“If you can convince the lowest white man that he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” Lyndon B. Johnson.

@virginiaoflaherty2983

5 жыл бұрын

Sadly so true.

@jcsrst

5 жыл бұрын

Did you even watch the video?! Corporations are responsible for the struggles of the middle class.@Evan S.

@rmarty550

5 жыл бұрын

This wasn’t his quote on his own views, he was talking about republicans voting against their own self interests because their racism was what influences their voting.

@rmarty550

5 жыл бұрын

MajorLeague, now all those democrats are republicans.

@jcsrst

5 жыл бұрын

I was referring to the comment by Evan S. that immigrants are responsible for the struggles of the middle class.@@rmarty550

The real problem is that they are not just voting against their own best interests, they are voting against mine and my loved ones. And that is a very big problem. Divide and conquer works.

@fallfall4942

10 жыл бұрын

LMAOOOOOO ""they are voting against mine and my loved ones. And that is a very big problem."" sorry i know this a serious subject but that was too funny and you have a point you're and you're absolutely right.

@itsplay9603

8 жыл бұрын

+Barbara B Best comment ever

@danielandrews7378

7 жыл бұрын

They vote against their own self interest because historically they are racist to the core and they rebelled against the democratic party when lbj supported the equal rights amendment.

@martinezroger9862

7 жыл бұрын

Barbara B ,They really go by the old Testament and didn't Jesus saved us from the old Testament? YES but the old Testament benefits them and the new Testament of Jesus of Socialism and love does not but they love Jesus go figure ! lol

@daryllynch687

7 жыл бұрын

No Jesus did not save us from the old testament, Jesus said He came to confirm it, You arrogant liberals can't conceive how it is you who votes against my best interests and that is the problem, you have reprobate minds and can't see what is obvious and you lie and deny and omit the truth when ever it does not support your agenda and that is often, if you lie and misrepresent the bible because you have been fooled or because you intentionally want to fool others you still are an agent of evil and have been fooled by the prince of evil and the father of lies.

The reason you have shorter work hours is primarily due to unions.

@loribasinger6788

4 жыл бұрын

You work less hours because of tax cuts when the wealthy and corporations get tax cuts they buy back their own stock. C.E.O pay gets huge multi million dollar bonuses when company stock prices go up so c.e.o.s buy back stock because the return is an extremely higher amount in bonuses. The companies end up paying out high C.E.O bonuses instead of pay raises or reinvesting , prices also rise due to buy backs so inflation rises and workers wages remain stagnet. The affect of stick but back also gives the appearance of a booming economy and the stock market booms. Because the economy and stock market is a reflection of stock but back and not business growth workers hours begin to be cut, shifts eliminated and eventually company shut down. Unions are not to be. Unions help every non union worker by setting standards for pay .. I will never figure out why in the hell any person would ever vote Republican if they aren't millionaire or billionaires, it's a vote to prevent hard work from paying off and serving a millionaire, it's a vote to give your money you pay in taxes to the extremely wealthy, basically it's volunteering to pay companies to rip you off by paying you less , working you harder despite lower hours, eventually you end up with the same less pay and higher cost of living so it's actually like getting a at decrease yearly. For others it's complete job Joss which impacts others because suppliers, schools grocery stores end up losing the business of workers and their families who lost jobs after company shut downs that is Republican ( less government regulations) Democrats represent the working class by their government regulations that protect workers from being victims of corporate greed. So many voters have no idea how their party actualy works.. I cringe watching Trump supporters, they are just ignorant of how badly they are being screwed. Record amount of factory shut downs, hospitals closing, grocery Stores closing and now there are little options for social safety net programs to survive, yet one trillion dollars in tax cuts were given to the wealthy, Trump made that a priorirty in his budget while telling American workers that a pay increase would hurt small business owners. B.S. people need to realize the term small business is not an actual mom and pop small business, they are huge multi million and billion dollar business who received huge tax credits. Don't screw yourself and people over more by blaming unions, they are the only thing right now that sets any standard for pay for the rest of us. We need more unions not less.. Reagan is the asshole who started these trickle down economics that screwed the middle and working class, it did not work, it created steady and rapid income inequality between workers and c.e.o pay, it created inflation and huge rises in poverty. It severely backfired and has been shown time after time that it does not work and never has. The republican party policies continuously enlist Reagan's trickle down economics and the ignorant working class who don't realize republican cans are the party for the elites not the worker just go right along agreeing with them. At some point people need to take the time to learn about each parties policies so they can stop screwing the rest of us from their votes to screw themselves , The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and millions more become poverty level despite their working full time and their increased. productivity ... I suggest you study economics so you can prevent yourself from making false assumptions that hurt you and the rest of us when you vote . There are plenty of free classes online ..

At 1:36, "we only work a 40 hr week because of high productivity." Flat wrong! We work a 40 hr week due to the efforts of unions, and unions pressuring gov't to pass wage & hour laws. If it weren't for unions we'd be working as many hours as employers (big employers, like GM, in particular) could squeeze out of us and we'd be paid as little as they could get away with. Most teens, twenty & thirty year olds have no knowledge of the hard struggles the working class made to get what is considered today "normal" working hours, overtime, sick leave, etc. We can thank unions and Democrats for that.

