confident they will but but still you know that he stands a really big risk of being overturned on of the question i was wondering if he'll stick to their guns or not to have to wrap it up thanks so much for joining us and for you at home a breath back. internal mirror military mechanisms. to bring justice or accountability. i have every right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i pay taxes. i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture.

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the face but hardly argument that they're being overly dramatic. hi guys it's time for show and tell on tonight's program last time we told you about the republican claim that higher taxes would lower living standards here in the u.s. but as we showed you that doesn't exactly add up so we ask your home if you think the standard of living would increase if taxes were raised on americans go to producer patrice in a sense to find out what she had to say. both political parties in the u.s. have a knack for taking very complicated issues and would aling them down into sound bites now the republicans in their bid to avoid tax increases at any cause have said that any tax increases would lower the standard of living in the u.s.

without any evidence of course and the democrats wanting to hold firm on social security and medicare say more taxes are needed to help raise the standard of living in america so what do you think would more taxes help raise or lower the standard of living in the u.s. well gypsy tells us nine plus years of bush tax guys who's at the current tax code does not raise the standard of living or create jobs and more eighty six four believe it's the tax burden is distributed evenly and the increased revenue is spent on infrastructure and services available to everyone full then yes the masked magician made a good point when commenting it all depends on who is getting to ask is it the ninety nine percent or the one percent then there's miles who said the real problem the us needs to tackle is a complex city of tax laws also in the end it sounds like politicians are taking one a very complicated and messy issue the u.s. tax code and using it to argue their case about how to raise the us standard of living all while trying to make us believe that taxes provide

a very simple solution to the complicated issue the low standard of living in the u.s. but it doesn't look like any of you who are spotted are buying it. now as always we appreciate your responses and here's our next question for you and show is a book about a bloomberg report which deals. seven point seven in trillion dollars in secret loans the fed doled out to the banks through march of two thousand and nine which they turned around and made it cool thirteen billion dollars off of what do you think we got frank even stronger that congress would have known the truth then about the size of the federal reserve loans to u.s. banks and the snow you think on facebook twitter and you tube and you know the response just might make it on air. well today the f.t.c. and facebook finally reached a long awaited settlement on the social network's horrific privacy practices do you know this item is over two years in the making and it stems from two thousand and nine thousand facebook first decided to overhaul its privacy policies sharing users' information with the world and conveniently forgetting to let people know of

the changes among the complaints leveled by the f.t.c. are allegations that facebook changed privacy settings to allow information which was previously previously private to the public also let third party apps have access to nearly all of the users' information and promised users that would not share their information with advertisers and then proceeded to do exactly that now those are just a few of the accusations listed out of eight that facebook is being taken to task for by the f.t.c. now as part of a settlement facebook will now be required to get users' consent before they make changes to their privacy settings and they must submit themselves to privacy audits for the next twenty years facebook will also be forced to block users from accessing accounts that have been deleted after thirty days something that they claim to be doing before but weren't unfortunately for facebook users around the world the crux of this settlement is only that users will get to opt in to future privacy changes and at that point or at this point that's pretty much worthless you see because facebook decided to simply let most of user's profile information be shared with the world back in two thousand and nine there's really no need for

facebook to adjust privacy settings in the future because they've already won that battle and several privacy groups such as epic recommended to the f.t.c. that user settings be returned to their pre two thousand and nine levels as part of the settlement and the f.t.c. to. those two simply ignore that advice wonder why well gawker points out that leading up to the settlement facebook has hired not one but two former f.t.c. members timothy nearest a former f.t.c. chair and muzzle thompson former f.c.c. commissioner so maybe putting f.t.c. staffers on the facebook payroll explains why they got away with such a toothless settlement perhaps the best part of this whole charade is mark zuckerberg response the boy wonder and chief executive took to his blog to say that he is the first to admit that his company had made a quote a bunch of mistakes but that they have always been committed to being transparent about the information that you have stored with them. i think most americans information is now fodder for advertisers thanks to your surprise privacy changes

over the past couple of years would beg to differ on that. now as you watch the countdown to the next presidential election takes center stage and the establishment media's coverage is one really big element that they're missing and which will play a huge role in the outcome in two thousand and twelve that's how young voters feel while candidates like ron paul and gary johnson are considered to be fringe and obama was considered so far left prior to his now very hawkish foreign policy actions as president there is a theme between these men young voters like obama and they like ron paul just look at any poll and in november pew research report could tell us some reasons why specifically if you look at a two towards foreign policy and civil liberties other point shows that millennial take a starkly different position the older generations when it comes to the tradeoff between civil liberties and security from terrorism seventy two percent of millennial said it will not be necessary for the average american to give up some civil liberties in order to curb terrorism there's only forty nine percent of

