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when and that makes his latest campaign ad all the more bizarre you would think that you resort to trying to scare white people into voting for you when you're down in the polls but apparently vitter thinks that using brown people of the bogeyman is an all around good tactic. charlie. banks that we might as well put out the welcome sign we're going to. make it we're going to get on the. air. give me a break back out to be one of the most racist ads ever to appear on t.v. and that says a lot considering the ads that have been put out this cycle did you know how vigorous people found the most menacing a looking mexican guys were the commercial i also love the sign read welcome in
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both english and spanish but the limo and i think that had to be the best part because i'm sure that most of the immigrants crossing the border because they can't feed their families drive across in a limo to suck our country dry news or social services obviously they're got us talking points from fox news they spent the last several months scaring white people with stories about immigrants and muslims and now vitter is doing the exact same thing in louisiana i just wish that his opponent in the race would run an ad highlighting vitter sex scandal if you don't remember he was caught up into prostitution scandals one here in d.c. one back in louisiana remember he's that family values guy into the kinky stuff like wearing diapers so now we find out that he's not only hypocrites he's also a bigot david vitter is tonight's tool time winner. r us unions powerless in other parts of the world labor unions will put up a fight for the sake of the working class but here in the u.s. the capitalism mentality has taken over the country leaving many union leaders and effective parties kalen for shows as how american workers have been left to fend
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for themselves. through many causes draw americans out in the streets we're here to take our country back i understand they don't want to hear that our god given inalienable. natural liberty except for their rights as workers. in greece organized labor drove twenty thousand to the streets to push back against government austerity measures. in france militant unions protests cuts in pensions and increased retirement age across the world the trade unions are a force to be reckoned with at the polls and in the streets in the u.s. however they're increasingly silent. this is the headquarters of the american federation of labor and the congress of industrial organizations the largest union in the united states it's located less than half a block from the white house very close to the center of power in washington and some say too close to the democratic party at the expense of the interests of the american worker but i think by and large the national political level they are you
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know hand in glove with the democratic party so it may put them in a difficult position to push for the kind of demands that we want the kind of if you want something different than what's been going on for the last thirty years you have to push in a different direction rather than just rolling with the dominant party some on the right believe unions are relevant to american workers who have become accustomed to capitalism and shown so-called welfare programs they just don't buy this rhetoric of collectively organized workers against capital and their employers and so i think the union message of standing up to employers wrestling more wages and benefits even if productivity doesn't justify it i just don't think that resonates with the typical american but american workers have steadily lost ground let's take a look at some of the current conditions the american worker faces by and large the american worker works on longer than most other countries in the world there's no maximum forty hour work week as in other countries eighty five point eight percent
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of males and sixty six point five percent of females work more than forty hours per week then of course that adds up over time americans work an average of one hundred thirty seven hours more per year than japanese. workers and a whopping four hundred ninety nine more than ten french workers and of course the average productivity per american worker has increased four hundred percent since one nine hundred fifty by that logic eleven hours per week should again do the same standard of living that you had in one thousand fifty however we see that's not true so someone is profiting from the situation it's just not the american worker and then there is no federal law requiring paid sick days in the united states unlike most other parts of the world let's take a look at paid leave unpaid time off. what we have here is the paid leave unpaid time off for the o.e.c.d. nations the industrialized first world nations of the world and of course the united states is the only country that offers its workers zero paid leave days and zero paid time off so what will it take to get american workers out in the streets
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you know the economic empowerment of workers here has been sort of more well we as americans struggle to fight to achieve the ability to simply subsist economically but are americans really more concerned with their great subring guns to national parks then fair salaries and better working conditions it seems that for now yes q and ford r.t. washington d.c. . so what would it take to make the rights of american workers become front and center is that simply impossible in our capitalist society and could that be a good thing or to anyone in studio to discuss it is joshua calling state affairs manager for americans for tax reform and michaele labor journalist and contributing editor for in these times gentlemen thank you both for being here i know we are seeing lately a lot of action in europe where you know we're seeing protesters come out in the thousands tens of thousands in france and yet in america i don't really see anything like that do you think the labor movement is dead here i think
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corporations have done a great job in the labor over the last thirty years since ronald reagan but i also think believe have to do a good job itself as well if you look at the problems of the labor movement let's take a great example. you know you have a number of strikes where we get just minor defeats and we call it a great victory you know the democrats for example obama has done nothing for organized labor we haven't passed in fact we've done the opposite president obama has endorsed the mass firing of unionized teachers we've taxed union health care benefits when we've undertaken massive attacks against unions in this country and you know if we'll see oh endorsers democrats again and again and again and again and doesn't form a separate force they won't even criticize the top richard trumka last sunday the one nation working together rally and i said you know president trumka are you going to denounce the democrats the block the task because you said no no no this isn't about politics today and then he got up on the stage and said everybody needs
