i think. it would like to do is show that 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 which recall books. to make you know i'm charming and i'm a show we were revealed the picture of what's actually going on we go beyond identifying the truth rational debate a real discussion critical issues facing america ready to join the movement then welcome to the big picture. on tell marvin in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture president obama gave his

fifth state of the union address last night laying out his agenda for the coming year to the american people while he talked about some good policy changes that executive actions a lot out in just a moment i would give my state of the union pick up where the president left off and ronald reagan hasn't been in the white house for nearly twenty five years but thanks to conservatives our nation is still addicted to fail reaganomics policies is the time we close the book on the reagan era for good and put america back on the path to success better and more and i sloan liberal rubble. you need to know this last night president obama took to the halls of congress to give his fifth state of the union address the american people and while he did touch on many key issues that our country is facing today there are many things he should have mentioned that he did it. so here's what i would have said to americans

last night our state of the union is strong but its politicians are stupid and are bought off by big oil tycoons wall street billionaires and giant transnational corporations and that's the first problem with america right now our conservative controlled supreme court has said that money is protected by the first amendment thanks to the disastrous citizens united decision the conservatives on the bench of made it possible for billionaires to flood our democracy with corporate cash which is slowly these straw in the democratic principles that our founding fathers fought and died for the supreme court has also said the corporations are protected by the fourteenth amendment they said the wal-mart apple are just like you and me they're not they are voluntary associations the bill of rights was not written to protect the east india company it was written to protect individual people of the fourteenth amendment was written to free the slaves not the corporations we need to

undo the damage that the supreme court has done and amend our constitution to clearly and explicitly say that corporations are not people in the money is not speech thank you. second problem our nation is facing is at the core of why we have a government in the first place why did our founders put their lives on the line fight and die to create the united states and why have people fought and died over and over again in the intervening years to keep this nation in the declaration of independence thomas jefferson said that governments are instituted among men to secure the alienable rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness so why do we have government easy answer to provide life liberty and the pursuit of happiness that if the job of government is to protect the rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. things that the constitution repeatedly refers to is the

general welfare and the real issue government should be laser focused on it's obvious it's jobs back in one thousand nine hundred four f.d.r. suggested that we should put into law a second bill of rights that would codified what he was already doing with the new deal one of the most important among those rights was the right to a job. when capitalism fails to provide for life liberty the pursuit of happiness when the so-called free market fails to provide for the general welfare which by the way happens frequently because those things are not the job of capitalism then logically those responsibilities fall to govern it's why we created government and that means making government the employer of last resort thank you. but it's not enough to just have a job americans need to be able to make good wages that they can provide for their families and not have to worry about where their next meal is going to come from

that's why we need to raise the minimum wage to at least ten dollars ten cents an hour so that everyone has a chance to live comfortably and make a decent living meanwhile working class americans as as they're getting back on their feet we need to ensure that america's wealthy elite are doing their fair share to support the economy in our country we need to roll back the reagan tax cuts and make sure that a family struggling to survive today isn't paying more in taxes as a percentage of their income than a wall street billionaire banks. and we can use some of the money that americans billionaires pay in taxes to help rebuild our nation's crippled infrastructure there are over two and a half trillion dollars worth of infrastructure repair we need just to bring ourselves back to being in the same shape we were when reagan became president and began ignoring infrastructure and you can add to that additionally we need to be building out twenty first century versions of our for most important forms of

infrastructure. those for our our intellectual infrastructure our communications infrastructure our energy infrastructure and our transportation infrastructure. to build out our intellectual infrastructure we need to go back to our government policies of free education these were first proposed by thomas jefferson in fact first put into action by thomas jefferson when he created the internet versity of virginia as america's first absolutely free college this idea was then advanced by abraham lincoln when he gave huge chunks of land to over fifty colleges across the united states to create two we shouldn free enough land that they could use the land to generate enough money to pay for the tuition for their students to wish in free land land grant colleges all across the united states. they saw a large fulfill during the truman and eisenhower years of the g.i. bill which raised the percentage of americans would attend college around six

percent over twenty percent that intellectual infrastructure built most recently in the one nine hundred fifty s. it was the basis of the invention explosion of the sixty's seventy's and eighty's that brought us the modern computer age it's time to fully fund our public schools and make college and trade school free for any high school graduate who wants to attend a thanks. to build out our communications infrastructure we need to lay a national fiber optic network to internet system we need to open it up to competition so that any company can use it and so we can have competitive pricing of high speed broadband like europe japan south korea and many other countries and yes that means protecting net neutrality so internet service providers like comcast and verizon can't dictate what we do and can't do on the worldwide web to build an improved our energy infrastructure we need to take

