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are you ready to rumble in time for friday night's big picture of where i sit down with three expert political commentators to debate the week's top stories on our panel tonight amanda carey reporter at the daily caller dot com democratic strategist erica community and heather circle conservative strategist managing owner of for forty group public relations and now blogging at either certain mode dot com congratulations on welcome to you all and let's get started. there you go. huge bad numbers today bad news for the economy only eighteen thousand jobs added last month unemployment up to nine point two percent here's what the president had to say about those job report confirms what most americans already know we

still have a long way to go and a lot of work to do to give people the security and opportunity but they deserve the economic challenges that we face weren't created overnight and they're not going to be solved overnight but the american people expect us to act on every single good idea that's out there. so you know president obama has actually republicans have been in charge of the white house earlier the house of representatives six months now and bush as i recall ten years ago said if we just had these tax cuts we get all kinds of jobs is the time to ask where the jobs are canada just created was a ten million ten thousand it makes more sense thirty three million people ten thousand more jobs than the u.s. in fact actually we have a chart here that of the connection we're to go over here is that of your government jobs declining under the obama administration and we're down to half a million jobs in the in the public sector half

a million jobs. these layoffs are mostly happening in the red states and in twenty four states have been laying off twenty five states have been hiring and in those states we're also seen g.d.p. go down and and and economies go down you know are republicans killing the economy in order to win the election. and i don't know i mean i would say that they're that they're playing chicken with the budget and playing chicken with the debt ceiling is absolutely a kind of a kamikaze mission and i think that they do and a lot of ways think that it's can this trend continues that they will be reaping the benefits and that is a luxury but i think the bigger thing here is that what they're really doing is are sap such an economy with the lack of policy that it makes sense i mean if you look at me what i think that chart really shows is that is really where the stimulus money is running out where there were is an injection of money coming into the states it's helping about the budget and now the money is the money is gone it's not going to come back and sort of this from the recession although we have i know

the tax cuts that were passed as part of the package and so that's people that's rest on people like tax cuts you know tax cuts gave people more money in their pockets i wish that they would be extended and the government jobs that are ready jobs being. the government jobs being cut you know obviously will affect the economy for a little bit but what the republicans want to do is they want to allow for the creation of more private sector jobs which is actually better for the economy so that's not going to be reflected yet so matter and also we need help from the federal government to reduce that size how can it how can government employees no longer having jobs no longer going to the local police store to buy food or clothes no longer going to the local restaurant if we how can that help. a lot of response because you see beyond private sector jobs not government jobs and i think i feel the same don't ever this doesn't everybody's going to stop thank god and i think caskets but they are also getting a lot but it will sort of pay i mean what private sector jobs let's focus on the private sector first and that's where the struggle is if you look at small

businesses i mean they're having a ridiculous hard time. and you know when this president obama finally going to take responsibility for that yes republicans birth control and you know did a lot of damage but president came into office with a load of promises and i think americans right now. are expecting things this turn around and clearly that's not how it all as a whole my not very apropos of that here john boehner today came out and eric cantor said you know ok the job numbers are bad therefore it is. government increase that raises taxes or fails to make serious spending cuts but it won't last will pass the house it just does not make sense for americans to suffer under higher taxes in the economy like this and as the speaker said there is no way that the house of representatives will support a tax increase so that i think it isn't about what mike pence is

a test and number of other lawmakers we need out of balance budget amendment so we start finding ourselves in other time well who do i just out there just say i care just you guys that have a product up there when he leaves the corporate jet tax loophole kind of what jobs are created by that i have. some interest on the one thing but the rich are being asked to sacrifice well you know these guys are saying ok we're going to we're going to do we're going to go after social security we're going to go after medicare or what have you know please name one thing that the rich people i want in order to feel like i don't think even i like to want to be able to pay taxes or even benefit from a tax hike you have to have an economy that's healthy enough to have a job in order to be like reaping the benefits of the under the under the unemployed these are the people that aren't even benefiting from these tax breaks and these tax cuts are supposed to simulate all this economic let's remember my business or not in paying taxes in the first place so you know really i think a real tax more get you know they're trying federal tax so we're not just here to be included sense of the here is another good fact for you right now that they

