ten years is the rate of child poverty group eighteen percent currently one out of every five children in america lives in poverty that's fifteen million kids if you include children living in households of four people making double the poverty line and more than thirty one million children live in desperation it's nearly half of all kids in america this is a national crisis republicans are making worse as they fight to cut programs for our kids while protecting their billionaire buddies from facts increases meanwhile on the other side of the spectrum of those in need republicans are trying to gut social security for senior citizens is a topic that came up yesterday at a town hall meeting hosted by republican front runner for president mitt romney take a look. i'm wondering what you need to do to me so he sees all then i know you can issue mean or raise her to me the most is the one hundred ninety seven homogenization years wondering magination you're the one i want to be sure so sure you fear for your generation everything will be your future where you go you try

your choice one distributional security three great things begin to suck. actually raising the cap as the woman in the video suggested does the problem social security currently only the first one hundred six thousand eight hundred dollars of a person's income is taxed for social security in other words billionaires pay virtually no social security taxes or working stiffs making forty thousand bucks a year carry the entire lot and according to the congressional research service just by a limited. and ensuring the billionaires pay the same social security tax rate as the rest of us the program will generate massive surpluses and stay solvent for at least another seventy five years but for some reason that's off the table as is government spending to list fifteen to lift the fifteen million children in america out of poverty so why would the republican party lose its compassion and when that

is stop looking out for children senior citizens those who are most in need of more on this i'm joined by democratic strategist erica community erica welcome not to be our but. what's happened even the pretense of compassionate conservative i think i mean i would say that this that conservatism hasn't been compassionate in a long time but the fact that they kind of thrown out even the label of compassion is really kind of striking i mean i i think there's a couple things that are mentioned here is that this idea of who is the constituency because the majority of americans seventy five percent more than that can not agree with spending cuts in fact they were born and so security continue at its benefit rate more so than they wanted the deficit to be taken in fact all of two to one is the proportion to one tea party members also believe that it should be no cuts to social security benefits so it's not even there are conservatives it certainly not you know those that are looking towards retirement and certainly not some really nice people making over one hundred six we put. it in one of ratings

because almost because they also collect social security checks so you know george soros gets the check so the photos. the koch brothers so it's also about them as well it is one of the few programs that literally goes to everybody well back to the compassionate conservatism was that just a brand i mean i never saw any evidence you know george herbert walker bush you know women were rolling this thing out his thousand points of light it was basically government doesn't do anything in churches to do this stuff you know go find a rich person to bed for a while and that's actually a really interesting point i mean you we have people like frank luntz who've made entire career out of those clever little names that don't really describe what they are actually talking about the kind of make it sound more palatable if you want memory compassionate conservative certain conservatism certainly is one of those things that's very easy going but you know you mentioned something about the churches taking care of people and and it's a really important point because you know this is something where you know america

is generally a religious nation not just christian or jewish or muslim or hindu but a religious kind of base and we were founded off of a lot of these principles of taking care of the collective not all of our but you know democracy people we the people everybody everybody and you will even have the pope who in the same breath is espousing things like you know no abortion and very kind of what we consider conservative i mean face has also come out this week and talk about economic balance and saying that profit isn't the main measure of an economy that it's the common collective good so i think this idea that churches or this moral belief that we take care of the poor stuff that was taught in the bible or something that you know even henry ford who is a big you know capitalist paid his workers more increased their wages to make them a middle class a stronger although his wife was a supporter fortunately just for the record but in the end it is you know who do

both brothers are doing i mean it's entirely different they're breaking up unions and one lol i'm going to go ryan's bill in the house of representatives every single republican voted to basically. turn medicare into a voucher system which has horrified america's seniors and could wipe out the republican party unless the republicans for can figure out a way to get the democrats to even. one person out of medicare so that they can say oh you know they want to do the same thing we're doing are they going to succeed in this strategy or the democrats going to follow this trail you know i think rhetorically democrats have often kind of fallen into a trap were guarding medicare and kind of pushing back against republicans but i think the more that people know about the ryan plan and the more that they really understand financially what this means for them in wisconsin paul ryan's home state it means seniors paying six thousand dollars more a year i mean it when people hear that it kind of gives that the startling democrats have been doing a better job of really pointing out kind of the absurdity of just taking the

