Graphical Representation of Plato's Allegory of the Cave in "The Republic"
Firstly, I honestly wish to keep this concept, and show to be very small. The topics can be SO LARGE & SO VAST that it can be rather overwhelming.
Plato's Allegory of The Cave in "The Republic"
I have been working on my research, and my basic outline for it, and I originally wanted about 3 episodes, but at this point, I have no real intention to shoot MORE than 5. However, due to the nature of it, the content I/we shoot might actually end up become more than that just based on those 5 parts.
Altho' I will be drawing heavily on Ancient Greek Philosophy, especially Socrates & Plato's books "The Republic" and "The Apologia of Socrates" (The Defense of Socrates), I will also draw from Laozi (Lao Tsu) material/book from "Dao De Jing" (Tao Te Ching) and just a few philosophical concepts by Alan Wattsand his take on Zen, as well as Bruce Lee.
Plato's Allegory of The Cave in "The Republic"
I want each aspect to be broken down into easy digestible parts, and show how it relates to everything, and how to use it to understand why things go wrong, how to question things, or possibly how to fix it.
I also do not wish it to be boring, dry, or TOO CEREBRAL.
PLUS, I do NOT wish it to be partisan at all, because I've found these topics resonate with all people including Right Wing, Left Wing, Centrist, Moderate, and Progressive. In fact, when I have these conversations in public, I have often noticed that people around me get very quiet and eavesdrop on my conversations, and this is regardless of whether I'm speaking to a radical, a moderate, a Right Winger, or Left Winger, an anarchist, or anything else.
This is because I use The Feynman Technique which breaks down complex ideas into basic simple ones. Topics I wish to address are:
Epistemology, Ethics, Morality, The Socratic Method, A Priori Ideas .
Current Events Issues:
* Democracy, 3rd parties, the origins of the US Government, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. What ACTUALLY is: Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, Democracy, Feudalism, Plutocracy, Oligarchy, Republicanism, Conservatism, Liberalism, Constitutions, Federalism.
And what do those things mean to your life?
* The 2016 Election: why it went wrong (possibly Brexit as well) equating it to simple principles in the Dao De Jing.
* The Great Depression comparative commentary on the so called "Great recession" Economic Melt down of the Bail Outs, and the Economy relating to the neo "Tea Party" and how it got taken over by the corporate organizations it was protesting, "Occupy Wall Street", "Anonymous", and the media manipulation of news and events to turn politics into tabloids, ratings, and social media take over, including The Arab Spring.
* Rhetorical framing in politics, media, and manipulation of narratives, empty platitudes.
* How to spot if your own relatives, coworkers, bosses, and friends are actually manipulating you using "leveraging" or "gas lighting" and equating it to Socrates VS. The Sophists in Plato's book.
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I also feel like I want to break up the dryness of the seriousness of it, and may wish to include some comedic elements... persons like Jon Stewart & Lee Camp come to mind, among others. But, not a copy-cat of those.
Some Older References (somewhat outdated) :
Humor Commentary:
One of my previous films at UMASS Boston circa. 2016:
There are just a few elements I might take from this, but not so experimental & subjective or artsy...
Example of Unfiltered/Uncut ON-The-Fly Rhetorical Framing (2015):
Uncut/Unfiltered; Dismantling Preconceived Ideas (Sophistry/Rhetoric) Philosophically using commentary on Current Events [2015]:
Oh... The outpouring of human empathy was too much for you? But, don't call you out for not saying it's murder?
Um.... yeah, we DO think stricter gun regulations make sence, because our brains still work. It's called the AWB "Assault Weapons Ban" by Bill Clinton in 1994, which actually came about as a measure to address massacres like this, also worked, and was repealed causing this rampant problem to make more money for the For Profit Arms Dealers with their p[aid Lobbyists, and blood thirsty politicians that take bribes to perpetuate it. (CONTEXT: and YES these are WHITE PEOPLE typing this stuff, and oddly the post was by a bleach blond white woman.)
That law about stopping mentally ill individuals from owning certain kinds of weapons, was actually JUST repealed by President Trump...
And, somehow she managed to spin this about abortion, which is a medical issue, and also legal.
Did you know that the original Pro-Life movement started against the Death Penalty? You're SO SICK of hearing about the school shootings??? Really? you're NOT Pro-Life. You're brainwashed & ignorant.
