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and brings my friends patriots lovers of democracy truths and justice believers
in peace freedom and be american writer marvin here with you
welcome to our newest affiliate kabc s ninety one point three f_m_
in seattle washington
and it is friday which means of course it is time for our national town hall
meeting
are being the senator bernie sears brunch with bernie
and senator sanders welcome
good to be with you called congressman going to be out of fashion for a couple
weeks
uh... after the fiscal cliff
situation let me go over the fiscal cliff
i don't want to go over the past week let me let me describe what the physical
stuff was about
evolved
the legislation
that we passed with very strong numbers in
the senate was passed
uh... in the house is it is not a good piece of legislation i voted for tom
because i thought the alternative
all would have been much worse
of the old turner would have meant uh... withdrawing from four trillion dollars
out of the economy
in terms of increased taxes and cuts in programs
which according to a common this could have left
in a severe uh... recession mode
uh... and more more unemployment
uh... for the walt without that legislation
two million workers would not have continued receiving their unemployment
checks
and that's enormously important for families who were just
barely hanging on
uh...
doctors who
treat medicare patients
would have seen a twenty seven percent
reduction in their reimbursement rates and many of those aqua simply would not
have been treating
uh... senior citizens on medicare not would have been
our disaster of course
taxes would have gone pop
income taxes would have gone up for from ninety nine percent
of americans now what will go off and there's some confusion there
is payroll taxes two years ago
our congressman voted to lower payroll taxes
from six point two to four point two percent
that is ending and those payroll taxes will go back to what they wore
and i in fact think that that's important
uh... because that's money going into the social security trust fund
now the other point
oh that i thought
in terms of this debate where we succeeded
of was that we captive day we'd we pushback
efforts for the so-called chain
c_p_r_ you know i know that nobody outside of
the beltway knows what the so-called chain c_p_r_ years
but when you hear republicans and some democrats talking about
quote-unquote entitlement reform
on what they are really talking about all significant cuts
in social security benefits
and benefits for disabled veterans
and paul i will do continue to do everything i can
to defeat those cuts if you are all
if the so-called chain cpr
we're going to affect what it does is change
how we formulate will cost of living adjustments all for people who getting
disability benefits
pension benefits if you're in the
the a system
social security benefits
if you are sixty-five today on social security
by the time you seventy five
you would lose about six hundred dollars eighty-year
by the time you are eighty five it was about a thousand bucks india that is a
lot of money
with somebody struggling to stay alive on fifteen sixteen seventeen thousand
yet
him so which aman
of the defending social security caucus
and is the incoming chairman of the veterans
i'm going to do everything though i can
to beat back that effort to cut
social security
out of medicare medicaid
in veterans' benefits
we succeeded to do
in this fiscal click the date
but that effort is certainly going to resurface in the coming months
and and uh... i'm curious you thoughts on the looked at the politics in the
reality of
of the next uh... disaster that seems to be republican cgs setting up which is
the
the uh... debt-ceiling
that's the way
art prints two point three mi
uh... i thought the majority leader harry reid was strong
in this fiscal click the date
compare leave the white house thought he was to talk to a strong
and that kind of uh... gave the assignment over to biden who in my view
end up making
c concessions that probably would not necessary
the perots important concession is little bob morrow originally wanted
one point six trillion
in new revenue what we end up with was only forty percent of that
about six hundred and twenty billion
what we've got is increased tax revenue from people making four hundred thousand
a year or more
but we did not get any increase revenue from people making two hundred and fifty
thousand
are your wall which is what obama
originally bought it
the other thing that took place if i want just
briefly mention and this is a total outrage
