hello and happy hollowing. are going to washington d.c. and here is what's coming up tonight on the big picture as millions of americans clean up from the devastation caused by hurricane sandy mitt romney says the federal government should hand responsibility for caring for them off to for profit companies like bain capital should disaster relief in our country really be left up to corporations that only care about the bottom line also in just a matter of hours mitt romney released to blatantly false ads that even members of his own party say iraq is america really want to wire and cheap in the white house that are more into nights alone liberal rubble and federal officials are pointing

to a contaminated lab in massachusetts as the cause of the nation's latest enjoy this outbreak and new evidence of a pin the blame for those twenty nine deaths directly on that rock. you need to know this the northeast is still trying to get back on its feet again after hurricane sandy at least fifty five americans of fifty five americans have died millions remain without power and the entire new york city transit system is still shut flooded and shut down and some of the hardest hit cities new jersey like seaside heights block after block of residential neighborhoods are buried under sand in a way similar to how the new orleans lower ninth ward was buried under water after katrina alone there romney would prefer you didn't think about it the true test of the quality and resilience of a nation. and its political systems comes at times like these when it's most

stressed romney suggest such crises are opportunities for profit which is why he called for the privatization of fema or on the campaign trail romney and ryan apparently think such crises can be exploited for political gain which is why the hell they see a staged rally in ohio where some supporters pretended to donate canned goods to relief efforts canned goods that the red cross has specifically said they don't want because it requires too much manpower time money and energy to sort through and transport them historically though genuinely patriotic americans have seen crises as a time to come together and help each other out there's five percent more moisture in our atmosphere right now at higher levels of c o two than any other time during human history so it's not surprising that we were hit by a freak hurricane with tropical storm force winds extending out over a five hundred mile field it's probably not a coincidence that record breaking sandy is here just after the warmest september

ever recorded in the midst of the warmest decade ever recorded it almost certainly represents the new normal in this hostile weather new world former vice president al gore made this point in the state on tuesday saying sandy was also affected by other symptoms of the climate crisis is that her good hurricane approached the east coast to gather strength from abnormally warm coastal waters at the same time sandy's storm surge was worsened by a century of sea level rise scientists tell us that if we do not reduce our emissions these problems will only grow worse. which brings up how we as citizens respond to these franken storms mile long tornadoes and levee busting floods all the more important a president jimmy carter created for fema when he did as he did so cities and states will never again be alone in rebuilding after catastrophes as famous mission statement reads the his mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build sustain and improve our capability to prepare

for protect against respond to recover from and mitigate all hazards the keywords we work together whether you're cleaning up your neighborhood after a block party or cleaning up after a hurricane we all know things work out best when we're all in it together that's why we've included disaster relief efforts as part of our commons right alongside law enforcement and fire protection. these aren't services the work best would run for a profit or to maximize wealth for shareholders these are services owned by we the people to serve we the people and work best when kept in that pure small d. democratic form so it shouldn't surprise us the republicans have turned their chainsaws in the direction of fema and they're cheered on by corporate profiteers who see big bucks in the disaster relief industry if only they could extricate fimo from our commons and like they've already done it privatized schools and prisons replace it with themselves for example republican primary candidate mitt romney

said that females should be sent back to the private sector. females about to run out of money in there are some people who say do it on a case by case basis and some people who say you know maybe we're learning a lesson here the state should take on more of this role how do you deal with something like that absolutely every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states that's the right direction and if you go even further and send it back to the private sector that's even better as in we should rely on churches and a for profit disaster industry to save lives and rebuild devastated communities and the problem that logic an assertion is that it didn't work in the past which is why fema was created in the first place that's an iranian republican support or at the very least they support sending disaster relief back to the states as in sorry louisiana you're on your own even more bizarre romney and corporatist republicans want to privatized fema just as climate change induced storms are increasing cash strapped communities in michigan are turning off their street lights and taking

