well i'm john marvin in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. republicans have been working tirelessly for the last three years that destroyed the american economy so how long can they continue to get away with crashing our economy for political gain also thanks to citizens united corporations have a new way to throw their influence around congress without the help of k. street so what could possibly put the millionaire lobbyists out of business and in tonight's daily take america has gone insane and the rest of the world is noticing

ike we keep the crazies out of office and restore our national sanity. you need to know this nearly thirteen million americans are out of job and out of work and looking for a job unfortunately federal funding to retrain american workers and prepare them for the jobs of the twenty first century is drying up funding for job training programs across the country it's down eighteen percent from two thousand and six when george bush was president even though there are six million more unemployed americans the day in fact funding for job retraining for americans is roughly half of what it used to be more than a decade ago so now even though the economy is slightly improving businesses are having difficulty finding american workers who are trained and qualified to handle a new job president obama's budget proposal called for

a massive increase in job retraining programs increasing funding to nearly three billion dollars a year and studies show this is a good economic investment is every dollar spent on retraining unemployed americans for new jobs yields as much as eight. dollars for the local community however roll the millionaire congressman paul ryan's republican trickle down austerity budget once again slashes funding for a federal job retraining programs under their proposal it's far more important to give three trillion dollars in tax breaks to the super rich and give working americans a new job skills but here's the bigger picture a lot of republicans have come on the show over the over the last year or so seeming to complain about unemployment being persistently high they do the same thing in other t.v. and radio shows and in print but here's what's going on they're not really complaining they're bragging about their accomplishments conservatives across the nation in the states and state governments red mostly red state governments have

laid off almost a half million workers since president obama came into office at the federal level they forced obama to layoff more federal employees just last year alone republicans passed laws in the house fortunately all blocked by democrats in the senate that would have laid off another seven million american workers so government workers have been dropping like flies six hundred thousand since obama took office but during the reagan and both bush administrations millions of government workers were hired to boost the economy both administrations actually increased government employees still in fact leaders of the church right here this is why this is private sector job growth so still despite all of this republican obstructionism for the past two years over four million new jobs have been created as you see in this chart is private say this. crashing under george bush coming back under president obama's stimulus happened right about here. so much of this tracks back

to the stimulus which in just a few months took us from losing seven hundred thousand jobs a month under bush to twenty four straight months of job creation some of it also comes from obama saving g.m. and chrysler over mitt romney's loud objections an op ed in the new york times titled let obama detroit go bankrupt senate minority leader mitch mcconnell laid out clearly the republican strategy on jobs. talk political priority over the next two years should be to president obama's second term republicans have been working to destroy jobs for three years and fortunately the democrats in the senate have blocked them but in the states they've succeeded in destroying over half a million jobs and cut another hundred thousand at the federal level so when you hear it here republicans talk about high unemployment remember they're not complaining they're the ragging so how long can republicans get away with crashing the economy for political gain here to answer that is the zero as perry goes to the truth for america radio show and author of the book conscientious equity he'll

welcome thanks for having me back tom thanks for joining us are you afraid that your party's plan to crash the economy might backfire and have republicans lose big november. well tom it's not the republicans that's doing this it's america's job creators are already looking past this president it's the entrepreneurs it's the small businesses that create seventy percent of all new jobs over this last decade it has nothing to do with republicans in the house or the senate it's america's job creators has already passed a verdict on president obama and they don't like what they see they're looking to november they have been creating jobs steadily for twenty four straight months neal but my question is when reagan came into office he hired people like crazy when bush sr came into office he hired at the guy in the federal level they hired people like crazy when when bush jr came into office he hired millions of government employees obama has lost six hundred thousand lloyds we have the paul ryan budget

among others would have cut seven million people from the workforce had these things been passed please name for me one piece of legislation that the republican support forward that would put anybody to work. well tom i mean a federal bloated ija federal agency isn't the key to job creation what you seem to indicate is that it's the government's responsibility to create jobs no tell it is why is a private private sector lock a job you don't understand when the private sector fails when the private sector locks up when you have pretty insane or because the accompanying regulations and policies like you had under bush and greenspan like when you have thirty years of reaganomics destroying the economy and it crashes just like hoover nomics and hardy nomics and coolidge nomics crash the economy then the government has to be the employer a last resort there's nobody else irene though tom we have to inspire the private sector we have to bright inspire the sire of the cars that go out there and create

