continues. he hello from the historic hotel right off the ocean here at miami beach. this was it the first big investment here. this hotel as they turned this beach area into what you all saw in miami vice and all those other tv shows and iconic movies about this place. but that was when this area had investments. that was when this area and this part of our world was a boom town. it is now two decades and for too many, the boom has turned into a pure and cap cliz mik bust. that's why we're calling our three days in miami paradise in parel. because as i said before, obviously, this is not paradise lost. many people that we have talked to have answers. all around these communities in miami and around this country.

all we have to do is solve the problems with the integrity to identify them first. align our interests to return investment to this country and get the 30 million jobs we desperately need. florida also the center of the republican primary. and the action went like this at last night's debate. shall we call it mitt's revenge? >> speaker gingrich was hired by freddie mac to promote them to influence other people throughout washington, encouraging them not to disma dismantle these entities. that was a mistake. instead we should have had a whistle blower and not a horn tooter. he should have stood up and said these things are a disaster. it's a crisis. he should have been anxiously telling the american people these entities were causing a housing bubble that would cause a collapse here in florida. >> they have been attacking me inaccurately. the contracts we released said i

would do no consulting. but we began digging in monday night because i had enough of this. we discovered to our shock governor romney owns shares of both fannie mae and freddie mac. he made a million dollars off selling that. he has an investment in goldman sachs which is today foreclosing on floridians. maybe he should tell us how much money he's made off houses that have been foreclosed by his investments. >> first of all, my investments are not made by me. my investments for the last ten years have been in blind trusts managed by a trustee. secondly, the investment menmen made have been in mutual funds and bonds. i don't own stock in fannie mae or freddie mac. have you checked your own investments? you also have investments from mutual funds in fannie mae and

freddie mac. >> right. >> i was reacting myself. we'll get a full reaction across the board. i cannot wait to hear from our mega panel who made the trip. right here in miami beach. but right now, back to paradise. florida a microcosm for what's happening nationwide. 10% unemployment. 16.5% poverty rate. 21% have no health insurance in this state. and talk about the housing bust. this is ground zero. 171,000 pending foreclosures. this state had been the 7th highest in the nation last year. driving around, we have seen too many foreclosure signs ourselves, not to mention for those not been foreclose eed upon, they find themselves deeply under water.

one of out of every two homes in florida the homeowner owns more than the home is worth. nothing prevents more than trapping people in a house they cannot leave to take a new job. we start with richard florida, professor at the university of toronto's rockman school of management. and umar hawk, who now wishes he came to florida, the director of the hahbass media lab. there's the book. richard, i'll start with you. this is obviously spectacular. what sort of decisions can we all be making right now to save us from losing this to get more of this and get less of what you have when we move off the beach? >> built from the bottom up. this was built by local people. the gay community, artists and crea creators coming here and

renovating what was then a paradise in parol. and then came the bad mortgages and it collapsed. one of the things that's happening is this is america in miniature. you see poverty, despair, service jobs or no jobs. you come here, and it's the globalization of miami beach. it's not americans. it's brazilians and latins and canadians and russians. it comes back. >> we have talked about this in the past. i want to get into it now. you cannot get where you are going if you don't have a destination. if you do not have a set of values to get to that destination and most importantly, if you do not have an accurate set of gauges to evaluate whether you are getting closer to your goal. elaborate on what that means in our effort to try to get to a destination of true betterness. economics for humans as you put it. >> sure.

part of the problem we have in this country is we're still competing with an industrial age destination. we built gdp decades ago. it tells us we should maximize industrial output. which is kind of just stuff. the question for us today if we want to build better lives is what does prosperity mean to us? is it about bigger, faster, cheaper? it's one end of the florida dream. or is it much more about smarter, fitter, closer? the human stuff that tends to make life really good. so we have to make a choice. that choice is fundamentally about our values. but number two, what do we do once we craft the values? can we build better measures of what prosperity is? that's one of the challenges confronting us today. >> one of the measures that has struck me. we talk about it on the show and we talk about it in the book.

