these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. for a show the day. well i'm tom foreman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. deadly tornadoes tore through the midwest killing over one hundred people so is this yet another warning about global warming plus the nation's manufacturing jobs are on a steady down slope and the few jobs that are reappearing are at a much lower wage minimum wage to be exact and much of this has been driven by and seen changes in our trade policies that obviously are shipping our jobs overseas so that did this happen in a nation how did this happen in

a nation built by the working class and the lending be done to bring back our manufacturing jobs. there was more free whether in the midwest over the weekend yesterday a massive tornado gash across southwest missouri leveling the city of joplin to a pile of rubble here's some pictures of the devastation. there. where we have to but if you want to. get to our city.

currently the death toll stands at one hundred sixteen people but authorities are worried that's likely to rise as the search for the missing continues and just the last month we've seen historic flooding events on historic tornado outbreaks ruin the lives of countless americans across the midwest sadly this could just be the beginning of permanent chaotic weather as the result of global warming. instead of the science of this thing it's pretty straightforward if we look at the long at the short term science just from from one hundred fifty five or one hundred sixty hereabouts until today this is this is global atmospheric carbon dioxide and we've historically actually we were around to seventy to eighty to ninety parts per million but actually fifty five yes revolution was going along pretty well we were up to three hundred ten parts per billion and. we're pushing almost four hundred parts per million will probably hit the next couple of years the red line at three fifty which we passed around one thousand nine hundred five the red line at three

fifty is here because three hundred fifty parts per million is the level of carbon dioxide the atmosphere below which. james hansen the famous scientist at nasa pointed out in our peer reviewed article in the journal science the official journal of the american association for the advancement of science probably the top science journal world james hansen pointed out that human life is adapted to carbon dioxide levels below three fifty and at carbon dioxide dioxide levels above three fifty we in probability will be in a climate to which we were not adapted radical changes are going to have to take place in the way that we live this is the short term picture here's a long term graph of carbon dioxide which shows two thousand years rather than just the last fifty years and from a thousand years ago until today we see carbon we're looking at three different gases here carbon dioxide methane and nitrous oxide of all three greenhouse gases

all three the product the byproduct of industry although methane is more the product of industrial farming factory farming but nonetheless they're all the products of industry and what you see is that all three of these in particular carbon dioxide have exploded since the industrial revolution of the eight hundred and then in the one nine hundred hundreds here in one thousand nine hundred nine hundred fifty two thousand and as we go into two thousand and one two thousand and two two thousand and three we see these numbers just going right off the chart heading up toward the four hundred parts per million number this is this you know is a pretty clear indication hey something is wrong here this a long term problem you know we have to ask yourself the question nine point two eight billion metric tons. almost ten billion metric tonnes of carbon dioxide are being produced are being put into our atmosphere every year that

had been safely stored underground for millions of years for three hundred million years since the carboniferous period as coal as natural gas and as oil and now they're being taken out nine ten to ten billion metric tons every year dumped into the atmosphere surprise surprise there it is so does c o two have enough c o two have an effect you know of course it produces extreme weather it produces rising sea levels it produces humanitarian economic chaos as we're seen as we've seen with you know a whole variety of things they say you know the republican talking point one of the main ones is america's an exceptional nation we are in many ways actually in my mind the way that we're most exceptional is that we were one of the very first nations of his for the world to say that people can govern themselves or from our governments really quite remarkable but somehow american exceptionalism in that context has been shifted into the works optional that we don't how we're immune to the laws of nature. we're the only nation whose politicians deny global warming

literally we are we every every single freshman republican in the house of representatives denies that global warming exists without exception. now this might be because all oil oligarchy like the koch brothers who own the largest privately owned oil company in the united states and other oil all of arcs are giant oil companies are funding phony science they're rewriting the internet they literally have you can find ads you can get a job in the logs talking about how there's no such thing as climate change yet editing with a pedia whatever there's this is being done you can see the evidence all over the place by and politicians are say the wholly owned republican party and increasing really a chunk of the democratic party and with the t.v. networks you know hey you got extreme weather events you got floods you get tornadoes we got hurricanes let's make sure nobody mentions the role of fossil