boomers feel the same way two thirds of millennial or sixty six percent say that relying too much on military force to defeat terrorism creates hatred that leads to more terrorism compared to only forty six percent of boomers that agree with that and sixty six percent of millennial think of the best way to ensure peace is through good diplomacy not militarism versus only fifty two percent of boomers feeling that way so i guess the main question here is when will our politicians not the ones that are concerned about the majority of the politicians catch up to what young people actually want for the future discuss this is a call nearly executive director of the independent women's forum called thanks so much for being here tonight are you with me that i feel like this is something that we don't really ever hear spoken about especially when it comes to what young people want these days i think that we hear it more in social issues right if you want to talk about feelings towards abortion or feelings towards gay marriage but young americans also care about war and they care about civil liberties yeah and i think actually seeing those numbers is really interesting because our volunteer

military the size of it is actually shrinking and so the percentage of american. we actually have a family member or someone that they know in the military is much smaller than it was say in world war two for or for the boomers so the fact that fewer people know someone in the military but still care and still think this is actually not a good use of our resources is really interesting but what do you think that is i mean part of it just the fact that while we're young and so of course we don't want any of our rights taken away because we don't like the government we don't like off the already and so we just value those things more because maybe we're not is scared of the entire world as older generations or what you think it stems from well i mean we've had look at the past eight years we've had trial and error we've been able to see how has the u.s. is intrusive invasive foreign policy played out for us people don't like us no matter all the even all the overtures that hillary clinton's making that president obama is making we are still quite disliked and so that track doesn't work let's try something different and military spending is definitely something that we need to start to look at obviously young people are concerned about the future going forward with debt and deficit and those are really numbers that need to be cut back

and so are you with me here that i mean i bring in not only ron paul and gary johnson but i also bring in president obama because you know he was somebody that although he was the anti-war candidate as some people like to claim he said though is that afghanistan was the right war but that we need to end iraq he did promise a return to the rule of law he did promise a drastic change from what george w. bush wanted and i think that after the you know people were sick of that as part of the country and that's why they gravitated towards him and paul has consistently had good you know a lot of support from the younger population but i think that his views are also starting or might sway some of the obama crowd yes i absolutely and hopefully as there are newer and younger members of congress who come in like representative just amish there will be more people who support this view that we need to work together that we shouldn't solve everything at the point of a gun because we can't afford it and at what point in blood and treasure will we have spent too much you know every every single soldier that dies every person who comes home wounded is really it's just too much but then why are those people

treated like they're just fringe. are there far out or far left in the mean time for example like ron paul he doesn't get all that much attention every time we're talking you know post a debate supposed republican debate on the mainstream media. i'm not really sure i mean it's really depressing but at the same time a lot of ron paul's views have started to gain traction with with those you know with the other presidential candidates four years ago him talking about auditing the fed was considered absolutely absolutely mental and now we have all these other candidates saying that you know they think that maybe we should you know we should defer to some of the generals in afghanistan so i think people are starting to walk their views back a little bit so hopefully in four years will be a lot for joining that part of the problem is that perhaps you know it is there are establishment media here in washington d.c. in new york that really runs the entire cycle cycle are they too old are they to. do with with this typical line of thinking and i guess you could say even you know subservient in many ways to the pentagon to the white house because they depend on

those leaks that nobody else can get because of the good relationships they have i think so i think a lot of the pundits that they have on charles krauthammer you know they're very they're really our growth of they're really they're really interventionist and i mean they're not the ones whose kids are going to be sent to war quite honestly so i think it's once we start to see more turn over hopefully hopefully soon and better younger reporters like you you know things will start to change going so you say that hopefully things will start to change hopefully eventually they'll catch on but what about next year what about two thousand and twelve the election is in november have a good rule do you think that the younger vote is really going to play well in two thousand ton turnout was really low between for eighteen to twenty nine year olds which is sort of the sweet spot as you mentioned before and so injured on what two thousand and eight in two thousand and eight in two thousand and eight was a lot higher so it's going to be a matter of getting those voters out because it is certainly they care about the foreign policy stuff but also looking at looking at some of the other pew data as to what issues resonate with a millennial millennia lecture a pretty open to privatization of retirement accounts social security. concerned

