god and the bible mcgill said it's a biblical principle if you double a teacher's pay scale you'll attract people who aren't called to teach and these teachers that are called to teach regardless of the pay scale they would teach so basically the guy thinks that the only good teachers out there are other ones that are called by god to teach they would teach because that's their destiny in life right it's especially novel hearing that from somebody who is a public servant and so was so special about this public servant is that while he will rail against raising teachers' salaries to compensate them for their hard work and contribution to society he has no problem raising his own in two thousand and seven mcgill is one of the many lawmakers who approve the salary hike that increase lawmakers salaries from thirty thousand a year to forty nine thousand five hundred here and as things progress pointed out alabama legislators are now paid more than a teacher who's been working for over twenty seven years oh and i mention the lawmakers are technically part time in alabama so we should not pay teachers more but we should absolutely pay lawmakers more and not because they contribute so much

as a site or working so hard and helping so many people because so they won't be tempted to be corrupt and accept bribes it's really really super solid logic so for trying to keep teachers from getting their salaries they deserve and using the bible to defend his greed shadrack mcgill is tonights to a time when. our guys have time for happy hour and joining me this evening artsy correspondent christine and jake brewer chief strategy officer at vision strategy you guys thanks for joining me on thursday did you know that there was really huge news that was going to happen day the thing that we covered on our show everybody was waiting for donald trump to announce his endorsement of a republican candidate i could. it's my honor real honor and

privilege to endorse mitt romney. our it's what we did there is we got to make sure that every single network every single cable network went live with this i'm not even kidding you we were checking it out earlier editorial meeting this morning and that same d.c. had a countdown clock like three hours and twenty minutes until draw announcements all the while i am looking up to you again by the way all the way so all the while egypt is rocking and here's what i think it should have been was actually that and my wife pointed this out this morning was that punxsutawney phil woke up this morning and made one appearance and then he had to fly to vegas and actually make another appearance on donald trump's head. and i think that's really what out there was recovering right yeah i mean a countdown to donald trump's endorsement i mean it's so hard because it is it's true why does anyone give a crap as you say what you know why is all times that important person he's an entertainer he's not so important that his voice should get all this attention

however i say this and yet this morning i was on twitter all morning and i thought it was so interesting because wall street journal had tweeted for a while donald trump to endorse gingrich and then you know c.n.n. poll a fast one at e n n was saying that he was interests romney so here this was i was being caught up. myself and it all the while saying why does trump matter but obviously he did matter to me so i don't know it was personal once it was done yeah and rummy didn't way. to where it was going to get to that anymore but yet here we are talking about it but i mean the countdown clock and he still has the door open for running an independent bit if he is not the nominee. let's talk about a little fun little thing called the no fly list that you have thanks to nine eleven and the response here in our government you know you hear more and more stories all the time with people that are on this list that really shouldn't be on the list here's just one example dr santos thomas was just made aware that his

oldest daughter is on the list the terrorist watch list that impacts travelers could be a threat to national security alicia's parents found out at the continental check in counter during a recent trip from cleveland to minneapolis. so you've got children on there that we had a few lawmakers right here was that they found themselves on the list well guess what under the obama administration that list has more than doubled to now about twenty one thousand names and that includes about five hundred americans you know i think is the sanction between the terror watch list which this little girl was on and what you're talking about which is the no fly list so if you're on the no fly list that means that you cannot get on a plane and i think that i think it's a little strange and the patriot act and you know all this kind of stuff but we have to also look at the other side of the story and say maybe there's better intelligence now maybe all these people there's actual names of people who are

living or in the case. caves they're living in the caves or there's a bridge about there or maybe you know their names their social security number so they're going to thirty seven million travelers in a lot of united states every year twenty thousand of them but that is point zero zero zero zero. two percent are on this list right in out of americans this point zero zero zero zero zero one percent of americans are on a no it's a no fly list in perspective we're talking about a ninety nine point nine nine nine nine nine fly list right so like you some mistakes are going to happen it's going to get we have got to get it done i said it was a little do you go. i don't understand why suddenly the threat has become so good maybe trying to really understand how to double it is a lot it also could be we don't know we're not in the situation room it could be that there's just better and more intelligent and that's why we're saying. we disagree whatever. i thought i was going to. i'm with you all you know is i'm not

