t gave the uh... the commencement address at ohio state university
on sunday
and in a speech focused on citizenship
analicia rescind some sort of things that he had to say
and
with loving affectionate respects to the for our president uh... my thoughts on
down
on what he had to say so
personal here's the president all will about becoming cynical
where we turn away
can get the skirt fabricated nordic parkside concert parkside as someone who
but like the subclan
that someone would be
you know demagogues
people who say are just be about don't bother corporations want to go over
whatever but you know there's there's a lot of truth to that
uh... clip number two
and that's all we have however solid
and policies detach from what middle-class families face every day
the well connected to publicly demand the washington state out of the business
and that was for a government sears for special treatment that you don't get
that's all small minority of lawmakers get cover to defeat something the vast
majority of their constituents want
but our political system gets consumed by small things
when we are people called the do great things
john so there you have
basically him saying what i just said you know this is what
when he's talking about uh... means a half we get cynical and we turn away
from the political process
then the corporations in the billionaire step in and and
man on the show and they have been other than the president in call it the
supreme court on this i will
value goes and
larger than that but here is here was his
essentially his call to action on this
and this is clip
four-way actually fiat
feared number four
class of twenty thirty police ultimately break that cycle
only you can make sure the democracy you inherit is as good as we know it can be
but it requires work dedicated and informed and engage
citizenship
well it is repeat is gonna require
citizenship and would be nice to have and activists generation this is agent
or asian coming out of college with the highest level of college debt
in the history of the united states
and many of you listen you're watching right now are old enough to remember
went pretty much nobody graduated with college debt
and less they happen to be
beetle been some major postgraduate program like uh... you know an endear
p_h_d_ in which case it was a death could easily be paid off for the first
few years
then finally to uh...
activity ah... and almost blame the victim
molded
here is the president i wrap in this thing up
orquesta where registration daughter
but we can always be great
we'd always aspire to something more
doesn't depend on hoey elect officers depends on u_s_ citizens how big
you want us to be how battling you want to see these changes for the better
and look at all that america's already accomplished what how big we've been i
dare you class twenty thirteen
so i dare you to do better
that's his call to action
i think we need more than that
i think we need more than a good speech
i think we more than a call citizenship respectfully
there's a great piece over a term
at alternet i'm sorry the copy i have here does not have the authors may
monitor i would attributed i will get it
during the break
uh... it settle five ways the raw unregulated capitalism as a acting like
cancer american society as a chapter in one of my book setting it's cold and i
think it's public threshold titled the cancer stage of capitalism
uh... always paul buckeye who wrote this
and
and here's the
here's what's going on
these are the things that frankly i i wish the president would be addressing
the these are the kinds of things the lyndon johnson used to talk about when
he wasn't talking about the vietnam war
this is the great society
this was the stuff that that
that frankly
f_d_r_
talked about obviously any of the great depression
the joint eisenhower talked about
they'd even richard nixon talked about
although a lot of
what nixon talked about was the environment
oddly enough
but the average person who gets food stamps it's cold snap the supplemental
nutrition or assistance program we use conference just out to credit card or
whatever
gets
out thousands either alloys for food
for the entire
but three bucks a day
about ten americans
made that much
every ten seconds last year
from their investments
so we have fortunes
at forty seven million americans
one out of seven need
forty-seven million americans
need this snap assistance
they literally
yet they need fifteen hundred bucks a year with the food just to do it
forty seven million of us
half of those hungry people are children
and this is add salute consequence of reaganomics i thirty two year failed
experiment of reaganomics because in nineteen eighty
we had food banks in nineteen eighty with the naked for that i remember
when i was a little kid this is in the mid-nineteen fifties
there was a pretty bad recession there
and and uh... my dad mom had
big moved around the shooting near looking for work in
me ended up in lansing
and my dad was selling vacuum cleaners encyclopedias door-to-door
which was not really a job and there was a jody's did it all day long the
uh... rex erecting flanders in world book encyclopedia is
we had one of each
fact-based eleven cycle psi
my goal was to go from a disease read the entire encyclopedia
i was like six or seven years old those uh... you know i didn't get very far
but in any case
i remember on the weekends are going to the surplus food place
engane these giant twenty-pound bricks of american cheese and these twenty
years thirty or forty pound bags of macaroni
and she's ten or twenty pound boxes of dried pollard
skim milk
it was the surplus food store was the government apparently was buying you
know subsidizing farmers by buying the surplus
and then getting underway decor poor people and which loose at that time i
got
knighted at that point
two younger brothers i have three but i think two of them have been born at that
point
sorus you know a family of five living in this three-bedroom house and lansing
michigan
for every
flowed bank
like that that existed and i was in the fifties
they were few and far between
because although we were having a tough time you know we weren't
we were down and out
there were still opportunities dead could still you know filling the blanks
and then ultimately in in fifty five fifty six fifty seven i forget what year
i was a little little kid at the time
and he got this job and at lansing told i edta fursat lansing by sinking in
lansing lansing tool and die in worked there for forty years in
uh... that a good mid-atlantic
tied to the pension and full insurance a little bit
and then fully on his own home
but the point is that from in nineteen eighty for every food bank that exists
in nineteen eighty
today there are two hundred of them
i think this is one of the very best metrics of reaganomics
of hope in what method one way to not necessary folks
for the food bank in america in nineteen eighty when they've been in office today
there are two
fifteen minutes past
this is the comma hardman program
meanwhile twenty people made more from their investment company one year in the
entire
two thousand eleven food stamp