that's the poor people's problem. why did they choose to be poor?ughter) >> they chose to be poor? did they... >> stephen: poor is a choice. like guy gay. >> 19 million people chose to have incomes below the poverty line? >> stephen: yeah. >> six million people chose to have only income of food stamps? >> stephen: it's called the protestant work ethic. get up a little earlier. you have to hucker down, you have to want it. >> go out to find that job that's really out there right today. >> stephen: yeah. >> hmm. >> stephen: do you have a job. >> i do. >> stephen: i have a job. are we better than poor people? >> no. >> stephen: then why do we have jobs and they don't? >> you got me there. >> stephen: if we don't get to see the poor people-- and we generally don't get to see the poor people. >> would you go with me some sometimes and i'll show you poor people. >> stephen: did you bring any poor people with you? i was hoping this was going to be one of those jack hanna segments where you bring me on a baby poor for me to hold. (laughter and applause) >>

why don't the poor people.her you are going to subsidize or not. >> prepaid phones are doing pretty well. >> the growth is quick. >> because of that, a lot of people have been knocked off land lines and post paid phones are going to prepaid phones. you don't need the subsidies. it's a different business model that has been attractive. the developing world has gone from 2%, 5% penetration of land lines 10 years ago to 70 to 80% penetration with mobile phones. >> nick sullivan is at the fletcher school. coming up, is your social network plan antisocial. all-around social animal will impress you. >> social media experts say few give you a reason. >> where people are focusing attention. >> analyst said that question, why, is the least-asked question in social media. brian is the best selling author of engage and a frequent key note speaker back from spain and morocco and dploeblly recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders of social media according to his own website. >> why? >> we will get to your qua

the leadership is very poor. we're doing very poorly. >> how donald trump would solve the debt crisis and what he would do to keep america great. >>> and remember the uproar over president obama's birth certificate? >> honestly, i'm very proud that i was able to bring this to a point. nobody else was. >> i'll ask him why he says the race to the 2012 white house will be the nastiest in history, and why the white house pays too much attention to wall street. >>> and a candid conversation with tafis smiley. this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> donald trump says america's economy has gone from bad to worse and now he is joining me on the phone. >> hello, piers. >> congratulations on being a grand father again. your daughter had a beautiful girl arabella rose. >> thank you. >> if we were to describe a good future for arabella, what would you do? >> the debt limits have to come down. the whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. we have to create jobs, and we have to create them rapidly

is it a rich nation or a poor nation? >> i'm so glad you asked.hat is one of the essay questions that i assigned to my students. [laughter] i got a broad range of answers. the most common answer i get is that china is not a rich country nor is it a poor country it is precisely what you said. what distinguishes china from other places is the huge gap between the rich and the poor. the rich are super rich and they have loaves of catch -- they have loads of cash. at the same time, you have people who are dirt-poor in the countryside with only maybe -- >> dominick, you are the chairman of east west bank here in california. you know for certain of which she speaks. there are three or four cities adjacent to los angeles in l.a. county where property values are going to the roof in southern california because rich chinese are coming here with cash in hand you are not financing these people. they're coming with cash in hand to buy these homes. ec property values in certain areas driven up by all the money that chinese citizens are pouring into our economy

the poor are not monolithic. most are impoverished only internationally, but then there are the hard-core porn, the truly disadvantaged, who remain mired beneath the poverty line for long stretches of time. regardless of whether they are short-term or long-term inmates of poverty, however, they face perilous, painful, and worst of all, crippling circumstances. among the consolation of things poverty may mean are the following -- being dependent upon financial institutions such as payday loan outlets that charge absurdities it to service those unable to afford bank accounts. living in housing that, with its mold, mice droppings, roaches, and nearby toxic dumps exacerbates your children's asthma. being unable to pay an ambulance or emergency room bill and having one's credit down graded on account of delinquency. living in neighborhoods and that are lived in by criminals and police who, in dealing with the poor, failed all too often recall that their job is to protect and serve, not harass and intimidate. growing u

the leadership is very poor. we're doing very poorly. >> donald trump, how he would solve the debt crisis and what he would do to give america grace. and remember the uproar over obama's birth certificate? how smiley says that was race basing. i'll ask him why. he says the 2012 white house will be the last in history. and why the white house itself pays too much attention to wall street. >> if you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't look for barack obama. >> we'll have a conversation with tavis smiley. this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> donald trump says america's economy could be going bad from worse. he joins me tonight on the phone. donald, how are you? >> hello, piers. >> first of all, congratulations on becoming a grandfather again. your lovely daughter ivanka and a baby girl ella rose, i understand. >> that is true. we're very happy about that. >> tell me, if we were trying to prescribe an economic future or young arabella that you would feel comfortable about, what would you do. >> first you hav