cops off the streets but mitt romney wants them to foot the bill for natural disasters as well meanwhile over the past few years car republicans in congress have chipped away at our disaster relief commons in virtually each and every budget showdown they demanded massive cuts to females budget along with cuts to weather preparedness agencies like noah after all they have to cover the cost of a five trillion. a tax cut for the top one percent some even after unprecedented deadly tornadoes in joplin the freak damage caused by hurricane irene house republicans held up fema funds and demanded local communities more than what's historically been required and just yesterday when you jersey communities completely wiped away republican congressman steve king warned against giving too much federal aid to those affected by hurricane sandy saying i want to get them the resources that are necessary but not one big shot to just open up the checkbook because they spend it on gucci bags and massage parlors and everything. it's

generally much easier for the wealthy to ride out hurricanes from the comfort of their second occasion homes they can even live tweet what they see on the weather channel it's much easier for the wealthy to pay for home repairs of their top of the line home insurance plans and the rich never miss a paycheck because they can't get their work because people like mitt romney and paris hilton get their dividend checks wherever they are and whatever they're doing but what about the america that actually works for a living what about the america the lives paycheck to paycheck or just has a small nest egg for retirement who doesn't have donald trump's inherited wealth and private jet to spirit them away from danger to them hurricane sandy and every natural disaster is a direct threat to their lives and their futures everyone will need help after this long week but to the working class it won't just be about having the butler clean out the fridge full of unused food it could be about life and death as we tragically learned after katrina and we're seen again today should we join romney and ryan in telling americans that they're on their own or should we as the

wealthiest nation on earth uphold that agreement between each other and among each other that we're all in this together and then when the when a community in southern new jersey is wiped away a community in southern california or our entire nation for that matter helps to rebuild this cuts to the core difference between conservatives who thinks the commons should be a profit center for companies like bain and progressives who believe we're all in this together and a government run by the people for the people we the people has an obligation to help when disaster hits this is a fundamental political and moral choice and one we need as a nation to address soon because of this rapidly warming planet earth these types of storms will keep happening with ever increasing frequency. now for more let's turn over to our lone liberal rumble.

it's wednesday are you ready to rumble joining me for tonight's alone liberal rubble are francesca chambers editor and publisher with red alert politics and austin peters a libertarian commentator and director of production at freedom works and thank you both for being with us tonight let's get started you heard what i had to say in the rant should helping americans or cover from devastating natural disasters really be left up to churches and corporate executives francesca well first of all i want to talk about your characterization of republican thinking that we shall shouldn't all be in this together just today republican governor of new jersey chris christie and president obama work together to help solve this disaster in new jersey chris christie would be doing that if he wasn't running for reelection next year in a blue state i think that chris christie was most interested in helping the people of his state and i don't understand why we're trying to politicize something as simple as chris christie doing what he thought was best for he was the republicans in the house of representatives have cut fema funding every time the budgets come up but we're not talking about the republicans now serves as you said you know that republicans in general think that we're not all in this together and i'm giving you

a clear example of when a republican a democrat just today came in you know came at it together and did what was said over there so republicans do what's best for the country when their butts on the line but in the abstract or if they're from congress from wyoming and prisoners but it's not on the line i just want to point out that there's an ongoing i don't know if you're interested but i'm going and going to fight against democrats two wings the same bird libertarian says but you asked earlier if if the churches should be the ones that should be handling this and i say yes absolutely because in two thousand and five when hurricane katrina happened there were two thousand five hundred people all but seven families i believe that were evacuated by the l.d.s. the church of latter day saints that came in and they offered assistance a rescue program that they had already set up they had in place a telephone rescue service and emergency. and they use the mitt romney fema did when the when this was done vote for the george w. bush administration before the dr who actually did care this was not done by some faceless bureaucrat in washington these were done by the people will turn everything about a mormon church we should turn over i would give the mormon church

