Beck Critic Turns Ire on Americans: ‘I Think the People Are the Big Problem’
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The CNN anchor who recently bashed Glenn Beck for his comments on Muslim Terrorists has now turned his anger on the American people.
In an interview on CNN’s “Parker/Spitzer,” Fareed Zakaria responded to a question about turning around the economy by saying the American people are the problem, and aren’t as wonderful as they are made out to be. Instead, they are hungry overconsumers who must cut back on their appetite for things and accept “higher taxes.”
Transcript and video via the Daily Caller:
“No, I think the people are the big problem,” Zakaria said. “I mean, Americans — everybody wants to say the American people are so wonderful. You know, I think that when they come to recognize that they have to make sacrifices too that it’s not just wasteful — they need to have — they need to recognize that some of what’s going to happen here is fewer. They have to consume fewer things. They have to accept slightly higher taxes. And in the long run, you will have a much better economy.”
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Comments (438)
MichiganPatriot
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:46amThis guy is born and raised socialist …of course he has that opinion. That‘s why Obama see’ things thru a Socialist view.He is right the problem is the people, the Socialist and Communist people. We Constitutional Americans had a great thing going until these bozos started messing up the free market an dnow we have a mess. Once this gets sorted and the US is back on track these guys need to be removed from our citizen list or we need to add more safegaurds to the constitution that keeps Communist and Socialist views from hurting our way of life. They should be able to be heard as they should be able to speak their mind but not be able to change our basic principles. That is where we are hurting.
Report Post »nptden
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:00pmI agree..this dude is a Commie…and a big dude at Newsweek.
Report Post »` Zakaria wrote in Feb. 2008 that “Conservatism grew powerful in the 1970s and 1980s because it proposed solutions appropriate to the problems of the age”, adding that “a new world requires new thinking”.[13] He supported Barack Obama during the 2008 Democratic primary campaign and also for president. In January 2009 Forbes referred to Zakaria as one of the 25 most influential liberals in the American media.[8]
He’s a Harvard Boy…you know the Commie pipeline. Gives them certification in the ‘Commie club’. I mean….who else do we have that can think for us….
angelcat
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:45amThen go away and don‘t come back and stay away from all American people so you don’t have to be exposed to us. Good riddance!
Report Post »JGP
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:45amWhat does he know about Americans? Has this arrogant dumbass been outside of the beltway? Somehow when your in Washington you become a superior person and everyone else are problems.
Report Post »What he basically said was “shut up and hand over your money!” We aren’t under taxed, Washington spends too much!
Brad Wesselmann
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:43amAnd this little fellow needs to understand that is NOT what built this country, it is NOT what enabled the massive prosperity that this country enjoys and spreads throughout the world in foreign aid and it is NOT what will keep us in a position to allow liberty and freedom to prosper.
He needs to realize who is buying his book, who is paying to watch him on TV and who will throw his butt off the planet if he gets his wish of socialism…the very people he is supporting with his socialist views, not the good people of this country, which much to his disappointment I’m sure, are the MAJORITY of this country.
Report Post »nateums
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:42amobey
Report Post »afishfarted
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:42amSort of explains why 70% of Americans align themselves with the Tea Party platform. These knuckheads have had the podium too long and for too long we conservatives have been tolerant of their rhetoric. Which explains why they’ve made such progress with their agneda. Keep pushing back America
Report Post »Kinnison
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:42amElitist transnational liberal bozo.
Report Post »DarKangelAZRAEL
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 8:07amThat is priceless and a nail hit on the head.
Report Post »alcarfl
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:42amIf he’s not a citizen of this coutry, it’s time for his deportation. And not to Dearborn, either. Out, Zakaria. You bring nothing to America but things seen through your infidel hating eyes. Look at him. Look into his eyes. Then look into the eyes of the 9/11 terrorists, and then the ground zero imam. They are all the same.
Report Post »Major Infidel
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:42amIslam much there, Fareed? Of course we’re aweful Americans in your eyes, Comrade.
