on job market in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture wealth inequality now as an international code so just how does billionaire control the world's richest hurting the working people and the federal communications commission prepares to sign off on yet another huge wireless corporate merger would this be the career revolving door needed for one of the f.c.c. commissioners and he's a thirty year old man who acts like a baby while collecting disability benefits let's make our guests had explored.

the credibility of the f.c.c. the federal communications commission was called into question earlier this month when it was discovered that one of the five f.c.c. commissioners were that well baker was leaving her posed to become a lobbyist for comcast just four months after she had approved comcast controversy the acquisition of n.b.c. universal it was just the latest example of revolving door antics that take place all over washington d.c. now the f.c.c. has another controversy a merger on the dr docket this one between eighteen t. and t. mobile it could have profound effects on the wireless market brain in nearly half of all wireless customers about one hundred twenty eight million americans under the umbrella of one corporation and some organizations are worried there could be

a revolving door repeat this case to one of those organizations is free for us and it's planning to launch a new campaign to shut the revolving door on america. here to talk more about this campaign is joseph horace senior advisor for government and accidental affairs at free press dot net joseph welcome thanks for having me great to have you here with us first of all what is free press doing to raise awareness about this issue so tomorrow we are going to file a letter with the f.c.c. asking all four remaining f.c.c. commissioners sign a pledge that they will not seek employment after to be put at sea since they going to be reviewing the eighteenth we don't want to see if it would happen in a contest n.b.c. universal merger to happen with this much as well so this is your asking them not to do the revolving door right we're going to commission is not to. seek employment once they leave the f.c.c. into either. ever well least. i want to actually just leave actually leaving the door and made if you could just leave in. the scene four

months later to talk and there's some provisions in some of the various departments like i thought d.o.d. had to wait a year or if you remember a convoluted way the rules it's like if you see that you don't have to do it for two years you can't obviously see and with obama's plate you can add a lobby executive the second agency you can a two year period is that it isn't all there is this revolving door is i applaud you for going after it it's a major major problem but it's been going on for a long time i mean in one of my books on equal protection i documented this was back in two thousand on back to late ninety's or actually it was before that was that the george herbert walker bush administration monsanto as i recall had been doubt overtures monsanto had had a senior executive leave go to work for the e.p.a. or the u.s.d.a. or whichever agency was regulating their seeds or their cause to size or something

write the rules that legalize the product that they had made you know took a pay cut from hundreds of thousands dollars a year like you know ninety thousand dollars a year to be a bureaucrat and then left the. u.s.d.a. and went back to work for monsanto a huge salary right and nobody even raised an eyebrow other than a few journalists who were like you know well we cannot accept this practice has been going on forever as you alluded to and it's happening as you see former staff members who are now working for the telecom companies you know staff members we just recently worked for democrats going working for comcast and other companies we can never accept you still i mean we just can't we have to responsibility to tell the american public that this is unacceptable american public has. little trust in the government only thirty percent thirty three percent of the american people actually trust or believe in the government and you know because of things like this that we can as a public interest group you could just sit here and allow this to happen so we have to speak up well and going after the revolving door is

a really good important do you have a systemic solution for this one that it would apply beyond the f.c.c. where you simply asking the f.c.c. to voluntarily say we're not going to do that bad sleazy thing that everybody else is doing asking is this even voluntary make this pledge to remain for commission is we're trying to restore some public confidence back in the f.c.c. one hundred thirty thousand people commerce and. house oversight committee chair to actually look into this matter people were outraged by the. decision. out of a newspaper editorial so this is a way to try to restore for you that the as he looks into the eighteenth you mobile merger and that you're actually trying to start a public interest as opposed to perhaps maybe commissioner already thinking about the next job or just apropos of that just briefly we have about a minute the merger is the exact opposite of what happened during the ford carter administration so right when he was busted up in two separate properties i