fuels in this so let's throw a few million bucks at the t.v. networks here's a couple spots you're fragments of spots that are running on two different words right now. we're america's natural gas and here's what we did today and homes all across america we created new electricity to power the alarm clocks and brew the coffee with the bathwater and gave you a cleaner ride to school tomorrow you can do even more work cleaner and a mystic ready were america's natural guess the smarter are today now germany holland japan japan just announced they had a fifty percent goal of nuclear power they abandon that they said ok if you present renewables by two thousand and twenty nine years from now fifty percent. holland denmark china they're all preparing for global warming for the changes that are

coming with global warming and in today's new york times the front page story of the day's new york times was about how chicago is preparing for global warming and this is really pretty amazing the climate change planet chicago they've banned plant he white oak trees which by the way or the state tree because white oak trees won't be able to survive in an in a climate that's more like baton rouge and chicago and the prediction is within twenty to thirty fifty fifty years of the most will have the climate of baton rouge so they've done that they're starting to plant trees instead in addition to that they're repaving the roads with water permeable material why they have us here in ice five percent more moisture in it than it than it had just fifty years ago they have your rains they are stripping pavement from soon to be hot spots because pavement absorbs heat we replace it instead with grass and vegetation new plants or vegetation to replace all this pavement just cool things down that chicago is building new sewage systems for increased flooding what

a surprise increased bloody as a result of this thing and they're installing for the first time ever they're installing air conditioning in school believes charter schools never had air conditioning before i mean you know the air commission's been around for what fifty years chicago didn't have them so bottom line the other consequences they're preparing for twelve hundred eight deaths a year billions of dollars in damage even termites we need to be not just chicago but every place every city in america we need to be planning for global warming and we need to be doing something about that chart you saw of all that carbon dioxide it's going to the atmosphere and we need to be talking back to the oil oligarchy and their shills who are saying oh nothing to worry about we need to do it now. it's time for our daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's today's question this weekend's deadly tornadoes storms in missouri just more proof of

global warming and choices are yes we're seeing historic flooding as well or knowingly drudge you had the headline sorry l. tornadoes whipped up by wind not climate change so far over eighty percent of you voted yes but again it's on arbonne account let us know what you think the poll be open until tomorrow morning. just. up it's time for the good the bad of the very a drawer of paper clay oddly a good job on it asia's learning lessons about nuclear power the hard way and though it hasn't handled the situation of the fukushima power plant very well they are looking ahead and doing the right thing when it comes to future energy sources japanese government is now considering a new energy policy that will require fitting all new buildings with solar panels plan to be unveiled the next g. eight summit other nations are doing their part to combat global warming and

develop non-carbon a non-nuclear based energy sources time for the u.s. to step up to and hopefully before we learn the tough lessons in japan despite the bad herman cain over the weekend the republican presidential candidate held a rally in which he advised everyone to reread the constitution. to get the part about my dividend up state of happiness don't stop right there keep waiting to go back when if there's one in a form of government becomes destructive. it is the right of the people. is it. i think that. except for the fact that the constitution says no such thing as the declaration of independence kane is talking about which was written more than a decade earlier and is not a document with any current force of law. but isn't a requirement for being in the tea party candidate having a complete lack of knowledge about the constitution. and the very very ugly mike

huckabee over the weekend on fox so called news huckabee ripped into president obama in last week's middle east policy speech. what were your thoughts about the president asking for the borders to return when they were forty four years it was like a god. punch i could not believe that the president of states betrayed is wrong to be strong and tell you he betrayed them this is not i guess huckaby's trying to i guess try to fix it and i just try to find a reasonable and workable solution to stop the bloodshed in the middle east and most of betrayal that's even though nearly every nation in the world supports returning to the sixty seven borders as a starting point for negotiations even sixty percent of israelis support it looks like the whole no compromise shtick by republicans extends to foreign policy too and that's very very. coming up manufacturing read bones or is it a myth after the break i'll explain why even though new factory jobs are surfacing

there's still an overall decline in american industry. for. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you sure see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't i'm time heart disease which.

