so onto this up all the most americans say tax the rich
to what
to a balanced the budget
used and how
disconnected
our politicians have become from the american public now
where the republicans are
involved in all sorts of be acts
coming out with these new cut go rules which say that
we can only
the only thing that we can do that will increase the budget
increase excuse me the deficit
is cut taxes anything else we can cut taxes
you know that increases the budget
even though thats apocalyptic
you can't do anything else
hanks ept if it's also repeal healthcare reform
which would also
which would also increased about it
things that we can do
the worst thing that we can have
is a growing budget deficit
unless we're cutting taxes or unless we're killing health care reform
uh... which would also increase the deficit
you see what the principle is their right
the principal is
that republicans
are full of bullshit
that's the principle
wherefore bullshit
whatever we can do that is
measures up
appropriately to that standard
we will do
and then you have
the democrats are at least the obama administration
beginning to position
the american public
for austerity beginning to position the american public for cuts in retirement
insurance basically saying to middle class and poor people look we know
you're not living much longer at all
we know that your your chances of being out of work at age fifty five yr
extremely high
we know that your chances of ever finding employment again a very low we
know that you're working jobs that make it very difficult to go past the age of
sixty two or sixty five
well sorry
we're going to cut social security even though it has nothing to do the deficit
so that we can
continue to cut
taxes for millionaires
and according to a sixty minutes vanity fair poll released on monday
sixty one percent of americans polled would rather see taxes for the wealthy
increased
first step to tackling the deficit
so while the audience of this program maybe relatively small to those who are
watching kirk cameron on c_n_n_
your
perspective on what should be done
is completely in line with the majority of americans
the next most popular way chosen by twenty percent was to cut defense
spending
which is also
a smart idea
so we have eighty one-percent of the people
who want to do something or other
cut social security in fact
only three percent
would cut social security only
three percent i got i think
that amongst the ninety seven percent of the american public there's some tea
party years
and some republicans in there too
so it's nice to know
that at the very least
are leaders in washington or ignoring the entire country
as they prepared to cut social security benefits
only four percent
four percent
would cut medicare that's a cover me ron entirely government-run
single-payer health care system
only four
percent of americans
would start by cutting medicare
and then things are getting a little bit uh...
a little bit hanky
which part of world would you fix first a large proportion responded said thirty
six percent
washington
i don't think they're talking literally
fix washington d_c_
although that's probably good idea
statehood might help
some type of proper representation
but uh...
i think what they're talking about is they're saying to our
our elected leaders
you seem to be running on an agenda you seem to be running with an agenda that
is completely divorce from the reality of the american public
one that is completely fueled by corporate america
by corporate in financial interests that outweigh those
of the average american
and by average american i'm talking about ninety percent of the american
population
not talking about uh...
some corn fed guys sitting in the middle of
of the country who says he doesn't like gays and wants to uh...
is afraid that obama's coming from is gone and talking about ninety percent of
the american public
and the one thing that they all share
side from their different uh... religious values they're different moral
values they're different
social perspectives
is that they're all
victims
of a fact
of their money
upwardly distributed
to the wealthiest ten percent of this country
period that's the one thing that we all share at this point
twenty three percent uh... would fix the middle east fourteen percent would
choose haiti
that's actually quite impressive