in america living in poverty are we still in a recession or is this really a full blown republican great depression your choices are yes we are clearly in a recession or yes we are stuck in the republican great depression or going to an army dot com let us know you think it will be open until tomorrow morning. crazy alert tinkerbell has been caught up in the next command claims he found a real life fairy well picking fruit in guadalajara i was picking guavas and i saw a twinkling and i thought it was a furry fly i picked it up and felt that it was moving when i looked at it i knew it was a fairy godmother so what did jose manuel longo do with the so called fairy godmother only put the plants a fairy jar formaldehyde or if it was an actual real life it would have promptly suffocated now on lotto is putting his discovery what appears to be a tiny human like corpse in this jar for i'm just play for people to see for the charge of a few places is also selling photos and souvenirs of the so called fairy there's some of the blogosphere observed bond along those magical fairy looks extremely similar to a

would stimulate the economy that the great republican why is that our country is broke if there's not enough money in america people back to work. during the great depression hoover and the other republicans tried to say the same thing the government couldn't help us out of a depression because our country didn't have the cash when f.d.r. was inaugurated he called them out on it saying that plenty we had lots plenty was at our doorstep. usually is in the very light of the book. the really the be a. man fine. then. and it needed. to create is. needed in the land of the good opinion. but of fact and. f.d.r. then went to point out who was really a blame for the republican great depression. the money went. in the company. we. we still have those money changers today the banks toure's who have robbed the middle class blind and they sure that there have to campaign contribution checks to the republican party are big enough and influential enough to prevent them from ever being held accountable let's hope president obama's new jobs plan proves to the g.o.p. that this country is not broke and we can put americans back to work by investing in infrastructure and hel

bill has come out of the house of representatives since the republicans took over so if we fall into another recession or a great depression will this be another republican great depression and it and is this part of the strategy to unseat president obama let's remember obama did inherit some pretty bad policies. a legacy from george w. i'm not going to say he didn't however he has done nothing to improve the situation in three years he's been there he's only exacerbated the problem so to say that it's republicans in congress when he is the one who has put forth these ideas that just make government huge or cheap which is the health care plan that we have still yet to have to bear the cost and feel the repercussions i mean i think it's obama's problem it's democrats problem. well how can repealing health care something that has even gone it's of a fact affect four hundred sounds a lot of already has gone through there are people experiencing projections right now there could be. like god or example you can keep. one in six whether they're in college and well let me tell you some i don't know how young or old you are but le

then went to point out who was really a blame for the republican great depression. the money. in the company. we. think. we still have those money changers today the bank stores who have robbed the middle class blind and made sure that there have to campaign contribution checks to the republican party are big enough and influential enough to prevent them from ever being held accountable let's hope president obama's new job plan proves to the g.o.p. that this country is not broke and we can put americans back to work by investing in infrastructure and helping the long term unemployed get their jobs back. our next comment came to us via facebook will wrote i think it's past time that ninety nine percent of this country or everyone who's not in over a million or zillionaire or billion or realize that we are in this together no matter what you call yourself republican democrat and a tea party or we need a new unite or die in movement it really is us vs the our guards who are truly hell bent on turning the us into an iron rand libertarian acid test where we serve our billionaire ma

still experiencing the sting of the two thousand and eight recession or is this the second republican great depression. replies conversations with great minds i'm joined by jeff schussel whose work you are probably familiar with even if you don't instantly recognize his name jeff is an historian a communications strategist gifted speech speech writer former cartoonist in one thousand nine hundred seventy joined the clinton right house and rose through the ranks to become deputy chief speechwriter a rhodes scholar he holds degrees in history from both oxford and brown universities and print president clinton described him as one of the most eloquent historians of his generation he's written two books of american political history the latest being supreme power franklin roosevelt versus the supreme court he's now a retired comic strip writer batch was the comic strip it appeared daily in more than one hundred fifty newspapers between one thousand nine hundred ninety to ninety eight and is currently a founding partner of west wing writers he's trading and strategy from here in d.c. jeff welcome thank you