social mobility. that's the american dream. an opportunity for anybody who can create value and work and collaborate with other people to make their own lives better. only 8% of u.s. men in poverty today. 8% of them do not rise to the top 20% of incomes. what does that number tell you? >> we have reached the record low in modern american history since numbers have been tracked. the american dream isn't owning a house. it's being upwardly and economically mobile. if that means coming from italy to america or coming from wherever, you have to be mobile to get it. one of the things that's happening in miami, it blew me away. all the houses and condos that couldn't be sold, they are sitting there vacant. so sooner or later, they got new owners and turned them into rentals. they started creating energy.

what's happening here in miami beach, it's a model for this country of mobility and affordability. the community development corporation took over failed condos. they finished them off. they turned them into affordable housing for the service workers who work in this hotel. what a model. a surplus of housing. we have a lot of housing nobody is using. turn it into affordable housing. and put people in affordable housing and give them a better way of life. >> how much of a barrier, we have beau biden on the show. we talked about this extensively. how much of a barrier to mobility is the big, giant slug of debt that lays by $13 trillion across the backs of the american homeowner to achieving any of the things we talk about? >> listen. it's a huge barrier. it's a huge barrier. but the point is that if we're willing to confront these issues, the changes we need to make are doable. what does it take to build

the -- imagine we had a better gdp that measures what richard talked about. the increase in social mobility. what's stopping us from building that? to get serious about changing our values. the returns are huge. so i think that's really where we need to begin. that challenge is in front of us. we can take it on tomorrow if we want. >> how do we deliver the message. it's interesting. we have owned this 30 million jobs tour. we were in southern california. we were in northern california. we spent the past few days in south florida. we're going to washington, d.c. next week. we're going to continue with this throughout the year. everybody gets it. every community you walk into gets it. they understand what you're talking about. they understand what i'm talking about. and the message still does not

seem to make it into the belly of the beast. how critical is it that we organize in miami, in san francisco, in austin, in dallas, and how does that organization help us drive to the federal government? >> you're headed to washington. they don't get it. it's brain dead across both parties. go to any town. go to miami beach, austin, ann arbor. i was just talking to a german reporter. she said she came here expecting despair throughout the land. and of course, our country has been devastated, but what she found in every town is people rebuilding. people starting coffee shops and caves. and that's what's great about america. i call it a great reset. it's not coming from above. it's not coming from government leaders. it's coming from the bottom up. what if we let the mayors of the country be in charge for a year? they could begin to turn our

country around. it's going to come from the bottom up. >> i couldn't agree more with that. i say decentralize the ideas of these measures. let each town create their own prosperity. let it happen from the bottom up. >> the fundamental barrier to all of this, and we talked about this when we were looking at infrastructure in san francisco. we talked about it in the context of entrepreneurship in the valley and the folks yesterday with launch pad. if you don't have a financial system. if you don't have a trade agreement, if you do not have a tax code that encourages the type of investment in all the things we're talking about, is it possible, richard, to cat liez? we need 30 million jobs. can you drive the level of investment if you don't tackle our banking system, trade agreements, and tax law? >> we lost our way over the past couple decades. instead of being what america has been, a building economy,

incentives for building local economies and investing in building infrastructure, we became a trading economy. so we have to get our incentives right. we have to incentive building. one thing we have to do -- we made manufacturing work. it was crappy work. we helped unions organize. workers get a better go. we got workers involved. we have 60 million service jobs like the people who work in the hotels. we have to drive those wages up and create more just like you're talking about. >> thank you so much richard. you're a teacher for me and i appreciate it. thank you so much. next time you'll make the trip. >> for sure. >> it's not paradise lost, it's paradise in peril. we'll take a break. next, ruthlessness and

compassion. remember those words because it's how we are all going to bring america back. we'll explain a little later. first, the florida follies. the mega panel is in miami to talk about the pro wrestling at last night's debate and how mitt pinned newt over fannie mae and freddie mac. plus the only difference in the actual prowrestlers, at least they admit it's for show. we'll explain that picture fromming this morning. stick around. ♪

