welcome back to the big picture i'm john harshman coming up in this half hour florida governor rick scott turns down a budget a lifeline to help save the lives of thousands of at risk children so is this the best decision for his state is he just trying to round up brownie points from his republican buddies and then executed inmates last words call for an end to a true. devalue the lesson he learned from his victim and tonight still take.

children in florida are screwed last year republicans in florida leveled a forty three percent cut to their healthy families florida program that provides assistance to expecting parents and newborns in an effort to curb child abuse and neglect as a result of the cut services were dropped to more than thirty five hundred high risk families more than five thousand children but this year governor rick scott was given a lifeline by the federal government to keep the program afloat more than eight million dollars was available to florida to continue home visitation services for at risk children as part of the affordable care act but as you would expect from any diehard republican nowadays rick scott said no thanks to the funding because he has an ideological problem with obamacare so is this what it comes down to for

republicans to hell with abuse children we need to take down the president here to explain this dangerously irresponsible position governor scott has taken i'm joined by seton motley president allows government seat welcome back to see you good to see you so why do you and rick scott hate children. we hate budget deficits and when as we saw last year with the nearly one trillion dollars stimulus it props up state governments for a year and then they're back in the exact same position they were a year later and they need the money again he's turning down the eight million because next year he'll need it again he's got a budget his state for the future not for the next sixteen sixteen weeks or one year while giving an example medicaid grew out of control because the federal government gave every state three dollars for every one dollar it spent. so that therefore addicted them to government federal government money and then when they had to cut back they only got one dollar of cuts for every four dollars of oh you

know one dollar bang for the sauce this is nothing to do with you talking is it does it cost you to force the state of florida sixty four thousand three hundred seventy seven dollars a year to house and treat a kid who was abused and had to be moved to the system to prevent that abuse it cost the state of florida sixteen hundred seventy one dollars if we know the program actually works which we don't we do know we don't have a five year independent study shows ninety eight percent of children serving healthy family programs are abuse free they can't afford it if they can't afford it stay to play can't afford six hundred dollars a year to avoid spending sixty four thousand dollars a year for for ten to get of years either and then and then six hundred zero zero zero one here and where we are isn't those kids and we are like getting the money we're fourteen point four trillion dollars in debt and amount to hell with the abused kids how would you have asked that our children i'm going to hell with borrowing money we don't have to continue to spend money on programs that we can't we could easily have that money see simply well let's roll back the bush tax cuts let's roll back the reagan tax cut the revenue increase in the in the two thousands

on the under the bush tax cuts revenue always increases revenue has increased since the founding this country the dollar no rows back of the matter is closed it was because i could actually say. there are as our budget deficit according to whose math according to a according to the i.r.s. is medicare and anybody who is static analysis than a static analysis says back to punch you're going to sit there and let me get very namak analysis is that if i read hunter you move at the money when you look at where the money has gone we see that about a quarter of the total budget deficit or as caused by the bush tax cuts for a lot of fundamental but a photo of it as a rundown mentally but is fundamentally focus that is static analysis and when you go to tax rates you increase economic activity to the tax cut fairy i get there no it's called hasn't reality no more yes it is the way it was why is it that when the top tax rate was ninety one person. in the in the fifth forties fifties is a guy who was spending less money because a gun was but he was having his strongest economy in history has already or than

yes i really and fewer people as a matter of government smaller as a percentage of the population took less of the g.d.p. and therefore the economy was stronger the bigger the government gets the smaller the private economy gets and it eats it up and destroys a paradise of the government federal government like locusts they move in and eat up everything every private sector thing around it and then move on so so leonarda if it's this that's a nonsensical that's absolutely true how you look at massachusetts people voted terrible tax policy and regulatory policy and government policy and they screwed up the state and they moved to new hampshire and we had all we have if you look at the last since were obama came into office there have been twenty five states that have cut that have increased spending they have increased taxes in california to have tony high when you do any five states they have increased taxes increase spending average on average their g.d.p. is going up a half a point and i'm going down to have a house california for say i don't know twenty have climbed out there and sold it for younger i don't see that as what the rate spending and their g.d.p. has gone down and their unemployment has gone up all i know is people in new jersey