clock back fifty years at a time when unemployment is at historic highs since the great depression i call it the republican great depression not only does governor snyder's bill amount to nothing less than a war against poor people also feels to realize that pain out unemployment benefits helps to boost economic activity and get people back to work this isn't just heartless it's bad economic policy. but i get it governor snyder has to take money out of someplace like poor people's pockets in order to pay for his two hundred million dollars cad corporations and their fed can't c.e.o.'s so let's see the effect of these republican economic policies in our little city here in the studio democracy this is back to democracy bill we've we've been here before and there's basically two competing theories of economics that are being played out the democrats are playing demand side which is how economics of work for six thousand years the republicans are playing surprise side which is how economics of work for the last thirty years which is one of the reasons we're in such deep trouble now. to start out with demand s

something the program was actually started nine hundred thirty three the depths of the republican great depression when most people had five or ten year balloon mortgages that were coming due or about to and it was an epidemic of people losing their homes the homeowners loan corporation h o l c which f.d.r. started as part of the new deal use government money to buy people's exploding mortgages away from the banks toure's then rewrote the mortgages from short terms to twenty five to thirty years those lowering the payments and making them affordable while republicans screamed at the time of this was socialism and instead of helping out the homeowners roosevelt should have been bailing out the banks which he had shut down instead time proved roosevelt right each well see closed its doors in one nine hundred fifty one and actually showed a profit for the us government our next comment is from the viewer rant line today thousands of employees tens of thousands of employees of horizon communications landline division are striking throughout the mid atlantic region about forty five thousand verizon wor

to reduce our deficit and not injure those who are already most engineered by the second republican great depression and that's by doing what france did and raising taxes on millionaires and billionaires. over the last ten years of bush tax cuts have are one of the biggest contributors to the debt in fact let me just lay this out here this is this is our total you know the tax code this is our public debt going out to twenty nine thousand which acting on what you see here is that the bush tax cuts account for the largest piece of it the second largest piece of it is the bush their precious right the economic downturn pretty this is no brainer the third biggest piece of it is our wars in iraq and afghanistan which were not paid for in the bush it all out civil war pay for it now we're not going to pay for go shopping. there's the other day out here this is always been with us we've had a and underlined get basically since george washington borrowed money from france to fight the revolutionary war that's nothing new and that wouldn't change if it wasn't for all these things and then you got the two th

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republican mistakes. >> the worst economic crisis since the great depression. >> key pieces of the president's jobs plan are still being debated. >> we have to create more jobs, and we have to do it faster. >> does he go big, does he go tactical? >> he's got to go big. >> you try working with eric cantor. >> while the president is working to create jobs, the republican candidates were working to destroy them. >> you won't have stimulus programs. >> i will slice billions of dollars. >> i'm a person. >> here's a line today. >> career politicians got us into this mess. >> career politicians. >> inconsequential. >> the only other guy in this gop field that's not a career politician is herman cain. >> inconsequential. >> he believes in evolution. >> that's the way we do it in texas. >>> good evening from los angeles, former vice president dick cheney's memoir "in my time" went on sale today. in the book cheney expresses no regrets for the actions the bush administration took, including authorizes the use of waterboarding. cheney writes the program was safe, legal, and effective. it provided us intention that

with his new jobs plan is frankly time for republicans to drop their politically motivated opposition and help save this country from another great depression. coming out one of the koch brothers response to warren buffett's call for more taxes on the rich in my daily take i'll tell you how it's obvious that the code don't want to discussion about how they made their for other family members first millions. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to prove it through made who can you trust no one who is in view with the global machinery see where are we heading state controlled capitalism is called sackfuls when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question morning. your take my take his assegai the show where you have the opportunity to make yourself heard here on the big picture it's your chance to share your questions comments rants and observations and i'll try to address them as best as i can my first comment came to us through the forum and thom hartmann dot com loomis asked where can one find raw data about the taxes paid by the top one percent you hear these figures thrown out all the time in aggr

