it. just means. to. see. it all sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then he glimpse something else in here see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture . wealthy british style. is not on the title of. markets why not. come to find out what's really happening to the global economy

with months cars are run no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our g. on time for tonight's top time award and tonight we're giving it to a state lawmaker but the down idea i would fades out of their shell grin and introduce an amendment to the senate budget bill twenty three thirty six but it's a remnant there's not much to do with the state budget and fact children's proposal targets divorced families and more importantly child support recipients who were most likely are women now the men who would allow the pay or the child support to require the parent who is receiving the support to submit to a drug test up to every six months so just let that sink in an even worse parent out there paying out child support could think of their acts by making them into

a cup twice a year well guess who put the idea in children's heads proposed this ridiculous plan a constituent who is sick of paying child support this is the job of the legislature to listen to constituents to work on their behalf when a constituent calls up and says i have an issue i'd like to have it looked at it dealt with it's our job to consider those as being legitimate concerns of the citizen. and it's also lawmakers job to use common sense determine if a voter's idea is just downright crazy and it's really fantastic to know that one constituent can influence a lawmaker so much that he just takes his or her policy proposals based directly on personal experience and then send them straight out over to the legislature thank god some lawmakers during a discussion of this amendment explain how absurd this would be if you don't know it in your opening statement you said you don't know if this is really

a problem other than maybe the first there talks you this is not the public policy we want to proceed with when we know that it will be you. defiantly against one of the parents usually against the woman and it would cause the damage that only to the woman but also to the family and to the children. yes this proposal would for the most part target women who are receiving money from their x. thousands that the court ruled they were entitled to and now shoulder want to treat them like they're some sort of criminals when you look closer turns out that sheldon is one of those republicans who is all about drug testing everybody that he sees being on the government all or here i guess an ex husband or wife still in fact here's another proposal the words would require welfare recipients to submit to random drug testing and we've seen legislation like that brought up in states like florida indiana and now possibly iowa and as we've spoken about many times on the show florida actually passed that law that drug tested their welfare recipients

and guess what it backfired in that state it turns out that only two percent of those who submitted to the drug tests actually came back positive ninety six percent of those on welfare came back clean and there was this other two percent they couldn't get results for so the link between drug use and welfare was shattered and a whole lot more state money aka taxpayer money was spent on doing all the drug testing and yet now we have this i mean that which is just another it sounds by republican lawmakers to try to criminalize people if they see as taking someone else's money even if it's a mother getting the government mandated child support to take care for kids thankfully voices of sanity a reason laughter sjogren's proposal for divorced parents forcing the state senator to kill it but if you have a question this one is unsettling money make you a criminal think about it people on welfare don't automatically labeled as druggies even though there is overwhelming well since for florida for example to prove that stereotype isn't true there's not a shred of evidence that women receiving child support decided on by good corage

are druggies so why do laws like this one and i will keep popping up when he approaches some conservatives seems to be that if you're receiving money from the government from an ex-pat house your untrustworthy therefore you must be on drugs or you must be treated like some sort of criminal who by the country goes on corporate welfare the same way so for trying to stigmatize those receiving money in any form as drug. i was state senator mark shall bring to a time when or. now we all can talk about what's becoming or what becoming part of the largest prison population in the world has done to millions of people in this country who are second class citizens for whom finding work among other things like housing education loans not to mention voting because nearly impossible but some x. cons of learn to use their experience behind bars to help others and in some cases to make money so called prison consultants help people facing jail time prepare for what lies ahead that includes prison etiquette how to deal with medical issues even

learning the paperwork to make prison transfer and sentence reduction a possibility now this industry has been around for a while but according to recent reports the industry which is unregulated is growing and if you read a recent new york times feature the competition has led to rising tempers and flying accusations when it comes to credibility so let's speak to somebody who actually does it joining me to discuss is william o. holland owner of the real prison consultant and author of prison etiquette the real guide in secret codes to living and surviving in prison we have thanks so much for joining us tonight and i guess first orders you know tell us a little bit about yourself in terms of how much time you had to serve what kind of facility you were it what gives you the the credibility because you do label yourself as the number one prison consultant in the u.s. absolutely i have thirty years in the criminal justice system and i are actually searching where i'm going years saarc reasons arm chair medium. high security systems and i believe there is neither credentials to reprise its arms on

