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you have a one government spending goes down but it never seems to go down back to the status quo antebellum and the effects of world war ii it is substantial in large part because the cold war came along but if you look from the start of a career in war, you see that by all measures they were much more elevated than they had been even at the peak of the new deal. >> host: the size of the military went down but what stuck around? >> remaining in operation until late 1946 and many of the emergency programs that were eliminated was as quickly as possible but the postwar military then the fiscal state that remained extraordinarily robust so you never have less than 60% of the labor force pay income taxes after the second world war. the biggest change is fiscal and military and also the precedent for mobilization drawn upon the korean war. >> host: profs barrel were economic promises made to help sell the war to the american public? >> economic promises? >> is adjusted the american standard of living would be extended to all americans some of these four free sputum -- freedom of speech and freed

spending goes down, but it somehow never seems to go down back to the status quo antia bell lumbar -- antebellum. it was quite substantial in large part because the cold war came along but if you look at the five years between the end of the war in '45 and the start of the korean war in 1950, you see by all measures state capacity was still much more elevated that be it had been even at the peak of the new deal. >> what were some of the programs that stuck around? i mean, the size of the military, presumably, went back down, but what stuck around? >> well, the office of price administration remained in operation until late 1946. i should emphasize that many of the emergency programs that were inaugurated were eliminated as quickly as possible. so there was a dramatic demobilization. but the postwar military never fell below one and a half million people, so that required a fiscal state that remained extraordinarily robust. so you never had less than 60% of the labor force paying income tax after the second world war. so the biggest change is fiscal and military, and then also the precedents for

now ♪ >> it was a top selling country album of 2010 and need you now made the country trio lady antebellumrs, now the band is ready to own the night which is their next album due out in september. >>> this academy award winning actress cooked up a lot of interest when she dropped 80 pounds. now you can read all about it. jennifer hudson is dishing all about her struggles with weight. her new memoir mostly about food is still untitled and will be out in january. >> stop! why are you doing this? >> only for adults, human centipede two is a gruesome tale. it is so outrageous, it was banned in the u.k. the first movie was about a mad doctor who sews two americans to a japanese tourist. if you're still interested after that description, the sequel comes out later this year. that's your eye on entertainment, sandra hughes, cbs news, hollywood. >>> we'll wait on that one. but we won't wait to tell you good morning. it is 4:59. welcome to 9news now. it is 5:00 a.m. i'm andrea roane. >> no accounting for taste. i'm mike hydeck. here's angie goff with traffic and a lot to talk about already. weather

that epic portrait of the antebellum south. like many of you, as well, this kentucky girl could not believe the fiery heroine scarlett o'hara. and tonight, a mississippi girl, sharyn alfonsi, looks back at three quarters of a century ago. ♪ >> reporter: the music, the iconic images. a movie brought to life by the fiery characters written by margaret mitchell. >> great balls of fire. don't bother me anymore about don't call me sugar. >> reporter: one of the most popular and most quoted books ever. >> i won't think of it now. i'll go crazy if i do. i'll think about it tomorrow. >> reporter: scarlett o'hara. >> oh fiddly-dee. >> reporter: spoiled, selfish, strong-willed and loved for it. we visited beauty salons across the south today. >> bigger the hair, closer to god. >> reporter: where they dish out their own advice. >> i'm hanging in there just like a hair in a biscuit. >> reporter: but still find inspiration in mitchell's words. >> it ain't fitting, it just ain't fitting. >> i don't know nothing about birthing no babies. that

american history tv, travel to the founding days of savannah as we visit a plantation and discovered antebellum savannah. today on c-span 2 and 3. this week, a professor of economics and a filmmaker team up to make a rap videos explaining who economic policy. our guests are ross roberts and john papola. >> when did you decide to teach economics with rap? >> when i was 12 years old. doesn't every young boy dreamed of that? i got contacted by john out of the blue. he said, let's do a video together. i said, great idea. you do the work, i will get it started. he is an extremely persistent person. we started out with the idea of doing a video that caught some aspect of economics. it strangely morph into a rock video. -- rap video. >> i saw there were 2 million kids on your first video. is that a lot? >> it is the high bar. in terms of economics, that is good. long after the first pop, 3000 use a day every day. going to look get this video. what is it called? >> we want to go back in history and look at the role of the great depression in this role about whether in government spending and recession

some competitions in nashville who i met this wonderful producer and i met the liner notes of lady antebellumbooks. but i really want to learn how to write country music and luckily she was generous with her time and talent and that started this whole process. >> you're already thinking about putting out the second one. does that mean you'll leave the news business? this can no be. >> no, i love what i do at hln.

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trouble with us as we visit the site of a plantation, and explore it antebellum with a historian. >> this week on "road to the white house," our series of interviews with gop presidential candidates continues with texas republican ron paul. he talks about his previous presidential bids, monetary policy, the federal reserve, abortion, and the republican party. he assesses the obama administration and his strategy for winning the gop nomination. this is 45 minutes. >> this is your third presidential bid. what did you learn from the first to? >> the first one was in 1980 in the libertarian party, and i learned that our system of government is not very conducted for a competition within the two parties. let's go around, i learned we were much further along in the freedom of defending our personal liberties, everything i have been talking about. i assumed it would be a long time before we would get grassroots america talking about what i had been talking about, believing it takes a long time to change people's attitudes and intellectual approaches to government. but i think we have made t

c-span in savannah georgia this weekend. -- tour antebellum mansions in savannah. ayou can listen to our signature interview programs each week. it is all available round-the- clock were ever you are. download it free from blackberry app world. >> we return to the republican leadership conference. the nephew of george w. bush spoke. george bush is the former sun -- the son of jeb bush. he spoke about his family's legacy for about 20 minutes. [applause] >> good morning. judging by the size of the crowd, i hope you were not expecting the other george bush's. i am the first george bush to be on facebook. i asked you to if you can come up like me on facebook so that i can keep in touch with you with respect to maverick pact, which is a political action committee i am involved with in helping to engage young americans in the political system. [applause] since i am here, i might as well give up bush family update. my grandfather, former president george h w bush just recently turned 87. barbara bush, aka the enforcer, executed her veto and respecting him from jumping out

travel to the founding days of savannah as we visit a plantation and explore antebellum and civil waranna with a story. c-span local content vehicles in savannah, ga., this weekend on c-span 2 and 3. blackberry users, and now you can access programming anytime with c-span radio app. non-fiction books and american history all commercial free. all available around the clock were ever you are. download it free from blackberry app world. host: on your screen is david savage. he covers the court for t"the lost angeles times." he has the top story. angeles times." guest: this is really an issue about statistics. suppose you have statistical evidence that has a big company on average women are paid $1,000 per less per year, and there is 100,000 of them. the question is could you bring a big class-action lawsuit in say there must be some sort of systematic discrimination from a look at the statistics. the court basically said no, 5-4 split. it says you have to point to some policy that caused the women to be paid less. that was the key issue. can you go forward with a claim based on statistic

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