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please let your voice. it's time for tonight's jewel time award apparently republican lawmakers in florida believe that the word you wrists is a dirty word and it shouldn't be mentioned on the state capital floor let me explain here there was a debate taking place over a bill that would prohibit governments from deducting union dues out of

a worker's paycheck last week and that's when florida state congressman scott randolph a democrat from orlando made the claim the republican seem to only be against regulations when it comes to big business so in his speech on the house floor randolph said that his wife should incorporate her uterus and attempt to stop the g.o.p. from passing more restrictive abortion laws so we can go karts congressman randolph excuse me i think that was a very good one but needless to say the comment was not very well received on the other side of the aisle about that in leadership hit back of the democratic congressman telling him that talk about body parts was unwelcome on the floor of the state capital are you kidding me republican lawmakers in florida are all about telling a woman what she can do and can't do with the reproductive rights and most of them are all day so how dare they tell a fellow congresswoman that he can't say the word uterus on the house floor i g.o.p. house for his house spokesperson said that at the start of the year they reminded all house members to watch their language because of guests and visitors so

a guest or visitor might be offended by the word uterus i've been. huge when did it become a bad word is it is part of the human body and non-controversial one it's not like he is serving gyda at the top of his lungs but i just now as congressman scott randolph pointed out he didn't use a slang term here so for all of your up tight g.o.p. lawmakers in florida who don't want to hear the word humorous during a debate grow up and that's why you are tonight's told time winners. and watch a handful of g.o.p. g.o.p. hopefuls in two thousand and twelve are dancing around trying to decide if they'll challenge president obama next year his team is gearing up for a major fight the los angeles times reported today that staggers on obama's campaign say that they'll need to raise one billion dollars to fend off republicans next year that is a lot of cash and the paper also says that two former white house aides are likely to launch several independent political groups to support his bit and the groups will be a direct response to republican leaning groups which spent millions in last midterm

election and are expected to spend millions more in two thousand and twelve so if you live in a battleground state next year expect to see a lot of plenty of negative campaign ads running but speaking of those twenty top campaign as the national republican senatorial committee has already posted an obama two thousand and twelve ad today and he went after the president for his accomplishments but i got to admit it's actually pretty good take a look. here to. celebrate a person that brought americans together. celebrating. well you recently discovered off the shores of we want to be what are your best cars. president with the courage to tell us. i will not rest we will

consult with the decision makers. i have not spoken to. going to challenge. i think that's part of. the city by the by first of all. we got to go spend money in the bank or yes or. i just love that obama is on a unicorn and it's making rainbows now by the way it is april fool's day so the ad clearly was meant to make fun of the president and the mocking at comes shortly before obama is expected to formally launch his own reelection effort as you can go some time says of the campaign it will be based in chicago and an announcement that he will seek reelection could come as soon as monday so obama's reelection roll out is expected to come with a web video to supporters so it appears that team obama is again going to try to rally the youth vote and i'm sure that social media is going to play

a huge role in this campaign so here we go for months into two thousand and eleven and the twenty twelve presidential race is about to kick into high gear it's going to be fun to watch and report. as p.f.c. bradley manning continues to be detained at quantico word has been spreading about the ethical treatment of the army private suspected of leaking hundreds of top secret documents to wiki leaks we've now seen more protests than before we've also spoken with lawmakers like that is considered about manning's treatment but now the more people are catching on many young supporters are calling on a pop star to save manning that's right the little monsters aka fans of lady gaga are sending her out of her station asking for people to sign and encourage the mega star to speak out against bradley manning's treatment so why be specifically asking you know lady gaga versus some other hollywood personality well think back to when manning was first to tape according to reports he did the documents on a cd that was labeled lady gaga and he allegedly hummed and lip sync from gaga

songs while he was in the process of transferring the files to ensure that nobody would question what he was doing but aside from lady gaga serving as manning's alibi she could use her fame as a political platform we've seen it done before last year she made a video calling on her fans and on congress to repeal don't ask don't tell. i am a constituent of the senator i am especially joyous angeline chairman i also know because i am calling to ask the senators to vote with senators harry reid called her a pill to tell the post john mccain's shameless fellow foster we need to do this for our gay and lesbian soldiers and finally i'm so strong tell. that video alone got two and a half million views so i imagine if she used her brain to call attention to bradley manning's treatment that would work out those who haven't heard yet about her for conditions of quantico will probably more be more inclined to defend

