American Contempt for Liberty - Walter Williams

Throughout history, personal liberty, free markets, and peaceable, voluntary exchanges have been roundly denounced by tyrants and often greeted with suspicion by the general public. Unfortunately, argues Dr. Walter E. Williams, Americans have increasingly accepted the tyrannical ideas of reduced private property rights and reduced rights to profits, and have become enamored with restrictions on personal liberty and control by government.
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  • @TheHeritageFoundation
    @TheHeritageFoundation4 жыл бұрын

    Watch another Walter Williams talk at The Heritage Foundation, here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/o6iu09WofZqToZc.html

  • @charleshmansfield5786
    @charleshmansfield57863 жыл бұрын

    Today is December 10, 2020, and it is sad to have to say that Dr. Walter Williams passed away this week. We have lost a treasure that most Americans do not realize. May this great American rest in peace.

  • @mynumber2365

    @mynumber2365

    Жыл бұрын

    That's why we need to study his worl and carry his message that he was trying to share and rest in peace Dr. Walter Williams

  • @burtoncapps5477

    @burtoncapps5477

    Жыл бұрын

    It was a very sad day because we lost one of the greatest minds in the twenty-first century.

  • @rcnelson

    @rcnelson

    6 ай бұрын

    It's hard to part with Walter Williams. We still have Thomas Sowell, thank heaven.

  • @a.williams1945

    @a.williams1945

    4 ай бұрын

    I'm shocked at how his death received absolutely no news. Not even Fox News or The Daily Wire reported about his passing.

  • @billykersh7061
    @billykersh70615 жыл бұрын

    “For moral people legality alone cannot be our guide” This man is a profound thinker. Thank God for educators of this caliber.

  • @RodMartinJr

    @RodMartinJr

    4 жыл бұрын

    Amen! I wish we had more like him.

  • @hatepasswords8169
    @hatepasswords81695 жыл бұрын

    When I hear an intelligent person speaking truth whether negative or positive or about others or themselves with equal scales, I'm in awe and I wish them all the honor in the world.

  • @corneliawissing7950
    @corneliawissing79505 жыл бұрын

    I am not an American, I don't live in the USA and have never visited the USA. But I'm 77 years old and today, for the first time ever, I've heard of this outstanding man. He's a revelation and an inspiration. Thank you, Sir!

  • @BladeOfLight16

    @BladeOfLight16

    5 жыл бұрын

    You will love Thomas Sowell, too.

  • @kimobrien.

    @kimobrien.

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@BladeOfLight16 The true test of these people comes when the reach the age of 65. Then just like Any Rand all the years they have been complaining about Social Security and Medicare being immoral goes out the window when that social security check arrives in the mail. A first test was given in 1929 after the stock market crash. Did private charity solve any of the problems created by capitalism for the working class? In fact even "New Deal" government charity was not enough only with the rise of the CIO union movement challenging management rights and Roosevelt's "War Deal" was capitalist exchange and trade able to begin to revive.

  • @dianem6951

    @dianem6951

    4 жыл бұрын

    Kim O'Brien Capitalism created the problem? BTW, SS is something they’ve paid into. It’s not them taking from the government. What’s your solution? Take everyone’s property, if they won’t go you arrest them, then kill them? Communism kills millions. It’s never not murdered those people you pretend to care about. In fact you all ready are. It’s called abortion. You are a deceiver. I’ll keep my Rights. Thanks anyway.

  • @corneliawissing7950

    @corneliawissing7950

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@BladeOfLight16, I do, what I've seen and read of him! Anybody else I should know about?

  • @corneliawissing7950

    @corneliawissing7950

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@dianem6951 , also keep your firearm - it's one of your rights.

  • @jezdp2098
    @jezdp20985 жыл бұрын

    "I am uninsultable", best words one can use to facilitate dialogue. Thank you

  • @ryanlynch3579
    @ryanlynch35795 жыл бұрын

    38 years old and I’m still learning so much from men like this. Why wasn’t so much of this taught in school, at any level?

  • @themeadowlarkminutewithpau8184

    @themeadowlarkminutewithpau8184

    4 жыл бұрын

    You mean the government schools ?

  • @TheSpicyLeg
    @TheSpicyLeg5 жыл бұрын

    Walter Williams is a national treasure. I learn from him every time he speaks.

  • @gregfletcher3557
    @gregfletcher35575 жыл бұрын

    I was a cut up kid in 1976 in middle school. My teacher had enough. They took me out of class and put me in the short bus class. I was embarrassed and promptly went to the principle and told them I would behave and not give my teachers a hard time any longer. Just please give me a chance. He did give me that chance and I did take school more serious from that point on. Most would do the the same if they were given the options Dr Williams spoke about. I spent one day in the short bus class and knew I had to change. I was a B and C student at that time. If it would help to make the change in schools I could retrieve those records as an example to use. I graduated high school.

  • @artemus419
    @artemus4195 жыл бұрын

    Most excellent. This is now a part of our Home School civics class.

