i know c.n.n. the m.s.m. b.c. fox news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth from the might think. it's because one full attention and the mainstream media work side by side with you is actually on here. and our teenagers we have a different. ok because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not how. you guys talk to the jokes well handled it makes sense that i'm.

back with me for tonight's alone liberal rumble or david alaska and neil asbury and let's get back to it this friday is black friday the day when american retailers offer killer a one day deals on products throughout their stores this year however black friday will be more like a black thursday because stores like toys r us best buys kmart and of course wal-mart will start offering special black friday sales on thanksgiving day itself wal-mart will actually be open all day deals will start at six pm tomorrow can we all agree and let me start with you david that sundays are for family and friends and not for work why not pass

a ban on certain types of businesses staying open and thanksgiving ab absolutely you know as soon as we get done here on hop on a train to connecticut thanksgiving is for being with your family not for saving an extra ten percent on game of thrones d.v.d.'s i think there is some hope though a university of connecticut poll found that forty nine percent of americans disapprove of the idea of shopping on thanksgiving only sixteen percent are happy with it so if those sixteen percent want to go stand in line and fight their food comas to save a few bucks on an x. box let them go nuts but i think that's pretty absurd ok and neal it seems that david is in favor of big government saying no you can't do business on stephens is a to me this is a nanny state issue we don't need the government to be telling us that you know let the local communities do all the way in rhode island massachusetts all have blue laws barri big box and now there's a list of states that's exactly right let this little be a state's right issue let the states decide let the communities decide we don't need a federal government telling us when the shop and when not to shut up with a little looked a little because it's not their role to do it it's again it's than actually if you

leave the guy situation without a government is given the right to regulate commerce some are going to and then there is the dates. well let's let the local communities decide what their constituents want and the big government to now under the constitution that anybody who does business in more than one state could be regulated by the federal government only small independently locally owned companies couldn't be i mean it's right there it's right there in the constitution well it will it will tom and like you said though some states have blue laws and other states don't ok so it's a purple here's here's how out of control in my opinion it's god and david i'd like to get your take on this tony roar who is the who was the general manager of the pizza hut in elkhart indiana was fired from his job this week for refusing to open his store on thanksgiving day as b t v s b t t.v. covered the story for local t.v. check it out. tony says it wasn't about him it was about his employees he told his boss is that he would not open the restaurant he managed on thanksgiving christmas

would be a. year or two days before you were able to speak for you. as he was told to sign a letter of resignation he refused instead he wrote a letter explaining his position to his boss he says this is a copy of it in the letter he wrote quote i am not quitting i do not resign however i accept that their refusal to comply with this greedy immoral request means the end of my tenure with this company his letter went on to say quote i hope you realize that it's the people at the bottom of the totem pole that make your life possible we tried conti well david novak the c.e.o. of young brands the parent company of pizza hut made twelve million dollars last year a million dollars a month and one hundred fifty million and one hundred fifty million dollars in stock options don't you think he can afford to give his employees a day off neal oh for sure and hey i will tell it as a perk of much like barry goes off tomorrow on hidden ignored ok. ok. now

that's a personal decision i mean maybe this is not the right company for him. you know it's a free economy out there if he doesn't get along with management he has the perfect right to go find somewhere else to work in the company has the the right so you know you support it so you support yum brands for firing him david deal they weren't if it for the record companies closed on thursday and friday and saturday you support the right of the company to fire him i'm wondering if david does. i support the right of the company to fire then i think it's immoral but i don't think it ought to be illegal and i'm with neil that government shouldn't be standing in and telling companies when they're allowed to open and when when they can't be i think it's stupid i think it's classless frankly they ought to let anyone take off thanksgiving who wants to but hey free country ok according to the . yeah i was going to tell you a story but it. will move along according to the most recent reuters americans

support the temporary nuclear deal by a whopping two to one margin forty four percent of those polled support of the deal twenty two percent oppose it so first of all david you first do you support or oppose this deal as it seems to be incarnated. i oppose it and i suspect the american people will come to as well i mean look we have to be a little skeptical of any poll that comes out a day or two before thanksgiving and asks about a major piece of international. diplomacy they came out on the sunday morning before thanksgiving i think this deal just like everything else that has come out of this woeful obama presidency the more the american people learn about it the more they'll be against it and that's because look i'm a liberal foreign policy in a nutshell and capsulated in this agreement we're asking a rogue nation to very nicely abandon their weapons program in exchange for something not. in two hundred years we have we've listened and we have read and read have the nuclear bombs there are a state sponsor of road over there a state sponsor of terrorism that they they funnel money to terrorists to blow up

