What's sad to me is that as moving and inspirational this movie was, most people would say, "oh, its just Hollywood... a President like this could never exist in the real world." Why? Why couldn't there be a person like this who genuinely cares for others and still be President? Such a shame what American politics has become.
We have a President like that. His name is Joe Biden. His Build Back Better offered climate action, imfrastructure, science, expansion of Obamacare, social care, childcare, universal pre-k, child tax credit and much more. Unfortunately, Manchin and Sinema torpedoed much of it and then the people voted in Kevin McCarthy as Speaker. And now we are paying the price.
Initially I would have said that in the past, these people couldn’t get past the committees that nominate presidents. Like what the DNC did to Bernie in 2016. But trump eventually getting the GOP ticket was interesting. I think republicans settled to make sure they wouldn’t get left behind. But trump isn’t a true outsider. He plays ball with all the special interest, in a different style, but plays ball all the same. Same swamp just different pecking order. Now what about someone like JFK. Flaws and all, to me, he really seemed to care about the romantic ideals of America. Wanted things to change, wanted to do things a better way. And what did that get him… a fatal splitting headache in a convertible in Dallas TX. All because he came across too much like an “ordinary citizen”.
During the 45 years I worked in the casinos here in Las Vegas, I worked for three different casinos. I can remember the joy I felt when I got hired at each place, especially the third, because the gentleman in Human Resources told me that I'd have health coverage for me and my wife from day one. During my lifetime, I never feared cancer or some other serious disease. However, perhaps because I came from a very poor family, I did fear being unemployed. Fortunately, I wasn't for very long. The very best to all of you.
I'm a Las Vegas local, too! I think your fear is one that a lot of locals share as well. I know it is one I have definitely experienced, especially during the uncertainty of the pandemic. Las Vegas is different than a lot of cities when it comes to jobs. The very life-line of Las Vegas is the SERVICE INDUSTRY (both on The Strip and off), and there is such a HIGH turn-over rate of people getting hired, fired, or quitting without notice. Your fear is 100% justified. Very best to you and yours as well, from another Desert Dweller!
Kevin Kline has such a passion in the way he speaks and how he carries himself, I could listen to him describe the manufacturing processes of cardboard boxes and still be holding on every word.
They've all retired by now. I think Tom Harkin is the most recent to retire. Dodd retired after or before the 2012 election his last effort was the Dodd Frank bill on Banking regulation.
"The look on a person's face when they get a job." That's a powerful statement and so true. Please allow me to relate an incident that happened to me ever so many years ago here in Las Vegas. I had my grandson, about eight, for the day. We were driving somewhere in my little pickup and I saw a girl's bicycle at a yard sale, just what I needed for my granddaughter for when she came to my home. We stopped, I negotiated a price, and I put it in the back of my truck. A little while later, we arrived at a supermarket where I needed to go in and pick up some prescriptions for my wife. I didn't want to leave my grandson in the truck and I didn't want to leave the bike I'd just bought unattended. About the time a homeless man approached my truck, and before he could say anything, I said, "You're going to ask me for money, aren't you?" He replied, "Only a dollar." I told him, "That's not nearly enough for a man like you. If you'll sit on the tail gate while we run get my wife's medications, I'll give you $2." A few minutes later as I was coming out the front door, I looked out at my truck and he was sitting on the tail gate with his chest out and the look of total satisfaction on his face. He was so pleased that he was earning the $2. Obviously, that incident made an impression on me because I can still remember it clearly.
The term "Conspiracy theory" was made up by people that want others to not pursue the truth. To embarrass them and make fun of them. Oliver Stone made a movie about JFK that made all the sense in the world, and before the movie he was talking about it for a long time, so naturally he was describer by advocate of conspiracy theories.
My head canon is that in-universe, the public will look back on the radical change of policy in the later half of this presidency and attribute it to his first stroke.
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For a long time, I was wondering what party Bill Mitchell belonged to. But now I guess it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what the party is, it's the person.
It doesn't matter what the party is, it doesn't matter who the person is, it's who they've sold out to. Back then there were limits on how much could be donated so corporations concentrated on buying out one party - the Republicans. When Citizens United removed those limits, they could buy out both parties and it wouldn't matter to them who won. Bribe the lawmakers, legalise bribery.
@@timothyhh well. I don’t think this movie spent a lot of time focusing on it. The director didn’t want to divide his audience in that way. But I think he was supposed to be democrat. And that’s not necessarily supposed to be positive. But a lot of stuff mirrored Bill Clinton who just took office at the time. There were rumors that Hillary and Bill’s relationship was a lot like the real President Mitchell and First Lady’s relationship. President Mitchell was banging his staff, and even though this was before the Monica Lewinski affair… there were still those stories about Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones. With that said… a lot of this was based on the promise of hope and echoed a lot of Clinton’s messaging at the time.
Not to mention Britain with their workhouses. I wonder how many times in history this has been presented as a brand new idea that no one's ever tried before.
