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Here's the legit video, better than the cellphone bids. This is what An attitude of entitlement yields.

That depends on how bad you want out of poverty and how bad you want to be rich, we've had immigrants with 20 bucks to their name become millionaires. Many people are fine not putting in the effort needed to become millionaires. In north America if you want something bad enough you can get it. Hell I want to be a billionaire, but I don't think I can do what's necessary to become one and don't want to make the sacrifices to be one.

The rate is a percentage, not total numbers. If population grows even when the rate drops there are still an increase of number going to jail albeit at a lower rate. Let's use arbitrary numbers to explain my point and these do not reflect actual crime statistics. 3% of 33 million 990 000 2.9% of 35 million 1 015 000 So it is possible with a falling rate and still more people going to the clink in this scenario, not to mention the overcrowding and political pressure to keep crooks in jail and it's easy to see why they want the new jails built.

A severe wealth gap in a booming economy when there shouldn't be one is a start.

That article where the witness who was in favor of loading up the prison pop. However there is many articles to suggest overcrowding My link Although they state methods favorable to your side of the argument, they reinforce my point that there is overcrowding. He numbers and stats say an x per net of people in a population will commit crime. Raise the population and up goes the prison population based on the numbers. It would take quite a bite out of the crime rate to drop the total amount of people headed to the clink. When people are either fully rehabilitated or in the slammer they aren't recommitting.

Curse you and being more articulate with my points than me, I demand a royalty! Have fun with dre, me and Pliny had our go with him...

Ill take my two nobel prize economists and banker who accurately predicted the financial crisis over your witch doctor with his nobel prize. And yes he happens to be an idiot with a nobel prize, it happens.

Friedman also has the nobel prize in economics as does either hayek or mises from the austrian school of economics, so what's your point? Krugman is an idiot and his view of economics led us to this mess in the first place. Remember the banker talking to these kids acurately predicted the recession while other analysts laughed at him. Did krugman predict a recession of nasty proportions in 2006? Didn't think so. Quoting krugman on economics is like quoting lenin on democracy.

What no response to the videos/links of the banker giving those kids a lesson in economics? Is that crickets I hear???

If you read my posts, I am attributing the reduction in homicides to an aging population and improved economic conditions. Interesting to note that there is a slight increase in the trend of gang/organized crime related homicides as indicated in the ctv article. Also we have a rising population which by the numbers increase the pool of people who commit crimes and a currently overcrowded jails. Now when I say soft crimes are objective, that depends on a persons opinion of a crime. For example some people think drug dealers should get a slap on the wrist and others think years in the slammer. Then there is amount of time to be served, how long should a person be put away for say a home invasion or robbing a 7-11? Again subjective. THe jails are being built to keep the amount of people with rap sheets on the streets down as there will be appropriate room to accommodate them, decrease overcrowded prisons as that is dangerous and unhealthy, and to respond to the reality of population increase. The rate might be going down and that's a good thing, but the rise in population with said rates still makes the extra jail capacity necessa

From the video it looks like the protesters want straight answers. He's giving it to them in spades. His views on the fed might be a bit extreme, but he has the basic idea, on the capitalist system. For example he blames the whole fed institution, I blame the guys running it who enact whatever policy.

Here's another... http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/26/fun-peter-schiff-confronts-occupy-wall-street-protesters/

This is one of the best youtube videos i've seen youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFQy5uIGZwA you can even check out the related videos, there are a few more of his visit to OWS. All I can say is that those kids should be protesting whatever university they went to and ask for a refund.

The cowbell. "I have a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell" Sometimes the triangle, rarely the tambourine.

