Progressive "Paradise"

Minneapolis did most everything progressives wanted -- but the city still had racist cops, and violent riots after they killed George Floyd.
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Minneapolis burned even though it adopted most every "progressive" idea: a $15 minimum wage, housing subsidies, mandatory paid leave, "green" targets, strong unions, and the most expensive school system in the state.
Did they at least reduce the racial income gap? Minneapolis’ black/white income disparity is about the biggest in the country.
That confuses the media. “Minneapolis had progressive policies, but its economy still left black families behind,” reads a headline in the Washington Post.
Instead of “but," the word should be: “therefore.”
Because as Minnesota Senate candidate Jason Lewis points out: "When you take away the incentive for work and savings and investment, you get less of it."
But Minneapolis politicians say they just need even more government. And even less free enterprise!
"Capitalism as we know it" must go!... says councilman Cam Gordon. In the video above, we debate.

[@MoneyandLifeTV]

I've never been MORE convinced that we need capitalism.

[@ineedhoez]

Capitalism has worked so well that people are burning down their City?

[@jameslewis6998]

ineedhoez There isn’t any capitalism in progressive policies.

[@campkira]

pure capitalism or commuist don't work.. you nee something in between... but forcing people to do authority's will... they will fight back... this is very basic kingship class.. which mostly polities class don't... this is why you need king or emperor to kind those nobody in line...

[@hijack69]

@@ineedhoez they didn't have capitalism. That was the problem

[@TheReckoningBeginsToday]

ineedhoez People are burning their city because they think freedom is the government baby sitting you.

[@drane1210]

It's not a communist joke until everyone gets it......

[@barney547]

Lol

[@jacobmcandles1745]

Dark humor is like food.., not everyone gets it.

[@sigelward5674]

Socialism is a failure no excuses period.

[@wakcedout]

And id like to give every commust one free piece of metal. Cant afford gold plating but it will help give a new hole for them to Pierce

[@Matrix27594]

In 2040 they will probably say: "But Minneapolis wasn't real socialism" 🤣

[@wralford]

No, the Hard Left Democrats tolerate private property so long as it serves the State. That is called fascism.

[@burtmcgurt3584]

I hope not. I live here:(

[@jamesdavis9036]

@@burtmcgurt3584 GET OUTTA THERE WHILE YOU STILL CAN

[@KandiKlover]

@@wralford there was a great book about that I read a long time ago. Liberal Fascism or something like that.

[@JQ24]

They might still be blaming Trump.

[@scotts1356]

She said: "We have now won a $15 minimum wage." No....."You won higher prices EVERYWHERE, layoffs and less people employed."

[@Deborahtunes]

Unfortunately, they will never understand the bigger economic picture...

[@princessmarlena1359]

They think that by cutting off the top end of a blanket and then stitching it to the bottom end of the blanket, they will have a longer blanket.

[@GunMeat]

If that so good - let's raise it to $30 then.

[@KandiKlover]

The robot uprising sure is loving them. The real BLM = Bot Lives Matter.

[@brittongodman7769]

That's correct, higher prices which will eventually put them right back where they started. Except that some of them will be working two part - time jobs with no benefits, just to stay afloat..........

[@ZENMASTERME1]

“We learn from history, that we do not learn from history”

[@DeconvertedMan]

Sadly that seems to be true.

[@Sin526]

"For it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin

[@macclift9956]

Too true!

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

😭🙏🙏😂😂😂😂🤣😂😂

[@MrDogsledder]

Why do you think history and statues are in the fascists sights?

[@289cobra9]

"I'm not looking for a job" Democrats: "He's oppressed"

[@maxpower9848]

I have worked for 50 years and only worked with only 7 blacks! (17 different jobs).

[@swollenproperty8682]

He seemed like respectable productive citizen.

[@shaejen127]

@@maxpower9848 what's your point. Every black person I know works.

[@jms1963]

@@shaejen127 Do you seriously not know what his point is? You may be telling the truth but just remember, going to a Thug Lives Matter riot is not "work".

[@weaponizedmath4369]

Oppressed new word for Fn lazy

[@keagan44]

My 73 year formen. "You can vote your way into socialism, but you're going to shoot you way out"

[@justforever96]

you know that isn't his quote right?

[@jstrahan2]

@@justforever96 : Close enough. Right idea anyway.

[@redghost3170]

“I’m not looking for a job.” Gee, that’s surprising.

[@zarach9459]

The same happened in England from the 60s to the early 80s, a large mass of people perfectly capable of working remained unemployed for many years and had no interest in looking for work, why? With unemployment benefits they received as much or more money that if they had a formal job and having temporary jobs or small businesses they could earn much more.

[@sssaaa9043]

@@zarach9459 having a temporary job or small business is in my opinion something good, there are a lot of people for example in rural areas here (in my country) that if they were to go to any well paying job close to them, they would waste 3 to 4 hours commuting and another 8 to 10 hours working that would be most of their day gone, and they wouldn't have time to tend to their gardens and animals, (we heave the largest percentage of any country of people who own their homes) so it's better for them to do those few hours of community work to get the unemployment check and sell a bit of their produce and rent the back of their gardens to the field workers and maybe they get employed by day when it's harvest season and maybe to chop some wood, and it all turns out fine, yet they appear to be part of the structurally unemployed bc they don't have a job, and they aren't looking for one...

[@bloodwargaming3662]

​@@zarach9459is that why the number of unemployed people in uk Rose to 6 million under Thatcher ? From 2.5 million ? Like you people make up Delusional stuff and then cry why no one likes your ideas

[@TheDustin151]

I’m convinced Kennedy would be a Republican today.

