well this again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations are today. launch on our way to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture our nation's pathetic excuse for a health care system through a north carolina man to rob a bank just so he could receive medical care in jail what does this say about america the richest nation on earth meanwhile justice was not served class action discrimination lawsuit filed by over eight million women against wal-mart so why did the nation's highest court sided with the retail giant is no case of corporate preferential treatment but the supreme court.

you need to know this the libyan war has cost our nation nearly eight hundred million dollars so far and will likely top top a billion dollars by the end of september and ninety days into the conflict there's still no formal declaration of war from congress so we throw hundreds of millions of dollars in underclothes war with no clear end game our nation struggles to meet its obligations to americans right here at home and there's no more clear example of our country forsaking its citizens in the case of james richard around earlier this month month verona was arrested after he tried to rob a bank asking only for one dollar runs motive for the petty crime was simple he wanted to go to prison and why so he can get health care and a roof over his after is laid off as a delivery driver for coca-cola barone found himself without health insurance and

in constant pain due to severe arthritis he was repeatedly denied health insurance because of his preexisting condition so we had no other of other option to see a doctor and get treatment except for purposes so over on walked into a bank slid a note to the. well are saying he was robbing them for just one dollar and here's how he explained his decision. logical. and that was my logic ok mark if you really really should any added pressure because i need medical care then i guess i have. to get. unfortunately there are more than fifty million people in america who like her own don't have health insurance and those are blocked from seeing doctors unless they're bleeding out in an e.r. and all across the country republicans are trying to make it even harder for americans to find health care there's republicans in congress who are trying to privatized medicare and cut health care assistance to low income families or republican

governors who are dismantling their state's medicaid systems if you're poor working class and you're sick and this country just isn't the right place to find a doctor anymore so things got in this bad luck we do a lot it is perhaps no better person to talk to about this issue the doctor himself and the former presidential candidate have been d.n.c. governor of vermont rise to live howard dean. now governor dean has to have you with us thanks showed up tonight do you think that this guy robbing this bank and it's kind of caught design it's caught people i mean look this is a country that ought to have universal health insurance just like every other industrialized country in the world why we don't is a very complicated situation has a lot to do with the politics has a lot to do with the influence of money and frankly it has a lot to do with a kind of a political philosophy by one of the parties that serves the insurance companies and the corporations and not anybody else well and to some extent the supreme court has wells maybe sort of become a political body because the republicans in the federalist society which is sort of

the right wing source of all these judges has decided that they want to politicize the courts and you have basically four very conservative judicial activists one real conservative who actually does care what the constitution says and for where i would call relatively normal jury. who are very bright yeah and so but the problem is these four judicial activists automatically get four votes and they only need one more in order to pass all kinds of crazy stuff so the problem is the system of checks and balances is broken because one of the political parties figured out how to manipulate the nominating process and are the justice that the supreme court is not really what the court once was writing and the senate certainly isn't what the founders intended and in this this probably has something to do with why president obama is the first president in history the united states and not to have judicial nominees move through. well that's right i mean that the again the the philosophy of the republican party has power at all costs they're the country comes second in

terms of what they believe is important and what they believe is most important is their own power and the american people know it well as it is tragic but i think america is a strong country the american people are strong people i believe we're going to take the house back as a result of this i think the president will get reelected the senate will be tough as the math is against this but people around of this you know governor scott has a rating below twenty below thirty percent or governor walker in wisconsin would be would lose to the same person he beat before by seven points governor case that his ratings are way down i mean people are on to the fact that these are extremists that are way outside the american mainstream and they serve really the corporate interests and not their own the republicans ran on the platform over heal and replace obamacare the affordable care act we've seen the repeal part that got passed through the house of representatives and it's not going to go anywhere in the senate but they have tried to repeal i haven't seen any evidence of replace if you know and they're not interested again their corporate masters want to undo the

health care plan it's not a matter of what the american people want. and you know that the other thing is they really don't have a positive legislative program they never have they're very good in opposition they're very good at soundbites they're very disciplined and messes. but what they're not good at is governing because they don't care what the facts are and if you don't know or care what the facts are you can't run anything it's this is these are not ordinary conservatives that you know i respect conservatives i don't agree with them all the time these are idiot logs their ideology is what matters to them they're the true believers and the facts don't get in the way of their true beliefs the state of vermont your state rival for a decade when you were the governor yes it's because it was it was great having you as my governor. has passed you know here's someone who ran on a campaign of single payer health care the legislation was passed and he signed it . there and now it needs to be this way it's going to have to go through congress

