for every man woman and child what would be a foundational amount of this thomas paine amount what would what would be the amount that each person should get in your mind as a minimum we have just a minute i think. yeah i think i think one would have to. develop it it according to the country and what we say is in fact you have to build towards the base is going to come gradually converting your existing social transfers your means tested benefits like snap and so on into an unconditional benefits and put them together so that you would gradually move to paying a subsistence standard of living i can imagine for example that in my own country a britain that what you would do is take away your tax credits and your job seeker allowances and you'd give everybody a hundred pounds a week and then you would build up from that and you would you would you would top it up with different types of minutes and what we've been doing in india for example is we've given very modest payments each month but gradually the idea is to remove subsidies that are aggressive and very inefficient and replace them

1776 issue of the pennsylvania ledger your here we have 10 days after the first publication of thomas paine's common sense, one of the first advertisement for common sense. there it is. what was interesting to me about this particular edition is that in the same newspaper is another advertisement for an for a new n of common sense, which suggests just how quickly this pamphlet was moving. which brings me to the into the history discovery. no taxation without representation, that argument springs to life in newspapers. at may 10, 1764 issue of the pennsylvania gazette. on page two is one paragraph that details the forthcoming sugar act. in that article, it says a scheme of taxation that has been praises debated in the parlor, whether they have the power to lay such attacks on the colonies which has no representative from parliament and determined in the affirmative. what's also interesting is this is where you get the first and teaser for the forthcoming stamp act that we know so well. besides is an internal tax was cut off come you can't see that but it says besides this an internal tax is fo

but what happens when thomas paine today with revolutionary ideas that can make everything better watch out his front door and goes to the nearest tv station and says, okay, i have this video. when do i go on the air? ready? well, of course, you know what happens. we will take $10 billion or whatever the cost is. and so the only people that are able to communicate with the masses in the way that it happens today on television by ones with huge amounts of money, mostly corporations and special interests. and so when a congressman or senator wants to run for reelection, they have got to get on that tv in by those 302nd ads. where did they get the money? well, they go to the special interests because the special interests are waiting for them to come. anonymous billionaires'. the ones that were just elected and when to orientation, here is what they told them. you will need x million dollars by the time you want -- run for reelection. we have calculated the number of days between now and then. you have got to raise 12, 15, 20, $25,000 every single day between now and then. take the rest of

lyell pain, wexler, phillip, thomas, chip and michael. >> speakers in support of the dr are the first two speakers that you identified. the rest are against the dr. >> thank you. good afternoon. my ma'am -- name is lyell pain. my wife and i and my children live on jackson street. we along with the hausz, the 2 families that are mostly impacted that are related to the issues that you are hearing about today. my background is in the real estate development business. we are very much involving with housing and we understand the situation with the neighbors and are trying to resolve problems. unfortunately in this particular case there hasn't been an opportunity to work closely with the owners of this property and that's very unfortunate. we feel it's important from an historic standpoint as well as the light and air issues that there again be a continued dialogue to try and resolve these issues. approximate hee 15 years ago, my wife and i decided we wanted to expand our home and we sat down with each one of the neighbors and actually the family at that time was the owner of no. 1 sprus a

here we have ten days after the first publication of thomas paine's common-sense, of the first advertisements for common-sense. there it is. what was interesting to me about this particular edition was that in this same newspaper there is another advertisements for a new edition of common sense which suggests just how quickly this pamphlet was moving. which brings me to the history discovery. no taxation without representation. that arguments bristol-newspapers, and particular make 101764 issue of the pennsylvania gazette. on page number two is one paragraph that details the forthcoming sugar act. in that article it says a scheme of taxation that has been previously debated from the parliament, whether they have the power to make such attacks in the colonies which had no representatives in parliament was determined in the affirmative. also interesting to note that this is where you get a firsthand, the teaser for the forthcoming standout that we know so well. besides this, and internal tax is cut off. you cannot see that. besides this an internal taxes were covering. violence and mobs and rio

thomas's home for months after the holidays. a painfulinder of some very tough times. >> this is the first time in my life i didn't celebrate christmas. so. >> reporter: so celebration because joe g. thomas and his family faced eviction from the only home they've known since he and his wife moved here from india years ago. in 2011, thomas' mortgage payment doubled and a bank of america representative told him to pay the higher amount. >> you did everything they asked you to do. >> yes. >> you believe you complied with everything they required. >> yes. >> but because tom mass believed he was being over charged, he stopped making payments for several months and his home went into default. then, to make up the difference, thomas paid a lump some of nearly $28,000. an amount he says he believed he was supposed to pay. an amount found on three different mortgage reinstatement statements sent to him by his bank. thomas says one bank of america representative told him the bank got his casual sheer's check. but another bank representative told hi