  • @peterjongsma2754

    @peterjongsma2754

    5 жыл бұрын

    That's where this wisdom should be taught. Restore the Black Family. Get skills and trades.

  • @ydelysuarez2548

    @ydelysuarez2548

    5 жыл бұрын

    Excellent!

  • @krs2711

    @krs2711

    5 жыл бұрын

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  • @TheJpwzrd

    @TheJpwzrd

    5 жыл бұрын

    I was homeschooled :) good job

  • @TheJpwzrd

    @TheJpwzrd

    5 жыл бұрын

    Krs2 3 of my siblings have graduated from Hillsdale and my youngest sister is going there in the fall :) great school

  • @JKDDarthSniper
    @JKDDarthSniper4 жыл бұрын

    He is just under Sowell in my book as one of America's greatest patriots and thinkers. God Bless Him!

  • @guycmcd
    @guycmcd4 жыл бұрын

    I'm sorry Mr. Williams and Sowell age like the rest of us. They should live forever...

  • @TheReptilekiller

    @TheReptilekiller

    4 жыл бұрын

    I was thinking something very similar while listening this time.

  • @rosemarie7816

    @rosemarie7816

    4 жыл бұрын

    Who can step up to fill their shoes? Who prizes education and intellectual honesty over emotionalism like these men?

  • @thekriskokid

    @thekriskokid

    3 жыл бұрын

    They will...

  • @beyondthepale9071

    @beyondthepale9071

    3 жыл бұрын

    Coleman Hughes and Jason Riley and Kim Strassel in addition to John Mc Whorton and Glen Loury

  • @garyfranco7827

    @garyfranco7827

    3 жыл бұрын

    Amen

  • @fleurdrose5504
    @fleurdrose55044 жыл бұрын

    Especially immoral when taxes are sent to other countries as aid.

  • @dalemaloney255

    @dalemaloney255

    4 жыл бұрын

    do you pay taxes? how many did you pay? where do you work? who sends YOU a check?

  • @dalemaloney255

    @dalemaloney255

    4 жыл бұрын

    they didnt want these kids to throw away this money too! so they gave it away!

  • @lawrencekenchen1522

    @lawrencekenchen1522

    4 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely!

  • @sanniepstein4835

    @sanniepstein4835

    3 жыл бұрын

    Worse yet where we find that part of the purpose was to give kickbacks to dirty politicians.

  • @davektver2863
    @davektver28638 жыл бұрын

    Excellent presentation; I would add that for the analogy of armed thief to government to be even more accurate, the thief would have to keep $150 of the $200 he took by force before using the $50 to help the injured lady. The government does nothing -- not even stealing -- for free.

  • @catherineanderson7460

    @catherineanderson7460

    4 жыл бұрын

    DaveKtver The GOVERNMENT doesn’t make ANY MONEY....THEY FORCE US TO PAY THROUGH THE NOSE AND WASTE MOST OF IT ON SOCIAL SERVICES.

  • @bromine35

    @bromine35

    4 жыл бұрын

    I work in childcare subsidies. We get 10% of every dollar we pay out. Our goal is to give out as much money as possible. So nice of us huh?

  • @billrizer9159

    @billrizer9159

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@bromine35 lol, I work for mental health. The more money we spend the more money the federal gov. gives us. Our goal is also spending as much money as possible. Funny how that works

  • @dalemaloney255

    @dalemaloney255

    4 жыл бұрын

    our government has taken a lot of MY money to pay welfare for a lot of people that dont work. gov money comes from REAL PEOPLE! IT AINT FREE! from housing to food, education to health care, LOTSA people here dont PAY IN NEARLY ENOUGH! and HELL NO! you dont deserve it just because you are HERE at that moment! get a job!

  • @patsirianni7984
    @patsirianni79842 жыл бұрын

    One of the most Brilliant men of our lifetime and will be missed

  • @drealsidewinder9159
    @drealsidewinder91594 жыл бұрын

    "Keep the apples fresh, but you can't get rid of the rotten ones.", brilliant analogy.

  • @brillianttec3504
    @brillianttec35045 жыл бұрын

    Incredible speech, years before people's awakening. Courageous and truthful!

  • @cindyreynolds4045

    @cindyreynolds4045

    4 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant Tec here in Houston they were closing down one of the public schools which was in the black community because it was under performing! Oh my god the outcry and outrage the community was having over this!!! They cried racism at every turn and completely ignored the fact that the school was not properly teaching these children!!! They managed to find funding to keep it going for a while longer. Very sad that these parents seem to put more emphasis on the building their kids went to, than whether or not what they were learning was up to par!!

  • @dylanyoung3911

    @dylanyoung3911

    4 жыл бұрын

    And years after people being "woke"

  • @artoffugue333
    @artoffugue3335 жыл бұрын

    Man where's this guy been all my life?

