into -- and that sent us back into an economic depression. this thyme it's not world war ii to rescue our economy. it's interesting to know home oil and higher education for the returning gi's and infrastructure investments and state highway system and the like created a permanent middle class after the war that lasted for two generations, but the middle class has never been more threatened than it has today, and this will consign it to stay in the same condition that we find it today, and it's not because we're a poor country. our largest cooperations have record profits. the top managers make more than a billion a year and have $2 trillion in cash. >> [inaudible] >> thank you. mr. chairman, the point is i understand that this train is leaving the station, but it's going in the wrong direction. we need to be investing in this country, not taking away the resources which enable it to grow and help the poor and especially those striving to be in the middle class, to achieve middle class through education training and infrastructure investment.

hits a breaking point here in the united states it may be a part of the revolution or it may set us back in the wake of our credit downgrade and at the dawn of our double dip recession it's imperative that well informed paid for it's the effort now to get the message out about who the real culprits are in the war against the people government itself ascension the violence the robbery and injustices that are plaguing our world and it's the government and must be held accountable and it must be don't peacefully with reason and intelligence and as always love. so all journalists the world over drool over fires in london blood in syria is still under reported and they give twenty four hour stream a news internet feed social media flash mobs it's going to get harder for the world to ignore the brand of classical terry that syrian president bashar al assad has been doling out with his crackdown on peaceful protesters there is news out of the guardian is reporting that the assad regime is facing a chorus of condemnations from turkey india brazil and south africa as they press for the regime to

it takes us back many years earlier. you already have a very low baseline and we're going to cut 15% more out of the core programs supporting the success of our working families, supporting the success of our smallest children, supporting the success of our college-bound children. this is not the path that builds a stronger america. the third factor is that while our children in head start and our children headed for college and our citizens seeking job training are going to take these blows, the wealthy and well-connected don't contribute one slim dime. some of my colleagues have argued, well, you know what? there are some of those programs invented in the tax code that actually help the middle class. my colleague from utah was just making that argument. so don't touch any of those programs. well, if we take that same attitude towards our spending programs, we'd say some benefit the middle class, don't touch any of those programs. obviously it is an absurd argument. why is it made on the revenue side but not the program

in just a second we have with us jeff czeslaw schussel this is me the historian and author of this brilliant book supreme power we'll be back right after this break. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through it's already been made who can you trust no one who is in view with a global mission or a region where we had a state controlled capitalism is called sasha's when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more. welcome back to conversations in the great minds i'm joined by jeff schussel author historian speechwriter communications strategist and self described lapsed cartoonist his newest book supreme power franklin roosevelt versus the supreme court chronicles franklin roosevelt's fierce standoff with the supreme court so let's get back to that. this was coming to a head in one nine hundred thirty five thirty six roosevelt's reelected in what they thought might be a squeaker election some of the polls indicated that thirty six but it was a landslide he's got the house and senate the senate he's got the people the new deal is dropped unemployment from twenty five p

to nineteen twenty five they have take us back to the thirty five courts striking a. minimum wage law as unconstitutional was you probably know there's a movement of of legal thinkers on the right to call themselves the constitution in exile movement and they believe that the moment the constitution went to exile was right here in one nine hundred thirty seven when justice roberts which yes and would it be ironic if another justice roberts were reflect that. you talk also about how justice roberts that era as justice roberts started ruling with roosevelt because the politics of the earth so affected you know we now have a couple of justices justice. thomas whose wife is very involved in politics and justice scalia is has participated in fact the two of them just created several called brother funded events. is there a precedent is there a history of supreme court justices not just being partisan i know some of them come out of the senate for example things like that but actually be participating in activist types of abounds and if so does that happen on both conservat

it's gotten us back on track.verything, like isn't that the... >> i don't think that's exactly what happened. if the stimulus was what worked, why would the next step be the opposite to the stimulus? >> i would say two things about that. one, the design, the recovery act, why we had to rely on the government is the private sector is in freefall. you couldn't say, ah, we're going to pass a tax credit, try to get the private sector to lead the recovery in the spring of 2009 everything is going down the tubes. we're just trying to prevent a depression. >> okay. >> now, if you look at this debt deal, we have to address long-run fiscal imbalances in the country, and this is a substantial cut to the deficit. >> jon: i saw the chart. >> well, we'll disagree. >> jon: are you questioning my parallelogram? >> i'll give you that. look, $2 trillion is... i don't think there's ever been a bigger cut to the deficit than that. something like 1/1,000th of the money is in the year 2012, and that's by design. if you're going to go

