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wake of the deadly shootings into lose they say that bearing the brunt of the heavy crackdown of extremism the head of the presidential election. a backer of moscow with the norm almost always in full in thirty minutes but now back to a loner in washington d.c. . i guys it's time for show and talent and i program now throughout but we show you the clip where president obama bashes all ryan's budget calling it a form of social darwinism we want to know if you agree with that statement so it's going to produce a great reason to thank you to find out what you have to say. i'm in the streets of d.c. to tell people the nation's capital what are viewers had to say on twitter facebook and you tube and see which comments we should keep or delete. president obama called the g.o.p. budget social darwinism for wanting to cut things like scholarships medical research national parks so do you think of the president is right or the g.o.p.

proposals the wrong cuts to make when he read your response from rick he wrote in to say he agrees with the g.o.p. budget he said so be it i'd rather have a society that rewards hard working and taking risks rather than a handout society obama is creating if you want to keep. a leader. like tax cuts in the post budgets that's not financed so basically it's. it's very unequal if you want to keep it or delete it i want to leave that sort of comment and i think that a society that brings all the people who suffer a little bit more is a better society not everybody that's good news handouts and trying to rip someone off some of these people really needed gabriel he said i agree with obama on this one i also agree with his comparison of ryan's plan making the contract with america look like the new deal if you want to keep it or delete it. i would keep it and mainstream american public would rather have more of a balanced approach to help those you know creature gifts or to not turn medicare

into a voucher program john wrote in to tell us it's time to wake up and face the hard choices but the election the side these cuts and even more needs to be made and there is no time to play politics do you want to keep it or delete it i agree with . i think there need to be more cuts the g.o.p. cood do better by cutting programs that we spend excessively and unnecessarily on like national security people want to see cuts made and a lot of people know exactly what programs should be cut and their patience for these political games seem to be running out. all right thanks for your responses and here's our next question for you so our other show we just spoke with michelle alexander author of the new jim crow about the millions of americans who can no longer vote to felony convictions often for years after their release so do you think that palin should lose their right to vote while in prison and after their release let us know you think on facebook

twitter and you tube and who knows the response just might make it on air. last year americans spent three hundred and twenty billion dollars on their medicine now the rise of three point seven percent since two thousand and ten all according to a report by i.m.s. health now the industry also launched thirty four new drugs last year which was the largest number for the pharmaceutical industry in a decade but all of that was despite the fact that prescription you actually felt last year as did dr visits so you can probably blame the economy for that what so that's the case how does the pharmaceutical industry keep getting americans to spend more money on drugs if i were ties ing definitely plays a role. and every day name of concern reminds you can each of. the one who does one with the recto dysfunction can be more confident in their ability to be ready with cialis for doing. this for daily use are clinically proven to have that you take every day so you can be ready anytime the moment right. well our guest

tonight provides evidence of how the manipulation of our fear of our suffering our fear of death makes it easy for big pharma to convince us to keep coming back from war let's also not forget the big pharma doesn't act alone so joining me to discuss this is john than you well andrea freelance journalist for the atlantic and author of the big three deferred how aids changed a life in america john i want to thank you for joining us tonight and i mean we really start here how big of this entire industry that is peddling drugs to americans every day. how big is it well it's i think you really touched on some of the numbers it's just tremendous it's it seems to permeate every aspect of our culture you know growth economically and then clearly and socially i mean medication is just part of our popular culture you know there's jokes about taking prozac or clearly lutes or you know any other number of psycho

active drugs so it's sort of a standard part of american culture but so how are some of the specific ways that they really manage to keep it going to keep their profits up despite the fact that americans are going to the doctor less that they're getting their prescriptions written for them because let's face it it's a recession right if you're people are going to go to the doctor to treat some kind of element that they have if they have less money to just deal with the basics like putting food on their table. yeah absolutely it's it's kind of astonishing as i looked into this whole. legal you know know you. i'm afraid we lost you for a minute can you still hear me all right we're going to wait and see if we can fix our technical issue here and try to get john back on the line but i'm sure all of

