1 september 90977. dollars subsidiary of the likes corp announced that it was closing down most of its camel 5000 steel workers many of them feel better and 20 to 30 years. particularly after working you for so many years you are to believe they were put out on a very we don't know what we're going to do it really started in the late seventies when these companies were able to move their production offshore so you saw the ending of a number of steel companies the shifting of manufacturing to the global south where the wages were lower where the environmental rules were not either existed or enforced and that's the beginning of this concept of these transnationals they have the technology to do it they had the transportation systems to do it and frankly

governments weren't stopping them. and i just remember one day i was i was working on the boss come up to me and says that's where we're going home. i thought we're going home early why because we're closed and if they closed doors on us or. i don't know what to say. because it's a crying shame really is. i was a long time democrat. but this last election before it came along i switch parties i switch parties on the republican now and. i think mr trump is doing a great job for us i think he's trying you're going to help the country you work for. you know i think you try and do that really good.

but. having little to no job in a neighborhood causes plenty of strains are part of people's emotional state will people's physical state. if you can't feed your family if you can't pay you'll be used as soon as you into a major state of depression. when the steel mill said dahlia that's a major part of the city away this was a a wedding awaiting david's bridal. this is $722.00 steals 3 we have acquired this property from the bottle only county lead bank for a $1000.00 house it's pretty let's you know just the bad you know so it's

a lot of there's a lot of. that although nothing else so a lot out but it'll still have to go. home you know we just have to clear a lot of the furnishings that was left over whoever was living here they weren't here long maybe about a year 18 months max and then they were gone i didn't run across a suicide note that was left i guess either bought a has been or the father of the house he stated that he you know he was up in a bad position in his life right now and it was sorry for everything he had. and whoever was reading the note if they were actually reading the note they would find him hanging of a grudge. i mean if i came on was seen a note like that a product to scare the heck out of me i would he would want to see what was in the

garage i would just be getting up out here which seems like that's what the family did because they left everything behind clothing always bedding furniture you know whatever whatever was here was a was left. mortgage companies you know foreclosed a lot of properties areas got bad you know drug infested you know drugs you know just pretty much saturated the city which cause a lot of people to pretty much flee to. the corporate coup d'etat it was begun in the early 1970 s. . lewis powell in his $971.00 memo which he wrote when he was an attorney for the chamber of commerce he later became the

supreme court justice talked about what he called the assault on the free enterprise system. and he called on corporations to use their power and in particular their money to build counter institutions and to take over and destroy liberal institutions. institutions that traditionally gave a voice to the working class and cared about the rights and needs of the citizenry . but i dropped later charges that applied car companies with running risks that countered them but do. quote perhaps the single most effective antagonist of american business is ralph nader so if they do it to help new york city it will be to help the banks. who thanks largely to the media has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of americans i hear do excuse i'm gone are justified in any way to getting us to matter but i don't want to have

a climate in this country where why at the avonex that it. exists and steely determination in order to speak truthfully and candidly critically of american industry the coal memoranda it was a combination of delusion and paranoia. he basically said to the business community you're going to hire a lot more lobbyist swarming over congress you've got a poor a lot more money into the their campaigns both parties republican democrat you got to get out on the campuses and get right wing speakers. progressive speakers he had the whole 180 degree. constitutional. do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. people like reagan in the early form of modern optimism again switching everything

back to if you like to pretend it roosevelt period i found americans in recent days all of us have been swamped by a sea of economic statistics some good some bad and some just plain confusing you see that red line represents the rate of unemployment from the 1968 through the present the congress should act on regulatory reform to help make government more economical and efficient and the private sector more productive tax reform and budget control our economy will be free to expand to its full potential that's our economic program for the next 4 years we're going to turn the bull loose. thank you very much. what you've done for me is better than. things were starting to happen in italy and. you could already see the

cracks opening up so the gaps between rich and poor began growing. and trying to tell you there is no program or promise that a president can bake the federal government going in come in there you want to do this the only voice you heard was this. voice of the inevitability of the marketplace i hear you and millions of other men and women like you stand for the bad years of hard work thrift commitment to family and the love of god that made this country so great and will make us great again. we saw the rise of what i would call the phone liberal class ah you spoke in the traditional feel your pain language of liberalism and yet deciduous lee carried out an assault against the citizenry on behalf of corporate power today as i sat on the

north american free trade agreement into law we are ready to compete and we can win and. so it's under clinton that you get nafta. nafta allowed manufacturers particularly auto manufacturers in canada and the united states to move their production to mexico it was deliberate they moved their production their companies there because they had such low wages in mexico which did not help the mexican workers by the way this is false to say that mexico won it was a lose lose lose for the people on a win win win for the corporations down the hall to the white house east room he came with 3 of his predecessors in cairo with a real effort by mr president a day with the stated doubters that he's prepared to fight for the treaty and this is happening all over the world particularly in the united states that the radical decline of the labor movement and unions which were a political force even more importantly it's and they were on the shop floor united states always had weak unions to come to countervail against the corporations and

