the average american dream and dreamer built dreams on shatorde hopes and left off on their own spaceshipsf life. but the average american laws are in a state of corruption. man is allowed to work -- to go to war and kill other. at age 18 but a man can't buy a drink until age 21. i mean the government has money to pay for wars but not to feed the poor. politicians say more taxes will solve everything -- everything the politicians say vote for me and i'll set you free. but then, dear politician, why are innocent men and women being arrested for helping a dying man on the street? men and women create but we got our name from our women and then we take from our women. when did we get to the point where we're buying everything but can't pay for anything? we have credit cards or checks and check books but not a dime in our pocket? we had dreams in the beginning but let them fizzle in the end so when the ship goes down we better get ready. thank you. [applause] >> ok the so it's called this guy. so there's this guy, right, and he has a smile that can turn my day brighter than bright and the scen

upload and ten meg or download ten meg by upload which is twice what the average american consumer gets or ten times what the average american gets or gets typical bill in france is over thirty it's about thirty dollars per year it's over one hundred the limit that you're talking about here pending on where you want to hear all of these one hundred fifty gigs or two hundred fifty gigs at one hundred hours of t.v. and thousands of e-mails that's not exactly a limit an old saying is above that you can't even it's the principle down it's what once was a fine print once how we all know we don't stay here once they start saying ok you can have this much the next month they'll say well actually you can have this month with their transit you know he's like the first time i signed up for cable t.v. they said. it's only twenty nine ninety five a month you signed up and how much is it going to be after the end of the three month period well we can't tell you that actually we don't know well turns out it was one hundred thirteen dollars or something like that i mean there are business here trying

middle class in this country every year virtually every year productivity went up and so did the average american wage of the of the non-supervisory production workers their wages went up year in and year out in real terms after inflation and once we embark on a letting the predators off the hook once we gave up on the new deal controls that we changed the tax structure by the media late seventy's productivity continued to go up it's gone up one hundred eighty percent since then but the average non-supervisory production workers wage which is about one hundred. one hundred million of us eighty percent of us who work there have wages actually gone down in real terms so where does all that productivity goes it goes into the hands of a few and they believe me they need fear any alarms for cover because if the american people ever get wise to really get wise to how they're being ripped off that they're going to get angry the question is are they going to turn right further or are they going to turn the progressive direction and that depends frankly on people like you depends on having an i.e.d. outle

five well that's a good point that you bring up in defense spending is a big chunk of the pie should average americans keep you know continuing to pay you know for example above street banks got bailed out main street did not hear saying that average people should be you know hurt by the government gave policy on its debt and not spending how it has you know is it time why should the united states you know average people have to pay again. well look we've had years of excess you know there's no real unfunded liabilities among one hundred thirteen trillion dollars you know eventually we need to come to terms with reality and eventually we need to let free markets do its thing i mean every time they've got her every time markets try to clear themselves every time markets try to rebound there's ben bernanke you are running the printing press and there i mean eventually it's going to lead to hyperinflation in the united states i mean there's no other way to be able to get some to fund out there hundred thirteen trillion dollars unfunded liability which is a million dollars per taxpayer yet the average ame

reached its credit limit so what's next for america and cannibals and the state since for the average american they cannot. feel like. the people party. girl adding insult to injury debt collectors are bullying main street this as wall street in washington get bailed out. evening it's monday may sixteenth i'm lauren lyster coming to hear from washington d.c. and you of course are watching our t.v. now it is a scandal of multinational proportion and top news on the us mainstream media outlets take a look at this. is that for you now the head of the international monetary fund just arriving to a new york courtroom he said to be arraigned on sexual thought charges in new york city. in court the latest developments on the arrest of the head of the i.m.f. on charges of rape head of the international monetary fund i.m.f. will be arraigned inside this manhattan courthouse shortly that is going to happen a hotel housekeeper accuses dominique strauss kahn of attempted rape it's taken a rape scandal for there to be any major attention paid to the international monetary fund in the u.s. never mind the ba

the average american using -- when you talk about a dollar increase t. erage american uses about 500 gallons. the president says we should be putting higher taxes on them. i looked at the statistics of all the industries, all the major industries in the united states, the oil and gas industry pay more taxes than almost any other industry. it's not like they're not paying any taxes. >> but they have huge profits. >> let me stop you right there. if you've got a product whose price goes up, obviously you're going to make money. >> yeah. >> the gas price -- remember a few years ago in 2007, the oil price shot up to $150 a barrel, and then nine months later, it was $30 barrel, so you get these huge fluctuations. >> are the prices proportionate to the cost of oil going up per barrel? >> well, yes, because what's happening, obviously, all the turmoil in the middle east is causing supply disruptions. but there's a bigger villain. if the american people want to be angry at somebody, i wouldn't look at the executives of the oil companies, i would look at ben bernan

