ambitions but the e.u. will say to them force fresh penalties. back to the rescue the leaders of france and germany get to grips with the continuing your addresses by which he named as boosting economic growth and i'll have three months left to implement fiscal discipline rules agreed and. that would mourn those stories when less than half an hour from now in the meantime back in two thousand and nine shortly after u.s. president barack obama came to power promising a new era of hope a protest movement that emerged threatened to derail his whole agenda of change takes a look at the billionaires tea party and that's a special report for you now. this is our moment this is our time to reclaim the american dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many we are one that won't we breathe we hope and where we are met with cynicism and doubt and those who tell us that we can't we

will respond with that time a spree that sums up the spirit of the people. yes we came. here to the city to. take it seriously. and then this is good again it's easy so create can have it when they think they did they do. it. where did it all go wrong for barack obama and the democrats have to sweeping to power with the promise of hope and shine a citizens' uprising called the tea party movement and the message was known to be government spending to health care and climate change legislation and no two what bobby himself obama because he doesn't get it believes the cuts thing to use

into a bomb this president's tea party endorse candidates emerged to sweep the republicans to victory in the house of representatives thirty two percent of the candidates who were elected last night across this country are affiliated with the tea party movement there's the tea party tell it all way and we're sending a message to it. and they see it as a repudiation of the president and his policies. what does it feel like. feels bad . i came to the united states to examine the tea party phenomenon and in particular the accusations that the protestors were pawns in a covert power play by a small group of billionaires and corporate players they're recruiting them to do the bidding of corporate america this is not some corporate sponsored thing these citizens' groups are bogus the media portrays of being backed by some billionaire.

person or people who is not here to be trusted with the story just like to make it . boom boom boom boom boom. was the. moment of come to kentucky the heart of tea party country it's more than a year before the movement will organize to become a force at the two thousand and ten elections the diverse group of protesters here are united by a combination of anger and patriotism this all american families and militia groups trolling for new members reason for this the so-called bertha's we think is really a kenyan mr obama were the first ever in a cost of historical figures evoking the spirit of the american revolutionaries at

the boston tea party from which this movement takes its name beginning less than a month after obama took office the protests reflected a mounting anger at both democrats and republicans legislating message by a loud packages in response to america's economic process so while the tea party idea was first right during this on a rant by c. and b. say reports of bricks and telly this is america how many you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage you want to get to have a chicago tea party in july or you capitalists i want to show up to lake michigan on a star orgon. testifying to the crossroads nature of the uprising the vast majority of tea partiers a middle class americans with little or no experience in political organizing i'm just i'm on that was tired of seeing what was going on in my country and i decided to do something about it. the day after liks

a intelli had his rant there were about twenty two people that got together on a conference call and we decided to have around the tea parties one week from that day we had fifty tea parties with thirty thousand people in attendance. who thought they saw the brewing and we have on april fifteenth eight hundred fifty plus tea parties across this country with one point two million people in attendance. but if the tea parties began as a bipartisan op prizing against government weist they quickly morphed into an all out attack on president obama and his entire policy agenda he kept on going nowhere i'm not sure i'm going to grow up and doctor nothing wrong turn our breaking our interests in karate factories that jammed up its own front campaign promise gun naps and tell gox yeah. well many factors were involved. i was

particularly interested what role being played by a group called americans for prosperity pay their mission is to engage citizens in the nine of limited governments and free markets essentially they are activists for radical form of capitalism with private enterprise not government is the guiding force in society of particular interest where the chief been affected as brothers charles and david call it according to the forbes least of the richest americans the koch sit a cool fifth with personal fortunes estimated at more than twenty billion dollars. to find out more come to the annual convention of americans for prosperity. well distancing himself publicly from the tea party movement david koch is known to play

a very hands on role with i have. and sure enough as representatives of the group's hundred thousand members reported on their activities they later was there to hear the news it's now my great pleasure to. begin my favorite part of the summit conference and that is the report by representatives of each of the twenty five chapters a p on their activities over the last year we don't organize huge tea parties all throughout the state we have lad the largest tea party in the state the largest tax day tea party in the nation on april fifteenth. i vote we we have now twenty nine p. parties organize dozens of tea parties mr chairman our grassroots efforts are engaged they're energized and they're ready to fight for their freedom and if you try to raise our taxes and trample on our liberties we're either going to beat you

or make your life. i thank. the members flatly deny the charge that they are astroturf the name given to fight grassroots organizations that are essentially corporate fronts it's nonsense that there is no such thing among our our people as astroturfing i'm here with four hundred fifty other people from north carolina and we're all individuals. to find out more about the recent tory sleep publicity shy brothers and their company koch industries i turn to a man who has been investigating them for a number of years diabetes from the environmental group greenpeace koch industries is the company nobody's ever heard of it's the second or first largest private company in this country we don't even know how much money they make they're primarily a refining company and pipeline company they now have expanded into paper and

