. >> and now, john stossel. >> 11 or presidential candate. here is the independent women's forum. john: gary, he you heard anything that impresses you? >> if somebody's going to do ings with executive order and that is scary. john: that is what we want, all of tm to focus on their lie and their hope. >> we had to have legislation to accomplish for all of the things and they have all of the pportunities to do things by executive orders. >> you'd think tht he would want to xpand executive power quietly and secretly in a clandestine sort of way. but he is blatantly telling us that i'm going to bypass your representatives in congress and our representatives in congress and up and cheer. so that makes no sense. john: charles? >> he came to the chamber as he has before and said the whole chamber was united with was a creepy thing to say because people disagree. and it's bizarre for an executive to stand firm as elected person. john: he he's had i made job crtion happened. >> the lowest uneployment in the rebounding housing market in the manufacturi

john stossel says yes i say no. the debate coming up. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. hi i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching under the circumstances tonight. freedom of speech under attack from the left. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. the american civil liberties union the aclu set up to protect predom of speech in america it's a committed left wing outfit. now, some other very liberal people are trying to shut down free speem speech and the aclu is silent about it here is a vivid example. writing in the harvard crimson paper editorialist sandra corrine says it's tempting to decry restrictions on academic violations of academic freedom. i would encourage student and worker organizers to instead use a framework of justice. after all, if we give up our obsessive reliance on the doctrine of academic freedom, we can consider more thoughtfully what is just. now, isn't that swell? editorialist sandra korn wants to stop academic research, an opinion contained in that

. >> and now, john stossel. >>> are you a victim? i won 19 emmy awards for protecting victims, protecting them by exposing sleazy companies like the one selling the solar powered clothes dry ar, 50 bucks. what did they get in the mail? a clothesline. >> this is chemical spray to make you feel younger. >> a ugly facial thing. >> there was my job i am a consumer reporter. i should warn you about scams. the media always goes over board and at 2020 we did. >> faulty coffee makers may have caused fires. john stossel what you need to know brewing disasters. >> did you ever get this story. >> tear ray went under cover to see how this the under cover works. >> sharing a meal in a stranger's home. they have become more common. insiders tell us they are completely unregulated. >>> oh my goodness unregulated dinner parties. gavin mcginnis is a columnist for the magazine and writes about it. >> they think that they need to get in there and regulate. they don't have a degree in business. they have liberal arts degree. they don't run the numbers.

. >> joy, john stossel. >> whenever there's a problem politicians claim the answer is more laws, more regulation. obamacare will make medicine better. dodd frank will stop problems in banking. >> they believe paper and pro r proub will fug- -- >> smart regulation. they always say that. apparently this dodd frank, this is smart, except after the collapse in enron a law called cher bane was supposed to stop but it didn't stop persbernie f madoff. >> you get more rules. government is a hammer government is force. when you have the hammer everything looks like a nail. but there is a better way a private sector way to protect consumers without force. the power of reputation. i will go to a movie any more, i won't go without checking the rotten tomatoes web site. when i travel i always look at what other tourists wrote about hotels i might stay at. i trust this more than any certificate of approval from department of business regulation. libertarian radio host, liberal host says... >> look at all of the trees that died for that, huh? >> stop financial fraud not just the beginning. >> if we

the ♪ ♪ >> now it's time for john stossel. john: battle of the ages is the title of the show.tween generations. the celebrities are bad role models. ♪ ♪ john: we will get to miley cyrus later. at first, my generation is running a scam. we feel for you young people. >> would be doing? >> i'm old and i need this. i need to take the scooter. >> hey, give that back. john: i don't normally grab things from kids. the because of medicare and social security, we give it to people my age and older even if we have plenty of money. most older people are richer than young people. and yes, the 30-year-old our tax to pay for my health care. this is why say america should cut entitlement. medicare and social security will suck every penny away from young people. young people at the coalition of reducing spending. obviously you want spending reduced, but it suits that so the government should spend more. >> they will get older, they will get older every year, someday they will be old people and they will need retirement and purity and health care. john: this is unsustainable. we are taking to