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we're not going to walk in there and grab a grandmother and kick them out. you have to be realistic. >> i want to make sure i understand. is he the most antiimmigrant candidate. >> of the four of us? yes. >> that's simply inexcusable. and actually senator marco rubio said that it ad was inexcusable. my father was born in mexico. they came to this country. the idea that i'm antiimmigrant is repulsive. >> just a few shots from last night's gop smackdown in jacksonville. when the dust settled, mitt romney was left standing. we'll call it romney's revenge after more mild performances in recent debates, mitt took aim at newt on everything from attack

ads -- >> wouldn't it be nice if people didn't make accusations somewhere elsewhere they weren't willing to defend here. >> to gingrich's moon colony idea. >> if they want to spend a few hundred billion to put a colony on the moon, i would say you're fired. >> no surprise that according to a new poll, romney has opened up a nine point lead over newt gingrich. romney's odds of winning are up to 92%. that's the highest he's been running. somehow we were able to convince the mega panel to make the trip to south beach in miami. ari mel burn, krystal ball. >> it's easy to be tough when

you're punching up. now they are brawling and he can go at them with facts and criticism. newt gingrich has a big, soft underbelly. it was punctured last night. that was a political speech, dylan. >> your thoughts. >> what's dramatic is there was a few debates. monday mitt was good. he showed up wanting a fight as well. but his lines were rehearsed. he laid them all out at the beginning and that was it. thursday he came out ready to rumble. i kept waiting for gingrich to get his momentum. his righteous indignation and it never happened. he blew it. this week he just blew it. there's no other way to put it. his entire campaign has been decht upon the debates. he was caught flat floated from the beginning. >> the race has been so topsy-turvy. there's probably several

chapters to go. they are still not ready to get married to romney. they are getting engaged, but they are a reluctant bride being dragged down the aisle calling their old boyfriend, are you still interested in me? as a person in the media, i really wanted to be newt against obama. >> that's for your personal entertainment. >> i wanted entertainment. it's a theater value. there's more narrative and sub text. it will be more interesting. it will be more wwe. way better than romney against obama. >> here's the thing i think. because romney does have the credibility of understanding the function of the financial system and the tax code, he's a tutorial on how to exploit the financial system and the tax code, it puts him in an interesting position. he did come out explicitly in florida and say we have to restructure on the banking sector.

we actually have to write down the debt. the other thing we have been hearing from romney is we need to deal with china on the trade issue. that's an encouraging sign. just for the debate itself, i talk about the debate america deserves. that is the debate america deserves. one of my favorite villains of the past four years, timothy geithner, at the world economic forum this week weighing in on the issue of china and how they are affecting investment in our country. take a listen to the secretary of the treasury in switzerland. >> china does present a really unique and formidable challenge to the trading system. it's important we get china to move on comprehensively on that fro front. not just on the exchange rate, but dialing back the distorti s distortions. they will have to do it. they would like to do it in a more compelling way. >> so again, i've been one of the greatest critics, but

between the treasury secretary coming out and addressing the issue with china, with mitt romney being honest about the fraudulent nature, are we getting closer to a debate we deserve? >> and the language echoed the language the president used in the state of the union. so there's been a rhetorical shift. they are setting up the trade investment unit. but i want to be really optimistic here. i will say, i think you're right. the republican candidates have pushed the president to talk about this issue when he hasn't really in the past. i think the republican candidates are responding to the american people in the american peoples' concern. so this is a great example of our political system actually working to force a dialogue. >> because the force of the electorate is forcing the politicians. >> i want to see more action. we're getting killed in the currency issue. there's 30 million american workers getting killed by these

issues. i'm tired of being bullied by china. i want a more equal situation. >> your thoughts here on whether the rhetoric as it moves in the direction of solution, are we ready? and is the country ready to figure out how to solve the trade issue? >> i think there's an important distinction between a romney debate and a gingrich debate. he talks about american exceptionalism. it's just him talking. it's him trying to sound strong without their being context. i think it fits into the conversation on the hill where chuck schumer has a bill about floating currency. there are real debates about the tradeoffs. >> more importantly, how you do it. the issue isn't the housing issue. when you get to the altar is not what you need to do. the question is can you do it in a way that has a graceful enough progression that making the change is not so disruptive.