chemicals acquiring other companies in recent years there worldwide based here in the united states in wichita kansas davies and green can assert that americans for prosperity are essentially just a low being tool for koch industries david koch deliberately founded these groups to intervene in the government to reduce taxes on corporations to reduce the impact of environmental laws. that intersected with what became the tea party movement an uprising against the government and against governments writ large against taxes and against health care regulations so they're basically use this public sentiment to forward their corporate agenda this charge of profiteering was especially evident i have peace opposition to a proposed climate change bill that would have come profits of oil industry players like coke industries. in two thousand and nine after the obama administration came

on there was massive momentum towards climate regulation suddenly there was a real possibility of getting new good law passed and they went into high gear attacking obama from day one even started before the obama administration attacking any climate legislation they run for years these summer hot air tours where they run what looks like a grassroots activists campaign around the country with a bus and t. shirts and hats and handouts and little events in small towns in fact it's a corporate funded propaganda tour as i arrived in philadelphia for one of the forty it's who are events and i have peace railed against the climate change bill known as cap and tried legislation. that will keep america's prosperity and shrinking our jobs this country is heading in the wrong direction.

and that direction is what big got me more from taking control of our health care taking control of our. taking control of our lives yet. attack attack attack they reframe to this cap and tax as opposed to the term cap and trade term for carbon trading and went on the attack and declared this part of the obama agenda to impose new government regulations and grow the government global warming regulation equal to socialism attacking green jobs and renewable energy as some imposition on people's freedom this is the last stop in this leg of what we call our hottie a tour with exposing the fraud of what is basically a massive trillion dollar tax on american energy users the phoniness of green jobs and government subsidized alternative fuels and what we're doing in americans for

prosperity is educating americans to understand the threat to our to our future what's motivating the government is wrong bring in the cap and trade bill it's a marxist regime basically the obama administration the democratic party has gone calling to the left so it's stream now it's about seizing control over our lives it's a total government scheme and it's going to destroy jobs it is for his country. a local tea party is also on hand to lend their support the one thing that i really want to get through to people is that this is not some corporate sponsored thing we are for i know i am i live in apartment i have two kids and a wife struggling but this is a feel sorry for me thing this is just telling you know we're not corporate sponsors period and everything's grassroots our organization itself was on the ground up no budget not low budget nobody we've done everything free a bill on the website for free we've you know gone to great lengths to make this happen and it's all in the name of liberty and justice. i don't want to founding

fathers had proposed this country be a republic. but i have paid a far more than just tool for the cops oil interests as evidenced by the lady in opposing another of obama's assaults on liberty health care reform. that would have seen the government. running short of americans and breaking the private health insurance monopoly. for veteran political operatives and i f p president team phillips the group's success lies in their ability to tap into the american spirit of individual ism well americans have a long tradition of individual ism and of good healthy skepticism toward their

governments i mean about the worst thing you can say in america is i'm from washington d.c. and i'm here to help instantly americans go wait a minute i don't trust that far as i can and so i are a coalition of americans for prosperity we go out and we educate americans on hey here's the threat here's what this health care bill is going to do the takeover here's what cap and trade going to do to your job and to your utility rates and we just say if you want to get out here a ways to get active this goes to the heart of how the quotes might be manipulating tea party protest. and a fair proportion of i have pace on supported on a much deeper level than personal financial gain because while americans might have a healthy skepticism about governments i wonder how many of them really share the coax extreme vision of a free market economy you and i know that free market principles make sense for american families american jobs and i want term prosperity and that is essential at

a time when the very foundations of our nation are being challenge government has become a monster crippling the economy and devouring personal liberties this post is from a ninety ninety libertarian party campaign in which to run for vice president the party's political platform is an insight into just how radical his views and those of the free market movement. i saw the abolition of the department of energy the environmental protection agency the food and drug administration and a host of other public health and safety bodies not to mention social security welfare the public school system and of course huge tax cuts across the board but after spending over two million dollars of their own money on the campaign and receiving just one percent of the thought the koch brothers changed course deciding that if people wouldn't come to their philosophy they take their philosophy to the

people they created and invested in a network of free market corrects including the establishment in one thousand nine hundred four of a grassroots group called citizens for a sound economy that was the forerunner to americans for prosperity a number of documents have emerged from the citizens for a sound economy dies which give a candid insight into how these groups work to discard both the corporate dharnas and radical ideological goals. undertaxed look there's no in profit groups are allowed to keep their done as identities confidential as is the case with many groups including green pace but this lake nine hundred ninety eight budget reveals just how much money citizens resend the corn and he received from a wide variety of donors. more troubling was the fact that citizens for a sound the corner took money through an asteroid to campaigns directly on behalf of a number of these hidden dharnas. then there was they would for the tobacco industry

