My dyslexia thought you had $13 trillion twice and I was about to point out that was incorrect. Yeah, *_thirty-one_** trillion* is very scary and extremely irresponsible.

It was only $800B when I was a kid and they said we'd never pay that off.

You can thank Obama, Trump, and Biden for that.

​@@time_for_toast4922Mainly Biden

Shocking, isn't it, we could only wish it was still 13T

And that's why when their descendants faced tyrants (as opposed to British patriots) they ended up dead. Jefferson's grandson is forgotten by history.

Yeah, how'd that work out?

​@@peterharrell7305 Anarchy is better!

Well they ain’t around anymore. Now it’s up to Jamal and Sergio and they are not nearly as bright.

@@dreisiglps2451 I agree with Michael Malice on alot of thing, but just like progressive ideas it's a pipe dream that will never work because of the self serving greedy nature of man. We live under the greatest civilization and documents ever created right now, we are just not following the directions anymore is the problem. Trump must win and schedule F all these criminals day 1.

Don't do me too many flavors especially your self.

Chris Farley crumbling his biscuit. I killed my sale!!!

for real! when did MY PERSONAL SAFETY become YOUR REPSONSIBILITY ???

They know, they want you dead.

A message FROM the Government: "That's the idea kid!"

Okay.. be quiet and eat your grub worms.

You still have hope?

That's the plan

It can't. The American experiment was ended by abe lincoln

Google the public pension time bomb. That’s always an upbeat subject.

Go back to the fifty's, sixty's and seventies to find some good old days.

I wonder how much of that debt is due to the government giving away free money to nations all around the world

Take at look at 1971 when it was 1 trillion, guess what happened that year? Nixon took us off the gold standard. THAT was 100% and is the problem today. We are done

It's 30 Trillion

@@John-jl9de This video is a replay from back in the Obama Administration.

So we would stop building car centric suburbs then? Most suburbs in US cities are government subsidized because the massive amount of infrastructure built to support the residential neighborhoods but not enough tax revenue to pay for it. People hate taxes but LOVE their big plot of land and single family home. It’s a massive drain on Cities and socialism in disguise. Don’t believe me? Lol look it up or i can suggest a view videos. It’s straight facts that our cities survive on debt. Literally a ponzi scheme. Are you willing to give your home up or pay more in taxes so cities aren’t going bankrupt? Most likely not. So this is why things will never change. Everyone says “STOP WASTEFUL GOVERNMENT SPENDING” until it inconveniences them.

Also- gov't only by consent!

Oh yes and how is this post Raegan logic working for you? Paying for insulting triple the price, than people in Canada or Australia, because your government does not regulate prices, yet pumps tons of money to big companies?

​@Alan0000able You realize the reason we pay the high prices is also because we in the US are required to treat people regardless of condition right? There's a reason people come to the US to get cancer treatment over Canada because they don't have to wait 6 months for treatment (prices still too high I agree but I digress)

​@@dubjubs According to Fraser Institute, a Canadian public policy only around 22k Canadias are taking receive none essential medical help outside of the Canada. Reasons can be for example faster time or cheaper operation. Benefits people who can pay but still is better than going bankrupt like in US. What your sentence about treatment supposed to mean exactly? That people in other countries are not getting treatment because of certain conditions? And now, US is paying so much, because it does not have universal healthcare, so companies can charge absurd prices.

That black guy gave me a headache.

And he doesn't give two sharts about waste and pork!!

​@@Ms.MD7I am a black guy and I am ashamed that he is one of us.

That Mark Hill is very smart. Just ask him!

What he meant to say is, "The government is some of us! And we'll take what we want from the rest of you."

Mark of a totalitarian

@@nickpolizzi5897 I forgot about Marc Lamont Hill, but I could have been okay without being reminded. His successor, Richard Fowler is another smooth talking Progressive Socialist Taker that I could do without. I remember when he argued, six months after New York defunded the police, that "Black People didn't trust the police". What went unsaid was the full statement of fact. Black People didn't trust the police WOULD SHOW UP IN TIME TO HELP THEM!

