pinch pennies and heat their homes and america's adversary is stepping up to help so why can't the us take care of its own tired poor and humble masses. and we've got a bone to pick with the mainstream media these days it seems they're quick to chase down political figureheads and ignore what's actually coming out of their mouths moving from watchdog to political lapdog will explain. then there's a cold front moving in a cage fighting icon known as snow man is getting ready to fight again this time in the american political arena and delivering some serious blows to the system will speak to just monson about the fight of his career. it's friday january sixth five pm in washington d.c. a name is christine for zero and you are watching our t.v.

well celebration out of the white house today in response to the latest job numbers it was not only a lowering of the unemployment rate but it exceeded expectations by nearly everyone here's president obama a little earlier today. this morning we learned that american businesses and did another two hundred and twelve thousand jobs last month all together more private sector jobs were created in two thousand and eleven than any year since two thousand and five. all right so according to the labor department there were about two hundred twelve thousand new jobs created in the unemployment rate fell to eight point five percent so an end of the year spike well now let's take a look at the last year the same month december of two thousand and ten employment rate also fell last year it fell to nine point four percent with an increase of about one hundred three thousand jobs so a bit of a difference here and i don't think you're going to hear many people saying you know this year's numbers are bad news but you also won't hear too many people

telling the whole story so we want to try to do that for you earlier i spoke to max fred wolf a senior analyst with green crest capital about this i asked him if these added jobs were simply seasonal stuff temporarily hired for the holidays or actually good news here's his take. i think it's somewhere between those two things so we know that the e-commerce space or eat tailing did very well people ordered an unusual number of things online and bought them online for the gift season here in november and december and we also know from today's jobs report that about fifty thousand are one of every four new jobs created was created warehousing and transportation is almost certain that some of that will come down we also know that most of the jobs we saw hundred sixty eight thousand of the two hundred thousand jobs that we learned were created over the month of december two thousand and eleven were in the service sector that's about eighty two percent services that does tend to be a little bit more volatile that being said these are better numbers and we've seen

that they're part of the strengthening trend which is guardedly good news although i think the verdict is still not in and it does look like we have had a pattern now for three years where the first few data points in the new year so the december january are often pretty good and then the economy has some trouble going forward and there are some reasons to believe that that may be the case again this year visit the tensions with iran and the ongoing serious problems in the euro zone i want to take a look at some other things happening right now in this country max here's a story that we should be seeing everywhere right now in wichita kansas boeing has announced they're going to be shutting down its eighty year old plant there so this means that two thousand one hundred sixty people will have to look elsewhere for work although if you know anything about wichita there really isn't anywhere else to look and some of those jobs are going to be going to other factories in other areas but here's what the company says in a statement it said in this time of defense budget reductions as well as shifting customer priorities boeing has decided to close its operations in wichita to reduce

costs increase efficiencies and drive competitiveness all right so this is happening but guess what last year the chairman and c.e.o. of boeing jim mcnerney got a little bit of a raise just about one of the half percent but that puts him in the nineteen point seven million dollars range and only twenty million in salary for one person well more than two thousand people who build airplanes lose their jobs what is going on here. well i mean i think sadly that wichita boeing decision moving some of those jobs to illinois and washington state will hit particularly hard in part because he did point out boeing jobs are very good jobs in there very few high paid manufacturing jobs for those folks to look for next to in the wichita area in addition to which is kind of consistent with the pattern we've seen which is part of the reason i think some of the cheerleading around these job numbers is a little premature and that is we've had a hard time finding jobs for people but we had a much harder time creating jobs living wages in the united states one of the

reason those boeing jobs are so widely sought after is that the unionized boeing manufacturing jobs still one of the best benefits one of the best paid jobs out there so while for the u.s. macro economy it's good news that those jobs will probably end up largely in washington state illinois state on the other hand for wichita it tells the story of communities that are still very vulnerable and the highlights that we're even less good at producing good jobs than we are producing jobs over the last few years i think it's a really important point to bring up something i don't think i mentioned which is that in these all of these new jobs created last month i think the majority of them were jobs for current couriers drivers you know truck drivers and people who deliver things so i think that tells a story too you know it's interesting that the other day we were talking about whether or not america is ready for a multimillion dollar president and mitt romney of course as i'm talking about and i want to put up this quote that i saw that suggests maybe maybe now we are mit