that the top three terms of one percent
of americans
who pay as state taxes so tiny number of people
few thousand
people a year of two thousand families a year
received over a ten-year period eight hundred billion dollar tax break
hundred billion dollar tax breaks
and that was talked into that
by virtually every vote republican and some democrats want to that that was a
total outrage
and not those of the very negative aspects of the bill which really
bought me a whole lot now where we are now
is that because we brought here by threatening you
then we had watered obama wanted one point six
trillion we've got six hundred
and twenty billion result of that is our republican friends
are held that now
in going after social security medicare medicaid education
nutrition programs
and their argument is
we don't want to talk anymore about
revenue
arbitral karl was on the floor of the sort of thing
the revenue discussion is over well
not for me
not for me
of the truth of the matter is
that right now you have one out of four profitable corporations in america
paying
euro
in the federal on taxes
the percentage of revenue that we get
compared the g_d_p_
today in corporate taxes is much much lower
that used to be
uh... if i mentioned many times we losing
a hundred billion dollars a year from corporations
and wealthy individuals with there
their money in the cayman islands another tax havens
palm
we have
enormous loopholes
that corporations are wealthy people continue to take advantage of
so where we are at
calm right now
use in
and very very significant
philosophical debate
and that is whether or not
we cut programs that working families and lower income people
desperately depend upon
or whether we ask the wealthiest people and watch of corporations
all over one billion very very well
to stop paying their fair share of taxes and i would remind every muscle
and this is not talked about
too much in congress was certainly not in the media
that the united states not only has the most unequal distribution of wealth and
income
many major country on earth
but also it is
is bad today as it was
it is worse today than anytime since the late nineteen
please remember that the top one percent
in america home
forty two percent of the wealth the bottom sixty percent
on point with the fact of the wealth
his extraordinary extraordinary members senator bernie sanders here with us for
our national town hall meeting brunch with bernie
check over his website ed sanders dot senate dot gov
it's on a couple of uh... degree petitions there
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welcome back and malcolm in lone star texas watches and free speech to the
right here senator centers
novotel
you're on your advice centers as well so
the yesterday uh...
animal
lugar center
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on that
published a number of problem we have a march county in northeastern two again
uh... they
shutdown dr
no warning
whatsoever good doctor
he's treatin
a large percentage of the people love about thirty two other than the county
and uh...
uh...
them down completely leaving people without
any medical care or whoever
uh...
a few p
year-round in malcolm what's what's the question
paramore question
bernie do
we had uh... what's going on a single act of mergers
medical senator put me in the
clinics wound up in more than a p_d_a_
no back home are let me just say art you know i'm not familiar with partner in
the senator from vermont some not all that we would morris county come
texas but what i would strongly
urge you to do and we'll listen if you do this you know
every member of the united states senate every congressperson
has caseworkers and that's what this case workers a lot of the one excellent
job
sawa malcolm little i would do is you can call up your all united states
senators
from the state of texas call up your congressperson
uh... and make your complaint known in
asked them to address that issue and i
people all over the country don't know that but
they were good caseworkers all
and congressional offices
uh... and if you have a problem for the federal government
i'll give them a ring zijn lead article a member of the house representatives or
you're one of your two senators
i think you can call require people you feel most comfortable with but both of
her to call book it's out of office
and your congressional cap
gem in norwood new jersey watching free speech to the end directv conyers
emissions
setbacks commonwealth thank you senator for everything you do
are sixty one years old mill workers your start off with oxidation i was
brought up in white middle-class suburbia and uh...