we did it in the great depression, we can do it again and the president needs to stand up to any republican that says we shouldn't be spending money. shrum is right. make them say no. let them say this bridge is fine the way te is, as dangerous as it is subpoena we don't have to fix it. let them say that. >>> wuch watching "hardball" pervisor. supervisor is genius...i transfer. transfer! transfer! transfer! transfer! transfer! hello...my name is... peggy? come on!!! hello? want better customer service? switch to discover. ranked #1 in customer loyalty. it pays to discover. >>> president obama is losing ground in the all-important state of florida. an important one. deadlocked in a hypothetical matchup with mitt romney. i said so 44-44. a lot of promises out there, romney. the president is losing support of ind accident voters. they disapprove of the job he's doing by nearly 2-1. trouble for obama. 61 disapprove. dark clouds for the president in the sunshine state. he's got to get out of that. we'll be right back. ooh, watch out, bad guys. kraft singles. the american cheese. he needs some ge

we did it in the great depression, we can do it again and the president needs to stand up to any republican that says we shouldn't be spending money. shrum is right. make them say no. let them say this bridge is fine the way it is, as dangerous as it is. we don't have to fix it. let them say that. >>> you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. a full serving of vegetables plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. [ male announcer ] get five dollars in money-saving coupons at v8juice.com. >>> president obama is losing ground in the all-important state of florida. an important one. deadlocked in a hypothetical matchup with mitt romney. i said so 44-44. a lot of promises out there, romney. the president is losing support of independent voters. they disapprove of the job he's doing by nearly 2-1. trouble for obama. 61 disapprove. dark clouds for the president in the sunshine state. he's got to get out of that. he's got to get out of that. we good idea. let's go. did i just say that out loud? [ female announcer ] feel fresh up to 5 times longer with scope outlast. still feeling

for the republican war and working people perfectly corresponds with the greatest wealth inequality our nation has seen since the great depression you know you can see this in the united states. down here. we're above a stone here next to mexico in poland in union membership rates for two thousand and ten among the most developed nations in the world america ranks fourteenth in union membership as i said just about a stone in just below mexico and poland at the top of the list of finland and sweden with the union membership around seventy percent and we're here at eleven percent and wonder ikea is opening up factories in the united states for cheap labor but i guess a dismal union membership rate in america isn't good enough for the republican union busters and their corporate campaign donors who won't rest until union membership is that zero and the democratic party is thus defunded and these guys are now willing to crash airplanes to get what they want sound familiar so unless you want america to fall under one party corporate republican rule unless you want the condition of workers around the nation who continued to deteriora

won a noble prize as an economist and said the great depression was monetary, it was a monetary failure, and republicans like this. by the way, he was right, but they liked it because that meant it wasn't private businesses fault and the only reason is congress spending money. and get in the way of it. perry is throwing all of that out and he doesn't have a new framework to support what we should do, he just has nothing, but to get at that you need to have a long conversation, talk about milton friedman, monetary regulations, and no one likes that, but if we didn't have the policy, we would have had a great depression. >> if you look at the -- do you feel there is an articulated conservative economic policy that is an alternative to what the democrats are proposing or is it all no, no, no? >> well, there's mitt romney that's implying maybe he'd do something similar to what the democrats did but not quite. a lot of what the democrats did was stolen from george w. bush and mitt romney. tarp and the auto bill began with bush. stimulus is not a particularly conservative -- or liberal policy, bush had his st

republican message machine. that debt and deficit are somehow a more urgent problem than the deepest and longest-lasting recession since the great depressionperiod we're going to look back on and have to come up with a name for. like great depression, if it continues. unprecedented numbers of americans out of work. >> yeah. >> i wonder -- >> not just, not just the infrastructure which is a huge part of it. but the real estate crisis. >> i know we have that problem. my problem is i believe in capitalism, like we all do generally. but there's a problem with capitalism. you can't rely on it to create jobs. big corporate board rooms are stuffed with money. $200 trillion is sitting in their wallets, not spending. and they're firing people and bringing in robots, that's what's going on. >> that is exactly why we have to have government and now you know there's been so much beating up on government that people actually believe government can't do anything. but what government can do is hire people, send the money out to the states, get the road crews going again. put the woulds ds 1 billion to create the 35,000 jobs another $6 billion in economic

