blog about her big picture on some arbonne coming up in this half hour all america may be experiencing an economic recovery american workers are reaping many of the benefits so what's preventing america's labor force recovering along with the rest of the country also north carolina plans to vote on one of the most radical amendments banning same sex marriage next month for our gay marriage opponents willing to go to prevent equal rights for millions of americans and incidents of

daily take since republicans can't win an election on the merits policies are forced to lie their way to victory so how do we prevent republicans from lying their way right into sixteen hundred pennsylvania avenue. in the us the rest of the news despite twenty five straight months of private sector job creation under president obama's watch this economic recovery has been unusual it's one in which american workers aren't seen much of a recovery at all at least in their paychecks yes more jobs are opening out that seventy percent of all the gains in the last six months the job gains have been in the low paying service sector working in restaurants hotels and retail within construction manufacturing or historically americans have been able to collect a good paycheck and provide for a family. for

a family of four or more the unemployment rate is still a staggering seventeen percent and those are who are employed in manufacturing or watching their paychecks shrink and in western auto factories wages have dropped from twenty eight dollars an hour down to fifteen dollars an hour and a new caterpillar plant plant in indiana and you right to work for less state you employees are making a lowly twelve dollars an hour not even close to enough money to take care of a family or to bloomberg income gains for workers during this economic recovery are well below previous economic previous secret service all while profits cash reserves and bonuses in corporate america are surging and have reached or surpassed prerecession levels so what's with this unequal recovery has something to do with workers no longer being able to organize and collectively bargain in the way that they were thirty years ago when a third of the american workforce was unionized joining me now to talk about the state of labor in america is can top generals secretary and treasurer of the international brotherhood of teamsters and welcome welcome with your thank you i

think you know one of the most egregious examples of just the general insanity that has gripped america is what happened at hostess you guys were involved in this tell me but tell me the story really is outrageous we going to negotiations with hostess a company that's been in bankruptcy for the second time in a little a little more than three years and so as you keep in mind that the our members their employees have given up over seventy million dollars in concessions back in two thousand and eight and the company agreed that there may be concession given by the units other unions that gave up concessions as well any concession would be matched by every employee in the company including the management team and so last week we learned that just this past july just on the eve of them falling for yet another bankruptcy this company gave their top executives seventy five eighty. so

it raises in the case of the c.e.o. was over two hundred forty percent increases or doubt about his raise and we're not talking about ten or twelve paragraphs of money rather it's they've looted the company it's outrageous as has the employees are giving back to them they're taking their money and stuff and in your pocket and so we're just outraged and quite frankly we're not ready we're not going to give up on this we're going to continue to fight this really good can you can investigate not only whether or not they violated federal bankruptcy laws but we certainly know one of have found grievances as of last night over the fact that they violated their own written agreement that they signed with the teamsters if the end of two thousand and eight which provided that they would share in the sacrifice it's just outrageous to loot this company when it's already in bankruptcy and so it makes you it leaves no doubt why this company is back in bankruptcy for the second term and instead of investing money in your equipment in r. and d. in other capital capital expenditures. they just find

a way to line their own pockets so it's outrageous now that they've announced that they're going to roll back their wages to a dollar for a period of time that's not going to fix the problem we want that money put back into the company. you're going to try and claw back that's absolutely which is a fight this every inch of the way now hostess is not the first company to done this this is the this is the there's there's a long strain i mean it's a first one perhaps that you guys are really come up against in that with a specific you know with all the details like this but shouldn't we or instead of it should we be looking at larger structural things like let's get more people you know let's have you know let's hear card check go on let's or let's pass a law that explicitly makes alluding a company like this against the war but absolutely i mean the laws are tilted in favor of corporations the fact is you see as you see the rate of unionization.

