drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions for the great through it through had made who can you trust no one who is in view with the global machinery see where are we heading state controlled capitalism is called satchels when nobody dares to ask what we do our t. question more.

are you ready to rumble has time for tonight's big picture on the right of eight the week's biggest stories of the panel of experts political commentators tonight i'm joined in the studio by heather sermon and sort of strategist an associate at blueskin solutions as well as a blogger heather sermonette aka joe madison host of the joe madison show on sirius x.m. satellite radio is on the air from six to ten am weekdays on channel one twenty eight and brian darling columnist of human events and contributor to red state dot com and big government dot com and director of government studies at the heritage foundation welcome to all of you and let's get started. officially. the economy added one hundred seventy seven thousand four hundred seventeen thousand jobs we get we got this news this morning the seventeenth straight on the president had this to say about. but while this marks the seventeenth month in

a row of job growth in the private sector nearly two and a half million new private sector jobs in all. we have to create more jobs than that each month to make up for the more than eight million jobs that the recession climbs so that's the good news and contrast to have million new jobs so far to bush's three million for his only ears but the bad news the dow dropped five hundred twelve points yesterday it bounced back a little bit today with this news but you're. right the little gains of the year bad manufacturing numbers bad service sector numbers low g.d.p. growth rate the economic policy institute says that as a result of this deal that was cut between democrats and republicans it is going to take one point eight million jobs out of the economy in the next twelve to fifteen months and before the next election and two hundred billion dollars out of our g.d.p. because it's all cutting it's contract if and now a.b.c.

is reporting that standard and poor's says that they will likely downgrade our debt because we're engaging contractionary policies like this and because they don't trust congress to the gang of twelve to actually be able to do anything john boehner has bragged that he got ninety eight percent of what he wanted so is this economic disaster the fault of the republicans brian. it think it's a fault of both parties because they grew government too much we could all learn mark this week this is the first time in our nation's history where our national debt as a whole is the equivalent of our gross domestic product this year what does that tell us that it's not a landmark we were above that during world war two well we're hearing it any six percent of g.d.p. and not something to be proud of when we're looking at countries like portugal who are in economic trouble and they have a lower betting and he relented and twenty four percent of g.d.p. right and that's not good we do not want you in just five of them we're not doing fine we have nine point two percent unemployment obama non already had

a service right now hardly less than it did during the reagan administration but as a percentage is doing very poorly and the reason why is we have too much government we have too much regulation regulations imposed. the budget one point seven five hidden taxes on the american people every single year ok so regulators are extremely important news you've always said i mean we do want clean water we regulate that we do want clean air we regulate and god knows we should have regulated wall street or we wouldn't have been in the mess that. president obama he made a point sachar it the car was driven into a ditch and he spent the first two years trying to get the car out of the ditch now here's here's my point he made he made a gamble the gamble was i'm going to spend next billions of dollars and i hope to create x. number of jobs he fails sure but it leaves the state it is go here's what i would

say to my conservative friends since you're talking jobs jobs jobs jobs why don't you do this for the american people how many jobs will your policies create and in what time frame because that's what my cousin wants to know and b. when will i go back to work and and i spend a week on the air with a question all i want is someone to call me up and say how many jobs will you create and in what time frame will we have one call to ask whether in the middle we have left still i would second what brian said but i'd also say that you know far coming to really get moving again not only does the government need to reduce in size but i think americans also need to see their own bottom different ways that we need to start conserving more and see how we spend money in a different way those fellows i think still like jimmy carter with. the i would but i would also say that the government also needs to reduce its size it needs to be a two tiered approach and say i should just all become four i'm not saying we're

i'm saying that we should live within our means that we should be more frugal and we have been doing that and so we have an expectation i think like you know you know we really are. here and you know i agree with her. but i mean there's a right to it but but people however i think everybody agrees that you know there needs to be belt tightening the question is what do you tighten and this is this is the theological theological this is the the ideological difference here my side says look no no don't mess with students in the tail grants because these of these are students that business will need don't mess with seniors in medicare and yes medicare needs to be adjusted but you know these are what do you do with poor people who have been unemployed for ninety days one hundred twenty days you can't just cut them off and so what do they do it it's how you grow while you do

these and these are the big issues and that frankly they are theological issues they are moral issue well as badly as they can be sure. your fretting slip is right . with president obama just signed the f.a.a. funding bill he just. the second republican hostage taking in three four weeks here has been resolved but it looks to me like we've gone from you know bill clinton said the era of big government is over and so we want from big government to small government you know hostage shaping government to government by hostages what's going to be the next crisis the ones i see on the horizon the gas taxes expiring at the end of september grover norquist has already said that should be hostage. all the american people are are told seven hundred thousand construction workers around the country hostage of. the of his budget is coming up october is the fiscal year for the government super congress right the gang of twelve recommendations

