welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour sick of those t.s.a. love pats well new hampshire's got something for it but will a state law have any authority over a federal agency and why would a unionized t.s.a. do for you safe travels or not so friendly skies will debate and then later there are bad its birth ers in legislation form in almost a dozen states will their bills make it through capitol hill.

say lawmakers new hampshire proposed a bill that would classify t.s.a. pat downs and body scans as forms of sexual assault a co-sponsor of the bill andrew news said of his legislation what let's put their name on the sex offender registry and maybe that will tell them new hampshire means business so this is a good idea anyway and what else can be done about the church off porno scanners and the want to be proxy knowledge is who run the t.s.a. joining me now is alaska state representative sharon system who has her own story to tell about the t.s.a. representative system welcome to the program. thank you very much thank you and i do have a story it was a very short story because it was my realizing that i was up again right in front of that scanner and was i going to have the ability to actually

follow through on the decision i had made and that was if i ever saw that again i was going to say no and i actually i was able to do it yeah yeah and you're apparently quite a hero in alaska for doing it you're a breast cancer survivor and because of this you came into a collusion with the t.s.a. and you what you want tells the story of those. yes the i had gone down to seattle which many alaskans have to do we have a very scattered population over huge area and so we have access issues to especially some of the medical things and we go down to seattle or health care other places too and i came back again after a horrible experience having gone through the the new it was right after it had been initiated a full body scan and then have been built up and i'm sorry they say pat down i say

felt and i promised myself right afterwards that i would not go through that again it wasn't until having to make a quick trip down to seattle and heading back to the legislature in the middle of a busy session and having blocked it from my mind and all of a sudden i'm right there walking into the full body scan and realizing that i had promised that promise to myself that's the really big thing and there i am facing the woman afterwards telling me that because i had had breast cancer she didn't know that necessarily that i'm on my chest it was irregular and she was about to tell me that i was going to have the pat down and i knew that that had downed that and i started saying no right after she started talking and i stuck

to it i told her to call the people she needed to call that i needed to be walked out of the airport and he did you do right now that because i was not going to be felt and that's what i stuck with and you. have to up to alaska and my understanding is your constituents met you at the ferry with basically a parade. yes it was wonderful blowers and and smiling people and the sun came out and you know and it was it was a home of congress for representatives i'm sorry we just have a minute left i'm wondering what should in your mind what should we do to balance the needs for security and privacy do you have any as a consequence of this experience i'm certain many many conversations about it thoughts on maybe even introduce the same sex offender legislation in alaska and

the really important part here is we're talking about government and when we're talking government we need to do it well we haven't looked at the t.s.a. folks are trying to do a job but what's happened is they haven't looked at how this is affecting americans and i'm hearing from across the country huge numbers of correspondence and certainly many stories in my own state we've got to deal with this and we've got we're we're injuring we're damaging people with federal money and that can't happen we've got to get out there and as a country we've got to rise up make sure we're listened to we've got to have safety the t.s.a. asked to give us a the we need to be saved as well we're being insured very well said representative system thanks so much for joining us. whether the hamsters legislation works or not i think it's a good idea to call airport grain checks and chertoff or no scanner peep shows what

they really are sex crimes maybe if other states jump on board the t.s.a. will be forced to abandon this ridiculous safety theater and this is just teaching americans to behave like sheep frankly but while i'm fired up about the junk groping in the porno scanners some of the writer fired up about the new threat within the t.s.a. unions the chief of the t.s.a. john pistole granted some collective bargaining rights to forty thousand t.s.a. screeners mainly the ability to bargain over minor things like that haitian time shift scheduling and of course the republicans are irate and leading the pack is the usual suspect the richest man in the u.s. house of representatives who made much of his four hundred million dollars fortune manufacturing car alarms in communist china girl i say he said this about t.s.a. unionisation i am concerned that due to your change in policy t.s.a. may need union approval to sign off on critical and swift adjustments to airport security protocol calls it's unclear what the basis is claim is but could i say be

right bill t.s.a. unions lead us to a less secure air travel in america here to offer his take on the issue map atterson contributor at pajamas media at welcome to the program great and i see you what is it that you hate about democracy. unions are democratic institutions in the workplace workplaces are not democratic well actually that's not true i mean i feel that the union movement in america has been very anti-democratic for a long time people like their leaders the they vote on their own rules they vote on whatever they're going to ask for whatever they're going to give up its majority rule out of what you're going to you mean much more democratic you're giving states senators in wisconsin who are elected to do a job who flee for them because they're union members not as a matter of a union. but they're fleeing democracy to pay their union masters and on to vote for this wisconsin whether they're not a member of a union first of all and secondly i don't know that it has in a do it or you know. masters union message if you don't think that by the way to either show we call scott which we call david koch or scott walker's master well i

