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my book you see there really was a dramatic pivot point, and that was in the 1930s under franklin delano roosevelt, the new deal, like right now where there was a single political party that had cower in the government except for the supreme court. it had dominant control of congress and at that moment is when the welfare state started to be created in the united states, from the signing of the declaration of independence in 1776 until 1940 when franklin roosevelt was breaking washington's tradition and running for a third term as president. no american unless they work from the federal government got their income from the federal government so if you work for the government, in 1940, that is when the first social security check started being built up. social security act was passed in 1935 and had a supreme court challenge and was sustained under the supreme court under very interesting circumstances which i describe. it wasn't until 1940 that people were started receiving checks when roosevelt was running for his third term. one of the most important things i think i talk about in my b

let me read what franklin delano roos develop said many decades -- roosevelt said many decades ago. he said that not all of us have the privilege of fighting enemies in distant parts of the world. not all of us work in the shipyards or on the oil fields or mines or producing the weapons or the raw deals needed by our armed forces. but there is one front and one battle where everyone in the united states, every man, every woman, every child is in action, and that front is right here at home in our daily lives, in our daily tasks. here at home, everyone will have the privilege of making whatever self-denial is necessary, not only to supply our fighting men and women but to keep the economic structure of our country fortified and secure. now, i find it a little disheartening that we have so many now who have decided the biggest issue is additional tax cuts. you know, i told someone once that i travel a lot through minneapolis to get to north dakota on weekends, and occasionally at the minneapolis airport, it will be cold. yes, it will be 40 below and the wind is howling at 35, 40 miles

patrick's saint vincent food bank in delano.will be delivered to families who need help this thanksgiving. >> it's going to help a lot of the families that are in a lot of need and they don't have much -- as much stuff as we do. >> many of the students participating today helped collect the food that was sorted. the chp officers didn't have far to go to help out. the school is located right across the street from the chp office in vallejo. >>> a different kind of joyride today for some local motorcycle enthusiasts. they were out spreading the joy if you will delivering 20 turkeys to a couple of bay area charities. members of the bay riders san francisco stopped by glide a community organization in the tenderloin. they also brought birds to saint anthony foundation and that's not all. the frisco riders will collect coats on december 11th to support ktvu's annual one warm coat holiday coat drive. >>> there is much more news just ahead. ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00 is next. there's an unprecedented push in the city of oakland to get

franklin delano roosevelt. he turned on 120,000 japanese-americans. was he evil? examine your own orthodoxy before you can feel comfortable. but let's really try and fight on the most precise and proportional terms we can. >> okay. >> if possible. >> and on waterboarding -- >> yeah. >> -- bush in his book says -- >> is that what's next? is that what happens now? oh, my god! what happens to me now? >> he said in his book -- >> he's proud of that. >> he didn't just say yes, waterboarding. in his writing, damn right, waterboard the guy. >> i know. >> i don't -- i mean, it's hard for me to believe that he did that. he says that's what he did. but what that means is that the people who are arguing that waterboarding/torture is a bad thing lost the argument. and it's now a political asset to brag about having waterboarding. >> i kind of think they were always like that. i never got the sense that there was a sense of shame. i always thought there was a sense of legal maneuvering. i never felt they thought they were covering it up because they thought it was a bad idea o

most believe that franklin delano roosevelt was a good president. 30 years ago, most americans did not believe in fiber capitalism. today, i think that most americans would. one of reagan was able to use principal pragmatic reform to change the attitudes of americans over time in the same way that franklin roosevelt was able to do 1930's. my summation of what happened and where we are going, there is an apocryphal story about the american constitutional when ben franklin left and an american came up and ask what sort of government he had given them a pretty set a republic, if you can keep it. this is a chance for a majority and the question is, can they keep it? >> thank you, very much. you. >> it is a little daunting to begin a presentation after having had my >> it is daunting to began a>> approvingly. i would argue that the 94 republican surge resulted in some much more policy success that you suggested. but thank you for bringing back -- if you simply omitted the name of the author, of course i would not have recognized did it all. where did he get that garbage? [laughter] i am her

and i think during world war ii, when we were kids and franklin delano roosevelt was our president, we wanted to help win the war from germany and japan and wanted our country to be safe and we thought pulling -- crawling on hands and knees and pulling weeds out of the farmers' fields -- host: what was your second goal? caller: making a contribution. and i have no problem paying my income tax, as long as i know it is going for a good cause. but we spend, our government -- host: what was your second goal? we got your first one. not allowing anybody anything. caller: i have a great sense of humor, i do stand-up comedy and i know how to make people laugh and i want to die laughing even if it hurts. host: alabama. yannick on the republican line. caller: if this goes on like they are talking about, it is going to hurt the true middle- class and below. obama's view of people making over 200,000 would ever being the people that need the breaks, i don't know where his view is -- social security, the people make pretty much nothing for what they pay in, and what do they have to budget? very lit