Erm..... yeah, we have a guns problem, because tide pods & their users aren't massacring schools. Tide Pods are intended to CLEAN CLOTHING, not to be used in war, assassinations, or terrorism. What is the purpose of an AR-15 again? Oh, right. WAR.
Weird that you actually believed an entire generation of people were actually eating Tide Pods tho'. It was a meme.... no one actually ate them, unless they were gullible, and the joke was over their heads...
So, this one was some dude that didn't even bother to read the entire "debate" thingy I had with this other dude, but wanted to chime in with THIS ignorant remark. Somehow, in his arrogant, deluded, ignorant mind, he somehow thought this was some kind of GREAT COMEBACK LINE.
Except there's the fact that assault weapons of war were made illegal, we didn't have massive rampant school shootings, and paranoid gun-freaks still got to own, buy, and use guns.
Sometimes, I wonder if dudes like this cry if they have to get a needle at the doctor's office, or faint at the first site of blood. That's just wild speculation on my part.... but I wonder.... the bratty reactionary things they blurt out, and their utter disconnect with priorities, is astounding.
Sounds like a personal problem.... for Troy Allen Bridges in Cabarrus, NC.
So, just HOW OFTEN does that happen in your life?
Can you take a video of that the next time a soapy mouthed person is dazed & confused in your restroom?
Karren Lewis publicly started scraping the bottom of the barrel because they're getting desperate.
More victim blaming...
No, Karren, maybe when you were in high school YOU could actually afford to get a car, mit's a bit of a luxury these days, because those days are gone.... and texting while driving is NOT actually the same as a school being gunned down in cold blood. I've never heard of a body count higher than Columbine, like this one which was 17 deaths, by a texting while driving accident.
If the shooter had mowed down the students in the school with his car, THEY WOULD ALL GET INSURANCE. That's a LEGAL REGULATION. But, he used an ASSAULT RIFLE known as an AR-15 which is a weapon of war, and a machine gun. An automobile don;t combust your body apart, it's a blunt impact, and is NOT THE SAME.
ALL of my male relatives were in drunk driving accidents, (or even chemical spill accidents) often more than one, and they didn't get their legs or body parts burst off into minced meat, and the body parts that were broken could be salvaged with metal robs, or casts, and braces. That's also due to safety laws and regulations that they are still alive in AN ACCIDENT, which is also NOT THE SAME as a PREMEDITATED MASS MURDER.
My spouse and I have been Verizon broadband internet customers since the GW Bush Era. that's about 11 years! OVER A DECADE!
We got off of AOL after a MAJOR FIGHT because no matter how much we tried to end our sub par over-priced internet from AOL, they kept refusing to end our service, until we finally got it to end.
So, we went with VERIZON.
At the time, our internet speed was about an average of 2.8-2.9 MBPM but often went over 3. Even when Obama was president we could test over 5 MBPM!
Since about 2012 the internet service OFTEN was poor, and kept getting worse.
When we got our first smartphones, we could actually have up to 4 people on wifi streaming videos PLUS watch Netflix.
GOOD LUCK trying to get ANY video AT ALL to stream in HD, let alone HQ...
Poor video quality
Mind you, Verizon unilaterally jacks up the price, without our consent! WE DO NOT CONSENT TO THE PRICE HIKE.
Whenever you would chat with Verizon on twitter they could temporarily fix it. I should have to COMPLAIN every week to you guys to FIX IT! For $70!!!
At some point I figured out I could rerout the speed through the speed test, and Google video report. Good luck with that now.
I used to have to go in manually EVERY TIME to rerout the speed myself JUST to watch a VIDEO I paid $70 for sub par internet! NOW it doesn't even work!
Mind, you EVERYONE IN THIS HOUSE HOLD IS AN ARTIST. We UPLOAD graphics, videos, audio... NOTHING uploads now! NOTHING. you can;t even get Snapchat to work though the wifi! and, the iPhone actually will rerout to the data. Good luck trying to get Instagram to work! Netflix plays COMPRESSED! Trying to use Flickr is a NIGHTMARE! You can't upload, or edit anything in the editor! Oh? You want to upload a WAV or an AIF file!? TOO BAD! Sad day for YOU!
I actually had some work back in June that I was PAID well for but my internet wouldn't let a basic upload sync to DropBox! Talk about EMBARRASSING! Back in NOVEMBER it worked JUST FINE!
