Thom Hartmann - Fox News Doesn't Know Jack about Economics or Food Stamps

[thomhartmann]

Run time: 07:36 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEezGOB_dt0   Posted on YouTube: August 19, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheBigPictureRT Views on YouTube: 249   Posted on DU: August 19, 2011 By DU Member: thomhartmann Views on DU: 1191

 
It's time to stop taking advice from Gretchen Carlson - Brian Kilmeade - and "Socialist-obsession" Eric Bolling over at Fox so-called News - and start taking our economic advice from lessons learned in history. Lessons learned from the Great Depression when Franklin Roosevelt helped poor people get back on their feet again by stimulating the economy and took unemployment from over 25 percent to just 14 percent in only three short years. We need to kick the supply-side economic hucksters out of Congress - and out of the media - and get back to the basics of economics - making sure people have enough money to spend to meet their basic needs - and not making sure billionaires have enough money in their Swiss Bank Accounts.

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[bulloney]

1. You could have stopped at "Fox News Doesn't Know Jack" and you'd be accurate.

They are the most ignorant organization on the planet.

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2. Very well said! Saving this.

[democracy1st]

3. K & R

[pam4water]

4. Was there ever a time to listen to those guys ;) Kidding K&R

[Overseas]

5. K&R. Demand-Side Economics Now Please!

Fox "news" talkers have been pushing Supply-Side lies in spite of overwhelming evidence that it hasn't worked, for so long that facts no longer matter.

Stimulus returns vs tax cut returns make things very clear.

So the Fauxs need to amp up the cruel resentment game-- "50% of Americans pay no taxes at all! How is that fair?" -- Glad Jon Stewart highlighted the new fresh crop of echoes of that lie being bandied about on Faux lately. They say that without considering the fact that 50% of Americans' income is so low that they are exempt. They also don't pause to point out the other kinds of taxes the poor still have to pay-- sales taxes, gas taxes, etc. They don't even bother to qualify their statements with "50% of Americans pay no INCOME taxes at all."


Furthermore, as you noted, they don't dare to ask the question-- Buffet pays less taxes than his secretary. How is that fair?

Faux would rather their readers beat up the poor and single out the unionized workers whose annual income equals one hour of Buffet's.