a much better credit than the united states government for taking care of our citizens absolutely you know i'm not one myself but i get a lot of respect so then your agreement with with with the republicans who say fema should not be in this business you're disagreeing with francesca well as i agree with actually what i said i would just want to make the point that i did not say that i was specifically addressing your comment about republicans not being willing to come together with democrats in times of need now when it comes to you know the private sector taking better care of it i personally don't think that we should get rid of fema that's my personal opinion and i don't think that that's what mitt romney thinks either which is how this topic specifically came up i think that the former governor romney was simply saying that we should give more power to the states in the local government trying to call for a thirty five percent cut in fees to play don't plan to write what i think if i could so i think i'll be having more and more and more natural disasters every year as a matter of fact we are going to know we're not we're having ok we had twenty eight declarations during the reagan administration forty four during the first bush

ninety during clinton then one hundred thirty during bush the second and one hundred fifty three so far during obama's term are you telling me that our weather is getting so out of control that the metastasizing of mergers that i would strongly recommend or i would strongly recommend you do you know what a reinsurance company is you so do ok the insurance companies or the companies the backstop the insurance companies when the trans companies get wiped out they they have insurance with the insurance companies swiss re is the largest in the world six seven years ago swiss re issued a report which they have basically reissued every year saying that looking at the best science in the world it is getting more and more expensive to insure against natural disasters they want the world to stop emitting all this carbon they they are they are telling insurance companies look out they're raising their rates yes i strongly lessen their incentive but time they have less and less and. getting i want to trust people no because the government steps in and says we will offer you insurance when the government steps in and says i was going to say us what's really sad is we're getting wiped out would have the incentive for the private market to come in to do it here's the problem if you really want more localism liberals

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joining me tonight francesca chambers of austin peterson let's get back to it yesterday the romney campaign scheduled or turned a scheduled campaign rally into a so called storm relief a vent to help those affected by hurricane sandy the campaign encouraged supporters to bring hurricane relief supplies and food to the rally and deliver them right to mitt romney's hands but since this was a carefully crafted event by the romney camp they made sure to look good by spending five thousand dollars at a local walmart on food that would be on display at the event while supporters were given canned goods to handle romney and at the so-called relief event the ten minute video about romney's life which was first shown at the r. and c. was shown to us in this event more about politics and campaigning than actually helping those affected by hurricane sandy five thousand dollars to give to the

homeless i mean what even if you don't know it wasn't it was almost it was to buy stacks of food so so that you know they could but they were going to distribute some of the the rescue to the rescue effort i mean does not a nice thing i mean whether or not i mean if you go if you have five thousand dollars for the canned goods in ohio you know you call up the red cross in new jersey waiting for his we've got a ton and a half a canned goods to send to you are going to say don't send and wait a minute mitt romney is getting these five thousand dollars for canned goods that they're going to send and then what is broke obama doing at his fundraisers he's letting people die in gaza in libya oh yeah well i got in i way i would reject the political position again of this storm relief in this disaster you know i think it's funny that the left likes to criticize you know conservatives over things like benghazi and saying that mitt romney and the republicans are politicking over that but yet literally we are discussing whether mitt romney did or did not want to help out by giving to charity by helping with the storm really we're actually discussing whether or an argument romney wanted to turn out helping out into

a campaign stunt you know but by and by and what i thousand dollars when they can do. so you can use it as a prop it and i mean people standing in line they said to people when you come bring something to give a lot of people in line didn't have anything to give so they handed the to them they had them here here's a jar paid about it they're going to give those two for this is like paul anger toward a lot of the entire notion that it was a stunt i'm sorry an accident you know he wanted to thank you here's exactly what they did one there were people who showed up at the event and there were some volunteers people who did not work for the campaign volunteers who felt bad as i think do you know for the people who showed up to the event and didn't bring canned goods maybe didn't know that they had it turned into a hurricane event but in some of these things you know they don't know if this is a if you give us a dollar a one dollar can of beans it's going to cost us a buck and a half to get that to new jersey instead give us the dollar will go to the community closest to new jersey that still intact will buy those beans and deliver them for five so i'm just writing ross that it necessarily tell that to the romney campaign pro-union saying i don't know what i want and don't you don't suppose i'm

