on a platform of repealing and replacing obamacare before the affordable care act and while they passed legislation the house representatives to repeal it far as i can tell the party has not introduced a single piece of legislation to replace it we found if i had to follow their employees but just get yourself arrested when you get sick. oh you know get a lot better for him to go to canada to get some health care but the reality is means no wind up the reality is no one in that whole two thousand and debate over obamacare said that someone like this man should not be taking care of everyone acknowledges that the five percent of population that is in desperate need of medical care and does not have insurance should be taken care of and also everyone agreed that we do need a health care system that is revamped as well and we're saying where's the plan and shovel plan there are a lot of ideas that are out there and the first all of our efforts right now are being dedicated to repealing it we've got to get rid of this thing first before you work on a substitute and there are a lot of ideas or not and go to heaven can we give james ruin

a couple points for creativity i mean that is a smore here's the thing on he's probably not the only guy you know there's probably a lot of people who are in prison because you know that's the best alternative i don't want to add things i don't doubt it's a really sad commentary on the road but i think there are other way all of the developed country in the world that would have somebody go to jail to get to see a doctor i'm sure there are a lot of manipulative people everywhere who do what they know to get what they want you. to think first of all it's it shows that yes we take care i mean there's a positive we would just to take care of our prisoners or you care for prisoners but but more seriously. it can be looked at in several different ways for most why does this guy have a job what with unemployment at nine point one percent a lot of people don't have jobs and that's a serious that's a serious problem that's going to lead have a job doesn't mean you have health and it's going to lead people to desperation and desperate measures no this guy is not this guy's there's nothing no nothing that a public policy. but this guy this is a this load aberration yeah there was

a plan will just show that it was just a question is you know set aside what's the republican health care plan the republicans have introduced several health care plans for most let's not corrupt and bankrupt our current helps clear where these companies are skin off the top would be on their c.e.o. is a billion dollars let's let's get rid of obamacare that's that's bad for health care and let's focus on the solutions but opening along the lines so that insurance companies can compete with each other to get users and security card companies and all move to south dakota where whatever state has the lowest common denominator stand competition is good better learn how to harness monopoly know when you do right now do i not know you did i. right now if i'm in virginia i only have a few choices i'd be great if i could choose the health care plan it's in south dakota if and that gives me benefits in virginia and family a great idea and when we get out of you ability of state health care commissioners to regulate state plans then what you would have is you would you probably wouldn't

have a competition you instead have a seven or eight where we have seven big health insurance companies would probably have five it's because they and they would be all b.c. offer the same plans and of course obamacare says the government takes care of everything and they don't this isn't the job of doing that so far to tell her give them no more power to our veterans who are who are looking i know i got it's administration does a very good it's good that i asked veterans administration that medicare the highest satisfaction of anything on investigation the better answer to station you'd be appalled to find out why can't you hear every program but if you do it investigation the united health care is another all there's another point and this is going to be problematic because the veterans play in is actually going bankrupt and within a few years we could be completely insolvent because it continues to expand or continue to be more veterans and we should take care of them but it's not by no means is that a model to be earned because yes you also avoid the whole point about the prisons we have a tremendous problem with our prison system and it has you know. what is an heir to

the i don't know your zoe did we do the nixon drug war in half our prisoners won't be there anyway i let you have a one last year thirty two corporations spent more money on their c.e.o.'s and they spent paying taxes according to a recent report by an independent research firm has a lot of corporations actually paid nothing taxes last year so even if they paid their c.e.o.'s one dollar still more than they're paying in taxes yet republican presidential candidates like tim collins and michele bachmann are touting their new tax plans that guess what cut taxes for corporations and if that idea isn't absurd enough they also want to drop the top income tax rate for millionaires and billionaires the same guys who are collecting more money and their corporations pay and axes and in fact it will take a look at this chart this clearly shows and you guys want to see the actual print out of well it's in the. clearly shows that as tax rates for rich people get lower economic growth slows down these or lose solid numbers to enroll marginal this is from one nine hundred fifty to twenty town and we have not ever seen annual annual

you know the annual g.d.p. growth above three percent except when the top tax rate on millionaires and billionaires above roughly forty percent so why don't we just go back to that this is what works fifty years of it is sixty years that's a sixty arrest i think you're but you're you're missing the point on the problem the problem is not the tax rate in fact if there is a problem thatcher you these that it's to hide the problem is that people aren't paying the taxes because of various corporate loopholes and because of various and the problem furthermore is that these people are being rewarded by people like president obama if you look at somebody like jeffrey immelt the c.e.o. of g.e. which is one of these corporations to which you refer jeffrey immelt is making millions of dollars and his corporate is corporations getting billions in tax breaks and so why is jeffrey immelt being placed on the president's council of law is he being looked to. just question it's insane the problem is that the who should be on the on the job to be sure. so if you are going on as human resources i'm not

