Stossel Part 15. Eight Short Videos.

Budget Gimmicks: Washington labels everything an “emergency” to spend more of your tax dollars.
Yaron Brook: In Defense of Capitalism
2024 Election: The Trump Biden Rematch. THIS is The Best We Can Do?
Judith Curry: How Climate “Science” Got Hijacked by Alarmists
Government Central Planning Fails—Free People Create Order On Our Own.
Southern Poverty Law Center Has Become a Left-wing, Money-grabbing, Slander Machine
Classic Stossel: School Choice Rises from a Flood
Jimmy Lai: Jailed by Communist China While Fighting for Freedom in Hong Kong

Budget Gimmicks: Washington labels everything an “emergency” to spend more of your tax dollars.

https://youtu.be/f5_xeS4o0uw?si=kxkb5gjZo974Dcky

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246,233 views Sep 19, 2023

President Biden and the Senate, plan to get around budget caps using an "emergency" loophole. CATO Director of Budget Policy Romina Boccia writes about that. She explains: "Call it an emergency, done. Spend the money on whatever you want." Sadly, that's how it works in Washington. It gets worse. The budget caps that politicians want to evade never even cut spending to begin with. They merely slowed the planned INCREASE in spending. You can watch the video above to see what will happen if government keeps spending like crazy -- and also see a possible solution.

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Yaron Brook: In Defense of Capitalism

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142,926 views Aug 29, 2023

Progressives attack capitalism because it lets some become very rich while others stay poor. ----------------------- To get our new weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe ________________ Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez call such a system “immoral.” But Yaron Brook, chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute says the opposite is true. He points out that the poor were much poorer before capitalism: “We have basically made about $2 a day for 100,000 years. In other words ... we could eat what we farmed and that was it,” Brook tells me. “And then something amazing happened about 250 years ago.” Around that time, a few countries tried capitalism. For the first time, people were allowed to profit from private property. That changed everything. Brook explains: “250 years ago we suddenly discovered the value of individual freedom. We suddenly discovered the value of leaving individuals free to think, to innovate, to produce without asking for permission, without getting the state to sign off on it and we call that the industrial revolution. We got much, much, much richer and it's hard to imagine how much richer we got ... electricity, running water, the things we all take for granted today, but we didn't have 150 years ago ... and yes, some people complain about inequality, but everybody got richer. Even the poor got richer.”

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2024 Election: The Trump Biden Rematch. THIS is The Best We Can Do?

John Stossel

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185,281 views Aug 22, 2023

The betting odds say a Trump vs Biden rematch is probable. That’s sad, since polls also show most Americans don’t like either man. ———— To get our new weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe ———— There is good reason people do not like them. Trump and Biden are both corrupt liars. I’m used to disagreeing with a president’s policies. But our two most likely choices are just embarrassing. Here’s my new video about that:

https://youtu.be/vVi01vJ4nxM?si=fG2KiTpQPgoAPegx

Judith Curry: How Climate “Science” Got Hijacked by Alarmists

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821,960 views Aug 8, 2023

Climate alarmists insist there’s a “scientific consensus” that says climate change is a crisis, and man causes it! Researcher Judith Curry tells me, “it’s a manufactured consensus.” ———— To get our new weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe ———— Curry was a department chair at Georgia Tech when she spread alarm about climate change. The media loved her then. She claimed there was an increase in hurricane intensity. But then some researchers pointed out gaps in her research: years with low levels of hurricanes. “Like a good scientist, I went in and investigated." When she acknowledged a lack of evidence that hurricane intensity had increased, she was ruthlessly attacked by climate alarmists. Her career suffered. Now Curry reveals nefarious ways “the science” about climate change has been corrupted.

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Government Central Planning Fails—Free People Create Order On Our Own.

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Politicians love to make plans for us. But the best of life happens when politicians just leave us alone. ———— To get our new weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe ———— Economists call the idea “spontaneous order.” Just as a school of fish needs no leader, most of us-in most of life figure things out on our own. Even in my hometown New York City, where authoritarian politicians constantly impose new rules, spontaneous order is occasionally allowed. A perfect example: Central Park. When government ran the park, it was dirty, dangerous and the grass was dead. Politicians let go a little, allowing a nonprofit conservancy [disclosure: I’m a director], manage Central Park. The Conservancy does a better job. Now the park is clean and safe. The video gives more examples of spontaneous order.

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Southern Poverty Law Center Has Become a Left-wing, Money-grabbing, Slander Machine

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309,637 views Jul 18, 2023

The Southern Poverty Law Center promises to warn us about dangerous hate groups and extremists. In reality, it smears grassroots activists like "Moms for Liberty" for daring to disagree about policy. ———— To get our new weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe ———— The SPLC is, sadly, powerful. It has nearly a BILLION dollars, and reporters pay careful attention to its reports. They shouldn't. The SPLC is a scam. The SPLC listed the Family Research Council as a "hate group," which led a deranged shooter to attack their office. The SPLC never apologized or removed the group from its list. Instead, it added more groups, such as ones that started in recent years to oppose new "woke" sex and race teaching in government-run schools. The Southern Poverty Law Center has become a hate group itself. It is now a left-wing, money grabbing, slander machine.

Classic Stossel: School Choice Rises from a Flood

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Exciting things are happening in education. In some places, charter schools bucked the unions, and got results. Hurricane Katrina made that experiment possible by destroying much of New Orleans. Now most New Orleans students attend charters, and they’re learning more. A Classic Stossel from 2011.

https://youtu.be/yDBn2D0cPzs?si=7hB6fzAXy4xH7g2n

Jimmy Lai: Jailed by Communist China While Fighting for Freedom in Hong Kong

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99,181 views Jul 4, 2023

Hong Kong was the freest place on Earth. Then the Communists took over and thoroughly oppressed it. Jimmy Lai is in jail for saying Hong Kong should be free again. ———— To get our new weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe ———— Suppose you were a billionaire, or multi-billionaire. A repressive regime takes control of your country and threatens you with jail. You can go anywhere in the world, live in luxury. Or stay and go to jail. Jimmy Lai chose jail. A documentary from the Acton Institute called “The Hong Konger” lets Lai explain why he chose jail.

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Stossel Part 15. Eight Short Videos.