back to the big picture on tom hartman coming up in this half hour the loss of our manufacturing sector one of the greatest challenges facing america today c l one

has a very simple solution for rebuilding the backbone of already nation also last year a courageous war veteran give a dose of reality and common sense to the infamous congressional super committee and was arrested for actions after a voter activism her upcoming trial and how to get this country back on track and in tonight's dealy take america's last frankly we've gone nuts and the rest of the world is laughing at us what can we do to restore our nation's the. best of the rest of the news since two thousand and one our nation has laid off fifty thousand manufacturing jobs every single month also since two thousand and one forty two thousand american factories have been forced to shut down as c.e.o.'s look overseas for cheaper labor and fewer environmental regulations in. the last

decade the united states is manufacturing base has been decimated without it we're no longer able to produce an actual well on our own and our trade deficit with other nations have exploded feeling a massive national debt is storage loss of the manufacturing sector is one of the greatest challenges facing our nation today and now one man might have an answer about how to rebuild our crumbling manufacturing base and it's a solution as simple as a new product labels joining me now to talk about how to bring back manufacturing jobs is alan u.k. owner of underwater kinetics and author of the book buying america back alan welcome thank you for having me great to have you do you are a republican i'm a democrat this is not about politics no it's actually about just living in america and looking out for america's future so how do we do this well two thirds of the economy is consumer spending and the one thing they haven't tried to do right now is to try to give information to consumers about where their money's going when they buy something and because they have right now for labeling or decades or when

their last no longer appropriate and they actually have been played with so many times that it would mean much anymore so we're talking about if i buy something will be a single little label on the says made in japan made in malaysia or made in the united states isn't that but maybe united states you can have like ninety percent chinese components bring it here assemble it claim it's mean united states because the rules as last and if you can transformation if the source is that this is why the idea of they're still doing a bit for a while well for example was manufactured was assembling computers down in texas so we will doesn't need as much as it should and what i want to do is have percentage of content right country so it's like a food label you see how many calories and how much fat how much carbohydrates you see what percentage of contents coming from where and so when you buy it you know it's you know it with the spread is that there's any american content and also mixed it would have our trade ratios which is our relationship with how much we buy from since we sell to them so you can see if these countries that have. components

and percentages and there are two pair traders with with us and i'm not against trade just have to balance shit i totally agree so a trade ratio if you were buying something from the united states would be presumably what we have a war on is so what i'm guessing you know the stuff off the top of your head what is our trade ratio what are our trade ratios with our major trading partner will give an example. but the worst is china it's twenty five percent so for every dollar that we buy from them they buy twenty five cents from us they try not up to one ratio for over a quarter and so their biggest imports are for scrap steel and paper they try to throw manufactured things united states so if you buy something korea for example with seventy nine percent so to create television seventy percent bounces back again states for chinese television only twenty five percent bounces back united states so you can help the economy just by picking where you are already the products from now this is not i mean this may seem like

a new novel or strange idea that americans but it's not japanese it's not south koreans it's not the taiwanese it's not just chinese if i understand correctly from what i read your book right they are very nationalistic in their purchases and if you if they can get something made in their own country they will do it and even if they pay more it's good americans basically don't give that kind of team favre to their own profit in many cases americans don't have a clue who are largely because the label they play this game which probably is not allowed in other countries whereby they could be made anywhere they can just run it through a simple process here and then claim it's american made in fact it is one of the i phone says made in china but actually there's more american continent and i phone than there is chinese it's just a symbol there oh that's interesting that the labels don't mean anything anymore and that's why we need this new label you know because we don't really know even with the label where it's coming from and this new one will give you all this information so you can make a rational decision. just

a couple seconds left have you gotten any interest from any body in congress from either party in this era of parties and we put together a coalition to put a bipartisan bill through that's great alan we should be very pricey very very much for being with good luck thank you aside from alan's idea of better labeling america can go a long way to reviving its manufacturing base by doing one simple thing to change so-called free trade. in other news you might remember last year when the so-called congressional super committee was tasked with finding one and a half trillion dollars in deficit reduction as part of a deal worked out between president obama and house republicans to avoid a national default ultimately like every other form of gang government tried throughout the years that supercommittee failed but not before the committee was given a dose of reality and common sense by former navy commander and now a president of the group veterans for peace leah bolger take a look. the committee will continue to give us the deficit any.