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to go and vote for democrats on november second also is that their biggest fault really i mean how are you could it be dangerous for unions to really cozy up to either one of the parties because if you look at our political system today then it's clear both democrats and republicans they're going to choose corporations over unions every time well i think part of the problem is unions are certainly still powerful in this country i mean they spent roughly eight hundred sixty million dollars with less to election electoral cycles for these big democrat waves so they basically elected president obama and the sixtieth vote in the u.s. senate democrats they give night ninety five percent of the money democrats the problem is. first of all a lot of things like some of these other labor kind of. things that labor champions are not happening through the legislative process because. there's so much there are so unpopular with the public africa is not a popular bill and sixty five percent of the american public would join a union if they were able to do it so i think it's a big i mean you know membership excuse me has been going down in saying it's
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a you never say that unions are popular with the reason why do people not go to unions the reason people don't join unions is that twenty thousand workers get fired a year in this country for joining union thirty percent of an hour be elections that are union election workers. get fired it's impossible to join a union in this country the penalty for joining union in this country is you've got to put up a piece of paper that says are you legally fired somebody for joining if the penalty for bank robbing was you had to put up a piece of paper we'd all be bank robbers so you workers in this country have no voice they have no ability to stay there for this and there's not a shred of evidence saying that workers will not join unions for the first time in this country unions are less popular than they are popular in the history of gallup polling on this issue this is their own godmother and it's right government and pop private sector businesses private sector unionization is at its all time low the fact is the majority of union of unionized employees in this country are now government bureaucrats that's why people don't like them because they look at their state budget deficits in a state like new jersey with eleven billion dollars budget deficit or it was up to
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forty two billion in california what's the driving costs what's the driving reason behind these huge budget deficits and high tech states it's not that taxes are too low to spending it's too high and what are they spending money on automatic pay and benefit in wage increases unsustainable pensions so people don't really like unions but i think it's important to distinguish i'm sure of that's why people don't like it because you can say it in general there's a lot of this anti-government anti cut the deficit spending movement in the us but but americans at the end of the day love their benefits that's their favorite thing and when they look at it and they look at us gov employees and see that they get paid more they have a better pension and i don't hold it wasn't true i would never want to get up to all of a study released by the center for economic and policy research show that on average workers that are public employees get paid three point seven percent less than their counterparts or some of the degrees of skill on top of that public employees often don't qualify for social security but also need for a pension you look at their own matter it's not similar degrees of skill it's
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similar jobs had such sort of hero if you look at a public bureaucrat unionized say a nurse and a nurse in the private sector the public sector employee is going to get paid better all the time we used to have this romanticized vision of the ground by. and it was a great thing in the in the middle part of the last century where government employees got paid less but they had a job for life to great benefits and they were performing a public service the grand bargain is dead now they not only get all of that they get paid more so people look at that and they say now that getting paid more than me he's never going to get fired because of the power that it's just a bad argument when i get tired i just have a cousin get fired isn't going to you know what i'm going to talk about those there are no arguing in circles look at in this country that are incredibly powerful right you could say the teachers union this is like the first time the anyone is taking them on an o. my god it's absolute shock spreading across america prison guard unions why do you think that we have such
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a large incarceration rate that we have the largest incarceration system in the entire world because these prison guards unions are incredibly popular so is it because you know people are starting to turn on the specific thing is they don't like what they're doing what they're standing for well so the good of the of the new jersey firing that's relevant to teachers from a teacher's union perspective the reason that a lot of unionized employees are fired is because they're offered a bargain you can either take a pay freeze ok we're not talking pay cuts we're not talking benefit cuts a pay freeze year over year and you'll save we'll save your jobs or you can take your you know the contractual automatic pay raise in a zero inflation world when no one is getting a raise in the private sector and will have to fire a bunch of you and that's not new jersey sector workers getting pay reaches my roommates a copy as i got in a reason three years is a little rhody in this not right wing garbage and the thing about wise is if you repeat them enough there's some of the truth in this one isn't true and there's not a shred of the bureau of labor statistics or the statistics there's not a shred of statistics to support this argument well if it's such garbage then why
