for being rich that's why you you blame yourself yeah right my thought. that was a war harvester from new york and staying in the streets of the big apple where authorities have come up with a novel way of dealing with their budget deficit a string of it new regulations and skyrocketing fines for petty offenses are bringing in much needed revenue but as marina portnoy has been finding out locals there say officials are violating their freedom of expression and cashing in on the process. archery silk is something of a smoker's rights champion. living in a city where a pack of cigarettes cost thirteen bucks and the freedom to puff where you please grows ever more limited. down in our basement this retired new york city police officer nurtures a garden of rebellion this garden is about reacting and defying their attempts to control my behavior hundreds of home grown tobacco leaves hang to dry before silk shreds and smokes are nicotine we're talking about products here tobacco is legal if they don't want people to small pay should go to congress and lobby the

economy continues to cause a lot of people a lot of difficulties and yet the rich keep getting richer are you ok with that this week let's talk about that well i mean we have to talk about what is actually defined rich i mean for people to say that families making two hundred fifty k. a year combined being rich as some people define rich is completely absurd absurd lower middle class hold on only a very small percentage of people actually make that yes but you see the thing is i understand a small percentage of people do however does not make them rich there's only a couple of them. i think that although we don't see it there's a lot of work they have to do you don't get rich overnight you think given the people on wall street are working harder than you are no i don't but i think they might be working smarter. so do they deserve money for that. millions of dollars of your taxpayer dollars but i don't know that it's my taxpayer dollars well they got . bailed out they got millions and millions of dollars and a security i disagree with the bail out completely so why does the government'

now, that leads the rich and rich country. that doesn't mean they cannot have themselves on the back and to say only we are worth the money we get. i don't think so. what those people don't often realize is that their high productivity's liberty depends on the fact that the report into, at least migrated to, societies with advanced ecologies, well advanced for good institutions and high quality physical infrastructure. and most of these that have been accumulated collectively, and over time, and not something that have created themselves. and the smarter ones now, you know, warren buffett already back in 1995 said in an interview that, well, i think that most of my wealth was made. it's not my doing it is you drop into bangladesh, i would be a poor farmer. it was i cannot create all the kind of infrastructure that i needed to make my money. so the smart ones know, and that's why, you know, that he has studied this movement of giving pledges. we can debate whether that is necessary to best use of his money, but still, he knows

year combined being rich as some people define rich is completely absurd that lower middle class although we don't see it there's a lot of work they have to do you don't get rich overnight you think do you get the bomb also you know working harder than you are no i don't but i think they might be working smarter. so do they deserve money for that. millions of dollars of your taxpayer dollars but don't know that it's my taxpayer dollars well they got. bailed out they got millions and millions of dollars and disagree i disagree with the bailout completely they knew that they were betting against homes being foreclosed on and mortgages were kind of bomb and people started losing their homes is that still ok people who couldn't afford to buy homes so you think it's their responsibility i do they should have read the fine print when you borrow three or five hundred thousand dollars you need to understand what you're doing not ok with the rich are getting richer but guess what this is america more power to even at the expense of other people i wish bones of other people will be losing their hom

that leaves out the rich a of the rich countries to me now they could pat themselves on the back with the money that they get. i don't think so. what those people don't realize is the productivity depends on the fact they are born into widower migrated to when organize firms have institutions and infrastructure. and this is what has been accumulated collectively over time and not something that has been treated themselves. and of the smarter months no back from 1995 they said it and then it is not my and doing -- own doing. i would be a poor farmer. and then for the infrastructure needed to make my money. the smart ones no why he has studied and you can debate will that is necessarily the best use of his money but he knows that individual productivity is fundamentally collective. it is not just your own doing. the same person with the same skills and the same brain can become different a productive according the society that they belong. anyway i can go on like this but i don't have the time to go through all 23 of them but let me just give you one or two more. i could talk about numb