you see more of this going on i mean it really boils down to this it's just pure greed in one nine hundred seventy eight c.e.o.'s made about thirty five times more than the average worker today that's three hundred they used to have a conscious to say it's not the right thing to do to make that much more than your average worker that's all been replaced by by a greet so yes we need to see the lawsuit in service attack on unions and we've seen this in many states across the country but you know what i do have watched the republican debates and i've listened to how the unions are that are the cause of all the problems well in this case i defy any of them any of those candidates to say that they agree with a company that i'm very upset and it's asking for concessions and they start making contributions should be able to give the people rates and the only thing i want to make a point is that despite what you read in some of the right wing media about the hostess problem is because the labor costs are out and with the competition that's just an

outright lie the fact is that their biggest competitor is members and they pay pay pay there for pitching contributions in fact there are costs today are over four hundred dollars a week higher than hostess and they're still making a profit it's not about the soviet labor it is about a man who are management can face so much for being with us that they keep up the good fight they can't thank you the middle class in america was built on organized labor of the middle class is going to survive this war against it by corporate power and it's going to need once again to rely organized labor. moving on to the battle for equal rights in america next month north carolina will vote on one of the most radical amendments banning same sex marriage amendment one which passed the republican controlled general soundly last year amends the state constitution to say marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that should be valid or recognized in the state sounds like your typical anti-gay

marriage piece of legislation however the language of the amendment is so broad it could repeal benefits and and and from and protections against domestic violence for unmarried couples in the state including heterosexual as well as gay couples huge supporter of the builder of caroline assembly house majority leader paul stam was previously compay compared gay marriage to incest and polygamy is pretty tough so just how far are the opponents of gay marriage willing to go to deny rights to same sex couples here to answer that is dr paul cameron chair of the family research institute our camera guys to meet you in person. and thanks for joining us . first of all. don't you think that you know ten years from now we'll be looking back and saying that you and your colleagues who are opposing gay marriage are on the wrong side of history that this you know there are. nations i mean for you from from canada to south africa everybody's. i don't think it's going to happen it

could i can't here at the future but what is true is that what we want when we give benefits to married people is we want children we want we want a future that's what married and marital benefits is about so should not really the world i don't know whether or not people love one another or not i'm interested you're interested in having a future and we need kids for that future not whether or not people happen to love one another all this wonderful thing about in-vitro fertilisation and his two babies and stuff is that a gay couples can have kids and be there's. i don't know if it's tens of thousands hundreds of thousands or millions but there's a lot of children out there who need it up to parents and see if we follow your logic then we should say that as soon as a woman hits men applause she's the worst up now. what we want is a man and a woman provide the best housing for having kids it's a kind of national science that backs that up the other is the almost all of that

going to show the same thing that is it's impossible to prove cause you can't do a scientific study randomly assigning people the one condition or the other you can look at the out of the gate or relational if you live with gay parents they they typically are not as effective as header of that are they are actually better parents who look at these things and the reason why is because they had to work so much harder to be parents if you were to straight parents an awful lot of them are parents of kids that they really didn't want it was just a giant looks you're pregnant yes and that good often transforms this is one of the things that kids do for us not only do they give us the future but they transform parents of people selfish people usually adolescent type people into real honest to goodness my goodness i've got an investment in the future of type people there there are have been now and i'm sure you're familiar with this in the last month or so five studies that have come out of four out of europe one out of the united states showing that people who are homophobic and aggressively homophobic are more

likely to be gay secretly gay does it concern you that many of your colleagues in the anti-gay movement may actually be closeted gays a lot nervous very few of them i'm sure are homosexually interested first of all. most people are not interested in homosexuality they're not just told this this is what is new homosexuals like to say and they said this now for at least the last seventy years and most everybody is bisexual maybe some homosexual i got a kinsey who was a homosexual pushed. that idea knows the homosexuals leadership kaminey and others and pushed that idea but it's not true it's not true. who's interested was a man who's interested in another guy you have to have a strange sense of sexuality is like getting all excited about somebodies feet or something like that who's going to range so who is going to sit around all day long

and think oh my god those gays out there you know there's gays out there we can let them get married and just kind of you know commit their lives to stopping gate you know. i'm i don't think about it that much i don't i it seems to me that somebody who's just like really obsessed with it maybe we should wonder well you can wonder all you want but one of the things you should be wondering about and your thinker is we are in a demographic crisis the west as a whole may have the best stuff on earth we do we have already and we need more babies so we need more gay couples then and in vitro fertilization no not at all that other option i'll take kids wherever they come that's good but the best kids predictably come from a married mother and father hopefully you stay together and fight to stay together and raise those kids that's the best choice for hey we'll see how history decides this will that we were both live long enough thank you for yes let's live to see in my opinion same sex marriage is just the latest battle for equal rights in america

