okay our average middle class
american family house
thirty eight thousand dollars in wealth
this is the middle class
this is the average family who's making around forty five thousand dollars a
year when you add up the salaries of everybody the family working as many
jobs as they're working
they've got about thirty eight grand
in the equity in their home in their checking account in the value their
carinii arrow together and you know
that's within a thirty eight thousand
there was no class family in australia
where rich people pay such high taxes the rupert murdoch left left the country
in came here
evers role as family and australia has a hundred and ninety three thousand
dollars
in well
in japan it's our turn forty one thousand dollars
in a little later twenty three thousand dollars
yet so we got back harbor middle class is melting down
we have that at the same time transnational corporations like trans
canada which wants to make of money
taking toxic
by two men s
slurry
and pump in a downtown oil
pipeline to the southern coast by the way yesterday i said that up in alberta
there was a that oil spill and
if he had toxic brian spill water spill and i was wrong
and the the uh... toxic water spill
has killed off about a thousand acres of trees and plants is basically pouring
salt into the into the ground
the article that i read said this follows a uh... pain or several whale
spills albert in the past month
and so there if you have but there's nothing
in the last few days so let me correct myself
this is just a piece just a spill the couple million gallons of toxic water
that they use to too
to get out the ortho
but in a case
we've got this kid is corporation his canadian corporation coming in the
united states and straight l our law enforcement agency
the people who are protesting
should be dealt with as if they were terrorists
at the same time at our middle class is collapsing
at the same time that the the most important thing that's represented sca
do yesterday as is defy the supreme court's roe v_ wade decision
now btw think what you want
about abortion
the question you have to ask yourself isn't you know was added yeah a good
bill or a bad bill question to ask yourself is knowing that that bill will
not make it through the senate and that the president has already said he would
feel if i got to the white it got to the white house and knowing that that dole
had absolutely nothing to do
with job creation or the the strength of the middle class
wire wire the republicans do and that in the house representatives
instead of
passing legislation that takes away tax breaks for corporations and shipper jobs
overseas
for example
or creating jobs here in the united states
or doing something about a looming ghetto carbon crisis
bill mckibben has a new peace and and the rolling stone by the way talking
about this
really worth checkin
so these i think earth are really the important issues of our day and the
republicans
i mean we all know the answer
the answer goes back to january twentieth
two thousand
nine
the night
of the day the brock obama was inaugurated
i was here in washington d_c_ i stood probably sixty yards away from brock
obama as he was sworn in
i was the closest member of the press to the president as he was sworn in as
really kind of cool all around her got us a into every new service got us a
uh... in the international press
space right there on the same
level as the president undone
deep packages walked around a corner shikha sanders
but tube really secret service guy was lucky
not that i was inclined to
and i was so i was standing you know of on seventy feet away or higher fee away
from drizzly bushra sit behind him
is making these awful faces
and doing these flipper gestures you know these sarcastic applause lines
i was sure that that was going to be extra extra
turned out it wasn't
and you know we've got this uh... we've got this disaster and it goes back to
that day
by tonight if that day
the night of that day
at ramona was sworn in
and be caucus room restaurant here in washington d_c_
there is a group of about fifty republicans have got together
and off plotted
to bring down the of our presidents
the
the uh... they use the taliban is their model according to one of the people who
one of the republicans was very sad this publicly later
and that what they were what they swore to do was blocked anything
i keep in mind on that day
we were losing seven hundred thousand jobs a month
it blocks to do anything
base with a abuse were close to each other did did block anything that would
improve the economy help america
and bus makes the obama president slick successful
and for a couple weeks there they were successful
and then teddy kennedy died
and
i remember the exact sequence of events but there is a few weeks you know that
the first few weeks the along presidency he did not have a filibuster proof
uh... senate so they were able to block him in the senate
even when good legislation came out of the house and then there was a little
window of a but i think they're calling eight ito anyways to eleven weeks of the
like that
just a couple of months
where
by one vote
they could actually get stuff done and i got a lot done
hem and scott brown got appointed and boom
they lost their ability for buster further to black filibusters brother
public ans
and for the full last five years republicans have blocked every
significant effort
by this administration
to strengthen the american middle class
which on average owns thirty eight thousand dollars for the world
whereas the average us billions
middle class family of four hundred ninety three thousand
and republicans like it this way
libertarianism
yet to know what your innocent
ism is calling it a try to pull it off
you're listening to the comma hardman program colleagues execs nineteen
seventy-eight joanne kings and queens lords and ladies all that stuff yet
that's libertarians
will be back on some unspecified here calls