used by politicians who makes decisions it's. good if you've made who can you trust no one who is you know of you with the global machinery see where are we heading state controlled capitalism is called satchels when nobody dares to ask we do our tea question more.

welcome back to the big picture i'm john marvin coming up in this half hour. voters are on the lookout for congressman paul ryan who refuses to face his constituents c.e.o. paul ryan is contributing to america's a lack of trust in congress and remember when our nation grew so outraged with france in the run up to the iraq war that we tried to change the name of french fries to freedom fries in today's and daily take i'll tell you why millionaires and billionaires in america may be restarting this campaign real soon. where in the world is paul rudd only. does cutting from concerts. it's at least

apparently a group of unemployed constituents staged a sit in outside congressman paul ryan's district office last week upset with the fact that their congressman isn't holding any three town hall meetings during the august recess ryan is holding corporate sponsored town halls that charge people fifteen bucks to ask of prescriptions written question our yesterday those constituents tried once again to meet with their congressman they were again denied entry into the building by the police take a look. at a complaint sign and if you move the building you can't be in the part of the building premises inside the building at all or. strand you can walk up and down the sidewalk much less in the public is that of them visiting the office building it is a public knowledge or media center. it's got a lot of people i know paul ryan now has actually find a few c.d.'s as he. put you know.

one time every day we're going to read you something that you must have a previous point that's right paul ryan is now using the police to make sure he doesn't have to face those same constituents that he's trying to take medicare from so a kind of message does this send of voters isn't that's exactly the reason why congress only has a fourteen percent approval rating here to defend congressmen who ignore their constituents is they're all friends even motley present a little less government and he said listen i was late introduction first of all the reason congress has a forty percent number is because there you could a stupid no deal deal on the debt ceiling situation that did not lower the deficit to be as low as you can absorb that's what is weak you know you say you you ascribe the degree however that you don't believe in spontaneous generation but you were wrong about i sent an email to your producer you were dead wrong and i was exactly right on that ok you were wrong and i was right for the record you issue a correction like a request to i'm doing it right this program for the record you do not believe in

so i know if you were wrong about what. i know it was when i got to where i'm going to rebut you were wrong and i was right. why do you hate paul ryan's constituents well. if i what if i were in an office and someone came in and sat in my state lobby for ten hours i did issue a warrant to have them prove it if i'm going back in again to they don't have an appointment they have nothing to say so you're going to sit there and stink up the office like virtually your ten hour just fending the practice of having high risk going to everybody we're here absolutely right about that you're absolutely don't even if somebody is if somebody is you know obstructing you know whatever that that's you know people get your through you know a restaurant bar that's able to do it now as as a as a statement of peaceful protest i have no problem with that the my concern is that we have a congressman who eighty has a history of writing legislation for the people giving the most money and b. is refusing to meet with any of his constituents in

a pre free public venue isn't isn't there something corrupt how much is it charging . for those town hall meeting he should be free what was says who says you yet says says the concert you don't believe in the concept of representative you know right here this is a magazine republic but if you want to make your point with the congressman and you still can use it is officer denounce with no point and nothing to say and just stink up the jointly patrolling for an hour or so we've got no you can't we have these rules were john boehner when he came and he said ok we're going to work you know two weeks on one week watch for the whole year plus we're going to take vacations in the middle of the haitian right now and then the texas legislature meets two months every three years yeah that's fantastic is paid very little for it but here we have our representatives and we are not allowed in the case of ryan and a number of others and by the way those democrats of yours as well to do it that there's more democrats doing it than republicans because they had actually had memories of numerically there are more republicans but percentage wise was higher just more democrats here but you know why have so few democrats and yet so so you

know just on a on a bi i don't know for partisan basis or whatever you know my liberal conservative base is shouldn't we figure out a way to and i'm not in favor of a law that says that congressman must do anything right remember interjects with this but it will achieve no he kept a big cheese in the front lobby of the white house and anybody coming any time grab a hunk of cheese and try to talk to the president so that you don't want to go back to a bad day you were nor do i want to go back to the booze during the end because the president gets out of a drunken party should go to a branch of the. rant was rincon him so that as well as one party would nominate him for a third term but in part mostly i guess it was the railroads and brought the growth it was but you know what a serious question see we've got you know not just to pick on paul ryan we've got congressmen who although i'd love to go we've got congressmen who are writing legislation explicitly for the people who are giving them money to the point i mean paul ryan actually one of the floor of congress and mention by name is the largest

