at a court of law around. is a story made sort of movies playing out in real life. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy correct. little. bit of you know i'm sorry and on this show we reveal the picture of what's actually going on when we go beyond identifying. rational debate real discussion critical issues facing america ready to join the movement and welcome the big.

ball on tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. chill a as just elected a new president believe it or not there's a lot she could teach politicians here in the u.s. about how to run a country more on that with professor richard wolffe in just a moment also just one day after n.s.a. chief keith alexander went on sixty minutes to defend his agency's spying programs federal judges ruled that the n.s.a.'s bulk of the metadata collection program is unconstitutional and the president himself is about to propose its own sort of then i say reform so could this be the beginning of the end for the surveillance state and if you really want to live the american dream and be happy yet to go to you to leave america go to finland tell you why but i still take.

you know this chalet and this have rejected reaganomics and it's about time we followed their lead back in the early one nine hundred seventy s. chile was one of the most progressive countries in south america it's democratically elected so. president salvador allende nationalized big businesses and gave every chilean access to free healthcare and free higher education g.d.p. went up income inequality went down and for the first time ever working class chileans had a chance to live their version of the american dream but not everyone was happy with president i ended chile a new deal behind his back the united states and that country's corporate and military elite were conspiring to sabotage his reforms and destroy the country's economy although i ended his policies were successful chile still needed foreign loans to survive and so the nixon administration got the international monetary fund to suspend all aid its decimated the economy and stunted the progress i ended

made over his first four years years in office the chilean elites sabotaged campaign turned into outright treason on september eleventh nine hundred seventy three one with the help of the cia general august pinochet overthrew n.a.s. government and assured in seventeen years of military rule you know she's dictatorship was one of the most brutal in latin american history dissidents were jailed tortured and executed was savage cruelty summary would throw the helicopters into the ocean others are taken to the national soccer stadium in santiago where they were shot at point blank range by firing squads the memories of pinochet's brutality are so raw that to this day many chileans refused to attend soccer matches at the national stadium. believing that to do so dishonors the debt pinochet's cruelty to his opponents was matched only by his equally cruel devotion to austerity style economics soon after he took power the general invited milton

friedman's chicago's school boys to reform and economy it privatized industries slashed government spending austerity inflation reached as high as three hundred forty one percent g.d.p. decreased by fifteen percent and chile's trade deficit ballooned to a whopping two hundred eighty million dollars unemployment jumped from three to ten percent and in some parts of the country climbed as high as twenty two percent of course that didn't really matter to the chicago boys because as chill a an economist orlando led tale the a noted they had succeeded in their broader purpose to secure the economic and political power of a small dominant class by affecting a massive transfer of wealth from the lower and middle classes to a select group of monopolists and financial speculators like reagan in the united states pinochet gutted progressive reforms and i shared in a new era of dominance by the super rich and the corporate elite pinochet's

military government eventually fell in one nine hundred ninety and a mockery was restored but the legacy of his time in power is still felt today inequality is still high and education is too expensive for most chilling ends to afford not surprisingly the country's outgoing or right wing president sebastian pinera did little to change this that's why on sunday chileans elected socialist michelle about as president like i am maybe for her promises free higher education and raises taxes on the rich i mean on the heels of the first right wing president since pinochet bashing let's for election is a significant one chileans have once and for all it appears said goodbye. to the legacy of pinochet and the policies of the chicago boys to put it bluntly they rejected reaganomics and we should say. earlier today i spoke with economist and

author richard wolffe about the election of michelle bachelet i started out by asking him how and why we should know about the chilean experience with the chicago school of economics. basically chill a offered itself through its relationship with the united states to be a bit of a test case to see whether the extreme conservative fundamentalist kind of economics preached by milton friedman would be a success in helping an underdeveloped country like achieve extraordinary economic growth things didn't work out really well there there's been a growing chaos of difficulty there no doubt for many reasons but the notion of a strict conservative monetarist economic program for economic development as

a magic bullet chile is proof positive that it doesn't work like that so what is the election of michel about mean for chile. well because of its copper reserves because of the world's need for the kinds of products that come from g.l.a. they've had a pretty good couple of decades of economic development in the last twenty years or so not great but better than many other countries so you might have thought that conservative business oriented politics would follow exactly the opposite has happened the economic growth that chile did achieve which so many people look to as some sort of way to help the bottom half of society didn't work out that way in chile as indeed. rarely does it worked out to enrich mostly those at the top so what you have in the election of by chalet again now after having been in office