the sales fell by 2 percent. gas prices will average $3.70 per gallon in 2011. that means that the average americanousehold will top over $4,300 worth of gasoline this year. in a yourand york. >>pam: taking a look at this direction the 80 towards the lower deck it is crawling. not much better at the bottom of the south 1 0 1 as people are going towards the peninsula. >>pam: a programming note this saturday kron 4 will let nbc programming of the giants will be on nbc. chase will be shown at 8:00 p.m. it will be followed by the kron 4 news at 9:00 p.m. coming up after the break. úúúo (music) >> jacqueline: it is a hot day around the bay area. sunshine however, fog with sea breezes coming back. impacting our coast temperatures. 71 in san francisco, still low 90s inland. and 90's in the south bay. what we can expect tonight and into the fog of pump up. it will mean the state along the coast and pumping up its through overnight. into overnight, a high cloud coverage and much cooler. breezy conditions in the afternoon. temperatures will be downtown, 15 degrees in that fog is going to be more extensive as

does the average american care about that, or is that kind of a media obsession? i don't know whether the average american cares about it. >> do you care about it? >> here's why i think it's an interesting and important question. this debt existed seven years after newt gingrich left public life, five years after he had married his current wife. and it raises questions to -- if you can afford $500,000 to tiffany's, well, good luck to you. but the fact that you're making purchases that you can't strictly afford seven years after you've left politics does raise the question about what exactly is your financial situation? and that rings all kinds of alarm bells if you know the kinds of operations that gingrich has been running. >> i want to slip in a question about the news this morning. i'll start with you, david, about mitch daniels, the idaho governor who is reluctant to run, not going to get into the race. he really was the candidate of the elite columnists, thinking he should have run, urged him to run, rooted for him to run. >> he's a friend of mine. he's a fri

. >> for the average american what this translates into is the price for a gallon of gasoline.t's what they care about. that's the economic impact on their pocketbook. it's not everybody who has looked at this has said that this will do nothing to reduce the price of gasoline at the pump for the average american. >> sreenivasan: republicans plan to offer their own bill tomorrow to increase offshore drilling. neither bill has the 60 votes needed to get past filibusters. former california governor arnold schwarzenegger has admitted he fathered a child with a former household staffer. he issued a statement last night after the "los angeles times" interviewed the woman. the child was born before he first ran for governor in 2003. schwarzenegger said he told his wife, maria shriver, after leaving office in january. last week, the couple announced they have separated. the hall of fame slugger whose silhouette inspired baseball's logo died today. harmon killebrew passed away at his home in scottsdale, arizona. he had cancer of the esophagus. killebrew began his 22-year career with the

know is that really is that sustainable for us to continue to make things that are used by the average american but the only big companies or that the pentagon wants to buy or even perhaps other countries they need to beef up their military. well there are a lot of things we do make here actually the american consumer does does buy one of those cars and that was the biggest downturn this past month was about certain components that they put in the cars not being sent from japan to the impact of the tsunami so we do still make things here but is it possible to have the level of employment in the manufacturing sector we had before many of these jobs and things like toys and clothes were shipped overseas no that's that's never going to come back you think there is no way that manufacturing is ever going to come back to the se what is not need for the future of our economy well there are ways to find more people jobs in high tech manufacturing the sort of things that we produce here that so great around the world i mean that's fighter jets but it's also some computers it's also solar technology it'

. >> reporter: unfortunately, the average american takes in twice as much salt as he or she should. hat's where new york city's health department comes into the picture. it's leading a campaign to help us all cut back on salt. >> the salt initiative is really a national initiative. it's led by new york city, but it's really over 40 health organizations. other cities and other states that are working together. we think it has the opportunity for tremendous impact and the ability to save lives. >> reporter: of course, we can all make healthier food choices without the government's help. it's simple to choose a fruit instead of fries. but the salt initiative is taking aim at the salts we don't see. >> almost 80% of the salt that we take in each day comes from packaged and restaurant food. still, most consumers don't really have any control over the salt that they take in. it's already in the food when we buy it. it's not always actually the salt that you taste. a muffin can have a lot of salt. >> reporter: when you're shopping for packaged food, check the label. salt is listed as sodium

shows that the wealthiest one percent of americans control a third of the wealth and they're expected to see their wealth double over the next decade according to the late study while the average americans everyone else seems to still be struggling the resident annette show host laurie harf and asked went to the big apple to find out how people feel about that. economy continues to cause a lot of people a lot of difficulties and yet the rich keep getting richer are you ok with that this week let's talk about that well i mean we have to talk about what is actually defined rich i mean for people to say that families making two hundred fifty k. a year combined being rich as some people define rich is completely absurd absurd lower middle class hold on only a very small percentage of people actually make that yes but you see the thing is i understand a small percentage of people do however does not make them rich there's only a couple of them. i think that although we don't see it there's a lot of work they have to do you don't get rich overnight you think given the people on wall street are working harder than you are no i don't but i think they might be working smarter. so do th

