stigma of claiming benefits or a slightly less paltry amount of money for a shitty job. I don't know where you're from but here in the UK hundreds of people will apply to one minimum wage job. You can't seriously be suggesting that workers have the same bargaining power as capitalists...
I wouldn't pay anyone. If I set up a business it would be owned by all the workers and decisions would be made democratically.
Abba Okoro "This makes me question your country's education system."
I didn't learn any economics at school, I've had to study on my own (including time stolen from my capitalist oppressors at work). Bourgeois education systems are set up to condition people into accepting the status quo and accept that we are better off being governed by powerful elites - which is probably why politics and economics are taught at elitist private schools. You have a lot to learn it seems.
"For one forcing business to work a few weeks out of a year, forces them to pay low so they can stay open."
That's why the labour movement simultaneously fought for higher wages.
As for force, well, if you think that land and capital remains highly concentrated in a few hands because starving people are just being nice, then there is no hope for you sir.
I'd like to know you're thoughts on voluntary slavery, by your logic it is a perfectly free and acceptable concept. A perfectly free and legitimate transaction between buyer and seller.
4:25
I don't hear about Europe having a corruption issue as big as the US does...
In the US, corruption is legal. You can easily buy political power, if and only if you have enough money.
Then you don't hear at all. Corruption is present all over the world Europe included. If you want to compare Europe and USA you have to compare all the states not cherrypick. In Europe southern countries like Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal are a mess due to corruption and eastern states such as Bulgaria and Romania even more so.
P.S Just recently in Romania, there was a huge protest because politicians wanted to legalize bribes up to 50000 euros.
P.S2 Obviously the northern states like Sweden, Germany, and Denmark are doing better, but overall USA and Europe both have corruption issues.
I feel the government should exist largely for infrastructure, defense, and not too much else
Man this guy must Europeans :(
*hate
MrBritishBiscuit Yeah, this guy is loaded with hate.
Joseph Minardi
People who have no argument use "hate" or "hater" to characterize anybody they disagree with. Please explain what part of this is not reality.
Rubbish. Big government is critical. That id why the US has 5 million homeless kids and no go areas controlled by drug gangs. Big government offers more discipline and efficiency.
Big Government= Efficiency? That explains why it takes me six hours to get my license renewed at the DDS. I'm afraid small government is common sense. Big government takes away freedom and all else that is good in a nation.
***** Your licence is nothing compared to the 5 million homeless children living rough. Small governments like the US and India have virtually no impact on their populations welfare and capitalism when left to run itself has proven one thing - that it is a shockingly wasteful method of providing the needs of people. Instead it has become the enemy of most people since it services only an elitist banking, financeand energy sector nowadays. This won't last longer than the last drop of economically obtainable oil. Big government offers control and stability, whilst small govt will continue to service it elites.
Admiralhall2000 Efficiency of bureaucracy is more important than a large government. China and North Korea have massive governments, but those don't work too well now do they?
Germany however, has a moderately large, stable, government, and it works fine. Don't generalize.
***** China is one of the fastest growing economies and fastest spiritual awakening in the world. Big govt clearly works! N korea is a odd example. I could counter by saying pre war Germany was highly successful.
Admiralhall2000 My intention was not to say my license was more important, it was just to provide an example on the "efficiency of big government". I don't deny government should help the needy, but it should not be intended to make the citizen rely on government assistance, it should be strictly temporary to get the citizen back on his feet. With politics and bureaucracy have all that power it corrupts. China's fast growing economy doesn't necessarily have anything to do with big government, it's because they make everything and the Chinese have an incredible work ethic. Their country is almost like a company in that it uses capitalism from a global prospective. U British?
If only America opened its eyes!
@ 3:53 France and Germany? Hell, in most parts of the USA liquor stores and other markets can only sell alcoholic beverages during certain hours. And in number of counties, alcohol sales are banned completely.
Mike Cassell This is why I live in Canadia. It's South of Canada and North of Mexico.
