tv [untitled] September 16, 2011 8:00pm-8:30pm EDT
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do you guys know that the united states actually decided to sell weapons to taiwan recently. and i haven't heard. you know really keep up with politics now under. the nose have it pointing out where taiwan is on a mound is one thing knowing why it's important to the us is another beast altogether so while president obama gives the green light for a major arms deal to taiwan why should you care. that's what president reagan did nineteen eighty when it was started out well before our john sears and other people in this campaign i want you call salt lake and i'm going to general feeling good for our even brush well boss's job if you can't handle the economic heat get out of
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the administration while president obama promises to get more americans hired some suggest he should be concentrating on saying you're fired to get the point across. and the u.s. may be cash strapped but the private prison industry is having no problem raking in the dome lining their pockets with more green every time an undocumented immigrant is arrested ahead here how one man's american dream was crushed after his residency was revoked. it's friday september sixteenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for down there watching our team. well the white house has given the green light to the sale of an arms package to taiwan a sale that is leaving a lot of world leaders on shaky ground here's the deal taiwan says its fleet is aging and they were hoping that the deal would include new advantage f.
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sixteen jets the u.s. which has provided weapons to taiwan since world war two and is only headed to help they sign a nine hundred seventy nine law will instead sell less advanced older jets to taipei the reason is china really doesn't want the u.s. intervening at all especially though with those advanced weapons in some ways you could look at this like a crazy thrilling rivalry china and taiwan two siblings that don't really get along at all china in fact still claims taiwan has its provenance and apparently has fifteen hundred missiles targeting it while the u.s. and china are also family these days especially when you consider how much u.s. debt is held by china perhaps that was one factor in the u.s. of backing down from what some saw as a potential deal involving those newer advanced f. sixteen jets so is this a sign that china then is the older stronger brother this is a question i asked an investigative journalist an r.c. contributor when manson. this is geopolitics actually was what is going on here
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taiwan and china have have actually had pretty good relations considering the fact that they claim each other's territory for them for their own a nationalist on taiwan the communists in beijing through a process called the cross streets negotiations however china looks at the united states interference as something that they don't want to deal with they have no problem dealing with the government in taiwan as specially the current president who is a big advocate of this cross trade dialogue increasing trade between taiwan and china for example but whatever happens out of his fight or deal china will get four point two billion dollars in military aid from the united states maybe not even sept sixteenth baby in a package to update their current fighters their current f. sixteen but put this in context with hillary clinton were rattling sabers about the south china sea disputed islands there disputed between five different countries
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china philippines vietnam brunei and malaysia. in addition to taiwan she she has been rattling sabers against china so it looks like there's still some old free china cold warriors in the obama administration parading around as democrats when in fact they look like they're closer to the old richard nixon of the one nine hundred fifty s. but they were of quite a few forces that were aimed at pushing for the sale for that sale of the newer more advanced as sixteen and that included the lawmakers who supported a bill basically to reaffirm that close relationship between the u.s. and taiwan i want to read something that florida republican congressman eliot ileana let ruslan said yesterday in a statement she said quote in order to protect u.s. national security interests in the pacific we must ensure that taiwan has the capability to defend itself from an attack of course our current corps and i mean.
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one china the taiwan relations act requires this it is deeply concerning that the current administration's commitment to the very foundation of the t.r.a. seems to be faltering most glaringly through its continued refusal to sell taiwan the next generation as sixteen or diesel submarines. other lawmakers including texas senator john cornyn also add you know this would have brought us jobs which we definitely need since these newer jets are made by lockheed martin talk about kind of the truth behind the politics here between these lawmakers getting involved and wanting as the u.s. has sort of tipped that scale between the u.s. and china well with ross let me and we have actually someone stuck in time she is basically she doesn't want to have any dialogue with. cuba because she's a basically cuban from south florida so she's against any initiatives with the castro government and it looks like her policy to be china is going back to the old debate between nixon and kennedy in one hundred sixty whether the u.s.
