Walter Williams Suffers No Fools
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- No economist of modern times has challenged and overturned more wrong-headed economic thinking than Walter Williams. For forty years he’s argued against the illogic of the minimum wage, racial quotas, occupational licensing as well as the welfare state. What drives his liberal critics crazy is his provocative argument that these government interventions hurt the very people they are designed to help.
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Between Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell you have a vault of knowledge that is unequaled anywhere in the world.
@@trailtrs1 Very true, try listening to Clarence Mason Weaver. He doesn't have the intellect of them but he has the street cred and life experience from a different perspective, but yet has the common sense of them.
George Wagner
I’ve listened to him he is clear minded
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Wow, I just thought of things I had never thought of before. I know he has passed, it thank you to The Heritage Foundation for posting these! I'm trying to watch at least one interview of his a day. I also bought one book, as I have learned he has 10, I'm going to search for more. ❤️🇺🇸❤️
Rest in peace, Walter Williams. You will be missed.
Oh no! I just found out. How sad. The world can't lose many more like Mr. Williams. May God bless your family.
Thank you 🙏 Dr.Williams I will share your message
America lost an honest man of brilliant mind God help America
Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell: two national treasures.
Jerry, you're so right.
Two men whom if they did not espouse 'conservative' ideas, would be highly decorated by the press, for there are few who have done more to advance the cause of education for blacks.
Two examples of the fact that brilliance and integrity know no skin color
I am mad as hell because MSM will not feature these guys, what a shame. Trump 2020.
Also Larry Elder.
I heard Thomas Sowell remark that in the old days Walter used to kid around with him and say that they should never be on the same plane together because if that plane ever went down every black conservative in America would be gone.
Walter is a genius.
That would be awesome only if the liberals of all races are included on the same plane as the conservatives of all races too. None of them actually give a damn about Black people anyway. Blacks are a pretext for fighting over their own interests.
haha
Learning about Dr. Walter Williams starting today. Reading Dr. Sowell's books.
He seems disconnected and out of touch on his minimum wage arguement.
I think there are more black conservatives than we might think. I'm counting on it.
It mind boggles me how anyone can completely disregard Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell These two men are among the best analytical minds that have ever existed in America.
They're both disregarded because they don't tow the leftist liberal narrative. Why aren't either of them celebrated within the African American communities?
If you do not understand, look at what they teach. People will do what ever they need to do for their own gain. The solutions TS & WW propose are long term solutions, there are ways to go against what they teach for short term gains.
@@masterofrockets You sound as if you are promoting crime as an entitlement ? No
I don't think master was defending what is happening. I think he is more illustrating that taking the right path is not easy work, and the masses tend to gravitate toward the path of least resistance.
I think Biden’s recent moronic comments make it clear, at least to me: They don’t fit the black narratives hard left liberal asshats would prefer.
I’m a white Canadian and I can see that shit from miles away.
Just recently learned of Thomas Sowell and this gentleman. Wish I found them years ago.
+Evil Nick Same here. Sowell, himself and Milton Friedman are recent discoveries of mine. Honorable men.
+Evil Nick Add Shelby Steele, Friedrich Hayek ("The Road to Serfdom"), Adam Smith ("The Wealth of Nations"), Charles Murray ("The Bell Curve..."), Amity Shlaes ("The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Depression" and "Coolidge"). Then of course, there are intellectuals who incorporate economics in their books: Ann Coulter, Jonah Goldberg, etc.
+Marcus Bullion I knew of Friedman, but he was spoken very badly about, by leftists, so as a teenager I kept away from him, but now, Im about to be thirdy, so fuck the left and the right. XD haha
*****
Im not living in the States, what do you mean by "he doesn't recognize the one-man adressing the nightmare we're living?".
me too very smart interesting man
Prof. Williams is an American treasure!
Wow! One of the best political/economic discussions I've ever heard.
I started questioning my political and economic (both liberal) views in the early 90s. It took me until a year ago to finally understand why I had so much disillusionment with the status quo (Dems & GOP). I feel ashamed to only recently, heard of this man. He could have saved me 20 years of politically wasted time.
