ability to make social change. frances perkins went to new york city to become a social worker. a lot of women at hall house were heiresses the-- frances perkins had to sing for her supper all of her life. she became a social worker in new york city. she was working for the national consumers league, which was an organization that was headed by florence kelley, a very important hall house women and it was then when she was in new york that she had a life changing event and that was that she witnessed the fire. she saw 146 young workers mostly emigrants, jumped to their death to escape a fire that had broken out on the top floors of a converted office building that had been turned into the factory where they were working. this was a horrifying sight. up until that time people said frances perkins was not quite sure what her destiny was going to be. she had a great sense of motivation and a missionary zeal to improve the world but she also had a lot of feelings women have of wanting to marry, wanting to have children

between american capitalism and world socialism? guest: that's a good question, because the word "socialism" is not a very well-defined concept, and it has a lot of different meanings to different people. in the next sentence, i was trying to highlight the fact that we tend to think of it in a very negative way and much of the rest of the world doesn't think of it that way. there is a joke going around now that just like china was trying to become a market economy with chinese characteristics, our big bailouts of the banks is socialism, with american characteristics, but those in china, when i gave that -- mentioned that said no, no, you don't understand, that is not socialism, because socialism is about helping oordz necessary people. what you did in helping the banks and bailing them out was really corporate welfarism. the question here is, what is the role of the government in our economy? that has been what the battle is about. we know that the extreme version where a communism didn't work, where the government was trying to run

as well as the socialized medicine program. the two big things that this administration and the liberal leadership in this congress is pushing. both of them are going to be disastrous. both of them are going to kill jobs. both of them are going to take away choices. both of them are going to destroy our economy. both of them are going to put our children and grandchildren in severe economic peril. and believe me, i believe it's immoral. i think it's totally immoral because we are robbing our children and our grandchildren of their economic future. they will live at a standard that's much below ours today. we have a clear picture where the leadership in this congress is taking us. and the way the administration is taking us. all we have to do is look in venezuela. this administration, the liberal leadership in this congress is going down the same road that hugo chavez is taking the venezuelans. venezuela nationalized their energy system. that's exactly what we're trying to do here with cap and -- cap and trade. venezuela, hugo c

she probably is the most effective social worker in american history. one of the things that i think is a interesting recurring question paul and her life and in ours today, as social workers to deal with changing the person to fit into society or to you find ways to change society to better suit the human needs? i think frances perkins went in the direction of trying to change society to better fit the human needs that she saw and that was sort of a interesting push and pull. she went the legislative route but was a huge believer in social work. in fact, when she would notice, when she went to europe in the late 30's, she became very fearful that the french were much weaker than we thought, and when she said why, she said because i am a social worker and i could observe the little, i could see the fraying of the social fabric there. >> i was really thrilled to see-- because here again, this is a woman who needs a little more pr and unfortunately you know, eleanor roosevelt locks out a lot just as you know and the revolutionary harriet it is all thomas

the social security act passed in 1935 and a deep loss of unemployment insurance, social security and the welfare system which became aid to dependent children originally designed to help the children of mothers who were left to care for their children alone. these were mostly widows at the time. the fair labor standards act passed in 1938 set authority hour work week to prevent workers from becoming broken from exhaustion. it set a minimum wage to make sure they receive at least a minimum level of compensation. there was a ban on child labor and they created the concept of overtime pay and which workers who are asked to work longer hours can receive higher pay for doing so. but that isn't all she did. she was a major supporter of the fha insurance, which has provided housing over the years to millions of american families. she was a primary architect of the civilian conservation corps which became one of the most popular early programs of the roosevelt administration, universally popular, almost universally popular. [laughter] and she was the largest single supporter of the works pro

if you remember we reduce benefits of social security by taxing social security benefits at 50% of social security benefits. dennis's reducing benefits. we also extended the age of retirement from 65 to 67 which is again reducing benefits to make it that more. if you looked at these programs, if we had social security kick in net 71 years old, there would be no unfun that liabilities whatsoever. it would just recognize the increase in longevity that has occurred in the population, the change of a 70 earl versus 65 enrolled and the same thing we can do with medicare. basically what happens is they do it only when they are forced to by the events that occur, but they are really easy to solve these problems. >> you agree with their colleague? >> he is a great guy. but not wrong in a nasty of the way. i knew his father very well in the nixon white house. his father was one of the finest people i knew, but i don't think demographics are serious with regard to the economy. i think what we did in the book, we mentioned demographics once. >> i will just add that it is not so much the demographics

