TED decided this was too paritisan to release

[Small Family Farmer]

I am soooo disappointed. For years I've been impressed with the content included at their site. If you don't know of it, TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design..

This is their mission statement: Spreading ideas.

We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.

APPARENTLY THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE ALLOWING A VERY CONCISE, ACCURATE EXPLANATION BY A MEMBER OF THE ELITE THAT DEBUNKS THE IDEA OF THE ELITE BEING THE "JOB CREATORS"

Now thanks to your buddy the small family farmer you can watch the clip TED initially banned and make up your own mind. Did TED sell out?

[Andrea]

He sounds like he has read Robert Reich's book, Aftershock. It's so obvious once you point out that just because someone is 5000 times richer doesn't mean they spend 5000 times more money. They can't. One can only use so many luxury yachts. Give $10 more pay to a rich person and he sticks it in the bank where it does nothing for the economy at all because banks aren't lending anymore. Give $10 more pay or UI to a poor person and every bit of it is spent on food or socks or gas to get to work. It's all stimulative to the economy. None of the amount given to the rich is.

Back in the 50s the rich were taxed at a 90% rate and we had extremely low unemployment. They were still sufficiently motivated to employ people. And the guy is right. Let's stop calling them "job creators" with it's phony exultation, and get back to calling them employers.

It's a very good presentation. I'm not surprised that TED called it "too partisan." I was not familiar with them until a few years ago when they started putting on a conference here. Each time they are in town, someone representing them appears on our local NPR talk show. They are very elitist. They are socially liberal, but they have no consciousness of the poor in their interviews (nor does the host ever show any). I think they also try to keep party out of it to keep the rich people buying the amazingly expensive tickets. IIRC, they are hundreds of dollars for the one day event. He could have left out the reference to the parties and still made his argument, since Democrats these days are just as much in thrall of the rich as the Republicans. That might have made it harder for them to justify not releasing the video.

[jtuck004]

99% of you people are field negroes, and your betters have told you to talk about jobs. Not demand.

Them's the rules.

Now get back to work. The cotton needs pickin' and the Walmart needs greetin'.

And gimme' those books and that video. You know they are illegal, they just stir up trouble you don't need.