Help Me Correct Wikipedia’s Liberal Bias
The Peter Schiff Show Podcast
Peter Schiff
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🗓️ 25 June 2015
⏱️ 22 minutes
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In reviewing my Wikipedia page, I noticed some information that is either wrong or narrowly slanted to promote a negative impression of me. We've tried to correct the issue, but Wikipedia makes it very difficult for anyone directly connected to the person or subject of the page to make changes, claiming "Conflict of Interest". This opens the door, however, for those who have a good grasp of editing Wikipedia but who have a decided "left" slant to claim the substance and the direction of the information. Once it's out there, it is very difficult to fix. Wikipedia wants editors to be unrelated to the subject to make contributions. Below are a few things that should be added to the page. Please feel free to make these additions as you would like. Please note that changes need to be discussed in the "Talk" page, first. Here are Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia.
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Eliminate the minimum wage so teenagers and other low-skill workers can get jobs, and acquire the on-the-job training necessary to earn higher wages in the future. It should not be illegal for people who lack skills to accept employment. The minimum wage punishes workers by legally preventing them from offer their services below a specified legal minimum. If they do not have the skills to justify that minimum, it is illegal for them to work, even if they can offer some value to employers, just not enough to cover the minimum wage mandated by government. So instead of entry level jobs, that will lead to higher skills and wages in the future, many individuals are rendered legally unemployable. People have a right to accept any job that they personally prefer to unemployment. Government should not substitute its judgement for the judgment of workers.[/fusion_text][/one_full]
[title size="1" content_align="left" style_type="" sep_color="" class="" id=""]The Housing Market[/title][fusion_text]The government should stay out of housing completely. Abolish agencies that loan money or guarantee mortgages etc. no FHA, Fannie, Freddie. No Department of Housing and Urban Development. There should be a free market in housing. What I actually said on the home mortgage deduction was that, absent the repeal of the entire income tax, we should have a flat rate tax with no deductions including home mortgage, but that would include a much lower rate, so that the removal of the home mortgage deduction did not result in higher taxes. It just eliminates the government- created incentive to buy verses rent.[/fusion_text]
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, speaking about the real world, I was looking at my Wikipedia page and I haven't looked |
| 0:16.0 | at it in a long time and it's kind of interesting that I did because I read it and I didn't |
| 0:20.1 | really recognize, I mean, I really come off pretty bad, I suppose, in that Wikipedia page. |
| 0:26.2 | I mean, that's why I don't think it's the real world, it's the some liberal fantasy version |
| 0:30.7 | of me because the Wikipedia page now is very different. I mean, I remember when I first read |
| 0:37.9 | by Wikipedia page, if you don't know, Wikipedia is the internet, it's cyclopedia. You know, |
| 0:42.7 | when I was a kid, I mean, I had beautiful encyclopedias, you used to have cycl... encyclopedia salesmen. |
| 0:47.2 | That was one of the ways people used to work their way through college when you can still afford |
| 0:50.6 | to do that. You would sell encyclopedias door to door. We had the world book. Some people had |
| 0:55.5 | Britannica. That was a little bit more sophisticated, but I remember every year, I would get an update. |
| 1:00.3 | It would come into mail and I had these nice leather bound books, but they used to be expensive. |
| 1:04.0 | You know, but now there's this encyclopedia on the internet, but the content is just basically put |
| 1:09.8 | there by anybody who wants to put it up there, except the person about whom the Wikipedia story is |
| 1:16.7 | being written. So anybody can put in stuff about me, except I can't put anything in about myself, |
| 1:22.3 | right? So somebody says something that's not true. I can't really correct it. Now when I first |
| 1:27.8 | looked at my Wikipedia page, I remember feeling, yeah, that's pretty good. I didn't have any |
| 1:32.4 | complaints about the way I was being portrayed, but it seems like between then and now, it's been |
| 1:38.2 | completely rewritten by some petership critics. I don't know who these people are, but they certainly |
| 1:44.2 | have an agenda. They have an ax to grind. They want to try to portray me in the most unfavorable |
| 1:50.1 | light. And I'll give you a few examples of some of the things that I think are wrong about my |
| 1:55.8 | Wikipedia plate. First of all, one of the things in there, they have a section about minimum wage, |
| 2:00.3 | right? And it says, Peter Schiff wants to eliminate the minimum wage so that the mentally retarded |
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