social security. who knows if that was the right decision then, but it certainly brought us a program that's mattered in the lives of all of our parents, our grandparents, our great-grandparents. harry truman was not able to accomplish medicare or any other kind of health care reform, significant health care reform in his seven years or so as president. fast forward to july 1965, president johnson passed legislation creating medicare. but leading up to that legislation, again it was the american medical association. it was really the most conservative members. i know an awful lot of doctors that want to see us move forward, including my doctor who was a general practitioner for almost 50 years, died at the age of 89 in the year 2000. i know a whole lot of doctors who want us to move forward on health care reform. the american medical association in 1965 said those who supported the creation of medicare, they called it socialized medicine, said it was too expensive, said it would lead to runaway, rampa

equally at the same time, we are bringing in a program for social housing to invest more in social housingover the next few months and indeed over the next few years and i have -- i have to tell him we are prepared to take even more decisions to make available more social housing over the next few months. now, that's only possible because we have taken the decisions that his and the conservative party have opposed about the increased investment that's necessary at the time of a recession so i hope if he's going to ask for more social housing he'll support the investment that's necessary for it. >> that's all true. why are a staggering 1.8 million families in this country waiting for a home? that is 70% more than when this government came into power. now, if he wants to do something now be why doesn't he stop the treasury from grabbing all the money that councils raise in rents and sales and use that money instead to build desperately needed homes. will he at least do that? >> mr. speaker, i have to tell him there's a million more people in homes when we came into government in 1997. we hav

it took eight months to make sure they receive social security. for all these reasons, that is why we are in this situation today. i do not want to turn this into a long story. the people of hong doors have the right to participate in democracy -- of a honduras have a right to participate in democracy. there are people who have been elected and who have betrayed the same people who elected them. they are members of an elite, a small group. people have the right to express their views on the economy and on social programs, development, and to our surprise, last week the congress adopted the blaw that states that hon doris can be used by all for all except for examination of budgetary affairs, the school, or economic matters or other social matters. what is the point? is it about asking whether the temperatures is hot or cold at night? what is a point? i was engaged in an actor says in keeping with the law. it was the first legal act that my government approved on the very first day we entered into power. it was necessary to govern. many changes wer

equally we are bringing in a program for social housing to invest more in social housing over the next few months and over the next few years. i have to tell them, we are prepared to take even more decisions to make available more social housing over the next few months. that is only possible because we have taken the decisions that his and the conservative party have opposed about the increased investment necessary at the time of recession. i hope if he asked for more social housing he will support the investment that is necessary for it. >> why are a staggering 1.8 million families in this country waiting for a home? that is 70 percent more than when this government came into power. if he wants to do something now, one not stop the treasury from grabbing all the money council has raised in rents and sales and allow them to use that money to build it desperately needed homes? will he at least do that? >> there are a million more people in homes and the came into government in 1997. we have also improved houses for more than 1 million extra people. at the same time we are putting aside

that is why it has always been so important for social life among the young to have a limit. i would have to go home at night and over here walter cronkite talking about vietnam or watergate. i did not want to do that. and i could have checked out i would have. i could have text message all night, i could have found out what was going on at the party last weekend instead of having to be exposed to adult matters, having to listen to my parents talk about the household of money, current events. i did not like them into not want to talk with them, but i did not have another place to go. and i am better for it for just having to be exposed to adult matters, it helps to grow up. >> what worries you most about this generation getting older? >> i think that we have to remember that high school and college our precious years. this is the only time when you are going to for the most have the opportunity to read a great works, difficult works, to encounter great ideas and great art and have a circumstance where you can talk with people about them, you can talk with experts. and that du

one way to puts put it is whater else they teach, they teach social conformity. whatever else we teach, we should be teaching the democratic ideal that each human being is precious, indupe lick bl, to be treated with utter respect and with profound human rights. so we start from a different angle, and so whatever else we teach, we want to teach initiative, courage, imagination, creativity, entrepreneurship, things like that. >> is there any case in your view in a democracy where teaching should include conformity and discipline? >> guest: well, of course, we have to be disciplined to live together. that requires a kind of discipline. the question is, where does the discipline come from, and how is it structured and organized? if you create a classroom which is absolute chaos, nobody has an opportunity to learn at all. but if as your fundamental value in your class room is one of the things we're going to be doing here is respecting each individual and learning to live together, that means again and again and again you have teachable moments. you have a moment whe