our poor is different than their poor. i don't believe it's government's role to change behavior. i think it's government's role to provide an environment that encourages certain behaviors that educate, that gives people the tools they need in order to be able to live more on their own, independently, and those are the types of things i think we should continue to do and equip americans with as they forge ahead and get jobs and being independent in societiy. that's the last word. that's it for this editionf to the contrary. next week our immigration special. check out our website for tpc extra, where our panelists discuss air brushed advertisements. whether your views are in agreement or to the contrary, please join us next week. >> funding for to the contrary provided by: >> the alternative fuel debate is over. this is lexus hybrid technology designed to optimize any fuel conceivable. this is the pursuit of perfection. >> additional funding provided by: for videotapes of to the contrary, please contact federal contrary, please contact federal news service at 1-888-343-1940. which

nation, jesus said the poor would always be with us. well, it turns out jesus does not know everything. for more, fox news stu vashny sy makes words come out of his mouth. >> when you think of poverty, you think of this. but what if i told you it really looks like this. a new report showing poor families in the united states are not what they used to be. i'm just going to give our viewers a quick run-through of what items poor families in america have. 99% of them have a refrigerator. (laughter) 81% have a microwave. >> stephen: a refrigerator and a microwave? they can preserve and heat food?

poor reading my poor three million poor just now and it came out on. this book. is is that possible here. is it possible to say to say. to save everything well will you call this book. it's still it's still possible to see what you want to say to save what you think needs to be you know now i don't . you know i was always a nearly socialist since. my. i could see now that my dear is socialist i my dear mr no i don't think that i think according to my own experience that sometimes if official i do all this even if there be no very good in the ideals of some very gifted dreamers they are doomed to be killed would be devoured because because if something is you are forced to laugh something. it kills so you think it's still possible to say those ideas being killed. ideal socialism it's one of the best ideas in the world idea of christianity and many other ideas but something reality of socialism was crippled because we were forced to laugh and even no one step to the right to the left it was correct there has been trailed by our power and i think that evil talk abou

no safety nets. >> if you are going to be poor, be poor in america because you are going to live. >>se you can still watch dobbs and o'reilly on cable. >> how great a blessing can there be. >> we don't want to diminish the suffering the poor people. it is intense in any country. in capitalism there will be poor people. >> it as system and we accreted one in which if you tore be poor whether it is transitory and in most cases it is a temporary position, thank goodness we still have an up wardly mobile society. we still have the ability to pull ourselves out from the policy. >> bill: i would like the department of energy to update that study. it is six years old. people have stuff, that is for sure. >> plenty more as the factor moves along this evening. dennis miller goes wild. some moments that could be in the miller hall of fame. next, bodiesly language on bristol palin, on casey anthony's attorney. we hope you stay tuned for those reports. i love that my daughter's part fish. but when she got asthma, all i could do was worry ! specialists, lots of doctors, lots of advice... and my h

if you're going to be poor be poor and you're because you're going to lose you can still watch jobs in a row you mean earlier a blessing. we don't want to. know my god is this just makes me angry so many ways that because i just love it they get to watch fox news they get to watch bill o'reilly lou dobbs so obviously learned or 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 less you know 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 no big deal makes you crazy well yeah and lou was trying to make the 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 get a t.v. until you were in high school because you're old when people go to our national ninetieth. point is also that poor people in the u.s. are ac

point is also that poor people in the us are actually quite poor and just say i think in that case that something like poor people have stuff and i'm not sure that that is actually a barrier. metric for being poor is because you have star and because you eat doesn't necessarily mean that you aren't work right and having a microwave that cost you thirty dollars at best buy really makes you living it up i mean i really like to see both of them live for one year on twenty two thousand dollars a year with children and all the expenses i know actually paying taxes which i. no because to them if you have cable that makes you poor if you don't have you know if you have direct t.v. then maybe you're more along the normal ranks of individuals out there let's move on to another one and have fun enough we were just talking about this with the controller of the cut is something to do with bill o'reilly during the whole scandal. when he was leaving voice mails on our producers about the sex isn't really the things he wanted to do with the sex toys is that her. sex toys are back in the new thanks to

