Ben Stein: Economic Village Idiot

“In life, events tend to follow patterns. People who commit crimes tend to be criminals, for example. Can anyone tell me any economists who have been convicted of violent sex crimes? Can anyone tell me of any heads of nonprofit international economic entities who have ever been charged and convicted of violent sexual crimes? Is it likely that just by chance this hotel maid found the only one in this category? Maybe Mr. Strauss-Kahn is guilty but if so, he is one of a kind, and criminals are not usually one of a kind.”

-Ben Stein, 5/17/11

Cobourg’s former economic director goes to jail for sexual assault
Economist on governor’s staff charged with child sex abuse
Former Rockford College economics professor pleads guilty to sexual abuse
W&M assistant [economics] professor charged with online sex crime
Colby [economics] professor resigns amid secret-camera flap
Economics professor caught in teen sex sting
CSUN economics professor Kenneth Ng runs Thai sex tourism website

Source - Oops! Ben Stein Forgot His Brain

Comments

[john]

A private residence in Brookline Massachusetts was where Obama's fundraiser was held yesterday. Here is a map of the area and take from it what you may...............

http://maps.google.com/maps?rls=com.microsoft:en-US&oe=utf8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=massachusetts+synagogues&fb=1&gl=us&hq=synagogues&hnear=0x89e3656de973bffd:0x45c6d03655830d1c,Massachusetts&ei=6nPVTZ29EtCSgQeo17yMBw&sa=X&oi=local_group&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CAQQtgMwAA

[Alberto]

Subject: Fwd: We can do this together!

I have totally cleaned this e-mail from all other names, sending it to you in hopes you will keep it going and keep it clean. This is something I will fight for and I hope you all read it all the way through. You will be glad you did.

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971...before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc.


Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land? all because of public pressure.

I'm asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.

In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.


Congressional Reform Act of 2011
1. Term Limits.
12 years only, one of the possible options below?
A. Two Six-year Senate terms
B. Six Two-year House terms
C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms


2. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives nothingwhen they are out of office.

3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.

4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective
1/1/12.


The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen.
Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.

If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only takethree days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive the message. Maybe it is time.

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!! If you agree with the above, pass it on. If not, just delete


You are one of my 20+. Please keep it going.

[kc]

Ben, How about Paul Wolfowitz and other "should have been convicted" types... can't we include those? Former President of The World Bank... still needs to be indicted as a War Criminal by the World Court for colluding with other members of the GW Bush administration into concocting false evidence and lying to the American people, the result of which led to the deaths of approx. 4500 US military personnel and an estimated 110, 000 Iraqis, not to mention the maimed and severely injured and traumatized.

http://antiwar.com/casualties/
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

Oh and how many trillions has that cost the US Treasury? Ben Stein is certainly a pathetic little worm.

[Angry Jones]

Thanks Ben! Date an economist and you'll never get raped - who knew?!

[john]

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/19-5

Fucking stupidity knows no bounds.... P.S. DB, if my first post (open source) is unacceptable please feel free to delete it.

[john]

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/after-obama-speech-netanyahu-rejects-withdrawal-to-indefensible-1967-borders-1.362869

[Cheyenne]

And there are no black swans, and you can make a lot of money betting that one in either cash or justice. Also, house prices never go down. I'm surprised he didn't point out that DSK isn't black on top of all that other great evidence... Has this guy learned a single lesson from the last 20 years--other than that public fellatio pays?

[Big Man]

Mr. Stein is an *ss. He is closing ranks with other in his clan to protect DSK. I believe he did similarly with Polanski.

[Oberon4life]

Clinton, Sptizer, The Guvenator, Packwood, Gingrich, John Edwards, etc.

I see where you're going with this Ben, clearly none of them understood economics.

[DailyBail]

well played, bobby...

[john]

The third individual listed on this site was a professor of economics.....


http://www.teachercrime.com/alabama.html

[Cheyenne]

O4l--

All this shit got started with "Baby on Board" followed by Gary Hart. It's been straight downhill since then.

[Harry Johnson]

ben stein was a nixon speechwriter. That says it all.

[john]

Ron Paul vs. Ben Stein on Larry King

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki7kMw85vB8

Get your popcorn...........

[DailyBail]

thanks john...

[LEONNE]

Yeah,.... Ben a little naive here,.... let's see,... Presidents don't get blow jobs in the oval office either,.... Muscle bound Governors don't have love children, Investment Managers like Madoff don't rip people off, Highly regarded Sport stars don't nearly decapitate their ex wives heads ala OJ, and the list could go on and on. For an intelligent guy this is beyond stupid,... to suggest the norm is 100% across the board is ridiculous,... there are always your aberrant few or perhaps many in any given strata of society, to suggest it's such a long shot this maid found the only one is ludicrous someone had to cross paths with this scumbag why not her,.... his whole argument is specious if not vacant. Your losing it Ben get a grip.

[Alberto]

INTERESTING ACTORS INVOLVED IN DSK PROSECUTION (PERSECUTION?)

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24866

[john]

Nice catch Alberto........

[Cheyenne]

Jesus, john, that Paul-Stein video is a gem. I stopped watching when, having been buried by Ron Paul, Ben Stein pulls out the wholly irrelevant "anti-Semitic" phrase like a pistol with no rhyme or reason.

Ben Stein is a traitor, witting or not.