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rebellion creating the what called it's called the kernel commission the national advisory commission on civil disorder is the current commission actually called for . what we could look back in retrospect as the equivalent of a domestic marshall plan they called for expansive investments and unprecedented investments in education and employment and welfare and housing and they said you know if it requires a massive tax increase to do that this is what society must commit to so they were and this is a bipartisan commission made up almost entirely of societal elites that was quite adamant that the problems in detroit and cities across america were deeply rooted in society they weren't just you know a short term thing and they required a deep structural response instead of the war on poverty because this narrative of it's a riot and it really just requires you know a police law and order response and a lot of this is rooted in racial stereotypes as well what you get is a real shift from the nation focusing on a war on poverty towards
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a war on crime so today in detroit you know over four hundred million dollars a year is spent simply keeping people from detroit in prison why how did all these developments lead directly to donald trump well detroit had been you know one of the main places where you have a shift of white population from the city to the side but this was happening well before nine hundred sixty seven that accelerates after nine hundred sixty seven and this shift of the. base of the republican party moving really to the suburbs it's what's happening in this time as well and so you know if you look at the so-called reagan democrats phenomenon one of the major studies of that was of suburban detroit and they noticed that again a lot of blue collar white voters were shifting their loyalties from the democrats to the republicans in the age of reagan in large measure because of their antipathy towards detroit becoming a majority black and politically empowered black city and so the democratic party was associated with with what many of these suburban white voters saw as reverse
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racism they saw that there was a real backlash of the civil rights movement and there was this new opportunity this really new opening that reagan was quite skillful at seizing up on you know reagan of course talked about welfare queens and the welfare queen who was very much both a gendered and racialized subject became the stereotype that was used to launch the attack on so-called big government and then the first speech he gave after he got the republican nomination was in philadelphia mississippi the the the the county were former chaney and goodman were murdered the three civil rights workers down in mississippi. you know another shout out to the to the to the white racist base you argue that the brain is back to contemporary times you argue that the political career of education secretary in michigan native betsy device is symbolic of what happened in detroit how so. well if you look at what happened with education in
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detroit so the city of detroit was taken over by an emergency manager in two thousand and thirteen so the elected government of detroit the mayor the city council all of them were completely stripped of their powers and the republican governor was simply able to appoint a bankruptcy attorney to run every aspect of the city and so this is why you know again even though the city is votes regularly over ninety percent against republican presidential candidates you essentially had right wing policies governing the entire city and they've been put in place even though nominally the city's got its government back the financial policies that been put in place have to by law basically stay in place for at least thirteen years so that's happening at the city where the bill but before that even happened the entire detroit public school district was put under an emergency manager starting in one thousand nine hundred ninety by governor engler who was the republican governor a while before. their current one snyder and at that time the
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city school district still had about one hundred sixty two thousand students now there are forty seven thousand since the emergency manager took over they closed one hundred ninety five schools where did the students go some of them went to the suburbs but what's happened in cities like detroit and it's happened in michigan almost and i'm at a bigger scale than anywhere else is the charter school industry simply exploded and michigan's laws allowed for profit charters to become eighty percent of this now billion dollar a year industry and the charter schools are not performing any better they're not accountable there's literally no nothing to ensure that the students get a decent education in fact there was recently response from the state of michigan to a lawsuit saying that students don't have any constitutional guarantee to literacy and so they're able to fire back against a lawsuit brought forward by parents and betty davis was funding this she funded the charter school movement what she saw as a step towards she wanted values for parochial schools and this. attack on public
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schools in the name of school choice but it's really privatization. has just devastated the public school districts. in michigan but particularly in detroit and this is not seen as a problem this is actually seen as a model that vos and others would like to bring to the whole country so she's plow she sees that as a success in the in the final minute we have here scott a big theme in your book is also how detroiters are fighting back against the d.n.a. realisation of their city and its takeover by the plutocrats can you talk about that what does that resistance look like and what can americans in other parts of the country of our country learn from it absolutely i mean there is no doubt there's an economic crisis it's affecting black people setting white be able to have acting immigrants affecting people of all races and you know just like in the in the school choice movement we've been sold really a set of false choices we need real economic opportunities and choices to respond to this crisis there's no doubt that there is an economic crisis in detroit but what we need is not you know we're not going to be saved by neal liberal policies
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that got the power of unions that. got pensions and they got health benefits what we need is a real choice where people are actually coming together creating local economic priorities that are doing things in detroit like turning the vacant lots into urban farms creating schools that put the emphasis on developing critical thinking and student solving problems rather than just you know being trained to be mindless workers these are the types of things are actually having the grassroots in detroit has always been a movement city it still is a movement city in many ways that's why it came under attack but in many ways that's why detroit is in so many ways where we need to look for to see how the answers are coming from below are remarkable on a great book scott thanks so much for being with us tonight. thank you for having me pleasure coming up republicans like paul ryan and love to fear monger about creeping socialism but the truth is they're perfectly fine with class warfare just so long as the benefits the rich more on that side long liberal rubble of david
