THE REPUBLICAN TAX BILL WAS A MASSIVE MULTI TRILLION DOLLAR
GIVEAWAY TO CORPORATIONS AND THE 1%, BUT IN THE WAKE OF ITS
PASSAGE A LOT OF CORPORATIONS INCLUDING THINGS LIKE COMCAST
AND WALMART AND AT&T PUT OUT THESE BIG PRESS RELEASES ABOUT
BONUSES THEY ARE GIVING TO THEIR WORKERS, SUPPOSEDLY TOTALLY
BECAUSE OF THE TAX BILL.
IS MATTER IF THEY HAD BEEN
NEGOTIATING WITH THE UNION FOR A YEAR FOR THESE BONUSES, DOESN'T
MATTER IF THE FACTORIES THEY WERE ANNOUNCING HAD BEEN
ANNOUNCED MONTHS BEFORE, IT WAS SO BECAUSE OF THE TAX BILL, THEY
WANTED YOU TO BELIEVE.
AND ONE OF THE REASONS THEY DID ALL THAT
PR WAS BECAUSE WHILE THEY WERE GIVING OUT THOSE BONUSES THEY
WERE ALSO CUTTING THOUSANDS OF JOBS, OR LIMITING WAGE INCREASES
FOR THEIR WORKERS, THINGS OF THAT SORT.
AND OFTEN WITH THE
FINE PRINT THE BONUSES WEREN'T WHAT THEY APPEARED TO BE ANYWAY.
THEY WOULD SAY 100,000 WORKERS GETTING $1000 BONUSES -- UP TO
$1000 IF YOU'VE BEEN WORKING FOR US FOR 20 YEARS.
SO THE VAST
MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WOULDN'T GET ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
BUT IT ALL
SOUNDED GOOD, AND WE'VE DONE WHAT WE COULD TO FIGHT BACK
AGAINST THAT NARRATIVE, BUT NOW LET'S FIND OUT IF IT'S ACTUALLY
WORKING, AT LEAST IN A TEST CASE.
FOX NEWS WENT TO A CAF…
TO
FIND OUT WHAT ACTUAL VOTERS THINK ABOUT THESE BONUSES BEING
GIVEN OUT BY CORPORATIONS IN COMPARISON TO THE HUGE AMOUNTS
OF MONEY THE CORPORATIONS ARE GETTING, HERE'S WHAT THEY FOUND.
NANCY PELOSI SAID THAT BREADCRUMBS ARE WHAT THE
BONUSES ARE, WHAT DOES A $1000 BONUS MEAN TO A RIGOR PERSON?
IT'S A VERY BIG DEAL, WHEN YOU HAVE WORKED FOR A COMPANY AND
THEY WANT TO GIVE YOU $1000 JUST BECAUSE A PRESIDENT GAVE US A
TAX BREAK, TO ME THAT'S A BIG DEAL.
WE'VE BEEN CALLED
DEPLORABLES AND EVERYTHING ELSE, BUT THIS DEPLORABLE APPRECIATES
THOSE BREAD CRUBMS.
YOU ALSO HAD SOME THING TO SAY ABOUT RESPECT OF THIS
PRESIDENT.
HE DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT DEPLORABLES.
I FEEL LIKE THEY
TOLD HER TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE NOTHING ABOUT
DEPLORABLES CAME UP THERE.
SHE SAID IT'S A BIG DEAL, WHICH IF
YOU ACTUALLY GOT $1000 WOULD BE A BIG DEAL.
OF COURSE IF WALMART
ISN'T GOING TO CUT YOUR JOB, NOT AS BIG OF A DEAL.
AND ALSO NOT
BECAUSE OF THE TAX-CUT PRESIDENT TRUMP GAVE US.
IN MANY CASES
THESE ARE THE BONUSES THEY GET EVERY YEAR, OR AGAIN UNIONS HAVE
BEEN NEGOTIATING IT FOR A YEAR.
BUT FOR SOME VOTERS NONE OF THAT MATTERS, THE MESSAGE GOES
THROUGH AS INTENDED.
IN SOME WAYS I UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE'S SAYING, $1000 IS A LOT TO
SOME WORKERS.
IF SHE GOT A $1000 CHECK AND SHE'S HAPPY ABOUT IT,
GREAT, THAT MAKES SENSE.
NOW, IT'S A LITTLE BIT LIKE WHAT
REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN CHARGING DEMOCRATS WITH ALL THESE YEARS
WHERE THEY SAY THEY JUST HAND OUT GOODIES TO BE ABLE TO GET
THEIR VOTERS TO VOTE FOR THEM.
KIND OF LIKE A $1000 CHECK?
THEY
ACCUSED OBAMA OF HANDING OUT OBAMA PHONES, THEY ARE JUST
GIVING AWAY MONEY TO THESE PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT TO WORK,
AND EVEN IN THINGS LIKE THEIR EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT WHERE
YOU LITERALLY HAVE TO WORK TO RECEIVE IT, SO NOW WHEN THEY
GIVEAWAY GOODIES LIKE SANTA CLAUS, ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY ARE
LIKE, I LIKE THOSE BREADCRUMBS, THEY ARE YUMMY FOR MY TUMMY.
