tv [untitled] August 24, 2011 11:30pm-12:00am EDT
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back to the big picture i'm so i'm arbonne coming up in this half hour republicans scream and holler about how we need more tax cuts president obama proposed payroll tax cuts g.o.p. suddenly oppose the idea so is the republican love for tax cuts only overshadowed by their desire to see the economy crash before november of two thousand and two all and you want congressman paul ryan to be looking out for you in congress oh it could happen but only if the price is right and ideally take i'll tell you how paul ryan is one of the best congressman money can buy. republicans a lot of tax cuts right. not president obama supports them to a one of the most bizarre examples a right wing political hackery yet republicans are already lining up against president obama's proposed payroll tax cut it's. tension policy the president hopes
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to include in his new jobs plan to be unveiled next month cut lowers the six point two percent social security payroll tax down to four point two percent saving the average worker on a thousand bucks a year since millionaires and billionaires pay a much lower percentage of their income in payroll taxes because it's hardly noticeable to them which might explain why republicans oppose a budget committee member and one of the gang of twelve republican jeb and surveying nixed the idea of extending the payroll tax cut saying oh it's always about positive law taxpayers keep more of what they earn but not all tax relief is created equal for the purposes of helping to get the economy moving again as in tax cuts are all well and good when they're for millionaires and billionaires but when they're for working people no way so what's the real reason why republicans are suddenly against tax cuts that has something to do with their agenda crashed the economy to make president obama lose and it's only twelve elections here offer
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their take is neil aspirate host of truth for him the truth for america radio show and author of the book conscientious equity in american entrepreneurs solutions to the world's greatest problems neil thanks for joining us from our miami studio welcome hey tom thanks for having me back tax cuts for rich people great but tax cuts for poor people who is that the g.o.p. tax plan for. well i think that this is a slippery slope for republicans but this is also desperate politics for democrats because there is an economic plan right piecemeal this thing out why doesn't the president come out and say here is our overall solution in saying you know we're going to raise social security i mean this is one hundred billion dollars out of social security think we're a program that's going to even be more pink liberty it's social security is now bankrupt know it's not bankrupt it's two point seven trillion dollars sitting the truth so security trust fund and the guys on wall street are so salivating to get
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their hands on that money that they've got a bunch of republican republican front been out there saying oh this can be a problem it's going to be solvent for twenty seven years it'll pay eighty percent of benefits forever after that and right now you only pay social security taxes on your first hundred six thousand eight hundred dollars in income if we simply said you know gee warren buffett is going to pay the same amount of so security tax as you and me suddenly social security is solvent forever. tom there's eighty million baby boomers about to become social security eligible and i'm on the vacuum that that will come i don't expect think it's right it would total to national security that's why well that's why reagan double tax the baby boomers are the only generation in history that not only paid for their parents' retirement but also are paying for their own that's why there's a two point seven trillion dollars surplus in the trust fund that's migrating with . its axis and eighty three. term everybody agrees that our entitle me is the
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biggest part of our budget problem no it's not here is that nobody agrees to absolutely there the budget problem on her social security come on medicare and medicare is in trouble because the republicans inserted medicare part d. which says that while the veterans administration can buy buy penicillin for a penny a pill when one medicare buys that they've got to pay full retail at three dollars and eighty cents a pill it's a six hundred eighty billion dollar giveaway to the drug companies it was a poison pill for medicare medicare is in trouble because of that you can fix that social security as i said literacy programs because wherever there's nothing wrong you know medicare is in trouble and medicare is in trouble because it was designed when people live three years after retirement when the return meet was sixty five and they lived to sixty eight that is going to be and beyond is another who is in trouble the lifespan numbers that are out there we can increase life span numbers that we have seen in the united states since the one nine hundred thirty s.
