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let's not forget that we in the park are right. i think. one well. we never got there for safety get ready for the freedom. part it's time for showing how on tonight's program now last time we told you that the southern poverty law center had just placed kentucky senator rand paul on its

list of extremists connection of his feelings against the civil rights act so i wanted to know what you thought is a rand paul extremist that a producer for truth in a sunday to find out what you have to say is senator rand paul an extremist well the southern poverty law center they think so and they put him on their list after he said that private businesses should be allowed to discriminate by the rates as downs that led many people to ask i think what. he thinking so what do you guys think do you think he should be labeled an extremist because of his stance on the civil rights act well eric said all of the freshmen in the republican congress and senate are extremists so if we're to erick that list would be huge march said being added to a list is a modern day backhanded character assassination then to say that the southern poverty law center things everyone is a right wing extremist did most of our viewers come away thinking he was

a racist or not was he taken out of context no one thought that either but what a lot of people are missing from this conversation is that rand paul's point of view is pretty standard libertarian so would that make all libertarians extremists in the eyes of the as b l c no my view the problem is a restaurant owner saying you can't bring a firearm in here isn't the same as i'm saying you can't bring a black or gay person in here to help people and right now to his credit rand paul didn't manage to say every fiber of my being doesn't believe in discrimination maybe they should have just left it at that or maybe he should have people to look into what he believes before jumping on that libertarian bandwagon. well thanks for giving us your input and here's our next question for you we just discussed the fact that after more than a year wired finally released the old child logs between bradley manning and adrian lamo they're getting a lot of critique of impulses close relationships

a limo is making some speculate as to whether he was protecting them and after a year can some of the lies that limo has spread in the media. so i want to know what you think about wired do you think the wired magazine should have released the full manning limo chart logs earlier you can respond to us on facebook twitter and you tube and there was a response that just might make it on air. now while we watch congress huff and puff over debate a debt ceiling debate and republicans can feel. simply insists that tax cuts must be completely off the table let's take a step back and reality let's take a look at two polls that show us what americans really want a new gallup poll finds only twenty percent of americans want to debt deal that includes only spending cuts but just one for want tell you all quinnipiac poll finds that only twenty five percent of voters believe the debt deal should include only spending cuts and in fact sixty seven percent of voters in that quinnipiac poll believe that it should include an increase in taxes for the wealthy and for

corporations so if you listen to the people sounds like they're asking for a little bit of that real shared sacrifice the politicians only speak of but never act on how much higher these numbers mean if americans knew about the true disparities in wealth in this country so currently income inequality in the u.s. has reached its highest level on record and as he made it one percent of the argument holds fifty percent of the country's wealth the richest twenty percent holding eighty four percent of that wealth and the numbers are startling and really americans that may not know that they exist as a study last year about that when americans were given a choice to look at a chart of wealth distribution they deeply underestimated the reality and ninety two percent even shows we did system over ours so how to get people to wake up earlier i caught up with the co-author of this study dan ariely who's a professor at duke university and it behavioral economist he's also the author of the upside of irrationality so i first asked him if he was surprised by the results of his wealth distribution survey or most americans preferred sweden to their own

country. so you know i wasn't surprised because clueless is the word but it was true surprise me in the study so basically you know we asked people to tell us what they think is the ideal wealth distribution we are going to estimate what's the u.s. wealth distribution and people were dramatically missing it but we also asked them to say what do you think you will what's the wealth distribution or food consulate you would want to join people drink out of food. relatively equitable distribution it was the first surprise but the biggest surprise was that there was not much difference between republicans and democrats and that's kind of surprising you look at what's happening around you know in washington and you say oh my goodness republicans and democrats can't seem to agree on which type of the street to walk but it turns out at least in our study if you talk about people about the deep beliefs street politics there's no words of a political idea does not want to work taxes or death tax to wealthy and poor it's

just a question of what do you think is a just society a society we can would want to join people end up quite similar to this and that was the big surprise for me how do you think it's in the politicians interest perhaps to tell americans or at least convince americans that they are so polarized and on such opposite ends of the spectrum they can actually realize what they have in common is that when they constantly take on let's say some of those wedge issues rather than a greater economic look at equality i think so i think that politicians basically use words of you skate in obscure. beliefs trying to cover it with words that give them more power and more differentiation from the other party and because of that i think we have a bigger difference in the bigger is estimated difference don't believe than our actual beliefs and you know recently we've done the same study to talking about in