to understand it right what probabilities of this is actually will not be a congressional waiver here's the time it's complicated so give me a second this is not going to be a canadian style single payer it will be actually a series of single payer said here's how it will work. medicare will be left alone there won't be a congressional waiver to change medicare i think that's too bad some ways because i would think would make sense to actually just expand medicare to cover a lot more people but that will continue as it is which is fine it's a single payer it works reasonably well i think they need to be in managed care not in fee for service paper services what's destroying the medical system. then there will be the risk of corporations that is those self insured corporations that are under federal law that would require a waiver for them to get into a single payer that will not be granted so they'll continue the big corporations will continue to do insurance as they have to do now which is actually not bad insurance and then finally everybody else will end up with

a single payer that is this small business people who want to get we're going to be out of the lawyers insurance policy into public insurance policy medicaid will probably be in this individuals who previously have been able to get insurance they'll all be managed either by the state of vermont or by. possibly by blue cross blue shield which in our state is nonprofit so all this can happen without waiting for twenty seventeen. or twenty waivers that would be required would be there would probably be a medicaid waiver that would be required and there would be some waivers required. to allow the small business people to go into this single payer without paying the penalty that's the prescribe and the affordable care act very interesting. you and i were both networks nation yes apple us last week and we gave the keynote address and well let me play a little clip from the right to get your response to the response or it is. this is not about electing the president this is about keeping our promises to each other

about building a stronger america and turning away from the hate wing of the republican party and stop using fear and hate to motivate us and use the things that motivate us in two thousand and eight and in two thousand and four a sense that we are one nation and that the future is ours it does not belong to the tea party over fifty five white and christian it belongs to a diverse america made up of all kinds of human beings that is the future and the legacy of your generation. the right wing blogosphere went absolutely nuts on this thing you know what. in fact they said this was an anti-white rant. i'm curious your response i think you know the far right are crazy i mean i am white why would i be anti white i am christian and proud of it but this nation is an incredibly diverse nation and they hate when the republican party which is the far right. basically our race baiting immigrant baiting gay baiting and you know that's not

good for america and this is a diverse country the under thirty five's are going to build a different kind of a country than the hate when once. speaking of. the right wing. michele bachmann probably the most conserved. maybe semi-serious candidate i don't really consider a conservative i think she's a rat in the radical right. conservatives i respect conservatives and i like a lot of conservatives unfortunately. there that's not what dominates the republican party anymore but i think she believes or her line it but in any case she wants to she says you know forty seven percent of americans don't make enough money to pay taxes we've got i mean it's a sad commentary that so many people are living in list of poverty federal tax i mean they're paying all kinds of the tax right federal income tax so she wants to raise taxes on working people and cut to the tune of millions taxes on the rich by doing it with capital gains tax so so paris hilton and people who live

on investments or live on you know an inherited wealth to pay no taxes. here's where the foolishness of that is you hear a lot about that in the republican party and it's incredibly foolish it's an anti job strategy the problem with our tax policy is that we advantage tax investments in things like credit default swaps and cmos which is what brought down the economy in two thousand and eight and we disadvantage long term investments in things like research and development and biotech out actually one of the democrats who believes that we ought to repatriate the foreign profits of companies without tax penalties if and only if the entire amount is invested in research and development job creation that would be worth doing i'm not willing to do it to give dividends to the shareholders and pad executive salaries but we need to invest in this country republicans don't understand investment they think investment is giving their patrons tax cuts investment means putting money into job creation and getting rid of the capital gains taxes going to create more investment in paper that's getting

pushed around the kind of stuff that john wall street gambling casino and less investment in actual jobs in research and development in the biotech industry in the i.t. industry. we need jobs you can't trust republicans to supply jobs if they don't understand how to. do it in the in the minute we have left what's the best way to to get those jobs because a lot of this has to be job we need to invest money in job creation and we need to incentivize companies to hire people we really do it we cannot i mean this enormous cash pile that the corporate america sitting on needs to be invested control and the way to do that is to change the tax code and banish the investment i don't care if they make money i think that's a great thing to make money in this country but let them make it by hiring people don't let them make it my best to give these ridiculous credit obligations that are just pushing money around and taking money from each other very well said governor howard thank you thanks so much everybody with us today i truly appreciate it thanks republicans like to argue that the united states doesn't go the way of every

single other industrialized nation on the planet and offer health care as a basic right because we are an exceptional nation we're not like canada or france where there are socialized medicine at least in canada you don't have to go to prison to get life saving health care or a certain time in the slammer just to see a doctor it would be an exceptional things in the conservative vision of america truly has become a nightmare we just show you have the their share with you the story of what could have been. fellow by the name of robert. back in the one nine hundred sixty s. he had been the administrator of the social security program under the administrations of jack kennedy lyndon johnson and richard nixon this guy knew what he was doing running social security and medicare was developed as an extension of social security he was the guy who helped write the medicare bill now his suggestion this week actually have his own his actual words and my book reviewed in

