Aug 9, 2025 ~ John Stossel, 'My Socialist Mayor'
"Mamdani mocks those of us who fear socialism. He says socialism just means that the state 'provides whatever is necessary for its people to live a dignified life.' Sounds nice. But socialism doesn't bring a dignified life. It never has. It's wrecked lives wherever it's been tried."
"Whether you call it the abolition of private property," said Mamdani, "or you call it just a statewide housing guarantee, it is preferable to what is going on right now."
"No! It's not! This idea has failed, again and again! Socialism, in various degrees, was tried and abandoned in the USSR, China, Vietnam, Mongolia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, South Yemen, Myanmar, Angola, Mozambique, Benin, Congo, Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania, Zambia, Ghana, Madagascar, Nicaragua, Guyana, Chile, Israel, Sweden, and India. Countries that didn't abandon socialism, like Cuba, Bolivia, and North Korea, stay poor. Venezuela was once the richest country in Latin America. Now it's the poorest."
"Socialism destroyed Venezuela," says Venezuelan-born economist Daniel Di Martino. "No government has the capacity to run thousands of businesses."
"People need capitalism -- a profit motive -- to do that."
Jul 20, 2025 ~ John Stossel, 'Big Green' "Environmental groups are now rich. In 2020 (the most recent data available), they collected $8 billion in donations." They "recognize that hysteria generates donations. The oxygen for these organizations is money donated by people who think they're doing good." "So, you give them billions. You think your money goes to 'doing good, like cleaning up rivers or parks? Most of Big E spends very little on that."
"The Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club spend your donations on lawyers. The NRDC filed a new lawsuit every 10 days." "The Center for Biological Diversity has more than 70 active lawsuits." ""They have billions of dollars to not build a thing, but just to oppose building things." "The Sierra Club brags: 'Our legal team has stopped thousands of miles of fossil fuel pipelines and dozens of large power plants.' But pipelines are better for the earth than shipping oil by truck."
May 24, 2025 ~ 'Tariff Folly' John Stossel does a good job explaining the pros and mostly cons of tariffs. Debunks common myths:
Myth 1: Tariffs protect American jobs.
Myth 2: We need tariffs because America runs trade deficits with other countries.
Myth 3: We need tariffs because global trade hollowed out America's manufacturing base.
May 24, 2025 ~ 'School Choice' John Stossel makes the case for School Choice.
"A recent study found that 'more education freedom is significantly associated with increased NAEP scores.'"
"Florida's math and reading scores were once among the worst in the nation. After they expanded school choice, says DeAngelis, 'They ranked #1 ... And it's not a money issue. They spend about 27% less than the national average, and they're knocking it out of the park.'"
"A study on Florida's expansion of school choice found 'benefits include higher standardized test scores and lower absenteeism and suspension rates. Effects are particularly pronounced for lower-income students.'"
"When there is a choice, public schools improve as well. Twenty-nine studies examined the impact of school choice on test scores, with 26 finding a positive effect."
Apr 26, 2025 ~ 'Living Hell?' John Stossel releases the next round of climate change myths. Droughts and wildfires are worsening. Sea level rise will be cause catastrophic damage. Coral reefs are dying. All of these things are provably false but the #FakeNews pushes it.
Apr 21, 2025 ~ 'Climate Myths' Stossel lists many common climate myths that have been told. The Arctic will soon be ice-free. Polar bears are going extinct. Climate change will create a massive global food shortage. All those are spectacularly false. Just the opposite.
Mar 9, 2025 ~ Stossel, 'The Death of Europe' "Europe is kind of like a big museum. Tourist money keeps it going, but there's so little growth that, per person, America's poorest state (Mississippi) is now richer than most European countries." Unemployment is much higher than the US because of what you must pay people and its almost impossible to fire anyone. "Why would you hire anybody when you are essentially responsible for them for the rest of your life?!" Cost of living is much higher. "You get the right to free health care, but whether you get health care is a different story. I have friends who died in the Swedish health care system because they couldn't get treatment in time." Starting a business is so much more difficult, very few bother.
Nov 23, 2024 ~ John Stossel, 'Destructive Environmentalists' "People eagerly give money to rich environmental groups. The Natural Resources Defense Council has $463 million in assets. What it really does is pay lawyers to torture people who try to do useful things." They oppose almost all mines in the US making getting permits take almost 30 years. Most companies won't even bother anymore, opting instead for mines in Africa which exploit people and children with little oversight. "But the green movement has been perfectly happy outsourcing mining to disadvantaged countries where thousands of children in bare feet, working by hand with shovels, dig minerals out of the earth." "You start applying for permits," says Mills, "You're going to be waiting not months, not years, but decades!"
