How Reagan's NEOLIBERALISM destroyed the middle class: Thom Hartmann

As always, the right-winger (Fascist) here ignores facts and continues to parrot their ideological, counter-factual BS.

Who are the two men

The suit has no clu..

BS totally

Globalism only works with heavily subsidized transportation. Cheap gas, roads, trucks, etc destroy the balance of power needed for true free trade.

Sorry, I am Liberal and pro union, but no neoliberal but Protectionist trade policies may be popular (populist) but won't bring jobs back any more than stopping Japanese cars from selling in the US will. China was and is third world nation and has cheap labor. Hamilton's plan for a New America and Chen's plan for a New China works and the loss of jobs is not just off shoring but change in all sorts of things like automation and supply chains. We want cheap goods in the market for standard of living. The Reaganomics pushed the money to the top and lack of Unions kept the bottom down but international trade leads to increase productivity and higher wages. Sorry your economcs is not correct.

This Robbie guy is a corporate hack!

Robbie is so out of his realm ha

FREE TRADE RUINED US.We gave our Wealth to China. Nixon and Reagan ruined it. Clinton also carried the torch to please them and they still despised him. What a waste.

Between Nixon opening up China and giving away our jobs ( free trade) , and Reagan creating homelessness and mass shootings with his defunding and dismantling of the major mental health care hospitals for every state, these two men especially Reagan rigged the system so it could never work the way it was supposed to where the wealth went in a circle that made many rich people happen. A huge middle-class Reagan shook the piggy bank and spilled it out into the streets. Trickle-down the economy they called it and they should take responsibility for the massive homeless and mass shooting that exist today. Big Government works it keeps us all safe and the middle class robust, and the poor enough money to pull themselves up. For republicans who care so much about spending they sure do spend a lot.

Orange man had the idea but not the execution

The demise of the middle class has come about because the unions, through their unrealistic demands, caused hundreds of major companies to move their manufacturing plants abroad, with the loss of millions of good-paying jobs. The situation has been exasperated by Biden and his handlers opening the border to millions of illiterate, unskilled migrants who have poured into America, and by Congress running up the national debt to $31 trillion, or is ot $32 trillion?

and now the democrat party have become just like the 1980's GOP.

Walmarts first chinese made clothes that they offered were sold under the name "Faded Glory". Lol.

I love how the guy (Robbie) who thinks he’s the conservative in the room is ACTUALLY the neoliberal. and he doesn’t know because he is IGNORANT of our history! some American he is!

Yes, but as Hartmann himself has said, NAFTA was the brainchild of Bush Sr., not Clinton, Clinton just went signed on to it.

Thom Hartman is brilliant. The interviewers are idiots. They don’t listen, just keep repeating their agenda. Pay attention to what Thom is saying.

Good points by all. Thom needs to address Robbie’s questions and points directly instead of avoiding them to better push his points. Especially obvious when Robbie asked about specific ways we can bolster our business sector by derestricting domestic businesses in ways that will make it cheaper for them

He should push for the amendment to the decision made in Citizens United v. FEC

Thom Hartmann is suggesting the wrong track which is protectionism

The right blames workers for driving jobs to China, when in reality, China wouldn't have been able to pull it off without US corporations investing and supporting the move. Low price goods are a sorry substitute for a good paying job. We were conned.

Privartization has been a scam to allow the rich to buy ownership of public services and cut wages and benefits of those who do the work. It has not saved money nor made services better. It simply helped transfer more wealth to the rich.

Toms plan only works if we have wars, the Great Depression lasted over 10 years and only ended with ww2, now we are in another war, saw the union bankrupt companies and decimate our pension funds, corruption comes with power.

The Problem is now, the American government is being controlled by the rich and the government has no say to its citizens. Americans have no solution they merely acknowledge their boat is sinking. Only, doomsday awaits. Soon you will become like Rome. The only reason for the sinking boat is because the US has forsaken its foundation that is built on Christian Faith. The Sin City is in the US, they have done things that are an abomination to God. Repent and you will be restored lest you become once the mighty Empire of Rome.