going to be better off if they were to donate blood or other items right lot or money that's it that's already there as well i know that in the presence of the front page of every newspaper is the kind i don't really care is reporting laurie and i'm a reporter so come on i'm dead serious my whole entire point though is that mitt romney is a very charitable man this is the guy who literally literally gave all the money made from the olympics to charity so he one million dollars of his money to charity he rejected his salary is going to make something as a housing dollars agave all of his money from his inherent in a way as well and he gave thirty million dollars to return does not give away your office here is why it was says that they lived on it while they were mostly there are no problems no work gone up since he was elected i think was worth a million dollars before was elected it was worth eighteen million dollars now since that was a sold a bunch of books sold a lot of books right your money you know what goes up when you become president of sales people become more and more instead of doing business with you people it's not true business with people not. that is a that is an unlikely that mitt romney is

a very charitable person if you look at his past i don't think that you can deny that he has always been. a very charitable person and he was trying to do something for charity and i don't think it should be politicized if you if you believe that i honor your faith there romney has released a new radio ad in his favorite subject the auto industry take a listen. who do more for the auto industry not barack obama fact checkers confirmed his attacks on mitt romney are false the truth mitt romney has a plan to help the auto industry he's supported by lee iacocca and the detroit news obama took g.m. and chrysler into bankruptcy and sold chrysler to italian so we're going to build jeeps in china mitt romney will fight for every american job by mitt romney and i approve this message the only problem with this ad is it's one hundred percent false even the c.e.o. of chrysler felt compelled to rebut the ad saying jeep production will not be moved from the united states to china it is inaccurate to suggest anything different the

statement came after a group of jeep employees went to the union reps freaking out that they were going to lose their jobs g.m. responded he had to say in at the state we're looking at a telescope to link distances between campaign ads and reality is this blatantly false ad part of mitt romney's strategy for regaining support from american auto workers and if so. how does all his lying going to work for him now i think the c.e.o. of g.m. has got this all wrong because the jeep liberty from what i understand is sixty eight percent manufactured in china as we speak right now support there's been no discussion right now about moving jeep manufacturing offshore to china who are already said in a campaign is that they did literally made it was trying to have it as they make them in ohio the ohio voters care about our goods and services here in the i say you know i oh well you were too sure don't you won't let workers in the united states would word that we have these things manufactured or you're going to try to have us to meet with nonsense it's come on austin we're talking about mitt romney line we're not you know we could have an abstract conversation sometime about the

use of offshore and i agree i don't think that here is like even the washington post looked at it and said that what he said with. and i would he want to try to lead a substantive mitt romney ok well here's the here's the larger question then do we really as i said we bit romney some of his lies or at the political factory regulations are quadrupled the rate of rugged regulations quadrupled under this president actually that's gone down slightly in the last three years one year president ninety billion dollars in green energy breaks in the solar wind not true president obama has doubled the deficit actually deficit is gone down since he came in office right now the congressional budget office is up to twenty million people lose their insurance as obamacare goes into effect he totally pulling satellite here where you are there you are doing it for yourself trying to do it in writing from literally obamacare is from no no you don't know you're not going to do about three hundred nods as it were with completely unrelated issues resolution so we differ a little bit on no i'm just going to say can we read the political act ph for all of obama's lies i'd really love to see that page let's talk about their ordeal i mean their poll to show why is this is a sham unless you're the r.c.m.

sucker this is not a sham alleges it and you've got a guy who has all of us every side of every issue and i don't understand there's no franchise going to do so if metonymy out on the circuit obama how are we sitting here talking about mitt romney a liar in chief when we are literally in a foreign policy crisis mode over what happened in libya and overly i described as my every word for your like we are and we should be because what happened in libya is one when i think i don't you guys are trying to turn your obama into jimmy carter who was leaked what are you in the wrong going to record or when i'm trying to do is this is what the read on if there's a should there are you here i'm talking about how we're focusing on nitpicking like this when we literally have a president in a white house who may or may not be engaged in some either some sort of a cover up or a gross incompetence on their house but i know is that you know the distilled overseas is the republican means that has been put out a media matters of fact i encourage you to check up you matters dot org a long list of all the right wing sites today who came out with this in all of them