isn't going to produce it not if you earn based on their rights some of these years you consultants. are going to miss garston they're going to get. over all do you think you're better equipped to prepare someone for going behind bars than say an attorney would be. absolutely there is some government officials and other ex government trying to get into this presidency and i believe that they are going to miss advise clients and they're going to get him or her they're going to advise him on the wrong things on how to approach you know education in prison. you know anything any small thing like i said he was out walking on a wet floor in the new york times article doesn't have to get you killed it's the wet floor belongs to that person or at the time he's mocking it so it's no one just to walk around the wall and not get any trouble it's really it's really simple but

it's not the simple things that comes from doing it on. he can with other examples mean what or. what we don't walk across the web and lopping is wind but what are the really big think he elements maybe the most important advice that you give to somebody is the key advice is is this to be yourself don't try to do your hard work on baird just be a regular guy and just do your time you know like a lot of guys that go to college they absolutely do great in prison because they don't get involved in the hours since they don't get involved in the drama drinking and doing all this stuff that you're not used well if you're going in there and that stuff will eat you get drawn in and that will be it's you and me it will get your paper so now from what i understand you also do this you're doing it for free you're still on supervisory relief and so you just can't charge people yes i'm what i'm trying to do in this time is i'm trying to build up my credentials and show

people that i'm i know what i'm talking about i've been through this my book that i wrote was written on the inside i went to a lot of gangs a lot of groups i mean big names gangs big name groups and i went to them and we took all the topics and we put them down in a book there used to be a long time ago in terre haute there was a program put on by the prisoners and we used to do an orientation to teach people how to stay out of our not get injured not to kill this time now in this era the prison doesn't allow those type of orientations and that basically they're already taishan is what's in my book. i mean considering how large our prison population is becoming in this country it sounds like really important work that you're doing because we know that prisons are a dangerous place but so the way that this feature in the new york times made it seem is that there's a lot of. a lot of tension between you and some of your competition out there and some people not like that you are doing this for free are other people really

trying to make big bucks absolutely iconic a lot of people that are upset that i'm offering this information for free but i believe there's information that you can start that's. your base and everything that you know why but you'll keep websites state websites i'm not trying to sort of your parents i want to show those families that i am an honest person and i can show them based on what i know how to operate and how to you know it's transferred not charge to six hundred if that's all for free my thing is is to watch any anxiety and fears that a person has before they're going to not i don't want to get involved in a part where the lawyer is taking over i don't want to be involved in any of the court except in i'm ready for prison and doing your time anything else is free service from our website. now you know so you're saying that it's a free service but overall once let's say once you're off of your supervisor release and you could technically begin charging for this he said you're building

up your experience in this sense if you like he would be able to get a different job you know i is this easier for you than having to go fill out a resume somewhere and mark off on the application the jail time you served no ma'am this is very easy for me i do because it's not my main job i actually run our horse worked so we're going to washington state with my wife we honor a big. room in business we've got a dog kennels and that's what i do when i do because as a part time because i'm really. what's the word for passionate about this and i remember when i was younger i growing up in my car and start to learn all the ropes and everything to get through this i want to offer them for free to people and i want to offer just to certain clients that want to have those private moments . to have the opportunity to buy my book and not in the recipe or. it's something that i'm just national about and so i guess just laughing i want to

find out you know have you noticed and uptake is this business booming or do you for the most part serve a certain clientele maybe people that actually have a little more time a little more money so that they can properly prepare. like this my business is a start so next year or so i really don't know the statistics of the other person sultans. i run a facebook site right answer questions for free and then there are a lot are mostly female so i answer questions for get really stressed out about their husbands doing time i wouldn't really notice that it's summer i will have to check back in with you to see how it go and then when you start a business when thanks so much for joining us tonight thank you for the invites of the show. taking a quick break away come back fired by friday and then we'll have a heavy dose of happy hour and you have a holding hands and lead to that and one woman's weapon of choice at a bar is her designer hugh we'll be right back.

