are you ready to rumble it's time for friday night's big picture robbery where i sit down with three expert political commentators to debate the week's top stories on our panel tonight matthew boyle order of the daily caller id sir most conservative strategist and associate was going solutions currently blogging either ceremony dot com and joe madison host of the joe madison show on sirius x.m. satellite radio which airs weekdays mornings and channel one twenty eight so ready to rumble skate into a movie for the third bowie debate in

a row it's not what the candidates said on stage it's what the audience did that really caught my attention here we had an openly gay soldier putting his life on the line in iraq talking to rick santorum will play the clip you how the audience responded yes thank you and i think a lot of controversy online it comes from steven hill who was a soldier serving in iraq. in two dozen until it was deployed to iraq to lie about who was in prison with the soldier they didn't want to lose my job the question is under would your residence he's going to serve with the programs to leave for the libyan soldiers the military. i would say any type of sexual activity has absolutely no place in the military in the fact that they're making any and there's the audience booing and rick santorum confusing sexual identity was socialized to so that he is. we have now seen these audiences in these serial

republican debates applaud the deaths of two hundred thirty four people who were executed in texas. shot that went to sick americans without health insurance and should be let to die let him die and who was soldiers put his life it was defend this nation i thought the republican primary might be a race to the bottom among the politicians but it's looking to me like it's the audience is the bigotry and fear that have infected america since the days of the k.k.k. alive and well and showing up in the republican party. absolutely no and by the way . rick santorum actually came out today i don't know if you saw this he came out on fox today and said that he didn't hear the booing that's why he didn't announce it on the stage. that he day he does denounce it now. and. you know i actually think that if you're going to hold rick santorum to that standard and that if he should come out and denounce somebody saying this is some audience reaction like this why not hold barack obama to the same standard barack

obama has yet to denounce an invited speaker that he brought to his labor day rally jimmy hoffa jr who incited a call to violence let's take these as so peas out at the. courage of those refer yeah at the ballot box but still it's there she always rhetoric he said we've got all the rhetoric yeah but you know why the lizard sort of sarah palin when she used her target i mean the point is that it's vitriolic rhetoric and it should be acceptable anywhere but the point is that if you don't hold rick santorum to that standard i certainly hope you hold barack obama in the same standard. yeah i think it was i mean i think it's right for rick santorum to denounce it i think he did and he will i think what's being asked of him though is to apologize to all americans a little bit too much and i think you know when you're up there on a day i know when you're up there on the dais and you're as you're asked to address a question and also be aware of what's going on the audience it's. it's also too

much and i will say with this with the audience you know i think that you know that kind of reaction if any question it was a technocrat or republican i mean i think that the reality it's to be told to restrain themselves i do i don't. i don't believe in some of these were rick santorum or i believe you heard it i believe the other eight heard it too some not going to put it on just rick santorum i think that all of them someone else should have if not one maybe all of them should have said i mean here is a man who is serving he's risking his life or just what we're doing in this country and that's a democracy and as far as iraq obama and jimmy hoffa you're absolutely right what they did on television was dreadful they actually clipped out jimmy hoffa's saying the ballot box and i've been in politics so i was not talking to you well a boss or no i taught is you know the ballot box you know i get is. he i heart of

violence he called he asked his people are still using i was asked to be here you know right there i interrupt you joe from here please don't interrupt me. having said that. they clipped his words we all talk about taking politicians out at the ballot box it was not about physical violence it was about politics he's too young to remember the fact that people talk about taking folks out politically all of the time but the bottom line is not one of these folks asked you answered your question your question wasn't about rick santorum and whether he should or should not have apologized or heard your question was about what's happening with our audience the people in the audiences who are cheering when two hundred folks are announced the death penalty's people in

the audience who talk about letting die that's what your question was about and i think we should be concerned about that whether it's a democratic audience or republican i'll let me let me take it to the to another step here and that is the republicans sank you for letting me finish with. ok sorry about that i'd polities it's ok i do want to say that i don't think anybody out here or anybody on that stage is condoning that response there's not a single one of us i think that's the way we did today no here it should be can down by everyone rather myspace or shorted rick santorum and huntsman huntsman actually. said here in the announcer let me talk as well i think republicans also really gets government regulations the stuff that makes the air we breathe safe you know for example the e.p.a. this is herman cain last night talking about the. new problem was to eliminate a department i would start with the e.p.a. and start. with.

