the big ten thousand dollars monthly news posts almost reduced the crime to be buying the experience well you heard of rite aid ten thousand dollars martinis and that's not all that's on the menu for america's richest one percent how about a burger jack with gold plates on it while america's a leading wine and dine on the woman you know i'm. lost my house my business you know i'm just going to survive. millions of americans struggle daily it's a full of food on the tables some even wait for days on end for handouts to feed their families it's a harsh economic reality to digest for a long home to another many have nothing to be thankful for.

and fighting to survive it's no secret that the u.s. is power hungry especially when it comes to new energy forms but sometimes the greater good it isn't so good for everyone as lawmakers look to america's energy future full of legacy are we leaving behind. it's friday november twenty fifth seven pm in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching r.t. . well the holiday season kicks off at a time when our economy struggles is struggling and it's perhaps this time of the year when growing income inequality gap and the well disparity in the u.s. becomes more evident despite high unemployment record poverty levels and skyrocketing food prices

a select few were paying shockingly exorbitant prices for their meals for a one thousand dollars dessert to a ten thousand dollars cocktail parties on a stasi a church going to shows you how some are living the luxury of life in this slumping economy. america the land of plenty but these days that twenty is only. one country split into two planets it's a tale of two americas right now new york city a place where the number of people in stamps is soaring to record three million but it's also a place where one hundred seventy five dollars buys wall street fat cats a bird a black truffles and meanies we were martini for ten thousand dollars at an exquisite new york hotel at ten thousand dollars a month uni's coastal market because the crying in space to be buying. this is you know if you score

a goal site. that's what makes you. unique and special here we're going to order a dessert for staggering one thousand bucks nobody has ever had buyer's remorse that's that's for sure with the forty eight hour advance order and thousand dollar sunday is purchased occupied times a month again with the edible twenty three carat gold doesn't really have a really good it does have a very cool texture for you caviar and i had a bill schneider flower which takes eight hours to make and the rarest and most expensive chocolates in the world the ice cream is served in a crystal godless 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 and it made oh what

a. pear tree like this one for the money that's from new york to spend on a desert is seen as a liar we. know that's over a thousand. over a thousand close to two thousand individuals got their meal a space of the number of people this please i'm on the amount of people that i mean that's. over a million people said here last year and one hundred percent increase in demand for crude the police know the face of hunger demand for any available produce simple food but your can do and she has been skyrocketing at pantries like this one as the gap between rich and poor is that extreme there was the number of people who need any help they can get to put food on their table sixty year old said or jacobs is on disability and a father of three and a family with a ration that couldn't be simpler you could say did you go to ground beef with.

the crime family members. or we. only. killed a retired single mother of three in a cold war and i'm next in cabbage on disability after being burnt in an explosion she struggles as food prices continue to rise produce vegetables it's hard. i mean it's our wages but our. for the for bread relief people luxuries not even to dream survival is their only priority there's just something amazing about and just being cold base given the very night they gave out we didn't get a hand but i got a big carrot he had a lot of. pretty cool mixed things giving might not be so lucky so careless and millions of others as experts predict the gap between those with an empty stomachs

only why. and so it's interesting our party and us. now we're thinking of the income gap widen so if you are the man years at something like the occupy. wall street protesters have noticed one restaurant is making light of the movement and even making some money off of it take a look at this. this that is from the v.l.t. steak restaurant here 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 an eight ounce kopi burger topped with flog were all gold leaf and grape upon and then there's the ninety nine percent burger for those of us that can't stomach spending nearly sixty bucks on a burger on the menu for this a six ounce cab burger patty melt slop between some wonder bread and american cheese all for a more reasonable nine ninety nine so this is just a funny way to illustrate the now very real income inequality gap in the u.s.

to talk more about this i spoke the founder of large awake new dot com charlie mcgrath as some spend ten thousand on a martini while others struggle to put food on the table right here in america i asked charlie a simple question what does this say about the economic state of the u.s. here's what he had sex. well it shows the people that are participating in the occupy wall street movement just like the people who participated in a tea party movement to a 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 a 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 eight 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 is going to bail out the too big to fail who better to socialize their failure while keeping their profits private and they are the ones who can go out and buy it for this new york city property or 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 like r t are showing these stories that the mainstream media is doing exactly what your report alluded to they're turning the ninety nine percent into a joke of sort of a foreign r t what they like to do is take the absolute least eloquent person they can find put haven't heard 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 of main street is putting out fortunately our party 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 charlie or with this widening gap between the rich and poor but we're losing we think it. losing is a middle class and brown university study shows that in two thousand and seven forty four percent of families of work instead of what were considered middle income and like a larger middle class in one nine hundred seventy one sixty five percent were part of the middle class and weapons windowing down of this class how do you think that it's affecting social mobility and the us. well you know everything's turning into a service sector job and you get kids going to college eighty percent of them now are moving back home because there's no job for them to go to so i saw that same report you were talking about it also showed unbelievable a jump 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 the poverty line look it just goes to show that the trends the real bad tricks 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 baby groups these are year and we're seeing a congress and a government that is governing by crisis that can get nothing done on behalf of the people and everything 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 a further decline in the ever of an operating middle class and this train it isn't going to rebound we're not heading for some upward spike in income in this country it's going the other way and lastly you know what these occupy wall street movements they have caught the attention of the media and the public i think that more attention is now being paid to the issue of income inequality. you know it's a good question and i don't know if the income inequality is being paid attention