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dot com you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't i'm tom hardy welcome to the big picture .

it's fireside. this week we got yet another painful reminder for the priorities of our government why now we spoke about it on yesterday's show a report by the inspector general's office for the troubled asset relief program it revealed a program called the hardest hit fund that's the most are gone. out of more than seven billion dollars put into this initiative to provide relief for a troubled homeowners in the states hit the hardest by the housing crisis hit the hardest by unemployment only three percent of those funds had been used by the end

of two thousand and eleven that's more than two years since the program's inception and i while the treasury department tried to defend itself and blamed it all the slow pace of government bureaucracy the hypocrisy here is just too much to bear there wasn't too much bureaucracy to immediately have all the funds available to provide hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out the banks now with taxpayer money and yet when it's the taxpayers themselves that need the help the bureaucratic process suddenly comes to a halt again priorities and the truth is that it's just one small example and it's become an entire culture of putting wall street and corporate interests just think of how debates are shaped here in washington the president has consistently been attacked by wall street as not being business friendly specifically to their business now this is despite the fact that there haven't been any criminal prosecutions on wall street for bringing down the economy despite the fact that new overburdensome regulations of the grains wind about are just a drop in the bucket when it comes to repairing our system and it's despite the

fact that the president has surrounded himself with advisers including his treasury secretary that came directly from last tree so many of the new people have brought in people like bill daley well he had a stint there jack lew there brought in to smooth over relations with wall street and the business community you know. arjen if the same thing happened after the occupy movement began what if the president really felt that he needed to smooth over his relationship with average americans with the ninety nine percent but what if you were to bring in a real advisor with real fundamental systemic change in mind and the truth is we don't and we won't see if i have any there are some initiatives that can be blamed on inaction in congress jobs programs making the tax system more fair but even the hardest hit homeowners can't get help to years after a program was designed specifically to direct money their way because the treasury just hasn't really acted on it who hope seems ours and say it all the time on the

show and i will say it again we cannot undervalue the media's role in this entire discussion the media has the ability to guide a discussion we see this all the time when scandals are worse than media jumps on it politicians they react because they feel the pressure and they get scared and we even saw it in the media finally caught on to the occupy movement suddenly the political rhetoric coming from the president shifted from the debt ceiling debate to the issues of inequality but the thing is you can't just give up and then let it go you can't bring it up and then forget about it and that's exactly what our media does best they blow up a story they exhaust it to the point where you can't even bear looking at the t.v. screen anymore and then after a couple of days move on to the next one without power needs to be used to highlight where the priorities of the government lie to call out how ridiculous the idea of this administration being unfriendly to business and wall street is to leave to talk about the housing crisis you want to answer why we haven't seen

a real recovery then you can start there but the truth is it's very hard to find people working within the current power structure who's priorities don't lie in making money and keeping it business as usual the norm the news it's just a business washington is just the same and so americans who are struggling are last in line to get a meeting. ok it's finally time for happy hour and joining me this evening our team producer r.j. web producer andrew blake sorry and artsy producer andriano threw up. her hands happy friday yesterday where should we start out a problem that none of us have all right as well counseling. yet

so basically and this is existed at the banks for a long time they have had they have had counselors that help people try to figure out how to manage their wealth but apparently they've seen a special uptake in this is the financial crisis hit since now there's this kind of bitter angry attitude towards people that are part of the one percent land and the thing that i find kind of funny is that first they have the people that come from really rich families they just call them legacy families because that means you don't have to deal with the rich it's label and then there's a thing called sudden wealth syndrome which they help some people deal with and we just thought maybe there's a candidate that we've seen before recently like many athletes before him sat filed for bankruptcy court documents show in six point seven million dollars to creditors and that child support. always good we bring that up because a lot of athletes end up suddenly you know having so much money when they get