. ♪ ♪ >> now it is time for john stossel. john: some will be more successful than others.be they are smarter or they work harder or they are just luckier. whatever the reason in the global economy, that success kids magnified. michael jordan has made much more money because he could do things like sell these t-shirts in china. because of the free market, globalization and new technology, a result is growing inequality. it has been viewed at least 13 million times. >> the poorest americans don't even register in it they are down to pocket change. the top two to 5% are actually off the chart. the income inequality has gotten worse and the reason is a ceo makes 400 times what the average worker makes. and what you are talking about, when it comes to corporations whether it's wal-mart or mcdonald's down the list, the top echelon of the corporate world makes it exceedingly larger amount of money than workers do. and microsoft made it a good wage. and you have been doing all the business with china all the time,. john: it is true that we have a big gap between rich and poor. tho

sure that you have a device to ♪ ♪ >> and now it is time for john stossel. and. : whenever there is a problem, politicians claim that the answer is more laws and more regulations. obamacare will make medicine better. dodd-frank will stop problems in thinking. and this is how bureaucrats and lawyers believe. they believe that will fix things. america's lawyer in chief leaves that. >> we need smart regulations to prevent irresponsible behavior. john: smart regulations. they always say. apparently this is smart except after the collapse of enron they also were supposed to stop financial frauds like bernie madoff and others. government is a hammer and government is force. when you have a hammer, everything looks like this. but there is a better way and they private sector way. the power of reputation. i won't go to a movie anymore without checking iran's maeda's website. when i travel i look at what other people say about the hotels. a test is more than a certificate of approval from the department of business regulation. jason lewis agrees and alan colmes says this a

that is exactly what fox does every day with the exception of the one hour every two weeks where john stossel exposes how homeless people are scamming the system. how does fox news respond to to outrageous yet completely accurate charge. >> our commander in chief does d- what he does best and tried to change the subject. >> picking a fight with fox news. >> he tried to turn night an attack on fox. >> jon: brilliant move. deflect the spotlight from your scandals by doing an interview with fox about them right before the most watched event in the history of television. that obama keeping it on the dl of. [laughter] [ applause ] this isn't the first time that fox has caught yoab hiding his scandals by doing the old squirrel look over there. take the obamacare rollout. >> trying to change the subject away from obama obamacare to immigration. >> income inequality. have you chase rabbits. >> news of the deal dominated political talk which means focus has shift add way from obamacare. it's another attempt to distract from the disastrous rollout. >> he is talking about equal rights for gays and lesbi

. ♪ ♪ >> now it is time for john stossel. john: some will be more successful than others.be they are smarter or they work harder or they are just luckier. whatever the reason in the global economy, that success kids magnified. michael jordan has made much more money because he could do things like sell these t-shirts in china. because of the free market, globalization and new technology, a result is growing inequality. it has been viewed at least 13 million times. >> the poorest americans don't even register in it they are down to pocket change. the top two to 5% are actually off the chart. the income inequality has gotten worse and the reason is a ceo makes 400 times what the average worker makes. and what you are talking about, when it comes to corporations whether it's wal-mart or mcdonald's down the list, the top echelon of the corporate world makes it exceedingly larger amount of money than workers do. and microsoft made it a good wage. and you have been doing all the business with china all the time,. john: it is true that we have a big gap between rich and poor. tho

it seems like the smart course would be to reduce regulation, adopt the john stossel rule, your colleagueevery law is passed, take off two other laws, reduce two other regulations, or more, to unleash the private sector. i think this is also very important, that the number one domestic challenges are long term. fiscal picture are unfunded entitlements. get those on pace. let businesses know we're not going to be insolvent. make them feel confident in america again. unleash the private sector, give them the strength to move forward and hire people. >> i wonder, has the botched rollout of obama care, not only hurt the president's leadership image on health care, and it's way down there, but the economy as well? after all, health care is one-sixth of the entire economy, and many people saying, you know what, he botched the rollout. maybe he is to blame for the economy. >> i think it's very possible. you know, last week, nancy pelosi appeared on the "daily show" with jon stewart. stewart is a pretty liberal guy. but he nailed her for this. he said, look, you know, the botched obamacare rollou

