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sound the united states of america's ever growing national debt and my fellow americans this week we hit a milestone yes this week we finally got our national debt up to the record breaking level of twenty two trillion dollars that's trillion with a t my friends which i don't know about you but i think it's time to break out the cigars in the curb i.c.a. because twenty two trillion deserves a toast that's an epic amount epic amount i mean seriously epic amount of economic negligence that there's serves to be applauded that works out to about sixty six thousand dollars for every man woman and child in the country but that's that's only the beginning of the bad news because thanks to the war on terror spending and the democrat republican put it all on the credit card style of leadership that we've seen in the past few decades things are only going to get worse according to c.n.n. b c the most recent projections from the nonpartisan can. rational budget office

indicate the debt held by the public will rise to ninety three percent of gross domestic product in the next ten years the highest since just after the end of world war two. in fact by two thousand and fifty the debt is predicted to hit one hundred sixty percent of our gross domestic product that's that's well within most of our lifetimes my friends which means the great bubble of borrowed economic time we are all living under is going to pop sooner than later so we'd better start watching us. to. get the. real thing. as you put it out of. the day like you that i got. with. this.

welcome everyone to watching the entire world with her and then to have a. man. does some u.s. government does not know how to handle its finances no they do i mean do you think tablets just the the number is so big you know when you look at the but the billboard up in the biggest time square whatever it is a lot of the other places where you can see the star you think it is the big words like the number is so massive at this point that it's like when when you or i have that there are other people have the number get so big going. what can i do what can i do when we were when we were younger and the whole national debt when the fine went up and everybody or sign was a big deal about the debt you know we were all told it's like about twenty thousand dollars per person for a man under and and having lived in new york moving to new york in the ninety's and seeing that clock and walking past every day and just seeing it constantly go up it becomes real to you and now once again we have another generation of people looking

at. financial insecurity that they didn't put themselves in so no it's interesting because when you just look at recently you know the gas that's been added to the fire that is the u.s. national. you know the end of just the people of the national debt is kind of the total amount of annual budget deficits held by the u.s. government spending and things like that we're spending more than we actually put out or to give a sense that we don't know for yeah most of the most heroic or told months of them or isn't you make when we were we little small. recently that has been on the rise due to the passing of the president trumps one point five trillion dollar tax cut in december twenty seventh seen em to simply congress's moves last year to increase spending on domestic and your favorite line military programs because again we're out spending what we have you know and it's interesting cause it's like all the republicans talk about oh we're going to do deficit spending we can do

there's going to there's a lot of seems like in the last few years it's going to go so and it's not going to stop just this isn't going to magically go away and i think there's this idea that you know one trumps out of office or somebody else is in office it's magically this trillions and trillions of dollars it's going to magically go away and that's not the truth actually the congressional budget office is predicting that this serious deficit will comment at around eight hundred ninety seven. billion a fifteen point one percent increase over twenty eight thousand seven hundred seventy nine billion which is about what our military budget is c b o actually forecast that the deficit will keep rising and actually one trillion way freight annually every year. beginning in two thousand and twenty and it won't drop below one trillion and so probably after twenty twenty nine. if things you know if we don't magically find a lot of change in the carriage question we're going to be in trouble cutting

needless spending. that's a big long. you know. it's the interest the truly get so you want something like this i mean i was with everything yeah because i mean just think about this the interest on our national debt right now is about three hundred ninety billion dollars annually imagine like you know we all have like your credit card debt or student loan debt imagine if like the interest on that you know you had just three hundred i mean this is the house is on fire and no one was doing anything about i'm not even talking about it that never mentioned in the state of the union address recently the drum did nothing about it there brian riedl a senior fellow at the manhattan institute told reason dot com last year that the real danger of all this is that if the debt keeps growing at a certain point investors will stop lending you has money at reasonable interest rates they will be reasonably concerned that the debt is growing beyond our ability to finance it at a certain point the investors will demand that we get our fiscal house in order you

