it is ironic because deutsche telekom is such a outstanding citizen in germany and yet they have not told their u.s. management to comport with the way in which they behave in germany. is it because u.s. management can act this way if they allow them to act this way and u.s. labor laws are quite broad so in the wireless industry we have one company eighteen t. which that will be neutral our managers won't say anything about unions and workers can choose with majority starting up on the other hand you have t. mobile which says no we're going to force elections will fight over what the unit is in the relays we will try to intimidate our employees and all the while team all but would say well we are have the right of free speech and because we are in america we are acting the way american management acts and that's the way that's in a way isn't a sort of like apple and foxconn i mean you've got an american company that is you

know offshoring jobs and in two to another company in a country where the labor standards of different labor so you know. it isn't just that we're in fact there's several german manufacturers here in the united states of auto manufacturers in particular at that are paying much lower wages i think the prevailing wage in germany for an auto lying worker is in the fifty dollars range of if you were the translators u.s. dollars and here in the united states you know they're up there started people at fourteen dollars an hour has the united states become the low wage dumping ground for german industry sometimes it seems like that but therefore i'm here to to to watch this situation. because it's not the only one who. has such but this is. i think it's. under the conditions on the station we have. to look to each other. the

employees have to look to the conditions of the others because they because it's also a problem for germany because if these. unbalanced situations continue. then. also interim and they will be the tendence tool to to. talk to a shrink. their working conditions down down and down and this is this race of the bottom. of in the capitalistic globalization conditions we don't want and therefore i'm here because we must support each other. brilliantly here from a member of parliament i mean it's this and germany has done a very good job of protecting its domestic industries and and protecting its

workers my understanding is that by law any corporation with over a thousand employees has to have half their board of directors made up of union members what's the percentage of union ship union membership in germany in the whole it's about twenty percent in the telecom we have seventy five percent that they also pick differences within germany how so. yes because because there are. traditional companies with a long history. they often have also a long trade union history and the music has for example in trimming the especially cause centers. the retail sector or other service sectors modern sectors their trade unions have. is they have difficulties to come in to organize people but i think this is going on now but the problem

is that always if trade unions come and say let's let's organize let's fight for this then is the argument yes if you. if you are successful. and so on then this company for example will go to the united states or to a trainer where because they're lower standards there. is no trade unions. which make us difficulty and. public pressure and so on and therefore it's also a problem for the german because yes so george kohl a german member of parliament saying please don't please don't keep doing this race

to the bottom of america because it will it will in fact germany. how do we stop the race to the bottom here that's the key question when we talk about globalization when others talk about globalization too often they forget that around the rest of the world everybody else has better collective bargaining than we do in the united states at least in the developed world and there's a reason in the underdeveloped world to make oreo in their personal south africa now they all have better collective bargaining than we do. i was told that in terms of the race up we need to look around the world and pick a standard of collective bargaining that is a positive one in order for us to raise up one of the exports from the united states is this union intolerance and as class it's a. danger to europe which is why then that the world trade union movement said they need to expect better from deutsche telekom we need to stop you know boykins why don't you tell us and we need to change the situation and that's why the member

from parliament is here and in the united states we had. members of congress also kind of express an opinion the way is to the way to the future is to wage to raise wages up not to drive everything to the lowest common denominator and it just it just makes sense you know a country is either spiraling up or they're spiraling down and we seem to be spiraling down germany at least seems to be holding their own for the moment but. you know how much influence does the german government have over d.t. and d t over t. mobile government keeps nearly one third of the shares but. but under the conditions of the liberalizations which was decided in germany in the middle of the ninety's this state decided not to yes not to deal with these shares and to be something like. stakeholder and to

do nothing. what might disturb. yes the stock exchange. and then the lists and so on and the investors and therefore the state keeps out of these discussion and. i think we must try as members of the parliament to build up. pressure to to not only to do it she telecom but to all companies to all international kompany is to to have to to keep social standards all over the world. because the funny thing is that the chairman exploiting economy is very successful whereas there are high rates of organization in trade unions for example in our. chief industries and

in the chemical industries in all these sectors we have strong trade unions and we are successful because there are conditions for working. relatively high wages and there this is a reason i think for the execs for four hours success and i think therefore nobody in the us must fear too is to lose jobs if there is a could. good. relation between between the employees and the company and the management very well said and we need to repeal taft hartly and get carjacked past it's there we've got some work to do here general both of you thank you so much for joining us thank you thank you pastor story.