they say it is a war going on in america a war that pits the rich or the makers against the poor the republicans are foxes calling the takers and republicans accuse democrats of playing class where from. first off the promise of this war is completely absurd as if rich people are having anything taken away from them today in america their tax rates are at historic lows the richest americans billionaire walton heirs paris hilton's hedge fund managers sitting on their butts by the pool collecting their dividend checks in the mail paying only fifteen percent in taxes far less than you and i pay and you name one thing that any of those folks are actually making other than a boatload of money today the rich are richer than they've ever been since before the great depression the wealth inequality is greater than it's ever been since before the great depression the makers as fox calls them have never had it so good in america so why does fox make it look like they're under assault by so-called takers it's simple republicans need to read brand paul ryan's radical blood budget plan a privatiz

for themselves they call it the so called free market or deregulation mode taxes you know keep the rich rich poor poor old scams they're they're peddling the idea of the poor the poor because they're cursed or lazy i mean this is incredible if you consider where this started i mean look back you know this this debate in american politics look back to the it to the seventeen eighty s. and the seven hundred ninety s. sir edmund burke was the leading conservative in the united kingdom and the leading conservative being quoted in the united states so adam burke who famously said words to the effect of i'm doing this from memory but it's pretty close it does me no harm of a man is a lot of doing gauge a profession to serve as that of tallow maker or hairdresser candle maker hairdresser but it does society considerable violence of such a person is allowed to participate in governance in other words to vote or to get elected to office that was the conservative worldview society needs to be run by controlled by the wealthy few thomas paine actually knew sir edmund burke went over spent two week

year combined being rich as some people define rich is completely absurd lower middle class hold on only a very small percentage of the people actually make that yes but you see the thing is is that i understand as a small percentage of people do however let's not make them wretch if there's only a couple of them. but i think that although we don't see it there's a lot of work they have to do you don't get rich overnight you think people on wall street are working harder than you are no i don't but i think they might be working smarter. but do they deserve money for that you know millions of dollars of your taxpayer dollars i don't know that it's my taxpayer dollars well they got. bailed out they got millions and millions of dollars right just agree i disagree with the bailout completely so why does good government keep bailing out the banks. because a lot of people and their government go to work for the banks so it's all intertwined after they're like goldman sachs or whatever after they leave when you consider that a conflict of interest because the government first to represent the l

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and you got "rich rock." >> hey now!ght? >> he's on there. >> jimmy: you and lil' jon? >> yeah, he's on there. yeah! >> jimmy: yeah! exactly. i love that. is this your saddle? you really use this, right? >> that actually hangs in my house over the bar. >> jimmy: does it really? >> yeah, it does. >> jimmy: oh, man, you -- >> you have to come visit sometime. >> jimmy: you remember last time i hung out with you in nashville. >> i do. >> jimmy: i don't. [ laughter ] it was good. it was fun. >> i pulled up in a 1978 "smoky and the bandit" edition pontiac trans am. >> jimmy: yeah. >> t-tops, and you had your guitar and you were standing on the sidewalk in front of zany's. i think you just had a gig. this was two years ago and i picked you up and we scooched off downtown and we hung out until about 4:00 in the morning. >> jimmy: yeah, well not only that, you came and you picked me up in "the smokey and the bandit" trans am. >> yeah. >> jimmy: you parked in the middle of the street. >> that's right. >> jimmy: and the cops came.

has long been the pride and joy of rich western countries but today this is rapidly changing the middle class is in danger under pressure for decades and assaulted during the great recession the middle class is shrinking and there is little evidence that it will be reversed anytime soon long term unemployment in the current economy is is the worst really the worst it's been in the post-war period curly something like forty five percent of all the unemployed have been unemployed for six months or longer the world is fundamentally changing and already the wealthy are getting even welfare money and power are rapidly becoming concentrated at the top and the big global corporations are earning more than ever before for example sixty six percent of the income growth between two thousand and one and two thousand and seven went to the top one percent of all americans meanwhile the middle classes of the developed world are consistently gwendoline as american and european workers are slowly being merged into the new global labor pool and due to the globalization capital large corporations are lea

