a series of adamant. rejecting at least american. botching this notion anti american is quite an interesting one sashes to tell tarion ocean it is used in free societies so if someone and say italy is criticizing barrels going me or the corruption of the italian state and so on than a cold area ten six they were called india today and people would collapse and laughter in the streets of rome or milan. in totalitarian states the notion to use so in the old soviet union dissidents were cold and he said that was the worst condemnation. of the brazilian military dictatorship they were gold in any brazilian. no it's true that in just about every society the critics are

malign. are mistreated different ways depending on the nature of the society like them so it unions they will be imprisoned. in the us dependency like el salvador at the same time this counterfeit as it other brains blown out by a u.s. run state terrorist worse. than others is it just condemned their villa from the zone in the united states or one of the terms of abuse is anti american a couple of others like you know more because there's an array of terms of abuse. of in the united states in a very high degree of freedom and so if you're vilified by some commas or who cares to go on to your work anyway these concepts only arise in a culture where if you criticize state power and when. i state i mean. we're

generally not just government but state worker or if you criticize concentrated power or you're against us you're against the be all it's good straight game that is used in the united states and it's for another the only democratic society where the concept isn't just ridicule it's a sign of the elements of the elite culture which are the great the glee.

the american dream my many ideals was partly symbolic but partly real so in the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's there was a the biggest growth period in that american economic history. gold made. it was pretty kalak area and growth so the lowest fifth of the population was improving about as much as the upper fifty's. and there were some welfare state measures which improve life for much of the population it was for example possible for a. black worker to get a decent job in an auto plant. get a core of children go to. cool and so on and the same across the board.

when the us was. primarily a manufacturing center it had to be concerned with its own consumers here famously henry ford raised the salary of his workers so it would be able to buy cars. when you're moving into an international plutonic me as the banks like to call it a little small percentage of the world's population that's a gathering increasing wealth what happens to american consumers that have much less concern because most of them aren't going to be consuming your products anyway at least on a major basis. your goals or profit in the next quarter or even it if it's based on financial manipulation and. high salary high bonuses produced overseas if you have to and produce for the wealthy classes here and their counterparts abroad what

about the rest well there's a term coming into use for them too and they're called the precarious. precarious proletariat the working people of the world who live increasingly precarious lives . and it's related to the attitude toward the country all together. during the period of great growth of the economy fifty's and sixty's but in fact earlier taxes on the wealthy were far higher corporate taxes were much higher taxes on dividends are much higher that simply taxes on wealthier much drier the tax system has been redesigned so that the taxes that are paid by the very wealthy are reduced and cursed ponderingly the tax burden on the rest of the population's increased.

now the shift is towards trying to keep taxes just done and wages are not consumption which everyone has to do not say and do it and which i go to the ridge . the numbers are pretty striking. now there's a pretext of course there's always a pretext the pretext in this case is well that increases investment and increases jobs but there isn't any evidence for that if you want to increase investment give money to the poor and the working people they have to keep alive so they spend their incomes and that stimulates production and stimulates investment that leads to job growth and so. if you're an ideologist for the masters you

have a different line and in fact right now it's almost absurd the corporations have money coming out of their pocket. so in fact general electric they're paying zero taxes and they have enormous profits let's take the profits somewhere else or the for it but not pay taxes and this is common. the major american corporations shift the burden of sustaining the society on to the rest of the population. solidarity is quite dangerous from the point of view of the masters you're only

supposed to care about yourself and not about other people this is quite different from the people they claim are their heroes like adam smith who based is whole approach to the economy on the principle that sympathy is a fundamental human trait but that has to be driven out of people's heads gotta be for yourself father while maxon don't care about others which is ok for the rich and powerful but is devastating for everyone else. going to take a whole lot of effort to try to drive these basic human emotions out of people's heads. and we see it today in policy for a major for example in the attack on social security. social security is based on a principle it's based on a principle of solidarity so terry it is caring for others.