apac israel plays a huge role when it comes to domestic politics but why does it matter to the average american quite the opposite i think you might be able to argue that america's foreign policy towards israel makes the world much more dangerous for many americans. i wouldn't hardly disagree with that we have fundamental reasons and strategic reasons to stand with israel and most americans are pro israel that's why pro israel sentiment is so strong in washington among congress and senators of both parties obviously much more so among republicans that have a much more unified view on this than the democratic party does. unlike my my colleague in washington here i don't think that the moderate you allege moderate aligning himself with terrorists and hamas there are burst possible for israeli and american deaths are going to be is going to be good for the palestinian people the israeli people or the american people the americans want to see a president that will stand with our ally that is a strategic resource for us in the region and has strong cultural and democratic ties to our country as well

that's exactly the point we did a study of a center for american progress and we actually found that exxon's effective tax rate over the past three years is actually lower than the average american so you know if you're an average american out there working hard you're paying a much higher tax rate actually an exxon mobil which is the world's most profitable corporation right now so i think when we talk about what's american what's what's american soccer pricing for right here making sure your countrymen aren't paying certainly. prices and also just giving back you know making sure that you live in a great country not just be considered totally with your profit so instead what they're doing is we heard more threats today saying you know if you want to come out as they know we will just move elsewhere will go overseas that means they were jobs created here at home and that means that you know the entire idea of trying to be less dependent on foreign oil you can kiss that goodbye but you know let's talk about the amount of money going on here each one of these big five oil companies spent at least you know nine to ten to twelve million dollars a lobbying congress so do yo

area than in others and what do you think about that because i i guess you could argue that the average american citizen is probably even more threatened now by more wars but the perception isn't there how do we how do we so you know square the circle on that. well think about it first second the beginning of the end of two thousand and beginning of two thousand and ten sixty three percent of americans were theoretically against the war in afghanistan but when you actually ask people what they vote on only two and a half percent. voted and would vote as the war being a deciding factor in how and what they do in the ballot box this is not a grand butter issue in this is the anti-war movement this is the post to be and i'm very anti word of it has no draft to coalesce around people don't know anyone who died in afghanistan or iraq it's not it's not right people are going to have to when they actually political action ultimately is about the pocketbook and their home life and this just doesn't this doesn't it's just not that important you don't have to pay attention you don't have to watch the war

study he should just look in the mirror and find the cause and if you really feels the pain of the average american secret kenzie does because of the pump he cut government spending he'd shut off the spigot right now but this is how we're paying for government we're paying for it with four dollar gasoline but pretty soon it'll be five dollars six dollars ten dollars there is no end in sight as long as the government keeps spending and if a huge printing i have to finance it prices for everything or it is going to go up all right i thought about china for a second because they aren't being you predicting that predicted that they would raise the value of the r. and b. is something that the us has been encouraging but actually is not good because this shift purchasing power to china and actually the negative for the dollar they talk a little bit about that yet you know that the chinese have undervalued their currency for years and we constantly accuse china that somehow doing that benefits china at our expense when it's actually the reverse because what happens is because chinese undermine their own p

that third drug has been found to be absolutely excruciating recruiting people and so maybe the average american doesn't really care because rope. possibly committed some gruesome crime is torture but the reality is that the constitution protects prisoners from cruel and unusual punishment so when the supreme court took up this issue in papers three in two thousand they ultimately determined that there wasn't enough proof that this one protocol. meant that prisoners to a realistic chance of being tortured. that other words you know it's because even when it happened it was never a shift and usually go that way well what we're finding now now that the states are tinkering with their at their drug is that there has been evidence that recent executions were prisoners were tortured to death and of course i talked about the state of georgia specifically now it really does sound like outrage and i want to mention that a lot of folks abroad a lot of countries abroad are really do view this as a barbaric process of sorts i want to turn briefly to this the shortage of the drug that you mentioned i find i

partisan tactical and also that if we're saying that these people aren't invited on to their base the average americans don't even know this is happening then who else is to blame you can say that it is the mainstream media and is that because talking about the patriot act in the lone wolf provisions and roving wiretaps is that just is not sexy is it too complicated to get into all the time part of this is what it would be like to call existence by whatever exists right now we think is normal by default and so whenever you talk about changing it changing the drug war legalizing marijuana oh my god people who have smoked marijuana their whole lives and always known people who smoke marijuana their whole lives will suddenly say that it's fundamentally on serious position to be in because they know the status quo they are comfortable politicians they have dinner and breakfast and discussions about serious issues with these people and so what you're part of that kind of establishment any thing that's on the outside seems fundamentally on serious even though even if it completely tracks with your logic and