a lesson from germany and help homeowners across the country put solar panels on their homes meanwhile we need to build a national energy smart grid to handle all this new and localised power and we need to backstop local communities and states in building wind farms solar farms wave power installations and a whole variety of other forms of renewable energy and like europe and even china we need to make all of this competitive by making the carbon industry pay for their own externalities the cost of the military to protect their oil lines the cost of health care to pay for their cancers the cost of environmental destruction we make them pay for this with a simple carbon tax which then also instantly makes renewable energies less expensive than nineteenth century fossil fuels it's that simple so why is creating a carbon tax so important global warming. scientists tell us that our current burn rate of fossil fuels could raise the temperature of our planet five degrees celsius

that could warm our oceans enough to release trillions of tons of methane hydrate it's currently frozen deep underground in those greenhouse gases or raise the temperature of our planet another five degrees ten degrees celsius the last time that happened was two hundred fifty million years ago when continents were being torn apart and a massive lava flow that covered most of what is now siberia raise the temperature at least five degrees triggering the melt of that those same nothing crystals that raises another five degrees at ten degrees celsius increase in temperature is what geologists now refer to as the permian mass extinction ninety five percent of all life on earth both on land and sea died off it was the worst of all the five major extinctions our planet has seen. it took eighty thousand years for life to bounce back in a shooting in the age of the dinosaurs and we are now creating our own permian extinction we need to stop that right now. creating a carbon tax would be a great first step to ensure the future of our planet and of the human race and

three things. that none of this rebuilding our infrastructure and putting americans back to work or fighting for the future of our planet will be possible if we don't protect american lives we need to address the gun violence epidemic that's taken over our country and we need to save american lives by putting into place sensible gun control legislation that starts by treating guns like cars you can kill somebody with a car kill somebody with a gun if you have a gun it's your responsibility gun owners need to be required to have insurance and pass a proficiency test just one driver's the proof that they're capable of being responsible gun owners. neither of those provisions violates the second amendment they just make sure that those who bear arms are responsible citizens who can be held accountable for their actions after all the second amendment as they were regulated regulated regulated. so that's the state of our union we're not broke where the

richest nation in the world we don't have a deficit or a spending problem we have a jobs problem and we should not continue to let reaganomics turn us into a third world nation we should rebuild update our critical infrastructures and ensure that all americans have an equal chance at living the american dream and in the process we can save ourselves from extinction these are the challenges before us and while there are many we can meet them it's time for we the people to get behind the issues that really. get america back on the path to success. growing up as president obama speaking last night police were being called to a college campus in tennessee to respond to another senseless act of gun it's called gun control might be a touchy issue can we all agree that gun owners should have to have insurance like

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and jessie jane duff conservative commentator and retired gunnery sergeant in the u.s. marine corps thank you both for joining me and i think you back to start money and politics this is the third of this week is the thirty eighth anniversary of the buckley vs fellatio decision which was the first time that the supreme court came out and said the money was protected by the first amendment and i've read the first amendment i don't see money in there anywhere but the supreme court somehow magically found it and it's and last week was the fourth anniversary of citizens united when the supreme court said not only is money. in the first amendment protected by the first member corporations are protected by the fourth the fourteenth amendment and my recollection is that the fourteenth amendment was passed along with the thirteenth and fifteenth to free the slaves i didn't think lincoln want to read over the civil war was to free the corporations but apparently justice scalia justice roberts doing so is no time to get money out of politics we spent in this last election of two thousand and twelve election cycle six hundred million dollars just from super pacs eight hundred eighty million dollars of

outside money it's like you know show eagleson gets in and his guy is out front and then and then you know somebody else gets in his guy it's like we got the war of the billionaires now this is not democracy ok i agree that it's a war of billionaires however it wasn't a gesture by the supreme court for money it basically stated that any representation by corporations or unions or otherwise is free speech it doesn't necessarily have to be a person it can be an organization so i do agree with you that there should be a very very clear line between the two and often with a lot of these pacs or five twenty seven's or five a one c four as we're seeing or c. three s. were saying the very people that funded standing right behind the candidate as are giving their acceptance is it so that anybody it's really what we need where there are i'm seeing this i saw this in this in the president's state of the union address last night there were a half a dozen things that i thought he should talk about that i know i believe he did not talk about because my. interests would get all bent out of shape about you know the