professor paul osterman said think about who gets their cover on the who get their picture on the cover of fortune he used to be the ones that were admired the ones who treated their workers as a family now it's all about reengineering downsizing and shareholder value so talk about this shift max i mean is there no turning back. well i mean things can always change and there's one thing you learn from a study of history it's that predictions are mostly a way to hang yourself and so the future's not unknown it's unknowable that being said we've been on the long thirty to forty year trajectory toward being kind of more and more short sighted in a little bit more materialistic so the best of american business involves building enduring brands and production and distribution methods they really contribute to both job creation but also to the meeting of human needs and desires and the sort of least good elements of american business tend to be the get rich quick schemes where everything is the zero sum game and you grab as much for yourself as possible

building nothing to last and doing nothing for anyone else and we certainly seem to have gotten that balance wrong of late i don't think it's impossible or unthinkable that we get back toward greater balance than we are at the present moment i certainly hope so and there are occasionally someone carving signs along the way although it would have one would have to be honest and say that has not been the trajectory we've been on but let's talk about something else going on here by the end of this month a whole lot of people in this country will be losing the ability to heat their homes and this is a result of the budget which you may remember quite a bit of funding from the federal low income home energy assistance program while our own marina took a look at another program that's helping those people hundreds of thousands of them but where that help is coming from isn't welcomed by all. winter morning in the south bronx new york city outdoors the temperature is near freezing indoors. seventy seven year old alison many otis is bundled up brewing up pot of

coffee and raising the heat just enough. to take the chill out of the air the retired grandmother of seven lives alone on a fixed income and each winter as federal programs continue to be slashed the struggle to. come for gets harder. and waving i mean all they do was raise raise raise raise and i mean it's the same dollar you get and so how far can you push it one hundred gallons of oil one hundred fifty gallons of oil is about right now about the close to six hundred dollars however venezuela has been stepping in to make alice's life a bit easier by delivering one hundred gallons of free heating oil each winter she is a four year beneficiary of the citgo venezuela heating oil program which provides free heating oil to five hundred thousand more americans living in low income

neighborhoods and shelters throughout the country president chavez often demonized by washington march the program in two thousand and five following hurricanes katrina and rita all i know is that he was caught and he was crying to the people of the united states and i'm sure he he he differently like obama just differently and who were we to tell these people how they should live or how i mean are they going bating are contrary with their not being generous to give us what comes out of their earth at no charge so could you really have ill feelings against them. i'm thankful for it. i really am in an interview with the venezuelan newspaper el universal america's leader well sort of expressing similar sentiments of gratitude president obama recently accused the chavez government were strict in human rights and taking frightening steps. democratic values the venezuelan leader didn't mince

words while responding directly to his u.s. counterpart you know what i feel sorry for you just off the black communities in your country what you mean to them you're the greatest disappointment to recently the poor people of your country you're a great disappointment to them it's time that we stop minding everybody else's business and took care of business we have children that are graduating from college with eighty ninety one hundred thousand dollars that they have to pay back its to pay its looming just and they can't get a job a struggle getting that much harder in the land of opportunity arena r.t. new york all right so max i want to bring you back into the conversation i mean coming up this year we will no doubt hear more about cuts that need to be made basic things like eating for homes. what do you think about the future of this i

mean do you think we're going to see more relying on other countries for a solution. well i mean i think that the united states has played a diplomacy very aggressively for sixty years and it's not surprising that other countries including chavez's venezuela would play some about political game back i do think that we've seen stagnant wages we see a lot of people outside the labor force and we see a lot of people dependent on state local and federal programs that are being cut here and we see that going into the cold winter here at least in large parts united states and a cold winter in which heating and other basic costs are rising in part because of diplomatic tensions between the united states and iran around the oil producing gulf region the straits of hormuz so i do expect to see feud fuel heating issues be fairly large and i think we have another problem here which we thoroughly deacon mid to low income and needy americans with increasingly aggressive and increasingly kind of cruel basic policy trajectory for a long time and that's left

