🔴Ep. 443: The Socialist Insanity of a Green Utopia

The Peter Schiff Show Podcast - Episode 443
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Disguising "Red" Goals in Green Wrapping -
I'm still here in my hotel room in Orlando at the Money Show, but before I went downstairs on this Saturday morning, I wanted to record a podcast to address the issues raised by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, as she is now being referred to - I guess I'm just going to call her the bartender for simplicity. Well, anyway, the bartender-turned-congresswoman has released the laughable details of her "Green New Deal". Of course, the Green New Deal really lays bare the smokescreen that I have always believed existed with respect to extreme environmentalism. I've always thought that it masked a real desire for socialism; that the real goal of some of these radical environmentalists was socialism: nationalizing the means of production, getting government control. But they couldn't come out and say that. They had to disguise their "red" goals with green wrapping.
This Bartender is Advocating Fascism -
They had to approach it as an environmental issue;"Hey, we have to save the planet!" and, yeah, who isn't in favor of that? Everybody wants clean air and clean water. So the way the Socialists really try to wedge their way into the mainstream was with this veneer of Environmentalism. But when you actually read the "Green New Deal", it blows all the smoke away. It really lays bare the Socialist agenda of environmentalists. Really, that's what the Green New Deal is all about. It's Red. It's all about turning America into a Socialist economy, or more particularly, a Fascist economy, because Fascism is really the form of Socialism that best describes what this bartender is advocating.
The Government Taking over the Means of Production -
I have said from the beginning when Ocasio-Cortez ( the bartender) describes herself as a Democratic Socialist - "I'm not a real Socialist, I am a DEMOCRATIC Socialist - putting the word "Democratic before something bad doesn't make something bad into something good. If you read this proposal, it is pure, unadulterated Socialism. It is about the government taking over the means of production. The bartender actually believes that the government, by micromanaging the economy, it will succeed in creating prosperity. This is what every Socialist who has risen to power, rather by force or by vote, has promised the public. They always promise pie-in-the sky prosperity, all these great things that the government is going to provide. In order to get people to buy into this, they have to create a false threat of global warming.
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[@wingingittracy8508]

“I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” ― Winston S. Churchill

[@countercrow7970]

The quote is so very apropos. USA trying to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. They think the results will be any different? This new generation standing on the shoulders of ancestors for the view, and hacking away everything underneath them. This is Looneytunes absurd.

[@toomuchdebt5669]

That's like a parasite consuming itself with diminishing returns.

[@MarkM324]

They're called Watermelon Commies: Green on the Outside and Red on the inside.

[@TheFranksantana]

LoL... good one!

[@TimezUp23]

Lol... excellent one

[@garidelchev9998]

True and fun😁

[@chrisc3697]

Perfect!

[@bmw803]

HA HA HA!!! Good analogy. :) Makes sense.

[@malynda2768]

Thanks for the lesson on the history of taxation. I've learned more on this podcast than I learned in college.

[@BeyondTheScaryLeft]

The socialists have always used formal education to indoctrinate the young impressionable minds. This is why they prioritize recruiting teachers. teachers.dsausa.org

[@toomuchdebt5669]

Taxation is theft by government.

[@celadrial6684]

Of all the 443 Schiff episodes, this one is the best so far!

[@matti1003]

I am from Poland and I can tell you so many stories my parents and grandparents told me about the old socialist economy - where everyone was employed by the state, could never be fired (because they had a "right to work"), and were entitled to education, healthcare, food, etc. Everyone knows what the results were: incredibly low productivity (shortages of everything and therefore rationing of all goods), rampant alcoholism (especially among men), low life expectancy (healthcare was not available), and millions of people trying to run away (often hijacking planes or ships) to anywhere in the West. Now in Poland this was done despite the fact the whole economy ran on coal mining - just imagine if that didn't exist! Polish people would have had to live in mud huts without electricity. Oh and by the way Poland is STILL to this day the most polluted country in Europe because our government mining industry was so vile that it created unprecedented levels of smog and ground pollution (Poland supplied coal to most Eastern Block countries). I thank the graces every day that we can at least live in a semi-capitalist world now where maybe things are not ideal, but at least we are free enough not to have to wait in line for 6 hours in order to get our rationed supply of toilet paper.