@user-vr5rl2qi2z

5 жыл бұрын

Many reasons: Union Bosses are thugs...gangsters...extortionist...

@jlharland01

5 жыл бұрын

I am a member of a union and I find that assertion not to be true at all. My union has successfully lobbied for, and achieved, better working conditions, and put a halt to management abuse of employees (both union members and non-members), among other things. This is a national union which affects 10's of thousands of employees nation-wide. I would agree that Democratic politicians, starting with the Clinton admin in the '90's, have generally abandoned so-called "New Deal" policies that created the vibrant middle-class of the 50's, 60's & 70's. However, with the rise of new, mostly young(er), mostly Dem politicians (think Sen Warren, Beto O'Rourke, Sen Sanders, Sen Booker, Sen Harris, among others), I believe the country will begin to see a swing back to the liberal democracy that essentially began with FDR. That, anyway, is my hope. The current gaggle of Republicans certainly aren't going to do it.

@joem5386

5 жыл бұрын

@Roger Marshal: Absolute bogus demagoguery. Illegals are NOT the reason wages are down - more like greedy businessmen and union-busters who would rather hire cheap labor at the expense of paying a living wage. Without union representation, working-class Americans are at the mercy of a greedy and corrupt Wall St.cabal.

@joem5386

5 жыл бұрын

If so, Trump would be the 'quintessential gangster' of the ruling class. He cheats his employees and does all he can to drive down wages for working-class Americans. The Dear Leader and his Rep cohorts just pulled a ruse on many Americans with their ridiculous 'tax-cut' aimed mainly at the upper (ruling?) class.

@joem5386

5 жыл бұрын

@Frederic: Or you THANK better quality, innovation and meeting the market demands. AMERICAN companies have relocated much of their manufacturing off-shore (think Apple and Nike) only to import their wares back into the country TAX-FREE or at a considerable tax savings (Trump's tax cut and the 14% drop in corporate tax rates?). Think that might have an effect on why unions are decimated? It's about greed - nothing more.

I can never understand why workers vote against unions

@mjimih

7 жыл бұрын

Micheal G. Faux News & Reagan

@Vilverna

6 жыл бұрын

because Unions have fucked over the people I know.

@randyhowell5639

6 жыл бұрын

Chara unions hold wages up for everyone , union and nonunion alike.

@markflierl1624

6 жыл бұрын

Have you ever been in a union? The unions are fucked up!

@coopsnz1

5 жыл бұрын

@ big government is corruption

You're a good man, Charles. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this.

This needs to be broadcast on network television. Somebody needs to hack into Fox, interrupt their nonsensical rubbish and air this on a nonstop loop for 24 hours.

@1MarkKeller

5 жыл бұрын

That just goes to show that hackers have drank the Kool-Aid too. They need the system to keep working just as it is. All these years of hacking personal info so they can steal money when they could have also been using that power/knowledge to erase debts and other things that could have improved people's lives. Instead they just selfishly enriched themselves.

@Ou8y2k2

5 жыл бұрын

Make that 24 years and you might convince a viewer or two.

@michaelpreston233

5 жыл бұрын

Fox is in with Russia and Saudis.

I had a job years ago where the boss/owner set production levels so high that no one could make them; most people quit after a week. I kept at it until I not only met, but exceeded them. Then I asked for the raise he'd promised me for doing so when I hired on. He nearly blew his top. He told me, "the only reason anything happens here is because of my planning and my investments, not because of anything you did." I stayed on until I found something better, then left. The lesson I learned? Be your own boss. Any other boss will fuck you over every chance he gets.

Do they not teach this in history class in American schools? I distinctly remember the child labour laws and 40 hour weeks from my high school classes here in the Netherlands. It was all that industrial revolution, child workers getting mangled in machinery, black lung, and robber barons business. With proper education anyone would know that promotional video was total bunk.

@Jay0321

7 жыл бұрын

There are a-lot of dumb fuckers here in the US. You could tell them the sky is blue and some asshole will say that "jesus made it orange today". --------- They are so brainwashed and steeped in their political, social and religious ideologies, that they have no grasp on reality and refuse to see it when it is clearly pointed out to them. ---------- They equate to a kid closing their eyes, plugging their ears and chanting lalala the whole time anything outside of their warped perception is introduced to them.

@joefromdc

6 жыл бұрын

BlueUncia No they didnt teach it in the hood

@1MarkKeller

5 жыл бұрын

@@joefromdc taught it in my "hood"

@chris532008

5 жыл бұрын

BlueUncia they teach nothing in hovt schools. It s propaganda and baby sitting

@virginiaoflaherty2983

5 жыл бұрын

@@chris532008 Every time I read responses about "them not teaching anything in school" I wonder... you can read and write, what keeps you from reading and studying what you don't know? Lack of self-discipline and terrible attitudes are why students don't know what they need to know. Geesh!

I live in Florida and the majority vote for democrats here. Yet with gerrymandering, we keep ending up with republicans winning the state congress, and governorship. Even if people know better they end up with republicans.