a lot of people quite literally out in the cold so i think we're going to see various governments do aid based political match nation like we do and we're also going to see them find a lot of folks in need who might say yes to the offers in part because there are a lot of people who have been left out of what we have had for economic dynamism what little we've had over the last few years i think is a really important point and it's really very well timed it's very timely because of what we're seeing with these presidential candidates the g.o.p. candidates we hear for example newt gingrich saying things like the blacks in america should demand paychecks as if as opposed to food stamps from a bomb certainly that's going to play a role but i want to get your take pick your brain a little bit about what you think is going to be i mean most people agree that when we think about the income gap the gap between rich and poor and that it's gotten bigger and most people i think would agree that in order to make america work a little better that you need to make that gap smaller so i want to ask you max

what do you think is going to stand in the way of making that gap smaller. well i think we have a tax system that was once designed to be progress of in other words to tax more heavily the higher income was and less have lead to lower your income was and to take some of the money taxed from higher income households and from large corporations and distributed to produce what we in economics call public goods a good public education system public transit some kind of health care and education over the last twenty five years and really over the last four or five years quite aggressively we cut our investment in it so even in the midst of today's really powerful jobs report which was a good number we saw no attention paid to ninety four hundred public school teachers who lost their job in december and we keep seeing those cut so we've cut the programs we've reduced the progress of our tax level and at the same time we've employed a star system in every field in which we have a small number of celebrated and worshiped folks making hundreds of thousands to

many many millions of dollars a year side by side with lots of people of this society tends to kind of denigrate and put down who work virtually just as hard almost or sometimes even more just as well and come home with some tiny fraction of the other person's salary so i think we need to get rid of the celebrity worship star system and we need to take a hard look at an increasingly regressive tax system which is making inequality worse what it was designed to make inequality better and less bad and i think that is a really important point that big ideas and fortunately a little easier said then done only time will tell them how this changes next senior analyst at green cross capital. all right let's talk now about the presidential campaign no doubt what we see and hear could impact the economy and from twitter to facebook to too many dozens of debates to count this race is being covered ad nauseum but are the candidates really being investigated or does the mainstream media simply pick and choose the best soundbites and replay them over

and over when i'm going to the media's responsibility to the public to really get to the bottom of the candidates to ask them the hard questions and to dissect their answers not in one hundred forty characters but in a way that you know calls them out when they're wrong and presses them on things that they're not clear about what can we expect from now until election day to talk more about this i'm joined by christopher chambers journalism professor at georgetown university so what i want to do with you today chris on this lovely friday let's let's pick a couple of examples by these lovely men who have been either tain for the last or you will kill she no more bachmann she's out so let's start first with rick santorum for the weekend on meet the press. it would be saying to the iranians you to open up those facilities you begin to dismantle them and make them available to the inspectors or we will degrade those facilities through air strikes and make it very public that we are doing that the president has done so you know i would lay out a red line and if they passed the airstrikes by president sent sent to our iran will not get

a nuclear weapon under my watch all right here is rick santorum singing his old song about bombing iran and all that and he's talking about the nuclear facilities and that's good now n.b.c.'s david gregory knows that iran's nuclear facilities are already under the inspection of the i.a.e.a. but he didn't correct him why not well you have to understand that this is four years ago during the two thousand and eight campaign i came up with this theory about kind of the sports sort of model of coverage and twenty four hour news cycle that's been tracked later this recently this week by pat hurty in the atlantic talking about e.s.p.n. is the e.s.p.n. a zation of of news and you know part and parcel of that because it fits the economic model you know you don't have to put a lot of you know investment in investigative reporting it can be all entertainment is that you go for the visceral you go for the stupid you highlight the stuff that will keep somebody from taking that remote and going somewhere else you don't get

that by correcting a candidate who is either dwelling in the murk of a very complicated issue or out now lying i mean this is one example where he is there is he's basically the line for merck to lie you know there's been numerous situations in the republican debates. you know from months ago until very recently where you know you mentioned that when your intro ing i mean you know how many debates have there been and not by fox news but by news outlets which are supposedly hostile to the republican candidates and they just let them talk and let them say just some of the most outrageous things not. just in the merc but bordering on lies they cause you you need to engage that audience and pull them into that you don't want to be the person that you know would be cool in ybor give spoil the plot you want to push it along i think you said a couple of things chris that really stick out in my mind number one it is very

