let's not forget that we in the park are right. i think. he did well. we never got to hear him say so get ready because freedom.

all right it's time for you said it i read it right a time respond to my brilliance and engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter and you too because when you've got something to say i listen now person i want to respond to a viewer who commented on my interview about michele bachmann and her statements on being a submissive wife alex but her not said women should be submissive to whoever employs them and privacies it gives them money which is usually their husbands i love it so by this logic women are to be submissive at all times either to their boss which is most likely male or to their husband sorry alex just because you. work for someone

does not make you submissive to them they're your boss they're not your master oh and if you help support your wife that doesn't mean you own her either welcome to the twenty first century now understands my fireside friday about the cia lie about the number of civilians killed in afghanistan catechise the damn said because the russians have never heard any innocent civilians in afghanistan now i think it is viewers are totally missing the point here this isn't a comparative analysis about which country has killed more civilians and is about back at the cia has been a lying to the american people and to the world about the number of civilians they've killed in drone strikes so sure you can look at other examples from the past other countries say that somebody killed more big worse but that doesn't change the fact that right now in the present our government is lying to us and using that to keep the wars going john brennan has come out and said that for the past year there is not been one collateral death in our drone strikes in pakistan that's just not the truth so you deflect you can say russia killed more civilians that person killed more civilians or you can realize that what we should be asking

is why we're even there to begin with and that's your choice now lastly i want to respond to a viewer who commented on you to carry cocks to said republicans have balls but bad ideas democrats have good ideas but no balls and you know what if you alter that to some good ideas on the democratic side i couldn't agree more than fifty days ranting and i'll be back with more later this week. well by now we all know about two societies that exist side by side the small towns across america that are struggling to survive a wall street keeps raking in the big bucks in chattanooga tennessee is no exception to this growing divide he back in may the town was optimistic but a new one billion dollar volkswagen plant would help get people back on top. as of today more than one thousand people work at chattanooga's volkswagen plants that is a mile so much for the company or for people with a new job thirty years ago there were no automotive industry jobs into the sea now

we're told for a third of all manufacturing jobs in the volunteer state folks work and will be a magnet for new jobs by tracking suppliers just continuing the movement of the american auto industry here and that helps raise family incomes and to see families years of nine percent of the work that's the problem is it seems that everyone was so caught up in actually having jobs they overlooked how much money employees were going to be making there's a movement in the auto industry to maintain or lower labor costs to be more competitive with foreign automakers so as of now chattanooga volkswagen plant doesn't have a workers' union and just to give you the gist of how union workers pay compares to nonunion pay or take a look at these numbers from the center for automotive research american auto employees average between fifty to sixty dollars for our foreign auto employees between forty five to fifty five per hour but bolt's wagons hourly wage starts at fourteen fifty per hour and that wage increases to twenty one dollars an hour over

the course of three years so it doesn't take a mathematician or notice a huge pay gap there makes you realize how desperate people are when these employees chattanooga are willing to take a job knowing that their salary will be considerably less and that of their unionized counterparts now by the looks of the media hype surrounding this new plant back in may people are just happy to have a job any job as long as they can pay their bills so perhaps bloomberg why. cohen it makes the most accurate comparison when he writes all main street continues to suffer from high unemployment plunging home prices the financial industry is dancing a jig after paying itself about one hundred fifty billion in compensation in twenty tanks it's true and i know that i've said repeatedly wages in cities like chattanooga are falling rapidly at the exact opposite is happening on wall street so how can we close the gap a warren buffett has a suggestion in an op ed in today's new york times stuck on only the rich. billionaire investor warren buffett is often so the rich should pay higher taxes as

a matter of fairness but now he's getting real specific in a new york times op ed today when friends and i have been traveling long enough billionaire friendly congress believe he's saying is if you make over a million dollars in taxable income that should be taxed at a higher flat rate regardless of how you made the money and if it's above ten million dollars that rate should be even higher. yes we've heard papa talk about it before but why don't people actually start to listen to head of berkshire hathaway also know the tax disparity in our country here at the mega rich pay income taxes at a rate of fifteen percent on most of their earnings but pay practically nothing in payroll it's not that it's a different story for the middle class typically they fall into the fifteen percent twenty five percent income tax brackets and then are hit with heavy payroll taxes to boot so no matter how you break down to figures and crunch the numbers it's clear we're going to the growing wealth disparity that is bad and getting worse and i'll tell you what something needs to be done otherwise examples like the one that