because we are so dependent on the cheap credit. we are dependent on the imports that as we make the changes, you don't want to cure kacancer wita knife. you want to have a plan to do it. >> when romney talks about finance and banking issues, i think about bain. that's going to be the bane of his existence. he paid 14% of taxes. if you left that as a tip, the waiters would be mad at you. >> the only thing i will say and i have no idea what will happen, but were romney to say, listen. this needs to be changed, which i don't know he e will do that. but if he says this needs to be changed, that wub the only way to turn the negative into a positi positive. >> he will do a poll and find out what the most electorally position will be and he'll do whatever that is. >> don't blame me for being successful. >> one thing i want to throw out

there. donald trump introduced this into the issue. >> i gave him credit for the entire time. donald trump is very explicit about the fact we're not dealing with china. it's nice to see mitt romney there and the president also. and it's nice to hear from the secretary of the treasury at the gathering of power in z switzerland. >> it was hard to pull us down here. >> it's difficult. but you guys make it look good. thank you for coming down. after this, connecting the dots on america's credit casino and why that is a bet we can no longer afford to make. when you have tough pain, do you want fast relief?

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florida has been hit by the "greedy bastards" driving our u.s. banking system. remember, it is the "greedy bastards" behavior that's central to our functionality that has been distorted so terribly and got us into the mess we're in. we're connecting the dots today on banking. it all started when capital requirements, the basic regulator of all capitalism vanished for some, shall we say, special bankers. >> securities market traded in the dark without capital in the 21st century. they call it the swaps market,

it's lingo for selling credit insurance. it ended capital requirements for those special bankers and allowed them to trade and place bets without having the actual cash to back it up. you can't even do that in vegas. this secretive market created a $700 trillion gambling parlor and ree versed incentives investments into debt manufacturing. it gets worse. in order to fund this game, the special bankers solicit money from teacher, police, and civil pension managers. these pension managers rely on gate keepers, called rating agencies, to determine low-risk investments. many are only authorized to purchase from the highest-rated funds. here's where the misaligned interests come in. the special bankers who do not deserve aaa status pay off the rating agencies the customers depend on to make that

evaluation. making matters worse, in washington our tax code is written by bought and paid for politicians to reward extractors while punishing inventories. then in 2008, we were introduced to the concept of too big to fail. if these special bankers go under, their cascade of failures would threaten our society's most basic necessities. so washington promises to bail them out no matter what the cost. that allowed had them to blackmail society into keeping the game going. it's a vicious cycle that affecting housing to jobs and even the cost of food around the world. but we can fix it. historically, this only happened after a major war. lucky for our generation, war is not a prerequisite for such things. by beginning to mandate capital requirements and putting swaps on a public exchange, we can

realign the institutions with our country. additionally, we must end the conflict of interest between the rating agencies. banks should have to earn that rating and shouldn't be for sale. helping more reversal in the tax code to encourage true long-term investments and punish credit speculation and extraction. and finally and most importantly, a prerequisite for all of this is global debt restructuring and debt cancellation. as we detail in greedy bastards, we must push for a new plan. an encouraging sign for the first time, someone aspiring to the oval office is pushing for exactly this. >> you recognize the distress and take the loss and let people reset and start over again. those that were prudent will be able to restart. >> we did it after world war ii and the american civil war. we even did it with the debt restructuring in latin america

in the 1980s. we know it's possible without a war. but only by ruthlessly acknowledging the problem and using our values of visibility and integrity can we realign our interests so we can find the true compassion to get our nation back on track with true investment. >> true investments means a direct pathway to prosperity through the creation of 30 million jobs, whether it's in our pillars of industry or trade reform. we talk about it all the time or in the real compassion work that's available every day from teaching to nursing. you can find more details ant all of that and all of our connect the dots and online. it's available. take a moment to check it out. we take a moment here from the casino that is our banking system o to a proposition for a resort casino. a controversial south florida plan being sold as a winning bet, but opponents call it a

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we mentioned in our connect the dots, the big banks have been gambling our pension money away. you can't lose it. here in miami, residents are being urged to go all in with a mega casino as a way to rejuvenate their jobs market? please. the casinos are proposing pumping $6 billion into three new casinos which would bring 100,000 jobs to florida and additional revenue to the state. but at what cost? and what about the jobs solving the actual problems in florida

from housing to nursing? with us is norman braimen. he's in opposition to the proposal. what's wrong with the argument that the casino creates jobs? >> because it's not accurate. if you look at the statistics concerning casinos throughout the united states whether they are river boat, after three to five years, almost two jobs are lost for every one that's created. those are accurate statistics. >> how do we make a distinction between job creation and building things and creating value and solving problems and people who use jobs as a political trade bait to get something they want. >> this is what they holler all over the country no matter where they go. don't forget. this is through 42 states now. but if you look at atlantic city, you mentioned i was a form er owner of the philadelphia

