and so are bill riley and lou dobbs take a look like. if you're going to report the poor in america because you're going to lose you can still watch jobs in a row united absalom what i mean there is. a blessing in there being you know that you know we don't want to get in oh my god is this just makes me angry in so many ways it because i just love it they get to watch fox news if you watch bill o'reilly lou dobbs so obviously learned all poor i mean i think that there is something to be said for the fact that clearly people that live in poverty in the united states are not living in the same type of poverty that we see in a lot of undeveloped countries or people live last year on less than a dollar a day and you literally are starving but there is still poverty which is rampant in this country and for them to just brush it aside like it's new big deal. i'm crazy well yeah i was trying to make a point well you know we didn't have a lot of money when i was growing up we didn't get a t.v. until i was in high school you know lou you didn't g

i'm joined now by lou dobbs, anchor of lou dobbs tonight on the fox network.re are a number of reasons, it's not just unemployment. there is a huge number of people in prison or disabled that fall into this group or are being supported by the women in their lives in some cases, wives, mothers, parents in some cases. what is going on? >> what is interesting in this. martha i think is the fact we haven't really been focusing on the number of men who are just simply being written off by our society. we are not paying attention as a society to the number of young people that are being written off. behind these numbers in a workforce of 155 million americans, what we're really saying here is that 20 million of them are in point of fact unemployed. 20million of them, more than half of them are men. what is interesting when we talk about companies looking for employees and trying to find skills, we're talking about twice as many men dropping out of high school as do women. the number is about two-thirds men to a third women dropping out of our high schools. we are li

we have to get our own lou dobbs on the air, and we have to get him educating the people on the pluses and how immigrants are the backbone of this country. i am going to close out the hearing. this concludes tonight's symposium. on behalf of my fellow commissioners, we thank you for coming here. i would like to thank our assemblyman, the staff, the san francisco board of supervisors, david chew, our speaker and our panelists, our partners and collaborators, and most of all to the members of the audience and immigrant communities who are represented for which we exist, thank you for coming here this evening. we have learned a lot and are well educated for going forward. please look for a written report on these proceedings by the end of the meeting. also we look forward to a report on april 13, 2009 of the joint hearing with the human rights commission by the end of the year. thank you all for coming here this evening. [applause] >> the meeting is adjourned. >> welcome to culture wire. we're going to take a look at one of the biggest and most significant public art projects today. ♪ on

lou dobbs is here with us now.re was an opinion piece in the "wall street journal" that says we are headed from a 35% top tax rate to a 70% tax rate in the next decade or so. how does he get to those numbers? >> he gets to those numbers applying the cost of obamacare, the expiration of the bush tax cuts if you will and taking on the effective rate of 6.2 poerz payroll taxes for both the employer, employee, the impact then on the aggregate income of wage earners across the country. it would amount to about 70% by his math. here is the real deal. the real deal is raising taxes right now in this week economy with 25 million of our fellow citizens, unemployment, under employed or who have just given up being employed reaching an unemployment much 9.2%, idiots in washington d.c. want to raise taxes and shrink the available money to consumers to taxpayers? this is madness and of itself period. jenna: what about president obama's argument that tax -- the tax rate for the top earners is actually lower today than it was say

home depot founder told lou dobbs, the richest americans should be making sacrifices. >> we've got to> what kind of pain? >> well, i say this as a devout republican. i think in these negotiations, i think number one guys like me, i've said this before, there's a caveat. i shouldn't get social security. >> okay. >> i should pay more taxes. but all the money generated out of those actions should be entirely devoted to paying down debt. >> joining me tonight is laura flander, host of grit tv on free speech, tv and editor of the book "at the tea party." and in florida we're joined by mack papantonio. >> there's not going to be a deal here because the republican party is owned and operated by corporate america. and corporate america has told mcdonnell and boehner not to budge on issues like $80 billion subsidies for big oil factory farms and weapons peddlers. they've been told don't budge on $100 billion that america lauzs every year on offshore banking that corporations want to take advantage of. what they've been told they can do is decimate social security, decimate medicare, decimate d

here now to analyze fox business anchor lou dobbs. all right, so, you have the chart.> i do, yes, billy this is ownership based on the heritage -- >> bill: this is ownership based on the heritage foundation and u.s. department of energy residential consumption survey of 2005. a six-year-old survey. you got to think things improve. census bureau seuss uss suggests they have improved. >> 82% have a my microwave. who are than one television, 65%. cable or satellite tv, 6%, thank god -- 64%. cell phones, a 5%. personal computer 39% and that is a 6-year-old consumption survey to the numbers are way up. how can you be so poor and have all of this stuff? >> that is what the heritage foundation is pointing out. most families living in defined poverty, less than $22,000 a year in income have not only a microwave but they have an oven and dishwasher and dryer. they have personal -- they have children. x boxes and play stations are in the home. and the typical family defined as poor by the government. it is really extraordinary to think about these conveniences that are enjoyed b

lou dobbs on that devastating reality and the loss of skills that could plague a generation. >>> alsohe amanda knox case. is it time for her to start making plans for life outside prison walls? this we've got the latest on that story coming up, we'll see you right here at the top of the hour. jon: right now four teenagers are recovering from an attack by a grizzly bear in alaska. they were part of a group of seventeens hiking in alaska's wilderness. they were 35 miles from the nearest road when they startled a grizzly like this one with cubs. after the attack the teens set off an emergency locater beacon, and that's how state troopers came to rescue them. it was absolute mayhem, as you can imagine. the teens were taking part in the an outdoor leadership program, learning survival skills. one said as he tried to run away, the bear tackled him and bit him in the chest, punctured his lungs and breaking his ribs. >> the bear just started going after a bunch of the kids in the group, and, you know, it got him and knocked him down and bit him. he said the bear bit him and then went away and

they get these hollywood people -- well, you say like lou dobbs just went to hollywood to work. they get the >> is writers. it's all worked out. host: tom in saddlebrook, new jersey, on our line for republicans. go ahead. caller: yes. a couple of things. number one, this is why you don't elect a newbie president who cannot lead, who leads from behind, who does not put anything down on paper and begs the american people to of the problem by call their representatives. where is the president? he's not there. secondly, you cut off a guy from texas who is making a point that you did not agree with. and therefore, you cut him off, which i didn't think was right. let people say what they want to say and don't control it because you don't agree with it. host: tom, are you finished? caller: yep. host: let's move on to dallas, texas. ester on our line for democrats. you're on the "washington journal." caller: yes. i called yesterday -- day before yesterday. host: did you get through? caller: yes, i did. host: ester, you're violating our 30-day rule and i'm going to have to let you go. le