engaged with the conflict in syria saying they were deeply concerned about extremist groups in the country they went on to urge trump to increase pressure on iran and russia with respect to their activities in syria yes because nothing stops the wheels towards war with iran or a proxy war with russia but applying lots and lots of us military pressure in syria it's definitely about how peace is made so with the us congress and the military industrial complex now joining petition culture i think it's time for us to start watching hawgs. already. it looks like a real good. as it were to pull out of. the day like you that i got. with that we. would. be.

welcome on the watching the hawks i am tired robot and i'm to have a while s. and i'm not signing your petition this is so silly to me like the congress thing i mean the whole like radio game of thrones or reduce star wars or let's do everything over and that that's pretty ridiculous but what i find most ridiculous is congress taking the time out to be to write the president a letter and say can we please can we please stay in syria for more war it seems like this kind of way when you when you when as we were talking earlier today when you know the power of congress you know it seems kind of pointless for them to be writing a letter it seems they're a little grandstanding break because it's like right there right right and there are one section of the constitution it says congress shall have power to done did it declare war ok so the. letter is actually just completely pointless

because congress if congress wants us troops in syria they have the authority to make sure and to authorize and you tell them that they need to make sure troops stay in syria however size whatever and you have the ability to do that with pen and paper with the power of your office that you were voted into and when you're saying 400 out of 535 members you have a majority so this isn't a partisan issue apparently it's you know everyone loves war and washington d.c. to get here there like a war doesn't it i mean it was shocking when i saw that number 400 all saying that we need to keep our military there because they've never really muddling through why our military needs to truly be there well that's why also i don't get it because it seems a little discombobulated when you look at it because one minute they're saying well it's because we you know we want to. do this whole you know how do they put it that it was because of extremist groups yes. then it's but

we've got to make sure that you know it's because of iran and russia but it's extremist groups well since we're the one arming their extremist groups most of them are extremists because there i would think it is that we would have some control over that but all of this is interesting because this topic today also brings up this kind of bigger idea of this petition culture that's kind of taken over the obvious in pop culture like incredibly it's like every other day there's some new petition for something that's whether good or bad the petition is just kind of taking over. ok so one of the things that was interesting about the petition that. that had gone through. the site so you have like change dot org which is a for profit by the way just f.y.r. change out or oil white houses we the people which became big for a while because it was this you know there's good there's bad there's a whole lot about. a whole lot of ridiculous on the way to the people you've got

petitions to impeach nancy pelosi of are crimes of treason donald trump resign as president i would say it's in violation of the i'm only human. the removal of leave from the democrat from michigan from office to do it in unstable actually becoming of a congressman. kind of. it's the thing it made to feel like positions that really are power when they become sort of this goofy like we're going to do it because i don't like the way i show ended so then when you're taking something that was meant to sign your name and say i would like this person has enough community support to run for office we would like this to be on a ballot initiative as a community would like to do these things it's hard for me to look at all well i think game of thrones that i had a better final episode that sort of. waters it down because then i remember why i feel like them writing their little letter and saying please let us say in syria.

we literally have the power you have more power than the president $400.00 congress yes completely and there are ways to get. pleas oncle dani can we please stand or. does it does and like you said it kind of breeds into this petition culture and. everything demands a petition everything that's i mean in my day you did a petition to you know they were good they were good elements people come forward and say we need these potholes we need this to happen and they were very true wonderful ideas but no it's like over and over again. at the end of the day. game of thrones as you see here to like all of this other things it's absolutely ridiculous to me because it's like come on we're overdoing it and there was an interesting idea put forth about why this is happening and it's that when you have capitalism so running rampant not like real cap. it wasn't but this kind

of weird hybrid of couples we have here in this country. you know at the end of the day john greenway writes for the new republic in regards to the game of thrones competition the other really petition that really made sense he says when buyers don't get what they want or were led to believe they could expect all they can do is the equivalent of asking for a refund or exchange the dissatisfaction of the fans or sign this petition signals the limits of the capitalistic logic that seeks to be the frame in which cole every culture and gauge would takes place what he's talking about is what we've turned our culture into a commodity we've turned politics into a commodity we've turned symbols so it was in a lot of the clip that ratings. from 5 g. to wall way to iron curtains and trade war as tensions have been rising between the united states and china watchers but on the heels of u.s. president donald trump's effectively they at recent executive order effectively banning chinese telecom giant weiwei from operating inside the u.s. now u.s. officials are looking to ease some trade restrictions on the way here to bring us

the latest is r t america correspondent sara montecito thanks for joining us for having me stuff only serves as a fascinating look at this trade war everything going on yet so there's been a lot of this tit for tat going on within this trade war with terrorists now the banning of weiwei products can you tell us the details of why there is this temporary one loosening of restrictions were on on tuesday the u.s. commerce department announced that they would extend the 9 for 90 days the ability for way to purchase american goods now this is this is really for to allow a way to transition and do a slow transition and to allow people to kind of. minimize trouble for these visa telecom giants who already purchased a lot of goods and this is billions of dollars u.s. secretary of commerce will virasat said that this new authorization grants operators more time to make other arrangements he said quote in short this license