[@CommodoreFan64]

The left has gone so far off the deep end that he would be lining up with Trump policies that try to protect America, instead of making it weaker.

[@lipby]

Why?

[@breth8159]

We haven't had a president since Reagan who is as far to the right as Kennedy was

[@mychevysparkevdidntcatchfi1489]

Kennedy would go along with far left. We know this, because he went along with the far left of the day FDR policies.

[@amanacatandhisdog8836]

Johnny Dominguez the only thing Clinton and Kennedy had in common was they both had an eye for the ladies.

[@OldMusicFan83]

History: "Socialism always fails." Socialist: "Destroy history!"

[@mayowankenobi]

The Newspeak will rewrite history to fit their narrative.

[@mrow7598]

Why do you think they're destroying our school system and statues?

[@sk6056]

lolololol

[@jeremygibbs7342]

@@mrow7598 that's the Christians doing that.

[@jeremygibbs7342]

I know of no socialist who calls for destruction of history. You are coming to false conclusions based on groundless logic.

[@isaac_bear]

“Who cares if the rich get filthy rich, if the poor do better too?” Very well said sir.

[@Nicholas_Terry]

I’ve heard it said before: Socialists don’t love the poor; they hate the rich. The poor just offer them a cloak of virtue with which to disguise their villainy. ‘For the greater good’ has always been the rallying cry of tyrants and the creed of thieves.

[@Cheesewiz247]

@@Nicholas_Terry It's two-fold actually. Socialists do care about the poor. They also hate the rich, or rather the incredible power that millions or billions of dollars grants a person. Our government is controlled by those people, and that's a huge threat to our democracy. Socialists also want more control over their workplaces, but the norm is currently to agree to whatever conditions an employer demands so you can make enough money to get by. Where's my freedom to set my own destiny? Most people can't afford to start their own business. They're forced to work long hours without benefits to survive. The bourgeois who control these businesses are a part of that problem.

[@Nicholas_Terry]

@@Cheesewiz247 spoken right out of the socialist brochure. That argument is a canned response and the only 2 things you are correct about are the fact that the evil people are in power and that socialists hate the rich. Socialists actions speak louder than their words. They can _say_ they love the poor until they’re blue in the face, but I have yet to meet one who will give up their wealth to a charity or volunteer their time to a shelter. Socialists may _say_ they care, and are happy to give up other peoples’ money and time, but they will refuse to do it themselves. They’ll put their ‘virtue’ on display for the whole world and think that they are doing good, while they simultaneously turn their noses up at the idea of actually contributing to solving our problems. They are hypocrites of the highest degree and socialism is the most evil idea that has ever existed, with a body count in the hundreds of millions and counting.

[@johnnynick3621]

@@Cheesewiz247 Tyler - you show an enormous amount of immaturity. Stop whining about other people who have more than you have and go out and learn a useful, productive trade. You have NEVER needed to start out with a lot of money to be successful. As a financial planner, I know plumbers, electricians and auto mechanics that slowly built up their business and became extremely wealthy. Nobody GAVE them anything. They EARNED their huge homes and their motorhomes and their boats. And with the technology we have today, it is easier than ever to be successful. Stop whining and learn something.

[@Cheesewiz247]

@@johnnynick3621 I was only trying to describe what socialists believe. Only some of my last comment was my own opinion. I hope you'll respect that my views have changed somewhat since last year. My first problem is that the ultra wealthy have incredible power over me and the society I live it. If you have that kind of power in society, you should be elected. Anything else is unjust. Me learning a skill and starting my own business doesn't alleviate this problem at all. The second problem is with regard worker-owner relations. People need to work to survive. Not everyone can be a business owner. There will always be people who are at the mercy of the people who control their workplaces. Unless they're in a good, non-corrupt union, they have no ability to bargain. If they don't like how they're treated, the only thing they can do is try to find another job. Eventually, they can work toward being a business owner themselves, but it doesn't make the exploitation they experience in the meantime justified. I'd also like to say, this isn't about me. My pay is good, I have good skills, and the most exploitation I've experienced has been from a sketchy landlord I had for a year. I just want a better world. You can call that whining if you'd like, I guess.

[@ab9957]

I want to manage a Burger King in Minneapolis for $40k a year-- so that my $15 an hour teenage employees can call in sick with a runny nose and I'm paying them to stay at home and I have to cover their shifts working 90 hours a week.

[@matth8924]

Bruh get out of fast food, thats your first problem.

[@KandiKlover]

@@matth8924 better yet, fire them all and replace with robots. Only a few technicians to worry about. Order the food, machine spits out a slot.

[@katietheskeptic8736]

Story of my life. This was literally my reality for more years than I care to recount. It's this daily barrage of garbage being dumped on retail managers that causes the burnout, high turnover, and so called bad management that customers complain about.

[@MorganScorpion]

If you allow an employee with a runny nose to work cooking and serving food you deserve to be closed down. That is so GROSS!

[@JohnLeePedimore]

I've spent most of my life around people who came to America to escape communism.

[@lexort4204]

What magical fantasy country did these people come from?

[@-haclong2366]

¿Florida?

[@-haclong2366]

@@lexort4204 Cuba, P.R. China, The Soviet Union, Etc. It's not like Socialism hasn't existed for a century.

[@savannah505]

@@lexort4204 If you went to college and learned this crap, get your money back.

[@anonuser7157]

Steve Earle 😊

[@janesawyer3495]

"Socialists don't love the poor, they just hate the rich". (paraphrase).

[@artemidadaki3787]

Socialists loveee the rich, belive me. Rich are always rich, no metter are they capitalists or communist. I am from former communist country and I know what I am talking. They've been laying American people.