the american dream. he says for persons who are trying to understand what we were up to the first point to keep in mind is that all of us who developed medicare and fought for it had been advocates for universal single payer health insurance we saw insurance as for the elderly as a fallback position which we advocated solely because it seemed to have the best chance politically all of the public record contains some explicit denials we expected medicare to be the first step toward universal national health insurance perhaps with pity care as the second step so what about maybe a month month and a half or so before the vote came up in the senate on medicare republicans got wind of the fact that this medicare thing was going to be just the beginning and they were to start lowering the eligibility age and so the the a.m.a. went nuts the health insurance company went nuts you hired a b. movie actor who was a pitchman for this back in history at the time and here's what he did. they held

thousands of coffee klatches all over the country or the invited their neighbors to come in and listen to a record made by a well known actor on the evils of socialized medicine my name is ronald reagan one of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. the doctor begins to lose freedoms it's like telling a lie and one leads to another doctor decides he wants to practice in one town and the government has to say to him you can't move in that town they already have enough use you have to go someplace else. all of us can see what happens once you establish the process that the government can determine a man working place and his working methods and behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country until one day we will wake to find that we have socialist socialism

actually you know single payer health care is not socialism the government doesn't own the hospitals there's no no it doesn't employ the doctors it just pays the bills and that's what medicare is that was the plan the ball had in mind this plan lyndon johnson. that over time they would simply start dropping the eligibility age for medicare and because in this call this medicare part d. you for everybody and i love that that phrase what we really should be thinking about right now is medicare part d. we already have the infrastructure with medicare we already have the system we have we have the actuarial is we have the people who can write the checks will get everything's in place and the total overhead is only three percent the big commercial health insurance companies they skim twenty thirty percent off the top we could do it we can reduce cause we can cover everybody in america and medicare part d. now. it's

time for a daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's today's question and you must be exceptional if james of your own robbed a bank for a dollar to see a doctor in prison after being denied health care your choices are no the u.s. needs to join every other industrialized nation was socialized medicine or yes apparently conservatives think it's exceptional for someone to have no option but prison log on and so on arbonne dot com let us know you think the poll will be open until tomorrow morning. coming up the recent women versus wal-mart was ruling is another clear example of our conservative screw the little people so why does corporate power trunk human rights in the united states. new website with twenty four seven live streaming newscasts what to do about the ongoing financial hardship unlimited free hi paula the videos for download. and stories you never find on mainstream news. from the get go so

a new political. person more aren't done much to. fight. for. the supreme court ignore the needs of the want to have million women yesterday ruling in favor of wal-mart and huge class action this year. anation lawsuit in

a five to four decision along ideological lines and certain justices didn't rule on whether or not wal-mart discriminated against women as the plaintiffs that argued but instead ruled that the women could not bring this type of class action lawsuit against wal-mart since every single woman faced different individual circumstances of discrimination in other words the supreme court ruled that each one of the one point five million women who were discriminated against would have to bring their own separate suits with their own lawyers in front of the court each literally taking on one of the largest companies in the world by themselves well mark we might meanwhile is off the hook for billions of dollars in claims thanks to this ruling so what was the rationale behind the conservative judge's ruling on the high court this five to four decision is this just another case of the corporate preference of the roberts court here offer his take is jonathan to scene from a union leader an organizer social activist

a writer on labor and the economy jonathan welcome back. hey we both survived minneapolis. we just talking with governor dean about that before the show it was a while that was going well as ride it was great to see that it was a why did you know mark why do walmart win this case what did the and what did the conservative justices actually rule. well to not to get legal is to go of the essential he said is i think your lead in was right on the money it said that these individual women could not show well let me step back they follow the class action lawsuit and what a class action lawsuit does is it says here are three or four women or anybody individuals but in this case women who would be named in this case it was won by the dukes and she will represent all people in similar situations and the whole nature of a class action lawsuit system is to make sure that you know you don't clog up the courts for each individual claim as to be heard so a class is defined by similar characteristics and the justices rule that these

women did not share these characteristics of widespread discrimination on the part of wal-mart which is complete and utter rubbish isn't this as much a hit on trial lawyers as it was on women i mean the two basic money bearing constituencies for the democratic party over the last at least four or five decades have been labor funds a lot of a lot of democrats and trial lawyers who defend the little guy and there's a natural alliance with democrats typically against big corporations by basically saying sorry trial lawyers you can't have a class action lawsuit like this you know isn't this a rack up against them as much as in the aisles. i would say three things it's a black against them it's a supportive move towards corporations i mean you've been one of the great voices