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brooks and charles sour right after the break. there's a real irony going. to play a responsible place new people and that's always so that's what i think it's always the same answer. for every now wholesale surveillance is still you ammo meanwhile there's going to do so since the instructor has used social media ok well i always thought of this story as a scar a real. i think the average viewer just after watching a couple segments understands that we're telling stories in our critics can't tell
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in the. repeal and replace is dead one way of repeal and replace whatever the fate of the senate's senate g.o.p. so-called health care bill is the chaotic past seventy two hours of obamacare repeal make one thing very very clear the republican party is simply not fit to govern let's rumble. joining me for tonight's rubble are dave brooks associate editor of the daily caller and charles sauer economist and president of the market institute thank you
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both for being here i think you have it was so donald trump met with the republican senators at the white house today and said afterwards that they shouldn't leave town without passing a bill to repeal and replace obamacare. is not an option and frankly i don't think we should leave town unless we have. a health insurance plan unless we can give our people great health care because we're close we're very close ally was fast just yesterday trump was responding to the collapse of the republican party's so-called health care bill by saying that republicans should just what obamacare fail and then come up with an alternative meanwhile senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says he's still going to hold a vote extra week on a bill to repeal obamacare without a replacement a bill that the c.d.o. says would result in thirty two million americans losing their health insurance isn't this all the logical end result of what happens when
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a party that doesn't know how to govern tries to govern i guess at the republican party does outrage really well but governing it's not thirty two million people would lose their insurance it's thirty two million people would be projected. who have insurance now and i wouldn't have it them less insurance it's people that choose not to have health insurance it's not that the bill takes it away but the one thing that the last seventy two hours proves is that leadership is hard work when president obama came into office he had a sixty vote majority in the senate and he was unable to pass health care reform with that sixty vote majority that isn't a filibuster proof majority wait a second it passed the affordable care act it's not about they passed it after he lost it they didn't get what he wanted he wanted a single payer i mean on the campaign trail seventy two times he said that single payer is the way you know that's what he proposed what he proposed was romney care with a public option and joe lieberman made him pull the public option out of there i mean this was. his for but i did ask or how much that third options didn't pass it
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was only after they finally figured out how to get things together that they were able to cobble something together and pass it with a fifty vote bill and not the not the sixty vote bill that they want to what does that have to do with trump's inability to pass anything i would put this on trump i would. put this on the republicans and i do think that you make a good point the republicans are showing an inability to govern that is going to hurt them come come you know maybe on this midterm but maybe twenty twenty if you look in the past sure the republicans did well in two thousand and sixteen they gained you know state legislators in governorships but they also lost two senate seats they lost some congressional seats in the house and while they still have majorities in both the house and in the senate they have they have steadily they have been declining since twenty sixteen when they gained the nine senators take back the senate so this raises the question of why i mean i would suggest that the reason why republicans are having such a struggle particularly with health care is that the help the republican health
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care plan was romney care mitt romney that ran for president he instituted in massachusetts and it was put together by the heritage foundation was first introduced to the united states public in nine hundred seventy two i richard nixon the democrats' health care plan was rolled out by harry truman in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight and it was single pair and so i mean those are the two clear positions that either one of which you can construct something around lacking those two i don't know what the republicans have other than let's just go back to the bad old days where we're all getting essentially screwed by the insurance kind of stuff i wouldn't be so easy on trump i mean this is the guy who wrote the art of the deal he didn't write the art of the deal he hell is going to write or he had a ghostwriter he put his name on the art of the deal and we're see why it was a ghostwriter and not him that wrote it he has failed to really engage capitol hill in any sort of meaningful way but on the other hand you're right i mean the heritage foundation supported the individual mandate they pushed it in romney care
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they were out in other states at the time pushing it in colorado and this is a problem they are one of the larger think tanks in washington d.c. they have put been pushing this a better narrative since then but it's confusing to the right when you have the major think tank pushing just their own and no evidence to me dave of actually any alternative. with that the trump would say ok here's the alternative we're going to do this. take it he is giving a lot of ability to paul ryan and mitch mcconnell to make this legislation right and you saw the same thing actually under president obama it took almost a year to pass the affordable care act i think so he while he has a hands a hands on approach and you know he had a dinner today with are the lunch with the senators and he brings them over he is giving them ability to do this but he's also you know he has to decide exactly like what you're saying what what does he want if that's going to be repealed and repeal it's going to be repeal and replace what exactly are we getting and i think that that needs to be clear the american people are that's that's the sticker and you
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said to do this and what is this i don't think anybody other than getting rid of obamacare and i'm not sure that anybody has a clear handle and house republicans have unveiled their ten year budget proposal and it's a monument to the kind of class warfare they've been waging on working americans since reagan the so called building a better america budget calls for two hundred three billion dollars in cuts in domestic spending mostly via cuts to programs like medicaid medicare and social security at the same time however it also calls for increasing military spending by seventy three billion dollars this all of course violates donald trump's camp campaign promises never to touch the social safety net and stop wasting money on our military so why are republicans ok with class warfare when it's being waged against working people i don't get it this is this is supposed to be their base well part of this part of the problem is is the waste that's in medicare and that's in medicaid i think that if they were able to if you think there's less waste in
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the pentagon. on this two trillion dollars in the hole and has been successfully audited since the seventy's i believe you know it's right by the pentagon to actually on track to be audited now the the current guy the legislation was passed two out of the pentagon under president obama the guy that taken over that job he's actually i believe. over norquist like cousin or brother or nephew. said he's ready to do it and took the job wanting to do it so we might actually get that i'm a believer that there's a lot of waste in the pentagon and that increasing the budget and today's tight budgetary environment is irresponsible but cutting money back from medicaid which hasn't proven to do any good for the people that get it and cutting from other programs is should be on the table what about your say in the roughly seventy percent of medicaid recipients who are children and elderly people are getting no benefit from medicaid i'm saying that as
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a science i mean maybe roughly thirty percent who mostly are the working poor they're getting no benefit i'm saying that it's a society i'm saying that the science agrees with me on this the only science there is there is science that agrees with me the only randomized study that talks you know you heard our study that's got nothing to do that what do you mean it's on medicaid it's on medicaid it's on a it's that study was on how quickly it takes for people who have never before had health insurance in their lives to figure out how the system works and get into it and their outcome the really has a lot of people didn't even know where to go to a doctor in years old was a study was that. and there is no health benefits for people and there are no i don't exist studies down a credit demonstrating the efficacy of medicaid going all the way back to the one nine hundred sixty s. why does he feel as if i make money off of trucks you can eyeball was not even out of context and say that's nonsense but i would say today it was revealed i think there was about four hundred. prescription providers that were overcharging for
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opioids and we had the opioid crisis since today oh yeah that's why i think it's. i think it's much more and we just got the help. that is not a good thing eventually but after how many millions of dollars that they wasted through government programs so the government throws money at these things and then they never get enough oversight to see that they're being charged out the whatever it was in the government throwing them money it was it was you and may here i mean it was anybody who's taking opiates right and it wasn't just medicare i mean they were ripping everybody else right but when you have the government being the number one provider of health care in the country and the movement to make it the the number one provider for most americans you're going to come into these problems where they know that there could they have a cash cow and they can milk that cash cow so unless we can tamp those things with the rising cost of medicare it's going to be the majority of our budget and it's going to cripple the country so let's import a low import of drugs and produce produce some competition in the in the drug marketplace even even more than that what you have is the health care marketplace where the person paying is only paying ten percent of the cost we have the
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insurance companies in the government where you have a pain the pain the guy that's one of the supposed to work well it means that you don't have the same costs over say ok well moving along a few weeks ago the house appropriations committee raised some eyebrows among progressives when it approved amendment by california congresswoman barbara lee to a bill repealing the two thousand and one authorization for use of military force the nuff originally passed in the wake of nine eleven this was passed to give george bush the authority to go after al qaeda and the taliban specifically because of nine eleven but ever since then it's been it's just kind of turned into perpetual war and perpetual imperial pres. and see in the minute a half or so we have left dave first your thoughts on this is this there's conservatives as well as liberals who are saying that it was wrong it's not even constitutional look i joined the marine corps in two thousand and four back when we had already declared you know victory in iraq and we're back liberating mosul i think that this is a conversation that we need to have look the people that i joined in the military with have spent the last sixteen years of their lives at war. right for satire
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cycle duffel bag and we're making a joke that the war in afghanistan is about ready to get a driver's license and it's because we've been there so long and we need to look at libya you look at tunisia you look at some of these flashpoints in the world and they often say the authorization of military force has been used to upset these governments now in the midst of a refugee crisis that was literally started with the arab spring and overthrowing the governments in tunisia and libya and it's making a disastrous effect across nations and i'm more worried about the terrorists that's sitting in the u.s. or the terrorists that's sitting in europe than i am about the guy that's you know sitting in some place in the middle of the middle east you know that can can doesn't have any ability to strike us other than if we go out there and we we put our troops in harm's way twenty five seconds try just excited to find out that he writes for duffel blog. that was on my bucket list was to track down a writer from. that's a great place i second everything that he said i would say procedure wise the
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congresswoman. if she doesn't want her amendment stripped then she needs to become a senator because the house is ruled by the majority party that's the way that the house runs and the senate is for the minority charles david great having you both thank you thank you thank so much for showing up and that's the way it is tonight and don't forget democracy is not a spectator sport out there get active tag your. hope . it's.
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anesthesia their body temperature can drop to dangerous levels because of this warming blankets and heating devices that are necessity in hospitals all over the world but according to scientific studies a popular brand of warming devices known as the bear hug or is actually causing deadly infections to spread throughout the patient's body.
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