Why do progressive liberals hate John Stossel?

[American_Jihad]

Why Obamacare Will Be No More Successful Than Soviet Central Planning

Markets find ways to make things better and cheaper. Obamacare often forbids that.

John Stossel | May 1, 2013

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Many people lazily assume that the law will do roughly what it promises: give insurance to the uninsured and lower the cost of health care by limiting spending on dubious procedures.

Don’t count on it.

Consider just the complexity: The act itself is more than 906 pages long, and again and again in those 906 pages are the words, “the Secretary shall promulgate regulations ...”

“Secretary” refers to Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. Her minions have been busy. They’ve already added 20,000 pages of rules. They form a stack 7 feet high, and more are to come.

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Maybe we will soon be like Canada, where some people wait years for treatment. A producer from my TV show went to a Canadian town where the town clerk pulls names out of a box and then phones people to say: “Congratulations! You get to see a doctor this month!”

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Why Obamacare Will Be No More Successful Than Soviet Central Planning - Reason.com

 

[American_Jihad]

Live Free or Move

Moving provides one of the few limits on the megalomania of state bureaucrats.

John Stossel | May 8, 2013

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They're leaving my state, New York, in droves. California, despite its great weather, also lost people, and wealth. Other biggest losers were Illinois, New Jersey and Ohio.

Travis Brown, author of "Money Walks," tracked the movements using IRS data. On my TV show, he revealed that Florida was the state that gained the most: "You're seeing a massive amount of people and their income coming in: $86 billion."

Arizona and Texas also gained, which made me wonder if Americans just move to states where it's warm. "No," said Darcy Olsen, president of Arizona's Goldwater Institute. "Weather explains just 5 percent of the migration ... the Census Bureau asks, and they say, 'to find a job.'"

People move where jobs are, and the states gaining the most -- which also include North Carolina and Nevada -- follow what she calls "the magic formula. Lower taxes and good labor policy, which means, to a business, being free to hire and fire the people you want. (In) the most successful states you see both -- no income tax or low taxes coupled with right-to-work laws."

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Live Free or Move - Reason.com

 

[SAYIT]

That means the programming worked

Television is not about programming, it's about advertising.

Right over your (pin)head, Princess. I don't believe CF was commenting on the TV programming but rather your programming, ya freakin' robot.

 

[American_Jihad]

America Needs More Free-Range Kids

Grit made America great.
John Stossel | May 15, 2013

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"Free-range kids are kids we believe in," she told me. "They can do things on their own."

Once she allowed her own 9-year-old to ride the subway alone. After she wrote about that, she was labeled "World's Worst Mom." Really. Google "world's worst mom." Skenazy's name comes up.

"Free-Range Kids" promotes events like "Take Our Children to the Park and Leave Them There Day." Skenazy says leaving kids in the park without adult supervision teaches them grit. Kids get used to bugs, rocks and a lack of constant supervision. They become leaders by discovering how to organize their own lives without parents bossing them around.

And they are not likely to be kidnapped. The horror of what happened to the three women in Cleveland makes all of us more frightened of sexual assaults and other threats. Skenazy says that today's parents are so frightened that only 6 percent allow young kids to play outside unsupervised. But the risk of harm is small, and we put our kids at greater risk, says Skenazy, if we don't allow them the freedom to learn from their own mistakes -- to acquire grit.

It shouldn't surprise me that parents want to shelter their kids from all risk. The parents themselves live in a society where risk is less and less acceptable. We expect regulations to protect us from accidents. We expect police to protect us from every imaginable criminal threat. We demand welfare, unemployment insurance and bailouts to protect every level of society from economic risk. When something goes wrong, we sue.

It wasn't always like this.

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It's great that we live in a wealthy country -- one with a welfare state so big that we now worry about poor people getting fat. But what makes most people happy is not comfort. It's earned success, success you struggle for.

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America Needs More Free-Range Kids - Reason.com

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Ya know ... I remember when John Stossel was a human being.

True story.

 

[American_Jihad]

Ya know ... I remember when John Stossel was a human being.

True story.

Puddly, you mean when he worked for the liberal media, lol. About the human being thing, I wish I could say the same about you, all I can remember is you're an

True story...

 

[f252863]

How is it even possible you are asking this question??

Because you said it was a failure, but didn't give any reasons why.

I want to know what led you to that conclusion.

Oh, maybe headlines like this:

"SAT reading scores for the high school class of 2011 were the lowest on record, and combined reading and math scores fell to their lowest point since 1995."

And this article fails to mention that SAT scores were inflated by nearly 100 points in the early 90's, they called it recentering.

 

[American_Jihad]

Unless We Change Some Things, America Will Eventually Go Broke

The first step toward a solution is just being honest about the deep hole we’re in.

John Stossel | June 5, 2013

Europe’s struggles prove that “austerity” fails!

So say the Big Spenders.

With a condescending sigh, they explain that Europe made deep cuts in government spending, and the result was today’s high unemployment. “With erstwhile middle-class workers reduced to picking through garbage in search of food, austerity has already gone too far,” writes Paul Krugman in The New York Times.

