the lack of funding for social security on abortion that's right you have to fear it's a believe it had an article and i'm protesting budget cuts by going on a fast let's move stop the government from cutting services to those who need help and whilst we're looking for it next. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right now and. i think. well. we haven't got the shows there for keeping safe get ready because you're going to have freedom.

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to hear audio is going to this video response our twitter profile of the questions that we post on you tube every monday and on the first day of the show gone responses. are it is time for tonight's tool time award two thousand and twelve possible presidential candidate rick santorum is out on news again with yet another in say in a statement that we hope this is just another desperate attempt at media coverage not something that he actually believes but the former senator from pennsylvania is now trying to you know build a little bit of buzz around his white house bid but everybody knows that while he really doesn't stand a chance in hell of winning so in a radio interview this week santorum told listeners that the reason america's

social security program is going broke is abortion that's right take a listen the reason so security is in big trouble is we don't have enough workers to support retirees will a third of all the young people in america are not in america today because of abortion because one of three pregnancies i don't worship and so we are depopulating this country it's through a policy that does not support families does not encourage families to have children to support them when they when we do have to have those children and of course the second aspect which is even more important which is the abortion culture in this country so. you know i really got to hand it to these republicans their excuse is it do keep getting more and more creative by the day or to push their agenda so because of abortion the u.s. doesn't have enough qualified workers to fund social security that is try rick really i mean the absurdity of it is just stunning social security is sitting on a four point three trillion dollars fund that's not expected to change for another quarter of a cent. but if rick is so worried about the workforce here in the u.s.

i don't know how did he change his stance on immigration issues and urged other g.o.p. lawmakers to do the same how many millions of undocumented workers are there here in the u.s. right now the estimates range from twelve to fifteen million so just imagine if those people were given citizenship started paying taxes and that's might help save social security in the future or recruit actually invest money and resources into education job training programs whether but that would be actually working to improve the quality of the american workforce but we all know that well that will never happen you know it is just so so much easier to try to scare people by saying that abortion is causing social security to go broke that way you don't even have to talk about real solutions just blame everything on abortion next thing abortion is going to be the reason that our schools are failing or why we're in multiple wars abroad and that's why rick santorum is tonight's told time winner. and now is the battle of the budget continues on capitol hill one thing is very clear that

both sides of the political aisle are not going to budge on this one and if nobody is willing to budge then the inevitable is going to happen and that is a government shutdown now it happened back in the ninety's but the threat of another shutdown has politicians going a little crazy democrats are pointing out that shutdown is really serious news there will be serious consequences that will affect average americans you know social security checks you know veterans payments just to name a few of the areas that were hit now on the g.o.p. side argument is that basic services are going to stay intact with the shutdown and even say the shutdown could be a good thing for congress because it'll make them and by them i mean democrats rethink the offer but house republicans set forth earlier this year how do you think a government shutdown sounds to the american people i'd say it sounds like the people that we elected are doing their jobs so now several republicans and the tea party caucus are trying to change up their rhetoric they're worried that the term shocked . it's going to make them look bad so now the politicians are infusing the words

slowdown and partial shutdown into their debate on the budget but really really you think changing the wording from shutdown to slowdown is going to affect how americans feel about this those who don't get their social security checks can just blame the slowdown they are publicans let us offer up a few terms that you can throw in there you know just to spice up your rhetoric over the budget talks since you will be working in d.c. in april is right around the corner how about spring break for our growing latino population how about the s.p. much better or what we want to give it a little bit of a more serious title exodus politicus the mass exit of the politicians what a professor takes leave they call it a sabbatical so i don't know congressional sabbatical might also be a good synonym for the shutdown or how about a more technical term we came up with a temporary leave of action to re-evaluate the state of the nation or t l o h t r t

as o.t. n for short now these are just a few ideas but i think you guys get the point no matter what name you call it it still means the government won't have a budget and unfortunately the effects of the looming shutdown are going to reach further than just some crafty political terminology so stop fighting and figure it out. now about four thousand people from more than thirty organizations are fasting to call attention to congressional budget proposals that would make huge cuts in programs for the poor and the hungry both in the u.s. and around the world house budget bill h.r. one is the spending will that could become law if the senate can't come up with their own and it's all in the name of deficit reduction but the budget proposes cuts to the week program for women infants and children eighteen million people would be immediately cut off from the food stream that comes from international food and health aid four million people would lose access to malaria medicine and even though we're seeing record numbers of americans on. on food stamps due to the

