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audio just go out you tube video response or twitter for part of the question that we post on you tube every monday and on thursday we're going to show your responses we let your voice be heard. all right it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight's winner might not be a familiar face but when we explain why he's our guest of honor tonight i think that you might understand let's backtrack to a month ago when the protests were at their high point in wisconsin i know governor scott walker is in our winner but rather indiana prosecutor carlos as a lamb is now we couldn't find his picture anywhere online after his slimy ideas surface so we're guessing that maybe somebody did a little bit of scrubbing but let me explain the story governor scott walker of wisconsin received an e-mail from lamb and this e-mail not only praised the governor of her. standing up to the unions but also contain

a sinister plot that would help walker win out in this battle lamb's plan to shed the bad guy image was to create a flag operation so in the e-mail he explained his idea saying if you can employ an associate who pretends to be sympathetic to the unions cause to physically attack you or even use a firearm against you you could discredit the public unions and other words make the media believe that walker is the victim of a vicious mob of protesters to win over the rest of the country and get them back on walkers now this e-mail originally was sent back in february obviously walker didn't decide to carry it out but still are you kidding me stage an assassination attempt you see what i mean about this plan being ridiculous and half baked not to mention illegal but now the email is public land is not only become the buzz of the media but he's also been forced to step down from his job as deputy prosecutor a good thing now the public workers need as much support as possible if something like this was actually carried out it would destroy everything of the protesters

who work for peacefully not to mention the elaborate lie to victimize a man who has done everything in his power to bully and intimidate everyday workers quick not on this one to lamb isn't the only politician out of indiana who suggested drastic measures to get rid of union protests and deputy attorney general general jeff cox is also a fan of using weapons to get rid of the protestors he said use live and unishe it in response to a tweet from mother jones about police coming in to control the protesters so seriously the answer is just to shoot them thank god the rest of the country doesn't seem to favor violence the way these nut jobs in indiana deal anyway now that lamb is out of a job maybe he can take some time to rethink how he supports politicians or is a legitimate proposal of staging an assassination all to make unions look bad carlos lamb is tonight's real time where. and how did make you feel to find out that the largest corporation in america pays no income tax thanks to an exposé in

the new york times today we now know that it's true or general electric reported five point one billion dollars in profits from business done within the u.s. last year but they've paid zero income tax and in fact claim a tax benefit of three point two billion dollars so it's another example of corporate tax evasion joining the ranks of bank of america exxon mobile and we can only guess how many other companies out there are doing the same and it's all done through various strategies including lobbying she has spent more than two hundred million dollars in the last ten years lobbying on tax reform she is also expanded its business abroad cutting one fifth of its workforce within the u.s. since two thousand and two placing their profits made here at home into offshore accounts and they also hire the best of the best including former i.r.s. and treasury officials for accounting purposes so i'd say that it's pretty clear that our system needs reform but how do we go about doing that joining me from our studio in new york is dr duncan these on

a national coordinator for us and welcome thanks so much for joining us tonight now first of all how does it make you feel as a taxpayer firstly makes me really angry to know that g.e. paid absolutely zero nothing in income taxes despite making billions in profits that's right wall the rest of us are being asked to cut back more general electric and other major companies in america or their taxes and bankrupting our country now do you think that we also very easily see in this story the corruption the revolving door a g.e. has an entire team dedicated to work on that taxes and obviously they're not working on figuring out how they can comply with the law but they're looking for these loopholes and this tax team has people that are from the i.r.s. from the treasury department all working on it too from washington. that's right there's been an exceptional amount of money lobbying congress but almost no money paying congress making sure congress has the money to do what it needs to do to

serve the american public but how do i also do you feel me that in this revolving door we constantly talk about so many people right they go straight from washington to wall street and here we have them going from washington to g.e. and then helping them even their taxes absolutely it's disgraceful i mean we in america we are all benefit beneficiaries of a society that relies on tax revenue to provide basic services nine months one hospitals teachers all these things and spending all that money to evade paying your taxes it's unacceptable it's morally wrong and they need to be doing a better job to serve the american public that does pay their fair share both in congress and in the companies that are important for making our economy go round you think we hear the president say more about this right because the president is after all trying to cozy up to business in fact the chief executive of g.e. is his chief guy to get obama to be closer to the business community he's talking

about reducing the corporate tax rate but he's not pointing any fingers he doesn't seem to be at all angry that they're completely paying nothing. well i'll tell you what it takes is it takes citizens who do pay their fair share who are fed up with the system as it is getting out and taking action actually just tomorrow they're going to over forty demonstrations coast to coast part of a international day of action against corporate tax cheats united states is over forty actions i mean here in new york there's going to be one i'm leaving all the way out to california small towns like silver city new mexico big cities like los angeles were all over and people are fed up and they're taking action against corporate tax dodgers going to their front door saying there will be consequences to your brand there might be legal consequences we're showing them that we're really fed up and i think we're going to see an enormous backlash beginning now extending as long as there are still budget cuts in america people are going to be fighting back and that's eventually how we're going to get the president and get the congress to respond is one of the companies see that it's going to hurt their