these jobs i mean if you know what is tires on traders of metal just insane you know what inspires i'm sure there is no ponies policies high taxes high energy costs all right the fonts kind of gases need only use them and they promised but i don't have access to obama first. apparently the republican strategy is going to be to just b.s. your way into november obama cut taxes the biggest tax cut of the middle class mystery of the united states he has increased oil drilling you say you're trying to blame high gasoline prices on you there's actually more gasoline now as early as next right now as he said unless you're a pessimist own secretary of energy said that that he had a completely different context again you're twisting things if this is the republican strategy and take things out of context or lie about things i get why you're probably not going to win you know it's those votes this is down to it's not that it's all about job creation last month in march one hundred twenty two thousand new jobs were created but one hundred sixty five thousand people just

people to stop looking for work they did slightly mean us and his job creation strategy is if everybody just stopped looking for a job you know they just full of despair forget about it we can't find work well this might be this might be a deal where are your legal or you're about to get out of the only job creation. he is this in a crisis is everybody stop looking for work this might be where your republican efforts are actually going to backfire because you say people stop looking for work what the government says is they stop being eligible for unemployment the republicans forced obama to cut the ninety nine minutes a week of job creation to the ninety nine week extension of unemployment benefits down to seventy six weeks so now you've got people fall off the rolls faster quote not looking for work faster and so those numbers are going to have strains that maybe you got a shock it's obvious that. he's right to get into the real programs my point is that what inspires entrepreneurs and any business is demand if you will if the

government hires people and puts money in their pocket those people are like c.e.o.'s who put their money in swiss bank accounts those people go to the local community and buy things that creates demand demand creates demand for manufacturing and for work we need to get money into the pockets of people who will spend it. why do they want to look at america's entrepreneurs and small business owners is confidence tom president obama just does not have in who his tool said the skills needed to run this economy he's certainly over his head america's entrepreneurs has checked out on him they're looking past this present to november he where gay people are going to have to decide does recovery come in six months or does it come in five years it's absolutely impossible for recovery under president obama. to say thirty to thirty years thirty years of reaganomics has driven us to the ditch we had just during the last ten years we've lost over sixty thousand factories and not jobs factories in the united states shipped overseas thirty years

or reaganomics has destroyed us it is you know it is so clear and i think to pretty much all americans and you guys the only solution i hear from you is more tax cut three trillion dollars or the tax cuts for rich people and an increase in taxes on working people romney's twenty five percent let's go let's go for a flat tax let's have people who work as greeters at walmart are paying federal income taxes i don't see how that's going to make any jobs white so you talk about manufacturing and that's something that we do agree on tom and i'm very passionate about that as an american manufacturer i started my career as an asian manufacturer and there's literally legions of people like me who want to come back home but they're looking for a sign let's bring these job creators back home some of the best you know characters in the world are americans but they left our country let's bring them back those are not job creators in the old way i would lead you to communicate with those they are here doesn't talk the language he doesn't talk the language of the leaches you call them job creators i call them leeches the job creators are the people who are spending money who are creating demand if there's no demand in

economy you've got not the job creators are the are the risk takers what built this country into the greatest economy that the world has ever known is because of american entrepreneurs it was their jobs over shipped overseas their leeches. and i say they want to come home but let's create the environment that they do get is it isn't obama think people need a reading they're going to write it on why did we have strong domestic manufacturing for two hundred ten years in the united states and all of a sudden in twenty five years it went away. because because of the marshall plan when we opened our market wide to the world and we ask for nothing in return we've had sixty years of the marshall plan export economics and we've got to turn that around the not having insurance made up markets for american manufacturers i mean you got me hand to you if you want to be partisan about this let me hand you something first of all look at seven hundred ninety three about alexander hamilton al it's seven hundred ninety three george washington straight alexander hamilton

put into place tariffs they stood until the clinton administration that's when it fell apart and we joined now after getting a w t o and it's been all downhill ever since but that was something that was championed by reagan it was championed by bush sr and was championed by clinton and it was crazy and we had to undo it well well you know and how we're going to last and we're going to end so i can see is it's not to go put our head in to sand we have nothing to fear about the world economy if we're allowed to export our products as freely as they can export to our country there's where this whole thing breaks down if we access the foreign markets and we will create more jobs in this country good luck with that bill because they're all protecting their markets and we're not in a deal as without actually having to deal with a leadership with a vision in president obama in defense of our trickle down austerity agenda conservatives are at the are the first to argue that without massive budget cuts the united states will end up like greece in a debt crisis but actually it's exact opposite the conservatives when big an event are successful in pushing through the trickle down austerity agenda then the united

states will be like greece gripped by economic turmoil social unrest and exploding suicide rates what happens in every other nation where we are putting republican trickle down stairs he takes hold that it will happen here too if we give paul ryan the republicans what they want. coming up what could possibly make a street lobbyist go out of business how is the citizens united decision allowed corporations to throw their influence around congress without the help of the k. street cronies.

