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you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here's some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry because of the. hardest time for tides a tool time award and i did a politician from illinois democratic congressman jesse jackson jr is going after al gore and i pat he believes that the i pad has cost people their jobs here in the u.s. and he spoke on the house floor and claimed i pad is part of the reason that we have
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thirteen million americans out of work because. steve jobs is doing pretty well created the i pad certainly it's made life more efficient for americans but the i pad is produced in china it's not produced here in the united states so the chinese take advantage of our first american first amendment value. bet is to provide freedom of speech to the i pad to the american people but there is no protection for jobs here in america to ensure that the american people are being put to work. yes congressman steve jobs and apple are doing very well you see apple is a multibillion dollar company and yes the i pad is made in china but the technology was developed right here in the u.s. apple has over fifty thousand employees worldwide and the company it won't release the total number of u.s. employees but it's believed to be more than twenty five thousand jobs based right
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here in america but congressman jackson had more to say about this i pad and its job killing ways. a few short weeks ago i came to the house floor. after having purchased the i pad and i said that i happen to believe mr speaker that at some point in time this new device which is now probably responsible for eliminating thousands of american jobs now borders is closing stores because why do you need to go to borders anymore why do you go to a dance you know. your book download your newspaper or magazine. you know the congressman does have a point yes some national book store chains have already closed and others will probably close but can you really blame the i pad for all that we get with progress such as the rise of the internet and online shopping that when that comes a changing economy let's face it when it comes to shipping jobs overseas apple is really not on the top list of offenders in fact apple is one of the companies in
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this country that thanks to its innovation creates jobs now congressman jackson also claim that publishing companies are going to close because of the i pad and that's actually false many publishing companies are expanding to meet the demands associated with i pads and other computer products so it's good to know that we have elected officials who don't actually understand the way the u.s. economy works they just try to place blame wherever it suits their political purpose so congressman jesse jackson jr appears to have gone up the deed then here on this misguided rant stop bashing technology the world is changing get on board encourage more companies to innovate and why don't we put more federal money towards research to make that innovation happen not just bash out all because they're doing well and that's why you aren't it's tool time whether. now the international monetary fund and world bank wraps up their spring meetings in washington d.c. this weekend and during the meetings they discuss the concern over a global growing global financial crisis but as they turn to the drawing board for
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solutions critics are saying that it's those original eye of policies that helped create this monstrous meltdown our chief financial correspondent lauren. mr has the story. i. i as protesters to cry their capitalist policies i the international monetary fund meets and to prescribe or of austerity reflects on the state of world economic progress the recoveries and the way that a lot of and most countries see too high this worry over jobs comes as a greek labor unions announce fresh protests over i.m.f. policies they accuse of making their country's economic and job situation worse austerity measures public spending cuts tax rises and privatization part of the i.m.f. doctrine for debt crisis management is now imposed on greece a policy that has been forced on many philippine nations for decades i think most
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western policymakers think it is just imposing tough low tough love mark by reliance on the free market and not on the role of the state that critics like economist gerald epstein say hurt these countries and contributed to the financial meltdown just as leaders of these institutions brace for another we are one shock away from a full grown crisis and financial crisis taught us that prevention is better than cure. we cannot afford to forget that lesson but a group of thinkers believe the curriculum is all wrong behind this very door the international monetary fund was signed into being world leaders decades ago and behind the doors and different group of economic and policy leaders have gathered together who believe it's outdated and needs to be rethought altogether calling for a shift away from western dominance and thinking we've really been looking at this through our problems in our lives and most of our countries have not been subject
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to have their programs but even as some of those countries that have such as brazil as part of the brics block calls for a greater say in the i.m.f. some don't see any real change in the works i expect that the next president of the world bank will be an american in the next manager of the i.m.f. or european. construed and that's the same point we've had since those institutions were established despite the limitations to global economic effectiveness yes of course and that's a major limitation and major weakness of the government but again it's not going to change anytime soon a warning over what could be in the pipeline as the i.m.f. talks austerity with portugal to secure its debt crisis loan lifeline and an economically strapped egypt talks about getting billions in soft loans from the bank the more things change the more they stay the same lauren mr r.t. washington and new hampshire. now joining me for more on this is r.t.