[@sjbaag]

Here in s. korea the north korean refugees speak how hard life is in the north, but the s. korean youth and west koreans constantly dismiss them as right wing propaganda and that northern refugees are just another 'american lackeys' with an 'agenda'. whenever i tell them to face reality and admit n. korea is a failure, they respond that it was the america's embargo that rendered n. korea so poor, and that with s. korean help the north can be made great again. you just can't reason with these folks.

[@BeyondTheScaryLeft]

@@sjbaag Expecting different results after so many failures. They all need to read The Road to Serfdom.

[@swanee22]

Or as a Russian friend who was able to escape the soviet system said: We pretend to work and they pretend to pays us.

[@hujintaoxi]

You are all wrong guys. THIS time it will be different :)

[@krmnklas]

@@gitowski jego ojciec siedział 13 lat odmawiając płacenia podatku dochodowego, słusznie uznając go za niekonstytucyjny. żyd nie żyd ale prawilniak i to z polskimi korzeniami

[@VoidedTea]

I am near 50 and grew up in Soviet Union, so I remember very well what it was like living in socialism. When you read the bartender’s proposal, it sounded to me like you were reading from the Constitution of USSR. Literally, word for word. It is scary. Like you said several time, socialism is good when you can afford it. I agree with that. Unfortunately, it is much more difficult to do than some people who believe in socialism but never lived in it think. Especially in America, being the “producer” of the world reserve currency, it feels so easy to maintain high living standards by simply printing money. When the rest of the world works as a vacuum that sucks up any excess of printed dollars turning them into worthless debt that never matures. Sure, USSR would now be the world’s biggest superpower where everything is free, high quality and nobody has to work if only the rest of the world were dumb enough to suck up soviet roubles like they do US dollars in exchange for their own fruits of labour. The world must go on a gold standard to come to its senses again. As a former USSR resident, I believe it is better do it sooner than later.

[@johnhardin4358]

Thank you.

[@TheBestReposCOM]

This is real talk. Thanks for sharing.

[@peterschiff]

Putting it in perspective, to pay for the New Deal and WW2, between 1929 and 1944, the tax top income tax rate increased by 268% while the bottom tax rate increased by 1,433%!

[@Bri_bees]

Hi Yaron Brook has an interesting take on her success and why logic ans facts do seem to phase her supporter's. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aoDFnImXnrhjr8U

[@raitiC1]

Peter have you ever studied fascist economies in Europe before ww2?!

[@lightning9279]

Shhhhh Peter! The truth will upset revisionist history.

[@GoldAndSilver988]

They should ALL be zero, with all government revenues coming from the ways outlined in the ORIGINAL, NON-SOCIALIZED version of the Constitution. And, I say that as someone who lives on less than $15K per year net.

[@nicolasallen8072]

The Green New Deal is ideology disregarding reality in the same way that Lysenko disregarded reality when he set agricultural top down policy in the USSR under Stalin. The result back then was famine. The result of the Green New Deal would also be famine. The answer is not to deny people the right to vote. The answer is to replace the legacy media with a new web based media and explain to the public how climate alarmism is a Trojan horse for global taxation, higher prices for energy, higher profits for energy companies providing an inferior product, unnecessary regulation and governmental bureaucratic tyranny. Then, we need to get people involved in the election primary process so that we have good candidates to choose from.

The bartender is a 10/10 nickname

[@BeyondTheScaryLeft]

It is a good one because it is true.

[@johnhamlett8414]

It's not. Wake up sheep, you're being governed by a bunch of million/billionaires. You don't have to agree with her or her views, but when you call her a "bartender" in an attempt to degrade her, you're implying that a bartender doesn't represent true America... it does. I would venture there are more bartenders in the US than millionaires - thus a bartender does represent America better. I would appreciate it if we could get Farmers, Welders, Computer Programmers, Project Mangers, etc... elected, these would be more representative of true America.

[@BeyondTheScaryLeft]

@john Stetson I went to a far more selective and elite university than Boston University and without the help of affirmative action.

[@BeyondTheScaryLeft]

@@johnhamlett8414 Bartender is a factual statement. There are more than ten million millionaires compared with 0.6 million bartenders according to BLS statistics.

[@johnhamlett8414]

@@BeyondTheScaryLeft Doesn't sound like Peter's using "bartender" to give AOC credit. And so be it, you're right, we're all better represented by millionaires than bartender's I guess.