we have some herbs outside in new york when i was a cute every family had four
five kids to a family had none of the mothers work
and if anybody would just look at a graph right now if you would attract
from nineteen seventy eight
for the president
the incomes
from middle income
families as flat line productivity has gone up
and uh... i'm just wondering it where the richest country in the world we're
all the money com arctic where all montego reduction of mistrust of the son
of a difference
jumped i_q_ where we are very fickle
i'd also out of taiwan pick up on him charge than after the break
look here's the reality
what we have seen it
uh... since the
uh... early nineteen seventies
is a massive transfer of wealth from working families it was very very
and let's pick up on that important point right after the break we will do
so is that when the questions or they have some senator bernie sanders is with
us it's our lunch with bernie our hearing tom harkin program our national
town hall meeting with senator centers
taking your calls
centers and for that
brought it back to voice liberty here on the time of the program center bernie
centers on the line with us and uh... bernie uh... one of our free speech g_p_
t_v_ callers was just asking since seventy eight to today productivity has
gone up
wages have not gone up
uh... used to the one one income could result home guide you know could could
breeze five kids now i can't
uh... what's happened
are want him from new jersey f many terribly important question
and what he's really talking about is the disappearance
of the
working-class and middle-class of this country
any massive shift of wealth that goes to the very
wealthiest people in this country
uh... i mentioned earlier that in terms of distribution of wealth and i want
everybody to hear this because
you don't hear very often
but economically what we're looking at is the top one percent owns forty two
percent of the wealth of america
the bottom sixty percent six zero owns two point three percent
that's wealth
in terms of the income the last study that has been done on this issue
was in two thousand and ten
ninety three percent of all newly-created income
no income
went to the top one percent
so what we are seeing yes we already wealthy nation
but more and more on the wealth of the nation rest in the hands of fewer and
fewer people
one of the flutist etc
one family the walton family that all's wal-mart owns more wealth than the
bottom forty percent of america combined
for all the writing of reasons
the decline of trade unions
and the ability of working people to negotiate
with their employers
unfettered free trade
in which in players have thrown millions of workers out on the street move their
plants
to of mexico to china travel low-wage
countries
etienne aggressive class warfare being waged
by the people have money in the political front so the minimum wage has
not
kept pace with inflation
cutbacks in education
what i was growing up you had uh... educational systems in new york city
california
some of the best higher educational systems in the world
university of california city university of new york were virtually free
now there are free anymore they're quite expensive
young people leaving school deeply in debt
forty fifty years ago as jimmy indicated
one worker in those days most often the man
could work forty hours a week or not money to pay the bills now you need a
husband and wife working
incredibly long hours
in order to pay the bills
fair all of that stuff together what you think people on top
belief phenomenally well
middle-class disappearing poverty at an all-time high
and with all that well
what the big-money interests abilities accumulate powell
because you know the citizens united decision other without lets them
contribute as much as they wanted to the political process
owning a whole lot of politicians as well
so that is where we all politically an economy that is the major issue
facing
our society
and the antidote to that is working people
coming together
to fight for a progressive agenda which essentially says
that in this great nation all all of our people
should have a decent standard of living
and we should not have just some people on the top with more wealth than anyone
could ever dream of
well so many so many people
are struggling
just to stay alive
uh... and that is that that is the issue of the day in my view come
sally in new york city here and here was solution specialist individual
thank you and uh... thank you senator standerford centers for all the stuff
you give especially defending the post office i have a question about the post
office
we used to have a postal bank
which i'd as i
had found out a little bit
is seems to have been be funded but not abolished
we also have our government to pave a lot of benefits and some of them are
paid through benefit card therapy administered by the private banking
system which have doesn't do it for free they take a peek i'm just wondering if
we could take the government payments revived a postal bank run the whole
think through the postal bank therefore we get the feedback and almost post
offices in every that people wanna close
would then become a great asset because big they're everywhere at like eight p m
darling thank you for that excellent
and thoughtful
question of the answers are you really cute
uh... it is an idea that has popped up
uh... it has met severe opposition
uh... from republicans and some democrats
what all i want to see happen and i've been involved in this issue now for the
last year or so
i wanna see the postal service provide new services to people
b com more important to our society
and maintain all grow jobs
they are all the people wanna move in in a very different direction
and essentially privatize that