help countries become rich. well i don't agree with the premise of the question i don't really think it's the i.m.f. and it's got just become rich i think it's misleading to look at the past sixty years as a whole i think if you look at the world economy since the early one nine hundred seventy s. it's likely the west you can see that economic growth rates have tended to slow down and also when they have grown they've grown quite often because of extending a huge amount of credit rather than trying to work out how to have real dynamic organic growth i think that is a fundamental problem and what we've had in recent years is a tendency to try to back away from growth so i mislead is not the politicians will say of course i'm in favor of growth but we might damage the environment of course i'm in favor of growth but we want to make people happy of course i'm in favor of growth but what about inequality so what happens is that the dynamics of growth weakens and he's undermined i think that's what's really come to t

or rich members of the i.m.f. let's be fair rich countries that owned the i.m.f. were trying to push the i.m.f. to amend its articles of agreement to men date free movement of capital around the world and it was rejected at the time and largely because the asian financial crisis hit and everybody said all maybe we should take a break and not think about that right now and so and now but it's back again and again now the i.m.f. is having to think about what do we do about capital flows and do we manage them more carefully or do we let them flow more freely and i think what we're seeing right now is that a huge debate at the i.m.f. is going to be a very important topic for the next managing director to take up and to mediate between the frankly the the orthodox economic thinking in europe and the us which is pushing the line that we must have free movement of capital and the more practical and you know you know problem oriented thinking is coming out of brazil and others who are looking at i want to want to give i want to and we're almost out of time gentlemen i wan

this rich guy. this almost unimaginably rich guy with unimaginably rich friends could be doing anything. could be doing anything with all his money and influence. but he went and lived among the humble mujahadin fighters in afghanistan fighting against the communists. he funded that insurgency. he raised funds for that insurgency among his rich friends. he maybe even fought a little bit, himself, although nobody really knows. the insurgency ultimately wins. the soviets go home. the soviet union collapses shortly thereafter. this us a tan tashsly biased, humbled by choice rich kid gets to be the folk hero. when we think about osama bin laden, we think about mayhem. and war and perverted pseudotheology. when bin laden talked about what he was doing and why, he was always talking about money. even at times you really would not expect him to be so money focused, he talked about money. money is always how he explained what he was doing and what he and al qaeda were trying to accomplish. one month after t

family lives in a remote village in guinea and a payoff from strauss kahn make them rich is this the way justice should be done in america or if you're rich enough you can just buy your way out of anything i mean this village they didn't even know that she'd been raped until the reporter showed up because they have no roads no electricity well i mean he would use the ledge to have a gun is a terrible thing looks pretty suspicious that heat from what we know looks like it seems like he did that of course we believe in him somehow to go through a d.n.a. and so and so i think i think he should be brought to the what he should be prosecuted if somehow if unfortunate he gets off he's a shoo in probably to be the next president of france because this is probably got his this is ruined it for president friends i think he i think he would have been had he not better a poster of alleged rudeness or whatever dan you know this is a socialist politician who feeds off of capitalism and free markets and here he's trying to use his for. it was your row about yes who who uses his friends to get enco

every day we see the poor being squeezed to pay the debts of the rich. we just gave twitter six years of free rent. >> i am sorry, i am her diabetic and i am shaking a little bit. at this point, i of this year to said that we are condemning an electronic waybills and the attack on cabdrivers. this should not be passed this type of the bill. it is a violation of national riots. in the city should not pass this type of nonsense. and also, nobody is talking about how much time between now and the credit-card passengers. it takes five minutes from the time of charging the gm credit card. a credit card should be removed from the business. >> i want to address one thing. i've been driving since 1994. i am not sure. some time, yellow started charging 5% or 10% for the credit cards. one of the drivers took them to courts and the court put a ban on the credit card. and now, the president of yellow cab told me that sf mta lifted the ban of the credit card. how can they do that without consulting the drivers? >> i am a yellow cab driver. some situations should have

