this week's book of the week is by robert reich "aftershock" looks at what reich says are the underlyingc crisis and he has solutions for fixing it. if you like what he had to say earlier or if you disagreed with him completely, i think you'll find the book stimulating. he writes with clarity and passion about big economic problems. now for the last look. thames town is a typically eye dillic british town. you can't miss the red telephone booths. you can see the london taxi or black cab and the local tudor style pub with real ale, lovely for a summer holiday. how do you get there? don't go to england. thames town is not by the river thames. it is by the yeng see in china. it's one of a group of new townships outside shanghai all built on the theme of another country. we stumbled on the story when we learned that while the brits might be flattered, the austrians got quite upset when they heard about plans to copy one of their famous towns. china is reportedly building a replica of the austrian town of hash stead, complete with winding roads and a lake. what i would love to find in china i

we will be right back with robert reich and david stockman. >>> we are back with robert reich on the left, david stockman on the right, talking about jobs, the budget and america's economic future. david stockman, what would get corporations to start spending their money? as bob says, $1.9 trillion of cash on corporate balance sheets. what would get them to invest and start hiring workers? >> well, the fact is that's a bit of an illusion. there's $1.9 trillion of cash, but there's also $11 trillion of debt. in other words, the idea that the business sector is rolling in cash, it isn't suffering from a debt problem is wrong. the household sector still has $13 trillion of debt, almost at the peak level that we achieved in 2007. people are not spending because they're scared. they're not spending because they're broke. we can't then deal with the business reality that i just described or with the massive leverage condition that the household sector is still struggling with by having the government borrow money and, therefore, compound the amount of taxes that we're eventually going to n

secretary reich, let me start with you. is this the opening salvo in an assault on the right of workers in this nation to organize and bargain collectively? >> well, good evening, eliot. yes, i think it is. i mean, wisconsin, remember, was the first state to authorize public sector collective bargaining. and it seems to be the first one to lead the charge against it now under a governor who seems absolutely intent on getting rid of bargaining rights. we have a number of republican governors around the country who are making direct assaults not only on public employees but also on private employees and their right to organize. and if i were going to be cynical about all of this, eliot -- i try not to be cynical. i would say that this is part of a republican plan to undermine organized labor. it's political in nature. organized labor is very important to the democrats. and this is a major step for republicans. >> david, i think folks will be quick to observe, and rightly so, this law only affects public sector unions. but one

moving into the darkness of the third reich. so i talk about, for example, how bought saw -- was given secret graphs of feature nazi laws, not laws yet, but grass of things coming, including one that shocked him, a little translation of his document being the law for the killing of incurable spirited another of those foreshadowing of what was to come. also many loves, including a very interesting character who i think encapsulates the complexity and nuance of this time. this was a very complex time. the scare was rudolph, the first chief of the then brand new agency called the gestapo. the first chief of the gestapo. he held the job for all of one year. he was replaced by the really awful characters. the deals with an unusual character. here he presided over this anti that had caused the imprisonment of thousands of communists and social democrats for the political party. had presided over an agency that had tortured hundreds of these people. likely murdered. and yet the diplomatic community does of him. he had a lot of integrit

as third reich officials. if you want to get the american of dachau you go to rudolph and he would oblige. he would be the one who read and agitated for the christmas amnesty levying prisoners out of camps and later claims that was one of the finest moments of his career when he got to choose who would go free. a very interesting character who is seems very clear at this point* has a physical relationship and a charming photograph in the library of congress where martha and the chief of the gestapo sitting at a table in a lovely little country restaurant have been a grand this time i find that magical here is the evil character potentially with said daughter of the ambassador of america to germany. also one other thing, about rudolph, just as he was the perfect environment of secretary of state imagine a villain or what kind of the land would run the gestapo? you would imagine rudolph to a point*. his then dark lean horribly scarred face the lower part was scarred by a practice engaged and of baird blade dueli

but i'm totally with bob reich in thinking the president needs to be much more empathic.much more concerned about the pain that so many people are feeling. and i think he has to hold out the prospect that if this continues, he's going to make some policy changes. i don't think he can just sort of simply say this is a bump in the road. i think it leaves him eventual initi vulnerable to the romney attack you played last night. >> i think i heard, david, the speech by ben bernanke today, gas prices are up and we had the japanese tsunami and earthquake and then he said the third reason things are slow is because things are slow, there are not enough jobs being created. he's confusing disease and the pain we're feeling. how do you solve it? bob, what would you do if you were sitting in the oval office, to say to the president, here is what you've got to do now to jump start this economy? >> well, there are several things that could be done. again, they may not get through congress, but if they could get through, they would help a great deal. number one, for example, exempt the