If "we are the gov't" then we wouldn't have to ask ourselves for permission to drive, or start a business, or what plants we can grow, or... (We don't need to ask the gov't to do these things, but they tell us we need to, because like people in all organized crime, they are immoral liars. Our natural rights precede and supercede anything they say)

Clearly he won't be happy until the state has the means of production

Warchild, refugee and legal immigrant here. kina virus released to fk up the elections...millions dead, billion+ with heart/organ issues...evil know no bounds, 100% intentionally released...just to get one man out of office, one man they could not buy/control. I have seen what communism will do to stay in or get in power. Anything! Chinese killed 30+ million of their own for power less than a century ago. It was a crazy conspiracy theory that FBI smoked Kennedy and now we know it is true. It was a conspiracy theory that kina virus was manmade but now we know it is true. MSM/Big Tech working overtime to censor/ban. This was intentionally released to fk up US election and for the Chinese to get protesters of Hong Kong streets because if Hong Kong goes so do commies in China. Win-win for commies and US dems....millions dead, billion+ with heart/organ issues. Godless people will always create hell.

NO! That is typical re-election speech.

In theory, we need taxes as they are a method of controlling inflation. Money that goes to the government is essentially removed from circulation, increasing the value of the money remaining in circulation. The problem in reality is that the government creates and spends more new money faster than they can tax us, so the entire system is not functioning the way it is meant to anyway.

​@@tcp8946 You have understood absolutely nothing. So I tell it to you. Is coercion good?

@@dreisiglps2451 I'm not saying it is right. I believe taxes are theft. That is irrelevant. I am just stating that, that is the way our government is meant to coexist with the economy in our federal reserve banking system. We need to go back to gold.

@@tcp8946 Could you explain how taxation is "a method to control inflation"? I'm afraid the notion that govt just 'burns' money in gigantic piles of $$ is farcical to the extreme. If I point a gun at you and take everything you own (theft), does that "lower inflation"? if you're going to lie, at least lie better next time.

@@Archedgar Yes, essentially the government does burn money. It is supposed to, to some degree, at least because of the federal reserve. Your taxes are not funding your streets the way you think they are. They are paying for interest on loans that the government has taken out from private banks. And I will say it again, because we are not on the gold standard, money is not a receipt anymore, it is a "trust" we share in it, and these banks can loan an infinite amount of money to the government and individuals, the entire idea of taxes has become pointless and useless because the money has no real intrinsic value in the first place. And they could never collect enough taxes to pay for their reckless spending, so the only thing that happens is inflation, because the interest payments for the government (we the people) to these banks for the amount of money in circulation keep increasing and will eventually exceed our GDP. And the taxes we pay 100 times on $1, that we are all stupid enough to allow to keep happening for some reason hurts all of us, besides these banks, but the money needs to be removed from circulation some way (taxes being wasted by the government, and also actually literally old dollar bills being shredded and burned, they do do that sometimes to remove currency from circulation, just FYI) or else inflation would run absolutely rampant because the government will not stop borrowing money. Most taxes are evil, but they are necessary as long as we keep borrowing more than we can afford. Our taxes are too high, but the bigger issue is the spending problem in our government. It is a 2 headed dragon.

What is mean why right? I hope i dont get it wrong tho cause right is usually are pro nationalistic leaning

lots of cities are already there

@@MusicLover-vq3ol Right on the streets-needles, too. (Am I right, San Francisco?)

We're already there.

6+ middle eastern and 1 european country later... plus all the big bank big education and big pharma bailouts, thats an easy 20 tril i feel like im playing price is right

There will be a crisis eventually

Could be as soon as this summer

whats even funnier is this idea of 'black farmers' as if blacks can farm.

@@Dan16673 We are quickly running out of other people's money...

@@bills5009 we've been out. The banking system is mostly credit creation, sir

Even more than Israel which is shocking.

At least they're putting it to good use killing Putin patsies.

When I was a kid, I saw video of the war in Vietnam every single night on tv. Where are the videos from Ukraine?

it illegit joe money laundering machine

and our former provinces: Afghanistan & Iraq .

This is old, but still relevant. Both the Dems and the Repubs are spending like drunken sailors.

Warchild, refugee and legal immigrant here. kina virus released to fk up the elections...millions dead, billion+ with heart/organ issues...evil know no bounds, 100% intentionally released...just to get one man out of office, one man they could not buy/control. I have seen what communism will do to stay in or get in power. Anything! Chinese killed 30+ million of their own for power less than a century ago. It was a crazy conspiracy theory that FBI smoked Kennedy and now we know it is true. It was a conspiracy theory that kina virus was manmade but now we know it is true. MSM/Big Tech working overtime to censor/ban. This was intentionally released to fk up US election and for the Chinese to get protesters of Hong Kong streets because if Hong Kong goes so do commies in China. Win-win for commies and US dems....millions dead, billion+ with heart/organ issues. Godless people will always create hell.

because Stossel is fed up. thats why he does these videos. he's a journalist, and has to keep that level of professionalism for the sake of sanity.