that was certainly the case last year for live oaks rich martinez. after doctors discovered a brain cyst and had to perform two surgeries in less than a month. >> probably after the first surgery, i just remember i was always in pain. i was laying in bed and they would have to come and wake me up every two hours just to put an iv, the fluids inside me. >> two months later, rich returned to school. but he had one final hurdle to clear before getting back on the field. >> my mom probably didn't want me to play it. because she thought it was too dangerous though. but i told them that i want to play. it i love baseball. so eventually, i got to them. >> and everybody was pulling for him that he would be able to play again, because he had such a passion for the game, and we're just thrilled that he is able to still able to compete and obviously at a high level. >> talking to rich, you would never know what he has been through. but watching him play, there is one clear symbol of his past. >> i felt a little unusual, but i got used to it after a while. until

that was certainly the case last year for live oaks rich martinez. after doctors discovered a brain cyst and had to perform two surgeries in less than a month. >> probably after the first surgery, i just remember i was always in pain. i was laying in bed and they would have to come and wake me up every two hours just to put an iv, the fluids inside me. >> two months later, rich returned to school. but he had one final hurdle to clear before getting back on the field. >> my mom probably didn't want me to play it. because she thought it was too dangerous though. but i told them that i want to play. i love baseball. so eventually, i got to them. >> and everybody was pulling for him that he would be able to play again, because he had such a passion for the game, and we're just thrilled that he is able to still able to compete and obviously at a high level. >> talking to rich, you would never know what he has been through. but watching him play, there is one clear symbol of his past. >> i felt a little unusual, but i got used to it after a while. until i

people from near and far can be introduced to the richness of the bay area.t is so wonderful and unique. >> the city thanks you for providing such wonderful leadership and vision. >> we're so happy to be part of the city and so honored to be part of "culture wire." >> to learn more about the exhibition and other upcoming events, visit the website. thank you for watching "culture >> san francisco is home to a renowned civic art collection that includes a comic works -- iconic works by local and national artists integrated into our public buildings and six basis. the arts commission has struggled to take care of the priceless collection because of limited resources. in an effort to gather more funding for the maintenance of the collection, the art commission has joined forces with the san francisco art dealers association to establish art care, a new initiative that provides a way for the public to get involved. the director of public affairs recently met with the founder and liquor -- local gallery owner to check out the first art care project. ♪ >> many san f

this is a tragedy waiting to happen it's not just that the rich are getting away. there are two problems with the distribution of wealth in the country first as you get these boom bust and these enormous crashes and the next crash could be bigger than the last crash. that's one problem that the but even a bigger problem is we're not putting our people to work and it's incredibly dangerous for american society to not have its people working the affect the real unemployment rate the you know the you six jobless rate that the bureau of labor statistics calculates it's not nine percent it's fifteen point nine percent and leo hindery another guy looks carefully these numbers he claims it's eighteen percent this is it terrible and look tom you're an incredible student of history you know that prolonged chronic unemployment leads to bad things and when people think that they get desperate and they become prey to demagogues who will offer them simplistic solutions like military expansionism like fascism these things feed there that the petri dish is high levels of unemploy

people from another group of rich people the money doesn't go to the company the money grows from the owner of the shares who selling them he receives the money and then the other person picks it up there's no impulse here that helps production this is just a movement of wealth around from one group to another so it really doesn't have much of a direct impact on our economy but that's a very convenient story to tell like so many in our culture that served to legitimate a to rationalize to make a capitalist system that helps relatively few and these days is hurting many to make it seem reasonable to make it seem appropriate so there are questions about it particularly hard questions on air so in fact the only time that a person buying stock is actually giving money to the company in whose stock they're buying would be at the initial public offering or subsequent public offerings. when the company itself is basically selling off part of itself by selling stock but if i go to a local stockbroker or go to fidelity or something on line and said like to buy a thousand shares of exxon exxon