economy they're also now under attack now mark bittman of the new york times who is also joining this fast growth of these cuts will barely make a dent but they will quite literally cause more people to starve to death go to bed hungry or live more miserably and they're doing so now a lot more money is being put towards defense spending can a fast really make a difference here discusses with us is author preacher and theologian jim wallace who's also the president and c.e.o. of surgery enters the largest network of progressive christians jim thanks so much for being here tonight for starters tell us how long have you been fasting and how long do you plan on doing it. we serve monday and the good news is six thousand people have not joined in the first three days i'm going to go through easter. several weeks but the message is very clear a budget is a moral document reveals our priorities was important was not what's important what's not and the cuts are very small some very effective programs that

affect our poorest people so what right love right now if we look at this budget document as you call it a moral document pain where do our priorities lie i priorities lie in war and cutting any kind of help or food or aid to the poor we have cost effective programs internationally and here they had bipartisan support in the past and they're good poverty fighting programs they're working they're making a difference but the cuts proposed include like ten million malaria nets kids won't get protection from malaria twenty thousand kids may die because of these cuts for the forty thousand who want their drug treatments for. women infant children food aid. child health these are basic things that cause the poor to survive and some cases save lives and i don't i want from this that every item

of military spending every every item is is better for our wellbeing and security than all these affected programs that in fact save lives and all the for to survive and in fact help lift people up so our priorities are wrong here the fastest saying these are extreme cuts and fast is a spiritual escalation if you will saying these are cruelly selective budget cuts they're not even helping deficit very much they don't go where the money are profound you know who. often proposes these budget cuts right now we have a republican led house and the republican party is also known as the party of morality and yet they're the ones that are now treating the people who are needy people that might be on food stamps you know they they have they treat these people like they're government leeches for school health is a good thing so coming to office it is also

a moral thing to do so we don't have generations of crushing debt for our kids and grandkids but how you cut the deficit is also a more lucian so how would you cut it well i think we've got a deficit hawks on the one hand which i think some of them care about through school health but there's hypocrites over here which is they're not going to we're the real monitors the real money in military spending in corporate subsidies and tax loopholes leave sixty minutes on sunday. and expose sixty billion dollars of corporate tax havens in switzerland. are denying us that revenue you know i'd be happy with their sixty billion all the stuff that faith we just want to the. national association of evangelicals the ships so it is not so those are in you is whether they're republican or democrat defending poor

people is our vocation as people of faith we have a campaign going what would jesus cut it's a provocative question we bracelets the lore is that which is so we present every member of congress as a person i'm curious then how do you know some of the groups that you're also aligned with here some of these religious organizations feel about certain cars that have been made to programs like planned parenthood right this is also something at the republican party has treated as if it's really about the budget but at the end of the day the way that these some of these programs might cause people to starve to death well cutting funding to prime pair. good might also cause people to like we said hiv to have cancer because they can't deal with these screenings but they do it all under this moral banner of ending abortion which is only less than two percent of what planned parenthood does as a whole well many of us in the three of we are pro-life we have problems with abortion and i've talked to says martin grandparent well planned

parenthood is also doing good work on maternal health and so on and we're doing similar work in our church which is maternal health and child protection is is is being taken away from this budget here in this budget is really misplaced the priorities are misplaced so we're saying. what is the budget say about us. so i want to say that i don't believe it's in our security interests. to poverty programs all over the world we're going to be spending more in a few weeks in libya then we're spending right now in these pictures being programs i also have to ask you right we're not just talking about harvey programs within the u.s. we're talking about poverty programs they're not people internationally but i do you think that america is right now when they're told that you know unemployment is low when americans are told that they have to cut in order to get our budget in order a lot of them support the fact that they don't want to be giving aid to foreign