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are well over ninety five percent of them other consequence of decreased infant mortality and children dying of diseases of childhood that used to kill people it's because of the polio vaccine is because of chicken pox and measles it's it is not because and infectious diseases and penicillin in the one nine hundred forty s. it's got nothing to do with old people living older. well i think young people are living less holders more than we did back in sixty five but we have to absolutely if you use that phony average number that includes child every time the other thing the other thing is is there this whole thing that obama is proposing is also one popular with the progressives congressman de fazio of oregon said it was obama's stupid social security tax holiday you know if we're going to if we're going to give all these things the way how we're going to pay for you propose we go and borrow more money from the chinese well here's a really simple reality actually if you can borrow it out of the so security trust but the reality is that that thousand dollars that he wants to put the pocket of
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all the working people in america will make less than one hundred six thousand eight hundred dollars that thousand dollars for the next year will decrease the lifespan of social security one hundred percent solid c. from twenty seven years to twenty six years and nine months of cuts three months off it so again why is it that you don't want working people have an extra thousand dollars. this is yogi berra it's the job all over again we tried it with the stimulus in two thousand and nine and it didn't work we could everyone five hundred dollars we went into a true talking about george bush's tax cut when he gave everybody is oriented our chart back in two goes on and talking about this stimulus program that obama did within his first ninety days of office of the matter to miss is what i'm going to get those eight hundred thousand jobs a month to making jobs in the recordings of eight months of job creation it's let's let's be creative and stimulate the job creators and they're in more eyes are our neil how can you keep a straight face and still use frank onces term job creators i mean this is this is
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to describe rich people jobs are not come bodies you know people are people who are hired or laid off and you're not if you're these jobs creator have faith in me and i have i have faith in the american free enterprise system i have faith in american entrepreneurial isn't it made us the most powerful country in the world and now we want to because we want to be socially unsettled and sincere and since at all i don't know it's with free trade each other with publicans and democrats your job creators so-called job creators are hiring more people overseas over the over the past decade than they are in the united states you got fifty seven percent of the workforce was overseas i mean we've lost fifty thousand factories in the united states why don't we start calling them job killers. tom a very interesting thing is happening and it's called back sure and if you're absolutely right a lot of american companies went overseas and they're finding out it's not all what it's cranked up to be the corruption the inefficiencies the poverty dealing with
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the communist government of china it's a big problem in many companies are starting to come back it's called back shoring coming back his millions it is a bit lost it in they can hire people for seven dollars and twenty five cents an hour don't we want to tell anybody so i mean ok i mean we all we are and we're flat out of time but i think we both it has to have our say thank you much for being with us i appreciate i appreciate it thank you when push comes to shove republicans will have to make a choice carry on their plan to crash the economy or support tax cuts they say they love but in reality only love for millionaires frankly i'm betting they'll refuse to cut taxes on working people so they can further deflate the economy and hurt obama. the. road to the good the bad of the very very helmand the good likely ugly good constituents of texas republican congressman john culberson more than one hundred
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constituents gathered outside congressman culberson his district office in houston last week hold a mock funeral for all the good jobs that have been lost in the republican leadership demonstration featuring a casket with the words our ip good jobs scrawled on it and a real reverend eulogizing the job losses. we are. seeing the. shops. are also. jobs. in the holocaust thanks. we. got a problem but i think. we're still got some
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good work let's hope others get the message that this recession was caused by republican economic policies and recovery has been sabotaged by those very same republican economic policies the bad roger williams the former texas secretary of state is now running for congress and has a new campaign that compares poor people spending on welfare to join us. let's hope williams gets to spend a little more time having phone conversations with his dog he's in texas and not representing people. and the very very ugly to keep up with today's texas theme rick perry texas governor turned republican candidate for president has executed more people than any other governor in modern history perry put two hundred thirty
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four inmates to death during his tenure as governor of texas that's more than oklahoma and virginia the next two states on the list combined over the last thirty five years no wonder why he used the threat of execution of criticize fed chairman ben bernanke however a new poll in the republican field shows rick perry as the front runner now holding a double digit lead over mitt romney i'm not sure who's uglier execution happy rick perry for the republicans who want to be president but the both very very. kind of protests continue to rally it and protesters continue to rally in front of the white house against big oil's latest pollution project a transitional pipeline stretching from canada's oil tar sands to the refineries of texas is oligarch's so will the big wave of whale executives succeed and lay in the pipe on u.s. soil or will president obama say no to our oil so. let's