Sep 7, 2024 ~ 'A Dam Good Argument' Environmentalists claim they want us to transition to 'renewable' energy but then they destroy dams, like Snake River Dam providing the best kind: hydropower. They claim its killing salmon but that problem was solved 50 years ago. "Between 96% and 98% of the salmon successfully pass each dam." Why are they lying?
Aug 10, 2024 ~ 'Slavery in America' Sen. Tim Kaine said, "The United States didn't inherit slavery from anybody; we created it." John Stossel and Wilfred Reilly debunk this and other common lies about slavery.
Rielly explains "Between 10.7 million and 12 million slaves from Africa went to the New World -- we got a little under 400,000. That's less than 4%." "Generational slavery, (where) if you're the son of a slave, you're a slave ... that was extraordinarily common."
"Most problems in the modern Black community don't have anything to do with historical ethnic conflict 160 years ago."
"Crime in the Black community increased about 800% between (around) 1963 and 1993. Racism didn't increase between 1960 and the modern era. You're looking at the impacts of the Great Society, the welfare programs."
"The Arabs were history's premier slave traders. Muslims took so many blonde slaves out of the (Slavic) region, they gave the world the name 'Slav,' (for) 'slave,' to the global slave population."
"The British Navy," Reilly explains, "in a story almost no one now knows, sank 1,600 slave ships. They freed 150,000 people that were enslaved at the time."
"By contrast, Saudi Arabia only abolished slavery in 1962. And even now, the Global Slavery Index estimates that there are still 700,000 slaves in Saudi Arabia."
"Where there were no westerners, you'd have a lot of slavery for a long time."
"American slavery was horrible. But it wasn't unique. And we didn't 'create it.'"
Jun 3, 2024 ~ 'A Ban on Freelance Work' "The Labor Department just imposed 300 pages of new regulations to reclassify many individual contractors as payroll employees." This immediately cost many freelancers their jobs. So many had to lobby for exceptions. Those who couldn't get in on the exceptions are screwed. As usual, government does more harm than good with their 'good intentions.'
Apr 27, 2024 ~ 'Capitalism Versus Racism' The race hustlers claim you can't eliminate racism without eliminating capitalism but capitalist countries are the least racist. Ibram X. Kendi: "In order to truly be anti-racist, you also have to truly be anti-capitalist." Angela Davis, "Racism is intricately linked to capitalism. It's a mistake to assume that we can combat racism by leaving capitalism in place."
Mar 20, 2024 ~ John Stossel, "'15 Days to Slow the Spread'" "But the media's experts were just wrong. Swedish health officials were right." "Sweden's excess death rate was the lowest in Europe. Sweden's economy got through the pandemic much healthier than other countries. Because Swedish schools never closed, Swedish students didn't suffer the learning losses that American kids did."
Mar 6, 2024 ~ John Stossel, 'The Renewable Scam' California is showing how unfeasible this is. Due to the mandates, they pay 3X for electricty as the rest of the country and have more outages. It make housing far more expensive too. And harms the environment rather than helping it. "Just to produce one turbine, we have to extract 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete, and 45 tons of non-renewable plastic. Then we've got to transport that and burn fuel, getting it all carried across the world. None of these things that go into a turbine are renewable." These huge turbines create huge landfills of non-recyclable waste.
Nov 5, 2023 ~ John Stossel, 'The Food Insecurity Lie' Joe Biden says 24 million Americans "suffer from food insecurity!" That sounds like 24M are starving. Far from it. In fact 'food insecure' people are MORE likely to be obese. "Food insecurity is not the same thing as hunger. It just means that they had to rely on cheaper foods, store-brand alternatives ... or reduce variety." This is similar to the lie Democrats and the #FakeNews tell about "food deserts." They get create their stats for food deserts by excluding all stores with sales less than $2 million. But if they include all the stores that sell food, the effect disappears.
Aug 13, 2023 ~ John Stossel, 'The Fake Climate Consensus' Climatologist Judith Curry says scientists have incentive to be alarmists. Path to "fame and fortune." She tasted it when her research showed hurricanes were getting worse. Not when she found that was in error.
Jul 21, 2023 ~ John Stossel, 'Smears for Money' Exposes the Souther Poverty Law Center. The SPLC which was once a trusted cataloger of hate groups has become a hate group itself. They falsely accuse many good people and orgs. Got the Family Research Council shot up.