Meh, populism is a delusion. A vote is essentially a useless form of power and with mass immigration your vote becomes even less important. If anything, by believing you have power, you are allowed to remain passive. It seems like a cope to me.

That's what they do, identify a problem and spend there career and billions and at Best nothing changes,at Worst and more likely gets worse than ever, either way it don't get fixed.

Ever since the bronze age it’s always been the same problems.

illegit joe has been working at it for over 50 years

Government has no incentive to deliver services that are effective or efficient. They do not work for you. The reality is that half of what government does achieves the exact opposite of what it intended to do. The net result would be zero, if it weren't for the enormous amount of money wasted on simply keeping an incompetent government running.

@bastiat "This isn't new, Gary..." Are you asking me or telling me? I'm 71 this October and I said nothing that would have created the impression this is anything new to me.

@bastiat GaryR55 said: "nothing has changed". So why are you telling him: "this isnt new gary"?

@@TheAnimeist You left out the rest of what I said: "...except that things have become far worse."

Benjamin Franklin never said this

@@EventHoriXZ0n But he did say, "A republic, ma'am, if you can keep it!"

Because it's not about 'greed' but if it was, they'd be extremely greedy, envious & vile. No. They just want to enslave you and will say anything to keep pushing toward that end.

Right. So fckn annoying. Tired of giving handouts.

Well said!

As Rush used to say: "Just write them a check! They will cash it!!"

Or you know they want it to be done systematically because it only works when all chip in?

@@Alan0000able Some of us have already chipped in plenty. Ante up if you're that anxious.

Pretty soon the interest on the debt will exceed the GNP - that's going to be interesting

I knew this was a reupload.

Have you read Leonard Read’s letter on that subject? Written decades ago but still striking.

Government mismanagement, that's the issue.

@@ricardocantoral7672 Tyranny & corruption* aka leftism. Stalin, Hitler, Mao & Saddam Hussein were all staunch leftists. There's a reason they took their respective nations down their chosen paths.

No court can stop it. All politicians are criminals. Communism, in other words, government, is nothing but a superstition.

You can only have justice by spreading this message.

All I have to say is ARTICLE V CONVENTION OF STATES! Congress will NEVER vote themselves less power. WE THE PEOPLE have to take power from them!

Lets hope we can make it another 12 years.

All I can say is I'm glad I'm 63 and not 33. I feel for my daughters and my grandchildren. They will not live in the same US I did. Start with NOTHING, and work like crazy to build 'something' to be able to retire relatively comfortable - until the dollar looses it's value. Husband is Brasilian. Went through 'hyper-inflation' there. The paper money/coins you had in your pocket at night were worth NOTHING in the morning. Many countries have gone through this - Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Cuba - Brasil is doing this again - but we never seem to learn our lessons from other's failures. Too bad.

2009 was a minor disturbance to what is coming in the coming months .

his remarks didn't age well!!!!!

They’re all statist socialists. It’s appalling how out of control the spending has gotten with both D and R in office.

He was. Look at them now. Moaning and whining. Getting their sound bites. But everyone of those bills that get passed have their names on them

Freedomtoons 😂

The fed

Prohibition resulted in the first federal income tax.

the passage of a amendment allowing the income tax, before that revenue stream gov didn't have the ability to raise enough funds to grow

Who is we?

@@dustinabc The United States.

On the express train!!

Nope- we need to recognize and understand liberty and natural rights, and that the only legitimate gov't is one you support voluntarily. We need at least as many gov'ts as we have churches.

To be fair, I don't think it's fair to compare the government spending to 200 years ago or whatever. The world got a lot more complicated and a lot smaller. We're spending a lot for national defense, Social Security, etc. I know you're a Libertarian so you probably see a lot of this as overblown, and that's fine. I'm a conservative, and almost always vote Republican, but I don't begrudge our nation (Christian in origin and character) having a good safety net for poor people. I have no doubt there are vast inefficiencies, bloat, and waste. I don't know how to solve it, but suddenly cutting everything isn't the answer. But I respect your position and think it's good to have voices of moderation. 👍

Haha "RAISE MY TAXES!"... says a group of two demographics: a) Rich liberals disconnected from reality who can afford it, and b) Poor people who don't pay much tax at all anyway. Typical.

(What they really mean is, tax everyone who's richer than I am, and then give it to me.)