Just a bit about this “comedian”.
Ben Stein (Benjamin J. Stein) was born November 25, 1944 in Washington, D.C., (He is the son of the economist and writer Herbert Stein) grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, and attended Montgomery Blair High School. He graduated from Columbia University in 1966 with honors in economics. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1970 as valedictorian of his class by election of his classmates. He helped to found the Journal of Law and Social Policy while at Yale. He has worked as a poverty lawyer in New Haven and Washington, D.C., a trial lawyer in the field of trade regulation at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., a university adjunct at American University in Washington, D.C., at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. At American U. He taught about the political and social content of mass culture. He taught the same subject at UCSC, as well as about political and civil rights under the Constitution. At Pepperdine, he has taught about libel law and about securities law and ethical issues since 1986.
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Good info on this highly intelligent, but down to earth man. He’s also written many great books on investing and being successful. My favorite of all is “Bunkhouse Logic”. A short book on taking charge of your life that I found inspiring.
Couldn’t care less about his background...Stein wouldn’t be the first “educated fool” produced by American colleges & universities. LMAO
From this piece, he definitely doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
We have deficits because the Feds are spending more than they are taking in...and when the tax rates were cut during the Reagan administration, revenues increased! The problem was that Congress continued to spend more than was brought in.
"I'm struck by what an incredibly capable, hard-working guy he is," Stein told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Thursday. "He's a very smart liberal, he's a thoroughgoing patriot, and I would feel better with him in the Senate
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