the. oh i'm sorry but in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture the state of minnesota is just hours away from stepping into its second a week of the actually they've just resolved their second week of government shutdown. we'll see if this is going to affect the other states and another on a budget talks took place on the on the hill today yet no deal was made that is the fate of our nation really rests on a battle of egos or problem between republicans and democrats and they've gone from

buying their way into college universities or buying their own laws i'll tell you how the koch brothers are using their billions to literally write legislation for wall makers. getting to know this another day another round of debt ceiling negotiations another no go on reaching a compromise that would prevent the united states and defaulting on its financial obligations on august second but there's been no lack of drama in washington as last night's meetings ended with reports of house majority leader eric cantor and president obama facing off in a heated exchange of words and today treasury secretary tim geitner wantonly warned lawmakers that they're running out of both time and options. we've looked at all of the. it's and we have no way to give congress more time to solve this problem and

we're running out of time and the eyes of the country are on us and the eyes of the world around us and we do make sure we stand together and send a definitive signal it we're going to take the steps necessary to avoid default and also take advantage of this opportunity to make some progress in dealing with our long term fiscal problems we don't have much time it's time we move. if congress doesn't raise the cap at its fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling by august second and is not able to pay off all its bills the consequences could be catastrophic starting with interest rates by king on u.s. debt and the government having decided what benefits not to pay out and many economists who got on the record this week saying that a default could very well spark of the recession in america but the core issues behind this ongoing debate between democrats and republicans in washington really boils down to just one thing in any quality president obama and the democrats want

to raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires to avoid making cuts in entitlements and with the hope of decreasing income inequality in the united states or the republicans are working for more even more economic inequality in this country case in point minnesota state government minnesota has been shut down since july first and the republican controlled legislature in the democratic governor could not agree on how to close a five billion dollars budget gap democratic governor mark dayton wanted to raise taxes on rich people which are today at historic lows but the republicans in minnesota said that they would not allow any millionaires in the state to pay even one penny more for thirteen days tens of thousands of government employees were furloughed state services came to a grinding halt and the state lost millions of dollars in revenue until the state's bars began to run out of beer and cigarettes this week and so today minnesota's get democratic governor mark dayton linked in and that he will accept a republican proposal and instead of taxing millionaires it will kill off seven

hundred million dollars in payments to public schools millionaires one school kids a zero there's a larger picture here that minnesota is going to become part of the more unequal america richer are getting richer the poor are getting poorer b.b.c. had an interesting article interesting story a b.b.c. online on the b.b.c. they say but why do americans die younger than it's an interesting question not only do we guy younger than britons we do. younger than the french we die younger than many europeans actually and we die younger than the japanese and actually the outcomes of the united states over the last three decades have been getting worse rather than better they've been getting better more slowly than in other nations so relatively speaking we're being worse it was so why the article explains that it's because of income inequality here's the this is the life expectancy you can see in the u.s. the u.k. canada australia japan so they asked the question well why you know why is life expectancy so different is so different and that has to do with inequality canada

is very familiar with this and in fact earlier this year just a few months ago the parliament of canada passed this resolution this house notes the findings the society says smaller income differences between rich and poor have fewer health and social problems such as teenage birds violence mental illness and drug abuse further nodes and such societies have higher levels of trust between citizens and more social mobility that says in the american dream right you too can become rich and therefore encourages the government to promote policies that reduce income inequality in two thousand and seven researchers will richard wilkerson and kate pickett put together a book actually it's the second that they've written they've been doing this work for almost two decades this most recent book is called the spirit level greater equality makes society stronger it's based on over twenty years worth of data they looked at twenty developed nations and they looked at every single state the united states the biggest full of charts and graphs comparing them all and they compared every one of the states against each other what they found was that the more an

equal society was the more you you had a lot of poor and a lot of rich the worst outcomes you had in for example infant mortality here's in from you see very low infant mortality japan and sweden this is you know guts and any quality here's the usa out here worst infant mortality worst inequality in the next what imprisonment rates in prison rates again the more equal countries less imprisonment and singapore by the way is a very. unequal country and just like the usa has very high levels of of imprisonment teenage pregnancy rates teenage pregnancies japan denmark no one's norway germany for it all down here usa way up here we're one of the worst in the world we're also on income inequality the most unequal in the world. homicides homicide rates again here you see the same thing the more unequal society is right across the board is the right. drug abuse for drug abuse rates again