bottom line is going to hurt their image then you're going to see the dynamics in congress and with the president shifting as well how have you found the media the media coverage to be so far the u.s. and the protesting because of course you run into a little bit of a problem when you have corporate media when companies like m.s. in the sea and n.b.c. are oh and by g.e. do they talk about these stories. of course i mean and we've actually brought together a lot of very strange bedfellows you know people have pointed out how often our police officers who are directly impacted by budget cuts who normally don't take that well to people may be trying to come on private property and cause a little bit of trouble they actually take to it very well and they're usually very open and understanding of the protests that are taking place so we actually are bringing together some strange allies and i think it's an obvious message and it's a simple message that corporate tax cheats are bankrupting america we need to come together to show them that there are going to be consequences and i mean no matter

who pays your bills you can understand that and i think a lot of people are receptive to it so i def i think a lot of people understand i just have more of them are now hearing these stories and finding out about some of these protests don thanks so much for joining us tonight thank you. and today is the one hundredth anniversary of the triangle shirtwaist factory fire as a horrible tragedy and which one hundred forty six workers perished in new york because fire escapes that were part doors were locked so there was only one exit there was no sprinkler system it was a different time and franklin delano roosevelt's labor secretary called it the day the new deal so one hundred years later looking back at this day as a catalyst for the labor movement that's changed what stayed the same and what's happened in america well here discuss with me is that your line reporter and blogger for think progress dot org and the progress report the center for american progress as well as state motley president of less government so i want to thank you both for joining me tonight and see i'm going to start with you because i know that you aren't

a fan of unions obviously but if we look back at this day if we look back at this day in history though i look at this tragic event you know can you deny the importance of unions when it comes to workers' rights when it comes to safety in the workplace yes in the u.k. no wait they've long since outlived their usefulness as demonstrated by the current private sector union membership is under eight percent it's seven point nine percent they have served their purpose in the in the evolution and they may not have ever been necessary because in the evolution of a capitalist system you start out with the robber barons because only a certain number of people have money and they make the working conditions untenable but what that is is an opportunity for other employers to come in and say ok you don't have to work eighty hours a week and work sixty and then some other employer can come out and say you can work fifty and it becomes a competition for the workers rather than the competition for the jobs and that's the evolution of every free market system throughout history of the unions perhaps accelerated worker safety and there's no denying that probably but in the grand

scheme of things over the over arching growth of a vote for every free market system those things happen on their own without the vote without this is if you know how can you possibly say that we all know that if you. if business does what's in their best interests it's never what's in the best interests of the worker and you can when you don't that are you know man i don't think the same as we go always see well i think i do well you could say that i think you do the best thing to do is to start talking about some facts here ok if you're going to say that unions have outlived their usefulness what you're saying is the american middle class has outlived its usefulness the one single point america where the middle class have the grey share of income was the one nine hundred fifty s. and ninety's we had three times as many workers and labor unions as we do now as labor unions have declined so as the american middle class that's totally untrue that is completely true you can fundamentally true what is are untrue about that absolutely the middle class is shrinking more people you know you don't know if that is your acrimony or you give us a fake stack i give you real steps more people under reagan moved from the bottom

fifth percentile to the highest good percentile then stayed in the bottom five percentile the middle class has been growing for decades what's been squeezing them out is higher taxes more government actually cost how it's not that much lower than they were in the nineteen fifties unions are much lower than they were in the ninety's and i loved the reagans a great guy ronald reagan said that collective bargaining is a human right and he supported the solidarity union in poland which actually supports the protests in wisconsin so i love my reagan i'm glad and thank you very much for bringing him into the debate then but also the old times is shrinking the wealth gap and i say false alarms is all that is ever been and it is a false in the one nine hundred seventy s. when when we had a lot more unions now the average c.e.o. earned about thirty times as much as there is worker today is about three hundred times i mean that's really where he's alone as the source of the economy is going is not going to the right people as i go into the great american middle class as i go to the working group point of view the godfather of all i can almost. get is usually you know i need to be rude but i i've seen those cracks as well that now

