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are you ready to rumble since it's friday it's time for the big picture on the what our panel of experts political commentators offer their takes on the week's people's story aerogel tonight i was sort of a conservative strategist and managing owner of for forty public relations joe madison host of the joe black eagle madison show on sirius x.m. satellite radio which airs weekdays six to ten am eastern time on channel one twenty eight and brian darling columnist of human events and tribute to red state dot com and big government dot com and director of government studies at the heritage foundation welcome to all of you and it was good let's get started here i have to. go ok after ten years we can now see just how damaging the bush tax cuts are to the economy bush's tax cuts created three million jobs would crash our economy while bill clinton stags ites created twenty three

million jobs and balanced our budget but i guess republican presidential hopeful tim with plenty didn't get the memo his new taxes. puts the bush tax cuts on steroids costing our government nearly eight trillion dollars over ten years just to give people who make more than a million bucks a year a forty one percent tax cut and people who make more than ten million dollars a year forty six percent tax cut so what exactly is tim plenty trying to do because of the great depression or turn america into a banana republic like mexico. well that's i would say that plenty is definitely trying to rile up his base you know a lot of tea partiers want cuts and they like tax cuts they won't catch the government programs and you know what their recent pew poll showed that only nineteen percent of people believe that the tax cuts contributed to our debt and don't like tax cuts tom you know and you can offset those by getting rid of some programs that we don't need you know and billionaires and millionaires especially

you might. see. some of it well you know of course everybody likes tax cuts is no question about it but people also things that taxes pay for. but you said it he's sheering up is his base this is what his base wants to hear and he's out front. and he's in front of everybody and i think that's what we're running during for vice president or for us i think he's running for president i think you will be correct you on one thing maybe you remember that bill clinton he raised taxes then he cut taxes you worked with a republican congress to cut taxes actually it was thirty nine percent. and we had a bill as well so it's just the bush tax cuts so the president doesn't do that but only was he almost that was the deal in order to get it right he was part of the deal going in the room and the reason why is because he understands and i think

most americans that own small businesses understand that if you raise taxes on those making over two hundred fifty thousand dollars a year it will destroy the economy it will do. story the engine of our economy which is small businesses you know like in the fifty's and sixty's but i think let's be honest though and i think a little disingenuous when he said he was in the room remember when he came out of that room he said i don't like this but i've got the president obama but i've got to do it because he have a base he needed to protect and that was these individuals who would have been kicked under the bus and would have been without anything and of course we know that money has gone into the economy because people don't take that kind of money and put it in swiss bank accounts or offshore accounts they do what they spend it and it makes more sense than talking about raising taxes for the wealthy is doing what's called means testing you know the wealthy don't need medicare and everything and they don't need all those security you know i'm just saying that they can pay

into it but they don't need to get into means testing things you turn them into welfare programs they're only for your money like they are no no no and then and then and then when it's easy to cut a lot of people you're talking about a lot of vendors who make under two hundred thousand dollars poorer that we're saying i'm talking about here if you're saying thousand dollars if you mean salaries are rather something that we're all it's no longer a game that we're all part of but i'm talking about if you're setting aside the rich set aside the rich and say you know you don't need to you know need to receive medicare you don't need to receive social security and that everybody else which is a huge portion of the american population still you don't need to get this so we don't need to pay into it now i don't think that everybody everybody is you know really happy we're out of that. unfortunately we have to get through the show without talking about winners get a new poll shows a majority of voters in anthony weiner's congressional district fifty six percent actually want him to stay in office and r. and c. chairman's reince priebus is demanding his resignation. palosi needs to do our job

and be a leader of her caucus and tell anthony weiner to really hit the bricks and go home i don't think here's the problem i don't think we need to spend taxpayer dollars investigating whether or not anthony weiner's a creep or not nancy pelosi debbie wasserman schultz who is obama's hand-picked leader of the democratic party to sit down with him and tell him that he needs to leave considering the voters and wieners district has spoken in this most recent poll should republicans shut their mouths about calling for winners resignation especially since republican david vitter and admitted patron of prostitutes who even ordered the mock twice on the floor of the senate is still sitting as that senator i love i love having him as a member of congress i don't want him to resign i want to hang in there keep fighting the fight in as new information comes out about more of his indiscretions i think it can only help republicans up a guy's hang in there the only damage he's doing is to his own party hang in there and also let's let's be real about this too it's not just republicans are asking