to anymore i do know you're right about where people are starting to realize that these people are in the streets and they have a reason they're not just a bunch of what this hippies and i think we're going to see despite the mainstream media trying to portray them as something other they're you know people who are in 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 occupy wall street movement is going after the two big the tea party who what was going through to which government and the sooner we realize that they are one in the same our government serves their financial masters or wall street as soon as we realize that we'll also realize that we're the same care and through you know insults at one another is exactly what the powers that be want us to do they want to drive a wedge between us so well that 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 it was charlie thank you so much for your thoughts on that that was charlie mcgrath founder of wide awake news that dot com. still ahead on our tails america deli to gobble up an old graphic burger thousands in los angeles are waiting for their next hot meal even if i mean getting out sniper dave to make it happen coming up we'll take a look at how desperate times are calling for even more desperate measures in california. the police corruption is. what a protester nobody seems to know. that never happens played the face but part of the argument that they're being overly dramatic.

well today is a black friday a day which has become an american tradition with hordes of people rushing to the

stores to get those door busting deals but the rush turned violent in some places take a look at what went down at a wal-mart in buckeye arizona. the judge. you're not. the only. police tackle a man to the ground his head bashing the floor knocking him out cold you can see a gun quite bloody there the grandfather says he put a video game in his pants pocket in order to grab his grandson out of the crowd police say he was shoplifting that's just one of many examples of chaos and stealing today as some fight to get that bargain meanwhile a growing number of americans aren't making it to the stores and are having a hard time simply putting food on the table but over forty eight million living in poverty eight things can feast is out of the out of reach for more and more americans this holiday thousands lined up in a los angeles in los angeles to get

a free circuit dinner the county rates the highest for food insecurity in the nation are these ramon glendower 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 on see people you see people have dying well eager shoppers camped out in front of retail stores on black friday joan sleeps on the cold pavement waiting in a different line for a free turkey i used to be a dog groomer i used to have my own shopping now i do not and i'm in desperate straits so this is a godsend this is my purse here here jones is in the loan 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 works for sit down we're going to get three to three nights now in the rain in the cold but without hard charging what i'll 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 konami battle at home. for the soldiers ok. keep. remember. most people who insist. this year even the organizers of the give away needed a helping hand and probably never had a born to do to ask for any donations of things like this but you know sometimes god makes you do that test you and i were run out of thirteen we 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. nods we haven't spent enough time on job creation all of this wrestling about whether or not the great you got to pay their fair share in. 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 get 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 knowing still feed her family this holiday season it just brings up the rest of the rest of the month.

this is it. 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 be themselves in los angeles. archie. and from our spokes who october two thousand and. seven the who with here in the studio just a short while ago take a listen. record highs we're seeing people dropping on the new class at the same time we're seeing the wealthier and 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 affects every family economic and security affects every family unless you're in the top really half percent the top one percent even they're stressed the top two percent are so it's a widespread impact and what we have to come up with solutions to solve that i

think the first place to start is looking at the wealth divide we 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 to thirty percent unfair situation so 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 unemployed long term we have homeless on the positive a wide range of americans it covers all ask all segments is except for the top one percent there out there because they see this country the wrong direction they want to some about it it's really the american. and while people are protests are making their way to freedom plaza on thanksgiving so they get a black friday. to go along with this movement we're seeing this occupy black friday. and they say that they're not necessarily anti-capitalist they are anti crap. but i'm sure there was

a highlight that whatever the good we did two things related to this the first thing we did was we had a free store who had come down rather. than wanting more people didn't fit because they're tired of knickknacks they were tired of. charge rather than consuming the same as we did in action at the big box stores target where we came out in support of the workers who were. coming last night at ten o'clock at night in a pair of the store. just it. conditions and aggressive organizers we came to support than we did in my check which is a calling repeat corner. check target you are a target your. highlight of use and consumerism that pushes people to have we have problems with that kind of unnecessary consumer society we create a sustainable economy one that's going to last and survive and. resources misuse

