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a p, just go ahead as well. so going to do this comes as my most of them are all gone, fuzzy protests, the election results, according them rate matter to or i have got the wrong $54000.00 volts and my nearest of all, i'm all got the only $17000.00 volts will continue this protest and also going to quote those uh, the link to headlines. i'm next i've said with tennessee, it's on the ground and we'll be back to the top of the hour. do they just update the i'm action or time say welcome back to going underground, broadcasting all around the world from the u. a on sundays. joe, we spoke to us presidential candidate for 2020 full professor cornel west. who
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believes joe biden is a war criminal for the gaza genocide, but there's another jail for it. and candidate who's us supreme court. a bill for immunity from prosecution deadline is today. he claims he could end the war in guns and on russia through ukraine, and revitalize a suffering economy at home. and he's the favorite to be president. donald trump, up on the republican congressman's new book, trump's war and capitalism that exposes the catastrophe of trumps last time in office. david stockman, the reagan administration's budget director, joins me now from miami, florida. thank you so much david, for coming on, i suppose before we even go into the depths of what's an amazing total force of a book in terms of its analysis of i can say that the polls show trump uh, handles the economy according to polls. but as a, uh, better than any other, uh, better than buying in the opinion polls, that's what people are thinking as he clearly is the favor, whether it runs from jail or where else 20 points. he's in the lead to what, why do you different from that huge lead of your fellow american public as
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well as compared to the, by the period. uh, it is much to say that it was better, but the fact is, uh, there wasn't any great mega economy in 2017 to 2020. that is just one large and medicine balls. that donald trump and his maggot supporters of stock promulgated uh you know, month after month, year after year. it wasn't true. and of course he wasn't even remotely a economic conservative. he's the biggest vendor we ever had the over office. he was constantly harassing the fed, make got your money even easier to prove even more to push the interest rates even closer to 0. he obviously shut down the whole economy arbitrarily and in an unconstitutional matter, with the call was locked down to the spring of 2020. so when you put all that
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together, my conclusion was, he's the last guy we should be nominating to address the huge problems facing the country in 2024. but the mag of the republicans and republicans generally said, yeah, you know, he's a loud mouth, boastful eagle made maniac, but he gave us a good economy in boys. the purposes of my book was to show that wasn't true. i, i take 4 or 5 or 6 major metrics that, uh, you know, assess the performance of the economy, compare it to all of the presidents since harry truman, as evan presidents. and he comes out on the bottom. we don't need to go into all the data, but the big picture is what was the economic growth rate during trumps for years, it was 1.5 percent per year, which is half barely half of the 3 percent average for all presidents. the 5
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percent averaged during the nixon or during the job as an kennedy administration in the sixty's 3 and a half percent during reagan, even more than uh, the 2 percent growth during obama is always here, which of course, as we know, he would say it was all about cove it but in the book you make for the case that and use of president reagan, the very controversial president who's a foreign policy linguist today in the global south and, and amongst the working classes all fly over america is you call it in, in your book, you make the case was saying actually it doesn't matter is the president is the federal reserve again and again in this book, explain why that's the case as well. i mean, ultimately we've had so much increase in the public debt, so much spending that was paid for that we would have had an economic crisis long ago if the fad did not monetize to all the debt. in other words,
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the massive bomb buying that it did month after month after month was the only thing that kept interest rates from, you know, exploding higher. but it was in a permanent solution. it was simply building up an inflationary bubble, both on wall street and on the main street academy that finally let loose as we know in the last couple years, we got 40 year high inflation. and now they're struggling to try to somehow bring it down without sending the economy into the ditch, all of that stems from bad monetary policy. but the thing is if you're going to change the direction of the country, you need a house cleaning of the bed and truck with. and the other way to complain, ga certainly practically weakly, that the fed was not easy enough. that is needed. the cotton rates not get them back to some kind of normal. i hope that it needed to critique monetizing these
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huge debts that it was because he was creating when we should have been going the opposite direction. now the one point that i make in my book is during trumps for years, and that was a long but it's a good test. the public debt in the united states went from 20 trillion to 20 trillion pass in a trillion game. again, of course you would take home and sorry to interrupt again and, and you know, in the long run as regards this kind of money printing or quantitative easing has your hate figuring this book. haines would have said, we're going to be dead any way you use a also though, even if someone does support that historic policy, the united states of doing money, the, the money goes to the richardson society. yeah. who will lead all the said the money printing that accommodated august spending and fuel of this bible basically ended up with the top one percent or at most the top 10 percent of households that
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own 93 percent of the stock. so if we look at just 3 trunks term, the average household in the top one percent gain 10000000. where's the now we're the average household in the bottom, 50 percent gain, $1800.00. turn of the toner, surprise. that no surprise that they're obviously going to be masses of voters who uh, i think the trump has lunch is less than i remember venezuelan president before chavez, who was completely corrupted perez. and they said, why you were doing a game for the same guy because he's stolen enough last time. similarly, is that your explanation as to why so many people in fly over america is you to pick that one to him back again. even though they didn't benefit and the richest in america benefits, i don't know that they want trump back so much is they want a fundamental change in the direction of policy. they know that the,
