the number airlines we have is steadily declining
that this is a problem in every single sector
industrial sector it business sector in the united states
the number of restaurants %uh the number retail chains the number of
above manufactures various products updated number elektronik firms in at
number
here web-based for a what whatever you're looking at
any industry where there's money to be made
what you'll find is the by and large the small companies are all gone
or at least the medium size companies
they've been bought out by the big guys and so
you know for example with the with airlines back in 2001
just 13 years ago there were 10 major airlines flight in the US now and a few
minor ones
it was american TWA America West US Airways Delta Northwest United
Continental southwest and AirTran
but then in 2001 American Airlines bought TWA in 2005 America West bought
up US Airways
and kept the US Airways name thought that was a better name in 2000 8
daughter began merging with Northwest in 2010 United and Continental merged
now American and the US Airways emerging
so what we're seeing here
is that in less than 15 years the
the competition in the airline industry
the major competition the airlines United States
has gone from 10 carriers down to four now
this as a as I said this is not unique to the airline industry you're seeing
the same thing in the
you know in in food you know the the the primary
producers a foodie got to Cargill an ADA you got a couple very very large
companies that are the
major producers green you get a couple a very large companies that the
major producers have chicken and beef get a couple very large companies that
are the major producers have
so a Inc corn and that why I guess that because with the green
arm and then you gotta get you know the
the producers %uh the final product you know the
my yum food seems door own everybody
a Taco Bell too I believe for Burger King
or not you walk into a shop in centre a mall or a downtown anywhere in the
country and what do you see oh there's no the TGI Friday's
there's another you know jewelry store chain part of a national chain there's
another there's another
retails for part of a national chain we don't have local businesses anymore
where have small businesses anymore and
the result and and the cat the consequence this is that while
inflation has officially not gone up
that much in your 2.1 percent for this year up
the cost of living actually has been going up
because inflation close wages
fact it's one of the major numbers that are plugged into the formula to
determine wages and wage
air to end it determine inflation in wages went flat
basically since Ronald Reagan took office for everybody except CEO's
they've exploded for the CEO's
and the banksters but for everybody else that so much
and so we're pay more and we're getting less
right across the board it is
it is time in my opinion to just basically repudiate
the eight years the reagan administration is
we talked about his tax cuts yesterday and how they set us up for bubble blast
bubble lost in a boom-bust boom-bust cycles
we've gone through three in the morning another one right now and now
II find this interesting Craig Shirley who has been a guest on this program
he's got a
a charlie pollard public relations
he's got our right-wing PR firm basically
there's a new book The rick Perlstein Road
who I believe is like
you know aim he the I think he won a pulitzer
whatever it is pristine is you know a serious serious reporter
Arizona well award-winning it's as historic frosting
about reagan brand new book coming out about reagan
Inc regularly has threatened to sue for $25 million dollars in damages and asked
for all copies of the book to be destroyed
I'm not making this up the the book is the title the book is invisible bridge
and the subtitle is the fall Richard Nixon in the rise ronald reagan
and there's a fascinating piece over at Media Matters .org about this
the New York Times gave the book a a glowing review the cauldron epic work
and
then no Paul Krugman weighed in saying that the
this smear campaign that has been organized by the right against rick
Perlstein for
daring to write a biography for ronald reagan actually told the truth what
happened the reagan years
and you'll recall I started by saying that there's no more competition
anywhere
the the first few years the raid ministration were characterized by this
explosion of mergers and acquisition
activity because in 82 reagan basically says is structured the Justice
Department to stop in for singer anti-trust Act
just three years before they with the breakup of AT&T had been completed
during the carter administration
three four five years before whatever was used during
jimmy carter's for years a process that had been initiated
during the nixon administration so to quite some time
and you know AT&T a broken up to now is it
Reagan said we're going to do this anymore we're gonna break up big
companies
in fact we're gonna let companies goes because they want and see you had you
know michael milken yet always
am in a artists they call themselves mergers and acquisitions guys
there a lot of other words they were
described by 2012 legacies the reagan presidency
but
so there's this this smear campaign against wrote rick Perlstein
that Paul Krugman says is grotesque
and slimy NHA and spirit Spurrier's
is this tactic tactic should be punctured by the press not given
momentum with opinions differ on
shaper the planet reporting rate
its
it's really pretty amazing
surely fail
miss lee help stage Paul paula jones is this Media Matters 1994 circus-like for
press conference early view the president as immoral leper
I was speaking of bill clinton and he's the
PR history is the PR flack for I
Inc altered Asha sousa Hobby Lobby citizens united
the NRA the Club for Growth the heritage foundation the Tea Party Patriots
enter bright part John Bolton Sarah Palin Rick Perry
is or has been and now he's trying to suppress this book on reagan
which makes me really wanna read this book about reagan
rick Perlstein has a new book whatever you get
we're going to wreck on the show here and and you know find out about that
the
the he hugh he literally wants these books destroyed the book is called
invisible bridge
the fall of richard nixon on the rise ronald reagan
and
apparently surely had written a book about reagan talking about a wonderfully
was
in pearlstein paraphrases some of the facts
in that book and therefore charlie is
suing him for plagiarism among other things
but faxer not
subject to copyright you can't yet so you can copy artifact
up some ways as a fact im both on a conf actor you simply cite that bagged
Ernie Els so sold we live in this country now where
increasingly got these giant corporations that are not answerable to
anybody that don't have competition
they're reading your email and
and where we gonna do about this other than repeal reagan
this is the Thom Hartmann program I i really
yell it's like that president that presidency that that eight years the
reagan presidency did more damage to this country that
anything since the great depression