i mean, when i -- colin powell, clarence thomas, i know the pain these people go through. >> sean: horrible. it's terrible. >> because they doubt who they are and they want to separate them from their community. it's not fair because -- this is something that came through your show last night, i was so impressed by it. the idea that there are real ideas out there. that if you're talking about improving the quality of public schools, how can you not be challenging the unions? if you're talking about the drug dealers, instead of talking about the crack cocaine and different sentencing, why don't you talk about the -- >> sean: every, every single solitary -- if you look at campaign that we run and we cover, you see the democratic party that they play the race card. they play rich versus old. they play republicans hate minorities, they hate la titos and blacks. they hate grandma. they want to kill her. they hate sick children. that's what they show in every campaign and i'll show you ads to back it up. >> i remember when george bush was running and he had 40% support coming into the national ra

, he says this budget will shut off the sequester which is of course causing a lot of pain across the country, thomas? >> kristen, thanks so much. as i said the president's phrase, not a lot of smoke and mirrors in here, so we have to look for the smoke and mirrors first of all to figure out exactly where they could b as chris was just mentioning there, kind of building off the last revenue that we got. $580 billion in additional revenue, related to the end of the year tax reform. that is closing the loopholes on the wealthiest americans. and the other thing is saving $230 billion by adjusting the way that social security is calculated. is that the smoke and mirrors part? >> i'm hard pressed to find smoke and mirrors here, it's a much more detailed budget than you have gotten from any other bodies. naturally the president has to write things out line by line. as far as the tax increases you mentioned, $580 billion. remember, there's also $930 billion in that field in spending cuts. so we continue to be in this world that the cults that the democrats, the president's are offering, is by lowering the t

a family christmas tree stood in the corner of thomas' san ramone home for months after the holidays, a painful reminder of very tough times. >> for the first time in my life i didn't celebrate christmas. >> reporter: no celebration because joji thomas and his family faced eviction from the only home they've known since he and his wife moved here from india years ago. >> they should not do this. >> reporter: in 2011 thomas' mortgaged payment double d and the bank of america representative told him to pay the higher amount. you did everything they asked you to do? >> yes. >> reporter: you believe you complied with everything they required? >> yes. >> reporter: but because thomas believed he was being overcharged he stopped making payments for several months and his home went into default. then to make up the difference, thomas paid a lump sum of nearly $28,000, an amount he says he believed he was supposed to pay, an amount found on three different mortgage reinstatement statements sent to him by his bank. thomas says one bank of america representative told him the bank got his cashier's check b

pain. to hear more of terry's story, visit lyrica.com. >>> good morning, everyone, i'm thomas roberts.ning all at once today in washington, from the white house to the capitol, the next hour is going to be nonstop. first happening any moment from now, president obama will formally unveil his budget, a budget that's already getting heat from republicans in the house and the senate. >> this budget simply does not represent some grand pivot from the left to center. it's really just a pivot from left to left. i mean, if these reports we're seeing are correct. why don't we find the common ground that we do have and move on them. the president got his tax hikes in january and we don't need to be raising taxes on the american people. >> here's the president's opening officer, $3.7 trillion in spending, $1.8 trillion in saving. senators pat toomey and joe manchin will -- we start with the president from the rose garden on his unveiling of the budget. let's listen in. >> good morning, everybody. please, please have a seat.

pain stakingly done by the teams on the scene. >> and what you've seen from the explosions and we've had this report from pierre thomas of two portable devices according to federal law enforcement officials, what does that tell you about what might have happened here? >> from what i could see in the video, i haven't had a clear view of the exact location, but the device if placed up against the building, the building enhanced the blast by pushing it out towards the crowd that was facing the runners. it appears to me that from the smoke and fireball that it may have been either smokeless powder or black powder as the explosive filler. >> and then so you're saying it was most likely outside the store and then the concussion would bounce off. >> yes. the explosive effects, the energy would the first thing it would do is hit the solid building behind the crowd and then it would force it to bounce over that wall and go in the opposite direction. >> and we've heard from brad garrett that perhaps this wasn't a bomb designed to maximize casualties. clearly dozens have been injured and two dead as well. anything you can tell about the power f

pain and stop further joint damage. >> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. it is 4:28. hope you had agreat week. i am kristen >> i am eric thomasthe check on the weather forecast. not asking for fashion advise but short sleeves okay? >> i think so, why not? you talked to kristen about it and i will talk about the radar and live doppler 7 hd and how quiet it is. as far as what is going on our temperatures are running around 49 in san francisco to at in oakland and 59 in hayward. as far as what will happen as we head to the afternoon hours, record highs are possible. 84 to 90 inland. 78 to 88 around the bay. 62 to 68 at the coast. >> good morning, at 4:28. a happy earth day to everyone. if you are looking to reduce your footprint, mass transit is running on time. we do not have delays on bart or caltrain or muni. if that is not an option and you need to car pool, the drive to ng 280.e is nas we do not see too many headlights, and as we look at maze and the east bay the drive along westbound 80 is moving smoothly and accident-fry. a moment of silence is observed at 11:50 when the first of two bombs went off at the boston marathon.