for his resignation it's fellow party members fellow democrats who are saying that your piece not. in the agreement both. my conservative friends up here that and i and i the reason i do this is his constituents it's first of all it's a safe district this is what really it is a safe this at least and so all but you're in your and so the point is you know you couldn't replace this guy i mean this was the most childish behavior of a grown man and children have no place in the united states congress and i don't hear your republican or democrat i think you're absolutely right as long as you stay there he's going to be a poster boy for you that very reason well i don't know i look is two different situations and might have committed a crime but it until you. an investigation that says he did you just might handle

if you could made it a crime then you know you know you can do it you have to do but i guess maybe it's my midwestern upbringing right and i just i just i'm not east coast new york this is i don't think this play you know i grew up with it a few hundred miles of each other and me in michigan. now it better just. i think what brian said it's a valid point i mean we only have seen a little bit of what has happened and what we know it's done and and when more of this comes out we're going to see that there's a lot getting details new york is even new i want to say that is i. will leave it at that. for the bill the louisiana state house passed a bill this week to authorize construction of a six foot statue commemorating the ten commandments to be built on the grounds of the state capital governor bobby jindal has already said he plans to sign the bill which is essentially a wrecking ball the separation of church and state even though constructional be privately funded the state will have to use taxpayer money to defend the project

and courts as numerous groups have come forward promising to mount legal challenges to the law so can we once and for all put an end to the myth that this country was founded on judeo christian values and stop religion from creeping into our government you know if you practice i may just add to that the big debate back before when this country between jefferson and madison jefferson was still and you can read this in their letters back and forth jefferson was terrified that religious people would end up in politics and corrupt politics madison who was a very religious guy was concerned that politicians would start giving money to churches in fact that was his first veto was to church in washington d.c. and would corrupt religion now we've got both would you deny that many of our laws are based on judeo christian values are based on yes i would say no more lies in the ten commandments and you disagree with the ten commandments i don't but i would i would i would say. i would say that i would agree with thomas jefferson this is

natural law he said we we created this country we did not need to look into the musty parchment of ancient religions we looked in our hearts and we found natural born grave and i live here and i do have a constitution and i think anyone who has the comparative religion knows that it's not just it's just not christian but. it's not judeo any comparative religion student at yale harvard any of the universities in the logical seminars will tell you so so you can't say they don't just say gee dayo christian you've got to incorporate many of the religions of the world have some of the same basic principles and you're absolutely right people forget what year it was was a lie or nothing and that's why the founders took the position that they took because it really churches controlled what countries point to me one of the ten commandments said a muslim would disagree with i mean who disagrees with that shalt not kill who disagrees with you. it's not oh it's not what i'm not some would disagree parties

what are in government we disagree with we have not and try and into law in the united states that thou shall have no gods beyond me and if you do by the way you should be put to death but there's no need that's part of the ten command there is nothing forbidding at louisiana legislature from having something to it's won on the grounds privately funded having a monument to you is not there's nothing that says that that can't be done and there's anything to that saying well but that's one of the gates are open so then the buddhists will want something muslims will want something and if you think you're going to put a muslim shrine of any type in the state of louisiana you can forget that that's not going to have a plan that will establish states' rights i mean you know. privately funded but states' rights was argued over. time and gold at the same historic debate yeah you know we do every day here to write that we have a very limited scale to you know we have had black codes i mean he. i mean we've

we've argued constitutionally speaking the issue of states' rights i mean we have a central government a federal government a constitution we have founders of this country who just as tom said were very afraid of. the opera sees taking over our government but there's nothing in the constitution that declares a separation of church and state it's not in there i challenge you to show me in the constitution where it says the separation of church and even jefferson you said jefferson was clear on this even jefferson wrote about this association saying you know that he was for protecting them you know keeping the law from hurting them so even jefferson was not if so outspoken about just protecting the state from religious deny it was i just this is the baby's delaware. ok speaking speaking of which you know ben franklin looked as it uses because he was sick and tired of women being hung as witches and moved to philadelphia letter which france resume house homeland security chairman peter king announced the day