the americans but the e.p.a. has gone wild the fact they have a regulation that goes into effect. january first two thousand and two zero to regulate. c. is going to be. speaking as the son of a man who died because he was exposed to dust containing asbestos in a steel mill when my mother was pregnant with me and my dad had to drop out of college and get a job i'm really horrified that anybody is going to say how dare the e.p.a. keep our air clean i'm just astounded by what he was saying and you guys actually selectively edited the clip there he actually if you go on and play the rest of it he actually says we need to scrap what we've got and build a new e.p.a. that's actually effective at. helping public health as well as making sure that

we're not killing jobs and even hold hold on them when we backed out the small business administration of the obama administration two sides of the administration arguing this while this is ministration has been sending out reports after report to the e.p.a. and to the to the o.m.b. about all the e.p.a. regulations about how they're going to kill jobs so what herman cain if he played a spoke on it would show that he was saying that he wanted to get rid of what's there now and rebuild it in such a way that savannah ten ok you counted big. one he said i want to scrap the whole pate. then he came back and said no what i really want to do is in essence he thought those were his words but. my father worked. michigan and it was the. lung. cancer. herman cain also knows there's the former c.e.o. of godfather's pizza he's going to be happy lucky that we've got an e.p.a.

that checks the safety of it because if you left a private business most of us probably would be poisoned there's a reason i mean i think we can all admit that you know all these government agencies are perth and good intentions you know i mean the jungle you know we had. our food inspections because of the jungle already in the jungle and i think that's . going to various books of. the challenge is keeping these agencies from becoming too big where they control too much and that's why you know maybe i wouldn't support what herman cain said but the gist of it i do support that he is going to control at least rebuilt it's not going to determine herman cain is i just find. he is so great with the applause lines you know and he knows how to get the crowd.

grew up in a. family and he worked his way up through the. night . what is this test now the reality is that you know is that herman cain is good with that line but one line is he's going nowhere in this whole president republican place he's just there for the entertainment value he can't he can't even get out a single digits in all of these can be some of these candidates know they're not going to make it this time. around how it's like cambridge however you make some good points that kind of keep the other candidates in check well and they're all in there and all the marginal candidates i think play that role in both the democratic and republican debates and a good one but what i would do is a waste of our time when i really want to listen to the candidates who are going to be out there who are real who are we know will stand a chance who you know we have such quite honestly you know thirteen months is going to roll around here real quick we don't have time to fool around with barbecue this

campaign is more of a serious question like we need to move all this media pressure that i make a maybe a very formidable force. in speaking of the more rowdy you know the e.p.a. as it were you know what what's the world of government all these things the same people who don't trust the the e.p.a. to keep the air clean do trust the government put people to death troy davis was put to death a couple of days ago and all his appeals were denied former president and governor of georgia jimmy carter so if one of our fellow citizens could be executed was so much doubt surrounding his guilt in the death penalty system in our country is unjust and outdated. isn't jimmy carter right isn't it time for us to join the other civilized nations in the world and say enough already. i don't think it's time for us to throw out the death and only necessarily i think a question whether or not you know the requirements for putting someone to death

are strict enough because this was a very interesting case was circumstantial evidence however the supreme court did not intervene it why didn't they you know you have it's a very balanced court you have several liberal justices who could have come in and said you know we were going to take this cause up and i didn't lie and i would absolutely agree with that where is sonia sotomayor where is only kagan on this i mean these are the champions of the left and if it was really an unconstitutional issue that they should be out championing being this poor choice davis but the other side of the coin here is that yes i do think that the standards of what prosecutors need aside in proof to be able to put somebody to death and the death penalty should probably be heightened and clarified zeid think people should also understand that it actually costs more to put a person to death and to keep them in prison than the rest of their life without