HaloModder555 Durp??
Mike Cassell
Derp*
Ohhhh
+Mike Cassell alcohol only for you. Here your grocery, bakery and so on has to close doors. It is quite different.
They are trying to allow it for touristic places though
I thought university lectures are meant to be factual because a lot of this seems to be opinion. In academia we are all taught to give sources and back up any points with evidence and approach any science, even social sciences with as little bias as possible. I find it weird this seemingly intelligent person is letting the emotion of patriotism influence his 'lecture'
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This is political philosophy…what facts are you looking for exactly?
Dustin D political philosophy is supposed to be a little bit more meaningful and backed up than this, this just seems like plain propaganda "I'm telling this, this is the truth, believe this, because I say it, and because it hopefully it appeals to you."
LaFlammeAzure He referenced topics, not papers. I find that more factual than single studies that can be biased.
The best part is that you can search up on those topics yourself! Get your own opinion, it's 'Murica for Pete's sake!
IBUILTTHAT wow a logical soul on the internet! Here's your cookie :)
Among others, his concluding statement at 4:52.
"this is not a political point but an observeable fact" - said the man who denies evolution.
+Lars L Considering that not only has evolution not been definitively proven, and also, eventually, denied by the man who made it a THEORY (which it still is, not a scientific law or anything else like that), your point is lacking at best.
+Kevin Whitehurst You are aware that the word "theory" has a different meaning in science than it does in everyday speech right? See also "Einsteins theory of general relativity" or "The theory of gravity" both of those are mathematically proven and are still theories *scientific* theories.
Secondly, Darwin never denied it, thats just a popular myth, one that was thoroughly researched and debunked in the cambridge published "Galileo goes to jail - and other myths about science and religion" (Red. Numbers. Cambridge university press 2009, p.142-151).
Thirdly, even should Darwin have rejected it in the end (wich he did not) then it would in no way shape or form take from the validity of evolution given that it is based on facts and nothing in modern medecine or our understanding of the world makes sense without using evolution.
Oh of course, you can claim "god did it" in wich case i'll ask wich of the more than eight thousand gods who has been worshipped did it. The guy that gave birth to himself through a virgin so that he could forgive us for our sins who happened because a woman who was made out of the rib of a guy ate an apple on behalf of a talking reptile?
That guy? Right thought so. Your in the looney bin, but you gave me entertainment today and demonstrates perfectly fine why the US is falling behind economically: Your letting nutcases influence your schools and you are a perfect example of the failure of the american education.
+Lars L Did he deny all evolution? Or do you think he denies macro evolution, I deny macro evolution, but I believe in micro evolution.
Tiberious Bellum Macro evolution is not subject to your belief however, it is subject to scientific proof.
So far its pretty solid and everything we uncover has supported it so far.
At least he is a supporter of Intelligent design, even if he doesn't believe evolution brought us to where we are. He has reason to doubt evolution if you ask me. There is a lot of good evidence for it, but there is a satisfying amount of evidence against it as well.
I really like this channel. Sick of all the liberal crap so this is refreshing!
Singapore's government plays a large part in the running of the country...we're doing fine.
This channel is full of propaganda...
Please explain.
i can already tell you're american
***** Calling it propaganda might be wrong, but it seems wierd to me that a university states that America is the greatest country in the world.
***** Big government is responsible for whatever part of "the best" we lost.
***** that comment is way too long.
OHHH Prager University you can be so factual, but I can literally taste the conservative bias through my computer screen. Factual, but definitely biased. Try to be less partisan, and you'll be praised as an informational channel.
conservatism works...tried and tested...entrepreneurship, personal responsibility, fiscal responsibility, protection of the traditional family...