let's hope that this issue is settled and all americans regardless of gender race or sexual orientation are able to enjoy all the perks of living in the united states. coming up in size dealing take the only way republicans can win elections is by lying about themselves or their opponent so how do we stop that steady stream of misinformation and prevent republicans from buying themselves right into the white house. if we just put a picture of the need when i was like nine years old to tell the truth live. i confess that i am a total get a princess i love crap because he has a plan for. he was kind of a yesterday. i'm very proud of the role that al-jazeera

has played. look look. look . you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so sleek you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here sees some other part of it and realize that everything is ok. i'm sorry the big picture.

our first comment and i comes from a viewer called in of the viewer rant why you need this comparison between the popular hunger games movie and drug testing for food stamp program recipients. thanks for everything you have similarities between the hunger games and the. drug testing for food stamps for objects that punitive paris france. but they.

controlled by the one percent and they promise how that becoming part of the one percent. it's a fascinating analogy and a metaphor the right wingers have been claiming that the hunger games shows the danger of big government but if you've seen the movie and i know a lot of people have what it really shows is what happens when a basically a wealthy elite takes over the city and everybody else has to work in a state of basically abject poverty and then get exploited by that wealthy elite for their own entertainment has passed and i don't i don't understand why conservatives would point to it as a as a model or an anti muslim or any our final comment of the night also comes from a viewer called in the viewer rant line she had this to say about the now bankrupt eastman kodak which i tom after a trashing every benefit piece in kodak promised my husband when they got rid of

them and found out this morning that eastman kodak didn't think up see one stick a thirteen point five million in bonuses i know it was an innocent d.c. i'm not sure where this money's going to go but i think i have a gut feeling. i think it's disgusting so i just don't know if that's going to go to c.e.o. zero what we didn't hear of doing bonus money coming our way and just a worker there for thirty three years so maybe you could check that out the economist in d.c. cross the to take your underneath thank you. well we checked it out here's what we learned eastman kodak filed a request with the court overseeing their bankruptcy to pay thirteen point five million dollars in bonuses to just three hundred fifty employees presumably not your husband who are going to stay on the job through the bankruptcy process this type of paid his state practice was basically quashed but bankruptcy for form was

years ago kodak says that these employees are critical of the company's turnaround and will quote their offices big reason they say the bonuses bankruptcy was banned because they usually came in the really expensive rank and file workers the bulk of that money that kodak is asking for would go to one hundred nineteen people and then middle management and senior management the remainder going to about two hundred employees further down the corporate ladder but also in management even bernstein a kauffman foundation fellow on leave from the harvard law school studied this flight risk theory the c.e.o.'s of companies to go bankrupt still have to get all that money in bonuses and things he found that bankruptcy wasn't any more or less likely to lead to a departure in other words kodak executives just wanted more money. that's it for your take my tape and i like your comments and questions heard here on this segment big picture was and we want to know your take send us your comments by visiting the

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creation and so at the end of the day if we can find these breakthroughs that help us have a cleaner environment i'm all for it is not a good case it is a strong conservative in these comments come during an election year where climate change denial is all the rage with republicans over the government case it can convince some of his colleagues to switch positions to save the planet and bat this eerie state representative ed schafer chafer a democrat the state legislature has introduced a bill that would allow public transportation users in the state to carry concealed weapons while riding trains and city buses or legislation would explicitly take away the power from cities and towns in missouri to ban concealed weapons on public transportation schafer doesn't understand is that cities and towns across the country should add the power to determine for themselves what type of gun was there and a very very odd. tennessee governor bill haslam has long said today that he's going to allow a bill that prevents schools from punishing teachers who teach faulty science to

become law the bill allows teachers to teach students about creationism alongside evolution as well as other fake science issues like climate change denial is already behind in education for the rest of the world and is a staggering twenty fourth in the world in math and science comprehension. to complete the global community in the days and years to come we need to be providing future generations with the best education possible teaching our students from all the science it's not going to help those cause and is very very. i said it last week and i'm going to say it again today and most likely many times between now and about the only way republicans can win elections is by law either

