well give me your take my take a live our phone lines are now open so if you want to share an opinion make a comment ask a question live on the air give us a shout out to zero two nine zero four twenty one thirty four here outside the dowd states add a one for international tour and start out with jerry in california about left a message on our rat line. to implore you to do a longer show especially here in december on the expiration of the emergency unemployment benefits my state benefits run out at the end of december and should be me and my family are going to be thrown under the bus at that time and they have already tried a deal that does not include term so i have heard you prefer an instrument that

maybe could do a longer grant divert it and get some people involved who really appreciate it not all of your show listen i resent. thanks randy it's a really important point that you just made. i think. first of all there was a budget deal back. what about a year ago where they cut long term unemployment benefits from ninety nine weeks down to seventy or eighty weeks somewhere in that neighborhood as a compromise that the democrats had to make with the republicans i don't understand why all across america working people are saying because every working person whether they're unemployed or employed every working class person. certainly has the ability to lose their job and end up on unemployment although they may not think of it that way but why average middle class people are not saying oh my god the republicans are opposed to unemployment insurance. and the democrats are in favor of it and that's there for me i mean that's my social safety net that i could fall into. i do think harry reid i think today or yesterday said

if it doesn't get brought up before the end of the year it's going to be brought up first thing after the new year so there may be a few weeks i can't imagine. that the democrats are going to allow one point three million people to just fall through the cracks. and i don't think that the republicans have a large enough. a large enough club this time around like they did last time with this you know shutting down the government thing and defaulting on the on the on the debt i don't think that they're going to be able to use that to punish the unemployed more but it just blows what blows my mind the most is that average americans are going why are the republicans trying to punish the unemployed why they want to do away with food stamps why what's the deal and it's like it should be the republican agenda and randy from northern california hey randi. randi from california. sixteen hundred pages. thank you very much and thanks for being

there thank you that book was two years in the making a lot of work went into it and there's a has actually a lot of really great history and one of the best books that i've read i think it's just a good book so thank you for the affirmation tony and castille wisconsin hey tony thanks for calling what's on your mind tonight. greatest political minds in this country as. well bless you tony true but thank you. but. the republicans in the really wealthy people. it seems to me want smaller government and less rules less they have to go by because it cuts into their cash cow if there's no government overseeing these people from using poor people and taking advantage of. what happens is what's going on right now people that i am job

for. yeah you're absolutely right tony and thanks for the call and for making that point in fact when republicans say smaller government and less regulation what their time. going about is you know the koch brothers georgia pacific factories you know where they make their paper products that spew out these incredible sulfurous smelly stuff. the government should be able to regulate that right lot of the more profitable and more crap in the air or they're the koch brothers the refineries down in texas you know that are going to get all that oil from the tar sands oil up in canada that the koch brothers own that they're shipping across our country so they can refine it down in texas and sell it to to china and to mexico and and to england and what not. when they say less regulation smaller government what they mean is more profits for big corporations it's really really simple it's a simple simple equation lou and those big corporations are the most profitable in

the history of the world right now one profitable than even during the roman empire the rich are richer than ever before in the history of the world right now and but they want more lou and sellersville pennsylvania hey lou what's on your mind. i want to thank you for all the stuff you americans with but i want to go back to the one nine hundred seventy when dick gregory made. statements that kent state after the national guard murdered four students and what he said back then was for a hundred years americans have been going to the polls and voting for the lesser of the two we will do that for one hundred years and more you have left is the evil of the evils and that's where we are today there is no one democrat or republican that is worth the. lou i respectfully disagree i understand where you're coming from thank you for the call. a lot of the democratic party has sold out to the banks or

the big corporations. virtually the entire republican party has and. but but the thing that i think we need to keep in mind and where we need to keep our focus is not so much you know a pox on all their houses because this is our government. we have to do something about this we can't just sit around on a terrible i'm just going to vote right which is what about forty fifty percent of americans do forty percent during the presidential years and fifty percent during the non-presidential years that's like the the most destructive thing to do instead we need to recognize that what is corrosive about this what is you know what has turned what has caused us to have a name a nation and it's in state houses all across the country as well as here in washington d.c. a nation full of politicians and political acts instead of statesmen and stateswomen. what has caused that is the influence of money in politics. and what