Tried and tested. Leave the dark side of socialism and "progressivesm"
AdeToz Biprtisanship works. I can disprove conservatism as non-flawless with easy examples. 1- Conservatism illogically limits homosexuals from getting married. I'm not talking about adoption rights or anything else. Just simply saying on paper "I'm married to this person." 2- Trickle-down economics does not work. Austrian economics (which is also conservative) does however work. Trickle down opens the gates for oligarchic plutocracies which is already what's somewhat occurring in this nation. But the thing is in American politics, conservatives tend to favor trickle down which is retarded. They should just go for Austrian which is more logical. 3- Increasing military spending on a defense sector that already gets $600 billion a year is ridiculous. I can go on and on and on. I can also go on and on and on about stupid liberal democrat hippies. Both sides in this country are full of shit which is why I declare myself independent. I just go with what actually makes sense.
AdeToz LMFAO you don't know what "trickle-down" economics is and you think you can have a political discussion. You're a joke. That's like somebody who thought the Yankees was Delaware's basketball team believes they have a right in having a discussion about sports LMFAO. Go to school kid. Trickle-down economics is a basic 101 concept you learn. If you don't know this, you really shouldn't open your mouth
AdeToz Oh and way to go with suggesting that we continue to expand our imperialistic military throughout the world. I mean that's totally not why groups like Al-Qaeda formed in the first place. I'm not saying we deserved 9/11, but people like you need to wake up to the fact that the anti-American attitude arose from our greed in other parts of the world. Of course, killing 3,000 innocent people wasn't the right thing to do, but you as an "intellectual" should know that they didn't just wake up one day and say "Hey guys, let's fly some planes into NYC skyscrapers just for shits and giggles"
Sergio Obando hello loyal dhimmi of Islam, they hate us because we are not Muslims plain and simple.
Have you noticed that more Muslims die at the hand of other Muslims than at the hand of any western forces? Did you know that this fact has nothing to do with America or Israel's foreign policy.
Did you know that the slaughtering of Islam claimed the lives of 60 to 80 million Hindus when Islam was ruling India? Did you know that Islam since it's inception has claimed approx 270 million lives and counting?
Did you know that more Europeans died at the hand of Islam in Spain, France and South East Europe than Muslims died at the hand of Europeans?
Did you know that my fellow Nigerians who are Christians and have nothing to do with America foreign policy die in the thousands every year at the hands of Muslim Jihadist? did you know that Buddhists in Thailand and South East Asia with no middle Eastern foreign policy are suffering from Muslim jihadist also? Did you know that the Hindus in India have the same problem also?
Did you know that a dhimi such as yourself is a Muslim apologist who keeps blaming the West for the clear fault of Muslims and Islamic barbarism that started and hasn't stopped for 1400 years?
Did you know that the command of Islam in force today is to bring the entire world under Sharia?
Now please look up those facts. The world will be a much better place when ignorance is dispelled. Thank you.
In the Netherlands, when you give someone that is on welfare a bag of groceries, the person on welfare have to tell the local government of what amount they got this 'gift' and next month this amount will be deducted of their money. When older people (pension age) cook for eachother more than 2 days a week, the government sees that as a form of living together and money will be taken from them. When you let a homeless person (working people!! - the number of those have doubled in the last year) sleep on your couch, the government sees that as subletting - which is not allowed - and you can loose your house or... again: money. No joke
The shocking thing is most Americans do not know and or believe this.
"America has more freedom than any other country"
That was a joke right?
Name a country with more freedom than the US.
Lydia Xavier Pretty much any country in europe. You pick
asdf I can name several restrictions the EU and its individual nations impose on its citizens that the US does not.
Lydia Xavier what restrictions?
asdf For example, workplaces in the EU have a curfew time established by their governments they cannot work past.
I would argue, that ANY GOVERNMENT makes the citizens small. It's just that has the government grows, citizens continue to shrink, until there is nothing left of them but mindless drones.
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I guess I'm one of those non-existent people that argues government does NOT have a place in human society.
There is indeed too much restriction of personal freedom, but most of those problems dont have to do with making money for the citizen......