@@erentheca to be fair, the conservatives and anti-democrates who run the country under Brüning made it easy for Hitler when they decided to deflate, deflate and deflate (and by that put every third men out of labour and many more under wages no one could live by). TROIKA-STYLE Baby!
3:27 - I was honored Paul Simon on the Hill for Illinois, He was bipartisan while loyal to his party, He was considered the most honest man in Congress. Nice ties too/
Speaking in broad terms: It's too bad we don't have honest and genuine people in office today, people who stand up for what's right, who tell the truth, and who have integrity; who make promises and do their very best to keep them. Seems like everywhere you look a politician is being caught in some sort of scandal or another. Obviously, of course, nobody can keep every single promise they make, nor that nobody is incorruptible, because that would mean we would all be perfect and be living in a perfect world. But it feels like all too often, we have people in office who fail to keep their promises, or who never really had any intention of keeping any of the promises they made while running for the office they now hold, and who either become corrupted by the power their positions have afforded them, or they were that way all along.
We did but he made the same mistakes that Dave here is making. And he learned the hard lesson about what's come to be known as the "Deep State", nobody in Washington DC actually wants to change things for the better, and they will all conspire against you if you try to shake up the status quo for actual beneficial change. That's why this film is a fantasy, a comedy, and could never happen in real life.
Yeah 30 years ago having a job meant you could pursue some of your own happiness not that you’d have to dedicate your whole life to the position and not even make enough to feel like you’re not scraping by. People want to work but they also want their work to be valued and reap dividends.
Nobody wants to work, or nobody wants to hire anybody to work? Jobs are getting cut by the millions, even those that fully dedicate themselves to their jobs are being treated like expendable assets by their bosses/executives, and being cut loose when they're deemed "unnecessary".
There is one smaller difference - nobody wants to work for a wage that can't provide you a decent lifestyle. Better yet nobody wants to work 4 jobs just to scrap the lower middle class line. That's the essence of the problem. 🤔😌
Interestingly enough--though this speech has been used to imply that Dave's a lib, Conservatives can easily point to where he brings his friends--a businessman--to help him look over the federal budget and see what waste could be cut out. The friends makes a remark like, "If I ran my business like this, we'd be bankrupt!" They then go on a cutting spree that would make Paul Ryan proud. (Of course, the line-item veto seems to be in effect in this film's universe.) Glenn Beck loves "Dave" BTW.
I seriously don't know if anyone noticed this but around 1:08 with the logo on the television camera. It looks exactly like the logo from the Clamp Cable Network right out of Gremlins 2?
@AnonymousViewer It's probably just a case of reusing existing sets and props to save $. Happens all the time. (Both were WB pictures). Coincidentally, Kevin Kline's wife Phoebe Cates was in the Gremlins movies.
The perpetual blissful utopia of permanent universal full time employment is only a movie theatre or dvd rental away, or just a youtube click nowadays.
2 Thessalonians 3:10 “For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.” If someone doesn't want to work, then let them starve. I sure as hell am not giving another cent to someone who won't find gainful employment. I'd even support requiring beggars to get a permit to be able to do it! Make the permit free, but have the place where you go get the permit be in the unemployment office and require that they attend 3 job interviews before they can get their beggar card.
@@tylerdurden639 that's fine until you pass laws that make it illegal to try to provide for yourself and then tell you if you don't work for someone else then you starve. that's how revolutions start. If you tell a people that they have to do what YOU want them to do or they starve, i'm pretty sure they can come up with some pretty creative alternatives that you probably aren't going to be particularly happy with.
We have a lot of unemployed in our area. We all want to work. This seems to be true throughout the country. But, increasingly, employers are questioning employees about their political or religious beliefs or looking them up on social media and if they don't match the employer's beliefs, the employee's work is sabotaged and then they're let go as substandard. The political and religious divide is effecting jobs too. No agency is taking these cases. Plus, it's difficult to prove, since a lot of it is done behind closed doors. And then they say nobody wants to work anymore to cover for not hiring people outside their political eligious group. I've lost five jobs when they asked if I was a Christian and I said no. And Christians who are a different denomination than the dominant one are also losing jobs. It's so prevalent that you'd have to turn the whole county in. And there's a group that wants to raise the minimum wage that is spreading the idea that people don't want to work for the wages offered, but it's just a response to the "nobody wants to work" fiction that supports their agenda. We need work. We're willing to work. But even if we change our political party and convert to Christianity, there would still be limits to our employment and ability to survive. There's also a movement that claims that unemployed people are worthless and so many employers will only hire people who are employed elsewhere. A constitutional amendment to make being able to get a job a constitutional right, regardless of political party or religion or any other factor would prevent discrimination or help to do that. It's already an international human right along with housing in other developed countries. We are too far behind.
