expensive tab meanwhile it's the people versus the state of michigan residents fed up with governor rick snyder's decision to have emergency for the financial managers hold all overlooked local municipalities are fighting back with an offer seems rule in the world we're in spain and greece is on the brink of defaulting on their ious that happens what's to become of the euro and most importantly the entire european economy. you need to know this president obama just finished laying out the start of his afghanistan withdrawal plan to the american people ten thousand troops or one tenth of our military force over there will be sent home by the end of this year and by the end of next year a total of thirty three thousand and twenty thousand or one third of our force on the ground in afghanistan will come home president stressed that this is just an initial drought drawdown and that after twenty twelve more troops will be leaving president touted success of the afghanistan troop surge in two thousand and nine as a reason why we can afford to bring troops home starting this year. it is this chart shows

minute here lol it's kind of we're sick to amateur three of the worst governors in america one rick rick snyder in michigan who has the tyrannical law that allows. to take over cities and school districts and dismissal local elected officials and control their budgets and abrogate a lot so you can even make laws we've got to rick snyder down in florida and now a rick perry here in texas it's a sign of how desperate i think it's the republicans are to come up with something besides that michel martin or newt gingrich. mitt romney for guts the company that is just they can't seem to get it together so perry is the flavor of the month and what's going to fine with perry is that it's not going to taste very well for area interesting jim hightower a guy who would know him thanks so much for being with us and to be with you john great talking with you let's see rick perry is a republican he has a penchant for acting like a cowboy and he's the governor of texas starting to sound familiar should repair a decide to run hope america doesn't make the same mistake twice in the carboy governor of texas. go

republican governors around the country are watching their poll numbers plummet and shouldn't governor rick snyder for example numbers have dropped twenty five points since he won election last year so these republicans. listen to their constituents and abandon their war a little they will they just ramp up their war on democracy with voter id laws to just franchise millions of voters who are urban and elderly a tough time i went with. them better right now we know that what the republicans are doing is not necessarily popular these things aren't popular attacking third rails of politics aren't popular but leaders leaders and leaders lead they don't look at work halls or take them and follow and that's what chris christie is doing he's acting like a statesman and we are in dire economic times but we need our statesman not follow and we do need that but you know what you're seeing is people who lied to people to get elected as sensually now basically saying we don't really care we told you when we were running for congress now senator or governor now we can just do what we want to do in the devil i

shock doctrine efforts like paul ryan taking apart medicare scott walker taking apart unions and rick snyder taking apart cities how can we have or have any other notion of conservatives come on really everybody who's a conservative is just evil and bigoted and everybody who's conservative who supported president bush wants to kill brown but i'm using everybody is in your language because of competence cruelty and heavy handedness tell me that that's not that's the people in the us because people on the left in hollywood are bigots period they will not hire you if they look on line and they find out that you gave money for example to the prop eight effort now what does that have to do with your ability to write a good show it has nothing to do with it discrimination in any form is wrong in hollywood that's the gay straight left right you should be able to work so conservative shows can make it how to twenty four to be a good. looks he a conservative they absolutely can make it but the people in position to greenlight don't greenlight conservative shows and the people in the positions make sh

public lands in utah to help pay down the nation's debt we all know a governor in michigan governor rick snyder's financial managers will take over financial struggling cities and sell their public parks and best lands to snyder's business buddies it's disaster capitalism isn't the only client calls and it's gone international these are the same solutions the i.m.f. bankers have suggested to greece so off the acropolis in the coliseum to transnational corporations to pay back the bank strippers what we're forgetting each step of the way this great sell off of america is just how valuable and irreplaceable our commons are how you put a corporate price tag on your somebody's national park or the grand canyon you can't the republicans aren't interested in the spirit of these natural wonders thinking about the money we're seen the great sell off of america but never before in our nation's history if we don't put an end to it soon when it's just a matter of time before you can enjoy a proper cino sitting on top of half dome mountain in yosemite park or you can visit rushmore and see iconic presidents

then in march the new governor, republican rick snyder signed a new emergency manager law sometimes calledcy manager on steroids. sometimes called financial marshal law. this new law from the new republican governor gave the old manager essentially dicta torl powers in the technal sense. unilateral authority. you decide it, it is so. under nick snyder's new law the manager answers to no elected officials, not the school board, the emergency guy is in charge with unlimited authority. detroit schools are broke. they may even be broken and in the state of michigan's view, the first part of fixing them is to do away with democracy and give the power instead to a state appointed overseer with unilateral power. perhaps because they remembered what had happened the last time the emergency manager came for the school and how protests had stopped that for happening, the students of catherine ferguson academy this year staged a sit in at their school to try to keep it open. you see them painting protest signs here setting up for the long haul with sleeping bags, stuff for their babies, food. they me