the media agencies give out those who want to recruit and create its schools. let's take you back to that donor show he'll tell us. all right it's time for you said it i read it take time to 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 first i want to respond to a viewer who commented on my interview about michele bachmann and her statements on being a submissive wife alex said women should be submissive to whoever employs them in parentheses it gives them money which is usually their husbands i love that's why 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 noun or sponsor 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 of his viewers as totally missing the point here this isn't a comparative analysis about which country has killed more civilians this is about the fact that the cia has been a lying to the american people and of the world about the number of civilians that they've killed in drone strikes so sure you can look at other examples from the past other countries say that somebody killed war did 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 can deflect you can say russia killed more civilians that person killed more civilians or you could 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 too derek. two 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 and that's it for today's ranting and i'll be back with more later this week. well by now we all know about the 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 say back in may the town was optimistic that 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 it is a milestone not just for the company but for people with a new job thirty years ago there were no automotive industry jobs in tennessee now

they are killed for a third of all manufacturing jobs in the volunteer state volkswagen will be a magnet for new jobs by attracting suppliers and just continuing the movement of the american auto industry here and that helps raise family incomes in tennessee at a time when we've two years of nine percent of its 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 let's 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 volkswagen's 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 a notice a huge pay gap there makes you realize how desperate people are when these v.w. 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 school. and cohen it makes the most accurate comparison when he writes while 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 two thousand and ten it's true and i know that i have 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 stop coddling 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 my friends and i have been troubled long enough by you a billionaire friendly congress but what 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 buffett talk about it before but why don't people actually start to listen to the 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 taxes 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 the figures and crunch the numbers it's clear where we're going to with a 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. last month army suicides hit a record since the army began releasing those figures in two thousand and nine thirty two potential suicides or record it 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 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 it'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 haig. 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 mccourt and his wife said that he shot himself in the head that 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 here to discuss this with me is lieutenant colonel samantha neuro a wounded warrior of 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 high for example the man i just cited going on his ninth tour is that insane. you know of course multiple mobilizations 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 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 the army says that they're trying to change that but they're trying to hire new people institute new rules that 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 not really happening though. it is and the army is. just their army has initiatives you know we have many programs that we are all encouraged participate in but let me ask you another question on a bigger question what about society as a whole society still has

a mental health stigma so we're looking at the military under a microscope what about society because society still has that mental stigma 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 for you know those that have not been in a war situation versus those who have 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 the horrors that you see in a war and you know how are people for example journalists 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 medivac to 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. i can't speak to the army. 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 invisible 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 in treatment now. i can go to a let me give you an example and i go to one of in a wounded warrior event a group of wounded warriors and this happens repeatedly. go to 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 the person who has a visible injury maybe an amputation maybe some other type of very visible injury how do you tell 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 obviously 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 nine mobilizations. but

it can be done people can reach out people can get that out reach out get the help that's number one number two for the. people who are round people or have the opportunity to say hello don't make assumptions that just just because somebody looks fine that they are fine. i can speak for myself i'm far from fine. fine is a journey it's a path i'm on every day to get to find. the man i want to thank you very much for coming on tonight and for 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 in these wars 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 could have worn that night to all times that that added happy hour another unflattering photo of michele bachmann services plus of being nice will not get you a great back in just about. oh .

takes fifteen to twenty million years for the planet to recover from a major extinction event for the planet is time we don't. it's been going on for about twenty years and since the eco terrorist before there was even islamic fundamentalist terrorist in this country when the nine eleven happened the bush administration could not find any terrorists because the feds couldn't find any real terrorists they decided to take these young people who were accused of property sabotage and label them as terrorists someone you destroy property. with absolutely zero intention of harming a single human being. in my mind it's not. real people work in this country are the housewives who recycle. and the children who play trees on the weekend with their cub scout troop that's the.

reason you believe. from. the future. all right it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight it goes to frank gaffney now frank 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. now be an attack on our country's electric. and technology great is the frank think that i think that that's probably going to happen and say during the event he reportedly said bar none the threat to us that i worry most about is. 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 had placed online about a possible m.p. attack whether it is not designed to kill americans at least not directly right away instead it is meant to at least impede the to make medical problems that destroys electronic devices and power grids. scary stuff in 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 it is an actual threats i have some very very serious doubts as to most other people in the world but the thing is it seems like frank gaffney is creating a bit of a pattern here calling things that are non issues the greatest threats that america faces like this one for example. it happens to be an indisputable fact that the saudis. who are

seeking to insinuate. the barbaric to tell it turn islamic code. all over the world including here. is the phrase cappy thinks it is a major problem here in the us and he's very concerned that 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 friend 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'm going to go out on a limb and say that as 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 know. it's tool time ward.