fared Zakaria is a goofball, riiiiiggghhhttt. I'm sure a respected publication like TIme has one of its main contributors as a goofball. Had the US government not meddled with US healthcare like Nixon "I'm a keynesian now" did, they would not be in this sort of mess as healthcare costs would have been inflated in the first place. Try again. Hmm, 35% and not all businesses can apply for all the loopholes. Not everyone is the democrat's piggy bank (General Electric). Yet our minority governments from 2004-2011 kept spending at reasonable levels with deficit spending when not in a recession a political no-no. And then there is our best friend Trudeau with his super majorities, hell we're still paying for his nonsense. So now your saying the Greeks were spending too much money, but not the Americans, yet the US debt to GDP is approaching 100%. Yet the greeks had their high tax regime... Last time I checked agriculture is on the table and the axe is about to swing there, bye bye 23 billion over 10 yrs. and bye bye 5 billion direct payments. Social security and medicare will get their haircuts too. Why are the republicans putting everything on the table and not the democrats? Poor people have been freezing before government spending, during government spending, and will after government spending. All that was accomplished was that the USA is now poorer as a whole because of it. As for the fifties being the most prosporous time ever, well thats easy when Europe was devastated by the war and we had the USSR and China under Mao. The US was the only game in town and wages reflected that. Also the stupidity of gov't spending and high taxes caught up to them in the 1970's, stagflation anyone??? Germany is the same thing, they have a captive market and the EU is one of the worst places to import to because of all the regulations and tariffs and taxes. That only benefitted Germany, oh and how is Europe these days??? If I had a choice between Canada's situation and Germany's situation, I'd take Canada's any day. Oh and we have lower business taxes to boot. Oh and Chile is not a third world country anymore, it is one of the fastest growing South American countries, curse that business friendly environment! Praise Jesus indeed!!

How about those crooks smarten up and not commit crimes in the first place. Oh wait that's happening. Soft crimes is subjective. Perhaps we should have those petty crooks in rehab centres in the swanky end of town. Don't do the crime if you don't want the time.

Unless you prefer overcrowding of the current prison population and ignore population growth.

Makes sense, the population is getting older and more grown up about these things. That's all I can attribute it to, because with homicide there is very little that can be done to prevent it.

I watched that debate. The only time I heard them bring up the religious schtick was when they were deliberately asked about it in the debate. That doesn't seem centre piece to me. Some did elaborate on it more than others. Just because something garners some attention, doesn't mean its the centerpiece. I think the problem that you and a lot of people have with the Palin/Perry/Bachman types isn't the fact that they are religious, it's the fact that they have rocks in their head. Just because someone is religious doesn't mean they automatically have rocks in their head. Perry/Bachmann/Palin are stupid because...they're just dumb! Treating people with respect and not being a bad person is a defining characteristic of generally most of the mainstream religions. However because some evangelicals act like buffoons doesn't mean that's what their religion is all about, that's just people being fools. I'm happy you brought up gayness. Quite frankly whether a person is gay or not is none of my business and I could care less what team a person plays for. We had that Milk fellow down in San Francisco who was openly gay run for office and won, I don't think he solely campaigned on being gay. I will give you this, if a candidate only talks about how religious they are and doesn't talk about the issues, I wouldn't vote for them because they aren't offering ideas and think they should get in because they are only religious, it's like okay your religious, but what are you going to do that benefits me/society, how good are you at managing things? I don't think we should confuse an incompetent campaign with somebody's belief system. Newt did say a dumb thing. It wasn't slip of the tongue. He prepared for it, and was wrong. As far as i'm concerned he wasted his time preparing and didn't have the foresight to see that it is probably a bad idea in the long run to say that. As is the theme, blame the person for being an idiot, not what they believe in. I think the Christians have a point with being a victim. If they did the things to other groups that are being done to them it would be a huge controversy. I mean these days we have PC terms for christmas tree being called the holiday tree. As far as I'm concerned thats like calling the gay pride parade the celebration parade. I think that would be wrong because it takes away from a big part of the gay lifestyle and what they went through to get to that point in the name of political correctness as is the christmas tree being called the holiday tree. Lesson for the day, idiots come in all shapes and sizes and a person should be judged for being an idiot, not for what they believe in, race, sexual orientation, etc.

Let me put it like this. If I had a choice between a competent manager who believed the earth was 6000 years old and a bumbling screw up who couldn't manage a hamburger stand, but was following what the mainstream is doing, guess who gets my vote? And this is why it shouldn't matter, we should be picking who is going to do the best job, not have a referendum on what a candidates beliefs are. stock well Day is a perfect example of this. He was ultra religious and yet was one of the most competent cabinet ministers in Harpers cabinet. Obviously his religious beliefs had no bearing on how he did the job and I think we should be giving all people running for public office the benefit of the doubt on that. Kids are taught not to judge a book by its cover, why can't grown ups? I could care less if somebody worshipped cats and had a cat statue in his office and made sacrifices to it, if that person has a track record of solid management, and treats other people with respect, then why can't they get the job if they are most qualified for it? Does discrimination only apply if people are not White/Christian? I think its quite a stretch for some people to think its acceptable to discriminate against christians applying for the job of public office, yet at the same time wave the discrimination flag if someone not Christian gets discriminated against when they apply for a job (rightfully so). It's a two way street.

