to my. mind. this is speech if you want. to. call. the. program back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour according to a new center for american progress study women make just seventy seven cents for every dollar the men are this lack of income inequality part of the republican war on women and how can the progressive movement fight back also even though it's melting away oil tycoons are turning the north pole in their endless search for fossil fuels are we still trying to dig for fossil fuels if they're already this growing our planet and so it's a daily take a republican strategy for winning the white house this is a simple one lie lie and lie some more so what can you do to make sure that america

doesn't get duped again by the republican lying machine. in screwed news is the economy slowly recovers were seen most of the new job gains in the service sector you are working in hotels retail outlets and restaurants unfortunately especially at restaurants these industries are where most of the low paid jobs are in america restaurant industry for example employs ten million americans around the nation produces one point seven trillion dollars of revenue but only one percent of restaurant workers are unionized that's why restaurant workers receive lower pay and benefits than their counterparts in other industries today though are o.c. united the only national organization focused on the needs of restaurant workers our rally here in washington d.c. . c to draw attention to the plight of low wage restaurant workers in the united

states joining me now someone who attended that rally and is currently running for president of united states dr jill stein is here she is the green party candidate for president of the united states after stein welcome back thanks so much tom great to be here to have you with us tell us about the restaurant workers in america what what are the challenges they're facing enormous challenges you know we know that the minimum wage is completely inadequate seven dollars and twenty five cents and it's been incredibly eroded to be something like half of its value back in the one nine hundred sixty s. well get this many of the workers in the restaurant industry they don't have a minimum wage they have a minimum wage for tipped workers and their minimum wage is the fact of the two dollars and thirteen fans it hasn't changed in twenty years so federal law yes it is federal that's right and they've been working you know for a long time fruitlessly to try to raise and you know they're not getting tips i was

talking to a couple of the young women who were there they were students actually one of them a scholarship student trying to pay her cost of living expenses and another one trying to pay her loans and they are not getting the tips in there they are just trying to pay their transportation costs to get to work so they're in really desperate straits it's really inexcusable i live in portland oregon for five years and during the time that i lived there the raise the minimum wage restaurant workers and i believe it was just the city i don't it was the state but i could be wrong but they raised that to the state minimum wage which is actually working and so it's higher than the federal minimum wage and before they did i mean this is a huge battle before they did that some of the restaurant owners are going oh you don't please all the business we're going to raise the prices of the menu and. it turns out that the amount of money that is paid to the waiters and waitresses is really such a small. senator the cost of running

a business that nothing happened except a bunch of people were able to make a living how do we communicate that you know particular in the face of propaganda you know wages go up the prices go up and business is good or we can make well you know one thing is that it's actually good for these businesses and you can show that having stayed a stable workforce is very good for client relationships and for patrons and they you know they have a personal connection and it reduces the costs of turnover which are enormous so it's actually to the benefit of industries to how well supported workers needless to say they need thickly because if you have people who can afford to stay home and they're sick and they're working in the restaurant industry you know that that's a public health all of this but what rock is doing and this is the really exciting thing the restaurant opportunities center roc united is what they're called and what they do is they get out and they see a big pick there their struggles effectively so they go to restaurants where wages

are being stolen or people are especially badly paid and they you know they have campaigns and they get out of crowd and they do creative street theater and all that and they've been able to actually move the needle and get better deals and address some of the you know some of the terrible conditions. i noticed if i can change subjects slightly i notice that recently you rejected americans like. i'm curious your thoughts on yeah so americans elect you know pretends to be the third party that a lot of people are clamoring for but in many ways it's a kind of a bait and switch it makes you think that it's a third party but it's sponsored by the same you know big deep pocket that's largely funded by hedge fund managers just a handful of them i mean it's like a couple of dozen people who have funded this entire effort. they retain control

over who the candidate will be so they have veto power it pretends you know it's sort of a front for small d democratic political party in many ways i think you know if it perhaps it intends to take the steam out of truly. challenge true challenges to the political structure that is sending us down the creek on jobs on health care on the war on civil liberties people are really clamoring for something different from what we're getting from corporate sponsored politics we're getting from americans elect unfortunately it's still corporate sponsored chill stood thanks so much for being with us thank you just agreed to be here. in a related story today is equal pay day twenty twelve and according to a new center for american progress study women made just seventy seven cents for every dollar that men earn in fact over the course of a woman's career she makes an average of four hundred thirty thousand dollars less

