That statement from Sowell was nonsense! Attacking a US President for speaking on matters with which he may have limited personal experience but definitely has responsibility as POTUS is absurd. This is the reason Presidents have advisors. For Sowell to make such a comment and/or suggest that US Presidents should only make public statements about matters on which they are subject matter experts speaks to Sowell's partiality and his conservative agenda.
@@beingsshepherd Perhaps! I think attacking a politician for being good at "politics" i.e. pandering to a crowd is a bit odd. I also think Sowell didn't seem to fully comprehend the context of what Obama said... Obama was talking about taxes being used to subsidize the oil industry not personal income tax which he was saying should, at the very least, not increase (I'll add, if not be lowered). In essence, wealthy corporations should be taxed and individuals should have some tax stability/relief. Sowell interprets that as "when people keep their own money that's subsidizing them" = Not what Obama said. And, this begs the question(s) Whose money is corporate profit? What is fair for the employees that make a corporation profitable versus executives? The wage gap between corporate executives and the lowest level workers has become exponentially wider and that, plus inflation, is the reason for the disparity in the standard of living. Not tax. Sure! If 50% of the money poor people earn didn't go to Uncle Sam they could by more stuff but there needs to be a substantial wage increase in concert with moderate taxation. Obama's statement would not fix any problems but it sounds good... and Sowell didn't understand what Obama was saying.
@@alexanderk7422 Corporations don't pay taxes. Their customers do. Taxes are just overhead, a cost of doing business. The tax is passed on to the customers in the price of the product. Taxing corporations only increases the price of their products. The people being taxed are the very ones the pols supposedly want to favor. But the pols really don't care, because they only care about the votes of people who don't understand this.
Yes, as a millionaire I completely agree with Sowell here. Don't tax me, tax people with low incomes. I mean I'm already creating jobs so give me a break.
@Person 1 Dr Sowell is not advocating that, but as history has proven, lower tax rates on the wealthy generate more tax revenue on these groups. And, why should we penalize those who produce?
Let's face it. He was loved for being half black. That's the only reason a good amount of Americans voted for him. That's why there's buyer remorse now.
@@fondrees I will at this moment cite one Economist, the late eminent Economist John Kenneth Galbraith. Thoroughly dismantles your post into shambles. John Kenneth Galbraith scoffed paradoxically with mirth in ridiculousness the likes of Thomas Sowell espousing the 300 yesteryears antediluvian obsolescence of Adam Smith's delineation of the United States modern economy. John Kenneth Galbraith was older than Thomas Sowell and was in the John F. Kennedy's Administration. What's your point?
That's because the Vocal minority was kept in check by the rest of Society, back in the good ol' Days when you could knock an S.O.B. out for running his Mouth.
Dr. Sowell has hit the nail on the head. I taught in an open enrollment state university for 38 years. About 40% of the students had no business being there. I taught a gen ed course every semester. From looking at essay-question answers, some of them were illiterate. One student wrote on his essay-question response sheet, “I do not do essay questions.”
Back in the day, 60s and 70s, those who went off to universities were capable of doing the work...the others went to work, ( and yes you could get a job without a degree and do well) or in the military, or started at community colleges to figure out if it was for them....Very logical..but then college started to function more as a business model than an educational institution. That was the beginning of the end...money money money.
Not only is Thomas Sowell brilliant at understanding issues, he has an uncanny ability to identify the core truth and explain it with such clarity that it seems obvious. And he has the courage to say it out loud, in public.
His explanation on increasing taxes and on dealing with Iran was poorer than I would expect from my teenage kids. Obama was a charlatan, a liar and a product of the neoliberal system, what’s Sowell’s excuse?
My brother became an electrician. Did not want college. He made twice the money I made with a BA and with stock options through his retirement did quite well, doing something HE ENJOYED. What more can a person ask for?
If he decided to start his own business an education would likely give him an advantage. I knew a man would repaired home heating and cooling systems. He was very, very good. Good enough to hire about 12 techs. He hired a women who claimed to know accounting, taxes and payroll. She pretty much controlled the company's finances. Two years into her employment a letter came from the IRS stating back taxes and penalties were due. When he tried to confront this woman she had blown town with about $200k plus the money she has been stealing since day one. He stated he didn't need to know how to look at the books to see if he was making or losing money that's why he hired her so he didn't have to. Has he taken the most basic small business classes at the community college he might have found out about the theft earlier.
@@dps6198 "Has he taken the most basic small business classes at the community college he might have found out about the theft earlier." Or, he could do some simple research and save money in the process. Not saying he shouldn't have been better prepared, but there is a huge misconception that college is the best source of information and learning, when it simply isn't for a lot of cases. Especially considering that, if you go to (public) school, chances are higher you will get roped into some redundant agenda by the teachers, whether you notice or not. Whereas if you have the opportunity to be self-taught, you have even more freedom looking for information and suitable teachers. I have one question here. Did the woman have the documents proving she was qualified for her job?
Electricians on high voltage multi 100KV transmission lines and 15KV distribution lines do dangerous difficult work. The ones working on bungalows not so much. But I get your point... as an engineer I have deep respect for electricians, plumbers, welders, miners, rough necks, heavy equipment operators and others
Higher education isn't the answer. The answer is fixing lower education. I remember being appalled to learn that back in the 1800s an eighth grade education was as good as, if not better than, a high school education when I graduated. And nothing I've heard has indicated that a high school education has appreciated in value since I graduated. In fact it's depreciated since I graduated.
Thomas Malthus years and years ago noted that when the government interferes in industry, it is almost always to industry's detriment because that interference is not being driven by NEED and thus throwing supply and demand out of whack. For some time now the government has been paying to send as many people into college as possible, and the only people obviously enriched by this are the colleges. At no point has it ever been asked whether all these graduates were needed, whether people were studying studies that were needed, or even whether all the money was well-spent on people who graduated instead of just taking classes for years and wasting those years of their life and copious amounts of money. It was simply taken as a unproven premise that 'college is always good for everyone'. If they simply stepped away, a lot of the problems would fix themselves over time.
In fourth grade in a public school in Newport News, Virginia my teacher had the class engage in dictionary races and conducted some French lessons on a pull-down screen using a projector. This was a Public School in the 60s! What happened?
Dems trotted him out as a shiny object that spoke recognizable English and was "clean" and likeable. I may have fallen for his act had I not started listening to Rush Limbaugh around that time.
I never did trust Obama and so never even considered voting for him. But even so, i had no idea just how bad he was. He was only something superficially different, not better, than his mediocre predecessors. These videos cause a sensation of "light bulbs" "clicking on" in my brain.
Kind of funny that he is a know it all. He must have been included in everything. How did he find out about Iran's secrets? Why is America going forward with all of these electric cars? Amazon is moving forward with a fleet of electric vehicles. I guess Sowell, the know it all, is against solar power. I find it funny that he did not talk about Reagan's contra debacle that Oliver North fell on the sword for. How about the trickle-down theory, didn't old Sowell know anything about that? Trump paid 750.00 in taxes, but I guess Sowell thinks that's just fine. Why didn't he criticize the affordable care act, his republican handlers vowed to do away with it, but somehow they didn't. I guess he thought that Obama giving the order to take out Bin Laden was something that sooner or later his republican heroes were going to do, even though they had plenty of chances to give that order, I mean how hard was it to find a 6'7" mountain man. Bush and Cheney brought the country to the brink of a depression that would have rivaled the great depression. President Obama came and cleaned up the mess that they left behind, and brought the country back from that disaster. Democrats have always had to clean up republicans' messes. America's Iran deal was signed by all major European countries. If it was so awful, why did they agree with it? I guess Sowell is smarter than everyone else, and the leaders of Europe are just a bunch of dummies that would do whatever old dumb Obama said. Hey, Sowell give us the solution for cold fusion, why waste your brilliance on republican talking points?
@Jimmie Jay Bohorn I’ve said this before but I’ll say it again. If ABC was the best thing to do for the USA, Obama would do XYZ. On the other hand, with Biden if ABC is the right thing to do for the USA he’ll do 678.
Whole generations of people, including my generation, were raised to believe that not going to college is some kind of social failure. This has not slowed down in the slightest.
Yup, I remember feeling like I was a failure. But I became an LVN. I could make 80k a year but I switched to part time once my daughter was diagnosed with a severe form of autism. My husband also didn’t go to college. He never cared what people thought of him. He’s 36 and making 120k a year now as a journeyman electrician. This wouldn’t be attainable with just any bachelors degree. I think the dumbest thing about college is that no one is educating the students what they’re investing in. My husband and I have no student loans. Students should not spend 60k in a history degree. You’re probably not going to make a good return on what you’re invested in. That’s why we have college students thinking communism is a solution. They can’t even afford to live in an apartment on their own.
Except when you actually want to go to college for something like mathematics or some other academic interest, and it's still prohibitively expensive compared to years past. Sowell completely misses the point, that higher education, regardless of who is going to colleges, is prohibitively expensive for EVERYONE, not just bozos who go to college thinking their sociology degree is going to get them a job at an investment firm or some nonsense. For those genuinely interested in academics, who aren't there to simply get a special piece of paper for companies to look at, it's STILL too expensive. This is regardless of how smart you are as well, since the actual amount of money you can save with scholarships is diminishing, and one shouldn't have to be a literal genius to go to the same college a rich but comparatively average or merely above average person does just because one is poor.
@@moot8710 Why are college tuitions so high? Because of government money bidding up the artificial demand! If everyone got a college degree... would everyone be more intelligent then? If everyone was on a basketball team, would everyone thereby be taller. Maybe only 10% of the population could benefit from an unadulterated college education anyway?
Believe it or not, almost everyone in a skilled trade needs a college level education. Many years ago, when I worked for a manufacturing company, I was on a committee to develop a program for recruiting or training skilled trades workers. One thing we found, early on, the training for skilled trades was on the level of an associates degree in any trade we were interested in. We had a skilled tradesman come in to install and set up for operation an air supply system for some of the machinery. He had a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering. Every nurse I have encountered went to college to qualify. I was talking to a fellow student, decades ago, quite a few decades ago, and he mentioned his job. The class we were in had nothing to do with his job, so I asked him why he was taking it, he was already in management. He said he did not have a degree, and he needed one to move any higher. They didn't care what degree, just so you had a degree. There is a whole lot of education that is college level, but not considered college education.