going to. i think the other problem is that g. should pay the taxes that they're responsible for paying and they should be paid they should be responsible for paying less that. i think and what i think one of the things that we need to we shouldn't how we're looking here is that we need to be competing entrepreneurship that is the real way that we cut unemployment rate number one way to promote entrepreneurship break up monopolies look at what happened when eighteen she was broken up in companies you know all these other people come into the marketplace eight the if you own stock in a year before jimmy carter broke up two years later your star which was now in one company's is worth substantially more it we do they think in any way you know their barrier that they can stop and force in the sherman act and when you sort of force it well i think a lot of their barrier though to starting a new business is these exorbitant taxes and barriers yes it's very difficult to start a new business is business never make money the first couple years started businesses

do not pay taxes they always lose one in the first couple you're always barriers and there are a lot of barriers and there's now these barriers here we have more and more barriers you can take and use when you start feeling profits when you show in profits you don't you're not worried about it what i'm saying is that c.e.o.'s many of them start off as entrepreneurs many of them these are their baby you know not many of them know the corporate level these c.e.o.'s did not start as entrepreneurs they went to business with you i don't know the percentage is you have a lot of them actually did i start their company it's my. fault bill gates you know for starting this company bill gates steve jobs giving back to exceptions to his society to society and that's the greatest model ever you have the capital society at its best if you work your way up will and you give it back we'll agree that cannot listen we're going to get on the savior of individual wealth and corporate wealth but i think there is certain corporate responsibility which is paying taxes the problem is this crony capitalism to which i referred earlier and the problem is that obama which. promoting it and not doing anything against it. and not just

president obama says this is and has been for quite some time yesterday senator bernie sanders held a senate committee hearing and released a twelve page report on the dire situation many seniors currently there are five million seniors that is going to bed hungry it republicans in the house led by paul ryan want to privatized medicare further screw over impoverished senior citizens and also just pass legislation that cut sixty three million from the emergency food assistance program a cut that will lead to one hundred thousand senior citizens losing home delivered meals coincidentally the total full year cuts to food assistance programs passed by house republicans is equivalent to one day's worth of bush tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires and revenue so what republicans think you yats for millionaires is with senior citizens one. little use that these things up zero goal is the every question make your head explode yes politicians judge it's a genuine question to understand but there's so many different ways to address it

but i'll go back to paul ryan because you always like to be smart and his medicare plan he is not for just. fine but he's not suggesting that we stop providing for the ninety year olds that have made or you know he's going to get users you know even if i do it said he's suggesting a new paradigm for how we take care and better care by the way of our future seniors that they're not saying right now that eighty five year olds have to totally change the way that they are getting out i've noticed that if you're under fifty five he doesn't want to have a paradigm shift we are in the verge of bankruptcy we cannot sustain its programs anymore if you can't just have a status about apparently what we do we would do away with medicare part c. and d. and replacing it is even worse than the other suggests i mean you you have to trustees today testifying on capitol hill saying that if we don't do anything if medicare stays exactly the same within. decades medicare will be broke so that those numbers also assume to the. bush tax cuts continue and the economy is still

so you know these these all of these dire predictions or for that matter all the rosy predictions that come out of whether i don't think i don't like the rules of assistance we can or we can argue over a couple years here and there so what sort of so if we go up to ten percent it becomes you know medicare goes bust that fifteen percent or for go up to five percent of you know medicare goes bust in twenty five years the point is that if we don't do anything medicare is going to go bust so we go on the one had to have the ryan plan which has which is the right way and which is a point and which will change which will change medicare for people younger than fifty four and younger and on the other identifying with that on the other hand you have president obama you have the then you have the democrats who have no plan. and so i think i think you can have your disagreements with the paul ryan plan but c'mon where's the plane yeah there is no i don't really and it's something that something needs to be tripled reza clockers has a plan there is there are there are a lot of persons who are suggesting the reason medicare is in trouble is because so many holes have been drilled in it to let corporations in medicare advantage which

has nothing to do with medicare it's like let's bring in the private corporation medicare can't negotiate drug prices they're spent they're over spending three hundred eighty six billion dollars these are slight tweaks in the medicare hundred billion dollars as you know slight tweak it is in comparison to the cost of medicare on the yearly basis all right so i will say i'm going to do with medicare party make it the be able to everybody in the country as well as it was originally planned as they are the j. road then it can go bust yesterday yet barely to you we don't have your money just easier to raise the medicare tax or point work pays we assume that the mothers of joining the other thirty three o.e.c.d. nations and having a national health care is never going to get them i think that's a good show me the money that's we are tax rates right now are lower than they were in one thousand and he says of more of them from trying to take that if that's not the kind of state that we want nobody cares enough on the thing that we do i would i would like to live in a country while everybody said we have i said we have plenty of countries freedom move to you know i mean this is the united states of america we need to spend.