on a no fly list because i'm sure that's nice. not. december maybe twenty twelve has a whole new meaning to you know you're pretty out of there i don't know i mean may . end up somewhere. it's finding that very cool buried treasure these guys found a ship it's a british merchant ship sunk by the germans in one nine hundred forty two and they think that i have a lot of money on. a crew of me treasure hunters who jockeys boston are getting ready to celebrate seventy one percent of the land of the s.s. the ship was sunk in one nine hundred forty two by the germans as it was carrying the russian metals to the us by the soviet union for the united states with the war . all right so seventy one tons of platinum at the time that was valued at around fifty three million dollars and today's value is going to be three billion

dollars and these guys are so the guys that are going to get it one way or another even if i have to lift the ship out of the water are their property is that i mean they should get a large reward for i'm finding out is that i should and shouldn't i go to make our budget deficit well there's no soviets anymore what do they say it was oh sorry the payment from the cell phone. i mean we're neither one of us government right now it's a british ship but it should be ok the interesting thing here is actually just that it wasn't just the ship there was also another ship with five hundred million dollars of spanish gold and the problem was that the government ruled that gold is not does not belong to the discovers it actually belongs to the descendants of the two hundred year old. yeah so that he gets assigned billion dollars i think they're going to actually have a problem of getting access to it because it belongs to the british government and i should think what are they going to try prime minister he's wrong i don't think honestly i don't really you know i think there's going to war in a big world right i think they should get at least they should get at least all of

it was at least at least all of it. but you know given way i think after twenty years you should like it's you know what we like that one go how do you want to fall into that sort of action anyway. treasure higher as that's the type of metal detector and i think you start you know that's right all right well let's let's go to the last thing which is you know there are constantly a lot of people are upset because certain video games out there are too violent they're worried about what kind of impression it's making on children whatever what it's teaching you but now there's somebody who's trying to do something different with violent video games take a look. over one this is what so that we and today i'm playing to schools sky room. and i'm going to be doing something a little bit unique in this game i'm going to be playing as a pacifist that's right i don't kill anything. now this is not new i mean that is not yeah i mean like people since super mario

brothers have been playing games in a way is that they don't kill the enemies just because it's harder like to increase the challenge level over them you jump over the thing so there used to be people who would try to place him are brothers like the old school you know to buy a little thing just try to see if they could do it and it wasn't because their pacifist wasn't because they had some moral agenda or just because i was part of a nothing revolutionary about and i think not really i mean there's this whole you know people want to want to call it a pacifist movement it really is just like a bunch of you but a dude sitting around joins there having a video games out there find one read on to tell and i like the same city flood some of the i don't know i hardly find why this is a big deal the wall street journal but you know look i mean it was interesting because for so many people the point of video games is to get out that aggression and to kill i think it's i think in video games as in life you know and if someone's coming at you when you have a gun it is easier to shoot them and then they don't take those the least sophist intentions inside of you and use them for more good actions bothers me that character not enough i have got to go that they started i think when i show thanks

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bottom of the big picture i'm tom hartman in washington d.c. here's what's coming up tonight indiana governor mitch daniels signed a right to work legislation into law yesterday so what can a workers in indiana expect now also greece's three years into its austerity experiment is its economy stronger or worse than ever and america's nuclear power plant infrastructure is aging as a system for posing a clear and present danger to our nation. but first.

but first you need to know the state a look at this this was the scene yesterday as thousands of union workers and supporters marched outside the state house in indianapolis inside lawmakers passed legislation to make indiana a right to work for less state it was later signed into law by republican governor mitch daniels indiana is now the twenty third state in the nation to go right to work for less but the first in the last ten years to do so and the first in the manufacturing belt of the united states the place for unions were essentially born in this country so what exactly does right to work for less mean it basically means that workers in union shops are required to pay union dues to get the benefits of the union like better pay better benefits and better working conditions they just don't have to contribute to the union and what the what is the effect of this while the unions lose critical funding and eventually shrivel up and die and so to do all

the better pay and benefits and working conditions which is great for the c.e.o.'s who want to make five hundred times more money than their average worker or don't feel like giving their workers health benefits or safe working conditions on the factory floor. you know it's not right to work like mitch daniels calls it it's truly right to work for less on average workers and right to work for less states make five thousand three hundred thirty three dollars a year less than in free bargaining states not only that twenty one percent fewer workers on average receive employees sponsored health care and right to work for less states and there are fifty one percent more workplace injuries and deaths in right to work for less states that's what workers in indiana can look forward to now that their lawmakers and their governor are stuck with a shift in their rights to democratize the workplace but this isn't the first time this is happened in india there was back in one nine hundred fifty seven just like today thousands of workers were marching outside the state house in indianapolis