unemployment benefits for for people expire at the end of the year the one year deal that president obama got. another one i would say that it's ridiculous notion to say. the republicans are the ones who are holding these things hostage in that you know they control only one third of the government you know they they don't have both houses they have the house the house side walks into a bank with a gun and he's the hostage taker you've got a whole bag full of people you know these political games go on all the time so you can't say that it's a unique situation this is not unique situations what happens you have a divided congress of course are going to have dissension and so the challenge is for you know the congress right now and it's why people are growing really dissatisfied with congress is because it's invited you know so two thousand and twelve we're going to make it united are going to make it divided so you know how we're going to a president who supports congress and get some things through or not you know you know what do you support you know i think about roosevelt who tried to get us out

of the oppression congress was absolutely against roosevelt newser some of his very wealthy friends you know it's interesting if i were president obama i'd run against congress he's got a much higher he's got four times well he's got four times higher rate and you know what happened. none of us knew what the debt ceiling was. and then all of a sudden people were educated and but most important of all in peoria other places they saw congress and they went what the hell is this and quite honestly they're there they're p.o. . everybody in congress and that's why it's at what fourteen percent twelve percent and i think quite honestly you have that list of what's held hostage all of well all of it let's start with your premise i mean we had to play a grace president joe biden called the tea partiers terrorists this week we had he said there is

a terrorist attack senator chuck schumer argued the gun was being put to bed he actually did a gesture and pointed a gun at reporters basically implying that republicans are terrorists and you did. two just now i find that offensive they are calling republicans in the tea party terrorists and i am a proud tea party and i'm going to say something i said this the other day and i'm a proud african american and i'll tell you what if they other side wants respect and quit calling our president tar baby referring to our president is born there in lies the problem turned down the heat on both sides but he's a family attorney but it is using republicans there is me and calling the president tar baby and a liar which member of congress which member of congress are busy there are no excuse me can the put the. congressman from colorado get joe wilson said karen said you lie i mean all i'm saying is well i'm offended

because you're calling me names and then we sit here with the president of the united states and president of all of us and then pat buchanan refers to him as a boy and then the colorado in a colorado congressman refers to him as a tar baby and then you've got tea party members running around showing him with bones in his nose as this piece a witch doctor and you tell me that he's going to have racial connotations of course they do but if you want to we can respect if you want respect give respect and argue that all nations i'm not arguing that all republicans i'm arguing exist not all democrats call everybody terrorists so if you're offended because of the terminology that is used by someone i can be offended by the terminology that used give me in that respect i'll give you the respect let me respond to the terrorist i'm sure i mean you know osama bin laden in you can read this the collected works of art of love that's published i do believe it's one of my brother's first books

of the month he explicitly said his goal with nine eleven was to crash the american car. now if you're saying he's a terror republicans are like osama bin laden that's. ridiculous items on rage i believe that all republicans are are intentionally crashing the american economy so that they can use that to run against president obama next year but i think it's actually a big raise very long as i did you know we could raise america to me and and you know maybe not explicitly terrorist in this in an intelligent president obama says normal good here for the common cold the republicans would be against it. i don't disagree but i think it's interesting that you brought up truman earlier i know that you did awful commentary on the air about about him and you know the war of words that he had with congress and how he won with that however the truth was that that congress the republican controlled congress that you know was beautiful congress that you know that was not a do nothing congress i mean there's our cia they established several things that are still exists today that we all appreciate so yes it was the u.s.'s rename i

mean they extended that made they created this national security idea that we still embrace today so yes he won the war of words but the reality is you look at pax that was in a do nothing wrong you know i would highlight is that obama says wage war we can agree russian approval but let's just you know move this along in congress is disapproval rate is now eighty two percent last night of the daily show jon stewart asked dick durbin about this and he had this to say. john is say that the approval rating for congress is between six and nineteen i don't believe we have the undergrowth which so. i did not leave out the numbers are inflated or the numbers are and it's not easy to present the it turns out republicans are mostly to blame for this john boehner disapproval has jumped up sixteen points a republican disapproval overall seventy two percent democrats sixty six are we seen the classic the reagan republican strategy of the bill bennett strategy of