we're no that's not to say we're going to leave you if you like that kind of country this is not the kind of country that we are but we're not founded to be that kind of family why are very few being aided i think i saw rehashing about their own medicare you know if they if they don't like social at any time i'm sorry i didn't mean to i want to let you know it was where they were just yesterday former utah governor jon huntsman announced his candidacy for the two thousand and twelve presidential race and this series of highly produced and very flashy events some beltway insiders are saying that huntsman is already has been for his campaign even gets off the ground but his main problem seems to be the most americans have no idea who he is so for our rapid fire question here we have a guy who can't win during the field of candidates that nobody wants to win so who would be a game changer if he joined the republican field would it be a chuck norris more recognizable than rick perry and he is the last man standing in every competition or be a sponge bob square pants he lends credence to the republican environmental

platform or see dora the explorer the intellectual heavyweight the much how about de paul ryan jumps in the race you change the completely he has a play and he has a medicare plan he has the budget. he has all the tools you love it i love it and i think i would love it too and you know he's not afraid to speak the truth the hard truth that's going to be difficult to swallow and that's what it that's what these was congressman bachmann and you know her truth when she said the forty three forty seven percent of americans don't pay income federal income tax because they live at or below the poverty level and she wants them to serve paying taxes that everybody should have to pay taxes she has to raise taxes on working people and poor people and cut taxes on millionaires and billionaires to zero if they get their income like paris hilton to get their income from inheritance or from capital gains i'm not here defending any particular person right now i have but i am saying that paul ryan has been speaking the hard truth about our financial situation he hasn't said something like that but what he has said is. that i have plans and they're not

going to be you know drastic but they are going to be something that we have to do in order to save our economy and i think that that's i think that we need to hear that but you know what it's a hard hard sell because the democrats hate changes to our big government so yes. actually no i would love to see some you'd like to see better i know you know you know medicare party everybody i've got my choices deal louie gohmert the only person who got crazy michele bachmann daniel helper heather ceremonies thank you both very much thanks thank you always was great after the break transformers may be a fiction movie but a storyline is playing a very real role corporate america. let's

not forget that we had an apartheid regime right. i think. either one well. we never got the that says they're going to say get ready for freedom. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

it's the good the bad or literary very indifferent he got really ugly the good the hour wal-mart organization after decades of successfully squashing unions wal-mart

is up against a new threat a non union organization and groups a group of our wal-mart is organizing one our workers with the head of united. so that they can demand better wages and even though they won't legally have bargaining rights to demand better wages wal-mart employees will be able to collectively make demands and if the organization grows large enough they'll have a lot of clout currently our wal-mart boasts a membership of thousands of workers and has been hosting meetings all across the nation let's hope they get big enough to put a check on wal-mart's corporate. bad rick go google his name santorum speaking in iowa santorum explained why american schools are failing and why students don't know much about american history. the worst social. children in american schools is. not the best in science it's history. it's the reverse of how can we be a free people how can we be

a people that fight for america if we don't know who we are it is what we're all about. to say hi my opinion a conscious effort on the part of the left who has a huge influence on our curriculum to desensitize america to what american value so far so they're more pliable to the do not that they would like to impose on. and what about the right wingers in texas who are e radiology textbooks to replace thomas jefferson with rush limbaugh persons who are on things you'd better off with this shell bachmann's run and textbooks here she goes all out about american history and a very very ugly because as filmmaker robert greenwald points out in a new video untitled with coke at who chamber the billionaire koch brothers our nation's oil guards are focusing everything within their power to spread misinformation about social security and push to have the retirement age raised from seventy take a look at the koch brothers the tanks and other organizations which

spreading an enormous amount of misinformation to help social security raising the retirement age i would increase the retirement age to which probably has to increase every time and each probably going to have to raise the retirement age. and p. are very effective in getting their positions out into the media. should congress raise the retirement age to raise the retirement age or raise the retirement age let's consider the options let's raise the age of raising the retirement age to sixty nine at the same point the koch brothers are putting huge amounts of money into campaign contributions very modest increases in the retirement age mostly due to the retirement age so it is still used to be. a john so security watch to go up so you have an echo chamber with thoughts. repeating a lot of this information. and

sure enough the more money they throw in the more their arguments against social security enter the mainstream debate as we speak right now lawmakers are negotiating changes to social security buy off is working it's all part of a plan to discourage is strike government in general i guess to be worth a couple billion dollars and don't care about anyone else but yourself. why should you give a deal also says here and that's very very. one hundred twenty five years after corporations transformed into people the march to end corporate personhood is underway in boulder colorado they say art imitates reality and with the new transformers three movie set to hit theaters next month that same holds true. talking about cars and appliances turning into massive