on the hate is chris christie are all of a sudden like them because their fees are going down their taxes are going down the line is going right no it's not but it was noticed that you know he is fundamentally sixty eight all over this country are going to give us the whole story is we are engaging in a contract of economic no we're you know arena reset we're not indeed we are because you know i could no more baggage the government your address your government her connivers notary i know because herbert hoover spent money i'm proud of at the federal level i'm talking about contract think governor and all your hot car contracts go to way with we don't we don't need no stinking up the name why is there a sense less government here's the simple question and relative to this you've got kids who are at risk they are in all probability if their if their parents big because of because of the poverty and conditions that their parents have been raising they are in all probability going to end up in this is. i'm costing sixty thousand bucks a year as kids maybe eighty or one hundred thousand dollars a year as adults and there this is all speculation but go ahead now this is this is this is also i wish i could go ahead in this field for five years i can tell you

this is this is what happens when at risk of any kid we can't afford to continue this really if you're not a years old why would you know we've been doing it for two hundred thirty you know we haven't the first administration to to to violate the constitution and the first administration violate the constitution and federal tax mess and use it to pay for children who are at risk which is my little research in washington and that was why they were violation the constitution i have a feeling that the people in the george washington ministration who helped write the constitution i didn't read a change or out why it may create why did may create a part of energy they did they the george washington ministration was the first how it was created mr i've obviously not seen obviously nods but i used to get sixty five they were they were they were gathering money to pay for it in fact it's the first veto in the james madison administration the father of constitution the fourth president of states his first veto this was because they started taking that money and stop giving that money to what have you actually to the what have i was

a stall and instigated to what happened because no we're not going to have passed it but they passed over the question is if we're not going to care for these kids who is the parents and if they don't get if they don't then we're going to pay for life ain't fair we're going to pay for with you know you would you have no problem paying for prisons you know but you don't want to pay for schools you have no problem paying for the profit foster thaws to care for kids i don't want government schools not you don't want you know i don't care bill auster care you know going to school stink so young kids going to school either i want to go to private schools oh ok so people screws we have public cell phones but everybody has a cell phone a cell phone isn't six seven seven thousand dollars you know go to school six thousand dollars a year private schools you know where that little twenty thirty thousand and it's not mine wasn't i went to private school way through twelve. and i was cheaper than what's legal right now. probably nine thousand a year ok and the average public schools sixteen go sixteen well it's about six

thousand oh it's sixteen now if you're going to asia why did six think. it is absolutely is government schools think we're good to up with the way numbers see it and thanks for the always a pleasure unfortunately that thousands of children are at risk of abuse of mistreatment of florida just so rick scott can score some political points on the right and pout telling president obama. just for. the. it's the good the bad in the very very sceptical e of like the good guys and senator herb kohl the f.c.c. said to consider a merger between eighteen t. and t. mobile senator kohl was hoping to block the creation of a telecom do awfully that will screw over millions of consumers in

a seven page letter to the attorney general and the f.c.c. senator kohl wrote the merger will cause substantial harm to competition and consumers home went on to say we cannot turn a blind eye to the dangerous possibility that this acquisition could ultimately result in a doowop only in the national cell phone market and so calls words are taken into consideration over the f.c.c. and it's also hope an f.c.c. commissioner isn't planning to pull another revolving door trick and approve the merger and then go and work for a team. the bab the tea party nation not only do the corporate funded tricorder had zombies hate pain really really low taxes they also hate pain hotel rooms last summer the group reserved more than sixteen hundred rooms at the plaza hotel in las vegas to host a tea party convention tea party nation agreed to pay almost six hundred thousand. even if the event had to be cancelled at the last minute then they cancel the reservation and now they want the money they always so the venetian casino resort

is filing a lawsuit against tea party nation no wonder the tea party has no problem with a government default you know on its debts their default on their own debts and a very very ugly brian kilmeade this morning the fox and friends talking head weighed in on a story about an american boy scout leader who was thrown into bahamas jail after a bullet was found in his fanny pack he was trying to board an airplane but you know i did that in the bahamas airport security as you saw your job so thoroughly that they found the little girl i think is comforting actually this morning i will tell you got a four day jealous bell seems like a severe it does especially in the bahamas where you're just in the combinations aren't like you know or get more which are here are sterling must be accommodations and get lower sterling or at the prison facility that's a symbol of human rights abuses around the world top notch luxury facility according to kill me i think on his next vacation kill me to try to reserve a room again to see for himself a much he likes it and then he'll realize his comments were very very ugly. up next

to the killer's final words last night before being executed and why they should be echoed around the country it's a nice feeling to. let's think these twenty four seven live streaming news towns what to do about the ongoing financial hurricane unlimited free high quality videos for download. and stories you never find on. the. political. person more aren't just. for. fun. it's.