in fact, one of your books is called, "teaching for social justice." what do you mean by that? >> guest: it's taken on the kind of tone of something special or some kind of an add-on, but what i mean by that is very simple which is by teaching in a democracy, at least theoretically, it's quite a different approach to teaching than teaching in any kind of authoritarian or autocratic system. whatever they teach in, you know, fascist germany or soviet russia or saudi arabia or apartheid south africa -- and those systems incidentally all wanted their kids to stay away from drugs and crime, show up on time, learn the subject mearlts, things which we want as well -- but there's something distinctly different about teaching in a democracy, and the difference is social justice. so one way to put it is that whatever else they teach in those systems, they teach obedience and conformity as, number one, hidden curriculum. whatever else we teach we should be teaching the democratic ideal that each human being is precious, indue applicable, to be treated with utter respect and with profound

where the socially progressive places where people had saabs and audis and socially acceptable to have a luxury car as long as it came from a country that was hostile to u.s. foreign policy. that was cool. they would get their ben and jerry's ice cream. i said they should make a pacifist toothpaste that doesn't kill germs. it just asks them to leave. that would be a big seller. [laughter] that was the culture that gave us all the progressive grocery stores like whole foods and trader joe's. where all the cashiers look like they're on loan from amnesty international. the socially progressive places. my favorite section of trader joe's is the snack food section. they couldn't just have potato chips and pretzels because that would be vulgar and lead to the obesity of america so they have these sea weed based snacks for kids to come home and say mom, mom, i want a snack that will help prevent colon-rectal cancer. that was one culture i covered in the 1990's and then covered outer ring suburbs and spent a lot of time in home depots, watching men buy barbecue grills because that's when they'

so social acceptability, change the product. social norms have a great deal to do with whether we are going to approach something. that is my friend i want, or my enemy i'm going to avoid it. where do we have to focus? the problem, i think the problem is very much not only sugar, fat, and salt, but 80 is a big food and i don't just mean the industry. i'm talking literally about big food. the challenge is as hard a public health challenge as we can and ragin. it's not just about office or the woman on oprah. it's about our kids because once you lay down the circuitry, once you fadel the learning the only way to do with this is the downed new learning were circuitry and the fact is we have to be up front all would circuitry never goes away. the greatest gift you can give somebody is to not have the circuitry that responds constantly to sugar, fat, and salt has been laid down in millions of americans. once you recognize our behavior as a nation is becoming conditioned and driven it's not just of the learning circuits, the motivatio

in that lay the seeds of real opportunity for political and social entrepreneurs. what's the message that we have to be implicating right now among young people and the conservative movement? >> i think the government apparently can catch the eyes of young people because it's something that they are going to ultimately pay for. but a lot of it is that we really need four things in general. and we need political horse rush, kind of new leaders, which we don't have the sbc some rising up today, we need policy, new policy that connects our principals and ideas to the challenges of the day. you need the right tone, which is another very important point the governor made, and the idea that social issues hurt the mccain campaign. i think is bunk. but i do think there's a tonal problem there and how they talked to some culturally-charged issues, and four you need circumstances to turn your way. we don't have any four of these things right now. but you can see how they are doing to turn and in our direction, and in the absence of those four things, you know, trying to micr

over many, many years, and i come to this table as someone who through her graduate training and social work have been both a student and a teacher and a college teacher on the history of social welfare in this country, so i know how we got to where we are today, and i know where we've been and let@@@@@ @ the second world war had ended in democracies were emerging from the ashes. we wondered how this country and others who were reclaiming themselves would provide important safety nets for their people. that was social contract with their people, that you could have a reliable income in old age and health care when you needed. when democracy who was a great ally of ours, the british government, pit a single-payer system. they went the u.k. way, but our country had a meeting called "the detrick agreement," where great labor and the great manufacturers met to talk about not the u.k. way, but what would be the u.s. away -- " the detroit agreement." s capitalism, that is entrepreneurship, that does believe in a private sector so they came up with a way where we would have employer-sponsored

there are some folks who say socialized medicine. socialized medicine would mean the government would basically run all of health care. they would hire the doctors, run by hospitals. they would run the whole thing. great britain has a system of socialized medicine. when you hear people say socialized medicine, understand i do not know anybody in washington proposing it. certainly not me. socialized medicine is different from a single payer. away a single payer plan works is that you still have a private doctors and hospitals, providers, etc., but everything is reimbursed through a single payer -- usually the government, so medicare would be an example of a single payer plan. doctors do not work for medicare, but medicare reimburses or services -- the services provided to senior citizens on medicare. there have been proposals to have medicare for all -- a single payer plan for all americans, and that person likes it. there are some appealing things to a single payer plan, and there are some countries where that has worked very well. h

caller: i am a retired social worker. i just retired less than one year ago. 20 years in social work in nursing homes, hospitals, assisted living, and i worked with medicare and medicaid in the v.a. system. it is terrible. people have a terrible time with it. you have to employ two or three people to try to get reimbursement from medicare, to argue with medicaid. i worry that a national health- care system run by the government is going to be another problem like that. i saw my doctor recently, my heart doctor. i saw him for 10 minutes and it cost me $92. that is part of the problem with health care. host: also, what do you think congress is going to vote on? guest: i would say to sandy, if you talk to most physicians, they will tell you that dealing with the private and insurance companies is a lot worse than dealing with medicare or dealthe v.a. in terms of paying $92, citing issues doing pretty well. i have heard stories of people coming out with a bill of $1,000. that deals with reimbursement rates among other things.