@douglasbarton6597

7 жыл бұрын

I'm a liberal Democrat that lives in Florida .. I vote when my vote is counted (election days) but lately everyone I vote for loses .. but I'll be there again voting against the GOP .. The Tea Party needs to get out of Dodge .. They've got till High Noon

@Humanistic_

7 жыл бұрын

Dont just vote for letters. There are many Democrats that pedal the same neoliberal bullshit Repugs do. Look into their ideas

@douglasbarton6597

7 жыл бұрын

I may be wrong on this but I don't believe the Democratic party has any evangelicos telling Congress and the Senate how to conduct the people's business

@Humanistic_

6 жыл бұрын

Irish Jester Theyre still beholden to the same neoliberal economics that are destroying the country

@leibianafeliz5581

5 жыл бұрын

Helen Lovell Very important elections just happened.

People are more racist than they will admit. All you have to do is put a racist issue against any policy and people will vote according to race. Use another race as the enemy....it works every time.

@chuckezykelly1639

5 жыл бұрын

It works some of the time. Many of today's "racists" are looking for scapegoats for declining standard of living. A bad economy creates division among those seeking a better life.

@chuckezykelly1639

5 жыл бұрын

It's often true. But I've worked with a lot of low-level employees who weren't racists until they lost their standard of living. When people are hurting, they look for scapegoats and resent people who are different from them who compete for jobs. Although it's not a total cure, a good economy for all is the best prevention of racism..

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." LBJ - on the GOP

@jcsrst

5 жыл бұрын

Thats why non slave owning whites fought for the confederacy during the civil war. Not much has really changed.

It's frustrating how easily people are duped by the right, it's down right embarrassing. I'm from Michigan, and you can see what the good ole Republicans have done for us the last couple years, a.k.a. Flint.

@justathought973

7 жыл бұрын

I hear ya, I am not even an American but when I read right wing comments on KZread, I am dumbfounded by their brainwashing and ignorance.

@mudpuddle8805

7 жыл бұрын

You've had 8 years of Obama. Hows that working for you?

@gunner678

7 жыл бұрын

Mud Puddle did you hear of the 2008 market crash through the shorting of the housing market investments? it destroyed over night the economies of the western world. and yet since the obama administration 2009, employment and economic growth has increased.....so as a brit looking at the economics and statistical history, pretty well under obama....now you have a lying manchild as president who gives false hope in order to get votes...well done!

@jonathang6534

7 жыл бұрын

Let's not forget about the Democrats.

@LoreleiBeatrix

7 жыл бұрын

Actually, the 2008 market crash was a result from economic policies from Republicans AND Democrats. And it didn't happen "overnight," it was a bubble that had been building up for decades. Economic growth happened under Obama; however, most of the revenue comes from big cities--many of the small towns have been economically strangled and many of them are still struggling to find employment and have never recovered from the 2008 crash. Also, with the "employment growth" and the unemployment rate does not account for people who have given up on finding work or those who are underemployed. There are many who have to work multiple jobs to get by in this economy. Right now, its the corporations are the only ones to benefit from the growth, and there is a growing gap of the wealth distribution. Many of the well-paying jobs went away [thanks to Bill Clinton] and were replaced with service jobs--and guess what? They don't pay as well. SO there are many Americans that were not prospering quite as well under the Obama administration either, BUT there are a number of corporations that did. There is a problem, and it also lies beyond our presidency...it's a problem that is intertwined within our entire government, and both parties are involved. Our "man-child" president was a result of this. However, I do agree with you about our "man-child president."

time to take pride in our government again, time to take responsibility for our government again. Kick out all the scum bags and corporate lackeys. The government is the weapon of the worker!

While all of this is absolutely true and needs to be taught to people, it's also because many people care more about nonsense, divisive wedge issues like abortion, gay marriage, etc than they do about economic (trade) policy. Reagan's supply side economics (trickle down) is responsible for ruining the American worker's ability to be upwardly mobile. Great video!

@mikejohnson9606

5 жыл бұрын

D LG. Maybe you don't remember the Carter administration. Inflation was at a 300% increase. Interest rates for homes were at 13% rate. The 70s were terrible for the American people that is why Reagan won and again in 84.

@stenergut9661

5 жыл бұрын

Inflation was up in the entire world in the 70s due to the oil crisis in 73 and 79. The fact that Saudi Arabia quadrupled oil production in the 80s and Paul Volcker (appointed by Carter) raised interest rates brought down inflation. Unfortunately Regan replaced Volcker with Greenspan. Reagan told people that 'government was the enemy' - For good reasons: The only entity that can tax, regulate and redistribute income is government. And conservatives, the wealthy and big industries are against that. It is class warfare from the top down.

@jamesmooney8933

5 жыл бұрын

Democrats do not care about the average American. Democrats are only worried about putting men in bathrooms, illegal aliens, and bad trade deals for American.

@stenergut9661

5 жыл бұрын

putting men in bathrooms ? I hope so. Republicans have pushed for all the trade deals.

@flocela

5 жыл бұрын

Hope you can realize why a gay person may care more about gay marriage than the economy. Hope you can realize why a black man can care more about racism than the economy.