keystone x.l. pipeline for example you know he talked about global warming in carbon keystone and . the first it was a little context so between two a presidential campaign about two point three billion was spent on both campaigns so that's something a lot of money a write off with think about it out of context of federal budget that is about three point five trillion dollars we're talking about a few tenths of a percent of that to decide who is going to run the most powerful country on earth . i would say that it's not that much it's let's let in so could you as a marketing it is it is so much that the average citizen cannot participate and i don't think that's true at all and i think that i agree with you that we should get money out of politics the way to get much will get money out of politics is to get politics out of business i don't think c.e.o.'s are sitting around just overjoyed that they're spending all this money a lobbyist. i can tell you to protect their business if you go back to when mccain feingold was passed you know john mccain and russ feingold on the floor of the

senate were talking out loud about the fact that and where i do my radio show we're in an office building it's two blocks from the from the hart senate building and we've got a half a dozen of these offices in our building constantly running into senators and congressmen in the in the elevator where they have to go off premises and sit there and dial for dollars four and five hours a day five days a week all of them but none of it were republicans so like it democrats don't like it give them half a chance to get money out of politics they will do it they passed mccain feingold but the supreme court came along and said no no we're going to let the billionaires run the show but and now they're back to dialing for dollars i don't think about i don't think anything's changed let's go back to the willie horton era let's go back and look at this with that vote the swift boats that you know what i'm talking about that all of these have had a detrimental effect on campaigns and they were around long before this supreme court decision. so there is always been some sort of influence and i think the best

thing you can ask for is to try to manage it so bad so the gilded age i mean we're we've got we've got levels of money thrown flowing into politics like in the mid and late nineteenth century or the late nineteenth century early twentieth century and you know americans rebelled against that in one thousand seven teddy roosevelt was president they passed the tillman act making it a federal felony to give to give campaign donations to any campaign candidate for or for a corporation to give a campaign donation and this was kind of a part of the audience too because you and i have been a big catalyst in why this has happened because they've had such an overwhelming effect like when you look in washington d.c. itself where i live the only people who will win in the election here are the ones that the unions get behind and that's pretty sad because a lot of people want to see an influence outside of the union so so let's let's all agree that the supreme court is wrong on this and needs to be modified or we need to modify we need amend the constitution to say money is property it's not it's not speech and therefore not protected by the first amendment and corporations or voluntary associations are not people and so they're not protected by the four to

be argued here and to think about what the alternative is to the citizens united case where it came down to it was about a group of citizens that got together and created a documentary about hillary clinton and wanted to air it and so if you are if you're putting research and any place of a life she sure sure sure what you're going to put the government in the position of saying this this is is electioneering and this is not this is this is a protected hollywood film you look at the governor of the position of saying this person who's blogging on the internet is a journalist and this person is not a journalist who's going on the internet only the government has that role i really just lay it all over the idea we have no knowledge we are pretty much the only fully developed democracy in the world out of the thirty four we do see countries that doesn't regulate political you know money and political they're also in the u.k. where you can spend over one hundred thousand dollars and i don't want to live like the u.k. i mean the reality is is that i don't know if research is right now but this is. hardly the arrest by conservatives ronald reagan again backs are back. to the state of iraq. you know yeah but. we're still we're still hooked on reagan over it so

your sins are ok is it time to change that and i think we should start by rolling back the reagan tax cuts larry beinart points out over the he opposed he says the truth is that tax cuts cause crashes where we cut taxes but that what follows is a cycle of boom bubble boom bubble and bust economy goes into freefall unemployment soars the american people suffer well the fact the matter is that if you look at the history the united states whenever the income tax top income tax rate after about three million dollars a year of income whenever the top tax rate goes above fifty percent then you don't have hot money flowing around in the system and so people don't gamble with that money and you don't get these bubbles and you don't get these crashes you know we had the period from night from the one nine hundred thirty s. until the one nine hundred eighty s. no bubbles no crashes top tax rate was ninety percent and then reagan comes along drops of twenty eight percent bubble crash bubble crash bubble crash three of them

in three decades so it is a time to raise the top tax rate back to where it used i don't think that we had a robust economy like we've had ever since ronald reagan put a lot of these into effect we have not had the stimulation within our economy my money is mine and i'm sorry i don't want the government managing my money for every dollar i give the government i'd like if they're evil then ideas anywhere in the three dollars a year but regardless you're looking at the top five percent people want to bastardize them and make them look like they're so evil their pay no that a huge of hers are three million. bucks if we're talking the top one hundred the one percent why don't we get tax reform so that it's a fair and everybody has skin in the game you got forty five percent not paying any and you've got the talent i've got not all of pay and nothing i mean you know if george bush the capital gains rate of five percent us modify the tax code mitt romney is not pay nothing that was said by harry reid if you're going to give us that no you know here tonight at ten percent yes he did you know if you look at fifteen percent being paid by everybody across the board that would be fair and then nobody could complain about him a year so you've got forty five percent. so on and he yes i am saying that this is

