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Uploaded on Oct 14, 2011
Star Parker interview on Neil Cavuto's "Your World" on Fox News on October 14, 2011.
Cavuto Host: My next says what part of 'broke' do these spoiled kids not understand?
Syndicated columnist Star Parker joins me now. So Star, they do seem like petulant little children saying "It's not fair to us. We hate capitalism. Well, how about trying to go and find a job instead?"
Star Parker: Well, come of them are working. Actually, I went to the protest here in Washington, DC, and they're not only adolescent in their appeal for whay they say they desire but they're filthy. They're throwing things everywhere and they're short of American flags.
What this protest is about is to inspire more redsitribution. They want to swell government. They're trying to say they're similar to the Tea Party protests where the Tea Party said this abuse of the political power has to stop. These folks want more of the same.
Host: Star, are you surprised the Democrats are signing onto the protests? Today we had the DCCC say 'we need to raise money to stand in solidarity with the Wall Street protesters. I was shocked to see that. Were you?
Star Parker: No, I'm not shocked to see it because what these protests represent is exactly what Democrats want: more government, more spending. They want to expand the size and scope of government. What the Tea Party movement said and what the new Congress is saying is 'no, that party must stop, we must rein in spending, we've got to do something about our deficit and we are going to inspire more employment by stopping the madness of Washington by stopping excessive taxation and the excessive regulation.'
I'm not surprised the Democrats are signing on and in fact if Winter were not coming I wouldn't be surprised if the Democrats didn't keep fueling this until it ends up in riots.
Host: Star, take a listen. Not only is it the far-left Democrats out there signing on, even the White House signing on. Listen to Joe Biden.
Joe Biden: The core is the America people do not think the system is fair or on the level. That is the core of what you're seeing on Wall Street.
Rep. Ellison (Minnesota) : I was glad to see people were taking control of their lives and stand up for American values.
Nancy Pelosi: Well, it's the American system. It's the democratic system. We don't all agree. We'd have a king if we were all of one mind.
Host: So we have the White House, Representative Ellison from Minnesota, and minority leader Nancy Pelosi saying 'look, we agree with the protesters.' Now I'm not sure they're seeing what's happening on Wall Street: the piles of garbage piling feet in the air, the stench of what's going on there. And kids saying 'down with capitalism.' How can you sign onto that?
Star Parker: I think the Democrats have inspired these protesters -- the Democrats who keep insisting they can fix what's broken in the economy with more and more government. And they don't realize, and why I keep calling them adolescent in their movement, is that they don't realize it's capitalism that even encourages the enviroment to even be out there to protest.
It's our capitalistic system and free markets that allow us the opportunity to even have this political process that we do.
Host: Now Star, we've been on the air pointing out to the protesters, I have to assume someone is even watching tv once in a while, but we've pointed out that President Obama will likely get 1/3 of his campaign donations for 2012 from corporate entities, whether it's the banks, whether it's the realtors, whether it's the brokers, etc. Yet these protesters and these Democrats are locking arms. Do they realize they may be a bit misguided?
Star Parker: Well, that's the great irony here. The President of our country, and the reason he has had a revolt from the other side -- from the right, from the Tea Party -- is the President has taken over most of Wall Street. The president has taken over corporations. This is what we want to stop. He took over major industries by excessively regulating them and now these folks are saying it's all Wall Street's fault.
The banks want to loan money. It is Washington, DC that is stopping them. They got aggressively engaged into the relationship that they would have between the consumer and themselves so they can do what they do best, which is make money move into our hands.