about income equality who are actually people who. who who are you know where are the one percent are actually the boomers they're actually older people so in terms of quality and how will how will the occupy wall street protest play out i think that will continue to resonate with voters to which candidates will actually get people out i would i would you know. paul do you see a candidate out there right now i mean ron paul you know in many ways i think that i very much support ron paul's foreign policy when it comes to economic policy wanting to dismantle a number of government agencies i think that it's totally you know. i wouldn't want to go that far and you know that's also a problem yeah i mean right now young voters are pretty disillusioned with president obama so it's been interesting to watch young voters women and independents turn away from president obama so. quite honestly i don't most of the republican field doesn't really appeal to those voters either so a lot if those voters stay home that will hurt president on a significantly well i hope they do come out because if anything this research has shown us that young people do actually care they're the generation that's been

growing up you know with with nine eleven prior to nine eleven post nine eleven really watching this all change watching us you know be in war for ten years and they're taking no it's not doing us any favors nic thanks so much for being here tonight thank. i saw to come tonight when governors decided to cut all funding for homeless programs in his state chris lee who is not full time segment had an unhappy hour it turns out that some people are being very honest selves about their weight and time magazine makes a very different cover photos for their issues sold here versus the ones who sell the product of your effect. on. the on the do you believe the rep on. what is protesting nobody seems to know. but never

a pepper spray to face but part of the argument that they're being overly dramatic . you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything is. welcome to the big picture.

mr. are you guys it's time for tonight's tool time ward and tonight we're giving it to a governor that ends up in the news

a little too often and for all of the wrong reasons florida governor rick scott is known for radical budget cuts in the sunshine state and he has the proven rating to show for it a measly thirty six percent he's also known for signing a bill that would make all welfare recipients pass a drug test and flashing a large amount of funding for education in his state it takes more than one point seven billion dollars out of the public schools and instead of putting that money back into the budget the budget gives it away in corporate and property tax breaks so k. through twelve education gets out of salute this aerated in the state of florida. well since nobody in florida likes him very much he's making efforts can improve his public image and on thanksgiving the governor and his wife served dinner at a homeless shelter in east naples and was serving food to about a thousand families scott said quote i care completely about all these programs which is why we heard if he cares about homeless programs because he sure has

a really interesting way of showing it if you are those at big budget cuts that killed the state's education program well they also completely destroyed the seven million dollars funding designed to help homeless families find new homes housing initiatives and preventative measures to fight homelessness not only that but according to officials scott also deleted all the line items that these programs could never be funded again out however scott believes that it's all part of a bigger plan defending his massive cuts he said all the programs are very important but nobody wants their taxes to go up they've got to grow we've got to make this a place people can do well. but governor scott don't we need funding for homeless programs to make florida a place where people can do well i'm going to be on scott's photo op of the giving shaking hands greeting people who he truly things aren't worth the state government's money nor time and even though the governor doesn't have much room in his budget for homeless people he did open his heart to a pair of homeless golden retrievers has a soft spot for yellow lavish after thirteen year olds say he died

a few years ago the family talked him into taking yet another dog left homeless what's the name reagan right if that's right named after ronald reagan. correction yellow labs but isn't that the name is dog after ronald reagan it's so cute you can almost forget about the way that he completely disregards those that are most in need come on sky your happy ass efforts on thanksgiving are not going to get floridians on your side and nobody who pays attention to your efforts of dismantling the social safety net in florida will be fooled by your little photo op so pretending to help the homeless while you're really just kicking of the curve governor rick scott is tonight's tool time winner. ok it's time for happy hour and joining me this evening is

a lauren lyster host of the capital account here on r t and tanya sama nader reporter and blogger for think progress dot org ladies thank you so much for joining me think what you're going lee enough for i guess ironically coincidentally what everyone call it we were just talking about rick scott who passed a law in his state forcing people to get drug tested if they want to collect welfare and now somebody else is joining on the bandwagon now first i want to show you what newt gingrich has said in the past and then all read what he's expanded on take a look. i think we need a program of i wouldn't dramatically expand testing i think that we have and i agree with you i would try to use to rehabilitation i make it mandatory and i think we have every right as a country to demand of our citizens that they quit doing the legal things which. are blah blah blah. now he says i think that we need to consider taking more explicit steps to make it expensive to be a drug user it could be through testing before you get any kind of federal aid

unemployment compensation food stamps you name it. i don't know what do you guys thoughts on that because i i think if the viewers probably know how i feel about it so you go on going to go well i mean if i'm if i can name it how about a tiffany's credit line i think that i would probably good you might not have actually gotten a five hundred thousand dollars in line because actually tested i mean i guess we can say that tiffany's isn't necessarily a federal program but you know maybe one of his businesses is getting tax breaks from the government or you know what you touch on my thoughts which when i saw this i was like you know what ok legality aside just putting all those things aside i can see the rationale behind this but if you're going to do this i think that means that if you have been bailed out if you get bailed out if you're one of those banks or corporations have gotten bailout money and then you get your huge bonus you get drug tested before you get that bonus all right you've got to have equal opportunity drug testing for everyone who's had some socialized benefit i couldn't

