the inequality of -- the unequal distribution of wealth. but that's almost fundamental to a capitalist system. but what you don't want to have happen is to have unequal access. okay? people will sort themselves out by who works harder and the rest of this. i got that. i even embrace that. but if everyone does not have equal access, you are not getting the best people. your country will falter. >> and that's wherein equality matters? >> because you have disenfranchised the whole community that may have been contributing but no because they never saw the light of the intellectual day. so, yeah, that is bad and it's not the sign of a healthy democracy. it's not even a sign of a healthy capital democracy. being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically is not a forever thing. i read history, i look at countries that rise up and contribute mightily to eradicating ignorance and to making discoveries about our place in the universe and then by change of force, by change of vision, by change of -- by short-sided leadershi

where religious communities are treated unequally before the law there is going to be great insecurity, and brian suggested that in his comments. >> take us out, do you take hope from the findings? >> i take hope. this is dr. king's day. we have a precedent, barak hussein obama, after was elected, 24 states were trying to it pass anti-sharia laws. are we worse off? i don't think so. we're more conscious, more aware and making changes. that is true in the arab world. the fact that we know these numbers. the fact that we know there is a problem and groups are coming together to address the problem gives me hope that the future is better than the past. we're going through a rocky exposurperiod of exposure and consciousness. >> if we know we're wrong--that is key. people now know there is a problem and they're moving in a different direction. that's the important thing. >> thank you all, that brings us to the end of this edition of inside story. thanks for being with us. the program may be over but the conversation continues. we want to hear what you think about the issues on this or any d

, the fact he has saved the economy, we've had 50 straight months of economic growth, that may be unequal but at least it has lifted some people up. >> saved the economy. most of the jobs we are talking about are low-wage jobs. large numbers of fellow citizens and others if we stuck with the entrenched governments, even though they were oppressive to some of their people. >> he's well-known to star trek fans around the world, whose worked to increase awareness of the lgbt community. takei spoke to me about his childhood memories. >> from the time i was nine or ten i knew i was different than just my face. the other boys would say, sally's cute or monica's hot. i thought sally and monica were nice. but i thought bobby was exciting. and none of thboys thought the way i did. so i knew i was different. and it wasn't the way i was supposed to be. so i was silent about it. and i pretended that i was like one of them. you know because when you're young, you have a great t need o be part of the gang. to belong. and so i dated girls. and went to the senior prom. and i played a part. but then, as y

muni is unequal able to serve our population during the rush hour. normally 20 minutes to downtown, however, during rush hour trains stop and muni can't get the number of cars they need. you sit there in the middle of the tunnel sometimes 5 minutes at a time and my husband hearsay fainted twice. during the regular days that takes 20 minutes take 40s minutes or longer. we have density and a transportation problem. i used to work in belmount shores and the trip took 20 or thirty minutes now it takes over an hour i quit that just but i was disappointed my commute in the city was not what i expected it to be >> next speaker >> would you pass those out? thank you. i'm bernard i represent san francisco tomorrow. i am also and we are also in support of the continuance in that the range of alternative have not been formerly he presented as directed by the court and having been a party to the writing of the code you're considering i can say you don't moot the state mandate. i want to talk about one alternative. the rains of cumulative environmental impacts wh

you have this totally unequal power relationship between the worker and between the employer.ganization and others as doing a great job to tie to fill the gap. i wanted to ask you, given the nature of the unequal power dynamic, are workers frequently nervous about joining with your group, about speaking out about conditions they aren't satisfied with or that may be discriminatory or illegal at the work place? are they fearful of getting involved? >> absolutely. workers are -- the that's true throughout the history of the united states. there were times when workers have been afraid to come forward. other times when workers succeed. i would say this is a moment of great opportunity where we are seeing a lot more workers, low wage workers come forward to demand change. we have seen it with the fast food strikes, with our walmart. we have seen it in our own campaigns. workers across the country are organizing in darden starting as the first full service company. they own capitol grille, olive garden, red lobster. workers ingarden, red lobster. workers are standing up more than we