Thanks Chuck. Please do some new videos!

Speaking of cognitive dissonance, in the mid 90's I read a book by an Italian journalist ( Beppe Severgnini, Un italiano in America, Milano, Rizzoli, 1995.) . It's about his impressions of middle america after extensive travel and mixing with the common folk.The one thing from the book that I recall is how perplexed he was by the patriotism displayed by people living in the most squalid of conditions. He commented that in Italy where the government bent over backwards to please the masses, the people were never satisfied and always expected more. In America on the other hand, poor people had gigantic american flags on their porches and felt that their government owed them nothing."Ask not what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for your country" .It's that JFK bullshit that the people have bought hook line and sinker.

Not so long ago, GM went to the Federal Government, hat in hand, asking for a bale out.. GM has profitable subsidiaries all over the world that could bale GM out. Crying poor, the turned the responsibility for health insurance over to the unions. Then GM left for Mexico anyway.. What good is a union health plan if there are no jobs? The secret is that GM doesn't even need to make cars anymore. They have so much cash that they can loan it out on interests rates as high as 32%.. Why should they risk their money making cars here at home? The same thing is true for a number of large multi-national corporations. This is why I receive calls several times a week with offers to loan me 100k or 250k.. I pity the people that fall for that..

@chuckezykelly1639

5 жыл бұрын

Right. Many of today's corporations have become investment bankers. They pay manufacturers in other countries--with cheap labor--to product their products. Then sell those products in the U.S. at huge profit.

@chuckezykelly1639

5 жыл бұрын

A lot of former manufacturing corporations have today become investment bankers. They finance manufacturers in other low-wage countries to produce their products, and then sell them in the U.S. at a huge profit.

40 hours was won by unions

Great informative video,can't wait to see more!

I'm a working class American living from paycheck to paycheck and I don't vote anymore because I lost total faith in the system. I used to be an Independent. Everyday it's getting harder and harder to live, to pay the bills, afford food, rent, etc. I know that I'm not alone. I feel that no one's going to do anything.

@martinezroger9862

7 жыл бұрын

Robert Di Giovanni ,I was a Political science major and I've said 35 years ago that Reagan's policies will bring fascist policies to this country.And I was RIGHT !

@allardfreichmann3733

7 жыл бұрын

You are so wrong. Politics and policies are everywhere. At home, in the streets, at school and so on. People don't understand the word democracy. It means we can talk and listen to each other. One scary word for Americans is socialism. Now you're shitting your pants. Do you. Well socialism means working together and taken good care for each other. And social rights means, livable wages, payed vacations, honest elections. It means also a lot of jobs for many more people. Of course it means paying more taxes and fighting against corruption these brings also more jobs. It means also that the domestic economy for goods and services can grow. But keep turning your back to your own community and your own interest. It's just communism. You're loosing your freedom to be poor and uneducated. Enjoy, bye.

@mjimih

7 жыл бұрын

Robert just vote for compassion [DEM], not greed [REPUG]. Register as anything but a repuglican't. Feel good about it. Tell your friends. Make the USA greater, again. peace

@buttbrowser

7 жыл бұрын

I hate to burst your bubble except that nearly all of the Democrats are just as bought off by dark money as the Republicans...it has nothing to do with anything more than how well they can sell their snake oil. It's mostly a bullshit sales pitch on both sides absolutely & nothing more.

@Humanistic_

7 жыл бұрын

mjimih Dont just vote for letters. There are many Democrats that pedal the same neoliberal bullshit Repugs do. Look into their ideas

if everyone voted for whats best for the many rather than selfishly, then there wouldnt be these problems.

@coopsnz1

6 жыл бұрын

democrats vote for free money

Because no politician at all whatsoever is looking out for our best interests.

an older gentelman once told me that the worst union in the world is better than no union at all, i now know what he meant. i'll bet the corperations and the republicians agree.

none of these politicians from both parties are not labor friendly

@PIlotrcm

5 жыл бұрын

This is like the “they’re both as bad” argument. No, sure democrats have corporate interests and also helping Union interest. Republicans are blatantly there to line the pockets of rich even further and tell you that it’s better for you that it’s happening meanwhile your QOL is dropping year after year.

Thanks for standing up for average Americans. We can see how much job security Americans have had. Very little. We don't work less hours in America because of high-productivity, we work less hours because it kills people and takes away their lives to work 65 hours a weak. Then if they ever turned 65 they were dumped out like garbage to fend for themselves - without Social Security. As far as inflation, that is how they get people to work more and lower the price of labor. You work and work and save up a little money for a house or retirement, and inflation is just their way to steal that from you. The proof of that is that when they started wising up and indexing things to inflation, that was no longer profitable and inflation slowed down and almost stopped. Now it has started up again because people forget. When you look at how much of America has been stolen and put in the separate isolated hands of the liars, criminals and murderers it's pretty damn obvious that most of that wealth is not helping Americans and it has been ripped off from all of us. They 1% should be taxed progressively on their incomes, and finally on their wealth and holdings which they never pay taxes on but which are the ill gotten gains from a corrupt inhuman system with a red-white and blue happy face painted on it.