@teufelkim Yes, you can create jobs out of thin air. Drive down any road. What do you see? Besides the pot holes and trash on the side, you see people hanging out, sometimes with abandoned houses. The US Govt could say tomorrow, "anyone who wants to work, sign up downtown at your City Hall. We'll fix every road, pick up all trash, we'll put all telephone and electric lines underground." That;s just to start. It can work.
It seems there actually is a few percent who don’t want one actually, but would rather have a check for doing absolutely nothing. And they get it. But the pay still isn’t that great. And the % isn’t huge, but it exists.
Maybe you should consider watching the film rather then jumping to conclusions, if you saw the film you would realise that it's not as flawed a premise as you think it is.
I love the movie. When we had HBO back in the day and this was on while I was flipping through, I'd watch it. It's a classic 90's situation comedy movie.
The key phrase is "those who want one" people miss that and just assume he's going to put everyone to work. There are people who don't want to work and shouldn't be forced to, but those who want to but have no clue as to where to start or start looking are worth trying to help. That was the goal of his plan and it's one that should be explored.
I think they had to keep it that way to make the conspiracy plausible. An ambitious Chief of Staff and his subordinate Press secretary is somewhat believable, but if you have the Secretary of State, Defense, Treasury, etc. etc. all in there and somehow not noticing its a different person, it stretches credibility a bit.
@@pietrpiepir6444 I'm not talking about cabinet members, who are usually off running their own departments and not interacting daily with the president. I'm talking people who actually work in the White House, like the Communications Director and the National Security Advisor.
@teufelkim no you can't create things of value out of thin air; just the banks have the power to create currency (not money, check the definitions) out of thin air, backed by nothing but the politicians hot air, to serve their masters, not the people whom they are sworn to serve.
Im a staunch GOP conservative as well as a fiscal conservative and I applaud the movie and its message. This was a feel good film that hits the nail on the head for 2012/2013. The power is in the people. Not the govt. Cut the deficit by getting rid of PORK! BS monies paid to peoples and entities that have helped the president and his constituants stay in the white house. Governor Romney had the right idea. Put a ballanced budget into play within 90 days of office and straighten us out!
money.cnn.com/2018/06/01/news/economy/may-jobs-report/index.html The jobless rate ticked down to 3.8% in May, another sign of the strong economy and tight labor market. That tied the lowest unemployment rate since 1969. Since then, the only other time unemployment was this low was in April 2000.
this movie frikn rules!!...and the guy w/ the white hair @ 3:41 cracks me up everytime..."They tried this in Russia...and they wrecked the dam country"..
really? Do you know why he wouldnt pass a bill to save shelters of that sort? Because the entitlements on the books today give you MORE than most shelters offer. Housing, phones, food stamps, free utilities, some states free cable TV and the list goes on and on and on. Go learn the entitlements before you make comments about Senetor Ryan.
We need a ntl permanent wpa system repair our ntn no welfare no unemployment pay taxes take 25 cents an hour to go back n2 the pot to help pay for it less crime n drug use n domestic abuse
Obama, Clinton, H.W. Bush, Carter, LBJ, JFK, Eisenhower, Truman, FDR, Wilson, Roosevelt, Lincoln... There are plenty of great Presidents. If any one of these great movie Presidents were real Presidents you wouldn't think they were so great anymore. Especially Jed Bartlett from The West Wing, he seemed great because we knew him behind the scenes. We saw his motivation and what drove him. In reality he accomplished very little on that show and made a lot of disappointing decisions.
It's been proven that the New Deal didn't do anything to the economy, but it did have the affect of boosting people's spirits. Data shows that America didn't fully leave the Great Depression until 1945, after four years of war.
1:35 "...I'm going to make it the responsibility of this government to find a job for every American who wants one." I think I see the gaping flaw in that idea...
1) Glenn will be the first to admit that the Defense Department is full of waste, just like all the other ones. 2) Glenn is agains corportate welfare--and so is Paul Ryan. So "programs designed to boost American auto sales" would be applauded by them both. 3) The entire point of the Paul Ryan Plan is to make the social programs *work*, instead of go bankrupt in a bureaucratic mess.
@zizwop .. well its the govts job to ensure security.. this a global world. If the Japanese govt starts selling AMerican bonds, for the rebuilding effort, for the 300,000 + homeless.. interest rates in America will increase, and the overall effect will be a fiscal splash across the world.. cause the Dollar isnt stable. Yes your right, the Govt doesnt have the responsibility, however it does, when it comes to value.. i mean seriously, billions are made in derivatives.. when it has no value !.
fortune.com/2018/05/04/unemployment-rate-century-low-percent/ U.S. hiring rebounded in April and the unemployment rate dropped below 4% for the first time since 2000, while wage gains unexpectedly cooled, suggesting the labor market still has slack to absorb. Payrolls rose 164,000 after an upwardly revised 135,000 advance, Labor Department figures showed Friday. The jobless rate fell to 3.9%, the lowest since December 2000, after six months at 4.1%. Average hourly earnings increased 0.1% from the prior month and 2.6% from a year earlier, both less than projected. Despite the softer-than-expected wage reading, an unemployment rate drifting further below Federal Reserve officials’ estimates of levels sustainable in the long run may in their view add to upward pressure on wages and inflation. That would keep the central bank on track to raise interest rates in June for the second time this year and potentially one or two more times after that in 2018. - Trump must have been taking notes in 1993.