level, so because there is all of this experimentation on the state level, it has created a very unequallaying field. and there are a lot of people who would like to see this federalized if you will. and we know that that is pretty ahistoric ahistorical, gambling has always been left pretty much to the states to legalize it as they see fit. so this is a little bit of a dish approach. >> both sides with beefing up their lobbying efforts. the gaming association just hired jim messina, and then the ore side backed by billionaire sheldon adelson. why is this gaining momentum now? >> because it is dangerous. it's a very dangerous thing for kids, our economy, for a host of different things. and one of the reasons that we're focusing on it now is because not only is it dangerous, but because these states are just now getting up and running, but as they grow, it is going to be harder and harder to deal with that. to federalize it would be very dangerous. online poker can be very much manipulated. it crease at its a danger for all kinds of things, money laundering, the fbi and the law enforcement

it may be unequal, but it lifted some people up. >> we have to look at what we are made of, saving the economy. most of the drugs are low wage drugs. large numbers of fellow citizens gave up going to work. many are working part-time. none of it counts when it comes to statistics, and profits for the rich corporations and big banks are breaking records. executive compensation breaking records. that's ending wealth and equality, not saving the economy. he's saving a version of capitalism. he, larry somers, tim quiet ner. banks doing well, how are home owners doing. still catching hell. how are workers doing. poor people rendered invisible. poor children and inner cities rendered invisible. can't wait to go in. >> i hear what you say about inequality. is there anything positive you can say about president obama. >> he gave some wonderful speeches. >> that's it. >> he gives wonderful speeches. health care we were holding out on the the pharmaceutical insurance companies are in the driver's seat. it's a bonanza for them and leaves out 19 million citizens. he said he'd fight for the public o

look at countries like the issue of income inequality has risen, there is again -- one of the most unequal countries in the word--the world of intimate disparity and the failure to do what occurred in southeast asia, the failure to expand opportunity with respect to education, these are underlying strategic conditions that have an impact, not totally but have a significant impact on setting the stage in the future. >> one of the themes that cuts across all regions and the economic and political threat, grave concerns about unemployment. the population is over 7 billion people, desperation in immigration to europe, better resource nationalism because it will fail to produce employment, i wonder how vulnerable do you think a retreat from global trade alliances, wto, return to resources that it -- nationalism, a wonder how big a concern you might see this unemployment and an ability to deliver jobs to you. >> my own view is you have a real challenge, a lot of the interest in the emerging markets in the last decade was driven by resources, particularly energy resources under the notion that we

, the fact he has saved the economy, we've had 50 straight months of economic growth, that may be unequal but at least it has lifted some people up. >> saved the economy. most of the jobs we are talking about are low-wage jobs. large numbers of fellow citizens have given up going to work, many are work part time. none of that counts when it comes to statistics as it were and profits for the rich corporations and big banks are breaking records. executive compensation breaking records. that's increasing wealth and equality. not saving the economy. he saved a particular version of capitalism so it didn't collapse. he larry summers, tim geithner, how are homeowners doing? still cechg hell. how are workers doing, still catching hell. poor people in inner cities rendered invisible with privatizers can't wait to go in and can't wait to create these market driven schools -- >> i hear what you're saying but is there anything positive about president obama? >> he gives some wonderful speeches. >> that it? >> he gives wonderful speeches. heacial whealth care we were waiting for. still leaves out 19

the most unequal country in the world is namibia. it's how much more comments you have to shave or not to come. not that it's not the gdp. on most of the riches of those people have come from financial transactions which look which i had practically no social value. then to the income of the country. it is the sharing of what the firm which has to offer the cults. now if you look at the way. the witches are going up in the united states all of the game since the crisis began in two thousand and eight. ninety six percent of that has gone to the top one percent. oxfam is right to to top that you use last year's report. they talked about. two zero zero zero point one percent. it's not the one percent. i keep on wall street and it really isn't very few hands that some would say five or six thousand feet don't report to highlight to read. the world wealth report. but the mideast peace reports on how much money there is out there who has because that will tell you a lot more than the reports on inequality yes there's nobody here first comm

your enemy is usually on methamphetamine, so you have an unequal advantage.what are we looking at here to prove a point for equality? this is about us winning a war. it's not about equality. it's about having the most efficient combat readiness team available. what are our odds of attrition? that's another not study they have evaluated. think should have looked at what are the odds of a female getting past a four-year enlistment. i have a girlfriend of mind who needs two hips replaced because of the combat load she carried when she was in her 20s. >> all right. coming up, keep sending us your thoughts, julio is going to get them in, in two minutes. ♪ >> al jazeera america is a straight-forward news chan ♪ >>> we're back. we're talking about women's combat readiness as the military gears up to open up all combat goals by 2016. >> right. it's everyone combat ready and we got a couple of tweets . . . so you can see it's all over the place as well. >> yeah, elliot we're still looking ahead to 2016, two years away. i know you have been talking about the implementa