the peak there were 34 percent of the labor force but they are now down to 11 percent total and only 6 percent in the private sector so essentially the countervailing power base and institutional power base is gone and part of that was an all out attack by organized corporations and went after them today we are taking on this. storage chance to make welfare what it was meant to be a 2nd chance not a way of life it's under clinton and you get the destruction of welfare and originally 70 percent of the recipients of our welfare program were children. it's under clinton that you get the 1904 omnibus crime bill crime has been a hot political issue years too often to divide us while the system makes excuses for not punishing criminals and doing the job because the democrats were taking back the issue of law and order from the republicans. laws to incarcerate

double double triple sentences 3 strikes you're out laws so that people could go to prison for life for nonviolent crimes. so there was an explosion in the prison industry. which of course is a form of social control for de industrialized pockets they are often the kinds of kids that are called super predators no conscience no empathy and they used all the coded words super predators law in order. as the pillage was being carried out the white majority was being indoctrinated with this idea that marginal usually poor people of color were responsible for the destruction of the country the assault on their national identity. believe it or.

john you're also what. ok 321 twice over the past 8 months i traveled to the midwest to a city that's become a metaphor for many for jobs lost factories closed and the disappearance of the 9 to 5 middle class 40 year the down the garden candidate mark the beginning at the end of the scale dominate youngstown area economy there are no longer smoke stacks and much of it is covered by vegetation o.j. . are you doing that's depressing and down here to be honest with you your can't talk about the valley and not talk about the steel and manufacturing. him small still reach the arms again. i used to wake up in the morning to the noise of the blast furnace rumbling now i wake up to them tearing the facility down.

you can't be both with the yeah you are. thinking of getting a new gun the ones we got in here she's not alive as he didn't know until he was trapped in this tiny little wired which you don't need a crate with him he will just start freaking out and she will want to spray him anywhere near and thousands of greeting dogs are caged in the in human conditions on poppy farmers i mean 67 years you know they've been locked up in cages outside

you see no protection from the weather the sheep you know the courtier the rain the snow the funder nothing they have no protection. to get what you. know it's ok. across the u.s. cruel puppy mills are supported by dog shows and pet stores most of the puppies are coming from this large scale factory farming kind of operations are being sought and at stores even giant a good businesses are involved like ogling mom santa there has been a shocking amount of organized opposition to adverts to increase the sands of care for dogs bred in commercial breeding for so many days most of that opposition is coming from huge agricultural groups and industries that have nothing to do with dogs don't buy dog on ot. join me every 1st day on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm

show business i'll see you then. the youngster. districts more just steel mills would be shut down by friday. trying to recover from that they passed now in new york is great wall street good stuff and on the west coast is great because you got out of los angeles you have the ocean and that's coming from china and mexico and all that stuff so all those free traders they're making millions but the people here they're hurting their jobs are gone their jobs are. full it can be hard to go buy that plant now and know that bells and used to work they are g.m. employees learn friday afternoon that up to 1500 of them would be laid off when the 2nd shift is eliminated the county says your old american finance network the

property the county treasurer's office has been trying to collect taxes for 5 years and is in the poor closure process. this is truly a metaphor or wrong with both america's health care system which through mergers and corporate is a take the community away from their own health care and from their own facility they did not need. this this is another example being able to walk away from your responsibility and then putting it back on the community that's already desperate. it's here in the youngstown area where i found. i don't like a trailer park i mean it's not that it's a bad park but it's not who are you it's not just me there's 1100 still workers about the mention all the other facilities of 100 it supported the mill and

a lot of people lost their livelihood we're told you think politicians but all but i think they've been bought by corporate america and they're puppets or. single one doesn't matter for a democrat or republican they're all corporate loans i don't think they can think for themselves i think they just do as are told so you wonder who was it who are the people who voted for donald trump quite a few were people who voted twice for barack obama and voted for bernie sanders that was even more astounding that made me say there's no way i can simply sit here and guess what folks are thinking i need to understand what's going on in people's minds scinto why this situation is far more complex than what we give it credit. and they actually brought up workers from mexico and the workers here how to train those workers that they knew were going to take their shops and then they had the workers. back up the machines and shipped them down to

mexico. coming. up not any more. this valley has a very rich democratic tradition. they voted democrat almost always until president trump came along and upset the applecart when i saw hillary clinton really struggling with trade issues and nafta and i sent a 4 page memo. i predicted in that memo that she's bleeding badly blue collar voters.

and those are the voters in pennsylvania michigan wisconsin that could have turned the election and her standing on a stage in columbus i mean i don't mean to beat her up because. i really do love the woman and i work for her but she stood on a stage in columbus ohio and looked out and said we're going to put a lot of coal miners and called companies out of business you got a blue collar job. that's what they heard her say he never came around and said hey we're going to put people out of work he said hey i'm going to put you back to work when people are thirsty they're going to drink any water they don't care the water is dirty 'd 'd.

