I just saw this video in my Facebook feed and had to go to YouTube to find it. It is funny that I came across this today given that I just submitted a modified version of my blog post titled “The American Middle Class Will Revolt Against Austerity” to my local paper to place in the editorial section.
From UPWORTHY
BREAKING: You Know That TED Talk You Weren’t Supposed To See? Here It Is.
Nick Hanauer, self-described "super-rich" entrepreneur, gave a pretty compelling TED Talk about how the middle class—not the super-rich—are the real job creators. But TED, which has released over 100 different political videos in the past, thought this one was too partisan and chose not to release it. We didn’t notice any flaming partisanship in it. We normally love TED, and were surprised they didn’t think this talk was TEDworthy.
Under pressure from the Internets, TED finally relented and released the video. Watch it and decide for yourself if it’s really all that controversial to say that the "super-rich are not job creators." Then share it like crazy
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[...] Much of our budget deficit is a direct result of deficit spending for the war and a military that is much too big while we keep taxes extremely low on the wealthy under the pretext that they are job creators. Of course this was summarily dispelled by Nick Hanauer in his TED speech “Wealthy Do Not Create Jobs–The Middle Class Does”. [...]