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despite not addy in one single penny to the national debt and added to a
half-trillion dollar surplus you know what i'm talking about social security
president bob what it on the table
social security insurance on the table
moving these so-called fiscal cliff negotiations
even deeper into republican home turf
missus graham
think about it we're debating just how many rich people will get to keep george
w_ bush is tax cuts
we're debating just how many seniors poor people and disabled people are
going to suffer when their social security insurance is cut
were debating which social welfare programs will expire
as the candidate you'd expect to see between a center-left republican a
far-right republican
right that that that's the debate the issue have between
you know dwight eisenhower barry goldwater not between a democrat a
republican
went when the debate is about you know how at how much are required to extend
tax cuts to rich people
how much are we going to cut social security or medicare republicans ago
when every time in the working class gets screwed everytime
instead
and i hope you'll
help me inform him into those of you at the white house who are listening please
pay careful attention
president obama should be putting progressive solutions on the table
things like a step taxes the securities transaction excise tax
of financial transaction text
it can reduce the debt by one and a half
maybe as much as one point eight trillion dollars over the next decade
or cutting off text their subsidies to big loyal
forty billion dollars
or any of the massive capital gains loophole which
income and we setting them taxes
on hedge fund managers involved your capitalist like mit romney
eddie's stupid maximum a fifteen percent
act or working people compare
or common sense cuts or bloated and wasteful defense budget he heard a
discussion about any of this
now
dot are raising the minimum wage to stimulate the economy and does increase
tax collections which we reduce our debt
everybody suggests that i don't think so
ab bake breaking up the big banks
so that we don't have any costly deficit expanding bailouts in the future
they were just he just at a bank that was convicted
of supporting terrorists in the middle east who did not allow them
and arco terrace in mexico and did they go to guantanamo undoubtedly get hit
with a draw and now
it then i will find it was just because the business why 'cause they're too big
to fail
no way are
they're not too big to fail
and beyond that's any mostly senior executives to prison
when not kill a bank
dot are creating a single-payer healthcare system to cut in half the
health insurance costs of the health care costs of the united states put it
in line with the rest of the veloped world
when we discuss in these things
enough all these things are on the table there could be
actual debate
big genuinely reflects the political leanings of this nation which she is a
center-left they should
more than a half of all americans in most cases more than sixty seventy
eighty percent of all americans
want social security strengthened not weakened benefits raise not kat
chrysler today just adjustments
you know more accurately reflecting inflation not lasts
what medicare strengthened and expanded
not koch
or voucher rise
but none of that stuff is part of a discussion right now which shows
not just the weakness of president obama
by eod pains me to say this the weakness of the progressive movement when
compared to the harvey right movement which is funded by cranky billionaires
like the cobras and sheldon adelson
which takes us
to the five alacrity goes on as a brain carter ducati started on that
labor unions
whichever historically been the danger the progressive molinar crippled
right ronald reagan me captain
in a timely
print radio television you name it
used to carry the voices a average working people local stations all across
america
event bankrupted and sold off to a large corporate media outlets that that
pump out lies and misinformation that promote the billionaires agenda
they call it right wing talk radio
and *** so-called news
well actually when network news ok side
let's talk about casey anthony
that that support
essentially the progressive counter balance is in america which for several
generations
kept in check
the corporate ists who want to destroy f_d_r_'s new deal
and that held the democratic party in line
those balancing forces are largely gone
when reagan busted patco dat one he didn't just kick off a three decade long
assault on labor day
he also kicked off a three decade long assault on a wants progressive
democratic party member linnea some of you are all not remember lyndon
johnson's democratic party and we are very upset with him about the war
but this guy
cup poverty in half in the united states
created a as not just an african-american middle class but in
many parts of the united states where they were poor there was allot of
poverty among white people
uni-y providing a help bell just like
i was going to say that the progressive eisenhower
it was just a dog eisenhower was a india in today's parlance i guess a radical
progressive democrat
but back then he was a moderate republican and and he built a middle
class
and so did lyndon johnson
and that tradition seems to have died
this this all out assaults
on the american middle class which is being led
old charge full-throated full-bore
in right now the straight on their on their chicken in their cherished
by the corporal there's an and showing a also in colorado in just a story
just those three
spent over five million dollars in the last election you know how much john
mccain spent in the entire election two thousand eight the john mccain campaign
six hundred million dollars
baby im all seven
just those three
three people
spent five hundred nine
i mean tell me this isn't just completely i control this assault is now
reaching its peak
republicans
and here's the proof of it
he got rid right wing republicans and president obama
sitting down like their thanksgiving dinner
getting ready to carve up the turkey of the new deal in social security
interests
that was shave a little affair with a change c_p_i_ love shave a little affair
with
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and they're doing that 'cause there is no counterbalance is not there i mean
that used to be that the unions
where the counterbalance they were strong
it used to be that just common sense in america was the counterbalance it was
strong he was echoed in the media used to be that
the weekend shows didn't just
chhoti
inside the beltway
cognizant it you know it's it's
but then the creep or the political right
began
and it's continuing a relentlessly
president obama has given to the republicans over
and hold for
and over again
and if we want to do something about that
we need to remind him that he's the president
he's armed to the bully pulpit
he's no longer facing reelection
he's free to be true to his progressive community organizing roots
there's still hope
f_d_r_ didn't campaign on bringing revolutionary change america nineteen
thirty two he was forced to do it
by nations suffering through great depression and radicalized by the damage
done to us
by millionaires in bank srs
the new deal was in part a response to occupations whoever bills
and genuine says outrage across america about the movie of our country by the
very rich
today we have
it's weak but if there are the act by movement he got organized labor the week
but they're they're you get the environmental movement is growing
were beginning to build a progressive base they can counter the billionaires
money when i started a enough yet have is that of course the white house in the
direction we need to but that day may come in you and i need to make it sooner
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