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us and for the white house this week is demonstrators continued their push back against the proposed trans canada oil pipeline since monday more than one hundred sixty people have been coughed in protests the project mostly pushed by oil all of our x. and texas will create a massive pipeline across america stretching from canada to texas will follow seven hundred thousand barrels of highly toxic crude oil every day across some of america's most treasured and pristine lands protestors of the project describe it as a fifteen hundred mile fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the continent the way to make it easier and faster to trigger trigger the final overheating of our planet president obama can stop the project on his own with the stroke of a pen and environmental activists around the country many of whom believe president obama's promises to heal the planet and voted for him are hoping he doesn't turn their back. on us not. for more on this i'm joined by jamie an
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organizer at tar sands action dot org and sharif oil and co-founder of gulf change and a blogger at bridge the gulf or both of you thanks a lot have you with us jamie what should our viewers know about how dangerous this pipeline is or. even more broadly what it is what it's all about share so there's a reason that over two hundred seventy five people have been arrested at the white house this week and that many more are coming into washington d.c. over the coming days to risk arrest to send a message to the president the keystone x.l. pipeline is proposed to run from the tar sands of alberta canada all the way down through america's heartland over one of our largest sources of fresh drinking water to refineries on the gulf of mexico. you know that this pipeline could cause a b.p. style oil spill which people have experienced in the gulf right over that sort of fresh drinking water but even if that oil makes it to refineries and gets dumped
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into the atmosphere in the words of our top climate scientist dr james hansen at nasa that it could be game over for the climate so we're really seeing an incredible outpouring of people saying no to this pipeline saying no to the tar sands up in alberta and really trying to get this president to stand up to big oil and send a jolt of electricity through the progressive base to show them that the clean energy economy which at this point has been mostly rhetoric could actually start to be a reality and hopefully it will be sure a year the wife of an oil worker in louisiana i am and you came up to tell people the consequences of. so of working with oil like this yeah i came to testify actually. down in the gulf we had got with the oil spill last year and we're still dealing with the oil spill and it was a major multimillion dollar campaign to tell the rest of the world that the oil was gone and everything's fine but i'm here to tell it's not fine and we still have oil in our marshes over our beaches we have good wildlife come in every single day we
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have people that are you right now we have people that are ill because the dispersants everything from neurological disorders skin problems and we're talking about from small children with a little benzene in their system to older people and i've come here in solidarity to fight this pipeline because it's not fair the truth matter is clean air and clean water are human rights this is a human rights issue and i don't want to see that what's happened in the gulf but across the nation just. like the aggression with regard to the gulf i saw news reports a couple days ago that there appears to be leaking out of the b.p. well again. i think it is ok it is not over there is it is that we have any of the gulf restoration network get a fly over and they did find pictures and i can send that to anybody that like oil pressure coming in and i came in i saw pictures of boom going on info and i can i say that that's from the macondo site it was applicants from a condo site and i say that's not well i don't know but i do know that there are
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two hundred to three hundred a year around the country pipeline tankers you know so this is a major problem the global problem. jamie what are we up against actually just a mechanical question and probably off with very quickly. why don't the canadians just refine their own dam and if they want to sell this gasoline bring it down here and trucks right one one of the things about these canadian tar sands thankfully he said up until now they've still been landlocked and so the canadians are desperately trying to get this oil in market and so it is an environmental disaster that is affecting indigenous people in canada right now affecting people that live in alberta. and beginning to move it's way out and so one of the i think the goals of this protest is to avoid the type of disaster that we've seen elsewhere but if you know people in eighteen's trying to avoid it in the situation we've got cancer alley down in texas well there and i mean because of the refineries the refinery process blows all of the stuff in the air that is that what you have is trying to avoid well i mean canada doesn't have the refining capacity for this oil so they're trying to get it down to that massive are going to try to go filled with them to
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build a giant pipe i think at this point they really want to get it out to market too so they're trying to get it to our port and i think we're beginning to find more and more evidence that this whale is even intended for the united states it's intended to be shipped abroad so the u.s. is going to bear since they're willing to give it traveling across their land the risk of it being refined over brazil and they'll send it out and then send it back to south america and latin america as well so so what are we up against here surely you've been here you've seen the sort of approach as you came here it's justified. are the lobbyists prevailing or are you all being heard i hope so i mean honestly it's really hard to have hope at this point because we know for a year now i actually walked from new orleans to d.c. to raise awareness about this and when i did that was last for the memorial in april but we've talked to health and human services the sea anyway and we talked to the white house the center for environmental quality anytime we get a chance to go out and to tell people what's happening when we've done that and so far i really we we still have one and we still have the consequences of it and
