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big-money has captured our government
okay were or all held hostage now finally some people are saying it one of
our guests today is going to talk about it
you're adding instead on msnbc
it's been a creep into the mainstream media a little bit
but the reality is the plate owns the government it does there
determine the number two guy in the center for the democrats said when they
work for proposing some regulations for the banks earlier in the year
he said they still run the place the bank still run the place but i'm not
just refer the banks i'm talking about
you know corporate america with the lobbyists run as a side by corporate
america from anybody who can muster a big money whether it's a special
interest
an i_r_a_
whether it's you know you can if you're on the right you've been rightfully say
unions they have a lot of money in a mess will out of money in politics
whippet any convincingly wealthy people like the waltons family which owns
wal-mart
big single-handedly drove a stake tax issue
they spent millions upon millions of dollars
because when
the republicans are moving estate tax for a short period of time they made
billions out of it
ec they get it it's a smart investment
heating to remember the guy who did the keating five do
its central character the businessman
that basically brian
those senators john mccain was involved although he was a lease above the five
and let me ask eating they said you know
uh... you spend this money on these politicians and uh... did you expect
them to do u favors in return
of course
who what the hell would i spend my money i have i didn't
it's reagan did you mean favors in return
on the business than i expected it return on investment
that paraphrasing here but that's that way when he drove towards an is a great
quote on it you know that i don't have with me
but that's the essence of it meant their investing in politicians
so they wreak huge benefits
from then in terms of government contracts with its defense industry
uh... whether it's lack of regulation in the financial industry with its getting
rid of that tax is a specialist a tax for the waltons analyst goes on a on a
nun in here today
you know we've been talking a lot about health care and
healthcare uh... companies of course of a lot to gain or lose a penny on
legislation so they pour the money etc
and so in the and the politicians
just simply do not represent us the people whether you're a democrat or
republican or independent
bidyut in fact
i feel most sorry for some of the republican some of the concerns in the
country
who think the republicans represent their interest
everyday treating you indicating and for full
what are the banking incurred if she was the best example of that
concern was hate that we give the bailout money to the backs right which
is great to shake that
there's something really
is serious about that
that we took all hard earned money again to the richest people in america
because they screwed up
so i'm on your side on that but here's what we depart when your republican
politicians tell you or no so the best thing to do is leave the banks alone
don't regulate them at all let them make the same mistakes again
now you know why they're doing that isn't as a republican politicians
to get paid a wholly owned subsidiary of those banks
and they're treating you into it
look them
and that's why it i'm
putting this as a
long term goal
find a way
for the politicians the represent the people
and not big money
is big money verses the people
and i don't know if we do it through campaign finance reform i think it's a
really good idea or an interesting idea and something that we should explore
life or he could be simply
uh... that we'd fight big money was small money that we will find a way to
contribute and we've become the biggest special-interest and we say look if you
have a new things or our way we do what they pack an n_r_a_ get what they do is
we've had reporters on here to discuss this
they target sender's single congressmen or senators and save you screw us will
come in to get you
and you can do that if you put together a lot of small daughters
and then we can wield
uh... some parts of the day actually listen up because i'd want it for you
wanted basilica actually listen to people who voted them and whether
they're democrats or republicans
so that's was
one of my promises to denote in the long term i'm gonna fight for that
tooth and nail because we don't do that we're gonna lose the big money
every single issue
now hotbeds second large issue that we had a fight is the media and that's why
bring of the media all the time
if the new
they're supposed to be a wraps and they're supposed to tell you hate our
people playing in within the rules
they're supposed to call the fallows they're supposed to tell you
pays this writers as false true or false teeth et cetera f_d_a_ don't do their
job
and that's not what they're doing
and he said they're calling everything fifty-fifty well then we have a perverse
system that we don't know what's true and false
then the people were misled and then they think as
bigger always always sex
in all three was a great majority of american people but you insects
forty three percent of american people believe that saddam hussein was
personally about the nine eleven
that is euro per cent true but yet the gigantic
portion of america absolutely believe that as a failure of the media now that
is what these example but there are
hundred examples if the media keeps failing you that we can get you the
information you need
india participate in democracy
a true participant
project number to get the media to do their jobs
fit not to be neutral but to be objective
there is any norma staffers
neutrality as and all via calling balls and strikes us as well look
the yankees want me to call balls in the red sox want me to call strikes so no
matter what the pictures i'm call have them balls and have them strikes
well that's right
at this
obviously stupid perversely game
makes the game meaningless
calls the balls and strikes
as they art
that's what the job of the media supposed to be it if they don't do that
it's impossible to get the majority of americans the correct information we're
not asking you to cover our side if somebody's wrongly whether their
progress emeka severance
off course you should pointed out
so those are the two big long-term projects that i want to do on this show
from fear of going for for as long as it takes
you know it's not going to be some there were accomplished
and a couple of months or even a couple years to be honest with you
but we gotta keep going with those goals in mind
so that we can
actually do real democracy in this country