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then a bill requiring women to undergo a sonogram before they can get an abortion is one step closer to becoming law in texas protecting women's rights or just plain government intrusion but first when it comes to not balancing our nation's budget we really need to amend the constitution to do so. i mean the president's weekend white house chief of staff bill daley said this about negotiations between republicans and democrats on the new budget. how do you bridge this and avoid a shutdown to be honest i would take exception we aren't that far apart we're at over fifty billion dollars in cuts the house passed the h.r. one which was one hundred billion dollars so we're over halfway there i know that you. maybe doesn't realize democrats are dealing with an unfaithful up unfaithful excuse me negotiator in the republican party in their efforts to cut spending and

sure taxes are never raised again republicans in the senate joined by a handful of democrats are trying to push forward a constitutional amendment that would require the federal budget to be pale so far according to some tallies there are fifty eight u.s. senators and one hundred twenty members of the house of representatives in support of an indictment that would limit federal spending to just eighteen percent of g.d.p. currently just over forty one percent and require a two thirds vote for any additional spending in them and also requires hip is a two thirds vote for any sort of future tax increase is this really a good idea to handcuff our federal budget and sure tax rates for millionaires and billionaires remain low and more on this issue i'm just i'm joined by ken klee a national a member of the national board of advisors for the ass the balanced budget amendment and welcome to the program tom great to be with you. first of all eighteen percent of the last time g.d.p. federal spending as a percentage he was that low was nine hundred thirty one in the depths of the great

depression and it was because our g.d.p. had gone from one hundred three billion in one nine hundred twenty nine down to fifty eight billion i mean our country collapsed in half are you suggesting that we should throw ourselves into something twice as bad as the great depression tom what we're suggesting is that the purpose of tax policy is to maximize economic prosperity for as many citizens as possible and also off of that to maximize government revenues to be able to provide for services that are needful even as we cut wasteful spending in the studies that are out there academically point to percent eighteen. as the ideal maximize the ideal level of taxation of g.d.p. that both maximizes economic prosperity but also maximizes government revenue through the maximum growth rate i think are you are you sure the people doing these studies have been taking acid or smoking paoli or something i mean can you identify one of the thirty four o.e.c.d. countries that the most developed countries in the world that has

a federal spending as a percentage of g.d.p. that's below thirty percent well actually in terms of comparisons with other countries right now for example the us has the second highest corporate tax rate is only about taxes as a percentage of g.d.p. you want to get it down eighty percent you said you know studies say it should be it should be low i do my understanding is that in many countries it's forty fifty percent so these other countries that are fully developed countries like france and germany they're doing just fine thank you very much and are not experiencing any crisis what would you mean in terms of doing fine if you look at france germany some various countries in in western europe like spain it's crowding out ok about spain we're talking about france and germany but those are developed nations they're european it's only in they operate they are why would we reduce our g.d.p. to somalia is because several spending because it's our focus is on economic prosperity not on sustaining an entire state and that's the reason that we have more but i thought you said the real purpose of us government was to make sure that

the that the people were who were getting what they needed basically and that there was economic prosperity i know that's not going to all of the committees that are doing just fine purpose of the federal government gives to fulfill the the specific tasks that are given to it in the u.s. constitution in the purpose of tax which includes in promoting the general welfare . liason the constitutions in the preamble and there's it was designed as the. chill appropriate to spend money to promote the general welfare is right under article one. actually it section a clause one. but that's the general welfare clause off taxing and spending it. says that you can catch the general welfare so long as it's one of the four types of constitutionally permitted faxes or you can visit our gold types i guess it does it its duties and imposed excise taxes and capitation taxes and then the income in the and then we amended it with the sixteenth amendment right but generally well know that this spending this supreme court made clear and us the butler nine hundred thirty six and helping feed gave us the nine hundred thirty seven but the