Report Post »will
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:42amSo, go back to India and leave us capitalists alone.
Report Post »CaptGregg
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:42amMore extreme leftist drivel from a CNN personality! I’m shocked!!!!!
Report Post »mrclean
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 7:12pmCNN is the VOICE OF ISLAM in America.
It’s a nightmare from hell.
Report Post »fred43
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 1:04ami would just like to say i‘m glad i found you guys i’m new to blaze and i’m stuck in the heart of the dems massauchsetts we only have 2 republicans in state goverment that i have heard of. I’m not along i say we split the USA in half right down the middle republicans on one side democrates on the other then all the unions can tax each other and the dems can let all the illegals they wont in and give them health care.then when the left is bankrupt we get back our other half back and well see witch side is better i see no other way.hha hha it will work trust me can you think of anything better
Report Post »Restored One
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:41amIs this guy a US born citizen? Why does he hate Americans so much?
Report Post »citygirl56
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 12:48pmNo he was not born here, Zakaria was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
OneRepublic4us
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 3:20pmWhy didn’t he just stay in his country and criticize it. Because he’s a coward. Instead he comes to the greatest country in the world, benefits from it and then tries to tear it down. GO HOME Fareed Zakaria.
Report Post »citygirl56
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:41amIf he dislikes us so much, Why doesn’t he go back to India? The United States of America has fed the world, we are the greatest givers on the planet Earth. He has the right to leave.
Report Post »Ronko
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:41amHigher taxes aren’t the answer idiot the true answer is less spending and less taxes so that you can encourage more people to go spend their money freely but alas you will never figure that out because you are too corrupted by your stupid liberal social Justice philosophy.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:40amwhy must WE cut back on anything if we are PAYING for it. we are prosperous, hardworking, TAXPAYING, intelligent inventers and creators and over-ACHIEVERS, and since coming here to these fruited shores we have done nothing for centuries but continuously WE IMPROVE our quality of life and our quality of LIVING. we AMERICANS are not running around wrapped in sheets, living in tin huts, eating goat and marrying 6 year olds.
get that damn muslim off our soil or put him under it. him and all his type can just strap on their bombs and go stand out in a stupid field somewhere.
gman46
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:39amMost people are beginning to understand that we need to cut back (at least those in the Tea-party/912).
Report Post »DMcPher316
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 12:58pmyeah, we should step back from this intitlement mind set alot of us have gotten into, but what ****** me off is that the ones telling us to cut back have NO intention of doing the same. It’s like Al Gore…”cut back on CO2….so I can spew more and live it up. Like it or not, we DO have a ruling class in this country, that is why we ne to term limit the bastards. As for this idiot…well…he has the right to say what he thinks…..even if he IS and *******.
Report Post »gman46
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:16pmDMcPher316,
Agreed whole heatedly. and yes we so desperately need term limits!!!
Report Post »BeckIsNuts
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:39amZakaria is exactly who we don’t need or want to hear from. Who is this arrogant clown to come to our country and tell us what we need to do? This would be humorous if it wasn’t so insulting.
Report Post »COME AND TAKE IT 2121
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 12:11pmAmen to that !!! Sure dosent sound like an American when he speaks. We should send him packing. Im not sure where hes from, but Ill bet his country wouldnt let us on national TV and tell there country there people are the problem. Im getting REALLY, REALLY tired of these people cutting down the USA. We should take all our troops and our money home. Let the UN resolve the worlds issues less the USA.
Report Post »Were the problem hua, well guess what every dollar that goes over seas for aid, peace keeping missions etc comes out of my pocket and yours. But were the problem….
BeckIsNuts
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:34pmExactly Come and take it. Muslims come here and want us to bend to their wishes, and if we go to their countries, they want us to bend to their wishes. Ever see Andrea Mitchell in a hijab (that’s a head scarf sgt. crusty)? YIKES!!
Enough is enough. No more tolerance for these Islamic interlopers. Especially Zakaria. Shut your falafel hole or go home.