screwed workers in manufacturing where are the manufacturing jobs since the beginning of two thousand and ten year and a half ago our nation has created twenty five thousand new factory jobs good news right well not exactly that's only about thirteen percent of the total manufacturing jobs lost during the bush great recession of two thousand and eight we still have a long way to go back in two thousand and two thousand and nine fifteen of the nation's biggest manufacturing sectors of scenic lines and input textiles have seen a forty three percent decline in metal production a twenty seven percent decline cars an eighteen percent decline and machinery a fourteen percent decline just to name a few but point is eighty percent of the u.s. manufacturing economy is performing worse today than it was a decade ago but it's not just our economy's screwed so are our workers it's true

the two hundred fifty thousand manufacturing jobs have been created since two thousand and ten but they're all pain notch lower than where they were before the recession for example who were appliances is reopening a factory in ohio that was initially shipped off to china two thousand and seven before two thousand and seven american were american workers at that plant made twenty bucks an hour but today with the factory be opening for those workers can expect a measly seven dollars and fifty cents an hour most of them if they have families will not qualify for food stamps. so given this how can we possibly expect to have a true job recovery without manufacturing and good paid well paid manufacturing joining me now is robert ball executive director of the industrial union council of the a.f.l.-cio robert welcome back nice to be here great to have you with us many are saying that american manufacturing is rebounding is that you're not really i mean i we've seen the headlines the renaissance of manufacturing and it's not

really a renaissance we've seen of a bump here in the last six months some created two hundred fifty thousand manufacturing jobs that's the first increase since one thousand nine hundred that's how long that has been we've lost six million jobs we've got two hundred fifty thousand back that's about five percent of the jobs have been lost and so when you're in this working year it's this is a depression in manufacturing we've been in for quite a while so the fact that we've gotten some back we're glad we have obviously but to say this is a renaissance that everything's hunky dory and it's going to be great it's really misleading the public and doesn't really address sort of the crisis in the depth of the crisis we've been in the things we need to do about it going forward in seventeen ninety one. president washington who had to send henry knox's friend all the way to connecticut to the lawn taylor in america who made american made clothes in order to get a suit to be inaugurated in because the british had made it illegal for us to manufacture here right in seventy nine he won he asked alexander hamilton to come

up with a plan to build manufacture in america hamilton presented that to congress and fall of seventy eight seventy nine he won it was by and large accepted in seventy three in a variety of from you know executive orders to congressional policies and it was an eleven point plan you can find on the web if you read it and one of the and the cornerstone of it was tariffs imports taxes on imported goods. were so much a part that the entire federal government was paid for the entire of the bill for every senator representative president all. the entire federal budget from the founding of public george washington until the civil war one hundred percent was tariffs that was the income from the civil war into world war one two thirds of it was tariffs for more one the world war two huge expansion of government a third of it was paid for with tariffs the average tariff in the united states for most of the twentieth century was between twenty five and thirty four percent now the average tariff in the united states is two point one percent is the time for us to say hate you know if it costs a buck or the labor to make

a pair of shoes in it in connecticut and you can make it in china for forty cents we're going to put an eighty cent or sixty cent tax on it you can make it in mexico for fifty cents but if you set tax i think that's part of the puzzle of how you equalize the cost differential may be out there but the real deal is think of it this way we used to have a strategy as a nation it was about having magic going right was a major presidency ninety one until reagan right right and all of a sudden we said well we don't need that anymore and look what's happened i mean that's what i'm talking about what's really happened in the last fifteen years in particular has been a disaster for workers for communities for the country and that's the danger in this and we live in a world in which every other country basically actually has a strategy and it isn't just china it's germany it's the netherlands it's around the world people think about the stuff and wanting manufacturing what do we need to do as a country to have it and this is something we walked away from saying it's a lot of kids are saying you know i think there's a couple of things obviously a lot of charity yeah you know i think it tariffs are part of the puzzle but i