His secret was he most always positioned himself verbally as an "Outside Activist", instead of someone with power. He was *always* speaking as if he had zero ownership of any problems, and shifting the blame somewhere. He was only "the leader" when it was time for praise. When it was time for responsibility, he was always "we'll get to the bottom of whatever crazy things the previous administrations did wrong that caused this!" Even eight years into his office.
And that is the tactic that has been adopted by the entire Demonrat party. They will never admit responsibility, it is always someone elses fault, but they are always ready to claim the successes of others. And this goes on and on and on. People speak of Sheeple, and you need look no further than a Demonrat voter to see a fine example. I remember Leftists saying that the Right was poor, uneducated, and easily led. Well I would say of the Demonrats that they are ignorant, quick to believe lies, and afraid to seek out truth.
Biden just subsidized irresponsibility with his new mortgage fee structure where people with bad credit scores get a 1.75% discount subsidized by those with a 740+ credit score who now have a new 1% fee tacked on.
And what President Obama at that time was saying was something different than the premise Sowell was on about. He said every student should have the opportunity to attend, not that every student should attend higher education. Hard to find much controversy in that since it is sort of the premise we're based on as a country.
@@MrApw2011 Have you ever heard "you make your own luck" statement ? Please, for your own good, if ever in your life, things don't go your way. Don't blame it on society or your family. Blame it on yourself.
@@schneiderhughes5051what person in their right mind would put themselves forward to be President of the USA? You're instantaneously despised by half the country, have no private or personal life as you're followed by the media 24/7 You'd need to be a mental case
Except it’s not true. Many schools have cut sports programs and public courts aren’t maintained. Some schools have never had good sports programs. And then there’s poverty and distance from schools and public courts. Urbanization has moved many people so far away from each other and public spaces and even reduced the amount of public spaces that it’s unrealistic for many kids to use them because they can’t walk that far safely, and their parents can’t drive them due to working multiple jobs or not having the gas money. And public transit isn’t safe or available in many areas. I use to live just outside of a city in north west Texas. The only basketball courts were at schools. I lived 15 minutes away by car from the nearest school, which I attended. The walk most days of the year would be 80-90 degrees of dry heat in the afternoon, with no shade, just flat grass lands. Some kids that lived closer did walk home from school and would end up with heat stroke in the summer. There’s also the danger of kidnapping or being hit by drivers as there’s no sidewalks or street lights. Plus wild animals such as rattle snakes and coyotes. It’s simply not true that everyone has the same opportunities in America or even in the same states, counties, or cities. Can people make it out of poverty despite their unequal opportunities? Yes. Should they have to find work arounds and work 10X harder to do so? No. So much of the US needs to change. No country is perfect and America is no exception. Providing safer, cheaper, more accessible communities, transit, and public spaces for everyone is important. From kids, adults, elderly, and the disabled, we need to do better.
One reason they push higher education here in the UK is to saddle young people with the yoke of debt at huge interest rates. Other routes to a career are available
Absolutely. I used to support IT in a number of primary schools, and having just returned from a few years working in Antarctica, noticed how classrooms were full of Antarctic related stuff, penguins and so on. After listening to the teachers discuss about Antarctica, and other places around the world, I pointed out to a few that these places aren't just full of scientists .. i.e. kids/adults who studied hard and went to University etc. The Winterers, those of us who keep the place ticking over and so on, through the dark months, are all mostly tradesmen. I also mentioned that on my other travels working overseas, I saw plenty of Brit (and American) tradesman (Carpenters, Plumbers, Electrician, Mechanics), who had worked all over the planet, all left school with no higher education, but got themselves a trade, earn tons of money and travelled the world. Really annoys me where we are now, this culture whereby if you fail academically, you're done. It's an absolutely dreadful message!
Just look at Brandon if you can believe these two idiots were in office together. I’ve said it many times the start of the downfall of the country began with Clinton then OB then Brandon. We only had one smart business man who propelled the country forward and the left decided to create scams and hoax’s and fake investigations to destroy him because he exposed their failures and he actually told the truth.
I know you don't get tired of hearing Thomas Sowell. You enjoy hearing AfroAmericans being denigrated by a Black man. He got to be knowledgeable denigrating AfroAmericans. That's what pleases your ears.
I subscribed to socialism for the same reason Mr. Sowell did. I looked around my own world and it fit perfectly with the Marxist view of inequality-- have and have-not's. I had to expand my worldview and mindset to see through the smoke and mirrors. It's hard to believe now that I sincerely believed it.
He was shilled by the 👃 media machine harder than anyone else in human history. Nonstop 24/7 campaign from every single 👃 in the entire world to label him messiah.
@@waynefisher9824 Why? It's not because you voted for this lying @$, anti-American spook, is it?! It's almost like white folks are clueless and democratic black folks can't seem embrace the fact that he sold the entire race out! And I thought ninjas in my old neighborhood was full of 💩! Next thing you'll be telling us you're taking hormone blockers like his wife Michael! 😒🙄😤😣🇺🇲
God bless you Dr.Sowel for being the first person to have the courage and wisdom to see Obama with the honesty the American people deserve.Thank you.Why can’t people see this was a coup he pulled off.Fear?
I've admired and listened to Mr. Sowell for many years. He, more than any other American, talks truth abount our culture and our modern society. Listen to his words and you will be enlightened. Mr. Sowell knows. Indeed he does.
I noticed this when I was at purdue having studied an engineering degree here in Australia. A lot of students at undergraduate level aren't there because they want to become engineers. They are there to avoid being unemployed. There is a difference. There was little interest in what they were doing. this man is a gem.
Would you say, it's bad for a society to have a couple of extra engineers? Man I would love to live in a country that has excess of engineers, bring them to germany! We need them badly!
@jakoblochner4784 so you need disinterested, bad engineers in Germany ?? That's the most amusing thing I've ever heard. You can have them. Australia's got enough dummies now.
So, you are the mind reader? Maybe, you would deny folks access because they don't meet with your approval? Tommy would love to be king. We understand...
In America most college students get funneled in, expecting only a lot of partying and fraternal bonding away from their parents for the first time. It is an entire culture of prolonged adolescence that you can see in Animal House and the subsequent generations. And it applies to both genders. Almost every graduate of private high schools is expected to go to college. Is it the same in UK and AUS? Easy loans and an idea that you can find employment with a degree regardless of your major is a huge part of it.
Love how Dr. Sowell seems immune to being indoctrinated the way most of us have been to one degree or another, be it subtly or blatantly. Hearing him brings such instant clarity. His words ring true.
Sowell was, by his own admission, a Marxist coming out of college. It was only after working for the federal government that he learned that Communism was a dangerous sham.
He has said he was indoctrinated, at an early age. He was a marxist. What cured him was employment with a government agency. He proposed a solution to an issue, and his fellow employees were horrified, because the agency, and them as employees, wouldn't be needed anymore.
Dr. Sowell is indoctrinated into libertarian-conservatism. Everything he does is about supporting his belief system. That’s fine. But you can’t say he isn’t indoctrinated into any belief system just because it’s one that many people, perhaps even you, share and feel is “alternative”
@@achinthmurali5207 To be clear, Indoctrination is defined as the teaching a person (or a group) to accept a set of beliefs uncritically. Adopting a position, or changing one's mind about a position one once held, is not necessarily the product of indoctrination. Sowell's written work, which is considerable, reflects Sowell's determination to back up his positions with evidence. Sowell came out of college a Marxist (He has admitted this in interviews) and it was only after he worked for the federal government that Sowell concluded that Marxism doesn't work in the real world.
The interviewer didn't really make a good job in asking critical questions though... He actually made it very easy for him to get away with his blabla about rockefeller without really discussing obamas point (minute 4).
I remember the first time I heard him speak, and the audience was practically wetting themselves, and I said, "But he's not saying anything!" And, having studied history, I thought this was exactly how Hitler came to power. He said nothing of substance, and people thought he was the second coming. Scary stuff.
I taught college for almost 40 years. I mentioned to collogues that less than 10% of those in colleges should be there. They agreed with me. The problem is that these students are not ready for the work college actually involves. They could have bad study habits or not the educational background or the mental abilities or the skills, the desire and the motivation for college. The thing is that college is not for everyone. Career colleges, occupational centers or community colleges can provide the education and training for good, well-paying careers that don't require college educations.
But people who aren't college material at some point need to understand that's what they actually need. The right degree and knowledge will get you where you need to be. Make good money and invest wisely for a few years and then you can do whatever you want. Just like when people go into the military they aren't going to like it but they do it for the benefits that come when you get out. Going to college is the same thing. The benefits you get after graduating. Why is that so hard for black folks to understand? They'd rather listen to people like him saying they shouldn't go if they don't want to.
"You're saying it's ego, pride and vanity." I'm shocked. Thank you, Prof Sowell, for calling it for what it is! It was, and still is, a massive SNOW JOB on the American public. Well, a certain segment of voters
That, and the fact the media relentlessly presented him as a hero and hid negative information about him. They are very complicit in covering for the leftist Marxists.
The segment of Democrats Socialist a nice way to say Leftist Americans, Marxist Communist.. Aka USEFUL IDIOTS. Yuri Bezmenov USSR defector explains it best concerning USEFUL IDIOTS.. Check out video of Yuri Bezmenov..
Then it swings to the other land of the blind. Ego pride and vanity, defined Trump. We need something else. Like a Mr Sowell, or Peterson. Who are big thinkers, who can take it all in. Rather than just being one camp.
There's not a single video anywhere of any classmates of Barry Soetoro Soebarkah, in fact, Wayne Root attended Columbia the same exact years majoring the n political science, he never saw Barry attend any classes there and no professors can honestly say he was their student...now, I ask you: does this sound good?
@@billpetersen298 Bill, I'm not an Orangeman fan due to him going along with the 💉😷🤡 psyop...but, if you just look at actual policy, he was good at running USA Inc., show me a person who desires hire office, I'll show you a psychopath and egomaniac
finally. Someone has called "the king is naked" on this impostor --- everytime after listening to Obama talk I asked myself : what did he just say? And always my answer was : " I have no idea.