[@ufo_vid9694]

Socialism is the rich on power

[@LaborHours]

No, the socialists love the poor so much that they want more of them.

[@ufo_vid9694]

@@LaborHours To control them

[@joedeal151]

If they loved the poor, they would be contributing their own funds to improve the life of the poor. Oddly, I don't see that happening anytime soon. That's why they want everyone else to be forced to help the poor.

[@vicariousgamer2871]

I believe that the sad truth is that even if things were "fixed" those who were "helped" would tear it all down the very next day.

[@jonasbarbery7193]

The problem with the $15 an hour minimum wage is the cream( most productive workers) rises to the top and the rest sink to the bottom. (Lose hheir jobs). The only answer will be for dems to make it illegal for owners to fire any worker. BTW, government won't tell you this program also create inflation, as owners raise prices on most service relayed industries

[@stevecoyle1]

Because most of them want for nothing.

[@allenwilhelm7799]

"...when George Floyd died of a drug overdose." Fixed that for you.

[@mynameisgladiator1933]

"We now have won $15 min wage...whoooooooo!" "Hey. I just got fired since my company can't afford half the people."

[@djm5687]

It's more likely that the company would reduce hours & benefits, or *raise prices,* which hurts the poor and unemployed.

[@Pube83]

You forgot: "Ma whopper wit da cheez cause $8 dolla now?" "Y ma grape 2L cost $4 dollers? Must b da eval wite man"

[@MrMattumbo]

@@djm5687 It's like how Obamacare made companies decide to schedule everyone as part time so they'd avoid having to provide benefits. Now you not only don't have healthcare but you also have to get a second job to make ends meet! Yay! All while healthcare prices skyrocket so even if you want to get your own plan you can expect insane premiums, deductibles, and copays at a monthly price of hundreds of dollars even if you're a fit young adult.

[@Junger2183]

Unemployment pays more anyway

[@MrMattumbo]

@@Junger2183 Yeah would you rather work 43 hours a week @$15 an hour or just sit on your ass for the same money? You don't have to be an expert in game theory to understand what people will choose. Unemployment should quickly taper off to nothing, give people maybe a month at the normal rate so they don't lose their housing but after that drop it week by week until they're getting nothing. There's plenty of jobs even right now people just don't want to do them, I've been offering my friends the chance to work where I do for $20 an hour doing nothing but scanning and screening people at construction sites but they'd rather collect $650 a week till it runs out. Even under normal circumstances this is an amazing job for young people, let alone during a pandemic and recession, but unemployment ruins even the best value propositions, stimies economic recovery, and ensures those still working will face higher taxes to cover the deficits created by unemployment leaches.

[@Swenthorian]

I don't like how people say "Capitalism lifted people out of poverty". It doesn't. It *allows* people to lift *themselves* out of poverty.

[@Swenthorian]

It's the same metaphor politicians use when trying to take credit for the hard work and determination of others, and it's a line the CCP loves repeating. Put credit where credit is due. Socialism fails specifically because it depends on the system to do the lifting, and not the individual.

[@SL2797]

Or be helped by private charities too!

[@aidenaune7008]

@Zeksteve why? they do better work than the government, they provide funding for things that truly need it, who else is going to do this? the government? they work so poorly that half the money is gone by the time it reaches the charity, and imagine if they ran the charity, almost nothing will be left by the time it reached what it was supposed to go to, on the other hand, the generous people of america will see that 100% of all money given to the charity actually reaches it, and the people running it will spend it as best as they can, as they actually care about what they are funding.

[@bug2011]

To be lifted out of poverty you have to actually put in the effort. Not just today but for the rest of your life.

[@jimsgirl1465]

Indeed it does! You can succeed or fail. The choice is up to the individual. God bless capitalism! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@AT-yn9dm]

"OMG, Minneapolis just got a $15 minimum wage! I can't wait to make more money!" "Sir, you aren't making enough profits to justify $15 an hour, so I'm going to have to fire you."

[@maxpower3206]

Progressive Motto: We're not happy til nobody's happy!

[@ledzeppelin5647]

Joe Biden: " If you vote for Trump you ain't black"............Nurse: "You're talking to your coffee again Joe".

[@asain3586]

Hahahaha

[@questiongod6303]

This is funny, but the current state of America isn’t...

[@ledzeppelin5647]

@Mk. 5 Then why are you on here?

[@zonkrt3463]

This was funny the first time, not the twentieth

[@TheGreenTeabagger]

so youre saying joe is talking to his cup of joe?

[@darcygoesfast]

"the problem with socialism, is you eventually run out of other people's money". Margaret Thatcher

[@crabmannyjoe2]

My father is a foreman for a masonry company that was working on a low income housing project in Minneapolis. Burned to the ground now. I can definitetly see how this is in only the best interest of the community.

[@blueeye3044]

John Stossel, the voice of reason and common sense! Thank you for these videos.

[@thomydavid]

California: “Everyone watches what we do here.” Right! So we can see what doesn’t work.

[@MateDrinker33]

Minneapolis is not located in CA.

[@robertsmith-gp6lc]

haha good one

[@jankvapiljr.2901]

@@MateDrinker33 he meant progressive anywhere in democratic states apposed to republican ones.

[@21313cord21]

And then Minneapolis doubles down on that failure.

[@johnferguson3026]

@lane_departure Useful idiots.

[@Matt-il8zz]

"They would rather the poor are poorer, as long as the rich are less rich."

[@rosebarnes9625]

But they never are!!! The difference between capitalism and communism is who the rich are: rich capitalists are people who worked hard and earned money, rich communists are the evil that killed millions to sieze power.

[@Kenny-bj2zq]

As long as they stay in power that is all that matters.