great depression. >> when congress gets back from its well-earned month-long recess, republicans pledge to use the debtiling negotiations as a template to extort more ransom from middle class americans while protecting the rich from paying any more taxes, and yet the obama administration pretends to be optimistic that next time republicans will be reasonable and embrace a balanced approach on taxes. >> yet the president had to give up in this deal his call to extend the payroll tax cuts through next year. >> i'm confident that's going to happen. again, i've been part of the discussions, i think it's going to be very hard for republicans to prevent that from happening. it's going to be very hard for them to stand up and say they are going to try to block the extension of the tax cut. >> president obama's advisors are counting on his positioning as the most reasonable above the fray adult in the room to win over independents in the 2012 election but a new gallup poll shows 33% of independents approve of the deal. that's compared to 58% of democrats who approve and 26% of republicans who approve. joining

great for the president. but it was terrible for the republicans. and the other piece of this, by the way, the go global part, we faced as a world the possibility of going into another great depression9. the leaders of the 20 richest countries got together and they all agreed to stimulate the economy and we did keep ourselves from going off the cliff. >> and you write that going big is the president's only option. what happens if he doesn't? >> well, i think it's his only option because he has to grab the debate back. we have spent practically the whole year talking about spending cuts. and the republicans really have done a good job of controlling the debate. going big is the only way the president can bring

republicans. caller: ok. i grew up during the great depression. it started with herbert hoover and it was always known as the hoover depression. but eight years of it was under franklin delano roosevelt. he didn't bring us out of the recession until world war ii came along. but always when we grow up, a will barrow was known as a hoover-buggy because of a wpa using the wheel barrow to haul stuff around, it was known as a hoover-buggy and hoover was out of office four years and it was always known as the hoover depression. host: all right, james. so let's get into modern history and let us talk about the trip the president is taking this week. on the road to economic or political recover? caller: i think it is both. he wants to talk about -- he's got some program, i don't know what, and he wants to tell that. but he will also politick while he is there too. it will have a segment of both of them in there. host: we will leave it there. james in lakeland, forward. john harwood writes in "the new york times" this morning -- cannon falls, minnesota, th

great depression. guest: yes, i think that democrats and republicans alike can agree that getting people back to work should be the top priority right now. the problem is how to get their. the parties are deeply split over that. obama did not say it, but the democratic line has been that we need more stimulus, more priming of the pump to get things going again. the republican line, especially from the tea party, is that all kinds of people, households, businesses, creditors are mostly concerned about the fiscal well- being of the country over the long term, and the way to get confidence back it is to show that we can bring deficits under control. you can see how those two alternate series lead us in the alternate directions. obama can not put through and find the political support for any new kind of stimulus. so when people look around -- going back to businesses again, things are not great now, so what is going to change? it is hard to latch onto anything and say here is the new thing that is going to make us all feel better and get in the mood for spending, investing, and expanding. " larry is a republic

great depression. guest: yes, i think that democrats and republicans alike can agree that getting people back to work should be the top priority right now. the problem is how to get their. the parties are deeply split over that. obama did not say it, but the democratic line has been that we need more stimulus, more priming of the pump to get things going again. the republican line, especially from the tea party, is that all kinds of people, households, businesses, creditors are mostly concerned about the fiscal well- being of the country over the long term, and the way to get confidence back it is to show that we can bring deficits under control. you can see how those two alternate series lead us in the alternate directions. obama can not put through and find the political support for any new kind of stimulus. so when people look around -- going back to businesses again, things are not great now, so what is going to change? it is hard to latch onto anything and say here is the new thing that is going to make us all feel better and get in the mood for spending, investing, and expanding. " larry is a republic