we just showed you in chattanooga tennessee those are become the norm in this country a race to the bottom all for average americans or for average americans while wall street continues to race to the top. i am last month army suicides hit a record since the army began releasing those figures in two thousand and nine thirty two potential suicides were recorded twenty two were active duty soldiers and ten were reservists and that means that there was on average more than one suicide a day last month now in just the first seven months of this year that brings the number of army suicides up to one hundred sixty it's a statistic that's never easy to discuss but it's one that speaks volumes and the army for now is calling them potential suicide because they say that investigations are under way and most of the deaths to confirm the exact case but at least in one of these cases those closest to the soldiers say that it's undeniable take for example staff sergeant jared. he had orders to return to afghanistan this month for a ninth tour of duty but his body was found

a few weeks ago at joint base lewis mccord and his wife said that he shot himself in the head but he wanted out of the military and the rangers never took his pleas for help seriously now the army's launched a major effort over the last several years to institute new training for soldiers to be able to bounce back from stress to change the stigma that seeking help will impact their careers negatively and they're also funding a five year fifty million dollar study but the numbers show that their efforts aren't working so what exactly is going wrong discuss this with me is lieutenant colonel samantha neuro a wounded warrior at walter reed army medical center samantha thanks so much for being here tonight now before we get into exactly what's going wrong and the way that the pentagon is treating many of these individuals let's talk about why suicide rates are climbing so hard for example the man i just cited going on his ninety two war is that in saying. you know of course

most normal lives ations are going to have an impact on the lives of soldiers and as we continue in this war we're going to see the lives. just touched like we're seeing right now the bigger issue as i see it is the stigma the mental health stigma reaching out for help with mental health issue still has a social stigma in the military but at the pentagon or at least army says that they're trying to change that but they're trying to hire new people institute new rules and they're trying to spread this idea that you no longer have to have this negative stigma involved you can go out and ask for help is that really happening though. it is and the army is. just there army has initiatives you know he has many programs that we are all encouraged to spit in but let me ask you another question on a bigger question what about society as

a whole society still has a mental stigma so we're looking at the military under a microscope what about society because society still has that mental hospital so we need to look at the stigma of mental health as a one enormous problem but how do we look at it differently for example from you know those that have not been in a worse situation versus those who have right i mean tell me about what it's like to have p.t.s.d. what it's like to go for multiple tours what it's like to see of the horrors that you see in war and you know how are people for example a journalist how are doctors supposed to be able to relate to that because those are the injuries that aren't visible right they're not physical injuries they're there inside and i can speak to that because i as you know i do have p.t.s.d. i've been mobilized four times and my last mobilization i was injured again in baghdad and i was mobilized i was maybe backed out of baghdad with severe p.t.s.d.

and i've been in recovery at walter reed. i can speak to my own pain my own suffering. you can't speak to the army's official policy but i can speak to what i know and what i've experienced and what i'm still living. the most the most difficult thing is the difference between invisible and visible injuries and. it touches on what we're talking about today the suicide the suicide rate. when people can't see something they don't know how to respond they don't know how to react they don't know how to help they don't know what to do and i've i've lived that for the years i've been there. now. i can go to give you an example i got one of them i wonder where event a group of wounded warriors and this happens repeatedly. over the event

we all enter we walk in as a group. sometimes we have celebrities sometimes senior political officials sometimes senior military officials sometimes just local people coming out to say hello they walk right past me. to shake hands with a person who has a visible injury maybe an amputation maybe some other type of very visible injury how do you talk people to you know what should they do what can you tell people in terms of trying to understand because of course it's not only one thing that we have we have soldiers obvious committing suicide it may be abroad it may be here at the base but a lot of the time it happens at home too. the first thing i would say is the help is there and to reach out and get help there is a stigma but the army is trying to limit the stigma and minimize the stigma is hard in the combat arms units the units that are like you said time mobilizations. but

it can be done you can reach out people can get that out reach out get out that's number one number two for the people who are around people or have the opportunity to say hello don't make assumptions that just just because somebody looks fine if they are fine. i can speak for myself i'm far from fine. fine is a jury it's a path i'm on every day to get to find. a man i want to thank you very much for coming out today and for you know discussing that with us obviously it's a personal issue for you but it's something that affects thousands of individuals especially those that are now coming home or that have been fighting obesity. for the last ten years so hopefully somehow this horrible trend will stop and people will still learn you know how to stop it thank you so much thank you. well still to come tonight he's tried to use sharia law to scare americans now he's trying out

another tactic to have more on that night to all times that it's an unhappy hour another unflattering photo of michele bachmann services less than being nice will not get you a break back in just a month you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here sees some other part of it and realize that everything you. are is a big. deal . and yet.