[@melainewhite6409]

​@rogerwilco99 Very true, actually they will harm themselves to hurt just a stranger and try to defend their actions that somebody else should not be allowed to be more prosperous even if that makes themselves more prosperous.

[@billalexander949]

@@rosebarnes9625 Very true and very profound.

[@hannahc1232]

I grew up in a very poor family in a third world country but that did not stop me from getting out of poverty. I worked hard to get where I am now - earning $120k per year. That’s the beauty of capitalism as it provides equal opportunity to everyone who works hard. Socialism means equal distribution of everything including poverty and misery.

[@jerrywagner4690]

I live in hell hole Oregon, just like Minnesota, please pray for all of us.

[@CesarVillanueva]

"democratic control of our resources" sounds like Socialism!

[@mooshoopork63]

@kommisar You are correct. And whoever controls the resources will be the rich ones. All that's going to happen is businesses and the people who can afford to leave will leave. Then the only people left in the city will be the poor, bitter and angry. Yay.

[@aureliusva]

I wonder how he would feel if the Democracy voted to only give white people those capitalistic funds.

[@xtlm]

See socialists think capatalism is bad, because the millions of company owners have too much darn money. If we destroy them and only let a few people have money and control, it will be so much better for everyone, obviously!

[@johnspinelli9396]

"America will not be defeated from the outside, but only from the inside" -Abraham Lincoln

[@dearymcleary]

"You can't change Washington from the inside." - Barack Obama when asked why he didn't fulfill some of his first term promises.

[@usafvet100]

"If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Abraham Lincoln

[@uptheworker]

"If you have no citation, than you attribute a quote to whoever you want" -Isaac Newton

[@kek397]

@@uptheworker "I don't remember asking a you a god damn thing" -Vlad the Impaler

[@uptheworker]

@@kek397 "then ye shall feel my wrath" -Confuscious

[@pragneshpatel4019]

I have be watching your stories since 1985 when I was 15. Keep the good work up.

[@Tom-ic7hw]

love to see this councilman 's lifestyle

[@mlmoreno75]

Why would small businesses come back to a city like this?

[@shadowbanned5164]

If the police go insurance companies go with them I seriously cant see a small business running without insurance.

[@theunknownknowsBYvoivod]

They'd be insane to return.

[@robertwatsonsr.3744]

They won't come back.

[@sdlausen1]

Once things start going bad like Detroit, local residents will vote these people out of office to change these stupid policies. *Wait, actually they will just find a way blame Trump and conservatives.*

[@letters_from_paradise]

"Community-based economics" sounds a lot like mob rule to me.

[@rosebarnes9625]

Yes, because 'Democracy' is two wolves and one sheep voting for what's for dinner!!!

[@hansanderson6607]

No, it sounds like the WORST CASE SCENARIO to ME. Now ask me why more people are buying GUNS and Precious Metals right now.

[@totalrobot]

The "CHAZ Model" of doing things. Lolol Should work just fine, professor. Derrrrrp.

[@letters_from_paradise]

@@hansanderson6607 You're certainly passionate about them.

[@TheGalliaComata]

Funny though, we live in a Country where they could promote that. They don't, they disrupt communities, seperate people into groups for Classification, do nothing to promote community based self reliance, sustainability or Autonomy,.... So, where does the Community fit in if its only possible through Government distribution? And what economy? Promoting Agricultural independence or Home based textile development? Nope. In fact, they are not promoting the development of Trade skills at all.

[@spirit187]

I live near minneapolis and after the riots my family tried their hardest to stay away from minneapolis

[@katkat8865]

I live in this state and its only declining as our state has one of the highest overall taxes in the country.

[@clarissa8477]

I wish people would take an economics class before they vote, and not “economics through the lens of social justice” either, but actual, sane economics.

[@jeremygibbs7342]

Are you asking people to deal with economic events based purely on only an economic level? Because that request is an impossibility. If that were the case there would be no room for human Rights to be an equation in economics.

[@Pube83]

Sane economics are an impossibility when the sheckle counters control every aspect of the crony house of cards we live under.

[@richardpalmer6196]

Clarissa , An expression from my heritage , commonly translates " From your mouth to Gods ears ". l love when eloquence of an idea can be expressed so that even liberals can understand it . People like you give this old geezer a hope for the future of my grand daughter .

[@richardpalmer6196]

@@Pube83 , Well stated !

[@richardpalmer6196]

@@jeremygibbs7342 , You may be missing Clarissa's point. There are those that do not understand the basics of economics, namely that the funds that are doled out through government funding , comes from productive taxpayers . An understanding of economics on the crudest level is how households function , if not that household is going to economically fail . Enlarge that into even a small village, if the basics aren't there ,the village fails . It goes on up the line from there . Because you Express a concern for human rights, l'll assume you have an altruistic nature , a good quality in a human . But please understand that for a government to bend to the desires of the few, they have to override the rights of others. l truly wish you had expounded on your second statement . Everyone has the right to express their opinions . But discourse must be done with civility .

[@JL-hz5li]

Oh my god. I grew up in an ACTUAL socialist country, it literally hurts my brain and ears to hear what that Minnesota socialists are saying.

[@bekimcolaku5258]

And as a kid I grew up in socialist former Yugoslavia in the beginning it was okay then things started getting real bad real quick people had no money food was running out, water was nowhere to be found gas electric was turned off

[@GunMeat]

Me too. There was so-called "true socialism" in Poland when I was young. Can't believe people from the USA are so dumb to VOLUNTARILY build socialism on their own country.

[@gadgetsage]

@@GunMeat We aren't. The whole thing is a huge con, with a tiny fraction of a percent of useful idiots making a lot of noise, setting fires, etc. China and George Soros and Russia are attacking us from within.