workers in the top one percent but what do you say to those that say about you know that occupy black friday could be hurting the economy because you want people to spend money at the pump money into the economy stimulate the economy i'm going to say to those that are like you know that this is. the economy is the wealthiest corporations the world sitting on two trillion dollars in this greedy kind of way of the housing bubble that was created by one of the lending practices and when it burst the people are still paying those housing bubble prices that it would hurt the economy the government did not respond to the urgent needs of our jobs and to deal 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 actually. 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 at the chopping block because the so-called super committee 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 washington's totally responsible we had a occupy super committee. you can see it on our web site occupy washington d.c. dot org c.-span coverage we're going to see it we also put our own report. deficit reduction plan. and what we look for was tested and proven methods of solving the deficit of creating jobs again the kind of think we discovered was it's actually relatively easy to solve the deficit crisis it's relatively easy to get the job or job creation going what's lacking is the inability of the government to face up to the one percent. tax rate in the one percent now are so low that even though they have the wealth it will ninety five percent they pay

a small percentage of income tax and people who work we have a tax wealth more and types work less we do that we can solve the deficit problem we face up to the wars cut north korea spending again we can we can we can solve the deficit crisis and jobs program so we there's a need for all sorts of jobs our infrastructure is crumbling teachers are losing jobs we have a lack we have clashes there are two big hospitals or is it the workers there's not a lack of jobs as well act of willingness of government to put money into those jobs you look at where jobs were lost in this recession you can look to lots of public service public jobs federal and state and local jobs that we've lost the larger jobs and are not creating jobs or that's where the solution is why the solutions are evident the problem is the corruption of the government the problem is that we're trying to and which is the and of corporate rule and shifting power to the people kevin thank you so much for keeping up i thought that was october two thousand and eleven when our denying us our cap and the. coming up don't drink the water while millions struggle to feed their family as president of the now whole

nation are fighting to survive and once again becoming victims of the u.s. government their story that. mr king. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here so you saw the part of it and realized everything you saw you don't. charge the big picture of.

what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to . get made who can you trust no one who is interview with a global missionary to see where are we heading state controlled capital is called special so when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more. precisely the low and keep. the preaching that is what the people are sick to speak she's told her no she says she's a star. now

while many in america struggle to put food on the table this holiday season and part of the country's indigenous population is literally struggling to stay alive it's a problem i get the little attention that lee radiation levels threaten to leave the navajo population extinct art he's a marine apart and i reports from northeast arizona an area rich in iran and are ruined by america's demand for it. this ne part of our zone encompasses part of america's navajo nation native american govern territory rich in uranium but ruined by the us is demand for. it's a different world we don't have money we don't have the funds that people from the dominant society have we also have conditions we're trying to live through like living in the abandoned uranium areas here and drinking misinterpreted waters that we had during. before swallowing

a life of pollution and disease many navajo inhabitants were healthy employees working and living around uranium mines beginning in one nine hundred forty four nearly four million tons of uranium ore were extracted from navajo lands under the auspices of private companies and the u.s. government the radioactive resource was in high demand for development of atomic power after four decades corporations closed shops but neglected to clean up abandoned mines homes and drinking water were left contaminated with elevated levels of radiation and residents were left behind to battle deteriorating health condition my knees are aching walking is difficult i've been diagnosed with some form of cancer i feel pain below my chin i'm taking medication now u.s. officials say radioactive toxins in the air and drinking water have been linked to cells in the lung cancer bone cancer and impaired kidney function this is i.

i remember one of. the. first. luger thyroxin. this is what i take for my thyroid a forty year old cancer survivor rolanda says the people of the navajo nation have been exploited by corporations and abandoned by their government you have no generation there's nothing after me. my daughter don't want to have kids because she says they're going to come out before and are stronger want to have kids but i have one that has kids but there's problems in two thousand and seven he invited mental protection agency launched a five year plan to clean up the navajo nation which included five hundred abandoned mines extending to utah and new mexico twice a month first border is delivered to some fifty four thousand citizens living in

contaminated areas many state federal officials also work of helping to rebuild a decent quality of life the people feel that through all these years even to this point two thousand and eleven nothing has happened see no action see no roads being improved no housing being built. very very little has happened so they're questioning how long to live like this i'll do here i have no proof or do i don't have a choice while most of america battled a crippling economy the country's oldest inhabitant are literally battling to stay alive and as washington struggles to pay its bills and create jobs many worry that this life and death issue for the navajo nation wrong ignored they soon become long forgotten for enough we're not hearty we are.