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rob reiche was secretary of labor under president clinton and author of "aftershock."od morning. women, blacks, young people, older workers are struggling. you call them politically invisible. what's your argument? >> many of the people who are now bearing the brunt of unemployment, chris, and they are middle aged men who have been out of work for more than six months, they are women who were public employees and who have lost their jobs, many of them school teachers, they are single, mothers, minority groups and young people trying to get into the workforce, all of these people have very little political clout, they don't have an organization, there's no national association of unemployed workers, they don't have, they don't make political donations. they are actually america's invisible class in a way, and that may be one reason that washington is doing so little about jobs and wages. >> you also write that democrats don't want to admit for obvious reasons that the economy has stalled. actually the bad economy works for the republicans' advantage in 2012 so do you se

but the horton brothers created this flying disk originally for the third reich, and then stalin stepped scientists and the united states' government took a lot of the third reich scientists for us. and so what went on, a lot of what went on at area 51 was this intense scientific pushing science to the great extreme. that's what i write about. >> jon: are they still doing, that and how much of the files did they open up to you? >> well, none of the files about the stalin disk are opened up at all. that information came only from an anonymous... the only source i keep anonymous in my book is... >> jon: they don't admit that area 51 exists. our government does not admit there's an area 51. put up the picture of area 51. that's how big the damn thing is, and they say it doesn't exist. >> anyone... if you call up the air force, you can get them on the phone and ask them, and they'll tell you no comment or they won't say it exists. jon january let me just very quickly urge my audience tonight not to drunk dial the air force please. [laughter] you have no idea what that just unleashed on colle

. >> he feared the ird reich,that right?nly feared it, he wrote many appeals then during the r sayi that e germans had deended to a level. >> don't you think this really goes a tt beyond atjust the third reich? >> it's the elimination what's now called the holocaust, which@ was then the genocide against the jews. >> isn't there something else about the german psyche, the german temperame? is it because he experienced what, a@extremely@disciplined childhood? >> i mean, i really don't think -- >> d e holocaust. >> his childhood was a rather pleasan$ one. he does say of course there was@ a peculiar antisemitism inthe -- that this di't bother him i reall9 think that he's seeing that is the period of the nazi rule that completely disenchanted him. >> on the rketing of the genius einstein, he sets the stage himself for the commercialization of his image when he bequeathed his papers to the hebrew universit9 of jerusalem because the hebrew university of jerusalem now licensing agency run s attorney robert richmond to sell the right

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robert reich, thank you very much for sharing your experience and your wisdom.ciate it. >> thanks, e.d. >>> his book is called "aftershock." >>> coming up, japan's nuclear disaster may be out of the headlines, but it is definitely not over. eliot has the latest on this catastrophe. it refuses to go away. [ male announcer ] it's simple physics... a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier. and celebrex is not a narcotic. when it comes to relieving your arthritis pain, you and your doctor need to balance the benefits with the risks. all prescription nsaids, like celebrex, ibuprofen, naproxen, and meloxicam have the

administrations of truman eisenhower kennedy johnson nixon ford and carter more generally like yours robert reich. and then a real media man came into power what i will faithfully execute the ronald reagan was the king of deregulation of his f.c.c. deregulated t.v. and radio active so one person could own dozens of broadcast ations nationwide and said the free market would provide fairness in broadcasting so they got rid of the fair to start. anyway back then republicans and democrats passed a bill to reinstate the fairness doctrine newt gingrich and trent lott were co-sponsors. but ronald reagan vetoed it. the nine hundred ninety six telecommunications act suddenly allowed big companies like clear channel to own twelve hundred stations nationwide brown program them with conservative talk radio was. to set the bars. and looking at the five largest operators what we found was the one or ten to wanted fan which conservative talk show hosts self declared conservative hosts versus folks who declared themselves liberal or progressive. vantage of roughly twenty five hundred hours of conservative talk a

golf now in england robert reich has remained on course to clinch his maiden title on the european tour by stretching his lead to two strokes after round three of these how you know been hit five bird is while dropping just one shot to card sixty eight on the day and he's top of the leaderboard on sixteen under six players are behind on fourteen i don't think you can vote in favor of francesco molinari but also in the chase and back jane recruit the south african double bogeyed the fourth hole but immediately made up for the split with an eagle on the fifth. now they say it's never too late but swimming champion janet evans is aiming to return to the olympics at the age of thirty nine america's former great is back in the call and taking part in her first competitive meeting fifteen years alternate goal of qualifying the next summer's lunchroom picks the three star swimmer retired after the nine hundred ninety six games in atlanta it's five hundred medals and seven world records to name one of those records into the beijing games three years ago and other such people be a huge undertaki

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