[@salmonella6744]

@@GunMeat the left

[@GunMeat]

@@salmonella6744 Of course - not all - but sill too many of them. Prepare for everything, folks. Dont let them disarm you. I wish you good luck. Expect anything.

[@adamhenry6754]

Employees: “ We demand more time off ! “ Employer : “ Sure , no problem! You’re fired ! Next ?”

[@JeffLifeInReview]

Stossel rocks. I love how you point out in completely democratic dominated cities the failure rates are astronomical. What is their excuse, they’re in control and no one else to blame.

[@caseypettingill9238]

As Thomas Sowell says in his book Basic Economics: “the real minimum wage is zero”.

[@zregime]

Just ask the Uighurs!

[@zephsmith3499]

Clever phrasing, implying that unemployment is the alternative. But haven't you heard? A job which pays a "livable wage" is now asserted as a human right. So if want a job, the government should provide you one or mandate that somebody else gives you one - at what you consider a "livable wage", period. Doesn't matter if you have the skills, or the attitude or you miss work too often, or you just can't produce enough value to justify the wages so a company would lose money on you - you have an inviolable human right to a well paying job (but only if you want it, nobody should be required to work in order to get by - food, shelter, medical care, education, and soon high speed internet are also human rights of course, whether or not you decide to work for them). What a beautiful ideal. What could possibly go wrong?

[@Lostcontroller]

@@zregime That's called slave labor. It's different from a free society.

[@shaejen127]

@@Lostcontroller not much

[@shaejen127]

@@zephsmith3499 You have live in the woods and the wilderness. In this life we literally have to do some kind of work to survive.

[@alpine1600s]

A: Goods cost $XXXX to make. B: Government says you can only sell goods at $XXX. C: Nobody gets any goods. Yeah, just didn't employ socialism enough. 🤦‍♂️

[@Valhalla_Heathen]

Capitalism makes, socialism takes

[@russelldixon5663]

Mr. Stossel, your work here is great. Thank you for offering a bit of the truth and educating the public.

[@extranolugar4588]

"Every Socialist is a Disguised Dictator” - Ludwig von Mises.

[@alexjohnson5677]

@The Zoomer Capitalist No, it wasn't. Ludwig von Mises was definitely Austrian, not Italian.

[@bobjohn2000]

My favorite part of Stossel is that he isn’t afraid to grill people who say dumb things in interviews.

[@MeanBeanComedy]

I do too, and he USUALLY keeps his cool too, but my god... he tore that Gas Can guy from the EPA to pieces! Remember that one?

[@MeanBeanComedy]

@Richard Rydlund Yeah, it's quality TV. Dude deserved it.

[@hardworker5588]

666 down votes ................ eeeeeyyyyyyep, that says it all

[@grupoelcomienzo]

Im surprised hes not yet banned on yt

[@mashedtomato2079]

@Richard Rydlund That grammatical save might have deradicalized the left!

[@fourfortyroadrunner6701]

John when you are gone, I don't know who in hell is going to step up. I will be long gone, probably. I'm 73, and sometimes, damn glad I'm not a youngster

[@abc-eb7rq]

Socialism promises Heaven, delivers Hell.

[@SgtJoeSmith]

You not only won a $15 an hr min wage but you also won higher rent and prices, higher unemployment and higher homelessness.

[@FishFind3000]

They didn’t pass basic Econ, otherwise they would see for every action there is another one hiding. There’s no free lunch.

[@SgtJoeSmith]

@@FishFind3000 laws of physics. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. West Coast states have highest min wage and highest homelessness. Why? Shouldn't everyone be rich? Now they say 15 isn't enough. Housing costs too much. Well housing costs that much cause got to pay employees that build them $80 an hour cause unskilled burger flippers get 15. I saw a cost of living graph. Said $33 an hour in California is same as making $13 an HR in Arkansas. So if you make less than $33 an hour in California you be better off getting a trailer in Arkansas and flipping burgers for min wage there.

[@gavinc2827]

Just curious alaska minimum wage is $10.50 or so no higher than 11$ but the cheapest housing is at least 1000$ the cheapest steak is 15$ for one the oil companies claim to spend billions on our economy yet there’s twenty craxkheads outside sleeping in the ditch ? Yet our minimum is $10.50

[@SgtJoeSmith]

@@gavinc2827 a lot of criminals go to Alaska to hide I know. The cost of getting food and supplies to Alaska is much greater causing higher costs. And probably not many companies want to have their home office in Alaska cause they fear they won't get enough qualified employees worth the pay cause no one wants to move there. I know the airport there is a big shipping transfer hub with Asia. And steak here in Arkansas is that much and 1 bed appts start at $500 but got a year wait list. Average 2 bed appt is $800. So Alaska despite the higher costs of getting stuff there is still on par with half the country as far as cost of living. As far as the crack heads in ditch. Some people hate money and hate nice things. They figure they can't take it with when they die so why bother working and buying it now. Lot of people here like that.

[@RBarn2000]

FYI: Minneapolis is surrounded by white suburbs. They all left

[@rosebarnes9625]

So you meant... Minneapolis WAS surrounded by white suburbs... 🤣

[@zuranku]

@@NoBody-pw3kf They moved to Florida.

[@notsure1101]

@@zuranku Hope you're really wrong with that.

[@hansanderson6607]

Many of the suburbs are just as BAD as Minneapolis. In order to "get out", you need to be at LEAST 20 miles outside of downtown Minneapolis.

[@zuranku]

@@hansanderson6607 It's crazy when you live your life in those cities and you think 20 miles is a lot. I'd stay more than 50 miles from that garbage.