all those books, in fact, one is called teaching for social justice. what's your name? >> it is taken on the town of something special for some kind of an ad on but what i mean is a very simple wishes that teaching in a democracy released their radically is teaching quite a different approach to teaching that teaching in any kind of authoritarian or autocratic system whenever they teach in a fascist germany or soviet russia where medieval saudi arabia or apartheid south africa and those systems incidentally all wanted their kids to stay away from drugs and crime, we're in the subject matter, all those kinds of things which we want as well that there is something distinctly different about teaching in a democracy and the differences social justice so one way to put it is what ever else did they teach in those systems and they teach obedience in conformity as number one hit in curriculum and what ever else we teach we should be teaching the democratic ideal that each human being is precious, in duplicable, to be treated in which i respect and with profou

we don't receive social security. there is a huge issue and i hope it's resolved in your time in the house. >> host: who doesn't receive social security? >> guest: teachers don't, they don't receive social security even though ip into it through having wagers and all those kind of things i will receive it. and so i think i answered that question and when i did my interview, but they did come around and support me in the campaign which we were very happy with. they did give money to the campaign, they gave a thousand dollars. but, you know, i do think as much as i love my teachers union and what the attempt to do for educators i do think we need to think out of the box and sometimes if you challenge those clivias people get their feathers ruffled, and so that can put you in hot water with those folks but i happy to be in the hot water. >> host: how about the democrats? >> guest: the democrats unfortunately our relationship didn't start off very smoothly. all i had called because the kids said you should probably call a

there is a social contract between at the supreme leader and the people. the left traditionally believes that the state should step in to create some of the economic injustices in iranian society. on religious values, the right is very conservative. whereas the left believes women should participate in the political system. on foreign-policy is, the right has a pragmatic policy whereas the left has pursued a more cooperative foreign policies. when we think of some of their radical behavior semipaste, we think of the rhine, whereas the left was really one of the motivating forces behind those policies. the candidate of the left was actually a fire breathing radical. the left has developed very differently over the years. unfortunately for the left, and i think -- i think the bright will -- i think the right will dominate. when ayatollah khamenei was a lie, he balanced without showing favoritism to one side or the other. his successor has changed that. on foreign policy, ayatollah khamenei realized that iran could not a live in that way after the run-iraq wa

social security was 15%, medicare had yet to be enacted. by 2007 defense spending 20% of the budget while social security makes up 21% and medicare makes up 16% and it is rising at an alarming rate. the u.s. has a commitment to health care almost double any country in the world from the standpoint of the overall cost. it is unsustainable. we can do a much better job but it can't just be by spending money. mr. chairman, the national health care anti-fraud association organization of 100 private insurers, public agencies estimates 60 billion, about 3% of the total annual health care spending is lost to fraud every year. but the figure is considered conservative by the new england journal of medicine. 2008 government why proper payments cost the united states treasury $72 billion or 4% of the total outlay for related programs. medicaid had an estimated improper payment rate of 10.5% or $18.6 billion for the federal share of medicaid expenditures. the highest rate of any federal program. and it is my belief that in the second half of the legisl

there's also the issue of the reform of social security network to stop abuses. this is something that we will reform. we will also reform the pension system. 2010 will be an important year in that regard. everything will have to be in question. the age of retirement. all possibilities will be considered. the various stakeholders will make proposals. i will not close the debate opened it. the time will come to make a decision for 2010. the french government's will make the hard decision. this is a question of honor and ethics towards future generations. we will not waste a single europa of public money. i am asking the parliament to identify all the waste, all useless organizations, all public aid that is not fruitful. take the time to discuss this. ladies and gentlemen, we can no longer set priorities and not give ourselves the financial means necessary to reach our goals. this is an issue of credibility, of belief in the promises made by the government. this crisis should be the opportunity to invest and to forge ahead. there are many important issues for our f