U took the words right outta my mouth bro.👍
Shawn Carter I wouldn’t sweat it too much. The media has worked extra hard to keep the truth about the Democratic Party and the liberal agenda a secret. Also to demonize all white people while professing how horrible racism is without any realization of the irony. Some people are racist but overall, I don’t buy it.
I think, Shawn Carter, a lot of people in the last 3 yrs are realizing that the people of our country (USA) and Western Civilization as a whole have been spoon fed a whole lot of bull sh••! You are not alone my friend!
You just needed to hear these thoughts from the mouth of a black man! God will provide!!
Bertter late than NEVER HUH?! 🙏❤🇺🇸😊
Professor Williams and Heritage Foundation, thank you for being!
I love and respect Walter E Williams so much. Same for Thomas Sowell. They are full of wisdom, decency and are so sane. I would like to meet both of them. Since I am no one, that won't happen, but I keep hoping that it will happen some day. God bless both of them.
They have email addresses just like the rest of us... you should write them! You'll never meet them if you don't ask.
You are right, and we are all no one any more worthy of our Elohim than you. However, if we were to serve God, the Father, in the name of His only begotten Son, you will then say, "I can and will meet them, God willing." I would like to meet them as well, straight up and down, so I feel where you coming from. So let us serve The Lord GOD of Israel, the GOD of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, keep His commandments, walk in the ways of our MESSIAH and KING, and let your faith in YAH do the walking and talking.
Peace.
Attend a meeting where they are speaking and go on their sites to see where they’ll be appearing. Also write to them! They are very gracious and exceedingly approachable!
I greatly admire them both!
You are someone!
They are also two intellectual giants the Liberal Progressives & other establishment politicians will distance themselves from because the truth in logic runs counter to Leftist & big government narratives.
One of the few great men of our time. Thanks Dr Williams-
Look not at intentions but at effects. Wow! “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” - Thomas Sowell
Stealing this quote. Makes more sense now more than ever.
@@-o-dq7nd Sowell is a treasure.
Or with what felt good. 😜
Pops wishes Obama could be of sound mind.
Rest In Peace, Walter Williams. We will miss you dearly. May your memory not be forgotten.
I recommend that people not just watch the first 15 or 20 minutes of this video, but the entire thing. It's very edifying the whole way through.
Walter Williams is awesome. He's the kind of man this country desperately needs. I had some great Econ Profs, but gee, I wish he had been on the list.
Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell and Larry Elder........ All AMAZING
And Candice Owens
@@jillseering.61 Forgot to add her :)
Add David Webb, Rick Scott, Candace Owens and many others are coming. The #BLEXIT and #WALKAWAY movements are going to bless America with more of these caliber thinkers. Being released from the tentacles of the democrat mental and emotional enslavery of blacks is enlightening!
Mecha-Art add Shelby Steele.
Ben Carson, Herman Cain, Leo Terrell, Clarence Thomas, Tim Scott, Mark Robinson, Charles Barkley, Allen West..... and I love Charles Barkley because he is NOT afraid of saying things contrary to the prevailing liberal view. But EVERY ONE of these people are exceptional. There is hope...but the worst thing is ...the ordinary black person would call each of these stupendous individuals "Uncle Toms" and "boot licks".
This was some good stuff. I expected to only watch for five minutes but I couldn't stop. Thanks for the upload!
A true expert of the Constitution. God bless us all for the hard work of this dear man.
RIP Prof Williams. Thank you for making the world a better place by challenging us to think critically.
I am so glad that my father taught me to always listen to people that were smarter than me, I'm pretty smart but I am not even in the league of this genius gentleman. I love Thomas Sowwel I have listen to him for years and just found dr. Williams 2 days ago. I'm ashamed I haven't been listening to him for years!
He's one of my favorite people. He's logical. He also gets to say things others, because of political correctness, can't.
Evy ...won’t !!