found that the top twenty five hedge fund managers at the twenty five richest of them pay close that loophole it would create more billion dollars in revenue and that the income that those twenty five people are on is the equivalent of over four hundred thousand middle class families so yeah i mean i'm not against he was digging holes are you against those of them with. the chunkier yesterday. that they would do that somebody has in greece how is that it would be they are saying it's or you care to get her has come out saying that he is opening a closing loopholes i know holding. as to someplace else until today's job numbers but you could we actually talked about in a program recently you can. close those loopholes and have another deal going on where you can raise taxes on businesses as the democrats want to do it close of loopholes you reduce the corporate tax rates where is no tech net tax increase yet both sides get what they want so i think that's a workable solution and i think we also have

a balanced budget amendment that makes complete sense that those states are completely miserable that we don't want to be in this crisis again so never again can anybody invest in treasuries or there's there's no safe investment life in the united states because we've got a balanced budget if zbigniew brzezinski had this to say we're the most and b. c. . but i don't want to i don't want to be a prophet of doom and i really don't believe that we're approaching but i think we're going to slide into the intensified social conflicts social history looking. some forms of radicalism there's just going to be a sense that this is not a just society this is amanda we're now the most unequal society among the o.e.c.d. countries with the most developed countries in the world. are we on the brink of a of a disaster should we be looking at redistribution of wealth. and frankly i don't see any evidence of that do you i do i can see the rich getting richer you achieve

the fact to see any evidence of major civil unrest of radicalism because wealth inequality and if anything if there is any quality then let's focus on bringing the poor people up and not bringing the wealthy down why would we want to lower the bar so there is a zero sum game or some are just i mean i think that right now there hasn't been too many signs of social unrest but when people are pushed further into now to live with this giant wealth disparity we haven't lived with this for a long period of time we are going to see things like wisconsin where people are pushed to the point where they are going to start protesting and there's going to be people camping out in the street and part of their it was us against unions no they were not the people that were in wisconsin were protesting against ending a collective bargaining which was the this whole primary benefit of having it all could be i mean the whole affair and that's also about allowing them the ability to you know to go she on mass to be a part of a player in the economy i think that what makes america great and why people love america and why i love it i think we can all agree on this is because it is the

land of opportunity when it ceases to be that when everybody sees when you let me tell you honestly he said he can we are now the leaders emotionally mobilization of and that's what i think obviously for that is though is that for the last twenty years we have not been a country that creates jobs in the private sector we're not going to should i or charted new corporations we have not created an environment for that and so therefore we do see the working class thing a lot different from the upper middle class and you don't have that sense of outward mobility that we used to absolutely agree thing that this is indeed a back to the trade balance we had in the fifty's the build a country and education strong public education as well is also another problem that you win when every child can go and start with the same level of education and at least up until they're eighteen or go to college and that adds a lot mobility of. i mean but we have this disparity in our education system where we're you know privatizing and we're you know outsourcing and we're not creating incentives and paying teachers well we're going to have the same problem well and

that is why i'm not a real decent had to take this to to this concept of outrage or whatever but casey anthony trial just dead everybody's all upset. she should have gone to jail or whatever. we have a bunch of gangsters who crashed our country you know back when the bankers crashed the country under the reagan administration he put eight hundred of them in prison i don't know of a single gangster who's going to jail shouldn't shouldn't we be looking at the crimes there was an article in one of the one of the papers or blogs in the last week or so the obama's original sin was that he didn't recognize the crime that was committed over the last decade or so since the deregulation of the banks and thousand and and do anything about it i'm not even sure is a partisan issue amanda your thoughts. you know i think it's a good debate to be had and i think we have had it before i don't see how that's going to solve any of our problems our own frankly i think it's a sort of

a waste of time both i want to drop billions of our dollars so there isn't you know . they sucked several trillion dollars out of the us economy our g.d.p. as. well you know i mean i think that there's i think that casey anthony and this is kind of racially exclusive i think that there are a lot of trials that happened in the united states there are useless and i think there's reason to have reforms and that regard but i do think though that both parties are responsible for a lot of the banking crisis that happened so you can't put your finger on one of the other you know so you can't you know if you said you can't make a partisan issue i think that both sides care and i hope we learn from that and the . the democrats who are calling for in fact nancy pelosi passed it let's restore steagall or some variation of what i asked the house of representatives and was legislative session and got stopped by republicans in the senate you know he was reregulation of banks the republican saying exactly even the implementation of your very key point of this is the consumer protection agency that would be headed up by