He was & is full of it. Very dishonest. Only spoke someone else's words. Did not mean a thing he said. Someone told him what to say to get votes. If he spoke the truth about what he truly believes in, he never would have gotten the votes. He is a snake.
Thomas Sowell should be mandatory curriculum for every ... student able to read! Easy to understand. No big words. What our generation calledl common sense.
He was so loved because he promised things for free without work needed. He promised a future he never delivered. Easy to win when everybody is poor due to him and promises good things
Oh no some are winning !! Notice he attacked food stamps while in office cut people food assistance guess who receives the most food assistance in America!! White people !! But never once did he or any other president do anything about subsidized housing !! Have generations of the same families in there , they should have term limits !!! Guess who lives there !!! I fully fully believe Barrack Was groomed his whole life to crumble America !! I fully belive His far left Liberal mother groomed him to be a communist !! That's why she chose an African suitor to get her pregnant!! I wish she never existed and Brrack never Existed too !! But here we are the fkn boomers have ruined America For ever There is no going back !!.there is no Trump that can fix it !! It will never be the Same pre boomer generation they have messed up everything, if only we could factory reset America but we can't
@Shy do you really believe that? Or is that what you tell yourself to justify your own failures? We don't like him because of his POLICYS. according to your standards if we don't love everything you do were racists. That view itself is racist making you a racist. Not likeing somebody has nothing to do with racism. It's you. A rotten person nobody would like even if your were white or neon green
One black fellow American told me ; We finally had our chance to show what we can do and this guy messed it all up. I felt very bad for him and all our black fellow Americans. Black America is awake and Black America is educated along with every other American that seeks an education and you can no longer pull the Wool over their eyes like this guy tried to do to all of us. Save your children from Anti-American agenda in public schools and universities! Let your voice be heard! Vote with your Vote! Vote with your dollars. Stop supporting corporations that support anti God and anti Constitutional Law.
Whats wrong with being anti America? There are things Americans should be ashamed of when it comes to the USA. Go ahead tell me to leave lol we all know you have no original material
I’m of the opinion that we will not see any person of color as president for at least a couple of generations because of how Obama screwed up. There’s a reason Jackie Robinson got signed by the Dodgers.
First President to be continuously at war for entire two terms, in the most theaters of war, made Libya into major hub for human smuggling and slave trading, gave Iran pallets of cash to fund terrorism in the Middle East, cucked to Russia on Crimea, cucked to China on militarizing the South China Sea, Weaponized the IRS, sanctioned FBI spying upon a President Elect (anyone seriously think that Operation Crossfire Hurricane went ahead without Obama's knowledge?)
I used to respect him, then he backed trump who went against everything he was supposed to stand for. Since when did Sowell support protectionism over free trade or high deficit spending? Or handing billions to farmers as a socialist bailout? Sowell's just another guy who doesn't actually stand for anything.
@@georgegordonbrown9522 I know right...that's proof that the mindset of the "race" construct is real in the white community, at the same time claiming that the "ism" doesn't exist anymore. Sowell is in the "community" of intellectualism and academia. lol
Thomas Sowell is all about Common Sense. Politicians just want to win votes and say things that sound good, for power and money. Sowell tells it like it is showing us the consequences of what these morons are saying. He does so, because he is incredibly wise with real knowledge of human nature
I had missed it too... but honestly, it's not one I'd send to an Obama worshipping leftist. Or as a standalone to promote Sowell. A couple of his responses, imo, might seem a touch fallacious.
He wasn't loved he was idolized. When false gods are revealed it doesn't turn out well for them. Unfortunately some don't see it until they've been chained in hellfite and it's too late.
Wake up people! He’s spinning his answer the same way politicians do. The point is we all should be educating ourselves no matter if it’s college, trade schools, or self-teaching. Do whatever is within your means to elevate yourself intellectually. Failure is failing to do anything!
@@rickystanton3039 All politicians are the same! They ALL say what they think we want to hear. That’s why they call it the Popular Vote! It’s up to each of us to make a choice. If you chose trump, good; if I chose harris, good. Then we go our way. These elections never produce Truth!
My ex husbands property taxes just tripled because the city built a giant flea market with a parking garage right across the street from his house. They also made his block of the street a 2 way. It was a 1 way because it was so narrow. His house isnt the a great thing to look at and it went from being valued at $60,000 to almost $200,000 just because of this building. Now he is in jeopardy of losing his house that his parents bought in the 1960s. The house itself was built in 1850. Taxes are ridiculous.
You know you are mentally weak and susceptible to propaganda when you allow yourself to be convinced that Biden or Obama are worse than Andrew Jackson or Martin Van Buren. Yeh Biden and Obama suck, but we've had some incredibly bad presidents in the past.
My father was a Marine and fought in Korea, I was a Marine during the Jimmy Carter years. Dr. Sowell was also a Marine during the Korean War. It would be my pleasure to buy you a beer or a cup of Joe someday. Semper Fidelis Tom.
Politicians always say they are for the people and not for the elite, all while they hang around with the elite, party with the elite, work with the elite, dine with the elite, and do business with the elite.
The problem is on a global scale, politicians have latched onto uneducated people and educated them in one fact...... "Vote for me and I will give you other people's money". The facts that the giver and receiver in this case are morally bankrupt and that they will run out of "other people's money" never enters the discussion. As Paul once said, "He who will not work should not eat".
He promised stuff he knew he couldn't deliver on. Causing his radical supporters to become even more radical because they're ignorant! They don't know anything about civics, about economics, about anything really. Great way to get people to go marching in the street for crap like students loan forgiveness and $15 at McDonald's so some "Community Organizer" can come and fill their heads with EVEN MORE Marxist garbage.
@patrickmulroney9452 Thomas Sowell has no dignity, no standards, and definitely no character. He has no limits how far he will go to denigrate AfroAmericans. Pleasing the delights to the ears of overt, covert, and latent racist White people to sell his books. Thomas Sowell knows very well (Has been doing it since 1970) White people enjoy with delight hearing a high profile educated American Black man denigrating his own race, AfroAmericans.
Barack Obama gave over $800 million to a new start up solar company in Fremont, California and that company filed for bankruptcy in about a year. Some of their highly skilled employees who worked there got jobs at East Bay Municipal Utility District (a water utility and non profit municipality) and they mentioned that this solar company spent that free government money like it was water. One fellow said the main entrance of that building was decadent beyond belief. Expensive marble and exotic woods. He said, no wonder they filed for bankruptcy.
Yeah , he had his foot on the gas , going full speed towards the cliff . For 8 whole years , he never let up. But then an unwanted calm , for the people's, anyway. Then here comes , Obama again , with the face of Joe Biden , on steroids . Now , see what happens.
We have been blessed to have had Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson, Shelby Steele, Charles Krauthammer, William F Buckley, Jr., Robert Woodson, Milton Friedman, and Walter Williams, walking and speaking among us in the age of mass-communication. At no other period of history could so many have been enabled to be exposed to such brilliant minds.
So many people wanted Obama to be a great president, that they overlooked all of his flaws, and consider him one of our best, when he's actually one of our worst.
And blame the fake mainstream media, including *Hollyweird* for pushing that message into the heads of millions of Americans and citizens across the globe. Falling for the trap and believing into the saint Obama is or was going to be vs George Bush. With Obama's many appearances on tv-shows, like Kimmel, DeGeneres, Oprah etc.
@Jimmie Jay Bohorn Even Obama supporters like me recognize he was a big disappointment in most areas of his administration. There is nothing racist about now doing an honest appraisal of his presidency. People will be doing that for the next two hundred years, long after the novelty of 'the first black president' has worn off.
@Jimmie Jay Bohorn So the 10 cent minds that write Google blurbs in a vacuum are more credible to you than a million dollar mind like Sowell's who is very public (despite censorship by the left) and willing to openly debate his ideas and facts.
@Jimmie Jay Bohorn Seems to me it was Democrats in power during the civil rights protests and riots of the sixties. Were they the racists you are referring to? Sowell was still a Marxist academic at the time. Only after more study and observation did he change his views based on intellect, not politics. If you look at everything through a racial lens, you are lazy and myopic and missing the big picture.
Thomas Sowell is a very great gift to this insane world of ours. One of the few truly sane, honest and truly intelligent voices that we are privileged to listen to.
Obama: an example of the perfect bought-n-paid-for politician...glib, articulate, attractive, and pleasing but without backbone or integrity... able to make the sheeple feel better without actually doing a thing for them.
Don't worry. If leftists are to be believed, just spend a billion dollars making an anti-Obama movie because that would REALLY threaten democracy. Just like Citizens United.
@@MFitz12But he ACTUALLY knows what the hell he’s doing about business and the working class. His grandmother made certain he stayed connected to his roots, while Ann Dunham couldn’t keep little Barry far enough from the Kansas farm life. Ungrateful b!tch.
I saw through him from the beginning: his underlying meanness and contempt. And, most especially, the evil people surrounding him, eg Weather Underground killers Bill Ayers and wife Bernadine Dorn, and the preacher, Rev. Wright.
Just the fact that the supposed intellectuals have convinced individuals to discount Thomas Sowell’s knowledge speaks volumes as to the reasons why our societies are in the horrible state that they’re in. Because of Obama’s ability to sound knowledgeable when speaking so many people threw away their common sense, critical thinking abilities and integrity and believed him without further thought.
Bunch of Obama haters. Thomas Sowell I believe is pro republican anti democrat and a Trump lover. He hates on Obama as if he was a bad Democrat and he would possibly support a good Democrat when it wouldn't matter who was the democratic president he would hate on , except for Trump, I think most Trump supporters would still love Trump if he ran Democrat policies and those same people would also still hate Obama if he was Republican. The reason why Republicans hate Obama so much is because he was a great Democrat. Why would they hate him so much if he were a bad Democrat? If Obama were such a bad president and failed his democratic duties as president then that should be good news for Republicans as opposed to a good Democratic president that fulfilled his democratic duties. And that is why Republicans hate Obama so much , not because he was a bad Democrat President but because he was a good Democrat president and did his job and did it well. Plus I think Thomas Sowell doesn't like black people. Plus Thomas Sowell is a failure to his country to sit there and portray himself so much better and not step up to do better. I guess he felt shit was good enough without...... and what was Donald Trump, "the greatest president of all time " whom most , or well pretty much all of his supporters consider to be, doing during Obama 2 term presidency..... apparently he had a successful game show he must have felt more important than leading the country at that time and didn't mind Obama "destroying" the country. Yeah Trump just let that happen, for his cable TV game show.
