Raul Grijalva - Supportingt occupy wall street

customer although the holder is with us use the congressional progressive caucus cloture and u_s_ congressman from tucson the seventh district of arizona harrison welcome back to the program thank you very much but to be would be a pond the very always i'm pleased to have you with us aunt tell us what's going on with regard to people that's a caucus and or individual members of congress or whatever may be and the occupy wall street movement the ninety nine percent movement other groups that are springing up around the country are your thoughts and and what's going on with welcome will uh... are initially you know when it started in the book aggressive cop cookbook indicated ah... uh... support for poor book the occupiers with uh... had been and we did fill in saying that this is uh... a legitimate expression of prod the frustration a legitimate expression of free speech and more importantly uh... appropriate to uh... to what has been the direction of policy and politics in this country for about a decade plots and uh... and and that the fact that uh... people have taken uh... to utilizing their free speech and to assembling people eat works uh... an indication that uh... political leadership there start looking yeah and end and acting it's hectic uh... any thoughts on what the indicting the man he's got a few of the groups of have issued list of demands the dough in generally speaking the main message seems to be things are not write things are unfair things are not working rhamat cell where i don't think any more my words not there's and and uh... you know it's up to you guys i mean you're you know you don't you're a member of congress for example talk to you guys are tutored pass the laws to make things right so what would those be in your mind well i i think i think the message of that because that effect that the other day this from production but particularly in with both the republican leadership in congress to to fail you or others to stay for that matter to faye will we need a list of demands in order to for us to know what they want well uh... you know if renfro if elected officials uh... in congress and the republican leadership are looking for a prescription uh... uh... one not forthcoming because we have yet to to issue a prescription from congress is to how we rectified what i think it was central theme of the becky prior to that might be wrong it's uh... at the tissue and a fairness in the end of governor perry large practical palatial character and uh... and i think that uh... one way to to to pretend to balances scales against it for congress to preparing around about the deficit than the super committee and where do we cut taxes more how how do we keep up the policies that have got up in the fight economical uh... how do we continue to perpetuate both policies you got a break away from that and and i think uh... what the occupiers and i think uh... and not only the people there physically there uh... but uh... i think oh vast majority of american people are telling congress uh... is to just to break out of the pigeon-holed over it entities something big had to do something up for the american people and what we have please sent to the blue pacific committee uh... what we fought for over four what we believe graphic opera based on the people's budgets four trillion dollars uh... worked the paving to be reinvested in chopped you be reinvested in rebuilding america to be reinvested in the program for vital to the future of the patient um... not to be left a message for security and medicare uh... and and we'd get that uh... by rolling back uh... some of the break that we've been given to me of corporate america as a consequence of uh... the fiscal policies of the last ten years uh... closing loopholes of assuring that wealthy pay their fair share and that uh... the very rich in this country pay their fair share and that you begin to balance a scale so i think uh... that the fairness issue that's involved what we ought we offer a contract and i'd met with the occupiers of doing as well asking for a contrast between what we have going now and where we need to go and uh... and if you get a free if u left the ca the bush tax cuts of which which we should have extended for another year expire when it suppose to expire that some additional but some additional to beat three trillion dollar to two point while it's amazing how much it up almost bush gave away a difference in his of enticing the hallway the the prescriptions in the the the progressive caucus my understanding is the that you are used to be the year one of the largest caucuses mouse representatives growth and i i i i don't know where you stand now relative to the tea party caucus institute doesn't an election what where is that it is hard work were about seventy seven members uh... and and and and coalesce seemed very well pensioner op and their week and you are you still are his caucus in congress bush why i think we are okay then why you know i'm it seems like when the largest car caucus in congress is stay here's the plan here's the plan is gonna work we've had the c_b_o_ run the numbers you know we we had jij cat-scans program a number of times gone through the numbers in the details with this one out and you know she's brilliant on the stuff and and stuff it works it will work the american people support of the polling shows that it's it's an audio why is it not dean grabbed onto by the rest of the democratic party and for that matter the administration run with this hard as they possibly can and i think it's with predator said earlier the pigeonhole are both uh... comp quote of policy-making which has been okay what are the special interests want works corporate america want not how do we designed something to satisfied them first and then will be we have a plot to trickle down for for the rest of the american trend in this country and i think than what with the progress of caucus did with the people budget what we did in our fight with overall up for a public option in the health reform bill that if we had in now would have paid sixty one billion dollars a year it's and what we're doing now with the that issue that we're taking onto the the to look super committee in terms of where you can find money without hurting americans uh... or if we get that and uh... unwilling to continue to do that i think of that vote uh... i i had sufficiently stay at our effort to a occupied the minds of congress with lena on alternative deathbed and more than an alternative but i think the democratic party i think this ministration depiction tape but we're proposing not heard from simple lifted gesture but that it is a concrete policy native people fiscal direction it's going to makeup solvent balanced the budget and still take care of the needs of this country with that uh... and uh... and i think now particularly because because of what's going on in the process country with the protest that there's going to be more attention and more scrutiny to work before proposing and we welcome that stupid because we have validated that with c_b_o_ independent economists except for a and but we feel our numbers are volatile your numbers are and they will work and they will slide and they will solve these problems uh... it's going to make some very very rich people squirm and that's that's my atlast questions here we've got a bit forty fifty seconds here ok armed and that is sorry i carried the seventy-seven of you concerning individual members of congress you know a billionaire can easily knock out any of you or maybe even all of you are you concerned about the cat upcoming elections about call rose pack and things like that i think that he could no money and you know now that corporations are persisting over my head uh... took the permanent always but you know i had the perpetrator of ever had left arm provoked a lot of outside money they can get many of us anticipate that seem kind of fight but uh... that the the the counter ballot for us than i am very secure about that in the public opinion attn in park and i think we have that you know if it's no accident that the are five both republican party frankly is one of the top twenty that they'd like to get them and uh... but i don't think it's because the anything else of the philosophy department motivated for progressive suspect challenges about we feel that we have not only the angel partners side but that we have popular support for applying and you can you do astonished her all the whole call the of uh... lawyers i think it's thank you places the job marketing program process is so upset by the way through all the jr high j geology l see it