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don't we have union members marching on the streets in the tens of thousands like we do in france right now just shutting down airports and there i mean i mean there's no i mean i think it's because you have a labor movement that's a pretty to take on in that way and you have to make on because. you're a little too cozy with the establishment with the democratic party certainly i mean look look look at the comparing the labor movement with bill should be cheap movement. to the chain themselves to the fence of the white house they're getting stone ask don't tell repeal they're getting same sex but it was just not going to be stirring up the overhead of you you know visited the white house twenty nine times we're not getting a little every right to wrestle obvious that legally so i'm not going to defend their history you can read i write every summer i mean is it ever going to get to the point will it ever get bad enough that we're going to see what we see in europe in france and american workers work more hours than everybody else what have you with that well we're ok with that because it's productive and we get paid to do it but i think the point is there are gays that had less to do it there's a schism between union leadership and union members so as as
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a member of the conservative movement sometimes i get attacked as being anti worker i'm not anti worker union leadership because these are people that are trying to eliminate the secret ballot you know elections that are trying to steal money out of their union members paychecks still you can't you can't steal money out of anybody's paycheck if you're forced to join a union upon employment and yes you can and how is that stealing if you go if you get because you have no other are supposed to pay for those services in the state of ohio if you want to work for u.p.s. you are forced to join a union so that's your only i guess because the union bargain for you you cannot pay your cable bill do you watch cable not pay your cable bill every unit bargain you've got to pay for it tell me which nonprofit which private business sector would do work for somebody and not ask the person to pick you don't have to be a member of the union but you do have to pay for union members representing you and i we have to wrap it up because we are unfortunately out of time but it does sound like maybe the leadership really is the problem here and you say your anti-union leadership sounds like we should have an anti leadership because they all are
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the sea. forty two thousand americans die each year from car accidents only a thousand. seven hundred thousand people are and thirty two thousand will kill themselves cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us here part disease is even more devastating it kills over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every year. to tonight's fireside with your host. these are scary and uncertain times we live in with those threats of terrorism
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uncertainty in the global economy natural and environmental disasters and of course more importantly with ignorance bigotry prejudice racism stupidity and just straight up insanity you know the best examples of all those fancy little words i just used that applies to a number of fox news personalities the other day fox news host bill o'reilly went on a.b.c.'s the view which then resulted in two of the show's hosts joy behar and will be goldberg walking off set because he said that muslims killed us on nine eleven not extremists not jihad is not crazy fundamentalist no just muslims now bill later said that he didn't mean to offend all muslims which i don't buy but anyway coming to build defense the very next morning on fox and friends brian kilmeade took it to the next one. they go over debate they were outraged that somebody was saying there's a reason there was a certain group of people they attacked us on nine eleven it wasn't just just one
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person it was religion not all muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are muslim if you want to. where do i even begin you know we could give kilmeade a history lesson remind him that there have been many terrorists who were not only non muslim they were also might be member timothy mcveigh going to american morning what about the ira who received funding from americans to carry out terrorist acts in northern ireland what about israeli terrorists you know you could go on for days but the point here is that yes there are terrorists. but to say that all terrorists are muslim is the most ignorant the most arrogant the most detrimental statement that anyone could make it's that kind of idiocy that makes our world more dangerous because it's contagious because fox news allows its host to repeat such blatant lies and never counters their statements never tries to correct them with truth you see they plant those seeds of hate on the viewers they listen they eat it up and
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they become convinced if you ask me brian kilmeade should be fired but he won't be he will be because he gets paid to fear mongering to further the fox and g.o.p. agenda so that i guess that it's only up to people like me to anyone in fact that has some tiny semblance of sanity to try to correct those wrongs to educate before too much damage is done to spread the word that not all terrorists are muslim. all right so it's friday as usual relooking for a little comedic relief that we've got plenty of proof you know this country is full of dumb and prejudiced people. it's actually really sad depressing and makes want to cry but hopefully comedian stephen smith can cheer a set see and thanks for being here it was only in this friday i would like to
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begin with miss sarah palin the what apparently there is a reality show coming out about her life in alaska let's take a little look at we have a clip of that. this is what they find. and rather than the old political office i'd rather be out here being free all week television that syrup aliens alaska. sounds very stuffed up which it's all rather very but i mean listen i don't hate on you sarah i'm just saying this show really proves everybody that there's no way that this woman is trying to run for political office when she says i'd rather be in the woods in the office if she was actually trying to become president one day she'd be like she'd know playing a show for a constituent so i could be doing things like hey my favorite time is not be in the political office but hey maybe kicking some illegal mexicans out of a country that's my favorite pastime. i can't believe you think that i think this