as far as this idea of socialized medicine, if we are all going on socialized medicine, and ted kennedy along with the other rich congressmen and politicians are under the same system, make sure that everybody is the same. sometimes in america we have to hear the word no. if we eliminated all of these health insurers, coverage programs. if we eliminated them and a person walk into a hospital and needed care, wouldn't the hospital have to lower care costs to meet the current demand of the consumer as far as, you couldn't charge $20 for an aspirin. you would have to lower it down. these insurance companies, if you walk in with blue cross the doctor's eyes light up like they hit the lottery. but if i wanted to buy a hamburger far -- from a store, and the person so that for $10, nobody would buy it and they would be out of business. guest: very interesting. is the emergency room the most cost-effective way to do it? it costs a lot more than if you had to go a different way. as far as health insurance companies, one problems consumers face is blue cross may not take the coverage. i think the

this was not even due to differences in social and economic status. we also showed that we believe that this treatment that was the explanation for their poor survival outcomes and lung cancer. the study is personally memorable for me. it was one of the first major analyses in the database which has become a cornerstone of cancer care, and it was also one of the few studies that demonstrate at that time that treatment gaps in terms of disease outcomes. that has been since shown in numerous other settings, but prior to that, treatment that 7 demonstrated. we were unable to determine in our study why treatment rates were lower for blacks. our study was not designed with that question in mind. the data we used was insufficient for these types of questions. we have used a national data covering many years and tens of thousands of patients, but we a little individual level information. other work with disparities is noticeably the opposite. sometimes, covering just a few patients and doctors in a single practice setting from which a lot can be learned abou

it's socialism. would you define socialism for me, please? guest: i'm not sure i said medicare was socialism i may have. i certainly may have in the past. socialism is when you take from those and give to somebody else on a plan with the government at the central area managing the system. medicare works. but we can't afford it. we've got a $38 trillion. your medicare right now is being paid for by the tax that are going to fall on your children and grandchildren. so sure. the other thing we're starting to see which may or may not worry you is we're already starting to see rationing in medicare. medicare decided this month that you can't have a virtual colonoscopy. you can only have a higher risk, more invasive procedure to screen you for colon cancer. and they made that on monetary decisions rather than on the best practice for you as an individual. and that may be ok and it sounds ok. but if i have an individual that has congestive heart failure and maybe has high risk for having a significant sedative to have a colonoscopy versus i can have

later i visit a social network page which also con taint an ad. again page has a blank space for the ad and my computer contacts the ad service to get an ad. my computer automatically send along the cookie that service provided earlier. this request for an ad carries more information about me. it says that i'm interested in baseball and jazz which the social network site knows, and that my name is edward felten. the ad service recognizes that the cookie is the same as before so it knows that i'm the same person who looked up d.c. weather earlier. and it adds the new information to its profile of me. the service sends back an ad. this time it's an ad for a washington nationals ticket because i looked up washington weather earlier and i'm interested in baseball. notice that the ad is connectin -- the ad service is decking the dots between things that i did on different sites between something i did on the weather site and something i did on the social network site. this allows it to better target ad and also to build up a more extensive profile abou

including interacting with individuals on social networking websites and in chat rooms. they could also use fund to protect students against online predators, cyber bullying and unwanted exposure to inappropriate materials or promote involvement by parents in the use of the internet by their children. the internet is a technological advancement that can be extremely useful for students, educators and parents. today almost every public school in the united states has internet access. and 79% of high school students use the internet on a daily basis, including looking for information to assist them with their schoolwork. these statistics are impressive and would have been unheard of a decade ago. but they demonstrate the changing nature of technology in our nation's schools. today's youngest generation is the first generation to be born no a world proliferated by the internet. these students use the internet almost everyday, from email to social networking sites to online interaction, teaching forums, online encyclopedias. the internet provides students and teachers with n

. >> i wanted to ask a question about the social community and mobile. you have more people accessing greg's list through mobile devices. is there a change the ec and the discourse in a behavior of the community -- it the ec in the discourse of behavior in the community. >> i do believe that brevity is the soul of wit. shorter communication is more effective than longer communication. if someone here e-mail's me something, a response could be, can you see it -- can he said to be the briefer version of that? -- can you send me the brief version of that. i personally find short for more effective than long form. i have gotten more terse in my communications. this would be easy in washington. people are passionate about having something to say, saying it briefly, and stopping. most parts of the country, people will go on and on. in washington, people say it and stop. that is admirable. >> is a weird thing to find someone coming to washington and say they find the culture admirable. >> you were very involved in the obama campaign, and early helps them develo