[@audiovideotweaker]

"THE BARTENDER" -- LMAO :D - That's some Schiff Gold right there! Alexandria "The Bartender" Occasional Cortex ftw! THIS was hands-down the best anti-socialism rant I have ever heard! BRAVO! Mike-DROP!

[@gfcardi]

@audiovideotweaker Couldn't agree more! "That's some Schiff Gold right there!" Superb--"Schiff Gold", I'm stealing that one!

[@itsover9008]

Occasional Cortex XD

[@withoutexcuse2011]

This is one of Peter's *BEST EVER* podcasts! Congrats, Peter. Send a copy to Cortez.

[@eh4306]

This is the best podcast ever. Scary how many people will buy the AOC bs.

[@ptolemy3444]

Americans also believed trickle down economics, globalism will be awesome, healthcare for all, hope and change, tax cuts will pay for themselves, "peacemaking" on the Korean peninsula, etc.

[@robertkelly9772]

The very fact that so many people are buying into socialism has to tell you there's something seriously wrong with capitalism.

[@ptolemy3444]

@@robertkelly9772 Precisely. The best thing people like Peter can do is admit something is VERY wrong, and start serious analysis into that, instead of denialism and "but da gubernmnt."

[@eh4306]

@@robertkelly9772 we don't have true capitalism here, that's the problem.

[@robertkelly9772]

@@eh4306 What we have here....is capitalism run amok! I would hate like hell to see what true capitalism really looks like.

[@outofbluepills]

Bartendernomics

[@ptolemy3444]

Trump Voo-doo economics pt2 vs Bartendonomics. #Idiocracy

[@needlesslycrispy]

Bartendernomics: give me a green new deal, Medicare for all, universal basic income, free college and keep the tab open.

[@outofbluepills]

@@needlesslycrispy, actually, no tab necessary. We brought a printing press with us. Let's see. How many C notes to cover a $2 trillion bill?

[@richardjohnson6140]

@@ptolemy3444 trumps economics actually work, socialism starves people to death

[@ptolemy3444]

J Hammer Desperately pumping up GDP with debt. 🤣

[@MS-ie1gs]

Holy Shit! Peter is fired up!! I like it!

[@qudezheng]

I know right this podcast is hype!

[@Senecamarcus]

He is not fired up, he has turned into dragon!!

[@Ace-fu4mu]

It's his allergy! He's allergic to stupid.

[@atilasantos4677]

Learned more about U.S history in 50 minutes than what I learned throughout High school. Our school system is a scam!! Build the wall!

[@BeyondTheScaryLeft]

That's because you most likely learned from socialists and communists. teachers.dsausa.org

[@Skiddla]

Lol, build the wall? Don't go running to the right because the left is insane. This isn't a matter of picking a team to support, it's about common sense.

[@xXJeReMiAhXx99]

@@Skiddla what? small government and common sense is considered towards the right.

[@atilasantos4677]

History indicates that the individuals who dont pick a side are the first ones to be sacrificed. Therefore, I pick the winning side! The left are parasites.

[@sip5123]

Build the wall? I can't decide who is worse, you or AOC...

[@SmedleyButlerIII]

Anything with the words "Smart" or "Green" in front of it....run for your lives....Oh it's smart alright, they just don't bother to tell you who it's smart..for.

[@4bennybear]

AOC says if you cant work or choose not to work you still get paid, This Green Deal sounds like a lot of work so ill choose the not work option .

[@nickzivs]

Something tells me the majority of people will choose the 'no work' options. When you look at generation Z the vast majority of them expect to get everything for doing nothing. What a sick, twisted mentality. People don't seem to grasp the notion of the satisfaction that you feel when you work for what you have. Bunch of fucking Fortnite-playing, Mountain Dew-drinking dimwits.

[@gregcapella5941]

Peter, you are great. Thanks for everything you do 2

[@Amivgr1]

3 year old podcast.. more relevant than ever. As Socrates said: " No punishment is worse than being ruled by someone dumber than yourself".

[@pranksterguy1]

Free college! Way cool! So, will all the people who work at the school-teachers, cafeteria workers, sanitation and maintaining of the building, etc work for free??

[@xZeroTheGreat]

No, it's any remaining savers in USD who are going to pay for everything

[@michaelsorensen7567]

Free college. Because, you know, free high school had turned out so well...

[@kingjamesviscotland241]

I thumbs up the video, then watch.

