and welcome back to the big picture i'm sam sax in for tom hartman coming up in this half hour as communities across america are forced to make crippling budget cuts public a lot of berries are often the first on budget chopping blocks but a staggering number of americans still feel that libraries are pillars of their communities so should we be doing more to protect them. and in the latest war on the middle class news new jersey governor chris christie vetoed a bill to raise the state's minimum wage today at the same time banks on wall street are richer than ever is it time we stop protecting america's billionaires and redistributed their wealth to those that need it the most. right so i have a confession to make i haven't stepped foot in a public library in a really really long time i honestly can't remember the last time i was in one probably in college but it's been several several years but having said that i'm really glad that public libraries exist there's one just down the street from the t.v. studio here i haven't gone in it i haven't needed to but i'm glad it's there and not just fo

welcome back to the big picture i'm sam sax in for tom foreman and coming up in this half hour do americans really need to read a survival guide on how to deal with obamacare my next guest thinks so she joins me in just a moment to tell us why we should all be afraid of universal health care and in tonight's daily take tom we'll tell you about the hidden history behind the second amendment and its relationship to one of the darkest stains on american history. so throughout this year and into next year in a few more years obamacare will go into full effect americans will be forced to purchase health insurance and those who can afford it will receive subsidies from the government business is employing more than fifty people will also be required to purchase health insurance for their employees but already especially on a state level we're seeing maneuvers on the part of many republicans to sabotage the law before it goes into full effect the latest tactic is coming out of texas under obamacare for profit business is that offer health insurance coverage to their employees must also offer contr

outline for you the latest details of this deal and sort of talk about what it means i'm joined by sam sax progressive writer and commentator also a former capitol hill staffer so what do we have here sam i mean is this just congress buying more time yes and it's going to be pretty disappointing for all the people who've been watching the corporate news outlets and their countdowns are going to hit zero and they're expecting something like that to happen with the capital falling off the cliff that's not going to happen yes we're going to miss the deadline but as you said markets aren't open so they're not to react tomorrow's a federal holiday so all the agencies that are going to be trying to figure out ways to make these cuts as part of the automatic sequester they're not going to be doing that because they're not going to be working so basically congress has another two more days to try and figure something out come on did they really need two more days they've been dealing with this for several months now yeah i mean even if they need this no i guess not i mean look what you have right

let's roll joining me for tonight's big picture rumble are patrick ali reporter with the daily caller sam sax progressive commentator and contributor to truthout dot org and hope national security and defense reporter with human events on line and auk and all of you let's start off by talking about the socialist president obama according to bloomberg news u.s. corporations after tax profits of grown by one hundred seventy one percent under obama more than any other president since world war two their highest level relative to the size of the economy since record keeping began in one thousand nine hundred seven profits are two times as high as their peak during the reagan administration and the annual average corporate profit growth under. obama is the highest since one thousand nine hundred so a serious question why do republicans insist on saying that obama is a socialist oh. well first of all i don't know if the president would even want to be celebrating this big businesses are growing at such a rate in here's another surprise it's why would he not want to be their income has increased twe