mean you're of authority on poodles i'm just wondering i know you're unions gave four hundred million dollars to democratic candidates in the two thousand election cycle would you admit that that makes democratic politicians poodles for unions so then what you're saying and i don't entirely disagree with. shepard smith was right when he said if you look at the ten largest campaign contributors in american the last cycle seven of them were billionaires or large corporations they all gave the republicans three of them were unions and i'll give you democrats if we can just get rid of the unions they'll be no more democratic party we can have one party rule the billionaires make up like a fortune like bandits and you know all the people that they've promoted didn't and not not do very well so i think i just don't understand what you have against billionaires. i what why is it ok for a you need to get my feeling that it is not a billionaire in a nation where one in five children live in poverty right and you've got billionaires right you've got a problem what is the problem that some people have way more than they need and

some people have way less than me and you think that's never been a problem in any other type of society or system i think that in the united states for a long time during the eisenhower administration for example good republican administration to dwight eisenhower i'm sure you didn't know about the letters he wrote to his brother edgar about this. to eisenhower started in ninety one percent top tax rate did two things we want less and inequality and it did by the way we were far less well then than we are now every c.e.o. made thirty times what the janitor does now it's anywhere from five hundred to five thousand times as much money in history and to eisenhower felt that having that high tax rate would discourage wild speculation by c.e.o.'s and encourage them to keep money in their companies and we went for forty years of that top tax rate for the first time in the history of america since george washington without having a bad pain panic within a fifteen year period so was john f. kennedy wrong when he cut the marginal tax. he actually raised taxes and he talked about that with nixon in the nixon kennedy debates incursion go back and listen to

the kennedy talk about how he was one of those guys who was supposed to pay the night a percent tax and nobody paid it we're paying forty fifty sixty percent as are so many loopholes he wanted to close the loophole and raise it up to seventy four percent he actually actually he didn't do it it was l.b.j. as you know it happened a year after kennedy died it was so it was johnson who lowered their tax rate but he raised taxes on the rich and increased revenues. you raise taxes on the rich you raise the raise the amount of money that was collected from the rich that's right by lowering the marginal tax rates he write more red losing the loopholes so you what you're saying is by lowering tax rates the government gets more revenue or you know i'm not going to recognize our loopholes if you look at what reagan did reagan lower tax rates or created such a disaster that he had to eleven times raise taxes on working people in order to make up for the disastrous drop of taxes on millionaires and billionaires again and on top of that he ran up a three trillion dollars trip that i guess i'm just curious i am trying to understand what you think it's ok for the government to have ninety percent of our

money but not a billionaire to have money that they made through their own governments to us in a democracy the government is yes it is it's an endless nod concert of the org they are showing him up for the who are the citizen either highly in line for the people are millionaires and billionaires are they a part of this democracy don't they have the right to make what they want to me i think i think that they do and we have and we as a society as a society collectively have not only the right but the obligation to say you know you're using an outsized amount of the commons every you know in order to maintain that i did it on the side democratically we do through our representatives that's how it happened and not with you know the koch brothers the heritage foundation the cato institute a by and by an unlimited amount of advertising on television to get the point of time if democratically we all got together and said you know tom we're going to take your show it from you it's not fair that you have a t.v. show and others don't and we decided that collectively we actually already have would that be ok we actually already have there there are community stations all over this country that came about as

a consequence of that and some are doing quite well so you would be ok if we all got together and voted to take you off the air i would be fair then first of all that's not what we're talking about we're talking about tax and that's exactly what we're talking about you have just made the argument that it's ok for other people if they get together and decide to take someone else private property you've just made for them for the public good yeah well it is due to it's in the fifth amendment that's what i want to try reading the concept of public good. in the fifth amounts to steal taking some people yes that's absolutely that's how do this under what has it who is just our example eisenhower built our highways you just are you on television for the moral certitude of that for the public good yes that's fantastic yes it was neat it was a concept of the founders it's as i said it's written into the fifth amendment of the founders laws on a man but founders wanted us to write if there was some place related or if you know you know one can build the railroads he took private property to do it they'd be the for highways all over the country that are private property the fisherman requires you we have burst people for it but you know it is so you know if the

government can get together and collectively decide to take all your wealth from you why can't they get together and say oh we're going to grow beyond here why or why decided well you that frankly i think that's where it's going too far and that's so there is a limit and that's why i think if we had there's a limited government power if we had a good yeah yeah there actually as there should be the new dad where i think that if he if the t.s.a. was unionized and had some say so that they could talk back to the guys who are running it and say you know we're sick of this stuff well i think that it would be better for all let me just say that i think are you sorry matt we're flat out of time i'd love to hear the next it'll have to be next to my place so much the conservatives are pretty consistent there talking points democracy in the workplace is bad democracy in america bad more about that today's take.

