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RIAA we are back Sam Seder on the majority report is the
fun have trademarked and the army arm
I what on the program we're doing a a simulcast
I with the David Pakman show
and the other day but now I
I was under the impression that you're going to interview me and I am also want
to know for stop when we start the server how we found my casting
you're not live well I know that it may be the type a conversation that comes up
in New York YouTube live chat room I know that I hear from people who say
that people
in Sams chat room are incredibly angry that we're not live
and you know i i understand that II
know what's going on we took a a break from our live stream
to up the production value of our show you know yeah okay
I am end you gotta get a.m. you gonna get a
a batter Mike to it sounds like I had to get a louder Mike
well you just and you did you get a lot a bar room ambience
wow I've never heard this before I have to tell you I mean
when big steps that you will hear from Sam yeah look right better I'm a lady
it may be because it may be because we're
simultaneous like a triple simulcast because producer louis mo to comedy from
the David Pakman show
is joining us from Austin Texas Louis are you doing any of your gaming or
stuff like that that might be making noise
I'm quite competent I i've got no noise coming from my room or being picked up
by my microphone I have no idea what's going on
a good night's sleep the BBC's matt bender co producer the majority report
now it is like to say
Louis is coming in much clearer than David Pakman
definitely a car while David in in New York City in
in Manhattan I mean ibis just lots of noise there so that could have something
to do it
I listen %uh but I think it's more like he's living under a bridge
yeah Michael Brooks also from the majority report
Louis sound the restaurant for Boston okay
well I was hoping to kinda talk about the per the problems right now because
alternative media is getting shafted but it sounds like the problem is I'm
getting
I don't have good audio and that that's like a number one problem here
I okay I
yeah well I mean that one up on we could put that on the a neat so well yet what
else we got today
have you been covering this whole this a the whole thing that's going on with
Walmart and McDonalds and how they're all recommending that their employees
donate food each other and get food stands and it completely broken down the
entire
a big corporations are the drivers have the economy and don't need the
government thing
I you know I have been a little bit we talked about the story about
Walmart yesterday yeah up and
its I you know %eh its its
it really is stunning at that you know the the idea that they have to have a
canned food drive at Walmart
are they can also walk out of the employees room where they're having
those bins
and they could walk probably earlier take a left then a right
and then walk into the massive store I'll
other canned goods that they have in every Walmart across the country
I am or they could simply pay their employees more but yeah but I think the
I you know we have seen
the this to me is a a perfect
time are to be talking about increasing the minimum wage
and even at Walmart is paying I it's the
a part-time workers the twelve dollars an hour as they claim across the country
this will create is some upward pressure on wages but yes
obviously this is just one more way in which the the government subsidizes big
corporations
and inputs the the
obviously the the the claim that we made this
that we heard during the the campaign
till I so yeah it's an important story and in in
you know we've we've covered it to a certain extent yeah and then there is
you know piggybacking on that there was the
the McDonalds thing where they have like the mic helpline or call it whatever you
want we're
their employees call up and they say I'm having trouble making ends meet and the
official McDonald position on that
is well here's how you apply for food stamps and here's how you apply for
Medicaid and
and it's just amazing because you the justification for keeping the wages low
is that hate the free market but it's not really because those wages are
subsidized by government programs
yeah I mean this is the you know this is a story that
you know has been ongoing and I am
you know it's II on some level this is what these programs are four
is to the is due to help people know who
who *** you can afford these things have been a you know if anything it's a
very good argument for
things like medicaid and for I'll
the snap abut it also
you know speaks to you know walmart is the biggest employer in the country
and the it speaks to a a a larger story I think Oh
I love be the the be the depressed wages
that most americans the vast majority americans have been dealing with over
the past
sturdy years now so speaking of the
health insurance component were you on this
obama lied about you can keep your plan thinkers on the one hand
it's true that he did not really offer a very nuanced explanation of what that
means
but its salon had an article about it but corporate media has not talked about
the fact that
a lot of those plans that now are being cancelled their plans that insurance
companies continue to offer
after they were already told that those weren't gonna fly once Obamacare is