usa we're not a very top of that we're very very close to that. and the only countries that are close to us are the countries that are highly unequal so and most important of all the essence of the american dream what's the essence of the american dream the ability to move out of the social class into which you were born the economic class into which you were born the united states is the most these society now the other way this was not the case thirty years ago thirty years ago we were actually one of the most mobile socially mobile countries in the world of the o.e.c.d. countries now we are one of the very worst this is the essence of the american dream it's not ok that's taking a stance not terrorists that we have to worry about some taxes that are going to kill off this country or any of these other things it's inequality it's not illegal immigration it's not our debt it's not any of those things it's inequality in our society and so we need to be having practices and policies put in place that will directly attack affect that the provide

a social safety net at the bottom and roll back the reagan tax cuts at the top and it will stabilize our society. so today public schools in the state coffers got screwed in minnesota so the billionaires and billionaires there were protected from a tax hike a while eric cantor walked out of negotiations with vice president joe biden when joe suggested billionaires who own private jets should happen to appreciate them over seven years just like airlines is that i just thought no tax increases for billionaire private jet owners but how can republicans continue to justify their crusade to ensure that income inequality becomes a permanent fixture of american society you know aspart conservative host of the truth for america radio program and author of conscientious equity is here to offer

his take on the issue you know welcome home thank you for having me great to have you here with us how can anyone who wants to be a rich man in a poor country. don't look we're talking about here is the essence of the united states is entrepreneurial and so look at them a crowd seemed to want to do in their sinking deeper and deeper into this let's turn the parents the rich into the rich rich little more let's tax or corporations to leave our shores i mean there's there's disaster in all of that and we're seeing that so what are going to do we're going to tax out of american ingenuity and it was under the radar slogan but the fact of matter is that over the last twenty years entrepreneurial ism in the united states has dropped by almost thirty percent we have fewer people starting businesses and the average business today employs four point three small business four point three people were as thirty years ago seven and a half people right you know before the vision of the transition we are seen flatlining of entrepreneurial ism why would that be because in one thousand nine hundred two ronald reagan stopped in force in the sherman antitrust act it led to

a bad explosion of mergers and acquisitions prior to nine hundred eighty two you could drop you could walk into any mall or any downtown in america and every. was locally owned every business was multigenerational family businesses they were small businesses now you can drop out of a plane at one hundred thousand feet and have no idea where you're landing in america and when you land and you look at that main street you still have no idea where you are because because we have monopoly capitalism now reagan has destroyed this country that's what you're describing you know what we have today is this is this culture of gloom and doom because of taxes because of these entitlement spending which much has us more authority three percent forty forty three monetary tax rate you decide you don't care and top income tax rate was seventy four percent when reagan came in during it was ninety one percent and fifty six in the seventy's when all those industries and all those businesses were built when all those wonderful businesses were built the top income tax rate was ninety one to seventy four percent rate into the down to twenty eight percent and what did the small

business people do i was in business in the eighty's i remember what i did but i noticed that my income tax rate was starting to cross the fifty percent threshold i said forget it i'm not going to take any more money out of the company i'm going to keep it the company i'm going to put it into advertising and we grew the business we did travel agency in atlanta and grew it into a five million dollar company in three years that's that's what you know that's what entrepreneurs do but when you drop the income tax rate and they say screw it i'll take the money out and go gamble with an eye wall street and guess what we get bubbles because of the american tax rate because of the over review lieschen american entrepreneurs cancers are still here than they thought they were you know so we have a so fulfilling prophecy here with the democrats over overtaxing of overregulating they're not over there as this is our leaving our shores they're taking that citizens where we live in really with their home and we're starting to see that you know it's not what it's creeping up to be overseas but a lot of american entrepreneurs want to come back home they want to invest here but we're be incentivizing them for investing in america that's much wrong here you know here's and here's the simple incentive in seventeen seventeen ninety one

alexander hamilton proposed that we start charging tariffs that we say if there's a dollar's worth of the. under government yeah well in fact the terrorist paid for one hundred percent of the federal budget was a little income tax has been until the civil war has read it in the sense that it is of the federal government to world war one and fully one third of the federal government to world war two we have had some seven hundred ninety three until the one nine hundred ninety s. until clinton did away with the deputy or nafta we have had an average around twenty six percent import tariff on everything into the united states some things are higher some things are lower we are now our average tariff now is two point one percent you're absolutely that's why those companies are going you know what's wrong with that it's not that it's two point one percent but as an american exports or as a national champion in two thousand and eight in the u.s. national team for year i'll tell you what's wrong because we don't have access to foreign markets it's not that we need to protect herself and put her head on every other country in the world is going to protect the markets and well we should demand look i'm alone with democracy or design if i don't want we just put it the