. ♪ [cheers and applause] >>> and now, john stossel.cheers and applause] john: thank you, you students are unusual. youhave a special interest in liberty. moss people don't which makes me wonder, how many of you ever discuss liberty on your campuses? how many of your professors discuss it? [laughter] how manyf hem discuss social justice? many more. i'm not surprised given the love for big government on big campuses. most of your professors probably don't know much about basic economics, which is why we titled this show "stossel university," and our professors are ab biand john, here to tell students abot what they hould learn about economics. you can't do it all. first thing? >> first thing to learn is that intentions are not results. judge policies by results and not stated intentions. second, people in the public sector are just as self-intested and no more enlighted an people in the private sector. john: nice or vicious as everybody else. >> asolutely. john: they are doing the public good. they are different. >> that's what theyay. j

. ♪ ♪ >> and now it is time for john stossel. >> for the first time most of america's richest countiesrounding washington dc. washington is where you go if you want to show privileges and that is where they dole them out and as government grows washington is also where they say that we are all equal and in this together. when the government is very vague, that is a loot. >> all of us are equal. hn: what about all of thi writin about communism? the principles apply to america today. the ggvernment central planning hurts everyone a little but rewards people with connection. >> the animals themselves are no better off. john: they were the political leaders and over time hey prospered at the other animals expense. ♪ ♪ john: some are lower than others. today the animals that are more he will than others are washington politicians and their cronies. and those who get close to the politicians. that is how in the budget deal hollywood film producers got a special break. nascar got $70 million to build a new race track. multinational corporation of offshore subsidiaries got a 9 billion-dollar t

o'reilly, bill o'reilly, fox news rants about youth smoking weed and john stossel's generation appearspeople. listen to this. john: is america going to pot? tweeting, hard to make a living, you will be a terrible citizen. >> what are you doing? >> i need this. i need this stuff. take this scooter. >> give that back! stuart: you know who is here? that is stossel. the battle of the generations. that could involve two different aspects of the story. youth has gone to pot and they are useless bunch, that is is that of movieland second, the stealing, older people stealing from the young generation. deal with o'reilly's rant first. john: his rent is silly the old codgers of always complained about the young and kids are texting a lot but no evidence -- more are watching violent video games, youth violence is down, teen pregnancy is down and kids are inventing facebook can youtube, they will do fine. stuart: you gotta get up prop out. this is fascinating. john: if he were in the 50s he would complain about superman comic books. our senate actually held hearings, this is going to wreck the kid

john stossel went back to college, looking to see if liberty exists on the campus.ext. >> 1500 college students from all over the world are gathering to debate what makes for a free society? these are our future leaders. glad they are learning about the most important thing, liberty. consumers usually don't learn much about that in school. tonight what you ought to know about economic -- but (vo) you are a business pro. seeker of the sublime. you can separate runway diculousness... from fashionhat flies off the seeker shelves.ublime. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle... and go. and only national isanked highest in car rental customer satisfaction by j.d. power. (natalie) ooooh, i like your style. (vo) so we, business pro. so do we. go national. go like pro. >> congratulations on your new show from 11:00 to 1:00. i will be watching to figure out everything you say that is wrong and what i say is right. stuart: i really like bob beckel despite what he says. bob joining the chorus of fox colleagues. starting monday

. >> i am john stossel from abc news. >> i'm not interested. >> most women talk to me. >> so then i demandernment action. consumers don't have the time or resources to investigate everything. it seems logical. government has to great product and services and punish bad businesses and find them and shut them down. unsold government created a consumer protection agency and i was instrumental in creating this one. then came the consumer product safety commission and the financial crimes enforcement network and so on. but what was weird is that i soon saw his government regulators that made almost no difference. years ago they convinced people that if you pay a fee they are having a week stuffing envelopes but the rules don't mater. >> the patchwork systems have failed to present these abuses. >> mccook hires a lawyer in maybe two or three years later you will find a consent order. were they say that i do not admit to doing anything wrong but i won't do it anymore. then he goes on to a new scam under a new namein another state. once i realized that i gathered my thoughts which i put into this