Okay, here's the deal: The tea party was a bunch of people that were duped by people with heavy influnce like the Koch family. That's why the things the tea party said made no sense (like the extra scrutiny from the IRS). They were just people that were following the orders of the corporate world and never were actually interested in change. It was almost like the tea party were low level peasants doing the bidding of the Kochs. Being part of the tea party didn't make you an idiot, but listening to the orders of your corporate bosses did make you dumb because you were not doing it for yourself. You took the side of billionaires and made things worse for at least 10 years.
Why can't a President back this up? Unemployment is a big problem, people are in poverty because of greed and corruption. So Politicians need to get their heads out of the sand and make changes and make it happen. But they won't Politicians are selfish money slugs. So this Government is hopeless. How sad?
What's sad to me is that as moving and inspirational this movie was, most people would say, "oh, its just Hollywood... a President like this could never exist in the real world." Why? Why couldn't there be a person like this who genuinely cares for others and still be President? Such a shame what American politics has become.
Rigged elections have consequences.
We have a President like that. His name is Joe Biden. His Build Back Better offered climate action, imfrastructure, science, expansion of Obamacare, social care, childcare, universal pre-k, child tax credit and much more. Unfortunately, Manchin and Sinema torpedoed much of it and then the people voted in Kevin McCarthy as Speaker. And now we are paying the price.
Initially I would have said that in the past, these people couldn’t get past the committees that nominate presidents. Like what the DNC did to Bernie in 2016. But trump eventually getting the GOP ticket was interesting. I think republicans settled to make sure they wouldn’t get left behind. But trump isn’t a true outsider. He plays ball with all the special interest, in a different style, but plays ball all the same. Same swamp just different pecking order.
Now what about someone like JFK. Flaws and all, to me, he really seemed to care about the romantic ideals of America. Wanted things to change, wanted to do things a better way. And what did that get him… a fatal splitting headache in a convertible in Dallas TX. All because he came across too much like an “ordinary citizen”.
They would never make it because Americans are idiots and whoever gets the most campaign contribution wins.
See Banker's Manifesto 1892
The scene with Oliver Stone is genius. The man has a sense of humor.
During the 45 years I worked in the casinos here in Las Vegas, I worked for three different casinos. I can remember the joy I felt when I got hired at each place, especially the third, because the gentleman in Human Resources told me that I'd have health coverage for me and my wife from day one. During my lifetime, I never feared cancer or some other serious disease. However, perhaps because I came from a very poor family, I did fear being unemployed. Fortunately, I wasn't for very long. The very best to all of you.
Well said! My friend. Well said
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I'm a Las Vegas local, too! I think your fear is one that a lot of locals share as well. I know it is one I have definitely experienced, especially during the uncertainty of the pandemic. Las Vegas is different than a lot of cities when it comes to jobs. The very life-line of Las Vegas is the SERVICE INDUSTRY (both on The Strip and off), and there is such a HIGH turn-over rate of people getting hired, fired, or quitting without notice. Your fear is 100% justified. Very best to you and yours as well, from another Desert Dweller!
"But that's not even the worst part... The worst part is we feel like we can't do anything about it. And that's a tragedy. Because we can..."
Kevin Kline has such a passion in the way he speaks and how he carries himself, I could listen to him describe the manufacturing processes of cardboard boxes and still be holding on every word.
Imagine, 25 years later, how many of these politicians are still in office. Also, the Oliver Stone joke was very clever.
They've all retired by now. I think Tom Harkin is the most recent to retire. Dodd retired after or before the 2012 election his last effort was the Dodd Frank bill on Banking regulation.
@Craig Bickerstaff - Sorry, my bad. Thanks for the correction.
Are you dumb. They’re all in their 80’s and 90’s now
The little smile on Duane's face, carefully concealed, at 2:30, helps to explain his later statement that "I would have taken a bullet for you."
"The look on a person's face when they get a job." That's a powerful statement and so true. Please allow me to relate an incident that happened to me ever so many years ago here in Las Vegas. I had my grandson, about eight, for the day. We were driving somewhere in my little pickup and I saw a girl's bicycle at a yard sale, just what I needed for my granddaughter for when she came to my home. We stopped, I negotiated a price, and I put it in the back of my truck. A little while later, we arrived at a supermarket where I needed to go in and pick up some prescriptions for my wife. I didn't want to leave my grandson in the truck and I didn't want to leave the bike I'd just bought unattended. About the time a homeless man approached my truck, and before he could say anything, I said, "You're going to ask me for money, aren't you?" He replied, "Only a dollar." I told him, "That's not nearly enough for a man like you. If you'll sit on the tail gate while we run get my wife's medications, I'll give you $2." A few minutes later as I was coming out the front door, I looked out at my truck and he was sitting on the tail gate with his chest out and the look of total satisfaction on his face. He was so pleased that he was earning the $2. Obviously, that incident made an impression on me because I can still remember it clearly.