he's holding his second hearing on the threat of muslims writ america next week in addition republican presidential hopeful herman cain the guy who most republicans think won the first debate a few weeks ago claimed on the glenn beck show that he would force muslims to take a loyalty oath before even considering hiring them for his cabinet take a look i didn't say i would appoint one because if they can prove to me but be a put in the constitution of the united states first. they would be a candidate just like everybody else my entire career good people great people regardless of their religious order so weighted are you saying that it is that muslims have to prove there there's to be some loyalty proof yes to the constitution of the united states of america but would you do that to a catholic or would you do the notion of mormon no i wouldn't i wouldn't because there is a greater dangerous part of the muslim faith then there. is he added these religions so do republicans really think that muslims are dangerous second class

citizens or are they just creating bogeyman in time for the two are going to you this is a man who has not read the koran i guarantee. he has not really look around and therefore he doesn't know what he's talking about excuse me the k.k.k. in this country which by the way we just did a show on is trying to gain trying to change their image was founded on what christian principles and the greatest terrorist organization domestically that ever existed in this country and still does but thank you i don't think anybody can disagree that muslim extremism is a threat to the united states to mr king in a steroid was going to be had muslim extremists that have committed a lot of crimes over the last ten years most notoriously and nine eleven and in many other actions that have happened he says nothing wrong with congress studying the issue and having

a hearing to talk about muslim extremists eighty six actual terrorist incidents in the united states in the last ten years more than half of them were done by christians. i think it's also interesting i think as a as an article on which this discussion is based also says that you know cain his camp is suddenly backing this whole thing you know and i think it's big mistake was saying that catholics and other people don't have to cling oil to their contributions because they're great making glenn beck or reasonable. i do you think about this in midstream ism is not a problem in this country right of extremism is a problem in the united states of america and i think we're seeing a little problem and i think we're really is a special problem deserves an exceptional amount of time on the part of congress to study but look what happened on nine eleven look at what's going on in our global war on terror i mean this is a global problem that we need to look at and we need to study and understand it's a new. national security yes it is a national security issue and there's no way of me and i was in that and i speak to

all extremism needs to be study and that's probably what congress should have done we're going to look at all these extremists that are out of the timothy mcveigh's of the world but i to work where herman cain made its big mistake he better hope whatever comes out is it longer than three pages and i mean nancy. should should all let isolation be less than three usually it's been less than two thousand. that he would then he wouldn't sign the nine hundred sixty four civil rights bill yeah he would have signed the nine hundred sixty. he would have signed the civil rights act or the voting rights act which gives him the authority and the power in the independence and the equality to do what he's doing right now what are you going to have three page bills signed me up because congress passed two thousand page monstrosity easy never know what's in it you and hank paulson yeah and there's always my dream page things give me seven hundred that wasn't a you know you did it all and how you voted against that had

a lot of pork in the other thing you know ok last question quickfire whether or not anthony weiner will stay in office after the winter need for a lot remains to be seen interesting opinions here tonight however one thing seems pretty clear he probably will be able to run for president in the future without his explicit photos circulating around the twitter sphere so besides emailing photos of your reproductive organs what are some other signs that you probably aren't cut out to be president states could be a you admitted as president he won't have time to read legislation more than three pages long which is far shorter than even a typical dr seuss book or be in a previous thread as governor of texas you threaten to secede from the nation you now want to be president of or see when you're first when your neighbor is entered into google the first result is to explicitly talk about on t.v. . with my hope is that congressman weiner will hang in there make a lot of speeches become the face of the democrat party because he's a funny. and i think it is entertaining for both republicans democrats and

independents and running for more of it. becomes the. families i mean it's like well he knew the two million dollars he's through i mean newt is going to do million bucks and who can the rich. who put the money and all of these this very you know what it is that we. love all around. i think that perry statement about seceding from texas you know i don't see a problem with that i would mind i wouldn't mind moving to texas and partly like. having to be a separate state and i'm just saying the reason he said that is because there are there are some problems but america i think that that resonates with a lot of people i mean he wants america to be change and that's why he might go it's going in there we've gone a little bit you know there are some other guys there is which is california three is three states texas into two states florida two states new york and two states will have will have. to canada. ok i answered lady di leave margaret thatcher

refuses to meet with you because she thinks you're nuts that's all you know. what brother had to serve joe madison brad darling thank you all very much great to have rules after the great deal we take out a well deserved occasion of retirement is already a distant memory for many americans. let's not forget that we in the park party b.c. . i think. he'd done well. whenever the government says there are competing states get ready because of the

freedoms. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so sleek 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. i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. for. a. few.

