Louder with Crowder - May 12, 2015


Obama's Absurd "Poverty Summit" Remarks || Louder With Crowder


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In this episode, I discuss President Obama's remarks at the poverty summit, and why the rich don't pay their fair share in taxes. I also talk about why it's important for parents to teach their kids about the value of being a good parent.

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00:00:00.000 Start being fathers.
00:00:01.000 Start being men. 0.74
00:00:02.000 Grow a backbone.
00:00:03.000 I'm going to judge you.
00:00:04.000 You need some harsh judgment here.
00:00:07.000 Because kids learn these things by what they see.
00:00:10.000 Not by what they see on your tax return, but by what they see in their household.
00:00:16.000 Namely, are you there?
00:00:19.000 Today everyone was going nuts because President Obama spoke on a panel at the Poverty Summit.
00:00:26.000 Poverty Summit?
00:00:28.000 It's always a summit.
00:00:30.000 Just go.
00:00:32.000 You pretty much have more than you'll ever be able to use and your family will ever be able to use.
00:00:39.000 Context here is important.
00:00:40.000 More than you'll ever be able to use or your family will ever be able to use in this context is $300,000.
00:00:48.000 That's what he's talking about.
00:00:50.000 Now listen, that's not nothing, right?
00:00:52.000 I mean, people should be really happy if you're blessed with $300,000.
00:00:56.000 $300,000 in the wrong neighborhood in Manhattan gets you an apartment that you can't fit into in a neighborhood in which you're ashamed to walk.
00:01:05.000 Go.
00:01:06.000 There's a fairness issue involved here.
00:01:08.000 And by the way, if we were able to close that loophole, I can now invest in early childhood education that will make a difference.
00:01:16.000 That's where the rubber hits the road.
00:01:18.000 That's, Arthur, where the question of compassion and I'm my brother's keeper comes into play.
00:01:25.000 Compassion and I'm my brother's keeper.
00:01:28.000 Can you talk to Joe Biden?
00:01:30.000 He gave, like, literally less than 1% of his own income to charity.
00:01:36.000 Leftists don't give to charities.
00:01:37.000 There's a great book.
00:01:38.000 Who really cares?
00:01:39.000 They don't.
00:01:40.000 You're talking about compassion, brother's keeper.
00:01:42.000 What's compassionate?
00:01:44.000 About spending somebody else's money.
00:01:46.000 Go.
00:01:48.000 And if we can't ask from society's lottery winners to just make that modest investment, This is the most important one.
00:02:01.000 Society's lottery winners.
00:02:03.000 Now, leftists have accused conservatives when they say Barack Obama's a closet socialist or Marxist.
00:02:09.000 And I agree, that language can be inflammatory.
00:02:11.000 But if he was hiding in the closet, he just sashayed on out in his socialist robe.
00:02:20.000 By calling the successful people in the country society's lottery winners?
00:02:26.000 Really?
00:02:27.000 Now, by the way, just for those of you just tuning in, he's not talking about actual lottery winners.
00:02:34.000 Because those people tend to invest very poorly and don't tend to employ a lot of people.
00:02:37.000 Statistically, it's poor people who play the lottery who don't tend to make very sound investments or business decisions.
00:02:42.000 He's talking about wealthy people who run businesses and likely employ you.
00:02:47.000 It didn't take hard work.
00:02:48.000 It didn't take sacrifice.
00:02:50.000 It didn't take risk.
00:02:51.000 You just won the lottery!
00:02:54.000 Zuckerberg, come on down.
00:02:56.000 Let's tell him what he won at Plinko.
00:02:58.000 Secondly, he said something.
00:03:02.000 What was the second thing that he said?
00:03:03.000 Let's play it.
00:03:04.000 To just make that modest investment.
00:03:07.000 Okay, that was it.
00:03:07.000 Just pay their modest amount.
00:03:12.000 Half.
00:03:14.000 Even John Lovitz, a self-identified Democrat.
00:03:18.000 That was a big story.
00:03:20.000 I pay half.
00:03:22.000 This whole thing that the rich don't pay their fair share is bulls**t.
00:03:26.000 I pay half.
00:03:27.000 You're paying half!
00:03:28.000 I'm just saying maybe we can go up to, like, taxing like ordinary income, which means that they might have to pay, you know, a true rate of around 23%, 25%.
00:03:46.000 I don't know where he's getting this number.
00:03:50.000 I don't know where he's getting the marginal tax rates.
00:03:54.000 2015, in the highest bracket, 39%.
00:03:58.000 That's if you're making, I think, $413,000.