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country singer john rich and marlee matlin. >> yeah, okay. >> you suck. >> be careful. >> you want to. >> you want to kill each other in the final, don't you? >> i don't know -- i don't think between want to kill each other but i want to win. i want to win bad. >> i have advice for them. "celebrity apprentice" panelists and dick van dyke. what did you think you would be when you were young? >> failure. >> song and dance man who started a classic tv series. did you ever imagine being married to mary tyler moore? >> in a different life, different world it would have worked out very well. >> movies loved by generations. tonight he's here. this is "piers morgan tonight." >> rather nerve-racking time for my guests here. one is about to win "celebrity apprentice." somebody that has already won that competition, the best person to know just what hel they have been through so far. country singer john rich and marlee matlin. welcome, both of you. >> thank you. >> i know what you have been through. i was there in the treng much before yo

in terms of the subject matter, in terms of the approach to materials, it is so rich and diverse. it is a colorful show, a show that is deep in content, and we know something of the history of the "'s tradition within the african-american community. it is a tradition that came from africa, has its roots in africa, but during slavery, this was a combination of things. one was a way to be able to communicate with each other, a way to create beautiful objects, and a way to create functional, utilitarian objects for the family and community. the other part that makes it so interesting is the focus on jazz. there are two attritions being celebrated here. certainly, the tradition as we know it -- these are not traditional quilts. they have their roots in traditional aspects, but what you will find in this exhibition are works that include materials on the surface, new processes, copying, and putting photographic images on the surface. you will find packets sewn onto the surface, so the methodology from traditional " making has changed from how traditional quilt makers use the medium. >>

doesn't matter if you're rich or poor or somewhere in between seems everyone thinks they're part of the middle class these days so why are americans ignoring the income inequality proven by statistics. and with that as the warning a swat team boss into an x. millions home shooting and killing him so as reports of police brutality rise in america is this a reason americans don't stand up for what they believe. and that's all folks is the g eight summit comes to an end it promises billion dollar aid to arab states urging gadhafi to go we'll have a report from jodi from us. good afternoon happy friday it's friday may twenty seventh four pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster and your watching r.t. now provisions of the patriot act were set to expire today but lo and behold at the eleventh hour last night congress voted overwhelmingly to extend those provisions until two thousand and fifteen now in case you need a refresher the patriot act provisions that were extended allow for example wiretapping without identifying who or what you're surveying and also law enforcement to access any

i have one side who says if we tax the rich. it does not really give you anything, but it may make you feel better. the other side is saying the president is not legitimate because of this. come on, people. the single greatest issue is right in front of you, but it is tough to deal with and digest. i know members were there are 12 zeros on it is hard. -- numbers where there are 12 zeros on it is hard. if we did not have the tax extension that happened last december, it would have bought 2.4 minutes, assuming all of it came in revenues. now what do you intend to do with the other 1435 minutes in the day? it is time to step up and deal with this reality. i hear this all the time. we do town halls. we go through 66 slides. by the end of it you are either medically depressed or you understand what congress has to what it needs tond do do. caller: we could easily eliminate the debt if we just got rid of tax credits and deductions. our military is taking a tough ent to wars. some two war guest: these are both very interesting. first o

you're rich or poor worse education were lower. educational achievement whether you were poor or rich more violence in society which no one wants you know high rates of incarceration and the key thing is economic instability. those during asked about with national people's action and one of the issues that he just brought up was instability as we've seen in other countries so one things we're trying to get is why are more people revolting in the united states despite their situation and some analysts suggest that there's a culture of fear in the united states before we get to that we have some analysis i want to play a video that's just come out of a spot raid earlier this month in arizona the sheriff's department just released this video and what you see is the view from the helmet cam of one of the officers i'm going to talk you through but let's let's roll that video. so this is the swat . that siren you just heard is what according to authorities was supposed to warn the people inside the family inside that the police were ther