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that's what our communities in texas like port arthur that this this is going to this pipeline is going to go through have already bore much of the burden of energy production in the united states they already have those cancers there and then this is just going to multiply the gini from people who want to support who want to get involved with rich if you don't or god you sleep with coming to town is this thing to do you know when you offer a bracelet today and she was a resident of the white house this is happening every single day and it's been amazing to see people come out from the gulf come from nebraska we have people signed up from the. states are coming in willing to risk are asked to send a message to this president and so people do go to tar sands action dot org they can sign up it's a way to spend a day to really take a stand and to join people like sheree and others who have really been fighting this on the ground fighting this back at home this has become a national issue this pipeline it's become the defining environmental test for the president of the reporters for my radio show met somebody from whistle well that's
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right well our first arrested from of all places our first arrest was from with the alaska which i think tells you something about the way this country might be waking up to what's going on and might be willing to fight back and and in their final note here we have just a little less than a minute but what you all are asking for is not some giant law passed through congress or a constitutional amendment or supreme court decision or that you're asking the president to keep a campaign promise it's president obama to do this with this with the signature of his. right now this pipeline shut it down and i think would send a jolt of electricity through the progressive base not just environmentalist and show people that sherry and others that maybe we're making progress maybe someone is beginning to listen to the people that have been suffering for a long time is there a deadline does he have to do with a certain period the state department says they want to get a yes or no by the end of the year on this pipeline but we hope it's sooner rather than later i mean it could be tonight right now and so i think when the president does get back from his vacation we'll see a lot of americans who have been willing to spend their vacation in handcuffs to try to get him to send
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a message thank you both for sure thank you appreciate it is a big test of the president will he be the transformational president who takes our country in a new energy direction really caving to the demands of big oil or the wait and see . next time you're on e bay browse for congressman at the top of the list you'll find republican paul ryan well not necessarily evade but metaphorically because he's currently up for sale to the highest bidder that's right the conservative boy wonder with an eddie munster america and unusual thirst to throw gramma's off cliffs as they have to writing legislation that specifically benefits the donors who give him the most money take for example the chemical company as the johnson and son a company that sells air fresheners and bath and shower cleaning appliances which
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dropped forty one grand in a paul ryan's campaign war chest for them ryan turned around a row two pieces of legislation aimed specifically at giving s.c. johnson and son huge tax breaks like this one house resolution twenty five fifty six introduced in two thousand and five to suspend temporarily the duty or tax on air freshener electric devices with warmer units and this bill introduced that same year h.r. sixty one nine hundred ninety four to temporarily reduce the duty on bath and shower cleaning appliances he even said in his floor remarks that he was doing it for the s.c. johnson company saying iraq is today to introduce legislation on behalf of a c. johnson we must help manufacturers like us see johnson remain competitive in the global marketplace and to build that i am offering today will help accomplish this important objective by suspending duties for multiple components of unique air freshener products that are imported from abroad suspend into tariffs will bring
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down as c. johnson's costs of doing business. course then they can give more to him then there's the national bureau of sailors association which funneled seventy two thousand dollars to paul ryan and it so presto ryan wrote legislation is chock full of tax exemptions for the beer industry tax sororities and fraternities that aren't even in his own state of wisconsin got word that paul ryan was up for sale national fraternity and sorority pac handed him twenty four thousand bucks and paul ryan went to work writing legislation giving them tax breaks to it's really simple if the price is right that paul ryan will do it which means it may run for president after all as long as people throw enough money out but this coming thinking what else could we pay paul ryan to do maybe if every career clown in america chipped in ten bucks and sent him a check he'd wear
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a big red rubber nose to all those budget committee hearings you think or maybe if all of florida actors in california handed over a few bucks we could get paul ryan to wear a spiked bondage collar next then he goes on fox news i hear fox news viewers are into that sensational stuff you know or how about all the lady gaga fans in america good paul ryan five bucks and i'll wear a meat suit to the state of the union next year the possibilities are really endless war more seriously going to be great if we could at least pay off paul ryan to write legislation that benefits the country and not just as deep pocketed corporate donors currently there are forty seven million senior citizens depending on medicare if they each send a dollar and maybe paul ryan would drop his crusade to privatized medicare is also officially fourteen million americans who are out of work maybe if they just pitched in fifty cents paul ryan would buck his party and sponsored legislation to
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extend unemployment benefits for the shot right. well here's the only problem we have to get in line after these people and a guy here who's buying two three hundred dollars bottles of wine for his dinner with paul ryan is clifford assonance who started up a thirty five billion dollar hedge fund on wall street and reconsideration it might be a whole lot more expensive than i thought to buy the best congressman money can buy so instead let's just all call our members of congress and tell em more tired of people like paul ryan writing legislation for his campaign donors and giving the back of his hand to seniors on medicare there are even some toll free phone numbers you can use to call congress over call congress dot org that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our web sites at tom hartman dot com free speech dot org dot com also check out our two you tube channels there are links to thom hartmann dot com entire show is also available as
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