and how we affect the coming election in two thousand and twelve for more on this i'm joined by jim dean chair of democracy for america and david wolman contributing editor to the daily koz welcome to you both thanks very much to do and will with a thanks thank you jim for joining us jim the president has this new initiative we can't wait she even pushing these kind of executive orders in the beginning i think he's really finally getting. well i certainly wish he had been pushing this from the beginning and i wish he had also followed through on his executive order on the disclosure bill or disclosing making corporations disclose their contributions to campaigns but you know tom it's better late than never and i'm really glad that he's apparently seems to a found his voice here and that he's going out and he's fighting for this and i'm glad that he has the attitude that we've got to do this with them or without him i think it's about time and and i hope we can have some success with that and get some of these folks back to work i agree with jim jim in fact i had somebody call out of the

budding youth active activism and this moment in time and parlay it into real change i'm joined by jim dean chair of democracy for america jim welcome and thanks tom thanks for having me us great to have you great to have you with us jim. first of all before we get into the whole what democracy for america is doing and what it what's going on with the protests surge has raised a really interesting question which is you know is this a replay of the tea party i'm wondering if you and i have a little more longer generational perspective on this in the seventy's sixty's and seventy's there was such a substantial student movement that it eventually took over the democratic party and passed civil rights laws pushed the great society and amended the constitution in seven months to allow eighteen year olds to vote could it be you know i hear from people on the left who are very concerned that the democratic party is trying to co-opt the move movement but historically movements co-operatives not be around could it be that we're seeing a replay of the seventy's rather than the tea party i think they'

host: howard dean is the founder of democracy for america, a group run by his brother jim. ohio, bill on the democrats' line. caller: good morning. i would like to ask a couple really fast questions. the first one is, i keep hearing on the news how greece and spain are broke and the u.s. is broke and this city does not have any money and this person does not have any money. i don't understand. there's only so many dollars in the world, so much money. if we don't have it and everybody else does not have it, where it isn't? -- where is it? next question is i would like to know why are republicans continually trying to take away from the poor, the middle class, the elderly, and giving more and more to the wealthy? guest: interesting problem. that's a point to be a big problems for whoever the republican nominee is. most people in this country believe, whether it is true or not, that the republicans by 70% are in favor of the wealthy. and that they work for big corporations. i happen to us think that is true. the four right-wing justices in the supreme court field at a corporat