know about starts with we've got to start that's when you start raising taxes and we all know in this economy in the cost of things we can't afford to raise taxes right now in the wind well only on the middle class and or not the rich good point good point just saying. in two thousand and thirteen the world health organization's international agency for research on cancer classified out classified outdoor air pollution as a cancer causing agent more commonly known as a core senator and then in twenty eighteen the e.p.a. is national center for environmental assessment published a study showing that when it comes to air pollution blacks specifically had one point five four times higher burden than did the overall population and this week the union of concerned scientists released a report regarding. in equitable exposure to air pollution from vehicles in california they found that african-american latino and asian californians are exposed to particulate matter pollution forty three thirty nine and twenty one

percent higher respectively than white californians and that people living in los angeles county are exposed to sixty percent more vehicle pollution than the state average and two hundred fifty percent more than the san francisco bay area you know what this means is that poor people of color are at higher risk for slowed long function growth development of asthma heart and lung disease heart attacks or regular herpes some blood clots just to name a few it also means that the concept of environmental justice has missed the injustices happening to people of color why well as robert bowler the father of environmental justice wrote in his book confronting environmental racism voices from the grassroots at the heart of the problem is the fact that the united states is a racially divided nation where extreme racial inequities continue to persist so hawk watchers why is there so little protection for those of certain complection it's. a really great point and that's one of those that's one of those things where you see

that you know you see these studies and things like this it really drives home the point you know you know this country's institutional racism and things of that nature actually take a physical toll you know it's not just a mental thing it's not just oh someone's calling someone a word or you know the police of things like this is killing visibly killing them because of the way our institutions set up specifically with pollution and one of the is that to understand about this what they did is they took this levels of particulates you know in these small particular it's in the air and they went around looking using census data figure out where people lived and that's kind of a came out one of the things if you understand about urban areas when it come. to race as a people kind of get locked into neighborhoods or locked into areas because they have to because it's near work and they have to because it's the only affordable housing and so cars were specifically to be clear cars where this was specifically

used for this. subset of pollution sources so on road vehicles and that's it but it doesn't factor in pollution from agriculture or the general environment stationary sources so that would be like refineries factories so when you add on to that even more and more and you go into like the poor you are you're probably going to live the closest to refineries woods also for a starter you know for use of people who don't use cars and so you can't afford to don't have a car whatever they actually face exposure to pollution levels nineteen percent higher above the state average of one quarter of the population in los angeles county experiences pollution levels that are bigger than double the speed of the drive and that's that thing about being you know people say ok it's great that you're using public transportation unfortunately what that means is that people who are taking buses and walking are literally exposing themselves because they're around and that's where people in their cars i mean you look at cars like test floods great if you can afford one and it cleans all the air down even you know

dirty bombs but most people can't afford a tesla with fancy air filters or anything outside and one of the things is sort of how to fix that and we know we know we're looking at the green new deal which we've heard about for years it's been around. we're looking at this and trying to sort of fix the problem. when answers are there we're just not doing it clean public transportation that would allow those living in the in these poor neighborhoods or these isolated neighborhoods to be able to not be so living in such congested traffic they wouldn't need as many cars on the road and one of those was the light rail systems or bullet trains and that was one of things so sadly this week california is brand new super progressive governor. mr newsome gabbin announced his week that california's high speed rail project that former governors brown and schwartz a nigger spearheaded is now one hold because as new some put it quote let's be real

the current project as planned would cost too much and take too long that must be nice for someone living in sacramento. who has the money to stay in this nice clean car and not have to deal with that he doesn't have to worry about his children going out and breathing this stuff and having asthma for the rest of their lives he doesn't have to worry about that but i think it's gross that while you know you have the few democrats and a few progressives on the hill right now and even nancy pelosi of all people out there pushing this ok we really do have to do this now we need to do this green new deal and here is gavin newsome like yeah but it serves a bunch of us so right or wrong motives and so gross because of the end of a day these are the people that get hurt yeah yeah failing infrastructure it's usually the people the economically disadvantaged the without that's where that hurts worst and then it works its way up the church. as we go to break court

watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics to cover the facebook twitter and you tube see our poll shows that are t.v. dot com coming up we're talking everything from the recent protests in haiti to the controversy over the cover of esquire magazine with the author and speaker walker so stay tuned for what you the horrors. after a rather bumpy rollout the new green deal is upon this co-sponsored by democratic firebrand alexandria ocasio cortez the plan for seize a radical restructuring of the american economy and how people will live. what the plan does not address is how much it cost how much will we have to go into the red become greece.