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is the biggest sham if she actually wanted to last she would stand alaska she would have cleared out her governorship not started touring the country on buses for her book and making appearances everywhere and charging for speeches so it's amazing that this is like i will take eight weeks out of my schedule to hang out with my family but you know what we need to make it productive let's make a show around this or i need to make some money on therapy let's make some money capitalism at its best ok i want to move on from this rich white lady to another one this poor guy his name is richard whitney and he's running he's the green party . again it's a grab bag because on the ballot is a different word for him well referring to they printed his name on the ballot and the ballot instead of richard whitney says rich whitney rich white. ironic ironic no sly around it because well maybe it is one of the green party he's
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exactly opposite a rich white he's like mediocre whitey he's but truly oil why why he's a hippie whitey you know because why did you choose a rich you know. you don't see other work you don't want any more people are going to start voting for him because they're like oh that sounds like a regular old holler. you know it's actually scary like if like you know up if they are voting for him like this it's a wonder that almost make more sense because of the anti-establishment it actually is a confusing thing because like on the flip side if i'm a black when a person is chicago and i see rich whitey and i'm like ok this is a joke i'm not going to sign for him when i would if i did right for i mean like i don't want to i don't want to say i'm saying right now what if i actually vote for rich white and i got exactly ok ok moving on i showed at my door i voted for me come on boy get out of this outside sino new neighborhood. a new ad by david vitter sorry that we were in a different story. i messed it up to let you know that this is not a rational this isn't the new ad about illegal immigrants and we showed earlier on the show essentially the guys running along with bands and then there's
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a big limo welcoming them which is that is so messed up you know because this industry of illegal mexicans commercials is booming it's amazing it's moving way let's play we're going to play that rock like. banksy we might as well put out the welcome sign for the little. song to make sure. that. there. are. no longer. at least they found some different legal is right last time we were saying how the ads are using the same pictures of the same three guys they are which is great because you know what the number one hire for illegal mexicans right now is work restaurants farms and political commercials like they are really keeping these people a lot of what i like if you want to come to america and live with me be a star legal make you come to america be
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a star because we're hiring or leave the g.o.p. is. there's a lot of work like a lot i ever know in the g.o.p. they're not going to pay them they're going to get them on their way to give a dollar they can get away with it ok now we have a new billboard we should really just take the whole race thing to another level. because this shows barack obama in colorado and he's a terrorist he's a gangster he's a band and he's a gay man apparently tale he will leave mexicans alone i mean yes all right let's hear everybody else with the brilliant let's get over and over again g.o.p. is that what this is not ok racism is that ok to hate a whole group of people just because they're there who they are we really didn't know me well you know the worst part of this and i bet you a mexican had to put this billboard up that's actually the saddest part of this whole thing you hear the cry he's putting the glue and listening to the jew just dry don't leave me alone yoko now because some random one man commission this whole thing ok last thing they were going to get to is the streaker that we were talking about we spoke to this billionaire alki david two times already and asking him you
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know if i was going to get the money that's going turns out but he's not going to get it if he was within eyeshot in earshot of the president would you have done this are going to streak for a million bucks yes i would have and the fact that he didn't get the money it was one of the worst tragedies in america almost like a war when you step in because this man literally put his balls on the line for you all right and he came up short and that's messed up ok i think obama should have just called and said like i said yes yes williams yes given that he's getting beat making it what about people who deserve a bloody deserve the way. you are going over here i guess it for tonight's show thanks for tuning in and make sure that you guys come back on monday obviously we're taking a break for the weekend but the meantime don't forget to become a fan of the ilona show on facebook and follow us on twitter and as always if you missed any of tonight's show or any other nights you can always catch it all you tube dot com slash the ilana show where we post the interviews and the show in its entirety coming up next is the news with the latest headlines from the u.s.
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first. i want to buy to those left out in the cold fifteen brave men begin a lonely ride drifting ice floe to prove russia's claims to the resources of the arctic. russian polar explorers a year on blue team was trying to find answers as to why the all took his knowledge to travel and who will be our eyes in the future stay with me because it is a great show. it's tough times for americans as the number of poor across the country reaches the highest level in decades a little hole on the horizon. and archie's close up team is in the city of russia's center of trade and brass for generations but twenty first century has been left behind by the economic crisis.
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coming to live from moscow a.t.m. in the russian capital a marina joshua welcome to the program fifteen polar explorers are starting an epic expedition to prove that part of the resources rich arctic usually actually belongs to russia and their mission involves spending the next year adrift on an ice floe the team will carry out dozens of experiments in the freezing temperatures a fierce winter caught up with members of the mission before they're left to fend for themselves there are only fifteen of them and the majority are in the. russia's ocean oceanography and will spend a year on float. will be trying to shed light on.
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