parole most people have forgotten california right now is in the process of trying to get a referendum because they simply can't afford the death penalty they've got to build a brand new prison because millions and millions of dollars the reality is that it's it's not cost effective to whenever there's going to be a state putting people to death you're always going to have a choice you can count on it you know i'm very proud of the great great do you know that he was not and the troy davis. watch he was he was in texas at the execution and the whites of prince. who who who killed byrd because his position is very clear that you can if you're going to be opposed to the death penalty it's got to be for all death penalty and i'm really proud of

him for doing that. i'm wondering if this is this is a turning point for us in the united states with regard to the death not only honest opinion is i just i don't think so i really don't think so at this point in time you know because executions went on i think the next day one thing we might be able to agree on you know the next day it's a turn and so it is even though in a minute a half year before we before we had our quick for question government shutdown just i want to get this in here the house and senate are fighting about this it looks like a high wire act harry reid staring down john boehner any thoughts on who's going to win this thing isn't it interesting now that the house has legislation that they sent over to harry reid and harry reid has brought in and i mean this is really an area read sort of budget to the size of the house in their normal. well it's not if you step down it's not going to shut down it has it's going to be a race that finished we have a divided congress he's going to have it with a divided congress and the people either say we can't take it anymore or they say

ok this is fun to watch the sunset it's. going to want to know if i were brave watch my back yes so i think eric cantor. would watch my back because that's really what this is the you know he's been or it seems to me is in a position where if he goes with the tea party he's going to have to shut down the government because the press in the senate are going to change and if he breaks the tea party and bring some democrats and then he's ended his speakership and cantor wins well i mean we've had we've seen this happen this fight happened a few times now and it always ends up working out well. it always ends up working out with a compromise you know what we in the divided don't in a divided government is good for the country because it forces us to talk about the issues instead of passing them in a backroom like nancy pelosi did with. our question you know conservative audiences

cheer death sickness and homophobia in debates so the question is what kind of stuff are they going to cheer on their own free time or maybe in the next debate who knows nature's brutality. i think or will it be blips exploding. i think or apocalyptic global warming disasters. yes. i think you know what is the good of the. or something else is going to you just see it's either going to be a or b. if you can see doesn't exist so ok that's what the guy that's what i'll go with.

gee i'm going to go with something in sports going to play safe here and be some good team winning yes but. you know. i'm back or breaking his neck. that's what this job. and i think through this i mean if you sit there and. die what's a linebacker worth well that's good that's what that's why that's where mine comes from also a concern is watch sports so we're going to get your well and everybody knows about the you like on it. i'm so that. that's what i. would have to live there and they're just great to see you seeing. coming up with the new forbes hundred four hundred richest americans was tells us about the state of our nation and my daily take i'll tell you how america is transforming the

something you may have read about in your high school textbooks. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions. made who can you trust no one who is your view with the global machinery see where we had a state controlled capitalism and school sasha's when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more.

most americans learned about feudalism in high school it's that economic system that plagued medieval europe for most of the population lived as peasants toiling day in and day out just to get enough to survive while the small ruling elite class of landowners and nobles controlled all their wealth and property and basically were the only ones with any rights we learned about feudalism as though it is a primitive economic system something that's long forgot something that our democracy and free markets rendered obsolete around the world and we embrace what's replaced a population of presence which is our middle class as a sign of human progress or at least we pretend to the truth is in case you missed

those history lessons about feudalism and school you're in luck because you can learn everything you need to know about feudalism today by just looking out the window by looking at the current united states of america a nation that over the last thirty years has traded in its democratic middle class free util hasn't tree this week forbes released their list of the top four hundred richest americans a list chock full of billionaires from bill gates to warren buffett to the koch brothers in fact to even make the list you had to be a billionaire. and these four hundred billionaires who own more wealth than one hundred fifty million other americans come by and saw their enormous fortunes grow twelve percent since last year to a mind boggling combined total of one and a half trillion dollars to put that in perspective in one thousand nine hundred two before all the reagan tax cuts for the super rich went into effect and forbes first

