for our special teachin to take back the american dream i want to thank our amazing panels even robert borsak heather mcghee leo hindery natalie foster and secretary former secretary robert reich for your great insights one final note this can all seem forbidding after all this is the worst economic recession since the great depression the greatest inequality since the eve of the great depression the worst long term unemployment since the great depression the worst housing crisis since the great depression the worst trade deficits ever and college students carrying the deepest debt ever but here's the reality we were pretty clear idea about the policies and the excesses that drove us off the cliff and we have a pretty clear idea about major reforms vital to rebuild the middle class revive the mirror. question is whether we the people can do enough mobilizing and organizing and educating and agitating to challenge the misrule of big money and special interests of conservative ideas and corrupted politics we've done it before starting at the beginning of the last century with populous from the

questions in fact we're joined by some very very impressive panel alongside me here in the studio robert borsak the co-director of the campaign for america's future and a center for ideas an action that works to build an enduring majority for progressive change campaign for america's future also runs an annual gathering of progressive called take back the american dream heather mcghee is the director of demos his office washington office demos. attack you have heather is also de deputy public policy director for domestic and economic policy on the two thousand and eight john edwards for president campaign and she coauthored a chap. on retirement insecurity in the book inequality matters the growing economic divide in america and its poisonous consequences leo hindery is the chairman of the economic growth smart globalization initiative at the new america foundation and a member of the council on foreign relations leo is currently an investment investor in media companies and is the former c.e.o. of telecommunications and liberty media and their successor eighteen t. broadband natalie foster is