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a device used by professional value x. to earn money. that's right these are those funds are simply not accountable and we're just getting more and more to the. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for a while because. we've only reached the halfway point of the week and watch out world because as the great bob dylan once crooned the times they are a change and especially for the good folks at esquire who discovered this week that putting a random white trump supporting teenager from wisconsin on their cover during black history month might be great for controversy but bad for the match meanwhile what should be making headlines and getting featured articles and magazines is the yellow bus style citizen uprising currently taking place in haiti government forces there have already killed five protesters inside of

a week as hundreds of haitians have taken to the streets in revolt against rising costs economic stagnation and government corruption and speaking of neoliberal policies gonna ride demographic presidential candidate from all the harris was back in the headlines this week as the longtime caliph was back in the headlines this week as the long time california attorney general admitted to smoking a little reefer while listening to two. dog back in her college days which was odd because as you. know it's rather impossible for harris to have been getting stoned to snoop and power given that she graduated from howard university in one nine hundred eighty six and the university of california hastings in one nine hundred eighty nine while super pac didn't have the same until the early one nine hundred ninety s. joining us today to sort out these discrepancies and sensitivity is an historic uprising is the author of the new book we speak for. ourselves a word from forgotten black america the one we only get what. it's always great

having you on and this is an interesting week of issues that you kind of sprung up looking at let's start with esquire and about the way first just glad to say i was going to make sense of it. but i can't get my class of everybody but that's kind of what i'm. like. what it esquire do wrong and all of that really later so i don't want to pick on it. his is his look on her from the cover is like everybody gets annoyed with white america it's sort of the way you have been is let i think i think they were trying to you know ruffle some feathers. just going to let's just try to play devil's advocate let's just try to be nice. you hear a lot about masculinity oppressive culture a lot of things that have been happening to a lot of teenagers in groups in this country and i guess they were trying to say well here's a regular kid what is his country like in

a problem is saying that you acknowledge and all of these people who are being gunned down these people who are being thrown in jail because the color is good these people who are just being. forced to deal with this dirty system every day are regular kids you don't get to be regular kids that you get to be a regular kid this kid you know some of the calls of his are a mess i don't want to pick on a kid was somewhat of an article with some of the most. ridiculous things i've ever heard in my life it must be really easy to be you know young the way you can be or for the esquire for nothing. and that's not pick on him because her he's from wisconsin my. home town well. because this fall that's the thing he's he is what everyone is worried about everyone you know certain politicians but what you said i don't know that his but that's history forever and that's literally only if you're the american boy what do we do and it's not this idea that we shouldn't help the american boy but there's

a point where it's like if you're having this conversation what happens and one of the interesting things i thought was that. i was about to moderate but ask where are you can say they're right. and you know just it is black history month so when you look at there is they have an academy award winning black actor right there on the on the cover for black history and now they're coming out and said that the u.s. cover is part of a bigger series of stories you know it's we're going to get to everybody else later you know what is black history month you're going to double down on what it is you know that you know like i said the crazy thing about it is you know just speaking from the perspective of a person who had to deal with some of these systems. you know i never got a chance to be an american but african-american boy. the gives you a whole different experience than just you know i would love to see a regular kid from a block full of extraordinary people you know who could have weighed cooler quote

says i'm interested in places not just you know a way to you know they sort of separate everyone even as our kids are separating it's like one day i will do we're going to do you know why don't you girls men are going to do that do you think that's part of the problem is that they all need to talk to each other like there is a communication problem i think they were very intentional with this and i think they want to tension about doing it in february and i could be wrong even if you notice and took my valuable time i took my valuable time and i've read the article and i'm like oh my god. you know. you know and. you know magazine covers and these things are your cultural issues you also have what's happening down in haiti the not a lot of people are talking about you're not seeing the same amount of attention put on that that is very underreported i mean you've got protesters there are demanding the current haitian president step down and what's interesting about the haiti situation is how much do you think the united states kind of shares in the responsibility for the creation of all the problems or yes they've had the