talk about the influence of social media sites in the coverage of what has been going on. guest: the government was worried about it, so they shutdown text messaging. a lot into nine -- a lot internet sites were shut down. obviously, it is a huge organizational tool. twitter is up and running. people compose messages on that. it is interesting in looking at other countries where there have been attempts to organize protests. the right to assemble in other countries is banned so they get around that using the social media networks because they can organize and the government cannot stop them. it is a big leap to jump from their to a regime change. i do not think that is what the young people want. people do not want that kind of upheaval. they just want the system to work. host: madison, florida. caller: you have touched on the question to some degree. to what extent the other arab countries fear iranian power. and whether the level of education rises and weather it portends a desire for more individual freedoms. guest: there is always a mistrust of the iranians. they are t

out of the crushing tyranny, the social studies curriculum text book.t ii of our campaign, there are subscription envelops, we all just abolished social studies, we are moving on to abolish a textbook, i hope no one from mcgraw-hill is here, you are out of a job. this sense, past and present, i said, rashly, when obama was beginning campaign, and not doing very well, long before the iowa caucus which you had just seen. the person who would win the election. commanded the best story, the narrative tells the american people why the american people need to be given back a sense of their story. the mother infected him -- benjamin franklin would have liked this kind of hippie who's said -- she said wonderfully, it is no picnic for me. how many of you read dreams for my father? so fantastic, doesn't feel -- he wasn't a bad politician when he wrote it. the house of law review. the thing that obama has, rough moment in american history. what he will have to preside over is it may not have the kind of terror and pain of a high street bank about to close its door

socialized medicine is different from a single payer plan. the way a single payer plan works is that you still have private doctors, private hospitals, providers, etc., but everything is reimbursed through a single payer, usually the government. so medicare would be an example of a single payer plan. doctors do not work for medicare, but medicare reimburses for services that are provided to seniors who are on medicare. there have been proposals to have essentially medicare for all, a single payer plan for all americans. that person likes it. [laughter] there are some appealing things to a single payer plan, and there are some countries where that has worked very well. here is the thing. scratch. we have already gone, because of historical reasons, we have primarily an employer based system that uses private insurers, long sought a medicare plan for people above a certain age. then you have medicate for folks who are very poor and not have access to health care. so we have a patchwork system. it was my belief, and continues to be my belief, th

the dominant feature of social governance in such a system of rigid stability, he said, is dichotomized black-and-white thinking, in which the expression of people's legitimate interest, land issues for peasants, wages for workers, homeowner rights for urban residents, minority rights for tibetans and others, that all this becomes a threat to the social order. a rigid system is, by definition, bristled, blacks resilience. it can break understreng-- it l. people have no recourse to the courts, which are controlled. political parties that are distant, and accountable, arrogant and defensive. they are angry about many things beyond their immediate economic interests, such as massive corruption and environmental degradation. given the widespread use of the internet in china today and the fact that over half the population has mobile phones, citizens are, also, more aware of their rights than ever before and more connected with each other than ever before. on top of all this, as professor observed, the regime has lost its only source of legitimacy, which he said was the revolution. revolutio

off we will become a socialized estate. we will fall into chaos. the best should survive.he strongest should survive. host: what do you do for a living? caller: i have been a truck driver for 35 years. i have no health insurance whatsoever. i really go to the doctor. i take care of myself, eat well, do not drink or smoke. my belief -- not only the strong survive. if we do not take care of ourselves individually, this whole country will fall apart. host: let's go to the democrat line from louisiana. caller: let me respond to the caller. he has no health insurance? one day he will need a hospital. i do not know how old he is. one day he will have a heart attack. he thinks he can go the rest of his life without needing to go to the hospital, he is crazy. he will get a bill for $20,000 and i wonder how he thinks to pay for that. as far as the hospitals not needing to treat anyone without health insurance? i have a friend who took two years to get his disability and during that time he could not work. host: what do you do for a living? caller: i am an accountant and i have heal

that was the widespread use of social mapping to figure out how do we reach these populations. for those of you who know communications is probably second nature. for those of us who are doctors and used to approaching medical problems another way, a lot of this is to a certain degree new. but this is an example you see here from the tribal areas of pakistan bordering right on pakistan. as you can see they mapped out here along the different parts of this tribal agency. this is where fm radio reaches, where they had these taliban meetings, announcements, etc. to be able to mobilize and engage the community. so increasing at an increasingly more and more social mapping to figure out where the people are and what they will respond to. the other thing is bringing again professional management, accountability, also to what we are doing an area of communications. this is just an example of using indicators to monitor what's happening in terms of our social mobilization and back. in august, july actually we began investing heavily in terms of community immobilizes in this area of ka

there are socially created. what does that mean? in means there are created by men so they can oppress women more easily here and so if women are nurturing or caring more and so forth that is their weakness. who created the witness? we did it. of course, it across the hall or go to another building and go into the biology department canyon or the science department you find out that these characteristics are hardwired and part of the genome, the genetic structure. you know, the attitude that a higher education is you said this already, david. there is no dialogue. it is not like it ever invite a debate. have a women's studies professor come in and debate whether they are are a political party or not. it's not want to happen. anyway, i know it is so gloomy, isn't it? [laughter] we have a resilience country here. i think americans are a very resilient people. you never know where the term is going to, or how it is going to come here and but i thank you can pretty well count on it coming and i think that americans, we are not germans.