your take my take is your chance to send in your questions comments ranson observations about anything we talk about here on the big picture or drink during my radio show and it's my chance to give you my take on it one more time our first comments tonight is from the viewer rant right it's no secret that i'm a huge supporter labor unions here in the united states i think they played a key role in protecting the rights of workers and advancing many important social issues and they're one hundred fifty year history in this country but a war doesn't seem to agree with my support for keeping unions strong. the republicans are for the corporations we all know that but if you're going to sit

here and claim that the democrats are not for the unions then you're nuts you are stark raving nuts and for you to say they are a democratically elected organization is like saying that a board of directors is a democratically elected organization they are not they are out for their own good take care way more about themselves and their frickin pensions come to california so you can make six hundred thousand dollars as a union representative on your pension the six hundred thousand dollars part of which is being paid for by my tax dollars give me a break by either just as brutal corrupt they're just as stupid there just as they go liars ok ward first of all unions are what built this country unions are democracy in the workplace and the workplaces are essentially kingdoms. the forty hour workweek was built by unions unions built america big big broad as workplace safety rules germany in effect in germany were the unions are the law requires that

the corporate boards and the board of directors of large corporations of the have more than thousand employees fifty percent of the represents fifty percent of the people on the board have to come from the unions and by the way germany has a great industrial economy that's working really well we need democracy in the workplace workers need to have a voice and that's a you another viewer tweeted that according to your twisted line of thinking we would have utopia if the minimum wage was one hundred dollars or more an hour well kurt i don't know if we need to take it that far but let me just lay this out this was first laid out actually by teddy roosevelt the republican president back in nineteen twelve this is a this is a tape that was recorded on a wax this by thomas edison himself this is teddy roosevelt.

the elements of. the ritual members of the government. in other words just in summary what teddy roosevelt proposed in nineteen twelve was that a minimum wage a living wage should be enough to live on and up to raise your kids enough to put them through school enough to have a vacation and enough to have retirement we used to call that the united states the middle class and the debate on the viability of social security is another issue that has many of you talking all but the past few weeks i've said several times that despite what republicans want you to think social security is not bankrupt it's not either bankrupting us as a nation or is itself bankrupt but some of you are still not convinced but here you

have senator sanders consciously saying this so security is flush and is like two point four five trillion dollars of excess it's funded well then if that's the case why isn't there going to be checks sent out to the people who get social security checks that for your file cabinets full of ious. that's not something that's for sure it's a paper there's no cash there if it was to cash the checks with go out or the president's demagoguing you know using the so scary checks as a way to demagogue the republicans when the price of the public. perhaps some of this confusion stems from progressive members of congress even president obama not being able to communicate their agenda and social security just fine it's not going bankrupt it has nothing to do with our debt problem in fact and wrote a note on our message for. this debate over social security is a bit confusing progressive speak of the fact that social security is solvent for decades running to

a surplus and has nothing to do with the deficit why is it on the table i understand the surplus or deficit does not affect the budget deficit or the national debt there must be some reason this is on the table and we borrow against the social security trust fund and by making cuts that will somehow improve the debt situation dems and cons of the talking points on social security it must be something more of this i'm not getting from resit talk let me try to set the record straight here on social security social security is in fact solvent it will be for at least another twenty five years it's got two point seven trillion dollars in its savings account that savings account was invested instead of buying for example stock in the stock market what the truth of it which would be pretty irrational particularly given the last crash we had you don't want to be gambling with your social security money and instead of just putting it in a checking account citibank which be crazy what they did was they bought treasury bills with treasury bills the debt of the u.s. government now the reason why president obama said that if the nation goes bankrupt

if we you know if we get the doubt wall if the republicans don't raise the debt ceiling but social security checks may not go out is that in order to get the money to pay those checks the social security department has to take those treasury bills and to the treasury department redeem them say here give me the cash and the and the and the and the treasury department has no cash so it wouldn't be able to pay the so security fund it so those security fund couldn't be passing out the money the real reason that social security is on the table though and this is the really important issue the real reason why social security is on the table is because of lobbying from wall street bankers two point seven trillion dollars two billion seven. it's a two point seven i came to do the math it's millions times millions you know it's a trillion dollars a trillion dollars a pound. billion a billion is a thousand million point seven trillion of the wall street bankers are looking at that money gone off we have this money and we could be churning this money and we

