'If You Really Want To Understand How Much Trouble We're In, Give Me A Few Minutes Of Your Time' 

Cynical Aries you say that like everyone in this country basically for the last 50 years hasn't had an apathetic attitude about the corruption in government. OUr elected officials are ridiculous in the amount of money they spend on themselves alone. They have most of you so convinced that Donald Trump is the evil enemy that caused every problem we are facing when the truth is the exact opposite. Trump was only in office for 4 years and he came in and was against the status quo, he started firing people that were part of this corrupt machine that was basically every administration since Kennedy was assasinated, that is why he was so targeted by the media. The media was relentless and still is when it comes to Trump people have no idea all that he accomplished. (sorry for the rant in advance) The truth is our nation was on its way to a great economic recovery with 0% inflation and gas at $2.50 a gallon, and Putin would have never attacked the Ukraine if Trump was President, our borders would be secure the list goes on and on and on. All Biden had to do was come into office and do nothing. We were the number one exporter of natural gas in the world and had not bought one barrel of oil from OPEC since sept of 2018 and all of that changed the day Biden took office. Biden reversed all of The last administrations policies out of spite remember he sat there and signed more executive orders than most presidents do in their entire term in one day on jan 20 2021 and that was the moment our economy started to fail, throw in 7 Trillion dollars in new spending to fight the fuckign climate crisis and our lives are forever changed for the worse. Your paycheck is worth 23% less than it was in january of 2020 and Biden did it all on purpose. The crimes Biden has committed are far worse than anything Trump was ever accused of. people need to get that straight. none of this recession had to happen, none of it. Biden has destroyed more jobs than he's created all of his claims and his press secretaries lies that she tells everyday to the American people about how the economy is recovering and how they try to blame Trump for everything that they are actually responsible for is a fuckign joke and they are only fooling those of you that still watch msnbc and think Biden is doing a great job. Those of us who are getting to the truth of matters are getting pissed off. Every american should be calling for this presidents resignation for the catastrophe he has caused at our border alone. Bidens policies have failed and have put every american citizen in danger.

Nice job defining Democrats.

@@RonMoon360 social security is made up of people paying in, how is that socialism? funny thing is it is mostly GOP states which are the takers of welfare and medical support!!

They just aren't that smart. They are self-interested.

And when you have an uneducated populace that demands free money and stuff. San Francisco is passing a law to give all blacks, over 18, who have lived there 10 years or more, $5 million each! We will not survive this. A new country, or more, will rise from the ashes of this one. Hopefully, it will be better.

Probably on the phone soliciting donations for their next reelection, it's a requirement to get committee seats and receive republican caucus campaign monies

The stock market rally is still in force, but the major indexes, sectors and especially leading stocks are prone to reversals. I recommend you seek the guidance a broker or financial advisor.

@@jonathanburtnick I agree, having a brokerage advisor for inveesting is genius! Not long ago amidst the pandemic crash in March 2020, I was really having inveesting nightmare prior touching base with a advisor. In a nutshell, i've accrued over $550k with the help of my advisor from an initial $120k investment thus far.

@@angeladeem2988 that's impressive!, I could really use the expertise of this advisors , my portfolio has been down bad....who’s the person guiding you.

@@dianarabbanii2 Credits to 'Julianna Dawn Morales' she has a web presence, so you can simply just search for her.

@@dianarabbanii2 This recommendation literally came at the right time, I dipped by $11k in stocks last week alone. Its crazy! I just looked up 'Julianna Dawn Morales' online and researched her accreditation. She seem very proficient & I wrote her detailing my Fin-market goals. Thanks

it's cheaper to let people die. They all think they will just jump ship when they are done raping our nation for it's opportunity and ruining it for everyone else in the entire country (and others that will be impacted by us being gone).

Nancy Pelosi *just entered the chat*

I'm 62. I thought I'd keep working, but my hearing is bad, and now I've presumably got a partial rotator cuff tear. So much for continuing nursing work! I'm retired.

You're so right, but people keep voting for Dems

In their seats and a monthly citizen transparency committee where new committee members cycle out once a year

Where is everyone? ….Calling K street for donations.

Why is everything in capital letters?

@@elsaescobar8373 The problem is Dems promise things they can't deliver and people keep believing the lies.

Don't forget our addiction to oil. Energy is really the foundation for the economy. No energy = no money.

Too many of our Congressonal representives are simply content to kick this can down the road. I

its ok no pronlem for me, the money, no matters

What does it matter if it's all public funds anyway?