  • @youthmanrecords965

    @youthmanrecords965

    5 жыл бұрын

    Joe Ellerbrock main stream media has hidden him like a bad rash. He blows the status quo to shreds.

  • @118Psalm

    @118Psalm

    5 жыл бұрын

    It has been awhile now, but he filled in for Rush many times. He explains/teaches in terms and by examples that make it easier to understand. I have always appreciated listening to him, and I my university degree is in Agricultural Economics with and MBA.

  • @RepublicTeaRoom

    @RepublicTeaRoom

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@youthmanrecords965 Him and Sowell...Milton Friedman as well.

  • @billykersh7061

    @billykersh7061

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ditto Mr. Ellerbrock, Dr. Williams is an astounding intellect and I’m going to learn more about him and his ideas.

  • @TheReptilekiller

    @TheReptilekiller

    4 жыл бұрын

    I think Harlem NY, maybe Phili? Im not sure but I think he's been in Harlem!

  • @woodman6176
    @woodman61765 жыл бұрын

    Hits the nail on the head by calling out the 2 primary drivers for unfulfilled lives of black kids, fraudulent public schools and universities and disintegration of the nuclear family.

  • @keepingitreel...8037

    @keepingitreel...8037

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes all intentionally designed to keep the black population on the Modern Day Democrat Plantation of dependency in trade for their collective vote. Trillions of dollars spent on the, so called, "war on poverty" and what are the results? They are mostly still hanging on Dinesh DaSouza's proverbial 'Rope' waiting to be pulled up. And it'll Never happen! Yet Trump comes along and his economic policies have set so many records, including the Lowest Black Unemployment in American History! Let go of the Rope, and come over to the Ladder! (If you don't get it, look up Dinesh Da'Souza's analogy of the Rope and the Ladder)

  • @keepingitreel...8037

    @keepingitreel...8037

    4 жыл бұрын

    Look up: D'Souza addresses massive crowd at Marine Military Academy in Texas (Rope and Ladder begins at 51:27)

  • @Mr626667

    @Mr626667

    4 жыл бұрын

    Who put these policies in place to erode those institutions to their present conditions.

  • @dks13827

    @dks13827

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Mr626667 Teachers, unions, politicians.

  • @AsafoUniversity

    @AsafoUniversity

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes , abortion and feminism was aggressively promoted to black women; it fostered an "Im independent, I don't need no man"--- religion and mantra.

  • @wade5941
    @wade59414 жыл бұрын

    Never tire of listening to this incredibly gifted individual.

  • @markdiorio468
    @markdiorio4685 жыл бұрын

    What a brilliant man. Thank you doctor Williams.

  • @brianmosse
    @brianmosse5 жыл бұрын

    This man has done more for my education than anybody else.

  • @stevehousden2699
    @stevehousden26995 жыл бұрын

    His "drunk driver" analogy for disruptive kids in school is great...elegantly simple but spot-on. Very useful in debates.

  • @freeandcriticalthinker4431
    @freeandcriticalthinker44315 жыл бұрын

    Dr. Williams, you are a brilliant man and such an amazing role model for anybody in our society but especially young people. I so appreciate your time and consideration in taking your time sharing your wealth of knowledge. Thanks so much!!

  • @jakkuhl6223
    @jakkuhl62238 жыл бұрын

    36:36 Good lord is he dead on about the class time eaten by discipline. I experienced this myself with 2 of my classes in senior year of public highschool. The teachers didn't fail to remove the students because they didn't want to, but because by policy they could not. I was able to transfer out of both, but I pity everyone I left behind.

  • @catherineanderson7460

    @catherineanderson7460

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jak Kuhl Obama ended school vouchers program that was so popular to black parents. I can’t believe that he won another term, but it helped Trump win as people were disgusted with liberalism and BS like “black Lives Matter “ when I believe ALL LIVES MATTER, ESPECIALLY UNBORN BABIES, WHATEVER THE COLOR!

  • @jaegertiger384
    @jaegertiger3844 жыл бұрын

    I would be PROUD to have Dr. Williams as my nextdoor neighbor! He is a national treasure!!!

  • @elizabethdeapen7390
    @elizabethdeapen73904 жыл бұрын

    If the media had any understanding whatsoever of the American people, they'd be running lectures like this 24/7/365.

  • @supersam1914
    @supersam19143 жыл бұрын

    I wish I got to meet him , RIP thank you for all your great works you have left us with

  • @nasound2473
    @nasound24736 жыл бұрын

    "I've suggested to people... if they are ever on trial and charged with counterfeiting, they should just tell the judge they were engaging in monetary policy." oh my days hahahaha

  • @cindyreynolds4045

    @cindyreynolds4045

    4 жыл бұрын

    NA Sound very good!!!!

  • @bicyclist2

    @bicyclist2

    4 жыл бұрын

    They could say they were "helping with inflation".

