nobody dares to ask we do r t question more. for. the back of the big picture on tom hartman coming up in this half hour a fire storm explodes on the streets of london after police shooting in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods but there's more to this story and i'll tell you why the u.s. should pay close attention to this dangerous situation because it put happen here

and real soon and we've all heard nothing is free in this world that includes free trade ideally take tonight all explain what's preventing job creation in the u.s. and why president obama's job and agenda will crash before it even gets off the ground as long as so-called free trade is on the table. in the streets of london were on fire for the third straight day to day as civil unrest builds that a british economy is shrinking under conservative austerity measures beginning over the weekend massive riots all over london at la police cars buildings in a double decker bus on fire as well as several stores looted and at least thirty people injured most of them police officers so far at least two hundred people have been arrested you flood. riot was a stance of late in response to the death of

a local man who was shot and killed by police but in reality reflects an underlying desperation among young people in the area who have been hardest hit by the austerity but agenda passed by the conservative u.k. government that took power last year with deep spending cuts and government layoffs youth services are drying up and unemployment numbers among young people are skyrocketing as one writer said this is the ghetto this is the slums they don't care about us there's no jobs but still they want to cut benefits there is injustice and we have bad enough so now that a similar austerity gena agenda is about to hit america thanks to massive republican forced spending cuts should we expect the same sort of civil unrest to hit the streets in new york chicago or even here in d.c. and could there be a connection between conservative economic policies and violence in a society for more on this terrible possibility i'm joined by dr james gilligan clinical professor of psychiatry at the school of medicine at new york university

and author of the book why some politicians are more dangerous than others professor gilligan welcome but. in two thousand and two. looked at suicide rates in the u.k. between one thousand and one and one thousand nine hundred eight and found the suicides go when conservatives are in power in both the u.k. and australia today conservatives are in power in the u.k. and civil unrest is sweeping across london i was there a connection here. i've certainly found a lot of evidence. so refined and homicide both. in the u.s. since ninety nine. and what i found really to my surprise. that these rates both forms obama increased dramatically. when the republicans.

and they only dropped below epidemic levels when democrats tried. to fix our staggering over the years i couldn't believe it frees us up to date it seems to one sidedly hardest to people legal and i try to find every way to have to disprove it and i couldn't do it i kept writing the same result no matter how i analyze the data so the so will republicans that i'm under democrat right so so what that study that was before the b.b.c. found in the u.k. in australia you found the same thing here in the united states why does this happen is it is it top forty any quality or some other republican policy that increases suicide and homicide or democratic policy that decreases suicides and homicides here in the united states. i phone three social and economic pressures that predicted increases or decreases or one

of the great and duration of unemployment. in the ration of recession economic contraction and the third is the great. inequality income or whatever but all of those increased under republican administration mostly with our expression. when those increases. reside in homicide rates democrats come in those forms of social and economic strength decrease and suicide. i think what happened to the social and economic stress creates psychological stress. that stimulates. it's remarkable why do some very poor countries not erupt that i've done internationally for can in third world countries on four continents and i'm astounded by the level

of pain and poverty that people are not blowing up over it is it possible that it's because there's not not a rapid collision between expectations and reality but it's just a kind of slow motion multi-generational economic disaster. well but the other thing is i think most important is equality if everybody is pro together there's no shame in being core it's not good to be poor. but the fact is. equality is as important as. the putting the life expectancy of a right so far. as a great goal is to are. more equal but country is what this is has been packed and studied in dozens of countries around the world the most powerful predictor of a leaf over arms is the degree and it probably in the society but there's

a gap between the rich and the higher the gap the higher the fallen straight road with the world sir in the in the half minute or so we have left when the b.b.c. did report of this analysis they said that during that century about thirty thousand people would not have died if conservatives had never taken power in the u.k. or australia have you come up with similar numbers for the number of people who would not be dead today if republicans had never held the white house in the twentieth century. i might be able to hear you know i'm sorry ok well doctor dr gilligan thanks so much for joining us tonight. great to have you with us remember two weekends ago when ill advised republican majority whip kevin mccarthy played this clip to rally his caucus to support john boehner as debt limit plan. i need you now i can't tell you what it is you can never ask you about it later when our it's people. who's