hurricanes and things like that but we're talking about a long colonial history that the u.s. has been there it's been it's been going on for doing streaming a long time and we owe a lot even the way haiti is even way haiti is free to introduce to us as citizens is just wrong think about it in school they teach you about the american revolution and it is a republic which is not true democracy it teach about the french revolution and as a dictatorship not true democracy the haitian revolution was democracy and america was so scared of what happened with that that they decided to start cloud over haiti of a sense everyone somebody trying to sell the stories of us giving some to of our country give us some type of aid or support but at the same time this would be given a little bit. i did take it back because i like three of whatever they give so you know i think i think this should be on the front cover of esquire magazine the horror and what these people are going through this should be the story you know it's interesting because. it's like the tricky thing with a is

a lot of times the age you give is like one time only right like you can you can send a bunch of you know clothes and food down to a place but that that's not seeds you know that's not things that actually create infrastructure you know things we know that even you know after the hurricane in haiti a lot of very large. share of the groups didn't exactly do what they said and that's the problem is some of that stuff is tied also to seems that in nonwhite countries correct me if i'm wrong it seems like there aid is always tight . not accountable you know you could you're using these people minute stories to collect all of this money in the united been doing the right thing with the money and as you know a nest that's american that's very american in this country this country is for of people who used the stories of the your press and the effort to elevate themselves and when you challenge them or when you talk to them about it you've been

a bully or you know you're not seeing the whole story when it just is what it is you know being a thief is being the thing of doesn't matter if your child is white or if there's blue or if it's a hoodie or the is the thief is the feel good like it was speaking of things that are very american i think everyone at this table has had pop in their heart and we know that let's talk about kemal heirs let's talk about this moment do you think this whole i smoked i have hot sauce in my bag moment that moment where she tries to sound like she is with it and have with the kids saying really and hughes look in just like a real politician right now she has a problem the people around her. her and her team and whoever is in her ear is telling her that she's not black enough so she's making of all of these attempts to try to play to whatever seems to be a prosecutor i don't know if that's because she was for the three strikes law i

don't know if it's because she was against the legalization of marijuana it till it became popular to her that she's not black enough i mean she needs to step it up and do more black things if she wants if she wants which is problematic with them is so. you know you've got a time traveler and you kids listen to music before it comes out like who was. very upset i think she tried to appropriate the ninety's you know that with howard it's not like they don't get it. it's such like it's such a classic you know politician professional politician and i'll tell you something else that i think politics and i do believe she's a cop at the end of the day and that makes me hard for the idea of her running everything at this time but one thing i do say is that while cory booker gets to go out and be mr i'm a vietnam everything's great he's not running out like hang in the east baltimore wearing a hoodie with

a camera and that's the thing it's at some point is it because she's a woman she's got to be likable she's got to be black enough is there a link there is always more pressure she has to be likable she has to do these things and do you think that's like now where you thing literally sexism and her race just sort of i think she wants some tough josh or as a woman she has won some tough elections as a woman becoming a senator is impossible like we haven't had that maybe elected blacks in his in history maybe like ten a point maybe maybe like four or five elected like it's a possible so is that being a woman absolutely you know is that but at the same time she's she's she's overcame a lot of us and i think we need to get away from this idea of who is the black it was black america because it's ridiculous like. some policies just going to insist to make poverty come with some policies that's going to bring her a present form not that three strikes stuff she was pushing in california not dead people just of california coastal real policies that's going to really really really bring about real change it's going to help real people not the b.s.

most that i don't care who you listen to we. thank you so much for coming on the big man was a great great time always. love it. modern genetics owes itself to the work of the oft overlooked british female chemist rosalind franklin was treated like a lowly lab assistant buyer peers peers who will go on to essentially steal her notes and claim credit for one of her great discoveries you see franklin was the x. ray scientist as well as the secretary science as well as one who took this image later stolen by her male peers that was the very first proof of the double helix structure of d.n.a. sadly she was not recognized for work until long after her death well that changes which is why the european space agency is giving roslin franklin the credit she deserves so long ago announced this week they've named their new x.l. mars rover rosalyn the rover set to launch in two thousand and twenty the new rover

will be equipped with an automated laboratory that will be looking for life in the very fibers of the dust of mars so some sixty years after her passing rosalind franklin has finally been put in her place among the stardust of the gods very good very good well they will join up with that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are told we are loved and up so we told you all i love to rover and i've traveled a lot with deep on watching those talks never great day and night of. this woman who are them so. good. much of those who heard it's a preview of the most moving. we will go. but

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