  • @1234mike8
    @1234mike84 жыл бұрын

    When Dr. Williams spoke about his response to slavery and it's relationship to capitalism he mentioned that he benefited from the act of slavery because he never would have been born in the United States had slavery not occurred. He wasn't condoning but stating an observation. It reminded me of Joseph in Genesis who's brothers had sold him into slavery and years later when he was reunited with his brothers and they feared retaliation Joseph spoke these words of wisdom. "You meant it for evil but God meant it for good" God takes evil acts and turns them into blessings. I never equated the two stories until Walter Williams spoke about his perspective. Very wise man.

  • @marcusthompson5302

    @marcusthompson5302

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dr. Williams - Solid , Intelligent , Wise and effective at Communication . Much needed . Thank you . . . Marcus

  • @jasonhayden5077

    @jasonhayden5077

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wow I remember that story as well. I didn't think of that either until you mentioned it 😃

  • @fredjones4198

    @fredjones4198

    10 ай бұрын

    I had the exact thought of Joseph and his brothers. They meant it for evil but the LORD produced good from THEIR act.

  • @miltonchurchill8040
    @miltonchurchill80405 жыл бұрын

    Uncle Walter is at it again. Either you own yourself, what you produce and freely trade for, or you don't.

  • @pauld9561
    @pauld95614 жыл бұрын

    This guy has nailed my idealism against government theft of my hard earned property before the 4:00 minute mark. 👍

  • @righthandedsandwich1969
    @righthandedsandwich19695 жыл бұрын

    Walter Williams is an awesome economist. I like his story of he and his wife have a monopoly on each other.

  • @tna_handyandy5173
    @tna_handyandy51734 жыл бұрын

    Walter W. is entirely correct when he mentions (around 18:20) that student-athletes "suffer through the memory of being hailed as a champion" while on the path of being forgotten after the university earns $40million or so.

  • @themeadowlarkminutewithpau8184

    @themeadowlarkminutewithpau8184

    4 жыл бұрын

    Pay the damned players! I agree.

  • @hefferheffer2952
    @hefferheffer29525 жыл бұрын

    this is my favourite speaker, concerning liberty specifically!

  • @cattycorner8
    @cattycorner85 жыл бұрын

    Outstanding. Thanks you.

  • @mrpeabodythethird
    @mrpeabodythethird5 жыл бұрын

    Much, much respect to this man.

  • @piehound
    @piehound4 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely right on. First generation immigrant to the USA here. Arrived in NYC in 1956. Raised to be naive in a Christian school. On the east coast i've been mugged and/or threatened 6 times by young men of color. Now i understand their hate. I look tall, and white, and privileged. But my life hasn't been easy. I live on about $1000.00 a month social security at my present age of 70. ( My rent eats about half of that.) But i'm totally against injustice. The injustices so rampant in USA today. Even those against my brothers of color.

  • @motorcop505
    @motorcop5054 жыл бұрын

    Dr. J and Dr. W! Two amazing men. Thank God for Professor Williams! He is brilliant and hilarious in his low key way.

  • @joycebenton9368
    @joycebenton93686 жыл бұрын

    Dr. William said absolutely right that I remember in 40 years ago, even very young children would easily find jobs. There are plenty jobs there to choose either middle classed jobs, blue collared jobs...etc. Every Friday, the large complex or small four-plexed apartments parking lots were all vacant to drive to enjoy their weekend for fun. Life was stable and freedom to dream for better too.

  • @joaov.m.oliveira9903

    @joaov.m.oliveira9903

    5 жыл бұрын

    The State was larger also.

  • @KimberlyRodriguez-if1ze
    @KimberlyRodriguez-if1ze Жыл бұрын

    You have to be one the most amazing speakers I've ever listened too! Speak it my good sir you are an amazing person!!!

  • @Johnny_RB
    @Johnny_RB5 жыл бұрын

    First time ever hearing this man. He's has my approval. Not just because he agrees with me on everything, either. I like what he says about "Don't know what to do with a problem but remove the problem first. Then think about what to do about it."

  • @lindacianchetti3599
    @lindacianchetti35995 жыл бұрын

    "AS long as we're paying the bills, you will do as I say." The federal govt is subordinate to STATE GOV.

  • @JKDDarthSniper
    @JKDDarthSniper4 жыл бұрын

    Walter E. Williams is a legend.

  • @marcamerine7941
    @marcamerine79414 жыл бұрын

    I Never Heard Of this Man B4, Dam he’s Good... I Wish I was this Smart Not Only this Gentleman But Listen to the Audience & the Questions U can tell Most are Educated Quoting Andrew Jackson’ etc etc Etc.. Very Worth the Watch.!!

  • @gambu4810
    @gambu48104 жыл бұрын

    If you pressed a dislike button please drop a comment here and let me understand a bit of your reasoning because I personally can't falter this.

  • @dalemaloney255

    @dalemaloney255

    4 жыл бұрын

    aaahhhh!!! ooHH!! poor baby! feelin real sorry fer ya! NOT HARDLY!