let's talk about break one hundred years ago and let's look at the labor movement today that we've all said that union membership has dropped significantly the market workers were going to be seeing a huge war on unions to the public security which shouldn't exist anymore it's constant in wisconsin but you can't say there is. this intimidation campaign from the story that i did earlier in the show we found out that from indiana they were suggesting to scott walker the fake an assassination attempt we know that's not why we're is now going after a professor who works in wisconsin and trying to open his e-mails just because he wrote an op ed supporting laboring that's when i listen to him it's intimidation he's doing that because the guy was writing fake sick notes to people who are striking and not calling it destroyed that's why he's going out and how many other doctors in the state did that well they should go after all of them do you think though this is clearly clearly an intimidation campaign well i mean i think walker's scared i mean the polling shows that two to one wisconsinites oppose what he's doing that's right in campaign and that's why he came here without talking about put it says that's false and i think about iraq i think that walker is

starting to get really scared here and that's why is there any do these things i think is really really scary that come january when he's eligible for a recall he'll is that recall election by a year from now the economy would be much better in wisconsin because they've done what they've done and no one would be trying to recall scott walker because you find it frustrating for example i was speaking to a gentleman from us i'm. i find it ultimately so frustrating to learn that a corporation like g.e. which is the largest in america paid no income tax and in fact collected billions of our taxpayer money and get public sector union workers are the ones that are being victimized here and said you know being painted as if their pension plans are just so fat that they are spoiled g.c.g. leaders just for you know obama crony i call them the foods the friends of obama and he gets all kinds of breaks he's on the job board that obama put together which has created no jobs it's not like they weren't getting tax breaks before. an effective tax rate of four percent you know i don't see him going to something you know he's right obama shouldn't appoint this man to the to the so called jobs kind

of the competitive council because the way they're being competitive is by dodging their taxes i pay my taxes it was a great guy is this taxes why isn't general ledger paying their taxes why isn't google paying their taxes why exxon mobil and citigroup not paying their taxes and i'm. there's a great scene is about this and i think we need to all these people speak to our fire and get our government to meet these people pay if they start coming up as if there's a fire got to do is not just. a great example they're a democrat senator from oregon he's calling for fundamental corporate tax reform he's exactly right more republicans wrong is the easy only democrat the republicans or a lot of republicans are on that side we need to fundamentally start the core ballots for this group and every corporation is a different percentage equal protection for the law straighten it out it make it simpler and make everyone pay the same rates ok lastly obama is he going to get the vote from public sector unions in two thousand and twelve even though he hasn't really said anything or help them out of here well they're sort of between a rock and a hard place right now whatever how obama is this i mean when he was running for

president he said he put on a nice pair of shoes and walk the picket line with people he did they may get it may get to that point i hope he remembers his own words there i think he's forgotten otherwise he would have already been out on the streets what's important is not the votes because about half of the union membership vote for republicans what's important to obama in the democrats is they get the union money which is almost one hundred percent spent on democrats half of which is used against the candidates the republican membership votes for our gentlemen i thank you very much for joining us and a lively conversation of course. here now still to come tonight pryor site friday and since it's friday we're also going to celebrate with happy hour and a senior from pixar making all the best this week i'll be right back. you know sometimes you see a story and see so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here's the part of it you realize that everything. you don't. charge is

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flying around out there right now we're guarding the military attacks on libya and rightly so there are no simple answers either no one word to describe what's going on except for that one word that no one seems to want to use war make no mistake about it despite the obama administration's attempts to call this a limited humanitarian intervention or journalists that are carefully labeling it as simply a military operation this is a war if you choose a side you start dropping bombs the result of which ultimately are death and destruction but it's a war and the length of the campaign the size of it not the minute the truth of what it is president obama reportedly doesn't want to give an oval office address about our latest military endeavor because he quote doesn't want to equate what he regards as a smaller time limited mission with iraq and afghanistan i know it's not iraq or afghanistan but that doesn't mean it's not a war you know it's not iraq or afghanistan but that doesn't mean that we should

look to the two conflicts that we've been boiled ourselves in as cautionary tales but what could happen in libya if anything we should know by now that war is a really quick or easy and those who consider themselves generally anti-war but support military intervention in libya under the guise of humanitarianism i think you can take a deeper look nobody wants to see innocent civilians killed but opposing this war does not mean that you're choosing to let them die if this was solely a humanitarian mission to protect innocent lives then we'd be intervening in yemen and bahrain in syria in the ivory coast and that's just to name a few if it were so cut and dry we wouldn't see the world divided on whether or not to support it and. it is divided russia china germany the african union these countries are not on board and no matter who alternately takes command from this point forward we're now involved so can we at least us have a little bit of honesty can we at least have a president that shows his own country some semblance of respect asks the congress

talks to the people and gives an address and takes responsibility for the decisions that he's made because whatever game obama is playing right now well it's simply not cutting it you can't win this politically no matter what will always be a time for one side or the other person thing that you did wrong in their eyes along the way so why not in that case to show some sincerity to save the truth rather than to treat your own country like a bunch of ignorant fools that might not think that libya is a war because of your twisted rhetoric for me at this point obama's already blown it how ever a war in libya might end but will all it's have been started with deceit.

