you need to know this democracy is on the march out of michigan republican governor rick snyder is using the new powers recently granted to him by the republican state legislature to take over a city to fire its elected representatives bust up unions cut critical government services is part of snyder's plan to reduce his state's budget deficit by putting cities that are struggling financially on a fast track to his idea of a libertarian utopia or a nightmare the first victim of governor snyder is the city of baton harbor michigan as of friday the powers of the city boards and commissions of benton harbor have been usurped by a financial manager appointed by governor rick snyder and financial manager although not elected by the people of benton harbor now has the authority over. all alike that city officials have been harbor and can break union contracts cut city services sell off large chunks of the city to private corporations without any oversight so how can something like this happen in a democracy in the united states of america for more i'm joined up for more on this i'm joined by b

after graduation rate mind bogglingly impressive numbers and not a good enough for the republican rick snyder who wants to shut it down. hearing what snyder is doing must have made scott walker jealous because he's trying to do the same thing now in wisconsin fact back in two thousand and nine he admitted he was hell bent on eliminating local governments that he didn't agree with take a look we believe if they don't they do because people or at the state legislature the governor don't give us the tools for those major reforms it's probably time for us to seriously consider looking at the possibility of a limited county government and replacing it with something better that's a combination of replacing county with government was something better like a corporation so first walker goes after the unions at the behest of billionaires like the koch brothers and republican john k. sick in ohio and rick snyder in michigan follow suit busting up unions in their states then chris christie in new jersey starts flashing education funding to pay for enormous tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires and

i mean this is this is the woman this is the philosophy that rick snyder and paul ryan and alan greenspan and the billionaires who are driving this whole process in michigan and wisconsin and what . are are dancing to it's time for us to clearly identify the sociopath's on the us. after the break a new report offers up some bad news for americans who the dubious distinctions our nation now claims in tonight's daily take. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here sees some other part of it and realized everything you saw. is a big. crazy alert strip for votes a group of finished issues who are short on cash are resorting to more drastic measures to get their names out of the electorate to promote their naked truth campaign the politicians running for a seat in parliament are posing naked in a magazine. finished voters typically cast their ballot for individual candidates rather than for a specific political party so candidates from smaller parties with less campaign money have to find a way to stand out with vote

plan to run over unionized workers here's a hint it's the same group that gave michigan governor rick snyder the idea to fire his state's alike this visuals and his city staff and our union workers to blame for america's debt i'll talk to the author who wrote it in higher books backing that up and. there's a lot of talk about budget plans around capitol hill these days most of that talk is focus on two budget plans in particular president obama's was trimming down the deficit by repealing the bush tax cuts cutting and also tragically cutting spending on critical government services that help the poor and the republicans budget written by paul ryan that cuts down the deficit sora by privatizing medicare cutting even more government programs that help the poor and somehow includes another massive tax cut for millionaires and billionaires and while these two budgets have garnered most of the attention in the mainstream media there's another third budget that's floating around out there that actually is what is best for our nation is the congressional progressive caucus is budget what's been nam

others clashing key signs and smiles so what can we make of these latest actions by governor rick snyder joining me now is a woman behind the movement to fight back against snyder's radical agenda childhood driver the national chairperson of by any means necessary. welcome to the program thank you what's the latest out of detroit what's your organization doing. we're fighting to defend public education in detroit we're looking at a situation in detroit now where it is the policy of both the governor and the mayor of our city being to try to depopulate this school to end public education and to create a situation in which the new jim crow is being implemented on a full scale basis and it's something that we just refuse to allow to happen in the city of detroit chad why would they go after me catherine ferguson academy this seems like the ultimate success story. you know it's it's the closure of this school i think isn't just the scandal that represents the scandal that is taking place in the closure of public education throughout the city of detroit we have a situation now in which there

they have put out what you're seeing here, which is a three-minute video highlighting what rick snyder has done in the three months he's been in office and what they say has been the devastating effect on michigan's economy and in particular on the middle class and on kids. the video shows all these local news stations in michigan doing news reports about each additional thing mr. snyder has done in government, and then the video ends like this. ♪ ♪ >> the reinvention of michigan. >> governor snyder, they say, is ruining michigan. then there's the great state of ohio. the great state of ohio, which has been the scene of weeks and weeks of sustained protests at the state capitol over the union-stripping bill being pushed by that state's republicans. a union-stripping bill that is more draconian even than the one that was passed in wisconsin. after weeks of upheaval in ohio, check out this scene yesterday as republicans there finally passed that union-stripping bill through the ohio state house. this was the scene right after that vote. [ crowd chanting "shame on you" ] >> people shoutin

money from conservative causes championed a lot of the policy agenda that the content of governor rick snyder the public and governor of michigan has put forward including one of his proposals to create a system in which the state government can come in and take over a look allergies that are failing financially and break their union contracts so i think you know the overall push of this group is definitely from the right perspective is right authoritarian right. would you know this is not the libertarian right this is the authoritarian i mean to take money from the koch brothers in people roland i'm curious is this unprecedented have you ever gotten a fire request or is there ever been one directed against professors at the university mission to the best your knowledge we have gotten in the past but where and and you know what's your sense of the purpose of this what. well we don't know what we're concerned about of course is that the e-mails that we. that we have that we send to them is the messages in there which are cherry picked and then use for. reasons for political purposes discredit

over the last few weeks we've been chronicling just how far michigan governor rick snyder is willing to go to appease corporate interests and undermine democracy in his state two weeks ago we learned that the city of benton harbor in michigan was taken over by one of governor snyder's financial managers or so ours appointed by snyder to set up shop in the city. the elected officials break union contracts cut critical local services and sell off huge chunks of the city's infrastructure and transnational corporations are local republican businessman and now there's another story coming out of detroit surrounding another want to so nighters financial planners this guy named robert bobb to cut down.