of it percentage of g.d.p. . but your response to rewrite i don't want to. cast. it is because we are requesting the capital. and its history and its massive spending on the wars in the nation ranks and cause . i. was. following her courageous act of civil disobedience former presidential candidate ralph nader who is also a member of the group veterans for peace released this statement saying the government is dysfunctional working for corporate interests rather than providing for the people's necessities boulder showed active citizens should be doing peacefully confronting the corruption corruption and on making sure the public

knows what is really going on she should be honored for her actions and sort of being honored for actions this week we're baltar is facing a judge and could be sentenced to six months in prison for that disruption of a congressional hearing that you just saw joins me now she's a retired navy commander and now the president of the organization veterans for peace leah welcome thank you and you know good on you congratulations for speaking out. i understand how difficult that must be and how intimidating. what prompted you to do this well you know a lot of people felt the way i feel and they told me that they thank me for what i did and not everybody has the you know i guess to stand up and do that kind of thing but i'm able to do that and i that's something i can do and you know i have. i have the flexibility in my schedule to come to court i have i don't have children and i have you know i can come and be

a part of the resistance and so that's what i do and i can i feel like i am speaking on behalf of the majority of american public so much like many of the civil rights leaders here willing to step over the legal line considering that are in appropriate legal why and you're willing to pay the price for joins absolutely going to be people pleading guilty to yes or yes well i'm pleading guilty because you know what i what i hope to point out during the hearing and now is is that why is much more important about what exactly i said the fact that you have to commit an act of civil disobedience to have the ear of congress is this is reprehensible but you know the super committee was a super secret committee they met in secret what they they said was secret my own congressman i did not have access to the super committee and so after listening to this hearing for for over an hour and realizing the people's opinion was not being

heard i thought here's an opportunity where i can speak and i took advantage of it and i'm glad i did i wish you know there were more opportunities but this is this is so sad that it's come to this that you have to commit a crime in order to have the ear of of congress well at the time you said and even now the majority of americans agreed. to it to your call for action and the wars to actually reach the vast majority of americans agree with both of those. system of bush administration in fact which actually which part of the world vast majority of americans agreed on since the reagan you know since reagan cut taxes and started running up huge budget deficit. why is it that congress isn't doing what the american people money i mean you know that it's the it's the lobbyists. the moneyed interests the corporate interests so if you were given those congresspeople you know fifty thousand dollar campaign contribution each you

wouldn't be arrested you would have been having dinner with paul ryan surrounded all about is why there were over two hundred fifty registered lobbyist who had access to this what twelve members of the super committee and it was widely publicized those twelve of those people were were seen and giving access to two hundred fifty lobbyists but my congressperson did not have access to the super committee so it doesn't matter how many people i gather partitions or protests outside because they're not going to listen to me so you have to you have to do something maybe out of the box a little bit to get their attention what you have done it reminds me of i think it was eight hundred seventy two i'm probably wrong on the year that one susan b. anthony went out and voted and was arrested for voting and was convicted. you know she didn't live to see. the end of well she didn't. i was going say the end of legal discrimination that's still there to some extent in fact scott walker just signed back into law on wisconsin but generally to see women having the right

to vote. but it happened. i'm curious your thoughts on the importance of standing up speaking out participating even when you don't see immediate results well it's absolutely critical and you never know when you are making a difference and not everybody can go in for an extra committee and what i did but everybody can do something and helen keller i think said you know i can't do everything but i can do the one thing that i can do and that's what i will do when i'm paraphrasing but the point is everybody can do something and i hope this video will empower people to realize that they do have a voice and they can speak and it will give them maybe a little bit of moral courage to stand up and know that their voice can be heard we should revert rest thank you so much thanks so much for this place. coming up after the break modern religious teachings tell you that religion is a patriarchal institution but how do you research shed light on the role women once played in the early stages of our organized religion.