Yup top 300 CEO pay $11.600,000 average employee pay $36k

I was in a strong union for 10 years. The union was very democratic and worked really hard to protect its members but the members in the union always voted republican. They always voted on social issues like god, guns and gays. That’s why big companies did not mind union workers so much because they knew the workers would always vote in the best interest of the companies. I saw this. I lived this. It was like living in bizarro land.

@chuckezykelly1639

5 жыл бұрын

You're right. I once attended an AFL-CIO meeting in Charleston SC and I asked a group of union organizers why so many union members voted for Reagen. They also said the same thing you said about guns, abortion, and gays. But the main reason was that "When we got them good incomes, they became Republicans." High income union members resented paying taxes to support welfare queens, lazy workers and so on. They didn't appreciate the fact that their high incomes were the result of a liberal government's labor policies.

You are going to crap yourself Nov 8 2016. Too bad this wasn't required viewing for everyone over 16. I was 18 years old when Reagan was elected, I watched things change slowly yet steadily. None of it was for the good. The separation of classes was the most noticeable thing.

i 've always known this, thanks for the post

The claim that the white working class does not know what is in its bet interest is patronising at best, and insulting at worst.

When you say "enacted by the federal government", you need to add that it was because of pressure from and support by organized labor. It was hardly an "overnight" action, either. It was the culmination of 100+ years of labor struggles against the rich.

@chuckezykelly1639

5 жыл бұрын

Right on! It takes two things to bring about change. Grass roots activists plus at least a few in positions of power who can get others to go along.

This video is 4 yrs old but very relevant right now as well. It seems the more absolute and unyielding a person is in their beliefs the greater likelihood those beliefs were molded and twisted by outside influence and not by scientific thought process and self exploration by the individual. These propaganda videos highlighted in this video are as prevalent as ever. Just watch any video by Prager U. and have a good laugh , unfortunately a large slice of the American population is not laughing, but nodding their heads in agreement. Scary times.

nows the time to vote, well by now i mean like this years election, bernie sanders for president

@markflierl1624

6 жыл бұрын

Bernie sanders got screwed by the crooked democratic party!

On 5 January 1914, the Ford Motor Company took the radical step of doubling pay to $5 a day and cut shifts from nine hours to eight, moves that were not popular with rival companies, although seeing the increase in Ford's productivity, and a significant increase in profit margin (from $30 million to $60 million in two years), most soon followed suit

Brilliant collection of videos, sir. You should make more.

@u2mister17

5 жыл бұрын

I'll bet this pricks job doesn't exist anymore. Unions Suck.

Getting off the main topic God those 70s suits were ugly.

@bishopmontel2

5 жыл бұрын

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@daveogarf

5 жыл бұрын

chrisbacos - Yep! Gigantic lapels and ties, Florsheim shoes and even 'leisure suits'! The "Me" decade...

@Libertyjack1

5 жыл бұрын

It didn't help that the guys in the video were damned ugly.

The UAW is what’s wrong with America!

Roger stone: an expert at political reductionism. Give them a simple concept that plays to their bias. I've never been in a union, but I remember the 1960s and 1970s. Life was a lot better for the majority of people than the last 20 years. The explosion of strategic globalism has gutted the American worker.

The union gave us 40 hour weeks paid vacations, family leave, etc . Unions countered slave labor for in guise of productivity. In other words peoducriviry created slave labor

Professor, thank you for sharing this information. I didn't know much about the history of our current economic mess, but your video was very informative. It's truly sad how corporate greed has destroyed our country.

Neither the capitalist nor the government is a friend of the worker: both the capitalist and the bureaucrat seek to serve their own self-interest. The concept of competing centres of power within the branches of government should be extended to the relationship between the state and the capitalist. Not sure any government ever had a sensible industrial policy. In retrospect, some things worked and others failed; it was never prospective. Just look at the hollowing out of 'legacy' industrial cities that began in the 1950s and the industrial shift south and west.

A successful politician will tell the average voter a bald-faced lie and that voter will not be in command of enough information to call the pol a liar. Both major parties consist of a vast majority of hawks controlled by corporations. Any President can dupe Americans into a new war with one dog and pony show. Let's face it, in post-industrial America, the vast majority of citizens are mental midgets unable to pierce even one thin layer of the thick fog-bank of propaganda that surrounds therm.

The real problem is that there are no term limits on Congress. Representatives and Senators should not be able to make a career out of being in office.

This is a great program. Smart man and a good isdue to study. Keep up the good work.

Michigan had such high living standards until GM hires a guy out of the south has CEO back in the 80. With his southern mentality, he started to send the jobs down south and eventually to Mexico where both places have lax labor laws. Even the Flint factories which produced the best cars with the least mistakes where eliminated. Some claims GM felt they were losing money on such well built cars. Though Michigan was the first state to create minimum wages laws as well as the strongest middle class in America (with some credit to Henry Ford) we also reversed a lot to thanks to the southern GM hillybilly

Dude, you haven't uploaded a video in four years. Come back! This is really good stuff!!

Extremely good video. Thanks for sharing your insight.

Thanks Chuck ! Spreading the word.