manning if lady gaga does use her voice to draw attention to the cause and in case you're interested too you can go online and sign this petition either way the word is spreading about manning and hopefully soon there will be an end to his unethical treatment. jobs numbers are out and the news is good i think unemployment is falling to eight point eight percent and two hundred sixteen thousand jobs were added in the month of march and of course we always have to look at the u. six the real unemployment number that includes those who are discouraged or underemployed and although by numbers still high if fifteen point seven percent and also went down but the thing we really have to ask is if this is good news means that we'll ever get back to where we once were new figures show that while the u.s. economy is growing faster than those of england france germany italy and japan our job market remains the weakest as it were more productive but with fewer people so what we say about it all joining me from our studio in los angeles is richard asco

a consultant writer and senior fellow with the campaign for america's future and richard thanks so much for joining us tonight now like i said we have it was positive news here still some slow growth but positive but if we look at those figures that i just mentioned the fact that we're being more productive but with you were workers you know how is that really possible what if i tell you well a couple of things first of all the financial sector which doesn't really create jobs or contribute to the productive part of the economy is back to the historically high level it was right before the crash it's pushing thirty percent again which means that people are making a lot of money off money rather than things we normally think of as a economic activity and certainly are things that produce jobs effectively so the overall economy and the numbers look really good but we're not seeing that kind of growth translating into the rate of job growth we need to get this this country

back on its feet. but what about the fact you know if you think about some of these many corporations in the united states who outsource and who send jobs overseas let's you know throw out some names there microsoft or g.e. if they're hiring more people overseas of course are they going to be productive with fewer people working here at home. well that's certainly an element of of it but if you take a company like g.e. that has a banking operation which by the way did some very questionable things then sure if of course g.e. is going to be more profitable because of outsourcing it's going to be more profitable because it's now not just a manufacturing company but a part of the financial sector so a lot of companies are seeing growth through that and that's being reflected in the numbers but it's not being reflected in the dark numbers and remember that the kind of growth we're seeing now and to be taken in context of the projects number one is

that one hundred twenty five thousand people enter the workforce give or take every month so we have to offset that the growth by that context number two is we won't get down to even six percent unemployment at this rate until twenty sixteen and we have an economy that's kind of got a built in rate of recession in failure that even the head of j.p. morgan chase says we're going to see one every five to seven years if we have another recession we could have a much bigger one between now and then we won't ever get to that point so we really have to be very very cautious and continue to create jobs rather than just overall economic growth as a critical priority for this country and of course one of the things is that although sure we gained a few jobs wages are not going up you know i did so if you're seeing a depressing actually to comparison these figures that you know wages didn't go up at all between are from february to march if you look at all of two thousand and

ten the average worker their wage went up two percent whereas c.e.o.'s their wages went up twenty seven percent and if you look at new figures that came out today tells you that the top twenty five hedge fund managers made twenty two billion dollars last year amongst themselves but if the average americans wages aren't going up and now we have gas prices that are rising we have food prices that are rising is it only going to get worse for them. well let's take let's take the hedge fund hedge fund managers to start with ok you're talking about twenty five people who earned twenty two billion dollars we're watching a budget debate now where the republican party is willing to shut down the government because it wasn't happy with the president's budget cuts of six point five billion and wanted at least thirty billion well that's not a so much of a different figure from what these twenty five guys make so that shows you how we tend to focus on completely the wrong things when we talk about the economy in our

political system not only that but the tax deal that the republicans forced through in december made sure that most of that twenty two billion is earned at the rate of fifteen percent for taxation as opposed to let's say the twenty eight to thirty to thirty three percent that a policeman or a firefighter or a teacher has to pay so if you were only to tax these twenty five people the way you tax a firefighter who risks is his or her life every day you'd have another three or four billion dollars to reduce the deficit so that's the kind of skewed thinking we have out there and as for the c.e.o.'s pay going up by twenty seven percent while workers pay only goes everybody else's pay only goes up two percent put that in context to we already have the biggest disparity in history that we've ever had between c.e.o. pay and average employee pay it's much much larger than it was for most of this country's history and through its most profitable period and of course i guess the