reference absolutely no fact. absolutely no effect oh let's talk about benghazi let's talk about libya this is not about benghazi libya this is about you know romney it is a lot of the currency the associated american citizen that i just want to hear austin you went to and when you shout over me or when i shout over you people out here people or whatever it may not appear when we have a say so that this is about mitt romney coming out and with the ads i'm talking about these ads that are deceptive and chrysler and g.m. is saying their lives were sitting on a president who is sitting on sixteen trillion dollars of debt do you want a trillion dollars and you want to talk about the lies that come from some candidate who has not sat on the president's and we have a we have another one says let me go over we're here because souter only went to a las vegas fund raiser while people were dying in all of it that you want to talk about kerry because this is a failed was certainly a fundraiser first of all and second was a campaign event and secondly of that sixteen trillion dollars of debt which was run up we were going to be years ago i was going to not talk about me versus

president obama and the choice that americans have to make next tuesday and you are sitting here trying to portray mitt romney as a like you know a liar liar pos liar however even if you talking to congress that is going to talk about a one term study why they're both lawyers so vulgar johnson here to talk about the lying ads when even president obama has said that his his that he's lied in this ad to his ads have went way over the top a lot of times and so i wouldn't say that you know all politicians are a liar don't trust either of them but what i am saying is that you know if you're reading the site you can romney speaking of false as your here's here's another one take a look at this is about welfare. if you want to know president obama's second term agenda look at his first go to the work requirement for welfare doubled the number of able bodied adults without children on food stamps record unemployment more women in poverty than ever before borrowed from china and increased the debt to over sixteen trillion passing the burden on to the next generation we may have made

it through president obama's first term it's our children who can afford a second. first of all as i said i find it rather ironic that republicans are screaming about a sixteen trillion dollar debt when ten or eleven trillion of that was brought up by republicans and they've certainly put us on a course for the rest of it but that said gutted the work requirement for welfare it's a flat out lie everybody says it's a flat out lie even the rich romney campaign back the first time that was point out is a lie admit it was a lie although they're not now i would just like to go back to what you said just previous to that about your literally zeroing in on one line of the campaign ad because the essence of not it's not the essence of it a lot of what was talked about was the sixteen trillion dollar debt and other issues raised and more should go to you but we but what i'm saying is that you're focusing in on one thing which was the welfare to work requirement and you're totally ignoring the greater point of the ad which is that obama has had four years you know to do all the things for americans that he says he wants to do and the speculators. he has that's all he's done is stop the hemorrhaging of our jobs

he created he did create new jobs but they really only made it for the jobs that had been lost during that time there were not the same so you do it for another one obviously not no six jobs six people have stopped looking for work so for every one that has created six people stop looking to work at the boomers have every fourteen percent stopped looking for work because they're retiring oh come on you've got all you've got you've got one of the biggest demographic bulges right now hitting retirement you think that this is a growing economy is this a healthy economy in your estimation no if you look at what we have a call if you look at what happened on january twentieth there's some talk if you ask a question of wait for it if you look at what happened on january twentieth two thousand and nine the night that barack obama was sworn into office when paul ryan and thirteen other republicans jon kyl and a whole bunch of sat in the caucus room restaurant and basically swore a blood oath with frank wants a new gingrich to block anything that obama did he had a supermajority aide and filibuster majority in the united states senate for two months and one day that was in the corporate and they had they bought him have put

everything on the hands and we have a royal attorney industrial complex. the corporatist economy is a bailout stimulus economy those instilled by your hero f.d.r. in the new deal we have a totally fascist economy the fly by the corporations it's us forced democracy that we live in nobody songs out of the interest of the candidates you know i actually applaud the republicans in the senate for making sure that president obama did not hurt our economy and didn't earn america any more than he did and i just fear what a second term look like so you'd like there ok going to as i say later i started this and thanks for joining me tonight. after the break right now a deadly meningitis outbreak is sweeping across america it is already taking the lives of twenty nine americans and it turns out a tainted laboratory might not be the only cause of the outbreak in iran you the viewer is responsible to.

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