The Week: GOP Warning Against Stimulus Spending Debunked, Amazon Exposed In Testimony

Professor of Economics, Stephanie Kelton, debunks common rebuttals from the GOP caucus on proposed stimulus bill spending. Research Director at The American Liberties Project, Matt Stoller weighs in on tech CEOs congressional testimonies on anti-trust laws. Author of Break' Em Up: Recovering our freedom from big ad, big tech, big money Zephyr Teachout discusses how the Biden administration could amend anti-trust laws.

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[krisniemczuk]

Our economy is about allowing a few guys to become billionaires and a handful of companies to become imperiums, rather than giving everybody a fair shot.

[nancykurtz]

Amazon
A company operated by scoundrels

[graemef]

In Germany they came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up
because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left
to speak up for me.”
― Martin Niemöller

[XxThunderflamexX]

So Jeff Bezos wants ownership of Amazon, but none of the responsibility for Amazon's actions. Got it.

[xmoragorax]

Andrew Yang was right all along... imagine that

[massboy]

I would laugh if it wasn’t so tragic.

Everybody buckled up for the great depression 2.0 And the continued Fecklessness from our Federal government.

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."
~ hates of hell

[garyrogers]

Mitch believes in spending when he gave his family 350000.00 plus in PPP but taxpayers we are broke lol💰💰💰💰🤑🤑🤑💰

[dasbrootal]

I feel like Krystal and Saagar's level of jadedness is the jadedness I've been missing since Stewart left the Dailey Show

[angelortega]

Everyone stuck on the internet but gotta wake up and realize that nothing gonna happen if you a keyboard warrior! Let’s all go to these politician houses, to the streets of our city’s, and bring everyone you know and start showing what we are truly made of!

[fastd]

Nobody who works in retail would be shocked by amazons CEO's comment. I worked for Walmart 10 years ago and one of the most common comments from managers was a variation on " I'm not going to tell you to break policy, but you need to do what you need to do to get the job done.". As long as you were on their good side nothing would be said, but if you got on another managers bad side or they needed to fire some people to hit their quarterly numbers suddenly you broke policy and your asked to quit or be fired.

[robertzuniga]

Why do we pay taxes? If we can print endless amounts of money! Why don’t we pay everybody 6000 per month forever?

[talylife]

Why is Saagar still a conservative if he is slowly realizing that the GOP is on the wrong side of every major issue? It’s not that u needed a major pandemic to expose the GOPs flaws in so many areas from the healthcare system, environment, ethics, governance, helping regular people, and overall competence. Anyone who watches CSPAN on some of these panels and testimonies can see the types of questions both Dems and GOP ask, which reflect their knowledge on the topic, and the GOP constantly comes across as uninformed, ignorant, data-resistant, unscientific, and living in the past.

[davelester]

Biden needs to support Medicare 4 All. The people need it now more than ever.

[longbeach]

Here is my advise to business owners who sell on Amazon. Build your own online store. You can use Shopify e-commerce platform or you can go more custom free route which is get website hosting platform and install WordPress then add Woocommerce plugin. I built a store for selling electronics online recently using web-hosting and WordPress. I would never use Amazon, Ebay or any marketplace. Of course Amazon will do this because they got a leg up. Copy someone idea then sell it cheaper. As I say if you are a business owner on Amazon, please make your own store, then Amazon won't be able to do this. CEO of Amazon just said live on camera cannot guarantee that Amazon is going against its policy and seems to refuse that he will do anything about it. The benefit of using Amazon or Ebay is the free traffic of customers but in the end you are in a competitive environment and second you got the marketplace copying your products and sell them cheaper. Using your own store, just do advertisement to get customers and build social media profile.

[stephenhood]

The reality is, the more spending thats done while small business is being handcuffed only further transfers wealth from the amwrican people to corporate America

[rrosaseconda]

Please keep inviting these two brilliant women on Rising. We need to hear their voices of reason on a regular basis. Thanks!

[frankgriffin]

Printing money is not a solution. If no one creates things what are you going to buy? This money also needs to be paid back. In the very short run printing money can smooth things over but medium and long term it is a disaster.

[vernonchikchadwick]

This Saturday segment is the best of Rising. It cuts out all the off-the-cuff embarrassments of the week and niche pounding and highlights only the superbly rational points made by specialists in their fields of expertise. Even the hosts are more relaxed because they can sit back and let other, more accomplished voices do the work for them.

[michaelprozonic]

Bezos didn’t say he doesn’t;t know if people follow the rule. he said he can’t guarantee that no one has ever broken the rule. There is a difference

[MaryJohanna]

There are so many "provisions" in the package that should not be funded currently. They need to focus on keeping workers safe and not fund some military fighter jet. Our $ value is losing against other currencies and Putin/China can't wait to remove US Dollar as world trade currency.