least one good thing that perhaps you can ask here is if people do look at these numbers favorably or in a positive light does it take away the fed's argument for a third round of quantitative easing. what quantitative easing what the problem we're seeing now is that the people who need help and the people who need credit in many cases are not the people who are being benefited because if the banks for example take struggling homeowners you have one house and four in this country has an underwater mortgage those people need refinancing help but they no longer have the assets in their house to get refinanced so quantitative easing is not going to help them and then we eat quantitative easing is not going to help the corporations of borrowing because corporations many of them are sitting on large users of capital and they're not spending the cash they have on hand to hire people and get

the economy moving because there still aren't enough consumers for their products so we really need to be thinking about more global ways of getting people employed getting people buying consumer confidence according to polls was again plunged last month so and part of that was fuel prices but there are multiple things going on so i should consumers have more confidence when their pay is only going up two percent and everyone's telling them the economy is great so we've got a bill consumer confidence we've got to get the economy moving we've got to get jobs moving and above all we've got to make sure we don't have another recession so everyone likes to look at it in a positive light but maybe not so much richard thank you so much for joining us. ok i did my best thank you have. still to come on tonight so we have our friday fireside chat and it's happy hour a look at the frankfurt hall of april fool's day actually producer jenny church on michael morning at one point.

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web site with twenty four seven live streaming news towns like to tell you about the ongoing financial hardship unlimited free high quality videos for download. and stories you never saw mainstream news. so. maybe the political. parties are such just. a guy's welcome michel. tell me alone a show we've heard with our guests not to say on the topic now we want to hear our audience just go on to you tube to video response or to twitter for part of the questions that we post on you tube every monday and on the first day of the show and your responses later your voice be heard.

in tonight's. your. we spent a lot of time over the last two weeks talking about libya and rightly so not to ask as many questions as possible about get another war there are countries and gaged in with no goals no strategy and in my mind still no clear explanation as to why we're there will be a crime but we should focus attention to libya let's also not let president obama get away with using it as a distraction from afghanistan you know the war that's been going on for a decade the war where we have one hundred thousand troops where just today six u.s. soldiers were killed in an operation in the in our province close to the border with pakistan pakistan the real sanctuary to terrorists that we're supposed to be fighting where our government is waging another war that tries to keep secrets from below the radar publics not let president obama forget that this july is the

deadline for the start of an american withdrawal and sure it's only april but i think it is about time we started hearing about the plans for this withdrawal how many of our troops will be leaving how quickly will they really all be gone by the end of two thousand and fourteen and you know there's been a virtual silence from this administration regarding all of those questions and some will tell you that well again it's because of a battle going on with the insider reports we'll tell you that general david petraeus the man that wants us to stay in afghanistan for decades hasn't presented obama with a plan and why would he he doesn't want this war to end he's probably leaving his position soon and it's no longer going to be his problem. just like the last afghanistan review after which obama decided to send a surge of thirty thousand more troops we're finding out that the pentagon brass is trying to strong arm this president and leave him with a pathetic array of options for withdrawal but if this president can go against his military advisors not consult with congress and start

a war all on his own in libya then i don't see that strong arming as an excuse anymore in afghanistan you can't have it both ways you can wage a war on your own and then blame those surrounding yooper not being able to and another you can't be the commander in chief if you pick and choose when to assume that command and throw out the constitution as well as any regard for the people that elected you or for the representatives that they also elected and then sometimes choose to defer your command to others and act like there's nothing you can do about it it's like choosing when to intervene in a humanitarian crisis and when to stand idly by while bodies pile up which as it turns out are doing right now if you look at yemen bahrain syria and ivory coast so let's put pressure on this president let's make him make this withdrawal happen.

ok it's time for happy hour and joining me this time around and argue producer jenny churchill and michael moore to hand senior editor of reason magazine and reason dot com there's always going to leave out your title and everything because it's a pro for you know this it's a pro bowl and i think the sheet is worn off by it now but this morning there were some good jokes floating around and people were into it and one of the things was google posted an entire joke about the new way of even alex take a look at a clip from quick. motion interprets physical movement and turns it into actionable commands for example to. message make a motion as if you were opening a number to send a message like a stamp and place it down the movements are designed to be intuitive ergonomic and easy to do we spent a long time perfecting g.-mail motion and we're excited about the potential for it to help improve your email experience. jenny you actually fell for that one this