same government as bad governance terrible i'm going to run against government and when you get in government you basically break it and then when it's broken use point out. it's broken and then you run against government how did they break it when they cut a deal on the debt limit increase they cut the deal in the continuing resolution we're not talking about bills not being trillions of dollars out of it which is going rightly drawings of mean guys lots of ok let's talk about the cuts and the c.r. this package increases the deficit over the next ten years by six trillion dollars so we're not talking about cuts we're talking cuts to projected increases in spending the american people should not be fooled and they're actually having to sort of inflation yes i am very familiar with. the fact that in january or february of two thousand and thirteen we're going to have to increase the debt we're going to get because we're going to run out of money and i'm very familiar with history and i remember when ronald reagan first term increase the government by one hundred ninety nine point five percent but you know that's

a talking point i'm sorry i'm not supposed to bring well i think increased since nine hundred sixty eight people are are not really affiliated with the party so much i mean they go back and forth they're more associated with the idea that people embrace they want to be a part of this group that you know shares their same values and share you know i think that's even more now so i think that you know you need to have a divided congress it makes sense that people would be upset with the way congress is not working very well because we had a divided congress but you're right that more and more americans are identifying themselves as independent we're not affiliated or what is that servitude we're looking here is they're low information voters because they're they're they're being entertained by. t.v. i think i think it's because quite honestly again i'll go back to what i said earlier i think they saw the process up close they were it was sad saturate it now we talk to each other because we're inside the beltway but i'm telling you people

saw this and they went wait a minute why can't these folks sit down and agree to get this done put back to work people want to know and i'll put this question out here again. who's got a plan to put me in the word and when will i go back to work that's all they want to know. that the process used to pass a dublin increase was not transparent the american people didn't get to see anything go none of this is transparent and that's why all the citizens are also are disgusted by their process going to their courage will announce that their recall in thirty six sneaky decisive purpose thank you for this. cardinal is that they're going to do recall and destroy thirty six million pounds of ground turkey meanwhile the republican slash the federal food safety budget two months ago was in the house of representatives eighty seven billion dollars. thirty five million dollars from the u.s.d.a.'s regulatory the food safety division why do republicans have a problem seafood. well to continue upon i think they are cutting pork and

a lot of different areas you know i'm special is that for you probably you know i just want to vent but i think that you know it's not a matter of being against food safety it's a matter of who they believe is the best to and you know make sure that there is you know coverage you should be inspected well and the reality is this is their own inspectors and the c.d.c. who discovered it you know it was the c.d.c. that this problem started in march to their own it took the federal centers for disease control the do the d.n.a. testing to track back all these people who are getting sick and one person died to oh it's coming from this point but this this is this libertarian point of view. we don't need spectators to the inspectors sausage making company and if they poison a few people make a few people sick then want to happen just don't buy the sausage but in the meantime you've got sick people and it should have never happened and this isn't

about cutting pork because most of those cuts are going to inspectors you know it's about overregulation this bill here reform bill is very hard. well to small businesses to small farmers because all of a sudden they have to go through a lot of poison will be not loud noise of people but we haven't had a problem of small farmers for years and he just passed his bill earlier this year i don't begin to but you could argue we have a huge problem with small farms before the f.d.a. bill was passed typical liberal solution pass legislation problem solved it expanded out a federal program to put in there is a solution to make sure that the food is safe no you just by throwing more money into a program what he really expected are inspectors that's what they do they are inspectors and then when you cut the program you lay off inspectors then there's not enough inspectors to go around to inspect the food that we all have to consume i don't understand maybe you can give you an example though there was a local story actually not too long ago about a maryland farmer who was selling raw milk and he wasn't supposed to be something

in the district controversy i know of a controversy because who came in and closed him down with armed arms you know the guns pointing at him right you know i mean yes he shouldn't doing that is against the law but you need you to come in with guns and you know basically scariest you write you a car you're you know i agree that it's only you here i mean. that's the right time for our time for it which i should let you know very well as well as pushing great for sean hannity declared last night that by a group treats a medical condition that birth control does not take a look at this but again this is about women's health if you care about women's health and absolutely troll this help if needed those families can stop expecting other people to be responsible for every minute aspect of your life in this nanny state that you want to create why should we pay for a man's biafra because that actually is a mess in terms of medical bills for the affordable care act would have been all

right here's what i control is a medical problem versus have sex so a drug that makes it easier for men to have sex should be free but a drug. it lets women have sex without getting pregnant should not be free what am i missing here anybody started the end all right already thank you i don't think you should be covered by insurance so it's it seems like a waste of money to me i disagree with you on hand and for the first time in my life oh i'll just agree with you don't disagree with that i mean really do you think i also agree that we shouldn't be covering either one of those ok and i'm going to disagree with all of you because there's a whole family of drugs that nitrites that effect blood pressure that actually has a variety of medical conditions that can effect and a lot of women are on birth control pills not because they're for contraception but to regulate their periods and there's a whole spectrum of medical conditions i think you know the whole spectrum of these are used will be. going to have

a four hour actually don't call it is. this remote bright and early thank you all very. coming up why is secret donation to mitt romney's presidential campaign is just a symptom of a much larger problem the corporate takeover of our bill or rights it's all in my daily take.