australia and we did it a couple of months ago and people are strictly a researcher partners thoughts that just really is would be even much more equitable than americans if you know that they look good and very much like americans. you know they don't have the same wealth inequality we have but in terms of their beliefs about what's right. and what's wrong with what society we want to join you seem to be quite similar to us so why do you think it is that americans are so awfully unaware of the reality is a fact there you know income inequality has now reached record levels in this country. so i think couple of reasons the first one is that we don't see the wealth inequality if you live in new york you have a chance to see how the very wealthy people and how the very poor people people live but if you live like me in durham north carolina i just don't see the same range of income differences live in

a neighborhood it's not the university professors almost everybody is the same you can't really see the range of inequality a dramatic range of really quality the very rich get call themselves and the rest of us don't get to even understand the scale of inequality the other thing is that in the us there's a deep belief. about the phrase that opera is not over until the fat lady sings and it turns out that when we ask people to think about the world in which there is more social mobility in which where you are born doesn't determine where you end up under those conditions people are happier with more income inequality and i think one of the things that has happened in the us is that people are convinced themselves and others. that there's more social mobility here really it's so you know we americans pride ourselves on this idea that in this society doesn't matter where you born you can achieve anything it turns out there's some cases of

that of course but it's not really the standard case it's handled cases one in which were you born really determines to a large degree where you end up there's not really escaping dramatically those consequences if you don't go to finish high school your terms are not very hard if you don't go to a good university a good college so there's lots of things that. really matter but when people believe they live in a society with more so. you offer somebody say if you live in a society with high social and beauty and you choose to be poor and short choice it's nobody else's fault you just you chose to. create you couldn't you could have pushed up because there's no restraint from so if you don't also helps obese belief that we should tolerate more income inequality than we actually do you see those attitudes changing at all for example you first started conducting a survey in two thousand and five i know that you have to say that throughout the years through the financial crash now we are in this great recession as people are calling it and you know some people are saying that the american dream in itself is

dead for a lot of people out there and even from these polls that i mentioned earlier where americans are finally saying you also need to raise taxes in order to solve our budget problems does this mean that we're seeing some kind of an awakening. we gon see the data showing a bigger weakening yet i think it depends on how worse things are going to get. but but right now it looks like people really there's no question people are suffering there's no question of people at the lower end of the scale are incredibly musical you know when we talk about the income inequality and we say how much wealth does the top twenty percent most people understand that it's about eighty five to ninety percent of the total wealth is held by a few at the top but when we ask people how much wealth is being held by the bottom forty percent people dramatically overestimate it people think it's four or five maybe ten percent of the wealth is held by the bottom forty percent of americans it turns out it's all point three zero point three percent of the well he's on by the

bottom forty percent of americans so we dramatically underestimate what's happening at the bottom at the bottom end and the problem with the bottom end is those people don't necessarily vote yet we do best interest in mind especially not in terms of taxes again politician can hold on to words like family values that are general words with not much meaning behind it more you can talk about abortion you can talk about all kinds of things that get these people excited without actually thinking about what is in their financial but it's interesting i think because of that we don't see the level of rebellion people should have aisles and i thank you very much for joining us tonight of course we'll see if finally this does end up hating son tipping point at some point say are for americans are going to continue to be perhaps naive about it thank you you know i think i think the next election is going to be crucial for the next election is going to be largely about taxes and we'll see if we get any action on that right and thanks so much baker. all right

five our last break along the return he's a very afraid of the big banks getting bullied by a woman we're going to tell you which congressman wins are told on war and happy hour ron paul has a new apocalyptic campaign out there gives it some volunteers the latest trailer a run for its money and there's a new religion in town but the farther. into it all we're in there with the mechanisms to do the work to bring justice and accountability. i have every right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i pay taxes. but i would characterize obama

as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here sees some other part of it and realize that everything is ok you don't i'm trying hard look at the big picture. let's not forget that we have an apartheid right now. i think the evil one well. we have the government says they're for keeping safe get ready because of the