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is lauren lyster let's talk about how attitudes are shifting within the i.m.f. and even towards the i.m.f. right of course a lot of people say that the u.s. basically runs both i.m.f. and the world bank but a lot of the policies that they try to enact on other countries they don't necessarily abide by themselves that is one of the major criticisms you know we see the united states indirectly through the i.m.f. pushing policies of austerity on countries as a remedy to their debt and their deficit problems has been a very representative and the developing world and what we're seeing now is. all countries in europe such as greece and what they're discussing in portugal meanwhile the united states runs trillion dollar deficits has fourteen trillion dollars in debt and that hasn't been a prescription at home the united states has not imposed austerity on itself it bailed out the banks will stop without reorganizing or restructuring them the kind of thing that they would require a few that i am not in other countries so those are the kind of things that critics bring up and it's an interesting time to bring it up on a day when we saw s. and p. give a negative outlook on us on the u.s.
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credit rating for that very reason of not dealing with that stuff but i'm wondering i mean do you think that there could be enough pressure there with other outside forces starting to influence the u.s. like the s. and p. downgrade of the moody's didn't do it didn't do it but still the stock markets really drive very very poorly to this well that's kind of a short term reaction yes i mean we will have to see what actually happens but many people that i have you know that have been covering this today and analysts and writers believe that the timing is very political that it in essence this negative outlook is to influence the debate in washington to get leaders to enact some kind of program for the deficit which is a highly partisan issue that we've seen divide the parties and we haven't seen a lot of movement i mean even with the near government shutdown we saw such minimal cuts and minimal real action to tackle any of those kind of cutting issues so many see this as a political what if they actually went for it and really did downgrade our credit rating or something you could say that really this is kind of minimal grading the
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outlook prices in an official rate but would that be catastrophic then you would say. that we did people that i interview economists financial analysts they say yeah that would be catastrophic they say even putting the united states on a downgrade watch list would be catastrophic for global financial markets the u.s. bonds are considered the risk free asset in everybody's financial models it's literally consider risk free so suddenly saying that actually has a risk would rattle markets all over the world and you have. remember central banks all over the world hold u.s. treasuries companies all over the world investors it would be it had a huge impact and the united states might have to pay higher interest rates in order to borrow which that means less money and sharper cuts for programs at home now one thing i just want to mention which is interesting last week we got some figures from the u.k. who have enacted strict austerity measures and it turns out that retail sells their plunge that household income went down so was there anybody perhaps at these
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meetings over the weekend arguing against austerity saying see it didn't work there why should we do it not that i know of if i am a however i did recently hear larry summers president obama's former chief economic aide who up until recently was his right hand economic man he had a very candid conversation at a conference a couple weeks ago at bretton woods in new hampshire he said he thinks the policy is oxymoronic he thinks that it's a total wrong way you know this coming from a man who prescribed austerity and was high many of those measures in the developing world saying it's absolutely the wrong thing for the united kingdom tricky tricky which ways we could go going to pay for medical research and people now still to come tonight we have a new and improved show and tell so stick around for that and the new polls out show that donald trump is leading the field of possible twenty twelve presidential candidates so does his surge mean a revolution is taking place inside the republican party talk show host david paxman will join me to discuss that in just a moment. let's
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a. new website with twenty four seven live streaming news times what to do about the ongoing financial hardship unlimited free high quality videos for download. and stories you may never find on mainstream news. media the political. posts on our t.v. are just. guys welcome to shellings tell the obama show which part of our guests have to say on the topic now i want to hear audio just go out you tube the video on or the twitter profile of a question that we post on you tube every monday and on thursday we're going to show your responses please let your voice be heard.
