jasonk282
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This guy is awesome, amazing how stupid some of our college students are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUybMMYmpxo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUybMMYmpxo
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gunslingingbird
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Been to Berkeley lately? That's scary! :eek:
Baill Inneraora
I changed my middle-name to Freeones
As unbiased as Fox News.
jasonk282
Banned
It might be biased, but come on the founding fathers were just "blowing this out of proportion", Ben franklin was a great president, assult weapons ban, they don't even know the lady that Ted Kennedy killed was dead for over 30 years, they thought she was sponsering the event.
I don't care if it's biased it's still scary that these kids are going to be the future of America
I don't care if it's biased it's still scary that these kids are going to be the future of America
YMIHERE
MasterBlaster
Steven Crowder is wrong on a number of points. The Federal Reserve caused the Great Depression? He sounds like a graduate of Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. He's an asshole.
jasonk282
Banned
Monetarists, including Milton Friedman and current Federal Reserve System chairman Ben Bernanke, argue that the Great Depression was mainly caused by monetary contraction, the consequence of poor policymaking by the American Federal Reserve System and continued crisis in the banking system
In this view, the Federal Reserve, by not acting, allowed the money supply as measured by the M2 to shrink by one-third from 1929 to 1933, thereby transforming a normal recession into the Great Depression.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_Great_Depression No where do I see Stock Market Crash as a cause.
However, the Federal Reserve allowed some large public bank failures – particularly that of the New York Bank of the United States – which produced panic and widespread runs on local banks, and the Federal Reserve sat idly by while banks collapsed
HeartBroker
Less than 1,000 posts away from my free Freeones T-shirt
I heard on the news recently that a majority of college students put Europe somewhere in South America when asked to mark it on a map.
Congrats! "Please welcome the next leaders of the free world." :rofl:
Congrats! "Please welcome the next leaders of the free world." :rofl:
YMIHERE
MasterBlaster
There was a confluence of causes of The Great Depression. It was a combination of events and socioeconomic contradictions that lead up the this economic meltdown. To say it is just one policy or event was the cause is simplistic and sophomoric. Here are some of them:
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/greatdepression/tp/greatdepression.htm
jasonk282
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jasonk282
Banned
I did not know there was a 2nd one.
jasonk282
Banned
Well I can understand that, but the fact that he is asking everyone favorite president and one answers Ben Franklin, and one also said that the 'founding fathers were blowing things out of proportion" and "which great depression, the first one?" should gardner you a view, you can just skip the first part about Glenn Beck, which his book is out today
CunningStunts
I changed my middle-name to Freeones
So because he read one book by a guy that's a blow-hard you dismissed the entire video?
Well, I do agree with the fact that many "liberal" professors at universities try to indoctrinate kids with their world-views. It happened to me, and kids are very impressionable and still have that naive view where they want to "save the world." The truth is, you can't save the world... but you can learn to THINK and act responsibly. That's about it. If people spent a fraction of the time and effort to improve their own lives as they do trying to "save the world" and convincing other people to join them in their futile efforts, the world would much better off...
Jagger69
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
No, I dismissed it because he chose to make the fact that he just finished reading a book by a blowhard the launch pad for his entire gig, CS. However, I got to feeling a bit guilty about not giving the guy a fair shake after your question, so I went back and watched the entire video. Some of it was actually quite humorous but the fact that it was indeed so politically biased turned me off quite a bit. Therefore, I'd say my original instinct to cut-and-run after the Glenn Beck reference was totally justified.
I'd like to see him do the same gig at Houston Baptist College here in Texas and ask those same questions....I bet the results would be quite similar except with a slightly different political slant to them. In fact, you could randomly stop people on any street corner in any town in the USA and probably get equally stupid answers so I guess the point of the video was to prove that liberals are, by their very nature, idiots? :dunno:
DJCowboy
Yes, I bribed and cheated to get this far
The girl at 3:12 looked an awful lot like Miley Cyrus, i had to do a double-take.
But with these types of videos, I wonder how many people they edited out that got these questions correct. It's like Jay Leno's "Jay-Walking" where he asks simple questions to people in public and they usually get it wrong. I can guarantee you they do major editing and don't show a lot of people that got these questions right.
But with these types of videos, I wonder how many people they edited out that got these questions correct. It's like Jay Leno's "Jay-Walking" where he asks simple questions to people in public and they usually get it wrong. I can guarantee you they do major editing and don't show a lot of people that got these questions right.
Baill Inneraora
I changed my middle-name to Freeones
Where is the hours and hours of footage showing students who answered the questions "right." Where is the unedited video? Where is the video at Liberty or Bob Jones U asking if humans and dinosauers lived together?
Come on Jason, you should know there has been many depressions and many economists are refering to our present situation as the second great depression.
Come on Jason, you should know there has been many depressions and many economists are refering to our present situation as the second great depression.
Gordar
If FreeOnes was a woman, I'd marry her!
Well, I can answer a few of those questions...
1. Benjamin Franklin has never been the president of the USA, since that office didn't exist yet. Even though he has been the 6th President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, that's not what was being asked.
Maybe he was one of the most prominent abolitionists during the end of his life, but it would still take 60 years before slavery was officially abolished.
2. Concerning the great depression. There are economists who believe that the current depression is far from over and that this might in fact be a 2nd great depression. Taking this into account, the which one question becomes more understandable.
3. "she makes it sound like Americans started slavery"... He should learn to listen when someone else talks, since she clearly said Europeans. So she wasn't demonising the USA, but in fact Europe (or those countries that traded slaves, which mainly were Great Britain and the Netherlands).
Philbert
Banned
The Middle Eastern countries bought and transported more slaves than all the Western countries combined did...they were great players in the slave trade, check out the actual history of slavery sometime.
Interesting fact was that slavery and slavers were always looked down upon, kind of like alcohol drinkers...while many socially acceptable people were participants, it was looked down upon as a bad thing that many did; fortunately, it snowballed until there were no more acceptable slave owners or slavery...unless you count women and poor people for a hundred years (and change) after the mid 1800s.
Most current day slavery is in the Middle East and a few nasty places not many visit...not much left of that nasty activity.
It's not uncommon to find people who don't pay attention to much that they aren't interested in...I have heard HS seniors and college grads just like on Jay Walking and an equal number up on the current political cast of characters.
Reading and studying puts real world info in your brain; X Box puts a lot of blank space in the same area.
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