the best that ten thousand dollar machine is gold so most of these goes the grinding speed to be far in the experience. you heard in bride a ten thousand dollar martini and that's not all that's on the menu for america's richest one percent how about a burger stacked with gold flakes on it while america's a leading wine and design on the way many are. lost my house my business you know i'm just kind of surviving millions of americans struggle daily to put food on the table some even away for days on end for handouts to feed their families that's a harsh economic reality of the digests from one home to another many have nothing

to be thankful for. and where an off with the government day after day different protesters are coming out by the thousands and some manage to change their government promised thirty eight dead over two thousand injured but they're not backing down so what will it take to get the protesters to leave tahrir square. it's friday november twenty fifth five pm in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching our t.v. . well the holiday season kicks off at a time when our economy continues to struggle and it's perhaps this time of the year when the growing income inequality gap and wealth disparity in the u.s. becomes most apparent despite high unemployment record poverty levels and skyrocketing food prices it's less you are paying shockingly exorbitant prices for

their meals one thousand dollars desserts away ten thousand dollar martini artie's on a fancy a church going to shows you how some are living the luxury of life and the slumping economy. america the land of plenty but these days that twenty is only reaching a few but one country split into two planets it's a tale of two americas right now in new york city a place where the number of people on food stamps is soaring at a record three million and it's also a place where one hundred seventy five dollars buys wall street fat cats a burger black truffles and meanies with gold leaf or a martini for ten thousand dollars at an exclusive new york hotel ten thousand dollars a month unit cost or market because they're crying in space to be buying experience this is you know if you store across sight. makes you.

unique and special here we're going to. the desert for a staggering one thousand bucks nobody has ever had buyer's remorse that's that's for sure with a forty eight hour dance order this thousand dollars sunday is purchased up to five times a month again would be edible twenty three carat gold doesn't really have a. very cool texture salt caviar and i double sugar flour which takes eight hours to make and the rarest and most expensive chocolates in the world the ice cream is served in a crystal goblet similar to the one used at the vatican yes in the past couple of years people are suffering and they're saying you know why would you have a thousand dollar ice cream well you know why would you have a bentley a short ride across town angry at me. whatever garlic onion fellow.

like this one for the money that you are to spend on a dessert is seen as a lottery with. us over a thousand. over a thousand close to two thousand individuals have gotten a meal a space out the number of people this week a month to be among the people that. get enough. food over a million people said here last year and one hundred percent increase in the demand for crude this place know this state of hunger demand for any available produce simple food pressure can be produced and peas has been skyrocketing at pantries like this one as the gap between rich and poor is an extreme limited number of people who need any help they can get to put food on their table sixty year old cedric jacobs is on disability and a father of three and a family with a ration that couldn't be simpler people pay to do. so little ground beef.

focus for five family members. for a week. kill a retired single mother of three amid calls for an amber make steenkamp on disability after being burnt in an explosion she struggles as food prices continue to rise produce vegetables its stock. i mean it's our wages but our. four gulp of bread for these people luxuries not even a dream survival is their only priority there's just something amazing about ingesting gold they skim a very nice thing it gave out with the i didn't get a ham but i got a big charity i had a lot of. critical mix things giving might not be so lucky hotel and millions of others as experts predict the gap between those with well and empty stomachs

will only widen and for the church in a hearty meal. now we're seeing as the income gap market and so too are the menus it's something that the occupy wall street protesters have noticed one restaurant is making light of the occupy wall street movement and even making some money off of it take a look at this this is from the d.l.c. steak restaurant in washington d.c. this is the one percent burger which hungry patrons can purchase for fifty eight dollars what do you get for that amount an eight ounce kopi burger topped with foie gras gold leaf and grey poupon and then there's the ninety nine percent burger for those of us who can't some expanding nearly sixty dollars on a burger on the menu for this is a six down scout burger patty melt slop between some wonder bread and good old american cheese all for a more reasonable ninety nine so this is a funny way to illustrate the now very real income inequality gap in the u.s.