if you're in the united states military, you're left along the highway of unequalness. if, for example, you have been the victim of sexual assault and results in a situation that requires access to health care, you're left alone. federal employees, you're left alone. poor, you're left alone. the bill that we have was just submitted to the rules committee. it was not before the house judiciary committee. we don't know what's in it system of madam speaker, i do not rise against persons' conscience, i rise and hold the constitution in my hand and that is that we have a right to privacy and we have a right to use local or your own funds and in this bill all of that has been denied. i ask the question, can we pass this legislation and deny americans equal protection under the law? i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. goodlatte: i'm pleased to yield one minute to a distinguished member of the judiciary committee, the gentleman from alabama, mr. bachus. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman i

truth is the playing field between a driver and a human being, a walker, someone bicycling is grossly unequal. when you add to that, environmental conditions in the city such as poor street design, previously a lack of effective enforcement for dangerously driving behavior and violence from traffic crimes. you realize just how dangerous and unjust our streets have become. one in five hospital trauma cases are related to traffic injuries and in fact if you look at violent crime in the city including stabbings and shootings, two times more violent crime comes from traffic collisions than from those forms of violence. so rather those traffic crimes end in a death like the 6 year old, sofia lew or the 17 year old han chang or brian or 46 year old donald, a resident in the tenderloin or a community leader like elizabeth, whether they end in death or serious injuries like those suffered by monique that some of you may have met or heard of, how stephens who is here tonight whose video i hope to play for you. these crimes cost the city millions annually. and in unsquad -- we've been talking and talki

it is the fair thing to do in a very unequal economy. >> ken, stay there. it is no surprise americans struggling to find jobs are angry. wall street got their bailout and let's look at what wall streetbailout. the taxpayer funded insurance bailouts for aig and freddie mac and fannie mae. they paid it back. the bailout prevented a complete collapse, but it prompted this in lower manhattan. >> we got sold out. >> the banks got bailed out. >> we got sold out. >> that anxiety and anger permits. let's look at what main street got. americans in their homes with varying degrees of success. working americans got to keep more of their own money thanks to the payroll tax holiday. and the auto bailout kept 1.5 million americans on the job. the government launched a massive expansion of the safety net. in june of 2008, president bush extended unemployment benefits that were provided by the states. that program has been extended 11 times. the cost so far, $225 billion. the obama administration says it kept 11.4 million people out o poverty. ken, the question is did they

you know, the great distinguished economist said this is the most unequal of the major industrialed societies, not just in income. if you are born rich, you stay rich. if you are born poor, you stay poor. that is the general parameter. >> we know income equality is the issue. about 70% of americans born in lower income households never make it to the middle class or upper middle class. those who do, have things in common. half came from dual income families. about one-third never experienced unemployment growing up. >> role modelling. a lot of that. the home you are born into is what is your norm up until the age of 16 or 18 or whenever you get out of the house. we know education. >> absolutely. boy, oh, boy, that plays a fundamental role. every time you do a report, christine, you talk about the number of jobless. there are actually millions of jobs available. guess what? this is true in europe right now. children are not being educated for the jobs in innovation and technology. there are depressing statistics about the number of high school interstat students who are ill prepared. that educ

corruption this affects disproportionately the poor so we see an inequality that is for what i say it's an unequal distribution of economic freedom only those close to power feel that they have freedom the other people feel disadvantage and i think the pope with his experience in argentina where he sees the division of world vision of culture polity. well divisions would relate well to the quarters of the world it doesn't. you know it's the ok ok if i got to go i mean but reading what he wrote and it was about capitalism even if the word wasn't mentioned it was very clear it was about capitalism scott i mean it again being this pastore all pope i mean he's going to be the champion of the poor it least on t.v. in. pictures with the great great leaders and what not i mean he can be that pro-trade is that but can he actually do it is another question right here because the catholic church has had this opportunity for a hundred two thousand years now and it still really hasn't pulled through for the people oh. peter i can't believe you just said that i mean when you when you look at the history of the