Even if nothing was borrowed from Social Security, then inflation alone would have made it unsustainable. The total dollars in Social Security would have to grow at the annual rate of inflation just to be sustainable. For every dollar put in 60 years ago, people have to take about $18 out just to break even. Note: This comment was edited to replace SSI with Social Security.

Exactly its only right

@@deckape69 so good saying it's free money... no people pay into that when you work in assuming you don't work or you would know that!

@@deckape69 Your joking right? We pay that is the tax payers and hard working American citizens SSI and depending on how much you make it can be substantial. That money belongs to the tax paying Americans.

@@jimeric3564 am glad to see the respect, instead of those behaviors we've been witnessing for the past few years.

We could sell the seats that are never sat in to pay some debt. Maybe keep two or three.

••• and all the other seats are EMPTY!!!! ---- ????? WHY????

Dont start saying things that make perfect sense.

Imagine if they'd put the Ukraine money into SS instead.

Fire 50% of federal employees nothing but overhead costs.

@@RogerMiller-td5yc haha

@@yougonnaeatthat9889 Exactly. Charity starts at home. We need to take care of our hard working retirees, fix our roads, healthcare, homelessness, border security, unemployment etc., and balance our budget!!!!!!!!! Only then should we be giving our $ away.

Amen!

yes and for years and years they tell us that social security is in trouble and never mention their taking the money.

Social Security is not and never has been part of the "general fund". Society Security taxes can ONLY BE USED TO PAY BENEFITS. That's the law. Money from the Trust Fund can be invested in US Treasury Bonds, and that's where the confusion lies. Because that money then enters the general fund, BUT, just like when you or I invest in bonds, it must be paid back with interest. Except, of course, if the US government goes into default. That's where the risk is to Social Security.

okay like you say I can serve us was just just tell me give me the steps give me the the right way to reach you or reach whatever I want and then I can give you this for real. I don’t wanna keep this situation over my arms and live with this restriction, just I need to someone give it to dan and do the control and that’s it I am that’s only thing I need.

okay do you want to back to the normally I want to to the normally too send me someone oh I don’t know how we can deal with you and give you this $10 bill and that’s it it’s over I wanna back to my regular life that’s it I wanna be free like I feel like in jail now I don’t wanna have this for me. I wanna feel free and you guys want to feel free to with your situation and help the country that said it’s over that’s the only one of the things we have to do.

All along patting themselves on the back and telling special interests groups how much they have done for them.

I would have loved to have read the SECOND reply!!!!!!!!!

It would be nice if people voted with this in mind, but they vote based on their feelings. Who's going to make me feel good and encourage my depraved behavior and lifestyle, who is going to give me free things. Apparently there are more people like that voting than the ones who want a healthy country and economy. I mean look how many people voted for Biden. He is not fit to run a McDonalds, let alone a whole country. That says a great deal about what our country (the people) really want. That is of course if the election was won fairly and honestly?!?!?!

Only the common people will have the financial problems. These elected oned have a lifetime medical insurance and big pensions. Aside from money accumulated from insider trading.

AND... WITHOUT ANY BENEFITS!!!

and Lobbyists who pay them to spend it.

I'll be too busy protecting mine. I recommend everyone do the best they can, and those people that were trying to warn you so long ago, that you didn't listen too, stay off their property and don't call them. Even if you are family. Inaction has consequences just like actions do.

me too. SSI hardly pays the rent & utilities, & I live in an RV park. It was either that or nowhere. Getting injured in this country means you lose everything, your home, furnishings, everything; that's when one steak has to be cut up & frozen so you can have a silver dollar size of it once a week. One generic box of crackers needs to last 2 months, & you wesr the same bathrobe until it's full of holes while u scape up enough money to buy a new one. It's sad!

Honestly, I can't protect myself for anything. That's where my wife steps on in and does that for me as best as she can. I will NEVER be used to living poor. Living poor is an eternal HELL-HOLE!!! You try to get on a Kito diet (lots of meat, eggs, raw-milk cheeses, butter, etc.) and you can't because you can't AFFORD any of it! Granted, I personally got lucky (thanks to my wife and family), but almost everyone else are NOT as fortunate! T_T

Ive always lived intentionally poor. No matter how much I make in a year my highest spending is on the hard times to come and what will make it easier on my family and myself. Thanks to my folks who grew up in the depression and fought wwII and Korea, Im ready for nearly anything and can make it on my own without outside help. Feels good.

Look to family, and the constitution. Hard times ahead for sure, don't lose hope...

Like Demented presidents who open our southern border.

Its the other way around. US screwed so many countries and now, they're distancing themselve away from the dollar hegemony..

College should be free. You are advocating for a society of people that are uneducated.