to talk more about the facebook founder of wide awake news dot com charlie mcgrath as some spend ten thousand dollars on a martini while others struggle to put food on the table right here in america america i asked charlie a simple question what does this say about the economic state in the u.s. here's what you have to cite. well it shows the people that are participating in occupy wall street movement just like if you can participate in the tea party movement the core group of tea party members people who are tired of seeing excess corruption between wall street and main street are absolutely right i mean you know we're just we're listening to guy tell us how you just get this special feeling from ingesting goal it is absolutely unbelievable we have forty seven million one hundred eighty thousand two hundred four people in this country the day after thanksgiving two thousand and eleven they had to use food stamps in order to put food on the table last month it's utter insanity in what's let is to this point

it's rule simple you know we're back in two thousand and seven with roughly about a trillion dollars in national debt and today we said it fifteen trillion dollars in national debt this money isn't going to buy gold we deserve it's for the ninety nine percent it's going to bail out the too big to fail who better to socialize their failure while keeping their profits private and they're the ones who can go out for this new york city property where these ten thousand dollar drinks or this gold leafed dessert menus or this you know sixty dollar hamburger so none of this you know unfortunately unfortunately alternative media media like r.t.d. are showing these stories but the mainstream media is doing exactly what your report alluded to they're turning the ninety nine percent into a joke and sort of a for an r. t. what they like to do is take the absolute least eloquent person they can find put it in front of the camera and say this is the real ninety nine percent this is the real order of us they don't know what else to do they're bored they're hippies they

need to get a life this is the message that mainstream is putting out fortunately our t. another alternative media arts are showing the true reasons why people are in the streets and it's because they have no voice and they're completely frustrated and that charlie or with this and widening gap between the rich and poor but we're losing we think that you. losing is a middle class a recent brown university study shows that in two thousand and seven forty four percent of families work and said only when it were considered middle income and like a larger middle class in one nine hundred seventy when sixty five percent were part of the middle class and the windowing down of this class how do you think that it's affecting social mobility and the us. well you know everything is turning into a service sector job i mean you get kids going to college eighty percent of them are moving back home because there is no job for them to go to so i saw that same report you were talking about it also showed unbelievable job in the percentage of people who either fall into some poverty line or the elite class and unfortunately

you know most of the people are falling into their poverty line look it just goes to show that the trends the real metrics that we follow are painting a picture you know we're seeing one point three million foreclosures or you're seeing one point five million bankruptcies that year and we're seeing a congress in a government that is governing by crisis that can get nothing done on behalf of the people and everything to go on behalf of the too big to fail so as this continues as this form of crisis by government continues we're going to continue to see it further decline in the ever of the operating middle class and this train it isn't going to rebound we're not heading for so awkward spike in income in this country it's going the other way and lastly you know what these occupy wall street movement they have copy attention of the media and of the public i think that more attention is now being paid to the issue of income inequality. yeah you know it's a good question and i don't know if the income inequality is being paid attention

to any more i do know you're right about more people are starting to realize that these people are in the streets and they have a reason they're not just a bunch of worthless hippies and i think we're going to see it despite the mainstream media trying to portray them as something other than people who are addition completely and totally disenfranchised i think we're going to continue to see this movement grow and i do think we're going to start to see more of the synergy between the occupy wall street movement and the core believers in the tea party because when you boil right down to it we are protesting against the same people the occupy wall like if i was going after the two big the tea party movement was going through too much government and the sooner we realize that they are one in the same our government serves their financial masters awasthi as soon as we realize that we'll also realize that we're in the same camp and throwing insults at one another is exactly what the powers that be want us to do they want to drive a wedge between us that will battle with each other rather than look at the real

cause of why we're where we're at which is in washington d.c. and on wall street karalee thank you so much mayor thoughts on that that was charlie mcgrath founder of wide awake news that dot com. well today is a black friday the day which has become an american tradition with hordes of people rushing to the store sometimes in the wee hours of the morning to get those door busting deals but the rush for a deal turned violent in some places take a look ugly start police are now looking for a woman who pepper sprayed a crowd of shoppers in order to get her hands on a burger one shopper actually paid three fellow shoppers out a wal-mart in los angeles is to me. my breakdown at a big box judy we can. go through. the shopping season folks so well some are fighting to get that bargain and a growing number of americans are having a hard time feeling thankful this year but over forty million living in poverty

a thanksgiving feast is growing out of reach for more and more americans this holiday thousands lined up in los angeles to get a free turkey dinner by county rates the highest for food insecurity and the nation artsy is ramon glinda reports from l.a. . lost my house my business and now i'm just kind of surviving it's difficult for lisa jones to plan beyond tomorrow she struggles to make it through the day the mother of three worries about her oldest son but in the war in afghanistan and she's among the millions of americans who go hungry every day you see families you see the elderly you see pregnant women you see people with polio you see people. people are dying well eager shoppers camped out in front of retail stores on black friday joan sleeps on the call came it waiting in a different line wait for turkey i used to be