somebody who is who is making millions of millions dollars and therefore heavily using our court system to present as all two hours of the money for somebody making millions and millions and if you know a lot of money for somebody making ten thousand dollars you have no and guess what and i have some skin in the game and maybe i will show up and start voting and start thinking about what because instead of saying give me give me give me the same where's my tax dollars going and they would make sure that it's being spent fiscally responsible if i have no money going and i pay right or left or right what me working people at the bottom of the pile are in many cases paying more in taxes than bill and i agree then let's get a fair tax we know that me and kyle and no i totally agree i mean i think that. the history is not that long and it's easy to cherry pick data and there's a lot of factors that go into a crisis like the housing crisis other than just the tax rate we should say i think in the twenty's sure but i don't think bob bottom line i don't think conservatives are going to be persuaded by any of that data because for a lot of conservative it's a moral issue they believe in private property they believe in individual. no no

not really but they believe that if somebody makes it doesn't matter that it's marginal at what point this begins somebody makes ten dollars the government takes nine of them they believe that to be flat out immoral but that's all our debts wrong and so i don't think it's going to persuade anybody i think conservatives could get behind little because it was making more the latter more than three million dollars a year at that point and this is why we had by the way we had four decades of over three point two percent and decade per decade g.d.p. growth that we've never had since we have it has been i have a fair tax code no it's three hundred and cut the top tax regard as we were engineers are designed to do so i agree we are cherry picking your data you have got some balance or tax rate because i'll give you a forty year block people who have no investment in taxes could care less how the tax dollars are spent and that's important never giving one dollar of those used care where ever know if somebody is making ten fifteen thousand dollars a year they're paying payroll tax. they're paying sales taxes they're paid not and

all of this is pretty tired just another bulk of their their pain in their normal amount of taxes as i said in many cases other people and i agree we need to cut a lot of taxes you look at any of your bills and you see taxes going to play when reagan came into office corporations were paying about a third of the total cost of running our government now they're paying eleven hours and i know still don't you know t.j. and this you've been right you've got a live you've got to hand for ration is sitting on. three trillion dollars what is wrong with having economic prosperity that's why people flock to this country so that they can have that opportunity prosperity three million dollars doesn't try a little lot of these days when you look at what three million buys but if you want everybody to listen to us communist house where we all live in identical homes you care about six million dollars a year you're not ok you're saying that our big should be the same why would you like to visit america will you be better when c.e.o.'s only took thirty times what their workers did because when they took thirty one times what their workers did they started paying ninety percent in taxes that america worked better during those four decades when they took ninety percent of their dollar after the first three

million yes americans then we're making three million that's that point you know what do you make three million and then you stop you should that's fine i'll live on three million dollars of that would disable the success that we hear all of our c.e.o.'s still have these great whatever is shameful we this is the period of the greatest growth of corporations in the history of the united states where only some three hundred years old we don't have a lot of time to grade ourselves to take instead of taking an extra five million dollars out of my company i think i'll keep that money in the company i'll grow the company i'll hire a lot of. because that's the difference between conservatives and progressive progressive start from a standpoint of this is what will make america as a whole work well and we're just going to do we're going to implement it we're going to do it right a conservative start from a standpoint of we believe how do i get it i know we believe in private property we have fundamental first principles should not be violated and i'm going to sit in the right to private property what does that have to do with how much money do you want. government taking our money and that is where i find it very ludicrous that

you suggest that the government should have access government exhausts we are the government i don't want to give you my money to the people you know and i don't want to give you my money how's that if i have three million i'm not giving you any house that i'm going to ask you that there's you know good ok. here's our affairs and our share and we all have the chance to leave you with the last word go peterson but you also use. coming up in the state of the union address last night president obama basically said he's going to have to bypass congress altogether it was getting down to washington is this what progress is running for office want to hear the answer was very. wealthy british style some time to try to find.

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rational debate a real discussion critical issues facing america are you ready to join the movement then welcome to the big. welcome back to the big picture i'm tom arbonne coming up in this half hour last night's state of the union address left a lot to be desired for progressive's with the president barely talking about today's most important progressive issues what should he have brought up and how can the progressive agenda gain traction in two thousand and fourteen and five years ago a group of the most powerful republicans in our country gathered for a four hour dinner at a restaurant in washington d.c. the plan the president's take down is a nice daily take i'll tell you why that dinner was responsible for much of what president obama said last night state of the dress. we are now more than five years of the obama presidency and despite the big legislative success.