Lauer in Russia: "For Many, Life Worse Than in Soviet Times"

MRC ^ | Friday February 13, 2004 | BrentBaker

[fight_truth_decay]

Lauer:"The New Russia, how a few people are doing very well and the fear that others are being left very far behind, Katie."

Lauer makes $5 million less than Couric's annual $13 million paycheck {that's about $8 million a year}. (2002)

[dalebert]

What does Lauer know about anything.

[perfect stranger]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1077738/posts

[VadeRetro]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1077738/posts

[VadeRetro]

So you're ten seconds faster. Wait'll you're my age!

[Paleo Conservative]

Well for those living in the former Soviet satellite countries life is better.

[SandRat]

"When the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991 there were no Russian billionaires."

Yes there were! They were called the Politburo's Communist Party Elite. Everyone else was living in near starvation.

[jwalsh07]

Long Live Stalin!

[WorkingClassFilth]

Right.

Lauer has never spent a decade in a gulag or a night in Lubyanka prison.

These weakling people ought to be sent over to a Marxist or developing nation without a cent or passport after graduating from their p*ssy colleges.

[sgtbono2002]

Too bad Lauer didnt take Katie with him to Russia and decide to stay there.

[perfect stranger]

It's timing and luck. Yesterday I was post #3 on a Zot thread.

[LibKill]

These are the same p!ssants who celebrated the turnover of Hong Kong from the Brits to the commies. They made a big 'party' out of the enslavement of millions.

If I ever meet Matt Lauer it will be my duty to puke on him.

[Ukiapah Heep]

Where in the world is Matt Lauer's brain?

[Viking2002]

'Life is worse than in Soviet times'

Translation: We've been fed, led, and herded by the Nanny State for so long, we don't know how to change our own diapers anymore.

Tough shiznit.

[syriacus]

[Lauer] repeatedly pressed Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov to trash the Bush administration's foreign policy.

More_{Democrats 2004}

Flimandflam

[VadeRetro]

Yesterday I was post #3 on a Zot thread.

I'm always doing that. Seems like some of my best zingers go Zot!

[Mercat]

sometimes I get discouraged and think that the end of the cold war was like breaking up a huge nest of roaches. They don't die, they just scatter and look for new homes. The people who are using theory to try to run the world instead of common sense are gradually destroying western civilization and we're helpless to do anything but watch.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

"The New Russia," Lauer fretted, "how a few people are doing very well and the fear that others are being left very far behind." Lauer lamented: "Russia's rush to capitalism left the vast majority scrambling to survive. For many, life is worse than it was in Soviet times."

This is such a load of crap. Capitalism hasn't worked in Russia because it has yet to be implemented. The USSR collapsed after it could no longer support the communist house of cards that it had been building for 70 years. In the early '90s, there was whining that the Russians were actually better off under communism than capitalism. The argument was a load of crap then because capitalism was unfairly taking a hit for not instantly turning around an empire's socialist economy that had utterly exhausted itself. The argument is garbage today because the former USSR isn't capitalist, it's a bankrupt kleptocracy that gets by on handouts and mafia rackets.

When Clinton came to power, he gave billions and billions to the former USSR to supposedly help them become a democratic commonwealth of states. The problem is, Bubba didn't give the money to the decent reform-minded people that could make it work. He funded corrupt communist party hacks that in turn funded the mafia. Klinton and the Soviets that he funded were not the slightest bit interested in reform that would do right for the Soviet people, they just looted the money to make themselves personally rich and setup mafia rackets that would keep the money coming to them. What a bunch of scumbags.

[perfect stranger]

I never bother to post in them except for when I found a whole bunch of them and tagged them by commenting, but I lost interest after a while.

I was using that to illustrate the factor of timing.

[Arioch7]

LOL! I share that sentiment.

I find it amusing that while Russia was building a capitalist society from the ground up, the American media were wailing.

Yes, there are poor people in Russia today and there has been some economic chaos(What a BIG freakin' surprise to our media!), yet I do not think I heard the voice of the media outrage when 85% of Russians could not even get more than a loaf of bread after an eight hour wait in line.

So, the media does not car about REALITY, they care about ideaology. When he whole country was starving but the idealogy was in place, everything was fine except for the "Nasty Republicans" making them starve.

Now, when things are much better, there is no utopia so obviously, we are wrong.

Never mind the fact that LESS people are suffering. It is all about the ideaology. Russia is Much better off now and its problems are natural. However, the media sees only the worst aspects of the birth of Russian Capitalism.

The fact that they did not see the horror and brutality of recent history tells me that they are extremely narrow-minded people. LOL! Isn't that what they say about us?

I must add that I am being charitable. The Soviets failed. Not only did they fail, we won the economic game. If the Soviets had WON the economic game but treated its people as slaves and murdered them indiscriminately, I would still hate the Communist system.

So, to the people of the western media, it doesn't matter that the Communists ruined the economies AND butchered the people. They could not even win the economis sphere. So, what does the Left want to brag about, their human rights record? LOL!

The reason I said I was being charitable is that people who show sympathy to Leftist ideals are just plain evil. How a sane person could endorse such madness is beyond me.

That's all. I will stop ranting now.