countries anymore they say we need to get our own house in order first i think most americans are supportive of life saving efforts that are literally saving the lives of kids most americans most christians support them and this is such a small amount of money and we're not going so the deficit with these very small but very cost effective and lifesaving programs so internationally we're going to form a circle of protection as some are saying around the programs that most impact for people at home and around the world so. the faith community forming a circle calling me to fasting and praying and advocacy to defend these programs i want to say what are our choices here what do they mean and what they say about us well it sounds like a very illogical argument that i only wish that some people would listen i definitely think there are a few issues here as in do american people really support you know be they

christian or not helping other nations when our own country isn't problem but you're definitely right on the ball when it comes to the fact that our priorities are very wrong if we look at some of these budgeting here jim thank you so much for being on the show tonight i much thank you all right now still to come tonight the peace spills again the company that caused last summer's huge oil spill in the gulf has now lost the personal information of thousands of people affected by the disaster so how do i complete you can stay in business and obama is out with a new energy policy he's calling for the u.s. to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by one third over ten years but is that plan really really. good sometimes you see the story and it seems so cool you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here's some other part of it and realize that everything you say you don't charge is a big. let's

not forget that we have an apartheid regime right here. i think. well. we never got the good as there are keep safe get ready because their freedom. hi guys welcome to the show and tell on the obama show we've heard our guests talk to say on the topic now i want to hear. just go on to you tube the video response or the twitter for part of the question that we post on you tube every monday and on thursday showing your responses we played your book.

well today we've got good news and bad news about b.p. the good news is that there's not another massive oil spill but bad news a b.p. employee has lost one of the company's laptops now we managed to obtain a press release from b.p. about this missing laptop that should give us give us all the details i mean surely this laptop didn't have lots of really important information on it right. away

actually it says that it contained the names of thirteen thousand people who were the victims of the gulf oil spill from last year but there's no way that b.p. would put any sort of really personal information about the victims on the laptop right. oh wait a minute apparently they had details on each individual case and details on each victim like their social security numbers and their addresses and the paper says of the computer is password protected so you know i'm sure that that will keep any inquiring eyes away who hacked the laptop these days especially when there's a zone much super personal information on it plus any time that there's really important information on a computer it will be encrypted to keep prying eyes from finding anything oh wait a minute actually it says the information is not encrypted so here's some other good news the he says in their statement that they apologize for this inconvenience that they reassure everyone did they take the victim's personal information very seriously. so seriously that they didn't even bother to think about what could

happen if the employee or loses a company laptop come on b.p. that's just more fuel added to the fire i'll ask this oil giants one last question before i get really angry is there anything that you guys can do correctly it's been almost two years since that massive spill from the deepwater horizon explosion and you can't even keep tabs of your own company's property it really makes me wonder what else b.p. is screwing up especially when it comes to paying back the people that they've affected. now japan is still reeling from an earthquake tsunami and the continually developing nuclear crisis unrest continues in the middle east and some of the world is now at war with libya gas prices are rising and it's almost summer which means lots of family travel time i know we have to get forgotten about last summer's massive oil spill in the gulf so what better time now to lay out a grand new energy plan for the united states and president obama gave a speech today focusing on energy security. cutting the u.s.

reliance on foreign oil something that he wants to reduce by one third over the next ten years and yes that does mean drill baby drill now obama also laid out plans to focus more on natural gas biofuels and nuclear energy as well as making cars and trucks more efficient holroyd or is a should and a clean energy standard with the goal of generating eighty percent of the nation's electricity from clean energy sources by twenty thirty five and you know what all of that sounds very nice but it's going to cost money so let's take a wild guess as to which areas congress would be more likely to fund joining me to discuss it is david robert senior staff writer for grist or their thank you so much for joining us tonight like i said it seems like there really are some very ambitious goals here within obama's plan especially things like cold weather ization fuel standards for commercialized trucks but let's just talk about the congress that we have in session now right how much he want to bet that there are going to be more along the let's drill more at home side rather than investing at

a time when they need to be cutting into alternative energies and fuel efficient cars. oh i'm sure that obama would prefer not to talk. to one of the reasons but they're each in his play word scattered and slightly and so apparent and certainly west ambitious turn a lot of comparable plans that are floating around right now is because you sold were just how gross and automatically they show no willingness to go to gain at all so i think you're right drew a lot of you were. so basically what obama did in this speech and i'm asking cording he do you think that he chose politics over actually you know what might have positive effects in the future but there's some substance if everything he mentioned is actually implemented which is a huge yes there will be substantial effects on us are cheap sure but that's not to say that it wasn't politics i mean it was politics and we're talking about how to