crazy alert watch out where you post online or get sued pretty much generally the facebook profile has at one time or another been tagged in a less than flattering photo most people just laugh it off and untag the photo well not eric volz olsen sued his uncle for harassment after his uncle posted childhood photos of him in front of a christmas tree and added critical and testy comments to them to our knowledge no news organizations have obtained the photos in question but we're thinking it may look something like this which is found in the awkward family photos dot com site not surprisingly also lost his case for harassment and an appeal to a higher court court told him quote comments that are mean and disrespectful coupled with an i.q. as family photos do not affect a person's safety security or privacy and therefore do not count as irascible i guess also will just have to put up with that pesky family member like millions of

other americans do in other words and in other news scuse me a teenager sued his aunt for assault when she pinched his cheeks at a family reunion. coming up mitt romney sits back relaxes and lives the lives of dividend of his investment certain way all americans could collect evidence of dividends just like that. pepper spray not just burn gerard is right right i mean it's like a derivative of actual pepper it's a food product essentially. i this is much stronger than anything you do you buy off. thousands of times stronger than any kind of you ever put you know.

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sister. back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour we all know that america's wealthy elite through their lives off their dividends from their investments because every american plugged dividends from their investments also popular culture likes to bail bondsmen as muscle plaid head to cover angry guys are

they really are to build them up and have a softer side to them and the greek economy is in a shambles and is slowly suffering through the austerity experiment what role does one american bank have in this true life greek tragedy. you or your right. to make. sure. you go is wrong. so sometimes you know what you know and sometimes you know what you don't know and sometimes as the firesign theater says everything you know is wrong is much of the problem we just saw what if you got arrested were forced to use a bail bondsman to help get you out of jail if you listen to movies and popular culture you'd expect to be working with a very intimidating man maybe with a few tattoos whose office smells and smoke and liquor and expect to find a real dog floor well if you think that all bonds bit bail bondsmen are shady chain

smoking muscle clad men with anger management problems then everything you know is wrong joining me now is stephen owens bill agent president of the kansas bail agents association steven welcome. if thank you pleasure to be here glad to have you with us when most people think of bail bondsman that's they think of dog the bounty hunter from the popular reality show see an accurate representation of bail bondsman and and what's the difference between a bail bondsman and about each other you know the dog the bounty hunter is obviously not a true representation of what we do a bondsman is is put in place to ensure justice in the sure of justice and by doing so it is our responsibility to ensure that that defendant is held liable for what he's charged for we do that and that's where it kind of does tend to flow into if they fail to appear in court than it does become our responsibility to apprehend them that's one of them a hundred third party that is responsible to maybe hired by appointment that is

responsible to apprehend the defendant why do you think pop culture has put a social stigma on bail bondsmen or or is it is it not actually that much of a stigma it really is that much of a statement but i think that will pop culture like strong and so you know drama is created in many facets the reality of what we do when we have to apprehend somebody is it's ninety percent of the time when a car we're talking to relatives we're talking to friends we're trying to locate the defendant and when we do locate them they come willingly i joke that that in the eleven years i've been in this business i might be able to make a ten thirty minute t.v. shows because it's just not a drama built it is important that we make sure that definitively count over what they have been charged for but at the same time we want to do it with the least amount of drama possible but you're a guy who got as i as i recall a college degree