You know you're a bad ass when you have Marsellus Wallace standing guard for you.
Imagine a United States with a President with this moral and ethical character.
Wont get it from Biden or should i say 'the big guy'. 47 years in the swamp. Biden is all in with Bob Alexander.
Trump is the man
I like the acting, the script was obviously very good to the point of perfection. The camera work, everything. Great scene.
+jaymorpheus11 That's Helen Thomas in the front row! How kind of her to agree to cameo for the movie.
+Cassandra Chaya Khan hey
u know what is the moral lesson of this movie?
+jaymorpheus11 hey bro u know what is the moral lesson of this movie?
This might hands-down be my favorite movie
RIP Larry King.
If you were a kid in the 90s, that man was on your parent’s TV every night.
I love the snippet with Oliver Stone at the end -- the one conspiracy theory that is actually true!!
I love also how Oliver Stone is able to poke fun at himself as well
thats exactly what i was thinking
The term "Conspiracy theory" was made up by people that want others to not pursue the truth. To embarrass them and make fun of them. Oliver Stone made a movie about JFK that made all the sense in the world, and before the movie he was talking about it for a long time, so naturally he was describer by advocate of conspiracy theories.
@@ame7272 the term “conspiracy theory” was coined to describe the ideas of people who lack critical thinking skills. JFK was a mess on nonsense.
My head canon is that in-universe, the public will look back on the radical change of policy in the later half of this presidency and attribute it to his first stroke.
Dear Craig Bickerstaff :),
I would like to say, thank you, very much, to you, for taking the time, energy and effort to both upload and share this video with the youtube family.
Thank you, very much, Craig Bickerstaff :).
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For a long time, I was wondering what party Bill Mitchell belonged to. But now I guess it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what the party is, it's the person.
Erik Nelson well said.
I think he was a Democrat
It doesn't matter what the party is, it doesn't matter who the person is, it's who they've sold out to. Back then there were limits on how much could be donated so corporations concentrated on buying out one party - the Republicans. When Citizens United removed those limits, they could buy out both parties and it wouldn't matter to them who won. Bribe the lawmakers, legalise bribery.
@@shawnjohnson9763 The Republican says "I've been carrying water for this guy for so long." I think that means President Mitchell was a Republican.
@@timothyhh well. I don’t think this movie spent a lot of time focusing on it. The director didn’t want to divide his audience in that way. But I think he was supposed to be democrat. And that’s not necessarily supposed to be positive. But a lot of stuff mirrored Bill Clinton who just took office at the time. There were rumors that Hillary and Bill’s relationship was a lot like the real President Mitchell and First Lady’s relationship. President Mitchell was banging his staff, and even though this was before the Monica Lewinski affair… there were still those stories about Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones.
With that said… a lot of this was based on the promise of hope and echoed a lot of Clinton’s messaging at the time.
Thanks for uploading. I love this movie.
If this man ever ran for president I'd vote for him in a second
I just pulled out the DVD and watching later tomorrow or Tuesday
i would seriously love it if someone uploaded this entire movie, because i love it that much!
More than likely, the local library has a copy or will get it for you.
PrimeWire has it on line for free
"Larry? Oliver. Larry? Oliver. Larry?" great self parody from oliver stone there...
I know! I walk away from that little scene thinking, “At least I know Oliver Stone has a great sense of humor!”
This is so relevant right now
And I’d vote for him in a second
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God, I love Paul Simon. What a fine human being.
"They tried this in Russia..and they wrecked the dam country"..that dude kills me everytime..
+gdub454 hey bro u know what is the moral lesson of this movie?
Key word is find
They also tried it in Germany, in 1930 something. It worked great.
Not to mention Britain with their workhouses. I wonder how many times in history this has been presented as a brand new idea that no one's ever tried before.
@@erentheca to be fair, the conservatives and anti-democrates who run the country under Brüning made it easy for Hitler when they decided to deflate, deflate and deflate (and by that put every third men out of labour and many more under wages no one could live by). TROIKA-STYLE Baby!
The Oliver Stone bit IS BRILLIANT!!!
3:27 - I was honored Paul Simon on the Hill for Illinois, He was bipartisan while loyal to his party, He was considered the most honest man in Congress.
Nice ties too/
Speaking in broad terms: It's too bad we don't have honest and genuine people in office today, people who stand up for what's right, who tell the truth, and who have integrity; who make promises and do their very best to keep them. Seems like everywhere you look a politician is being caught in some sort of scandal or another.
Obviously, of course, nobody can keep every single promise they make, nor that nobody is incorruptible, because that would mean we would all be perfect and be living in a perfect world.