preventing banks from unloading toxic mortgages on a populace the people at the helm of solving global unequality are hollywood celebrities criminal bankers and giddy but kissing journalists so don't be fooled by all the hype because davos is really nothing more than a bunch of one percenters up in the alps laughing that you'll never have a golden ticket to the party. well you guys it's friday as usual i've been an intern dating with you guys the press seen as hell news all week so the line of food can't talk right now my good friend we can have those the moment of clarity webster is here to break it all down what is going to be so leave out of all of the. m.s.m. is obsession with justin bieber last week actually was really happy to hear congressman harman the same some really really cutting things about the n.s.a. . let's take a listen i think at this point we should seriously consider not not can comment on it let me let me ask you haven't you congressman let me interrupt you just for a moment we've got some breaking news out of miami standby if you will. right now in miami justin bieber has be

. >> the president returns to a washington fixated on and even an unequal economic growth.on fixated on the 2014 elections. john malone and liberty media want to buy time warner cable. and bitcoin, i am sick of it. some say it is theoretical hogwash. in the meantime, get out your bitcoin wallet. good morning, this is "bloomberg surveillance." we are live. liu.ng me, betty she has never been up this morning. wonderful to have you. great to have you. are you going to do 6-8? >> and the 9:00 to 10:00. >> exclusive for betty liu. cristina alesci with us as well. we pushed the camaro out on friday. >> that was impressive. >> we pushed it on 3rd avenue. >> not a good advertisement for camaro. >>

we believe that everyone has the right to be unequal.that to us, every human is the only important. >> while she had no shortage of critics. >> i detest every one of the domestic policies. >> the honorable gentleman knows that i have the same content for his socialist policies as the peep hole. >> she was secured a better conservative vision was right. the mac one of the things is about how much of your money should be spent by the state and how much you should keep to spend on your family. if you wish to spend more, do so only by texting you more. it's no good thinking someone else will pay. that's someone else's view. >> she knew what ronald reagan. that free markets and free people are the best defense and that peace comes strength, not accommodations. >> mr. speaker, by the buildup of weapons, they are as an aggressor to believe he can achieve this is not an acceptable price. >> america now stands at a crossroads. one path leads to deficits, decreasing influence in decline. the other, a renewed american dream we all want. >> mr. chai

in 2013 and it predicts an additional 4 million will be unemployed in 2014, rise blaming a rising unequally recovery for joblessness. post office centers in staples stores, instead of postal workers, the financially strapped postal service says the agreement with staples will help grow its business. let's bring farrah sarabi in to discuss this. let's broaden out the discussion. how does this help the post office? certainly they wouldn't do it if you didn't think it would help them. >> they lost $5 billion in 2013, seven years in the red, consecutive years. they're thinking expansion of their services partnering up with a huge chain staples, now in 85 stores, the goal is to expand this to over a thousand stores to offer all the same kinds of services that you can get. today is a great example, you can't go to a staples and get your nail service there. but this is the sticking point. and i just said it. >> is it a done-deal that it will be staffed by staples employees or is that something they're negotiating? >> so the union hopes that this is still open for negotiation. they're trying to put

." >> of all developed nations the united states has the most unequal distribution of income. >> he became u.s. secretary of labor and made this movie. >> i had to protect people from the people who would eat them up economical economically. >> the left say they are standing up for the little guy. i turned to libertarian philosophy professor tee bore mccain. aren't they? >> no way. i was under communism myself in my early years. >> you grew up in hungary. >> they are not helping the little guy of the that is a myth. they talk a big game, but the left does nothing but place ultimately people into concentration camps because nobody will comply with their stup bid vision. >> but neither bob another president obama is putting people in concentration camps. >> not yet. united these people who are supposed to be getting on board willingly but they don't get on board willingly. just like with observe care. -- obamacare. >> income inequality hurts nobody unless the inequality came about through theft or tloo -- >> is it not at all gross that more people have more -- >> not any more gross than the

you've seen brazil, one of the most unequal countries on earth is one of the few countries that has gottene equal in the last few years. it has proved you can have a very successful economy while making the gap between rich and poor get better. we think there are more news stories out there and we think that the situation is not inevitable but we are worried about it. >> max lawson, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> fifa president is facing a challenge in world football, and jer will tell you all about that in sport. and the lattist fro the latest e next. >> time for a look at sport. >> stephen, thank you so much. we could have a fight on for the top job in world football. fifa's former deputy secretary jerome has become the first person to announce an intention to run in the next year's presidential election. she has previously served as organizer of france world cup in 1998. he wands to modernize the 110-year-old constitution. >> we're in a system where the government needs to be reformed to better reflect the world to incorporate the stake holders, to rebalance between the contine