buses and cafes and this is what i would in a state sponsor of terrorism for years and years and years we were the ones who funded been you were you when you got him started. and you know yeah you know you really have an unfair that. pretty far apart yeah we come first of all the poll that you mention about a third of the americans had no opinion on it so as david said i mean everyone's focused on jobs and obamacare it was messy what about israel and i wanted to but but you have but a third have no opinion but the other thing is this is that the iranian leadership has been taking a victory laps of the last couple of days saying that they wonder not giving up their nuclear capability but the poll the nuclear power accountability well no there's very very very good clear about that they're on their way to a nuclear weapon whether we like it or not and this is not the way to prevent them to get there but the put the poll also look at is obama's trust worthy this right now obama's going to have to sell this thing if the american people don't trust him

he's not going to be able to sell it already the democrat members of the senate is bailing on him so i don't think he's going to get this done i don't think he's going to prom with it at all i think people people have a common sense on this one last thing i want to give is share with you guys the pope just came out and called out ronald reagan ronald reagan is the only we're the only president in the history of the united states and frankly i think probably going. over use the phrase trickle down economics to describe his own policies and the pope says and i quote some people continue to defend trickle down theories which assume that economic growth encouraged by a free market will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world this opinion which has never been confirmed by the facts expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those we get will be an economic power we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor this culture of prosperity deadens us and then goes on to say while the earnings of the minority are growing exponentially so too is the gap separating the majority from

the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few this imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the war of the marketplace i mean this is he's taken on reagan had on how are you guys going to deal with this. well i'll start i'll start off by saying i have the complete admiration for the pope and for the catholic religion but i will tell you he's got this one wrong if we're going to get people working if we're going to lift up the millions and millions of people in this world that are hurting we need to inspire our entrepreneurial community to get out there and invest and take risk and create jobs and that's what is going to give us a millionaires is what you call reaganomics it was inspiring the entrepreneurial class of the world to get out there are thirty two years and destroyed the middle class of this country david your shot it. look i don't think pope francis is a bad guy but i'm going to come at this from a little different angle and he talks about compassion i think if there's one large

organization on the planet that really can't claim the moral high ground on anything it's the catholic church i think pope francis ought to stick to his years and says it has had i believe whatever it is that they believe economics to a lot of progressive change a lot of a lot of social positive social change over the over the second look at this a new a new pope for what a for a what a year and all of a sudden you guys are waving the catholic banner this is a shoe is on the other foot i'm pretty impressed by what he's saying i'm selling it i'm not i'm not catholic but i'm thinking about it david you know as for the church's view on abortion yeah well i disagree with him on that david and neil thank you both. thank you guys happy thanksgiving to you too in my experience thankfulness along with forgiveness are the two most healing of human emotions thankfulness helps us realize that our lives are not singular but part of a larger whole tomorrow many of you will sit down with families and friends and in

the spirit of the season reflect on all the things for which you're thankful it is after all the season of thanksgiving so right now i'd like to take some time to recognize some of the things i'm thankful for in my life first of all i'm thankful for you i'm thankful that you're watching the show and also like to give thanks to our team america and its management the. roman alex i remain for their generous hosting of the show and a free speech t.v. for carrying the show on their air and of course i'm thankful to all of my staff writers nate andrew my line producer kurt my executive producers shane and my wife shawn and my wife louise i'm thankful to my director kevin and the whole studio one team wendy ernest eugene mark michael frank de ricky vince rob tatyana all of you do a wonderful job making sure this show comes together every night. and on this particular thanksgiving i am awful also thankful that our country seems to be in many ways moving in the right direction another we talk a lot of the show about america's problems right now thanks to obamacare americans

for the first time ever have a chance to get affordable health care the law is not perfect and the website still needs to be fixed but things are looking up i'm also excited that the labor movement seems to be on the rebound this friday wal-mart workers across the country already walking off their jobs and demand higher pay better working conditions in the right to unionize it's the second year in a row wal-mart workers have used black friday as a way to draw attention to their cause despite thirty two years of reaganomics and devastating republican austerity there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that without a doubt is something for which we should all be thankful but that's just my take after the break i'd like to hear from you about what you're thankful for or hopeful for or even worried about this holiday season the phone lines are now open for a special thanksgiving your take my take lives if you want a chance to save banks or as be a question on any topic live here on the big picture give us a call now at two zero two nine zero four twenty one thirty four maybe even to you