you watch t.v. every now and then and see all those drug commercials and think about it they really do they play to your emotions and some of the things if we don't get john back in the meantime he's spoken about is that they've also changed the metrics for the way that they diagnose some of the illnesses that are out there if you want to talk about diabetes if you want to talk about somebody who has high cholesterol change the metric and so people who once had cholesterol that was considered normal and now is considered in a me high and so they get to prescribe more drugs to you the same time we see things like oh john we got you back. i hope so ok great well i was doing a little bit of the talking for that but i was thinking about how you know one of the examples that you've been writing about is that they change the metrics for some of the conditions that are out there like diabetes or high cholesterol but why don't you tell us more about what they do in terms of even creating a new condition that that many people think that they have yeah absolutely it's

it's really the most fascinating thing. you know take prozac for example this wildly popular highly profitable into depressant and it was about to go off patent and so the drug maker rather than allowing it to go off patent and risk losing these tremendous profits they essentially created a new disease premenstrual dysphoric this order p m d t and they repackaged the drug which is flu oxygene that's the generic name of the drug that was printed as prozac so they took the oxygene and renamed it serafin oh so now if a doctor prescribes prozac for someone the pharmacist can fill the prescription with generic flux a team but if the if the doctor prescribes serafin them even though it's the exact

same drug as the generic flu oxygene they can only use that brand name so it's a pretty sly way to manipulate the market you know to increase the profits but yeah it's fascinating creating need to seize is expanding the metrics of things like hypertension so that you know one twenty over eighty which was considered normal is now sort of pre-hypertension they're going to start watching you you know tracking to see if you're going to need medication i guess if you know the catch twenty two of modern medicine is that you cared. look at certain conditions and you know see what the chances are that some i might have it earlier but then everybody has a precondition to something then you start medicating it all but the last point that i want to get into here is that we we talk about the pharmaceutical industry and they seem like the big bad guys but they don't do this a lot you know what about the role that doctors play yeah absolutely i mean the

doctors are not every doctor and that's very important to point out and make clear . but you know the doctors who have been susceptible to the grooming it's described as grooming almost like sexual predators you know. the way a former sukkot company will take a doctor sort of under their wing and pay for little things like nice meals continuing medical education. you know conference registrations little things like that can be useful especially to younger doctor and before you know it the they have essentially a sales force of very enthusiastic physicians who are happy to prescribe their their brand medications. so the doctors do have a rule and that's a reason why it's so incumbent upon consumers to be really educated

about the drugs you know. whether something is appropriate for them whether what they have is and just a normal aspect of egypt you know male pattern baldness. i mean men can take propitious to treat their male pattern baldness but one of the potential side effects of creepy show is a record of dysfunction. in another drug i put. a third i guess there are age gracefully anymore but now the truth is that you know a lot of time you just got to go out there and do a lot of the research yourself but luckily you know you can find a lot of stuff online but i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight thank you so much a lot. i would got one more break while we get back to hand out of home a final word to a congressman who thinks the don't ask don't tell to be a policy at the workplace and on happy hour when texas hospital is trying to trim the fat by not hiring people over a certain you will find this. film

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son i'm a little. our guys it's time for tonight's truth time ward and this one is going to g.o.p. congressman steve king earlier this week scott keys over at think progress interviewed king or the to discuss the role of government i did business and in the beginning of the interview king was eager to point out that he does not believe the government should have any say in who private company hires or fires so he's

followed up that statement by asking about situations where an employer might be discriminating against a gender or person's sexual orientation and this is king's response how do you know someone's sexual orientation or how you discriminating in somebody because of their sexual orientation that serves in. our house the that's the kind of statement it's a total rhetorical copout and a way of skirting around the fact that cain apparently doesn't think that discrimination is a problem because you can't tell by looking at a person what their sexual preferences but i guess we just have to pretend like discrimination based on sexual preference never happens i want to somebody does tell you they're gay the interview then once you go does that change things when you're interviewing somebody getting to know them should they feel they can talk about their life freely now just to be clear to him doesn't actually think that a person's sexual orientation is their business because he vehemently opposes same sex marriage so clearly he thinks that is somehow his business but what king is