by lying about themselves. or about their opponent's case in point the u.s. senate race in hawaii hawaii trends democratic so to get a republican elected that cats like the chamber of commerce need to make it look like their candidate is a moderate situation out this ad running in hawaii right now promoting republican linda lingle for the senate and chust lot of which is. tourism is the engine that drives hawaii's economy more tourism means more jobs linda lingle has a plan to increase tourism making it easier to welcome our neighbors a bipartisan leader governor lingle has also pledged to support president obama's plan she knows that america will recover only when democrats and republicans work together call and tell her to keep promoting tourism to improve hold on as a company the u.s. chamber sponsible for the content of this advertising that ad was paid for by the

u.s. chamber of commerce to make it look like lingle as a moderate you might have noticed that the ad cites a y. e reporter article claiming that lingle is a bipartisan leader who's willing to work with president obama. a democracy watchdog website republic reported some big order to find out where that article praising when will those moderate record came from guess what if i'm not it was an article written by the lingual campaign itself as a press release and the hawaii reporter is part of the watchdog dot org network which is run by former koch operatives and the franklin center one of the many right wing front groups that folks are so here we have a partly funded chamber of commerce running an ad portraying republican linda lingle as a moderate using as evidence a campaign press release by a woman linda lingle that appeared on a web site run by koch political operatives. in other words it's total hogwash but again that's the only way republicans can win just like they can only win when they

lie about their opponent and strategy goes all the way back to nine hundred seventy two republicans lied about democratic presidential candidate george mcgovern george mcgovern rist his life during world war two flying dozens of bombing missions over europe he received the distinguished flying cross for saving his entire flight crew after an emergency landing and since mcgovern ran out of platform to end the vietnam war in one thousand nine hundred eighty two republicans painted him like some kind of crazy heavy water and it is true the u.s. military check out this sad run against mcgovern by the nixon campaign. the mcgovern defense plan. he would cut the marines by one. the air force by one third. and he could navy personnel by one fourth. would cut intercept airplanes by one hand. the navy fleet by one.

and carriers from sixteen to six. so what are you going to come for you had this to say about the mcgovern proposal. it isn't just cutting into the fact it isn't just cutting into manpower it's cutting into the very security of this country. president nixon doesn't believe we should play games with our national security he believes in a strong america. to negotiate for peace from strength. tema credits for nixon in an interview decades later mcgovern responded to the next strategy saying i tried to convince the public that we needed to take a more critical look at spending in the pentagon and that got me labeled as weak on defense now withstanding the fact that i was a decorated bomber pilot from world war two and i think nixon was a clerk of some kind far away from any guns but the lies worked and nixon won in

the biggest presidential landslide american history so republicans did it again in two thousand and four against another war hero this time john kerry you might remember these ads run by the organization swift boat veterans for truth. do you personally rate cut or you can also hear the accusations that john kerry made against the better interests or. was just devastating randomly shot at somebody and it hurt me more than a physical the head cut off liam blown up bodies that was part of the torture was a to sign a statement that you committed war crimes raised villages reminiscent of economic theory gave you for free what i many of my comrades in north you in the prison camps the torture of which say to give more lies to some crimes committed on a day to day basis he betrayed us in the past we've used the oil to even. try.

to dishonor his country and the room or the people they serve with he just sold the swift boat veterans for truth is responsible for the content of this advertisement . those are lies or at least while to store sheen's john kerry was a war hero who received a purple heart a silver star and had the bronze star for his heroic efforts in vietnam. but the lies worked and kerry narrowly lost to president george w. bush that year and of course we all know the links that republican operatives and front groups went to in two thousand and eight and continue to go to to lie about president obama he's a kenyan muslim or a socialist are radical christian social justice warrior and he's infested his administration was ours sympathize with terrorists he's turned his back at israel all of these are lies just like the lies against mcgovern and the lies against kerry and yet the media doesn't lift

a finger of point out the republican lies that's right republicans can continue to get away with nine about themselves and their opponents year after year election after election. so why they continue to call them out here at the big picture and not let these liars lie their way into the white house again that's a big picture and i don't forget the mockers it begins with you get out there and do that today your. mission is free. education free. for churches free. range from the free. three stooges free.

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