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this a lot of people here say they want action on climate change thanks very much. good i knew maurice good on you thank you for the for sharing that story with us and as your question how to get people on the streets i think we wake people up you know we tell them what the what the downsides are we tell them what the upsides are it's going to kagan in syria circus new york. at syracuse university on monday you had a guest austin pearson whose story about the libertarian view of property rights and using the courts to sue for example a corporation that poisoned your water or pollute your air yet there was a man in texas who sued a fracking corporation for poisoning his water because he could light a fire and he wants his suit and then to add insult to injury the corporation countersuit him for defamation and won so how can libertarians support a system that clearly favors corporations and also happy belated anniversary to you

and louise thinks well thank you that's very sweet. how can libertarians i've never been able to understand how anybody who actually understands libertarian principles can be a libertarian. when there was a time when i was in my mid twenty's when i thought i was a libertarian i had basically read a few bumper stickers and flyers and it seemed kind of cool you know yeah let's not have government be all involved in and let's dope and prostitution become it legal you know let's just decriminalize everything that doesn't involve. you know victimless everything that is a victimless crime well. you know i don't have a problem with the criminalizing victimless crimes and all in favor of that but my experience has been that basically libertarians are republicans who want to get high and get laid and you know there's really no other way to describe it. there's a viewer from right here in washington d.c. left us

a message are rambling. tom i keep hearing the republicans saying that they have the best health care system in the world. i'd like to know what we have for the health care system and how we statistically stack up against the other industrialized countries could you please tell us the facts so that we could make up our own minds thank you tom some some pretty simple facts number one we pay roughly twice what any other developed country in the world pays for health care. a lot of that though actually doesn't go to health care it goes to banks toure's is skim money off the top. they're called health insurance companies but they're really banks there's and you know they skim anywhere from twenty to now by law they can skim more than twenty five percent but some more skimming fifty fifty five sixty percent off the top so they're getting very very rich. and so many others that and then in terms of infant mortality in terms of life lifespan in terms of

pretty much everything everything except the treatment of breast cancer we are not only not number one in the world were way way down in the numbers i'm sorry i don't have them right here in front of me but they're not that very very very hard to work up marty in evergreen park illinois hey marty thanks for calling in tonight what's funny is just wanted to do you were asking about what were you think for and you know i wake up every day and every day a week us from thankful that my heart still beating that you know that i still has family and friends that are that are still here and. i'm also grateful and thankful that you know we live in a country we're able to share ideas and collaborate and dissent without fear of persecution. yeah i assure that with you marty thank you very much for the call and like i mean on the opening when i said that in my experience and you know not just as a human being my experiences as a once upon

a time psychotherapist my experience writing books and psychiatry and psychology and working in that field for years. as the director is the executive director of a residential treatment facility for severely emotionally disturbed and and. severely abused children for five years. when i said that the two most healing emotions. are gratitude and forgiveness i wasn't exaggerating i think gratitude is really important this is this is the perfect time for us to celebrate it and you know maybe i don't know forgiveness is more of a thanksgiving easter thing gratitude certainly now gary in multan new jersey hearing you want to talk about shopping on thanksgiving yes. i appreciate your historical perspective on many issues and topics i remember i heard during the great depression f.d.r. wanted to stimulate the economy in many ways and when we tried was moving up

thanksgiving from the last week of november to earlier in november the public he did it by law and the public was outraged totally upset by that. and he had to back down in reverse the law and put it back to the end of november now today evidently corporations have done centrally what he tried to do and people don't seem to have much problem with it and i was wondering what your comments are on the holiday shopping on thanksgiving day and gary i didn't know that little bit of history at least the f.d.r. part of it i think it was abraham lincoln fixed thanksgiving day as the as that thursday and thanks in. whatever the small things about amber is that there is a november that you know is the day that we gave thanks frankly for the end of the war and the civil war and in addition to the traditional all that you know and then