it's time for our daily poll your chance to tell us what you think a new poll shows that eighty one percent of americans say they would support higher taxes on millionaires to reduce the deficit so here's today's question will republicans listen to the public. possible answers yes they don't want to be rich people in a poor country or no they already have guards in mind for their guarded communities their gated communities and see what america becomes a third world country so far the results are almost unanimous the majority think of you think that the republicans will continue to be oblivious to public sentiment so log on to thom hartmann dot com let us know what you think the poll be open until tomorrow morning. still ahead here in the big picture republicans have a plan to win back the white house it's funny and it has to do everything to do with obama about plus more on higher taxes for millionaires.

are slim below and keep us to the preaching about islam and nothing people are suggesting she's told her no she says she's a stock. pick. it's just.

republicans are trying to keep president obama off the two thousand and twelve presidential ballot in several states around the country eleven states are considering legislation that would require president obama to prove he was born in the united states in order to have his name placed on the state's presidential presidential ballot georgia is the latest state to and introduce birth or legislation and even mainstream republicans like mike huckabee seem to be jumping on board the bertha bandwagon check out the center view from earlier this week don't you think we deserve to know more about this man i would love to know more but i know it's so troubling and one thing that i do know is his having grown up in spain you know his view of the brits for example very different than the average american when he gave the bus back to when spiritual yeah great insult to the british but then if you think about it his perspective growing up and you would

think union father and grandfather their view of the mountain all revolution in kenya is very different than ours because i think probably grew up hearing the british were a bunch of imperialism who persecuted about it. chris has been widely reported the president obama was neither more nor did he grow up in kenya and huckabee confuse the situation even more yesterday when he told bryan fischer from the american family association that i've said many times publicly that i do think obama has a different worldview i think it's more that a lot of revert different experience those of us grew up going to boy scout meetings in our communities were filled a rotary clubs not madrassas. right so what's really motivating the burghers here to offer his take help work attorney and creator of the website obama crimes dot org philip roth of the program my pleasure how are you i'm fine i'd like to get it at the core of your beliefs of what you what you have or ordered or think you

have obama was born in kenya absolutely he was going on this four thousand nine hundred sixty one he has to turn on grandmother sirrah obama has stated and we have it on our website obama crimes that count if she was in the hospital when he was born all this one thousand nine hundred sixty want ok mom has put forth the biggest hoax against united states of america in our history he's a fraud he's a phony he's an imposter and it's a disgrace how congress hasn't looked into it and also how the national media has not and he's a citizen you write of indonesia absolutely he was adopted or acknowledged in indonesia and his name became barry soetoro if he hasn't legally changed his name since that time then his name is barry soetoro you can use an alias but not for doing purposes and that's what he's doing so is name isn't even barack obama and now i really believe it's barry soetoro doubt about huckabee said he grew up in kenya not indonesia's huckabee ron yeah he's wrong on that and i use one ok so was

his mother in on the conspiracy. i don't think it was a conspiracy i mean there's no conspiracy because there is an article in the hawaiian papers about that without a conspiracy because my children live in different states i recently had a grandson born i couldn't announcement in the paper here in pennsylvania that doesn't mean he used born in pennsylvania lose a moments when because he doesn't know one of the know us i don't have any way to do it to denounce and say that he was born where he was actually born. now now that you know answer just said the baby was born so you think you think that rock obama's mother in kenya called two different newspapers in hawaii and asked them to place an ad wired them some money or something or some or maybe his grandparents to some relatives or friends not at all i think what happened was after she delivered she went back to hawaii and then registered him which you can do hers and of the

out of hawaii you can register up here when you're here to the birth and then you're giving a certification of live birth i'm sorry mother newspapers. because once you file sort of here's my birth then the ads issued by the state that goes into the newspaper ok well who's who is behind this you know i this is this is you know first of all how much does obama obviously something's going on here how much does he hate america and and how do we know. i think it's obvious he hates america what other president united states has gone around the world apologize united states but other president apologizes going he's apologized for actions the united states to many in many of his speeches overseas that's incredible as a possible result of the anti-christ well i don't know that for i'm not sure but but another thing is what are what what are you doing to white red blooded white americans do about this phony black in our white house well first of all it's not