@Jeff Broders The worst President by far has been Donald Trump who never had the support of the American electorate. Trump is an indefatigable liar with the uncanny ability to mesmerize so many people. Trump has been the only President who has been twice impeached and indicted for corruption!! Why does Thomas Sowell propagate so many lies about former President Barack Obama. Is jealousy rendering its ugly head?
Why Jeff, because he wanted to bring down prescription drug prices and implement the affordable health care act. Or do you dislike him because he wanted to change to implement cleaner air protections and prevent coal miners from developing black lung disease.
James Buchanan used to get that "honor". In the 20th century I believe that Woodrow Wilson, George W. Bush (Jr.) Barack Obama and Joe Biden could give Buchanan a good run! Nixon was crooked but (for the most part) his policies were sound.
Yep. So what happened in the UK was that everyone was encouraged to go to university. I feel that the real motivation for this was to reduce unemployment. However with the most expensive education in the world, it has created a huge student debt bubble. There aren't r enough graduate jobs for the graduates so they leave with a huge debt burden and spend time unemployed, looking for a job in their field until they give up a do a job they could have done without going to university. Because focus was taken away from trades, there is a shortage of trades people, so builders, electricians, mechanics and carpenters usually earn more than graduates. Indeed if I look at the people from school who are now wealthy. None of them have degrees, not a single one.
He took the prize and destroyed three Islamic countries. And how come Islamic leaders are still willing to do business with him and his puppet President? Even if Americans are fooled they should do better.
"Obama has an absolute talent for saying things that make no sense but not only sound plausible but inspiring" - nailed it!
That statement from Sowell was nonsense! Attacking a US President for speaking on matters with which he may have limited personal experience but definitely has responsibility as POTUS is absurd. This is the reason Presidents have advisors. For Sowell to make such a comment and/or suggest that US Presidents should only make public statements about matters on which they are subject matter experts speaks to Sowell's partiality and his conservative agenda.
@@alexanderk7422 I mostly agree but your reply addresses a different point.
@@beingsshepherd Perhaps!
I think attacking a politician for being good at "politics" i.e. pandering to a crowd is a bit odd.
I also think Sowell didn't seem to fully comprehend the context of what Obama said... Obama was talking about taxes being used to subsidize the oil industry not personal income tax which he was saying should, at the very least, not increase (I'll add, if not be lowered). In essence, wealthy corporations should be taxed and individuals should have some tax stability/relief.
Sowell interprets that as "when people keep their own money that's subsidizing them" = Not what Obama said. And, this begs the question(s) Whose money is corporate profit? What is fair for the employees that make a corporation profitable versus executives? The wage gap between corporate executives and the lowest level workers has become exponentially wider and that, plus inflation, is the reason for the disparity in the standard of living. Not tax. Sure! If 50% of the money poor people earn didn't go to Uncle Sam they could by more stuff but there needs to be a substantial wage increase in concert with moderate taxation. Obama's statement would not fix any problems but it sounds good... and Sowell didn't understand what Obama was saying.
Book of daniel describes the traits of the antichrist and obama fits the bill to tee
@@alexanderk7422 Corporations don't pay taxes. Their customers do. Taxes are just overhead, a cost of doing business. The tax is passed on to the customers in the price of the product. Taxing corporations only increases the price of their products. The people being taxed are the very ones the pols supposedly want to favor. But the pols really don't care, because they only care about the votes of people who don't understand this.
Dr Sowell's ability to see through barnyard manure and call it out is what makes him a national treasure.
Yes, as a millionaire I completely agree with Sowell here. Don't tax me, tax people with low incomes. I mean I'm already creating jobs so give me a break.
@Person 1 Dr Sowell is not advocating that, but as history has proven, lower tax rates on the wealthy generate more tax revenue on these groups.
And, why should we penalize those who produce?
@DoodleDoo Get a life silly bot.
Someone should remind Dr Sowell, it was GW Bush that totally fu.kup the place before President Obama took over as leader ... GFC anyone !!
Yes, very well put!
It is amazing that a man so brilliant can explain things in terms that anyone can understand.
One of the identifying qualities of a Brilliant Man.
Yep and all from truth no tricks or lies regards from Ireland.
That's what truly brilliant people can do
That's the characteristic of brilliance. Genius simplifies things, pseudo intellectualism complicates.
I didn't understand how lowering taxes can increase tax revenues. He didn't explain it. He just stated it as a matter of fact and moved on with it.
Let's face it. He was loved for being half black. That's the only reason a good amount of Americans voted for him. That's why there's buyer remorse now.
Bullshit. Being half black isnt enough to be loved.
The evil of the BS DEI
Don’t forget, he got a Nobel prize for being black President 😎
MLK said character not skin color was the measure of humans so I don’t understand why Don Lemon is upset with Vivek Ramaswamy.
he had a lot of
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Man, I love this man and he makes me miss the old timers who had so much more sense than we witness in people today.
@@mab7175 and who are these clowns? Professors from the 60s or 70s? He takes their race card out of the deck. Of course they don't like him.
@@fondrees
I will at this moment cite one Economist, the late eminent Economist John Kenneth Galbraith.
Thoroughly dismantles your post into shambles. John Kenneth Galbraith scoffed paradoxically with mirth in ridiculousness the likes of Thomas Sowell espousing the 300 yesteryears antediluvian obsolescence of Adam Smith's delineation of the United States modern economy.
John Kenneth Galbraith was older than Thomas Sowell and was in the John F. Kennedy's Administration.
What's your point?
TRUMP2024
That's because the Vocal minority was kept in check by the rest of Society, back in the good ol' Days when you could knock an S.O.B. out for running his Mouth.
I just wish we had slaves again, its so unfair black people have freedom. right patricia
Dr. Sowell has hit the nail on the head. I taught in an open enrollment state university for 38 years. About 40% of the students had no business being there. I taught a gen ed course every semester. From looking at essay-question answers, some of them were illiterate. One student wrote on his essay-question response sheet, “I do not do essay questions.”
In my estimate 75% have no business being in colleges.
Back in the day, 60s and 70s, those who went off to universities were capable of doing the work...the others went to work, ( and yes you could get a job without a degree and do well) or in the military, or started at community colleges to figure out if it was for them....Very logical..but then college started to function more as a business model than an educational institution. That was the beginning of the end...money money money.
It's not about education... it's about creating 'Student Loans'... subsidized by the US Government...
@@kenlinden9621 exactly- once the government got involved, it went downhill.
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Not only is Thomas Sowell brilliant at understanding issues, he has an uncanny ability to identify the core truth and explain it with such clarity that it seems obvious. And he has the courage to say it out loud, in public.
My guess is he had plenty of courage lessons when he was young being an intellectual in black society.
@@doublenickel1000 Dr. Sowell admits to being a "Marxist" in his youth until a govt job jarred his beliefs & changed the course of his life.
He is no where as being brilliant
His explanation on increasing taxes and on dealing with Iran was poorer than I would expect from my teenage kids. Obama was a charlatan, a liar and a product of the neoliberal system, what’s Sowell’s excuse?
@@doublenickel1000
Thomas Sowell sold his soul to make a lot of money. Being the White Establishment's chosen premiere point Black man.
The clarity of Thomas Sowell is frightening..
He's great, but lots of people had said the same thing(s) for decades.
The difference is they don't write books. (And don't read Sowell either.)
@@herrbonk3635 Other people don't connect all the dots.
Trump should ask this man to speak to masses ! Appoint him to educational position.
Part truth is always afraid of the whole truth.
Obama is a prime example of why charisma is no substitute for substance.
The higher the gloss, the cheaper the merchandise.
The lipstick on a pig thing.
Hakeem Jeffries has done his homework and is angling to be the Obama replacement in 2024 after the Democrats push Joe off the cliff.
@@januarysson5633 GOOD!
WE need regular target practice.
@@sheldonwheaton881
POS on a stick , man .
Well spoken! I called him the Pied Piper of Palaver
My brother became an electrician. Did not want college. He made twice the money I made with a BA and with stock options through his retirement did quite well, doing something HE ENJOYED. What more can a person ask for?
If he decided to start his own business an education would likely give him an advantage.
I knew a man would repaired home heating and cooling systems. He was very, very good. Good enough to hire about 12 techs. He hired a women who claimed to know accounting, taxes and payroll.
She pretty much controlled the company's finances. Two years into her employment a letter came from the IRS stating back taxes and penalties were due.
When he tried to confront this woman she had blown town with about $200k plus the money she has been stealing since day one.
He stated he didn't need to know how to look at the books to see if he was making or losing money that's why he hired her so he didn't have to.
Has he taken the most basic small business classes at the community college he might have found out about the theft earlier.
@@dps6198 "Has he taken the most basic small business classes at the community college he might have found out about the theft earlier." Or, he could do some simple research and save money in the process. Not saying he shouldn't have been better prepared, but there is a huge misconception that college is the best source of information and learning, when it simply isn't for a lot of cases. Especially considering that, if you go to (public) school, chances are higher you will get roped into some redundant agenda by the teachers, whether you notice or not. Whereas if you have the opportunity to be self-taught, you have even more freedom looking for information and suitable teachers.
I have one question here. Did the woman have the documents proving she was qualified for her job?
Try living without an electrician, a plumber, etc in life!!!
Young people are beginning to see the truth of this.
Electricians on high voltage multi 100KV transmission lines and 15KV distribution lines do dangerous difficult work. The ones working on bungalows not so much. But I get your point... as an engineer I have deep respect for electricians, plumbers, welders, miners, rough necks, heavy equipment operators and others
Higher education isn't the answer. The answer is fixing lower education. I remember being appalled to learn that back in the 1800s an eighth grade education was as good as, if not better than, a high school education when I graduated. And nothing I've heard has indicated that a high school education has appreciated in value since I graduated. In fact it's depreciated since I graduated.