welcome to the united states of america a nation of eighty year old brick layers was quite a time here you could retire when you were in your sixty's. it's no more. in another sign of just how bad our nation is treating the working class a new study by the employee benefit research institute shows that most americans that they will have to work until their late seventy's before they can think about retiring according to the study if you make roughly thirty one thousand a year which is about the average for about forty percent of americans and more than twice the minimum wage by the way you'll have to work until you're seventy six

years old just to have a chance of retiring and i say chance because even if you do work until seventy six you still only have a fifty fifty shot at having enough money to live off of a retirement a fifty fifty chance if you don't get sick if your house isn't blown away in a tornado and if your pension isn't stolen by bankers on wall street picture is the picture is even grimmer if you earn minimum wage about twelve thousand dollars a year then get ready to work until you're eighty four years old that's right eighty four years old and again that's just to have a fifty fifty shot of retiring so you might as well work until you're ninety considering that the average life expectancy in this nation is about seventy eight years old we're basically telling americans now that they literally will work until they die how did this happen in america the wealthiest nation on the planet in large part it's because the four hundred wealthiest americans our billionaires our american oligarchy control more wealth than the bottom one hundred fifty million

americans combined that's right four hundred people four hundred americans own more money and more stuff than one hundred fifty million other americans if it four hundred people into this t.v. studio and they'd have more wealth than all of the people who live in the states of california new york florida texas illinois pennsylvania ohio michigan and let's throw kansas in there combined. and most of those people who are out wealthy by america's armed guards are those same people who will be working until they die what's the point of having more money in your family the most of the world's nations when right down the street you have an eighty four year old with cataracts the bad back looking hamburgers and bottles just to survive today is that really the type of america that we had a vision after nine hundred thirty two it only took thirty years just thirty years

for democratic and republican presidents democratic and republican presidents to turn america around from a nation where people were living on tents in the streets and literally starving to death into a nation with a strong and large middle class or a family of four could survive on one paycheck and afford to own a home and a car and send their kids to college and have a vacation once a year and then retire at age junge enough to still enjoy life that's what progress looks like improving the quality of life for more and more people that's what we call the american dream and those democratic and republican presidents from f.d.r. to eisenhower to kennedy to nixon did it by taxing the rich at ninety one to seventy four percent and investing in infrastructure and strong social safety net but then it only took thirty years starting in one thousand nine hundred eighty with ronald reagan's election to destroy the american dream so that nowadays you

have to plunge deep into debt just to make ends meet so the today only the lucky few can retire before they die republicans in congress say in fact we need to raise the retirement age for social security as well making it harder for people to retire and some kind of a sign of progress it's not it's more proof that we're still going backwards to go forward we need to lower the social security and medicare retirement age in america . it's a program i call cash for geezers really simple concept you raise the tax rates on the millionaires and billionaires in america back to what they were under republican president richard nixon seventy percent and you shore up social security by lifting the cap so that bill gates will pay the same percentage of his income as you and i do in the social security trust fund then you drop the retirement age to fifty five that way you give mcgee's arrest let them enjoy life in retirement and you also cut unemployment in half and open up the labor pool for the younger generation of americans right now are staring at

a twenty four percent unemployment rate in fact it should tighten up the labor market enough that wages will rise which will increase tax collections which will solve the deficit problem and pay for the retirees everybody wentz except the billionaires who have to pay the same tax rate as they did for most of fifty years in america and they frankly won't even notice i don't know about you but to me this republican idea of forcing americans to work until they die is unacceptable this isn't a death camp this is the united states of america let's rebuild our middle class and take care of our elderly i think cash for geezers is a great place to start. and that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our website it's all market dot com r c dot com also check out our youtube page at youtube dot com slash picture r.t. and youtube dot com slash. and this entire show is available as a free podcast a video podcast on i tunes and don't forget to mark receive begins with you if you

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