Nanny State says:

headline should read “Clueless juvenile 15 year old who looks 70 tells CBC to Shove it then Storms off to his Bedroom in a Sulk”
someone should tell this clown the government regulates the country including the banks, if they have a problem then blame Obama.
Occupy Wall Streeters are 99 percent douchebags.

Calgary left wing nutbar says:

The show Chris Hedges was on is Canada’s CBC network’s answer to FOX news nazi garbage.

I’m surprised he would consider going on that show, the ads for it on CBC are VERY annoying. CBC is in a long spiral descent to oblivion. No longer an unbiased national broadcaster… But for ratings stooping to the tactics of American “news”….

Total garbage.

Good for Chris Hedges for sounding off!

Charles Aulbach says:

Chris Hedges clearly has no idea what caused the mess that this economy is in. The reality is that it was caused by a large number of foolish people who got themselves into debt way past what they could afford, then defaulted on repayment and acted like it was the fault of the big banking corporations. Because Fannie and Freddie May were strongly encouraging irrational loans then reselling them to the large banking corporations they created loans that were worthless, which the banks bundled with more reliable instruments and got insurance for them from AIG. With massive mortgage defaults the entire FedGov scheme fell apart, but the directors at Fannie and Freddie made big bucks. The hit was taken by the banks that bought the mortgages from the government. If anyone is to blame it is the Democrats who perpetrated the insanity that everyone has a right to own a home, and everyone else should give them money so that they can buy one. Of course a bunch of Republicans helped out because a lot of their constituents in real estate, construction and mortgage lending (these are the small time crooks) were making big bucks and wanted to see the money machine keep cranking. Home construction provided fantastic jobs for illegal aliens from Mexico and Central America, and big profits for construction contractors.

Be sure to ask all the protesters how much they paid in taxes last year. Did they vote? For whom? Who do they plan to vote for next year? The answers to these questions will tell you what their agenda is.

deowll says:

This guy stated he is a fan of Carl Marx. What ever else you want to say about Carl Marx his disciples have demonstrated beyond any reasonable shadow of doubt that Carl Marx knew less about economics than a hamster.

They killed people by the millions implementing his economic polices and turned nations with food surpluses into nations with starvation. Take a good look at North Korea.

The problem with handing all the under people the same pay check is you need to give somebody a loaded gun who will use it to go out and make them work because nothing you, the worker, can do will buy you more than the lowest butt dragging slacker on the job site so all your work force wants to do is get drunk and stay wasted. I base that on Russia. In most other locations the under people couldn’t get their hands on enough booze to get drunk.

Of course the party members normally do a lot better but many of the party elite in the Soviet Union actually grew enough food to feed themselves at there little country cottages that were taken from somebody less worthy.

The only people that thinks this stupidity works are people like our author, Hugo Chavez, Dallas, Congressional Democrats and the mad men running North Korea. You won’t find the Chinese pushing that BS. They tried it and paid the bloody price.

Now they are going for the gold and life for the masses has gotten a lot better.

Of course I’m sure some of you want to bring the joys of Maoest China to the US so all the sane people can do is to try and stop you not for your sakes but ours and those we love.