Thomas Malthus years and years ago noted that when the government interferes in industry, it is almost always to industry's detriment because that interference is not being driven by NEED and thus throwing supply and demand out of whack. For some time now the government has been paying to send as many people into college as possible, and the only people obviously enriched by this are the colleges. At no point has it ever been asked whether all these graduates were needed, whether people were studying studies that were needed, or even whether all the money was well-spent on people who graduated instead of just taking classes for years and wasting those years of their life and copious amounts of money. It was simply taken as a unproven premise that 'college is always good for everyone'. If they simply stepped away, a lot of the problems would fix themselves over time.
In fourth grade in a public school in Newport News, Virginia my teacher had the class engage in dictionary races and conducted some French lessons on a pull-down screen using a projector. This was a Public School in the 60s! What happened?
@@simpleysteve2536 The '60s generation became the teachers, sadly.
@@HerculesBallsInc I hope you don’t mind me quoting these words to my friends 😅
100% this
Obama’s and Clinton’s need to retire and leave the White House alone. Time for them to move on, and let the people vote for a different candidates.
Why retire when you can stay in the background and still control things, like who the next president will be?
@@Sagart999 true
It is like North Korea here now
@@kitwong2034 Not yet, but some people are working hard to achieve that goal.
Dont forget the sea hag drunk.
He spoke so well. Very few paid attention to what he actually said.
true that….many just was black
Dems trotted him out as a shiny object that spoke recognizable English and was "clean" and likeable. I may have fallen for his act had I not started listening to Rush Limbaugh around that time.
The devil is also good at speaking. Makes sense.
Thanks u men Thomas is worse
@dstarkspp when he was president, the thing about him that people mentioned most.. he's black. That was mostly it.
Every time I hear something by Sowell, something gets unlocked in my brain. This man is a genius.
yes. I have an IQ I won't bother to share, because his is just off-the-charts, i can only listen with awe.
@@JoshMaxPower yeah let's keep in files!
RedKatana cut him off from POLITICS
I never did trust Obama and so never even considered voting for him. But even so, i had no idea just how bad he was. He was only something superficially different, not better, than his mediocre predecessors. These videos cause a sensation of "light bulbs" "clicking on" in my brain.
Kind of funny that he is a know it all. He must have been included in everything. How did he find out about Iran's secrets? Why is America going forward with all of these electric cars? Amazon is moving forward with a fleet of electric vehicles. I guess Sowell, the know it all, is against solar power. I find it funny that he did not talk about Reagan's contra debacle that Oliver North fell on the sword for. How about the trickle-down theory, didn't old Sowell know anything about that? Trump paid 750.00 in taxes, but I guess Sowell thinks that's just fine. Why didn't he criticize the affordable care act, his republican handlers vowed to do away with it, but somehow they didn't. I guess he thought that Obama giving the order to take out Bin Laden was something that sooner or later his republican heroes were going to do, even though they had plenty of chances to give that order, I mean how hard was it to find a 6'7" mountain man. Bush and Cheney brought the country to the brink of a depression that would have rivaled the great depression. President Obama came and cleaned up the mess that they left behind, and brought the country back from that disaster. Democrats have always had to clean up republicans' messes. America's Iran deal was signed by all major European countries. If it was so awful, why did they agree with it? I guess Sowell is smarter than everyone else, and the leaders of Europe are just a bunch of dummies that would do whatever old dumb Obama said. Hey, Sowell give us the solution for cold fusion, why waste your brilliance on republican talking points?
Thomas sowell is a truth teller. So much knowledge, I'm so grateful for him and others like him.
You're bat shit crazy🔥🔥🔥
Sowell sold his soul to who ever paid him the most $$$ .
dude has the IQ of a pine cone....
😅😅Stupid though
No he aint
"You don't want to cut them a little slack? You say it's just ego and pride and vanity."
"Yes!"
BAAAAAAaaaaaased!
God protect mr Sowell. We love you sir
Your love has no standards
@@achinthmurali5207 troll
Mr Sowell Thank you Sir
@Jimmie Jay Bohorn
I’ve said this before but I’ll say it again. If ABC was the best thing to do for the USA, Obama would do XYZ.
On the other hand, with Biden if ABC is the right thing to do for the USA he’ll do 678.
and you sir, are a reprobate and an ignoramus.
Thomas Sowell, a BRILLIANT mind! Much admiration and respect.
💯 Mr Guzman one of the greatest mind in 21st century!He will turn 92 years young on June.
I agree 100 percent!!
@@bondwin7025 Of BOTH the 20th and 21st century I would say !
Whole generations of people, including my generation, were raised to believe that not going to college is some kind of social failure. This has not slowed down in the slightest.
My whole family went to University, except me. It's a Socialist club for tossers. Every worker knows this.
Yup, I remember feeling like I was a failure. But I became an LVN. I could make 80k a year but I switched to part time once my daughter was diagnosed with a severe form of autism. My husband also didn’t go to college. He never cared what people thought of him. He’s 36 and making 120k a year now as a journeyman electrician. This wouldn’t be attainable with just any bachelors degree. I think the dumbest thing about college is that no one is educating the students what they’re investing in. My husband and I have no student loans. Students should not spend 60k in a history degree. You’re probably not going to make a good return on what you’re invested in. That’s why we have college students thinking communism is a solution. They can’t even afford to live in an apartment on their own.
Except when you actually want to go to college for something like mathematics or some other academic interest, and it's still prohibitively expensive compared to years past. Sowell completely misses the point, that higher education, regardless of who is going to colleges, is prohibitively expensive for EVERYONE, not just bozos who go to college thinking their sociology degree is going to get them a job at an investment firm or some nonsense. For those genuinely interested in academics, who aren't there to simply get a special piece of paper for companies to look at, it's STILL too expensive. This is regardless of how smart you are as well, since the actual amount of money you can save with scholarships is diminishing, and one shouldn't have to be a literal genius to go to the same college a rich but comparatively average or merely above average person does just because one is poor.
@@moot8710 Why are college tuitions so high? Because of government money bidding up the artificial demand!
If everyone got a college degree... would everyone be more intelligent then? If everyone was on a basketball team, would everyone thereby be taller.
Maybe only 10% of the population could benefit from an unadulterated college education anyway?
Believe it or not, almost everyone in a skilled trade needs a college level education.
Many years ago, when I worked for a manufacturing company, I was on a committee to develop a program for recruiting or training skilled trades workers. One thing we found, early on, the training for skilled trades was on the level of an associates degree in any trade we were interested in.
We had a skilled tradesman come in to install and set up for operation an air supply system for some of the machinery. He had a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering.
Every nurse I have encountered went to college to qualify.
I was talking to a fellow student, decades ago, quite a few decades ago, and he mentioned his job. The class we were in had nothing to do with his job, so I asked him why he was taking it, he was already in management.
He said he did not have a degree, and he needed one to move any higher. They didn't care what degree, just so you had a degree.
There is a whole lot of education that is college level, but not considered college education.
Nothing like clicking on a RUclips video of Thomas Sowell and getting a Harris-Walz ad. Which just happened to me.
Clicked back to look in and got a Trump ad. That's better.
His secret was he most always positioned himself verbally as an "Outside Activist", instead of someone with power. He was *always* speaking as if he had zero ownership of any problems, and shifting the blame somewhere. He was only "the leader" when it was time for praise. When it was time for responsibility, he was always "we'll get to the bottom of whatever crazy things the previous administrations did wrong that caused this!" Even eight years into his office.
Et tu eh Biden ?
And that is the tactic that has been adopted by the entire Demonrat party. They will never admit responsibility, it is always someone elses fault, but they are always ready to claim the successes of others. And this goes on and on and on. People speak of Sheeple, and you need look no further than a Demonrat voter to see a fine example. I remember Leftists saying that the Right was poor, uneducated, and easily led. Well I would say of the Demonrats that they are ignorant, quick to believe lies, and afraid to seek out truth.
This is exactly how Sanna Marin (SDP) got so popular in Finland.
@@paavoilves5416 And how Justin Trudeau got so popular in Canada.
Difference is, he didn't have to be part of an alliance government.
Hooray for Thomas Sowell , wish we had more articulate speakers of his caliber on the political arena!
You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible. Dr Thomas Sowell Dr Sowell will be 92 years young this June!
Wow, this guy is similiar to William Shatner. You would never guess hes in his 90s.😮😮😮
Biden just subsidized irresponsibility with his new mortgage fee structure where people with bad credit scores get a 1.75% discount subsidized by those with a 740+ credit score who now have a new 1% fee tacked on.
Is he really? Wow..just wow…..
He has all of pop culture cheering him on, a lot of people let pop culture do their thinking for them. These are the people who love obama.
"We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking."
- Mark Twain
"pop culture"
Oy vey
Leftists invariably outsource their cognitive processes, which then atrophy, leaving them with only a hive mind.
White women want 16".
Karl Marx didn't write about The Will to Power, NIetzsche did.
The host is such a Goober.
Love this man. He’s intelligent, articulate, and capable.
"I had the same opportunity to be an NBA star as Michael Jordan"
This has made my list of one liners.
And what President Obama at that time was saying was something different than the premise Sowell was on about. He said every student should have the opportunity to attend, not that every student should attend higher education. Hard to find much controversy in that since it is sort of the premise we're based on as a country.
@@MrApw2011 Have you ever heard "you make your own luck" statement ? Please, for your own good, if ever in your life, things don't go your way. Don't blame it on society or your family. Blame it on yourself.
He also had the same opportunity as Obama to become president but criticize from the sideline 🤡
@@schneiderhughes5051what person in their right mind would put themselves forward to be President of the USA?
You're instantaneously despised by half the country, have no private or personal life as you're followed by the media 24/7
You'd need to be a mental case
Except it’s not true. Many schools have cut sports programs and public courts aren’t maintained. Some schools have never had good sports programs. And then there’s poverty and distance from schools and public courts.
Urbanization has moved many people so far away from each other and public spaces and even reduced the amount of public spaces that it’s unrealistic for many kids to use them because they can’t walk that far safely, and their parents can’t drive them due to working multiple jobs or not having the gas money.
And public transit isn’t safe or available in many areas.
I use to live just outside of a city in north west Texas. The only basketball courts were at schools. I lived 15 minutes away by car from the nearest school, which I attended. The walk most days of the year would be 80-90 degrees of dry heat in the afternoon, with no shade, just flat grass lands. Some kids that lived closer did walk home from school and would end up with heat stroke in the summer.