published its top four hundred the combined wealth of that list of all the people on that list it was ninety one billion dollars again today it's want to have trillion dollars that's a sixteen hundred percent increase in fewer than thirty years so why the wealth of these corporate c.e.o.'s and oil barons and our guards frankly are what we would have called nobles and feudal europe have seen astronomical increases in their wealth but has the middle class seen in these thirty years squat to begin with wealth doesn't even apply to the middle class largely because outside of their homes which are increasingly being for closed on the average working american doesn't advocate related wealth like the c.e.o. class does so when we look at the middle class we have to look at their incomes how much money they're earning between one nine hundred seventy nine and two thousand and five middle class families saw their incomes increase

a measly twenty one percent not all the time so the four hundred richest americans saw a sixteen hundred percent increase in wealth while the average middle class americans saw a twenty one percent increase in their incomes someone's getting a raw deal and since reagan rose to power ninety percent of all the new wealth created in america went to just the top one percent of americans. since one thousand nine hundred we've seen the largest transfer of wealth from working people to the richest of the rich that's ever taken place in the history of this nation or of any other nation in the modern history of the world for that matter as a result forty six million americans are in poverty the largest number ever recorded in the history of this nation thirty seven percent of young families people under thirty the future leaders of our nation are living in poverty a give the largest number ever recorded in the history of this nation and fifteen point seven million children roughly one in four children live in poverty in the united states the supposedly richest nation on the planet more than forty million

americans depend on food stamps more than fifty million americans don't have health insurance the middle class has morphed into the working poor people who work three jobs just to survive people who we used to call the presence in a feudal economy but now call the working poor in our neo feudal economy so how did this happen. i break it all down in my book an equal protection the long story goes back to eight hundred eighty six when corporations were given personhood by a rogue supreme court reporter in the case of so the pacific railroad versus our county but more recently it's what these corporations have done with their personhood in terms of buying off politicians in the last thirty years that accounts for the destruction of the middle class and the rise of neo feudalism in america after all billionaire feudal lords see the middle class as a threat is a force that will become politically active to demand their share of the pie thus

it needs to be destroyed or at least badly hobbled and started in one thousand nine hundred two and reagan stopped in force in the sherman antitrust act which triggered and mergers and acquisitions frenzy of corporations consuming other corporations and growing so big that their combined wealth outweighs most other nations in the world but massive transnational corporations dominate the market they can and did eliminate their small business competition that drives prices up meaning middle class americans go broke having to pay more for essential like energy and health care and then came the tax breaks well income tax rates corporate tax rates and capital gains tax rates taxes paid mostly by wealthy people have plummeted payroll taxes the taxes paid by mostly working people have increased only adding to the increasing wealth inequality today the wealthiest americans pay the lowest amount of taxes and they've paid in fifty years and as a recent analysis by the tax policy center found out or her of all millionaires and

billionaires in america now pay a lower effective tax rate than the average forty five thousand dollars a year worker. our nation has the largest wealth inequality in the developed world and the largest ever recorded since right before the republican great depression and as a result of that explosion of wealth inequality like back in the one nine hundred thirty s. right now we are in a crisis as one of the preeminent scholars on the feudal history of europe mark block who wrote the seminal book feudal society tells us the transition from a free society to a feudal society is marked by two simple elements they are the rapid came you lation of power and wealth into the hands of the few which we've clearly seen in the last thirty years along with a reduction in the power and responsibility of government as we've also seen we're in the final stages now where the rich and powerful have seized control of our government are starving it through the politicians they've bought out his ratings that starve the beast and the primary way they starve it is by letting themselves

off the hook from paying taxes as more pluck noted in feudal society nobles need not pay taxes or as they were in the arena helmsley said only the little people pay taxes and the second way they do this is by using the corporate form to amass great and multi-generational amounts of wealth that are beyond the reach of government but there are ways to reverse the slide into feudalism before it's too late as i discuss in an equal protection it starts with ending corporate personhood by saying once and for all corporations are not people and money is not speech sorry mitt romney and money is not speech sorry chief justice john roberts. you can find out how to do that by going to move to amend or only when we wrestle back control of our democracy from the millionaires and billionaires we today are actively bringing feudalism to america can we set this nation on the right course again a course that ens new feudalism once and for all and breathe new life into the

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