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will protect queen lawyer sue these people like cornyn and and ron slate and robert menendez who's a democrat from new jersey i should add he's a number that same cuba coalition that ileana ros lehtinen is a member of these are cold warriors but then again they're also the holding to the military industrial complex they want these defense jobs in and as a new jersey court in taxes and where as a ross lightnin she is she is the chairman the house water relations committee but she if you want to republican administration after obama you'll find people like ross lightman in that administration these are people who are playing brinkmanship with china they like to do with russia the cold warriors in the twenty first century now as investigative journalist and r.t. contributor wayne madsen the u.s. reaction as a result is clearly important in all its dealings with taiwan but how much exactly does the average american really know about taiwan. artie's adriaan it was that i
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took to the streets of washington to find out. i went out on the streets of washington d.c. armed with a camera mike and i have to ask americans a simple question. was taiwan and why is it so important to the u.s. where is taiwan. asia. where year. is joining us this morning the talk here. sir did you guys know that. states decided to sell silent. i don't know i haven't heard that no i don't know i didn't i don't know traditionally the u.s. has sort of intervened on behalf of taiwan. who are against china china i would assume so they're closest to protection from attack from china probably against communist china if i'm not mistaken i was in the impression that taiwan was
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. occupied by the british the relationship with taiwan is probably just as important as our relationship is china there you have it it seems americans kind of know where it is but why it's such a big issue reporting from washington i imagine said oh r.t. so much in years now we end this week like we have so many weeks this year with a sense that things in this economy have just not gotten much better for many it is simply another day without a job but president obama is hoping to fix that and he's traveling around the country to sell his american jobs act we're going to get people on board and hoping congress will pass this bill it would certainly not be the first time the government has gotten involved to try to help and there's one man who wants to make sure you are aware of every opportunity the government is giving away money you may even recognize and take a look. i met you last week the governors your people are billion dollars but
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your second if. i get it done to make cars that people don't want to buy six hundred billion dollars to something i took pride in the practices that. are place from cares about hyperinflation. the tax burden on your pretty. bad man is matthew lesko a bestselling author and entrepreneur there are just some simply as the question mark guy well he joined me here in studio earlier to give me his unique take on the ups and downs of the economy. it's all the benefits of goes through or not there's so much out there now to help you and the problem is you know people you know learn the information about the government hucksters like me you know who are probably trying to sell you something you know like right now if your credit card debt you don't don't turn to somebody you see on t.v. going to help you that because that's going to cost you money the government right now has thousands of offices where they're giving grants to professionals to help
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you get out of their credit card and they're out there to sell you anything they're just they help you but they don't ever buy they're not allowed to advertise they don't have money to advertise ok all these programs that are really great i think to solve people's problems they don't have any money they have lawyers some of the best programs that people i mean without one right getting a job now you talk about jobs other you know when you're up to eight thousand dollars to train for a new career so now if you're in a career going nowhere if you're on wall street and you want to get massage therapy yourself they you know there's a program at eight thousand dollars to do that and that's offices at the local government you know so people don't know really work to call it is of course the time when the president needs to start campaigning and it was also last night that he had a big fundraiser in georgetown i believe it was thirty six thousand dollars a plate talk a little bit about how you kind of see this contrast between these types of fundraisers that while the economy is not him so well i mean to me it's a waste of resources i mean what will we have to do in the sky to take the
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resources we have and start planning for our future you know yelling at each other and throwing money at our ideological preferences you know it is just a waste the effort and it's not going to get us anywhere you know we have to worry about what we're going to be doing ten years from now you are next thursday that's the real planning we have to do in this country really really interesting. you know it everyone sort of wants to give the president advice whether it's speaker of the house painter or media pundit i want to play one other thing we have this sound bite from james carville. we lost all the seats in one thousand nine hundred four a lot of us got far i didn't have a consulting contract with the d.n.c. people he made changes that's what happened geoff wood president reagan did nine hundred eighty when it got started how well he fired john sears and other people in his campaign committee he canceled like and how many generals did like that far even rumsfeld lost his job with the republicans far newt gingrich when saying to not go well he. coached them have you noticed as we go sports he got to do
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something you gotta change direction here it just looks like the same people doing the same thing over and over again and work and all right so boehner says obama you know should fire people james carville's obama said have you i mean is that the case it is that and musician it is simply change the roster here i mean you've seen in the past i've been in this town long enough you know where they come in after two years and make changes and we're still not going anywhere i mean it's something more systemic than that it may help on the edges but how do we get down i mean to do the critical issues in this country like education there if we don't pay and you can pay more because we're competing or we're not you know marilyn competing with the people who jersey were kids in maryland competing with people all over the world and they're studying harder than we are you know more educated than we are that's what we have to do in this country and that was offered nothing less. and as
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expected even the issue of jobs has become political and we counter what will most likely come to be known as the pass this jobs bill speech we're starting to hear reaction from some of the republicans here's the speaker of the house john boehner yesterday it was so the president. they're not doing their jobs that they're not constantly focused on removing impediments to job groups. and if they're not focused on that they will be fired. well there's talk more about the jobs bill the economy and the politics of it all i spoke to caroline held mina professor of politics at occidental college i started off by asking her if she thought the upcoming debate over the jobs bill will look anything like the debate over raising the debt ceiling. well i think it will be highly politicized partisan politics will play a major role expected to get written down simply because a win for jobs at this point in time would be