a government i used to have my own shopping now i deny it i'm in desperate straits so this is a godsend this is my first year here jones isn't alone the elderly and disabled are among the many people who wait patiently in this line in hopes of feeding their families david brown lost his janitorial job after the firm he worked for shut down we're going to be a green three nights now in the rain in the cold but what i. call the justin bartholomew joined the army after losing his job in the financial industry he can see that even members of the armed services are fighting i think anomic battle at home. for the soldiers like a. keep. remembering. was deeper than this. this year even the organizers of the give away needed a helping hand probably never had wanted to ask for any donation the bank like

their original sometime broad based are due to protest you and i were run out of thirty three have to go to chicken by sunrise the line grew as far as the eye could see this a microcosm of a hungry nation divided by the haves and have. we haven't spent enough time on job creation all of this wrestling about whether or not the bridge you got to pay their fair share is ridiculous the rich pay their fair share government figures show that los angeles is still the worst place in america when it comes to food insecurity and these long lines for a free trip to give away may be an indicator of that but throughout the nation there remains a large problem with forty nine million americans struggling to feed themselves on a daily basis sixteen million of those are children it's amazing actually to so many people in the same fifteen hours later in freezing temperatures in a roller coaster of emotions jones can smile again no one shall feed her family

this holiday season it just brings up the rest of the rest of the month and. this is a godsend but as millions of americans struggle to find work hang on to their homes and their families the fear is that even those who have been able to help in the past may soon need a hand up themselves in los angeles. party. and for more i spoke to october two thousand and eleven government organizer kevin the it's so if you're in the studio just a short while ago take a look. the record highs will see will drop in on the. same time we're seeing the wealthier get wealthier and so there's economic insecurity actually is what driving is driving this movement just like during the vietnam war the draft affected every family economic insecurity thanks every family unless you're in the top half

percent the top one percent even they're stressed the top two percent or so it's a widespread impact and what we have to come up with solutions to solve that and i think the first place to start is looking at the wealth divide when you have a country with four hundred people with the wealth one hundred fifty four million and those four hundred people are paying an average seventeen point four percent federal tax while working people pay twenty five or thirty percent unfair situation it's an additional security that unfairness is creating anger so people are willing to go out and sleep on the streets we have people who are doctors x. doctors we have nurses we have teachers we have unemployment long term we have homeless on the size of a wide range of americans it covers all as all segments as a step or the top one percent there out there because they see this country the wrong direction they want to do something about it it's really the american. and while people are protests are making their way to freedom plaza thanksgiving day is a black friday. to go along with this movement we're seeing this occupy black

friday movement and they say that they are not necessarily anti-capitalist they are anti crapulous according to their web site i like that we do whatever it is good we did two things related to this the first thing we did was we had a free store so you can come down rather people can drop things off as you anymore because it didn't fit because they're tired of looking at their entire. charge rather than. say that because we did action at one of the big box stores target. well we came out in support of the workers who were. to come in last night at ten o'clock at night. for the opening of the store. just extreme conditions and of course and organize and support them and we did a match which is the call on repeat repeat check my check target you our target you are and you know we didn't write checks to highlight the consumers of that pushes

people away we don't have and so we we have are problems of that kind of concern necessary consumer society we create a sustainable economy. and survive and. use resources misuse workers in front of me the top one percent but what do you say to those that say that you know this occupy black friday could be hurting the economy because you want people to spend money not even for the economy stimulate the economy would you say to those that are like you know that this is not. the economy is the wealthiest corporations the world sitting on two trillion dollars in screeding kind of way will hurt the economy as a housing bubble that was created by another the lending practices and when it burst the people are still paying those housing bubble prices so the economy can get better it will hurt the economy the government could not respond to the urgent needs of jobs and to deal with the with the deficit to cut military spending to create a fair progressive tax system not this almost flat tax that we have that's what hurts the economy people think. anybody don't have. debt when their jobs

are insecure that will hurt the economy and you know i also want to ask you social services now are on the chalk chopping block because the so-called supercommittee failed to slash one point two trillion dollars in spending so what extent do you think washington is it responsible for for growing the growing income inequality is probably response for we had a occupy super committee on. our web site. occupy washington d.c. dot org c.-span coverage we will bring to this these encouragement to see if we also get our own report a ninety nine percent deficit reduction plan and what we look for was tested and proven methods of salvia deficit of creating jobs again the kind of thing we discovered was it's actually relatively easy to solve the deficit crisis is relatively easy to get the jobs job creation going what's lacking is the inability