so sometimes you know what you know and sometimes you know what you don't know and sometimes it's virus and peter says everything you know is wrong. you know that your god if you're already here you're right the just make. sure the show didn't you always. organized religion has always had a patriarchal nature or so we've been brought up to believe those who are religious have been taught that their god must be a man and as a result matter best suited to teach us about religion however there is

a battle raging in great britain right now over whether or not the church of england should allow women to be vicious and as you research suggests there might be precedent for women being at the top of the religious order so if you think women have never had a prominent role in religious practice and everything you know about religion may be wrong joining me now from london to discuss more on this is that me hughes author historian and creative presenter of the new series divine women on the b.b.c. bethany welcome. thank you for joining us were women actually major roles in the early church the history we read is mostly not. very gung. ho you know anything with. any her own society you can get back to the very beginning christiane. thank despite. your critics that even ferrari are still looking at. the first few hundred

performances. of movies for us to feel why. aren't women are we. are they use their credit in the united states where we're seeing growth in the story that we are very very proud especially as there was a kind of a minor revival of that in the late seven hundred syrian washington d.c. and they created a goddess for the united states named her after kwan. and i just named columbia and put her statues on everything machines on top of the capitol and this is the district of the goddess the district of columbia that's saying i mean we're. not going to. take you very very well known we. are going to face and i'm thinking of harness on.

the american made from the. ferry. which is actually on the fierce. credit limits of our home and once. again i think. this time it's ok it's safe for you to be on our move and it's fine if i think it's no surprise to me. to really. think. this is. going to find winning for you even though given that. the role of women has been diminished in the modern christian church since the fourth century by and large how do you think this thing with the church of england is going to play out. really so you get the question how do you think the situation with the church of england is going to play out. and then you've got a question. rather than

a thing which is to know. my perspective people who think anyone here anderson. hundreds. and i'm glad we're going to be enough to. point out on a very painful. thing the fact that both lated are. hurting her figure and your host but it would be putting her. arm. i think. many. more lives. and good on you for sharing the information bethany thanks so much for being with us. now everything you know about women's role in religion

right. it's just. it's the good the bad of the very very bad maisha slee ugly the good the sacramento area league of associated muslims the group allowed a church was christian congregation to use their mosque for easter services sunday reverend michael moore ram the leader of the christian con congregation asked the muslim group for permission to use their mosque and after never muslims to worship there before the group allowed for the easter sunday services the head of the league dr mehmet ali said that the group represents the true peaceful as sons of the religion of islam as reverend moran pointed out the gesture was a big step toward peace among the two religions well done the bad representative

vicki hartzler partially told a crowd of constituents this week in the she has doubts over president obama's birth certificate that's right we have another birth for our hands when asked about the president's birth certificate hearts are said i have god so there really is birds of a devoted a lot of americans through yet more evidence that the birth there is will never go away and personally in my opinion it has something to do with that black guy being in the white house and. that's what they're all any and the very very ugly steve doocy on today's episode of fox and friends do see argued that the notion of a war on women in america was invented by democrats because president obama's stimulus plan was a failure tables. as the economy not working for the president as a campaign issue you know the stimulus didn't work out so well he's got a lot of problems so in the last couple of months what they have done the democrats is they have invented this phony war on women. who say that was republicans who

invented the war on women when they decided to take their two thousand and ten election mandate to create jobs and instead work hard to repeal rights for women and now that the republicans are staring down an eighteen point deficit among female voters it's time to call in the p.r. team over a fox so-called news that's very clear of. all the nine kings and queens of the supreme court all over the fate of obamacare the rest of the world is looking at us like we're freaking chremes as john hudson over the atlantic wire sums up the idea that health care coverage largely considered a universal right in europe could be deemed an affront to liberty is baffling.