shutdown post offices close processing
so all one of the areas though i think
uh... post offices can play a role is to do exactly what sali indicated
uh... if you all are
your ordinary person or lower income person
you know what it stopped because serbs too many banks
and the post office could play that role so i think that's a great idea sally
entity
did bring we'd we have just a minute to the break you're not enough time to
bring out uh... the caller before the bombing the hour
how goes the battle to save the post office
palm
we passed a reasonably good
piece of legislation in the senate the house did not
so that piece of legislation nal no longer exists
and uh... we will be reintroducing legislation
art innate
couple of weeks the falkland war wallowing of them
i would suppose that the good news is that they are right wing friends when
not successful
in moving toward major major cutbacks in postal on post offices
uh... and processing plants and cutting back services
on the other hand the postal service remains significantly troubled
its most
serious problem is the five billion dollars every year it has to come up
with
for our future retiree
health plans and and
the senate bill basically eliminated that's okay
were on the whole of the worst of not take place
we've got a lot of work before
senator bernie sanders who this is our brunch attorney are taking the your
calls for senator centers
international town hall meeting went too far
we should check over his website centers dot senate
condition to is petition to
uh... undo citizens united there's there's a whole bunch of
you're listening to the comma hardman
calling six sixty nine a seventy eight children
more brunches bernie after this and in the next hour
if i got a deal for you
provide a bunch of burning uh... along national television here in the town of
interim senator bernie sanders taking your questions
and the senate you still with us that
them right here okay uh... g_m_ in upland indiana your on your senior
centers
hi guys
the this again my without hearing up with me and i'm not too far
supa worked on these polio
kinnear yes sir and your question
okay
sixty eight years old and ask you a lot of things chemical in this country
have served two tours in vietnam paula while you get a lot younger
my uh... upon my granddad they both serving up one would be that the p_a_
anyone within the three c's
now i don't remember anything about it but it was uh... over them with before i
was born
they both horror that that's what kept their families together kept things
going as young man
and i've read a lot about tibet vpa in the preseason there were a lot of things
at one oh one
uh... other than just building roads in parks and so forth
as i understand that there are a lot of artist or a lock rationally there was a
lot of things uh... that were built
we still see today there are still being used today
and underscoring
something like this could be reintroduced
i think it would
do two things it would get a lot of structured built that need to be built
edit it would also i think cut down a lot of crimes are a lot of guys out here
that are desperate for jobs and they're desperate for ways to feed your family
to take care of urself and i think it is sure control purpose
if we can get these guys
into some kind of a structure you know even if it is peanuts anti-big addiction
and uh... you'll planetree easily paid buildings we saw and so forth
is there any chance and i've talked to uh... everybody and *** lugar uh... in
years gone by
and they both father was a good idea and i think both of you uh... have talked it
over with their constituents
but uh... i don't know becker's been enough
buzy ucsd region let's let's get some jim i think incident excellent audio but
i doubt very much that by *** lugar would
would in fact vote for it because this is this is jim exactly
debate that we're having you put it in very human terms i suspect
that most people who listen to what jim said
and understand that there's a lot of unemployment in this country especially
among younger people
we have a calmly infrastructural
we need to deal with global warming and transformer energy system
all of which means there's an enormous amount of work to be done
that if we put young people on the payroll doing meaningful work
provide educational education to that as well
he could play a very profound role
future career
lives
i would say that most people would say you know jim you make it a lot of sense
and i agree
but jim the debate we're having right now in congress what you're talking
about
is a quote on quote stimulus package does what it is
in a specific way
you're talking about rebuilding america and putting people to work
all conservative friends and i would say that probably have invite
who's no longer in the senate that will lose a friend
i don't know i can speak to him
probably would not be sympathetic because this means investing in america
why our republican friends wanna do is exactly the opposite
they want to clock
spending
they want to cut education
not admin teachers but lay off teachers they do not want a fun
the need to rebuild our infrastructure
so i agree with jim
and that's what i believe that's what some of us
on trying to do
i think most americans on the stamp
that we have got to address the jobs crisis
and something like a ccc or at the very least
substantial sums of money into rebuilding our infrastructure
that is our water systems outweigh swamp lands roads
bridges
uh... rail system
uh... all the schools
on
creating wall
war solar and and we end
and geothermal and biomass project we covered millions of people to work
toward that
but that requires an investment i'm afraid many of my conservative friends
of do not want to do that
uh... let api
ride in