Also, my WHITE NEIGHBORS that pay VERIZON get regularly good internet... usually. So, maybe they're all starting to get ripped off also... soon.
Oh, but the WANG house hold! No we get RIPPED OFF!
Guess how much we get charged! About $70!
As I was chatting with Verizon yesterday, guess how many times they changed their story!
Oh, they often use the same line "this is what you can expect within YOUR contract" Funny thing is back in the GW Bush Era my CONTRACT was at 2.8-2.9 MBPS AVERAGE but often tested OVER 3, and during the Obama Era we could even get up to 5! So, NOW you're lying to me that my contract says 2.4 MBPS and I pay MORE! REALLY?
WHO DOES THAT MAKE SENSE TO???
Then I PROVED they were LYING:
VERIZON'S OWN Local WEYMOUTH AD!
VERIZON's OWN AD PRICE PLUS LOCAL COMPETITORS!
Then they CHANGED THEIR STORY.
"You don't have a contract, you are just a month by month customer".
Oh, really? Which is it? My CONTRACT or NOT A CONTRACT????
BUSTED!
Funny how when being called out on THAT LINE about the CONTRACT all of a sudden the STORY CHANGES.
Isn't that malfeasance?
YESTERDAY This page was FULL of VERIZON ads with cheaper prices and BETTER DEALS ALL DAY & NIGHT! So, where did it all go??? HMMMMM??????
If the price is going up, then WHY is the speed & service GOING DOWN?
DON'T give me any of that BUNK about: well: you didn't upgrade...
For $70 PRICE JACK no upgrades??? WHO DOES THAT MAKE SENSE TO????
No, you JUST want to trick us, deceptively into some package deal, or FORCE us to BUY SOMETHING ELSE! That's ILLEGAL!
It's ALSO a violation of the ELECTRONIC FUNDS TRANSFER ACT. Funds (ie "instrument") were accepted IN GOOD FAITH by a "consumer" for a thing of value or service.
According to the Social Contract during the Clinton Era, it was allowed that services such as cable Tv and internet COULD charge a fee for upgrades to services as to allow for continuation of better quality services... however, it DOES NOT allow for jacking up prices and reducing quality to artificially inflate stock and share prices.
You CANNOT operate under IMPLIED CONSENT.
Go to Google, Yahoo, or any Search engine type in your zip code and key words "broadband internet" and see if YOU are ALSO being ripped off. Check YOUR bill!
This is NOT how you treat a LONG TIME CUSTOMER!
YOU ARE CHEATING US!
YOU OWE US!
THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!
Oh, and BTW the Router we have has lights that NO LONGER WORK, but reps on the phone are like: Oh, that's fine! Really? I pay $70 per month! Funny how you swapped us out for a new router back in the Obama Era!
Don't give me your lies and excuses about contracts, and no contracts, and imaginary upgrades... and act like it's the CONSUMER'S fault! LEGALLY ur on the hook for better business practices!
It's 2017! Did you ACTUALLY think we'd just SIT HERE and TAKE IT???
* #1 THIS is the most popular method (but it took me several tries to get it to go through, and only worked at night) this method is pretty much guaranteed to get a reversal tho'. :
* #2 THIS one is the EASIEST one to get to work: KLICK HERE and follow the directions!
* #3 This method also worked but sometimes you need to try it a few times, at different times:
Altho' I HAVE worked in a bank, I am not legally certified to practice
law, am not a certified financial expert, nor can I legally advise. I
can only exercise my right to free speech in commentary ON all things
printed and published within the public domain. All of this information
is publicly available.
I reserve the right to be incorrect, to make mistakes, errors, and also to speculate on current events.
I also reserve the right to change my mind.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
This is the CLOSEST up-to-date INTRO I could come up with at this time:
I'm making this list of Videos to help STREAMLINE the comprehensive understanding.
July 23, 2017 New Update August 18
THIS IS A PROCESS.
YOU MUST GO THROUGH THIS, otherwise you won't be able to accomplish your goals, and what you deserve.
YOU ARE PROBABLY EXPERIENCING "THE OVERWHELM" RIGHT ABOUT NOW!
* Grab some Popcorn, a notebook, and a pen or pencil, push PLAY on the first video, and take notes. progressively move from one video to the next all the way through to section #4. It will probably take about 2-3 days.
