again from ralph nader's letter.y question to you, grover, should taxpayers allow this while walmart posts $17 million in profits and enough excess funds to buy back $90 billion in the stocks over the past five years. to think walmart is sgogoing toy their employees more and still not earn a profit when they had $17 billion in profit. i mean, it seems a little ludicrous to think that. >> walmart has 1.3 million people working for it. one thing they do is they do hire and promote from within. 75% of their managers started off there. this is the company that trains and employs a great number of people. the argument, ralph nader if he doesn't like the welfare state. if he thinks the 175 means tested programs that exist today that give people money that don't require work in return. if he doesn't like those, he can criticize them. that's not the fault of the rest of the world. the welfare state is expensive to taxpayers. there are better ways to do it. as clinton did with aid to families with dependent children. we shoul

if we don't, we have people like ralph nader telling us what to do, and that won't be a good thing. how do we do? first, we have to control public opinion, create think tanks. who will constantly turn out papers reflecting our point of view so our point of view is out there in the market place competing with nader and rachel carson. secondly, we have to get some control of the media, whether it's by buying it or influencing it. third, we need to get our people in the schools. we need to be teaching in the schools, influencing the textbooks, have conservatives and professors in the colleges. we need to take control of the courses. he went through this long list of basically all the institutions, and, of course, the institution of governance, get people elected to the house, the senate, get them op the supreme court, and, you know, all of it, and out of in memo, and, by the way, a few months after the memo, richard nixon put him on the supreme court, and then we started getting decisions like buckley that said money is actually not money. first national bank said that corporations are

class has gotten too big these people are demanding things and on top of that then you had you had ralph nader unsafe at any speed nine hundred sixty five you had in sixty three sixty seven sixty five you had rolled our eyes you know as well and spring i was going to need ten business a unity was under attack and they said we've got to stop this and so thirty years or reaganomics has done that but i just miss embodied the middle if i sell where to you i swear to you i've been in these republican i've been republican meetings like i worked for president reagan when i was in high school in one nine hundred eighty to get elected i've been going to these meetings might my whole adult consciousness has been from defending nixon to the moment i'm sitting here with you today and i have never once in a republican meeting or conservative meeting or publication anywhere has anyone said this to me i have never heard it as to my argument as will produce i was never social and i've been in some i haven't been in the top you need to go back and i believe what it means long. i mean i mean some crazy meetings

you had racial carlson publish your book silent spring in one thousand nine hundred sixty five ralph nader had published on safe at any speed the consequence of those two books was a brand new environmental movement and a brand new consumer movement so by nine hundred seventy one when lewis powell set down and wrote a memo to his for a new gene sindoor of the chamber of commerce he opened the memo with the phrase to the effect of american business is under assault as is america itself and he actually meant that and he meant that in a way that wasn't like some evil plotting guy this was the conservatives looking at an america that was changing so rapidly that they were afraid it could turn into the bolshevik revolution and let's talk about your book of course that was the subtitle the book but the book is really about the crash of two thousand and sixteen at the bout these economic cycles and political crisis cycles that have happened over centuries really what's behind these cycles and what they have in common. what we see is that we we tend to learn from disasters arnold toynbee is said t

anti-consumer sort of was just like you described they want to it seems take us back to the era before ralph nader for nader's one hundred sixty five unsafe at any speed the movements that came out of that were consumers actually started suing corporations for making decisions that led to the death of individuals make it much much harder for individuals to hold corporations are comparable and my last session in the legislature before i was elected to congress we saw a number of these when the republicans took over the legislature all sorts of things that roll back consumer protections that allowed for taking away your bill your legal rights when you've been harmed by a product or good or a service and this is part of the agenda state by state extraordinary undermining public education and go and promoting more of these for profit schools school choice they call it really it's taxpayer funded vouchers your tax dollars leaving the public system going to private schools with sometimes very little or minimal standards and very little on outcomes so really taking away from public education and putting

you had racial carlson publish your book silent spring in one thousand nine hundred sixty five ralph nader had published on safe at any speed the consequence of those two books was a brand new environmental movement and a brand new consumer movement so by nine hundred seventy one when lewis powell set down and wrote a memo to his for a new gene sindoor of the chamber of commerce he opened the memo with a phrase to the effect of american business is under assault as is america itself and he actually meant that and he meant that in a way that wasn't like some evil plotting the. this was the conservatives looking at an america that was changing so rapidly that they were afraid it could turn into the bolshevik revolution and let's talk about your book of course that was the subtitle the book but the book is really about the crash of two thousand and six and it's about these economic cycles and political crisis cycles that have happened over centuries really what's behind these cycles and what they have in common. what we see is that we we tend to learn from disasters arnold toynbee is that he

you had racial carlson publish your book silent spring in one thousand nine hundred sixty five ralph nader had published on safe at any speed the consequence of those two books was a brand new environmental movement and a brand new consumer movement so by nine hundred seventy one when lewis powell set down and wrote a memo to his for a new gene sindoor of the chamber of commerce he opened the memo with the phrase. to the effect of american business is under assault as is america itself and he actually meant that and he meant that in a way that wasn't like some evil plotting guy this was the conservatives looking at an america that was changing so rapidly that they were afraid it could turn into the bolshevik revolution and let's talk about your book of course that was the subtitle the book but the book is really about the crash of two thousand and six and it's about these economic cycles and political crisis cycles that have happened over centuries really what's behind these cycles and what they have in common. what we see is that we we tend to learn from disasters arnold toynbee is said t

consumer sort of was just like you described they want to it seems take us back to the era before ralph nader nader's one hundred sixty five unsafe at any speed the movements that came out of that were consumers actually started suing corporations for making decisions that led to the death of individuals make it much much harder for individuals to hold corporations accountable in my last session in the legislature before as elected to congress we saw a number of these when the republicans took over the legislature all sorts of things that rolled back consumer protections that allowed for taking away your bill your legal rights when you've been harmed by a product or good or a service and this is part of the agenda state by state extraordinary undermining public education and go and promoting more of these for profit schools school choice they call it really it's taxpayer funded vouchers your tax dollars leaving the public system going to private schools with sometimes very little or minimal standards and very little on outcomes so really taking away from public education and putting into priv