kind of. turns out life imitates art when republicans are in power people really do get heard. just. it's the good the bad in the very. elegant the ladle to start that over again very elevated lee the way. some of them to get a good bike sharing program here in d.c. we have a capital bikeshare where people can read out a bike for practically nothing right around town as long as they need to check it back in at dozens of locations all across the city and a new study out of barcelona spain where they have their own bike sharing programs shows that the system not only saves the environment it saves people's lives as well the study found that nine thousand tonnes of carbon pollution was reduced

every year thanks to bike sharing and twelve people's lives were saved every year thanks to the healthy exercise and that's just in barcelona there are believed to be about two hundred bike sharing systems around the world i say let's start some more and no forget your help. the bad blood donald while building is new golf course in scotland the trump is run into a small problem renewable energy with the support of the european commission and the scottish government a massive wind farm is under construction a mile and a half from trump scroll of course and monkey air drop is not happy to the guardian newspaper trump has vowed to use any legal means to make sure the wind farm isn't built because it will ruin his view to how all of the energy needs a scholar trump needs his goal first to have a good new priorities paper. has a problem with did you read you a bill energy then he should just build more golf courses here in america over smokestacks burning of fossil fuels that he thinks we should steal from the rat

that line his golf course and the very very ugly tea party leader judson. phillips the c.e.o. of tea party nation was in wisconsin a rally at the window a lean tea party crowd to fight the upcoming wisconsin recall elections i will tell you ladies and gentlemen i detest him just spies everything the less fear is for how anybody can endorse and embrace an ideology that has killed up billion people in the last century is beyond me the billion people on earth who knows where jones is getting his numbers but i suppose upping the rhetoric and spewing wildly exaggerated and downright false claims is needed to compensate for the lack of enthusiasm in the tea party and its knees. unless it's very serious. coming up next i'll tell you why free trade isn't so free in this country and exposer for what it really is

a big rip off the american workers all pop in our next op next now daily take. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right. i think iraq to be the one to well. we're never government says there are a few safe get ready because their freedom. 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 you saw you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

your take my take is the segment of our show where you have the opportunity to make yourself heard here on the big picture it's your chance to share your questions comments rants and observations and i'll try to address them as best i can our first comments tonight is from the tom hartman facebook page turner interview with meet the press yesterday senator john mccain had this observation about the causes and potential solutions for the current economic downturn in this country the housing market is what triggered this crisis and it's going to be the housing market that recovers and that means to me go out and buy up people's mortgages as we did during the great depression and give them a mortgage that they can afford the payments to make and then we will begin to come

out of this problem and by the way our. well louise seems to be just as shocked as i am that senator mccain is a green was something that i've been saying for years now luis wrote oh my god i just heard john mccain on meet the press i agree with tom and say that we should do again what we did in one nine hundred thirty seven a by people's mortgages many want to bet limbaugh tomorrow calls him a socialist he walks it back by no later than tuesday i don't know how long it's going to take for mccain to backpedal when he realizes he's echoing a progressive idea but he is on to something the program was actually started nine hundred thirty three the depths of the republican great depression when most people had five or ten year balloon mortgages that were coming due or about to and it was an epidemic of people losing their homes the homeowners loan corporation h o l c which f.d.r. started as part of the new deal use government money to buy people's exploding mortgages away from the banks toure's then rewrote the mortgages from short terms

