Charlie Rose

winter  11/07/2011 01:00 PM Report

Did someone say "tobacco"? I can't help but recall Boehner whenever I hear the word tobacco. Cute shorts though John. When exactly did you sell out after coming from sweeping your daddy's barroom floor? Somebody get that guy a powdered wig and buckled shoes.

cliveklg  11/04/2011 03:14 PM Report

"The Affordable Healthcare Act has done nothing at all to make healthcare affordable."

Your experience doesn't equal everyone's.

The facts actually don't support your claim at all.

JohnGelles  11/03/2011 01:33 PM Report

Compare two difficult problems needing immediate attention:

1. Thailand is under real water. Their problem is SUPPLY. Only enormous organization, labor and resources and lots of time can solve their problems of hunger, shelter, disease, astronomical clean-up, etc. And in addition to all the real work required, they will need all the money they have to pay for this work -- most of which will by necessity be performed for free by victims without resources.

2. Americans, Europeans and others where price bubbles have burst are under "financial water" which has created high unemployment and business contraction. Their problem is DEMAND and reform of law and economics to put everyone back to work or to work for the first time.

The second problem is so much easier solve (with money and good government) that it is hard to believe it still lingers. By 1946, we all knew what to do to produce all needs and distribute them under monetary systems that worked.

Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose do not deserve the access they have to the public if they cannot do better than they have so far.

AntonGrambihler  11/03/2011 03:52 AM Report

Subject: Status of the United States

In order to restore the United States to its former self, all the war criminals of the United States need to be prosecuted at The Hague.

AntonGrambihler  11/03/2011 03:51 AM Report

Subject: Tobacco is harmful

If Tom is so concerned about smoking, why does he not speak out about the US Government claiming that tobacco is harmful to your health and then providing subsidies to the tobacco farmers?

SharkswithfrikingLazers  11/03/2011 02:09 AM Report

Yes, 17.5% of GDP is way too much to spend on Healthcare.

The Affordable Healthcare Act has done nothing at all to make healthcare affordable.

In fact, my premium has increased 9% and I called to complain. I was told I am lucky it only went up 9% because others went up much more.

Just look at what Wal-mart did this week with its healthcare--harder for part-timers to get and more expensive for those who can get coverage.

You want healthcare--do NOT get sick. Give up the money it would cost to buy healthcare by not working and instead exercise for an equivalent amount of time. You want to be middle class? Stay out of the hospital.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  11/03/2011 01:57 AM Report

Yes, there are too many homes in inventory. Warren Buffet told us this and proposed ideas like selling the excess inventory to immigrants who will create jobs and pay into Social Security.

However, I can find nothing on '20 million homes are in peril". Where did you find this HUGE number?

SharkswithfrikingLazers  11/03/2011 01:46 AM Report

“You are not going to end Wall Street.” That is not the issue Tom.

Please watch Charlie Rose, or as you call him, Charles Rose.

When you do you watch you will then see the movement is first to end corruption. Then there is a buffet of issues but I like the Big 4:

Glass-Steagall back in force

Audit the Fed

Corporations are not people

Overhaul Corporate Tax Code

Very powerful weave . . .

(4:25)

http://youtu.be/wK1MOMKZ8BI

SharkswithfrikingLazers  11/03/2011 01:39 AM Report

Back in the late seventies and early eighties I heard the same thing Tom mentions—our generation would have it worse than our parents. So 30 years later and Tom is saying the same thing again.

Certainly this is true is some sectors. Manufacturing has been in crisis for three decades. From 19.5 million manufacturing jobs in the summer of 1979 to just 11.7 million today — even as the U.S. population increased by nearly 40%. GM was saved (as GM goes, so goes the nation) but by giving up the middle class via wage cuts. New auto workers will earn significantly less in pay and benefits than existing ones, making it clear that the days of assembly line jobs leading to comfortable middle-class lives are fading.

So to keep from moving ever closer to a bi-polar economy we need to find jobs of the caliber of auto manufacturing jobs. To date, I have no idea how globalization will ever let this happen. So 30 years later and now may just be the time when Tom has it right.

educator  11/02/2011 10:54 PM Report

Dos anyone know what Tom was saying when he said that 40% of GDP is made from Financial Services? I did some research and one direction I went had it under ten and another direction made it in the low 20's. Its part of the comment he made about the 99% of wealth owned by 1% of the population. What do you think is his definition of financial services?

SharkswithfrikingLazers  11/02/2011 09:34 PM Report

Charlie, or is it now Charles?

I am curious. Would you say that 99% of your guests are in the Top 1%?

Perhaps not all those professors, so how about 90%?

In the interest of full disclosure you might provide the guests name, association, and "Top 1%" or "Not in Top 1%" on the screen. It would help in understanding their perspective--especially when you ask them what they think about Occupy Wall Street.