uh... ci main grandiose intercepts
hello art reported thank you very much com overture doing emperor thank you
very much perfectly proper happier to have turned portent
and know what to do my pic or cannot direct the pointer filibuster acura
understand why we allow compute we rely on the fact that we filibuster we do not
do avoid filibuster
get reissue outfit if everybody carping what need to be done at the state farm i
have one other issue that we have two people that have are not fortitude the
stand up and actually question these results effective get involved
board to everybody bought off pretty much the way they seem to be going
looked up the corporation
thanks a lot so that very important
uh... question i note on the break
good mentioned it and in his comments
on here's where we all
uh... it send some bomber has been president of the republicans have been
in
obstructionism modality everybody it knowledge is that
uh... mitch mcconnell a couple of years ago was on the floor
of the house or giving interviews and our main goal
was to make oracle bomber in one term president make sure that in so many
words to make sure the good legislation
was not pass
because if we could bring the american economy down
it was less likely little bottle obama would be re-elected
they have engage in just a huge no more
uh... filibusters
there was a time
through gentleman's agreement if you like
twenty thirty years ago even more recent of that
asking for a sixty-vote majority was very very unusual
very unusual when lyndon johnson
before he was vice president
was the majority leader i think you have to deal with one filibuster
uh...
political baba has been president we have to deal with i think hundreds of
them
so we need
the and that nonsense we need to world's uh... and obstructionism
i strongly support the efforts of some of them were clean seven tom udall
ought to do what we call in talking filibuster and that means rather than
just saying i am jack was sending down notification
that you object to legislation or nomination
you're going to have to get on the floor of the senate
yourself and with others and talk about that issue
and when that is
happening then the american people get a better understanding
of who was objecting n_y_
uh... and i think it will result in fall less obstructionism
that is currently the case
right now i think it is fair to say the senate is dysfunctional precisely
because of that reason
uh... and we've got to end that my strongly support
filibuster reformist tom just mentioned a moment ago
but the majority leader did
is in a sense
called for a recess after the first day which means that we will deal with this
issue
as soon as we return
uh... which is right before the inauguration
matthew in barbers phil west virginia and here is senator sanders
i am
i push it further or a rose
unto server a transit realistic what russia you're trying to
are missouri
actual possible rather system you're going to be overturned
matthew the wrist on their story is
citizens united
was passed by a five-to-four vote
uh...
by the supreme court about
as i said to a half years ago
uh... do i think it is an issue that should be revisited absolutely it is any
normal sleep or the issue
one of the worst decisions are made by a supreme court
op i have legislation and others due to overturn citizens united
but yes so i would expect that if we can have a uh...
uh... anon republican majority
i would hope and expect they would hear a case
to overturn that very very bad decision to anyone
who was seen in recent years
the enormous amount of corporate
billionaire money that has gone into the political process understands
help polluting that is
to american democracy soviets about one matthew is yes william and wheeler
oregon you're on your senator centers
well good afternoon john and linda tom thank you jeff proteases speaking guys
uh... generally speaking
i question would be
in regard to the federal reserve which is going into a town under tier of
existence in uh... two thousand thirteen
and my question for senator sanders is
what can be done to expose
the truth i don't
of what the federal reserve truly is in its creation often wonderful place in
georgia called jekyll island
and the fact that it was done with j_p_ morgan and a handful of his constituents
in secret
and that others economic can
to bark or involvement at this point within the debt
average person i talked to dad never seem to ask the question who do we owe
the debt too
and i feel that the exposure the fact of the secret society that are behind a lot
of the stuff
need to be exposed american public julia mostly we just have a minute to the
brick let's let the senator respond hope well
william i don't
i'm not much into conspiracy theory or secret societies i think we know who
runs america
uh... in his offer ends on wall street nothing secret about it
uh... when you look at the campaign contributions made by
dozens of billionaire families we know who they are nothing secret about it i
mentioned earlier that we just gave
some of the very richest people in this country eight hundred
uh... i hundred billion dollar
uh... tax break over a ten-year period through the estate tax
no secret who these people off
so i i don't think we need any conspiracy theory here we know that the
power in this country rest
with the folks will have the money and and and on wall street
arm
in terms of fed
let me just say this what what i've done in the last couple of years
is to bring that are wanted for the federal building
emergency financial group
will also have some legislation in was significant informed of
that's a great story
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welcome back randy and i didn't you tell your on your senior centers
order predator come over to remember uh...