sentence that says you know you know we want to end medicare or change it or you know this program and fillets use wellness or it isn't efficient or it's made care worse when people hear those kind of quick sound bites something's off and it's not quite right so there's no amount of handshaking or charming smile or sleeves rolled up at a town hall that kind of talk their way out of it all they're charging people to come into town halls as a way to get a filter in the mouth with rick perry in the majority republican candidates all kind of in lockstep saying that things like social security are unconstitutional i mean this is an argument that the thirty's by the way was by the supreme court. but if the if we give power to america what america looks like well i think you would end up with an america that looks a lot like it did before the great depression when there was a massive wealth and balance and i think on this this idea that it's unconstitutional is that they decided in the courts but i actually disagree i think

it is exactly what the constitution allies when it says that congress has the power to tax and have the obligation to take care of the. common good old general and the general welfare and that's exactly what the constitution says and you know tom coburn i mean has also said and as a member of a cheri committee and as a man who's taken that oath of office you really should know what's in the constitution i think when you have people who pick and choose which parts of the constitution they like and twist and manipulate it that's a really dangerous thing to have a government right in there basically trying to not just pick and choose but even interpret what it means it's really quite right on target thanks so much for being with us great to have with us. we will see you really have to question the majority more rowdy of a political party that will turn its back on children and the elderly starving to make sure that their billionaire campaign contributors don't get if they are sick let's hope the republican party steps back from the edge of humanity's.

biggie science is my opportunity to share with you some of the week's most people will rain interesting or weird science news journal science reporting this week those super thin electronic batch that sticks to the skin like a temporary tattoo could transform medical sensing computer gaming and even spy operations we're back to that in just a second spy operations the microelectronics technology called in at a journal what tronics us worry us was developed by an international team of researchers in the united states china and singapore one of the creators professor john rogers university of illinois has said that the as illuminates the distinction between electronics and biology because his words it integrates with the skin in

a way that is mechanically and physiologically invisible to the user and test studies the patch was used instead of bulky electrodes to monitor brain heart and muscle tissue activity and users who had it down their throat operated of voice activated video game with more than ninety percent accuracy the wireless device is nearly weightless every hour or so little power it can fuel itself with miniature solar collectors or by taking up electromagnetic radiation less than fifty microns thick devices thinner than a human hair and as soft as human skin and it can stick to the skin without any glue or sticky material in fact e.a.s. uses a molecular force known as the vander walls interaction created he between the patch and human skin at the molecular level scientists have spent six years developing this technology and they believe that e.t.s. might find future medical. uses impatiens once sleep apnea babies who need neonatal

needle care and for making electronic bandages to help skin to heal from wounds and burns on the other hand it could also be the ultimate it's by tool imagine someone comes up and touches your neck and unbeknown to you you are now carrying a device they can transmit to somebody else everything from your blood pressure or your under stress or lawing to the words you're speaking future versions may even have cameras and they wouldn't even need to touch you a few thousand of them could be blown into a crowd it would need to look like a little bit of dust and suddenly everybody is chipped everybody's monitored everybody's trackable anywhere on earth and this isn't my paranoid rant this is explicitly why the spy organizations of the countries that collaborated to develop this singapore china in the united states are so excited about. more as the story develops. by so-called news is great when it comes to

infotainment but not economics in my daily take republicans and their bodies of our so-called news keep pushing economic theory that sabotaging our nation's economic recovery. drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decision to break through get through to the main who can you trust no one who is in view with the noble mission to receive where are we heading state controlled capitalism is called sackfuls when nobody dares to ask we do our tea question more. for.

thanks once our nation will honor the tenth anniversary of the nine eleven terrorist attacks by previous years they'll be a special ceremony at ground zero in new york city but this time some people are not invited to nine eleven first responders this week mayor michael bloomberg office confirms that nine eleven first responders are not invited to the ceremony and that the ceremony is specifically for the families of the victims of nine eleven was taken from the mare's office read. well we are again focused on accommodating victims' families members given the space constraints we're working to find ways to recognize and honor first responders and other groups at different

places and times john feal the founder of an advocacy group for nine eleven first responders reacted to the mayor's statement saying the best of the best that this country offered ten years ago are being neglected and denied their rightful place of course this is just the latest slap in the face to nine eleven first responders at the end of last year republicans finally dropped their filibuster against the james zadroga act which gave medical care to nine eleven first responders who are now dying from the toxic debris they inhaled while working for months at ground zero recovering bodies and cleaning up the site just last month the responders discovered a catch in the bill that disqualifies them from receiving any medical care assistance for cancer since according to world trade center health program there is no scientific link between ground zero debris and cancer tell that to the countless