Report Post »microace
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:38amSo, exactly where is this Fareed Zakaria from? Seems to me he isn’t American, so maybe he should shut his pie hole and go join Osama Bin Laden in a cave somewhere.
Report Post »Tal-El
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:45amMy educated guess is he is Pakistani. But that’s not the problem. The problem is that he is just a run of the mill classic progressive who is full of his own BS. Unfortunately, so are the vast majority of our politicians including Boehner and the ones who aren’t (Palin) cannot be elected because we are conditioned to think they are idiots.
Report Post »23mar03
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:38amYeah, buddy. Japan thought that way too and look what happened to them at the end of WWII.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:37amof course we are SHEEP and CATTLE to the NWO SCUM
Report Post »tketterer
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:37amStfu
Report Post »Gun_Slinger
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 12:17pmWOW, I don’t think I could have said it better myself. Not much more to say.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:36amWASTEFUL === Government! (it isn’t We the People!)
Report Post »NoName22
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:10pmGo to a restaurant and watch how many people leave food on their plate. Then say people aren’t wasteful.
That’s what the American People need to reign in……..A car gets you from Point A to Point B. I read some girl facebook status awhile ago saying, “it’s days like this that you appreciate the little things like seat warmers……” When luxury becomes a little thing, that is a lost view on life…..Wear a second jacket, a second pair of slacks……..You do not need a Mercedes to be happy. You do not need a big house to be happy.
America would do well to start reading the Tao Te Ching next to their Bible.
Report Post »winoceros
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:42pmthis is for NoName22
So if that potato didn’t go to waste, it wouldn’t have been purchased, paying tax and a wage at the restaurant. The supplier wouldn’t have made his penny. The farmer wouldn’t have grown it and the soil would lie fallow. The pennies spent by those in that chain would not have purchased other goods and services.
The potato will go to the ground or the compost, which is where it came from, creating value along the way, which, had it never been purchased, never would have created any value.
Where exactly do you get your economic ideologies? Grandma? A stern father at the dinner table?
Is my purchase of a second jacket more of a value and less of a “waste” than the purchase of a seat warmer?
The class envy is palpable. You are welcome to live your life the way you like. Others can appreciate and even admire your austerity. But your unabashed and vulgar judgment of what others do with income to create and perpetuate value makes you seem pretty small, and, well, Liberal.
I don’t need a car. I don’t need a computer to see “some girl facebook status” like you apparently have by just being here. You don’t need a second jacket, nor do you need any house. You can live in a monestary if your life empty of “things” gives you the most meaning.
But by no means should your judgment pass as some kind of policy idea or direction for any society that wants to prosper.
They would have spent the $100 anyway on dinner, whether they licked it clean or left it all. Maybe they just wanted the girl to go home with them…worth the $100?
Just pathetic and small thinking.
Report Post »NoName22
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 5:18am@Winoceros
Ever watch the Travel Channel? There’s a show where you can watch some fat guy do a eat-a-thon and try to finish an absurd amount of food in a certain amount of time. I wonder if that program would succeed in a nation where you’re lucky to get a piece of bread.
“So if that potato didn’t go to waste, it wouldn’t have been purchased, paying tax and a wage at the restaurant. The supplier wouldn’t have made his penny. The farmer wouldn’t have grown it and the soil would lie fallow. The pennies spent by those in that chain would not have purchased other goods and services.”
“The potato will go to the ground or the compost, which is where it came from, creating value along the way, which, had it never been purchased, never would have created any value.”
Ok, so potato is purchased and sent down the line to not be eaten????? Then goes in the trash after not being eaten, but creates value…..The purpose of the potato is to be eaten. That’s basically saying, “I’ll buy a house then burn it down to help the real estate market.”
“Where exactly do you get your economic ideologies? Grandma? A stern father at the dinner table?
The Bible. Funny how those two people contribute to that as well.
“Is my purchase of a second jacket more of a value and less of a “waste” than the purchase of a seat warmer?