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you know, the lease on the back. you know, what i call the bi coastal leads benefit from all of the empire abroad and all the spending in the military industrial complex and all of the accommodation of the corporate interest that happened in washington. they know that the sad isn't necessarily making life any easier for them, so they want to change. unfortunately, donald trump is the wrong answer because he really is close as to the underlying cause of why there's so much distress in a fly over america. basic. so we, we've inflated our economy so much that is not competitive in the world. so we've off short, a huge share of our industrial base of millions of good paying jobs. so that's part of the problem. it stands from the said, no truck went in there and said, well,
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it's just due to this various governments in china and elsewhere, and bad people in washington to negotiate bad deals. if you only put him in charge, he would fix everything more than you make the casement. actually, trump funded china during is time to factor. yeah, exactly. and even more because it happened today after all of the tariffs that he put on, which would be paid by the american consumer not by china. we have an even bigger trade deficit today with china than we had in 2017. when he said he was gonna fix the problem, the deficit with mexico today is twice the size. it was when he started. and when he started, we had a balance with canada. and today we have a large deficit. so none of the nostrils that he proposed were accurate. none of his policies help, they made them worse. and uh, i don't know what trump might as well have been a chinese communist spy while it was empower. that's what you're saying in the book
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. so yeah, i, i don't know if i would that necessarily interpret it that way. but what i am saying is that we've got to get back to basics in this country. we need to get these deficits under control and eliminated. and we have to stop the probably death from continuing to serge at the rate that it's been going. you know, we're going to be at 50 trillion of public debt by early in the next decade. and with trump is likely to be even more. okay. i want to explore some of the nuances there in a bit bye. just wanna take a quick detour and that is something that trump talks about increasingly, robot. if kennedy certainly talks about it as does going out west the welfare state, as you describe it, how much do you see a these presidential contenders as being proxies of this warfare state as the united states, as the by the ministration desires to,
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as print loads of money and send it to the lensky in ukraine. what would you as well, you know, obviously, the buying is a tool of the warfare stage. if you want to call that, the deep stakes. i agree, you know what he's doing, and ukraine is absolutely and say, this bill before the congress, they added another $100000000000.00 for an a to ukraine. israel and the rest of them is totally on affordable as the 1st point, trump talks a good game. he to, he sounds like he's for america 1st he sounds like he wants to end the forever wars, but he has no capability to execute anything. when he was president, he inherited a defense budget that was nearly 600000000000. that was already badly blown. and he should have taken an axe to it and cut out a $1200000000000.00, but instead he pushed it to $750000000000.00 and then biting k man. you know,
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i call it the, you in the party, the war party in both a democrat and republican versions. and it's taking into 900000000000 now. i have no confidence. the truck would kind of dialogue with the advanced budget. he thinks that if he, you know, has a big, big stake he can go around the world clubbing everybody, and as a nation or cleverly negotiating, you know, in the end as some of these problems. well, he negotiated with a lot of people and as far as i can tell during 4 years, very little it happened. in fact, lucky today, we have as soldiers in harm's way, in iraq and is syria, what the hell they doing there? well, you know, trump said we should in these forever words. he said, let's skip the troops out of syria. there's 2 still, 2000 people. the point that he has now line does mean quite apart from, as you say, the fed having the power over the monetary expansion isn't,
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isn't the fact going to be the lunch from last time round in john bolton last time he was on this, you'll obviously hates donald trump and wrote a book i told you about how we ate them and trump and replies basically savvy. got the wrong man. his his national security advisor this time around. is he going to be different? i mean, you know, you months stuck a golf and maybe as a, as a v. i talk a call soon as an isolation disease against the big wolf as state. yeah, well that's true, but i have very little confidence that donald trump ever learns anything for more than a day or 2. he slides by the seat of his ample britches, whatever. uh, idea possesses him at the moment. he pursues without any serious reflection or research or homework. and so i have no com. so it is mentees learned anything? mean, after all, he was talking about america 1st,
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the bringing the empire homes stopping the forever wars throughout the campaign in 2016 in his early days in the white house. and who did he bring in to the top positions john bowl, who is a total neo con, more monitoring, you know, global head geminus, and mike com peo, who's even worse? any, what's one of the c i a, the other is national security advisor and then rewards bound failed by making them sick. j state. this tells me you're dealing with someone who doesn't have the ability to focus the same things through and, and make the decisions that are going to be affective. so i don't want another 4 years of learning experience for donald trump have been struggling. i'll, i'll stop you that more from the ravens budget director and the older of the drums war and capitalism after this break. the
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hello and welcome to the cross, the full board. here we discussed the wheel and the march, the 112011. the little just as quick ever recorded it in japan is really just it a 14 me to to nami devastates the focus, fema each and you play a pallets on the the new theory enters a flooded sparking and a risk disaster. the future i. d z killed by 20 i o. b o. any time in june is living in japan and this nice to go to the area that needs to be a meltdown. focus shima immediately. the