the financial terms. >>> americans are forfitting vacation time. the average american worker gets 18 vacation day as year but only uses 14 of them. a reminder that under california law vacation days can't expire. they are owed to workers like wages and you must be paid for them. >>> on wall street, an oil rally pushed stocks higher this week. >> the price of oil rose $2. more than $101 a barrel. that gave energy stock as lift. shares in mining companies also rose thanks to higher prices for copper. here are the closing numbers. dow up more than 38 points. nasdaq up 15 points. >>> president obamaed the u.s. and united kingdom must maintain their leadership roles in the world. president obama is the one u.s. president to speak to both houses. the u.s. and great britain must work together. he pushed for democratic reform in north africa. >> we have learned better than most the longing for freedom is not english or american or western, it is universal. >> earlier the president held a news conference. the president is on a six day trip to europe. >>> the man arrest

lastly we've got to wrap it up see how that how that how does that actually affect you know the average american right now do they care about the data they care about deficit reduction all they know is that the middle class is dying and they are very sure about secure jobs they care about their medicare the social security when they retire there and they don't know if they don't we're going to have this large you know when you know you have a small number of policy wonks here in washington there knows the pope's public doesn't know what the i think you know the way that this impacts sort of the man on the street is that this is a distraction that this is the only thing congress is dealing with when there are other things that we should be addressing immigration reform is an important one what are we going to do about housing we need to address fannie mae and freddie mac. we need to address housing finance system their main. your core sort of policy structural things that need to be dealt with now have to be dealt with on a federal level and congress that are being paid attention to because all t

to dead it was thirty percent thirty years ago and you're looking at it the average american it picking up their share of the debt burden is like forty six thousand dollars the debt is never going to be repaid you know bertie made off a guy who do with dignity to about ponzi scheme the way i look at february twenty seventh new york magazine they did an interview with him you know he called the united states government one big scheme and that's what's going on adam they're going to keep the game going we'll try anything they'll print all the digital money out of thin air that they could invent and if that doesn't work they take you to war well i'm just hoping that the game is up before the two thousand and twelve election obama gets called on the carpet by the american people terrell thank you so much for joining us tonight paper thank you adam that was gerald cilento of the trends research institute the timing of the bin ladin announcement is obviously very very convenient for the president even today he's twenty one with the media and all of us with the attention of the american public

reporting that the pictures that we see from the ground of the stories that we hear but average people let's say you know the average american sitting at home safely on their couch watching these stories can we ever fully grasp what it's like to be in a war zone. you know you can't fully grasp anything from television but you can you can acquire some gordon information about the topic. t.v. coverage of the vietnam war played a huge role in the vietnam war the they they needed the press there so that the suit so that the american public could have a informed conversation informed debate about what we were doing in indonesia likewise in afghanistan we need the press there you won't you won't understand completely what it was that reality is but you will get enough information to have an informed debate that's what democracy is and god forbid we have to loose here we lose that and all the reason i guess that the journalist you go out and risk their lives in order to bring the stories and the grounds of action i want to thank you very much for joining us tonight and of course we appreciate the work that you do and we are very so

i think the average american salary now family salary with two kids is like in the 28,000-dollar range. how do you do that? white-collar folks like to sort of look down on people when they've got their -- that knucklehead called in to this radio show, he's got $40,000 in credit card debt. well, yeah, but you and i would, too, if we had two kids and we were trying to live on $28,000. yes, sir? >> did you lose any jobs or get fired or reprimanded? [laughter] >> i did not i'm happy to say. now as a younger man working these jobs back when i really needed to work i got fired from all my jobs. in the marines you learn very valuable things and it's not just the proper technique for sticking a bayonet in to somebody. one of the things is to learn how to keep your mouth shut and you learn how to stand there stonefaced when someone is interacting with you less than pleasant way. and i think part of it is the fact i knew i didn't have to have this job so it didn't get under my skin. i'm sure i would have got him fired from a couple of them if i hadn't sort of had the laid-back i'm here taking in

for that are young that have just graduated from college are much higher than they are for the average american and you know i think often what happens you can look back at trends is that any time there's a recession you have a bit of this last generation that develops because. instantly they're pushed back their success rate is pushed back if you look at certain polls that have come out recently that already shows that young people don't have the optimism they think that they won't lead lives that were as good as their parents so how do you you know what do you say to young people do you think that they're going to be a lost generation and they just have to get over it or is there some kind of ray of hope. i don't want to generalize too much but it is certainly true that people who had better job prospects a couple years ago graduating in the workforce the same person today just might not have had the same prospects i think that is affecting confidence a view about the outlook the best case scenario is that it leads towards more entrepreneurship of people trying to sort of do what they can in