thanks to a major legal settlement in the light ninety ninety millions of internal tobacco industry documents have been made public the documents showing how citizens for a sound economy and other free market groups was secretly paid millions of dollars to fight tobacco taxes and regulations using what i called a retail sales if they pitch these to their own members as a tax on individual freedoms by big government the idea being that while people may not be moved to fight on behalf of big tobacco you do almost anything to protect their own freedoms one campaign of particular relevance was the lading wrong citizens for a sound economy played in killing the last major attempt to reform the health care system with the clinton administration proposing a new tobacco tax to help pay for their plan to back

a company philip morris funded i'm major grassroots effort by the group. citizens for a sound economy also work hand in hand with the health insurance industry to defeat the reforms by running a few campaign from the clinton plan with soviet style socialized medicine that would lead to a denial of health kid treatment they sent the supporters out to him democrats including first lady hillary clinton as they attempted to explain the reforms and above there's a little bit i always like. that you're. very close yeah i was there i was. trying to draw out the irony of the shortage of american. health care reform to make sure everything the american it. one person who has worked on coalitions with citizens for a sound economy is wendell potter

a former health insurance industry spin doctor turned whistleblower about these deceptive practices. they have insurance industry is very much like the tobacco industry it's held in very low regard by the public and they know that they have very little credibility themselves so they have to establish these front groups to carry their messages for them they do this or that a third party is telling their stories that they want to be told and getting the word out that they want to get out because according to window porsche a cape benefit of using front groups is that they can so i think the company couldn't actually get away with saying themselves they're hired guns and they do what they are told to do. and it doesn't matter necessarily what the tactics are sometimes that if it involves. ethics or violating ethical standards they will do that terms like government takeover of the health care system this one that has

been used many times to scare people away from reform and it's misleading no plan before congress would have come anywhere close to a government takeover but nonetheless it's a term that the industry knew would be effective slippery slope toward socialism and united states socialism still has this connotation of something that is akin to communism if not even worse the people who put those sentences together do it for a purpose and they know that that will that will evoke a certain emotion you're getting over twenty five years these campaigns tapping into people's distrust of government and sense of individual isn't attracted a saws will follow in his race so much so that within hours of rick's and tele making his famous tea party rights and i have to pay stossel was able to offer him you know on national television it's awful mainly nine's to get the movement started and read i've got i've got five hundred thousand people who signed our petition against the stimulus bill i'm willing to email all of them and tell them

to come out to your event to stand ready and they weren't the only ones in two thousand and four an internal rift actually caused citizens for a sound economy to split into two groups the second call. well no longer financially connected to the freedom with a similar model of corporate funded free market activism from day one they worked on the ground to help small groups organized. and when after a couple of months the movement was running out of steam. socialized medicine. some anonymous great americans very deep pockets to fund a multi-million dollar campaign by the group some good folks some great americans come to us and say they were concerned about this health care issue and they can see this train coming down the pike and they want to do something about it are born madden said you know wot americans for prosperity wants to be a part of that. as i have pace. around the country. to be an

almost carbon copy. sometime in the next sixty or ninety days. your health care becomes one by the government but we want to make sure. that while you're. also. scaring senior citizens. some potentially lifesaving drugs could be with you know and seeing your scripts and their own doctors and when democrat politicians. and we started doing the twittering the facebook and email. and. people showed up. and said what was the worst.

change in members of congress. if you're a senior citizen this takeover is a disaster for you and the american people know that truth is on our side. well congress eventually passed a very much klyn promised health care bill by then opponents that helped make it so

unpopular that health care became a major factor in the democrats the feat in two thousand and ten older voters in the last midterm split evenly this time they were overwhelmingly voting republican and why did they vote six out of ten said that they wanted to repeal health care. but to properly understand the koch's influence on the rising movement there's a much bigger picture to be saying the koch's exert influence in a number of ways which we know that they fund front groups like americans for prosperity this are astroturf effort they also throw money straight into the political machine so they funded millions of dollars towards political candidates specific candidates they also of course have lobbying money coming into washington so they're sending lobbyists up to forward their agenda the more more insidious stuff is starting in the one nine hundred seventy s. a number of free market think tanks were born at the cato institute the heritage

foundation heartland institute these groups were purpose built by right wing philanthropists like the koch's to forward a corporate agenda and the regulatory agenda there is no better example of how the small but highly coordinated network of groups of for regulation then there almost single handed effort to manufactured to bite as a global warming this two thousand and eight study one hundred forty one pokes skeptical of global warming found that out of the ninety percent of them were written and or published by free market think tanks at the heart of what opponents have called the denial machine. the resident policy experts such as more of the competitive enterprise institute saying he is talking to a group of a if paying members.

wealthy british scientists some time to. market. can't. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's culture the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines.

governor romney do you believe that states have the right to ban contraception republican candidates are steadfast when it comes to their personal beliefs the rest is open to interpretation so when it comes down to electing the president what do americans really care about canada its values or their vision. it's not a matter of not throwing money into the economy it's a matter of living living within your means if you don't have enough revenue then you have to cut spending and while candidates vicar over the topics that don't seem to matter our t. is talking to taking it to the streets to see what matters to you to hear what you would do to get the country back.