  • @gambu4810

    @gambu4810

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@dalemaloney255 Drop a comment let's hear you

  • @beyondthepale9071

    @beyondthepale9071

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gambu4810 their reasoning and intellect only allow for feeble attempts at condescending basement perspective remarks.

  • @Mary95191
    @Mary951915 жыл бұрын

    An extremely smart man! Thank you sir!

  • @noshirm6285
    @noshirm62852 жыл бұрын

    An erudite and insightful scholar and a man of integrity 👏🏻

  • @damitaivey1719
    @damitaivey17193 жыл бұрын

    Awesome isn't an adequate descrip! If I'd had teachers & profs like him, I'd of finished law school. He really challenges ones knowledge & understanding of our Constitution, democracy & gov't responsibilities. It's too bad we've gone past the point of "no return" (to the orig), so now we're left with making lemonade with the lemons we have. But through wisdom like his, we'll produce a better way of life for America until God's Plan & Purpose are completed here. And we don't have to fear, but can be encouraged because His Perfect Gov't will be established in His Time. Thank you Dr Williams!

  • @carbonfibercrypto2919
    @carbonfibercrypto29195 жыл бұрын

    holy crap this guy speaks to my heart

  • @Panurgent
    @Panurgent5 жыл бұрын

    Black by Popular Demand! Thank you, Dr Williams.

  • @dalemaloney255

    @dalemaloney255

    4 жыл бұрын

    WHOA! I DID NOT VOTE YET!

  • @pennykannon2702
    @pennykannon27025 жыл бұрын

    Dr. Williams Thank You for This VIDEO!!! God Bless You for Your "MAGA" Efforts!!! Your Story is the 10 Commandments Right??? wtkjr.!!!

  • @pinochio8778
    @pinochio87783 жыл бұрын

    I never knew Capt. Thomas Sowell had co pilot...great men of my time.

  • @gianfrancobenetti-longhini8192
    @gianfrancobenetti-longhini8192 Жыл бұрын

    What I love in this man, is the ability to see the positive side of situations, even of what most see only a negative side. Many get angry with me because of having the same outlook in life. ( For example thanking two horrible dictators, Stalin and Mussolini, otherwise I would not have met my wonderful wife of Polish origin, in Tanzania, years ago. Her parents had been taken to Siberia from Lviv, from now part of Ukraine, and my father was made a prisoner by the British in Abyssinia, and both parents ended up in Arusha.)

  • @lisaclemens9291
    @lisaclemens92915 жыл бұрын

    #DrWilliams 👍🏻 Love ur talks, u are so smart, witty, enlightening 💕

  • @chuckconnors615
    @chuckconnors615 Жыл бұрын

    WHAT a Titan we lost in December 2020 when Walter Williams went to his Heavenly REWARD!!

  • @wynstondim
    @wynstondim5 жыл бұрын

    He ain't lying about slavery.

  • @arzinia
    @arzinia8 жыл бұрын

    Balance does not require equals...If the people involved are Humane' with an "E", and thoughtful, honest, is his point..

  • @TimothyArcher
    @TimothyArcher4 жыл бұрын

    Excellent program! Dr. Williams offers a number of deeply thought-inspiring insights, in this presentation. In particular, I'm moved by Dr. Williams' observation that he, personally, benefitted, as a result of slavery. This may seem like a counter-intuitive notion; but clearly, young people in Dr. Williams' generation were raised with the awareness that their parents, grandparents and teachers, had personally experienced slavery, or had elders who had experienced it; and were highly motivated to take fullest advantage of their newly acquired freedom. The elders recognized that their children, grandchildren and students, had far greater opportunity available to them, than their ancestors, of just a few generations earlier. This compelled the elders to be extremely diligent in their personal and professional lives. As a result, they became well-educated, successful, and prosperous. They recognized the necessity of encouraging their young people to study hard, to stay out of trouble, and to dream and realize big dreams. The memory of the oppression suffered by their ancestors, motivated them to be successful acheivers, and to pass that motivation and hunger for success, on, to their young people. Wonderful insight.

  • @lucasvarela9632
    @lucasvarela9632 Жыл бұрын

    I certainly believe there’s a budding of love for the constitution

  • @gbuz5789
    @gbuz57895 жыл бұрын

    Why don't we listen to smart, honest men like Mr. Williams (or women)? Instead, we listen to Nancy Pelosi or Don Lemon or any of the 22 Democrat candidates. (Possible exception of Andrew Yang which has no chance at winning.)

  • @randysmith4878
    @randysmith48784 жыл бұрын

    If it's a good rational, reseasonable,logical,moral argument I always get it. This man embodies these things.

  • @bezlichnyy7675
    @bezlichnyy76755 жыл бұрын

    I'm a registered voter in US government. I'm a classical liberal. I strongly oppose laws or legislations that diminish individual rights. My question, to Dr. Walter Williams there have been authors that have identifed U.S. citizens trend to vote for limited freedom. What can I do to protect my freedoms? The U.S. Constitition is still effect just largely ignored by registered voters i.e. tyranny of the majority.