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a win for president obama and we have a looming presidential election so if i were a republican strategist i would be doing everything i possibly could to defeat this bill because as moody's has pointed out it will actually create one point nine million new jobs and it will boost g.d.p. by two percent it will lower the job the unemployment rate and any positive movement will benefit president obama in the next election but they're only one thing republicans have not changed their mind on the entire time obama has been in office is raising taxes they say they will not sign on to anything in any form that doesn't that seems to be what's going on here they've seen some of the provisions of the bill and they don't like get your take on that. yeah i think that's a good assessment there are two provisions the way and which it will be paid for is to get rid of the bush tax breaks for the wealthy so the top two percent as president obama specified will be taxed and he'll also get rid of some of these corporate loopholes which have prevented major corporations and even mid-sized
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corporations from paying any taxes republicans are using the economic downturn as an opportunity to say that taxes and regulation is what's not causing hiring but that's simply inaccurate from the research i have seen in the polls i've seen coming from business again and again the vast majority are saying that it's a lack of aggregate demand and they're right because the bottom dropped out of the middle class we don't have people purchasing at the same rates and as a result there is no reason to add to your workforce to increase productivity if there's no demand for it so if this can increase demand then the ripple effect in terms of jobs will be much greater than the one point nine million projected by moody's but those one point nine million jobs that. are not likely to come on fast and all of the same time and in the end of a. not likely to change the unemployment rate drastically so it's a lie or the republicans you know signing on to this so that they can say in six months well obama we let you have your girl and it's still in do anything you know
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that's as good of a campaign speech as any one as any one thing that i can think. that's an interesting analysis i think that the fear would be that it would be effective and it would be somewhat effective at least in the next year there he president obama is focusing on infrastructure and the infrastructure jobs would be shovel ready jobs and they would start immediately stimulating the economy as that money is circulating and more people are employed so at least in that one sense we would see some movement and also he has a payroll holiday extension which would mean that mid and small size businesses would be able to hire so if there was a question about well maybe we can produce a little bit more but not quite enough to get a new employee it would help to make that decision so i actually think it would be somewhat effective in the next year or at least that is a risk that republicans are not willing to take now with caroline hellman ph d. and professor of politics at occidental college. also ahead on r t law making the
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money has proven extremely difficult for some others are thriving in this economy prison contractors have found a way to make big bucks by cashing in on undocumented immigrants i have will tell you how one man's american dream is turned in immigration night. when i was like you know years old and digital goods through. my question i am going to get it i was going to have a pretty. good it was kind of yesterday.
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welcome back while there are a few industries in this country that seem to be doing just fine these days and some of those are the people with the highest position at america's biggest banks they seem to be getting richer but it just isn't wall street those who work in the private prison industry it turns out are also doing quite well so how can they guarantee more and more profit while it turns out the answer is this they make the laws to keep the money flowing in and this time it's undocumented immigrants who are suffering r.c. correspondent rym uncle and shows us how we bought our three dogs. new house on the college time that a. great company so. we were not well newlyweds hopin remove stuck him were living the american dream a dream quickly shattered by immigration agents after knowledge reached us
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residency was suddenly revoked because of a four year old drug conviction and therefore asian standing had better and it just felt like a nightmare nasri an immigrant from singapore was hauled off to the south texas detention center run by geo group the second largest prison contractor in america geo along with corrections corporation of america for c.c.a. have contracts with immigrations and customs enforcement together their annual revenue is three billion dollars both geo and c.c.a. which operates this facility in san diego have repeatedly been accused of lobbying for tougher immigration policies in order to keep their cells full were given to corporations their hijacking our legislators their hijacking our government and they're pushing for their own particular agenda to make money private prisons are
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making millions off of the crackdown on undocumented immigrants they basically manage every aspect of a detainee just like a government prison except that contractors are doing it for a profit c.c.a. and geo are not the only private companies making a killing off of our border security infrastructure wells fargo is reported to have millions in shares in private prisons security contractor for g.s. boasts about their ability to transport hundreds of thousands of detainees every year people like oscar an undocumented nursery worker who himself has been detained several times but i was not aware that they caught me in around ten times is this is they thought i was a smuggler. but as oskar spy. success in settling in america shows the billions of dollars being spent on private contractors to build the border wall and on high tech monitoring equipment have not sought to flow at all the homeland
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security mentality or lobbyists are really. paving the way for many more contracts for private companies to have with us government to ensure that there's always this fueling system of building more walls those more ten million dollar contracts come at taxpayer expense of course private prisons receive up to two hundred dollars a day per detainee a record three hundred ninety thousand immigrant detainees pass through the system just in two thousand and ten but what they want is to increase profits or they cut medical care services they cut the hire on qualified personnel and with that happens is that perhaps translated into abuse a systematic systematic abuse throughout the country and those detainees there have been reports of abuse and even death separate run immigration facilities it is a system which is only expected to expand as long as profits dictate the
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immigration debate in los angeles remember lindo party that immigration debate no doubt likely to come up in the next year of course it is now an election year and ration policy has always done it is with the candidates but whether this comes up there is a major component that is always missing and that is this notion that detaining people keeping people locked up well it's a successful business prisoners are profitable earlier i spoke to one who is a good here is the president of almost a new nurse usa about this connection between the private prison industry and the tightening of immigration legislation across the country. well i think you're absolutely right the private prison system is very interesting and has been from the beginning puffing the law or regulation.