a social security means i pay payroll taxes so that the widow across town can get something to live on. for much of the population that's what they serve iowa. it's of no use to the very rich a so therefore there's a concerted attempt to destroy it. one of the ways is defunding it you want to destroy some system first defund it. then it will work people be angry they want something else that's a standard technique for. privatizing some system. we see it in the attack on public schools. public schools are based on the principle of solidarity. i no longer have children in school or grown up but the principle of solidarity says i happily pay taxes so that the kid across the street can go to school that's normal human emotion and it drives it out of people's heads i don't

have kids in school why should i pay taxes privatized it so on. the public education system all the way from kindergarten to higher education is under severe attack i mean that's one of the jewels of americans say. go back to the golden age again the great chris period the fifty's and sixty's a lot of that is based on free public education. one of the results of the second world war was the g.i. bill right which enabled veterans remember that's a large part of the population and to go to college they would have been able to otherwise the century got free education where a community is date or nation regularly invest

a substantial share of it resources in education the investment invariably returned and better business and a higher standard of living u.s. was way in the lead in developing extensive mass public education at every level. but now more than half the states most of the funding for the colleges comes from tuitions not from the state that's a radical change and that's a terrible burden on students it means that students if they don't come from very wealthy families they're going to leave college with big debt and if you would think that you're trapped i mean maybe you wanted to become a public interest lawyer but you're going to have to go into a corporate law firm tip. pay off those debts and by the time you're part of the culture you know they are going to get out of it again and that's true trust board .

breaks it killed joan. seemed wrong all right old quotes just don't call. me the world police yet to shape out these things to come to educate and in gains from an equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. chance to look for common ground. what holds unhinged to. put them so. big it accepted or rejected.

so when you want to be president. more so more want to. have to go right to be first to see what before three in the morning can't be good for. the industry always in the waters in the hollow. question. and i want. to get up on soldier that. those of us are those of. us that get down say out look at a. new name so. how much of the home community of the passage

says there was nothing and never was enough time post of any. officer. to get up off the ground or serve began to. hurt them freeze on the sounds of an mit grown man the christening essentially of his or her. through his or john. twisted away from the officer the joy out of his group. the officer did they kind of lunge for the web in one smiths and they would have been done treece one at the time suspicions didn't hit them i never saw any contact with. any kind of went back to where they were so the answers back here they're going again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when the officer is gonna need to turn tree.

in the one nine hundred fifty s. it was a much poorer society in this day but nevertheless could easily and will centrally free mass higher education and today a much richer society claims dozen of the resources for. that said just what's going on right before our eyes and it's the a general attack on the principles that and that i mean not only are they humane they're the basis of the prosperity and health of this society.

if you look over the history of regulation say a railroad regulation financial regulation and so on and you find that quite commonly it's it's either initiated by the economic. concentrations that are being regulated or it's supported by them and the reason is because they know that sooner or later they can take over the regulators. and it ends up with what's called regulatory capture. the business being regulated is in fact running the regulators. bank lobbyists are actually writing the laws of financial regulation gets to that extreme. and that's been happening through history and again it's

a pretty natural tendency when you just look at the distribution of power. one of the things that expanded enormously in the one nine hundred seventy s. is lobbying as the business world moved sharply to try to control legislation. business where it was pretty upset by the advances in a public welfare in the sixty's and in particular by richard nixon and it's not to will understand that but he was the last new deal president and they regarded that as class treachery. and nixon's administration to get the consumer safety legislation safety and health regulations in the workplace the e.p.a. the environmental protection agency. business didn't like it of course they did like that taxes. they didn't like the regulation and they began a coordinated effort to try to overcome it. lobbying sharply increase the regulation and begin with the rule ferocity. there were no financial

crashes in the fifty's and the sixty's because the greater the story apparatus of the new deal was still in place. as a pm to be dismantled under business pressure and political pressure. to get more and more crashes. and it goes on through the years. seventy's sort of starts begin. eighty's really takes off congress was asked to approve federal loan guarantees to the auto companies about the want and want to have a billion dollars all of this is quite safe as long as you know the government's going to come to rescue so takes a break and instead of letting them pay the cost break and build out the banks like continental the biggest bail out of american history at the time that she ended his

term it's a huge financial crisis the savings and loan crisis and the government moved in to build it out for a family that he handed it in a diary saving a fairy tale nine hundred ninety nine regulation worse dismantled to separate commercial banks from investment banks. then come see bush and obama build on bear stearns is running to the feds to stay afloat president bush today defended the decision to bail out citi group that in may and freddie macin ask for a total after being million dollars more to sail out could get much bigger than billing even in troubles for the u.s. economy. and they're building up the next term.