There’s also the danger of kidnapping or being hit by drivers as there’s no sidewalks or street lights.
Plus wild animals such as rattle snakes and coyotes.
It’s simply not true that everyone has the same opportunities in America or even in the same states, counties, or cities.
Can people make it out of poverty despite their unequal opportunities? Yes. Should they have to find work arounds and work 10X harder to do so? No.
So much of the US needs to change. No country is perfect and America is no exception. Providing safer, cheaper, more accessible communities, transit, and public spaces for everyone is important. From kids, adults, elderly, and the disabled, we need to do better.
One reason they push higher education here in the UK is to saddle young people with the yoke of debt at huge interest rates. Other routes to a career are available
It may also be why it’s been pushed here. To indoctrinate people in their line of thinking.
That's what I was thinking. I'm in the US. Obama, Hillary and many others get their orders from Wall Street.
Absolutely. I used to support IT in a number of primary schools, and having just returned from a few years working in Antarctica, noticed how classrooms were full of Antarctic related stuff, penguins and so on. After listening to the teachers discuss about Antarctica, and other places around the world, I pointed out to a few that these places aren't just full of scientists .. i.e. kids/adults who studied hard and went to University etc. The Winterers, those of us who keep the place ticking over and so on, through the dark months, are all mostly tradesmen. I also mentioned that on my other travels working overseas, I saw plenty of Brit (and American) tradesman (Carpenters, Plumbers, Electrician, Mechanics), who had worked all over the planet, all left school with no higher education, but got themselves a trade, earn tons of money and travelled the world. Really annoys me where we are now, this culture whereby if you fail academically, you're done. It's an absolutely dreadful message!
Higher education means more indoctrination to the foolishness.
I’m being polite. Thank you Mr Sowell
Just look at Brandon if you can believe these two idiots were in office together. I’ve said it many times the start of the downfall of the country began with Clinton then OB then Brandon. We only had one smart business man who propelled the country forward and the left decided to create scams and hoax’s and fake investigations to destroy him because he exposed their failures and he actually told the truth.
Never get tired of listening to Thomas Sowell,
A Great American, so knowledgeable.
I know you don't get tired of hearing Thomas Sowell. You enjoy hearing AfroAmericans being denigrated by a Black man. He got to be knowledgeable denigrating AfroAmericans. That's what pleases your ears.
His hatred for Black people gives you a hard
@@darkenergy361this doesn’t hit the way you think it does.
@@darkenergy361you are an uninformed fool.
Never loved him....never voted for him...but voting for McCain and Romney was a waste.........
Never like or voted for Obama, so fake!
Me too. Except they were a hair better than the alternative.
If it makes u feel any better, even if they got in things probably woulda turned out the same
Sarah Palin would have been a better choice than Kamala and Obama period , but I didn't like McCain
Definitely a puzzle. Hilarious how Mr Sowell points out his flaws so clearly. Too bad almost half the country are completely enamored with him.
I subscribed to socialism for the same reason Mr. Sowell did. I looked around my own world and it fit perfectly with the Marxist view of inequality-- have and have-not's. I had to expand my worldview and mindset to see through the smoke and mirrors. It's hard to believe now that I sincerely believed it.
@Jimmie Jay Bohorn thanks for pointing out he’s black. Who knew? Yep, that’s a race card🤪
They loved him because he said nice things that allowed them to feel good about themselves without them being required to actually do anything.
He was shilled by the 👃 media machine harder than anyone else in human history. Nonstop 24/7 campaign from every single 👃 in the entire world to label him messiah.
Half our population are ignorant and foolish...
Thomas Sowell is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant minds of our time.
Yep... he is what a dumb person thinks a smart person sounds like.
Lol!!!!!!! You’re hilarious.
I love the fact that like Senator Kennedy, Sowell has -0 tolerance for 🐂💩!
👌😄😚😎🇺🇲
@@waynefisher9824
Why?
It's not because you voted for this lying @$, anti-American spook, is it?!
It's almost like white folks are clueless and democratic black folks can't seem embrace the fact that he sold the entire race out!
And I thought ninjas in my old neighborhood was full of 💩!
Next thing you'll be telling us you're taking hormone blockers like his wife Michael! 😒🙄😤😣🇺🇲
Or any other time!
God bless you Dr.Sowel for being the first person to have the courage and wisdom to see Obama with the honesty the American people deserve.Thank you.Why can’t people see this was a coup he pulled off.Fear?
I've admired and listened to Mr. Sowell for many years. He, more than any other American, talks truth abount our culture and our modern society. Listen to his words and you will be enlightened. Mr. Sowell knows. Indeed he does.
I noticed this when I was at purdue having studied an engineering degree here in Australia. A lot of students at undergraduate level aren't there because they want to become engineers. They are there to avoid being unemployed. There is a difference. There was little interest in what they were doing.
this man is a gem.
Would you say, it's bad for a society to have a couple of extra engineers? Man I would love to live in a country that has excess of engineers, bring them to germany! We need them badly!
@jakoblochner4784 so you need disinterested, bad engineers in Germany ?? That's the most amusing thing I've ever heard. You can have them. Australia's got enough dummies now.
So, you are the mind reader?
Maybe, you would deny folks access because they don't meet with your approval?
Tommy would love to be king.
We understand...
@@jakoblochner4784A bad engineer is worse than no engineer.
In America most college students get funneled in, expecting only a lot of partying and fraternal bonding away from their parents for the first time. It is an entire culture of prolonged adolescence that you can see in Animal House and the subsequent generations. And it applies to both genders. Almost every graduate of private high schools is expected to go to college. Is it the same in UK and AUS?
Easy loans and an idea that you can find employment with a degree regardless of your major is a huge part of it.
Love how Dr. Sowell seems immune to being indoctrinated the way most of us have been to one degree or another, be it subtly or blatantly. Hearing him brings such instant clarity. His words ring true.
Sowell was, by his own admission, a Marxist coming out of college. It was only after working for the federal government that he learned that Communism was a dangerous sham.
He was a Communist at one point, then he woke up. He knows their tricks and how they con you.
He has said he was indoctrinated, at an early age. He was a marxist. What cured him was employment with a government agency. He proposed a solution to an issue, and his fellow employees were horrified, because the agency, and them as employees, wouldn't be needed anymore.
Dr. Sowell is indoctrinated into libertarian-conservatism. Everything he does is about supporting his belief system. That’s fine. But you can’t say he isn’t indoctrinated into any belief system just because it’s one that many people, perhaps even you, share and feel is “alternative”
@@achinthmurali5207 To be clear, Indoctrination is defined as the teaching a person (or a group) to accept a set of beliefs uncritically. Adopting a position, or changing one's mind about a position one once held, is not necessarily the product of indoctrination. Sowell's written work, which is considerable, reflects Sowell's determination to back up his positions with evidence. Sowell came out of college a Marxist (He has admitted this in interviews) and it was only after he worked for the federal government that Sowell concluded that Marxism doesn't work in the real world.
I absolutly enjoyed seeing Mr. Sowell being "like that" in this video...
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Best wishes to all decent Americans from Prague, Czech republic!
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Spot on. The intellectuals think that their intellect is going to save us!
Dr Sowell, you are so knowledgeable & articulate! We are so fortunate to hear your thoughts so well spoken!!
The interviewer didn't really make a good job in asking critical questions though... He actually made it very easy for him to get away with his blabla about rockefeller without really discussing obamas point (minute 4).
"Obama has an absolute talent for saying things that make no sense". - Thomas Sowell
Replace obama with politician.
I remember the first time I heard him speak, and the audience was practically wetting themselves, and I said, "But he's not saying anything!" And, having studied history, I thought this was exactly how Hitler came to power. He said nothing of substance, and people thought he was the second coming. Scary stuff.
@@idalily3810 That is so true of Barrack Obama....
@Idalily To not say anything of substance indicates that what he was saying was not for the flesh, but for the spirit.
BINGO, OBAMA TALKS AND NEVER SAYS ANYTHING.
Mr. Sowell has a lot of wisdom.... people should listen and learn.
I admire Professor Sowell very much. I’m happy that we can hear him on RUclips and I hope young people will watch and learn from him.
"Tell me what you think I think I want to hear and I'll vote for you."
- American People
“I’ll tell you what you want to hear if you vote for me.” -American Presidents
I taught college for almost 40 years. I mentioned to collogues that less than 10% of those in colleges should be there. They agreed with me. The problem is that these students are not ready for the work college actually involves. They could have bad study habits or not the educational background or the mental abilities or the skills, the desire and the motivation for college. The thing is that college is not for everyone. Career colleges, occupational centers or community colleges can provide the education and training for good, well-paying careers that don't require college educations.
But people who aren't college material at some point need to understand that's what they actually need. The right degree and knowledge will get you where you need to be. Make good money and invest wisely for a few years and then you can do whatever you want. Just like when people go into the military they aren't going to like it but they do it for the benefits that come when you get out. Going to college is the same thing. The benefits you get after graduating. Why is that so hard for black folks to understand? They'd rather listen to people like him saying they shouldn't go if they don't want to.
Ah hey professor, what exactly are "collogues"?
@@clambake3293a typo, dumdum.
@@laryanryan9170they'll still flunk out.
The obsession with allowing "lower income" to attend colleges is why. When it was for the best and the brightest, college was worth it.
This man is a true Sage, his honesty is breath taking 🙌🏻
"You're saying it's ego, pride and vanity." I'm shocked. Thank you, Prof Sowell, for calling it for what it is! It was, and still is, a massive SNOW JOB on the American public. Well, a certain segment of voters
That, and the fact the media relentlessly presented him as a hero and hid negative information about him. They are very complicit in covering for the leftist Marxists.
The segment of Democrats Socialist a nice way to say Leftist Americans, Marxist Communist.. Aka USEFUL IDIOTS.
Yuri Bezmenov USSR defector explains it best concerning USEFUL IDIOTS..
Check out video of Yuri Bezmenov..
Then it swings to the other land of the blind. Ego pride and vanity, defined Trump.
We need something else.
Like a Mr Sowell, or Peterson. Who are big thinkers, who can take it all in. Rather than just being one camp.