recall it was actually an increase in shareholder value there was an explosion of innovation bell labs became technologies and all of a sudden started that in all kinds of. it was a good thing that they were broken up i mean there's a general consensus this is the exact opposite of that are you also working on that issue are there other girl yeah we've been complaining about the consolidation of the telecom industry for a long time. eighteenth ease reconstitute itself is eighteenth one is this town when it comes to telecom policy is so powerful be happy to give more money to the card was that if you have a telecom company really consider this merger would result in control of eight nearly eighty percent of the wireless market would be controlled by eating see him a team of really ninety percent of revenues so pieces will become one company or this is in this is shop this is shocking for folks who are and you. can actually sort of. competitors i think it's more credit is given of a major competitor in their amazing joseph thanks for the great work you have to

keep it up and good good and all the great folks of your prospective that we need more groups like free press standing standing up to this increasingly corporate corporate control. not only are millionaires and billionaires in america contributing to massive wealth inequality within our borders are also playing their part in the massive wealth inequality around the planet according to a new study by the boston consulting group around one percent of global population controls thirty nine percent of the world's wealth and the u.s. beats pretty much everyone else here the top one percent own forty six percent of all wealth up from around thirty percent when ronald reagan came into office and began the process of raising taxes on working people and cutting them for the rich at bottom eighty percent of americans by the way have only six percent of this country's wealth

a lot of eighty percent down from about twenty percent or one fifth of the wealth when ronald reagan took office and the rich in america are getting richer they increased their welfare by two percent just last year so what can explain this widening global wealth inequality gap is another consequence of thomas friedman's flat earth so-called free trade here to offer his take is andrew langer president of the institute for liberty and you're welcome thanks very much great to have you here with us why do we have a commies what are we commies yeah well why do why does the government set up a court system to to adjudicate laws will keep in mind that governments exist to protect individual rights that's the nature of government to preserve rights governments are instituted among men driving their their powers in the consent of the government and in any sort of a truly free system you have government essentially creating a regulatory state that's opposed to govern interactions in terms of the exercise of those rights that's why governments exist in terms of economy as well economies spring up to they tend to spring up organically people want to trade with one

another and we believe that free trade is the best way to promote global prosperity so why do work on a visa exist well economies exist that's that's that's an odd question and i let me rephrase that i'm not even sure he was like what you're trying. let's get out of the rhetorical is the is the purpose of and we create the kind of the government has created our economy no yes no good no obvious absolutely have to tell me how do i have a. jobs and a gardener and he thought he might have somewhat of a government economy would still exist i before before there were global governments before there was always trade going on you had to produce and struggling or across seas what i'm talking about ok if we had an agreement where you wash my car no more your lawn that that is an economy of sorts but that's talking about an economy that uses currency sure which is provided by the government the value of which is determined by the government as it goes to the wires the constitution states no i don't know but it can be and that's our system yes yeah it's our system that has a court system and forces that passes those laws in the terms of the rules of the

game of business just like just like you have the rules of the game of baseball and largely to prevent the it to prevent fraud by prevent fraud by a large us right and then another one and theft in exactly and and and then the larger question is why would we do that didn't the founders when when they first set up this whole issue and the huge debate you know jefferson's debate on it was not wanting you know wanting to put a ban on commercial monopolies right into the constitution for example those huge debates and yet anderson had about whether this should be whether should be illegal for a corporation own stock in another corporation for example or for a company to do more than one thing they were clear that the purpose of an economy was to serve society ok and that's why the government was established for it and it seems to me increasingly that the people like yourself are suggesting that the purpose of society is to serve the people who are the biggest players in the economy no i'm not saying that at all what i'm saying is that what you call the biggest players of all actually do a great deal to help society providing jobs providing they don't provide jobs