Mar 22, 2023 ~ John Stossel, 'Diversity Training Disaster' Billions spent to make race relations worse. Black ex-DIE officer Erec Smith says it makes people afraid to talk to each other because they tell you its 'racist' to ask what someone does or where they're from. Smith was accused of 'perpetuating harm' because he disagreed that teaching standard English to black people is 'white supremacy.'" "They saw in me a threat. ... a Black person saying it's OK to teach Black students standardized English."
Jan 31, 2023 ~ John Stossel sues FaceBook for 'fact checking' some of his videos and wrongly labeling them a 'False'. His videos were dealing with climate change claims and were true. He is suing because "his viewership plummeted due to both Facebook’s censorship" and reputational harm.
Jul 5, 2022 ~ John Stossel, 'Government Delays Flights' There are now 1000s of delays and cancellations every weekend. "Why? Because of the pilot shortage." "Because the government passed another dumb law." "Instead of 250 hours, now [pilots] have to have 1,500 hours!" Few people can do this.
Jun 4, 2022 ~ John Stossel, 'Out of Formula' Shortage continues because govt. regulations won't allow formula from Europe or Mexico. "If you have the wrong scooper, banned! If you don't list a certain ingredient that the FDA demands, (or in the wrong order or not English) you're banned!"
May 11, 2022 ~ Stossel: Government required GMO labeling is increasing the cost of food. "The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the GMO labeling will cost from $598 million to $3.5 billion." GMOs are perfectly safe and the labeling is useless.
Jan 19, 2022 ~ John Stossel, 'Evil Florida' Stossel exposes all the lies told about Florida and DeSantis. "Florida has the worst rate of coronavirus anywhere in the country!" BS. Despite having the most elderly, 16 other states including hard lockdown, masking states like NY have a worse rate.
Dec 3, 2021 ~ John Stossel, 'Fact-Blockers' Stossel proves that Facebook hires very biased 'fact checkers' who suppress true info that doesn't fit left wing narratives on climate alarmism, #COVID19, etc. "They're not fact-checkers, they're fact-blockers." What right do they have to censor.
Nov 3, 2021 ~ John Stossel, 'Let Life Resume' "Denmark lifted all pandemic restrictions." "Get vaccinated, and then go about your life normally!" It will never be gone. Has animal reservoirs. We live with risks because the consequences of hiding from them are far worse. Risk is minimal now.
Oct 27, 2021 ~ John Stossel, 'Lessons from Venezuela' Everything the Democrats want to bring to the US has failed hugely in Venezuela. Hate speech laws, packing the Supreme Court, gun control, printing money leading to inflation and hyperinflation.
Oct 10, 2021 ~ John Stossel sued Facebook for defamation. A so-called fact-checker group called Climate Feedback labeled one of his quotes 'misleading' but it wasn't anything Stossel ever said. Labelled his video "partly false." Stossel demonstrated they lied but Facebook still censored him.
Sep 12, 2021 ~ John Stossel interviews Black Columbia prof John McWhorter, author of 'Woke Racism". "The way we're being encouraged to think, hurts Black people." Calling "every disparity between races 'systemic racism.' including tests that show an achievement gap. Doesn't fix the problems.
Sep 1, 2021 ~ Caccine expert Dr. Paul Offit lists these #COVID19 stats on The John Stossel show. "99.5% of people killed by this virus are unvaccinated! 97% of those hospitalized are unvaccinated! No vaccine works 100%."
Aug 18, 2021 ~ John Stossel, 'Coronavirus Censorship' YouTube suspends Rand Paul's channel because he said, "Most of the masks you get over the counter don't work." "Never before could a couple of companies just shut conversation off." "The advancement of knowledge requires skepticism, debate."
Aug 4, 2021 ~ John Stossel, 'Unfair Competition' Good article on the unfairness of trans women competing in sports with biological women. " In most every category, men are much stronger. Testosterone blockers just can't close the gap." Athletes bullied into silence with consequences.
Jul 28, 2021 ~ John Stossel, 'Endless Rules'. Stossel shows how states that have legalized pot have made it so difficult and expensive to do it the legal way, the black market is back big. Need "a 800-page application. Every single plant must be weighed, tagged and tracked from seed to sale.
Jun 9, 2021 ~ John Stossel, 'The Climate Censors' Fakebook censored Stossel's video on climate change. They didn't like the tone more than the facts being wrong. They only allow alarmism which is scaring the heck out of kids and causing people to not have children out of fear for the future.