really trying to do is support the idea of a don't ask don't tell type policy in the workplace and if you don't get a sexual you can't discriminate against him. yeah that's right king says if you just don't know anyone sexuality you can't discriminate against that so we should all keep our sexuality secret everywhere we go and that's going to prevent discrimination so gay viewers out there there's a closet at your work because you're probably just move your desk in marriage consider it your new office because in king's world you're not coming out anytime soon i mean i just love how king puts the burden on the employee to keep things the secrets rather than the employer not to be a bigot but that again king opposed the repeal of don't ask don't tell in the military because in his words quote to change the policy at a time when american troops are deployed abroad under hostile fire is an irresponsible act well representative king gay employees aren't under hostile fire from anybody but you so what's your excuse here seems to me like mccain is really implying is that gays wouldn't have

a problem if they didn't run around with their run and run around the running there but if they didn't run around running their valves there we go about their gay lifestyle i mean god forbid that somebody would want to bond with their coworkers having discussions about their life outside of work and i can't imagine a world in which someone like king would get their way on this but just we say we did put together a few tips on how to repair straight the workplace because in reality the not so intel really needs appears straight at all times so first try not to dress too well or well tailored clothes or italian shoes those might make people a little suspicious also please avoid any mention of the gay holy trinity that includes cher lady gaga and that you can still worship on but just your own time in the privacy of your own home and finally no matter how shocked you are about something for the love of god do not hold your r.'s for example don't say girl under any circumstances no matter how shocked you are now all doing all these

things and trying to hide who you are oh that might be a little bit suffocating take solace in the fact the king it is don't ask don't tell the workplace policy are really just an effort to protect your privacy. i think that the federal government trying to decide someone's sexuality in order to make sure they're not discriminated against is an imposition of their privacy get it the government trying to protect vulnerable group vulnerable groups like members of the gay community from closed minded prejudicial bosses is actually government overreach basically nobody should be asking any questions employers or the government are just kind of odd because when it came to asking questions to people with brown skin questions about their legal status king was all for. going to forty thousand pounds or status with the going to be legally in the united states or like . you know what i grew up in the police officers see somebody on the street see why are you here what are you doing who are you i don't. know you so you can see that

someone is different fire away all questions are valid but if not with the word that's no so for basically blaming gays for their own discrimination and suggesting that to combat discrimination birthplaces across the country should adopt a don't ask don't tell policy representative steve king it's nice to all time when . ok it's time for happy hour and joining me tonight r.t. correspondent christine and lauren lyster host of how to look out here on r.t.e. i think are all. and all about going on ladies ladies happy hour. let's talk about this hospital and tech that's basically what they're doing is that they've stated they will no longer hire anybody with a body mass index of thirty five or higher to give you a little perspective of that hundred ten pounds for somebody who is five five but

i've got a problem with this because we've done a story like this before on the show that shows the the m.r.i. we don't have that. ok we have a different type of. medical center this hospital in victoria texas you laugh you know it's coming they have a strict weight policy it will hire people who are overweight and uses b.m.i. body mass index to determine. and who's out. anyway what i just said but i mean we did being on our show reshow the you know you can't just look at your b.m.i. because one of our employees who just happens to be really buff and works out a lot was completely obese by that scale. is like the strongest person ever and probably one of the most healthy and in shape you know i know i really i first i didn't have a problem with this story i was kind of understanding of the fact that an employer doesn't want to pay the health care or the added risk of having overweight

employees i'm sorry i get that but when i suddenly i was. little so you have patients coming in and they're nurses or whatever are obese you think you know my dad example that you know you know that i think that's what i'm sort of argument is that's what the hospitals are here but those point is that they're saying you know you're going to be paying higher health care cost because somebody is obese versus somebody that might have some other medical condition that you just can't see well that i would answer that obesity was leads to diabetes heart condition and you know other things like that i mean if you just want to look at numbers and i'm not defending anything you need to really get in cardio all the way oh and i mean you're not going to know everybody that comes in with a health risk and that's not fair but there is a certain amount sorry obesity a lot of that you can't control what's the best doctor well then you have them in your name and i are taken exception i don't know that's the thing i think the hospital would hire the best doctor especially if they could say you know we have the best doctor at our hospital they're probably not going to hire the other people