I'm 19 and I've been listening to Walter Williams for years now. It's unfortunate but I think I may have to flee the country when stuff hits the fan. I just hope it's still possible when I finish college.
Blake Lanier
Stay and fight....you'll enjoy the victory prarade
Rebekah H. You’ve obviously never traveled.
You went to college??
Scotty BoomBoom he sound so convincing. Context and the bigger picture: ua-cam.com/video/tMxe1JMeeRU/v-deo.html
Obama took away school vouchers for black students whom were excelling in school. Their parents were livid, but probably voted him in again. Education is a farce and has to be broken and teachers who are ineffective, but can’t be fired. Teacher unions hurt students and college is a breeding ground to morally screw up their morals and they end up educated idiots whom are not hireable. Shame on the former Presidents!
Mr. Williams is awesome. The more I listen, the more I hear Milton Freidman.
agree.
In the promised utopia of Equality, privileging wisdom over foolishness will be recognized as fascism.
Any society that puts equality ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom, on the other hand, a society that puts freedom first will as a happy bye-product end up both with greater freedom and greater equality - Milton Friedman
@@a.gabbey5569 Freedom protects the right of the most productive people to honestly earn vastly more than average people. Economic equality is not a moral or political ideal that benefits the individual. I buy gasoline from a multi-billion dollar company, not from a dishwasher. Or can I ask you personally to drill for oil under the ocean, refine it and make it available to me 24/7? If not, then vast inequality benefits me. Communism does not.
I don’t mind equality of opportunity, but equality of outcome is distinctly unamerican.
Equality of opportunity is communism (or meaningless or impossible). Man need freedom to create his own opportunities, not opportunity stolen from others and himself to others. Man owns his own life. Man is not a slave to man.
I've always been an advocate of the free market enterprise and do wonder why Democrats criticise it. Through my research, I discovered Thomas Sowell and later Dr Williams and I'm pleased I discovered these gentlemen early.
It's disheartening that some people will say blacks' underdevelopment have been perpetuated by whites whereas it's what I term the "feeding bottle mentality" that has made such undevelopment possible.
These gentlemen's ideas align with human nature (we've an innate nature to be greedy) and how an economy works.
I promise to uphold their ideals (which hitherto has been with me) forever.
I love Dr Williams. I read his book All it Takes is Guts back in the early 80s when I was in my early twenties. His book was integral in molding my libertarian views.
ladies and gentlemen, this guy and others have been saying the same thing for over 30 years and STILL people out there and especially in government keep making the same mistakes.
No. See they know what they are doing. Don't give them the benefit.of the doubt
I live in DC. I'm going to the African American Museum to see if Walter E Williams or Thomas Sowell are recognized in any way. If not, then this will forever change my viewpoint on the liberal black American agenda.
I love to listen to this man teach.
Nothing is "too big to fail".
Common sense, intelligence, informed advice from an engaging speaker. Love from Australia 🇦🇺
Margy Rowland love from 🇺🇸 🙄
Australia has similar problems. Fewer people are paying into a welfare system that is being abused by increasingly more Australians. And as Walter said, if one group lives conservatively, they will miss out because the money will be given to someone and the taxes don't stop.
It will be interesting to see how the NDIS goes... so much waste in a system that could do almost as much good with 10% of the budget. But that doesn't seem like as much fun.
Fantastic talk. This man would make a great president.
Uhhhh......THAT would be a dream!! I do not think he would want the job though :-(
Hge StelrFn
Who would lol?
He is to smart and current black leadership would not let him correct the balance of power and lies.
ABSOLUTELY! My God, I wish he had been the first black President. What a great country we would have now.
Adam Ex Unfortunately, he'd never get elected for the same reason he wouldn't get elected as senator in PA, as he explained. It's because of the people's contempt for the constitution.
Dr. Williams is brilliant. Also, what a great sense of humor.
That fact about the how Japanese Americans have virtually no representation in our political system despite the fact they r the best off economically and educationally really kills the argument that
"We need more minorities in government so that things r fairer. Aka. Fair repersentation."
Lol
Kills it.