will allow operations to continue for existing while way mobile phone users and rural broadband networks now in an interview with chinese state media c.e.o. and founder of huawei he said that he was prepared for this conflict that the saw this coming and he said quote the current practice of us politician underestimates our strengths while ways 5 g. will absolutely not be affected so he's pretty confident that huawei will have no issues after the span because this is something that they had planned for with all of this back and trade war talk and everything going on how have the big companies here in the us reacted to this news i'm never going to stop working with wally you know because of this battle of what's going to happen with those partnerships when the ban was imposed last week will say that they were immediately going to halt working with weiwei but when the extension came out the 90 day extension they said that they were going to work with them because you have to remember these are while we work very closely with google google maps you to g. mail and this would mean that they don't while ways phones would not have access to

this so this is huge this is something that they very heavily rely on and again like i said while we said it's it's developed a plan b. and what this means is that they will likely build their own apps and their own platforms for this but you can't build them overnight so this is just going to take a very long time what are the overall implications of this given the recent tensions between these 2 superpowers given that the one thing it's not about cell phones it's about something completely different so what well really i think a key issue that we've heard time and time again coming from both sides is america's issue with china's intellectual property theft which is a while away a says that the chart that the u.s. is really targeting was away because of. that with no evidence they kind of repeated that time and time again and sources familiar with the matter say that this is been an option for trump to issue this executive order on this band for months and months however he's postpone and doing it and who knows many of you

think that had a deal been made this wouldn't have happened but they keep pushing and trump has threatened you know terrorists any and this time he said it's not just a terror i'm going to impose this ban and right now i'm giving this 90 day extension could that mean that this will extension will go longer if they make a deal i mean the 2 sides have no scheduled meetings at least not from top diplomats that's not until president trump meets with paying at the g. 20 summit in june so there's a lot still up in the air will definitely be looking forward about me to see what comes we certainly are still good thank you so much for coming on and wonder sort of the latest with your shoes between china and the u.s. always a pleasure thank you for having all right as we go to break cork watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the proper to cover the facebook you tube but what are your poll shows that are to dot com coming up we are joined by sally greenberg executive director of the national consumers league as we dig into the rising cost in controversy swirling around the booming business of elderly care here in the united states states want to know.

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the age of $65.00 making up the brown 20 percent of the u.s. population a population that will need without question more and more assisted care as each year passes in 2016 the u.s. department of health and human services as to made it that there are just over $15000.00 nursing homes in the us and over $28000.00 assisted living care communities and as of 2016 nearly 70 percent of those facilities are privately owned for profit institutions how much profit welford only a market research found that u.s. elder care revenues are projected to reach 388000000000 in 2021 which is why a new investigation from the center for investigative reporting could be so important for those deciding how your loved ones will be cared for the investigation which focused on california found that not only are those privately owned assisted care facilities reaping huge profits while undercutting the quality of patient care but they're also exploiting the caregivers in ways that have been compared to human trafficking one such

a list assisted living business owner stephanie cost it was found guilty by the california social services department of having character over caregivers working without required criminal background checks caregiver givers lacking the proper skills to test the glucose of a diabetic resident was handed sans had been amputated taking in hospice patients without the state's permission and what's worse those workers are often required to live on the premises not leave the building for 24 hours at a time and pay their employer's food and lodging fees all while making about $1.00 to $2.00 per hour ronald simpson the founding director for 6 beds a lobby group that focuses on reducing labor costs for the small care facilities wasn't too happy that the center for investigative journalism was looking into the issue he told them about. the whole thing makes the whole industry look like they're getting rich and ripping people off which is what it looks like when a $400000000000.00 industry keep seeing record profits all residents and caregivers are taken for a ride joining us now to better understand the elder care industry and how it to

navigate it is the executive director of the national consumers league sally greenberg thank you so much for joining us today glad to be here so it's interesting because that this investigation isn't the only one ringing alarm bells across the country about how we care for you and research has shown that the elderly us are more likely to be sick and lack proper data big care for chronic conditions than their counterparts in places like germany france and other places around the world what is the fundamental difference about the way the united states cares for aging populations and how other countries are doing short well there's been a constant push to reduce requirements regulation and standards certification on those institutions that are caring for this explosion of elderly americans they like to go buy older americans you know the language changes but there needs to be from a consumer protection perspective so guardrails in place so that we have rules on

how long the workers who care for our older relatives and friends and family are are expected to work there needs to be protections for. certification we need to know the people who are there are qualified to to give that care and we need to have state inspectors and we need to have probably federal inspectors coming in and looking at the care that's being provided we don't pay enough attention to that and as the explosion of baby boomers becomes that population that's in these. systems living homes or nursing homes or whatever we want to call them we really need to tighten up the. expectations in the requirements but there's a constant push because of the profit motive as we know by many of these institutions to reduce the quality of care to increase profits and i'm so glad