* THIS site has the best intel & updates frequently: I UV
* Tips for what to BEWARE OF:
* Stay away from cults because MANY will try to suck you in with "spiritual" or "Biblical" jargon, and I've seen LOTS of those over the years,
* Libertarian sites because they're too aggressive & confrontational. Stay peaceful, and non-combative.
* You actually don't need to pay anyone. Many people are coming together, and helping each other out.
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#1:
I'm starting HERE because this video actually has a bunch of links (including INTERNATIONAL) and the comments are VERY ACTIVE. You can ask questions and get feedback:
FROM HERE ON DOWN they WILL GET INTO REVERSALS, and WHAT TO DO ABOUT THEM. EXPECT REVERSALS:
#2:
YOU NEED TO SIT THROUGH THESE 2 VIDEOS!
Get a NOTEBOOK, and a Pencil, and start jotting down stuff. If anyone mentions something to look up, WRITE THAT DOWN!
YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH IT TO GET TO IT!
#3:
I suggest you sit through THESE 2 VIDEOS ALSO:
YOU HAVE TO POUND THIS STUFF INTO YOUR MIND!
#4:
HARVEY STUFF got removed from YouTube
It should take you a few days to get through that.
If you've made it THIS FAR, hopefully it's starting to click, and you've moved past "THE OVERWHELM", because it's so overwhelming!
This stuff gets into some other topics, so hopefully by now, you should be able to at least understand how to navigate search engines, how to call in, and have an understanding that's functionally basic.
This stuff gets into FURTHER PARTS. I suggest you stay away form this if you haven't been through the above stuff. I'm still on the path with this, and I started back in 2010. So much as changed since I came back. (I could do a post about the differences... maybe)
If you want to try figuring it out, these have lots of clues in them:
Druanna:
Druanna gets into really advanced stuff. If you're not a Secured Creditor yet, don't even bother. She also DOES help International people, BUT she won't help ANYONE unless you pay her. She also is creating her own cult. Have fun with that.
But, she DOES give LOTS of info FOR FREE in her videos, with tons of clues, and much of it is similar to things I was privy to back in 2010. She does stretch some "facts" and spins some things towards her own personal biases... but, human beings kinda tend to do that.... So, don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
Regardless of your opinion of her, she does know a lot of her stuff.
If you are adept at fact checking, you can grab bits from what she discloses and figure out what to look up, or what to ask, if someone is more knowledgeable.
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Altho' I HAVE worked in a bank, I am not legally certified to practice law, am not a certified financial expert, nor can I legally advise. I can only exercise my right to free speech in commentary ON all things printed and published within the public domain. All of this information is publicly available.
I reserve the right to be incorrect, to make mistakes, errors, and also to speculate on current events.
I also reserve the right to change my mind.
Knowledge You Need To Be An Informed Voter: Documentaries & Investigative Reports You Need To Watch
I have assembled here a number of documentaries you NEED TO WATCH.
This will put into perspective, and within contexts, and subtexts, the actual truths of a number of "talking points" that are the platforms that politicians are running on, or campaigning on. This way, you can easily spot the lies, liars, propaganda, and fraud.
Set aside some time, and watch these. take notes.
If there's anything you don;t understand, just pick up your smartphone and google search it.
Go grab some popcorn and set aside some time to watch the films.
(It has taken me hours to assemble this information. And, it will take several more hours to get through all of this material. If I have given you the link to this blog, and you still try to give me nonsense sassy backtalk, it shows you have not even bothered to get through the material, shows your bias, and ignorance, as well as your total lack of self respect.) For the LIFE of my, WHY THE HELL is this misbegotten Libertarian propagandist radical right winger talking point spring back to life like a friggin' ZOMBIE?
Oh, that's right! It's a DAMNED PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEAR!
STOP SPREADING THESE LIES! It's a friggin' FARCE!
I could've sworn we settled this stuff a few years ago!
But, hey, un-welcome to the United States of Amnesia! Right?
The land of the un-free, home of the non-brave cowards, the revisionists, and the systematically Pavlovian programmed mindless idiots.
For the LAST TIME!
Social Security IS NOT BANKRUPT! And, AMERICA IS NOT BROKE!
STOP LYING!
Don't you remember all that blow-back in 2012, 2013, and 2014 when all of a sudden people called it out, ALL OVER THE MEDIA?