general welfare clause has no government power in it whatsoever it is a limitation on taxing and spending power not an empowerment of gov that's the us supreme court been they've done it what then in that case then nothing would have been nothing would have been spent since nine hundred thirty six no absolutely not just spending part of the term you love with the why are you talking of no love no it's not you know if i don't. say more about how boring change substantially i nine hundred thirty seven which is why important health warning be davis which is make hundred thirty seven all the general welfare clause requires for spending is that it spends a national purpose as opposed to a state source or suggested that all spend on federal spending since nine hundred thirty seven is unconstitutional no doubt all of federal spending must be for a national purpose instead of for the benefit of the state of virginia where the benefit of the state just is that all spending that ends up in state coffers is not not at all not so long as the fanatics go back to why you have to lie that we're going. to try your why you want to go around us then else if you were to require an

absolute balanced budget during world war two we were spending. we were spending. were to go eighteen percent of g.d.p. or there was one hundred thirty one it was fifty percent of g.d.p. and one hundred forty four and our total debt was one hundred twenty four percent of g.d.p. if we were in a crisis and your memo was in place we'd be screwed and we're not we're not because first of all no that's not true because first of all with a two thirds vote of congress you can suspend the requirements of this amend for one year with a two thirds vote you can do it exactly to address your highness' vision is a repair or a supermajority for tax no it wouldn't the twenty eighth amendment that's why this is because we know you want to amend it this is being built right it's written into the balanced budget amendment that if if there was some catastrophic situation that you could live you know that i live in a state of oregon where where you know right wingers got one of these things on the ballot oh my god i'd suggest that if you're on the other half of this which is very very very difficult to do any anything in the goodness of the state the purpose is

that the amount of taxation as a percentage of g.d.p. the purpose is on spending that we need to balance their budget but if you're going to don't just spending and balance the budget what you end up with is a state where basically the billionaires and millionaires are doing just fine and the average people there's no social safety net tom give people are especially at eighteen percent eighteen percent as we have a fourteen trillion dollar economy eighteen percent of that is two point six trillion dollars you know how much government we can afford with two point six trillion dollar a much that's more than the g.d.p. of many nations across the globe and that's where the eyes are united states to be to point out as wealthy as the united states with forty five trillion dollars in wealth i mean this is stansell country in two point six trillion dollars is enough to handle the task that the federal government gives that the us constitution gives the federal government especially if an eighteen percent cap maximizes growth so that we can increase that eighteen percent every single year numbers out of your backside it's voted before it is either separate now when you say it needs to go to

eighteen percent absolutely. i i just you know i'm just ok so the congressional research service says that we should have deficits a to replace or encourage demand during the depression the disability tax breaks to recession seem to make up for monetary banking crashes we've had all of those happen in america and beyond that what would happen to the bush family i mean george w. bush was born with millions of dollars the government about the bush years are over will you know what government you know i mean the how people don't don't people need a triple a rated investment that is our government the is the issue is the national i'm actually glad that you raised that because in the past two years we've more debt than the first one hundred converses combined this is a ronald reagan plan he tripled our national debt in eight years him and george bush and we've got ninety nine point seven trillion of this fourteen trillion and

run it by republican presidents it is absolute in the republican plan and now you guys come along just like judas k. predicted nine times out we're told the last two years though that was a unified democratic government that republicans were in control of are you toma deficits i know you were talking about debt deficit adds today they're the same thing are gathered at the same thing no debt is the aggregate debt but not aggregate debt has been has been exploded by a remodeler and several as a spasm generosity as you could have heard that david stockman has come right out and said yes goodwin ski back in one thousand seven hundred you saw today just out he was february this said we're going to break the government better to sit with our good last month was bigger than the entire year of two thousand and seven two hundred twenty three billion dollars and just like our in the middle of the of the of the of the bush great recession or a no hit a little to the year was a great democratic two years of democrat government somehow and george bush has and frankly i believe that if we continued following he would have policies that have. because if we keep deficit spending the way we are going to solution is not is say