really do they want to do that i don't know how do you think how do you think how do you think you know the bulk of americans two thirds of owners authorized just if i go into a store and i buy something that store owner is going to have to buy saw i don't have actually so that is. you know maybe something would have started but. absent that currency you would still have people trading with one another in all sorts of ways as i were to say about her insight about mortgages we're talking about the u.s. economy the world but this was all put it put it stems you you were stemming from the supposition that absent the u.s. government all trade and economics would see so you're asserting that because of the existence of supply there will be demand i'm so you know that man is what creates like short demand always creates supply but that doesn't do it but that doesn't start with the with that doesn't mean that or with the dollar right then and well no it doesn't it starts with spending the dollars know it starts with someone demanding it starts with it starts when you say i want to then you think i am somebody it starts with a consumer show have so what is driving the economy is the consumer sure ok now i

agree i rule and you get no argument from me on that and then because people who are making the jobs are the consumers because they're driving the economy yes consumers yes i hire somebody and i'm a business person and i do it for any really good reason but i'd say if it is already yes i'm crazy i agree with you wholeheartedly ok so so we've established that employers don't create jobs demand creates jobs. but it would put implicitly head knows a lot is fired it will free trade none. i and thirty years now it's been fifty years now sir james goldsmith point this out a bit in one thousand nine hundred four and why charlie rose to a good way to get people in brazil there was poverty in brazil and there were poor people in brazil who live lives of quiet desperation lives or an answer to some stones tend. to say that there were no slums size or grows on. millions of people literally millions of people were displaced off the land by as a consequence of this we saw the same thing in mexico you had in fact you almost had a revolution almost as state would drop and if you look at because we would we want

to be now at their their current farmers with with if you look at if you look at economists like fernando de soto they talk about they talk about the fact that you a lot of these great economic struggle struggles between the haves and have nots arise in societies where private property rights for instance are completely ignored by the powers of the business and they do primarily is what you're talking back to david ricardo if you're not out here talking at all as you go back talking about land reform and what the great i know in the land reform i'm talking about free trade wiping out the ability what if you look at part of resolving a little if you look at the economics if you look at global economics over the last two hundred years there's a great video that's out there i commend called the joy of stats you just do a google search for it there is a great video out there that talk charts how global prosperity and life inspect and see have all gone up massively over the last in every nation around the world largely because of the free trade so where you as you have as well as who are living who are living lives where life expectancy is for twenty five years and below i've seen the video and it's conflating causation with causality it's it is

it is well it's not here and novak has seen this administration has a. global prosperity what it has always a standard of living of people around the world and it's destroying ours how is it big it is absolutely not just because we have we have not seen a significant in increase in real wages in the usa since the late seventies since one hundred seventy seven and we in sag they have been declining we have seen we see a fifty seven thousand factories close just in the last ten years and he has details we have seen this is a little. reasonable free trade and you and i have talked about this before in terms of the cost of the economic cost of regulation in america well there's nothing to do with regular absence has to do is cheap labor on this is arbitrage labor thirty hundred fifty one percent of all trades done there's not a boil in the united states with foreign countries is in trip company trade it's a school bias each pinch of the whole laps of the american manufacturing sector is directly related to the rise of the global of the of the american regulatory scheme that's not our regulatory state stands of nearly two that isn't how it will be nice

so you don't anybody who denies that to you can't you get it you think we have more of a regulatory state than germany we we we do not you think regulatory state and germany is your body your ideas are getting your ass in exports and there is it's all in a civil discourse for growing economy and they because it's highly regulated but that's no it's got nothing to do with regulations well we dropped tariffs and we do have protection of american industries what you know i mean i'm a businessman and i can make something in china for i can have thirty seven they are going to try to use the same cause here one pair of regulatory state is nothing they were lie on slave labor and they steal every good idea from the united states but that's why our companies are going there and that will free trade brings us don't know free trade free trade brings us what we get in return for that is the working families in the united states have access to she's just good so yeah ok we're going to wrap it up and i thought you know thanks that dropping by the so-called free trade ideology is what the planet recent decades is turning the third world into slave shops or transnational corporations c.e.o.'s get richer and richer their workers get poorer and poorer we'll revisit this topic and i still eat