let's not forget that we are currently working. on the well. we never got as they're going to say so get ready for freedom.

all right it's time for tonight's tool time award and i to go to frank gaffney talk right gaffney is founder and president of the american center for security policy he's also a radio show host a blogger and a columnist focusing on national security issues he's one of those beltway talking heads and he's also a total nut job feed today took part in a panel discussion with the heritage foundation which is a think tank based here in d.c. and they are discussing the possibility of an electromagnetic pulse attack or an e.m.p. on the u.s. that would be an attack on our country's electric and technology greats. is the brink think that think that's probably going to happen and they during the event he reportedly said bar none the threat to us that i worry most about is

he now this must be a big deal for frank to make those comments so we did some digging today and found a video of frank's groups that placed on line about a possible m.p. attack whether it's not designed to kill americans at least not directly about what instead it is meant to be paid in the making pots that destroys electronic devices and power grids. scary stuff theory fact about two years ago frank was quoted over at think progress talking about a potential e.m.p. attack and he said within a year of that attack nine out of ten americans would be dead because we can't support a population of the present size and urban centers and the like without electricity that would be a world without america as a practical matter and that is exactly what i believe the iranians are working towards all right this is sound scary yes this is an actual threats i have some

very very serious doubts as to most of the people of the world but the thing is it seems like frank gaffney is creating a bit of a pattern here calling things that are not on issues the greatest threats that america faces like this one for example. puts to be an indisputable fact that the soldiers. who are seeking to insinuate. the barbaric totalitarian islamic code. all over the world including here. is the phrase cappy pink's to realize is a major problem here in the us and he's very concerned the sharia is creeping into

our country there's only one real problem with that there is not a single documented case of sharia law taking place here don't worry that is our brain he just keeps on talking about the issue trying to scare people about muslims and now looks as if he's found a new big scary cause to champion so i want to go out on a limb and say that is e.m.p. threats probably should be taken seriously just seems like frank gaffney loves to spread fear and that's why he's getting to. i still time lord. ok it's monday and we need a drink so joining me for happy hour tonight is r t correspondent laura lister and medicine loni the heard on the hill columnist for roll call ladies thank you for joining me tonight they are in or having a rude you know. i got sister right well this morning ok obviously there was

the ames straw poll over the weekend michele bachmann was the winner and we discussed the newsweek cover last week everybody always likes to make fun of her when she looks a little crazy which sometimes she does but this one is just kind of messed up look at this picture that the telegraph actually published of her eating a hot dog and i would have thought that that's a no. i don't think so i think that they just hate her and so they want to put the most unflattering picture of her i feel like michele bachmann's a very beautiful woman is a photo editor you can choose it but of these deaths are accurate of what absolutely and i did their writing is horrible thought it was just shows that they're getting commentary saying that they don't like her they want to publish an unflattering picture you don't think they're calling her out a little bit i mean a woman though i mean that i mean at the corner and that picture is let's just say . suggests that it was and i want to know are you was shoving a giant corner i eat out and doing that i don't think people would care is my if

you have a lot of out of this much you just think oh average of the corn dog you have a lady doing that's interesting but i guess i'm just more vain because i didn't really notice the whole corn dog salad aspect of it i was just like wow that's a really bad picture i don't know why hold. my head when straight to the nerdy way clearly you're surprised i didn't but i guess you would i really think i might admit it immediately goes into the gutter and i think the pro. we how most people out there are injuries or look at pictures like this and so i do i think it's kind of messed up yeah. they could at least try to make it like hi or something you know that might work in your favor but if you are living this very out of my green thing where you're just like really i mean she there are legitimate reasons to go after political personality but there is i just i just don't buy it well that's all we've talked about on the show for it is that she actually is like crazy she actually says crazy things you don't need to try to