than a male counterpart the staggering amount of money could be used to feed a family of four for thirty seven years or even pay for first seven four year degrees at a public university and if that romney is elected president in november the situation won't be getting any better in an interview with diane sawyer airing tonight romney refused to say whether he would sign the lilly ledbetter fair pay act of one thousand of two thousand on his opposition to the lead better ads as the latest chapter in the republicans war on women a new report by people for the american way outlines the all out assault on women's rights and discusses ways that progressives can fight back joining me now to discuss more of the report and the republican war on women is marge baker executive vice president for policy and programs at people for the american way marge welcome thank you for having me great to have you here with us so how did the war on women start. or is this something that has been going the american revolution it's been going on for a while it's been going for quite

a while but what we wanted to do in this report is really catalog the systematic assault on women's rights by the right wing in their republican allies it is absolutely devastating in scope and them across the board. from from reproductive health to equal pay to. the ability to get contraception to. violence against women. across the board there's an all out assault on women's rights. famously abigail adams john adams' wife when he was helping write the constitution wrote him a letter saying don't forget the ladies and he wrote back saying we men are not going to give up our privileges and she wrote back saying that we will foment a rebellion rebellion didn't happen she was pushing for at least women have a right to vote being written into the constitution didn't happen. we've come a long way since but there's always been this undercurrent of of disparity and

hierarchy and you know it's male patriarchal hierarchy is this is this so a bump in the road is this a recent uptick or is this just part of that continual i think what we're seeing is frankly republicans in positions of power to have more impact so there's a lot of really nasty things happening in states around the country and it's happening in large part because republicans now have majorities in the state so they can enact legislation that before maybe got introduced but didn't go anywhere so we're going backwards from the progress we've been seen that's think i think we are but i think there's a real fight on there i mean there is there is power in the people and i think there's real resistance to this in the real unwillingness to accept this war on women without like why would mitt romney and other republicans oppose the lilly ledbetter fair pay act which basically says that if you're a woman doing the exact same work that a man is doing same job same job description same workplace you have to get the same pay i have it does it boggles my mind asked why governor walker signed the

repeal of wisconsin's fair pay fair pay act he took a act it's it's it's an who led better case was a case of left literally wanting to be able to hold her company accountable for paying for it differently from men it should be a basic right is a. is that. there are some men who are so insecure that they that they're trying to just you know block out or male male out the the rights of women or or is it that there are some companies that are so greedy. they're going to exploit whoever they can and women are among the groups that are exploitable or historically have been but i think what you what you see is policies that are being implemented to privilege to protect large powerful corporate interests large special interests that and then it's those policies are being an act on the backs of those with less power and less ability to prevail in the marketplace and a lot of unfortunately as you indicate your stats

a lot of those people are women and so these policies are hitting women extra hard because this is the place that a lot of women occupy in the workplace but we have about a minute left can you talk a little bit about the efforts on the stop violence against women act this is amazing that that republicans are actually opposing reauthorization of the violence against women act it's been in the bookstore years and years and years already laws are already who are and they're closing it. for extraneous reasons having to do with the fact that it might cover someone someone who is a lesbian where it might cover someone who is here. and they were going to see without documentation and so there's so they're they're coming up with excuses excuses are the spirits of the impact is that women are not would not be protected from violence if this position prevails that's that is remarkable how can we stop the war i think it's that speak up we have to name it what the reason we did the

report you can get the report and go to our web site w.w.w. dot people try to work we have to expose it we have to put it put a spotlight on this polling today show that president obama has a forty five point advantage over romney for women in the age bracket of eighteen to twenty nine so people who are under. what's going on and speak out thanks so much for this thing and much much appreciate large because we live in the twenty first century it's ridiculous that women are still being treated like lower class citizens in this country if we come together as a progressive force we can stop the republican assault on women and it sure would have the rights to which they are entitled. coming up after the break well baron's of the world has seen new opportunities in the north pole as global climate change and it's up why are you looking for more fossil fuels to burn when the world is already melting away under their feet.