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how many people in america are poor?number is or should be to the bureau of census in 2009, 14.3% of all persons in america lived in poverty. that represents some 43.5 million people. 10 million more than the entire population of canada. 35% of the population of the american impoverished her children. what does that mean concretely to be poor? poverty can have many meanings. the poor are by no means monolithic. most impoverished only intermittently, but then there are the hard-core poor, the underclass, truly disadvantaged to remain mired beneath the poverty line for long stretches of time. regardless of whether they are short-term or long-term poverty, the poor face hairless, painful and worst of all, crippling circumstances. among the consolation of things poverty may mean are the following: been dependent upon financial institutions such as payday loan outlets, the charge of serious fees to service those unable to afford ink accounts. living in housing that with the mold is a strapping, roaches in nearby toxic dumps e

nationwide every year while the hysteria and why would scott walker want to prevent tens of thousands of poor urban and elderly people and college students from voting. in the best the rest of the news last night and talked about how the islamophobia right wing in america has their fingerprints all over the norway terror attacks and how islamophobia are carrying out a strategy here in the united states to whip up fear against muslims take a look at the organization people for the american way just released a report of what they are calling the right wing playbook on anti muslim extremists . included in this report is a section titled eight key strategies employed by the right to inflame and sodomite and turn a truth and bigotry into political weapons so once the fear is established once we're all afraid that the muslims are going to take down our airplanes then you have to back it up with research which brings us to the second part of the right wing plan strategy to twist statistics and use fake research to prove the muslim through. its strategy to using fake research especially fake experts

the poor need to get jobs. >> he said the poor need jobs and they also need to share -- >> that's part of that responsibility. >> come on, people. >> when you say 51% don't pay income taxes, what is your suggestion? we should put more income taxes on those people at the bottom rungs? that's the solution? >> no, he said the tax system is upsidedown. >> should we raise taxes on people at the bottom half of the country? >> no. no. i don't think we should -- the bottom line is let's -- look at the tax code as is constituted right now and fix those areas that need to be fixed and will allow more revenue to flow as opposed to giving the tax breaks and the loopholes. >> what we hear from the republicans again and again is the economy is in trouble, let's cut taxes. we did that during the bush era -- >> let's stop yelling. i want to -- this program is about documenting. first of all, michele bachmann, the congresswoman, really did say she hopes she does win, benefit from higher unemployment. she said i hope so. i hope i benefit politically from -- >> i don't think -- >> she said it again and a

their lives in addition to the we face is the greatest since the poor of the american hostage is the court which is we should run. we settled since he moved the lives. we've done this is only. the once the believe in the firing the leaders. our constitution. i pointed out that the founders never intended this to be this way as you can read in federalist seventy eight federal eighty the supreme court to have jurisdiction over congress and the president never intended supreme court was beyond their constitutional power and they handed george w. bush the victory in two thousand they were beyond their constitutional power every single time they struck down a law passed by congress and signed by the president and most importantly every single time they created out of out of whole cloth new legal doctrines like separate but equal in policy versus ferguson or corporations or people the citizens united if you want to see the whole thing the complete. complete take from last night with the quotes from hamilton and jefferson is the july twelfth two thousand and eleven daily take on our you tub

but if you're talking about the basket for poor people, poor people portion is over 70%.o you can see if food prices >> reporter: poor people like sapta mega pratiwi who has brought her 15-month-old son ahmad to a regional hospital. is there enough food in your house? >> ( translated ): sometimes there's food, sometimes there's not. we don't earn enough money to always afford food. >> reporter: when doctors first saw ahmad, he was just over 15 pounds, far too little for a child that age. he has a belly, skinny legs, brittle hair, classic signs of poor nutrition. dr. saptarini nurul jamil runs the emergency nutrition center at the hospital. she sees more children like ahmad when food prices are high. >> ( translated ): yes, the situation is parallel with the situation in the country. there are always basic problems of poverty, but it becomes a bigger problem when food prices go up and ultimately leads to more malnutrition. when the economy goes down, more people lose their jobs or their salary gets reduced and so they no longer can afford nutritious food. >> reporter: dr.

in to dozen 9, standard and poor's degrees at a favorable credit rating -- in 2009, standard & poor's dave gray's a favorable credit rating. many in europe feel there needs to be greater competition. all three major rating agencies are in the u.s. in frankfurt, efforts are underway to establish a european agency. still, it is doubtful whether a european firm could give greece or italy a better rating right now. >> european shares posted fresh beans to extend last week's rally with the u.s. market's close to celebrate the independence day holiday. we have this summary from frankfurt. >> germany's investors started of cautious into the new week, due to an independence day in the u.s., wall street has been closed. no impact from overseas. investors focused on german numbers. there have been many good culprits. good news from the car sector. car sales rose sharply in the first half of this year. the mood has been slight. there are new concerns about the debt crisis. >> in frankfurt, where we can take a closer look at european figures. the dax closed up. giving a bit of ground to end at mo