There's not a single video anywhere of any classmates of Barry Soetoro Soebarkah, in fact, Wayne Root attended Columbia the same exact years majoring the n political science, he never saw Barry attend any classes there and no professors can honestly say he was their student...now, I ask you: does this sound good?
@@billpetersen298 Bill, I'm not an Orangeman fan due to him going along with the 💉😷🤡 psyop...but, if you just look at actual policy, he was good at running USA Inc., show me a person who desires hire office, I'll show you a psychopath and egomaniac
finally. Someone has called "the king is naked" on this impostor --- everytime after listening to Obama talk I asked myself : what did he just say? And always my answer was : " I have no idea.
That's because sh$# comes out of his mouth.
On the bright side at least he made a bit of since from time to time unlike the POS we currently have that puts Obama to shame.
He was & is full of it. Very dishonest. Only spoke someone else's words. Did not mean a thing he said. Someone told him what to say to get votes. If he spoke the truth about what he truly believes in, he never would have gotten the votes. He is a snake.
@@juliedeane4327 So true, and "Michelle" (big mike) has an Addams apple, I saw it.
Me, too!
Dr. Thomas Sowell is such a brilliant man! Always spot on!
Right color, slick talker. That simple
Dr. Sowell hits the nail on the head everytime. So wise and inspirational.
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@@doggietreats67 clowns use lots of emojis rather than having a meaningful discussion
Thomas Sowell should be mandatory curriculum for every high school student 🙏
Thomas Sowell should be mandatory curriculum for every ... student able to read! Easy to understand. No big words. What our generation calledl common sense.
That would be great if every high school student could read. Unfortunately, about 25% of Americans can't.
@@user-qr7ee2cp4y As opposed to what?
Please
He was so loved because he promised things for free without work needed. He promised a future he never delivered. Easy to win when everybody is poor due to him and promises good things
TRUMP2024
He delivered alright……… he DID fundamentally change the country……… FOR WORSE…… and now he’s telling that Idiot Biden what to do!
Oh no some are winning !! Notice he attacked food stamps while in office cut people food assistance guess who receives the most food assistance in America!! White people !! But never once did he or any other president do anything about subsidized housing !! Have generations of the same families in there , they should have term limits !!! Guess who lives there !!! I fully fully believe Barrack
Was groomed his whole life to crumble America !! I fully belive
His far left
Liberal mother groomed him to be a communist !! That's why she chose an African suitor to get her pregnant!! I wish she never existed and Brrack never
Existed too !! But here we are the fkn boomers have ruined America For ever
There is no going back !!.there is no Trump that can fix it !! It will never be the Same pre boomer generation they have messed up everything, if only we could factory reset America but we can't
Y’all be saying anything because most of y’all disliked him because he’s half black
@Shy do you really believe that? Or is that what you tell yourself to justify your own failures? We don't like him because of his POLICYS. according to your standards if we don't love everything you do were racists. That view itself is racist making you a racist. Not likeing somebody has nothing to do with racism. It's you. A rotten person nobody would like even if your were white or neon green
One black fellow American told me ; We finally had our chance to show what we can do and this guy messed it all up. I felt very bad for him and all our black fellow Americans. Black America is awake and Black America is educated along with every other American that seeks an education and you can no longer pull the Wool over their eyes like this guy tried to do to all of us.
Save your children from Anti-American agenda in public schools and universities! Let your voice be heard! Vote with your Vote! Vote with your dollars. Stop supporting corporations that support anti God and anti Constitutional Law.
You're referring to Mr. Obama I presume.
Whats wrong with being anti America? There are things Americans should be ashamed of when it comes to the USA. Go ahead tell me to leave lol we all know you have no original material
He sounds like a kune
I’m of the opinion that we will not see any person of color as president for at least a couple of generations because of how Obama screwed up.
There’s a reason Jackie Robinson got signed by the Dodgers.
Imagine having just 1 hour with this Great Man, the knowledge one would come away with that would last a lifetime! Thank you Sir!
Positive media coverage and the fear of being called a racist if you didn’t fall at his feet
Exactly. And people were afraid to not go with the programming and culture.
First President to be continuously at war for entire two terms, in the most theaters of war, made Libya into major hub for human smuggling and slave trading, gave Iran pallets of cash to fund terrorism in the Middle East, cucked to Russia on Crimea, cucked to China on militarizing the South China Sea, Weaponized the IRS, sanctioned FBI spying upon a President Elect (anyone seriously think that Operation Crossfire Hurricane went ahead without Obama's knowledge?)
Nail Head direct hit!
MSM flat-out refused to talk about his failures.
@@welderlogic1806 massive cover-up by msm
Thomas Sowell is a national treasure. The sad part is most of his community dismisses him as A child a "quack." He speaks truths and facts.
HE IS AWESOME
I used to respect him, then he backed trump who went against everything he was supposed to stand for. Since when did Sowell support protectionism over free trade or high deficit spending? Or handing billions to farmers as a socialist bailout? Sowell's just another guy who doesn't actually stand for anything.
his community?
just another uncle tom!
@@georgegordonbrown9522 I know right...that's proof that the mindset of the "race" construct is real in the white community, at the same time claiming that the "ism" doesn't exist anymore. Sowell is in the "community" of intellectualism and academia. lol
I love his intellect but most of all I love his honesty!
Thomas Sowell is all about Common Sense. Politicians just want to win votes and say things that sound good, for power and money. Sowell tells it like it is showing us the consequences of what these morons are saying. He does so, because he is incredibly wise with real knowledge of human nature
Thank you Thomas Sowell, Obama says things that make absolutely and completely "no sense"
T Sowell's intelect is up there.Whats incredible is that his answers to questions are so simple and makes you wonder why I didnt realise that!
Of all the Thomas Sowell clips i've seen I somehow missed this one. Thanks for posting! His books should be mandatory reading in all schools...
I bought my books he’s amazing
I had missed it too... but honestly, it's not one I'd send to an Obama worshipping leftist. Or as a standalone to promote Sowell. A couple of his responses, imo, might seem a touch fallacious.
I'm grateful to and for you.❤❤❤❤ Gratitude!
Thomas Sowell is a national treasure and should be out speaking much more in public. People need to learn from this brilliant man!
TRUMP2024
More like should be a leader, not just a speaker to sweet your ears
@@lucasschmidt4022 do one tosser
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for the KKK he is a national treasure along with Trump
He wasn't loved he was idolized. When false gods are revealed it doesn't turn out well for them. Unfortunately some don't see it until they've been chained in hellfite and it's too late.
Like Trump 😂
@@mcmerry2846 Bro is so obsessed with trump its actually wild do you have this thing called TDS.
I heard its real.
@@t.g.s__7009 don't tell me your life man. Not everyone suffers like yourself.
@@mcmerry2846 You are the one who mentioned trump when it was not even about him.
@@t.g.s__7009 ok Mr. Fallacies. No wonder why the US are in such a state
Wake up people! He’s spinning his answer the same way politicians do. The point is we all should be educating ourselves no matter if it’s college, trade schools, or self-teaching. Do whatever is within your means to elevate yourself intellectually. Failure is failing to do anything!
Who are you referring to, Obama?
@@rickystanton3039 All politicians are the same! They ALL say what they think we want to hear. That’s why they call it the Popular Vote! It’s up to each of us to make a choice. If you chose trump, good; if I chose harris, good. Then we go our way. These elections never produce Truth!
"That's the brilliance of intellectuals"!!!
BRILLIANT!!!
My ex husbands property taxes just tripled because the city built a giant flea market with a parking garage right across the street from his house. They also made his block of the street a 2 way. It was a 1 way because it was so narrow. His house isnt the a great thing to look at and it went from being valued at $60,000 to almost $200,000 just because of this building. Now he is in jeopardy of losing his house that his parents bought in the 1960s. The house itself was built in 1850. Taxes are ridiculous.
Property taxes means the government owns your home and the land it's on. Very communist
Yeah, if the value is up, I would have sold it.
@@fuzzybug3000Why? It is his. And he should not be taxed out of his home because of the insatiable greed of government.
The fact that the mainstream media always covered for him probably didn’t hurt.
He had reporters arrested and jailed!!!
And yet was a media darling.
Many in the media were afraid to criticize Obama first fear of being labeled a racist.
Thomas Sowell is a TRUTHTELLER!! Something that’s so hard to find in todays corrupt world. Thank you.
When you roll 18 on Charisma but 10 on Intelligence.
He isn't the worst president anymore...
Untrue, he is still president, just hiding in the basement.
He is definitely still the worst barak abomination messed up really bad
Ans never was wirg competition like Buchanon and Jackson and of course the talentless monster Trump!
You know you are mentally weak and susceptible to propaganda when you allow yourself to be convinced that Biden or Obama are worse than Andrew Jackson or Martin Van Buren.
Yeh Biden and Obama suck, but we've had some incredibly bad presidents in the past.
I was gonna say, this did not age well.
My father was a Marine and fought in Korea, I was a Marine during the Jimmy Carter years. Dr. Sowell was also a Marine during the Korean War. It would be my pleasure to buy you a beer or a cup of Joe someday. Semper Fidelis Tom.
Tom could post the video. It would be great.
I've read most of Prof. Sowell's books. The man is a national treasure.
Are they easy to understand? Which one was your fave?
This man is a national treasure ❤️
Sowell : "Obama is the worst president."
Biden : "Hold my beer."
The worst American president followed him.
Politicians always say they are for the people and not for the elite, all while they hang around with the elite, party with the elite, work with the elite, dine with the elite, and do business with the elite.
The problem is on a global scale, politicians have latched onto uneducated people and educated them in one fact...... "Vote for me and I will give you other people's money". The facts that the giver and receiver in this case are morally bankrupt and that they will run out of "other people's money" never enters the discussion.
As Paul once said, "He who will not work should not eat".
Sir, you nailed it. Absolutely.
Why the very very wealthy don't pay taxes
You could not have 'splained it any better.
He promised stuff he knew he couldn't deliver on. Causing his radical supporters to become even more radical because they're ignorant! They don't know anything about civics, about economics, about anything really. Great way to get people to go marching in the street for crap like students loan forgiveness and $15 at McDonald's so some "Community Organizer" can come and fill their heads with EVEN MORE Marxist garbage.