  • @michaelwoods4495
    @michaelwoods44954 жыл бұрын

    At the beginning, when he talks about Congress doing "legal theft" he misses one point--With legal theft they have to take $300 to distribute $200 because there'll be a rake-off to support the bureaucracy that does it.

  • @adam9997100
    @adam99971004 жыл бұрын

    Great lecture Enlightening A pleasure to listen to

  • @froukjematthews3421
    @froukjematthews34214 жыл бұрын

    I got more about history and the bigger picture of human life, out of lectures by economists like Dr. Willams than I got from history lecturers....

  • @herbrichmound7418
    @herbrichmound74185 жыл бұрын

    Great perspectives on absolute freedoms.

  • @philipmirabelli5153
    @philipmirabelli51533 жыл бұрын

    Last of his kind, a true American.

  • @longbeachboy57
    @longbeachboy575 жыл бұрын

    Scalia and Thomas :)

  • @davidoke3909

    @davidoke3909

    5 жыл бұрын

    And their economic counterparts Sowell and Williams

  • @ceecee6679
    @ceecee66794 жыл бұрын

    You know how when you listen to someone new for a while and you get to where you could finish their sentences...this did not happen once. I love this man's brain.

  • @freedoniaofficial1189
    @freedoniaofficial11895 жыл бұрын

    The last of the great orators

  • @studiobencivengamarcusbenc5272
    @studiobencivengamarcusbenc52724 жыл бұрын

    Great man - he puts facts in perspective and always keeps cause and effect in mind 🤗

  • @TheHeritageFoundation

    @TheHeritageFoundation

    4 жыл бұрын

    Glad you think so!

  • @juliebless7119
    @juliebless71194 жыл бұрын

    Government support of agriculture was mentioned. As a farmer, I would like for nothing better than for the government to stop subsidizing farmers, but then, who would eat and who would not?

  • @joeleombruni8961
    @joeleombruni89613 жыл бұрын

    I miss him already

  • @maripogi7
    @maripogi75 жыл бұрын

    Here's how my parents made me do my homework: In my family, which was me, my mother and my father, I was allowed to know that my father was working very hard to get through medical school; my mother was working very hard as a Registered Nurse, to provide for all our needs. We lived in student housing. We always had food. I walked to school. School was MY responsibility. If I shirked that responsibility, who knows what would have been the outcome? My father might have to leave school; my mother would be crushed. Everybody had to pull their weight. I didn't make messes. I didn't do dangerous things. I didn't get sick. I didn't waste our supplies. I didn't make my parents worry unless I did something I didn't realize would do that, and I was made to know whenever I did something "wrong", just why it was a negative impact on our family. I didn't ask for anything I didn't need. That's how I grew up. My parents were born in 1913 and 1914. They experienced the Depression as they grew up. My mother's family was a large, Italian first-generation immigrant family. My father's family immigrated from Canada, into Detroit. Nothing was ever easy; but we always had food and shelter and each other. Socialism: It isn't a choice between Socialism and Capitalism; there is no choice in economic system. Why would people choose to use only a spoon or only a fork or only a knife? Impoverished thinking! The US has socialism, and it is wonderful! We have PUBLIC schools and they used to be good schools. We have PUBLIC libraries, PUBLIC transportation, PUBLIC museums, and so on. And we have private enterprises; hooray! We have food co-ops. We have community colleges. Hooray! There's really no need to choose only one economic system. In any system, everyone who takes must also give; that is the way of the world! Explain this to your children and LEAD BY EXAMPLE! Give up your false pride, the NEED to be wealthy, elite. You have so much "stuff" that you don't need or enjoy; too many people work themselves to death for more "things", for "status". Then they die, alone, because they've put a lot of space between themselves and those they attract who want their stuff. Read. Paint. Make music. Learn to can vegetables or grow a garden. Teach others to tie knots. Square dance; play bridge. Take food to your neighbors. Talk to kids. Sew for a charity. I am relatively poor, live on my SS and live in a trailer with rescued cats; my choices. What are your choices? Get rid of what keeps you from having time, rest, fun (whatever that means to you), feeling safe, well, and happy. Joy to you. Have more joy and less pain. Take care of yourself, all sentient beings and listen. You are never alone. We are all in this together.

  • @lisaburnside2101
    @lisaburnside21014 жыл бұрын

    Great speaker!

  • @r4hnsn
    @r4hnsn4 жыл бұрын

    the problem with this argument is that governments are supposed to govern (restrict or channel flow) and so it is not stealing to set the rules to favor all instead of just a few by monopoly. Too often in NZ we see a competitor offering a new service forced out of the market by under handed tactics and stand over of the vendors.

  • @reginaldturner9359
    @reginaldturner93592 жыл бұрын

    A real American!

  • @travislaughlin157
    @travislaughlin1574 жыл бұрын

    I love this. Thank you.