One problem with this conclusion: European governments didn’t cut! If workers pick through garbage, cuts can’t be a reason, since they didn’t happen.

That doesn’t stop leftists from complaining about cuts or stop Europeans from protesting announced austerity plans. But if austerity means spending less, that hasn’t happened.

Some European countries tried to reduce deficits by raising taxes. England slapped a 25 percent tax increase on the wealthy, but it didn’t bring in the revenues hoped for. Rich people move their assets elsewhere, or just stop working as much.

If politicians honestly want to boost their nation’s economies, they should look to what happened in countries that bounced back from economic slumps.

Iceland was hit by bank collapses -- but government ignored street protests and cut real spending. Iceland’s budget deficit fell from 13 percent of gross domestic product to 3. Iceland’s economy is now growing.

Canada slashed spending 20 years ago and now outranks the U.S. on many economic indicators.

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Unless We Change Some Things, America Will Eventually Go Broke - Reason.com

 

[American_Jihad]

Censorship in America
Free speech matters.
John Stossel | October 14, 2015

Support for the idea that it's good to hear all opinions, even offensive ones, is thin. A plurality of Americans now support laws against "hate speech."

Conservatives once wanted to ban Playboy magazine, violent rap lyrics and offensive depictions of Jesus. Leftists then were right to fight such bans, but today leftists encourage censorship in the name of "tolerance."

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When Eich donated the money, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton opposed gay marriage, too. But in just five years, such opinions have become so "unacceptable" that a tech genius is ostracized by his own industry.

As long as the leftist mobs don't use law or violence, they're still engaged in free speech. Private employers can impose most any speech rule they choose. The First Amendment applies only to government. But now some government officials are as eager to censor as the leftist mobs.


After the owners of Chick-fil-A said they oppose gay marriage, the mayors of Chicago, San Francisco and Boston said Chick-fil-A is "not welcome" in their cities. San Francisco's mayor said, "The closest Chick-fil-A is 40 miles away and I strongly recommend they not try to come any closer."

Since mayors may influence permits and zoning, their threats aren't idle. And no new Chick-fil-A outlets have opened in those cities. This is a clear violation of the First Amendment, although the politicians seem oblivious to that.

Of course, much worse than today's left are those who censor through violence. Al Qaeda's magazine names people who should be killed, chirping, "A bullet a day keeps the infidel away."

Writers and artists heed the threats. CNN, NBC and The New York Times will no longer show Mohammed cartoons.

I was surprised that liberal commentators were so eager to cave in to the terrorists' threats. Chris Matthews said, "Wanting to pick a fight with Islam is insane."

Such cowardice just invites more censorship.

When the TV series South Park was censored by its own network for depicting Mohammed, a fan of the show, liberal cartoonist Molly Norris, showed her support by drawing her own cartoons of Mohammed. For doing so, she received death threats. Fearing for her safety, she went into hiding.

Columnist Mark Steyn was appalled that "Her liberal newspaper—the way they put it in announcing that she'd gone, ceased to exist, was: 'There is no more Molly.'" She hasn't been heard from in five years.

"The only way we're going to move to a real sense of freedom is if every time somebody puts a bullet in a cartoonist for drawing a cartoon of Mohammed," says Steyn, "every newspaper ... displays that picture."

Steyn argues that societies that censor create more violence by driving hate speech underground.

"You can have a society with free speech where I call you names, and you do rude drawings of me, and I say you're a hater, and we hatey-hatey-hate each other," said Steyn on my TV special, "Censorship in America," but "the alternative is the Muslim world where there's no open debate, and so there's nothing left to do but kill and bomb and shoot."
Free speech matters. If we give in to those who would shut us up, the censors will push and push until we have no freedom left. If we're going to sort out which ideas are good and which are bad, everyone must be allowed to speak.

Censorship in America

 

[bodecea]

How is it even possible you are asking this question??

Because you said it was a failure, but didn't give any reasons why.

I want to know what led you to that conclusion.

Uhh...because I belong to a sentient species?
Your question is like asking someone why they think Alaska is cold.
Is there a purpose to such an obvious question? You are new here..either you are being a troll or....

And if someone asked about Alaska being cold, it would be a simple thing to pull out temperature recordings, comparisons with other states, length of winter, etc.

You've got my interest up too by your evasions...what leads you to the conclusion that K-12 education here is a failure?

 

[bodecea]

Uhh...because I belong to a sentient species?

What you perceive, is not necessarily the truth. It's just what you perceive. Which, unfortunately, is affected by your pre-dispositions. And if you're drawing conclusions soley on what you perceive and not analytical thinking, then you shouldn't be acting like I'm the one who's "out there".

Your question is like asking someone why they think Alaska is cold.

No it's not. It's obvious Alaska is cold. And if I asked someone why they said it was cold, they'd be able to tell me. If you think the nature of the questions are the same, why is it you cannot tell me. Because if you can't, then the questions are obviously different.

