no team no crowd. no shots. actually. strap no theorists. which your thirst for action. 1 september 19th $977.00. now a subsidiary of the like a corporation announced that it was closing down most of its campbell plant $5000.00 steel workers many of them feel veterans of the 20 to 30 year. part of that make up to work in your many years who are to believe they were put out on a 3 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 had 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 close to. the 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 or democrat. but this last election before it came along i switched parties

i switched 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 and i think you try and do that really does. that. kind of doing little to no job in a neighborhood that causes plenty of strains on part of people's emotional state will people's physical state. if you could feed your family if you could pay your bills as soon as you went to a major state of depression. when the steel mill said dahlia what i took a major part of the city away this was a a wedding

a wedding gown david's bridal. this is 720000 steals 3 we have acquired this property from the bottle and county lead bank for $1000.00 house is pretty let's you know just the bad mostly it's a lot of there's a lot of. that's all there in the house so a lot out but it will 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 god i didn't run across a suicide note that was left i guess either bought a bed or the father of the house he stated that he you know he was a 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 in the garage. i mean yeah if i came on the scene a note like at a project or scare the heck out of me i would be able to see what was in the garage i would just be getting up out of here was seems like that's what the family did because they left everything behind clothing always bedding furniture you know whatever whatever was here was was left. mortgage companies you know foreclosed properties areas got bad you know drug infested you know drugs you know just pretty much saturated the city which caused 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 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 i don't want to have a climate in this country where i want to ask 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. right to 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 began switching everything back to if you like to pretend he rose and. 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 one $968.00 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 not. 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 that you want and 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 who make 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 in 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 but the real effort by mr president with the stated doubters that he's prepared to fight for the treaty this is happened all

over the world but particularly in the united states that the radical decline of the labor movement and unions which were a political force even more importantly it and they were on the shop floor united states always had weak unions to to come to countervail against the corporations or 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. story chance to make welfare what it was meant to be a 2nd chance not a way of life it's under clinton he did 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 army was 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 a 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 predatory has no conscience no empathy and they used all the coded words super predators law and 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. card. or. john you're also a. 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. day mark the beginning of the end of the dominate young economy there are no longer smoke stacks and much of it is covered by vegetation. ok i don't think. it's depressing and to be honest with you you're can't talk about the valley and not talk about the steel and manufacturing. him

small regional arms of. 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. the end of a love story well tensions in the u.s. german relationship determine the fate of nato if elected will be america's version of the soviet ruler plenty of fresh. how can you explain love i've been to 82 countries i've given 12 but i came here and in those 3 days i just filled with hope. and he kept pretty isn't a sick joke. i made my decision to come here because 'd

i felt and you i could build a new life suited to. companies and. god decided that this money is no good to be create. then. my one dream is that all my children. the same kind of happiness i do. i love my home i love cold weather i like the culture like the few street i like everything about it. down districts more just steel mills would be shut down by friday. trying to recover from that they passed nafta in new york is great wall street good stuff now

and on the west coast is great because you got angelus you have the ocean and that's coming from china and mexico and all that stuff so all those free traders are making millions but the people here they're hurting their jobs are gone their jobs are. we. call it can be hard to go by that plant now we know that fails 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 foreclosure process. this is truly a matter for wrong with both america's health care system which through mergers and corporate ization take the community away from their own 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 i was in a trailer park i mean it's not that that's a bad park but it's not who i am it is not just me there's 1100 still workers not to mention all the other facilities of 100 it supported the mill and a lot of people lost their livelihood what role do you think politicians play at all but. i think they've been bought by corporate america and their puppets every single one doesn't matter if you're a democrat or republican they're all corporate loans i don't think they can think for themselves i think they just do as they're 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 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 had 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. 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 the cheese 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. ringback get it on your own bill 0. 000 as you go out for your own forum for i don't care so her story you're very serious know that that's good that's. why i asked him 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. when i write down what do you do with those $20.00 what can you do with $20.00 it's gas you know may help pay a bill it was about the tariffs i don't know why don't you or your you cross the border to work into pennsylvania and hasn't had any impact so far to your knowledge well i mean 1st of all i want to applaud the president for still paris we need to do years ago. but ironically now this company 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 explicitly use the issue of steel and the conditions of steel workers 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 still 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 melt steel down and put it in slab you'll never see 12021500 people working in a facility and a spill knowing. who's radio face showed you don't you can be anyone from 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 that doesn't us as a market place if you says 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 trump and i'm looking at what's happening in this community you know what's that's that's where i'm at on it was 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 his policies david i just said these guys we have people getting bonuses and raises noting locally as a result of that tax cut it has benefits members of this community hold that thought well come on what ever happened to you worried about the deficit always said it's not to be more than happy to talk. because it's as if we can get 4 to 5 percent growth guess what a lot of novels are solved. overnight between. product and the art rivers is not a regulation that's going to create jobs ok it is a regulation designed to take care of his billionaire but. when i come back in

a minute news radio. over the last 8 years is. that it's been 16 years. there is that. millionaires and billionaires. prosperity trickles. in 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 and they funded hate groups and front groups to oppose the obama agenda and to whip up hate in society to divide

americans on race and class and religion. muslims build mosques where the victors want to build. or islamic terrorists killed 3000 americans. they placed advertisements on television scapegoating muslims claiming that reform will put dangerous criminals on the streets showing pictures of african-americans and. racial fear maybe we. i think it was. this was not because billionaires and major corporations necessarily believes in these messengers. but they wanted to undermine political support for economic reform. the 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 a specific candidate 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 monitor 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 5 trillion dollars i create nothing. i own. we make the rules. a new war piece band of evil a price to pay for clip we picked out a rabbit out of a hat why but it's out there want to know how they did it. you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy are you buddy. i would argue that already welling gauged in the act of cutting our own ardor. whether it's strokes or the wrists. it's largely because we've allowed ourselves to be convinced by our own elites the democratic system is a product of the free market. and even the people who voted for

obama said 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 sold happening in spectacles in the white house. and you see news in 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 almost a year and that it's been the fierce we're back to the right. thank you because you know. once we got in here she. didn't know when he was

trapped in this wired. we don't need a crate with him he will just start freaking out and she won't let us bring him anywhere near and thousands of leading dogs are caged in the in human conditions on puppy farm i mean 67 years you know they've been locked up in a cage outside you see no protection from the weather the heat you know the cold air the rain the snow the founder nothing they have no protection. to get what you . get through chaos across the u.s. crude 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 joined a good businesses are involved like cargill among santa there has been a shocking amount of organized opposition to adverts to increase the standards of care for dogs bred in commercial rating for so many most of that opposition is

coming from huge agricultural groups and industries that have nothing to do with jobs don't buy dog on o.t. . the world is driven by shaped by our own personal those words. no dares thinks. we dare to ask. join me every thursday on the all excitement show and i'll be speaking to get a feel of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then .

hello and welcome to cross talk all things considered i'm peter lavelle the end of a love story will tensions in the u.s. german relationship determine the fate of nato and if elected will joe biden be america's version of the soviet rule or later russia.