And I can’t believe that
Himbo tried to debate Tom Hartman

"Neoliberalism" is an unnecessary ism. It is a new name for something old in the US, going back to the writing of the Constitution. The condition was relieved for about a decade during the FDR administration, when out of fear of the Communist and Socialist Parties labor unions were aloud to strengthen and social reforms were enacted. With the end of WW2, in 1947 the Taft Hartley Act was passed, the rise of unions was curbed. By the time of Ronald Reagan and his crushing ot the Air Traffic Controllers' union, the working-class's day was over. The country had been returned to the wealthy imperialists of the 19th and early 20th centuries. "Neoliberalism" is just their rule.

The problem isn't that America doesn't make profit from the current system, rather it isn't distributed fairly. I'd like to see improvement of the income distribution, over destruction of the present economic system

Give tRump credit for anything? Anything he might have done would have been bullsh*t ways to push his authoritarian agenda. If he really did do something, it would've been good; but he's a lying rich person who wants to run the world.

Robbie like most neoliberal “libertarians” refuse to read what Adam Smith actually wrote, for example he was against monopolies, joint-stock companies, landlords and passive wealth creation. They refuse to read what Jefferson wrote protectionism and anti-monopoly and self sufficient opportunities.

And instead naively believe in Hayek, Misis, and Friedman whose real job was to create oligarchy. Perhaps a diverse oligarchy at best, meaning multiple players but it is still oligarchy, and that is only in theory in reality you get what Hartmann describes here.

I hope for the day when Reagan is viewed as a traitor to the country and not a hero.

It baffles me that bases on both the left and right thinks the other side is the boogey man when it’s OBVIOUS the country strives when they’re in harmony.

And Democrats voted for him! They're called Reagan Democrats, YIKES!

Start voting third party.

It was nice to see that robby kid (looks like a kid to me) get bopped around by a seasoned (and knowledgeable)old timer like Thom

Blue suit guy didn't know what direction to go

You people do understand that tariffs are paid by the companies that import the goods and that gets passed along to Americans, right? China doesn't pay a cent on the increased tariffs. This is a dead horse. Let it RIP.

This must be one of the most valuable and informative segments this channel has ever produced.

This kid uses the word "boogey man", but he and Republicans have done a good job convincing people that government and its agencies and programs are bad and the "boogey man" or that unions are bad and have destroyed America and the middle class with their fear mongering and culture war bullsh**.

Good vid. Glad I found it. Thom Hartmann has it right.

This guy is advocating for China ???? A country where it’s citizens are all trying to escape ?

Poor kid could not keep up with Thom. Right-wingers love to vote against everything that helps people, even when it also helps them. This shows how well CONservative networks and talking heads have brainwashed the right-wing base.

Excellent.

THOM HARTMAN IS A GREAT WRITER BUT THE "KEN" OF THE HILL IS THE REASON THAT I DON'T WATCH THIS PROGRAM‼️

That young man articulates the fundamental Conservative economic arguments and Thom Hartman easily shoots them down. Finally he admits he is running in circles. Conservatives cannot prevail against anyone who has a firm grasp of the facts.

Robby arguing about ending regulations. You could end all the regulations here in the US and we still could not compete with China on the cost of goods. Thom could not have made it simpler to understand, they have cheap and free labor...smh

Basically US politicians and corporations couldn't care less about Americans. Corruption, lying, stealing, cheating, stabbing your fellow American in the back for money is the new American society or mode of operation. This is the reason the US looks to be falling apart. American politicians are supposed to care about and for Americans, not undermine them while helping corporations and the rich.

Get rid of tax breaks for multi corporations that do business with foreign country’s !

He really pwned that little twerp. I love seeing young conservatives look baffled and sad.

Thom Hartmann is so awesome!

Hartman should run for President.