think actually first got inside you want it that you want the jobs you want the prosperity that comes with other countries do we don't we argue that the consumers are better off not having jobs and prosperity because they can buy cheap you can buy your every so you need to have a first the idea that we should do something about it and want a strategy and we have goals and objectives to have manufacturing is the centerpiece of this economy the second thing you do is that you are sure manufacturing in the one nine hundred fifty sixty seventy s. and eighty's was thirty to thirty five percent of total g.d.p. right now it's eleven percent that's right. and i don't know of any industrialized countries that have drop below twenty percent and i've had basically their economies for more you know and if you look at these other advanced economies in the world with germany in the japans of what's happened in them the last ten or fifteen years they've held steady and they've actually grown i mean that's what people don't get is that the once they have policies meeting well they have media they have trade and they have technology policies and they want to target these things we want to grow these things and we'll do what needs to be done what do we

do we argue whether we should go buy america a lot of back up and support the development of manufacturing with the public dollars we're going to spend they're not having these quibbles and debates they're actually going forward and saying we want manufacturing here's how we do our trade and tax policies through this here's how we line up our education and training policies to support employment based strategies china for example at the same time we put eight hundred billion dollars industry it was sort of china will eight hundred billion dollars but there is required that one hundred percent of that money be spent on chinese made products the democrats propose that in the house of representatives the republicans stripped the american made out of it you know this in the stimulus we actually did succeed in getting the buy america language applied we did but now universally. on the other thing we didn't do is i would have invested a lot more in infrastructure and real things we did tax rebates we did a whole bunch of other stuff there wasn't as productive investment that would create jobs directly which we've argued all the way through put the money into things that employ people and now that that money is pretty much rapidly vanishing

there's no more buy america anywhere know what we have in some of our d o d laws our department of defense laws and our transportation appropriations money the things to go for that do have some buy america coverage paid needs to be strengthened if there's things you can do to make it better but our our even our coverage under these laws is less than the countries that complain about us having them they have even broader to mesnick preference clauses that they're allowed to under international law or we're not proposing stuff that isn't covered by international trade laws. or they do things like that taxes as a way of reverse tariffs and sharing with us you know thanks so much for being with us and always great to see again you got. so so that we know that there is no man great manufacturing bone underway in america isn't it time to change policies in washington that have allowed corporations to ship factories by the thousands and jobs by the millions overseas after all this is the first time our nation has succumbed to a major recession without having

a strong manufacturing base to give us back our feet again so the time to dump so-called free trade and start taxing corporations that ship jobs overseas brian riley is and thinks so he's a senior policy analyst and trade policy at the conservative heritage foundation brian joins me now to offer his take on a tom thanks for having me tonight thank you for joining us i'm guessing the that conversation was the answer i set up for it and i think there's certainly room for intelligent people to disagree i was the other day reading through the list of top ten cars that consumer reports just identified for two thousand and eleven and most of those cars were made in the united states now it was a forward. it was a. they were made by american workers in american factories of low percentage of the stuff in those cars as states you know for several these companies shutting down their summer eyes right now because they can't get parts from japan oh that's a problem having the internet international supply lines working smoothly. by

having our most expensive and you know we don't have much of a tool and die industry in this country where we don't do precision tools as like we used to so you know japan is supplying that stuff to our auto industry and i don't know that i'm sure if any of that was the one dad were. sure but i don't think japan is the example of the economy we want to emulate you know back in the eighty's they were going great but since then they've been awfully stagnant i think they've actually been you see they've been stagnant but the average japanese workers had a spare fairly stable paycheck they all have health insurance they have a good social safety net they have good retirements. other than their nuclear power plant. melting down you know until that happened but they weren't a crisis well they certainly weren't really works at last like we were in the united states until we had the recession a couple of years ago our output was growing. it's a problem if jobs are decreasing because we can't compete but it's because we're becoming more competitive as we were in the farm sector and throughout the one thousand nine hundred that's not necessarily a bad thing and i think if you look at the u.s. and history's overall approach we've got winners we've got losers textile