this is another way for us to give back to our community that treats us very well. i like the way they take you around to get you started. that's nice. they let you go and thoser the different things you need. >> are you with a program, now? >> i was a long time -- >> you want a job search? >> career planning [inaudible]. you are interested in getting into the trades? and that is where they will double check your trading skills you got and put you on a crew and you can do construction work or any kind of construction. >> okay. >> good. are you receiving food stamps? >> no. >> not medical or nothing. >> no. >> we got to get you hooked up. >> this the department of human searchss this is the benefit's section much the beauty on coming here today is that we brought all of our requirements to this place, this station. the assessment. the orientation, we have the screening propose, the finger imaging this helps people who are unable to tolerate going to different appointments on several days. >> i want to talk to people from housing and shelter. there are several jobs i

two systems of peaceful cooperation and true freedom modern governments are now not just holding us back by keeping us locked in the systems based on coercion and central planning but they are now all over the world violently impeding our ability to move humanity forward. so on behalf of the people of the world who are standing up for freedom and those who wish to stand with us i hereby declare war on our governments in this war there may be justified violence in self defense but we the people will win this war and we will do it without firing a shot this is a truth war because modern governments only exist with the separate in the big lie of modern government is that we need it and we cannot hospitably address the big issues of life without giving up a piece of our autonomy and we can give up on peaceful cooperation but we can't and we want and the promise of the internet is that we will use it to render the necessary evil of government unnecessary by discovering ways to achieve all of the things we have been convinced we need government for with the free trade of ideas passions and of

actually has with us to through the house of representatives that cut subsidies to corporations that are shipping jobs overseas and gave tax incentives to companies that bring the factories back to the united states the republicans filibustered at the united states senate so these are not factories these would be manufactory use where a partial assembly and so we had ten percent of the factory david i mean what you know what why don't people down factor we've had forty seven thousand factories be shut down in the face in the last ten years of products and it is a fact it's a consequence of insane. why don't we go back to the plate alice who has the tendency to tell you one hundred ninety six. well because in today's economy protectionism that you're calling for wall it may be very tempting particularly to people who are looking for a facile answer to a complex problem has negative pejorative consequences but however by driving a hard bargain something that this administration seems incapable of doing we can as i said put a dent in our extraordinarily high unemployment problem we can fill our tax coffers and think about those individuals who would be returning to work what wou

to premature focus on deficit reduction could slow growth and increase unemployment and could push us back into recession the letter goes on then to highlight a lesson learned from the great depression reading us history suggests that a tenuous recovery is no time to practice austerity in the great depression franklin roosevelt's new deal generated growth and reduce the unemployment rate from twenty five percent nine hundred thirty two to less than ten percent nine hundred thirty seven however the deficit hawks of that era persuaded president roosevelt to reverse course prematurely and move toward a balanced budget the result was a severe recession that caused the economy to contract sharply and set the unemployed and unemployment rates soaring only the much larger worktime spending in the early one nine hundred forty s. produced a full recovery so as president obama fallen into the same trap and embraced us there staring too soon at the risk of our economic recovery and if so what needs to be done to put us back on track bob bought joins me now he's the executive director of the industria

now live within your means that's all that's just what they told us back then with no idea at all about our economic and social situation at the time that was a nine hundred ninety two when we began one part of the government began to listen to their advice after russia joined the i.m.f. that year later they wrote on the famous stiglitz a nobel laureate and former economic advisor to clinton was among them but they were doing everything wrong what they were telling us was all wrong. if we think about the ability to live within one's means who's got read that russia back then or today's usa. well you have heard you say the u.s.s.r. was living on credit of course but it was sold and other states were eager to give credits the u.s. the last hour wasn't doing it directly but through european affiliates they all knew after all that the soviet economy was under control and the country would pay its debts sooner or later even without high oil prices that's why they were eager to give credit to the us us or especially to finance the purchase of high tech goods to be supplied to the soviet marke

if they are paying taxes, the treasury -- the best way to get us back in the black is to get america back to work. tavis: how is your focus on the super committee at deficit- reduction helping the jobs deficit that we have right now? >> you can make sure that you target the right things to get the economy going again. many of us do not believe that the way you get jobs back and the way you get the deficits reduced is to make devastating cuts to services right now. what you do is you -- we have already done $900 billion worth of cuts already. you do not do it where you were shaking off the bone. you make its strategic said that what you can do is repair roads and bridges. get the schools back in order. some good american jobs to be credited you get that school retrofitted again. the soldier never eats the meal. it is silly. we can do -- there should not be a 1500 millionaires in america that pay no taxes. we could do a number of things that get the deficit going back down and american jobs back up. tavis: to your point about these strategic cuts. there are some who are suggesting that