that we're going to cut our of those. the percentage of federal spending from forty one percent down to eighteen percent which is going to lay off tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of people instantly destroy demand as the man comes from people having money in their pockets and walk down the ability of gov government to increase taxes on if we don't tell the budgets the koch brothers and other millionaires and we can lose our aaa bond rating which would have catastrophic consequences if you could hasn't harmed japan and their g. and their debt load for so g.d.p. it's joy is two hundred percent our business one hundred percent your position tom is if we lose our aaa rating is the day is that my position is that this is crazy to see eighteen percent of that and say a two thirds supermajority that it's crazy we need to balance the budget we need to do it now and fine and we should have started when with ronald reagan said that he was going to triple our debt we should have said no then and we need to say it to every every republican forever kendall coffey thanks for dropping by it's

a pleasure to be with you but after talking with you what we're seeing here is an effort by republicans to enshrine their tea party ideals into the us constitution at best in my opinion it's a gimmick at worst it shreds our nation's social safety net and could lead us all the financial ruin. still to come up on the big picture before you cast your next ballot you may be asked to show photo id after the break i'll tell you why this will not only do this it was like this will only just franchise it's actors and ways textor. actress lindsay lo in fact gave rise to the preaching about these women that people are suggesting she's done for you know she says she's a stock. last

week the texas house of representatives approved legislation to force pregnant women to have an ultrasound before they could have an abortion republican state representative or author of the bill a man name said miller said i want to make sure they are fully informed they understand the medical consequences the psychological consequences and everything

involved the procedure and quick. but opponents of the bill argue the measure will merely make women who are already in a difficult situation de lay the procedure to organize the ultrasound and feel worse bill was first there was the first major item passed by the test texas state house this year it was described as an emergency priority a republican governor rick perry i guess a state facing a massive budget deficit takes a back seat to women's reproductive rights here offer their takes on the issue heather sermon for for the public group relation public relations firm and sam bennett president of the women's campaign from heather sam welcome but it's good to have you both here sam this isn't just jelly on the belly that the government is forcing women to experience in texas if this passes in the this is absolutely ridiculous we have south dakota we had georgia we had h.r. three of us congress and now we have this rick perry i used to live in matagorda bay texas rick perry governor rick perry should be ashamed of himself he's got

a twenty seven billion dollars deficit tom and this is what he considers an emergency to take women's rights and put them on the cutting room floor it's absolutely inexcusable it's an urgency because p.b.s. lives are also you know he's trying women you know as well i mean i could know and it's not good for babies sleeping that you know very urgent by the time the procedure what if i could row versus wade was passed because women were dying like flies had are dying like flies and so what was happening if you didn't give them an opportunity to have safe and legal abortions they took matters into their own hands roe versus wade was passed to protect women in this nation and you have and we know it really upsets me about this this is not heather about people with real values at stake these are put this is political pandering by the far extreme right of the republican party and women in america need to stand up and protest this is going to cuba has or feel free to respond to that and aren't true as a conservative a little uncomfortable about this massive expansion of government and. certain

itself into why i think very much in support of women having full knowledge of what they're getting into abortion is not just getting rid of tissue and that's what sam's talking that's what i'm saying not what i'm saying this is only what i know oh ok so the way the reason that roe v wade was decided the way it goes is because it was inconclusive as to when human life began and now as we have technology showing that human life does begin at conception people like sam are very squeamish about getting into leaving us out at the start to put one last time we are in this is no worse than last time we're on the show she said it would be to do you all the issues we talked about when life began less about how do you know i was over your head or that's time and i'm telling you right now you're putting words in my mouth i did never said those things the bottom line is you do know you have a row versus wade was passed because women were dropping like flies because we don't give them access heather to legal and safe abortions they're going to do it

anyway that's not what you think i have must have this right now i know for sure if life begins at the moment of conception at the fertilization of you that you're suggesting i am suggesting that i'm sitting out in the should should we be going to the in vitro fertilization clinics that are that are pouring. ins if not tens or hundreds of thousands of fertilized eggs literally down the drains of sinks every time they're combiner every day and charge them with murder right why not i am i am actually gets putting fertilized eggs on ice i do think that you should just take the amount of eggs you plan to use and use all of us. i think there's no try to get a birthday pressed to that that's i don't want to have that special right now we can have come back on you know what is the answer but if you believe that i guess i'm conception yes and there's a bunch of things in these in these frozen nations into and and you know after the after the woman gets pregnant they take the rest of them and they pour the wine so i'm being consistent i'm saying that we shouldn't have those frozen embryos on ice