a business degree and you're an accountant and and you decided to get into the bail bonds business you know how did that happen. well you know it's really kind of interesting a good friend of mine introduced me to the opportunity and i was just telling a good friend of mine the story about how you know when i was younger i graduated from college with a business in accounting degree and i went to work for a c.p.a. firm at the same time i had a one year old and a three year old daughter i was working on my master's degree and i was opponent of the same time that's that's ultimately what it takes to be in business for yourself but what i saw was a true perception of the industry that absolutely wasn't accurate we all are and army if you will of the judicial system and it becomes our responsibility to to take that into hand live just as professional as any attorney would handle their job as any judge would handle their job and that is what we do and that is what ultimately i realize that you know as

a member of that judicial system we have to take the series we have to take it up to a professional level and that is what we have set out to do minor sanny of how this works is if somebody has bail set at one hundred thousand dollars for example that they can put up that hundred thousand dollars and give it right to the court and they'll get that back when when they when their case is adjudicated want to finish or they can come to somebody like you give you ten thousand dollars or whatever the the about is that you know she ate and you'll put up the hundred thousand dollars and take that risk but you keep that ten thousand keep as as your as the fee for your risk. first of all is my understanding of it accurate and secondly doesn't that basically just make you a fancy banker in essence i use that i use that example it's really no different than your car insurance because with car insurance or on the only insuring our own vehicle we're insuring the other driver in this case we're ensuring that the court

the court is ultimately saying your crimes are severe enough to warrant a hundred thousand overblown. if you choose to put up that hundred thousand dollars you're underwriting your own insurance policy. obviously most people don't have that kind of money sent around so they do go through a bondsman we charge ten percent premium on that money to ensure a court because that's ultimately what the court is saying that you are worth to them for the charges the appears you but if that's the case then where do you get your money i mean is that is that if somebody wants to go to the bail bond business that they've got to have you know hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars that they can put at risk over in some cases years of time until cases are resolved or do you borrow money from banks and and then put that money in you know up for somebodies bail and then make make your money on the spread between what you borrowed it for and and the feeling you're getting at how does and how

does that work if you know my mike getting super snippy about your business oh absolutely i appreciate it because i don't think people take enough time to understand it and so i'm honored to be your to be able to do to offer this up there are two primary types of ways to accomplish that the primary type is to be underwritten are sheltered by an insurance company myself i'm underwritten by international an elegy insurance company which is a member of the a i.e. family what they do is they ultimately guarantee to the court on my behalf that if there is a bond that needs to be paid and i don't think that they're going to and so they're insuring me as i insure other people the other way is there are what's called property bossman and property bondsman alternately post their own property if you will maybe it's not an apartment complex they own or something like that and they pledged that as collateral to the court to to insure themselves against the fall so you know being with an insurance company such as a high provides

a tremendous amount of work for us in what we do throughout the country that's that's absolute fasting and. what's the one of the what's the number one of fence you see in your line of work is it is a you know mostly murders or mostly drunk driving or just ever all over the board what kind of things. i would say that the majority of what we see are small time offenses they're they're good people that made a bad decision and then they ended up in jail whether it's a dui or they forgot to be a parking ticket or a license was suspended or something along those lines and that's why part of why i love what i do because i get to help people not lose everything because of a bad decision that they made in if they were seen jail and sent there they have a chance of losing their home their job their family and then you know the punishment doesn't fit the crime in that potential situation not to mention you know everybody is innocent till proven guilty and we can never lose sight of that. have to do as per the stephen owens thank you so much for being with us tonight.

thank you for your input and now everything you know about bail bondsman is right. the best the rest the news we all know that mitt romney has a pretty good he was born rich and went to wall street and got a heck of a lot richer and he took his fortune made a bunch of investments than now you can just sit back and collect dividends on those investments but over having to work again on top of that since dividends are earned by passively investing money and not by actually working mitt romney gets a special much lower federal income tax rate only for capitalists like romney it's a maximum of fifteen percent compared to average middle class americans who can pay as much as thirty five percent such as the life of the typical one percent or in america who lives on dividends but here's a question why can't all americans collective it ends just like mitt romney that is