freedom. it is time for sides tool time award and tonight we're giving it's

a california congressman darrell lives up there part of him is the chairman of the house oversight committee which today held hearings on the new consumer financial protection bureau and that's a new bureau created after the two thousand and eight economic meltdown that's designed to protect the consumer as in you and i got sharper republicans are big fans of this new government agency in fact they're trying to defund it before even before it even gets off the ground but just listen to congressman ice's speaking on fox business news before today's hearing what the powers are in art and what the checks and balances will be as you know we're very concerned right that this is an energy that's essentially funded around the earth and yet it has the ability to bully the bank so i guess i was going to ask you your problem with her or the entity. now did you hear what i just heard there lies actually thinks that professor elizabeth warren in the consumer financial protection bureau might bully the banks the big bad bureau is going to bully the poor helpless little banks how

sad how low i think of the banks and need to be bullied a little bit i'm not advocating for violence here but i think that those bakers need to be held accountable for the economic mess that they've created i still understand what world they are living it you know the economic collapse of two thousand and eight can be traced directly back to the big banks and wall street greed and corruption across the boards of the u.s. and the world economy into a dive that we're still trying to recover from i says friends the republicans have all gone out of their way to attack professor warren the person that president obama wants to run the new consumer financial protection bureau because they see her as the boogie man or woman simply because she believes that the consumer deserves as much protection as the banks do you see the bureau's cash to begin operating and a week and it still doesn't even have a leader because republicans are blocking elizabeth warren's nomination and why would i sign his friends on the senate side to block her nomination well i don't know maybe because warren's role of the bureau would be to inspect the books of the

nation's biggest banks and wall street with the washington d.c. establishment on their side they definitely to line anyone looking at those books so i just wonder what would they find if they did it as they progress pointed out today there are far more consumers out there than there are banks so i wonder when republicans are finally to wake up start caring about the consumer probably never since wall street just happens to run washington d.c. but that's why we're giving republican congressman darrell i said tonight's truth and award. ok it's time for a happy hour on this evening and joining me tonight as are two producer jenny churchill and alex sites while the poor. and blogger for think progress dot org ok guys it's campaign season in there and one of the things i love about campaign season is when people put out campaign ads and we finally have one from ron paul

take a look at. the. tree you. want to play. with. like a large parking space between the states of the. pictures from. one candidate has control. cut spending well it's the but are you standing up to the washington. press the store. doing that was so apocalyptic like the world is going to end if ron paul is elected president i mean i liked it right i think he just kind of put some policies adds to shame he just one upped him but i'm wondering about a little unconventional for ron paul who all of the usually is the unconventional candidates start just doing the same all of hollywood where thing that everyone

else is yeah i actually checked out some of his videos from last time and they look like kind of local cable thrown together commercials for carpet stores or whatnot so this is actually a big step for him this is like produce and i half expected to see i half expect to see it for harry potter tonight and you know i really could use some explosions maybe some gun fire a car chase i don't know i mean it is a little sad to see ron paul moving away from his you know shoelace kind of low budget production values that i really came to love about ron paul he's just kind of you know i think he's i think he's been turned by the washington establishment making big bucks in hollywood so we'll see how this is go big or go home oh maybe because we know he had als that he's not going to run again for his congressional seat that's going to put all his eggs in the basket of the presidency. right now so it's just go big or go home here it is apocalypse but we're talking about him so i guess like he's with us just like how we arrived at the conclusion that his anti-establishment is so ridiculously establishment absolute because everything is

saying it is still anti-social because he's saying go for your convictions and do not compromise which at the end of the day i'm assuming we are going to compromise although it's kind of a big headache right now this whole debt ceiling debacle of the next thing also g.o.p. presidential candidate michele bachmann she was trying to get her jewish on and look what happened. your sig issue the president doesn't want to have to be confronted with priorities and spending because he has a lot of chutzpah he spent a trillion dollars on the stimulus it's. ok how do we properly say it instead of chutzpah. he's really getting a lot i don't lack for that i mean i don't know is this worse than her mistakes that she makes when it comes to u.s. history and the constitution since that's what she always is you know going on and on and on about what i think is where i don't think she used it correctly i mean