[@idk_bud]

I repay the videos and forget to thumbs up. This one though 👌😂😍 lmao awesome 😗👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@koki4o]

You stare at a still picture for an hour?

[@idk_bud]

@@koki4o It's a pod cast. You press play, listen, study, and make money.

[@rongreve2543]

The mistake many people seem to make is to equal GDP to the economy. That is to say a very positive GDP means a great economy. Problem is the formula is flawed. What you really want to measure is how well-off the population is but that is not easy to determine. So they use GDP = Government spending + Consumer spending + Investments + Exports - Imports. The idea is that every that is spend is going to create wealth for the population immediately or in the future ( Investments and the Exports - Imports if that is a positive number). The problem is when the government starts spending money on things that doesn't create wealth like warplanes, bombs or just waste our money. In that case the GDP might be high but no one will see any economic benefit in real life. This is of course ideal for people like AOC. Just raise the government spending part and GDP will go up (which is true but it will not result in prosperity for the population). It is easy to see tax everyone 90% and let the government pay people to dig a big hole one day and fill it up the other day. The GDP will sky rocket but it will be absolute poverty for everyone.

[@johnhardin4358]

The money earned in divorce courts is part of the GNP. Now that is a travesty.

[@user-pd8bk4ei1h]

"Lets talk fiat inflation: If you'd bought a Million USD worth Venezuela's currency Bolívar in 2013, it'd now be worth $3.40"

[@zilver90000]

Idiocracy here we come...oh wait sorry we are already there

[@robbiep742]

Yeah, this comments section.

[@nickzivs]

Welcome to Costco. I love you.

[@mannyvelo]

AOC is ridiculous. I’d pay a lot of money to see a debate between Peter and AOC. I’d call it, “Peter visits the bar”.

[@RealityExposedChannel]

Peter run for President

[@johnhardin4358]

My hat is off to you, Mr. Schiff. This is a classic. Real raw history you will never hear in school. People should expose their kids to this. "Promises are like piecrusts, made to be broken."-Lenin.

[@pedalingpete626]

One of Pete's best. Thanks for the great history lesson on taxes.

[@GoldAndSilver988]

I'm a 55 year old, white, christian, straight male, and so I guess I'm definitely a member of the sliver of persecutors out here. Let me relish and enjoy my oppressive power over others while I struggle from month to month to keep my $275 rent paid, lol.

[@colliswilliams8992]

This is your best podcast in awhile. "The bartender," lmao.

[@FellTheSky]

holy shit peter. This is one of your best podcasts. Not only is funny af, but it destroys to the ground one of the politic driving debates of the moment. Just look at europe. This one deserves a million views at least..

[@danoneill2846]

The best fix is to end subsidies for oil , coal , tar sand , nukes , pipelines . Honest free markets .

[@raitiC1]

Exactly! Green energy in some cases is a really cheap option, but it's also heavily regulated!

[@doughtymqan]

Dan O'Neill End ALL subsidies period.

[@michaelsorensen7567]

Food subsidies, green subsidies, minority subsidies... I'm all for getting rid of them all, but you're really missing a bunch there.

[@4CiiD3]

I have the same opinion on democracy. I just have an honest question though : How do we justify to the public that libertarian values and human natural rights must be preserved at all costs, and people must not expect governement to assist them. How do you justify that we got the answers that they could never come up with, and that they do not deserve vote rights ?

[@mattv2099]

preach on, my dude.

[@04July1955]

Look to Argentina over the last 10 years - they tried it all. Look at Venuzuela, they're doing it now. There is nothing to stop the bartender from emigrating to either of those countries where she can enjoy existing in her Utopia. I'm sure someone would buy her a one-way ticket.

[@smAshomAsh]

'never interrupt your enemy while he undermines himself' -Lao Tsu

[@robrobets7813]

