PBS - Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream

Program: Why Poverty?
Episode: Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) presents his take on the gap between rich and poor Americans in Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream. Gibney contends that America's richest citizens have "rigged the game in their favor," and created unprecedented inequality in the United States.
siftbotsays...

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, December 4th, 2012 4:26pm PST - promote requested by original submitter dystopianfuturetoday.

enochsays...

and what we have is capitalism?
is that the crux of your argument?
because let me present a more accurate and succinct truth to which economic system we live in:corporate socialism

quantumushroomsaid:

A PBS video? In other words, capitalism is evil because not everyone ends up wealthy, but THIS PROGRAM PAID FOR BY TAXPAYERS LIKE YOU, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.

kymbossays...

Oh, look out - QM has finished his self-imposed isolation following His Earness the Taxocrat winning the election!

Welcome back, QM. You just go on putting your head in the sand like the rest of the Republiwinners.

quantumushroomsaid:

A PBS video? In other words, capitalism is evil because not everyone ends up wealthy, but THIS PROGRAM PAID FOR BY TAXPAYERS LIKE YOU, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.

dystopianfuturetodaysays...

Are you not able to see extreme income inequality as a problem? Do you think it is good for a society to allow a tiny percentage of the population to siphon off and horde so much wealth while so many suffer? Times are a changing. Your economic philosophy has failed and failed badly.

quantumushroomsaid:

A PBS video? In other words, capitalism is evil because not everyone ends up wealthy, but THIS PROGRAM PAID FOR BY TAXPAYERS LIKE YOU, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.

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