it stick around. coming up a california man is literally milking the system he's thirty years old lives like an infant all the while collecting disability benefits. you go through. and get. into that only military mechanisms to do the supreme justice or. i have every right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i

pay taxes. i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. means stanley thornton jr he's thirty years old and has an odd lifestyle which was recently documented on national geographic show taboo able. to step into stanley and centers modest home. and some fantasy world. where a grown man pleads with lego. sucks on a passive. spoon fed. only uses baby tool. and even with

a touch. it's as stanley lives as adult baby lifestyle he's also collecting social security disability benefits arguing that his condition prevents him from holding a normal day job after hearing about this one republican senator wasn't too pleased tom coburn wrote a letter to the social security administration's inspector general asking them to look into the matter a letter read even as the thorn is able to determine what is appropriate attire and actions in public and drive himself to complete errands designing cars to make babies. sure to support a three hundred fifty pound adult and run it in a support group it is possible that he has been improperly collected does a benefit disability benefits for a period of time in response to his benefits possibly being cut off stanley or threaten to kill himself saying i have no problem killing myself take away the last thing keeping me here and see what happens next time you see me on the news it'll be in a body bag so given our deficit problems in america should probably should people like stanley florent be cut off from receiving social security payments just because their disability manifests itself in some bizarre way for more on this i'm

joined by a man to carry reporter the deal you call him and a welcome i am for having me thanks for joining us this guy is i mean you peanuts isn't a disability what is well you have to look at this exact thing that it is something i mean if you read it he has a pot right and he's written about how he sort of got into this and it was a choice i mean i don't really see this as sort of a disability that he couldn't avoid or that he was born with and you know if you kill somebody for this person it but that quickly gives way to ferry i mean it's sort of the picture of everything that's wrong with the welfare system and and entitlement say well it's let's let's assume for a moment that this guy is scamming the system yeah ok i would submit to you that it's not a picture of what's everything that's wrong ok with the welfare system it's a picture of a guy scamming the system i mean you know have you ever worked in an office where people stole office supplies walked off with friends i mean there's inefficiencies

right i mean it's like you know sometimes things just as big as you look at this oh him breathe that kind of dependency coming to him for someone to reply to famine excuse so you're suggesting that this guy is doing this because social security's appeal well i'm just saying look how dependent he's become on social security checks or is available to you right now if you behave like this is that i mean that you're going to start sucking on a pacifier and be i'm nothing that he's on it because this is the community i'm just saying because it's. there and for someone like him who obviously know what he said but will he do they really need the security i mean i think i'll go let's let's assume for a moment he does and we don't neither one of us really know his story and what you might do much more whacked out than we do know he i think he is i mean he wrote about it on his ok so it's also history. but let's assume for a moment that he's not aware when i do see him in the system i would much rather have just like i would much rather have a job and know that you know yesterday but now i'm going to you know ok it's less

than officials but hey we still have a business i'd much rather have a social security system where there's a couple of guys who are scamming it and there's people who work for them in their price though i do not have a social security system ok but you do you will be going to vote will tell you admit though that there needs to be major reform and keep this from happening i don't know how many people there are who are doing with his huge driver of the national debt i mean this is a huge problem stanley thirty social security stanislas pretty outdated this not going to get i mean it's zeroing down it's touching how he has a two point people who you know are surplus well it's going to be around for someone my age sure will know it's not true will know i you have are going to think that money is just security right now is going to be solved for at least twenty or thirty years and by the time you're old enough to need it all they have to do is right now if you only make one hundred six thousand dollars a year or last one hundred percent of your salary goes you know it's taxed at thirty percent or so so you're all about i mean we're going to be six thousand you don't get any i can't vote today was no is about to say i really would have thore