Agree that there needs to be Voter restrictions! Example; here in Florida we just barely Voted in a Republican Governor by 1% margin of victory over an opponent that ran on VERY Socialist ideals, essentially a Black Male version of AOC!!! We will lose EVERYTHING America stands for if we keep allowing those that HAVE NO STAKE IN THE GAME to continue to Vote for Politicians and Policies that are a DIRECT threat to LONG HELD American Freedoms and Liberties!!! My proposal is that ONLY those paying INTO the system can have the Right to Vote and the Spouses of those working and earning too. Why? because those that are LIVING off the Government will NEVER Vote for anything or anyone that doesn't promise MORE FREE STUFF!!! Why would they care about illegal immigrants over-loading our Health-Care and Social Welfare programs? Why would they care about OUTLANDISH Taxes of 70-90% on our precious JOB CREATORS (the evil Billionaires the left loves to hate)??? Why would they care about improving Schools?? since you don't need an education to pick up a check/electronic deposit from the Government!! You see it's a problem that builds on itself, snowballing, if you will, into a GIGANTIC avalanche of increased Government control to the point of Socialism and even on to outright Communism, because that's the only choices that will remain after the inevitable Economic and Societal collapse due to a Nation OVER-Burdened with a populace with NO incentive or WILL to WORK!!! Summary, 70-90% Taxes on our Billionaires, eventually leads to 70-90% unemployment, because why try? why work? why create new jobs? if the Government is only going to step in and take nearly all of it anyway!

[@jmjfanss]

yep.

[@alex0711a]

Peter, you are great. Thanks for everything you do

[@PassportBrosBusinessClass]

TRUMP IS A ONE TERM PRESIDENT AND OCASIO CORTEZ IS A RISING STAR ⭐️

[@idk_bud]

LMAO..... Thank you Peter! I could not have said it better!

[@johnnylogan5927]

I like the part where she says we can end air travel and build railroads across the oceans haha. Hilarious!

[@yourcommentsarecensored2004]

Going to the moon looks to be a lie.

[@SuperRoycethe59]

did you see buzz aldrin's face when trump said we're going back? so. fucking. funny.

[@yourcommentsarecensored2004]

@@SuperRoycethe59 Owen benjamins video on it has hilarious. Buzz probable thought Trump was going to call him out...

[@SuperRoycethe59]

@@yourcommentsarecensored2004 haha owen nailed it.

[@degunshow]

I almost feel sorry for AOC because she has so many people telling her she is so great/smart/important, and so she basically thrashes out with ridiculous ideas to try to live up to whatever they expect her to be.

[@RagnarLothbrok2222]

Peter this was one of my favorite podcasts of 2019. Thank god I discovered you back in 2016 because prior to that I was a fresh out of college indoctrinated moron like most of the young people my age. I thank you for your message and keep these podcasts coming! 🙌🏻

[@TLNetworkGuru]

AoC is beyond a menace.. please somebody take her out.

[@smarsville]

Not sure where propaganda lies anymore. It seems to be everywhere. Professional all of it.

[@captaincope4303]

As a solid unequivocally straight man I say Peter Schiff I love you. All the Bartender needs is a Rapper as VP.

[@alzciel1]

I enjoy listening to Peter but ever since he said in an interview that average people in 2008 weren’t really hurt by what happened I’ve felt he’s not connected to the financial struggles of everyday Americans. I’m not arguing for anything just that his positions may be warped by unseen personal bias from his own personal experiences.

[@dewitt352]

Of course he is disconnected from the struggles of the average American. He is part of the 1%.

[@kekkekson2484]

192 people were so intoxicated with the pure, unadulterated logic that they accidentally clicked the dislike instead of the like.

[@josem6761]

POW!!! Woke up and a podcast from Peter right there!!! Nice!.

[@justinbelt8032]

"...had to disguise their red goals with green wrapping." Hahaha!!!

[@jfcrow1]

Always entertaining.

[@andreil3894]

This has to be one of the best episodes ever! Thank you for explaining the progressive tax robbery for a regular Joe like me 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@autojohn-pu1vf]

Does she want to get rid of the airplanes that are spraying us too, or just the ones we travel in???

[@deAraujoAndre]

Only the ones for travel

[@fractalnomics]

@@deAraujoAndre lol

[@jamesnewport4752]

Hawaii Rep didn't like getting rid of jets.

[@TheBestReposCOM]

Replace all air travel by rail. Including presumably from Hawaii! 🤣

[@sip5123]

@@TheBestReposCOM Undersea tunnels? :D

[@uhlijohn]

Milton Friedman also pointed out decades ago that in Hong Kong no one could vote but it was freer than 99% of the rest of the world due to its free market economy and respect for property! And boy, was he right!

[@kkay1961]

Home run!

[@jefflombardi7763]

We’re in big trouble. The entire generation age 15-25 believes socialism works. We are going to go hard left in the 2020’s.

