Peter Schiff, Representing the 1%
Diane Ellis, Ed. ·
Oct 28, 2011 at 2:07pm
On the latest episode of the Young Guns podcast--which'll be ready for your consumption soon!--Keith Urbahn announced that his hero of the week is Peter Schiff. Last week, Schiff dared to tread in hostile territory carrying a sign that read "I am the 1% Let's Talk." The video below features some pretty wonderful highlights from his time in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park.
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Re: Peter Schiff, Representing the 1%
Saw this last night. It was a lot of fun to watch- the lady he's talking to right now (before you click on it to play) reminded me of Elizabeth Warren.
I just hope that the people who call themselves libertarians go home afterwords and shower- and, for extra credit, at least try to get a job.
Edited on Oct 28, 2011 at 2:14pmNov '10
Re: Peter Schiff, Representing the 1%
Or a dictionary.
Re: Peter Schiff, Representing the 1%
Or a thesaurus. I'm tired of hearing the word "capitalism." For some reason it just seems a little juvenile to me (I know, I know, everyone uses it). I prefer the phrase "free market."
Apr '11
Re: Peter Schiff, Representing the 1%
I think the guy at around the 7:00 mark should yell a little more. After he can't articulate his point past what he's been fed, his argument breaks down to "you're an idiot." Ya, that about covers it.
Edited on Oct 28, 2011 at 2:57pmApr '11
Re: Peter Schiff, Representing the 1%
People love to point out the flaws of free-market capitalism, but in the end they don't have anything better to offer than spread the wealth. Don't they realize that if you reduce the millionaire's income by 5%, you don't get 5% more revenue? We really need to better job teaching our children basic economics. Most of our fiscal problems would go away if people truly understood how money is created and flows through the economy/government.
Oct '10
Re: Peter Schiff, Representing the 1%
I think you must add one other ingredient to achieve fiscal discipline . . . skin in the game. When 47% of income earners pay no income tax, there's no natural brake on their desire for Government goodies or their support for higher taxes. Everyone should pay something.
May '10
Re: Peter Schiff, Representing the 1%
These protestors are the product of our schools. If this is the top level of rhetorical discourse these people can muster, our country is doomed.
Nov '10
Re: Peter Schiff, Representing the 1%
Agreed.
They should also learn the free market, capitalism, and private enterprise are the opposite of corporatism, crony capitalism, and fascism.
Notice how ignorantly these protestors conflate both.
Now imagine someone conflated law-abiding Blacks with criminal blacks, and hated blacks wholesale as a result. Such racial bigotry would be reflexively condemned, and rightly so.
What these protestors exhibit is fiscal bigotry. Yet no one calls them on it.
It's sinful to stereotype and prejudge people on the basis of skin colour; yet it is virtuous to do so on the basis of income. The rich are hated wholesale, whether they are independently productive enterpreneurs (caplitalists) or parasites on state largesse (corporatists).
Ethan Safron
Or a thesaurus. I'm tired of hearing the word "capitalism." For some reason it just seems a little juvenile to me (I know, I know, everyone uses it). I prefer the phrase "free market." · Oct 28 at 2:18pm
Dec '10
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I've been watching this video march down both sides of the page at hotair, but I had avoided watching it because of it's length. Thanks for posting it here.
It was 18 minutes very well spent.
Dec '10
Re: Peter Schiff, Representing the 1%
I admired Peter Schiff before I saw this. Now he's my hero. Not just for what he says, although that's all fine and good, but for having the courage and tenacity to engage these people on their own misconceptions. There's a certain percentage, like the "I'm not greedy" guy and the lady who wants to "eliminate the Bush tax cuts" who are beyond hope, but I could see some of them listening and nodding as he spoke. Give Schiff a megaphone and another hour or two down there and I think they'd elect him leader of their cause.
Nov '10
Re: Peter Schiff, Representing the 1%
Glenn Beck played a clip of someone addressing the protesters yesterday. Is this the guy? Because if it is, Beck said that addressing them was "dangerous." I didn't get it. Why would Beck go on about it being dangerous to engage the protesters? Seems like intelligent engagement is potentially productive.
Oct '10
Re: Peter Schiff, Representing the 1%
downloading the video and converting it to an mp3 file.
Jan '11
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Sad, but true. "Educators" have made our youth first ignorant, then stupid and it took only six or seven decades, a couple of generations. It was a purposeful exercise, and so well and enthusiastically done that even the teachers can't notice the nonsense. They have made a job they are totally unprepared to do seem to them worthwhile.
Yes, I know, there are plenty of good, effective, and successful teachers, but I can't help believing that they are too few to make a meaningful difference. If such were not in the tiny minority, education wouldn't be the failure it has become.
Mar '11
Re: Peter Schiff, Representing the 1%
Ethan Safron
..... I'm tired of hearing the word "capitalism." For some reason it just seems a little juvenile to me (I know, I know, everyone uses it). I prefer the phrase "free market." · Oct 28 at 2:18pm
Did capitalism know it was capitalism before Marx named it? It was just what worked.
Apr '11
Re: Peter Schiff, Representing the 1%
"Intelligent engagement" is fine. Exposing yourself to a mob is dangerous.
An aside: I know nothing about Thailand, but GI's with whom I was stationed would sometimes greet each other with (phonetically), "Sah wah dee, kuh"(?)", which I understood to mean, "Good morning, friend." Is that related in some way to your screen name? Just curious. :-)
Nov '10
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Glenn the Iconoclast
"Intelligent engagement" is fine. Exposing yourself to a mob is dangerous.
An aside: I know nothing about Thailand, but GI's with whom I was stationed would sometimes greet each other with (phonetically), "Sah wah dee, kuh"(?)", which I understood to mean, "Good morning, friend." Is that related in some way to your screen name? Just curious. :-) · Oct 30 at 3:20am
Actually, men say, "sawatdee krap." It is a greeting, but I don't think there is anything about friend or morning in it. :-) Thai women say, "sawatdee ka."
Nov '10
Re: Peter Schiff, Representing the 1%
That lady who can go on and on and seems not to respond to anything -- I've figured out what she's doing. Anyone can do this. Memorize a long list of slogans and platitudes, learn to recite them and practice doing this with circular breathing, so you don't have to pause to take a breath. Of course, when you do so you have to concentrate so hard on what you're reciting that you don't hear a thing the other person is saying. Schiff, in contrast, is amazing in the way he engages in these rapid-fire debates with both people talking at once, and responds intelligently as he goes to every point his opponent makes, while making his own. Brilliant. Still, the arguments would be more fruitful and listenable if someone had a mute button and played traffic cop: Ok you go. Now you're done ... your turn.