make us safer from oil shots if you're really talking about energy security you're talking about using less oil just us the u.s. doesn't hurt us or we'll just substantially change or reduce any of those threats the oil goes so. boil supply was first and natural gas supply was second and biofuel supply was third and all the support was using less i think it's a function of politics entirely now you know i also wonder because obviously there's a lot of unrest in the middle east right now like i said we're going into a. war with libya and oil prices are on the rise so when you talk about ending our dependence on foreign oil i think it definitely has a nice ring to it for many americans because you think oil and you automatically think dictators in the middle east and north africa but do you think most americans know that actually our biggest suppliers of oil are canada and mexico first. if

there is one that you can hear and be certain that when you hear us well politics foreign oil there's he will say nothing she quickly different about sort of oil and sara the biggest foreign suppliers are scared right sicko so the main problems we have with oil are just with oil wherever it comes from the foreign oil goes is entirely up to your sort of the nationalistic courage instincts of americans so what do you think then what is it going to take you know some people also say that the problem with obama's policy here is that he's not advocating any type of a i tacked on gasoline right there's going to have to take something to make americans change their habits well there are policies to go on about policies for days there are tons and tons of sorting out there has got a lot of work done by those of us both policy analysts and security experts in the military and everybody else what's needed for anything to happen is for congress to

move in and and what needs to happen for congress to move is for the republicans to try to stay also salue point your opposition to anything obama or any democrats to them you know best. and until something shifts there all the policy talk about st jude's god it's now you know increasingly are also of course unfortunately because of events around the world where member last year is b.p. oil spill in the gulf we're now looking at the nuclear fallout after japan's earthquake and tsunami you know we've seen documentaries more people talking about the negative effects of fracking more and more it seems like all of our energy options aren't safe all of them can be damaging you know can we ever get to the point where we can not have to rely on any of those energy that you hold so much risk. oh it comes from natural slows humans want to

use energy they have to extract it somewhere else for natural flow so by definition there's going to be some impact any time you called energy out of those natural slopes that's not to say though that we can prioritize that some some sources are much much more dangerous than others i think. if you're talking about technologically channeling socially and what you are you read about the supply of cleaner energy use read down the supply or dirty energies and then push out energy efficiency as hard as you can probably meet my model but politically whether we share. it is a much different question since the big the dirtiest forms of energy are the longest standing they have the most wealthiest lobbies they have the most money the most good source of all of their the most infrastructure that's built devoted so it's a huge problem political and economic inertia now lastly i just want to ask you about this clean energy standard out there seems very ambitious right obama is asking to

buy the here twenty thirty five eighty percent of our electricity our comes from clean energy but is that actually you know is solve any problems i think that a lot of people might look at that and say well look that means that we're totally tackling climate change because now we've set this very ambitious goal for ourselves but things like cap and trade actually have more of an effect. well. so again if you're talking about. the world according to. obama's defined here to include virtually. all your. words are conservation so what you should. hope to just reduce. the substantial search but no it would be. the first step on a very long journey our day want to thank you very much for joining us tonight and i think you're right that we definitely have a very long journey here in

a very confusing one if we see both the political battles ahead and also let's just remember that obama was just in brazil where he said that we were going to be better partners in terms of exporting their oil so it's definitely hard to tell what he's really going out here thanks david ensor now before we go tonight it's time for i tweeted today hillary clinton that's a very blunt news for lawmakers on the hill today she stated plainly that any war resolution passed by congress would simply be ignored by the white house so we were just wondering what congress tweet back to hillary we've all been saying hillary why don't you guys simply throw away the constitution. that's it for tonight's show thanks for coming in and make you come back tomorrow wraparound political activist local he will of the on the program to discuss the uprisings in the middle east and our war in libya and the meantime don't forget to become a fan of the a lot of show on facebook and follow us on twitter and if you missed any tonight or any other nights you can always catch the you tube dot com flash heal our show where we post the interviews as well as the show in its entirety we have next is

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