same various like we used to have and say we protect your market we'll protect our we need a vision for america engaging with the world and competing in the world it's not have meditation for two hundred years it's not that americans are uncompetitive it's the world trading system is corrupt and skewed against us all we want is american entrepreneurs access give us access to foreign markets and entrepreneurial ism in this country will explode you're talking about begging or they have already begun ships china and begging vietnam if you want if you want to do something here in the united states then talk to your members of congress and say we want the hamilton plan back we you know it's a high tariff on all of the american way actually i don't they have in brazil and that's what they have in the in the in these guys really have a little that's what they have in japan because i have a new way to assume they have these are many will not the u.k. and germany and japan and japan is a very low tariff market it's just a cultural barriers right through importing cried oh absolutely japan i know it's a very big trouble but you know we need to do it just it's not interesting and i think that we agree on a lot of things i mean we want the right thing for this country but for this

country to thrive we need to get back to the hard work in the ingenuity in right now with what's happening with these. is is what it is the threat of taxes in all of this huge government of health care of cap and trade and all those sorts of things we are going to have cap and trade will. be put there giving it all the rays of light by regulating it through the e.p.a. what we did we might have an explosion in the solar business and it will you know it we have a we have an election two years ago and i think the american people don't want these deficits they want to deal they want to feel good i mean there's a lot of people that skinner like americans care about the deficit they don't they i mean if you guys are put into a frenzy but the average american doesn't even know what the deficit is you could put those let's put the new york times it or put it and most and forty seven percent of americans don't pay taxes it's the people people are not anywhere near neal i'm sorry we're out of time it's really great appreciate you dropping by nice to meet you thanks for thanks for being here. just.

it's the good the bad in a very very sort of cleanly ugly first the good. for freedom from religion foundation after texas governor rick perry designated august sixth as a day of prayer and fasting for a nation to seek god's guidance prepare his words and called on governors across america to join him for a religious rally the freedom from religion foundation showed rick perry perry a lawsuit arguing that this religious rally by a lights the first amendment's establishment clause course rick perry is also the guy who advised texans to pray for rain and it actually got drier so he's no stranger to injecting religion in the policy to the freedom from religion foundation for standing up to the session and happy well for the bad. sarah pailin earlier this year palin came under criticism for her gun rhetoric or lock and load

rhetoric following the shooting of congresswoman gabby giffords well a few months later pale and. hasn't learned her lesson appearing on where else but so called news paling weighed in on the debt limit ago she asians with this. we cannot default but we have to we cannot afford to retreat right now either now is not the time to retreat if the time to reload we reload with reality by giving facts the numbers to the american public so that those of us across the us can start chinee man and letting our representatives know that we will not capitulate we want to. master the run on sentence i suppose the gun she's referring to the needs to be reloaded is the one pointed at the american middle class. and a very very ugly rick don't google my name santorum. in an op ed with usa today santorum double down on signing his name to a controversy a pledge in ohio that compares same sex marriage to bigamy outlaws pornography and

argues that african-american children were better off under slavery santorum wrote i don't want to speak for my fellow candidates who have signed pledges in saying it is an honor to be able to do so because that is what a pledge is and oath to honor our word by fellow candidates santorum must be referring to michele bachmann because she's the only other republican. and you have to know when you're in that sort of exclusive company and you've done something very very. tough how is it that the laws that make it harder to vote and laws that cut taxes on billionaires are popping up in one republican state after another discuss a very private organization that has threatened the political landscape for. twenty four seventh's live streaming news like you about the ongoing financial hurricane unlimited free high quality videos for down.

and stories you may never find one. that is so. neat. into the. ocean floor aren't. for months now we've been telling you about all the different ways that the billionaire koch brothers are buying their way into position to control american

politics a new report showed that since the beginning of two thousand and eleven a nation is pushed by the koch brothers have developed into legislation in virtually identical form in fifteen different states how's that possible the answer is out of the american legislative exchange council an organization paid for by corporate sponsors it hosts rather regular gatherings of conservative state legislators all around the country alec basically drafts and hands out ready made model legislation as lawmakers attending their summit then take home to their districts and introduce to their state capitals pretty much forbade it other than the serious threat this poses to democracy it might not be all so bad if these model laws were written by alec to directly benefit the koch brothers other billionaires and their corporate sponsors corporate sponsors even get a chance to vote on alex model legislation at the same summit's been attended by the legislators so how is alex model legislation shaping the political landscape

all across the nation one district in a time and how are they getting away with this elaborate puppet show answer here to answer some questions on this is bow or die freelance journalist and publisher of d.b.a. press and contributor to in these times magazine well welcome. i think so how is alex and model legislation shaping the political lansley state cross or country all this year if you look at risk on. targeted. only unions and you see that basically the the intent of several pieces the man she may only model legislation is to fracture the political liability by ability of these unions. and it seems that the purpose of doing this is to open the doors for numerous other pieces of alec not of the solution which create roads and privatization in compulsory also program. that's it's pretty amazing i