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sooner the better for ya. investigation starts watch on t. the, the welcome back to going on the right, and i'm still here with people that you as budget management director on your ranking, an order the new book, comfortable on capitalism. david, we were talking about, well, you and talking to me about our clearly, you know, fan of trump personally and anything else, joe biden. and of course, that's the main choice. and you know, fan of is either and i'll give you your backing robot f. kennedy joe biden, obviously obsessed with this border as well. explain how your book delineates
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the midst of, uh, any kind of any kind of truth actually in the public debates in your country when it comes to immigration and why you need so many immigrants for the united states economy to perform in the future. and without them, out of your economy is in danger of collapse as well. you know, 1st of all, it's a matter of basic demographics. the native born workforce stop growing in 2015 a decade ago and it will be shrinking at a pretty good rate rate as far as the i can see. now. secondly, we know from economic history and logic, that about half of the economic growth comes from more labor for more workers for more hours employed in the economy. well, unless we have some way to increase the size of our labor force, so supplement, the declining hours that we're going to get from the native born,
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our economy is going to stagnate, even as we head towards a 100000000 retire reason, the baby boom in their later years. so that's the fundamentals that we're dealing with. the problem is we have a totally broken immigration system that says if you are skilled and you got a ph. d, and you're a high tech guru. well, google can get you in through one of the many categories that are in our immigration system for skilled labor. but if you're just honest, skilled or low skilled worker, but we desperately need in this country, you can't get in at all. there's only $4000.00 slots a year when we need millions of people. so what you have to do instead, and this is what the crisis is all about, is basically pretend that your and aside we are an asylum seeker, a refugee from mexico,
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or l. salvatore or water mala or elsewhere in the western hemisphere come to the texas border breakthrough log. interested in getting in the queue of age, you know, overburdened port system to try to get asylum on the ground. so it is too dangerous to go back. okay, and the book you, you may think a, so a guest passes in a and a sort of more i the old version of the, of the system. i understand these ideas are not there or even on approved by the so called progressive, who knows will create type of the media. have you being allowed to talk about this to have the wall street journal's in the new york times. what's, what's going on with the data by day basis, and they bigoted to they just don't like people from overseas, if they come and realize this is a practical thing is not even to do with morality from where you're coming from. well, the liberals in the buying people's sort of like the asylum basis them because they think ultimately these people won't come to america unless they're accommodated
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through the asylum system and they'll be grateful. and therefore the democratic, the that's their whole view. on the other hand, there, so the whole need to organize labor that they can't talk about the logical alternative. a large scale guesswork or program where people wouldn't come to the rio grande river or to the border and try to break through them. they would simply go to the consulate in their country, mexico, or goes the rigor apply for a guest worker permit if they were a screen in the past of and i could make contact with a us employer they, they could come to the united states. there wouldn't be any crisis at the border, but the liberals can live with a guest worker program because organized labor is a guest. now the republicans, they are looking for an issue and they don't want any more for democrat motors coming to america. so, you know, they create all of this hysteria about,
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uh, you know, uh the board arrive and drugs and you also explain why that's actually a to be interesting, white native americans, they should be deported onto the other. hey, be here in the book. yeah. um. okay, but uh uh, you know that, uh, if the fed, as you make the case for is running uh, everyone's livelihoods in effect. you must think that if you do take the morales the out of it, a person sitting in the oval office will think, well, the way to increase manufacturing jobs is to order the printing of money to send to zalinski and ukraine. just send it to nothing. yahoo! to kill other people to kill palestinians, decalle, ukrainians, actually, and russians, and that will stimulate the war economy in the united states. and that's the only way that you have any power as a president. is that why the military industrial complex continues so many years
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after eyes now to be the what bite and supports we don't know really about trump as much could you? if you make the case that he do the same in the military industrial complex thrives, we have at 900000000000 defense budget is absurd. in fact, if you account everything security assessed is for an aide, you know, international operations of the state department and national down for democracy and all the risk is 1.3 trillion is probably double or even triple what we really need. so why is that fair? because there's so much money flowing through what you would call the national security complex, that in basically creates its own lobby, all the think tanks all the n g o's. all the lobby uses the bell ways. built way all the military industrial, complex contractors all put their shoulder behind, keeping their budget where it is today in rising, you know,
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as steadily year after year. so it is a political problem that can be solved until we get our president. and this is why i'm so strongly for our f k. robert kennedy junior, who says, i'm not, is enough. we're bringing the empire home. we don't need 11 carrier battle groups swarming around the globe, looking for trouble. we don't need a 180 bases. we don't need to be placing the red sea or the straits of taiwan, and we certainly don't need to be running a product. i was hardly went through it, but i know he wrote the forward to this book. but you know, he said for as much money into israel against palestine as it takes, i don't know whether you've had a chat with them since, since you were to $40.00 a book, is kennedy once more, a village genocide in gaza? yeah, well you know, obviously you're never going to have a 100 percent agreement with any one either. the use case is more than a mouse is a bunch of bad guys and we shouldn't i overlooked that?