  • @rangersmith4652
    @rangersmith46524 жыл бұрын

    This simple and fundamental principle is at the root of what's wrong in America today. Moral wrong-doing does not become moral right-doing just because it is carried out by government.

  • @andrewdomenitzdmd
    @andrewdomenitzdmd4 жыл бұрын

    When I was a student from 1957 through 1970 there was no discipline problem. Kids did not disrupt the class. What happened?

  • @Pmtd1234

    @Pmtd1234

    4 жыл бұрын

    Discipline was quick and firm!

  • @mikecoffee7548
    @mikecoffee75483 жыл бұрын

    Why is it Walter Williams is such an entertaining and inspirational speaker and everybody that introduces him as boring as hell?

  • @ryansmith5531
    @ryansmith55315 жыл бұрын

    Please run for President!!!!!

  • @jasonhayden5077

    @jasonhayden5077

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh my God that would be awesome but I don't think he could win. The media and that includes the sliver that's right wing wouldn't give him enough time to articulate his policies to folks. Even if he had that platform would enough people listen to him? Sorry I know that was extremely pessimistic as I would love for him to be prez myself

  • @lisaclark6977
    @lisaclark69772 жыл бұрын

    Teachers/ school system's need to completely get rid of the tenure system where bad teachers can't be fired. Instead they are just moved to a different school and yes, students that are disruptive teachers use to be able to have those kids removed from the room and in most instances there was a specific classroom they were sent to for the rest of the semester and often the rest of the year if they could not behave in their regular rooms. During my entire 12 years ( 13 counting kindergarten ) I can name all the teachers that actually gave a dang if they taught the class on one hand. I still remember each of their names. As far as the teachers my kids had I can count both of their teachers that cared, taught the subject on less than one hand. I had one teacher call me and ask why my son wasn't on Ritalin. She informed me all of the rest of the kids she had was taking it and she had,had both of her own kids and her husband put on it. Laughing about how quiet it was at her house. Excuse me but in my state it is not legal to recommend that medication for any child to be put on. She was upset when she was later told she had been recorded and she had denied everything she said in front of the principal. I played the tape and showed how much she was lying. But due to the tenure system absolutely nothing was done, I was able to get him moved into a different classroom. The second week in the new room, new teacher his grades suddenly went back to A's in English. I was involved in their school's, I applied for a substitute teacher license and passed the necessary requirements so I could do more than volunteer in the computer lab. My mother was never involved in the school's I attended, my sister that is 9 year's older took her place if needed and she did all school holiday parties, baking and decorating cookie's and cupcakes. Many nights after she would stay up all night baking triple of each cookie and shapes then hand drawing and finish decorating and she did the same for every triple number of cupcakes. They actually looked like they had come from a professional bakery. And the next morning she would go to her junior high, high school and try staying awake in her own classroom's. I'm very thankful for the older sister and that she cared enough to make everything as beautiful as she did. She never said I can't or she didn't have time.

  • @timsteinkamp2245
    @timsteinkamp22455 жыл бұрын

    Please consider and remark on the Constitution allowing 1 rep per 30,000 where now we are close to 1 per 800,000. How was Congress able to limit the People's House? If the members of the House were in their communities and met around the Country a few times a year I think we would be better off. I want the Representation the Constitution allows me.

  • @nicholashernandez4611

    @nicholashernandez4611

    5 жыл бұрын

    Tim Steinkamp Most politicians would be assassinated by their constituents today if they actually met those that voted them into power. Wait, no, they do meet those that put them in power - their lobbyists buy gifts for politicians all the time. There is no representation for the people unless the people can afford the luxury. That right is now an offer to the highest bidder. On a side note, could you imagine how bloated the House of Representatives would be with 10 thousand politicians inside?! How bad would the budget be then?!

  • @timsteinkamp2245

    @timsteinkamp2245

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@nicholashernandez4611 Keep this figure in your mind. 1 trillion dollars at our population of 330 million is equal to $3000 per person. That is not just working people or heads of households that is new babies and old seniors. That is the amount of our current deficit each year for the foreseeable future. Currently 21 trillion. Look up federal employees in DC and around the world and look up the current budget and do some math. I'm considering something we can do within the Constitution before a revolution or complete breakdown of society and this American experiment we were given. Your comment is understood. The first thought is it would be crazy expensive to do that and must not be a good idea. Or they wouldn't get anything done. Now Congress people complain of how much time they have to spend raising money for their next election.

  • @nicholashernandez4611

    @nicholashernandez4611

    4 жыл бұрын

    Logan Waltz How about this for an option? In each state, every group of 30,000 individuals would choose a single representative. These state representatives would speak directly to the house of representatives of their state and to the Congress people of their state. The local representatives could be voted out every 12 months or continue their representation as long as they have the votes of 30,000 individuals. Individuals can vote for any representative they prefer, but representative must have between 25,000 and 45,000 individuals to represent. Individuals can offer voting vouchers, worth maybe $5000, which their representatives can use to lobby politicians on their behalf. This would be the most primitive and an evolved form of a newer electoral system. What do you think, could this be a respectable step to a new representative system?