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in scrutiny is the more things change the more they stay the same it was ronald reagan over a quarter century ago relaying what sounds like a very familiar story about rich people not paying their fair share in taxes just

a moment ago a few moments ago i told some people inside the building here of a letter that i just received pay for yesterday. it's a letter from a man out here in the country an executive loser earning in six figures will buy one hundred thousand dollars a year he wrote me in support of the tax plan because he said i am legally able to take advantage of the present tax code nothing dishonest doing what the law prescribes and wind up paying a smaller salary than my secretary gets or get i mean paying a smaller start paying a smaller tax than my secretary paid. and he wrote me the letter to tell me he'd like to come to washington and testify before congress as to how that's possible for him to do and why it is wrong. that's right both

ronald reagan and president obama agree warren buffett shouldn't be paying a tax rate lower than his secretary so the question is what's changed in washington d.c. now when republicans can't even utter the words tax increase on the rich from a few decades ago when their party's figurehead actively called for tax hikes on the rich the answer the power of lobbyists in particular lobbyist like multimillionaire grover norquist whose pledge against raising taxes on the ridge has attracted the signatures of nearly every single republican lawmaker on capitol hill lobbyists run washington d.c. now and even republicans like senator jim de mint acknowledged as much here's what he said to investigative reporter lee fog when asked about kay street's influence on capitol hill. i think of the root cause of the problem is the case your company keeps asking for special deals on this this will keep happening unless a case for years reforms well we need a balanced budget amendment so we have to push it in we could not do everything

that people come in they asked for but that is a problem everyone who comes to washington just about except these people want more from government sometimes republicans do tell the truth what if i told you rabin could soon be obsolete and now thanks to the supreme court citizens united decision corporations can throw their influence around congress in other even cheaper ways than good old fashioned dean in campaign contributions they johnson's fellow at the campaign for america's future and senior fellow at the new california joins me now to talk more about this issue a day walking our tom how has citizens united nearly rendered lobbying obsolete. well you have to understand the citizens united and abled corporations and billionaires to contribute unlimited amounts of money and spend on limited amounts of money and this is led to a new phenomenon called the super pac now wall street the financial sector of

course is famous for financial innovation and along comes a super pac with a really good financial innovation here that's going to save them a ton of money. the old way that you don't that you got your influence in washington when you actually purchased the legislators you would contribute money to their campaigns and use that to aggregated smaller amounts now you can of course just put on limited money behind it or what you could also do runs you would purchase a legislator or their staff by offering them jobs that they would then get once they elect to run for the elected office or tremendous amounts of money for this new in a dangerous bank or super pac is. using a new formula where they're gathering a whole lot of money and they're going to use that money so it's pret legislators now this is one of the one of the worst fears that comes out of the citizens united

is that they can come into your office they can say you vote against our interests here we have limited money against you in a campaign or otherwise we can smear you so bad that you want to go home or you read your kids will get beat up in school so think about what's different here is always when it when you used to purchase a legislator you had to actually come up with the money to pay the tab it campaign contributions or like like the representative who shepherded through the medicare prescription deal. and then immediately left office to become the lobbyist for the pharmaceutical industry last year he got ten million dollars so year after year you have to keep a. nice guys or women mostly guys but this is going to answer in addition it's great because now all you have to do is you just have to crush one or two up crushing really bad come up with it's not a morning person really bad it is somebody on the inside so when you've crossed one

or two all of the rest of them will live in it and you don't even have to put out any particular effort so think about how much money to seduce this is a wonderful wonderful innovation precision see in the use of money it's extraordinary instead of having to give a carrot to everybody you just use one stick on a couple of people and everybody else sees the stick in there they're afraid are you following the story of peter de fazio and his last congressional campaign that's right i think some somebody from a hedge fund put up something like ten million dollars just just in a commune arsenal it wasn't that much but it's what so me i lived in oregon at the time and peter told this story on our program but it was just it's just incredible he had he you know he's the congressman from southern oregon he's very progressive and it's an area that includes a you know a college town a progressive area although there was concern at some conservative areas he was running against a guy named art robinson who believes that all public education should be done away with our robinson homeschooled his own kids and who invented this incredible