. >> the only thing holding us back is the politics. no reason why we shouldn't put americans back to work all across the country, rebuilding america. we need roads and bridges and schools all across the country that could be rebuilt. all those folks who got laid off from construction because the economy went south or the housing bubble burst, they're dying for work. >> okay. there are the words. is he going to build? howard, do you have confidence? you're a loyalist largely, right? do you have confidence as a reporter studying this, that he's going to come out with something that's box office, it's going to be big, and people will say finally. >> no, and the reason i don't, he has to do two things. he has to be both really specific and vivid about the projects, but also give people a sense that he's got a theory about how this whole thing is going to work. when he gives that speech in spept, it's going to be one speech about two different things. one will be about job creation. the other will be about the deficit plan. he has to show th

for more on the markets and what can be done to get us back on track. we turn to "new york times" columnist, co-anchor of cnbc's squawk box, andrew sorkin. the dow down 634 points yesterday, politicians at home, you heard some of the republican presidential candidates linking it directly to the downgrade. but the problem obviously much bigger than that. what's at the root of this? >> take a deep breath. i had a conversation yesterday with hank paulson, a former treasury secretary, who knows a thing or two about financial crisis and we discussed this. as much as the downgrade seems like the problem, it's not clear that that's it. it's exacerbating the bigger problem, which is what you talked about earlier, which is europe. and the possibility that that creates some form of contagion. as you said, this idea that all of these countries, spain, italy, greece, they're all like banks that are insolvent. and how do you find enough money to put it together to save these banks? and there isn't a hank paulson or a one institution that can almost unilaterally do t

that brings us back to prevention. >> as things get worse we're going to be do locking gas caps. once you lock it, they can't spin it out. >> depending on the car locking gas cap goes as much from $15 to $50. >>> now if you knew instantly how much gas you were using or how many pollutants were spewing in the air, would you change your driving habits? laura anthony has the story. >>> u.c. berkeley researcher elliott martin is using a gps device to get realtime information in how he is driving. >> that is going to change people's may have. >> it shows how much gas he is using and whether his car is emitted go too many pollutants. >> you don't want to brake too fast. >> it's called eco driving. the device martin says is a eco navigate are that has an office in redwood city. >> there is display that has show the driver how much gas they are could consuming and how much carbon they are emitting and also a score card that gives you a score as to how you your driving compares to either other drivers of the same car or perhaps a fleet wide rating. >> when it comes to fuel economy it's no

be smells that for the love of god i may not want to smell that. >> reporter: aromascope is not used back used in 2003. since then hollywood has introduced motion seats and of course 3d all to increase ticket sales. spy kids direct on or about robert rodriguez says moves now a days are too passive. during testing viewers wanted stinky smells so he included diapers. did the smell help make the movie better? >> yea >> did it help you enjoy the movie more? >> not really. it was okay now. >> reporter: for parents watching d.v.d.s at home just doesn't compare. it was free this time around but would you pay extra money for this? >> i wouldn't but maybe kids would. >> reporter: and so the smell cards here come with every single movie ticket regardless of whether you see the 2d or 3d version. and the best part of this aromascope for now is free. back to you. >> thank you, kiet do. >>> a popular animal shelter threatened with closure has received money that it needs but the reprieve may just be temporary. >> reporter: every year they save hundreds of animals from euthanasia. >> we were getting don

>> we want to leverage our newest technologies to get us back to some of our oldest values which is letting voter participate in a meaningful way in a primary. [cheers and applause] are you on the ballot in all 50 states? >> we're going to be on the ballot in 50. >> stephen: every state you have to come up with a petition or something like that? >> every state has different ballot access laws. we're jumping over the hurdles as they come. we've had great success. of the 2.9 million signatures we need we gathered two million and we submitted 1.6 million in california which will makes it the largest petition gathering in the history after this state and we're pretty sure the history of the country. >> stephen: if you get to 2.9 you get in all 50 states? do you have to get them in every state? >> you have to go state by state and get them. it's a political innovation. this is the first time that ballot access will have been achieved for a candidate to be directly nominated by the american people. that has never happened before. >>. we want people to get involved, come to americanselect.org supp