it's basically supposed to mean he's got a lot of balls and she said she was saying things that were kind of embarrassing to him and then he's got. this makes sense i mean yeah i mean i think is what she is worse than the history things because she's really launched on to this whole pro israel produce bandwagon that a lot of the republicans are saying i'm a better friend of jews than barack obama but she can't even pronounce the word chutzpah which is like the most common use word out there she says she is jewish have you not see not in two thousand and ten she said you know i didn't know she says i don't think she says i'm a christian but i consider myself a human because that's the religion that christianity was and because it's politically convenient to say so and it's inconvenient like i said because it was very clearly saw it written first you know just pronouncing the who he was he's written before they ever heard it in their entire life which is just suggest he's not surrounded by many jews. i think you put your nose or your whatever whatever

that thing is i can't speak english today and i need to go in for you. next one comcast. comcast they claim to have the fastest wireless internet and broadband speeds out there take a look at some of the ads that they put out. ok thanks features. check out the one hundred percent pure broadband power of comcast high speed internet. you know i have comcast i'm pretty sure my internet doesn't do that but moving on. there you know it's slow it's supposed to be so great and so fast and wonderful but it turns out there's a guy who service has been shut off he's a thirty nine year old gaming consoles and he lives in seattle and they actually

just shut it off because he used too much data apparently he went over the two hundred fifty get away foul line or something and they don't even warn him they just shut it off. i think about some like to eat it i think if they had warned him in the past about it i don't think they were this time i mean honestly though is how they get you would be start raising your rates and nobody tells you until your bill comes and you really very own age thirty seven is ready for any day and call him about his outrageous status and honestly i mean this is about he was using so much data that it was hurting his neighbors their bandwidth speed was lower because he was using so much and i find it hard to believe that he used all that bandwidth only downloading a few bit torrents i'm sorry that just doesn't add up to. well i don't know that i guess i didn't realize that there was a limit on how much data you can download if your behavior is recorded it reaches the limit no normal person would reach the limit that i was that somebody has

reached out to you know two hundred fifty gigabytes a month i mean that's a lot of data and you gotta wonder you know what he's done with it but i was told i want to write he just based on am i wholly on his side until i got to the part where the comcast spokesman said this is slowing down the internet of his neighbors and if i was one of his neighbors i would be pissed and then i'm like comcast so i will turn on the i guess the i totally depends on what your book vision you're in but i just say that i mean comcast needs to adjust and realize that some people are going to start using a lot of data or downloading a lot of. now this next story i just i just love it this guy is. austrian and he's an atheist and he apparently won the rights to be shown in his driving license photo wearing a pasta strainer on his head as his religious have here which i kind of funny because he claims that he's an atheist but he also says that he had to wear the c. because of his religion but anyway he is a he's a pasta fahri and. i like that how great it was that i became

a pasta foreign today actually i visited the website of the section do you want to be a pasta foreign and i clicked in there like congrats you are all you have to do yes and actually i am signed up and i'm going to mail the certificate i'm already a pasta party a minister not so pretty that any that i don't know it seems a little counterintuitive that there's a religion that's anti religion but you can still be a member of the religion or whatever but i'm going to give him props for this it's looking like three years he went through all these hoops he had to get mentally screened physically screen and. they really tried to not look this is going to be the green screen. a mental evaluation because they thought that he must be out of his mind if you wanted to where it's because he's stronger but this post was for the biggest pretty cool so the god is a flying spaghetti monster is like a religion invented to protest you know the teaching of intelligent design in schools or trying to get schools to teach supplying spaghetti monster is a long way along with things you know it sounds funny now it is just one guy who's

just trying to get a picture taken for his driver's license some point pasta far in his name isn't going to cost you a click it's going to start costing a lot of money it's going to be like the next scientology can become as we are called and then we won't be laughing when if the face just saying i'm warning you and warning you don't want to. be dragged but i don't see my theory or the. lookout for a positive because it could be coming. to steal your body. just to punish a party while i'm going to. see evil in a matter of like thirty seconds. you guys thanks for joining me tonight show thanks for tuning in and make sure you come back tomorrow former u.s. army captain matthews there literally on the show discuss some of those projects the defense budget goes to let's just say if the american people are not getting their money's worth and meantime don't forget to become a fan of below the show on page look at all of us on twitter and if you missed any

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