we can leave this room absolutely dripping with social virtue tonight, really. [laughter] >> that's probably enough of an answer to your question. [inaudible] >> you came to the united states i is in quite a while ago and as an outsider, what was the essence that threw you a "almost drew you here, doyou still findg and why? why? [laughter] >> that sound battled, darling. intellectual freedom is the answer. it's a very simple quick there were brothers, and from my brother sam and i'm talking about, another store in tightly, but they were let away and. they were actually looked away and lumberjacks rather endearingly, actually. i want to revise that famous monty python song but sort of crossed over with fiddler in the woods actually. [laughter] >> they were lithuanian lumberjacks. there were four brothers, and three of them had the energy to go from london to liverpool and maybe an anti-crossing and settled of course in brooklyn. but my grandfather was too lazy and stayed in london. but what this meant, the reason, the answer to your question is we had an american

we cannot have social revolution. we cannot have collective revolution because writers can help in the elimination. they can help in this revolution. or that opposite. and that's the problem. writing is very powerful. and it can be against knowledge and can be -- it depends where you stand. are you in the market? are you looking for the market to have the normal price? to have a high price. to have a lot of money. to be secure, not to go to prison? because you are afraid of torture, of prison or what? and that's the question. why we did not stop the war. why we did not change this jungle. we are living in a jungle. when a country, a superpower, a big country go to another smaller country and invade it as palestine was invaded, as iraq was invaded, as afghanistan is invaded. when we live in such a jungle, and then you don't expose it and you don't challenge political taboos, sex taboos, religious taboos. go to prison, yes, go to prison. what's going to happen? i was happy in prison. [laughter] >> because we are living

we have all abolished social studies. we are moving on to abolish the textbook.within the hill? [laughter] you're out of a job. [laughter] but there is this sense that past and present are in the american experience and i say rationally when obama was beginning the campaign and not doing very well so it was the end of 2007 but long before the iowa caucus for what you have just seen that i thought the person who had won the election obliterate be republican or democrat, hillary or obama, whoever would be the person who would act like command the best story, the dreaded n-word, narrative, to tell the american people why because the american people need it to be katzenbach suffering and given back the sense of a trajectory of the story. what obama has rather mccracken -- miraculously it must have been before in the morning lessons in which his heppe mother inflicted before the carter. benjamin franklin but have liked this kind of hippie who said learn. she said wonderfully it's no picnic for me either. [laughter] how many of you have red and dreams for my father? fa

connected, social movement for justice and peace. >> host: you say you were trying to pull back. were trying to itll back but it was after that that you planted the bombs in the capital and the pentagon. >> i didn't, the organization took credit for it. those were symbolic actions. they were designed to be in the middle of the night to be understood around the world, ndich they were instantly. they do need a communique to say what or why, and they heard no one. i am not going to defend them. in today's world is indefensible but they were not terrorist actions. >> host: what do you do today? what is your day job? >> guest: i teach at northwestern law school, i had the benefit of teaching human rights and children's rights for almost 18 years. o direct the family justice anter which is an organization, clinical program so law students and social work students work with our lawyers, lawyers who represent kids every day, kids talked with crime, kids pushed out of school, 0 tolerance policies and immigrant kids seeking asylum. m host: what is your relationship to bill ayers? >> guest:

i believe that social change ecology as well. we're so proud to be part of a new coalition effort called unity all nine, it is a form to help pass president obama's engine and is doing a great job. we're building current communities and states that are hard to build an, elevating non-traditional messengers and when it seiu weighed in on the energy bill to say, yes, we want these jobs that with so much more impact won't in many places about why we need a good energy bill and we're using our resources more efficiently because we know each other are doing. excellent effort and probably a part of it. at the same time our primary mandate is to represent our constituents and therefore if there comes a time where our constituents are not happy and members are not happy with the specific piece, it is okay for move on to step aside and push harder, it is okay for senator for community change to step aside and push harder. when governor bredesen name was being floated in for the director of hhs, move on got up and said we don't think he is