Mr. Kelly thank you.

10:55 If we're not careful the same thing will happen with our governments. China is a good example for why the rich can remain rich and grow richer, and those who govern can prosper as well. As long as the general population stays on line with the authoritarian government, they can also prosper. Who needs Democracy. Everyone prospers under authoritarian rule.

The comments on this website seem to accurately reflect the present political division we have in this country. About a third are strongly negative about my videos, and two-thirds supportive. The third feel that both political parties, or at least the Democrats, are corrupt. They represent the wealthy elite, and voting isn’t going to change anything, so why vote. And if you vote, Trump is the right reformer. The two-thirds feel that we can learn from our economic history, especially from 1933 to 1980, and intelligent voting is crucial to our nation’s future. Trump isn’t a reformer. He’s a chaos president who is destroying the democratic institutions we’ve always depended upon for productive change. I’ve been trying to respond to the thoughtful and well stated comments on this website, but I’m not going to respond to obscenities or political soundbites without reasoned backup.

Wages are stagnant because medium and small business owners are taxed 50% on turnover and regulated to hell . this happens in Australia since mid 80s

I never fail to learn interesting (and sometimes frightening!) facts about our American Economy and policy from Chuck Kelly. He needs to make his videos into a lecture series for college level economics students everywhere.

Income inequality, which economists measure by the Gini-coefficient, has steadily increased in the United States since circa 1970, and is now at the level of many Third World countries, or "shitholes" as the incumbent president calls them. This means that even though productivity has skyrocketed, and GDP with it, the benefits have gone to the wealthiest Americans, and working class and middle class Americans are not doing any better. www.the-crises.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/gini-index-usa.jpg

Productivity increased because of machines owned not by the workers.

The reason we have jobs is because of companies, not government. Take a simple macroeconomics class and you will understand. If you think the government can employ people better, than what happened to the USSR and why did China fail until they turned business back to private ownership.

@chuckezykelly1639

5 жыл бұрын

But the reason companies created jobs after the Great Recession is that government took unemployed people off the street and gave them purchasing power. When consumers have money--higher wages, government programs like Social Security--businesses create jobs.

Let's not forget Corporate greed? CEO, bonuses 1.5 mil$ employees 15Hrs plus health care, less profit for top Brass? Greeeeeed!

@chuckezykelly1639

5 жыл бұрын

It's greed period. But it can affect leaders of any type of organization. Religious, military, corporate, union or whatever.Destructive achievers can be found everywhere, and they seem to be proliferating today. Trump is a classic example.

This is why free education is the number one priority

You are the most sensible speaker I have had the pleasure of hearing. I bet you have never sat on a gold toilet.

Freddie's BACK!!!!!!!!!

Maybe because they're told what they want to hear, not what the candidate actually plans to do!

I can listen to you speak about pretty much anything. Just the right cadence and sensibility

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I read this author's book "Class War in America." This gentlemen is the most politically and economically knowledgeable man I have ever read a book and seen a video by. I learned more from this book than I have my entire life about conservative deceit.

I will grant you that frequently, "It's the money, stupid." However, there are a lot of other reasons that drive who we vote for. Some Americans are one issue voters. Whether it is abortion rights or anti-abortion rights, animal rights, the environment, foreign policy, welfare, social security, or on and on; some voters feel so passionately about their key issue that they almost don't care about anything else. Some conservative voters are willing to see past their economic best interests, if that is how you see it, in order to allow for what they see as more important, the whole conservative agenda. The same can be said about liberal voters.

Great video that is more relevant than ever. It's not rocket sorcery, so everyone should understand it. Unfortunately there is not much democracy left in the US, so you will not be able to vote for someone who has the policies to reestablish the middle class.

The America is slowly moving from capitalism to socialism the more we push for equality for all amore.

In fact this video is saying that Americans structurally don't get taught properly in modern history or economics in secondary school. High time to scrutinize (the effectiveness of) the current federal curriculum.

Chuck, thank you for the insight and for putting me on to the book, "Class War in America." Corporate conservatives convict themselves with their own words.

very informative

You are right. Yep that's it !00% Bull Shit. Working hours were reduced in part by law because no company wanted working hours to diminish and wages to go up. Same story today unfortunately. Unions are the best. Remember to ally yourself with your union not your employer. etc I could go on for a long while on this. Thank you kind sir for your thoughtful and useful little video! :^)

Stupidity. the only capital crime that serves it's own punishment .

Minimum wage been same somewhere around 10years while everything goes up by the hour

"Inflation happens in one place and one place alone... Washington D.C.." -- Milton Friedman The problem isn't necessarily that Americans are voting against their own best interests, imo. When you're voting on either Cancer or Polio, what's a person to choose? The ongoing Drug War also plays a huge role in the decline of our economy, as does occupational licensure, laws against immigration, and so on. The economics of prohibition extend far beyond the topic of substances. "People have a great misconception. Physical capital is not really very important. What's really important is human capital." -- Milton Friedman

You are totally on to something. I have often wondered why I don't support slavery, why I don't vote for it, why I would fight against it. I would benefit from slavery It just seems crazy to me. Thanks for the video because now it is clear to me.