00:04:00.000 We'll bring it up on the screen.
00:04:01.000 He wants it to be...
00:04:02.000 Well, he wanted it to be $250,000.
00:04:06.000 Now he's saying $300,000.
00:04:07.000 The marginal federal tax rates...
00:04:09.000 The federal tax rates are...
00:04:12.000 39%.
00:04:13.000 I mean, I don't...
00:04:14.000 Is he maybe talking about capital gains?
00:04:16.000 Kind of when people said Romney didn't pay enough.
00:04:18.000 For those of you who don't understand capital gains taxes, you've already been taxed on that money.
00:04:23.000 And then you've invested that money.
00:04:25.000 It's a second tax.
00:04:28.000 I mean, I don't know.
00:04:30.000 Because even if you go watch the whole video, we'll have it at ladderwithcrader.com, within context, it's still nonsensical.
00:04:39.000 People don't like being poor.
00:04:41.000 And it's time consuming.
00:04:43.000 It's stressful.
00:04:45.000 It's hard.
00:04:47.000 And so, over time, families frayed.
00:04:52.000 Men who could not get jobs left.
00:04:56.000 Mothers who are single are not able to read as much to their kids. 0.97
00:05:00.000 So all that was happening 40 years ago to African Americans.
00:05:06.000 I don't know why I felt that mothers can't read to their kids.
00:05:10.000 It's important to read to your kids.
00:05:13.000 Okay, listen.
00:05:14.000 This is a perfect example of leftism versus conservatism.
00:05:19.000 You look at the great society.
00:05:24.000 You look at Lyndon Johnson.
00:05:25.000 You look at welfare laws.
00:05:27.000 You look at black American families. 0.97
00:05:30.000 Barack Obama, President Obama, knows this all too well, has a problem with fatherless households.
00:05:36.000 Whereas at one time in this country, they had the strongest marriage rates.
00:05:41.000 They had strong families.
00:05:43.000 And he looks at the problem and says, we gotta give them more stuff.
00:05:48.000 We gotta take stuff from the rich.
00:05:50.000 We have to give people more stuff.
00:05:53.000 And that'll solve the problem of fathers not being accountable.
00:05:57.000 Regardless of community.
00:05:59.000 Regardless of race.
00:06:03.000 Instead of saying, let's look at this from a personal responsibility angle and try and get men to be husbands. 1.00
00:06:12.000 Try and teach men to be fathers.
00:06:14.000 Instead of holding the man accountable, the government needs to give them, if the government just gave them more stuff, if they just took from the people who have more money than you could ever spend in your lifetime at $300,000.
00:06:29.000 I don't even know what the median home price is in a place like California.
00:06:34.000 It's probably more than that in California.
00:06:36.000 If we could just take from the people who would never be able to spend that much money ever in their life and give it to these families, then the men wouldn't walk out.
00:06:45.000 It's that kind of backwards thinking that they use to justify taking money from you to give it to someone who chose to walk out on their family.
00:06:56.000 I am all for values.
00:06:57.000 I am all for character.
00:06:59.000 But I also know that that character and the values that our kids have that allow them to succeed and delayed gratification and discipline and hard work, that all those things in part are shaped by what they see.
00:07:12.000 What is more exemplary of what children see than a fatherless household?
00:07:22.000 Notice he always says, I'm all for values and I'm all for character and integrity.
00:07:26.000 Let's get that out of the way, but...
00:07:29.000 And somehow it comes back to taking your cash.
00:07:32.000 How about, hey, I'm all for values.
00:07:34.000 I'm all for integrity.
00:07:36.000 So fathers, start being fathers.
00:07:39.000 Start being men. 0.74
00:07:40.000 Grow a backbone.
00:07:41.000 I'm going to judge you.
00:07:42.000 You need some harsh judgment here.
00:07:45.000 Because kids learn these things by what they see.
00:07:48.000 Not by what they see on your tax return, but by what they see in their household.
00:07:54.000 Namely, are you there?
00:07:55.000 Some of those kids, they're not going to get help at home.
00:07:59.000 They're not going to get enough help at home.
00:08:00.000 And the question then becomes, are we committed to helping them instead?
00:08:05.000 Okay, let me make this crystal clear.
00:08:09.000 I don't believe for a second that the federal government is committed to helping these children as much as a loving mother and father would be.
00:08:21.000 And if I did, I believe for even less of a second Whatever the smallest nanosecond is that can be measured, unlike those sound machines that are used to measure dolphins on the crazy discovery channel, which is awesome.
00:08:37.000 There's a sound coming from the middle of the ocean.
00:08:38.000 We don't even know where it comes from yet.