before is the clear expression of the overwhelming majority of people actually got sixty two percent of the vote that they don't want that kind of only equal society gap between a small percentage of rich people and a mass of people having a hard time they don't want that and they see in bashur lay a politician committed to doing something about the growing unjustified and overwhelmingly rejected by the majority of people kind of inequality the lesson for the united states is obvious isn't this consistent with a larger truth trend that is sweeping south and central america. yes indeed it's a trend three being in many parts of the world whether it's the united states or latin america or europe poll after poll shows that the majority of people are not happy with the inequality that has been developing for decades in many parts of the

world and instead of being reversed when those inequality decades produced a crisis in fact the crisis is continuing to build more inequality people everywhere are angry the only question is whether the wealthy are in another control of the politics to simply move forward notwithstanding the massive people's feeling otherwise in chile they could vote for someone in many other countries it doesn't matter who you vote for because the entire political establishment is committed to austerity and other policies that worsen inequality well and that's where i want to go that it seems that in south and central america people are actually voting in quote leftists but people are demanding the same across north america look at the i. by movement or europe look at the pitchfork movement in italy just this week do you see this as the future for the developed countries or will the billionaires elite squash it in these more developed nations. well i think

everywhere the people at the top are doing everything they can to do two things this is spain a system that makes them wealthier and everybody else's expense and to control the political life of their societies so that nothing can be done by the majority of people through the normal political process of voting to change it truly in latin america because of lest we changes over the last twenty years there is an opportunity for popular will but in most parts of the world you're bottling up a growing disparity of income and wealth you're not allowing it to have political expression and typically in the history of our human race that produces explosions and i think the pitchfork movement in italy but just as important a couple of weeks ago the parliament in spain came up with

a list of repressive fines for people expressing their public opinion that are signs of a polarization that is ominous in terms of where the world economy is going on the rise of the nazis and greece for example as well south south america is more heavily catholic than any other part of the world do you think that pope francis is critiques of chicago school style capitalism and the fact that he's the first south american pope might be driving or helping to drive this movement in chile. i think the underlying economic conditions are what's driving it because that's what's driving it everywhere but i do believe that having a latin american pope and having a latin american pope who understands what the meaning of the polarity of rich and poor is that has. produced in latin america among other things by the kind of friedman esque chicago school politics and policies that this pope understands that

if he's going to keep his institution viable and capitalism as a system that they've partnered with viable they better begin to do something for the mass of people or else the period of their survival is going to be shortened so i think yes it helps legitimacy for the mass of people what the system itself is driving them to do richard wolffe thanks for joining us tonight. coming up conservatives always say that any quality motivates people and helps grow the economy so why now that america is the most unequal country in the developed world is our economy stagnate and walk away do to make sure that our economy works for everyone answer both those questions right after the break.

wealthy british style. time. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger no holds barred look at the global fund. headlines.

in screwed is the united states is now the most unequal country in the developed world the richest ten percent of americans control a whopping seventy five point four percent of all wealth in our nation by

comparison federal the top ten percent controls only forty four point nine percent of the wealth in japan it controls forty nine point one percent in france the richest ten percent has fifty one point eight percent of that country's wealth and it's not as if things have gotten any better since the financial crisis they've actually gotten worse a recent study by economist and emanuel sans found that from two thousand and nine to two thousand and twelve the top one percent incomes grew by thirty one point four percent while bottom ninety nine percent incomes grew only by four tenths of one percent and the top one percent captured ninety five percent of the income gains in the first three years of the recovery. republicans libertarian say that this sort of inequality is good for the economy because it encourages people to work harder for those republicans and libertarians don't understand how economics work and the economy is more equal in everyday working people earn more they spend more the stimulates demand which stimulates growth when wealth is concentrated at

the top and the economy is less equal the growth suffers because consumers can't afford to spend their extra cash and the real rich are just dashing away in the cook islands or the swiss bank accounts. working people are way too busy for example trying to make their mortgage payments to go buy a car go out to dinner so for republicans really cared about jumpstarting the economy killer reagan tax cuts propose a living wage for the real job creators everyday working americans who create the demand with their paychecks so what are they waiting for as jack burkman g.o.p. strategist and host of behind the curtain jackals good to see thank you oh if you love job creators so much. in tax cuts i love this phrase working people as though i'm not a working guy you know i grew up in pittsburgh in a blue collar town i never saw a hardworking person maybe with the exception of my mother until i moved to washington and i see the people are rich here you know why because they work in the lazy bums in pittsburgh mostly you know what you see there you see working guys