It's not fox news nonsense, last time I checked Fareed Zakaria is all CNN/Time, and he isn't the same goofball they have on fox news. If it weren't for excessive spending they'd have surpluses as well.... Why do we need bloated inefficient gov't services, why not let the private sector take on as much as possible. All government does is make things more expensive. We had a USA gov't function long before income taxes were put in place. USA business taxes are getting to be higher than most countries. Our federal business tax is almost half of what theirs is, our books are in order, why is that? could it be a cut in spending? Canada had minority governments too, yet we kept our books balanced. Find another scapegoat. The USA also mismanaged everything and as a result of that mismanagement created a lot of entitlement programs that weren't needed and expensive. There are many tea party republicans who have been elected with one purpose and that is to control govt spending and they could care less about re-election. When the crap hits the fan stuff gets done, and it will involve taking an axe to entitlements and the recipients will basically have to pound sand. Hell the canadian public had to pound sand when Martin axed 20% of spending. Nope, it will be spending cuts. Jacking up taxes to create funding for these nonsense programs was part of what got them into this mess. Being broke isn't fun and sacrifices have to be made. Party's over and people are starting to realize that. This presidential election will be a referendum on what way the economic mess will be fixed.

Another thing those kids get burnt with is a bloated bureaucracy at those universities that they have to pay for. Apparently admin costs are the fastest rising costs of a university. So not only are lots paying for a worthless degree, they're getting soaked while doing it. This is why they need to cut out some science/ lit classes in high school and ram in some finance, economics, management, commerce classes and make them mandatory. The economy/ financial system affects everyone and it should be a good idea to know how it works. Take out those ridiculous spares in high school. They should be occupying campus as well!

So we're supposed to have a stock well day type of situation where he can be pretty near persecuted on tv and by political rivals for having religious beliefs? You have opponents saying because he's a religious person and follows his religion very closely, he shouldn't be fit for public office? I find it hypocritical that in Canada if stock well day were to question his opponents religion or lack of it, he would have been skewered by the media. Why should someone get a free pass for questioning Christians and seeing if their beliefs should disqualify them for office yet if a Christian did it, its the second round of the spanish inquisition? Cripes if believing that you should treat others with respect and not be a bad person is grounds for calling someone's candidacy into question, then we have an intolerance problem. I'm saying you shouldn't question any politicians beliefs no matter what religion. It's as appropriate as questioning someone's sexual orientation! Color, marital status, etc. It's not really anybody's business. Newt said something dumb, and people should judge him for saying something dumb, not for what he believes in. Why do some people who label themselves as atheists need to go out and trash people who believe in something, yet expect everyone to accommodate them. For a group that complains about religion being pushed on everyone, a lot feel the need to push their views on other people, hypocrites?

Did you look at the rates during the 90's when you say the first part of the housing bubble took roots. They were down and slowly rose a modest 3% when the dot coms took place. Note that they never ever came above the initial fed rate right at 1990. The rate reductions the second go round were to try and stimulate the economy like in 2001 when the dot coms tanked. except there were no rate hikes in 2001 as stated by the website, in fact there was systematic rate reductions... Fanny and Freddie were up to about 57% of the mortgage market as stated by forbes and they said that alone would create a bubble. I don't see what your issue with speculazation is. here's an example. China is a fast growing economy and needs to buy soybeans. Speculators look at what's going on in China and decide to go long on soybean delivery contracts. With the fed and QE2 occurring, there is a lot more money floating around for the speculators to play with, so they pump more money into soybeans, and as a result it went to over 14$/bu. Now there was reports of a European situation that can cause problems around the world, so the speculators short their soybean deliver contracts and the price falls to just over 12%/bu. What is wrong with that? The housing speculators did the same thing, only the market was much bigger. Had there not been QE2, there would have not been as much money and therefore the price of soybeans wouldn't have been bid up as much, That's the problem same as in the housing market.

This is getting ugly ctv Wow!!! We have union supporters resorting to beating up women and threatening a female minister with breaking her legs. That is lower than low, beating somebody up half your size because they have an opinion. Unions cry about their freedom to associate, yet with this nonsense seem quite content to deny others their freedoms.