just learned today presses from reading your piece that paul weyrich was one of the original founders of alec here's a clip of what paul way rick had to say back during the reagan campaign in one nine hundred eighty we don't have we don't have this well and back in one thousand eighty one he was speaking to a group of republican legislators in a church he basically said you know. why should we be trying to promote the idea of voting our influence in our power in politics actually goes up as the voting populace goes down and now here we are thirty one years later and after his statement and they are you know the parties not a legislations is to cut the number of people who can vote do i have it right. paul where it's who's all who. we choose it's not only or barely can you think of the heritage foundation as well which is a prominent elite. think a policy member i mean. it's it's really quite remarkable how is it that

alec went under the radar all these years. we'll i don't know there's something wrong the mainstream media i think but i did enjoy a little bit of popularity and maybe didn't enjoy it but if it did it was the focusing criticism i know in the early two thousand when mother jones magazine ran a number of articles on it and defenders of wildlife and another organization also started up the website at that time called elliot rodger's which created. reports call that legal trojan horse in the states since about two thousand and three when pretty quiet as far as coverage of ellis is concerned and ultimately the mainstream media's coverage of alec goes it might be worth noting that. most if not all of five major media conglomerates in this in this nation now are alec

members really as all the networks are talking about. yeah i'm not sure we're standing there really an article in this magazine back in i think december last year that outlined all the media groups involved in something. it's raw so the companies that own a.b.c. c.b.s. n.b.c. c.n.n. fox they're all alec members that's that's pretty astounding what. it's just the idea of legislators state legislators federal legislators but principally the focus of alec is in the states sitting down with corporate fat cats millionaires and billionaires and having the corporate fat cats vote on what legislation those politicians are going to carry into their state legislatures you know the people like scott walker and whatnot. it seems totally creepy do they do

this you know once a year or twice a year they do it in hotels do they do it in secret how do you how do they pull this thing off without somebody going wait what's going on. well it's generally three times a year. the december nation in space calls we also have be task force and then an annual meeting this year if there are upcoming meetings in new orleans in scottsdale arizona. it's it is very clear that they have our lawmakers sitting there with their senators working on legislation. which is obviously and arguably for the benefit of corporate members which we as citizens must deal with and it's clear and it's for which they how they got away with this and lax media it's gotta be tickled already. you

look at alston exemptions in case she's the state campaign finance investing laws in many states what they've done is that they've actually written in extensions for alec scholarship fund activity because they claimed such activity is for a legitimate she'd be legitimate legislative purpose although it's a monster only not the most time as s. and as far as any. as far as the resorts go it's also interesting that it's usually these assumptions are usually held high and i'm pretty sure i was also an. amazing blowhard i thank so much for being with us tonight. here it's amazing that this organization's been able to corrupt american politics without notice for all these decades let's hope the sunlight exposure and publish he can act as a disinfectant and clean up our democratic institutions.

crazy alert the return of the flying spaghetti monster of the nation of austria has now officially tolerate it is now officially tolerant of the fringe religion the church of the flying spaghetti monster three years ago wired for a driver's license and submitted a photo of himself wearing a pasta strainer on his fat typical headgear of the worshippers of the church of the flying spaghetti monster people who call themselves pasta fairy and it's well after three years of review in a mental examination to see if he is fit to drive a car they go finally got approved and received his driver's license complete with a photo of him and his strainer it's only a matter of time before michele bachmann herman cain begin warning our nation of the impending threat of us the ferry and shari'a law. outraged atheists are trying to pull the plug on texas governor rick perry's where some of the stand a chance. drives

the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through get through to be made who can you trust no one who is in view with the global machinery to see where we had a state controlled capitalism it's called satchels when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question morning.

well back to the big picture i'm sam hartman coming up in this half hour texas governor rick perry prepares for his nationwide where some of the atheist organizations pushing forward a lawsuit to block the event for christians who want to inject their religion into our nation's politics are fighting back after years of civil war and outright genocide perpetrated by the north south sudan has finally become the one hundred ninety third country in the world i guess joe madison was there to witness the birth of a nation he'll share his experience later in the show. a few weeks ago texas governor rick perry proclaimed august sixth as

a day of prayer and fasting for our nation to seek god's guidance inviting governors from across the nation to join in christian prayer summit in his. as an elected leader all too aware of government's limitations when it comes to fixing things that are spiritual in nature that's where prayer comes in and we need it more than ever with the economy in trouble communities in crisis and people adrift in a sea of moral relativism we need god's help that's why i'm calling on americans to pray and fast like jesus did and as god called the israelites to do in the book of job but rick perry is just like jesus or god the website promoting the event says that the summit is necessary because as a nation we must come together and call upon jesus to guide us through unprecedented struggles because some problems are beyond our power to solve. and to quote yesterday the freedom from religion foundation follow the laws.