with big bellies that come home put their feet up have an icy light and watch the steelers who's wrong nothing but don't expect much out of life if that's the way you want to live don't don't whine to the american dream of being in the middle class and working a forty hour week is not a reasonable thing you've got to earn your way in this society i mean when you think i'm talking about the i'm talking about the middle class and i'm talking about becoming rich not. just look at what's available think about think about what you're saying take a step back look at all the welfare that's available social security welfare welfare now you have now you have the health insurance obama's going to buy your health insurance with the health reform act you've got real welfare you've got. and that's your for profit company and this guy this myth that mythological average guy pays nothing in tax he gets all these benefits then you want to come in and say now we have to worry about his. you know very well

the average person in this country the upper five percent pay almost all the taxes in this country. the opera five percent support the budget simply not true for five percent maybe pain a large portion of the. income taxes in this country that's because they're getting most of the income they're getting they may be paying eighty percent of that for a ninety percent of the income when the democrats say that the fica tax. is higher than the income tax that's because the when you take out mortgage interest when you take out the childcare deduction the average person has almost nothing he goes eight years pays nothing on taxes whatsoever and makes an average of eight or nine million i don't support. all over the country i'll join you on the polls but i think one thousand nine hundred fifty eight in one thousand nine hundred eighty g.d.p. growth or g.d.p. in the united states was growing gross domestic product at three point eight percent it's the only time in the history of the literally history of all that it was over three percent for the per decade for three consecutive days. because the

country was white and the whole world was wiped out of the second world war we had no competition it's very easy to our exports went from about one and a half percent of our economy about one point eight percent it was not because we were doing an export driven economy. we were giving money to europe to rebuild we didn't sell them things they went to the us had no competition anywhere in the world there was nobody in the japanese were invading the u.s. steel market the british were invading the us steel market the germans were down until the seventy we had a good strong economy that was internal we americans were buying american made goods we had we had trade policies that were protecting us we had labor policies or we started this idea i needed to deal worked and then reagan came along in one hundred eighty and he said ok let's blow this up and from one thousand nine hundred twenty ten we've seen two point seven percent average g.d.p. when you look at if you look at small think about how will the american working man has done in absolute terms i mean you can prove anything by looking at small

intervals but look at one hundred forty one thousand nine hundred sixty one thousand nine hundred twenty thirteen look at how the american working man has progressed almost unbuilt from one hundred eighty until twenty thirteen average individual working person. as income has has been absolutely flat gone down a little so what the whole country has gotten richer is it but absolute standards are up you're trying you're focused on relative standards you're obsessed with relative productivity the average worker is going up at their wages margaret thatcher said about labor they want this we want this that's the difference that's the obsession with the left is obsessed with the relative differences then i got a relative difference is i'm talking about if you go to work and you and you work and you produce something you're productive you should be getting something that reflects that productivity you should from the georgian administrative get with the market and if you don't like that you work harder to improve your circumstance you know what i know i think it's really pathetic it's all it's market driven you betcha it is not market it should not be you know what you know because then you've

got children in the workforce then you've got people being paid why does three i'm not an anarchist i'm a conservative i believe in some legitimate government regulation i don't believe that brought about and we'll leave it at that check thanks for dropping my pleasure . it is a federal judge has ruled that the national security agency's bulk metadata collection program the one revealed by edward snowden back in june is probably unconstitutional this record judge richard leon concluded in a decision released today that the n.s.a. has dragnet surveillance of violates the fourth amendment to ban on unreasonable search and seizure he said that he could not imagine a more indiscriminate and arbitrary invasion and the systematic and high tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying it and analyzing it without judicial approval judge leon's ruling comes just a day after sixty minutes aired a controversy over report on the n.s.a. surveillance program that report which featured interviews with the agency's

outgoing chief keith alexander has been widely criticized as a glorified public relations piece for the n.s.a. c.b.s. reporter john miller essentially allowed alexander and other intelligence officials to use sixty min. it's as a platform to defend their policies here's a clip from the report. we need to help the american people understand what we're doing and why we're doing it and to put it simply we're doing two things we're defending this country from future terrorist attacks and we're defending our civil liberties and privacy. joining me now for more on all this is a hawk batar executive director of the bill of rights defense committee showed welcome back thanks for having me on tom thanks for joining us so let's start with today's ruling what's the significance of judge leon's this really wasn't a ruling it was kind of a preliminary look he ruled that he might rule in their friday enjoined but then the uninsured themselves and screw things up until the rule there was a decision on