Is there a purpose to such an obvious question?

Yes. An obvious answer, which I'm still waiting for.

You are new here..either you are being a troll or....

I'm neither new, or a troll.

Why do you think something is wrong with someone who asks a question?

Because it is a dumb question, and I am not going to sit here and paste up a series of charts/graphs and data from numerous sites. It is not worth the time it would take to get it because I do not believe you are asking a genuine question. If you are...then....damn.

Why not?

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Government Creates Poverty​

5/1/11 John Stossel is host of “Stossel” on the Fox Business Network.

The U.S. government has “helped” no group more than it has “helped” the American Indians. It stuns me when President Obama appears before Indian groups and says things like, “Few have been ignored by Washington for as long as Native Americans.”

Ignored? Are you kidding me? They should be so lucky. The government has made most Indian tribes wards of the state. Government manages their land, provides their health care, and pays for housing and child care. Twenty different departments and agencies have special “native American” programs. The result? Indians have the highest poverty rate, nearly 25 percent, and the lowest life expectancy of any group in America. Sixty-six percent are born to single mothers.

Nevertheless, Indian activists want more government “help.”

It is intuitive to assume that, when people struggle, government “help” is the answer. The opposite is true. American groups who are helped the most, do the worst.

Consider the Lumbees of Robeson County — a tribe not recognized as sovereign by the government and therefore ineligible for most of the “help” given other tribes. The Lumbees do much better than those recognized tribes.

Lumbees own their homes and succeed in business. They include real estate developer Jim Thomas, who used to own the Sacramento Kings, and Jack Lowery, who helped start the Cracker Barrel Restaurants. Lumbees started the first Indian-owned bank, which now has 12 branches.

The Lumbees’ wealth is not from casino money.

“We don’t have any casinos. We have 12 banks,” says Ben Chavis, another successful Lumbee businessman. He also points out that Robeson County looks different from most Indian reservations.


Freedom lets them prosper.

John Stossel is host of “Stossel” on the Fox Business Network. He’s the author of “Give Me a Break” and of “Myth, Lies, and Downright Stupidity.”

Government Creates Poverty | government, creates, poverty - Gaston Gazette

Lot's more to come folks, got the whole series...

yes liberal govt creates poverty by encouraging it when they turn the safety net into a comfortable intergenerational home. Why not make liberals illegal as our founders intended??


Thomas Jefferson: I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

 

[Billo_Really]

Because it is a dumb question, and I am not going to sit here and paste up a series of charts/graphs and data from numerous sites. It is not worth the time it would take to get it because I do not believe you are asking a genuine question. If you are...then....damn.

You made a claim about K-12 education and I asked you what that was based on.

The fact that you can't answer that question, means you're full of shit!

 

[toxicmedia]

John Stossell isn't a Libertarian, he just plays one on TV

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

You made a claim about K-12 education !

yes, it turns out about the dumbest kids in the civilized world
because it is controlled by liberals.

 

[Billo_Really]

yes, it turns out about the dumbest kids in the civilized world
because it is controlled by liberals.

Are you saying "no" education makes people smarter?

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Government Creates Poverty​

5/1/11 John Stossel is host of “Stossel” on the Fox Business Network.

The U.S. government has “helped” no group more than it has “helped” the American Indians. It stuns me when President Obama appears before Indian groups and says things like, “Few have been ignored by Washington for as long as Native Americans.”

Ignored? Are you kidding me? They should be so lucky. The government has made most Indian tribes wards of the state. Government manages their land, provides their health care, and pays for housing and child care. Twenty different departments and agencies have special “native American” programs. The result? Indians have the highest poverty rate, nearly 25 percent, and the lowest life expectancy of any group in America. Sixty-six percent are born to single mothers.

Nevertheless, Indian activists want more government “help.”

It is intuitive to assume that, when people struggle, government “help” is the answer. The opposite is true. American groups who are helped the most, do the worst.

Consider the Lumbees of Robeson County — a tribe not recognized as sovereign by the government and therefore ineligible for most of the “help” given other tribes. The Lumbees do much better than those recognized tribes.

Lumbees own their homes and succeed in business. They include real estate developer Jim Thomas, who used to own the Sacramento Kings, and Jack Lowery, who helped start the Cracker Barrel Restaurants. Lumbees started the first Indian-owned bank, which now has 12 branches.

The Lumbees’ wealth is not from casino money.

“We don’t have any casinos. We have 12 banks,” says Ben Chavis, another successful Lumbee businessman. He also points out that Robeson County looks different from most Indian reservations.


Freedom lets them prosper.

John Stossel is host of “Stossel” on the Fox Business Network. He’s the author of “Give Me a Break” and of “Myth, Lies, and Downright Stupidity.”

Government Creates Poverty | government, creates, poverty - Gaston Gazette

Lot's more to come folks, got the whole series...

He the Alan Alda perm-hair mf'er? I hate that f'ing guy. Hope he gets hits by a steamroller.