republican front runner for president willard mitt romney his swimming in money today and one of the biggest contributions yet of this political scene. isn't it company w span l l c as in limited liability corporation cut a check to romney for one million dollars but what exactly does span do who is behind you spend nobody knows it's a mystery why because the company disappeared shortly after the donation in fact it seems that the company only appeared in the first place just to give mitt romney a million bucks heaviest band was incorporated in march made the contribution april and then was dissolved by july the owner of the manhattan address supposedly belonging to the company claims he has no records of that company ever citing shop up their package doesn't even have a website so essentially mitt romney

a guy who's running for the highest office in the land just got a million bucks out of thin air it could've come from some billionaire hedge fund could it come from a chinese business tycoon put it in a pile of money from a polygamist mormon cult leader looking to stash his cash before he goes to jail could it come from some saudi prince we have no idea and that's because the supreme court doesn't think we have a right to know that secret political campaign contributions from corporations that can appear and disappear in total anonymity is just one consequence of the perversion of our constitution by transnational in some cases supernatural national corporations that paid off the supreme court of the united states to rewrite our bill of rights into a charter for their personhood. this is the central three theme of my book an equal protection after the fourteenth amendment was added to the constitution in one

thousand nine hundred sixty eight to guarantee constitutional rights to freed slaves after the civil war it was corporations not before and not former slaves the benefited the most and most frequently in fact in the fifty years after eight hundred sixty eight corporations turned to the supreme court seeking protection and personhood under the fourteenth amendment which had been passed to free the slaves right if the civil war one hundred times more frequently than the actual people the amendment was supposed to protect and corporations have been very successful in claiming those rights in successive new cases before the high court over the hundred some odd years since then and when you give corporations personhood rights as the supreme court has a numerous occasions since the be eight hundred eighty s. then these corporations don't become people like you and me they become super people people who can't die people who don't need food and water to survive people

who can't be in prisons and people who have more money than you or i could ever dream of and by the way will never have to shell out part of an inheritance tax the money part is especially important since the supreme court ruled that money is a form of speech and then ruled that corporations as people have first amendment rights to free speech corporations now have a much louder voice than the rest of us especially in politics with that free speech corporations can now spend unlimited amounts of money on deceptive t.v. commercials to sway voters and even more money lobby or what used to be called bribing are like lawmakers and with that power corporations are making it rain. over the last decade health corporate health care corporation spent two point two billion dollars lobbying congress well and gas corporations specked spent one at one point one billion dollars and wall street dropped eight hundred forty nine

million dollars all drowned out the voices of you and me we were people and convince lawmakers to support corporate friendly instead of people friendly legislation but like any good corporation was trying to cut costs and backs nice profits they figured out a way to spend less money on lobbying to get the same political results it's called the revolving door right spend a few million bucks lobbying a member of congress when you can just get yourself hired as that members chief of staff or into a regulatory agency and then get paid to advance a pro corporate agenda that's exactly what we're seeing today during the last congress but you know when the n.c. palosi was speaker sixty former lobbyists worked in high level staff positions here on capitol hill but during this congress now the republicans are in control of the house of representatives that number has more than doubled with one hundred twenty

eight former lobbyists now top advisors to mostly republican members of congress which is why it makes a lot of sense that in the recent debt limit deal billion dollar oil corporations got to keep the taxpayer subsidies billionaire corporate jet owners got to keep their tax loopholes and billionaire hedge fund managers keep their lonely fifteen percent maximum income tax rate while the rest of us who don't have lobbyists we get screwed. because accounts of this corporate takeover are clear thanks to lobbying cash can be used to defeat regulations we suffered from the b.p. oil spill last year and we were swapped by the wall street financial crisis in two thousand and eight and we drown in endless stream of health insurance abuses year in and year out it kicked more than fifty three million americans out of the us

health care system corporations now with the supreme court given powers of personhood are frankly devouring our nation and making mountains of money in the process you know our declaration of independence instructs us that when institutions behavior to quote the declaration becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness and of course it's time to listen to thomas jefferson the author of the declaration and polish the institution of corporate personhood tell your legislators move to amend the constitution now. that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our web sites on free speech dot org and archie dot com also check out our chain you tube channels there are links of thom hartmann dot com this entire show

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