. >> you don't forget when john stossel bump you. what do you think?am in a band that is about to go on tour and we are looking to get in the van with us and be our road dog, you know what i mean? we are looking for somebody with a passport that can get into canada and we are looking -- it gets lonely on the road. i am looking for a road dog. >> does it matter what gender? >> well, yeah. it does. we are looking for a lady, all six of. the 6 of us would like to date you. >> one lady for all six of you? >> looking for a road dog. >> the six of us would like to date you. >> you have high standards though. they need a passport. >> how are you not overcroweded? >> you need to get this. >> there is not a lineup. >> the way he was rocking back and forth. how did that not happen? >> i have to be on the show. i am looking for a road dog. that's why you came here. >> joanne, you often ask your dates to see the credit score before he takes you to dinner. does that help? >> i unfortunately do not follow this study. i go from his lo ks to his money and three is pas

hey, john stossel. >> not everybody who complained.you're loud and you have a big enough wallet and a good power behind you, then that favor will happen. what specifically is happening in washington that you noticed? >> this is the part that galls me. now the richest counties in america for the first time are surrounding washington, d.c six out of the top ten. people say, we need rules to prevent like solyndra, george kaiser a billionaire who gave money to obama, went to the white house often. it wasn't just green energy. it was a connected green energy. we have to have a rule. no rule can stop this. once government is spending three plus trillion dollars, they're going to gather there and the connected will suck it up. >> when they spend, we pay. >> right. >> in and around washington, you say it's getting built up. we were in alexandria, that's where people are make the most money, that's where the private contractors are. what's most interesting, this president in particular keeps on harping on the fact that we got to level the playi

. >> and now, john stossel. >> if people are free some will be more successful than others. maybe they are smart error they work harder or they are luckyer. whatever reason in a global economy that success is magnified. michael jordan made good money playing basketball but he made more nmoney because he can do things like sell these t-shirts in china. because of the free market globalization, new technology, some people offer the ability to make even more off their talentses. as a result of that there is growing inequality. look at this video that caught fire on the internet. it will has been viewed 13 million times. >> here's the actual distribution of wealth in erk ma. the poorest americans don't even register. they are down to pocket change. the top 2 to 5 percent are actually off the chart of the scale and the top one percent, this guy, his stack of money stretches ten times higher than he can show. the average worker needs to work more than month to earn what the ceo makes in one hour. >> the level of inequality is wrong especially people on the left like bob beckel. >>

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john stossel with the facts you @%ould know, brewing disaster. : did you happen to catch this so-called this story? >> investigative reporter went undercover to see firsthand how this underground world works. >> eight peoples sharing a meal in a stranger's home. blended best and dinner parties like these have become more common. insiders tell us they are completely unregulated. john: oh, my goodness. unregulated dinner parties. gavin mcinnes is a media critic ann columnist. he hates this kind of hide and writes about it. what gets in their heads? >> out of touch with the average american and think that they need to get in there and regulated all. i feel like they have never built the business, a liberal arts degree, a journalism degree, don't run the numbers. john: that is a good point. anybody u.s. tried to build something, a building or a business, they wake up to regulation. reporters, most have never built anything. >> i notice they took the comments section down from the web page at that news station. you called the reporter up and gave her s

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recently john stossel tackled the issue. >> what should government do to help people in need? >> find more jobs. >> people are accustomed to handouts and want more. >> there's something more they should do for you in here? >> help us more. >> have you looked for jobs? >> yeah. >> no jobs around? >> no. >> i asked my team to check that out. within a few blocks of that welfare office, they found lots of businesses that want to hire peop people. >> so in my opinion not based on data. we're creating a nanny state mentality in this country. not everybody, there are people who are ambitious and who want to do well in the marketplace. enough people are saying, i can con the system, disability, entitlements, now obama care. i'm going to float. you said? >> you are absolutely right. we agree on this one. and you -- there is some data. can you see it in disability rates going up. even though we have health care that's improved and fewer people do manual labor. more people say i'm helpless, i'm disabled. it's logical. if you reward people for being helpless, more people will act helpless

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