a racial issue i may be keep saying it's a right wing i'm not there has been you're saying it is. a lot of here are a truth seriously i'm a lifelong democrat i ran for governor and you are standing pennsylvania and democratic primaries are the party people don't want the because i won't kiss their butt but why else are all his records sealed why is he spent two million dollars plus in hiding why. good questions phil i've got a i've got a theory have you ever seen a dead or a dead pigeon or a baby pigeon. yes you have that there actually we're actually a dead pigeon or a baby pigeon nobody's ever seen a dead pigeon or a baby pigeon and whenever important people gather there are huge flocks of pigeons i think they're robotic spies spies of the planet xenu and i think that the pigeons have something to do with obama does this make sense well now i don't think that i think the if you really think about it who controls the united states and it's not the politicians it's the money people behind this is george soros and other people

go out of money remember rockabye when he first entered office he said can i keep my blackberry and no one else is kind of glad for you so so his money people went looking for a kenyan i think pin money people went and said don't you know other people are right that you are not constitutionally eligible to be president you want to be president you got to playboy our way and i think he's controlled way by people now there was a big shift recently chris matthews who has stood firm waving it back and around saying this is this person if you could about the month and a half ago came out and said it doc you know i says a burst of it is not it's only receive obama but forth your. personal i am we're out of time i'm sorry but you're right and you know eleven states are saying we were we want to see the original and it's fascinating as i said i'm convinced it's a pigeon's bill burton thanks for being with us. my pleasure the republican party is playing frankly to the crazies and its voting base rather than correcting those

who think the president was born in kenya the republicans running use them has likely been using white supremacists since nixon's southern strategy was hatched. we are not a leftists i'm not a leftist let me repeat that i'm not a leftist i'm used to talking of those who believe taxes should be raised on millionaires or i'm speaking of those. those of us who believe the tens of billions in tax breaks in corporate welfare to be boiled to lose polluters the waste of money to those of us who believe workers have the right to organize and collectively bargain those of us who believe programs like social security medicare

and medicaid shouldn't be cut or privatized these are the folks who are generally called leftists if you hold these beliefs though and i hold all these beliefs apparently we're not leftists despite what billionaires and their produce poodle shills in the mill in the media today may call you here's why this is the american political spectrum. left or right pretty straight forward from socialists to democrats to moderates and by socialist i mean like social democrats like they haven't been in northern europe you could put communists way over there but there's you know the commies part of the us has like three hundred members and there's there's really no serious left in the united states now moderates republicans and libertarians ok so check out these results of a new wall street journal n.b.c. poll and we seventy five percent of respondents identify themselves as moderate or somewhat conservative moderate liberal and somewhat conservative basically people

middle to the right when asked if a surtax should be placed placed on people who are over a million dollars eighty one percent said yes of course the billionaires wouldn't want their poodle republicans would love them to touch any sort of tax increase on a ten foot pole when as to the bush tax cuts for people making more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars should expire sixty eight percent said yes and yet these poor republicans unanimously opposed letting the bush tax cuts expire in fact they held hostage the tax cuts for the middle class to force tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires when asked if subsidies for building big oil companies should be cut seventy four percent of americans said yes the republicans voted down the bill unanimously in the house on tuesday that would have eliminated those subsidies remember we all said yes. when asked the public employees should have collective bargaining rights seventy seven percent of americans said yes that's despite would report a republican governors like scott walker do it all around the country let's look at

now. when asked to social security should be cut seventy seven percent of americans said no and when asked of medicare should be cut seventy six percent said no yet poor republican budget chairman paul ryan wants to do exactly these things and has the majority support of his party when asked of medicaid should be cut sixty seven percent said no yet to republican governors from arizona to texas the poodle's of the koch brothers are doing just that cutting people off the medicaid rolls and two people in arizona have died as a result we asked a federal student loan assistance should be cut fifty nine said no republicans want big cuts to student loan programs in their budget and when asked about employment insurance should be cut fifty five percent said no yet republicans in the senate filibustered unemployment insurance extensions throughout last year and the ninety nine er's people have unemployment more than nine weeks they still have nothing and when asked even whether whether planned parenthood should be cut more than half of

americans said no fifty three percent republicans cut them anyway last week so how can we be leftists now that we've heard from the middle the majority of americans on the important issues facing our nation today and they agree with us we're not the fringe i'm not the fringe these guys they're republicans they're on the fringe and sadly the extremists are in power and they're hell bent on doing whatever they can to represent their constituency the millionaires and billionaires. and we call this a democracy it's time for the commonsense middle in our nation to stand up and be recognized and for the corporate media stop pretending that the positions people like me are taking are left when they're really mainstream that's the big picture for tonight for more information you can visit our website at tom hartman dot com check out r t dot com and youtube dot com from the big picture r t and also we have got a free podcast or i don't forget democracy begins when you get out there get out.

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