poor schools, poor health, and food, poor housing, so we have to take some response ability for that. >> the reason some of the temperance flare-up is not because we have and lack of jobs, not just because there is and no money floating freely through the community, not just because they're almost every good payment of in the community goes estimate on the outside who gets their pay check and go somewhere else, the dollars do not even certainly hear. and are being locked out. >> there was no killing going on here at the shipyards. people are happy. there were no bars on the doors. some people did not even lock their doors. that is the difference. >> the science already shows that what we preach every day and what we lived around and the mold and mildew in the house -- it creates a situation in the brain where the children cannot sit still. they cannot learn. they do a job to anger, but nobody wants to address that. they just want to say these are little black kids that do not care about nothing. they are bad. they are drug dealers. they are junkies. but do you ever want to resolve the

there's a 50/50 chance standard and poors will cut the u.s. credit rating as lawmakers continue to lock horns on the debt ceiling. >>> and scores of banks will soon be finding out if they're tough enough to withstand another financial shock. >> i think they've injected themselves into a situation that's beyond their comprehension. >> plus a former fed boss paul volcker has a blunt message for the ratings agencies. quit meddling in things you don't understand. we have that candid interview in full. but first, though, we begin with the tide of debt that is causing problems on both sides of the atlantic. this of course with the results of the european banking stress tests out later on today. now, that is seen as one of the -- one of the most debted nations, italy, is of course trying to fight to stave off a bailout to become the fourth euro nation if it were to do so to request one from the imf, the eu and also the ecb. this was the scene just yesterday as lawmakers approved a four year, $57 billion austerity plan. the lower house is expected to

get different health care than those who are not poor though by everyone's estimation is going to get worse for everybody going for it with the public hospitals have traditionally been the place for those who have nothing. but we in this context we've made a pass that says the poor are not only different care they have worse health outcomes oftentimes because these systems are not funded adequately to provide the level of care is not necessarily the doctors in this day and age it's not the physical facilities like i face in the patient's face back then it's actually access to care some of the things you were talking about in the prior program women and men being able to get access to both primary care especially care in a timely way and this is a national problem it goes beyond public hospitals and my book county i talk about it from my point of view but it really is every town usa citizen there's no metal to the larger issue i understand that ed at cook county hospital right now there are four thousand people waiting for a call and ask a p's and these are not like people who are wait

and he told me that they spend something like $1.5 billion there on representing poor people in criminal cases. and they spend less than a third of that on prosecution. and i said to him, well, you know, what do people say about that? he goes, oh, the prosecutor's always complaining, saying that we're out resourced and it's not fair. but it's just the way it is. because that's the price of insuring that a poor person gets the same amount of justice as a rich person. here, for every dollar that goes 23450 law enforcement -- goes into law enforcement, incarceration, there's probably about five or six cents that goes to representation of poor people in terms of legal rights. so, you know, fundamentally it raises, i think, the discussion here, a very good question. that it comes down to really a question of resources. sheldon, let me ask you. in the stories that you try to tell, there is a moral there. you do talk about the death penalty. you do talk about -- and obviously there's a sensationalism that comes with it. what are you trying to communicate about the justice system? is it just ent

the poor are by no means monolithic. most stay impoverishes only intermittently, but then already the hard core poor, the underclassed, the disadvantaged, who remain mired beneath the poverty line for long stretches of time. regardless of whether they are short-term or long-term inmates of poverty, the poor face perilous, painful and worst of all crippling circumstances. among the consolation of things poverty may mean are the following. being dependent upon financial institutions such as pay dei loan outlets that charge ewe injurious fee tosser vis those unable to afford bank accounts. living in housing that, with its mold, mice droppings, roaches and nearby toxic dumps, exacerbates your child's asthma. being unable to pay an ambulance or an emergency room bill and having one's credit downgraded on account of the delinquency. living in neighborhoods me nassed simultaneously by criminals and police, who when dealing with the poor, fail all too often to recall that their job is to protect and serb, not harass and intimida

that is, the poor.hose who still think that back to when we were younger, who didn't have a television set, we report, we didn't get a television set until i was in high school. we didn't feel like we missed a lot at this point. they didn't have cable then. but it's interesting to see what a middle class family then and now... what i think this is all about is the underground check. a lot of people report low wages are making a ton of money, not a ton but decent money off the books. >> tips for waiters and waitresses. look. i gave a guy $20 to do something for me. >> you've got to file a form. >> i've got the form. >> and you know what i'm talking about. >> absolutely. >> there is a lot of off the books money floating around. which is why i want a national sales tax. put income tax things lower. the government would derive more money. >> that is what we want. the government to get more money. >> i want the government, not this government. i want the government to have enough money to protect us and to b