firefighters and policemen who work at ground zero and now have throat or one cancer so why are we turning our backs on the first responders some of the bravest men and women in the nation for more on this i'm joined by two of those first responders and sacrificed so much john devlin and ken george john and ken welcome to the program i mean. it's been a while since we've talked john in particular i'm curious how you're doing. i'm doing all right you know what's happening now with the government now with my own city down turning their backs on the respond give me a lot of strain in my condition you keep by for my brother this is this but don't. my my recollection was that you have stage four throat cancer. yeah that. i developed for cancer in two thousand and nine and there's a funny thing about what you just said about the not being in the bill my own state

in new york state compensation they recognized that my cancer was directly from ground zero. is that stony brook hospital my cancer doctor my ears nose and throat guy out there and the doctor of the world trade center monitoring program which is run by the government also wrote letters in my we have state but my cancer was a direct line from ground zero and that's how i got. recognized as having cancer down at ground zero from my own state new york state. building it all up all look at their lives there is not statistics and they're wrong every day more and more responders are getting cancer and if they look at the facts in the last two or three years now at the beginning with two thousand and three four and five it was cancer is the disease and spreads and it takes

a while don't tell me though and all those years i was working side by side and i represent the union tradesmen down there at the actual work force that went down there and clean that pile up i never hear about that are finally carps it heroes all the time but it was the civilian force we are. near is the steel guys the dark builders carpet is electricians union work force the trades they had to go pile cleanup and i don't hear anything about that somehow brian from a. i'm not familiar with the exact space around there that was in use for the ceremony i mean i've been there but i know that you're very familiar with it as as you and john both worked there for months. as mayor bloomberg have all the general just tickle problems trying to solve fear of too many people and not enough physical space to put them in and if not then why would he do with us this

way and you know i feel that the make it whatever he wants the reason that the power. to have the first responders there that we're there when we were in search and rescue when we were in cleanup. and he could open some pre-stage no i'm just say hypothetically he could open up say like madison square garden was something so when these people could go i spoke to a lot of responders and a lot of the first ones i spoke to which will cause firemen construction workers they all heard about that you know just because of people. you got a lot of responders that are dying now and they feel they feel and left out and it's a shame they should feel left out we're also we were all there that day we all did we had to do and we all should be treated the same way and we play my brother john here and there's people dying of heart disease. all kinds of stuff they should have

something for them you know we all went down your pain years ago as patriots to this country to love this country in fill up my city and now ten years later we've . used by for a bill that they literally ripped billions of dollars out and now my own city where i live is now turning their back on an island responding we're getting slapped in the face left and right by everybody and i just hope that pollack is aware that you know what it was fifty states that were that represented down there and this is united states they were united it's not just the new york area problem this is the united states problem what do you. do you guys think that the america's going to organize a different. event in a different place maybe a little later on for you guys for that i love responders or is he afraid of the blowback that he might get if they all got together in one spot particularly given

how you got screwed with this legislation. well you know what. they responded we're not and we could not be that. ever hurt and the memory of the those that were lost on that day but finding the cops and the civilians that i saw those families faces every morning when i went there in the morning to work on the other side of fence here to mean those pictures of their loved ones i know how much this memorial feels for them that we never disrupt it any circumstance that they no matter what that's why we're doing this now and we're trying our best i gave my heart and soul i got sick for being down there just to help find somebody some parties so i hope every time i found my remains some headed for some kind of closure to one of the family members so why should a couple respond be invited to a ceremony here you know if nothing else is representative john county i'm

absolutely with you we'll keep an eye on this and we'll keep reporting on it thank you both for being with us thank you so much and. everybody out there we can. let's keep these nine eleven first responders in our thoughts as they continue to struggle with their own tragedies a decade after our national treasure. parks' news doesn't know jack about economics today forty five million americans depend on food stamps just to have enough food to eat a fact that makes conservatives crazy because it's a national tragedy that so many americans are in need because our government is giving so many poor people what republicans call and it's beside the moral

obligation we have to make sure millions of citizens living in the wealthiest nation on earth don't starve to death food stamps known as the snap program are actually one of the best economic stimulus programs out there as agriculture secretary tom vilsack noted when you talk about the snap program or the food stamp program you have to recognize that it's also an economic stimulus every dollar of snap benefits generates one point eight four dollars in the economy in terms of economic activity. if people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store and someone has got to stock it show all of the package it processes and ship it all of those are jobs it's the most direct stimulus you can get into the economy during tough times the congressional budget office agrees and circuit terryville sec so does the center on budget and policy priorities so does the economic policy institute and sort as moody's and so does