The point is to stay warm. Both perform that function. One is made from cloth, can be used again and again with no added waste. Cloth typically comes from animals, lets assume it is a wool jacket. The other requires electrical power, which is provided by gasoline, which is a fossil fuel, requiring digging up of the earth…..Granted, if we had decent renewable energy, this would be less of a problem, but that won’t happen till Government Motors gets the foothold in the market.
“The class envy is palpable. You are welcome to live your life the way you like. Others can appreciate and even admire your austerity. But your unabashed and vulgar judgment of what others do with income to create and perpetuate value makes you seem pretty small, and, well, Liberal.
I have no quarrel with what people spend their money on. I’m just calling it like it is, a seat warmer is a LUXURY. Therefore, it is not necessary, it simply exists for indulgence. The little things in life, to refer to the quote, to me, are like sunsets, the tide at the beach, a good hug……you know, stuff that doesn’t cost a penny.
“I don’t need a car. I don’t need a computer to see “some girl facebook status” like you apparently have by just being here. You don’t need a second jacket, nor do you need any house. You can live in a monestary if your life empty of “things” gives you the most meaning.”
You needed a computer to argue with me. No, a person does not need a car, but they need to be able to get from Point A to Point B. No, a person does not need a second jacket, but they need to stay warm. No, a person does not need a house, but they need shelter, a home.
“But by no means should your judgment pass as some kind of policy idea or direction for any society that wants to prosper.
They would have spent the $100 anyway on dinner, whether they licked it clean or left it all. Maybe they just wanted the girl to go home with them…worth the $100?”
Yes what I am saying should never be made law or be a sort of policy idea. That‘s forcing people to think as such and that’s not freedom. It is my hope that people realize and understand on their own and seek to change their habits, without any such force. How would a person go about such things if it were never mentioned to them?
Maybe rather spending $100 on a meal a person didn’t finish to simply impress a girl for sexual intercourse that serves no purpose other than self-pleasure……..Save the money, invest the money, donate it to a charity, pay the bills, pay off credit cards…..
“Just pathetic and small thinking.”
It is pathetic and small thinking.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:35amYes the country would run a lot better without any people … a-hole! Who does this brain-trust thinks pays all those taxes the government runs on?
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:35amsomeone get that terrorist off American soil.
Report Post »Happy Killmore
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:52amYeah! Go back to Turdistan, Zakariah, or wherever the hell else you came from and take your damn anchor babies with you!
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:54amand Boycott CNN at the same time
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 12:06pm@Ger
I think everybody is already boycotting CNN, informally of course. :)
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:04pmHe is right. If people weren’t living paycheck to paycheck while still using credit cards so much before the gas boom, we really wouldn’t be in such a mess that we are in. It is not just the governments fault, it is everyones fault that couldn’t survive a minimal amount of time unemployed on savings they aquired during their years of work.
Report Post »Joseph_Plumb_Martin
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:34pmGood to know that racism and bigotry are still alive on this site.So much for restoring “honor” and the 40 day/40 night challenge.This is indeed nothing but the far right version of the DailyKos.
Report Post »fred43
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 1:31amIf we all stop paying taxes for 90 days no one would get thier hand out how would obama EXPLAIN THAT TO HIS PEOPLE WAITING FOR THOSE HAND OUTS since rich people never pay thier share that would clear this hole class warfare thing up fast.PS. to any dems reading no rich =no handouts look it up
Report Post »UMMAH GUMMAH
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:26pm.
The few Indians whom I have met who had good sense – and manners – all hate moslems with a passion. There must be some relevance to this.
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Report Post »cubber
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:34amYes, the people are the problem and the people will fix it. BE PREPARED.
Report Post »Happy Killmore
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:43amFirst things first, NO foreign aid! Keep all that money here, we need it. Also, no more charities for places outside the US. That’s right, Haiti, sit in your own squalor. We are the most charitable nation on Earth! I’m tired of giving money to these foreign ingrates! If we’re so awful to them, then let’s earn that AND keep our money.
dwh320
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:44amBe prepared and be ready to do as the founding fathers did… you will have no less to lose then they did.
