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talk about the big picture on tom hartman coming up in this half hour that insult the injury as state already struggling with sky high unemployment rates will now receive six fewer weeks of fits so what is the governor of that state really trying to do plus a new article in a conservative magazine based the koch brothers not as super political power players but instead as victims on earth was this conclusion reached and is it even worth as much as it was printed on. and executives at b.p. could face criminal charges involving last fall's gulf coast oil spill one of the charges manslaughter details it's a stereo take. it

looks like another republican is read the story of robin hood backwards it is stealing from the poor to give to the rich michigan residents are getting screwed over by their governor rick snyder yesterday republican snyder signed into law legislation that would cut six weeks from unemployment benefits every state in the country currently pays out twenty six weeks of benefits but now michigan will lead the way and ate out only twenty weeks and that's a state that's had a higher than ten percent unemployment rate for longer than any other state in the country in other words the state with the worst unemployment numbers also treats the unemployed the worst. as us congressman sander levin about the move it turns the clock back fifty years at a time when unemployment is that historic highs since the great depression i call it the republican great depression not only does governor of snyder's bill amount to nothing less than

a war against poor people he also fails to realize the pain out unemployment benefits helps to boost economic activity and get people back to work this is just heartless it's bad economic policy. but i get it governor snyder has to take money out of someplace like poor people's pockets in order to pay for his two hundred million dollar tax cut provide corporations and their pick at c.e.o.'s so let's see the effect of these republican economic policies in our little city here in the studio democracy this is back to democracy bill we've we've been here before and there's basically two competing theories of economics that are being played out and democrats are playing demand side which is how economics of work for six thousand years the republicans are playing supply side which is how economic support for the last thirty years which is one of the reasons we're in such deep trouble now with to start out with demand side this is this is how it actually works well here is

here's a little town that has been basically devastated by the bush great depression that we're experiencing right now we have just a couple of homes here we've got a farm with a you know a field out here a silo and. a little grocery store in the supermarket and so not much happy people are out of work right they they're just scraping by so we come in as the government and we say ok we're going to give you some unemployment money we're going to do the opposite of what rick snyder is doing because you're unemployed right now here's some cash we're going to give that to the homeowners so the homeowners then take some of that cash and they then they go to the supermarket they buy things and the owner of the sewer and they you know they're buying things from those who are in the owner of the supermarket then course has to give some money to the farmer the farm now is making money and they say you know gee maybe we ought to buy something from like you know a store i mean let's let's actually you know get the a.t.'s lawn service out here

and fix up our you know the help clean up the farm and make it look better and you know let's. spies some shoes and things you know such and such as the farmer by the way because you know these people have some money too and in fact and so then you know it's a let's open a shoe store let's open a clothing store you know put some in we'll put some money because there's demand now because there's money circulating in the environment let's let's open this restaurant here just let's let's open juice have his restaurant and they're going to get some now what happens when all of these small businesses open they all need employees so they're going to give money from them to the people in the houses they're going to say come back to work and so you get more houses and more people move in and they've got jobs because they're working for these people here and what has happened is that little bit of money that was put in so as to jumpstart the thing in terms of of either you know food stamps leisure welfare payments were

unemployment payments that little bit about money going to going to the store and the farmer and to these other stores then circulates and creates what's called a virtuous cycle in economics as i said this is economics one hundred one this is your thought and the story basically in the epic of gilgamesh. and six thousand years ago about the city state or now here's the conservative supply side theory their theory is that that's all nonsense and that instead what you should do you should take all the money and you should give it to the rich people and just give it to the rich people and there you go guys have a pile of money and the supply and then the rich people will do something with that money well it turns out most of the rich people do and of course you give a bunch of money to big corporations as they please create some jobs but the rich people and corporations are going ok thanks for the money we're going to take that money we're going to stick in the bank and it's just going to sit there in the bank . and i mean you know maybe they'll buy

a few things and one of these stores might be gucci's but you know basically there's not a lot of economic activity being created by this and so what happens is because there's no economic activity going on in all of these are starting to and particular if a lot of money is going to big corporations so we end up with monopolies they're putting out of business the small companies that just knock him over because you know everybody is just buying from the big chains the big corporations that got the giant tax breaks not the little companies they didn't get giant tax breaks and so what happened even the giant supermarkets you know in and you know knocking them out of out of business and so what happens is you know the people are now in a crisis because they're getting laid off because of the consolidation of the big corporations and because these giant corporations by the way are shipping the jobs overseas and so people you know are losing their homes you have people are committing suicide suicide rates actually go up the b.b.c. did a spectacular one hundred year analysis of suicide rates in the u.k.