expensive to pay reporters to pay journalist to actually do investigative work not something that can be done in one day or one week it's a lot of time it takes a lot of phone calls it takes digging in dirt and knocking on doors and still paying that person to do it and that's why we see that so it's a lesson i think that's interesting i hadn't heard that the e.s.p.n. as ation it does seem that a lot of sports you know journalists that i know kind of are buddy buddy with with the athletes well it's and that's that's just that's one aspect of it it's the buddy buddy aspect of it it's the drilling down into the deeper stories of it is taking the sensationalistic stories say penn state and simplifying them and not really drilling down so you take that you move it to the to the political field it's a perfect fit it's a perfect slide and you know in there and there you can really develop the whole pundit sort of situation where you have six or seven people arguing well that's that's a sports bottle and it doesn't even matter so much what they say as how they say it

if they say something that's going to generate discussion that's all that matters to you be said with rolling stone it doesn't matter what you say it's how you say it what your cue score is and how you can connect to that target demographic and that's what's going on here you don't get that by interrupting people they don't want people to be eggheads or or annoy me you know the ironic thing is meet the press itself forty fifty years ago when i got him lawrence spivak was the first host he used to interrupt people all the time or or he would give the you know you know a look let's take this scenario and if something seemed a little off kilter because he did his research he would call them on it. that changed when tim russert took over. sometimes but i think. also examples anyway to moving on from meet the press let's take a look at another interesting example this is mitt romney the other current front runner and something he said the other day that he also wasn't really called out on

. heartbreaks are people my friend we can raise taxes and of course they are everything corporations are and also that it goes to people so why do you think it goes. what i mean at least the people in the audience were calling out to and lot of some people like you know him right exactly exactly so that i mean this is just another example of you know so what what's going to change or what are we going to say are we just going to continue to see this for the next eight nine months i think we are because even when you have felt like political facts or. other mainstream media directed organizations i mean even the the outlets themselves of the three networks and the cable giants coming back later and say so well this is what so and so said in this debate is what sources and the speech and picking it apart they do they don't you know it's not at the point of contact a lot of the stuff takes place in the bates right there in press conferences and

nobody presses them on it what they try to do is separate that out so you'll go to their website or so you listen to the pundits that night argue about it but there's no depth you know and that you know you compound that with the fact that they've got embedded journalists with these people which is nothing new there were people following abraham lincoln around from harper's weekly the difference is that these people actually tried to dig up not only the substantive stories but the human interest story so what is it like to be a candidate what's that like when your family they don't do that anymore again because they want the kind of superficial the quick news because you know fast information is the commodity so if they can break the gossip not the not the policy issues not the investigative stuff not checking in fact checking or what these people are doing then they've served their purpose and then they get the networks can say oh we've got somebody embedded with with mitt romney you know it's kind of a keep up with the joneses kind of thing they're not doing anything they're just

following him around and already telling what he said. it's actually worth reminding that i saw a funny quote the other day on bloomberg it said in the restaurant or with cantaloupes you're probably looking for the best among a variety of appealing options however at the caucuses or in the voting booth you're probably seeking the least objectionable among a group of yes i of all think that's a really well well put way to say i mean with what's going on with our system sadly chris we're out of time sure i always try to have you here especially at the end of the week to ram things down thank you christopher chambers a journalism professor at georgetown university well these are troubled times we live in despite those positive jobs numbers we talked about a little earlier in the show the economy still is in many ways is in shambles and with the presidential campaign in full swing you know as we said there's plenty of ideas being thrown out about how to fix things but very few people offering real think outside the box new ideas so we decided to look elsewhere and introduce you to american mixed martial artist and political activist jeff monson.