innovation he discovered robinson discovered that low levels of radiation over a long period sign is good for you and so his discovery was if we take all the nuclear waste in america and mix it up with home insulating material and put it everybody's houses everybody will be warm and we'll get rid of all the radioactive waste everybody in oregon thought this guy was a joke and these and peter had it carved into fozzy would introduce some legislation it would raise the taxes on hedge fund managers and these two hedge fund guys came into the state and just funded our robinson turned him into these ads you think he was you know the second incarnation of jesus and now in the primary here we are two years later almost two years later in the primary his son has really registered as a democrat. his running is to fazio to beat him up pretty badly in the primary and then he's going to go against him again in the general it's like he's had thought managers don't give up and it's just it's it's amazing with regard to these banks you quote robber beverage the president c.e.o.

of the oklahoma bankers association this american banker article saying congress isn't afraid of bankers we are trying to change that perception. matt packard the super pacs chairman called those efforts a surgical and he said we need to give five or ten thousand dollars he says and say yeah ok but if the bankers are going to put one hundred thousand five hundred thousand a million in your opponent's campaign that starts to draw some attention i guess that that we're going to see these kind of defies you know take downs around the country or these efforts that was unsuccessful but i think only largely because you know there were some of us on the radio in that area we drew attention to go across town i mean this is so much more economical you know him being a little snarky this is actually really dangerous but that that american banker article was over there talking about hammering lawmakers taking them out of office making them afraid using a big stick and of course others are going to come along and do this because it has to be effective the trouble with this tom is that what it means now is again the

worst of the citizens united is that this is not supporting candidates because we've got a crushing candidates this is about getting in what you want what they're going to get actually on does what's called a free market because this means that the biggest players with the most money they run and what they want is legislation that crushes their competitors we're seeing that already. you know it's really quite extraordinary dave johnson. thank you so much for being with us tonight. her shit here's the bigger picture of the supreme court citizens united decision and how it may play out as our system is more and more corrupted by the fact the matter is there may actually be some good news here you know for centuries plutocrats and oligarchy the k. street guys you know the billionaires they're front men and women and the

corporations are paid off politicians they found all sorts of ways to do it giving them campaign contributions to take him out of golf trips to scotland to drop him in a hot tub with champagne and hookers randy cunningham was citizens united. first of all it looked you know hate they they were saying this is really cool we can buy our own politicians and when they do when they do buy a politician's the return on investment is actually pretty good big oil for example it's a fifty eight percent fifty one hundred percent return on its investment in buying politicians now a normal small business you know or even a big business and good times might get ten or thirty or forty percent something like that i mean anything more than forty percent profit in a company is going to bring in competitors going if it looks good in this marketplace but by and politicians because you can lock them up and there's a limited number of them that's the best investment

a business can make in america and that's why industries cartel is there a politician by efforts they run them or launder them through trade associations like the n.r.a. that's your business groups like the u.s. chamber of commerce but now as dave johnson points out they may have gone too far and this is the possible good news ins so far mostly republicans have been feeding out of the hands of the corporations and the oligarchs. but now that the bank stores are threatening to turn their feeding hand into a fist it might cause them to reconsider their position see it's been a fist against the democrats for a long time which is why the democrats have fought for transparency in campaign loans but now that it may also be used against republicans as a fist things may change hopefully this will be the moment when the banks toure's and the other corporate interest groups and the oligarchy will have gone too far they will have slapped too many people too hard too many politicians or threaten

this new effort by the oligarchy in america to break politicians of both parties to terrify or may just unite them against citizens united it's happened before in american history back in the days of the railroads and the oil barons in the eight hundred eighty s. those guys overreached so far that congress passed to protect itself passed the sherman antitrust act and the progressive era was for it included both parties it's time to overturn citizens united tell your republican legislators to go to move to amend or. crazy alert guitar god's got to go to ever ever want to learn to play the guitar i want to play guitar while you're taking care of business in the bathroom well now you can do both if you want a brazilian company has invented its harpy and interactive you're in a game that allows men who have to go to make some music while they're at it take

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