00:08:40.000 Whatever they use for that, whatever the shortest nanosecond is that you could possibly measure, I believe for less than that, that the government is remotely capable...
00:08:51.000 Of providing that care for those children.
00:08:53.000 Go.
00:08:53.000 Part of getting a good education was getting soft skills, not just reading, writing, arithmetic, but cooperation and teamwork and so on.
00:09:00.000 And part of that was that everybody in the country got free access to extracurricular activities, band and football and music and so on.
00:09:08.000 But beginning about 20 years ago, the view developed, which is really, really deeply evil, that that's just a frill.
00:09:17.000 That's evil?
00:09:20.000 ISIS is burning Christians alive.
00:09:23.000 Some kid not being able to play his spit valve in an oboe.
00:09:28.000 That's what gets your goat? 0.98
00:09:34.000 That's evil!
00:09:37.000 Okay.
00:09:39.000 By the way, no one's saying that these programs can't or shouldn't be provided to kids.
00:09:43.000 The state can do that.
00:09:45.000 The states have the right to do that.
00:09:47.000 That way, if they're providing crappy programs and they're evil in Texas, you can go to Nevada where they provide those programs.
00:09:56.000 No one's saying that there shouldn't be public schools.
00:10:00.000 Libertarians aren't saying there shouldn't be public schools.
00:10:02.000 They're saying that states...
00:10:04.000 Would know more appropriately how to allocate those funds in their local communities than the federal government.
00:10:12.000 We've spent more on education.
00:10:13.000 By the way, these bumper stickers that really...
00:10:15.000 You know, by the day the Air Force has to host a big sale to buy their bombers.
00:10:20.000 And education gets every dime it needs to be a best day in America.
00:10:25.000 You see those bumper stickers?
00:10:28.000 Education spending in this country outpaces the military.
00:10:32.000 It does.
00:10:33.000 Overall educational spending.
00:10:34.000 Now, it's not just on the national level because a huge portion of that comes from states and comes from local municipal governments.
00:10:43.000 No one's saying that you should do away with states having the right to create public schools.
00:10:47.000 And so we disinvested and we said, if you want to take part in football here or you want to take part in music, you've got to pay for it.
00:10:55.000 Okay, here's the myth.
00:10:56.000 Poor people can't pay for it.
00:10:58.000 I can go down to the local YMCA. Learn judo, guitar, basketball, and underwater basket weaving for $49.95.
00:11:14.000 There are people who are willing to provide those services.
00:11:18.000 And guess what?
00:11:19.000 Particularly if there's a huge and growing market, thank you President Obama, of poor people.
00:11:26.000 If that becomes a bigger sector of the population...
00:11:30.000 And it seems like it's going that way.
00:11:33.000 There will be more than enough businesses looking to serve them, if the state and municipal governments haven't covered that already.
00:11:38.000 Go.
00:11:38.000 And of course, what that means is that poor people can't pay for it.
00:11:42.000 It's a big deal.
00:11:43.000 $1,600 on average for two kids in a family?
00:11:46.000 Well, $1,600 to play football or, you know, play in the band or a French club or whatever.
00:11:50.000 It's not a big deal if your income is $200,000, but if your income is $16,000, who in their right mind is going to be paying 10% of their family income?
00:11:57.000 So...
00:11:59.000 Pause that.
00:11:59.000 Okay.
00:12:00.000 So listen, this is going to get too long.
00:12:01.000 This is where we'll end it.
00:12:04.000 Notice the numbers he just used.
00:12:06.000 He could have said, when talking about the wealthy, talking about the unfair gap, he could have said $10 million.
00:12:14.000 He could have said $750,000.
00:12:17.000 He said $200,000.
00:12:20.000 That's what he chose.
00:12:21.000 The context here is talking about the highest marginal tax rates and where they should come in and who can afford, which lottery winner can afford to pay a moderately higher amount.
00:12:33.000 That's the context here.
00:12:34.000 And that's where we were ultimately taken.
00:12:38.000 Because remember, this administration wanted to raise taxes.
00:12:40.000 They wanted to lower the highest tax bracket to $250,000.
00:12:43.000 Okay?
00:12:44.000 We're sending the Bush tax cuts.
00:12:47.000 So...
00:12:50.000 The dog is growling.
00:12:51.000 Sorry.
00:12:52.000 So, this is where we end up.
00:12:56.000 The takeaway here is if you make $200,000 a year, you are one of society's lottery winners who can afford to pay more than a moderate amount.
00:13:10.000 What's a moderate amount?
00:13:11.000 You can afford to pay more than half.
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