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:48amAnd in this corner we have the Divine Right of Kings (CNN is the trainer) and in the opposite corner we have Capitalism. Guess which corner the tyrant is in. The people refuse to accept the tyrants promised of unearned wealth and security in return for their freedom. Shame on the people! The tyrant will be unable to display his benevolence. Http://commonsense21c.com/
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:53amHe‘s free to renounce his citizenship if he’s so offended by Americans. I‘m assuming he’s an American citizen here of course, maybe he isn’t?
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:59amI see….so you consume less and get taxed more and you have a better economy. I always thought that if consumtion went town that jobs would be lost. I guess where they make up for those jobs is on the additional government jobs that will continue to be created from all that higher taxation.
Report Post »AriBenTZion
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:59amFareed Zakaria was born in Mumbai to a Muslim family – if America and Americans are so terrible then why is he here? Leave.
Report Post »veteranproud
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 12:00pmleave it to a foreigner to speak for US!
Report Post »KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 12:05pmHe is partially right on this issue. The majority of Americans are wasteful and live in a cultural mindset of handouts and never taking responsibility but always blaming someone else. Granted, many things can be blamed on someone else like the traitors in Washington and those that sit in their council positions high above the average ignorant American peasant. However, higher taxes only promotes more wasteful government spending and handouts. Cutting taxes and cutting spending is the answer. Combine that with instilling faith, pride, and nationalism in our people instead of looking at the other side of the world thinking they have all the answers when they don’t. Our countries has always had the right path and the right answers we just need to get back on that path.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 12:06pmI think the SCUM bankers are the problem
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NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 12:18pmWe built this nation and produced the benefits and it ours to plunder so to speak. No one else has a right to what we have built for ourselves and families. It is not a pawn in the world government though we have protected everyone with OUR money and blood.
We are a soverign nation and yes we are going to protect it. We are protectionist indeed of OUR country and all that we have made it. SO everyone else can go to heck just like you are doing on your own but we will not follow your plan of self destruct as the EU, and Soros would have us do
Report Post »neverending
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 12:22pmCan’t happen soon enough.
Report Post »sedition
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 12:37pmWhen! When!! When!!!!! Enough already with these people. The news anchor should have Punched him in his face.
Report Post »marhee9
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 12:42pmThey had a special on “the liberal mindset” at donsmithshow.com. It’s amazing how Glenn can get under their skin. Keep it up Glenn!
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 12:43pmRight on, CUBBER!
Report Post »phatboypa
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 12:49pm“You know, I think that when they come to recognize that they have to make sacrifices too that it’s not just wasteful ” – I agree, we need to recognize that we send too much of our money over seas for not only goods but charity. Charity starts at home. Lets stop sending the BILLIONS to other countries for AIDS and every other disaster that happens in the world and start fixing our own problems.,
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 12:49pmpeople and protest are the problem
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jmanuola
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 12:50pmThe really sad part is this man’s sheer ignorance of basic economics. This is supposed to be a well educated man. And yet, he cannot figure out that taxes come from CONSUMPTION. We think that a sales tax is the only consumption tax, but it’s not. If the vast majority of Americans cut back on spending, then the sellers and manufacturers of the products we no longer buy as much of will make less money and pay less taxes. They will fire people, because they don’t need them. And those people will become more dependent upon a government that no longer is bringing in as much in tax revenue. MY GOD, how can people so well educated be so blatantly stupid?
Report Post »Ellie
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 12:52pmMost Americans HAVE been doing with less and getting less for the bloated taxes they already have paid for the entire length of the Obama socialist take over.
Report Post »sotuo
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:05pmI wonder what kind of place he lives in. Is he an elitist like the rest of them?
Report Post »wheredoesthemoneylead
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:19pmWe should all FOLLOW THE MONEY! It leads to the Swiss Private Banking! Beware the money changers! They play both sides of every conflict. The money starts and ends there UBS, GE, (The CEO’s Obama is meeting with) and all the Big GLOBAL companies get there money from “Private Equity” firms in Switzerland. It is a closed banking and society. Maybe they should be transparent!