[@gagliardivex9218]

The place is such a paradise that people can start fires anywhere. The buildings are really pretty with all the broken windows and stuff. It's great for a good zombie movie

[@chrysleroutboarddude]

Cam Gorton was my 7th grade teacher at Seward Montessori around 1992 in Minneapolis. One day after lunch recess he was fired and never returned back to class. I know what the roomer is.

[@theladygunsmith]

He said the key word, democratic "control".

[@RVBMichaelJCaboose]

Lol you’re right. They’re not hiding it anymore

[@panzerlieb]

So just substitute “democratic” for “Socialist”. There, now it’s clear who we are dealing with.

[@RodCornholio]

Government control.

[@Wildcock23]

God I’m so ashamed to be from Minnesota

[@janiceduncan6251]

As I am for being from California and running the poles which only elects more communists!

[@shootermcgavin991]

I’m not. I live with the rocks and cows in greater MN.

[@asoothingsound1538]

Same, the towns outside the cities are great though

[@patrickx9409]

I'll be moving to Idaho next year. Minneapolis has gotten real bad lately.

[@RARufus]

Minnesota is a great state to live in. This crap in parts of Minneapolis is terrible, but it’s like most things: a small percentage of the population causes most of the problems.

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

Jason is a brilliant man who was born to be a Senator. He’s been a talk show host in multiple regions plus he served one term in the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota.

[@jeremyanderson3819]

I love how the one guy goes from who doesnt want justice, to the DEMOCRATs charged the officers in 4 days.

[@RonLauzon]

Like all bad management, when a policy fails, they double down and do more of the same policy.

[@goonxxi]

Leftist policies do the exact opposite of their stated intent

[@bubblegumgun3292]

yes but we mist not be arrogant and thinking the union is the right policy. the confederatecy was right this United union is no diffrent that the soviet union and its faling the same way it just took longer.

[@marceleu]

BUBBLEGUM GUN how does fighting to keep enslaving people sound like a utopia to you?

[@marceleu]

Robert T they do now? So how come people in Europe still work huh?

[@Uberragen21]

This is the Dumbocrat's moto...🤦‍♂️

[@mindthependulum6245]

What do you get when you feed a million starving people? You get 4 million starving people.

[@notmyrealname6150]

Thank God for John Stossel. He speaks common sense.

[@dh7139]

Thank you John, love what you do. I just donated to keep these videos coming. Well done!!

[@jodaso]

I live 10 minutes from downtown Minneapolis and I have never wanted to move out of state as much as I do right now

[@ryanduray1]

Same. I'm just over a mile north of downtown in NE Minneapolis. Been here almost 40 years. I think it's time to go.

[@jneusbaum3697]

John Sorbel . Don't feel like the Lone Ranger....Minneapolis is an embarrassment AND a chithole if one actually slows down and takes a look. Needles everywhere in plain site...great trails for every type of pedestrian or vehicle...and still disgusting. The sanctuary city has not been kind to Minneapolis... The needles on the street show up faster than they could ever be removed...and now the city parks accepting drug addicts (oh...I mean campers) too. The thrills keep getting harder to find here in Minneapolis. Keep it up city counsel...what could possibly go wrong with your direction. Might as well get rid of the police...oh wait...that's in the works. WTF? ...Scary to think that Minneapolis is one of the more desired cities in the USA to live in...

[@msseedlady2587]

Come to the Dakotas

[@Legatus2kx]

Don't worry dude, I've traveled a lot and every democratic run city is the same way, it's like I don't even want to get out my vehicle and roll the windows up, nasty and warzone areas.

[@godlyvex5543]

I'm only 18, and I'm being forced to move in with my grandpa who lives in minneapolis. I'm not too happy about it, but there's nothing I can do.

[@frens_till_the_end]

Socialism can be defined as I WANT something, but I don’t want to WORK for it.

[@thenerd6416]

No

[@frens_till_the_end]

Modern socialism is developed from a lack of a work ethic, working a minimum wage job should not get you the same pay as someone who built a company and is making millions of dollars. Many socialists just wanted the benefits without work.

[@thenerd6416]

@@frens_till_the_end no

[@frens_till_the_end]

@@thenerd6416 Your counter arguments are truly astounding.

[@thenerd6416]

@@frens_till_the_end indubitably

[@DAxt-sc1hm]

Minneapolis is slouching towards Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, etc.

[@foxdragon663]

My work ethic: Work as hard as possible and share my “richness” where I choose, not where politicians choose.

[@ardendragoon]

It confuses me how people constantly vote against their best interests.

[@stulego1]

We are born fools, wisdom is gained when pursued. VOTE

[@SoloRenegade]

They think you are voting against your own interests. But that is because they cannot accept that the ideas they are proposing simply do not work. They fail to account for nature, fail to understand human nature. they truly believe they can bring about utopia. but for their ideas to work, absolutely every single person must participate and behave perfectly all the time. This simply isn't how reality works. Worth looking at is the Hawks and Doves studies. They prove that crime can never be eliminated, only minimized. accidents cannot be eliminated, only minimized. inequality cannot be eliminated, only minimized. Nature (physics? call it what you like) simply does not allow imbalance to exist. They try to build systems that fight nature, rather than work with nature.

[@ardendragoon]

@@SoloRenegade exactly. That type of voting hurts everybody, unless you are rich. Fighting an invisible enemy. Its plainly obvious what will happen. People are dumb.

[@Pube83]

People are idiots. Especially the poorer people. There's more poor idiots than any other demographic. But not too say only the poor, half my coworkers with degrees are idiots too, where a monkey could do their job, or an illegal with a 2 week certificate course.

[@GodRock369]

even animals are smart enough not to $hit where they eat.