great depression was 25%. we cannot run a country without little. as far as this republican bunch, i would rather be waterboarded than vote for any of these guys. i'm not even vote for obama, but i would never vote republican. host: you can see yourself sitting out? caller: i would vote for bernie sanders or elizabeth warren. i would vice -- i would write someone in. obama has failed miserably. the republicans are no solution. host: and i was straw poll is more than it deserves iowa -- gets more than in deserves. that was on the debate. live coverage beginning at noon on saturday on this network. florida, a democrat. caller: good morning. john from pennsylvania, he is right. obama needs to be primary, as he expressed it. there is really no democracy, so to speak, in this electoral process that it has evolved into. back to your question, i enjoyed it quite a bit. i think showed a lot of insight into the various personalities involved. i like ron paul. he has a snowball's chance in hades. he is the most rational on the national stage. michele bachmann i find fascinating. with

great depression. guest: yes, i think that democrats and republicans alike can agree that getting people back to work should be the top priority right now. the problem is how to get their. the parties are deeply split over that. obama did not say it, but the democratic line has been that we need more stimulus, more priming of the pump to get things going again. the republican line, especially from the tea party, is that all kinds of people, households, businesses, creditors are mostly concerned about the fiscal well- being of the country over the long term, and the way to get confidence back it is to show that we can bring deficits under control. you can see how those two alternate series lead us in the alternate directions. obama can not put through and find the political support for any new kind of stimulus. so when people look around -- going back to businesses again, things are not great now, so what is going to change? it is hard to latch onto anything and say here is the new thing that is going to make us all feel better and get in the mood for spending, investing, and expanding. " larry is a republic

great depression. next is a phone call from big sandy, texas. we ask, where will the recovery come from? this is scott, a republican. good morning. scoip good morning, -- caller: good morning, susan. it's the same answer that's been all along, taxation, regulation, and litigation. get the boot of government off of business' neck, and it will recover. obama has increased regulation. he wants to increase taxes. there's just no good business environment to do business in this country anymore. the people who create jobs are sitting on the sideline, and they're going to continue to until this man either changes his man and sees the light or it quit listening to people like paul krugman, a socialist moron. what's wrong with the world and the world economy is socialism. it's government everywhere consuming way too much. host: scott from texas. here are two fixes from the parties in the papers this morning. "the wall street journal," obama reboots jobs plan. it says in this piece on friday, mr. obama is set to announce a plan to spur hiring of veterans just hours after new unemployment numbers are released. he plans a bus tour through th

great depression way is in store for president obama? >> i think the president's main problem is he doesn't have a plan. i think he's going to be hurt by this more than the republicanso want to blame the republicans for holding up the works in the debt ceiling debate. in fact that was only because the president didn't have a plan to begin addressing the deficit. people forget this eric, peter orszag, president obama's first budget director left. it was reported after he left early, less than 18 months in the white house. he left, he was reported afterwards that the reason he left early, was he could get no one in the white house to talk about the deficit. that i think is an indictment of those first two years when the democrats controlled all of congress and the white house and put this -- put us in this position of the tipping point. now i think president obama bears the greatest burden. because he's the president, he has to lead the charge to do something about the debt. all of these plans that we're talking about, the debt would continue to rise. none of these are close to a balanced budget. >> eric: that's the problem this is a relevant conversation today, someo

great depression. guest: yes, i think that democrats and republicans alike can agree that getting people back to work should be the top priority right now. the problem is how to get their. the parties are deeply split over that. obama did not say it, but the democratic line has been that we need more stimulus, more priming of the pump to get things going again. the republican line, especially from the tea party, is that all kinds of people, households, businesses, creditors are mostly concerned about the fiscal well- being of the country over the long term, and the way to get confidence back it is to show that we can bring deficits under control. you can see how those two alternate series lead us in the alternate directions. obama can not put through and find the political support for any new kind of stimulus. so when people look around -- going back to businesses again, things are not great now, so what is going to change? it is hard to latch onto anything and say here is the new thing that is going to make us all feel better and get in the mood for spending, investing, and expanding. " larry is a republic