industries lost a lot of jobs but if you're a single mom who wants some of that cheap crap or some shoes for your kids that that's a big benefit i would much rather you know i'm old enough to remember and i suspect you are too when sam walton rolled out wal-mart and when he was still alive and the banner across the top of the wal-mart remember that was on the open in atlanta georgia the very first one back in the early one nine hundred eighty s. bahn or so one hundred percent made in the usa and the prices in that wal-mart were not that different than they are today ok they might have been ten percent higher i would gladly pay ten percent more for that crap mart and know that twenty or thirty people living around me have twenty dollars an hour manufacturing jobs then then have stuff is ten percent cheaper a wal-mart and have all those people have jobs where it's do you want fries with that and my question is who makes that decision to you make a decision i'm not sure is what i want to do you know i'm being. mom and i have there are elected officials i'd rather make that decision myself oh come on are you

serious you don't believe in democracy i believe that the money in my wallet is mine to spend and if somebody thinks that i should be able to buy the cheap shoes at wal-mart you don't think that our nation should that we should elect representatives to to put together the rules of the game of trade in a way that benefits our nation first they should create rules that allow u.s. companies to compete they should encourage opportunities for u.s. exports to grow overseas that's one of the reasons i think trade agreements are so important. when we allow foreign but you're in a better way to my question you could give me another shot of your question i'll take your trying to a better job this time i don't think either one of us want to go to a baseball game where one team could buy off the umpires and change the number of hits a big and strikes that they got can right you with you there so we want rules we want empires and we want to work for the benefit of the players and the fans ok in

the united states it's labor and consumers the players and the fans why shouldn't congress be passing laws that work to benefit americans rather than transnational corporations g.e. made more of its money outside the united states leisure than inside the united states hewlett packard is making computers in asia that they used to make here apple was making stuff in china that they used to make here all these companies there's no textiles left in the united states navy fresh levis shut down the last factor in this country six years ago all because congress changed our trade laws they represent us shouldn't they be passing laws that are protectionist to protect our jobs i think we need more trade not less trade you look at the textile industry about half the tariffs we collect today are to protect that one small industry and i don't think that's right i think when somebody decides hey i want some clothes for i thought what if the seven percent of all international trade the united states this non oil is companies trading within themselves it's h.p. america buy from h.p. china it's apple america buying from apple china that's not trade that's arbitrage

of labor sometimes and we couldn't that be a legal we were absolutely not we need to do whatever we can to help us companies compete we're the world's biggest magnet for that with foreign direct investments. compete worldwide to create jobs here we are the world's largest magnet for foreign direct investment you know why it creates jobs here in the united states and that's because of our trade deficit all these other countries always are the companies that in these other countries are accumulating always u.s. dollars the only place they can spend them is by coming to america and buying our companies do we really want our workers at chrysler our workers at the toyota factories to be manufacturing things where one hundred percent of the profit is going to either germany or japan and yet it should not go to american kinds of open trade policies that i believe and i don't want conservative heritage foundation is actually how i was introduced i think these are really progressive policies if you go back to woodrow wilson to franklin roosevelt the idea that we should make pluralism terrace high tax thirty five percent are real so they want us to forty six percent under under under roosevelt and

a book both works to lower those those tariffs and to move towards. woodrow wilson's fourteen points included let's have free trade let's not have regressive taxes that her poor americans so that's that's the situation that as i see it the last thing we need to do is create new barriers to commerce we need more trade and more freedom and the rule of law you were the letter officials to protect those freedoms thank you for being here thanks tom cruise ship. the sad reality is fifty or sixty years ago manufacturing used to make up more than a quarter of our entire economy on us thirty percent of the wealth in america was created by workers building things and factories across the country but today thanks to so-called free trade and over reliance on financial markets which now account for about thirty thirty five percent of financial activity it's manufactures a fraction of what it used to be making up just levon percent of our economy and as long as we're not building anything in any in america anymore don't expect our economy to ever be as strong as it once was. after the break politicians gone wild

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