demonic robots waging war on cities across america that still confined to the realm of fiction the real transformers rampaging our cities in stomping out the middle class or the corporations i'm talking about something called corporate personhood. the transformation that began more than a century ago and was cemented in january of two thousand and ten turning corporations into people now just regular people like you and me super people people who aren't born and don't die people who don't need safe food or health care people who can't be imprisoned or executed for their crimes and people who have far more money in their bank accounts than even bill gates will ever ever have and they will never have to pay an estate tax because they'll never die but according to five right wing justices on the supreme court these corporations are just like you

and me and they even have human rights under our constitution which begins with the words we people like the right to free speech the right to privacy the right to due process under the law and the right to equal protection under the law with their immense powers corporations are the decepticons they're bankrupting our government by using their free speech rights to buy off politicians and carve up our corporate tax code their dismantling our nation's manufacturing base using their corporate war chests their past free trade legislation and ship millions of jobs overseas they're shredding our social safety net literally killing off americans so they can profit from your and my health care and pension plans and they're spreading war around the planet to keep the demand up for cruise missiles armored tanks and fighter jets that they so profitably manufacture our nation is literally crumbling under corporate assault which is why it's so important to fight back and that fight is continuing right now in boulder colorado. the corporate decepticons rose out of

a night out of the eight hundred eighty six supreme court case of santa clara county versus the southern pacific railroad it was a case that set the legal precedent that corporations are people under the fourteenth amendment that despite the fact that the fourteenth amendment had nothing to do with corporations and everything to do with making sure that newly freed slaves are entitled to equal protection under the u.s. constitution and is despite the fact that none of the supreme court justices hearing the case actually ruled that corporations are people and actually they dismissed the argument altogether it was in that case that a famous lawyer perhaps one of the most well known american lawyers of all time dolphin dulness amount of the first defense against corporate personhood as i write my book on equal protection first book ever written on the subject of corporate personhood the elephant almost a man who was known as the silver tongued orator of the west argued before the high court why corporate personhood is so dangerous and why the fourteenth amendment

must be preserved as it is protection for all people and not protection for corporations on the fourteenth amendment delmas said its mission was to raise the humble the downtrodden and the oppressed to the level of the most exalted upon the broad plain of humanity to make man the equal of man but not to make the creature of the state but dotty lois soulless and mystic creature called a corporation the equal of a creature of god therefore i venture to repeat that the fourteenth amendment does not command equality between human beings and corporations dulness won the case that a rogue court reporter john chandler bancroft davis with ties to the railroad barons who knew the person who would was the ultimate weapon to help them take over our nation. i took some creative license in writing a commentary about the opinion of the justices to make it look like they did indeed

rule that corporations are people and they didn't again as despite the fact that the supreme court did not rule that corporations are people in that case in santa clara county versus of the prisoner but thanks to a court reporter davis would die was cast and corporate people who decepticons ran roughshod over our country for the next hundred twenty five years culminating in the supreme court's citizens united decision last year they gave corporations the right to buy our democracy which brings us to boulder colorado where the city council will soon consider a referendum to be put on the ballot calling for an amendment to the united states constitution to strip corporations how the personhood the corporate court reporter davis deceptively gave them more than a century ago course this resolution in colorado is just a tiny step in other communities of past similar resolutions thirty one point arena california about a decade ago but it keeps the message going and most importantly it keeps waking

people up to amend the u.s. constitution congress has passed an amendment in both chambers with a two thirds majority and then three quarters of all state legislatures need to pass it as well so you're a boulder colorado passes the resolution so a long way to go to convince congress to write and introduce and pass an amendment and then send it to the states it could take years on the other hand on march twenty third one nine hundred seventy one congress passed by two thirds the twenty sixth amendment after less than a year of discussion and debate and it was ratified by three quarters of the states just a bit over three months later on july first one nine hundred seventy one. why so fast why did take three months to pass a constitutional amendment people really upset back then that eighteen year olds were old enough to die in vietnam but not old enough to vote when enough people got really upset a constitutional amendment can happen really fast the eighteenth amendment for

example and in prohibition of alcohol only to eleven months it's all about getting enough people both awake and informed and upset and that's what they're doing in boulder and in hundreds of other communities around america so spread the word let's tell megatron is not a person. as the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we've covered visit our website to tarpon dot com aren't you doc also check out our you tube page if you dot com pledge they'll be picture r t two dot com slash tom and this entire show is available as a free podcast. and don't forget the ocracy begins when you show up you participate it all starts with you tag you're it.

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