and then the whole pilgrim thing overlaid it got changed with regard f.d.r. doing about it i don't know i'd. i do see this creeping commercialism as as a pathogen as a cancer i i'm with the reverend billy the church of stop shopping you heard from last night on our show william and maynooth ontario anglia profits bill the next one coming from i fear i actually feel a bit connected to this holiday in a way because i'm a direct of william bradford while one of the founders of the first colonies and yes yes. my father graduated from harvard in one nine hundred twenty seven eighteen years of age and he and i always had the same circumlocutions conversation we have an economic system that's predicated on unlimited growth supported by finite resources and nobody i figured you might be somebody that might have an

intelligent comment as to how we actually address this and how anybody would. address what that means your children well actually i think there's an answer to that william and you'll find it as much as my side lost you'll find it in that great bet between williams william simon julian simon excuse me and. paul ehrlich the guy who wrote the population back to three decades ago they bet that a basket as population and continue to increase that commodities would become more rare therefore their price would go up and that a basket of commodities price would go up or go down paul ehrlich lost the bet the price of commodities went down julian simon won the bet and julian simons promise and he's no longer with us and most people would think of him as a curmudgeon really conservative but i think that there was

a lot of truth to his promise which was that it doesn't it's not that we necessarily predicate our growth on the expansion of resources if we can use resources more efficient ways or if we can use different resources for example using solar power instead of using oil or using posthole or power instead of burning trees we've got much more efficient little you can do with a little tiny laptop that now has more computing power there's more computing power in your i phone than there was in the space capsule that went to the moon so i think that we underestimate human ingenuity i don't want to overestimate it so that is going to be the saw the solution to all problems you may have seen our piece on global warming it's over at last hours dot org very concerned about it but let's not underestimate either deborah and graham north carolina deborah what's up. yeah i just wanted to make that kind of a passive comment in. the comment is that about to go on

all that we still go. with. even appealing colors to children yet our on a cli. we are still givens. they annually after earliest products could recall that are harmful to children. and that would not comment on yeah that's a brilliant point and nobody's recalling the guns they should not be for sale for kids in mind devore thank you for the call matt in joliet illinois what's up your own talk about minimum wage. i would look i mean earlier and i think the problem with minimum wage is you're both right nobody's going to read the minimum wage with out the government mandating it but once minimum required gets raised they are going to i believe are going to raise prices that's not what's happening or if you eliminate employees because they want to head explode what has historically no what

has historically happened up until up until the reagan administration c.e.o.'s in the united states for one hundred years and made only thirty times with their workers so you know if you were to raise and workers were doing pretty well time magazine in one thousand nine hundred sixty six said that if wages continued to track productivity from one hundred sixty six to two thousand the way they had from the george washington administration to the ronald reagan administration you'll find this quote in my book crash in two thousand and sixteen that the average american middle class worker would be making one hundred ninety thousand dollars a year at the end of the year and probably working a thirty hour a week remember the jetsons so in fact what happens is as minimum wages go up it's not the prices go up what happens is the corporate profits go down for c.e.o.'s instead of making five hundred times what their workers make it four hundred eighty seven times and their workers make so historically the the purpose simply not there it sounds logical and the cons have been trying to sell it to you for

a long long time but it simply is not true as minimum wages go up it actually stimulates the economy because minimum wage workers spend all their money and demand is what drives the come. yes that's it for your take my take alive thanks for all your calls if we didn't get your calls and i try to give a try to give us a call back next week and keep the video questions coming it's easy just grab your phone or computer point a camera at yourself and record your question or comment and then e-mail it to us at your take my take at g.-mail dot com. and that's the way it is today tonight wednesday november twenty seventh two thousand and thirteen and don't forget my new book the crash of twenty sixteen is now available at all online retailers at your local bookstore and for free in libraries and on tuesday december third i'll be speaking in signing books of politics and prose right here in washington d.c. starting at seven pm and i'll forget democracy begins when you get out there get active tag you're it happy thanksgiving.

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