why because republicans inside passed legislation make indiana a right to work for less then indiana was the eighteenth state to do so the governor harold have only didn't even sign the bill he was actually run out of the building by a crowd push that passed the state police but absent a veto it became law anyway so how did it all work out well there was voter backlash the republicans got hammered in the election of one hundred fifty eight the next year by nine hundred sixty the democrats have taken control of both chambers of state government and by nine hundred sixty five in indiana the right to work law was repealed it had lasted only eight years. today republicans in indiana are doing pretty much the exact same thing as they tried back in one hundred fifty seven similarly republicans in ohio are trying to get right to work right now right to work for less on the ballot this november and in minnesota republicans have just

announced that they're going to try and push it through the state legislature but they're not alone this is been preceded by a thirty year war on unions started when ronald reagan fired the workers of patco after he had actually made an agreement with them before the election and they supported him in the election in arizona governor brewer the republicans are fast tracking anti-union laws these are laws that would prevent public workers from collective bargaining and pain union dues having them automatically deducted from their paychecks ways to break down the unions and in fact in arizona they are including the police and firefighters we've seen similar attacks now in wisconsin ohio jersey but by one hundred fifty seven there's now a backlash and it's happening across the country in ohio senate bill five was repealed this was the law that john case it pushed through that that basically took away union rights in wisconsin a million signatures actually i believe it was one point eight million signatures that were presented to recall governor walker's going to be in elections for the

labor movement has woken up the labor of the workers individual workers in the workplace have woken up people are getting enough already with this stuff if the union busters like mitch daniels what scott walker john cases jan brewer if they want to fight they're going to have a fight. for more on what's going on around the nation when it comes to the roads or working people and how working people can fight back i'm honored to be joined by congresswoman tammy baldwin representing wisconsin's second district in the running for the united states senate congresswoman baldwin great to have you with us it's wonderful to join you thank you so much what's the what's the state of working people right now you know. well and it was a concert for the working people and middle class families are taking it on the chin right now and it's not only because of this deep recession that we've been in but it's really as

a consequence of i think many years of bad economic policies and when i travel around the state of wisconsin. i hear people really open up about their struggles right now and tell their individual stories i mean whether it's moms and dads who can't scrape any savings for their kids' college fund seniors who don't think they'll ever be able to stop working and ever retire because they literally have to dip into their life savings just to pay bills on a routine basis i remember a single dad who's working two jobs today making less than when he only had one full time job and he is a single parent so it means he it doesn't happen so much time with his children so these are the stories of working families middle class families across america and certainly across wisconsin right now they are taking a beating right now you know the red i just did was suggesting that there is a backlash against the war on labor on the other hand there's a massive amounts of money being put into that warm labor alex supported

legislation and all these other things. how do you think this is shaking know what your sense of how the you know we're seeing this up front and center in the state of wisconsin you talked about how many signatures were just filed you know there's a pride in our state at the history of our state we were the first state to pass workers' compensation laws the first state to enact unemployment insurance benefits and in one nine hundred. fifty nine the first state to grant collective bargaining rights to public employees so it's a state with a rich history of. respecting. workers rights of understanding how important it is that you be safe at work things that labor has argued for over the years you've watched what's happened in the state of wisconsin over the last year since the last election voters in wisconsin are standing up and

speaking out about these actions to repeal decades worth of progress in just a matter of weeks and they're really particularly upset because they feel like they were deceived in the course of the election we didn't know any of this was coming and so people are as i said speaking out taking action i've seen it all over the state what do you think about the the it we just saw this primary done for the republican primary. newt gingrich two to one in south carolina that wasn't enough and so in florida he ran. the campaign outspending five to one but we looked like the super pacs might about spending one hundred or more to one here and thirteen thousand ads versus gingrich's two hundred ads i mean this is big outside money coming into the state what's the consequence of this kind of money in politics largely as a result of the citizens united decision i want to tie the answer right back into