and australia and they found that they were never conservative governments came in suicide rates went up one of the liberal governments came in suicide rates went down so you got more suicides now on the other hand you may have more households because you know when you have poverty as poverty increases in the united states as inequality increases teenage pregnancies go up so maybe you were going to add a house back here because we've got you know these extra babies coming online but they're very very poor babies i mean you can forget about the money the money's been sucked up. why all the rich guys over here who are putting it in the bank and by the way the bank might not even be in the united states the buy bank might be in switzerland writes for the sake of that money and putting it in in no u.b.s. you know we're we're phil gramm the guy who you know graham least while in the commodity futures modernization act was on the board of directors or at least was so this is the difference between these two systems between demand side economics and supply side economics and how supply side economics wife's entire economy is

which is why in the last thirty years eighty percent of all the growth of our economy of all the money all the benefits eighty percent in the last thirty years has gone to the top one percent of americans and the average american today the average at what american worker are today is making twenty seven hundred dollars less a year than he was making when ronald reagan came into office they've been stealing us blind it's an insane theory it's time to put it to put out it's time to put it or give it a nice funeral let's go back to classical economics. in the most recent edition of the conservative magazine the weekly standard readers were treated to an article about the koch brothers that paints a picture of these billionaires and koch by the way as k.f.c. age as saintly figures in america who through their charity work are trying to make the nation better but unfortunately they're being demonized by the left as enemies

of democracy as the writer of the article matthew connecticut writes for progressives confused at the heated opposition to their do gooder agenda coke's become a convenient scapegoat invoking their name was a way to write off opposition to obama as the false consciousness of racist rubes stoked by greedy businessmen in the liberal imagination that hopes ascended from obscurity to infamy in record time he continues by saying. liberals in the media turned into coke addicks c.-h. cute anyway they ascribe every bad thing under the sun to the brothers and their checkbooks pollution the tea party global warming denial would coax were responsible the liberals needed a any need of the facts like clay until the coax resembled a lovecraft ian monster that code to pause its tentacles stretched everywhere koch industries as a target on its gargantuan back a brother is now the latest victims of the life's mean lean cyber vilification

machine end of quote so is the case for the coax the victims of a left wing smear machine and they're not actually contributing to the defeat of the middle class in democracy in america but to a leaf reporter a blogger at think progress who has done extensive research on the coax and robert greenwald activist filmmaker and founder of brave new films whose latest campaign targets the koch stealings have read this weekly standard fluff piece and they join me now to tell us the truth about what's going on with coke's league great to have you here for me robert thank you for joining us from los angeles. actually oregon oregon holy cow you must be on the road with them with the film. so you know let's just let's start out lee are the cokes really these poor victims who are being vilified by the i guess you you and robert mostly this lean mean liberal machine

that's to destroy them yeah you know matt is actually at the weekly standard is a fantastic writer but kind of poor reporter because he's kind of mangling the facts here and he actually refers to me four times in this piece without mentioning my name on one hand he wants to spin the koch says these homespun you know ordinary businessmen that sometimes contribute to causes they believe in at the same time he quotes a fundraiser in this piece that's comparing the koch brothers fundraising machine to a pac israeli lobby here in america is very efficient and right to know what it does so so robert you're making or you're going to finish your sentence oh no go ahead ok robert you're making a movie about the cubs we have a clip from that i believe we play that. people are just throwing america. they bankrolled the tea party rock obama to be.

the army's probably the greatest ever perpetrated on the american people. things that. others can cover up or sort of surprise. yes that's. right. here right. now it's in our politics it's dirty money.