so you can rush out ourselves no i'm. we can have i.v.'s but don't freeze any embryos and i should going to use them you know take to take the eggs that you plan to use and use them you cannot dispose of them because you have history and we have this strange thing called embryo adoption with all the time i'm saying we got ourselves with that situation i was going to go back to that we were able to have this discussion before technology is on the side of the pro-life or state rights that my audience had and i've listened long enough i gave you a lot of rope here the bottom line is we're here today because governor rick perry of texas has said taking away the rights of women is more important than taking care of the twenty seven billion dollar deficit in this country how do you know way that there is a women giving ways all the information they need to get good disease why you do you know these individuals who were elected across this country in state legislatures and in u.s. congress to fix the economy and what they've been doing they did h.r. three south dakota georgia border south dakota south dakota was so that you could in premeditated murder doctors and nurses what was first half so true what was that

all about that was that was if a woman couldn't prove she had a natural miscarriage that she was going to be accused of having a felony theoretically she could face the death penalty and now in this state in texas we have this what what on earth is going on whether you think this is you know you never can imagine c. because life is at stake you know and women know these people as well as physical health you know this is a perfect reason why we need more women in elected office in this country were eighteen the woman if i were like i would i would still have these babies six in the world the number of women elected office or eight in u.s. congress has only seventeen barely seventeen percent it reminds me of the health care debate where we had a man stood up and said that pregnancy was a preexisting condition we need more women and lots of doctors so this is your way through this that women are all pro-abortion that's not true that is what's known as more information becomes available you say i am sorry if i am not afraid as you

know that women are becoming more pro-life. women are real like what's going on you guys i mean they are not true it was put in more emphasis on children who were already born thank you i mean as a. community for they get kids for five years and i've been on the board for thirty thirty one years and i'm telling you there's a there's a lot of kids out there who are living lives that are hellish in this country and people like rick perry want to cut funding for in fact the republicans at the federal level right now are making a very serious effort to got funding for programs like the one i'm on the board of these people don't seem to give a damn about children once they're born but they want to protect them when they're only eight cells big you're talking about funding this is this bill right here in texas well it has reality of legislation this bill in texas has nothing to do with funding that silly texas has it every well it would get women to become easy money have all the information in this legislation that you're supporting the georgia legislation the south dakota legislation the texas legislation h.r. three is exactly what tom said when i was

a married mother with two children i made an agonizing decision but an important one to have to terminate a pregnancy why did i do that because that child would not have been brought into a loving home i now have three children who are all desired who are all daunted that was an agonizing decision eighty one percent of americans had believe that we as a vigil should be making our own important life decisions like that not the government but you're supporting is government intervention in the most personal and intimate notice i and yesterday you know what i'm getting is you all are information go no if my you so afraid of women finding out what's going on you know i didn't have it this way guy you should have read about my best friend was catholic her name is anne marie she had a pregnancy heather she was told by the doctor that fetus was going to die the minute it was born and that her life was in danger she was a catholic this law that you support would make her listen to the sonogram would make her listen to the fetal heartbeat a woman who was already traumatized and already made

a very difficult heartbreaking decision that's why. this lot we do have there it is in our unix i have to do what they have other lessons and i have to read some circuits i just want to say this is there is no easy solution i am not saying it is this is that i know having an expected pregnancy having a problematic pregnancy is hard it's hard to deal with them but there is no easy solution abortion is not an easy solution and what this bill and others is trying to do is get women full information to make a wise decision anyway but they shouldn't bother force to make it is a sham thank you so much on with thank you mother thank you very much sadly see this happening in both the us house of representatives and in state legislatures legislatures across the country facing a real economic problems republican lawmakers are focusing instead their efforts on restrict restricting women's rights and most of the time the authors of these anti-abortion bills are is this the republicans idea of a jobs bill or jobs for some technicians.