Good video!

The biggest change in gov't economic policies occurred after Ronald Reagan was elected in the 1980's and then he and Republicans began a class warfare campaign on the middle class with "trickle down economics" that never trickled down, Reagan doubled the National Debt by giving the richest 1% huge tax cuts while borrowing $ to double spending on the military industrial complex, Reagan busted the labor unions and gave millions of illegal immigrants Amnesty to flood the labor market with laborers to lower working class wages, froze minimum wage below poverty levels, packed the courts with anti-labor anti-consumer judges, ignored anti-trust laws and deregulated Wall St. that created junk bonds to finance the hostile takeovers and consolidate most American industry into monopolies and cartels that outsourced American manufacturing jobs to third world sweat shops creating Americas Rust Belt. Reagan also refused to provide gov't loans to family farmers which every president had done in the past instead allowing the banks to foreclose on thousands of family farms and sell them off for pennies on the dollar to big agro corporations that have monopolized Americas food production with genetically modified crops. Yet despite 45 years of relentless Republican class warfare that destroyed the middle class, thanks to race baiting right wing propaganda and culture war conspiracy theories the white working class thats enslaved in debt still believes that if they keep making the rich richer someday that wealth will "trickle down" to them and so they keep voting against their economic interest hoping something will change but it never does.

These problems are not just facing the United States, but all the industrialized countries. Well paid workers can not only not compete with low paid workers in developing countries, they ultimately cannot compete with technology. A whole new economic paradigm will have to be created which will gradually disconnect remuneration from work.

@chuckezykelly1639

5 жыл бұрын

You're right! But the new paradigm will have to be for our own country. Our federal government cannot control what other countries do. They're going to have to figure out how to solve their own problems. Our own government MUST control what's happening in our own country. And that's balancing out the extent to which our government regulates our nation's distribution of income and resources through tax, fiscal and labor policies. Of course, to the extent that we can negotiate with another nation to benefit workers in both nations, we should. Past negotiations have benefited corporations and investors at the expense of workers. New negotiations should benefit all citizens of both nations

I called out to Conservative Republican they vote against their needs and for party every single time despite how bad the conservative Republicans supporters have been treated. Like they're nothing but pieces of shit to be lied to and promised more lies. And they just keep believing it over and over it's like to have a attention span of a fly flies away from one area and it forgets a completely what just happened in that area and that's exactly what these Republicans do. duh which way did he go Ralphie????

When union friendly politicians sign trade deals that de-industrialize the U.S., then who should I support?

@chuckezykelly1639

5 жыл бұрын

For me, it would all depend on the politician's opponent was. Very likely the opponent would be anti-union AND would sign trade deals that de-industrialize. My observation, however, is that most pro-union politicians also want protections of American workers and our industries.

The answer in short: corporate propaganda and lack of counter intelligence

Chuck, the reason is because the ACA forced the middle class Americans to pay for insurance while millions got it for free. When the middle class has to pay 15,000 dollars for insurance while everyone gets it free or for very little including millionaires. This isn't voting against your best interest. Democrats always take from the middle class.

@chuckezykelly1639

5 жыл бұрын

Mike, I also hated the ACA for the reasons you cited. Obama campaigned on medicare-for-everyone but then tried to placate the Republicans by adopting the convoluted and flawed system that conservatives previously wanted and implemented in Mass.

@coopsnz1

5 жыл бұрын

Most small business owners would call you a lying communists moron chuck in Australia

@mikejohnson9606

5 жыл бұрын

@@chuckezykelly1639 , I would disagree with your assessment. The Democrats had 75% of the house and Senate in Massachusetts. They just needed a patsy in Romney for it to be his laws. If Romney had just vetoed it the Democrats would have override that bill. The Democrats had a filibuster proof Senate and the house of representatives. Plus the president control. They could have done anything they wanted and they did. Taxed the middle class Americans.

@coopsnz1

5 жыл бұрын

@@mikejohnson9606 democrats always tax middle class more , small business owners are middle class in Australia

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Here's a core truth that nobody who talks about off-shore manufacturing or replacement of human labor by automation, computerization, robotizing, or AI ever mentions: "If nobody is working, who can afford the goods that are produced?" Obviously, a production economy needs a critical mass of well paid workers to function. Simply put, you need enough people who make enough money to buy the products & produced, and the services available. I didn't give the reader numbers because, if you are smart enough, you are aware that those numbers depend on the laws of diminishing return as much as they depend on the laws of supply and demand. That is to say, the smart people who run our economy know how many people are needed to make the right amount of money in order to keep our frenetic earn & buy, buy, buy economy going. They know what happens if there is too much affluence & too much conspicuous consumption. rust me. Those numbers exist & they are being considered as an essential calculation to the future of employment.

H. L. Mencken hit the problem right on the head when he said IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO UNDERESTIMATE THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. Tell the dumb people of this country and they will vote for you, never mind that it is all lies. DUMB!

@chuckezykelly1639

5 жыл бұрын

American voters aren't dumb. They've been lied to and misinformed. That's what this website is all about. What are the lies and what is a valid description of reality.