with the bottom line here is that family has obvious someone who needs help and then i don't think that help come from the government in a form of a social security check i'm not exactly sure what that's doing to fix social security when social security came into being nine hundred thirty four of the leading causes of death among older lead people were associated with poverty you had it over sixty percent part of your heart rate as they were sixty five you know i'm i agree with you and and and people are dying from hyper. from neutrik malnutrition and heat and now because of social security the poverty rate for people over sixty five is down below twenty percent used to be really really i haven't seen the dishes it's just a third of all the payments the social security makes of the things like what stanley is getting for people like my friend michael hutchison who was jogging a couple of years ago and said if they fell broke his neck and has been paralyzed that i doubt he lives on social security ok and there's a few friends of his who you know kick in a hundred yards from here and with that he's not gaming the system and that's the

point if a third of the payments that social security is making are literally going to disabled people and widows and orphans because that was what if you know the survivors. and you've got a couple scammers like stanley wouldn't you rather have a system that actually works and prevents poverty in old age and and keeps my cold my friend michael alive in his wheelchair even if the price of that is that occasionally we have to put up with an embarrassment and that this isn't a case for getting rid of this isn't completely a this is a case for making major reforms and being able to weed out people like them well yeah i mean what was already started their computers romney's debate over what those reforms i mean nobody's putting forth a plan obviously because it's such a a polarized subject but i mean this is definitely a case for president obama actually before the proposal he said let's start charging people over a quarter million dollars a year social security tax just like janitors i read that's a great well it's actually asking the rich to pay the same task in their heads or pay for people like family you know asking the rich to pay the same tax that their

janitors are paying so my friend michael can continue to live in his wheelchair and so that your grandparents can do anything ok this isn't this is sort of the fight to get him out of the system i agree with you ok if you say you know if i could read every message you know here i you know i and there are people in social security whose job is to get him out but it just seems to me that. any system has some inefficiencies and i like companies with stolen guns. that doesn't mean that we take the company down. ok let's just. get it at least at the very at the very thing going to be on the thing and if they could drop you for having very poor at the end of the day the question in my mind that we all have to answer is do we want an america to live and if we society or the society frankly for myself if it's less efficient even if it's less i'd rather have. just.

it's the good the bad and the very very opposed to the logically ugly good congressman ed markey on the floor of the house today congressman markey took advantage of all the reason in the world talk and compared the republican budget to the rapture take a look at. the house republicans come up with their dream apocalyptic vision the republican rapture. it to sign put your son who gets lifted up into the economic stratosphere and who gets left behind under this scheme if you are a millionaire or eight billionaire you get raptured into heaven with all well fed congress and maybe a fuller republicans or ratchet things wouldn't be too bad on earth after. the bad

sarah pailin the gubernatorial quitter is making this list two days in a row in an interview with fox so called news the only network available given interview to pale and threw out some of her not so factual facts. look at jack that has been an accumulated in the last two years it's more debt under this president at the end of the president's coming i think you are right except that it's not president obama came into office with a ten point. six trillion dollar debt thanks largely to george w. bush would have about half of that reagan started the process obama's only added three point seven trillion dollars to the debt since mainly to fix the bush recession but all of the real facts get in the way of a perfectly good story right sarah oh yeah how are those factual death panels and health care bill coming. and the very very ugly rand paul last week rand paul was doing a heck of a job standing in the way of the patriot act extension in the senate but it only took a few days for rand to jump on the crazy train last week in

a radio interview paul put his defense of the constitution on hold to tear down the first amendment. but if someone is attending speeches from someone who is promoting the violent overthrow of our government that's really an offense that we should be going after they should be deported or put in prison right throw people in prison for listening to a speech i was couple was against the patriot act because it shredded our constitution apparently he's against it because it didn't go far enough in shredding the constitution and that's very very ugly. coming out conservative strategist heathers servo and deputy editor of the daily caller jeannie weinstein join me for this week's lone liberal rumble.

let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right and. i think the bombings even well. we have the government says they're going to keep you safe. ready because you are freed up. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is ok.

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