implemented
they were printed you know people who truly had
plans that were grandfathered in are not having this problem so it's not really
fair to say
that it was a lie is that where do you fall on us
well I mean you know I think it's
its it's arguable I as to whether or not
its ally a it's certainly not a lot higher on the scale love
there are no weapons of mass destruction let's invade and occupy this country and
cause the death serve anywhere from the
200,000 into a 800,000 people
it's not like that now a No and
it you know with that said arm
I i think that the I can understand why
people perceive it as a lie I think we're also
the the amount to I love people
however that were if one does considered a lie were lied to
is this small I and
you know I think part of it is that the insurance companies I
kept offering program plans that they knew were not compliant
but the fact the marriage I just mention this actually on the closer the
firm the before we took the break that you're talking about
ill 17 percent of the people in the non group insurance
a market carry their insurance policies for more than two years
the this is a I
this for the rest of those seventy-three percent
eighty-three percent of people they their policies are cancelled all the
time
right at the differences in this situation is that when your party's
cancelled this time
you're going you're guaranteed to be able to get a new policy which wasn't
the case
I year ago arm and so
the I i think it's its overblown
the part the problem is that the website is not functioning
the exchanges are not functioning on a federal level so people can't really see
what their options are
in a part of it is you know the do the media wants a story
and the it's a slow news time in this is a story to fill that vacuum I think that
you know within three to six months the
much %uh this is going to be largely behind us I'm still
you know not necessarily thrilled with
the mechanism but the back matter is that
part a big part the the Affordable Care Act was the expansion medicaid
and this has been a resounding success
in states across the country that have arm
good exchanges we're also seeing resounding successes
in I am I just had a piece today
in I California they're on track to hit
their aroma targets for 2014 because our love of a huge increase in November
yeah but that rely had that played liberal math that's like i mean you know
it's like they did nobody signing up in everybody's getting their insurance
canceled that's what I'm hearing on Drudge Report
well yeah would you shouldn't be going on Drudge Report
yeah maybe that the solution I mean that's you know this is a
at this is part the story now with all that said
we we have a Gallup poll they came out today I believe
that showed her yesterday that the now 56 percent the population
believe the government should be involved in health care now
this is the this is a failure in
aim in my mind I love the
Obama administration to you I am
to have clearly articulated benefits
that everyone is enjoying now or not only that though sam but it's also a
failure in
if you were to in that question say which by the way
includes medicare VAT kare
and any type of medicaid that is federal then the numbers would be different
because
you how many times did we hear get the government off my medicare. I would go
further
I would say the fact that you can no longer lose your policy
arm after the fact recidivism the fact that you can no longer be denied
a policy because a pre-existing condition yeah
the fact that I you can no longer
max out on a yearly cap were a
lifetime cap even the fact that
there is the guaranteed minimums
all that is government intervention into
the the a health care so yes
a granted the the way that this is framed
I is is you know sir plays on people's ignorance about
a how healthcare works ten health insurance works in this country but
you know that them at the you know
those the cards were dealt with all right we're basically out a time sam but
i wanna get Louis just to even
just just maybe say a little something to you into Michael anthem at because I
know
that you guys are just big fans a Louis a Louis let me let me like to sign up
I'm not necessary I don't don't speak for everyone David
who I please make some kind of his statement to wrap us up I know that
people are waiting
I was just nice to hear from you guys we should do this more often I
I I wish we could you know because video big would be a big plus but that
I think it's important to communicate in this passion weekend
you know kinda help each other out maybe we'll eat some Europe and you get some
of our fans in our work
works for everybody I love it I though the great I
I don't know we are fans R Lewis I don't know where
I there was some like rumor mill future something I really have no idea where
that came from
it was pronounced started by some I somehow fashion online
I got a little that we will have tax
we would love us today old I think everybody is
that was a show stopper i think im gonna have to on that note the
kinda wrap up we've been talking to Sam cedar and Michael Brooks and Matt been
there and of course Louis in Austin Texas and I of course with the worst my
quality today apparently
I but a will do what we can thank sam
I thank you David always a pleasure by Louis CA gas