Sep 23, 2020 ~ John Stossel 'Bad Policies Fuel Fires' Democrats falsely blame climate change for California fires. Nancy Pelosi, 'Mother Earth is angry!' Gavin Newsom blames climate change as well. The fires are because these forests not being allowed to clear their tinder as they always have.
May 13, 2020 ~ John Stossel on how the unintended consequences of the Americans with Disabilities Act may have harmed people with disabilities more than it helped them by making employers afraid to hire them. 'Before the ADA passed, 59% of disabled men had jobs.' 48% after, now less than 30%.
Mar 17, 2020 ~ John Stossel explains why laws against 'Price Gouging' do more harm than good. When prices are allowed to adjust to supply and demand, 'people don't experience long lines and shortages.' Otherwise, 'Only the first customers get what they want.' 'Price "gouging" saves lives.'
Mar 11, 2020 ~ John Stossel, 'Government Outlaws Freelance Work' New law requires reclassifying freelance workers as employees. 'people who hire them must now give them benefits like overtime, unemployment'. Vox calls it 'a victory for workers everywhere', then lays off hundreds because of it.
Dec 11, 2019 ~ John Stossel, 'The Forgotten Debt'. Stossel rightly reminds us that the debt is $23 trillion and increasing about $1 trillion a year. This is clearly unsustainable but it is politically impossible for anyone to address it. Even talks of slowing the growth are met with howls.
Nov 27, 2019 ~ John Stossel, 'Thanks Private Property'. Explains how the Pilgrims 'almost starved' trying socialism with no private ownership. In a desperate attempt to try something new, Bradford 'assigned every family a parcel of land' People started to work and invent. Soon they had plenty.
Nov 21, 2019 ~ Pat Michaels on hurricanes, using 'global satellite coverage. We can measure their power. There is no significant increase whatsoever. No relationship between hurricane activity and the surface temperature of the planet!' Stossel, 'He's right. That's what government data shows.'
Aug 21, 2019 ~ Stossel says so far so good with Trump's promise to deregulate. He has eliminated about 5 regulations for every new one. One of the contributors to the great economy. 'regulations have unintended side effects that often outweigh the good they're intended to do.'
Jul 24, 2019 ~ Stossel 'Wages War' 'After Seattle raised its minimum wage to $15, entry-level job growth stalled. Job growth continued in the rest of Washington state but not in Seattle.' Businesses once hired 'inexperienced kids and trained them, giving them valuable starter experience'.
Jun 19, 2019 ~ John Stossel argues Capitalism is the moral system. Capitalism is the only system people are free to trade goods and services and labor voluntarily with each other. 'The only way to get rich under capitalism is to serve your customers well.' System that helps the poor the most.
May 1, 2019 ~ Stossel article, 'A Lie, a Myth and a Question' debunks typical dem and Bernie talking point that 'the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.' Stossel shows that as the rich get richer, the poor also get richer. Also debunks the myth that there is little or no income mobility
Apr 24, 2019 ~ Stossel article, 'Green Dreams'. On zero emissions, 'That's a goal you could only imagine possible if you have no idea how energy is produced'. Batteries 'are far from green' 'You have to consume 100 barrels of oil in China to make that battery pack'. Wind is not green either.
Mar 27, 2019 ~ Stossel lists many liberals that praised Hugo Chavez in 'The Socialist Fantasy'. They claim Venezuela not a socialism failure. It was 'mismanagement'. 'But mismanagement is what happens under socialist governments... always'. Fall back to Denmark & Sweden which are not socialist.
Feb 27, 2019 ~ Stossel takes on the sugar subsidies again - calls them 'Welfare for the Rich'. Hurt US businesses. a University of Iowa study shows they cost the US 20,000 jobs per year. Hurt consumers with higher prices and less healthy alternatives HFCS.
Jan 1, 2019 ~ John Stossel, 'Sweden Isn't Socialist' - They tried something similar in the 70s and abandoned it because economy tanked. They now have market econ. high flat-ish tax. Everyone pays a lot. Less regulation, more privatization e.g. pensions.
Dec 17, 2018 ~ Stossel reviews old book- 'Myth of the Robber Barons' - Shows that capitalists such as Rockefeller and Vanderbilt were neither robbers nor barons- 'They got rich by creating better things'- made average and poor people's lives much better.
Nov 17, 2018 ~ Stossel analyzes the problems with 'Single Payer Health Care'. Its unaffordable, requires rationing, lines, inferior care. The longer life expectancy stats of other nations are not due to health care. They save money by freeloading off US innovation but no innovation without US.
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