campaign donor when he runs for office later it look is a look at the lead. station is better get all these even with the guys that get seventy one thousand books but if you want to show us the nothing. if you want to see what's enough to buy the legislation from paul ryan he agrees let is now going to crisis mode discussed before money doesn't ship ideas to attend money chases ideas that's the point the point is he's refusing to meet with his constituents i don't know he's not he's not refusing to meet with carl a.z.u.z. he says you know let him say down you a question wait wait wait he's not refusing to meet with constituents on an appointment basis he's refusing to let these morons sit in is office all day for it and do nothing i have no problem with morons are saying we just want we just want public tell no they can't afford this is the same stupid it's sandbox to get a town hall and box ok so so we establish a precedent now it's ten dollars and then next year it becomes one hundred dollars in colorado comes to the income tax and it was once it was two percent so it was

you have no problems of forty percent you have no problem with our elected representatives saying the only way that you can talk to me is with cash. for ten dollars doesn't go into congressman paul's reelection coffers it goes to pay for the security of the event but at the venue they're having the event whatever why actually this was a public public event it was paid for this is paid for by taxpayer dollars so in general you're saying that you don't have but the principle of it i just want to get this clear you don't have a problem with members of congress saying no i'm not going to do it over here no i no no that's a different thing you asked me on to discuss whether these morons can sit in his office for ten hours or i don't appoint i don't know i don't problem blocking that i would like i would like more transparency i would like more interaction between the people and that's what the tea party who brings about more tea party officials ok well that and here's where i think actually we may be a green because i don't have a problem with individual members of congress and i can or public events as long as

we all know about it so we can vote him out of office a little bit so that's that's the ultimate term of it is vote the bums out yes and . yes. spontaneous generation. of course as we learned yesterday will have been imposed the paul ryan has a habit of doing special favors for whoever gives him the most money maybe all it will take. for ryan to actually speak to the voters. he just doesn't care. sciences my. views some of the week's most free willed are an interesting or weird science to use remember karelian photography there's still

a debate about it but it purports to photograph or reveal the energetic field that fills in surrounds every living thing from the leaves to you and me it seems that the planet earth has a field like that although it's a lot less controversial and a lot more well known charge giants from the sun for example hitting the earth because the northern lights are we can see part of our planet's electromagnetic field you know being racked up by those ions and it appears that nuclear bombs and exploding nuclear plants like churn noble and now focus shima can blow a hole in or at least badly distort that field a group of scientists from sweden japan reported in june physical research letters last week the radioactive fallout from the exploded fukushima nuclear reactors in japan caused a rapid and dramatic response in years atmosphere in the electric field in the atmosphere right after three of the reactors at the plant melted down the effect was brought about by a significant drop in the atmosphere is electric charge ed ground level known as

the potential gradient for p.g. and it was detected one hundred fifty kilometers about one hundred miles less than hundred miles southwest of the nuclear facility similar atmosphere changes have occurred elsewhere after nuclear weapons tests and after the chair noble accident usual is the result of rain washing the fallout through and from the air but in this case the radiation signature in japan shows that the nuclear fallout was carried over long distances by dry low altitude wins it's easier and cheaper to measure the earth's selectable field than to continuously running geiger counters looking for a wide variety of different types of radio radiation and radioactive particles so the scientists who carried out the study suggested that if early warning electrical sensors are installed around nuclear reactors are pretty much anywhere else they could be used to detect fallout almost immediately and could serve as a valuable tool for protecting people from exposure to do to nuclear radiation

science geeks or greater. after the break america's wealthiest could learn a thing or two from other nation across the pond in my daily take i'll tell you why the wealthiest in france didn't need a memo from warren buffett to do the right thing for their country. drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions who couldn't break through that sort of made who can you trust no one who is your view with a global missionary would see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called sasha's when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more.