of the government they suffer the one percent. tax rate in the one percent now are so low that even though they have the wealth equal ninety five percent they pay a smaller percentage of income tax than people who work we have a tax relf more in tax work the less we do that we can solve the deficit problem we face of the wars cut military spending again we can we can we can solve the deficit crisis and jobs programs we there's a need for all sorts of jobs our infrastructure is crumbling teachers are losing jobs we have a lack we have a clash of two big hospitals there is the workers there's not a lack of jobs there's a lot of willingness of government to put money into those jobs you look at where jobs been lost in this recession you can look a lot of public service public jobs federal and state and local jobs that we've lost a lot jobs and are not creating jobs here and that's where the solution is why the solutions are evidence a problem is the corruption of the government the problem is that we're trying to and which is the end of corporate rule and shifting power to the people tell them thank you so much for keeping up that right october two thousand and eleven

government organized are putting the. postal had an r.t.s. it might lead the way into the arab spring but it sure hasn't found a way out yet thousands of protesters have taken to tahrir square again to say they're not ok with the status quo and they're prepared to fight and even die with the change coming up i'll bring you a report from cairo. you know sometimes just story seems so weak you think you understand it and then even something. here's the part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through. who can you trust no one who is you view with the global

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we never. say. because. we turned out to be addiction capital where tens of thousands are protesting against a guy there demanding that egypt's military rulers hand over power to civilian leaders arts he's a policy clear as in the eye of the tires start. now the rallying point here is much the same people wanting the military to stick down immediately and the military despite the concession of appointing come out guns ari as the new prime

minister has done little to meet the demands of the people the prime minister has spoken for the first time live on television he said he would not have accepted this position if he did not believe and if he was sincere about handing over power he also says that he has more powers than his predecessor the violence has continued although not of the devils we've witnessed in the past few days as you can hear behind me there are ambulances screeching past the human rights groups have also stated that in addition to the fact that the army and the police were using live ammunition many of those who were killed were killed while trying to help others we also now hearing sad reports that families have been gathering at cairo's main mortuary child into five eleven lines many of them sobbing and urging a message to waste amigas to stop sending bombs gas and weapons because they leaders are killing them from within now me i have one of the protesters who is behind this he is sure if joseph risk who is

a founding member of the new republic group sharif how will all of the stand i mean we see such a large crowds here what is it what is it going to take to get people off topic square well let's be clear this is the beginning of the new wave of the revolution the revolution was not about removing barak it was about removing mubarak ism and that's basically the security state being the ministry of interior plus the army we've been under army rule for sixty years and that's what we're trying to get rid of and i think that it will depend on can we keep up the momentum in the square that's one side the other side is going to happen while the elections are taking place but more importantly will there be defections from within this is the from within the army from where. then the judiciary from the media the state media from all of those state institutions which were tightly controlled why does the appointment of a new prime minister change nothing well ironically they appointed

a prime minister that was what from ninety six to ninety nine you represented all of the the dark policies of mubarak the far right economic policies. you know he has of him because of him there were a number of the rise in unemployment in egypt. a lot of what's attributed to the economic or disparate disparities was iterated to policies like has cost of course his human rights abuses with the slums what is happening with the muslim brotherhood i mean they were one of the main organizers of these demonstrations back in january february and now they are no longer represented here. in the muslim brotherhood weren't there before on friday just for a quick timetable of the handover to civilian rule. there however are not there to end the elections what this has become since this is grown so much what has happened is that this is challenged the legitimacy of scarf altogether which of course challenges their election timetables and their constitutional declarations

the referendum everything we're starting from zero price or for the sick or stay have much to lose. and not only are they starting from zero but on monday we'll see a return to the parliamentary elections one of the big questions here is the role of tear gas over the past week and here we hearing from human rights groups that possible eagle substance has been used and not a growing concern is just how safe it is full of women reporters and a woman put taste as into this which at least three female journalists have been sexually assaulted and i continued that walking around town here just a short time ago i was feeling incredibly unsafe much more unsafe than i have been feeling over the past few days. that was our to use policy or on the grounds and cairo and out of the print out of more of the stories we covered go to artsy dot com slash usa and check out our youtube page it's youtube dot com slash r t america you can also follow me on twitter liz.