Because I DO!
I've sat in on conference calls, meetings, and seminars on this very topic, and my brain has no reset button on it...
I'm no mindless robot programmed to just accept anything I hear, or am told... No one, and NOTHING, is off limits!
Remember THIS article tweeted all over Twitter, and on social media? Because I Do.
You, know THIS ONE from Reuters calling out the BULL SHIT of Paul Ryan called "America Is Not Broke"
It also makes mention of FDR's "The New Deal", "The Great Society", and "the social contract", so if you have a High School diploma, or a College degree and you DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS, then SHAME ON YOU!
You SHOULD actually have learned and STILL understand ALL OF THAT. But, hey, Google is your friend if you're rusty.
Here's a direct quote from the article (if you haven't klicked n read it yet):
'This may be surprising, given how much we hear about a looming “debt crisis.” But annual budget deficits have fallen by almost two-thirds over the past five years. The total national debt is actually projected to shrink in each of the next three years as a share of the economy.
Exaggerating our debt does not advance smart fiscal policies. It does, however, undermine the social programs created by the New Deal and the Great Society by making their successes appear hopelessly unaffordable and doomed to failure. If our debt is out of control, then Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid would seem like unrealistic pipedreams.
Feeding the hungry, rebuilding our infrastructure and educating our children would sound like nice ideas, but too much for the government to handle.
That’s where the Republican budget comes in. For the past few years, House Republicans have passed a budget that radically reduces support for healthcare, economic opportunity and a safety net for hard times. By claiming to address an urgent “debt crisis,” it dismantles the social contract that Americans have made with their government for decades.' Now, moving right along to the propagandist LIES of the MYTHICAL idea that "Social Security is Bankrupt".
Utter rubbish trash!
It's simple basic math. Let me break it down for you:
You put money in, and then you get money back out... it also gains interest...
All year long, revenue gets generated, and that money gets collected. IT DOES NOT STOP.
I think a lot of the misinformation is due to George W. Bush abusing his Executive Orders as President. he was greedily after trying to raid Social Security which was so bloated with money at the end of Bill Clinton's administration.
Here's an article (CNN back when they were actually doing journalism & rating driven less punditry) that showed that in 2005 the media was a lot more keen on understanding the matters. In this article it explains how GW Bush kept trying to raid Social Security.
The term "privatizing Social Security" was a code talk meaning a way for banks and bankers to charge fees on THE PEOPLE'S MONEY, for nothing... in other words, a way to legally rob money and dress it up by calling it a "service". It's also a VERY similar scheme like how they got people to believe that Pensions are "a bad idea' and pushed people into "401K" so they could rob YOUR RETIREMENT MONEY blind, or even gamble with it (derivative, naked swap bets, insurance scams, high frequency trading, and fraud investments AKA "toxic assets") .
I've personally lost count of how many folks I knew lost their retirement either by the end of the 90s, or during GWB's rein.
"Service charges" are just a way of forcing YOU to pay money for NOTHING, and calling it a "fee" or a "service". many of these so-called fees, when dealing with banks or brokers, you can actually refuse to pay in person. You threaten to leave and take your business elsewhere if they don't remove the charge. they will fraudulently try to scare you and call it "insurance" even tho' it's already by law legally insured by the FDIC. You can also threaten to "make a run on the bank" which is scary talk to bankers, because whenever someone closes an account, especially in big corporate banks, it shows their name, and corporate entities often are profit or numbers driven, using what seems like sophisticated graphs, which they use to show to their board of investors, which also is used to make their revenue seem larger to the stock market.
If you STILL HAVE NOT WATCHED the "Frontline" investigative documentary report "The Retirement Gamble" then WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU????
WATCH IT!
It's actually VERY EASY TO UNDERSTAND!
It REALLY puts things into PERSPECTIVE. I suggest you take notes.
And you will SEE and understand JUST HOW BADLY you are BEING LEGALLY ROBBED from your RETIREMENT, and what to do about it!
SO, with THAT out of the way, lets move along, onto the toppic of HOW the propagandist idea of "Social Security is Bankrupt" is BULL SHIT FRAUD!
If you are looking for a brief summation of this in an article form this one here was a popular one from 2012, in particular it was also one I sat through a number of financial & political meetings/calls/conferences of people discussing this.
First of all, let's bring up the topic of FRAUD.