your take is that part of our show where you can speak up our first comment came to us from the viewer rant line this week in the new martin luther king jr memorial hurricane rolling will be dedicated on the national mall in a grand ceremony that will be attended by president obama leaders of the civil rights movement and several big name celebrities this monument which has been in the making for the last twenty five years is the first monument on the national

mall not dedicated to an american president and the first for an african-american and it is one of the last new structures authorized to be built on the national mall coincidentally sunday the day of the dedication ceremony also marks the forty eighth anniversary of the reverend dr martin luther king's historic i have a dream speech at the lincoln memorial. i have a dream. that one day. this amazing sermon will rise up. and live out the true meaning of that scream. we're all going through. but then that oh man are created in. this fear called her a mind as the one of the goals dr king pursued tyrol's lee for many years has yet to be realised. i hope you and your listeners around the country will understand that there are six hundred two thousand of us in the district of

columbia's who still have the dream that martin luther king helped support and that we need freedom which means statehood for the district of columbia we are completely disenfranchised and martin luther king was with us in the fifty's and sixty's trying to change our status says please talk about the country please get to the district of columbia you are absolutely right there's an interesting story about this when the founders put this country together they were students of classical greek and roman history and they were ideals they notice those ancient republics had both gods and goddess's and they decided to paraphrase ben franklin america has plenty of gods but we needed a goddess so they invented her she was on our queens the founding of our country literally the founding of the country so g.'s up to today and has been referred to as lady liberty or lady freedom but she actually has a different name she's

a top our nation's capital john ashcroft famously covered up her breasts at the justice department she's our goddess of law of war of agriculture in front of all those various buildings and pretty much everything else on state capitals all over the country the founders took her so seriously they named her by feminizing the name of christopher columbus they named her columbia. and they thought that the work of government was such a sacred trust seriously sacred work the work of the goddess that people who dedicated themselves to that work shouldn't in any way be able to gain benefit from their sacred work so they would have no representation no dog in the political game because it was such sacred work and so they named a place where these serious honest best among us representatives of this new we the people thing that they created called the government of the united states would

work and live they named it after the goddess it's called the destructive goddess or more formally the district of columbia that idea of pure ideal is evaporated pretty quickly after just a few years about two hundred years ago so i agree with you it's time to give the district of columbia two senators and a voting member of the house of representatives make it a state after all we have more people here in d.c. than in the entire state of wyoming and we're just about the same as for a moment they have senators members of congress we should to our next comment is from the tom hartman page of facebook eric asked how do we get reasonable republicans to cast away their delusions and their me first attitude and start thinking like patriotic americans supporting big business and corporate greed will only lead to the breakup of our beloved country appears ludicrous it verges on traitorous erica often said that a person's and a political party's ideology stance stems from their perspective on the world

depends on whether the you view the world through the me window as in what's in it for me it was all i benefit from the situation or you view the world through a wee window as in how will the situation impact the greater good the idea promoted by iran and other sociopaths if everybody operated maximally in their own self-interest and to hell with everybody else as an actual name in the world of biology. it's called cancer it's time to call out the selfish libertarians and objectivists and oligarchy in our nation and call them what they are a cancer in our body politic and our last comment tonight is also from the viewer rant line we'll hear a few terms that we use over and over again here in the big picture and on my radio show describe people and issues we talk about often on both shows like gangsters to describe the fat cat wall street executives who trashed our economy and reverse robin hood to describe republican lawmakers who are cutting programs that help poor

people so they can give tax cuts to their millionaire and billionaire campaign donors well spiro called with a suggestion for a new term to describe the g.o.p. but like to suggest that you start to refer to the republicans as the rip chilean party in order to highlight their detachment from humanity and their cold blooded it's thanks for what spirit you get top marks for your creativity although do that ike's was there ahead i think however it's a fitting description that's it for your take my take the night if you like your comments and questions heard on this segment of the big picture listen up we want to know your to send us your comments by visiting the tom hartman facebook page by a twitter at tom underscore apartment or in the chat room on the message boards or the blog and you can also leave a message on a rant line by three sixty three zero six agree disagree sound it's all welcome to remember that your comments may be used on the air.

france didn't drink pollster frank luntz says job creators kool-aid face the deficit problem the french government just introduced a new debt reduction package. that includes a three percent income tax increase on people making more than seven hundred twenty one thousand dollars a year five hundred thousand euro's or the people referred to in america thanks to frank luntz says so-called job creators but no one in france is screaming about class warfare today no one is screaming that the so-called job creators are going to roll into a little wall and stop stop hiring people no one screaming there without their tax breaks millionaires and billionaires will destroy the french economy in fact it was the millionaires and billionaires themselves who asked for the tax increase in an open letter some of the wealthiest people in france wrote we either presidents and