Report Post »101
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:20pm.
Fareed Zakaria isn’t he a self proclaimed homosexual and his own Muslim people reject him for saying Mohammad is homosexual.
No1YaKnow
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:22pmUmmm.. we don’t have to ACCEPT the government taking more money to redistribute as they see fit. Elitism and ignorance of those in Hollywood and the media are the problem. Have a problem with it? Absolve your guilt and write the check out now. Dare ya Fareed.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:36pmAgreed, get the government the heck out of our way, and the people like this man at CNN (let him still voice his oppinion while that freedom exists though) then the People of America will FIX the problems we are facing.
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thepatriotdave
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:00pmFareed needs to have HIS taxes raised!
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Report Post »heyjim55
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:55pmThis Fareed is a member of the Bilderberg having attended their last meeting in Spain. This guy is also a self proclaimed elitist wouldn’t we all like to see what kind of consumer he is? how he spends his money. Blaming us for the worlds problems this guy travels around in private jets owns expensive homes and property living a lavish life style and has the nerve to say we caused this problem and we are all really bad people. This is one of the guys that openly advocates that the world needs to reduce it’s population by any means necessary. So if I may suggest Fareed that you take yourself out first by any means necessary in fact why don’t you take out your friends at the Bilderberg as well now that would certainly bring world peace and prosperity.
Report Post »BoiseBaked
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:58pmHacky Zak has it half right, Americans need to consume less and SAVE MORE! But instead of higher taxes, Americans want SMALLER GOVERNMENT. THAT’S NOT A STUPID WANT HACKY ZAK!
Report Post »jxyj01
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 3:54pmMost of you do not want to grasp the context of his point of view. Personal attacks does not change the facts, and if that makes your feel better, good luck with that. It is total cowardly to call some “UNPATRIOTIC” because he/she disagrees with you. Yes, in one way American people are the problem. There is a reason that there are two unfunded wars going on without declaration from congress for last 8-10 years. World War 2 lasted for 4-5 years. And anyone who opposes those wars become “Unpatriotic” by default. There is a fundamental law of war economics that Americans do not understand. If you fight a war on foreign turf for extended period of time and you consume your own resources and not of invading country, you go Bankrupt. Please, do your math yourself. 2/3 US GDP based on consumption. How long can anyone survive just spending money without producing goods. Fareed Zakaria is right when he says that Chinese should be celebrating thanksgiving when you spend your borrowed/printed dollars to buy Chinese products. Fareed Zakaria is making a point that it is time for Americans to sacrifice to the greater good in long run. For good or bad, Americans are in situation where both consumer and Govt spending is unsustainable. Without sacrifice from the Americans, US will cease to be what is it s today. Do you guys want to talk about monopolies. Milton Freidman said “monopoly cannot exist without govt support”. I haven’t seen anyone talking about monopolies. Monsanto controls 90% seed Market. Visit any truck driving flag waving farmer anywhere in US, and see to yourself how he cringes to save his own seeds to plant next season. If he doesn’t buy seeds from Monsanto, Monsanto makes sure he cannot plant his next crop. When Americans have become so timid and subservient, yes they are the Problem. When there is prosperity, there is a charity all around and everything is good, and when there is crisis on dining table, there is crisis all around. Look around the world, instead of mocking or scoffing poor countries, learn from them that America does not become like them. Human behavior does not change because you are American or white or black or Asian. If you were in Congo today, you will do exactly the same what is happening there. Wikileaks were supposed to leak a fraud at a major American Bank. Why Americans are not demanding and asking what is happening at banks. Where were Americans when Ben Bernanke said he will not tell how much money Fed Printed and to whom that money was given. Why is that you do not want to ask your govt what it is doing while you you spear no second in calling other “Unpatriotic”, “UnAmerican” or “go back home”. American people are the problem, and surprise, American people are solution also :)
Report Post »longhorn mama
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 4:01pm@jmanuola
Report Post »Those were my thoughts as well.
EgoBrain
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 4:24pmThe American people are wonderful, Idiot.