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and i think he's right about that. but i don't think he's real needs a lot of money from the united states. but when i point out in some things i've written use, they're spending only 5 percent of g d, b on defense. back when they had a true existential crisis in the seventy's. at the time of the paper where they were spending 20 percent. so they're taking the usa for a ride, a yeah, a couple percent more of taxation on their be able to provide the security that netanyahu in that class thinks they need is what all of the happen here. rather than asking the, you know, the us taxpayer to cross up another 15000000000 that they don't need because they can get from their own resources and we can't afford because we're already have totally bankrupt. so i disagree about aid to israel, but that's a very small piece of the big picture where i think he's totally correct. but as you say, no one can agree totally with uh, everything uh, people say, but you know,
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in the, your greek memoir read drive for politics. you say something about reagan being converted by congressman jack kemp in 1980 to reduce the top rate of tax and change . the idea is a reagan, you obviously learned a lot of lessons from being in that administration and they said it's no more for a, you know, arguable genocide in so many foreign policy areas. and for impoverishing the united states, you learn so much sense. and basically, as your books of change in their, in their ideas, when you, when you say, washington doesn't need nato to protect our allies in your a because they are not facing any threat that copy, handled by their own ways. means and going to say the whole disaster and ukraine today is rooted in the will. bodies mind is expansion of nato. that is the same policy as cornell west. and that is the same policy as donald trump. and that is of course, the policy of the present use avoiding robert f. kennedy. why kind of all these different elements get together and defeat the will body? yeah, because they're all over the line. rigidity is there,
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and of course the list is there, but trump had the view that we all there. she knows. he didn't argue that the nato's combined defense budget of 1.25 trillion isn't necessary, was basically say they should spend more. so we don't have to spend as much so yeah, but now now the is lobbyist kind of backing him of it, which is why it is constant and the drum propagandist propaganda. so the mag of people listen, you know, but we, we need to go back to the beginning, the garbage show of his problems. 1989 and richard for acquiescing to the, you know, utilization of germany, that nato would move an inch to the east. we know all of that, and then for the next 25 years, nato has been moved in and is doubled in size. and we've even tried to put former republics of the old soviet union into nato and asked what you grain was about georgia and so forth. none of that is necessary,
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there is no evidence whatsoever that either. ringback is trying to read constitute deals of the union. one you have in the ukraine is a civil war over a territorial numbers that has nothing to do with nato or western europe, or even pulling or the baltic states for that matter. so when you consider the fact that nato's countries all 31 of them have a g p, a 46 trillion, and russia has a g, d, p, up to trillion. and you understand that in the modern world, a military threat is grounded in industrial light, industrial throw waves and capacity is pretty obvious. there. there is no real sick of the nato countries and certainly not to the mainland of north america . for me, i should you know, name and talking like that is like, uh, i mean,
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what do you think about how talking causing is being treated as being called a traitor in your country for even uh, trying to say or trying to elicit any asset similar things you just said, trying to make the points that you just might. yes, well, i don't know really crazy times. richard nixon went to moscow and met with bracelet f. as i remember right. he wasn't considered a trader. he went to china and met with my house. she wasn't considered a trader back in the day, even in the cold war. there was an idea that there was something like peaceful coexistence, and some were more hawkish about it, and others were more w. in here we have basically a totally different ideology. the liberals hate donald trump so much i have to use for him, but they hate him so much that they see cool. this is enable or some kind of drop of danger. and when they think about the food they're seeing,
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read in the guise of donald trump. and so therefore, have totally irrational attitudes about russia, about proving about foreign policy, about the proxy war and the creed and, and, uh, nato uh, in the whole, whole rest of it, i don't think unfortunately, troops going on line that sort that out. because he's lazy, he's or he's uninformed, is historically illiterate. he's lazy and he's going to be taught in all kinds of digressions and diversions when he shouldn't be saying the cold war ended 3 decades ago, nato is done. let's on wind it. and let's, uh, you know, begin to try to find some way to bring the world to a, uh, kind of peaceful status quote. well, sure, i'm says he's great and he'll bring.
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