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and Matt in Chicago Illinois listening on
on their blowtorch the station WCP team at your on their senator centers
yes hello gentlemen our service centers what happens when
the rest of the world when the economy besides we no longer want the US
currency
to be to be the reserve currency in the world what happens to the US dollar in
the US economy
well thank you very much for asking the question mad
and that is why I began the show by saying that the damage done
already is irreparable
because there are more and more people all over the world who are looking at
the united states and saying no you cannot be the foundation
for the world economy we thank you to one stable using
we think you have right-wing extremist who or what a
you know threatening who have shut down the government threatening not to pay
the bills and you want us to
follow you as the foundation of the world economy so I think
a mats point was exactly right are these guys
in the Tea Party are working hard it seems to me to make this country
a a second-rate nation and that's really
the simple truth they don't want us to improve education
and i wanna if I can use the mats question just a little bit further
what I hope people understand is
that the Republican resistance to Obama can I voted for Obama I voted for the
Affordable Care Act that
I saw that as a modest step forward we got 48 million people today without any
health insurance
this would insured under $20 million people would put more money into disease
prevention
I think there are mechanisms in at the wood help us control the escalating cost
of health care
but nobody thinks that this is the end all we are the only nation in the
industrialized world
but doesn't guarantee health care to all people has a right to a national health
care program
and this obviously is not that but what the republicans were fearful of the is
that if Obamacare become successful and people get
health insurance that otherwise did not have it if people get a better deal
than they currently have now more cost-effective health insurance
then the right wing's dream
up coming back in coming back will be detoured
very significantly here is what these guys want and maybe this is the most
important point that has to be got now
what the Koch brothers and these are the right-wing extremists want
is not just the funding Obamacare that's just the tip of the iceberg
they have a very different vision for
society what they want is
to are end Social Security probably not immediately
but over a period of time privatize Social Security
they want to end Medicare as we know what we saw the Ryan plan a couple years
ago
which Balch arises medical gives people an eight thousand dollar check in if you
come down with cancer
a good luck to you with your a thousand-dollar check the last two or
three days
but that's their vision massive cuts in medicaid they want to eliminate
the Environmental Protection Agency so the corporations will be able to pollute
our air and water
with impunity nobody but they'll stop they want to end the Department of
Education the one end to the apartment I love
energy and here's something that just blows me away completely
right now the federal minimum wage is seven dollars and twenty five cents an
hour which is grossly inadequate to protect them
millions and millions of people were tryna get by on low wages
you know what the republican solution to that is Tom do away with the minimum
wage or to get exactly
to eliminate the concept and the broader issue he is this is their understanding
of freedom
yeah now freedom comes in this case from the Koch brothers were worth seventy one
billion dollars
so they're saying to the people about the bomber in Mississippi in all the
states
you have the freedom not to have any health insurance
yourselves and your kid and you have the freedom to work but three books
an hour and you have the freedom to breathe polluted air
or dirty water what more can you want in terms of freedom
that is Leah message now very few people in america
understand so when we ought dealing with this Obamacare
this is just one small part Ave right-wing agenda
which is attempting through Citizens United and the ability to buy and sell
politicians
to transform our nation and to repeal
virtually every piece of legislation passed last
eighty years I'm not exaggerating that protects
working families the elderly the children the sick and the poor