But it feels like all too often, we have people in office who fail to keep their promises, or who never really had any intention of keeping any of the promises they made while running for the office they now hold, and who either become corrupted by the power their positions have afforded them, or they were that way all along.
We did but he made the same mistakes that Dave here is making. And he learned the hard lesson about what's come to be known as the "Deep State", nobody in Washington DC actually wants to change things for the better, and they will all conspire against you if you try to shake up the status quo for actual beneficial change.
That's why this film is a fantasy, a comedy, and could never happen in real life.
I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!
What an inspirational and challenging piece of video ! It is as true now as when it was made.
May be time to watch this one...
great movie !!!! this particulary scene is cool and touching!!!
Imagine at that time everybody is happy when they finally had a job. Now nobody wants to work anymore. What a difference these 30 years has made!!
Yeah 30 years ago having a job meant you could pursue some of your own happiness not that you’d have to dedicate your whole life to the position and not even make enough to feel like you’re not scraping by. People want to work but they also want their work to be valued and reap dividends.
Nobody wants to work, or nobody wants to hire anybody to work? Jobs are getting cut by the millions, even those that fully dedicate themselves to their jobs are being treated like expendable assets by their bosses/executives, and being cut loose when they're deemed "unnecessary".
There is one smaller difference - nobody wants to work for a wage that can't provide you a decent lifestyle. Better yet nobody wants to work 4 jobs just to scrap the lower middle class line. That's the essence of the problem. 🤔😌
Love the Oliver Stone cameo
Helen Thomas! I loved her, the last GREAT journalist/reporter.
I can tell this is a movie, the press is actually quiet.
Fast forward to 2021 and it is a shame his vision wasn't acted upon.
great movie.
Kevin Kline 2020!
From Vince on A Fish Called Wanda to William Hundert in The Emperor's Club. Fantastic range.
Oh I love this movie !!! And that scene at the end with Oliver Stone and Larry King was great !!!
Interestingly enough--though this speech has been used to imply that Dave's a lib, Conservatives can easily point to where he brings his friends--a businessman--to help him look over the federal budget and see what waste could be cut out. The friends makes a remark like, "If I ran my business like this, we'd be bankrupt!" They then go on a cutting spree that would make Paul Ryan proud. (Of course, the line-item veto seems to be in effect in this film's universe.)
Glenn Beck loves "Dave" BTW.
Ah. The 90’s
Came back after I got my job.
All I know is that I wouldn't want the job. Seems to me you are damned if you do and damned if you don't, no matter where you heart or agenda is.
even if you have no agenda
John M Yeah we got one of those, John...
That's why it takes ALL of us TOGETHER to run this country - at least, properly.
Glutton for punishment, sociopath or a total shortage of bleeps to give
Kevin Kline magique dans ce film , sûrement le meilleur Président US représenté au Cinéma...
I seriously don't know if anyone noticed this but around 1:08 with the logo on the television camera. It looks exactly like the logo from the Clamp Cable Network right out of Gremlins 2?
1:05. That Clamp Cable News camera straight from gremlins 2!
The best role Mr Kevin Kline as played in my opinion since Cry Freedom when he played Donald Woods.
@AnonymousViewer It's probably just a case of reusing existing sets and props to save $. Happens all the time. (Both were WB pictures). Coincidentally, Kevin Kline's wife Phoebe Cates was in the Gremlins movies.
And Glenn still is on record as liking the film.
The perpetual blissful utopia of permanent universal full time employment is only a movie theatre or dvd rental away, or just a youtube click nowadays.
And again--Glenn Beck has stated on record that he likes the film, noting that "Dave *got it*!"
if we've learned anything in 2021 it's that a lot of people don't WANT to be employed....
2 Thessalonians 3:10
“For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”
If someone doesn't want to work, then let them starve. I sure as hell am not giving another cent to someone who won't find gainful employment.
I'd even support requiring beggars to get a permit to be able to do it!
Make the permit free, but have the place where you go get the permit be in the unemployment office and require that they attend 3 job interviews before they can get their beggar card.
Pple want to work; They just want a living cost to feed their family instead have to work 3 jobs just to pay rent
@@tylerdurden639 that's fine until you pass laws that make it illegal to try to provide for yourself and then tell you if you don't work for someone else then you starve. that's how revolutions start. If you tell a people that they have to do what YOU want them to do or they starve, i'm pretty sure they can come up with some pretty creative alternatives that you probably aren't going to be particularly happy with.
We have a lot of unemployed in our area. We all want to work. This seems to be true throughout the country. But, increasingly, employers are questioning employees about their political or religious beliefs or looking them up on social media and if they don't match the employer's beliefs, the employee's work is sabotaged and then they're let go as substandard. The political and religious divide is effecting jobs too. No agency is taking these cases. Plus, it's difficult to prove, since a lot of it is done behind closed doors. And then they say nobody wants to work anymore to cover for not hiring people outside their political
eligious group. I've lost five jobs when they asked if I was a Christian and I said no. And Christians who are a different denomination than the dominant one are also losing jobs. It's so prevalent that you'd have to turn the whole county in.