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it's nice greener aboard the oil barons of the world in the military is the rely on that oil are seen new opportunities in the north pole as global climate change kicks into high gear or mean weather is leading to the northern ice cap melting uncovering a treasure trove oil and natural gas reserves scientists believe that the arctic is storing thirteen percent of the world's on tapped oil and nearly a third of the world's undiscovered natural gas as the ice melts access to these resources becomes easier and shipping lanes open so now northern nations are scrambling to stake out their chunk of arctic resources as well as running military operations in the area should they have to fight for these resources in the not too distant future back two months ago military leaders united states canada russia iceland denmark sweden norway and then one met to discuss security issues around the arctic but shouldn't these nations have the exact opposite approach to

disappearing ice in the arctic. why are we looking for more fossil fuels to burn or watching our world melt from fossil fuel induced climate change it howls joins me now he's the deputy campaign director for greenpeace usa and welcome i how are you i'm great at just how insane it is that instead of addressing the dangerous melting of ice in the arctic nations are looking to profit from it well i think it shows the insanity of our political process when you have the military the coast guard the secretary of state all going to talking about climate change and the effects that it's having on the arctic and then the same breath turn around and say oh we're going to go and exploit that and trying to address it and means that something's wrong in the current in our country and we need to really look at how we are producing and using energy and the arctic is because marion the core of mine when you look at everything that's wrong with what we've been doing for the last at least several decades and yet we're going to to torture the metaphor we're going to

take that canary and like its feathers on fire. what are the consequences for our planet if these resources in the arctic are tapped. i know it more fossil fuel i mean everything from burning the oil that comes out of that they might find the natural gas but they might find they increase shipping that will put more more pollution into the ecosystem up there that is just going to continue to exacerbate climate change i mean that the amount of pollution involved with drilling for fossil fuels is immense and then you do it in a place like the arctic which is an incredibly sensitive and use the metaphor again the canary in the coal mine and what's wrong with our energy policies as it's a horrible step down a path that we've been going down for far too long is there a potential in addition to destroying the arctic in addition to throwing more carbon here is there a potential for war in the arctic as well. well any time any time you look in the

resources that people are talking about up there on the you have to look much further than geo political problems that day where we're talking about iran we've just gotten out of a war with iraq we're still in a war in afghanistan and. the there's always a possibility for conflict when you're looking at a place that it's becoming somewhat easier as far as an. extreme environment that the arctic is to extract those resources and these are again these are these are countries you know we were talking just a second ago time a war you know my country's going against countries don't we have now transnational oil companies that are more powerful than most countries. you could certainly make that argument again if you look at our energy policy is who's really running the show here we've seen it since at least next in our presidents of the united states saying we need to look at our energy policy and the other thing we've done is continue to do what the big oil companies the big coal companies or any of the you know the cost of fuel companies want to do which is keep mining keep yelling keep

burning it's weren't really horrible situation until stand up to it absolutely great i would say other than maybe the last year of the carter administration when he actually tried to put us in a different direction but of course then came reagan and off went carter solar collectors and again how is thanks so much for being with us this thank you actually have to centuries of mistreatment are starting to take a toll on our planet the entire world needs to get involved right now to confront mankind's biggest crime a crisis climate change before it's too late. it's the good the bad of the very very fire low gas ugly good eric schoenberg despite the republicans filibuster of the buffett rule last it seems like more and more millionaires are ready and willing to pay their fair share of

taxes case in point schoenberg schoenberg a wealthy investment banker was interviewed on m.s.m. d.c. yesterday take a listen. what's wrong with you you want to pay more taxes yes i think my taxes are too low in two thousand and nine for example i paid one percent of my income in federally taxes legally i presume he went on to say that it's ridiculous that he pays less in taxes than average working americans and he's right it is ridiculous republicans need to start listening to patriotic millionaires and stop protecting corporate interests the bad box so called news yesterday the romney campaign shoot chose the adviser responsible for vetting and choosing a v.p. candidate course this was breaking news over talk so-called news so the talking heads had to weigh in shortly after the announcement the official fox and friends twitter account tweeted romney has hired an advisor to do is v.p. search who should we choose to use chief roger ailes and political pundits at the network deny their relationship with the republican party comments like these. and

any and the very very ugly the u.s. department of defense or on c.n.n. over the weekend revealed that women in each branch of the military are routinely diagnosed with mental conditions and dismissed from duty after filing sexual harassment complaints sexual assaults of women in the military are on the rise and are far too common last year in one thousand sexual assaults were reported while many with more went unreported in the military serve our country with bravery and honor and they're ordered with sexual assaults and government cover ups the fact that the military would rather cast away these american heroes and protect them is very very.