elizabeth warren and up the locking up her appointment i mean there's been this kind of stopping and i think what with the casey anthony trial i mean kind of leading connection there is that the emotional energy that has been expended by so many people in this outrage seems to be. so trite when compared to the other issues that face our economy and face our country and there seems to be a kind of you know i lack circus of lack of kind of emotional investment in our personal and our outcomes as a country or as you know our future i mean why are we so following this so closely but we're not following the debt limit negotiations or we're not following you know the the regulation and regulation back on wall street like howard howard an american or not worried about their work edges or jordan was warm and joe arpaio is a thousand people in a tent prison that he walked into the forest and measured the temperature of one hundred forty five degrees i mean isn't there something functionally wrong with

that a and b. i'm wondering if if c.e.o.'s who were hiring illegal immigrants into arizona were the occupants of that prison would it be one hundred forty five degrees in there or would it be well air conditioned as as jails usually are for c.e.o.'s and if we want to do something about the the illegal immigrant problem but the pros so hysterical about what we started arresting c.e.o.'s who are going to stop the madness. that i have loaded question that i have. you know a man off his rocker to be quite honest with you absolutely and that's why sheriffs are like to i mean so people who don't know i mean if they think he's really crazy but i mean and it is he's picking on a pocket of the population that that he can because they're not as wild are presented they don't necessarily have the legal. you have but also i mean the people who tend to be in prisons are also this economically disadvantaged they

don't have the access to the legal resources i'm just saying if there was a thousand you know people have it any other particular group would be a lot harder to get away with having done this for so long and it takes groups like there's a lot of groups like amnesty international they say oh you don't been filing charges against him first. since for a long period of time but there certainly hasn't been a high you know celebrity trial lawyer doing it i mean i don't defend the tent isn't there anything the sheriff does i would use this and we've talked about this before i would use this example for an argument for major i guess laws and present reforms on the on the whole i mean i was in this prison are there for nonviolent crimes and they're waiting for trial we just reform the system and it's also why do you what kinds of overcrowding in prison and why do you have that reside in prison than any country in the world hugh prather really good point a lot of these people haven't even been convicted of something and now they're sitting out in time and i thought i agree with that and that's why you have in california basically they're saying we're going to let our prisoners if we don't

have the resources anymore oh yes let's just end for example the drug war i mean you know. what are you going to. say yeah ok consensus. our quick fire question last night show bachmann became the first republican candidate for president to sign off on a controversial petition this petition says homosexuality is a choice tantamount to polygamy and adultery it's a public health risk all forms of pornography should be banned i don't know how she thinks she's going to get elected with this sure real law should be rejected but she wants a christian form of shari'a law and you know essentially say no pornography i mean that's that's what they do in saudi arabia. for your head and and and also there's this petition that michele bachmann so i said that african-americans were better off under slavery then they are now. so is being a theocrat and promising to run the nation in this under christian shari'a law no

requirement to be a republican running for president this is just one swenson's that's right you know i think that that's a very tricky line you have to walk down as a christian i'm a christian and as a public policy person you know because you want to to appeal. a key voting element but you also don't want to come across as evangelists like you just said and michele bachmann may have made a mistake by signing this just because it does seem to be quite a. i'm also a person and i i definitely agree i think there's a difference between showing people you know that your faith is. your values and that you are good solid person and saying that people who are gay are the downfall of society and that black children would be better off if they were slaves i mean that's ridiculous all it's sort of just fell out and say. she's obviously playing to a certain base and so far she seems to be doing a pretty good job of it but i think that's sort of pushes that limit and it's going

to park fire i think if you can we're going to get it i think i don't think so frankly because if you go back and you look at the years of history of the show bachmann has none of these positions that are in this petition are inconsistent with what she's been saying all. along that i want this or i know it's i think she needs santorum signed it to present it has you know yesterday or inside it i mean that's not the brightest line and policy is the thing about it and it makes them all generalize really really well it's amazing amanda erica how do you think the same. after the break after the break until we take on the supreme court's unequal approach to law that is putting americans abroad at risk of lining the pockets of the transnational corporate bodies.