get dividends from the investment each one of us was born with as our share of the commons of the united states alaska already does this with oil revenues they have this thing called the alaska permanent fund and it's free it's funds from public parks it's from oil revenue if you live in alaska you get a thousand dollars a year two thousand dollars a year as a piece of the a piece of the revenue that the state has generated cap and trade revenue for example well in fact to cut this this concept which was put together by peter barnes peter barnes wrote a great piece on this over in common dreams and his concept was we all own the commons collectively and just like alaska has declared that they own the oil and they're there as oil companies pump it out they're taking a piece of that action turning it into the permanent fund we all own for example the air that we breathe well if a company wants to pollute that air. then we could say you're going to pay

a fee to pollute that air that's how cap and trade works and then we take the revenue from that cap and trade and distribute it to all of us we all have shares in our government our greatest achievements as a nation are not the things that the transnational corporations have built it's the commons it's the stuff that we collectively own so you can't just say that our our greatest achievements as a nation are transitional corporations a bill but instead it's what we've built together as part of our commons our public education our clean air and water our security and hopefully one day health care and so here's the essence of what barnes was suggesting it and by the way what's particularly interesting about this is that he wasn't the first guy to propose this the first guy to propose this as an american in america was in seventeen ninety seven his name was thomas paine in a book called agrarian justice and he suggested that the government should set

aside should basically create a stock portfolio for every person when they're born and that pays off when they're twenty one and then pays throughout their life and then also provides for their retirement he was proposing social security but he was also saying that when somebody is using the commons when a corporation is going to use our roads or our waters it's so he's going to use our air or if somebody is using our you know the commons the stuff that we collectively use and there's a fee for it if they're harming that commons we're going to repair it but in addition to that you know corporations exist because of our court system you couldn't run a business without our court system but they don't pay for it so let's charge the fee you know for the benefits you get to be in a corporation and then use that distribute that to everybody in america so that there is an actual floor a genuine minimum. what thomas paine referred to a minimum wage a minimum living so that there's you know it's a way of solving the problem of poverty in the united states and then we can

protect our cartman's and hopefully we can even adds for example to it the idea of universal health care. after the break ins and it's a daily take how has one of wall street's biggest banks water another nation to the brink of disaster. we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old until she told the truth. i'm a contestant i'm a total get of friends that i love traveling hip hop music and pretty. much it was kind of a yesterday. i'm very proud of the role without you she

has played. 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 tom harkin welcomes a big picture. it's

the good the bad in the very very sad. ugly the good florida state republicans. last week the florida state senate voted down the largest proposed expansion of private prisons in the country despite the fact the republican party has a sixteen seed advantage in the florida senate nine republicans joined twelve democrats to defeat the prison privatization measure by

a twenty one to one thousand vote the main argument for the republicans would joined who joined the democrats in the vote was the prison privatization would have adverse effects on state employees and would kick them under the bus their phrase. to talk about the wave theory when it comes to conservatives how they shift from the radical right to the very moderate stance every generation or so it would appear despite being bribed loved and right by the private prison industry florida republicans have started to make that shift and it's just in time to protect the citizens of florida from the disastrous effects of prison privatization. the bad c.n.n. contributor dana loesch this week the virginia state house move closer to enact a law which reward wire a woman to be forced to have. a transvaginal ultrasounds highly invasive procedure before they could receive an abortion bill has been branded the state sponsored rape bill because essentially the procedure involves force and a tray sion of a woman without her consent well cnn's dana loesch had no problem with the

controversy of bill arguing that the procedure is no different than consensual sex i'm not making this up take a listen. they were individual saying well what about the for gene you rate debriefs that if forced rapes of women who are pregnant let's wait a minute they had no problem having similar to a transfer jonell procedure when they engaged in the act that resulted in their pride in their pregnancy sorry dana there is a big difference between a woman consenting to sex and the government foreseen a highly invasive medical procedure and the very very ugly minnesota's state government governor mark dayton and the state legislature are intent on providing the minnesota vikings and f.l. team with a new stadium the catch they want the citizens to pay for many apples residents passed a referendum in one nine hundred ninety seven requiring voters must approve any state plan to spend over ten million dollars almost the syllabi however.