back a few years. during his 2008 campaign, candidate obama used the green screen strategy, like television weather personsnd in front of a green screen back drop so they can appear on screen in front of an array of maps, then obama used his background as a kind of green screen. he encouraged many different kinds of americans, black, white, immigrant, male, female, to see him but project their own identities on to his story. it's very different for his wife, michelle obama, michelle had no green screen. her's is a far more familiar black american story rooted in a family that experienced slavery, jim crow, the great migration. as a result, in the early days of campaigning, it was easier for mainstream america, including some conservative black commentators to understand michelle obama using common stereotypes about black women. hence the angry black woman image given to her in this "new yorker" cover after michelle obama found a new-found pride in her country. eventually michelle obama was able to win over a majority of americans with her connection to mothers, military families, even her sense of style. i

. >> they won't let us back in. you have to have a reentry pass. >> reporter: with power out to 800,000 homes in maryland and more than half a million in north carolina and pennsylvania, many people are not being allowed home. the feds expect second-guessing. >> a lot of people say why did i have to evacuate. >> reporter: the 3,000 plus evacuated in new york city were allowed back and the mayor defended the city's first ever forced evacuations. >> all in all we're in pretty good shape because of the exhaustive steps we took to prepare for whatever came our way. >> reporter: president obama tonight praised the coordinated storm response. >> as i've told governors and mayors across the affected area, if they need something, i want to know about it. we will make sure we respond as quickly and effectively as possible. >> reporter: the whole east coast is in pretty good shape after a three-day assault by hurricane irene. >> that was steve handelsman reporting. here in northern california, thousands of airline passengers

every time i go to a murder, crime scene, police, firefighters keep us back, us reporters back a certainmount. but the things that you have to see on a medical level, you run into crime scenes as well. how do you deal with it? are you trained properly on that? >> we're trained properly, but no one is trained properly to see something horrific. no one is. the first responders support network helps firefighters when they are in crisis. we suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder, stress, and we found there are services out there. so all we have to do is reach out, ask for help, because we're also out there helping people. we never ask for help for ourselves. >> right. there's the culture. you're the tough guys, too. you don't want to do that, but really this opens things up a little bit more. >> absolutely. >>> let's talk about the event. this is going on september 11. how can people sign up? >> you can sign up by going to the website, www.sf9/11mse.com. >> we'll have a link to that at cbssf.com. >> great, and it is important for people that register are uniformed personnel and they need

that's what's holding us back, the fact that some in congress would rather see their opponents lose than see america win. >> kelly: but republican senator pat toomey disagrees and says the president's own politics and holding things back. >> a big part of the policy has been job killing regulations. every day small businesses owners and entrepreneurs are bo bomb-- bombarded from hiring additional workers, with so many burdens and threats of new obstacles in the future it's not hard to understand why job creators are leery of assuming the risks and costs that come with starting a new business or expand in an existing company. >> kelly: appointing a super committee charged with coming up with recommendations to cut the debt. >> jamie: they've got bagpipes, they've got barbecued, even bouncing castles. the iowa straw poll candidates are pulling out the stops. if you go, you can sample it all. they just want to get voters in their tents and as many as they can, ron paul has an inflatable slide. herman cain, ceo godfather's pizza, free pizza and mid day jam sessions and many wonder which of t

us was all wrong. with it we think about the ability to live within one's means who's better at that russia back than or today's usa. you see the u.s.s.r. was living on credit of course but it was solvent and other states were eager to give credit even the us build a lot it wasn't doing it directly through european affiliates they all knew after all that the soviet economy was under control and that because he would pay its debts sooner or later even without high oil prices that's why they were eager to give credit to the u.s.s.r. especially to finance the purchase of high tech goods to be supplied to the soviet market in fact is go but after nine hundred thirty two a time of crisis for the us america wouldn't sell the u.s.s.r. complete production facilities like a car planted told ya he or chemical plants of which the u.s.s.r. had brought for four billion dollars worth and which had played their part in its technical progress but anyway this all unions credit rating was quite high it has been easy for the us to take credit because of the entire system that's been built up since nine hundred forty five