agree with that's the problem with these arguments when they make them is because they they try to pretend like these well this is the one percent versus the nine percent right it's a totally different class of people if it's corporate war. excuse me corporate welfare rather than those poor people that they're the only ones doing drugs and so they're the only ones that aren't worthy of it's a test it's just b.s. yeah i'm sure the drug test would turn up something very interesting if you. yeah you betcha all right let's. to our next story barney frank has announced that he's going to retire which is i think unfortunate i think he has been quite a liberal champion and i have a lot of respect for his career but then he pulled this move with savannah guthrie this morning and i thought was kindly take a look. you have served in this institution for thirty years and during that time i don't have to tell you congress's approval has gone down to the single digits how does that make you feel about your life's work. you were going before you. could continue the cold. sort of negative.

way. the media didn't use as negative questions they were just oh so nice all the time i think they're still too nice right now i know and what is it their job to pander towards public officials who it is their job to hold accountable i don't think so probably feel that way and the fishes are getting angry that maybe people aren't going as much anymore that's true i mean but let's be honest he was on the today show so maybe he wasn't expecting those hard hitting questions i think preceded him was. wolfgang puck really doesn't think starbucks coffee is really that great so you know the hard hitting question might might not have expected but i know you know you are dating a bunch and they were already basic questions and i think that's a van i got three came out so on top here i think she is the real take away from this because she totally. questions because she does show does mostly just do fluff but i think that savannah's intelligent woman who asks good questions and it's like

that it wasn't everybody hates congress right now sorry that's just fact. yes every poll will show you that so barney frank come on. let's move on to the next one. take a look at the time magazine covers i think most people know that we don't always have the same color covers here at home as they do in different regions around the world but in europe and asia and the south pacific everywhere. right now it's got that picture and it says a revolution redux from egypt and then ours just has to be used for you really this is why you can choose the alternative media who talks about real substantial things the mainstream domestic media isn't it but it's but it's times editors i think that are you know they're making these decisions based on what they think i don't know sells to. be done when they think the american public wants basically the message there is we don't give a crap about what's going on anywhere else i mean that americans don't look at that

image i mean if anxiety is really good for you when that image be a public service practically i'm not i mean this is america so well i thought it was interesting was looking back at the different time issues over the last i think i don't know business insider did a bunch of them and there was only one there was the same for all regions and it was hillary clinton really and then one that i particularly loved was everyone else had a cover that was why the u.s. won't win in afghanistan i wrote it down why the u.s. will never save afghanistan the u.s. had something totally different they didn't get to that secretly directing the world that we will wait in afghanistan but we're not allowed to talk about it because we don't use the word failure or the word war i mean u.s. citizens i don't feel like a lot of people know. they do and young people know a young people care to go to the polls pertaining to my last interview at the pew research poll that shows that young people care about their civil liberties and they're not down and i guess they need to read the international issues time get

them on newsstands in europe so maybe that subscription. let's do one of those last story which ok we have our clip really doesn't have anything to do with the story but we just couldn't help ourselves because it's so wrong. raising. your second you're going to be children pound for pound the biggest baby this year was ever seen. a war. with walker. bush. ok that's from lori and that's horrible and i think that probably borders on child abuse but those are going to the people of the future which if you compare that to what's going on now might be a problem because the average american right now is i was twenty pounds heavier than they were twenty years ago but the crazy thing is our perceptions of what our ideal weight have changed and so our ideal weight of much we think we should weigh has gone up ten pounds since one thousand nine hundred. does that mean that we're

giving up or letting ourselves slide a little more like you know ten more is ok for me i think there's a psychological phenomenon and there's a name for it i don't know about where you start to accept reality and so then you lower your standards and i think that's what's happening i think this is just a tribute to america's optimism as we keep moving my boy you know we just keep moving the bar in the maybe we'll eventually achieve it if we just make it what we're at you know so. you can apply although we all should not be taught to move the bar lower you sure you do keep raising the bar it looks like take what you can get what you know i think is just so funny because you always hear those legends about how you know marilyn monroe was really a size sixteen like what was she really a size two or something knowing that everybody's getting over different we had to be about this because not ideal weight for yourself versus ideal weight for those that are you know actresses and singers in the media stars i think those are two different things because all of our actresses are still going to wait these days are going to put out what we're at a time thanks for joining me tonight show thanks for tuning in

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