we're talking about that today because there's ample opportunity to address this problem and that's why it's interesting you put that the thing about certifications because it seems like you know you're looking at this investigation which also it's a very pretty horrible working conditions saying you know you had one caregiver had reported her to carrick evers had reported having miscarriages because they were expected to work carrying large heavy residents being denied time off even having back pay taken away and one of the things the major things that comes up in this is this industry and sort of you know care for older people people with now we have a market with dementia and alzheimer's that are coming in that this care is needed but having people who are being abused taking care of people who are susceptible to abuse seems like an obvious no no but is it because sort of this industry of care is only maybe a half century old we didn't see you know assisted living or nursing homes till the

fifty's in this country usually the older we know we learn to deal with are there things we usually care for them in a home but you know where we have a little older than you guys and we had nursing homes certainly since you know i've been around. what you're talking about are wage an hour violations there are violations of protections that are that every state in the country does provide you have to be you know where we have a 40 hour work week we have the fair labor standards act which was passed into law in 1938 in america and it does require overtime pay it does not allow exploitation of workers it's not a law allow weak what you're talking about which is wage theft you're expecting people to work 24 hours that's not that's not except. but but we have a public enforcement of those lies in many places and so it's really important if your viewers see those kinds of abuses they should be reported to both the

department of labor which in our department and in the state every state has a weight in our enforcement and bureau and they will come in and do an inspection and fine and try to protect both the residents and the workers who are there so it's right for abuse if we don't enforce the laws we do have the laws in place and so we want everybody to know that kind of abuse should be reported. to the lot of times people get so kind of caught up with when you read a story like this or you're living your life you get caught up in your other lot of people get caught up in what do what do where do i go who do i ask for help because i care i'm only you know i kind of a blinders on because i'm stuck in this position that i'm stuck in 1st i want to sort of only me although for a certain place for a loved one i'm well that too is a problem and you have some very substandard care poor care especially if you're in those residents who are in medicaid facilities that might be getting you know a government subsidy and there their tendency may be i don't

want to condemn them all because i'm sure there's some good ones out there but there are 10 see maybe to increase profits at the expense of both the care of the residents and to reduce benefits and protections for the workers who are there most of you know and that's one of the i want to ask is that you know when you look at the you know the issue of staffing i think was central to this particular investigation and showed you could have 2 distinct groups being take advantage of the patients in the most who care for them. in this case you know when we talk about you mentioned to you know being forced to work 24 hour shifts a little risk what are the risks just so people understand the risks associated putting the work through workforce through that kind of. you know kind of don't. know don't know if the scale is i think one of things that's the certifications and education in dealing with you know i know many people whose job it is who are

nurses or sort of nurses assistance or work in nursing homes that work with people with dementia and alzheimer's and these things it takes a certain amount of you know what it's already so yeah yeah and so we really do need to put those sort of barriers to entry in place for both the facility and the people that they hire so the people they hire should have a certain baseline of skills they should be required to you know to take up take courses pass certain standards if you're administering drugs if you're doing intravenous feeding at whatever they are doing requires training requires expertise and they should be tested and have to percents proper credentials before they're being hired to take care of these very vulnerable populations there's a kind of dawns on me too as we're sitting here talking about this the this is a problem that we should have all kind of seen coming when you talk about the baby boom generation as a generation is growing and i feel like is this something that we as a society as

a government you know did we drop the ball on kind of seeing this coming and now we're kind of playing catch up or you know are we do do you feel in your experience is the you know you know just a few good swift kind of kicks in the box of different you know legislatures or things like that or employers can this problem be fixed and. probably not to our satisfaction but what needs to happen is this constant push by the industry by the assisted living industry by the profit making and there's nothing wrong with profits as long as they're fairly gained but if you put profits over the health of your workers in the health of the residents in these facilities you're going to get substandard care you're going to get workers who have miscarriages because they're working 24 hour shifts that. completely illegal should not happen and we should of course we should have gotten on top of this but there's a constant push by the industry to release and certainly the president's said regulations are bad by definition i don't agree i think

regulations force everybody to come to a level playing field and they sure that the people in these kinds of situations we're talking about are getting the proper care and the workers are not being exploited so that they're not really able to take care of the workers and that they have the proper credentials so i think we need to force him by the state these are often regulated by state law and states have a right to come into these nursing home facilities or other facilities and say we are we don't like the care that we're seeing we are seeing all kinds of abuses and this wonderful center for journalism which i respect tremendously has come in and done a sort of a exposé and thank them for that because now we know we have work to do on this problem you so much because i think this is something that we've talked about a lot and i have a personal investment because i've experienced it with loved ones of knowing the care industry over the last 3 years my eyes of an open to things i didn't even know about and so i want to thank you so much for coming on here executive director of

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