Absolutely correct, ELLISE, what we need is more people (of whatever race or ethnicity) of good character, morals & wisdom.
@@mr.m.1409 that's true. But that's not going to happen on this side of eternity, friend. You're better off just sitting pretty and focusing on keeping yourself faithful before Christ- until Jesus comes back and settle these accounts of the wicked.
Cheers!🙏
"What are the actual effects?"
"What is the real outcome of a program?"
Something many neo-liberals never think to even ask.
Interesting. Only think I don´t get is what do you mean by "neo-liberals."
Most neo-liberals don't care about the outcomes as long as they make them feel good
@@jasonmatthews52
Can't forget SAFE SPACES huh?! 😂😂😂
They know what the outcomes are...hence why is being done.
Rest In Peace Sir. You fought the good fight. God bless you sir.
You along with Dr. Sowell changed my life for the better to learn how to think for myself
This very important video, should be required watching for everyone! Thanks for posting it.
Just heard the news of his death, RIP Dr. Williams, I am so sad, didn't even know you, but this hurt! May the Lord comfort your family through this period. Damn, I don't even want to know what will happen when others like you are gone. geee this is so sad!
I love that quote from James Madison,"I cannot lay my finger on the article of the Constitution which granted the right to Congress of spending,on object of benevolence,the money of there constituents."
If black people would adhere to this man and Thomas Sowell's ideas, they'd truly be equal (in terms of wealth, unemployment, etc.)
UFC Armchair Cornerman there will never be equality I have 2 masters degrees and still discriminated against at work and get overlooked fo jobs that I am qualified for.... it will never stop because people are ignorant and choose to be racist
Octavia Manuel-Wright … Assuming you have double Masters in areas like Engineering, Medicine, Finance, or Some other STEM field, keep your head down, take what's available, and learn the skills, then start your own business... OR even better,,, a person of your Intellectual Horsepower and Education could develop a passive income from a well constructed diversified portfolio.... Industrious, high IQ, well educated people like yourself don't have to be Wage Slaves...
@@octaviamanuel-wright4899 Hi Octavia - I don't know you but based on the tenor of your comment, I am guessing that you are black, and that is the basis of the discrimination that you feel. And that is precisely why Affirmative Action programs should be discontinued - if the perception of others is that you benefited due to some element other than your own competence./intelligence/hard work/etc., and that is why you are in your current position, then they will extend that perception to cloud their views of your capabilities. It is unfair to be sure, but it is human nature to look for easy explanations.
UFC Armchair Cornerman
Why do blacks follow Jackson and Sharpton instead of Dr. Williams?
Yet if a White Male public intellectual said the same things, they would not be praised for their insight and ability.. More likely to be deplatformed, doxed, fired, and called Racist and Nazi. Groveling and apologies would be his only chance at working in Academia again.
This man is a legend who will be remembered, his work will continue to impact generations.
We got some knowledge dropped on us! This is a very very wise man!
As a black man, when I voted for Trump, and when I didnt support kaepernicks kneeling protests, I was ridiculed by other black folk as somehow being not black. No' one wants to talk about the violence taking place within our own community. No outrage or protests, nothing. Living in the urban city of Detroit. My biggest fear isn't white racist cops, but rather my own people. And we live in fear of each other. I keep all my doors locked at all times. When I lived in the subburbs. I was used to living carefree. Now for the first time in my entire life, I am a proud gun owner. And its ashame when you really think about it.
Anyone with family or friends, who are lefties, but not beyond all reason ....... ask them to listen to Walter Williams. There might be hope.
Walter Williams is One of the Greatest and Wisest Mentors that I Truly Honor and Hold Dear.
I can't get enough of Dr. Williams after only learning about him yesterday...I fail
Great thinker. Right on the mark on so many topic. He has it figured out. Too bad no one is going to listen to him.
Sadly you're right!! truth is not determined by a majority appeal.
Walter E. Williams! Black by popular demand! Amen!