JohnGelles  11/02/2011 08:07 PM Report

Correction:

... "and the THREAT TO THE dream of progress over time -- can be depressing."

JohnGelles  11/02/2011 08:05 PM Report

"Tom B. on his book 'The Time of Our Lives: A conversation about America; Who we are, where we've been, and where we need to go now, to recapture the American dream'".

A conversation about America today, when so many have so much anxiety over work, money, health and our failure to live up to the PREAMBLE -- and the dream of progress over time -- can be depressing.

But when you read of Elon Musk, engineer and entrepreneur, and the promise of Tesla Cars, private sector rocketry, solar cells and new revolutions in nano-tech, bio-tech, info-tech, and money-tech (his and mine, you have to get excited about the future beyond the current fetish against credit and money that can work.

People like REMant -- hold-overs from Hoover -- a man whose idea of saving does not even try to understand that the power of savings is in the spending it makes possible, are truly out of time and out of touch.

But what of Tom Brokaw. He speaks to ordinary people not to Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil or Dean Kamen.

The Singularity is surely coming. When it comes the cloud computing systems will offer rational restatements of everything that happens. Our belief that IF IT BLEEDS IT LEADS will be in the garbage where it belongs.

"IF IT WORKS we'll make it, sell, it buy it, USE IT" will replace that bloody observation whose time will have expired.

The Erie Canal and steamboat were the stories we read at first. Slavery and poverty were not introduced too soon. It is true that Brokaw met real people. But it is not true that they know what he is paid to report. Fundamental optimism wants the grass green and the sky blue.

I do believe that Charley Rose is a tad to much a cheer leader for commercial success when it represents selfish disregard for necessary reform. So we need more attention to ending poverty and unemployment NOW. But we do not need to treat the PREAMBLE as impossible. It is possible. And so are we.

chawlynose  11/02/2011 06:34 PM Report

Today's smart kids are Smarter than ever before, and Today's dumb kids are Dumber than ever before. Prolly because Today's health-food is Healthier than it ever was before, and Today's junk-food is Worse than it ever was before.

So it's Easier to distinguish between the Good parents from Heaven and the Trash parents from Hell.

Which has marvelous implications for urban/suburban Planning. Which can be debatable.

cliveklg  11/02/2011 05:21 PM Report

When he says SD is doing well, who is he talking about? They may not have high unemployment, but you look at the level of income,they have budget problems because of the low income tax base, and all the budget freebies they give to try to attract business. They have education and safety net issues.

Take Nebraska as another example. Low unemployment as Brokaw said, so by his standards Nebraska should be doing well. Nebraska has a balanced budget, so there is a plus.

But then we delve deeper, the capital city of Lincoln nearly half of the children live in poverty. And state wide it is 1 in 5.

The Child welfare services are in crisis.

I think Mr. Brokaw should do a bit more research before making such claims.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  11/02/2011 01:53 PM Report

"A free speech absolutist" huh . . . . FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!

Seriously, we do need a free speech haven and there is a business idea at University of Texas at Austin for a purple (red states plus blue states equal purple states) website.

Right now it is snopes.com and politifact.com to check all the junk I get via email.

By the way, I saw him talk about the Herman Cain smoking ad on Meet The Press and I agree but the bloggers are just blogging. Just pretend it was a slow blog day or it was sweeps week and they just had to put something out there--just like on network news.

REMant  11/02/2011 12:32 PM Report

I was going to say our children will certainly do better than we, qualitatively, not quantitatively, because we've already blown the quantitative aspect with all the inflation and debt we've piled up since WWII. That fortunately has little effect on the purely qualitative aspects of life, which depend on intellectual not fiscal capital, but only if we face facts, because there are distinct limits to what one can do when one is poor.

There is a quite simple way to reduce healthcare prices and help the lower and middle classes: stop inflating our money. That will hurt because we've engaged in a Ponzi scheme, and just as in an attempt at changing pay-go social security to a savings-based system there will have to be a lot of retrenchment. What we don't need is more credit. Extending credit that hasn't been earned by anyone simply extorts money from them. And it is going to stop one way or the other regardless, so we may as well get with it. That said, the 1% don't have a lot to worry about at the moment except from people in the streets.

I have a strong feeling that the ideals of political correctness, which are what I think Obama ran on fundamentally, have also taken a considerable hit recently, and I think that is bound to hurt his candidacy. I think it has greatly hurt feminism as well. It's become increasingly clear that the loss of real affection and charity, as well, as family, and all manner of community, is traceable to the rise of a market society which they, and Democrats generally, have championed. Where they do not in fact applaud the result, not believing they could be at fault anymore than for the consequences of inflation, their response to these problems has been authoritarian. This is a matter of evolutionary strategy. But, personally, I'd rather not live in an ant colony.