pain and stop further joint damage. >> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> a very good wednesday morning. i am katie marzullo here for kristen sze. >> i am eric thomasmike nicco here with more on that. >> live doppler 7 hd, everyone, shows unlike this time tomorrow it is showing dry weather. we have fog out there. patchy fog. it is dense. napa is quarter-mile visibility. three quarters in novato and saratoga. 101 through north bay will be foggy and fog at the coast. low clouds give way to mid-and-upper level clouds but it will be warmer today with mid-60's to mid-70's in the bay and upper 70's inland and mid-50's at the coast. good morning, leyla gulen. >> as we look at the drive headed into downtown san jose, the 87 northbound is empty with just a few headlights, the off-ramp is looking clear. at walnut creek, also looking great moving in the southbound direction and headed 224 we have a little bit of construction at livermore moving into the eastbound direction so it is going against traffic but causing a little bit of slowing eastbound 580 to livermore avenue. katie and eric? >> new this morning, caltran will reinspect hundreds of parts of the sp

the first documentary and has remained in touch ever since in thomas's deciding to take his own life. he said he cannot deal with the painas failed and he is in terrible pain and had a tremendous will to live but the pain has worn him down and feel that many soldiers find themselves in the situation. the terrific numbers of suicide we see today of soldiers coming back is like one per day and put that together we talk by still find this hard to believe 18 people per day but thomas young has announced he will take his own life in the next few months. i said would there be anything that would deter you? what if you could deal with the pain? he said that would be different. his is a story that everyone should know and just talking about activism and what it means to save know which is a brave and active staying staying, earlier in the discussion we talked about the little rock nine we just passed the 100th anniversary of rosa parks. is instructive to know her story because the media has done a story wrong as well. when she died 2005 everyone knows the basic data -- online but we raced down to washington because she was the f

pain stakingly done by the teams on the scene. >> and what you've seen from the explosions and we've had this report from pierre thomas of two portable devices according to federal law enforcement officials, what does that tell you about what might have happened here? >> from what i could see in the video, i haven't had a clear view of the exact location, but the device if placed up against the building, the building enhanced the blast by pushing it out towards the crowd that was facing the runners. it appears to me that from the smoke and fireball that it may have been either smokeless powder or black powder as the explosive filler. >> and then so you're saying it was most likely outside the store and then the concussion would bounce off. >> yes. the explosive effects, the energy would the first thing it would do is hit the solid building behind the crowd and then it would force it to bounce over that wall and go in the opposite direction. >> and we've heard from brad garrett that perhaps this wasn't a bomb designed to maximize casualties. clearly dozens have been injured and two dead as well. anything you can tell about the power f

and thomas is deciding whether to take his own life. he says that he cannot deal with the pain he feels the veterans amanagers, the va hospital, has failed him. he's in terrible pain. he had a tremendous will to live, but the pain has worn him down. and i fear that many soldiers find themselves in the situation, i mean, the horrific numbers of suicide we see today with soldiers coming home from iraq and afghanistan, almost like one a day, and the number if you put that together with all veterans in the united states, we're talking, i mean, i still find this hard to believe, 18 people a day? um, but thomas young is, has announced that he will take his own life in the next few months. i said is there anything that would deter you from this? what if you could deal with the pain? what if -- and he said, well, that would be different. but his is a story that everyone should know. and, you know, just talking about activism and what it means to say no, which is also a very brave act of saying yes. earlier in this discussion i talked about the little rock nine, but we've also just pass

pain. and may he who is the prince of peace bring peace to our souls and to our community. and may almighty god bless america.3 c3 bendiciÓn. >>> mayor thomasof the city of boston, someone who had just suffered a severe broken leg and was actually in the hospital just weekend and before these bombings took place is making his way to the podium. he's one of several dignitaries we expect to hear from this morning as well as president obama who is in the front row. we'll hear from massachusetts governor, deval patrick and many others of the safe community in boston, a town that has been hit right in the heart in every sense of the phrase by this terrible attack. mayor tom menino. >>> morning. it is a good morning. because we are together. we are one boston. no adversity, no challenge, nothing can tear down the resilience of the heart of the city and its people. it is written that hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins. as the clock struck that fate full hour, love has covered this resilient city. i have never loved it and its people more than i do today. we have never loved it more than we do today. we love the brave ones who felt th