virtually all or every serious or nonpartisan economist of fox so-called news in the republican party. they beg to disagree. is still end of this program now is it actually people who are in food stamp stimulate the economy because every dollar generates one dollar and eighty four cents into the economy you buy more groceries if you're on food stamps if i do you buy that is a stimulating part of the economy. you just said the numbers yourself every dollar spent on food stamps generates a dollar eighty four in economic activity how is that not an example of economic stimulus because. so if you give people money and if they didn't earn and you tell them to go spend it on stuff they normally couldn't forward everyone's better off that's exactly right kill me aside from the condescending tone if you give people money to buy stuff then guess what they buy stuff and client stuff stimulates the

economy it creates demand which increases the need for more stuff which means some people have to get hired to grow or build or manufacture and supply more things to sell which means more jobs and more paychecks and pretty much everybody doing much better it's called economics one one hundred. but let's let's see let's see what the other guy on the couch has to say. very quickly jay carney earlier this week or last we came out and said unemployment benefits are stimulus well this is it this is in the ministration it just doesn't cut it it's really it's socialism it. of course any help for poor people and socialism. but as the old saying goes here and tell your own opinions but you're not entitled to your own facts unemployment benefits food stamps and other forms of government spending that end up in people's pockets have been proven time and time again to help the economy as this data from

the chief economist at moody's mark zandi shows government spending does boost the economy every one dollar spent on rebuilding our infrastructure creates a dollar fifty nine in each increased economic activity a dollar spent on unemployment benefits or what fox news calls socialism generates a dollar sixty for increased economic activity and as for food stamps every dollar spent on them creates a whopping dollars seventy three in increased economic activity making at the mall is defective stimulus program at the government's disposal yet all of these programs are programs that republicans and their mouthpieces of so-called news rail on as an extension of the gurney state and government waste. so if stamps and unemployment benefits don't really stimulate the economy then tell me if i actually use what does. putting right just to being socialist the more you give

the money stimulate no sorry it's got to come from the private private sector. it's got to come from the private sector that same private sector is sitting on two trillion dollars with a cold hard cash but is not spending one dime of it not hiring people not investing in new equipment and not expanding their business course except for in asia but if we just give a bunch of tax cuts then robin everything will be right right wrong moody's economist mark zandi also looked into the stimulative effect of tax cuts and here's what he found out every one dollar spent giving corporations a tax cut creates only thirty cents any increase in economic activity every dollar spent on giving billionaire hedge fund managers a capital gains tax cut creates only thirty seven cents in increased economic activity and what about the bush tax cuts every dollar spent on the bush tax cuts generates only twenty nine cents of economic activity just twenty nine cents

probably because the other is seventy one cents banished into some billionaire swiss bank account again you're entitled your own opinions about food stamps but not your own facts so why is it the tax cuts don't stimulate the economy like government spending does because supply side economics or what some call trickle down economics does not work it never has it never will the idea that if you just give billionaires a bunch more money and then they'll magically turn it into a job or turn themselves in a job creating fairies is absurd. the idea that stocking shelves with stuff will entice people to buy that stuff when they don't have the money to buy things makes no sense people buy stuff when they have money that's how economics works demand drives economies we've known that since ancient some area seven thousand years ago when republican strategist jude wineskin invented the phrase supply side economics

in the late seventy's it wasn't for economics he wasn't an economist it was purple a little positioning it was a way to sell to the american people the idea that it was ok to hand a bunch of tax dollars collected from working people or borrowed from overseas to the multi-millionaires who were were and are the main funders of the republican party. this is impressive crowd the haves and the have horse. some people call you the elite. i call you my base. so i say it's time to stop taking advice and gretchen carlson brian kilmeade and socialist obsession are growing over box so-called news and start taking our economic advice wasn't learned in history lessons learned from the great depression when franklin roosevelt help poor people get back on their feet again by stimulating the economy and took on employment from over twenty five percent to fourteen percent in just three short years we need to kick the supply side

economics hucksters out of congress and out of the media and get back to the basics of economics making sure people have enough money to spend to meet their basic needs and not making sure billionaires have enough money in their swiss bank accounts that's it for the big picture tonight and don't forget democracy begins when you get out there get active ted your it will see them.