signed and they're all you know preventing crime rates going on track and they're dying in droves if it's over like seriously millions and you got to catch a ball all day once a week then they go either none of the athletes let's not talk you know you want to really a skill no that's fine but i don't know if that does not sound like a huge problem for me or at least you know a problem i wish i had so like i said obviously none of us have our mental health counseling of money more problems more money more problems this is as. soon as possible right there right there. what do you think what would you do you know one of the things from these peoples is that wealth is still a taboo in our culture and so they have to manage this in no way no way and taboo is the goal is goal you want to be will figure this taboo well you know people much not so much. ok. guys friday we've got a whole bunch of fine fabrics worry and i included a. letter here. so this is fake and we totally fell for it on the show

because it's new so believable and we realized it was fake and we decided we should still talk about of the show because it was just so funny a report released so the research think tank showed that beards have a direct correlation to combat effectiveness i thought that was true i mean it was leaders i salute you can't really because it is obvious like like this one that i think we all feel. we are. all. night and talk about combat in fact the guy that's how you feel every morning right and there i was i can run things. i don't know i mean not only even though there is no truth to that. people will look at you you just think man that i must be a beast on the battle absolutely i want our treasure doing our muscle mass right

now but i would want to show you on your own t.v. show what is. going to the gun show right here and now but what is true is mustaches that science are you because actions are nothing and p.r. i mean badges gives a certain gravitas to a man but that's data storage nor is your job your house is important stash no it's a must not be trust her molester i mean it's being i know where i wanted to be or that i am always that was it. cheers here all right i refer to. ok let's talk about i was brought up this bill before in tennessee just one of many states right now that are doing stupid things across the country and so. basically they have any abstinence based sex education law. to. the bill for hits teachers on

demonstrating gateway sexual activity planned parenthood director of education to local pieces that would include health education models it makes it very clear that you can't promote contraception if an instructor goes beyond a curriculum the bill gives parents more legal rights stating quote that parent or legal guardian shall have a cause of action against the instructor or organization for actual damages. that is the reason so these are crazy and ridiculous laws where suddenly now you can. actually tell you it's a really safe but get this the tennis the senate just approved an update to the bill so in the new instructions yours was to tell your students that holding hands and kissing can be considered gateways the first comes hand-holding then comes marriage. baby care. of hand-holding apparently. the marijuana of sex was marijuana. i went to catholic school that is one hundred

percent true obviously that's what i was taught it's obviously any form of human contact goes directly at you know you and i have a lot of sex and usually before i have sex i hold hands so i will vouch for this as a sex person i'm a sex men. handholding sex men so all these tennessee people know what. i wish i had a red button to push right now so you don't drop your a little hole big bad life but that's ok. until you debating like this is a sexless. well i mean i think he just yes he's speechless congratulations regulation i see this hear him we saw him back in her way got a lot of things ok. on you tube comments let's hear now one more story this is really again it's friday so just forgive us for these stories but there was a massive beating that was done with an expensive designer shoe and the bay area

took a look at this. one too this morning the search is on for this woman her alleged. it all happened at this bar in san francisco the mystery woman reportedly saw red punching a passer by after he accidentally kicked one of her infamously pricey christian sold stilettos when medicare intervened she turned her heels on him. so that's really part of the story of the. book who was very good to see because she actually took cover of christian movies on and then decided to smash they don't want to go with her expensive movie to do you know what out a five hundred dollars reward for her name that less than the shoe costs actually that's true yeah fair enough don't get between woman and her she has got the moral story right it was a basically would you risk taking off like your eight hundred dollars pair of loot on to hit this guy in the head with it or just am not worth going to you know

because i'm not knots but i can see how that happened so i mean one goes with the other guy i mean in my own lubin lubin have you believe that right is limited to saying if exactly if i spent eight hundred thousand dollars on a pair of shoes maybe i would be if i would be inclined to to use the muzzle but because obviously you know i'm nuts enough to spend the thousand dollars just on shoes so and one pair of shoes very quickly i don't think it's all that very the evening when i'm there you know take your lives just. you know maybe like i deserve you're just ok guys we got to thank you for joining me have a great weekend there tonight so thanks for joining and add make sure that you come back on monday juan cole blogger and university of michigan professor is going to be on the show anytime don't forget to become a fan of below the show on facebook and follow us on twitter if there's anything you ever miss it's a you tube dot com slash they want to show and coming up next it's needed.

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