has not just unable but to ratify legalized the influence of money and politics in ways that historically would have been called bribery. has been five men on the united states supreme court. who literally created out of thin air. and idea that has never before put been put into legislation it's never been proposed in any state legislature it's never been proposed in the united states house of representatives it's never been proposed in the united states senate it has never been proposed by any president and only one presidential candidate that i know of that was mitt romney corporations or people voted for a member. as far as i know that's it go back to eighteen eighty seven and read grover norquist grow excuse me grover cleveland's president grover cliff in one thousand nine hundred seven his state of the union address he talks about you know money and politics because this was the year after the santa clara county versus of

the pacific railroad case and he says you know corporations which should be the carefully restrained servants of the people have become their masters there is now an iron boot upon the heel of the average working man c.t. seven well it's come around again f.d.r. pushed that boot off for about forty fifty years and now it's back down on again and because of money and so many of those these five guys in the supreme court came up with this bizarre idea that has never before been proposed that corporations are not legal fictions that they are somehow people entitle to protection under the law equal to that of human beings under the fourteenth amendment fourteenth amount why the way it was put into place in the eighteenth sixty's eighteen sixty eight as i recall to free the slaves after the civil war that to free the corporations number one and number two that money is somehow not property it's not cash it's something

that's convertible as well but it is speech and therefore money is protected by the first amendment the first amendment which again is supposed to protect human remains. so you got these two crazy doctrines at the supreme court so that's the that's the cancer at the core of the whole thing you want to fix that go to move to amend out of work sign up started a chapter in your local town get active let's change this we can amend the constitution to go around the supreme court and say no corporations are not people and money is not speech end of discussion and then you and i lou will not be having this conversation about the lessons of two mary and little mountain south carolina hey mary what's up yes hi i was just thinking when you mention the millennium. my son is thirty of course the twenty nine but he's thirty but i kind of think of him as a millennial and he actually started. it and then he decided he'd like to become

a physical therapist and he went to college for four years and he completed all of his studies and graduated but he can't find a job as a physical therapist so now he's pulling down twelve hour shifts but absent the two plants here in south carolina and he even gets help i mean he gets a trust fund twenty thousand dollars a year and he still can't make it so i wonder what other kids don't i mean it's really scary to me you know it's the young the young people or the new working poor i mean this is this is mary thank you for the call well said and you see it in a whole lot of areas i mean it's not just you know the new. report just came out today that said that over the last four years three million jobs that pay more than fifteen dollars an hour have been lost and three million jobs maybe was four million the pay under. fifteen dollars an hour have been created. and now you've got like unpaid internships you got

a college you work for free for you just not stuff that's just nuts bill in washington d.c. hey bill what's on your mind. ok. merry christmas thank you merry christmas to you bill. i just want to let people think about what santa say. wiretapping worldwide is i believe. you know they have the capacity issue to and ship everybody stuff even if it had arctic to. the north pole i don't even really call it with commercial espionage. has not really military espionage it's political control there was a conversation between bob woodward has for years we remember from watergate and andrea mitchell that was on the whip about how the mind control technology was used during the surge in iraq. and the way they stumbled onto this they mentioned.

they happened upon one of the members of the joint chiefs of staff. and they said they heard of this type of thing used during the surge in the united states and. bill i don't know if. it want to find out more about it. jesse ventura yeah that's ok thank you bill yeah justin sure has been on our program i you know any proudly proclaims is it here and it's a conspiracy theories i really think that the n.s.a. i got a bureaucracy out of control be got seventy percent of the budget going to private contractors so it's like the private prison industry you know they're making business for themselves i personally believe that you're seeing you know good intentions gone wrong and you're seeing all these predators who have come in and these private contractors that's it for your take my take live thank you for all your calls we didn't get your call tonight try spectrum coming up yesterday speaker of the house john boehner lashed out of conservative groups who are opposing the