ok it's monday and we need a drink so joining me for happy hour tonight is our two 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 mood that will let you drink up sister right well this morning ok obviously there is 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 hear thought sexism you know all six of them. 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 a photo of these deaths are accurate of what adélie and that is that they're writing these horrible photos just shows that they're giving commentary saying that

they don't like or 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 it's a corner and that picture is let's just say. suggestive because i did you know ari he was shoving a giant corn about in doing that i don't think people would care as much you would laugh about of the spirit as they go on average of the corn dog when you have a lady doing that's interesting 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 oh wow hold see this is me on you when i was. young and when street to the dirty way is clearly a surprise mine didn't but i guess you and i are old and. i might admit it immediately goes into the gutter and i think that's probably. how most people out there interpret 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 our favor but. a lot of this right out of the migraine thing

where you're just like really i mean she there are legitimate reasons to go after political personality but then i just i just don't buy it well that's all we've talked to on the show before too 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 and the telegraph doesn't have the luxury of those telling soundbites that he did that they have paper to write ok. they have words they have journalists they can write things article was saucy to yeah all right she one but number two. was actually well let's let the media explain it for you you know if i would it was brought. to the front runner status very close second post-race for ron paul the congressman from texas was making was interviewed so then why 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 a long as an organization to match your enthusiasm that was the question ron paul is a much more serious campaign than it was four years ago. 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 it's they they announce the results 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 paul and he's photo everywhere because he dropped out the guy's done you still seated polenta on every single screen but then they just kind of glossed over ron paul i mean he did in fact. it's second 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 he was 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 well i think one of the things about ron paul as well but he will always seem a little bit like the outsider candidate he's always going to be the one that's pushing the issues that nobody else wants to talk about including bachmann in this case but who may claim that outsider has 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 platform threatens and some would argue it's a military industrial complex and corporations saw exactly but i think i also think that i mean it's always a factor in these things as well and i think one of the one of things you have heard and this maybe 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 seemed kind of useful in the clip that you guys just showed with his like short sleeves and he's always you know lovely

and bouncy and i think the first seventy five. he really i mean he's doing well yeah he does not seem seventy. ok let's move on to a new study that 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 just being a total. myself but i think that always makes me think of one of our favorite movies personally. i don't want. i don't think a moment ghoneim. looks like you've missed quite a bit of work with well i would. never be sure if you get to keep your job actually being promoted. you could say that it's just a movie but a study basically proves that if you are too nice you're going to have one loses out yet they're going to take advantage of your travel turn probably and it works better for men to be

a jerk or to be rude or less agreeable as the study said for women and women only got a five percent higher pay whatever than men who saw an eighteen percent increase if they were if i got those numbers i don't like it but i do know they want to read it if you're a man i write i mean that's good right that means that you're aggressive in the workplace and that apparently you have ambition whereas we just have attitude well 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 you know. that remains it i mean and i think there's nothing wrong with being naïve 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 were people that identified themselves as less agreeable than the 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 and ask for raises and demand then 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 it's always it's generally thought that men do that and women just take what's given so i think that that stuff really something that would be nice and also be a little bit of a you know complacency or laziness too or maybe even fear of like you said some people don't necessarily want to go in and talk to their boss you know and be strong willed about and they'll just sit at their desk and be like oh well now much i can do also know that it wasn't always less a year man. well it's also like this economic climate who wants to leg but it would also i would say right there are less agreeable i guess ok well yeah it's working for them because they get to have a thank you for joining me and that's it for tonight's show thanks for tuning in make sure we come back tomorrow that's the sparrow the lead researcher of a study that showed that google is making us all stupid it's going to be on the show to discuss that now the meantime don't forget to become a fan of the a lot of show on facebook and follow us on twitter and if you missed any of

tonight's show or any other nice you can always catch youtube dot com slash if you want to show the interviews as well as the show if i'm tired coming up next is adam vs the man. it can hit doctors wives policeman's wives ministers why i just prayed to god. if you didn't find me if i could just live through the night that i would get my kids out of here because i knew that what was going to happen was that he was going to kill me many victims don't understand that domestic violence includes verbal abuse psychological abuse physical abuse and sexual abuse at least four million women are affected by abuse every year those are my only two options that i saw at that moment either i'm going to kill him in jail or he's going to kill it.

would be so much brighter if you knew about someone from funniest impressions. totty dot com. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. in the.

a little like you. know i know you're going to be. along. up alongside premier pilots for the selling a show that is not the twenty eleven. joe oil spill off that goes to scotland but energy giant shell in the first government argues of its precepts out to keep it quiet. and india's body bizarre a gruesome holguin trade is gaining but leaders turn a blind eye to they see any preying on poverty stricken people who sacrificed to help them to survive.