Funny how certain truths, well stated, can invoke laughter. Huge belly laugh here at several points in that interview. I'd take issue with a couple of points, but only in so far as the language used walks into rhetorical traps easily exploited by the left, though I recognized and agreed with how he qualified such terminology at the time. A good man, speaking truth. God bless him, and may his beloved late wife rest in peace.
Dr. Williams and Dr. Sowell President and Vice President. Wow what a day that would be.
"Mrs Williams required me to continue to discriminate" LOL Dr Williams could have had a career in stand up.
Killer mike thank you for passing the torch
Wow ! this guy is brilliant I've never heard him speak before
Check out his other videos as well as Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman.
I adore this Man.
It's just a shame that people like Him aren't more central in political discourse.
SebAnders can you imagine Mr. Williams "interviewed" by Brooke Baldwin? Ah, me niether!
A valuable history and economic seminar at no cost. Priceless.
Walter Williams is a straight up genius! Love this guy!
192 downvoters didn't get their trigger warning before Mr. Williams ruined their fantasies. Williams/Sowell 2020! Either order, both are awesome.
Dr. Williams ideas and concepts are really impressive.
This is one of my most favorite economic interviews of all time.
Walter E. Williams is one of the most underrated economists of the last hundred years.
You Americans are so lucky. There just aren't any people in Canada saying what he's saying.
Komnenos1234 There's no intellectual wall between the counties. You're welcome to his ideas
+Komnenos1234 we're not lucky because the idiot slouches far outweigh the logical thinkers like him. In the USA HE'S the lunatic.
+Komnenos1234--- What do they say,,They are S O ungreatful & still want MORE MORE MINZE ..WHATS THE WORD>..
+Komnenos1234 there is no one else in Ireland of this guys stature either. So forgive me for borrowing him!
Marcus Bullion
Historically you do though. I guess not many people know that Edmund Burke was an Irishman.
Yes that is right about minimum wage you now see self check outs in Walmart and cineplex Odeon’s.
@KAOS NATION I think you would start to see that regardless. Cheap labor. Nothing cheaper than a machine in the sense of no complaints, wage increases, health insurance, benefits, etc. I am not sure why people do not understand this.
lol self check outs were coming regardless of employee wage. No way anyone would work for less money than what it costs to buy a self checkout machine. Even if there were no min wage and a cashier cost you 4 dollars an hour. You would still need to rotate cashiers. So if you have 5 cashiers working at a time that's 20 per hour. 24 hours a day but let's say you use less cashiers at night so 3 cashiers per hour on average. So that's 12 per hour. That's 12 times 24. Which is then 288 per day. That's 288 times 7 which is 2016 per week which is slightly over 104,000 a year. Yet one self check out machine is about 10k a machine. Yeah it was coming regardless.
@@tommy07robs thank you. Someone who gets it
Walter Williams right on...people contempt of the Constitution! This person does not go for take from one & give to another!!! Right on Walter Williams!!!
Joyce Brownlee I have seen regard for the Constitution fall a little every day of my life.
Walter WIlliams for the win.
Thank you. For being mentally strong
This is the type of person that MSM won't tell their audience, shame on fake news. How do we hold them accountable?
That's the point; they probably haven't been held accountable for the past 35 years.
When I first start work 55 yrs ago my salary was 4 pound 19 shillings and sixpence for 46 hrs a wk. Paid tax on that salary, I worked hard and smart and learnt very quickly and acheived pay increase for my effort. Since then i have seen many people come on board with no experience want the boss job and pay. Will not work. Does not work.
14 people didn't listen to what this brilliant man had to say.
Whats up Shamballa! I enjoyed what he had to say, however my one contention, at 2:28 he says he would discriminate by race when it comes to marriage. That was weird, no one said anything about that.
I cant believe I've never been I troduced to these ideas before in school, media, news, government or church. Thank you for this AND for the evidence given!!!
Clearly a great thinker and a wise and astute man.
He is a National Treasure and one of America’s great ones.
He and Thomas Sowell should have ran for the office of President/ Vice President.
Any thinking person who loves freedom, Liberty and prosperity would have voted for them.