i've been wondering recoveries mentioning off
cutting entitlement why a productive contrarian
corporate welfare
event tech reportorial remember or or to farmers fairly carper car repair repair
character in
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like tobacco or dot to grow crops grow
over to tear up their thank you
that's an excellent question
and that is something that some of us are discussing
the great debate
right now
that will take place in congress and the lines of bailey will draw
is
do we s
the wealthiest people and largest corporations and as i mentioned earlier
randy
one out of four
major profitable corporations pays nothing in taxes
and in fact a few years ago exxon mobil
the most profitable corporations in american history
i'll receive the rebate from the i_r_s_
on the big oil companies wall street companies of also in recent years i'm
giving you
pay nothing in federal
taxes
the tax havens that exist in the cayman islands bermuda power-law
uh... switzerland and elsewhere
uh... in able large corporations to stash their money away to avoid paying
taxes
in this country
and there are many many other ways
called senate committee was looking at apple
and how they avoid
uh... paying taxes substantial amounts of revenue
transit randy's question
the debate really comes down to
whether we
ask those corporations
to stop paying their fair share f
we go after corporate welfare which we should
we are giving massive amounts of subsidies the profitable oil companies
that's absurd
where
do you cut programs
that working families the elderly the children the sick
desperately need those are the alternates that's the debate
and let me repeat when you turn on t_v_ tonight
cynicism guy get up there and say we need entitlement reform
that is called language
was significant cuts
in social security
medicare
medicaid
veterans programs
that is what they are talking about
their hope is that the less the american people know what they are talking about
the more likely it is that they will get away with it
every poll that i have seen
tells me
that the american people do understand
that when the rich are getting richer emma corporations
are enjoying record-breaking profits
they have got to stop paying their fair share app axes
and all the polls tell
me and tell the american people
that they want that direction rather than cutting
social security and other desperately needed programs
thirty i just through thirty forty six of the breakthrough is uh... simpson and
bowl
all somalis people running around do you think that we're gonna be able to hold
off
the cuts
and that is the fact that we are engaged in we have on our side i should say that
simpson in bowl simpson is a right wing republican polls as a corporate democrat
enemies extremely disappointing
fellow bomber appointed those guys
to head up any deficit reduction commission
on the other hand we have all of the senior groups including a lofty we have
all the veterans groups including the american legion
and we have the a_f_l_c_i_o_ we opted for grassroots effort the thing though
for these cuts
sent a very serious illnesses are more inches bernie are here on the jonathan
program forty nine minutes past the hour more
right after this
blogger sake and for the last of the student haven't program it's a brush and
burning our celebration is on the line and done in real ron shipp new mexico
year-on-year rescind her centers
hangout
good afternoon john sharp ivalice act on your screen or that our understanding
that such disparity and anchormen property ownership and stuff like that
people in this country
widening the mesh rates stunning in you know in the nineteen sixty five ecru
updating
it's a lot of people were cannot rely operation i mean just
social uh...