to twenty five to thirty years those lowering the payments and making them affordable while republicans screamed at the time of this was socialism and instead of helping out the homeowners roosevelt should have been bailing out the banks which he had shut down instead time proved roosevelt right each well see closed its doors in one nine hundred fifty one and actually showed a profit for the us government our next comment is from the viewer rant line today thousands of employees tens of thousands of employees of horizon communications landline division are striking throughout the mid atlantic region about forty five thousand verizon workers one fifth of horizons entire workforce walked off the job after their contract expired midnight saturday they're demanding better benefits and working conditions as the communication workers of america said about the impasse horizon communicate continues to six seek to strip away fifty years of collective bargaining gains for middle class workers and their families one viewer

called in to ask that we touch on this issue on tonight's show. a lot at stake here with more corporations trying to break the middle class needs to be mentioned as widest possible for another corporation leader so that's. the rise in claims that their company is in decline in that any new labor contracts reflect what they called today's economic realities for three ality is that in the second quarter this year rises profits were up two point eight percent and the company raked in more than twenty seven billion dollars this is really all about taking pay from working people and jacking up c.e.o. pay and dividends to people who make their livings sitting on their butts around the pool waiting for the dividend check to arrive and pay a maximum fifteen percent income on those dividends thanks to the bush tax cuts that's why unions democracy in the workplace are so important and that's why we have to make sure that labor unions come out of their current standoff with republican governors and state lawmakers all across the country stronger than ever

and our final comments tonight is also from the rand line even if you're only an occasional viewer of the show you know that i'm quite frankly outraged by the fact that corporations in the super rich are not required to pay their fair share of taxes in this country in fact as this chart shows for the past decade american corporations have seen a significant rise in their profits from their pain some of the lowest taxes on record and millionaires and billionaires are also getting away with it peter from tax returns show the top one percent of households in the united states received eight point nine percent of all pretax income in one thousand nine hundred six but by two thousand and eight the top one percent had doubled more than doubled to twenty one percent and today four hundred the wealthiest four hundred americans own more wealth than one hundred fifty million of the rest of us americans. and the average tax rate of those four hundred people eighteen percent

lower than most of their secretaries of their household help but one viewer wanted to know why this is happening tom could you please explain how the we corporations become one hand to tea and not taxed for the corporation business the rich are not taxed like a middle class the working middle class that is the foundation of our country are all taxed please tell me why there's one simple reason thirty years of lobbying by corporate america the super rich have blown holes in our tax code so wide it will take a major reform to bring back some balance and you can be sure that as long as corporations and special interest groups billionaires for that matter are for allowed to freely spend on elections and make sure that the lawmakers they put into office know not to bite the hand of feeds them that reform will be a long time coming it's why we need to make sure there's a democrat in the white house the next time a supreme court justice retires and why we should move to amend the constitution to say the corporations are not people and the money is not speech by the way there's

more information about that over move to amend dot org that's it for your take my take tonight if you like your comments and questions heard on this segment of the big picture listen up we want to know your to send us your comments by visiting the tom hartman facebook page via twitter at tom underscore her or in the chat room on the message boards or through the blog at tom hartman 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. with the economy once again in freefall president obama is desperately trying to pivot the debate in washington away from the economy in freefall and over to jobs or frankly it should have been since the day he was sworn into office unfortunately

president obama's idea of creating jobs won't actually creating any jobs at least not here in america here's a common message coming from the white house over the last few days. and i want congress to pass a set of trade deals deals we've already negotiated that would help displaced workers looking for new jobs and would allow our businesses to sell more products in countries in asia and south america i think that that coals on us to maybe do some of the bipartisan things you saw senator kerry talking about an infrastructure bank or whether it's the free trade agreements the president's proposed a series of steps that he thinks we should take trade treaties that will expand our exports pat rich anybody remember ross perot free trade free trade free trade or as i call it so-called free trade the reason why free trade isn't free is because with each new free trade agreement that we sign onto we get