eagles. they came into atlantic city. they had unemployment rate 30% higher than the state of new jersey. high unemployment. a difficult time. they said we're going to put everybody back to work. we're going to solve your problems. atlantic city was number 15 in the country in per capita crime rate. you know what happened after five years? the unemployment rate of new jersey was 50% higher than the state instead of being 15th in the country in per capita crime rate it jumped to number one in per capita crime rate. over one-third of all the businesses outside of the casinos had closed in atlantic city after three years. after five years, that figure jumped to 60%. and worse of all, 25% of the population of atlantic city left atlantic city. crime rates sored, property values dropped, jobs outside of the casino dropped.

and just this past week, the governor of new jersey has asked now because casinos are doing so poor and they laid off so many people that now they need the sports in atlantic city to save themselves. >> how does the electorate make a decision through reforms of tax code and investment policy? and the red hairing of the promise of basically false jobs that may be more easily created in the short-term but create little or no value. maybe as you pointed out destroying value. >> making people who are unemployable, employable. and make iing their skills matchable. this community went through a high unemployment rate, as you know. but we made great progress here. we put a lot of people back to work. the financial publications estimate that the state of florida will rank in the top 5

in job creation over the next five years. so the politicians that are trying to ram this down our throats say this is something that is an instant fix and a quick fix. there is no such thing. we all know that. some of the telling statistics here, and i think they are important, there was an fbi index that they calculated what crime rates were throughout the united states in communities that had casino gambling or river boat gambling versus communities that did not. it's interesting. in communities that had casinos, after five years, robbery rates went up 136%. ing a burglary, 50%. larceny, 38%. >> so it sounds like when they

built the casino in monte carlo, they said you're not allowed to gamble here if you live here. we're going to take foreigner's money and use it to make the taxes cheap er. you pointed out they did the same thing those governments know about gambling but don't seem to understand. >> had this type of gambling that they are proposing here will make miami into a las vegas. it will turn the state of florida into a nevada. we don't need that here. all you have to do is look around. hotels are doing well. our community is making a comeback. we have the most marvelous arts community. i chair the art fair here in the first week in december. we have over $40,000 people that come to the community from all over the world to attend this fair. we become the hub of the

international banking community for central and south america. this is a home of the cleveland orchestra during the winter. we have a wonderful ballet here. we built a quality of life. what this does, it's an assault on our quality of life of this community. what they want to do is to suck everything out of it. we don't need it. let them keep what's in las vegas in las vegas and not here in our community. >> it's a pleasure. nice to see you. up next, stay with me a second. paradise in peril. and the campaign to change the way the electorate interacts with the people who represent. people with a machine. what ? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it ? hello ? hello ?! if your bank doesn't let you talk to a real person 24/7, you need an ally.

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i was born here, i'm still here and so is bp. our next guest spent the better part of his career fighting for voter rights to get an electoral machine that better measures the actual electorate. he focused those efforts specifically on gerri mandering, which is redrawing electoral districts to benefit the incumbent in the election. it's one of the things that in our book greedy bastards, we are to fix our system and better measure the actual intentions of the american people. it's a hot issue right here in

florida. in fact, in 2010, floridians, god bless them, voted for the fair district amendments which outlaw incumbents from drawing districts to favor themselves or their party. this is hard to imagine why we have the rule. it's crazy we have to fix this, but we do. now as states are redistricting with results from the latest census, some of the incumbents are suing the state to get around the fair districts amendments. joining us is dan gelber who was a former state senator and general council. you say this passed with 63% support in the state. tea party, democrat, republican, you pick it. why? >> all because i think voters felt like people who were electing them were just filled with the arrogance because they get to pick their voters rather than their voters picking them. florida had one of the worst states. there were 430 state house and senate elections. only three incumbents lost out

of 430 elections. think about that. nobody worries about the voters anymore. the voters said it's time to worry about us and that's why. >> educate us on what exactly it was that passed. how good is it at this point? >> all the fair districts amendment say if you're in the legislature when they draw the lines after the census, it cannot draw to help an incumbent or advance the partisan interests of the party. you have to worry about compactness and the political boundaries. you can't do it for yourself or your party. sort of something that should happen any way. it didn't happen until the good organizations said we're going to stop this and floridians overwhelmingly said we're with you. 63% is something that -- >> who checks that? in principle, what you're saying makes a tremendous amount of sense. but who is in charge of checking that that's not happening? >> this is now in our