This video is supposed to be a wakeup call, and you guys aren't getting it. Did you watch the video? None of what you're saying here will stop what he is saying will happen in the video. None of it! You MUST, MUST reduce Medicare and Social Security costs - dramatically and soon - or none of this other stuff will matter.

Stop all electric vehicles altogether. They are horrible for the environment and moreover they use slaves including children to dig in the cobalt mines in Africa.

@@WhoToldYouThis and you're advocating for a fairytale . Nothing in this world is free.

what about companies that can take food stamps, that's a subsidy ?🤔

So many times you see this! people get elected for a job & paid good money for it with a retirement setup for them. & yet they just CANNOT show up for work. I think all of this started when Nancy Pelosi start having these folks vote by proxy.

These are the speeches that reps give outside of scheduled vote/debate meetings. There is just someone keeping time at the front. At least these are being recorded. I think prior to C-SPAN they were just transcribed to text.

That's your job, the next time they try to get reelected you have to vote for someone ell's that's the only way to get rid of them, unless you can catch one of them robing a bank on video !

I bet there’s not a democrat sitting in that chamber. They gave themselves 3 wks off after the speaker vote

Stop funding the DS stop funding Ukraine war! Stop spending our money to other countries period!!

And as for paying into the system think of all the jobs that left to Asia. Those jobs were contributing to SS!

Helped you down a false conclusion!

100%

The fact that this video and these repeated talking point didn't come out when Trump was in office is all you need to know. #Contrarian Caucus

Put him in charge, fire everyone else. Take every dollar they make and Pelosi husband money, do I need to make a list

Lol!

You're certainly gullible, aren't you?

Our government thinks we are idiots.

@@williamrogers6759 They know we’re not.. they just don’t care if we’re on to them..

So you think new workers are a bad thing ?

@@utube012341 That are coming from south of the border and replacing positions held by Americans already living here? Yes, as a matter of fact I do.

@@chineseducksauce9085 we can’t even find people to hire . Obviously you don’t manage a business or understand how much inflation is employment cost due to shortages of workers. Exactly what jobs are you referring to ? I’m in the agrarian sector but we are hurting in manufacturing and hospitality as well as healthcare. You have to be in a strange location for this to be your issue

EXACTLY!!!👍🤝👏

Just go to digital currency and have an infinite amount. Oh wait we have that oh, it's called money. A dollar equals a dollar no matter how many dollars exist. 1 Dogecoin equals 1 Dogecoin no matter how many dogecoins exist do you understand the magic

I agree 💯

excellent statement!!

The interest he is talking about goes 2 things like Social Security. So when he says doesn't not make sense the answer is yes it does not make sense. Imagine your borrowing money from yourself and you went and you got more Monopoly but you only used it on one thing and which didn't cause inflation. It just ramped-up debt to yourself. It doesn't make sense

I'm not saying inflation isn't a thing I'm saying if we decided to pay 100 trillion dollars pay off the interest, who gets the money? He isn't making sense he's just saying words

Because the whole thing is a scam to keep them rich and us working.

That sounds good but unfortunately we will spend years apon years apon years and we’re just paying the interest

That was part of the plan. Look at Governor Cuomo sending all those covid patients to nursing homes with the vulnerable elderly.

Are they using our SSI to pay off illegal immigrants?

While I agree with most of your comments I don't agree with the last one

Welfare and SS are structured differently. Welfare payments do not come out of a trust fund, SS does. And if you knew American history, you'd realise that SS wasn't designed as a retirement plan. It was only sold as a retirement plan.

The problem is the Ponzi scheme that Social Security always was, simply doesn't have enough new " investors" aka workers to support those getting benefits. Additionally, people for the last 25 or so years have been living longer than ever before. It was never a well thought out or planned system. For those under age 45, their contributions need to be placed in the stock market - over time, even with the ups and downs, the stock market outperforms the pathetic returns of the Soc. Security system at present. That might go a little way toward saving this disastrous system that is heading straight for the iceberg!

Take away medicaid and the freebies the government gives out then we will have more workers. All of the money that they spend on illegals would help to fund Medicare also or the free abortions. It seems like the people who worked their whole life to pay into a program that was supposed to be for their retirement are always the ones who get screwed. The government is very good at screwing the working people.

Would vote for a lot of money for a FRAUD unit to go after those CHEATING the system.. Legit need , We all feel compasionate toward those , but we SEE it where it's NOT..

And all the redundant federal employees. This was not the founding fathers vision for our country.

Like I said they are fired......... we are their employers...we are allowed to fire them.

Well said! Accountability is necessary

Is this due to covid? That is unacceptable.