And there's a group that wants to raise the minimum wage that is spreading the idea that people don't want to work for the wages offered, but it's just a response to the "nobody wants to work" fiction that supports their agenda. We need work. We're willing to work. But even if we change our political party and convert to Christianity, there would still be limits to our employment and ability to survive.
There's also a movement that claims that unemployed people are worthless and so many employers will only hire people who are employed elsewhere. A constitutional amendment to make being able to get a job a constitutional right, regardless of political party or religion or any other factor would prevent discrimination or help to do that. It's already an international human right along with housing in other developed countries. We are too far behind.
Love Ving Rhames.......
@teufelkim Yes, you can create jobs out of thin air. Drive down any road. What do you see? Besides the pot holes and trash on the side, you see people hanging out, sometimes with abandoned houses. The US Govt could say tomorrow, "anyone who wants to work, sign up downtown at your City Hall. We'll fix every road, pick up all trash, we'll put all telephone and electric lines underground." That;s just to start. It can work.
Based on some of the comments by senators and the fact that Bob Alexander is hanging out with Ben Stein, I'm not so sure.
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Oliver...
Larry...
Oliver...
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@gaspo2180 how are we going to pay for those services? Print more money? More Taxes?
not quite we choose to go to the moon, but it works
But there are jobs for "everyone who wants one".
They have to want one.
It seems there actually is a few percent who don’t want one actually, but would rather have a check for doing absolutely nothing. And they get it. But the pay still isn’t that great. And the % isn’t huge, but it exists.
The best way to judge the Welfare program is not by home many people we fund on welfare, but how many people we get off of welfare.....RONALD REAGAN
It's 2016...
Trump wants to give Americans Jobs...
Does this sound familiar?
www.nydailynews.com/news/national/u-s-unemployment-rate-falls-lowest-level-17-years-article-1.3608750
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@ragetti911 you can't create jobs out of thin air. A job is created when there are enough people to demand a good or a service.
Maybe you should consider watching the film rather then jumping to conclusions, if you saw the film you would realise that it's not as flawed a premise as you think it is.
I LOVE the movie very much, a modern version of The Prisoner of Zenda. Thanks for uploading this clip
I love the movie. When we had HBO back in the day and this was on while I was flipping through, I'd watch it. It's a classic 90's situation comedy movie.
This movie is a gem
The key phrase is "those who want one" people miss that and just assume he's going to put everyone to work. There are people who don't want to work and shouldn't be forced to, but those who want to but have no clue as to where to start or start looking are worth trying to help. That was the goal of his plan and it's one that should be explored.
Oliver Stone looked so young back then
Not really him. A lookalike from the other side of the looking glass. Good try though.
There's definitely some creative liberties, like the fact that the president's staff apparently only consists of two people.
Still, it's a fun movie.
I think they had to keep it that way to make the conspiracy plausible. An ambitious Chief of Staff and his subordinate Press secretary is somewhat believable, but if you have the Secretary of State, Defense, Treasury, etc. etc. all in there and somehow not noticing its a different person, it stretches credibility a bit.
@@pietrpiepir6444 I'm not talking about cabinet members, who are usually off running their own departments and not interacting daily with the president. I'm talking people who actually work in the White House, like the Communications Director and the National Security Advisor.
“The Truth is...I am Iron Man.”
this would be the president we want - not what us deserves
It is about the paycheck.
@teufelkim no you can't create things of value out of thin air; just the banks have the power to create currency (not money, check the definitions) out of thin air, backed by nothing but the politicians hot air, to serve their masters, not the people whom they are sworn to serve.
Im a staunch GOP conservative as well as a fiscal conservative and I applaud the movie and its message. This was a feel good film that hits the nail on the head for 2012/2013. The power is in the people. Not the govt. Cut the deficit by getting rid of PORK! BS monies paid to peoples and entities that have helped the president and his constituants stay in the white house. Governor Romney had the right idea. Put a ballanced budget into play within 90 days of office and straighten us out!
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Aj Ajaj fuck you loser. JUSSIE SMOLLET scumbag!!!!!
It's 2019...
Trump is getting the job done.
@@mr6johnclark What job? Running everything into the ground, like his bankrupt casinos?
@@Stinkehundthat would be Biden. Look at those gas prices and inflation!
larry, oliver, larry, oliver
I'm pretty sure there is a job for everyone who wants one.
money.cnn.com/2018/06/01/news/economy/may-jobs-report/index.html
The jobless rate ticked down to 3.8% in May, another sign of the strong economy and tight labor market.
That tied the lowest unemployment rate since 1969. Since then, the only other time unemployment was this low was in April 2000.
u can start with:
min wage 1$/h start there
all pay 15% income tax
this movie frikn rules!!...and the guy w/ the white hair @ 3:41 cracks me up everytime..."They tried this in Russia...and they wrecked the dam country"..