constitution. so the supreme court will have an opportunity to determine whether the legislature, which is draw iing those districts literally as we speak, complied with the criteria if they determine that they did it to favor an incumbent or political party, they will either send it back or draw them themselves. it gives the courts the ability to check what the legislature does to make sure they are not doing the districts in a way that benefits themselves. >> we have seen california go with reform. we watched bill samuels work to try to work against it in new york. how can all of florida, texas, new york, california and every other state in the country start to raise the temperature from the ground up to get more of this? >> listen. until you let your elected leaders know there are repercussions for what they do? >> how do i let them know when they have gerry manderred the

district. >> exactly the way they did in florida. florida constitution says you better not draw those districts for yourselves. you can't draw them for a political party. the courts can now have the authority to check on that. if necessary, draw the maps themselves. the house is suing in federal court to try to stop these things from being implemented. they lost in every court. they will lose all the way through. but the truth of the matter is until you give the courts the authority, the legislature will always act in its best interest or to protect themselves. democrat or republican. >> how dangerous is it for any democracy to allow the voice of the voter to become an illusion. i talk a lot about the pro-wrestling nature of the political process. it appears to be the battle for power. in reality, there's six industries funding both political parties.

just how toxic is it? >> the moment you draw districts that it are more competitive, you put into incumbents the idea they can no longer do what they want. they think there are no repercussions for a bad vote or taking care of industry rather than a voter. when they realize they are not longer going to pick voters, they will act differently. that's why the fair district amendments are great. by creating competitive districts, elected officials have to worry. they are not sure if the people they are representing are going to go along with whatever they do. >> if you're forced to listen, you'll listen. >> and in fact f you don't know who voters are going to be, you'll worry about whether or not you're acting on behalf of constituents or some huge interests that paid you a lot of money to think about them rather than the people. >> it would strike me to the extent to which you have districts and voters.

it's easier to oblige without repurr cushion. when you do not have the districts, it's a riskier proposition to pander to out of state moneyed interests. >> not only in state money. the moment you realize that the voters who are going to be deciding whether you're sitting in the chair next year are people you didn't pick but that picked you. you'll have to stand before them. it changes your whole attitude. competitive elections are terrific for a democracy. when elected officials get to pick who they want voting for them, they become entrenched and arrogant and stop listening to people. they don't fear the voters' wrath. what's more important than voters deciding who they want to represent them. >> it's absurd we have to have this conversation. i congratulate you on your work and the efforts you're making. i hope you're inspiring millions of others to follow suit.

even the tea party was behind this. >> 63% in florida. the governor got less than 48%. this was wildly popular among every nonpartisan group. >> all right. nice to see you. make a note. justice sells. a final political note. we did meet a pro-wrestler today. a legitimate pro-wrestler. right here in miami. that, my friends, is sergeant slaughter of wwe fame. he and i were both guests this morning on the very fun and very entertaining live miami program. we thank the sergeant for the picture and thanks to channel 6 for having us. at least the pro-wres lers admit they are putting on a show. next, three days and 30 million jobs. a look back at a wonderful week in miami and a reminder of the majesty of our nation as an

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here this it week to show an america and a place worth fighting for. paradise truly in peril. two barriers to true process terty here and across the country. housing reform. take a listen to one of the champions on this subject earlier this week, beau biden. >> that's why it's so important for us to work in a collaborative way and work together and to hold those people who are accountable to

feed the fire. we need to act here. words are nice. but they really are getting kind of old here. we need to act and investigate. >> you resolve housing, you're left to resolve health care. you resolve those two, you begin to drive some prosperity into this paradise. take a listen to howard dean. >> in today's system, nothing makes sense from an investment purpose except to buy more machines. i totally agree that it e competitiveness is hurting badly because of the employer-based system. >> so there you have it. a health care system that has the wrong incentives. misaligned interests. a housing system where we let the bank off the hook but the homeowner is starving to get help. what's the barrier to soling those problems? none other than the 94% number. the pot that's why we turn