margaret thatcher it is there is no alternative. of course that's absurd. there was an alternative. we have to connect the dots to understand what is going on today. i read the chronicle. so what i've done is put together a montage of the murder of public sector, which is going on everyday. in fact all of the public sector is in body shape. public libraries, parks from the municipal to the national level. our character is among the worst in the world. the new deal deals with things in a different way. when i was going to school, california school's were the best. now they are among the worst with the new budget cuts. of course, my university is being privatized. all of the higher education is being privatized. all through the uc system. how do you run a modern state with tax cuts? we resort to desperate, back last november, we were asked to vote to make four indian casinos in san diego county pony up money. i thought this was a joke. they voted to do it. now, the governor proposes to borrow against future revenues. how did they deal with these social problems when the economic probl

charles cole who served as private secretary to both john major and margaret thatcher told me that thequeen knows every inch of this country in a way that no one else does. she spends so much time meeting the people that she has an understanding of what other people's lives are like. she understands what the normal human condition is. she is also spending an extraordinary amount of time honoring citizens and members of the military for exemplary service. in 60 years she has conferred more than 400 falls and honors and awards and has given them in person over 600 times. people need a pat on the back sometimes, she has said. it is a very dingy world otherwise. traveling with the queen was particularly valuable especially the overseas leal tour i took to bermuda and trinidad. she was 83-years-old at the time in her program called for long days of meeting and greeting. her stamina was impressive and matched only by each-year-old prince philip. whenever they go off on a trip together like that, the lord chamberlain always accompanies to the airport when flout turns around and says my and th

. -- >> margaret thatcher made the point -- margaret thatcher made the point that sooner or later you out of other people's money. it sometimes seems like there are way too many rich people. certainly i've been to manhattan. it certainly looks that way there. once you tax the living heck out of them, they vanish. it's like the rolling stones. they go move to france. i guess you wouldn't move to france. >> they don't have to vanish. they know how to hide their money, p.j., you know that. they know how to hide their money. >> let me make the point which is we also had four years of bush. at the end of that, he ended up being one of the more unpopular presidents in recent history. the country came to its financial knees. you can see failure in both these ideological plans. >> which democrat brought this country to its knees? >> p.j., over to you. >> personally, i vote to get the funniest people into the white house. i think -- >> for us, yeah. for guys like us. >> and of course naturally i had to vote for palin. >> of course. >> i think romney is kind falling down on the job here. there'

it reminds me of a long time ago when people ask what margaret thatcher was going to do about the poor in england, and he said, ignore them. tavis: the book is called "how to really ruin your financial life and portfolio." may be will come back. we talk about some real stuff. thanks for watching, and keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for a conversation with actress kyra sedgwick of the conclusion of her hips serious is nextser hear " that time. we will see you then. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only halfway to completely eliminating hunger and we have work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> be more. pbs. >> be more. pbs.

, the occasion when margaret thatcher famously spanked him.er] so here we are. the article is called, he who got slapped: lessons maggie taught me," by christopher hitchens. i make up my mind about people in the first ten seconds, and i very rarely change it. that's a quote. so "the new york times" quoted margaret thatcher in saying on the day, as saying on the day of her resignation. i would be happy to think that the statement was truthful since within minutes of first being introduced to me, thatcher lashed me across the buttocks with a rolled-up parliamentary order paper. be -- it happened in the course of an exchange of views about rhodesia in the late fall of 1977 when she was still leader of the opposition and was pandering to the racists in her party and the electorate. influenced perhaps by the fact that we were meeting in the rosebury room in the house of lords, i made the mistake of bowing as if to acknowledge some point of hers, and she took swift advantage of my posture by shrieking, bow lower! and applying the document above ment

role she chooses including her oscar winning portrayal of the powerful british prime minister, margaret thatcher. >> i thought it would be really interesting to look hard at a person whose life honestly i had not known very much about. but i had been quite judgmental about. as we are with women in politics we are much harder, especially women, on each other. and i wanted to look more deeply at her life, her achievements. >> streep hopes to use what she learned from the parter her push for national women's history museum. >> i don't know if i have anything even approaching her grit and that is the word, gosh, i wish i did. make everything a lot easier. i think she battled forward with unrelenting determination. i wish i had that same strength in purpose. i just have my beliefs that it's a good idea. >> streep came to washington, d.c. this week for a gala in support. congress is stalling the sale of the site to build the museum. >> we're not asking for money, for funds or anything just permission to be -- to buy a federal building with our very own money. we're asking to give the government a chec

margaret thatcher notwithstanding.overnment by the rich, madison's favorite class of tyrannical nobles. there is no security for the general welfare and by the author of the constitution the opposite of democracy. today americans stunning demographic is 400 people, ninety million americans. 400 as much wealth as ninety million americans. americans -- wall street ceos in 2010 received a bonuses of $90 billion. greater than the gdp of many countries. creating an unimaginable gap between ceos and the rest of the american population forcing foreclosures, in 2008 the bold mushroom toppled over hand american people prompted backup. by 2010 no one learned much. they went on paying extraordinary bonuses as if they did not notice the base of their support was shrinking. another stunning figure. six members of the walton family far richer than the combined wealth of 1 hundred million americans. not that they are bad people. but think of what that resources gives to somebody. with literally unlimited resources they can pick and c

because there's no society you are margaret thatcher you get rid of society and then you get to wipe up and clean up on the other side yeah but make sure when they're in prison but you force them to play farmville on facebook to support that ponzi scheme all right stacey newman thanks much for being on the kaiser board thank you max don't go away much more coming your way. download the official application so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch our t.v. any time. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom part of the big picture. welcome back to the kaiser report imax guys are time now to go to los angeles to talk to artist alex see for who we all know here on the cars a report as the artist of chase burning the. gone international markets of the sold very very well though i consider him one of the l

because there's no society you are margaret thatcher you get rid of society and then you get to wipe up and clean up on the other side yeah but make sure when they're in prison that you force them to play farmville on facebook to support that ponzi scheme all right stacey newman thanks so much for being on the kaiser board thank you max don't go away much more coming your way. q. well going back to the kaiser report imax guys are time now to go to los angeles to talk to artist alex a for who we all know here on the cars a report as the artist of chase burning the. gone international markets of the sold very very well though i consider him one of the leaders of the modern anti-war movement that being the financial war schieffer welcome back to the kaiser report great to be back max thank you all right alex said. if or you were recently arrested for chalking outside a chase bank in downtown los angeles tell us about it that's right you know the video's going crazy on the internet. i mean it's like nine months ago when i was first on the show it's just unbelievable what's happened you k

because there's no society you are margaret thatcher you get rid of society and then you get to wipe up and clean up on the other side yeah but make sure when they're in prison that you force them to play farmville on facebook to support that ponzi scheme all right stacey newman thanks so much for being on the cars report thank you max don't go away much more coming your way. nuclear. site. radioactive fallout of all government betrayal the government of law and claude and claude and claude how can the truth be revealed if there's no official evidence there was indeed a very great danger to the servicemen concerned who were given no problem. and to the people of this country generally because of radioactive for. the secrets of the u.k.'s nuclear tests. he. welcome back to the kaiser report i'm asking as a time now to go to los angeles to talk to artist alex a for who we all know here on the cause the report as the artist of chase burning the tablo those that have gone on international markets of the sold very very well though i consider him one of the leaders of the modern anti-war m

charles was served as private secretary to both john major and margaret thatcher told me that the queen knows every inch of this country in a way no one else does. she spends so much time neating people she has an understanding of what other people lives are like. she understanding what the normal human condition is. she's also spend an extraordinary amount of time honoring citizens and members of the military for great service. in sixty years, she has coniferred more than 400,000 honors and awards and given them in person over 600 times. people need pats on the back sometimes she has said, it's a very dinghy world otherwise. traveling with the queen was particularly valuable especially the overseas royal took took to bermuda and trinidad. she was 83 years old at the time and the program called long days of meeting and greeting. her stamina was impressive. matched only by 88-year-old prince phillip. whenever they go off on a trip together like that, the lord channel leer blin accompanies to the airport and phillip turns around and waives at him and says, mind the shop! i got a real sens

to paraphrase margaret thatcher you eventually run out of the wealth spread around.ll look back to 2012 and we'll say maybe obamanomics wasn't a good idea. glad ioo t mandarin lessons. >> bob: is that over? a second chapter? >> eric: i like the comb reference. i thought you can't beat what you said yesterday but you did. >> greg: the most amazing thing that happened today obama was in colorado talking about negative ads. >> over the next three months you will see more negative ads, more money spent than you have ever seen in your life. i mean, these superpacs, these guys are writing $10 million check, giving them mr. romney supporters. and basically, they all have just the same argument. they all say the same thing. they say the economy is bad and it's obama's fault. >> greg: so a andrea, obama bashing negative ads is like the pope demeaning catholicism. >> andrea: i can't believe he is doing this with a straight face. he's gone so far over hope and change. he uses class warfare. mitt romney, comb, nerf bat, knife fight. he was accused this week of murder. you know w

to paraphrase margaret thatcher you eventually run out of the wealth spread around.k back to 2012 and we'll say maybe obamanomics wasn't a good idea. glad i took mandarin lessons. >> bob: is that over? a second chapter? >> eric: i like the comb reference. i thought you can't beat what you said yesterday but you did. >> greg: the most amazing thing that happened today obama was in colorado talking about negative ads. >> over the next three months you will see more negative ads, more money spent than you ve

margaret thatcher was a if i recall leader. >> this is a celebrity culture in manager.art of us this us weekly themselves want their president to be just like us. >> it is about trust as well. and people, they feel like they

if there is such a thing as society, margaret thatcher is contrary notwithstanding. madison favored class of tyrannical nobles. there is the responsibility for the general welfare or the common good. author of the constitution and soft as opposite of democracy. today, americans an demographic is that 400 people have as much wealth as 90 million americans. americans -- wall street ceo's in 2010 received bonuses of $90 million. it is an amount greater than the gdp of 23 countries. that creates an unmatchable gap. the rest of the american population is expanding foreclosure and job losses. the american people brought the bank's back up. no one learned very much. they went right on paying those extraordinary bonuses and not knowing that their support was shrinking. another stunning figure -- 6 wall street figures are richer than many americans. think of whathat. literally unlimited resources, they can pick and choose when to fight it will pay for women to the supreme court. if they did that act down, they can turn their briberies to mexico and turn in illegal to the gulf

margaret thatcher, in talking about socialism -- i'm not suggesting the president is a socialist -- margarettcher said in talking about socialism the problem is sooner or later you run out of money. that is the president's approach, buy something for this group or that group with somebody else's money. we are out of somebody else's money. look at the balance sheet >> looking ahead at the 2013 agenda, it has been said glass- steagall should be reinstated. is that a real issue? >> i did not given thought to that at all. >> another big issue for 2013 is whether there should be another look at outside money in the elections. we found on the republican side, really on both sides, roughly about $1 billion spent on each side outside the campaign. what do you make of that? >> the days of "the new york times" and big corporations dominating the elections are over. the supreme court said that. the decision was about corporate speech. wealthy individuals have been involved in politics for a long time, predating the last couple of elections. the court said no longer is their parental treatment for corpo

number two, when paul ryan talks that's probably the first margaret thatcher looking renonld reagan redo you have seen. that's a strong dollar message. the dollar was up and perversely in the short term that's a head wind for stocks. >> you basically are okay with the ryan speech. you're not worried that it was too austere and he didn't mention tax cuts? >> i'm not worried about that. with the pro growth message they have to get specific. if they bring the heat with the strong dollar message they can nail it. clinton got it, reagan got it. oil prices come down and that's a tangible message to give to the country. >> uh i dpr-- i agree. i think bernanke will speak tomorrow. what's your expectation. will he open the door to more useless fed stimulus or what? >> this guy will waffle. he's in a big world of hurt. he's got no growth, no employment gains. now consumer confidence -- get this -- for august is down 9% versus last month with the stock market going up. his strategy alongside obama is to get the stock market up. everybody will think everything is fine. everything is not fine. median

imagine margaret thatcher or somebody with those values, emergency ronald reagan who believed it in -- and i would run to that fight so quickly. i remember a guy who got out of politics said -- involuntarily -- said to me a couple of weeks ago that one of his biggest regrets was he said we were born for this time. guys like you and me, joe, were born to run in times like these. this is our battle. >> yeah. >> the stakes have never been set up more for everything we fought about since 1994. >> yeah. >> and yet he's -- i'm not making this about me. i'm making this about people who actually believe in small government, who actually believe in personal liberty, who actually believe that the federal government doesn't have every answer to every problem. but i don't -- but mitt romney runs from it because he thinks it doesn't matter. >> he runs for it, didn't have an answer went and ma'amby pamby on the question of the campaign. >> i wouldn't break out the ma'amby pamby. >> he had no question on this campaign. take a look. >> i don't thinkman ryan has given definition to the vague commitmen

i mean even liberals watching margaret thatcher in 1975 when great britain was -- i mean it was a socialistdividuals the power and talking about free markets and all these things that mitt romney just doesn't feel in his gut. he doesn't feel it. maybe he believes it. but i watch him, and what i think, and what other conservatives think -- real conservatives not people that call themselves conservatives or label themselves republicans, but real conservatives small government people who understand friedman and buckley, they know romney doesn't get it. >> we live in an era of hype where we make a lot of events seem bigger than they are or should be. his convention speech is huge because he must argue conservative principles to the center of the country. that is what effective republican presidents like ronald reagan and george w. bush as a convention speaker did and for bush '41 did in his convention speech in '88. he has to go out and make a conservative case to the country in a personal way. it's going to be a huge, huge opportunity with great peril for him because he's never given a speech

it's a ceramic piece on margaret thatcher. >> reporter: and is that her husband?would say that's a supporting role. oh, look. kathie lee and hoda. if you need a break from shopping for some food, no fear. they have some of the freshest fruits and vegetables in all of london. i'm hungry. what is that? i love it. what's the freshest? >> everything's fresh. >> reporter: all the way from france. we are under the west way, which is the main road in london. but it's what's underneath it that makes fashionistas flock. you tear guy with the vintage jackets. can you hook me up? >> yes, i i can. i think we'll go for the british horse riding country look worn by kate middleton and kate moss and all the kates. brilliant. >> reporter: i'm at my last stop, the second hand market. in addition to the outdoor vendors, there are also these beautiful shops that line the streets. >> i am pooped. how much for the set? >> and "today" and "us weekly" contributor jill martin is here. reenergi reenergized? >> i'm done haggling for the day. >> you come with gifts. >> i come bearing gifts.

margaret thatcher was a if i recall leader. >> this is a celebrity culture in manager. part of us this us weekly themselves want their president to be just like us. >> it is about trust as well. and people, they feel like they don't know mitt romney yet, it is hard to trust him. >> i think the voters that are left haven't made up their mind. are the least informed voters. everyone he knows knows what these two parties stand up for. for him, any sort of likability. >> you've been so entertaining. i've enjoyed this bar festival so much. you can all come back tomorrow night and we'll give our verdicts now so he can play them back to you. will it be a hit or a miss? hit or miss? >> i think he is always kind of a b student. >> hit or miss? >> i think he will just hit. >> he will probably be a hit. >> hit or miss? >> easy you had a yengs. probably be a hit. >> hit or miss in. >> i have to go miss. >> i don't know. it will be electrifying to find out. >> are you serious? >> drink your beer. that's all for us tonight. the most important speech of mitt romney's life. his accepta

if there is such a thing as society, margaret thatcher is contrary notwithstanding. madison favored class of tyrannical nobles. there is the responsibility for the general welfare or the common good. author of the constitution and soft as opposite of democracy. today, americans an demographic is that 400 people have as much wealth as 90 million americans. americans -- wall street ceo's in 2010 received bonuses of $90 million. it is an amount greater than the gdp of 23 countries. that creates an unmatchable gap. the rest of the american population is expanding foreclosure and job losses. the american people brought the bank's back up. no one learned very much. they went right on paying those extraordinary bonuses and not knowing that their support was shrinking. another stunning figure -- 6 wall street figures are richer than many americans. think of whathat. literally unlimited resources, they can pick and choose when to fight it will pay for women to the supreme court. if they did that act down, they can turn their briberies to mexico and turn in illegal to the gulf

more conversation -- >> just like the reg began revolution in 1980 was followed up a year after margaret thatcherwhether the same thing happens here. >> paul ryan did exactly what he was supposed to do last night. >> what dan told him to do. >> what dan senor told him to do. but his speech was proceeded in prime time by an address by former secretary of state condoleezza rice and she didn't steal the show. i think paul ryan did what he was supposed to do. but she really did add to the evening. >> she you great. >> was a huge highlight, choosing to use her notes and not a teleprompter, discussed america's role on the global stage. >> i know, too, that there is a wariness, i know that it feels as if we have carried these burdens long enough. but we can only know that there is no choice because one of two things will happen if we don't lead -- either no one will lead and there will be chaos, or someone will fill the vacuum who does not share our values. my fellow americans, we do not have a choice. we cannot be reluctant to lead and you cannot lead from behind. >> the biggest applause came for rice

there are a lot of people, you hear stories, margaret thatcher, only got four or five hours of sleep. >> if you go to his laboratory, he had a cot there. you need about seven to eight hours a sleep. some people can get by with less. >> what happens if you get five to six hours a sleep at night like i would guess most of us have been doing for five years. what's the long-term impact? >> you start to act like you're drunk. >> hey, friends at home, it's not my fault. not my fault. the lack of sleep plus the drugs, that's what this is all about. >> there's a study published in 2000 and they decided let's test people's ability, people who stayed up longer performed not as well on tests, suffering from remembering things, spatial awareness, sense of time. all these things that kind of go into our every day. if you think you're doing well, maybe you just don't realize the ways you're messing up. >> impact on your life. dr. emily senay. look of sleep can really take its toll. >> absolutely, in fact, it has been a major issue in medical training for many, many years. they've looked at all thes

>> i believe that mitt romney reached a conclusion, much like margaret thatcher in the late 1970s.t would take extraordinary and bold leadership and that he wanted to preside over the spread of being a guy that was a turnaround artist at bain capital, being a guy who goes to the country, tells the truth, lays it out and get the country to help him get to the congress to pass things that he couldn't imagine. neil: do you believe this? >> it is a metaphor for this. >> if he had not picked paul ryan, i wouldn't be leaning forward for this. neil: you are a great student of history as well. in 1981 conservatives had the win over moderes with reagan when moderates were getting a little conservative, and a split race, if you think about it, mitt romney -- without onboard [inaudible] will they get on board now? >> there are maybe 10 people that would've fit the conservative bill. you don't put up paul ryan budget with an architect of another budget. neil: ron paul doesn't. >> that's a game that ron paul plays. [talking over each other] >> i think he is sincere in trying. it's his right to