The 2008 presidential candidate for the Socialist Party USA, Brian Moore, was on FOX News last Saturday, April 11th. He was on a panel discussing the economy. The following is an excerpt from the show:
Public Support of Capitalism Dives; Signal for White House to Tax and Spend More
Jonathan Hoenig: Yeah, I mean Terry, the president already pushes this notion that capitalism has failed, right? That profit and self interest are bad, and that what we really need is this selfless government to allocate assets the right way. So hell yeah, you’re going to see higher taxes, higher spending and most frightening is bigger government ownership and control of almost every element of American life. I think it’s a major, major problem for this country.
Brian Moore: Well, no, this is not a green light for Washington. But it is a confirmation and a recognition that the free market system just doesn’t work. And a recognition that the wealthy benefit. And the tax cut by Bush back in 2001 provided about four trillion dollars to the wealthy elite at the expense of the average taxpayer.
Terry Keenan: The average taxpayer had a lot more jobs back then, a lot more jobs created during that period than we’re seeing now, that’s for sure.
Brian Moore: Well, you combine that with the bailout, and the six trillion dollars that the Federal Reserve has given to the financial industry, and we’re looking at system of capitalism that only benefits the wealthy at the expense of the little guy.
He also appeared on FOX in February to debate economics:
Bush was out of office and it wasn’t the military running up the debt.
It still is.
Fox is trying to recast the image of the Republican Party as a party of fiscal responsibility.
Fox started caring about fiscal responsibility once Bush was out of office and it wasn’t the military running up the debt.
Fox is trying to recast the image of the Republican Party as a party of fiscal responsibility.
FOX has really turned around. I like to watch them nowadays
The thing is, I’ll take these guys over the Republicans and Democrats any day. Most third parties agree on what the problems we face are. We differ greatly on the solutions (and, in my opinion, the LP offers the only sustainable viable solution) to them ought to be. The R/D cabal, on the other hand, doesn’t even have any desire to even consider addressing the real issues which we’re talking about.
The problem with the socialist parties out there – and this includes the Greens – is that they think government can fix problems when government IS the problem. The most important thing to remember is that no matter what, humans are going to be making the decisions and doing the work. Whether they’re government humans or non-government humans, they’re still the same old humans. Giving humans the level of fiat authority that government mandates is simply dangerous.
According to email sent to IPR, “since the campaign, Brian (Moore) has become somewhat of a regular guest on fox”
Good going FOX! You nailed hs socialist ass!
For some reason I can’t update the post to include the link to the FOX story that I forgot:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,515175,00.html