Godspeed my Brother!
Honesty and truth. Authentic concern.
"Bread and circuses". There are 20 different ways of saying that he he picked the most eloquent and most descriptive. I love this guy. What a towering intellect. Both Mr. Sowell and Mr. Williams have refined my views and also taught me much. They have made the world a better place.
Thanks for the kind words!
Rest in Peace Dr. Walter Williams, . . March 31, 1936 - December 2nd, 2020. Your wisdom will be missed.
As education goes, I didn't learn anything in high school. I was shocked as a freshman to find all the classes just went over the same stuff as 6th, 7th and 8th grade. All it did was babysit me during the days. Then they would ask bad white students to quit school, and beg bad black students to stay in just to try to make the graduation rates somewhere close. That was more important than teaching .
Thank you for telling the truth Dr. Walter Williams!!!!!!!
Thank you, Walter E. Williams!
10:30 exactly its called competition and its needed in america. people would hire more teenagers at 2 to 5 dollars an hour because most on their cellphones and not paying attention anyways.
Truly, Walter Williams is an intellectual of the highest caliber. I thoroughly enjoyed viewing Suffer No Fools. (And of course, one would have to have lived in a salt mine not to have heard of Thomas Sowell). In regard to his Proclamation of Amnesty and Pardon, he states, “I, Walter E. Williams, do declare full and general amnesty and pardon to all persons of European ancestry . . .”; however, he fails to pardon the Africans who were the slave vendors, as it were. As well, to this day, the slave trade is still alive and well in Africa.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for a different outcome Thinking men like Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams doesn't suffer fools gladly
We can’t even measure the great loss we will suffer as a society when these two guys are gone
Us conservatives have literally only 1 intellectual left.
"Government interventions hurt the very people they are designed to help."
wow. blown away. sigh. this actually makes me feel passionate again. the truth is amazing. sometimes, you think you're never gonna hear it again. this country is an amazing place that rears amazing people. this man is but one example.
Larry Elder is of the same mind on many of the things that Walter Williams believes and says. Mr. Williams is absolutely right about the minimum wage. A training wage was something we used that benefited both the employer and employees who needed job skills. Once a period of time passed and the trainee employees had completed training and were performing to standard, they were then moved up the pay scale.
I'm not exactly a spring chicken but I found myself listening a bit like one to this very enlightening conversation as Walter spoke with powerful gentleness like the uncle I never had. I like him and more importantly, I like what he says. Thanks Walter, good man!
RIP Mr. Williams
An absolutely brilliant man! Thank you Dr Williams!
I love Dr Williams' sense of humor.
My God. I LOVE this man!
Critical logical thinker.
Wait, is this Thomas Sowell? Um, no! Thank you for introducing me to this treasure!
I am so miserable to know that we lost this fantastic man. RIP sir, you are much admiredr
E is for EXCELLENT!
Can you imagine Professor Walter Williams and Dr. Thomas Sowell on the same stage? Two of our greatest Americans. Its nice to know they are good friends. His remarks about providing equal opportunity to women was a riot! He is brilliant and funny!
33:42 I love it! The truth is the light.
This man has been an icon for me for over 20 years. His intelligence, logic & insight is unparalleled.
Brilliance 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Agreed! 👍
I love this man! He speaks truth regardless of skin color!
Thanks for watching!
A fine example of WISDOM.
Absolutely
I love the guy. :)
VOTING IS NOT FOR EVERYONE IF Y'ALL KNOW WHAT I MEAN . I WOULD VOTE FOR MR WILLIAMS
this man is in the fourth quadrant or upper quartile in the IQ bell curve.
Tovarisch I think that's an understatement.
Rest in Heaven 🙏 🕊 Dec 2nd 2020
An interesting story about Dr.Williams:During President Reagan's first presidency he actually approached Dr.Williams for education secretary. Dr.Williams stated he would take the job only if he would be allowed to dismantle the entire system & rebuild it anew. Naturally, he was politely passed over but he certainty made his point.That's our man.