Boomers
FINALLY a RUclips title that gets it right.
Tom is so right about the watering down of the education system. Not only that, his comments on Barak Obama are so true.
bs. no scandals under Obama, a near tripling of the Dow and record low unemployment.
How rude and disrespectful, using Dr. Sowell’s first name, as if you are friends! Apparently you were never raised to have good manners!
I've said it before, Thomas Sowell is a world treasure, I could listen to him for hours.
Well you’re dying soon so I don’t know how much you’ll actually listen to
i was greatly under whelmed by this uncle tom!!
Do you classify conservative or liberal?
It shows how quick you are to be deceived by idiots.
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Thomas Sowell has no dignity, no standards, and definitely no character. He has no limits how far he will go to denigrate AfroAmericans. Pleasing the delights to the ears of overt, covert, and latent racist White people to sell his books. Thomas Sowell knows very well (Has been doing it since 1970) White people enjoy with delight hearing a high profile educated American Black man denigrating his own race, AfroAmericans.
Barack Obama gave over $800 million to a new start up solar company in Fremont, California and that company filed for bankruptcy in about a year.
Some of their highly skilled employees who worked there got jobs at East Bay Municipal Utility District (a water utility and non profit municipality) and they mentioned that this solar company spent that free government money like it was water. One fellow said the main entrance of that building was decadent beyond belief. Expensive marble and exotic woods.
He said, no wonder they filed for bankruptcy.
Yeah , he had his foot on the gas , going full speed towards the cliff . For 8 whole years , he never let up. But then an unwanted calm , for the people's, anyway. Then here comes , Obama again , with the face of Joe Biden , on steroids . Now , see what happens.
Solyndra
The worst part is the government (aka: President/Obama) *didn't* go after said company for every red/single cent; they got in that contract!!! 🤔
Pump and dump scheme.
Obama also have billions to tesla & saved gm.
Why cant we have this level of intelligence in political discussions and in presidential debates?
It’s interesting watching a man say another man used interject to charm others whilst doing the same thing to wage an argument against another 🤷🏾♂️
We have been blessed to have had Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson, Shelby Steele, Charles Krauthammer, William F Buckley, Jr., Robert Woodson, Milton Friedman, and Walter Williams, walking and speaking among us in the age of mass-communication. At no other period of history could so many have been enabled to be exposed to such brilliant minds.
I miss Charles Krauthammer. Great comment.
I miss Aristotle though. It just hasn’t been the same without him
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@@Stryfe52Bro Plato and Socrates fr fr 👌🏻
Thomas Sowell was a student of Milton Friedman. Two great minds of the 20th/21st century.
So many people wanted Obama to be a great president, that they overlooked all of his flaws, and consider him one of our best, when he's actually one of our worst.
Which is exactly what he was aiming for.
Tell me you weren't taken in by his Yes We Can.
And blame the fake mainstream media, including *Hollyweird* for pushing that message into the heads of millions of Americans and citizens across the globe. Falling for the trap and believing into the saint Obama is or was going to be vs George Bush. With Obama's many appearances on tv-shows, like Kimmel, DeGeneres, Oprah etc.
Worst till traitor joe came out of the basement
There is no such thing as a perfect human being
@@Ovbiadolor-sp2lsyou still have to be held accountable
Dr. Thomas Sowell is so brilliant and has so much common sense. He is so interesting to listen to and read.
A rare combination, the theoretical and the practical. We dont often see both in the same person.
Bernie Sanders, Barack HO do not dare debate Thomas Sowell.
@Jimmie Jay Bohorn Even Obama supporters like me recognize he was a big disappointment in most areas of his administration. There is nothing racist about now doing an honest appraisal of his presidency. People will be doing that for the next two hundred years, long after the novelty of 'the first black president' has worn off.
@Jimmie Jay Bohorn So the 10 cent minds that write Google blurbs in a vacuum are more credible to you than a million dollar mind like Sowell's who is very public (despite censorship by the left) and willing to openly debate his ideas and facts.
@Jimmie Jay Bohorn Seems to me it was Democrats in power during the civil rights protests and riots of the sixties. Were they the racists you are referring to? Sowell was still a Marxist academic at the time. Only after more study and observation did he change his views based on intellect, not politics. If you look at everything through a racial lens, you are lazy and myopic and missing the big picture.
Thomas Sowell is a very great gift to this insane world of ours.
One of the few truly sane, honest and truly intelligent voices that we are privileged to listen to.
Tom Sowell. National treasure.
Obama: an example of the perfect bought-n-paid-for politician...glib, articulate, attractive, and pleasing but without backbone or integrity... able to make the sheeple feel better without actually doing a thing for them.
Isn't that what politics is all about ? LIE LIE LIE 😜...MAKE THE PEOPLE FEEL GOOD .....because that's all they gonna get ...." A FEELING " 🤣
Describes Trump to a T.
Don't worry. If leftists are to be believed, just spend a billion dollars making an anti-Obama movie because that would REALLY threaten democracy. Just like Citizens United.
@@coachhannah2403 - Except the articulate, attractive and pleasing.
@@MFitz12But he ACTUALLY knows what the hell he’s doing about business and the working class. His grandmother made certain he stayed connected to his roots, while Ann Dunham couldn’t keep little Barry far enough from the Kansas farm life. Ungrateful b!tch.
I never voted for Obama at any time. I felt he was false and now it is being brought to light.
I agree now. But the two men that ran against him were also false.
Don't exclude the third man (Hillary) who challenged him when he jumped the line. @@aunthat6685
I felt the same
I concur
I Didnt either.. that macho act was over the top.. what a showman.. worst president by far
A beautiful rational mind , this guy is always invited to dinner
OBAMA was a better actor than COSBY . He dapped his way through two terms.
Cosby was innocent
I wish I could talk to Mr. Sowell for one hour. In my opinion he is one of the most brilliant men in our country.
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Sounds dumb
He's one of the most brilliant people of all time in the entire world.
@googlenazicompany5935 Obama, a FAILED Presidency.
Who is Trump?..for $2000 please. The irony.
Are you so daft that you question the obvious?
I saw through him from the beginning: his underlying meanness and contempt. And, most especially, the evil people surrounding him, eg Weather Underground killers Bill Ayers and wife Bernadine Dorn, and the preacher, Rev. Wright.
Mary, you mean Obama right?
Dr Sowell is a genius and I have the deepest respect for him!
Mr Sowell, such a pleasure to listen an intellectual who can give a straight answer.
Just the fact that the supposed intellectuals have convinced individuals to discount Thomas Sowell’s knowledge speaks volumes as to the reasons why our societies are in the horrible state that they’re in. Because of Obama’s ability to sound knowledgeable when speaking so many people threw away their common sense, critical thinking abilities and integrity and believed him without further thought.
Bunch of Obama haters. Thomas Sowell I believe is pro republican anti democrat and a Trump lover. He hates on Obama as if he was a bad Democrat and he would possibly support a good Democrat when it wouldn't matter who was the democratic president he would hate on , except for Trump, I think most Trump supporters would still love Trump if he ran Democrat policies and those same people would also still hate Obama if he was Republican. The reason why Republicans hate Obama so much is because he was a great Democrat. Why would they hate him so much if he were a bad Democrat? If Obama were such a bad president and failed his democratic duties as president then that should be good news for Republicans as opposed to a good Democratic president that fulfilled his democratic duties. And that is why Republicans hate Obama so much , not because he was a bad Democrat President but because he was a good Democrat president and did his job and did it well. Plus I think Thomas Sowell doesn't like black people. Plus Thomas Sowell is a failure to his country to sit there and portray himself so much better and not step up to do better. I guess he felt shit was good enough without...... and what was Donald Trump, "the greatest president of all time " whom most , or well pretty much all of his supporters consider to be, doing during Obama 2 term presidency..... apparently he had a successful game show he must have felt more important than leading the country at that time and didn't mind Obama "destroying" the country. Yeah Trump just let that happen, for his cable TV game show.
I used to think Obama was the worst president ever but Joe Biden really took the cake and ice cream.
@Jeff Broders
The worst President by far has been Donald Trump who never had the support of the American electorate. Trump is an indefatigable liar with the uncanny ability to mesmerize so many people. Trump has been the only President who has been twice impeached and indicted for corruption!!
Why does Thomas Sowell propagate so many lies about former President Barack Obama. Is jealousy rendering its ugly head?
...it's bo 2.0...this is bo 3rd term. Destroy what works by any means necessary then be ungovernable. The dnc motto.
Why Jeff, because he wanted to bring down prescription drug prices and implement the affordable health care act. Or do you dislike him because he wanted to change to implement cleaner air protections and prevent coal miners from developing black lung disease.
@@lilypercell6793 Make a list of the Obama administration accomplishments, them the Biden administration, then the diaper Don administration.
James Buchanan used to get that "honor". In the 20th century I believe that Woodrow Wilson, George W. Bush (Jr.)
Barack Obama and Joe Biden could give Buchanan a good run! Nixon was crooked but (for the most part) his
policies were sound.
BS and race is more important than issues. For those people.
3:21 You're just saying it's ego and pride and vanity?
Sowell: Yes.
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Yep. So what happened in the UK was that everyone was encouraged to go to university. I feel that the real motivation for this was to reduce unemployment. However with the most expensive education in the world, it has created a huge student debt bubble. There aren't r enough graduate jobs for the graduates so they leave with a huge debt burden and spend time unemployed, looking for a job in their field until they give up a do a job they could have done without going to university. Because focus was taken away from trades, there is a shortage of trades people, so builders, electricians, mechanics and carpenters usually earn more than graduates. Indeed if I look at the people from school who are now wealthy. None of them have degrees, not a single one.
that is because you are not looking at the right people.🤣
Don't forget to mention that he won the Nobel 'peace' prize for absolutely doing nothing
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Because the committee (who are washed up politicians) wanted to wine and dine him, and bask in his glorious presence...
Has anyone ever won a peace prize for doing anything? I would think you have to stop a war to earn a prize for making peace, right?
Except bombing the Middle East multiple times
He took the prize and destroyed three Islamic countries. And how come Islamic leaders are still willing to do business with him and his puppet President? Even if Americans are fooled they should do better.
Ohhhh thank you Mr. Sowell - you bring such clarity to our chaos!