morning so you know i didn't fall for it i sat at my desk watching it saying there's no way this is real what is going on like because i couldn't this is my issue with the selling of the product not the actual product i had no problems with the product it was that you had the super monotone boring guy and this really kind of dorky weird guy doing the motions so you got monotone guy for your fans did you haven't you see like the apple commercial really how long before you just go like. here i don't know if sites every day struck me as a pretty good idea but then again i'm like i'm right about politics and not about technology which is why i want my opinion just as a matter of using right is really the here you know i believe all of them and i believe to everyone that was sent to me this morning and what i saw on. twitter and so i realized that it was april fool's ok and it was really it was like who do you believe it is my favorite one of the day did you believe that al-jazeera is going

to have its own car in nascar because that would really just. i believe well i mean really it's hard to believe that i mean what i love this that's the best way to infiltrate america you know here you know to harness there's going to be an element in our cars that has more t.v. station and we'll have. a beginning of this is the beginning of. you know making money somebody has to be out there if you believe here is my germs you know for the record so hearing you like to see your oklahoma actually going to use that as proof that they were stupid enough to offer the joke. let's move on i tell you what's going to happen this is actually real the c.e.o. of go daddy when i'm not. african safari he slayed an elephant then an entire village worth of people is that he slay the elephant forgot to go rip it to read me all wearing go daddy baseball has pissed about this one obviously but let's show a little bit graphic clip for viewers. i am

referring. back to my belong here. ok is that isn't really wrong or is it i don't know what to say and i certainly heterodox and it's not wrong and i was really upset over at the big debate it's obviously not wrong i mean i just find it fascinating that people are outraged by this i agree it's a little tasteless maybe that i'm rather just a little bit exploitation there is here i want you to know my son is the name of it what it really exactly i mean i don't think anyone should be shocked by this i mean he very obviously did this on purpose we're talking about a man who as a habit makes commercials that are too racy to be shown on television so that create a buzz so i don't think that there's any accident that this happened his story is that he was saving the villagers because elephants were trampling their crops and

he was around. and he just happened to have a cut on all those tell you how to fox and go to the house and ask for treating elephants i mean obviously that is what happens if you try to do it all i don't know if you know if you're ever ventures in brooklyn i don't know if you know about the life of the c.e.o. that is pretty typical i've never heard of i didn't really know it go to anyone i was so it worked real pros yeah well i don't know anything really i don't know what pop culture is kind of but i thought that's why should i look good a little you know now i know would go there yes because of that elephant can you're going to write you should read you know it's the kind of corporation you basically can get away with anything obvious you know politicians get to go down because. it makes it all where you know it was you know nobody got hurt actually can mean he got exactly what he wanted talking about it still is a really funny open guy wants or i'm sure you probably are for him. because i want to get a story that personally really and reaches me because there are you know there are

a few things in life that i really love to do and one of those things is just really chewing out those customer service threads where they do something wrong with the companies because there's you know much i could fly so you're saying hey there are. i hate the use that they charge and so i kind of take a little bit of pleasure and then getting mad at these general and yelling at them when they ask me if they can record the conversation i think gas because i want their managers to hear about how angry i am and how much they suck a.t.t. is now changing their rules so that basically they can cancel your contract if you're abusive to the customer service representative to the customer i have no rights anymore i've reserved here you're you have this backwards this is a great boon to customers who are trying to get out of these like two year contract agency now all they have to do is call up and be a jerk to somebody who's like you're making minimum wage and contracts well and i don't think that eighteen until you realize that this was a problem let me know she got sick or they were they were informed of this

unforseen consequences and they were like we'll get back to you on that and they never did this was to see that and what i love about it is see if they have thought about this they would have said well cancel your contract and charge you a consolation cancellation fee they didn't do that but it made more sense well that's what i'm saying is maybe i just have a warped view everyone else sees this is a great loophole to get out your contract and the others i still understand it's really people you know if you do yourself as an incredibly cool person so those are guys thanks for joining me on this friday cheers for tonight's show thanks for tuning in and i'm very sorry to say that we won't be back on monday in fact i just got a drama class because april is not a million years but i work for that but it also curious as to come back on my very david sirota is going to be on the show i mean time don't forget to become a fan of the alone a show on facebook and follow us on twitter and we miss any of the night or any other nights you can always catch all the you tube dot com especially on the show coming up next is the news with the latest headlines from the us around.

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