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ta marvin here on the news you need to know this the biggest threat to the
entire global economy
is the republican party
those are my words though the words of australia's deputy prime minister wayne
swine
who called out what he called the cranks and crazies who have taken over the
republican party
speaking it'd business formed a swan said
let's be blunt an acknowledged the biggest threat to the world's biggest
economy are the cranks in crazies that have taken over the republican party
end quote
astray as prime minister julia jal ard
supported her deputies statement saying
what happens in the u_s_ economy matters to the world economy and that matters to
office
wayne swan was making a very common sense point
are mainstream media today is trying to best to turn this election into a horse
race for the rest of the world the republican party is a joke
an even more than that the republican party is dangerous
pushy needed amich philosophy that is already turning europe into an economic
wasteland f inactive here would be the death blow to the entire global economy
but that's not to say the republican party is economically suicidal
they know their agenda will enrich the lives of a very small group of wealthy
elite who belong to transnational corporations the very top one percent
truth is if the letters actually went to the polls and vote in for their own
economic interests
and the ronnie wouldn't get fifty three percent of the voter fifty one percent
of the voter even forty seven percent of the vote
you get one percent of
in screwed is when they're on the criticize forty seven percent of the
nation for not paying
their fair share in taxes because numbers rock
chick right creature to criticize the top one percent
a new study by the institute for taxation and economic policy shows that
in all fifty states the richest one percent are taxed at lower rates been
low income people
as the report states quote
nearly every state local tax system takes a much greater share of income for
middle and low-income families than from the wealthy unquote
for example in florida the top one percent pays
just an average tax rate of two point one percent
allah bottom twenty percent pays over thirteen percent in taxes
in texas the top one percent paste three percent in taxes
well about a twenty percent pays more than
twelve percent in taxes now is a six sala rating wealth inequality
so also a big reason why states are facing budget deficits
is a report further says quote
it's no wonder that so many states with regressive tax structures are facing
long-term structural budget deficits are continually imposing higher taxes on
people we don't have much money
and quote
reaganomics thirty two years after his put in place is today a complete
if we're to save the american middle class and fix our debt problem at the
same time and we must
the rich
in the best of the rest of it is the american dream hinges on organized labor
at second clusion of a new study by the center for american progress looking a
data from the pew research center
study looked at unionization rates with in states and found the states with the
highest percentage of unionized workers also have the highest rates of economic
mobility as ian the chances of someone was born into a middle class can work
their way into the upper class
been able to come from nothing and live a successful life is the basis of the
american dream
unfortunately as is now lives behind the rest of the developed world when it
comes to economic mobility
today more than two-thirds of americans born in the bottom fifth income bracket
will stay in that bottom tooth is income brackets their entire lives
a lot of that has to do with a thirty two year war against organized labor it
started with ronald reagan
study concludes by showing that just a ten percent boosting unionized workers
in an average state
would increase economic mobility by four percent
staggering democracy back to the workplace three unions
and give workers a shot at what they've been promised
shot at the american dream
basel public unsworn which on hearings on the so-called threat of muslim
extremism within the united states
democrats the senator focusing on
actual threats
during a senate judiciary hearing on wednesday security analyst darrell
johnson testified at the united states is devoting too much attention the
moslem extremist
and not enough to domestic a right wing extremism
as johnson said quote the threat from domestic terrorism motivated by
extremist ideologies is often dismissed an overlooked in the national media and
within the u_s_ government
it we are currently seen upsurge in domestic non islamic extremist activity
specifically from violent rightwing extremists
johnson showed the since nine eleven muslim extremists carried out five
attacks in the u_s_ killing seventeen people
however just since two thousand eight rightwing extremists of carried out
several it executed killing sixteen people
sixteen police officers actually in morning twenty seven others
plus the recent tax on abortion doctors and worshipers of the sikh temple in
wisconsin
as for the rest of the islamic bogeyman
answer focusing on the actual threats to our nation's security right wing crazies
and finally elizabeth warning scott brown faced off in their first debate on
thursday night with a massachusetts senate seat up for grabs
balls girly show a dead heat between the two candidates
of brown tried to paint warren as an extremist affiliated with the occupy
movement
warn fired back with specifics
about brown's voting record proving that he's out of touch with working people in
women
warren pointed out bronze defensive billions of dollars in tax subsidies for
well corporations
and his defense of tax breaks for the top two percent
at the expense of middle class
kelso hammered brown in his opposition equal pay for equal work for women and
support for legislation that would have a lot of health insurers to drop
coverage for contraceptives for women
the senate race massachusetts is one of the most crucial the selection
a win for elizabeth warren would be of
big win for progressives
and that's the way it is today friday september twenty first twenty twelve
on tom harbin