that's jeff right there and if you follow m.m.a. you may know him as snow man he's a two time winner of the a.t.c.c. submission wrestling world championship and a brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion jeff is also a self-proclaimed anarchist and is very outspoken about some of his views about this country and its place in the world and just a little earlier he joined me from our studios in miami florida now radical times call for radical ideas so i asked jeff what's his radical recipe for change here's what he had to say. because i work in this country right now you know the police department the fire department those kind of things are really social energies and you know we have a bank we have you know u.s. banks that only charge like one percent interest and you know guaranteed loans to people and was a nonprofit organization and we do this with the health care. you know those are things that could help this country right now. and jeff i know that you've said in

the past that we don't need a political revolution we need a social revolution what do you mean by that talk a little bit more about. well you know you know whether it's obama or the republican candidate that you know gets in there as as president it's going to be the same thing you know obama came in with all these high expectations of you know which change in the health care system changing the way you know our economy is wrong and you know green jobs all this and he ran into a brick wall and he's finding that out now he's having to sacrifice a lot of his ideals for you know the status quo you know party as usual so you got to get all those people out you have to have the people make a decision you know we live in a democracy supposedly but it's not really democracy it's core proxy and the corporations are the ones that run the country and the government goes along with it because that's where the money is you say that president obama had to sacrifice

some of those ideals what do you think it is you know what is in place in the system that made him i mean he certainly came in i remember four years ago all the speeches he made he came into office you know with a lot of big ideas what do you think happened between the time that he was inaugurated you know and before that and now. well i remember when we were news in our great in and i was actually doing a speech that night for a left wing group and people in the group where there was some liberals in there they're actually crying because they were so happy and they thought the world was going to change the united states were going to change and you know bush was out but i was you know i won and i think that things are going to stay as usual and. i think he just the reality set in you know he had to take a lot of he earned more money for his campaign in any other president in history people realize and so they want something in return for the contributions he you

know he's in power because of a reason not because i thought he had the best ideas or he's the best speaker he was the best candidate for what the corporations thought they could get. and the mccain and he's in there and he owes them and he kind of run into a brick wall like i said and he's got to pay him back and you know the corporations really run this country you know back when hillary tried to chevys sweeping idea that she was going to change the health care system and guarantee health care for every american citizen and i remember her talking to congress and they were literally laughing matter and like you don't understand how things work here so i think obama is running in the same situation to be fair though jeff i mean you're not a person that necessarily embraces government as it is i want to put up a picture we have a photo of you taken in a limpia washington and this is the spray painting the capitol building there talk about your idea of an arche and i also how do you that affected your career.

people always ask me the anarchy has a name kind of with the media you know people go break things in a story things are like i was anarchy it's chaos but really anarchy to me means. everybody has absolute freedom and what i mean by absolute freedom is that absolute freedom to do what they would like to do with their life you know when you look at it as not just the economy's bad in america you've got to look at the world people don't you know take their world view sometimes and i see the u.n. says a fifty four percent of the world goes hungry every night lives on less than two dollars a day but i also see the people that you know maybe in america that are of the working poor and such like that they can never like what i call self actual eyes what they want to do you know how many people want to work at wal-mart or want to work at a gas station or want to be a cab driver maybe that's what they want to do and great but so many what i think is the. worst thing of this is you know people united states around the world are

not be able to do what they want to do with their life you talk about you know medicine and you know the next great a limp dick athlete or maybe even the next great m.m.a. fighter or you know the next painter or a great teacher all these things get lost when people are just trying to survive try to get you know something for their kid to eat or themselves eat or put a roof over their head or you know simply have enough to make it through the day so actually contributing to society we waste you know our potential as human beings and i think that's the biggest crime of you know what we call capitalism. all right well that's going to do it for now but for more on the stories we covered and go to our team dot com slash usa or check out our youtube page youtube dot com slash r t america you can also follow me on twitter at christine for south coming up next the alone a show in just about a half hour tonight alone is going to have the owner of the moonlight bunny ranch brothel in nevada on as well as one of his bunnies and they're going to talk about

why they've decided to back ron paul as the next u.s. president so stay tuned for all that and i'll see you right back here at seven o'clock. i had a family i lived in a fairly nice community wasn't which was an upscale it was just like you know archie bunker's society ok then they started showing up what happened was. my company decided i could get cheap labor and they got rid of. george these are long runs the eaglets line legally we have to get up every morning we have to go to work and you know we have to pay our bills and we have to do it and that's just the american dream and if you want the american dream you have to go by the last like figure. heres one. that states.