republicans aren't just targeting democratic fundraisers like unions in their quest for one party rule in america they're also targeting democratic voters as think progress pointed out over the weekend there are twenty two states considering bills or have already passed bills to restrict voting rights by requiring people to present a photo i.d. or proof of citizenship at the polls in other words disenfranchising tons of voters publicans contend that the legislation will curb voter fraud a claim has been widely proven to be for lack of a better term or a less obscene one garbage as the brennan center for justice at new york university pointed out in a study in titled the truth about voter fraud allegations of widespread voter fraud

however often proved greatly exaggerated. these claims of voter fraud are frequently used to justify policies it did not solve the alleged wrongs but that well could this enfranchise legitimate voters and that's exactly what republicans are doing as in see acorn in reality voter fraud is virtually nonexistent back in two thousand and four george bush's justice department launched an investigation into voter fraud they were very worried about and convicted a mere eighty six people of some sort of fraud out of one hundred twenty two million voters in other words republicans are chasing a problem that at most exists in just point zero zero zero zero seven percent of the voting population on the other hand unlike voter fraud election fraud is rampant like when about eighty thousand people in florida were barred from voting

in the two thousand election bush v gore because republican stooge katherine harris the secretary of state contracted with a company in texas to scrub her states voting rolls of novelist entirely african-americans and those democratic voters whose names just happen to be similar only similar to convicted felons who lived in the state of texas or when the wisconsin republican party and the koch funded group americans for prosperity and gage didn't boder caging last year to keep college students and minorities from voting and thus pave the way for scott walker's gubernatorial victory or one republican secretaries of state are elected officials around the country order particularly in two thousand and four small numbers of voting machines in mostly minority and democratic districts leading to weights and lines in the rain or snow in many cases of up to as much as twelve hours while at the same time in the white mostly suburban wealthy republican areas. there was a surplus of machines and average weights were ten to fifteen minutes he lection

fraud to happens nearly every election year and is by far away mostly perpetrated by republicans several years ago one of those republicans conservative activists paul way rick laid it out for all of us rather bluntly how many of our. have. grown. government they want everybody to vote. i don't want everybody to vote elections are not won by a majority of people they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not. going to go look for it in the elections quite candidly go only populist go down. it's simple when more people vote when our country acts more democratically the democrats tend to do better at the polls that's mainly because democrats look out for working people or the ninety five percent of us who are millionaires and billionaires republicans on the other hand are perfectly content

sticking up for the richest of the rich screw everybody else back in two thousand and eight indiana enacted restrictive voting laws and what we saw was elderly voters college students and low income people almost the democratic voters turned away at the polls by republican lawyers because they didn't drive cars in the us didn't have a driver's license i'm guessing republicans would argue these people should have brought their birth certificates with them just like president obama should always carry his purse to certificate and you know just to make sure. in the most blatant attack on progressive voters new hampshire state representative gregory saw on interest a bill that would prevent college students and members from the military from registering as voters in his state of new hampshire if they are only in the state to attend school or serve in the military hampshire speaker of the house william o'brien defended the bill by saying kids are voting liberal voting their feelings with no life experience at least he put

a block away for all of us to understand this is a war against liberals and of course in wisconsin quote brother lapdog scott walker was able to slip a restrictive voter law through his state legislature most of the attention was focused on his other assaults against public unions after all he has to figure out some way to win reelection in two thousand and fourteen. all together the twenty two states considering these fodor voter photo id laws account for two hundred sixteen electoral college votes that's eighty percent of the votes necessary to win the presidency of the united states with a norm is corporate spending thanks to citizens united and union membership steadily declining that other twenty percent shouldn't be too difficult for the republicans to pick up. you know our elections should not be a partisan issue and the fact that they are shows just how deep the subversion of our of them are of our democracy goes we need public funding of elections and we need it now that's the big picture for more information you can visit our website

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