power outages and i don't know what to believe. >> charlie jones in north carolina. >> pay won't let us back in. you have to have a reenter pass. >> power out in maryland and half a million in north carolina and pennsylvania. many are not being allowed home. the feds expect second-guessing. >> yes, there is a lot of people saying why do i have to evacuate. >> the 300,000 plus were allowed back and the mayor defended the city's first ever forced evacuation. >> all in all, we are in good shape. the steps that we took to prepare for whatever came our way. >> president obama praised the coordinated storm response. >> as i told governors and mayors across the affected areas, if they need something,y want to know about it. we will make sure we respond as quickly and effectively as possible. >> the whole east coast is in good shape after a three-day assault by hurricane irene. the main danger remaining from irene is her torrential rains. rivers that are still rising, diane, and floods could get worse. >> absolutely. thanks, steve. we are hearing that tomorrow's commute in new york city can be chall

back to domestic matters and reports have resurfaced that strike us some you also could be on his way to angie in the russian probably late into have confirmed they are in korean air it talks about the possible transfer that's thirteen the cameron striker would become the world's highest earning player taking home a reported fee of seventeen million euros a year while on monday two more experienced stars were also linked with moves to the dockers down side arsenal ringer andrei arshavin is also thirty pounds twenty eight year olds a need for what's done for last a bit closer since as the transfer talk is nothing but speculation however he did sign a brazil world cup legends about the columns in february and eurasia pull from chelsea last week and these that are that qualified support from his russian teammates. doesn't from the international presence of this is football and any clear could find himself in a situation like this when he joins another club on very good terms the all of us are very happy for your is your call and it's not a likely that some of his nearest friends will als

taking us back a decade or more.y have refused to move forward unless these fair union rules are eviscerated. and they've run out of town. the amazing thing about this, deficits. people who said they this is costing the u.s. treasury some $35 million a day. clearly as other people said today, they hate deficits, and they hate workers worse. >> right. well, republicans are blaming the senate for not passing the house funding bill. if the senate doesn't pass the bill, if they don't agree on the amendments, why don't they just pass a temporary funding measure that will fill in the gaps? >> this has been proposed, reid, schumer, they've all been out there over the last few days saying, we're prepared to make contentions on the regional airport part of it, for example. somehow the democrats are getting blamed for saying, stop beating up on us, stop having these additional requirements. it's like the wife being blamed when she says, wait a minute, you can't keep beating me like this, i'm not going to do what you say. democ

they want to take us back, but we are not going back. we have come too far enough to stop.e have come too far to turn around. a few days ago in atlanta, ga., just a few weeks ago, we had a job fair. we thought maybe 500 or six other people would show up, but between 5000 people and 6000 people showed up. our people want to work. they won dignity. they want to work, and they must be put to work and we must create jobs, and we must get this president and congress to spend millions of dollars to put people back to work. we must demand that. i think at this point in the civil rights movement and the labor movement, maybe a few places like wisconsin, i think they are too quiet. we need to make some noise. when i was growing up in rural alabama, the signs that said white men, white men, colored women, white ladies, colored glaze, and i would ask my mother and father and my grandparents, "why segregation? why racism? " they said, it "that is the way it is. do not get in trouble." one day, i heard martin luther king on the radio, and i was inspired to get in trouble. it is time for

there is no holding us back. we can strengthen this economy and we can put our nation back to work. we can lead the world in growing industries and we will make it through these economic storms and read calmer waters stronger than we were before. thank you very much, everybody. [applause] [applause] [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> watch more video of the candidates and see what political reporters are safe and track the latest campaign contributions would cspan's web site 4 camp in 2012, easy-to- use, it helps you navigate the political landscape with twitter feet and updates from the campaign trail and links to cspan media partners in the earlier -- early primary and caucus states and c-span.org/ campaign 2012. cspan is covering the gop presidential candidates at the iowa state fair this weekend. the first baker was -- first speaker was meant running. after his speech, he was asked about the future of social security and medicare. he is introduced by carol hunter. [applause] >> good to be here. >> good morning, everyone and welcome to the des moines register soapbox

those of us with opportunities have to give back. rt of that entails taking care of the most important among us, the folks who have need, including our homeless. >> let's talk about the transportation situation in your district. you mentioned that transit could be better. how is parking and traffic? is there enough muni service now? >> you are talking to the one member of the board that does not only car. i get around my district by muni, bicycle, or hailing a cab. our transit system is truly challenge. our bosses are late one out of four times. -- our buses are late one out of a quarter times. they're still not as clean and safe as we'd like. we can do better and investing in our muni system. we need more taxicabs on the streets. is difficult to obtain a cab. i support the concept of centralized taxi dispatch systems so you know who you can call to get a cab. i am a big believer in pedestrian bicycling as options to get around town. many cities in the world have far more people working or on bicycles into blocking or on bicycles. the