[@outofbluepills]

"We're with the bartender." Now that would make a great campaign slogan for the Dems in 2020.

[@outofbluepills]

I hope they credit you, Peter.

[@jamesyonan1564]

LOL! 😂 "[The Green plan is really a Red plan]" 🤣 Love your humor!!

[@adriansegura6352]

The bartender 😂😔😂😂

[@charlestaylor7890]

Well she was smart enough to get elected as a representative which Mr. Schiff couldn't do. He can try to be insulting but he is under estimating her which is a bad strategy.

[@Goyotero1000]

@@charlestaylor7890 - The mob Segway'ed her in, New York is a mob shithole.

[@adriansegura6352]

@@charlestaylor7890 anyone can get elected by offering free shit .

[@pgaquigz1125]

I love how he degradingly calls her the bartender 😂😂

[@nicoleblack438]

But MMT 😢

[@hatrack5977]

My grandmother died because she worked in a bomb factory. People are so quick to point blame at the past but overlook all the sacrifices. So few sacrifice today

[@gds7777777]

Anybody that’s been listening to peter has missed out on history’s longest bull market.

[@edwaggonersr.7446]

You're a persistent nut.

[@outofbluepills]

Just because you won doesn't make having bet the deed to your house on a single game of roulette a smart bet. Peter's analysis of the AWFUL fundamentals of the US economy is pretty much correct.

[@firstnamelastname3280]

This was your best and hardest hitting podcast yet. You have taught me so much about economics, stock market, history etc... I love Peter schiff

[@beja8694]

Peter Schiff was wrong

[@fosterchild4523]

haha "the bartender"...perfect! Also, the amount of energy that will be needed to accomplish what she wants, where does she think all of that energy is going to come from?

[@FarisAbdelmutti]

I used to have respect for your points of view until this strange flurry of ad hominem attacks you started wallowing in... you can argue ideas on their merits without resorting to such tactics; engaging in insults does not prove your point nor does it add to your credibility

[@idikyurgerl9356]

Ms. Bartender is dumb, sorry for noticing

[@charlestaylor7890]

Whether he likes it or not she is a Representative. Maybe it upsets him because he failed when he tried to run for office. And of course if he ever did any research he would know she did more than work as a bartender.

[@idikyurgerl9356]

@Charles Taylor she's not a senator, she's a representative of New York's 14th district. She won as a Puerto Rican in a majority Puerto Rican district over some white guy candidate. I guess that's kind of an accomplishment but definitely not the same thing as winning a New York senate seat lol

[@edwaggonersr.7446]

Socialists must be mocked at every opportunity.

[@charlestaylor7890]

@@idikyurgerl9356 - thanks for the correction. I'm always confusing AOC and Pelosi.

[@evgriga]

Vladimir Lenin ones said: "Every cook should be able to run the state". And now in the US his dream has come true.

[@canucksteel]

The ex-bartender reminds me of a failed ex-artist in Germany a few years back.

[@billfogarty5963]

Rather than referring to AOC as Bartender Cortez, we should call her National Socialist AOC. Seems appropriate. She has a Federal job, so that makes her national and she's an avowed socialist.

[@chrisperlaky8715]

"Good government" is like "democratic socialism". Putting a pleasant adjective before something bad doesn't reverse that bad.

[@Nalera782]

The gift that keeps on giving. I vote myself to rebuild Peter Schiff's house btw.

[@chadkrueger7538]

Everyone should be required to listen to this! The bartender is nuts!

[@110gotrek]

Peter talking about 4% income tax, while I'm here in Belgium... 45%+ income tax, 17+25% social security tax. Jesus, save me

[@johnkeller9738]

The notorious AOC (aka The Bartender) studied and received a bachelors in economics at Boston University; the fact that she never used her degree and committed to bartending as her professional work speaks volumes about the horrible university preparation and her pathetic lack of diligence and preparation to be a productive citizen in society given her abundant opportunity (She grew up in affluence in Westchester, NY and NOT the Bronx poverty as she tried to insinuate on her website). She could not begin to explain numerous economic theories and proofs which would be presumed to be standard minimum of education for a BS in economics. Flava Flav has just as much preparation for Congress as The Bartender!

[@louisbarbisan8471]

All of the economists should come out in force to enlighten the American people to know the realities of what's the green deal means. How much of the cost. How much the taxes will go up. How many people it would need to accomplish. And the reality of what's real. Please, because to many people are on to this. Let's wake up.