so robert brilliant piece of filmmaking tell us about tell it tell us the story of your your your film here revealing the coax. well first of all with me on the show let me say that everybody owes the lady and think progress an enormous debt of appreciation and gratitude he's done just extraordinary work in researching exposing and getting all of our attention so i want to thank him and if i had a hat on would tip it to him and say job well done and we look forward to a lot more what we've done it brave new foundation is we've decided based on lee's research to gain recent research and we've had four researchers working for the last three and a half months on this to do a series of short videos exposing each of the different areas that the koch brothers spends their hundreds of millions of dollars using and they use their money very very smartly we see how they fit finance ideas we see how they

financed grassroots groups we see how they finance pundits who go on television we see how they finance politicians we're going to connect those dots for people we're going to help people understand and use these videos for organizing tools for rallying around the issues that the koch's are doing their damnedest to use their money to convince people that they should be working against their own self interests and in fact ironically is the article points out working to help the coax make millions more lead to that issue to what extent the coax clearly out and if the numbers in robert's document exist that will help we saw you know thirty millions band here and. what was the funding political campaigns or ten million spent a lot of. typically when big companies spend that kind of money it's an investment

a they put ten million in they expect to get a billion dollar contract out or something like that i think some of some suggest that the most profitable investments in america today are buying politicians to what extent are the codes ideologues promoting a belief system that they truly believe versus opportunists who are promoting their own interests their growth charles koch has a huge ego he's compared himself to martin luther theologian bringing this you know supply side revolution to america that will change the world and on the other libertarian well he's a libertarian but you know he says he's inspired by. however you know i had said that we even libertarians the government has to regulate air pollution now even though charles koch sees them self as the greatest libertarian fine here in america he doesn't really ascribe to that part of. philosophy because a lot of the groups that he finds just simply benefit the koch industries bottom

line the koch industries company is basically monetized the very worst types of carbon emitting industries whether it's fertilizer oh refinery. tar sands basically specialize in global warming and that's why the koch industries charitable wing funds you know almost three dozen different climate organizations so it's two things one there's incredible ego there and you can see that in the piece they're bragging about how brilliant they are and the weekly standard person's lavishing praise on them on the other hand they want to make more money into the r. o. i their return on investment is incredible if you just think about the koch brothers made an additional eleven billion dollars in the last two years now let's imagine that it's all income and they make it again in the next two years that means billions yeah for them. that need. that effort with the bush tax cuts for the upper two percent they're sending five hundred million dollars right there and

that's that's just one small part of us robert. two to what extent are your films. focusing on the connection between the fact that not a single freshman member of the house of representatives believes in gradual warming and most of them are who are elected with money that may have been connected to the koch brothers or at least with ideas that originated with a couple others. but i think you just hit it tom the important point is they are funding ideas that they then transform into action that then get transformed into the politicians speaking the words what we're going to try to do and if people can go to our facebook page they can go to the website procrit is exposed they can follow that to my twitter feed going to put me putting these out throughout the next year a series of short pieces and if we have the resources we're going to be doing as

many issues as possible one of the reasons that people other than lee and jane have been taken on the coax is the size and scope of this is so extraordinary they have so many organizations and so many people they fund and they use their foundations in so many different ways that just getting a handle around it has truly taken as months and months but boy have we got some strong video coming up and i'd love to go into detail about all of it tom but we know the element of surprise is going to be critical here you know we've been attacked will continue to be attacked they've attacked lee so if people want to get those videos and we're going to need everyone's help you know you've been an extraordinary ally your audience has been the activists have been it's going to be a very very tough fight so so get over the website robert lee gentlemen thank you both thank you for having a great working about it i'm honored to be associated with. the koch's have existed in the shadows for too long now thanks to great work the following robert greenwald

american people are starting to see exactly how these billionaires are strangling our democracy. it's time for our daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's today's question the koch brothers and their tea party followers shutting down the government possible answers yes defunding planned parenthood obamacare and n.p.r. major obstacles for them or no the republicans will come to their senses and stop angering to the far right wing and the war on workers so far most of you have overwhelmingly voted yes while going to town urban icon to let us know what you think the polls be open until tomorrow betty. coming out it's a weapon and should eleven people killing them on the spot sure enough you probably get the death penalty so are the executives ed feed peavy hundred dollars oil

clothes well spill any difference the answer in tonight's daily tale. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right. i think. even on the well. we never got the shows to keep you safe get ready because their freedom.