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immigrants because they and they're still very early on that this was a very big business. we have a situation. where essentially what we have is the whole way of building involves the private prison system on the one hand conservative politicians on the other working hand in hand through professional lobbyists to make sure that the congress of the united states keeps allocating monies so that the private prison system continues to expand and one thing that we've noted over these last years is that in every single state where politicians at the state level have been signed have been defined congressional or . federal laws has me in terms of implementing immigration
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well. you know you've seen an expansion of private prison system in those countries with a net result that not only have the prison system expanded. immigrants are not being in prison for longer and longer periods of time because the longer they stay in prison the more money those private contractors get from the federal government it seems to me almost similar to what we now know about you know the banking industry yet another industry in which the people who stand to profit are the same ones making the rules and i want to talk specifically about one of the most glaring examples of this that is of course arizona's immigration law and seventy where police. officers were ordered to lock up anyone they stopped whether it be for a traffic violation or whatever reason who could not show proof that they were citizens i know two of governor jan brewer's top advisers are former prison lobbyists so the connections are aplenty but what about those who constantly say
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you know this is in the name of safety we need stricter laws to keep our you know to keep the united states safer what do you have to say to those people. well yes of course you need to keep the united states safe but when you're dealing with immigrants what you have to understand is that by and large it is not that dangerous felon this kid in the payment locked up for long periods of time the same should be what you are hardworking law abiding taxpaying immigrants who happen to violate it in a strait of regulation who are now confronting very tough immigration laws at the state and federal level as a result of which you know they're being penalized for being in the country without documents and they get caught up in these growing private prison industry which is a direct result of all these racist policies that we have seen him acting in states
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across the country and so you know the american public is no more safe today than he was before these protocols immigration regulations and the prison system explosion that we've seen i'd like to add to that that another problem that we have that doesn't do anything increase of safety of the american public when you we see this explosion in the lack of not in the lack enough for undocumented immigrants is that it is not just the private this isn't a sector in the prison system that's benefiting greatly from these incredible abuse of undocumented immigrants it's also states counties and cities and towns across america that because of budgetary pressures are now working hand in hand. with immigration authorities to
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rest and incarcerate undocumented immigrants because they also benefit from the federal government. that was one who's a good here is president of almost any of those usa in our los angeles studio well stay tuned to our team next week for a whole new line up america is quick to quarantine its enemies like iran for instance but this is one country that might have the solution to earn the u.s. say a clean bill of health and american doctors are turning east to replicate a health care system for some of our poorest communities so while diplomatic relations are looking specifically international cooperation could be alive and well and from the brilliance of the provocative to the just plain bizarre the united nations general assembly has a long history of thought provoking speeches highlighting critical issues of the day so what memorable moments will come out of this year's meeting r t will be on
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the ground and we'll continue our coverage of the u.n. g.a. . and there's an eight hundred pound gorilla in the room also known as the u.s. veto capability with president obama promising to nix any intentions of hellcity and statehood what exactly will come out of this meeting of the minds those are just a few of the stories that we have on tap for you next week along with more news and in-depth interviews so i want to thank you so much for watching that is going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered go to r.t. dot com slash usa and catch my full interview with best seller gosling author and entrepreneur matthew lesko as well as all the guests featured on the show today also check out our you tube page you've got com slash r t america you should also follow me on twitter at franzi i do want to thank you so much for watching i'm christine for us now.
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