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it's hard it's time for show and tell on tonight's program tell last time we spoke about the conflict brewing on capitol hill over raising the debt ceiling and although only sixteen percent of americans and recent polls said that the debt ceiling should be raised we wanted to know what you thought of the issue so today will call on our tea party circuitries and assented to tell us some of our viewers' thoughts. let's suppose you have an ongoing name say one. uncle sam come sure house and he takes all your credit cards and he maxes them out over he wants to buy so when you cash out to him he tells you that you will have to pay for all of his stuff because he's broke in by the way because you increase your line of credit because there are still more things he wants to buy if that happened to you wouldn't you get mad at your own call sam or that's how the majority of our viewers felt when we asked do you think congress should raise the debt ceiling on facebook
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style broadband told us raising the debt ceiling will slowly but surely devastate what's left of america's economy jonathan mohanna agrees he said raising it displays a lack of financial discipline as a government so jonathan if you think the government has been showing financial discipline up till now i let you know what country you're living in a few of you suggested we get some money back from the banks nice idea except now that we balance out the banks there is no way the banks of bella's out and return among unhappy response is only one stood alone any mark he said that congress should raise the debt ceiling because consequences would be too dire otherwise while andy may think he's a voice of reason and other viewer geno marse may be the voice of the sad reality keynote holders if they do or if they don't i think they going to truly have no
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guests only time will tell there and that's what our viewers wanted to show in tell us today remember if you have an opinion we want it right here. thanks the trees and here's our next question for everyone at home we just finished telling you about the obama administration cracking down on popular online poker websites but do you think that it's ethical or is he overstepping his bounds so let us know if you think is the takedown of several popular online poker sites and overreach by the obama administration you can respond to us on facebook twitter and you tube and who knows your response just might make it on their. now for the past few weeks we've been bringing you constant updates on our oh so contentious budget bill to occupy the time of every politician on capitol hill but today we have a rather surprising update for you remember when we explained the details of the budget bill we told you about some of the riders attached to the plan one which defunded obama stars well today the president had a change of heart when it came to section twenty two sixty two the part which
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defines a certain white house advisor positions as in the stars you see the republicans but they claim victory with this policy provision because they've argued for a while now that these unelected bureaucrats have too much power within the white house and of course remember that sars don't have to face senate approval like most other positions which allows the president to appoint them as he pleases now on a side note as he pointed out previously this writer would affect courts ours and three of them have already left there is our position and the fourth would be affected by this provision but now back to the part where obama changed his mind you see the president released a signing statement on friday explaining the rights that he has as commander in chief and he explained how the president has the ability to exercise his constitutional responsibilities and in this signing statement he ended with the executive branch that will construe section twenty two sixty two the provision about sars not to abrogate these presidential prerogatives so in other words he's
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not going to uphold or follow these rulings made by congress and i'm just going to pause right here for a moment that's really weird because that obama was still on the campaign trail he vowed his supporters that he was not going to use that signing statements if he became president. do you promise not to presidential signing your way. this is part of the whole theory of george bush you could make laws as you go all i disagree with. the constitution for ten years i believe in the constitution i want . because of the state without the use of the state of. georgia world. so i guess we can just add that one to the long list of broken promises by obama once he actually got into the oval office now is the rest of the media world is catching on to the move by the president i just like to point out the level of hypocrisy obama made this promise about not using signing statements to another
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repeatable source aside from the clip that we just showed you he spoke to the boston globe that really makes me wonder why you'd be willing to use this approach knowing that there is blatant evidence of him going back on his word from what he said just a few years ago obama chose to make some of these issues the important elements of his campaign and repeat them over and over so we can't help but wonder what else he'll change his mind on what else will do to confuse those who supported him before he reached the highest level of u.s. government and then other things we should point out while there was another rider in the spending bills and prevent any guantanamo detainees are being tried or transported to the us obama has said that who work with congress to repeal those provisions and if that actually can happen and why did he choose to defend his beloved stars with a signing statement while actually like his hands were tied over the much much much much more important goal of trying detainees in civilian courts frankly at this point obama hasn't given a public supporters or not a reason to believe him so i'm just going to leave it with the following statement
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i'll see it's all believe it excuse me when i see it. now what is going on in the political world especially the g.o.p. world by now a number of expected candidates have officially filed their papers that mitt romney's tim pawlenty he's in rick santorum is of the world but no one sees the clear front runner yet no one looks exciting except for maybe i'll chop. everybody that even gives any hint of being a curse or a word you didn't use even a little bit like sheen you know may be just may be this much of it is a label that is immediate we tell you a really smart. one of the we're going right brain power we don't use our brain power we did one thing brain power ok and what would be your one big idea to get opec to start charging such high genius which was and it's the messenger i don't want gadhafi i read to them