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tgarrett369
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 4:27pmHEY FAREED!!!! This is OUR COUNTRY. GET THE HELL OUT AND TAKE YOUR COMMY FAMILY WITH YOU. if you even have a family. YOUR NOT WANTED HERE. WERE GONNA MAKE YOU ILLEGAL. deport you
Report Post »BlazingPatriot
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 4:37pmFederal indictments have been issued against former Detroit Mayor and convicted felon, Kwame Kilpatrick, his father, Bernard and long time school buddy Bobby Ferguson.
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americaisbleeding
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 5:22pmAgreed. When the time for house cleaning comes we will start with the very worst ******** like this idiot and his ilk. What a jackass! You and I are the problem?!?!….because we won’t be “Europeanized”? Someone check his paystub, it must have come straight from “SOROS INDUSTRIES”. What a complete and utter idiot.
Report Post »olduffer
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 5:46pmZakaria attended The Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai. He received a B.A. degree from Yale University where he was President of the Yale Political Union, editor-in-chief of the Yale Political Monthly, and a member of the Scroll and Key society and the Party of the Right (Yale). He later earned a Ph.D. degree in Political Science from Harvard University in 1993,[1] where he studied under Samuel P. Huntington and Stanley Hoffmann.
I’ve wondered for some time “who is this guy?” The above description comes out of Wikipedia. So here we have a guy, who comes to America, attends premier universities, (most likely on your dime) lands a great job and then denigrates the taxpaying citizens who can’t afford to send their own children to college.
I a typical American, on my first job, worked for a dollar a day. I knew that the ‘American Dream’ was out there and all I had to do to obtain it was to be honest and work hard. I did. I and my fellow Americans built a strong vibrant America. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution provided the framework. We shaped a country where anyone willing to work could “pursue happiness” and fulfill his idea of the ‘American Dream’.
The Zakarias’s of the world, reject the values that we embraced that created a great nation. They come here, use the system to get themselves educated, and then denigrate working Americans who’s sweat and sacrifice created the institution that gave them a voice.
We are learning that we can reject those ‘voices’. We‘re finding ways to ’turn off‘ and mute the ideas of the Zakarias’s, the Obamas and the ‘Spooky Dude’. We’re waking up America…keep on doing what’s right, and we’ll get it back. God Bless America.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 5:50pmOH COME ON!!
Hey, Zakaria what are the odds that you and your few friends are right and the majority of Americans are wrong?
What are the odds that ethical capitalism that has made America the most prosperous and generous country in history, is as bad as your stupid opinion says it is.
If America is so bad, then why are you still here?…..Maybe because capitalism makes YOU rich?
How much do you give back?………..what a jerk!!
fixer
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 6:26pmright on!
Report Post »watchwoman
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 6:28pmBig, bloated Governmenmt is the problem.
Report Post »ozz
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 6:49pmNo we do not need to consume less. No we do not need to pay more in taxes. Yes we need to end the fed, seize there assets, and charge them with theft and treason. We have been robbed since even before 1913. Why pay the portion of the debt owed to them? Why we are at it we should toss the UN out too.
mrclean
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 7:03pmHe refers to us as “they.” Is he not an American??
His name sounds, well you know, MUSLIM.
Report Post »WVdad
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 7:07pmYes, if our hearts were into this new global government are trying to decieve us into, we would except that we need to consume less and pay more, but were not, so we wont, if you dont like it, move to china
Report Post »marysopinion
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 7:11pmRight and hey! I’m just as wonderful as this creep claims to be
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 7:17pmJXYJ you are so right about Monsanto. The Gov’t is protecting them. They are claiming farmers are using their seed when the farmers had never ever bought seed from M. M’s GMO seed are crossbreeding with every thing else including weeds so they can claim it is theirs because of the genetic marker. They are getting patents on seed that have been in the public domain for thousands of years simply by introducing a genetic mutation. Many times not knowing if the mutation is harmful.