he actually opened the door for republicans to come out in favor of gay marriage saying, unequality -zens their right to define marriage in their states as traditionally or as broadly as their diverse values dictate. this was a new message from republicans, and i welcome it. >> first of all, i'm very happy that you were able to see almost half of your party's responses on a big night like that. however, i also got a chance to hear rand paul, who couldn't even bring himself to say that americans deserve to have a minimum wage. so is that a core value of your party that not having a minimum wage -- >> most conservatives acknowledge that it will result in -- [ all talking at once ] >> let's just clarify for people watching, there was the official response, there was the tea party express response, which mike lee gave. then there was the rand paul gave, which rand paul gave. >> if the democrats didn't have a president, who you have to rally around, i would say that there would be the liberal response. there would be the center democrat third wave response. the progressive response. >> we

i love having bloomberg, is this something reversed or is this about snowplow unequality because he'shis kind of scheme, the thing is it's a good naet for for the larger a deand i'll till you why. it's black and brown people, lots of working class peemg of all colors who go to the upper east side to work jobs, to drive cabs, run diners, those people in their apartment towers don't come out. those are 9 people who actually get hurt. if your streets get plowed in brak lynn where i grow up, you get on the subway, you can't actually get to work because there are no customers. >> we have been talking so much about christ and the bridge. the question is is this political pay back but he said where he's going. he's going to have taxes. they may not have supported them. >> ray hon is a smart guy. i think de blasio is the day -- >> he's not smart enough to know how the city works. look, the sanitation department, it's a complex big bureaucracy. michael bloomberg for all of his faults wasn't a huge fan. he was the guy who actually knew how to make a bureaucracy work. >> got it. >> bill de blasi

johnson is arguing that that's unfair, and that it's unequal protection under the constitution. and therefore, he's suing. again, an issue that's been hanging around, and i think really resonates with people, that unfairness argument. >> john, it's -- not too often wisconsin politicians even cross parties take a swipe at each other. >> it's unusual. the problem, johnson seems to have the better of the argument politically -- >> why would sensenbrenner swat him so? >> they're protective of members of their staff. this is the employer contribution effectively. the law had no statutory authority to continue this subsidy. so he said, listen, you can't just change the law, you have to follow the letter of the law. sensenbrenner is looking at staffers, some of whom don't make a lot of money, saying i don't want to cut someone who's making $30,000, $40,000, $5,000, $8,000 subsidy for them. this is important to their staffers. that's why you see the divide. i think johnson's right. if you want to change the law, you have to go out and actually the law. you can't just say -- i, the execu

so when you think about the things that i was concerned about like unequal education, the lousy miseducation of a lot of our children, broken homes, the kinds of things that make folks at risk for going to prison, in prosecutors' offices those are considered obstacles to winning your case. it's not that they're mean people who don't care about poverty and discrimination and income inequality, but it's not their job to think about the effect that those rights have on their defendants. what prosecutors do all day is to put people this prison. and, again, i knew that going in, so it's amazing to me that i kind of got caught up in that mind cellset. part of it is just lawyer culture. we're competitive. we like to win, and the way that you move ahead in a prosecutor's office is to lock up as many people as you can for as long as you can. and unfortunately, i got caught up in that mindset. but fortunately, i got out. so now i call myself a recovering prosecutor. recovering because i still like to point my pinger at the -- finger at the bad guy, i still get upset when someone bullies somebody else.

in a society that had a lot of economic mobility, unequal outcomes would not be a big deal.e have had evidence suggesting that while mobility is not getting worse in america, it is not getting better. that is something we need to lean against. i think the president was right to highlight it as an issue. i don't think the policies he is pursuing have much to do with mobility. i fail to see why a higher minimum wage or extending benefits has much to do with that. but i give him credit for raising the issue. click that goes to the heart of it. unemployment benefits and raising the minimum wage are the two primary arsenals, other than growth, the president has. larry. well, charlie, i think he has more. he does have those things and i a bignk they make difference. i think it makes a big difference what we do over time in education and that was something the president emphasized. i think it makes a difference what we do in retraining and training workers. this has to be the first time that training and the transition between jobs has been elevated to an issue where the vice is gi