the struggle of the working families in the middle class are having right now their voices are being drowned out certainly on television by these unlimited amounts of money it seems and you know the sources of which we'll never know because it's really secret. this is drowning out the voice of the average voter the average working family and that's trouble troubling alone but also i want to say in the state of wisconsin. we've had additional assaults on voter rights in the form of a very cynical voter identification has to be government issued they can be issued for free but nobody tells you that we're going to literally see the disenfranchisement of working people and middle class folks across wisconsin because of the combination of unlimited spending brought on by the citizens united decision and and these restrictions that we're seeing across the country at the

state level. requiring voter i.d.'s it's deeply troubling to me as i mount a statewide campaign for u.s. senate. because we are going to have to figure out how to get our message out in the context of this incredibly large spending. it's going to be a challenge for every candidate the country who doesn't have a billionaire behind them it's just the internet is still a democratizing influence so tammy baldwin dot com is how people can hear more about my campaign for senate right and we will have it on the screen what are the issues that you care most about and and that you're seeing belle you're in the house of representatives right now you're running for the senate if you get it was one of the issues that you think are most front and center right now two minutes or so we're right so we're talking about the struggle for working families and middle class families right now and there's a lot that can be done at the federal level i mean the most immediate is we've got to extend this payroll tax cut that will ease conditions for working families

across the country hundred sixty million families affected by this we've got to move it forward in wisconsin in a year the average impact of that tax cut would be sixteen hundred dollars per family that is a lot of money that is. several mortgage payments that's food for the family we've got to get going on that in that same measure as we know it also extends unemployed . and insurance benefits for the long term unemployed but those are only some immediate not so. immediate actions that need to be taken i'm really concerned about the fact that we're in a global marketplace and wisconsin's a big manufacturing state and we're burdened by the fact that other countries are cheating there's not a level playing field right now so china's cheating with currency manipulation that bill has passed the senate is high time the house of representatives take action to level the playing field because wisconsin workers and us workers will win if we

have a level level playing field very very interesting and it's not the house is not picking this up or any you know what else is the house not it's been so frustrating well so far the house has not advanced a measure to see this payroll tax cut last through the entire calendar year we've got to do that. as we're talking about china currency manipulation is a very troubling if you walk to the house to pass a law to turn medicare into a vulture program yes and we were afraid that we're going to revisit that in the budget battle this year this program that has kept so many seniors healthy and out of having to spend their life savings on their health needs is something that we need to fight for. it's extraordinary the we live in momentous times we do tammy baldwin thanks so much to me about thank you thank you. for that was coming up greece and vision and austerity policy as the savior of its economy three years

later as austerity but. we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old and she told the truth. i think i am a total. get a friend that i love rap and hip hop music and pretty. but it was kind of a big yesterday. and. i'm very proud of the role without you see it as a place. you

know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for langley you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture.

europe is screwed and we are next to the hundred thousand dollar donors to mitt romney's super pac ad their way that's how it's going to play out. when the european economy and the world economy for that matter when the full meltdown in two thousand and eight new experiment in economics is tried out there is something called austerity and austerity isn't all that new using it as a tool to beat back a recession never been tried before totally new concept brought to us by financial elites technocrats and governments who wanted to make the markets and the investors

appy at the expense of the working people that meant cutting back on spending cutting on social welfare programs cutting government jobs raising taxes on working people all while increasing tax loopholes for the very rich deregulating their corporations and increasing corporate welfare programs it's a massive transfer of wealth from working people to the rich white the now millions of jobs in the process in that spirit they ripped up the middle class to make sure that the banks got a full return on their bets in places like ireland and greece with the result being massive unemployment what was overlooked in this equation is that economies are not driven by markets and investors these people are behaving like they are but they're not economies are driven by working people in two ways working people who have money in their pockets to buy stuff and stimulate demand and working people

who actually produce the goods and services that make the economy happen no working people producing goods and services like having a football game with no football players and working people having no money in their pockets to buy things to create demand in the in the marketplace that's like having a party with no friends and no booze it just doesn't work after all why would any entrepreneur start a business when there's no demand for products because nobody has any money in their pocket to buy things. how can a market flourish without demand which is in demand is kind of the opposite of austerity but this spite this glaring hole in their all in their logic austerity was tried out anyway in fact it became merriam webster's word of the year in two thousand and ten so far the country hit hardest by it has been greece since the onset of the greek debt crisis in two thousand and nine and the internet.