you know if i just don't understand it cancer or do you explain this to me and
i cannot read which tracks these people out of their writing these rich people
and then firemen procurement atrocious carrier medicare level we need to open
it
that is that's an interesting
question
what dawn is asking the mets it's instant questionable but should be
taking about
is when you have the middle class which is disappearing
when you have record levels of poverty
when your kids coming out of school deeply in debt when you got fifty
million people have no health insurance
and at the same time when you have the people on pop doing phenomenally well as
i've mentioned before top one percent only forty two percent of the wealth of
america
and a two thousand and ten
top one percent earning ninety three percent of all the way com
went on is asking
where all the people why aren't millions of people standing up
and saying to congress think the president
excuse me
that is not what america is supposed to be about we need much more equality in
terms of the distribution of wealth and income
but i don't know the answer that i i think they're a lot of practice
offers won't be issue of income and wealth inequality is not talked about a
whole lot
uh... you can go to the housekeeping of the senate not a whole lot of people
talk about all i do feel the people who not a whole lot the media doesn't talk
about a media of course is controlled
to a large degree and all by the same large corporate
uh... interest the other venues that when people a desperate they're working
long hours
you know people working fifty sixty hours
husbands wives work it
uh... met on the energy
to get involved in the political
uh... process
you know there are number of reasons why but
bonds point is that in order to change this
people do have to stand up
well i will tell you there is no state in the country not the most conservative
state of the country
not utah
not oklahoma
not mississippi
where people think that your cards social security medicare medicaid
education
and give tax breaks
to the wealthy
nobody
believes that
in the united states congress
where people get huge campaign contributions from the wealthy and the
large corporations
but if people begin to stand up and say excuse me on not is enough
congress has to pay attention for the majority of the people this country the
working families of this country and not the billionaires who make campaign
contributions we can turn this thing around on but that's what it requires
that requires people getting stanley cup and i got the right on the streets way
out of those caught your congressman caucus enema
email
let them know
you are not going to stand by what we cut social security
and other important programs
veronica issue
cargo listening to bcp to your nearest initiatives
how can i can in canada i appreciate the work you do
by questioning there
it make social security check armitage bailey check in the mail back
and panicking mailman in cash in it
that first security number
is my acount and they go to jail
i have paid money into social security into my account with my cousin security
member and now congressman panic take my money away from me tonight at katie and
it contain rico when the legality of people
playing around with my i've paid him here is not an entitlement my i've paid
into incase picketed hablar en que
might have been changed at all and k
unit and your friends and i tell you today
are well is the author of the great
you know what people will say
what this so-called chain p_c_p_ on which i'd believe
will be the mechanism that they cut social security i may be wrong to make a
little of the direction
for article what they would say to you as well
uh...
there are different ways to determine what inflation is forcing his those
quick congress did a number of years ago
use they said
inflationary costs
if there is inflation
in terms of increased cost for what seniors
bari
congress will really is
to colours
their benefits the inflation is three percent they will get three percent more
my conservative friends are saying is that the way we determine close now
is to quote-unquote generous
and we should we configure
how we determine these cost of living adjustments
by being skimpy
so instead of people getting up three percent
increase maybe they get it to a quarter to what i have
percent increase you add that up over thirty or forty years at as a heck of a
lot of money
so i don't know that you is illegal i think it is cool
i think it is a terrible thing to do to working families
and i think if we stand together weekend defeat that
bernie we have uh... about a man and a half before the end of the hour i'm
curious your thoughts on the year going forward where were at what we should be
doing as a people killed
well i think i've talks long
you know some of the important issues of the questions coming in today tom were
really great
here's the issue
uh... you live in a we live in a democracy which means that the people
also post the rule
caught and i can tell you
what the people want is unfortunately very different
from what we have over in the republican house which is dominated by big money
interest
and also different that we have here in the senate
the people walked large corporations and the wealthy costar paying their fair
share taxes
in order to help us move toward deficit reduction hands
to invest in the economy and jim from indiana made that point we need to
invest in the economy and create jobs
that is what the people want
a majority of the people in this country understand the global warming is real
that global warming is significantly man-made is already causing significant
damage
for the sake of the planet
we have got to invest
sustainable energy cut back on greenhouse gas emissions
style bottom line is congress's power publicly for the people of this country
and not just the billionaire with the campaign
marie thanks so much for being with us