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a piece of land he paid me one hundred fifty spirit where bruce i don't hear of for two years i don't get a lot of news that way and that's what we should be doing mitt romney is a basically small business guy if you really think that he walked away with some money from a very good company that he didn't create the work here he didn't create create but but. so although he's embraced burger ism and now the theory that bill ayres was the ghostwriter of obama's first book publisher knows that people like him so how do we put those pieces together is it a frustrated anti-establishment rage that's fueling the polls is it a media machine that allows entertainers to win out in the political field or if all of that is true is it the end of the g.o.p. the long standing rules of conduct or revolution within the cradle party joining me to discuss it is david pacman host of the david akron show david thanks so much for joining us tonight for starters before we get into the real analysis here obviously
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everyone is still shaking their heads and wondering if donald is serious about running whether this all is just a publicist johnson n.b.c. executive in fact said that today said now this is just donald being donald but if you had to make an educated guess but he thinks he can run. i think it whether he runs or not he's not running to win i think he knows he's not going to win i know that the polls say that he's running tied for first or second or something like that i don't think he really has a chance of winning i think it's brilliant in terms of publicity he's carrying on the birth there's he's preying on the tea party even though why why are we hearing about his proposed one time fourteen percent tax that he proposed years ago that doesn't sound to tea party like to me it's a brilliant publicity stunt oh let's not forget to a couple years ago that he said that he supports universal health care when there's a lot he could go back to you know from his two thousand days but the fact is that he is popular in the polls right now despite the further is and despite all of that so do you think that that is just a part of some kind of you know
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a rage and anger within the populace that they're just unhappy with the democrats with the republicans and anyone establishment that they'll go after some very unconventional maybe kind of crazy candidates. i don't think that's it i think two things on that number one let's say he was the republican nominee just an urgent what would happen if donald trump was debating barack obama in the final debate and he started talking about the birth certificate and these a lot of the issues trump is talking about now are not going to hold any water if he somehow did actually win the primary and the other thing is it's not about antis anti-establishment wipe trauma's popular he's popular now because he appears to be the real candidate he's taking charge he's saying oh bush we've been doing in iraq will go in there we'll take their oil that's what we should be doing what's going on with the birth certificate let me send people will investigate the birth certificate he is actually seeming like the establishment i think that's why he's popular early so i think that he probably is being
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a little more forthcoming in the sense that you're right he does just come out and say it but this is not a man that the establishment would lot to be able to go through they wouldn't want him to be a candidate they would want to fracture the republican party and so i think that here we have to also discuss the role of the media i think it's really interesting that we can see people like donald trump we can see people like sarah palin that even though those establishment figures don't want them to go through sorry there's nothing you can do now because you know if they get on t.v. they're on top of one yes so the question is whose responsibility really is it i mean would donald trump not actually be polling tied for first or second if it weren't for corporate media street media talking about him without citing any of the reasons why we should be completely horrified that he's running i mean let's talk about corporate interests is there anything more corporate than donald trump and by the way bankruptcy in part of that corporate history as well. so i'm just
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wondering do you think that perhaps we are seeing that you know you can say dollar profits off of publicity but the point is it's working do you think we're seeing a huge change within the g.o.p. maybe revolution is still going too far maybe revolution isn't going far enough but we're all the old rules are being thrown out it's no longer pay your dues wait your turn everyone goes at it now you have to do and many people argue that brock obama went very quickly he didn't wait his turn so to speak but the thing is i think the change we're seeing in the republican party is not represented by donald trump i think now he can say whatever he wants because he's not going to get in the same way that kind of screw signature often says whatever he wants or ron paul does but the reality is that the republican party through over three hundred fifty and she abortion bills proposed so far and when you're looking at the state and federal level targeting contraception i mean the pill the pill alone so i think we are seeing a change in the republican party but it's not donald trump is representative of it so perhaps you're saying going a little more to the right
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a little more to the extreme then is that the change that we're seeing it's these quote moral issues the moral majority the religious right so to speak that those are really the influences above and beyond the corporate interests we're already very familiar with that are really coming out in force as we get closer to two thousand and twelve i'm done with you there i think those are some of the perhaps the scarier interest that we really see it play because you know i don't know where does that stuff come from but you're right they're going after planned parenthood they're going after abortion going after the pill and i really think that they're bringing our country back in time david i want to thank you for joining us tonight and we'll have to wait and see maybe one of these days you will have to make a bet as to whether donald is really going to run or not but i guess he's going to announce it at the finale of the show so a lot of you waiting here thanks and i thanks. now before we go tonight we have our tweet of the day glenn beck who's leading box news of the end of the year also says
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