could just skim a little off the top and so they try to do a pinochet did in chile like forty years ago or thereabouts and privatized social security and the bankers will make out like bandits and so they're leaning on the republicans and their loony on the democrats and there are some democrats who have even gone in that direction i think it's absolutely wrong of course the republicans are all gung ho for this because they're totally owned by wall street if you like your comments and questions heard on this segment and a picture listen up we want to know your take send us your comments by visiting the tom hartman facebook page but a twitter at tom underscore hartman are in the chat room on the message boards or through the blog at thom hartmann dot com you can also leave a message on our rant line at two to five three six fifty three zero six agree disagree sound off it's all welcome but remember that your comments may be used on the air.

last night a man in texas was executed his name was mark strawman and he was given a lethal injection by the state of texas because he let himself get consumed with eight. ten days after nine eleven straw men went on a shooting spree hell bent on killing as many muslims as he could on three separate nights he walked into dallas gas stations with a shotgun opening fire killing two muslim men and shooting another man in the face a third victim. boyan just barely survived the shooting boyan will be partially blind for the rest of his life because of his injuries he wasn't interested in i for an eye justice why because his muslim religion preaches forgiveness all the way up until the day that strawman was executed bullion petitioned the state of texas to spare strawman's life launching a global petition to have his sentence commuted to life without parole. but for

good monster of admitting your city go in fact i never hated him i never hated america for what happened to be a good leave us ignorant and not capable of distinguishing between right and wrong other ways hugh could have done. in my favor forgiveness is the best policy and islam doesn't allow for hate and killing. and strawman took notice he was struck by the compassion that was afforded to him by one of his victims and he changed his way in a message to rice billion from jail strong. in the free world i was free but i was locked in a prison inside myself because the hate i carried in my heart is due to rice as a message of forgiveness that i am more content now than i've ever been and last night strawman built on the message and used his last breath to issue these last words for us all to hear hate is going on in this world and it has to stop hate

causes a lifetime of pain. as a result of what a group of eight film and not what a religion did on nine eleven our nation just like strong and admitted to is often consumed with hate we have a man running for president was disqualified muslims from serving in his administration and argue that our nation has the right to deny muslims a place of worship. would you be comfortable appointing a muslim either in your cabinet or as a federal judge no. i would not so you're saying any community if they want to ban a mosque yes they have the right to do that we have a prominent member of congress who is using his powers as chairman of the homeland security committee to whip up fear in our nation and investigate american muslims for radical islam i believe it's important to have this investigation on radicalization of the most in community we see what happened in england we know that our card is trying to recruit people over here such as they did with the

subway bombing in new york chrystia the attempted subway bombing times square bombing these are all people living legally in the united states we have the most popular cable news network saying that all terrorists are muslims and warning of warning americans about victory mosques in new york city in tennessee and hate fueled caliphate springing up to bring shari'a law to america. not all muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are muslim if you are an eighteen to twenty eight year old muslim man you should be strip searched and if we go into there there's a very high probability we're going to lose an airline building that victory mosque what's in essence a burial site would be both disruptive and cold hearted for the families of nine eleven victims the most dangerous scenario is that radical muslims seize power and put sharia law into place saying these are all components of the hate machine killing us all with fear and driving some of us like strawman to lash out in

violence but islam is not the real threat to america our own hatred our own fear is the biggest threat to this nation as the southern poverty law center points out more than a thousand hate groups operating across america today their numbers have grown by fifty four percent since nine eleven. they are new nazis klansman white supremacists black separatists and border vigilantes they're all over there all over the country it's the various militia it's it's killing america but they are not however are muslims in fact according to f.b.i. data ninety four percent of all the terrorist acts committed on u.s. soil over the past decade were not from radical muslims but instead from these very same hate groups that are popping up across america and all our news media will

feast once every few years on a muslim attack that was thwarted they ignore the hate crimes that are carried out every single day in america often leaving families devastated and communities in distress as mark strawman said just before the lethal cocktail was pumped into his arm hate causes a lifetime of pain so let's not let this story of forgiveness and frankly of enlightenment be forgotten let's end this hateful so-called war on terror and focus on really in this nation of the far more describe destructive force hate and fear. that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our web sites of thom hartmann dot com free speech dot org and our cheat on you also check out our two you tube channels there alongside tom harkin dot com this entire show is also available as a free video podcast on i tunes and we have a free tom hartman i phone and i pad app and the app store he sends feedback to

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