THAT'S PART OF IT.
BUT THE OTHER THING IS, TO BE FAIR TO HER AND
UNFAIR TO TRUMP AND THE REPUBLICANS AND FOX NEWS --
I LIKE IT SO FAR.
SHE DIDN'T NECESSARILY HEAR THE STORY OF ALL THE SAM'S CLUBS
THAT CLOSED.
SHE DIDN'T GET FIRED, OTHER PEOPLE AT WALMART
GOT FIRED.
THEY CLOSED DOWN A LOT OF STORES, THOUSANDS LOST
THEIR JOBS, BUT SINCE SHE DIDN'T LOSE HER JOB AND SHE GOT A
CHECK, SHE THINKS I LIKE THAT, I WILL VOTE FOR THEM AGAIN.
AND
SHE DOESN'T KNOW THE CONTEXT, THAT MOST OF THOSE COMPANIES
DOING THOSE CHECKS, AT MOST IT IS 10% OF ONLY ONE YEAR OF THEIR
TAX CUTS.
THEY ARE KEEPING THE OTHER 90%, AND THE REST OF THE
YEARS THEY ARE KEEPING 100%.
SO WITHOUT THAT CONTEXT, BECAUSE
SHE DOESN'T WATCH THE YOUNG TURKS, YOU COULD UNDERSTAND WHY
SHE HAD THE REACTION SHE DID.
IF YOU KNOW HER, PLEASE LINK HER TO ONE OF OUR VIDEOS BECAUSE
WE AREN'T AGAINST HER.
IF THESE BONUSES WERE WHAT THEY SEEM TO
BE THAT WOULD BE AWESOME, WE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO WOULD BE PUSHING
FOR THAT AND FAR MORE, WHICH I WILL GET INTO, BUT IT ISN'T,
SHE'S BEING DECEIVED UNFORTUNATELY.
WE BROKE DOWN FOR
A NUMBER OF THESE COMPANIES, THEIR BONUS PACKAGES AND
AMOUNTED TO SOMETHING LIKE .027 PERCENT OF THEIR REVENUE FOR A
YEAR EVEN THOUGH THEY WILL BE MAKING BILLIONS OFF OF THESE TAX
CUTS, AND THE EXECUTIVES AT THESE COMPANIES WILL BE MAKING
IN SOME CASES HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
EVERY YEAR FROM THESE TAX CUTS.
SO THEY ARE JUST BREAD
CRUMBS BECAUSE THEY ARE INTENDED TO DECEIVE YOU, TO SEND YOU OFF
A PATH WHERE YOU NEVER REALIZE THAT ALL THE REAL POWER IS BEING
GIVEN TO THE RICH IN THIS COUNTRY.
I MENTIONED SOMETHING
WE COULD GO, A TINY BIT OF MONEY FOR REGULAR WORKERS, TONS OF
MONEY FOR THE RICH, AND SOME WOMAN TWEETED TO ME, YOU ARE
JUST SO MAD THAT THEY ARE GETTING THIS THOUSAND DOLLARS.
AND I DIDN'T RESPOND BECAUSE SHE SEEMED KIND OF STUPID BUT I SAID
I'M NOT AGAINST THE $1000, HERE IS WHAT I WANT.
I DON'T WANT
$1000, I WANT A LIVABLE GODDAMN WAGE FOR HER, CONSISTENT RACES
THAT KEEP UP WITH OR EXCEED COST-OF-LIVING INCREASES, I WANT
INSURANCE FOR HER, I WANT EXPERIMENTS IN BASIC INCOME, I
WANT HER TO GET FREE ACCESS TO HEALTH INSURANCE, I WANT HER
KIDS TO GET FREE ACCESS TO SCHOOLING AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
I WANT ACTUAL ECONOMIC POWER TO BE PUT BACK IN THE POCKETS OF
PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING THE REAL WORK IN AMERICA.
I DON'T WANT
ONE TIME MAYBE $1000 IF YOU BEEN WORKING THERE FOR 20 YEARS, I
WANT REAL, SUBSTANTIVE CHANGE TO THE ENTIRE ECONOMIC SYSTEM WE
HAVE.
DO YOU SUPPORT THAT?
NO, YOU WANT BREAD CRUMBS.
PREACH IT, BROTHER.
I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS ON WITH PASTOR JOHN
TODAY.
AND I LIKE HOW THE REPUBLICANS HAVE OUTDONE MARIE
ANTOINETTE.
THEY DON'T HAVE BREAD?
GIVE THEM BREAD CRUMBS.
IT'S BREAD AND CIRCUSES.
THE BREAD IS THE THOUSAND
DOLLARS, THE CIRCUS IS ICE RAIDS AND NUCLEAR FEUDS WITH NORTH
KOREA AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND THEY'RE HOPING THAT YOU WILL BE SO DISTRACTED BY THOSE
SORTS OF THINGS THAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT IS ACTUALLY
ONGOING IN THIS COUNTRY.