[@shredenvain7]

The world would be a better place if the news media was filled with John Stossels.

[@sirscrotum]

Like Big Brother

[@ninjafukwan7]

Right! until he hits a topic you don't agree with.

[@shredenvain7]

@@ninjafukwan7 I dont agree with everything he stands for. I dont walk thru life thinking everything revolves around me.

[@johnnynick3621]

@@ninjafukwan7 Show me just one John Stossel video that you disagree with. I have watched almost everything he's done and I have yet to see a single one where he went against his Libertarian principles. If you are an authoritarian, I would expect you to disagree with ALL his positions.

[@BobRooney290]

looks like i have to say it again and again. the politicians are not being punished for their actions. they do what they want, collect off people's backs, and leave a destroyed community behind, deep rooting their ideology of progressive socialist liberalism. i was thinking hard about moving to mini soter 15 years ago. i am glad i didnt. what a horrible nasty and evil place run by psychopaths.

[@jessehall9447]

No other system in the world has pulled as many ppl out of poverty than capitalism.

[@Abandoned_Brane]

Something no one talks about, fortune 500 companies are leaving.

[@JKJTransit]

"If you're worried about someone else's pockets, you will never see your pocket increase." - JKJ

[@KWifler]

Unless you're a pickpocket...

[@Burger_pants]

sure thing, let the guys with the money fix the game so only they can win it, and blame the other guy when that system gatekeeps him from becoming successfull

[@toxicmatrix1337]

Combined income of 130k and I still cant afford to have a kid. Yet someone who can't even hold a job at dunkin donuts can blast out 3 kids with 3 different fathers.

[@caw2161]

If a couple is making a combined income of $130k and can't afford to have a kid, then they aren't managing their money wisely.

[@YPEFFLE]

What city and state do you live in? 130k is basically poverty level in NYC and San Francisco. It's all about living below you means and not acquiring debt

[@davec.3198]

You're living in the wrong area.

[@reflectionsinthebible3579]

You Could afford to have a child. That right there is a lie.

[@mychevysparkevdidntcatchfi1489]

If you can't afford to have a kid at income of 130K, you have a spending problem not kid problem. Kids are at most $2K/mo (including private school), or $24/yr much of which is tax deductible.

[@paulputnam7]

Thank you for doing these videos. The definition of INSANITY is to keep doing the same thing over & over again & expecting a different outcome!

[@scubarojo]

John Stossel and Reason magazine, my two hero's.

[@mikejoyce9235]

This guy's talking about capitalism causing climate change and a housing crisis LOL.

[@CommodoreFan64]

These clowns would not know real environmental issues if it hit them on the head a million times over.

[@aCycloneSteve]

Housing crisis - caused by Federal Reserve Climate change crisis - cause by fraudulent academics.

[@TPIR_Fan_1972]

Meanwhile, he uses a laptop and webcam brought to you by...capitalism.

[@RichardRennes]

Would`ve been funny of Stossel asked him "What exactly IS "climate change"? And how is capitalism affecting it?"

[@davec.3198]

Actually, housing is in a boom even though we recovered from the government caused sub prime lending crisis. Way to distort the facts by another socialist politician.

[@YukitoOnline]

The one's spouting to end capitalism, are always the pampered & well-off people.

[@OutSideTheBoxFormat]

@happy joe so you're telling us the guy with knee on neck was saying 'end capitalism'? I thought it was 'I can't breathe'

[@sharonc8138]

If racism and oppression is the hallmark of America, go to any other continent or country you choose.

[@user-bp1nc4ug4j]

Minneapolis is definitely a place in which one would not want to live

[@edweiser63]

Quote Milton Friedman: "After the fall of communism, everybody in the world agreed that socialism was a failure. Everybody in the world, more or less, agreed that capitalism was a success. And every capitalist country in the world apparently deduced from that what the West needed was more socialism."

[@nooneyouknow4312]

3:30 "Cam Gordon is a Minneapolis Councilman. He win's elections here because he's insane, as are the local voters." - There I fixed it for you.

[@logos1997]

WOW! The US is really going through some apocalyptic times.

[@yukihirasouma4691]

Not the entirely of the US. Only the states that are governed by the Democrats.

[@nev707]

I have friends who came from Eastern Europe and say the pollution and environmental damage was shocking with state owned industries.

[@bbeen40]

Winston Churchill said it best, "Democracy is the worst form of goverment, except for all the others."

[@horseradish7105]

" The worst thing that can happen to a socialist is for his country to be run by socialists who are not his friends." Ludwig Von Mises

[@brekinla]

You remind me of a famous quote, During the French revolution a man going to the guillotine was asked if he had any last words, "yes, my only regret is I won't see that rat Raspiere meet the national razor." Six months later Raspiere got his date with the national razor.

[@mayorbeetlejuice4841]

brekinla you mean nipolean bonenipple

[@filmsandmovies988]

@@mayorbeetlejuice4841 No he means Maximilian Robespier. During his Jacobin dictatorship in one year more than 40000 people are killed wich for 1790s is a lot. For exmple in my country 28000 people were killed by the communists for less than a month after they took power.

[@filmsandmovies988]

@CipherBytes Yes but they do it to save your live from enemies of your nation which want to destroy it. The military is there to protect you from aggressors.

[@johncordova2237]

@@filmsandmovies988 what country are you from

[@arguingwithstupidpeople2047]

A minimum wage increase is a giant pay cut for senior citizens trying survive on Social Security and other fixed incomes.

[@williamwilkins3084]

And if our senior citizens had any sense, they would instead invest their money in Money markets, IRAs, and annuities and watch it grow much faster. Our Social Security system is broke and the financial means is not there to keep it going. It's really just another means of free government hand outs.