[@rrketc2]

Well, I would trust government to take care of the environment, look at there track record! The government is awesome with all environmental issues!!! From Flint to Fukushima, good ole government is doing an excellent job!

[@jimluettgen]

Peter get your facts straight.!!! The first railroads were heavy subsidized by government. For example, the first transcontinental railway by Union Pacific built westward from Omaha and by Central Pacific eastward from Sacramento had huge incentives passed by congress. The leaders of both companies lobbied incessantly for government aid and got in in two pieces of legislation in Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862 and 1864.

[@tominpuertorico1689]

We don't say "The God", we say "God". Similarly, we shouldn't say "the bartender", we should say "Bartender". You know.. Bartender says... fill in the blank. Fascist Cortez is.... Bartender. Don't worry, 'Bartender' will save us. Glory be to Bartender.

[@koki4o]

A bartender is an honest job unlike an economist, especially if the economist is also an investor who squanders his clients' money.

[@ValisFan3]

I like how Peter Schiff is realistic when it comes to the ties between ecology and economy. Americans may find that whether we like it or not, we may have to cut back on our standard of living for BOTH economic and environmental reasons. If America loses the status as World Reserve Currency and as emerging markets gain power- we can no longer consume 25% of the world's energy with only 5% of the world's people.

[@stlouisix3]

Thomas Aquinas (1274): Whether A Father Can Compel His Son To Marry: “I answer that, since in marriage there is a kind of perpetual service, as it were, a father cannot by his command compel his son to marry, since the latter is of free condition...” (Summa Theologiae, Suppl., Q. 48, A. 6.)

[@TemplarYogi]

Peter Schiff has an amazing insight into the real economic truth and is able to translate it into layman’s terms !

[@audiovideotweaker]

"That proves, that anybody that believes in socialism & votes for socialism - IS INSANE!" (Cites Einsteins definition of insanity (trying the same thing over and over and expecting a different result regarding Socialism) - MIKE DROP!

[@FutureLaugh]

When i think environmentalism, i think of "conserving the environment"- meaning dont make trash, reduce meat consumption, taking shorter showers, eating locally sourced foods- the greed (red) new deal makes it sound like I would be living life lavishly with overabundance somehow as long as people are productive enough to float it. this is NONESENSE and not conservative environmental or otherwise.

[@justinpeanuts9767]

If the government has so much money, why not just tax the government?

[@doughtymqan]

Justin Peanuts absofuckinglutely!!!!

[@ebenezerclark123]

Our Governor just spent 9% more than our Budget allows, she will worry about how to pay for it later! No Rainy day account in Maine

[@snozzcumbers]

Don't conceded letting these creeps use the word 'investment', add to your attack that they are lying about that. Investment requires cost accounting, cost accounting requires money to be earned.

[@AlexeyVedernikov]

I was a socialist during last elections and was donating $ to Bernie Sanders. I am very very very sorry 😐

[@jefflovejoy2997]

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez: the "Clown Princess."

[@sreetips]

Peter, please get your definition of insanity right! Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is a SYMPTOM of insanity. The definition of insanity is: unsoundness of mind.

[@blueshattrick]

1st minute: "Who isn't in favor of the environment, who doesn't want clean air and water?" Um, PLENTY of major corporations have fought against regulations that result in these things, and Trump has rolled back protections in almost every industry you can name.

[@richardbyquist6618]

Great, fast-paced performance. One-man performance should be at least off-Broadway!

[@lolalee266]

Great show today, Peter. I had to share it everywhere I could.

[@alzciel1]

Taxes wouldn’t be such a massive issue if the government along with campaign finance wasn’t so corrupt

[@destroya3303]

I'm not paying for these ridiculous programs. There comes a time when people must say no

[@mjh5225]

And it's not even about being a bartender. It's about being a bartender such a short time ago and really staying ignorant on Congressional issues during all that time...,continuing into today ha ha

[@justinpeanuts9767]

The rich can and will move to tax havens. There are plenty of tax havens around the world. It is just a matter of choosing the one that suits you.

[@NothingTrue11]

Finally, I’m glad you started calling her what she really is, not sure how long I could’ve dealt with hearing her full name any more:/Well said as always Peter!

[@MontyRoyal963]

Maybe, now, we'll have to sacrifice our war-machine in order to save our private sector....