  • @jeanlukeskye
    @jeanlukeskye4 жыл бұрын

    you are truly a amazing person. Love you very much

  • @joycebenton9368
    @joycebenton93686 жыл бұрын

    I believe the freedom and equality of the opportunities for Americans of all, without freedom equal without water. It’s America’s principles and ensured by our country America’s principles of own established rules of laws as Constitution. I immigrated to this great country America legally and only 200 hundred dollars left in my pocket and applied school loans from school and immediately returned after I found jobs. I believe honesty and own responsibility and principles to live better and appreciation toward our great country America. No own should owe me, but my own responsibility to work hard to live better and build our country America together. I don’t want to owe others either. It’s my own honesty and hard working and responsibility to return what I owe from emergencies. I believe our country should lead and govern by principles of the rules of the laws from now on and in the future, because we are a civilized nation of Constitution. We may be generous mind of forgiveness for the past, but it is the duty to protect and defend America’s principles of freedom and equality of the opportunities by own established solid rules of laws as Constitution for America’s greatness. If not again, America’s greatness will be gone for good. No one not cherish our freedom for America’s greatness and no one not afraid of Communism ideologies of the countries. As long as we respect, follow and obey our country’s principles of Foundations and Constitution, America will be great, because our country’s principles will ensure it. We will be able to to enjoy the freedom and equality of the opportunities, because the principles will ensure it. This is why I believe the principles should supersede anything for America’s greatness. Let’s be united together again for America’s freedom and equality of the opportunities principles by America’s principles of Foundations and Constitution always together. This is why I will only vote ones who will stand strongly and firmly for America’s principles of Foundations and Constitution, because I truly love freedom and equality of the opportunities. Wear seatbelts example exactly fit the topics which means the principles must supersede anything in order to be responsible to self and others as well as teaching us to obey the rules of the laws. I know America had slave system as many other countries long time ago, but Christiananity brought loving kindness into America and gradually established America’s principles and spirit of the liberty and equality of the opportunities. Nowadays, many minorities become richer, rich or even super rich, many also become very educated, many become different leveled Governing leaderships to lead and govern, even became America’s own President to lead and govern. This will only be happened in our great country America by America’s principles of freedom and equality of the opportunities. We can’t live in the past, because the past was long gone. We should live in presence of our country America’s own principles of freedom and equality of the opportunity only and appreciate what we have for others to dream for it and respect, follow and obey our principles of Constitution, so Americans of all will be able to enjoy our freedom and equality of the opportunities for long. Let’s be united together together again by our country America’s own principles to build America’s greatness always and forever by our own generous mind this time and lead and govern by America’s own principles of Foundations and Constitution from now on and in the future. God bless America.

  • @CrazyJoeClark429
    @CrazyJoeClark4294 жыл бұрын

    Wow! My eyes are open

  • @D4mations
    @D4mations4 жыл бұрын

    Wow! Could not stop listening

  • @son-of-the-republic3723
    @son-of-the-republic37233 жыл бұрын

    Good man. Thank you for posting this

  • @teg5135
    @teg513511 ай бұрын

    Madison’s statement about charity not being a legislator duty is spot on. I’m against welfare for all. I think I should be able to donate to whatever charity I want. If LBJ wanted a Great Society act, then they should have passed the hat around. Only the elderly and the disabled could I see us supporting. I shouldn’t have to pay for someone else’s bad decisions. Yet, that’s what we are doing. It now has become a politicians MO to spend more as part of his campaign.

  • @LanLe-rz4lm
    @LanLe-rz4lm2 жыл бұрын

    The Ben Franklin of our time. Nuff said.

  • @regulardude7961
    @regulardude79614 жыл бұрын

    holy crap he looks good for almost 80 wow

  • @pepsifan1364

    @pepsifan1364

    4 жыл бұрын

    80 wha?? He looks PHENOMENAL

  • @Rabbsson726
    @Rabbsson7264 жыл бұрын

    Mr. Williams is AWESOM!!!

  • @ssoldie5490
    @ssoldie54903 жыл бұрын

    He had a wonderful sense of humor.

  • @heypappy
    @heypappy4 жыл бұрын

    Smartest man I have ever heard...

  • @shakirjohnson2459
    @shakirjohnson24595 жыл бұрын

    Mr Williams we salute you

  • @kanteannightmare
    @kanteannightmare8 жыл бұрын

    frog boiling for the win!

  • @cleopatraanu2203
    @cleopatraanu22033 жыл бұрын

    How can American modest earners get ahead in “the Pursuit of Property” ( the original wording of the “Pursuit of Happiness”) if they are repeatedly taxed to give to those who choose not to work?

  • @frankandstern8803
    @frankandstern88035 жыл бұрын

    Just awesome. Charity.