first the u.k. where the supreme court cannot strike down laws is weighing in on what's going on over here the guardian's kevin pollak published a column last week saying it wasn't the point to make sure the richest and most powerful nation on the planet could protect its own people as other nations do if americans are promised not just liberty but wife an act minas is there not a constitutional right to affordable health care the germans are getting into the game to calling us crazy columnists sabine with scott wrote about the absurdity in the supreme court at the bay in the german financial times asking rhetorical e if the group would require people to take out health insurance would they not then be forced to also buy broccoli in elegy of broccoli has been dragged through the long debate about the american health care reform but putting aside huge issue review for the moment the fate of obamacare the big picture here is this the world thinks we're crazy because roe. we're crazy the united states is so

far out of the mainstream of the rest of the world and today's republican party only wants to take us further in the opposite direction think about it for a second we're the only developed world nation in the world that doesn't hold health care as a basic human right we're also the only developed nation where any politician thinks there's any controversy about global warming we're the only developed nation that still uses the death penalty we're the only one that regards corporations as people and lets millionaires and billionaires byelection and politicians were one of the only developed nations in the world that doesn't guarantee all workers a minimum number of occasions and sick days and when it comes to preparing for the future our national insanity really kicks into high gear as germany raised for the largest investment in clean energy since world war two with a massive new system of solar panels and its twenty first century national smart grid the united states is still debating dirty nineteenth century oil pipelines like keystone as china builds twenty first century high speed rail lines all across

the country the united states has yet to lay even one mile of high speed rail anywhere on the continent today we have a two trillion dollar infrastructure deficit meaning nineteenth and twentieth twentieth century roads bridges water systems and railways across the nation need to trillion dollars worth of repairs just to keep them alive the republicans in congress are trying to cut even that and that two trillion dollar deficit is just to update one nine hundred fifty s. infrastructure eisenhower's infrastructure it doesn't include a penny to build twenty first century infrastructure like the rest of the world is doing and massive new solar plants sprawling wind farms an efficient new energy grid high tech localized water treatment plants high speed rail in this country or instead debating whether to keep alive twentieth century infrastructure projects and twenty first century infrastructure not even part of the discussion. well maybe the united states could justify this stark departure from the mainstream if we were

actually producing decent results now exercising wealth provide a better quality of life making the united states more competitive in the global marketplace maybe we can take some comfort and what president reagan said as the about is that we're at an exceptional nation but here's the thing we're not doing as well as the rest of the developed world in most indicators as the thirty four nation group known as the o.e.c.d. organisation for cooperation in economic development uncovered it out of states ranks twenty ninth out of thirty four nations and safety with enormous homicides and celebrates we rank twenty third in work life balance we work more hours a year than all of the rest of the developed nations in the world we rank sixteenth in overall health and have a life expectancy rate of nearly seventy eight years which is a full year below the average of other developed nations we rank eighteenth in the cleanliness of our environment we rank twentieth in the strength of our communities

we rank eighteenth in joblessness and long term unemployment so it's pretty clear whatever we're doing that's different from the rest of the developed world and it's not working and with reaganomics and bush and omics we just kept doing the same thing over and over and over again for the last thirty years and mitt romney and paul ryan they want us to keep their word for another decade we've been cutting taxes for the rich refuting part of the social safety net giving corporations more influence on our government and denying what science is telling us and each and every time we expect these policies to make us all better off they haven't they've only made the top one percent better off. and as the old saying goes the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results we've gone insane and the rest of the world recognizes the only question is how long until the majority of american voters recognize that insanity and kick the crazies out of office. so for the big. that's the big picture that i don't forget

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