It’s aggravating, American voters are sad...

Why do KZread commenters hate hard working Americans?

I live in Saltillo, Mexico, also known as the Detroit of Mexico. This is where so called American vehicles are produced. The parts come in late at night and finished vehicles goback during the day. Average line worker wages are about US 12 to 15 dollars per DAY! It was the Republcan oligarcs who decided, in collusion with corporate Democrrats, to promote FREE TRADE. Yep! Just keep voting against your own interests.

@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia

5 жыл бұрын

Brooks Anderson Michigan had such high living standards until GM hires a guy out of the south has CEO back in the 80. With his southern mentality, he started to send the jobs down south and eventually to Mexico where both places have lax labor laws. Even the Flint factories which produced the best cars with the least mistakes where eliminated. Some claims GM felt they were losing money on such well built cars. Though Michigan was the first state to create minimum wages laws as well as the strongest middle class in America (with some credit to Henry Ford) we also reversed a lot to thanks to the southern GM hillybilly

In the auto industry, pay and benefits rose until 1970, both total and per worker. Pay and benefits per worker continued rising the turn of the millenium. This century, pay and benefits have declined both in total and per capita. Until Trump came along, no one was willing to talk about this. I do not claim that Trump has a solution to this problem. I do remind readers that the USA closed its borders in 1921, and closed them tightly, starting in 1925. The good unionised jobs of the era 1940-70 were predicated on the lack of competition from cheap foreign labour. Uneducated foreigners were not welcomed as immigrants. If an American firm outsourced part of its manufacturing to Latin America or Asia, it had to pay a tariff on what it imported back into the USA.

@chuckezykelly1639

5 жыл бұрын

Tariffs have been getting a bad reputation. Workers in all nations need to be able to make a decent living, without having to compete with lower wage workers elsewhere. However, international trade is good when all citizens of trading nations benefit from its advantages. However trade is bad if it only benefits the rich and powerful at the expense of workers in participating nations. Unfortunately, that's what has happened in virtually all trade deals since NAFTA. Unwise trade wars, like Trump has caused, are disastrous. Nations use tariffs to punish other nations, even when it's bad for themselves.

Chuck was right on the money. This guy from GM was a bald faced liar.

@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia

5 жыл бұрын

Nickie McNichols Michigan had such high living standards until GM hires a guy out of the south has CEO back in the 80. With his southern mentality, he started to send the jobs down south and eventually to Mexico where both places have lax labor laws. Even the Flint factories which produced the best cars with the least mistakes where eliminated. Some claims GM felt they were losing money on such well built cars. Though Michigan was the first state to create minimum wages laws as well as the strongest middle class in America (with some credit to Henry Ford) we also reversed a lot to thanks to the southern GM hillybilly

Though i can't explain all the nuances as well as you I have been preaching this message seems like forever. But I am amazed and bemused that people have bought this deception. I will share this video with.all my friends and associates. God bless you.

Sounds like the only thing that needs fixing was the trade.

The truth of our times. Workers unite. No not in America anymore. We're fucked.

@chuckezykelly1639

5 жыл бұрын

Governments ALWAYS determine the extent to which a nation's wealth and income are shared between different classes of people. U.S. history has always been a conflict between the rich and powerful and everyone else. And we are now indeed at the bad end of an economic cycle. However, the new progressive Democratic House is trying its best to reverse the cycle and voters should support them and those like them. Higher progressive income and inheritance taxes and programs that benefit workers, the middle class and poor can have profound effects, just as Roosevelt's New Deal got us out of the Great Depression. It'll be tough, and it won't be quick, but what are our alternatives?

Wow! I'm impressed with a lot of the commentary and, of course, the video. But when I perused the commentary I expected a lot of the dumb "conventional wisdom" generally believed by so many today. I've seen the term "working class" used here by the video and the commentators and that's great. Normally "working class" is a dirty term like "socialism" that is not generally used in our political and social discourse but it is a valid, accurate true term that better describes the class in our society that is losing the class war, yes class war, and that is "the working class." There is a class war if you look at the income of corporate executives vs. everyone else, i.e. the working class. Also, I forgot the name of the wealthy man during Roosevelt's admin who said regarding Roosevelt that he was a "traitor to his class." Consequently this member of the upper class recognized the division of American society into economic classes as well as the existence of a class war, unlike so many in the working class who buy into the bullshit of the upper class.

Brilliant presentation, Chuck Kelly! But as you will see from the cognitive disconnect below in the comments, some folks are very easily swayed, and lodged in biased thinking.

"Listen Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?" by Thomas Frank is a must for any progressive trying to understand what has been happening. I recommend the Audible version because the author's reading expresses his contempt for the neoliberals who have brought us down. www.goodreads.com/book/show/25666062-listen-liberal

Oh look, he tried to fight bullshit with bullshit.

@therealest1332

6 жыл бұрын

great argument

That's what creates!!!! First fired ,last hired philosophy !!!! The results all ways hit us !!!! With the bottom bull shit !!!

American capitalists have undermined the architects of American governance in the post-world ward period. I feel deeply sorry for the American working class, who deserve so much more. The workers united will never be defeated!