Fraud is basically presenting information as fact or truth, when it actually is false.
There are variations of fraud. In laymen terms there's what's referred to as "half truths".
But, on the legal end of things there's a MAJOR type of fraud which is known as "selective disclosure".
It means to present information about something to make it seem either favorable or unfavorable, but omitting all the information that is against what you are presenting as truth, also to make yourself seem better. Ergo, selecting disclosing SOME information, and withholding other information. A way of telling SOME truth, so as to appear to be truthful, in order to deceptively manipulate circumstancing in your favor, often with investments, money, policy, products, false advertising, etc. It's basically FRAUD.
It's also illegal. And, there's many laws on the books about many of these sorts of frauds.
See also: Malfeasance.
So, in discussing the phony made-up talking points about Social Security being "bankrupt" let's talk about the parts they just LEFT OUT, omitted, and presented as fact.
The idea that Social Security running out of money only would be true if we just suddenly stopped collecting revenue for it. These figures DELIBERATELY left THAT OUT. Every year, Social Security generates incoming revenue FROM YOU. As long as it does this, it will remain SOLVENT.
However, those whom keep on ringing this Pavlovian bell to their brainwashed base purposely keep that out because they WANT TO DISMANTLE Social Security. They do not want liberty, fairness, justice, or a Republic.
It's basic math.
Now, the program is still somewhat modest, and there's plenty of room for adjusting it.
It also makes money on internist.
Privatizing it would also make it less able to to help the people it is meant to. It's puts MIDDLE MEN into the mix.
Here are several instances of the actual facts that are easily digestible even for a laymen:
Ronald Reagan
Caught in lies about robbing and duping the American people and trying to rob Social Security:
Think tanks funded by The Koch Brothers For Libertarians to use Propaganda to brainwash people into thinking Social Security is bad for them, and other think tank cooked-up phony fraud:
Simple Math & Facts Solutions (circa. 2015):
The remedy to ignorance (the lack of knowledge about something) is education.
Educate yourself. Ask questions, and question everything.
You need to know some other cogent information about WHERE the propagandist think tanks came from that created the farce of the talking points on "a bankrupt social security". It has NOTHING TO DO WITH FACT. It has everything to do with the ideology of Libertarians, especially The Koch Brothers.
This films was incredibly popular when it came out. It's strange that people develop amnesia.
Another aspect to point out is the issue of "tax cuts". Tax cuts for the wealthy under George W Bush actually caused deficits. If you Google search the executive orders that he issues or even 'remarks" or "statements" in those files you can see a long list of his executive orders. It will take you days to read through them all.
Tax cuts take away from everything that benefits you, and everyone. Everyone has to pay taxes. Libertarians like to beat this drum that taxes are unconstitutional... that's because they're self aggrandized tax cheats and literally have a pro-selfishness & pro-greed ideology.
It was a popular idea in the 1980s that corporatists and libertarians actually proudly flaunted the idea of selfishness & greed as a good quality for the sake of the markets. There were even films from the 80s which were meant to portray these selfish, self-centered types as the villains they were shown to be in the films, however these individuals actually idolized the villains of the films.
This ideology was a sophistry/philosophy of greed & selfishness by Ayan Rand which she wrote books about such as "Atlas Shrugged". She also often gave interviews about how she hated Jesus and openly professed her hatred of helping the poor, and disdain for humanitarians.
This book was often popular with teenagers since it glorifies an "ideology of being an ass hole, selfish jerk". She was, however, a hypocrite and altho' she publicly jeered and mocked social programs, she actually frequently benefited from Social Security benefits via her husband.
A person whom was the most gungho and avid fundamentalist of this Ayan Rand Libertarian stint of policies that "the market was never wrong" and "the invisible hand of the market" extreme John Locke versions via Ayan Rand fanaticism was none other than Alan Greenspan.
Alan Greenspan was so smug, and so full of himself and this religious fervor of these Libertarian neoliberalism pro-corporatist pro-privatization ideologies that he was known to NEVER admit to wrong, ever.
However, when the markets crashed under GB Bush due to repealing of Glass-Steagall this fantasy of markets never being wrong, and regulations, and safety nets being unnecessary crashed with it.
When Alan Greenspan admitted he was wrong (because it was his fault) it was MAJOR!
WOW!
And, 2 more final films that would behoove you to watch:
