economic crisis turns some countries into pegs these are the countries with weaker economies that needed austerity policies if you are in a situation of low gloats even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work and it makes millions of people very unhappy those who are unemployed see their wages decline almost a decade how good are the results. by the people gathered in which the watter of get people to see what i do and. they've been in full view she was i mean. why are the same mission still in place who one of the consequences. we. will first one assumes the truth be considered is the consequences are actually

quite acceptable to the decision. the international energy agency the i.a.e.a. said today that the united states could outpace saudi arabia right saudi arabia and russia in the production of oil this year according to an i.e.e.e. a report twenty eight hundred expected to be record setting oil production for the us above ten million barrels per day the only calvi out in the i.a.e.a. report is that if opec and russia do not stick to their one point eight million barrel per day production cut which they have said they would continue through the remainder of the year then things could change. and it's past four pm right now on the east coast and here in washington d.c.

and it looks increasingly like the government will officially shutdown when spending authority granted by congress expires after midnight the latest development was a meeting this afternoon between senate minority leader chuck schumer and president trump senator schumer reported no breakthrough meanwhile a short term spending bill that passed the house thursday night is pending before the senate but the prospects for passage are slim to none absent a larger deal in reality if the government shuts down for the weekend it isn't as huge a deal as it will be if it remains close going into the work week on monday as we raced towards a government shutdown over immigration issues with the calls for more in force meant vs demands to protect immigrant families boom bust takes a closer look at the economics of the debate with author todd miller todd welcome thank you for joining us you've written two books about immigration and borders most recently storming the wall in your first book and border patrol nation your

report of how essentially the entire united states has become the border can you briefly explain that for our viewers and what that means for the market for border enforcement solutions. sure thing it's great to be here on yeah if you look over the last twenty five years there has been a historic expansion of the border and immigration enforcement apparatus in the united states and you can look at a couple of statistics for example the u.s. border patrol in the early one nine hundred ninety s. about four thousand agents and now it's about twenty one thousand or increases of technologies and and camera drones and all kinds of stuff is as far as border infrastructure is concerned that has been expanding and expanding into hundred miles border jurisdiction zones so well. on the border but also well into the interior so you take that and you take the increase of interior

enforcement with immigration and customs enforcement and two hundred fifty detention centers that ice has and almost four hundred thousand people per year they're capable of deporting and you have this again a historic this expansion and which the budgets for immigration and border enforcement went from one point five billion dollars in the early one nine hundred ninety s. as an annual budget to twenty billion dollars in two thousand and seventeen and that sets the foundation for a thriving border security market now wouldn't the trumpet ministration so yeah it's expensive but you know finally we're people aren't coming into the u.s. is that a result of the twenty billion versus the one point five is that a result of rhetoric on the part of the president what do you think think what can you attribute to those numbers. well the numbers for

example the president often talks as if there is not a border wall that exists and there actually is one it comes from those numbers there's something about approximately seven hundred miles of walls and barriers with this clear strategy called prevention through deterrence which makes it more and more difficult for people to cross it is clearly more difficult for people to cross now than it was twenty five years ago and one of the people you know based on often based on economic reasons do continue to cross. it's. what happened is that it has become much more dangerous to cross and this flies in the face of what the trump administration's. says that well there's nothing on the border this idea that there's absolutely nothing and people are just crossing well we're looking at you know more fortification on the u.s.

border than ever before and u.s. history but you know some point you know he says there's on one side he says well you know there's not enough there we need my border wall on the other hand you know he sort of seems to take credit for the idea that you know we're building a big beautiful wall and we're doing all these things when in fact is you know you know some of some of the the infrastructure there even if it's not you know mortar was under president obama and bush and even and even clinton who got during that time who got those contracts by the way was this halliburton or who was getting the contracts to do these things to build what is there on the existing border. well with the existing border so when you look at the border wall that exists right it comes out of the secure for fence act of two thousand and six that is when you're looking at dramatic increases in the border budget coming in the post nine eleven era. that's so in the preexisting border there are lots of different

you know sub contract things that was done by customs and border protection one of which as you just mentioned was a subsidiary of halliburton k.b.r. kellogg brown and brown and root who got a contract for to maintain the border infrastructure of the fed and the wall infrastructure but also along with the wall building in two thousand and six to two thousand and nine approximately there was another program it was called the secure border initiative. net which was the principal program was that create a virtual wall of intense high tech surveillance technology the first company that got the contract and it was a big one was boeing boeing got a contract for about that was that became worth almost two billion dollars that was cancelled by d.h. ass in two thousand and eleven so that the idea of a virtual wall is that the wall is on the border but the border itself again

expands into the interior so there's a layers of border enforcement the virtual wall is another layer of high tech. surveillance technology and now the company systems which is an israeli company are its subsidiary element systems of america has the contract which could be worth up to a billion dollars and they're currently constructing fifty two such surveillance towers called integrated fixed towers in the us mexico border lands principally in arizona so those are you example of of of a few of many many companies that are that are cashing in on what's on the. the border but bonanza the border but as i like that phrase and it's very interesting what you said tied about the. borders not just right there along the border it goes back i'm not sure a lot of people know that it amazes me still that we're having this debate

surrounding the government shutdown because as we all recall the president then candidate trump and to his crowds would say and who's going to pay for it everybody would shout mexico but here we are talking about the government may shut down if we u.s. taxpayers don't pay for the wall. sort of a head shake there on that anyway todd miller author of storming the wall thanks for your time and we hope you'll come back thank you. but settle again the academic of sexual harassment goes on there have been no shortage of high profile cases involving celebrities but what about more common day to day impact on workers and here to talk with us about that very important subject under-reported angle of the story is diana ramirez deputy co-director of the

restaurant opportunities center united diana thank you for being here or having me ok so what is it what sector of the hospitality industry is the most that's impacted by sexual harassment at the restaurant opportunities center we've done a lot of research on this and we found that it is a fact the restaurant industry because of the sub minimum wage for tech workers so employers can opt to pay their tipped employees as little as two thirteen an hour the federal level and have the tips make up the difference to bring them to their regular minimum wage and so because of that two tiered wage system to poor curse have to put up with the whims of customers because the customers are paying their wages not the employer and it's crazy circumstance where people get paid to thirteen and then they don't get tipped as what usually happens so that's. been through those unfortunate and silly debates quite frankly so when you talk about sexual harassment what type of economic impact does this create for the hospitality

industry well you know. if for the survivors themselves you know that. a sexual assaults can cost up to two hundred thousand dollars to almost a half a million dollars in you know just just dealing with the case getting medical help you know the criminal justice system being you know brought into it but we also see an economic impact in the loss of wages that. diverse have so you know young women when they're in their twenty's when they get sexually harassed they more likely than not they often quit their jobs and so it's a loss of income there they go get help when they're you know it's a productivity too right lots of pay that is not just not getting a wage is not producing whatever it was there are you see exactly they're getting you know mental health than mental health care and physical health care and so when they're ready to come back to the workforce they often enter or enter at

a lower level than had they you know with what level they would have been in had they stayed in the workforce and so when you when you come pound that loss of money over someone's lifetime it's quite a lot and you know if i ask you that question i'm like wait a minute these are really human things and i'm asking about the economic angle of it and just what we focus on here boom boom bust that but that doesn't neglect you know the real pain in a lot of suffering that these folks have as interest interesting study about restaurant workers filed more sexual harassment claims than any other industry and this number diana just got me over one hundred seventy thousand claims with eighty three percent of those coming from women is that real i mean could hundred seventy thousand that israel and all those reasserts on the on average the sexual harassment claims to the to the e.e.o.c. are five times higher from the restaurant industry than any other industry and it

goes back five and i'm sorry five times higher and is it. is it both employers and customers is it more customers than employers that been broken out you know it comes from all angles because we understood you know most of us see it coming from the customers hey baby the name calling the with selling the touching but it also is is is comes from the managers and the owners because they tell you well in order to make good tip why don't you show some more cleavage where you wear the shorter skirt and then you know you're getting harassed by your managers because you want the good shifts you want the big tables you want the big parties and so it really comes from all angles and at some point they actually want the big tips to so you it's a double edged sword because unfortunately customers made to better based upon that which is the underlying problem we have in our society exactly and you know the restaurant industry is now almost thirteen million workers with

a large second fastest growing industry in the country and so when you think of it as as the base for a country you think of you know young girls going in at sixteen seventeen year old getting sexually harassed five times higher than their peers and then we move on to other industries. when something happens at that workplace we don't report it because it's never as bad as it was in the restaurant and so the experience of the restaurant industry is not only in the restaurant industry it permeates to every other sector of our economy and it's no wonder that we see you know the the weinstein scandal in hollywood because guess where all those actors and actresses work before they made a big in hollywood you know and it's it's in every industry. you know i'm wondering whether or not when you talk about all those those claims of hundred seventy thousand clients is there a particular geographic region of the country where those folks those claims are being made in the south because most of the southern states still have follow the

federal minimum wage which is to thirteen an hour there are seven states that have eliminated that that sub minimum wage and they pay the regular minimum wage and tips on top of that there are seven states and they're mostly on the west coast and so we do see higher rates of discrimination and harassment in the south just around us but we're really pleased that you are here and that you're following this stuff on a daily basis it's a noble and noteworthy work and we're pleased to talk about it and the economic impact and enter a marriage thank you so much for being with us having preceded it. that's it for now action packed as always thanks for watching be sure to catch boom bust on you tube you tube dot com slash boom bust r.t. catch you next on.

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the worldwide news headlines live from moscow for this saturday just passing midday here in the russian capital it's oxy international so you can forget about the war on terror it's russia and china that is now america's biggest threat that's what the u.s. defense secretary james mattis spelled out as he unveiled the country's new foreign policy priorities. picks up the story trump's new defense doctrine can probably be summed up in just three words bring it on if you challenge it will be your longest and your worst day the war on terror is now secondary the priority is the new great game of proportions great power competition not terrorism is now the primary focus of national security. the logic here is that technological and hard power gap between the us and the

competition is narrowing and washington simply can't let that happen not expect success tomorrow. with yesterday's weapons or equipment. investments in space and cyber space nuclear deterrent forces missile defense advanced autonomy systems and resilient and agile logistic will provide our high quality troops what they need to win. i. i. i. that is a new arms race or race is a nuclear arms race at me races side by race space to what has that ever made the world

a safer place sure we can have competition and all of that internationally but we should be working more cooperatively with each other because last time i heard the cold war was over what i'm really concerned about is that we're going to be seen. draining i drain resources to something we really really don't need already they're talking about a hypersonic fighter who needs it that really requires billions upon billions of dollars of research and development and again it's really aimed at keeping the defense industry in business it's been said that budget cuts have done more damage to the u.s. military than anything else they say is an attempt to undo that damage that these arad vicious platens remember the f. thirty five for the colombia class submarines lethal weapons at least when it comes to destroying budgets but then that's what friends are for you know it winston

churchill it once said the only thing harder than fighting with the allies is fighting without them the growing economic strength of today's democracies and partners dictates they must now step up and do more. making everyone else pays this much is part of the plotinus all the fancy toys and europeans especially haven't been all that enthusiastic about spending fortunes in defense understandably but then there's a new domain to fight in the cyber world this is a wild west right now as you know people in their bedrooms can be doing things that are causing your bank account dire problems at this point an urgent challenge and the u.s. is going to overhaul and boosted cyber forces giving them greater capability to deal with the random guys in their bedrooms i think we've got some serious challenges ahead we don't have the resources for the kind of spending that they

want to do and i think we need to be a great deal more concerned about how those finite resources are going to be allocated and we need to be meeting immediate threats and that's terrorism. comes first year in the white house is being mocked by a government wide shutdown that's after the republican controlled senate refused to approve a bill to fund the government it has been a bumpy twelve months for the u.s. president not to use caleb maupin now takes a look at how trump's tenure has unfolded so far. when trouble is sworn in a year ago emotions were running high on all sides. ok. us media described it as a pivotal moment in american history you're not having a terrible terrible dream also you're not dead and you haven't gone to hell it will be very bad americans and others will now die washington d.c. the establishment is terrified and they should be they call that the trump

revolution trump promised to completely overhaul u.s. foreign and economic policy he promised a brave new world that was cheered by his supporters and dreaded by his detractors as a distro be an apocalypse so a year on where are we well with all this america first rhetoric you might have thought that would have meant less interference in other countries well that's not exactly how it played out tonight i ordered a targeted military strike. and it was another successful event we have many options for venezuela including a possible military option if necessary on the home front some promised a new level of protectionism against mexico and china but the usa is increasingly buying more foreign goods and producing less of its own the trade deficit with mexico is up by eleven percent the trade deficit with china is up by seven percent unemployment is low but so are wages there is record amounts of household debt in

the united states right now and retail stores are closing across the country and here's one thing that didn't change between trump and previous administrations during the election trump talked about getting along better with russia and his detractors called him a kremlin puppet but now one year later things between washington and moscow are about the same as they were before bad for their action by the. congress to put these sanctions in place from the way they do best the decision they made that made it very overwhelming was. except we may be at an all time low in terms of the relationship with russia this is built for a long period of time now trump promised to drain the swamp of corruption we are going to drill. washington d.c. . but it looks like that swamp is still here and deeper than ever policy stay the same our foreign policy is the same the monetary policy in the federal

reserve is the same spending as the same deficits are still rising so there has not been any significant changes in the direction of our country which i had been hoping for is that he has perpetuated so many of our deeply flawed policies especially in foreign policy foreign policy is a little bit more confusing i'm very pleased he's at least made an honest effort that he's reduced the amount of regulations and i think that's one of the reasons we've had an economic boost. and that is that is good and he's made an effort to reduce taxes that's poor from perfect but lower taxes less regulation is good and the marketplace is reflecting that oh and don't forget about that wall we're going to build the world we have no choice we have no choice. yeah how's that going we have some wonderful. prototypes that have been put out now

despite the president's ambitious timetable for construction it remains unclear when the wall might actually go up on the surface donald trump looks like a president like no other he's allowed brash he doesn't care about political correctness is even turned twitter into an official white house channel but if you look a little bit closer and judge him by his political actions he's a little bit more the rule than the exception. artsy new york drums presidency sort of has also been mocked by a string of quote catchphrases and diplomatic maneuvers. the world and the media guessing as to what he was going to do next here's an odd take on his tenure throughout the year. ily.

donald trump of office means nothing this is one of the most radical every one of your own speeches we've ever i'm not going to give you can you speak out or you are fake do. trumps incoherence is all a direct result of the book fair chance of losing russian u.s. officials are growing increasingly concerned about possible russian intrusion. we've just launched fifteen. where we had just syria. heading towards syria. yes.