you can't have capitalism on the way up and socialism on the way down. you are going to choose one of the other. i pick capitalism because it has been the most productive, most prosperous, highest quality of life system on the planet. [applause] you have to have the rule of law, not the rule of empathy. you cannot pay off political allies with contract lot if america begins to resemble venezuela and russia in changing the law to favor political allies and punish enemies, our economy will be crippled for a generation. people will not invest where politicians can rip them off. i don't think that barney frank and chris dodd are good advertisements around the world for the next factory to come to the united states. how do we get back to economic growth? raising taxes does not work. what would work? let's go back to first principles. taxes are a first principle. high taxes kill jobs and growth. low taxes encourage jobs and growth. what would a free on the prize orient the stimulus package be like? first, let's give it to the people that work and the businesse

i would like to say something about this myth about socialized medicine being so bad. i would like to tell a story about back in the 1980's in scotland. my wife got ill, real sick. a doctor came to her room three times within one night, took her to the hospital. but before they rolled her out of the room, the doctor looked at me and said, mike, i know you are concerned about how much this is going to cost you, but we have socialized medicine. please do not be concerned about the cost. her care was excellent. i would also like to point out that if you look at your chart and see when the price of health care escalated, i think it was senator fritz from tennessee whose family owns a big portion of united healthcare, if i am not mistaken. it almost doubled from 1994 to 1996. there's nothing wrong with socialized medicine. from what i saw in scotland, it was excellent. host: mike, thank you for the call. another comment from david sampson who says kaiser permanente a, very satisfied. i could not imagine a system working better. from "it will street journal," "lawmakers are

great britain has a system of socialized medicine. nobody is talking about during that period will hear people talking about socialized medicine, i do not know anyone in washington that is proposing that, certainly not me. socialized medicine is different than a single player pan -- single payer plan. you still have private doctors, hospitals, providers, etc., but everything is reimbursed through a single payer. that is usually the government. medicare would be an example of a single payer plan. doctors do not work for medicare, but medicare reimburses for services that are provided to the seniors who are on medicare. there have been proposals to have essentially medicare for all, a single payer plan for all americans. that person likes it. [laughter] there are some appealing things to a single payer plan and there are some countries where that has worked very well. here is the thing. we are not starting from scratch. we have already got, because of all kinds of historical reasons, we have primarily an employer base system that uses p

again that is from "pre-gay l.a.: a social history of the movement for homosexual rights". i have a million questions, a million. i'm only going to have time for a couple of them and as you were both reading one of the things that struck me was the question of or the craziness of the senate invasion of private lives thinking about it now even in the construction of your two books of like to ask you both the same question and that is obviously you are doing research, you are wanted to talk to some of these people who are still around. in honduras subjects responded if they responded at all to your wanting to kind of give their lives another kind of look? karen? >> my book is based on archival research and i tended to speak with people interrogated and i was unable to do that so i tried to go at an angle using our calves from the state archives in tallahassee, florida. >> right. maybe you can since we are here with you, why florida crimes you want to answer that? >> yes in the context of this decade with a national purges going on historian john de mello and others in david j

in other countries where they have socialized medicine, people die of that disease. heart disease, diabetes, you go down the list of all these chronic diseases. in socialized health care systems, as this administration and the leadership in this house, in the senate across the way, want to take us, it's going to take away people's choices. they're not going to be able to get the care that they desperately need to stay alive and it's just the wrong thing to do and dr. beginning --, -- and, dr. gingrey, i appreciate your being one of the co-chairmen of the doctors' caucus and helping the american people to understand the direction that we're being led by this leadership, the liberal leadership in this house and this senate because the not going to be in the best interest of the american public and it's actually going to create a financial collapse as dr. fleming was talking about. it's going to be exasperated -- exacerbated and people are going to be exacerbated because of this rationing of care, taking away their choices and some federal government bureaucrat in washi

put nearly 5,000 part-time people on the ground, people from within the communities we trained on social mobilization, interpersonal communications etc. to begin the process of building the community engagement needed to be able to eradicate polio to get the population immunity up to the levels that will stop transmission. as we worked with the underserved communities to engage them as well this required use of another tool we weren't used to, certainly in the immunization in the areas i have been working in and that was the widespread use of social mapping to figure out how we reach these populations. for those of you to medications are probably second nature and for those of us who are doctors and used to approach to medical problems and other way a lot of this is to a certain degree new but this is an example you see here from the tribal areas of pakistan border in right on afghanistan and as you can see they have mapped out the long the different parts of this travel agency were at them radio reaches, where they have taliban meetings, etc. to be able to mobilize and engage the commit