back in february 2010, the commission approved the use of 50% of the available balance in the open space fund could it's a reserve to fund managed projects have the commission approve the ongoing use of the 50% annual allocation of this research in future fiscal years. so for the year just completed, fy10-11, you approved a list of projects that total $2.2 million, estimated cost in contingency. a progress status report of those deferred maintenance projects that you approve are in attachment a of your package. with your concurrence, i will brief you walkway through these projects to see where we are at the moment with the deferred. there are 12 projects. china's playground is complete. there was a bit of a cost increase due to a waterproofing of the roof which also serves as an outdoor court. that is now complete and open to the public. the park slope stabilization is almost complete. that has also incurred a bit more money than allocated, but that was taken out of the contingency. the pool planning is complete. . that will begin once the poll closes for its annual maintenance. roof wor

at work, hopefully they'll pay us back. there's no guarantee of that. our secretary of transportation, ray lahood, is doing a great job of pushing our issue. but we're still not getting paid. and the silliness of it is the congressman and senators argued and gnashed their teeth and carried on about saving a few hundred million dollars, or hundred billion dollars, and then they lose 1.2 in the first month. >> sure. look, one of the things we've been hearing is that the secretary said that he didn't think that safety was being compromised here. and yet i can't help but wonder, if this drags on and on, it's, as they often say about airline problems, it's a series of small mistakes that add up into a big problem. and some things not being attended to by you being here and all these other people being here instead of on the job. >> well, there's a lot of that. a lot of the engineers' projects are falling behind. it's going to cost us a lot of money to get them restarted. there's a lot of new stuff that we're not getting built.

the only thing keeping us back is our politics.nly thing preventing these bills from being passed is the refusal of some folks in congress to put country ahead of party. there's some in congress right now who would rather see their opponents lose than see h america win. that has to stop. it has got to stop. we are all supposed to be on the same team. especially when we are going through tough times. we can't afford the play games.

. >> the only thing keeping us back is our politics. the only thing preventing these bills from being passed is the refusal of some folks in congress, to put country ahead of party. there is some in con gresz right now who would rather see their opponent lose than see america win. and that has to stop. >> it has to stop. we've been one that brinkmanship has to stop. but of course, for republicans, it never does. speaker boehner released this statement following the president's speech. quote, president obama likes to talk about being the adult in the room. but there's nothing adult about political grand standing. and partisan rhetoric doesn't stop there. just listen to senator jim demint. >> it has been the most anti-business and i consider anti-american administration of of my lifetime of things that are just so to the principles of freedom and everything he has come up with, centralizes more power in washington, creating more socialist style collective policy. so this president is doing something that is so far out of realm of anything

and hidden in a back room, the superindenent shows us what's waiting for every student. every one of these backpacks has a laptop? >> correct. >> reporter: for every student? >> every student. >> reporter: and then, the moment. the students getting their donated bags and logging onto their brand new laptops. the generosity, big and small here. those notes, pinned to hand sewn outfits sent here for the little ones. from oklahoma to texas to new york. "to a special girl. i hope you enjoy wearing this outfit as much as i enjoyed making it." this teacher's heart overflowing. it is everwhelming? >> overwhelming, oh, my gosh, yeah. and you know, it just keeps coming. amazing. >> reporter: and since our first reports here when that tornado hit, we haven't been able to shake the story of that little boy on roland avenue. we went back to that home -- this is where the tub was right here. his mother told us back then of her 9-year-old boy, knowing to put his bike helmet on before jumping into the tub. the tornado ripped the toilet from the floor, hitting the boy in the head. but h

us was all wrong. if we think about the ability to leave within one's means who's better at that russia back than or today's usa. you see the u.s.s.r. was living on credit of course but it was solvent and other states were eager to give credit even the us though the latter wasn't doing it directly but through european affiliates they all knew after all that the soviet economy was under control and that the country would pay its debts sooner or later even without high oil prices that's why they were eager to give credit to the u.s.s.r. especially to finance the purchase of high tech goods to be supplied to the soviet market it has been easy for the us to take credit because of the entire system that's been built up since one thousand nine hundred five when the i.m.f. was being set up there was a he said dispute between the u.k. and the us of course the british had to back off because their economy had been greatly damaged by the war that later led to the devaluation of the pound some years after the war in fact all of europe was living off the marshall plan back then and that consisted mostly of agricultural