You said it, Craig! And besides, realism sucks :-)
Are the senators really senators with a cameo or actors?
They were real Senators, retired mostly Tom Harkin being the most recent to leave.
President Mitchell was a liberal. Moderate liberal. Democrat
Modern take on "The Prisoner of Zenda"
really? Do you know why he wouldnt pass a bill to save shelters of that sort? Because the entitlements on the books today give you MORE than most shelters offer. Housing, phones, food stamps, free utilities, some states free cable TV and the list goes on and on and on. Go learn the entitlements before you make comments about Senetor Ryan.
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We need a ntl permanent wpa system repair our ntn no welfare no unemployment pay taxes take 25 cents an hour to go back n2 the pot to help pay for it less crime n drug use n domestic abuse
I'm sure he would have kept the baby killers in IOF at bay.
This is what a leader should do for their country. Get the people off their asses, roll their sleeves and get to work.
(Oh communism, just kidding)
Sad that we only have great Presidents in movies, and not in real life.
Obama, Clinton, H.W. Bush, Carter, LBJ, JFK, Eisenhower, Truman, FDR, Wilson, Roosevelt, Lincoln... There are plenty of great Presidents. If any one of these great movie Presidents were real Presidents you wouldn't think they were so great anymore. Especially Jed Bartlett from The West Wing, he seemed great because we knew him behind the scenes. We saw his motivation and what drove him. In reality he accomplished very little on that show and made a lot of disappointing decisions.
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@gaspo2180 Yes, this is exactly how FDR got us out of the Depression.
zizwop Ah total bs. FDR sank the economy and caused the Depression to continue till WW2.
It's been proven that the New Deal didn't do anything to the economy, but it did have the affect of boosting people's spirits. Data shows that America didn't fully leave the Great Depression until 1945, after four years of war.
1:35 "...I'm going to make it the responsibility of this government to find a job for every American who wants one." I think I see the gaping flaw in that idea...
It's a pity in these times the best presidents oinlyexist in scripts
1) Glenn will be the first to admit that the Defense Department is full of waste, just like all the other ones.
2) Glenn is agains corportate welfare--and so is Paul Ryan. So "programs designed to boost American auto sales" would be applauded by them both.
3) The entire point of the Paul Ryan Plan is to make the social programs *work*, instead of go bankrupt in a bureaucratic mess.
I was today years old when I got the Oliver Stone cameo.
@zizwop .. well its the govts job to ensure security.. this a global world. If the Japanese govt starts selling AMerican bonds, for the rebuilding effort, for the 300,000 + homeless.. interest rates in America will increase, and the overall effect will be a fiscal splash across the world.. cause the Dollar isnt stable. Yes your right, the Govt doesnt have the responsibility, however it does, when it comes to value.. i mean seriously, billions are made in derivatives.. when it has no value !.
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@gaspo2180 taxes at a record low since the founding of America
fortune.com/2018/05/04/unemployment-rate-century-low-percent/
U.S. hiring rebounded in April and the unemployment rate dropped below 4% for the first time since 2000, while wage gains unexpectedly cooled, suggesting the labor market still has slack to absorb.
Payrolls rose 164,000 after an upwardly revised 135,000 advance, Labor Department figures showed Friday. The jobless rate fell to 3.9%, the lowest since December 2000, after six months at 4.1%. Average hourly earnings increased 0.1% from the prior month and 2.6% from a year earlier, both less than projected.
Despite the softer-than-expected wage reading, an unemployment rate drifting further below Federal Reserve officials’ estimates of levels sustainable in the long run may in their view add to upward pressure on wages and inflation. That would keep the central bank on track to raise interest rates in June for the second time this year and potentially one or two more times after that in 2018.
- Trump must have been taking notes in 1993.
The jobs I'm going to create will have to be offshore to maximize my profits, hope that's OK.
Your prerogative. Maybe lowering corporate taxes - which are simply passed on to the consumer anyway - will induce you to stay.
This hasn’t aged well with the current job market
@mpcsu
How is it that being a Tea Partier makes one an idiot? You don't even know me.
Okay, here's the deal:
The tea party was a bunch of people that were duped by people with heavy influnce like the Koch family. That's why the things the tea party said made no sense (like the extra scrutiny from the IRS). They were just people that were following the orders of the corporate world and never were actually interested in change. It was almost like the tea party were low level peasants doing the bidding of the Kochs.
Being part of the tea party didn't make you an idiot, but listening to the orders of your corporate bosses did make you dumb because you were not doing it for yourself. You took the side of billionaires and made things worse for at least 10 years.
Why can't a President back this up? Unemployment is a big problem, people are in poverty because of greed and corruption. So Politicians need to get their heads out of the sand and make changes and make it happen. But they won't Politicians are selfish money slugs. So this Government is hopeless. How sad?
This is slavery, I want freedom, dammit!