a raw deal we open up our borders foreign business tycoons get a bunch of brand new american customers to sell their televisions furnitures cars too and then they send the profits back home to reinvest in their economies sounds like a great deal for them unfortunately whether it's south korea india china and mexico whatever anywhere in the world we don't get the same great deal in return. they say sure you can come sell your stuff over here but you have to meet this long list of regulations you have to pay this much in tariffs and you can only sell this much stuff now good luck competing with our domestic industries that don't have to meet any of those requirements course there's a way to get around those regulations american c.e.o.'s just have to ship all their factories overseas and start hiring foreign workers to build stuff that's how they avoid all the import taxes now only that c.e.o.'s also have access to much cheaper labor which in turn maximizes profits this is what ross perot warned about us about

in one thousand nine hundred two. and you don't hear about anything but i could not there will be a job sucking sound going south yet as our economy tanks more and more american c.e.o.'s are doing just that shipping their operations overseas to economies that unlike here in america are actually booming and pay their workers far less that's exactly what former d.n.c. chairman and bill clinton body terry mcauliffe is doing and he boasted about it this morning an emissary see take a look. first one for street agreements we need truck in this country a long term strategic plan to create what i talked about our manufacturing jobs we've lost five million manufacturing jobs last ten years fifty thousand plants have closed i'm doing just announced a plant in china we're ready to go lead the cornerstone two days ago in china and we're often building it fired seen jobs shipped overseas but he's opening up

a car factory in china luckily i wasn't the only one who picked up on that particular type of poverty now explain you're building a factory in china but this is going to create american jobs for this little bit of disconnects what we're doing in china is because the high tariffs we have to build there it's the fastest growing auto market in the world so the cars will be built there but all the core products all good the end all the ingredients of the inside the car the power train the bay and we're all made in america and shipped over there what great news i am sick and tired of seeing our jobs go into china. a freakin mayes. because china has tariffs and it's taxes on imports as we used to have here from seventeen ninety one until until the one nine hundred ninety s. mcauliffe needs to play ball and give china a brand new factory that will employ chinese workers and make profits for the chinese economy just so he can open up a much smaller factory in mississippi to build car parts employ

a few american workers in a so-called right to work for less state i guess that's a job creation is all about america nowadays my question is why don't we do the same thing china is doing here but i don't have tariffs here and force foreign car manufacturers to open factories here in america and not just cars but computers and t.v.'s and pretty much everything else and employ americans clothes toys for our niche or i mean it's a long list but the reason we can't the reason we don't is because corporate c.e.o.'s like tara terry mcauliffe have given up on america as an article in today's los angeles times and titled us stumbles company invests companies invest in consumer growth overseas noted many major u.s. companies are making big plans to expand overseas even if some of them announce new layoffs. and there's a chilling reason why they're beginning to give up on the american consumer as the source of future growth as the nation economy stalls and personal income stagnate

they could soon see consumers in asia and latin america as offering a brighter prospects for future sales and profits and more and more so-called free trade agreements give transnational corporations the tools they need to leave the american consumer behind and find a new consumer somewhere else in the world this is an apparent partisan issue term mcauliffe used to be the chair of the freakin d.n.c. and republicans love free trade as much as anyone both parties are to blame on this . and i've said it before and i'll say it again the first political party that takes on so-called free trade that exposes the myth. will see big gains in the next election i mean just think back to ross perot this guy got twenty percent of the vote and he had a vice presidential candidate admiral stockton whose whose famous line was who am i why am i here but he got twenty percent of the vote with no political party with no

political expertise it looked like a cranky old billionaire which is what he was he had these funny charts and graphs but americans understood the bottom line message from the time when alexander hamilton and seven hundred ninety one proposed that we start increasing to that we put tariffs around our country so that if things are imported into this country there's a tax charged on them so if you were to cost a dollar to make a pair or in labor to make a pair of shoes in connecticut you could make it for twenty cents in china there's an eighty cent tax of the border you can make it for fifty cents in mexico there's a fifty cent tax on the border from that time seven hundred ninety one until finally the clinton administration in one thousand nine hundred six when we blew the blew out all open by signing nafta gatt the deputy oh we protected our manufacturers the american people understand that i'm telling you the party that goes back to protectionist trade policies is the party that will never again

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