if it is. your own bill there you go you go. through as you go out or you are on for a full and uncertain so her or her grandchildren for your you know you are going to know that that's a good that's. why i asked them i saw you. you know the weather was a lot better of course and there's been this this tax cut most of course which were to corporations but some which went to middle class working class people are you saying any difference in your own future about $20.00. well run it out what do you do with those $20.00 what can you do with $20.00 it's gas you know how i have built it what about the tariffs i don't let not you or your you cross the border to to work into a prince of a certain dishes that had in the impact so far to your know well i mean 1st of all i want to applaud the president for still cares we need to do years ago but

ironically now this company a man you know most of the mills like the 2 mills i put down you just can't find slabs made america our company has to go to russia to get. donald trump it's basically use the issue of steel and the conditions of steel workers those who've been laid off the last 2 jobs. and some talking point and now he. says and seems to have many people believe that he is leading the charge to bring steel back to the united states and to youngstown in order to bring steel back to this area you have to have somebody that's willing to invest in building new blast furnace as new electric are cornices that melts down and put it in slab you'll never see 12021500 people working in a facility and a spill knowing. use radio fi so if you don't you

can be anyone for good afternoon 3 o 7 as we get underway here today all right i think it takes courage to do what president trump is doing i think it takes courage as i said he is a presidents the does of us as a market place he views this as a nation not speculating on what's going to happen i'm looking at what's taking place right here and right now when it when it comes to trying and i'm looking at what's happening in this community you know what's that's that's where. what i want to say about him is his policies contrary to what you believe have not benefited middle america that's what i want to talk to the voters about let's look at what i just said these guys we have people getting bonuses and raises locally as a result of that tax cut as benefits of this community hold that thought well come on whatever happened to you worry about the deficit always sudden be more than

happy to talk about that because it's as if we can get 4 to 5 percent growth guess what a lot of novels are solved. overnight between companies really called product in the are reversed is not a regulation that's going to create jobs ok it is a regulation designed to take care of billionaire but. that when i come back in a minute. over the last 8 years. it's been 16 years. this should say we should millionaires and billionaires. prosperity trickles. response to president obama's 2008 election there was a counterrevolution billionaires and powerful corporate interests were terrified

that obama and democrats in congress would tax the wealthy that they would redistribute wealth in this country but they would overreaching health care reform and in response to that the corporate interests they funded hate groups and front groups to oppose the obama agenda and to whip up hate in society to divide americans race and class and religion. muslims build mosques where the victors we want to build. or islamic terrorists killed 3 youths. it was in america just like the japanese building at pearl harbor. they placed advertisements on television scapegoating muslims claiming that promote justice reform would put dangerous criminals on the streets showing pictures of african-americans and and conjuring racial fear maybe we. would.

say. it was. this was not because billionaires and major corporations necessarily believes in these messages. but they wanted to undermine political support for economic reform . this supreme court today handed down a landmark ruling on campaign finance laws in a 5 to 4 decision the court overturned century old restrictions on corporations from using their funds to advocate for specific candidates the majority opinion affirms corporations have 1st amendment rights and that the government can't limit their political speech. they have done things like allowed unlimited infusions of corporate cash as the right to petition the government or a form of free speech it's a complete inversion so you're a constitutional rights are still exist on paper but have been reinterpreted to

essentially bolster corporate power and that has left us utterly defenseless as a person you're worried all that there's too much money in politics if you believe that we ought to go back to minor key that the people are such sheep that they just swallow whatever whatever they see on television or reading the newspapers shafter this misfires. how much is enough for. the richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth financed trillion dollars i create nothing. i own. we make the rules out a new war peace famine of evil a price to pay for cliff we take that rabbit out of a hat way but it's out there want to know how the hell we did it. now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy are you buddy. i would argue that welling gaged in

the act of cutting our own artery. whether it's throat or the wrists for slipping into such a foolish act it's largely because we've allowed ourselves to be convinced by our own elites as a democratic system is a secondary product of the free market. they think that even the people in youngstown who voted for obama thought that there was a real turning point that we could get a. black president and that would set everything in motion that we didn't recognize that change was soul happening in the spectacle of the white house those kind of sinews and the system were always there and they think obama knew how to play them very well but he was also playing to an audience. and i think that once that audience started to catch on bet their lives weren't changing

then we were dating back to not only what does he know year but what is the most paper for the year and that has been the fierce we're back to the right. how can you explain love i've been to 82 countries i've been to open i came here in . 3 days i just filled with hope. and he kept pretty isn't it sick show. i made my decision to come here because 'd i felt i knew i could build a new life suited to who should know the police and. goes a free man but i think god decided that this money is no good to be free. that it would only. then did. my one dream is that all my children 'd find the same kind of happiness i do. i love my home i love cold weather i like the

culture i like the history i like everything about it. it's a muslim special thought and i know that. i am joined a russian fama. by the demick know so you know blood is just blind to nationalities. a summary. of the facts seem to be just seeing. commentary crisis that is the same things. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each of their own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been masked so many

good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together . we had a period of time where we had 7 and a half miles of mills a cake continuous 7 and a half miles of mills there's none left ok and armoring all our manufacturing left this country all these things and i blame it on the politicians it's the establishment it's washington d.c. they've got their little click they've got their thing. they don't care about anyone else. and it doesn't matter democrat republican their own the same they're all i'm sorry to use that language but. they're in there for one thing they're in there to get elected.