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it's thursday so let's get geeky yesterday the f.d.a. announced that it's going to ask pharmaceutical companies to help stop the overuse and abuse of antibiotics on farms so why is the food and drug administration which normally deals just with human stuff. talking about animal stuff why are they making this request well the reason turns out is because big meat is addicted to antibiotics in fact according to think progress factory farming operations account

for a staggering eighty percent of the antibiotics used in the united states and they provide big business and big pharma. factory farms give cattle chicken and pigs nearly thirty million pounds of antibiotics each year to speed up their growth and to prevent the spread of diseases that pop up when hundreds of animals are packed into small spaces to get the big meats over use of antibiotics has caused food borne illnesses that were once sparse things like salmonella and equalizer at least once weren't so deadly or so dangerous to mutate and to become resistant to the antibiotics as a result more than half of the meat sold in the united states whether it's beef chicken or pork contains antibiotic resistant bacteria and that means more and more people are getting sick it didn't always used to be this way though believe it or not there was a time when cows and chickens weren't chock full of drugs and outbreak city cole i we're not making the nightly news before factory farming really took off fifteen to

twenty years ago you can eat a raw egg without the fear of getting violently ill from salmonella. bars served that you could even drink a glass of raw milk straight from the cow without having to worry about he caught millions of people across america do but today raw eggs and raw milk are two very big no no thanks to the boom in drug resistant bacteria big meat argues that antibiotics are necessary to keep animals and consumers healthy but that clearly is not the case it's just more profitable for big meat there are plenty of countries where meat is consumed regularly that have bans on the use of antibiotics in animals as think progress points out in these countries diseases are controlled by keeping facilities queen and not overly crowded. looking amazing idea and these measures are working just fine with out the use of antibiotics in the european union just point zero zero zero zero nine per cent nine one

thousand one nine ten thousandths of one percent of people in the e.u. which ban on therapeutic use of antibiotics ninety ninety eight get a food borne illness like salmon or equal i each year ten a fraction of one percent compared to fifteen percent of americans. so let's hope the f.d.a. is up for its work in the pharmaceutical companies stop handing out and i bought it big meat in the meantime you might want to lay off the burgers in the chicken pork . it's the good the bad in the very very radio lucent lee ugly the good colin powell you know that colin powell in a recent interview with the puget sound business journal former secretary of state

endorsed a single payer health care system he said i'm not an expert in health care obamacare or affordable care act or choose to describe it but i do know this i have benefited from that kind of universal health care in my fifty five years of public life and i don't see why we can't do what europe is doing what and it is doing a career is doing what all of these other places are doing. a lot of things to criticize colin powell for the most obvious being his role in hustling the iraq war to the people but he said absolutely right when it comes to single payer health care obamacare is a good start there's only so much we can achieve while keeping our current privatized health insurance industry with. the bad meghan kelly some people say the kelly file host who is the rational person boxer called news for those people probably haven't seen what she said last night during an episode of her show discussing the slate dot com article to criticize the popular depiction of santa claus as a white man kelly both defended the idea that said as white men try to justify

their argument by saying the jesus was also white chalk it up. in slate they have a piece. santa claus should not be a white man anymore and when i saw this headline i kind of laughed i sound this is so ridiculous yet another person claiming it's racist to have a white santa you know and by the way for all you kids watching at home. santa just is white but this person is just arguing that maybe we should we should also have a black santa just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn't mean it has to change you know i mean jesus was a white man too but you know it's like we have he was a historical figure i mean that's a verifiable fact as actually jesus was not white at least the way he is typically the pictures of northern european white person he was middle eastern probably looked more like somebody from modern day lebannon i don't wasp from new england all factual inaccuracy is aside though the real issue here is that meghan kelley is actually upset by the idea of say a white man i should tell you

a lot about fox so-called news that its target audience and the very very ugly greg oprah is c.e.o. of the silicon valley startup angel that finds himself in broiled in controversy today after he posted to facebook an angry rant attacking the city of san francisco to go san francisco is full of degenerates who need to learn their place he wrote the difference is in other cosmopolitan cities the lower part of society keep to themselves they sell small trinkets would beg coyly stay quiet generally stay out of your way you realize it's a privilege to be in the civilized part of town and view themselves as guests and that's ok in downtown as self. you degenerates gather like how you know this. and that ladies and gentlemen is how the c.e.o. corporate class sees working americans and poor women and that is for sure.