make her look crazy you just replay clips of her saying that she said to her husband and there you go pictures worth a thousand words though in the telegraph doesn't have the luxury of those telling soundbites that he did that they have paper to write. they have words think of journalist they can write things article is saucy to yeah all right she won but number two. it was actually well let's look at media explain it for you you know if i would it was the straw poll in ames iowa is true solicits the front runner status during tuesday's close second place finish for all for the congressman from texas who is making. what did we learn here my final thoughts on the ames straw poll i think we found out that bachmann she has been in this race for long as an organization to match your enthusiasm that was the question ron paul is that much more serious campaign than it was four years ago four. all right so ron paul came in second and you know we got

a lot of letters and tweets from viewers of the show today saying would you please talk about the fact that nobody in the media is talking about ron paul and so here is the big council result and they just kind of move on and then you see michele bachmann you know doing interviews with david gregory and being on meet the press you see rick perry being discussed everywhere you see tim collins you spoke to everywhere because he dropped out the guy's done and yet you still see two calling to you on every single screen and they just kind of glossed over ron paul i mean he did in fact. so i can place here yet only by one hundred fifty votes it's interesting because i was speaking about this with a guest earlier lou rockwell who is an economist and he's also a ron paul supporter and you were saying very that you know michele bachmann was all over all of the sunday talk shows yesterday all of the mainstream media and ron paul suddenly is not in the conversation because he was one hundred fifty votes behind why i think one of the things about ron paul as well but he will always seem a little bit like outsider candidate he's always can be the one that's pushing the issues that nobody else wants to talk about including bachmann in this case and who

may claim such outsiderness of the media makes an outsider when they also don't talk to him afterwards so now you have to look at who is his platform friends and what kind of corporate sponsors that form threatens and some would argue it's a military industrial complex and corporations law exactly but i think i also think that i mean age is always a factor in these things as well and i think one of the one of things you have heard and this may be goes back to you know what you're saying the message that's out there is that he is that he's an older candidate and that's something that i don't know if you guys have noticed in the past couple days people keep talking about how old he is how old he is i mean he seems kind of youthful in that clip that you guys just showed with his like short sleeve shirt and he's always you know lovely and bouncy and i think you know first seventy five he's really i mean he's doing well yeah it does not seem seventy five. ok let's move on to a new study came out it turns out that being nice actually won't get you

a raise at work so then you automatically have to think that it must be the opposite which is i guess was being a total. censoring myself but i think that always makes me think of one of our favorite movies personally. i don't like joy and excitement going. looks like i see quite a bit of work with well i would. never be sure if you could keep your job actually promoted. i.e. you could say that it's just a movie but instead you basically prove that if you are tonight you're going to lose out you're going to take advantage of you travel and it works better for men to be a jerk or to be rude or less agreeable is the study said for women and women only got a five percent higher pay whatever then men who saw an eighteen percent increase if they were if i got those numbers i don't like it but i do know that a lot of yeah right if you're a man are i mean that's good right because that means that you're aggressive in the workplace and that barely you have ambition whereas we just have attitude clearly

but i also think that maybe one of the things that gets us further in the workforce is being smart and being competent and. i don't think i mean maybe i mean i think there's nothing wrong with being nice i don't actually i like to think we're all nice people i mean we're not jerks right but what i think is interesting about this study is that these are people that identify themselves as less agreeable than average so that's the first interesting thing and second is i think that given that they're probably the people that are more likely to go into their bosses that ask for raises and demand them and be more assertive in that regard well that's one of the things you hear about women for example all the time i mean one of the gender stereotypes is that women aren't going to go into negotiations to accepting a job and start negotiating salary and it's always it's generally thought that men do that and women just take what's given so i think that that separately something that would be nice it could also be a little bit of you know complacency or laziness too or maybe even fear or like you

said some people don't necessarily want to go in to talk to their boss you know and be strong willed out of those just so the third can be like oh well no much i can do all suddenly and i'm going to be less a year man. also like this economic climate who wants to leg but nobody else out there are less agreeable i guess ok well yeah it's working for them i'm sorry guys are going to have to thank you for joining me tonight show thanks for joining in make sure we can back tomorrow that's the sparrow the lead researcher of a study that showed that google is making us all stupid could be on the show and discuss that study now the meantime go pick it become a fan of a lot of show on facebook and follow us on twitter and if you missed any of tonight's show or any other i see you know it's traditional that you cue dot com slash below the show for the post the interviews as well as the shelby it's entirety we have next is adam vs the max. wealthy british style.

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