It's not a drop in the bucket compared to the debt

Basically nothing against the size of the national economy. The whole operation costs about $4 billion. Less than the cost of fielding a single destroyer, or a little more than the cost of a single skyscraper. The size of the economy is $25,000 billion.

It's way too damn much

Did you watch the video??? It's Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. .That's it!! If you don't dramatically reduce those now, we will all be in dire straights before too long. The payrolls of staff make zero impact compared to these.

Unfortunately their money is received from a totally different system along with their insurance and retirement. Totally untouchable. Except by someone with a pair like DJT.

You need to click on the description to see the information . “In House floor remarks last Wednesday, Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) warned of the dangers of deficit spending and the debt“

The scary part is the Ukraine money was in billions but we're talking about trillions here. Even if you could get it all back, it wouldn't solve the problem.

They get rich from lobbyists buying their votes. It is a market where special interests buy people.

What about all that Ukraine money? literally a drop in the bucket compared to the money wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan or the 1.5 trillion dollars spent on the F-35

What about all that Ukraine money? literally a drop in the bucket compared to the money wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan or the 1.5 trillion dollars spent on the F-35

@Axel Foley so not worth stopping.... and Ukraime is just starting US patriot missles with troops to operate and tanks... next our soldiers and battles on US soil. That is the Lefts and UN's apparent plan.

EXACTLY!!!👍🤝👏

Two santa claus theory.

Are there a majority of politicians that think like him? So now you just know how and approximately when the government fails.

but what is reasonable? we spend over half of Medicare and SS benefits in the last two years of someones life

They would prefer to see us shuttled off never to be seen again once we hit a certain age. From what I observe it's all about the babies not the old people.

EXACTLY!!!👍🤝👏

Actually, the American people ARE stupid. This has been a problem incoming for generations. Almost no one cared. We're all too well-fed and entertained to give much of a crap about anything. The key to a passive public has been known for millennia. Bread and circuses.

Don't tell me that closing the border won't help! We are spending billions to aid immigrants so Biden has voters for 2o24! It's 🐂💩!

You are 100 right I was being sarcastic.

Let us also make American people get rid of their gas stoves.

Hospitals aren't free in the U.S. Everyone that walks through one, has to be ready to give up their kidney to get out. They overcharge people way too much it's ridiculous. Last visit was $500 for some over the counter tylenol.

@@sonicboom879 I mean Through Medicaid or any means by law.

The witch on the hill is good for that move , to help herself!, maybe some group she uses as pawns will get a tidbit, but she will do the best!

In the sixties there was a huge write up in the paper with them begging for a raise because they said they couldn't afford their housing. At that time, they couldn't give themselves a raise. It had to be voted on by the people. We still don't know what they did to make it possible for them to vote themselves a raise. I suspect they sneaked it through on a bill like they love to do. I don' t understand how that could possibly be legal. I would like for it to be investigated!!!!!!!!!!. I think it should be investigated.

Rummy slime!

Overturn it

Too bad she wasn't home when Depape showed up

Social Security IS an entitlement by the original definition of the word as it applies to SS legislation. If one never pays anything at all into it (FICA tax) then that person cannot receive it. Medicare is the healthcare component of Social Security and one cannot receive it if one doesn't qualify for receiving Social Security. Medicaid has nothing to do with Social Security and Medicare! You are not alone in your distaste for using the word entitlement. One characteristic of socialism and communism is Newspeak or changing the meaning for words.. Sex never included gender for example. Men could not become women by definition. Recently I listened to oral argument before SCOTUS where the government was arguing that shall was the same as will with some ridiculous advocacy around the word "must." It is the same with corporations being treated as persons. See Citizens v. United. Same with the word citizen. Legal philosophies of original interpretation or traditional meaning of words is being destroyed by creeping newspeak and fake news media. The phenomenon is destroying USA from within. However, your comment has nothing to do with the problem diagnosed so well in this video. Unfortunately the senator is in the distinct minority. USA's leaders, whether politicians, economists, professors or intellectuals, all believe in MMT (Modern Monetary Theory). It has been taught since the late 60s. www.investopedia.com/modern-monetary-theory-mmt-4588060

?que?

Exactly

The government gives ssi to people that has never paid a penny . The government takes from hard working tax payers and give it to the druggie , and the drunk's, they gives them free medicare they get s there medicine free .the drunk's don't. even have to pay a co payment,so tell me how is that fair , the government has been mixed up for years , people that hasn't payed in should not be getting nine hundred to a thousand every month ,on the expense of hard working people

Duh.

