ta marvin here on the news you need to know this one of our nation's richest
men billionaire nick an hour just destroyed the g_o_p_'s economic talking
points
in testimony before the senate subcommittee on economic policy an hour
explained why rich people like him are not in fact the real job creators
boat in the same way that it's a fact that the sun not earth is the center of
the solar system it's also a fact that the middle class
not rich business people like me are
the center of america's economy
and our talked about a virtuous cycle were middle-class consumers have enough
money to buy things which stimulates the economy in creates more jobs
pecan are was an original investor amazon dot com any because and he
founded the company became overstock dot com
he said that as an investor he helped start dozens of businesses
but he added
if no one could have afforded by what we had to sell my businesses would all have
failed in all those jobs would have evaporated
there is testimony mister han are called for higher taxes on the wealthy kannan
corporations
and said that that money should be used to invest in our middle class
prosperity is built from the middle out
they can our own understands that we must invest in our nation to get our
economy growing again
hopefully our law makers were listening
in scrutiny is this year is turning out to be a landmark of wealth in equality
during the first three months of twenty thirteen c_e_o_s in banks tuza raked in
record profits what workers were that were hit with the largest drop in wages
on the u_s_ banking industry broke records with profits of over forty
billion dollars
workers saw their wages decline three point eight percent despite an increase
in worker productivity
this is the largest drop on record in the sixty five year history that
statistic
thirty three years of reaganomics of brought us to this point where the rich
only get richer and the working poor
work even harder and longer four lots
record profits and bloated c_e_o_ pay clearly show
that companies can afford better pay for their employees but
greed is getting in the way
every year the wealth gap between the top one percent in the everyday worker
grows wider
people around our nation are waking up to this disparity receive more strikes
and actions
by low wage workers
day by day more americans are there any living wages
fighting to end this outrageous wealth inequality
in the best of the rest of the new senator bernie sanders wants to make a
big investment in our future leaders
fever mon senator will soon introduce the youth jobs act which will provide
three billion dollars to put young people back to work
senator sanders released a statement about that bill saying
we have got to do everything we can to make sure the young americans have the
jobs they need to pay for college education
and a move up the economic ladder
senator sanders bill would provide grant money to states in an effort to create
hundreds of thousands of jobs
for economically disadvantaged young people through our nation
this legislation would also provide funding for job training an
apprenticeship programs
provider you through the skills they need to be successful throughout their
lives
senator bernie sanders knows the importance of our young people and this
legislation of his could be a great investment in our future leaders
the environmental protection agency is finally recognizing the true social
costs of carbon pollution
u_p_s_ going from new legislation which puts a higher price unpacking carbon
dioxide into our atmosphere
two thousand nine in two thousand ten
federal agencies got to go to calculate the cost of pollution
by factory in future property damage changes to agricultural production
and the risks to human health
estimate a cost of about twenty two dollars per ton of carbon
this year they updated that assessment model to include rising sea levels and
struggling agriculture
which increase the cost of thirty six dollars a time
democratic congressman elijah cummings says congressional investigators now no
politics was not behind the iris realty party groups but
that won't stop there elisa from pressing on with his political which uk
this weekend representative combings released an official transcript of the
house oversight committee
interviews with i_r_s_ officials
et ran scrip shows that the i_r_s_ manager
a self-described conservative republican
told congressional investigators that he had a colleague were responsible for the
additional scrutiny
a tea party groups
manager also stated that he had
no reason to believe that the white house is involved in any way
just think that testimony under oath
committee chairman darryl ices said he will continue our investigative of the
i_r_s_ actions were politically motivated
so the aris managers statement did not prevent a lightning
congressman cummings said he will release the full transcript if
representative i said is not
a transcript they provide even more evidence at the white house was not
behind the i_r_s_'s scrutiny of the tea party groups
although it's doubtful that they rely civil ever give up his political witch
hunt so please
and finally
pot legalization washington state has put at least one police dog out of work
laboratory risk
uh... the labrador retreat retriever
is now obsolete for police work
because it couldn't be retrained to ignore the set of marijuana
police departments purchased a new dog trained to ignore the small pot
more states legalize marijuana more police dogs could be out of work but
maybe someone can give a new job
helping forgetful
forgetful pot smokers relocate the missing staff
and that's the way it is today monday june tenth
twenty thirty
i'm john hartman