if you're absolutely committed to gees throwing a presidency what do you. what do you know if you want to make sure a president goes down in history bad and that his or her legacy is one of failure. of course the easiest thing to do is to blow up the economy i mean just look at republican herbert hoover hoover was actually a fairly thoughtful president who did or tried to do a lot of things for his nation by the standard as they say is politics even though he's a republican you might call him a moderate democrat he was a strong supporter of regulations he supported tariffs on imports he helped create america's national park system and many of america's of our nation's v.a. hospitals hoover also proposed

a national pension plan an early version of social security which was rejected by congress and he tried to give low income americans a tax cut also shot down by a republican controlled congress but despite his list of accomplishments and is fairly rational policies at least in some areas hoover will be forever remembered by history as the guy who was in the white house when the stock market crash in one nine hundred twenty nine. right now america is really really vulnerable because of thirty two years of reaganomics because of phil graham's massive deregulation of the banks toure's of the grammarians wiley act in the commodity futures modernization act at the end of the clinton presidency our economy is also weak because of the insane trade policies adopted by both the reagan and clinton presidency is it really doesn't take a lot to keep our economy in the gutter these days or to make it even worse and because giant corporations have shut down in the last decade over two million us jobs and ship them overseas government spending has become

a pretty strong lever it can flip the economy for better or worse. so if you want to crash the economy best way to do it slash government spending and that's exactly what republicans are doing ever since president obama lost a filibuster proof senate when scott brown was sworn in to replace the late ted kennedy on february fourth the twenty ten. as economists paul krugman brilliantly points out his blog for the new york times real government spending has been in a freefall since two thousand and ten. thanks to republican driven austerity measures as crude minorites you can see that there was a brief model spurred and spent associated with the obama stimulus but it has long since been out weighed and swapped by a collapse in spending without precedent in the last half century. much of the recent drop in real government spending is associated with a devastating sequester which republicans know is the most brutal and terrible form

of austerity and the form of austerity that is most likely to destroy the economy and wreck the obama presidency and legacy. that's why conservative groups are committed to having the sequester hit americans full force and why they are now attacking fellow conservatives in washington like paul ryan who are willing to just slightly release the brake on steroids these conservative groups and their affiliated members in congress aren't just partisan politicians or conservative ideals it's their radicals hell bent on destroying the obama presidency the obama legacy and the democratic party in the process even john boehner has become weary of them and their power over republican members of congress. i mean their groups are huge mountain opposed to before they ever saw. are you worried that they're if they're using our members in there as you see the american people were there you go this is. the bad news here is that because of gerrymandering these radicals control

the house of representatives and in the senate they continue to filibuster any legislation that might improve the economy but the good news is that americans are finally starting to figure out which party is on their side and what the republicans are really all about these guys aren't statesman they're not even decent politicians they're political hacks and shills for the billionaire class and the corporations and they want to destroy the party the democratic party that stands for the interests of working americans here's what f.d.r. said about these political hacks in his one nine hundred thirty six presidential nomination speech. economic royalists. complain that we will go up bro the end. of america. what they really playing. is that we seek to take away.

in vain. they seek the right behind the flow. and caught. in the line that mitt. they forget what the flag on the constant no young band book. it's time to call out the overprivileged economic royalists are really what they really are that are conservatives and republicans in a way that barry goldwater or even ronald reagan would recognize the political fog's plan something. and that's the way it is tonight thursday december twelfth two thousand and thirteen don't forget democracy begins with you when they get active.

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