ok guys happy friday it's time for a little happy hours tonight i have with me jenny churchill jennifer churchyards the producer and seed molly we decided to let him stick around and i wouldn't. so first of all let's just talk about an interesting study that came out today which i just found kind of funny they said basically that the more you go to church the more chances you have of becoming obese by middle age and we did this by following young adults but they didn't actually give any reasons as to why it had been in the study and they tried to act like it's because people they go to church have potlucks and just eat a lot bigger meals yeah my favorite part was that they gave no scientific evidence whatsoever of why this would be the case and then there are there are solutions were so unbelievably ridiculous to me. like oh well eating in churches then you know why they acceptable what i don't know what church they are talking about but at my church if you were like challenge even fried chicken it would be nice for peace socially acceptable and then you know the other almost that you feel so good

about going to church that then you go home and reward yourself with a big fat meal that's crazy it seems to hold as scientific as saying you know most people get up in the morning and the sun rises in the morning so therefore because people are getting up in the morning the sun rises there's very much energy because that was just you know the common denominator that was the factor they kept popping up the most was that all these people were churchgoers but i think you have to keep in mind too that the areas of the us where people are obese the most are parts of middle america and that's also where people are more religion that's right i think you really hit it on the elderly and the sound of fried chicken wings basically i think that's where i think you really have not going to little faith they teach cars they don't like they don't like counting calories or should you looks. very much to most of the republican party does not let so it's really great real science it's. nice climate i hated you know it's true i hate anybody hard to declare i brought out some of your friends michele bachmann same policy i feel like

they're just going to make it so easy for obama in two thousand and twelve because every single person right now that is a possible g.o.p. contender is either crazy or incredibly boring like well if ever there was a year we could elect a boring person was four years out we like to this card based on charisma and the worst president since jimmy carter and that's hard for last you think we want a little boring well we want something we want carpets and this guy is incompetent i will say this. most of these people or interesting. but the good part about it is by being interesting in that way they bring something to the table i have to say i think as an elder writers are to. like heaping their fingers crossed like please michele bachmann please one president but at the same time i mean i was really really disappointed by the recent ad from poland because his ad for his own was so epic i told you i watch it like multiple mornings just to get

pumped like this is america. but i didn't even know you could add to you like a little bit like that super bowl ad with detroit he was trying to make a little gravy he really worked for me when they're getting i don't work it is character you know you can't try to create charisma where there's not and he was trying to do that with a clock on it is charismatic it on your point of view where there are people wanting more who is the competent i think perhaps a little to compliment the results rosita slimy schemer will but i know you know even if i was george bush back who just says it's very simple it was a slimy scheme i have silly did you write that ok he's right and just think about it this way this is what i think he's eminently beautiful a number of people who voted for me no way who said oh my gosh i'm never going out again versus the number of people who didn't vote for me no way and so i can't wait to vote for him in two thousand and twelve i would argue that number is far far larger than the number bill think that the amount of people that would rather just vote for obama again rather than have to deal with mike huckabee or its impact leonti or whatever bachmann or

a sarah palin or herman cain or mitt romney even just i never larson who has a large work they like the eighty seven republicans that we're seeing very much so that you know you know we're not the polling numbers are slipping because they're not cutting enough the american people this thoroughly i mean you know you need to like i'm sorry again i mean the guy was all about changing things up but i don't know where the jobs i have not seen any effort for political stuff to say that first of all this is that mindset of we need to have the government create jobs you know the purpose of what the republicans are trying to do is the reality of having the government out of the way and that actually creates room in the private sector to grow and create jobs everybody i know you that is a really good excuse for the government doing nothing is just that. that's our way of setting our estimates for the worst two years during your three first season don't promise jobs if you're not going to do anything actively different job you're going to explain it's me show it to me i know it cuts good will first hold the ball like there's one person because we've got to wrap it up here if there's one crazy

that you would actually find more amusing than obama or you know would be would want to go up against him who would if he might marry my one of her favorites are crazy but my favorite is tim tim from rick perry of texas and he's not crazy he's available but jenny what the temperament montessori want to go. to should i think that i would want a dual ticket. syrup palin michele bachmann all kinds of awesome crazy and i know it will never have another chance for women to run for president ever again cokie for all those years that we're going to be we're going to run a ripple happy tears guys i think her night show thanks for tuning in make you come back on monday from have all the latest about the escalating war in libya in the meantime don't forget to become a fan of the lower show on facebook and follow us on twitter and if you missed any of tonight's show or any other nights you can always catch all the you tube dot com slash you're going to show where we post the interviews as well as the shell in its

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