Report Post »patriot308
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 8:05pmAgreed Cubber! And Fareed LET the door hit you in the ASS on your way back to India. HARD!!!!!
Report Post »fred43
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:54amright like our founding fathers did after the revolution they rounded up all the loyalest put them on a boat to englang that guy should be first on the boat when we fix this mess.
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 2:15amWhat country is he from? Let him go back .
Report Post »sheria-never
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:46amCNN is filled with Muslims, Zakaria is on his prayer rug dreaming of 72 virgins, he ought to go back to Pakistan where he belongs. He does not like America, he does not like the American people, well I’ve got news for him, we don’t like him either. Maybe you will lift off on your prayer rug and fly back to Pakistan.
Report Post »JKN
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:21amNo matter how much we give, and we have given an astounding amount to minorities over the years, it’ll never be enough… If this man is so against the American people and their greed for “things,” then perhaps he should move to another country.
Report Post »JKN
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:10am@ jxyj01…
World War II lasted six years, and I should know as my uncle died defending England. Furthermore, Americans are the hardest working people in the world, the most generous people in the world, and the most accommodating people in the world.
Americans work the hardest and receive the least amount of benefits and/or holidays – save for union employees – and Americans deserve to have a voice.
Oh and the ever-growing Tea Party movement filled with Americans of all stripes is using that voice and clearly rising up and demanding answers from our government.
Please do your math!
Report Post »1776LibertyBell
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:39amI could not agree with you more. The rest of the world and foreigner in this country don’t understand when the real American people wake-up they will stand up and there is no force on the planet that can stop them. The have been sleeping for the last several decades but they are waking up and they are mad.
Please help on on twitter fight the Glenn Beck hatemongers. My account is 1776LibertyBell join me!
Report Post »UMMAH GUMMAH
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:14pm.
This guy isn’t even an American. Throw him out and let’s be done with him. I’ll throw in Helen Thomas in a burka with appropriately placed openings.
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Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:50pmHe is correct.
Report Post »The 50% that don’t pay any taxes should be taxed at the same rate as all the people. Also the benifit packages should be slashed and that will keep the over consumption at bay.
Lantern
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 2:41pm“they are hungry overconsumers who must cut back on their appetite for things and accept “higher taxes.”
Report Post »Sound like another (closet) Muslim we know?
racialcoward
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 4:23pmHE IS RIGHT AND WE ARE PROUD AND GLAD TO HEAR THIS.
In the 1940s America stood alone in a World where Socialism was destroying democratic nations by force. Our grandparents did not surrender and we will not. We will prevail if we must fill up our FEMA camps with traitors. We are better armed today and are not facing a surprise attack.
THIS COULD NOT BE A BETTER CHRISTMAS GIFT SINCE BASTONE.
Report Post »touch
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 4:36pmHey Fareak?
If the American people are the problem, why don’t you take yourself back to the country you came from and stay their!
Obviously, your country’s government got it right, that’s why you live and make a living in America, huh?
What a LOSER!
Report Post »jgoodkind
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 4:40pmi hear the emporer saying ‘the deathstar is fully operational’… the people wont fix it, our fanatical leaders have to fix us (all the stupid little people… ) all they need to do is explain it to us untill we get it through our THICK LITTLE SKULLS!!! afterall, 2 and 2 is um… six, no…. four…. no… NINE!
The elite’s, they don’t understand the amoral Ba$#@rd$!!!!!
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 6:38pmFareed, you’re a douche bag. Live with that.
Report Post »Snapperhead
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:53pmTO that islam-o-mouth piece. From this American to your …”F*** Y**”
Report Post »We are not the problem you low life progressive mouth piece for Anti-Americanism, @ssWipes like you are.
BTW Ex-Gov Spitzer… YOur a Joke to..
YOOPER69
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 9:57amHappy,
Report Post »You are right charity begins at home
WVdad
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 10:57pmPeople are to blame, why, for not watching your program?
Report Post »jmparrish
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 7:12amWe need to cut spending period. . . . start paying off debt so that next year our interest payments are not as high and keep doing that until all the debt is gone. . .
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