leaders of industry business men and women bankers and wealthy citizens know this by the way they don't call themselves job creators would like the richest people to have to pay a special contribution slaughter sounds awful similar to a letter written back in november of last year by some of the richest people here in the united states of america people calling themselves patriotic millionaires that letter read for the fiscal health of our nation and the well being of our football as citizens we ask that you allow tax cuts on incomes over one million dollars to expire at the end of this year as scheduled we make this request as loyal citizens would now or in the past earned an income of one million dollars per year or more or what warren buffett said last week in new york times when he wrote by the poor and middle class fight for us in afghanistan and while most americans struggle to make ends meet we mega rich continue to get our extraordinary tax

breaks my friends and i have been coddled long enough by billionaire friendly congress it's time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice yet these words from american billionaires and multimillionaires didn't resonate here like they did in france when the prospect of any tax increases on millionaires and billionaires here tragically is slim to none. that's because unlike france america bought into the idea of trickle down economics that if we give rich people the so called job creators a bunch of money in the run right out and hire a bunch of unemployed people with thirty weird after reagan preached this policy here in america and almost forty years after maggie thatcher preached the same story in the u.k. pretty clear the only thing trickle down economics does is create a nation opinions luckily for france they didn't have ronald reagan or maggie thatcher or a political strategist named jude would escape who created the political tool known

as supply side economics to pollute their economics and so they stuck with common sense common sense the says that economies run on people having money in their pockets to spend on billionaires being at able to add to their swiss bank accounts is actually a good thing but it's common sense so when it comes time to cut their deficit the french went after the excess but fact cats who were living large while the countries rest of the country was struggling and the rich in france were willing as their letter noted and the public finance deficit and the prospects of the worsening state dept threaten the future of france and europe and when the government is asking everybody for solidarity it seems necessary for us to contribute as in they realize there's not much quality of life in being rich while living in a poor country a sentiment that most billionaires here in america like the copra their oligarchy

don't appear to understand and america is quickly devolving into a poor country with more and more than forty million people in poverty depending on food stamps and fifty three million people unable to get basic health care because they don't have insurance thirty years of reaganomics is turning us into the world's largest third world nation. and there's one obvious way to turn things around a way to reduce our deficit and not injure those who are already most injured by this second republican great depression and that's by doing what france did and raising taxes on millionaires and billionaires over the last ten years with bush tax cuts have had are one of the biggest contributors of the debt in fact let me just lay this out here this is this is our total you know the tax code this is our public debt going out to twenty nine thousand projects you know and what you see here is that the bush tax cuts account for the largest piece of it the second

largest piece of it is the push their precious right the economic downturn pretty this is no brainer the third biggest piece of it is our wars in iraq and afghanistan which were not paid for and bush did all of the war paid for it now we're not going to pay for go shopping. there's the other dad here this is always been with us we've had a an underlying debt basically since george washington borrowed money from france to fight the revolutionary war that's both a new and that wouldn't change if it wasn't for all these things and then you got the two things that the republicans are absolutely hysterical about right target right which was george bush's contribution but actually turned out to be fairly small here's carper here's the blue line and the stimulus act the stimulus act it's virtually nothing to it's that right piece right there so here we are most of all you know most all of us came from the bush era tax cuts and the wars are actually in afghanistan and the bush recession over the last ten years the bush tax cuts are

the largest contributors to our structural deficit and over the next ten years they will likely add another four trillion dollars deficit. that's four trillion dollars borrowed from the chinese and handed in our names to the so called job creators all courtesy of the bush tax cuts and we can add another two trillion dollars. which again there we go and we had a two trillion dollars that we borrowed and gave to the rich or the bush tax cut over the last ten years with all this money we borrowed and gave the american rich what the so called job creators done if laid off workers like bank of america is about to do with plans to pink slip thirty five hundred employees of the ship jobs overseas like jeffrey immelt of g.e. does with over half of their workforce now made up of former years those are frank luntz calls them job creators a term that likely originated from a focus group or the polls and fox so called do is you know the mouthpiece of oligarchy murdoch a defacto house organ for the republican party but in reality these corporations

and rich people are job killers at least here in the united states but frank luntz would be the first to tell you that more tax cuts for job killers doesn't play as well in the polls and economically it's stupid and we have the evidence of thirty years to prove it in the last few years this nation has been whacked in the head over and over and over again with economic sadness let's hope one of those racks wakes us up to common sense taps the oligarchy. that's the big picture for us tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our website the thom hartmann dot com free speech or. also check out our to you tube channel is there a link to town hartmann dot com this entire show is also available as a free video podcast on i tunes and we have a free tom hartman i phone an i pad app in the app store it's in his feedback at twitter tom others who are going on facebook at town underscore our of our blogs

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