If you can't understand him......hmmmm that's questionable bc my 14yr old gets it

@@karolshaw7810 Well look at the other comments and you can see people don't get it. They're stil talking about foreign aid, congress salaries, and pet projects, when the video CLEARLY showed that all that matters if we want to stop this coming calamity is Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. FIx those, or we're toast. And most of the people commenting here still missed it. It's like we can't face up to the plain reality even though it's been staring us in the face since before 2000. This is not new stuff. But no one has the balls to deal with it and force people to face harsh truths. Either you slash these huge programs, or you raise taxes. That's it. There are no other options.

@@karolshaw7810 That's my point! He knows his stuff but most of Congress probably doesn't understand economics.

Talking about touching SS and Medicare is the third rail of politics. Remember when Romney tried to bring it up and the Dems said he was pushing Granny off of a cliff? People don't want to face reality and really fix the problem. They just want to run up the government credit card. Heck, SS recipients got like an 8% raise this year while I got a 3% raise after no raise for a year and only a 2% raise the year before that in my private sector job. We are doomed unless we wake up and are willing to tighten the fiscal belt for a few decades.

Amen ! Well said !

Makes you wonder why we ever let them take that money to set it aside? Any average joe can save his own money. Why do we need the government to do it for us? It was created to be a piggy bank the gubbyment could rob. And rob it they did, because that was always the intent.

yes, huge amounts of fraud in the medical system. And some of it perpetuated by currently serving public officials.

Costs need controlled, but primarily limits on per person totals are needed. We cannot have every last procedure, usually in the final six months of life. Reality.

Emergency Rooms required to provide care for whoever comes through the door..insurance or no insurance. Where do you think all the non tax paying illegal immigrants are going to get their Healthcare? Who do you think ultimately will get the bill?This is not sustainable and is only going to get worse.

@@bigseahorsedc That's one issue orders of magnitude less relevant than the systemic issues mentioned above, which are what causes prices to keep rising to infinity, as long as the insurance pays, and they pass the cost to us by rising the premiums.

Nope, there are no butts in the seats. We should stop paying for those that don’t show up!!!

Focus on two key objectives. First, stay protected by learning when to sell stocks to cut losses and capture profits. Second, prepare to profit when the market turns around.I recommend you seek the guidance a broker or financial advisor.

Right, I've been in constant touch with a fiinancial-analyst since covid . You know these days it's really easy to buy into trending stock`s, but the task is determining when to buy or sell . My advisorr decides entry and exit commands on my portfoliio, I've accrued over $550k from an initially stagnant reserve of $150K

@@colleen.odegaard Please can you leave the info of your investment advisor here? I’m in dire need for one

@@TeresaBrickle My advisor is "Heather Ann Christensen" You can easily look her up, she has years of financial market experience.

@@colleen.odegaard Thank you for this referral! i just looked her up and sent a message hoping she gets back to me.

The thing with your retirement plan is: If inflation is not accounted in it, the numbers on this plan mean practically nothing because the number you have at time of payment will be well below the price of living. Inflation will increase regular prices easily a tenfold for everything. See Venezuela: Any plan adjusted just annually is bound to fail if in this year prices skyrocket by 1200%. You simply can't print money so fast it will be devalued

To answer your question about why can't SS work like this? It's because these dirty politicians don't want it to. Then they couldn't "borrow" from it with IOUs that never get paid back. There would then be checks & balances that would prohibit them from using this money.

So your way it's a shared retirement fund. Sounds like Russia

@@krrrruptidsoless yep, and they are "state" employees. So us slaves, making much less, pay for it.

Inflation will eat your pension

SS is going bankrupt.

It's always US against THEM.. THEY lord over US , WE grumble , pizzz and moan , vote this one in , that one out and we fight back..DECADES and DECADES of SAME O , SAME O

Thanks to the miracle of technology, you can look up those figures for yourself.

Yes. Get rid of most of the 3 letter agencies, eliminate all discretionary spending, get rid of all welfare, and make state employees pay into social security. I'm sure most state employees, like here in Colorado, can opt out of federal social security. Once the IRS is gone, enact a consumption tax. This is the only fair tax because everyone will be on even ground for once.

Add 87k new IRS agents with benefits and a pension. No problem! Everyone else is downsizing and here’s the federal govt adding people and spending into perpetuity.

Thanks to the miracle of technology, you can take all the classes you want. Many of them are free. So get learning, already!

Her point is that it's not required, not that it's not available. We even have to take classes to drive and these people are driving the whole government

@@georgewagner7787 I got her point and I agree with that part. But she also literally said that classes should be available to the public. I just thought I'd point out that education is freely available.

We're a little late for that.

Yeah, that guy seems very sharp.