[@denniscliff2071]

When my state legislators' changes laws that moved my "S" corporation from 15% tax to 37% tax, I chose to close it down and go out of business. I retired at age 52. No regrets.

[@agent7641]

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." C. S. Lewis

[@janetremsing6988]

👍 Nice! 🇺🇸

[@themsmloveswar3985]

That explains a lot about "democratic socialism".

[@samcarroll4767]

C.S. Lewis is timeless.

[@mrbigglezworth42]

I like how the mayors answer to how every time someone tries Socialism it leads to poverty and destruction, his answer his version will be different. Socialism, not even once.

[@MichaelGonzalez-hd7kk]

Read about the true story of the first Thanksgiving and how socialism was tried and failed even back then. It almost killed the entire colony.

[@marcparella]

The change has to come from within the individual who wants change. The day someone who has lived in poverty recognizes their potential is a day that benefits us all. That is only formula to end poverty.

[@harrywensel8456]

The problem is monopoly and corrupt manipulation of the lawmakers.

[@Qingeaton]

Don't you just love someone who comes here from hell, and then tries to remake this place to feel more like home? No More OMARs

[@kingofthorns203]

It's about the stupidest paradox ever, she and her mission.

[@baconboi4482]

@@kingofthorns203 also remember, she didn’t exactly get her way into government cleanly

[@DELDOT]

I would rather be in hell than Somalia.

[@johnboehmer6683]

The most outward, blatantly wicked person to ever represent the people of America, no close second. There is no natural explanation for her election(though there is a spiritual one), and is a sign of horrible things to come if we don't radically change direction as a people.

[@MattFoote]

Would they be willing to let the "Community" vote on what their salaries are on the council? Put up or shut up.

[@wigletron2846]

@Richard McCaig socialism/communism is just like an ant colony. The workers serve the queen and the drones make sure the workers stay in line

[@MattFoote]

@Richard McCaig I understand that completely. The people calling for Socialism are the ones who are ignorant of how Socialism actually was designed. Most of probably not even read Marx. Socialism is just the government ownership of the means of production, but it's logical conclusion is Communism.

[@reaperronin8898]

I really doubt that would ever happen..!.!

[@MattFoote]

@@reaperronin8898 I hope you're right, but history stands against us as does Marx himself.

[@reaperronin8898]

Matt Foote :::: Me Too..... 🤞

[@mrtata5092]

They make $15.00 /hour and this people still broke.why the news media ask this people if there life improves after making $15.00 dollars/hour

[@mr.voidout4739]

I'm a successful white guy proudly working for a successful black entrepreneur. If the white and black parts matter.

[@ian0903]

Politicians can set a legal “minimum wage” but the real minimum wage is zero.

[@UncleKennysPlace]

Yes. Two decades ago I wrote in our local newspaper: "What do you call someone not worth the new minimum wage? _Unemployed."_ Still truel

[@IdkIdk-cl4vp]

That just sounds like slavery with extra steps Edit: 0 as the minimum wage

[@aoeu256]

What about instead of a minimum wage paid by the employers, the wage is paid by the government as a "negative tax", like an income tax credit but on the wage itself.

[@luainygo4932]

@@IdkIdk-cl4vp 0 minimum wage doesn't mean you don't get paid, It means your labor value is set by yourself and your employer. You won't accept less than X and the employer won't give you more than Y, so you work an agreement. This is super useful for example, for teenagers working, as their labor value is almost 0 because they are underage and have little to no experience working, commonly working simple jobs to get something for their curriculum. No employer will ever pay a 15 year old 15 dollars an hour for re-stocking the store. So again, it doesn't mean you work for free, it means your wage was to be discussed between both parties involved.

[@IdkIdk-cl4vp]

Luaínygo That makes a lot of sense, but the reason there is a minimum wage is a price floor. If there are 50 people wanting the same job. There is a high supply of labor and a low demand. Because of this there is a need to find Equilibrium, this means, lowering the costs of the worker. The employer can continue to lower the wage, and someone will accept it because “If i don’t, someone else will” if you ever read a book called “Grapes of Wrath.” it goes into this very well

[@1VaDude]

"Growth works." -- John Stossel. Why can't HE be the one to mediate all of the Presidential debates? Stossel is tough, but fair.

[@jdu8542]

I started out working for minimum wage ($3.80/hr at the time)... I didnt lobby congress or scream and yell at city hall... I EARNED more money by becoming more skilled at doing things.

[@TheBonzomatic]

My brother moved to Minneapolis 16 years ago. I really enjoyed visiting there at first, but over time it has become completely unappealing. I don't feel safe downtown anymore. I highly doubt that I will ever visit again.

[@elvisisalive2716]

My pops used to say 'there is a big difference between kneeling down and bending over'. Think it applies today more than ever.

[@sharonflowers66]

The definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over, but expecting different results

[@randomuser3741]

Makes you wonder, what is their real objective..

[@SoloRenegade]

@@randomuser3741 sadly, they truly believe they can bring about utopia. but for their ideas to work, absolutely every single person must participate and behave perfectly all the time. This simply isn't how reality works. Worth looking at is the Hawks and Doves studies. They prove that crime can never be eliminated, only minimized. accidents cannot be eliminated, only minimized. inequality cannot be eliminated, only minimized. Nature (physics? call it what you like) simply does not allow imbalance to exist.

[@maxpower9848]

In California we voted for the $15 an hour wage and then we also voted for the largest increase in tax history! We're idiots!

[@bladerunner5810]

When John introduced Cam Gordon I thought he said "He wins elections here because he is insane....." I can agree with that statement.