b. each time the taxpayer is called on to bail out those who created the crisis increasingly the major financial institutions. in a capitalist economy you would do that in a capitalist system that would worry about the investors who made risky investments but the rich and powerful they don't want a capitalist system they want to be able to run to the nanny state as soon as they're in trouble and get billed a taxpayer it's called the too big to fail. i mean there are no will or it's an economics who significantly disagree with the course that we're following people look to stiglitz paul krugman others none of them were even approached the people picked to fix the crisis were those who created the robert rubin crowd the goldman sachs croak they created the crisis are no more powerful than before is that accident well not when you pick those people to create an economic plan and then

what do you expect to happen. meanwhile for the poor let market principles prevail don't expect any help from the government the government the problem not the solution and so on that's essentially neo liberalism and it's has this dual character which goes right back in economic history one set of rules for the rich opposite set of rules for the poor. and nothing surprising about this exactly the dynamics you expect if the population allows it to proceed just going to go on and on like this until the next crash which is so much expected that credit agencies which kind of evaluate the. status of firms are now counting into their calculations the taxpayer bailout that they expect to come in after the next crash which means that the beneficiaries of these credit ratings

like the big banks they can borrow money more cheaply they can push out smaller competitors and you get more and more concentration everywhere you look policies are done this way which should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone that's what happens when you put power into the hands of a narrow sector of will which will is dedicated to increasing power for itself just as you'd expect. be. a. concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. particularly so as the cost of elections skyrockets which kind of forces the political parties into the pockets of major corporations. the

citizens united this was january two thousand and nine i guess that's a very important decisions prim court decision but it has a history and you got to think about the history. of fourteenth amendment has a provision that says no person's rights can be infringed without due process of law. and the intent clearly was to protect freed slaves said ok they've got the protection of the law i don't think it's ever been used for freed slaves if ever marginally almost immediately it was used for businesses corporations their rights can't be infringed without due process of law so they gradually became persons under the law. corporations or state created legal fictions. maybe they're

good maybe they're bed but to call them persons it is kind of rages so they get got personal rights back about a century ago and that extended through the twentieth century. as they give corporations rights way beyond what persons have so if say general motors invests in mexico they get national rights the rights of the mexican business well the notion of person was expanded to include corporations it was also restricted if you take the fourteenth amendment literally the no undocumented alien can be deprived of rights if their persons. undocumented aliens who are living here and building their buildings clear lawns and so on they're not persons . but general electric is a person. an immortal super powerful person this perversion of the

young elementary morality and the obvious meaning of the law is quite incredible. in the one nine hundred seventy s. the courts decided that money is a form of speech. but the first well and the new one through the years to citizens united which says that the right of free speech of corporations namely spend as much money they want can't be curtailed. take a look what that means it means that corporations which anyway have been pretty much buying elections are now free to do it with virtually no constraint as tremendous attack on the residue of democracy. very interesting to read the rulings like justice kennedy's swing vote his ruling said well look after all the c.b.s. is given freedom of speech there are corp why shouldn't general electric be free to

spend as much when is that want. i mean it's true that c.b.s. has given treat of speech but they're supposed to be performing a public service that's why that's what the press is supposed to be a general electorate is trying to make money for the chief executive some of the shareholders. sitting critical decisions and it puts the country in a position where business power is greatly extended beyond what it always was this is part of the vicious cycle the supreme court justices are put in by reactionary presidents who get in there because they're funded by business and that's the way the cycle works. it will make its manufacture come sentenced to public wealth. when the

ruling class is protect themselves. when the fine and merry go round the sun one. night we can all middle of the room sit. around i mean real news. most of us are taught and believe we live in a society based on merit and equal justice the varsity blues college admissions scandal inform us that both are true the rich and privileged can buy access to their kids at the expense of families who are hard working and on is the idea of marriage yet. i don't know oh oh dear it's crazy oh. we've been a real good shot to begin murders controls all life. becomes the

middle class community young people deciding this they want to pull not allow corporates not like the liberals. always struggle. always their problems but you're going to focus a lot it's the most ubiquitous going out there most police departments use it almost over stores in the school they could get their hands on them twenty four hours. we would teach nice kids. racism both police brutality taking pride in who they are these kids are a part of history. as you know officer of the family had to get up off the ground to serve begin to get him down to. hurt them freeze on the sounds of men and maybe the grown man

mislead essentially. join in the. twisted away from the officer the joy out of his group. the arab street did they kind of lunge for the web in one's midst and then when it happened on trace one and i'm suspicious didn't hit him i never saw any contact between the two any kind went back to where they were so the officers back here there try again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when the officer pulled his gun and even turned three. i know i know. you are going to hear it here if not. i

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