a preliminary injunction so it's not the final word even in this case and it will likely be appealed before you in this case comes to rest and the significance of the case is basically that after sitting on its hands for a decade the federal judiciary is finally at least claiming to be back in the business of protecting constitutional rights it's striking that this is not the first ruling of its kind every federal judge who has ever reached the merits in any of several of the been almost a dozen now challenges to the n.s.a.'s program has ruled the programs and unconstitutional violation of the fourth amendment but on appeal most recently at the supreme court this spring every appellate court has said there's nothing to see here move along because before the snowden leaks no one could prove that they were actually being monitored and in fact they were not going to stand for the issue that you've been harmed and among other things what the snowden leaks revelations did was confer standing to millions of people right there standing being the when you go before a court you have to say i have the right to be here because i can prove that i personally have been on exactly or i represent

a class of people has been harmed all of the right of class action has been diminished by the supreme court that's all of that one point just to note there the reason that no one could establish standing until now was because all the abuse of secret arises so the secrecy and by the executive was blocking the judiciary from even having a chance to engage and so judge leon's ruling as a signals the judiciary at least starting to engage in this will take years to it was a classic catch twenty two you know i'm not sure i object to being secretly observed but you can't prove that you're being secret right or blood because it's secret that's what i object to but you can't in any way this decision only has to do with mall of the. all committed by the way it's i think it's interesting to note this judge was appointed by george w. bush absolutely in the very same year for the society number but at the very same year that the n.s.a. started the warrantless wiretapping program judge leon was appointed to the bench and the senate striking but the program that was started in secret illegally and unconstitutional by the president who nominated him is now the one the judge leon i think proving the independence of branch of the federal judiciary. is taking some

pains to restrain and placed constitutional limits on so there's this presidential review group going to. president obama's review of these programs and he says any leaks out of that in the sense of what's going on there have been a couple weeks the first of them is that the review commission the review board had recommended to the white house to split the n.s.a. between a military command and a civilian command and the word on the street at least is that the white house has declined that recommendation and will instead ensure that the n.s.a. remains a strictly military instrument there are going to be any number of other recommendations the full contours of which will not be known until next month interestingly enough after the white house has a chance to first review them and then decide which ones it will choose. a couple things about the review group that are worth noting the first is that it is interest so it's not independent in any meaningful sense the second is that it doesn't have any enforceability these are just recommendations being made to the

president you might view the whole thing as a spin move by the president who announced in august he was going to convene this review group so that he could get some advice about what to finally do about this issue that let's just be clear was an issue when he was first elected the largest organized affinity group in my barack obama dot com in july two thousand and eight was a group that said get pfizer right pfizer being the statute that enables all this and he didn't get it right and then doubt a claim that he needs a review group to decide what to do about yuri's we have just a little list of for a lot of us here is your thoughts on c.b.s. his report just to me like an infomercial yes a scale. having demonstration of so much of what is wrong with corporate media in the united states and also an example of programs like. this no independence at all the idea that media would be reduced to becoming propaganda in favor of the state when so much of journalism is ethics is rooted in this notion of speaking truth to power and shining a light where all that's in there and that's the essence of the first amendment is

that without a free and independent press you can't have a functioning democracy ever so. great to see you great to see it so thanks so much for dropping the question. coming up it's been more than two years since new york police broke up the occupy wall street encampment and zuccotti park what impact did occupy wall street have on american politics and what can i teach us about mass protest going forward and how these wal-mart trying to profit off a bit more on that right after the break. one of the wonderful strong women a lot of these policies i think you're right. it

was. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. you've got a quote for you. it's pretty tough to. say what it's about story. let's give this guy look it's about time. working for the people missions the mainstream media works for each other bribes vision by.

phone from. science technology innovation all the news developments from around russia we've got this huge earth covered. i think. i would like to do. that you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution which says that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy shrek. never go on i'm sorry and on this show we reveal the picture of what's actually going on we go beyond identifying the truth rational debate real discussion critical issues facing america ready to join the movement then welcome to the big picture. of the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour

a new study is out claiming that a lack of consensus building is what caused the downfall of the occupy wall street movement what do occupy ors think about the movement's ability to form a collective measure message and is the movement really dead also creationists used to be a marginalized group in their beliefs used to be considered radical but not anymore creationism is on the rise in classrooms and course sports across the nation is that a good thing or is that it's nine our children a proper education and america isn't the happiest country in the world in fact it's not even in the top ten so what's eating away at our nation's morale and how do we improve it. in the most of the rest of the news wal-mart the nation's largest retailer is now trying to profit off the very people who are fighting back against the power and greed of john.