it is listed in anybody's catalog monkey. is standing. by robin over the past 2 or 3 years a series of adamant. rejecting at least american. budgets 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 berlusconi for the corruption of the italian state and so on than a cold area 16 they were called india today and people would collapse and laughter in the streets of rome or milan. in totalitarian states the notions used so in the old soviet union dissidents were cold and he says via 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 maligned. or mistreated different ways depending on the nature of the society like them so it unions a world imprisoned. in the us dependency like el salvador at the same time this counterfeit as it other brains blown out by a us 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 the 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. commas or who cares to go

on to your work anyway at least 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 corporate our if you criticize concentrated power you're against us you're against the be all it's quite straight game that is used in the united states and if it's for another the only democratic society with the concept isn't just ridicule it's a sign of. elements of the elite culture which are the great ugly.

american dream my many ideals was partly symbolic but partly real so in the 1950 s. and sixty's there was a the biggest growth period in. american economic history. gold made. it was pretty gala tarion growth so the the lowest 5th of the population was improving about as much as the upper 5th. and there were some welfare state measures which improved life for much of the population and. is for example possible for a. black worker to get

a decent job in an auto plant. get a core of children go to school and so on and the same across the board. when the u.s. was. primarily a manufacturing center it had to be concerned with its own consumers here famously henry ford raised the salary of his workers who would be able to buy cars. when you're moving into an international tunnel me is the max 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 next quarter or even it if it's based on

financial manipulation. 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 precariat. precarious proletariat the working people of the world who live increasingly precarious lives . and it's related to the attitude toward the country altogether. 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 rare the tax system is. it's been redesigned so that the taxes that are paid by the very wealthy

are reduced and her spondon levy 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 dividends 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 in 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 stimulates investment that leads to job growth and so much. 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 0 taxes and they have enormous profits let's take the profits somewhere else or defer 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 upon. much of the population that's what they survive. it's of no use to the very rich so therefore there's a concerted attempt to destroy it. one of the ways is defunding it you want to destroy some system 1st the fund. then a more 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 and public schools are based on the principle of solidarity. i no longer have children in school they're 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 american society. go back to the golden age again the great chris period fifty's and sixty's a lot of that is based on free public education. and one of the results of the 2nd 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's date or nation regularly invest substantial share of it resources in education the investment invariably it returned in better business and a higher standard of living u.s. was way in the lead in developing. extensive mass public education and every little . more than half the state most of the funding for the colleges comes from to issue 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 think that you're trapped i mean maybe you wanted to become a look interest lawyer but you don't have to go into a corporate law firm to pay off those debts by the time you're part of the culture you know you're not going to get out of it again and that's true.

i'm. ready ready ready sure they need to stop at the continuing to grow. i just never felt very good about the idea of bringing children into the world because i didn't feel like things were in very good shape that a life was just going to be a lot of software program. there's no reason we're more kids. you take things that are to middle. is a myth something else that we need to get rid of to everybody's scared to talk about it certifiable is really dependent on us addressing this issue and if we

can even talk about it and we can even have a conversation that is then. ready compared to centuries of chinese history 2 years is nothing unless. budgets 2 years of donald trump with us another round of terror is being added to the u.s. trade will this last week news china's strategy of waiting out the enemy likely to work with the current american president. well you know that they were kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. i mean they're in this small ball of snit's it a hard pull of ships and it's. not up to.

the limo self to make cold fish already 90 percent of the dots need to fall in with connor. concept 15 scoops 75 tons and they do it several times a day with big screens so no you get an idea of why. we have to understand we can not stay still and just. be with them this will be used only going to the hours. i'm doing this because i want the future world to future generations to have and enjoy the ocean we have. what politicians do so we can. put themselves on the line to get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to. have to go right to be close to survival before 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the house. first sit. in the 1950 s. it was a much poorer society in the news today that nevertheless could easily and all 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 1970 s. is lobbying as the business world moved sharply to try to control legislation. business world was pretty upset by the advances in a public welfare in the sixty's and in particular by richard nixon and it's not too 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 didn't like that taxes. they didn't like the regulation and they began a coordinated effort to try to overcome it. lobbying sharply increase deregulation began 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. needed 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 $1000000000.00 all of this is quite safe as long as you know the government's going to come to your 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 with so the huge financial crisis the savings and loan crisis and the government moved in and build it out for a kind of 300 in a diary for a very fair lady committee 99 regulation worse dismantled to separate commercial banks from investment banks. then come see bush and obama bill and 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 at renewable $1000000.00 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 were 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 looked at as 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.

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 2009 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 14th 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 is kind of rages so they get got personal rights back about a century ago and that extended through the 20th 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 while the notion of person was expanded to include corporations it was also restricted if you

take the 14th amendment literally that no undocumented alien can be deprived of rights if they're persons. undocumented aliens who are living here and building your 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 1970 s. the courts decided that money is a form of speech. but the 1st 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 his ruling said we'll 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 what is that want. i mean it's true that c.b.s. has given freedom of speech but they're supposed to be performing a public service that's why that's what the press is supposed to be general electric is trying to make money for the chief executive some of the shareholders. 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 with the social workers. and the big pain years and started as 10 years i think it's time to shake things up maybe change the branding maybe the format here is what i've been thinking about next season related episodes filmed on an island 10 experts fight it out for a trophy what do you think ok a more affordable option $25.00 text birds. and one red rose another suggestion geopolitical jeopardy parity no political cookout where we will literally wrote the elites. late night show it's a rare format these days and it's all you need is an old microphone in a printed banner if i actually meet with one of my guests i can do this campbell

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going to get. that may. be some of the top stories of the last 7 days here not so international the united states could potentially be smuggling tons of weapons and i mean mission that ends up with militants in the middle east according to league documents obtained by a bulgarian journalist i had a baby right and i'm very glad you said. that i mean. you know i don't think they are they. want to take it away from britain. no deal. please follow his convictions on resign. one.