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Debating whether fears over the U.S. deficit are overblown, with James Galbraith, University of Texas economics professor, and Peter Schiff, Euro Pacific Capital Inc. president.
"Christopher Dodd got over $10,000,000 from the financial institutions between 2005 and 2010. This is just another episode in the Presidential reality show to make people feel like they're doing something"
Video: Noam Chomsky, Havens
Center, Orpheum Theater,
Madison WI 4/2010
Recently, a friend with somewhat leftist inclinations suggested that I view the included video clip of Noam Chomsky's recent talk at Havens Center, Orpheum Theater, Madison Wisconsin. Well, having listened to the whole talk, it simply confirmed what I already thought of Chomsky: he identifies many problems correctly, and I actually do agree with most of his critiques (although his interpretation of history, particularly the Spanish Civil War and the rise of National Socialism in Germany, is pretty one-dimensional). The problem however, is that his solutions are mostly ineffective, impractical, and unrealistic, in addition to being clichéd.
Throughout the talk he reaffirms the academic left's montra of "it's all the evil corporations", which gets very tiresome for me personally. In addition to being incomplete (at best) in it's accuracy, that charge is just so annoyingly convenient, ...
