I thought it was great monologue, and I agree with him.
Part of the reason this country has gone downhill is because of people whose only goal in life is to collect as much money as possible before they pass away. Consequently, just about everything we buy these days is cheap garbage and our quality of life has deteriorated a LOT in the last half century.
Net: godless, amoral capitalism *IS* a problem.
Making it safe for banking.
That’s the goal of both parties. Government Sachs anyone?
America’s capitalism is no longer freedom capitalism
Its government sponsored, political, leftist crony capitalism.
Government takes >50% of our GDP. It picks winners and losers. It supports very wealthy people to meddle in politics. It incurs massive debt in our printed, fiat currency, which burdens every citizen.
As it turns out, some of the founding principles of this country may ultimately be seen as fatal defect after all. This country has never had much of a common bond at all -- which kind of weighs against any idea of a "nation" as that term has been understood throughout human history. It was almost a natural progression for this country to devolve into something that was built on the lowest common denominators: radical secularism and the U.S. dollar.
There is truth in this statement. My wife wanted to get a new washer/dryer about a decade ago. Both have had multiple problems and the dryer was replaced with a $30 Craigslist model. The washer is still limping along and needs some welding done (again: it keeps shaking itself apart). I haven't welded the washer back together yet because I haven't gotten around to fixing the Hobart wire feed welder I bought a few years ago.
She wanted a new stove: The oven doesn't work and I need to fix it, but haven't gotten to it yet.
We bought a new riding mower 11 or 12 years ago: The transmission only made it about 5 years. The lawnmower has now been replaced by a 1953 Massey-Harris Pacer with the Woods belly mower and a 20 year old Craftsman riding mower as well as the old lawn mower getting combined with a couple of other donor mowers into one working mower.
I'm finding that I have better luck keeping the vintage stuff running than I do most of the new stuff. The vintage stuff also needs constant attention, but since it is old, I don't get nearly as aggravated when I have to make repairs.
“I thought it was great monologue, and I agree with him.
Part of the reason this country has gone downhill is because of people whose only goal in life is to collect as much money as possible before they pass away. Consequently, just about everything we buy these days is cheap garbage and our quality of life has deteriorated a LOT in the last half century.”
I too thought Tucker’s monologue spoke a great truth. Bankers, Corporate CEOs & Wall Street types, plus the politicians they control, don’t give a damn about the disappearing middle class or their useful idiots who tend to be poorer and brainwashed to look the other way.
And no. I’m not, nor do I believe Tucker is, advocating abolishing capitalism or implementing it’s failed opposite socialism/communism. I’d like to see fairness within the law and fiscal conservatism within the government return to our Nation.