let's not forget that we in the far right reason. i think. even on the oil. we never got that that says they're going to keep you safe get ready because your freedoms. 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 you saw

you don't. charge is a big issue. for . four. or five to four ruling came down from the supreme court the five right wing justices giving texas governor rick perry the go ahead to execute

a mexican citizen that's actually rick perry the case of whom barrett so they al garcia convicted of rape and murder are both domestic and international criticism and it was learned the texas police had denied garcia his right to contact the mexican consulate the embassy before being arrested. or upon being arrested according to the vienna convention which president nixon signed and our senate ratified any person arrested in any nation where they are not a citizen has the right to comment contact their embassy and in the case of america garcia that right was ignored by the police in texas because of that tree a u.n. tribunal order to stay of execution a number of legal and foreign policy experts advise against the execution of president obama raised concerns over the execution and even george w. bush pushed for a stay of execution senator patrick leahy introduced legislation to force texas to put off the execution and recognize our international obligations under the vienna

convention perry ignored all of it though and it came down to a last ditch effort in the supreme court to prevent america from violating a treaty that we had signed but the supreme court couldn't stop there either now if you're arrested abroad that foreign nation could refuse you your right to see the american embassy weirdly the supreme court ruled that international law has no effect on how states deal with their criminals which is strange considering that international laws have trumped american laws over and over and over in the last two decades since our nation jumped into the so-called free trade bandwagon and joined the world trade organization it's an issue i talk about in chapter eight of my book an equal protection. by joining the world trade organization our nation agreed to follow a whole slew of new international laws that protect so-called free trade

a feather in the cap of transnational corporations so now whenever our congress passes a law that transnational corporations don't like we can be taken to a deputy o. court and forced to drop that law does have an earlier this year in may when the us took a bite out a u.s. sovereignty ruling that american americans can no longer label tuna products as dolphin safe why it is such labeling could deter customers from purchasing certain foreign tuna products that aren't often safe thus limiting free trade in the united states not a peep from the supreme court that this was about corporations making more money but that's not all that has struck down laws in america to ban importation of goods made with child labor. the laws that prevent importation of shrimp from trans national corporations that kills the turtles in the process have been struck down american laws struck down and laws that ban the importation of carcinogenic

gasoline additives american laws made by american legislators struck down by the international w t o not a word from the supreme court these either in each case have been more profits for transnational corporations just fine with the supreme court ultimately our nation has lost nine out of every ten cases in front of. since joining the organization in one thousand nine hundred five that means nine out of ten times our nation was forced to change our laws passed by our congress and signed by our president because of what some massive transnational corporation tells us as part of an international treaty and our supreme court never objected after all every case even more money for giant corporations like the ones his representatives and owners regularly wine and dine antonin scalia and clarence thomas and who frankly are paying thomas' wife salary for letting the poison us and kill off the environment

so that more transnational corporate profits could be piled up and not once has our supreme court stepped up to say the treaties should not trump u.s. law in matters of protecting consumers or the environment but when it comes to killing a human the supreme court gives rick perry the green light this is insanity just goes to show how corrupted our supreme court is by transnational corporate interests now care about human rights or what sort of danger they're putting americans abroad in because of their ruling is only care about corporate profits and since no corporate profits were at stake in the garcia case and give a damn if international law was violated. it's this swiss cheese approach to american sovereignty it is destroying our nation it's making us a slave to so-called free trade and at the same time making us a pariah in the international community because of things like what rick perry does that we're supposed to be

a nation of laws and our constitution explicitly says that if we signed treaties they become part of the law of the land right there in the constitution but for this supreme court where the constitution says it's pretty meaningless they even say that when the fourteenth amendment was passed in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight to free the slaves congress in the states actually meant to give political free speech to trans national corporations thomas jefferson was right when he complained that the court in one thousand or three taking too much power for itself in the marbury case he said that because of that the constitution was now his words a thing of wax in the hands of the supreme court and because of that our constitution is also a thing of wax in the hands of the transnational corporations and we need to wake up and wake up soon check out move to amend dot org for more information on what you can do. as the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we

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