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crazy alert a woman in california was facing up to five years in prison after she was found guilty of forging doctors' notes to obtain illegal prescriptions back in january when she showed a percentage scene of the courthouse yesterday she tripped up her sleeve she gave the judge a doctor's note asking for a postponement of the sentence because she was ill naturally the doctor decided to call the doctor the judge decided to call the doctor to double check and sure enough the note from the doctor was a forgery as well it's unclear what that is some things will be for the woman with a crafty signature or perhaps it will be a lifelong ban on using them. people

close to the investigation are saying that the u.s. justice department is considering criminal charges against executives at b.p. for their role in last year's oil disaster in the gulf that killed eleven people those charges could include manslaughter as well as per. three against former b.p. c.e.o. tony hayward course b.p. itself can't base any real punishment because it's a corporation and here in america we give corporations many of the rights of actual humans a free speech in politics but none of the consequences of going to jail or getting the death penalty for murder in fact it's been less than a year since that deadly oil spill started after eleven men died when b.p.'s oil rig caught fire and today b.p. continues drilling all over america selling oil to americans and making huge profits of the take back to the united kingdom so despite death and ecological devastation on an unimaginable scale it's business as usual for b.p. other than a few fines that they can deduct from their taxes can you imagine what the fate

would be of a terrorist who detonated a dirty bomb off the coast of louisiana killed eleven people injured countless others and left a large swaths of the gulf of mexico poised to poison for fishing in the state of louisiana be the death penalty hands down in fact the past ten years louisiana's executed three people and has eighty two on death row right now but there's no such thing as the corporate death penalty at least not anymore but what if i were to tell you that our nation has a long history of executing corporations that broke the law in fact america started using capital punishment to put to sleep rogue corporations before our constitution was even ratify it. more than two hundred thirty years ago all the way up through the eighteen nineties governments we the people routinely revoked corporate charters and sold off all their assets when it was proven that they operated in ways that were ensure is to citizens of the community it was a common phrase u.s.

presidents even one on a platform of the corporate death penalty i can or jackson eight hundred thirty two who promised to kill off the second bank of the united states and then when he was elected actually did it and in michigan ohio nebraska and new york hundreds of sugar corporations whiskey corporations match manufacturers even oil companies in the late hundred ninety s. early one thousand nine hundred space coal justice and were in fact executed for conducting business against the public interest their charters were polled their assets were sold off at auction for example here's a law from wisconsin it was pretty identical to those in all the states until the republicans knocked them down in the era from the eight hundred ninety s. to the one nine hundred twenty s. it's referred to as the charter mongering era political contributions by corporations no corporation doing business in this state shall pay or contribute and keep in mind virtually every state union law like this no corporation is in the states will pay or contribute or offer consent or agree to pay or contribute

directly or indirectly any money property free service of its officers or employees or thing of value to any political campaign organization committee or individual for any pullet political purpose whatsoever or for the purpose of influencing legislation of any kind or to promote or defeat the candidacy of any person for nomination appointment or election to any political office. the penalty any officer or employee agent or attorney or other representative of any corporation acting foreign in behalf of corporation who shelled by late this act shall be punished upon conviction by imprisonment the state prison for a period of not less than one dollar more than five years and if a corporation shall be subject to a penalty then they may be dissolved if the if a domestic corporation it may be dissolved if a foreign or nonresident corporation out of state corporation its right to do business in this state shall be declared forfeit that was the end if us justice

department does hold b.p. executives accountable and throws them in prison that's a great start but p.p. b.p. will continue along pumping trillions of dollars of crude out of the ground spilling millions of gallons killing off workers because of neglect and accidents and pain their new executives millions of dollars if we really want to make sure something like the b.p. oil spill doesn't happen again and we need to put corporations back on death row if we put b.p. in the chair and flip the switch and all the other corporations will listen and we the people can take back control of what happens in our nation. that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our web site of them are. also a free newsletter the lists all our stories this entire show is bailable is a free podcast on i tunes also check out our youtube page is a you tube dot com slash about to be i'm sure our teeth and you tube dot com slash amarth and don't forget them ocracy begins when you show up when you get active tag

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