sigmund freud would have a field day examining today's republican party he came up with the idea of what's called psychological projection which is basically when someone projects on to other people beliefs or actions that they themselves folder and carried out but they're in denial about for example if someone's a bitch or a liar they might hide up like using others around them of line and it sure looks like mitt romney is guilty of this very sort of psychological projection after all one of the central messages of his campaign is how awful obamacare is even though mitt romney was the first to enact a version of obamacare in massachusetts while he was the governor and on the issue of health care is the most obvious form protection but mitt romney there are a bunch of others like just last week when mitt romney said that it's president obama who's actually waging a war on women not republicans the real war on women is being waged by the president's failed economic policies. or

a few weeks back when mitt romney said that it's president obama who's destroying medicare and not republicans three and a half years later he has failed to enact or even propose a serious plan to solve the intel of a crisis instead he has taken a series of steps that end medicare as we know it he is the only president to ever cut five hundred billion dollars from medicare. it's a bald faced lie that's coming from the same guy who called multimillionaire republican congressman paul ryan's budget that actually does end medicare as we know it. even a non policy issues romney seems to be projecting himself on the president obama like this comment about how out of touch the president is because he want to. we have a president who i think is a nice guy but he spent too much time at harvard perhaps or maybe just not enough

time actually working in the real world i think to create jobs in the private sector to get ahead a job in the private sector romney also went to harvard and in fact stayed there a year longer than president obama so what's going on is not romney and the record republican messaging team really suffer from freud in psychological projection there is something else going on think about this for a second we're on the verge of a multi-billion dollar presidential election that will determine how trillions of dollars in america are distributed do you really think that the republican party and their guy mitt romney are flying by the seat of their pants you really think that they're lying about the president because they're suffering suffering from some kind of floridian psychological melon or could it be that this is part of a strategy and that would have been the strategy had been talking about on this show for the last few weeks which is this the only way republicans can win

elections is by lying i think it's a very specific strategy it has to be a strategy the stakes are just too high perch to just be an accident or a mental issue. republicans need this city try this strategy against bill clinton the clinton was ready for it back in one thousand nine hundred two the bill clinton campaign launched the rapid response war room which was based on rapid response immediately jumping on whatever lie or half truth was thrown at clinton by george by george herbert walker bush and responding to in the media the same day thus stopping that lie dead in its tracks it worked clinton won the election that year anyone reelection four years later doing the exact same thing in two thousand and four john kerry tried something different and ignored the lies that were pushed about him by karl rove and organizations like this with friends from truth and what happened the lies imbedded themselves in the national dialogue they were picked up by the mainstream news and ended up costing kerry the election so they republicans

are even trying to disguise their lies their openly and enthusiastically responding to truth with bald face not impacted so glade you might confuse the strategy with an actual mental illness as i mentioned earlier but it's not a mental illness unless you consider the sociopathic element of being a bald faced liar mental arguably it is thought is republicans lie because they can get away with it if you ever seen a republican challenge on a lot i in the corporate media on meet the press or face the nation i haven't it's why they keep coming back on and they'll continue to get away with it as long as no one calls them out as hires not only that would billions of dollars behind them right now they're making t.v. ads websites launching bus tours to promote these and other lies to even more americans. president obama isn't waging a war on women mitt romney and the republicans are president obama isn't trying to

end the pedicure as we know it and it romney and the republicans are let's not get duped by the republican lies again so your friends your family your coworkers tell anyone who believes these lies what's really going on here because if you don't know what romney will win the presidency and he'll do it because to run his career he has been willing to lie with no shame and now he and his entire party at turned it into the cornerstone of their electoral strategy that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our web sites at tom hartman dot com free speech dot org. you can also check out our two you tube channel for all links it's all part and also it's on our in dot com each other all the different ways you can send a speech and don't forget the democracy begins when you show up and participate get out there get active occupy something tag you're it civil.

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