who might weigh the same but you know it's just great majority against obese people that don't have as kind and skills but if you make a certain policy then you're just going to start bending the rules that policy got so far because things aren't fair in this country and i was like don't make a policy. for the rounding up like you. are right to day is actually two years since wiki leaks released released released this collateral murder video. ok. and i mean just think about it in the last two years everything that's happened was that press conference with video was released and i have to say personally that video and sort of what's happened since with the incarceration solitary confinement

of bradley manning that has really changed me and the way i view the media the way . is now thought of the way julian songes now thought of this was a big deal this was the job that the press should have been doing certainly this was classified stuff but the press normal press would normally gotten their hands on but for me i mean two years a lot has changed and a lot of it has been a result of this video being released and what's happened the way a lot of people especially outside countries are just to see i agree and i disagree because i think it's made a huge impact in terms of the way that people like you things and the way that people that are analysts and other discerning and maybe that are advocates and things are but i'm surprised how little has changed in terms of just mass awareness or caring about the worries of us and what they're engaged in so much our report that you did today you know where is that is the masses of the u.s. population really i mean protesting issues like inequality now but they're not really is about are we were made

a big impact i think you know internationally and so yes trying to have to ask questions as to what it is specifically our psyche or i think the media does want to talk about it because in a lot of other countries where we keep getting awards right the man enjoying the sun for getting. certain things feed a human rights of words transparency award and. carry on power and they are happy that someone has brought awareness to it i don't think that americans. are aware of it the same way i think they're waking the same way the majority i thought oh yeah i mean it's too bad all the more reason we need to keep thinking about it. you know covering these important story completely but agree more let's talk about really kind of downers on happy hour today but it was really just weeks ago that we saw protests and violence all across afghanistan in response to the burning of korans our one present their. hands are protesting qur'an burning

outside the bob bhangra military base as you can hear there are lots of shots fired cars buildings torched at least five protesters have died the soldiers have bag room air base were throwing out. a material from the library the detention facility material that they felt was being used by the insurgency that they did not realize it was religious material. you know so that went on for a while there were a number of deaths and obviously that story kind of hit the back burner once through the massacre of seventeen civilians allegedly by sergeant robert bales but sergeant scuse me checking out this story from the new york times and this is one of the stories where it's all quotes from anonymous officials so we know that someone is feeding it and it says just hours after was revealed an american soldier's a burn the koran sees it an afghan detention center iran secretly order its agents operating inside afghanistan to exploit the anticipated public outrage by trying to instigate violent protests in the capital and across the western part

of the country according to american officials so what the people of afghanistan really wouldn't have been angry if it wasn't for iran telling them they should be that's if. they want to have to iran back in so you know comes back to iran it's all over you know what do you know i like this because this is the kind of thing that like some of the mainstream media grimaces about that other countries say when they say like us was involved in these kind of you know dissident activities and that sort of thing so some mistake the u.s. is the same thing they blame it on their enemies to like you know i just think that it's kind of symptomatic of it's what the critics say for not just for what it is that's going on right and talking about the fact that we've seen before protests before that there's been a war going on for ten years there but also i don't know you know when when anonymous officials stuff like this to the media i mean on the other hand let's remember this as you said it was it wasn't so far away general allen apologized president obama apologized it's not that our top officials in this country got up

and said this wasn't a big deal they acknowledge this was a big deal but it is true and very critical of journalism the new york times is just you just don't forget we're also trying to start a war with iraq yeah ok totally i got it but thanks for joining me tonight that's a good night's show thanks for tuning in and make sure that you come back tomorrow from the white house adviser van jones. the going to be joining us and i mean signed up for get fit in a fan of the on a show on facebook and follow us on twitter if you missed any of the night's show or any other night you know it's cash elephantine fat comp class the lunch hour and coming up that's when it's. download the official we can show you on the phone the i pod touch from the i choose up store. one shall see lights on the.

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