about this citizens united when that was decided by the supreme court that was basically a wet kiss to the corporate world saying you can basically buy our democracy this is yet the wal-mart case is yet another tap on the back saying thank you big corporations we're on your side the supreme court of the united states is the supreme court of the chamber of commerce now any case that comes before the supreme court will get at least five votes in favor of big business again again and. it's regular people in this country it's it's really quite astounding when you think of in that context you recently wrote a piece arguing that wal-mart is a scar on this country but if you mean what i like to be i'd like to be subtle about the fact that shot of. so e.d.s. and so expand on that. how so the fact is wal-mart is a scar in this country whatever the supreme court ruled in the legal listed freya we know that wal-mart discriminates against women wal-mart has been viciously anti

union in one famous case it closed down its entire meat packing division in the southeast because one store voted to vote for a union for meat cutters so it shut down its entire meat cutting operation entire part of the united states a key labor out it led a worldwide fight on the part of big corporations to prevent wages from going up around the world it has exploited young people children in mexico you just go down the list it's a hit but still taxed and most important it thrives on poverty both the poverty of the people work for wal-mart for substandard wages and the poverty of people who because the middle class is dying because we don't have unions and all the things you describe day after day and your wonderful program it's those people who have to go to wal-mart to shop because they can't afford to go anywhere else so you know one of the one of the defenses of walmart when i debate conservatism this topic is typically well you know what wal-mart wasn't bringing in all those cheap stuff from

all over the world you'd have to pay our prices and i guess i'm old enough to remember when the wal-mart's slogan was made in the usa back when sam walton was still alive and maybe things were ten percent more but people's paychecks for thirty percent more because they were making things here in the united states do you see jonathan see any any future here in the united states where manufacturing will return and where where these kinds of abuses that were seen if if you want to characterize them as such by wal-mart will will go away. well not if we have the current political system that essentially bought and sold by the big campaign donors of big campaign contributors on wall street the fact is wal-mart is the model that everyone strives for which to lower wages outsource things abroad and not do any real work that sustains people not pay people sustainable wages the interesting thing about this is that i once watched focus groups about wal-mart and

regular people if you say to them would you be willing to pay a few pennies more a dollar more for a product if you knew that the wal-mart worker was getting health insurance or they had a sustainable wage and almost everybody said yes so i think people are caught in this cycle of being forced to have to. shop at wal-mart because they're poor but i also think that people are self-aware enough to want to better country and if we could mobilize and organize to stand up against wal-mart and against the supreme court i think we could turn this around so in the minute we have left how do you how do we do that. well you know it's funny i was just talking to a friend that people say that when you get older you become more conservative and becoming more radical i see no other option but pitchforks i honestly think that we can't do it although i am an electoral person we have to basically bring this country to a halt there have to be mass civil disobedience mass strikes we have to stand up and i think the people are there to do that we just need the leadership of

institutions like the labor move to take that opportunity to take those people who've been robbed by wall street and big corporations and move them into the streets as as they're doing in france and spain and germany and the u.k. and hopefully it'll spread here you know we don't we don't have a history of doing that but i think the moment is here to do that i think you're right jonathan to see and thank you so much for being with them. always a pleasure tom the supreme court's decision yesterday shouldn't really surprise anyone ruling in favor of corporations instead of working people which is business as usual on the u.s. supreme court under chief justice john roberts the most corporate friendly high court since the taft presidency in one thousand pound. crazy alert germany is setting out to find the next great psychic octopus you know last year paul the octopus went eight for eight and successfully proving the outcomes of every single world cup soccer match at the german national team played

up afterward the eight arm subtle of god was catapulted into stardom inspiring songs and even a documentary entitled the life and times of paul the octopus unfortunately paul died at the end of last year he was two years old and with the women's world cup set to begin in a few weeks in germany that nation needs another psychic octopus so each one of germany's eight aquariums are submitting their own octopus to make picks on the upcoming soccer matches and the one that's most successful will officially be named as successor you know nina i think we should launch a campaign to find our own psychic sea creature here in america why well we need all the help we can get decipher what the heck michele bachmann and the rest of the republican candidates are saying. coming up japan is on the brink of yet another nuclear disaster and this one could be even the worst and push him.

let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here. i think is the tipping point well. whenever the government says they're going to keep you safe get ready because you have your freedom.

you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lack of sleep you think you understand it and then he limps something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture .