people in the entire history of the united states he started a war on working people by bus to the patco union this was in the spirit of the do nothing congress in one nine hundred forty six forty seven taft are. the result of reagan's tax cuts massive tax codes and his war and working people was a twelve percent unemployment rate a great market crash these were the worst since the great depression the rayna ministration of the most convicted criminals of any administration in history and produced the biggest debt in history that was followed by the rational republicans george h.w. bush course the radicals didn't like him much they kicked him out of office and they end he was followed by his son the irrational george w. bush who cut taxes on the rich again dick cheney famously said deficits don't matter they had two wars and the poison pill and medicare in the post office and then the radicals in the zero eight election they lost power again they lost the house the senate and the white house and then in two thousand and ten the tea party better so i guess the question now for two thousand and

legislature but they're not alone this is been preceded by a thirty year war on unions started when ronald reagan fired the workers of patco after he had actually made an agreement with them before the election and they supported him in the election in arizona governor brewer and the republicans are fast tracking anti-union laws these are laws that would prevent public workers from collective bargaining and pain union dues having them automatically deducted from their paychecks ways to break down the unions and in fact in arizona they are including the police and firefighters we've seen similar attacks now in wisconsin ohio and jersey but like one hundred fifty seven there's now a backlash and it's happening across the country in ohio senate bill five was repealed this was the law that john case it pushed through that that basically took away union rights in wisconsin a million signatures actually i believe it was one point eight million signatures that were presented to recall governor walker's going to be in elections for the labor movement has woken up the labor of the workers individual workers in the workplace have wo

workplace through unions since one thousand nine hundred eighty union membership has plummeted beginning with the reagan breaking up patco and most recently indiana becoming the twenty third state in the nation to pass a right to work for less laws meaning workers will earn five thousand dollars less in indiana than in free bargaining states. they've also stolen our right to health care unlike every single developed nation in the world the united states doesn't consider health care a basic human right thanks to a massive lobbying effort by the for profit health insurance industry which makes trillions denying sick people medical care they've even stolen our piece drive around virginia and you see gigantic mansions belonging to defense contractors who lobby congress for more and more weapons systems whether we need them or not and beat the drums to war to keep their profits up that's why the defense budget has read polled since one thousand nine hundred seven and why since around that time our nation has been in perpetual warfare. and perhaps most tragically they've stolen our right to self governance the supreme court de