down in alabama
where if you earn over one thousand three hundred thirty two dollars
by year
yeah you're there right it's about a hundred and five dollars a month
or a hundred and ten dollars if you over a if u not debug hundred and what
fifteen dollars a month if you look at
thirty bucks a week
forty bucks a week
if you are not over
one thousand three hundred thirty two dollars a year you do not quite you are
too rich to qualify
for medicaid
for health insurance for poor people
an alabama
well another one of these right wing taker states
they take more money from you and me from the rest of us taxpayers than they
sent to the federal government the blue states of the maker states the red
states of the taker states
one of these right wing republican taker states
you gotta make less than thirteen hundred and thirty two dollars a year to
qualify for for a health insurance as a poor person
and uh...
if you are dot i work
and can find a job
you qualified for
benefits is what we see it call welfare until
oakland to the meat ax to it
of one hundred ninety dollars a month for a family of too
pay for your food pay for your rent
under daddy bucks a month
spring maisie
it was so amazing that ricky laurence gardner whose
is forty nine years old lives and molten
alabama
and has a job buddy he injured his leg
so badly that it's preventing him from working in the is about to lose his job
and he knew that this is what he's looking at
and live in a hundred ninety dollars a month
which would be too much to qualify him for
free health insurance it is getting injury
so here's what he did yesterday
he walked into a bank in mole nalla bala
within note
that said i have a gun
evening your money
and it's the teller the teller handed him a bag of money
took the money walked out to his car
plus the money in his car
close the door
sat on the truck ever sat on the hood
and waited for the police to show up
'cause in jail
ill get health care
and he'll get fed
and he'll have a place to stanley
although alabama has some of the worst jails in america and the right about
twice what their designed for capacity is
and so it's going to be a health all but apparently it's better than the homeless
hell hole
in alabama
what does this say about america
research are also sentences about america
he's got a solution
he's gonna solve the problem
arbor day and almost us and
low wages and
no access to health insurance
the charles cook foundation
in finder at over charles cook foundation dot org charles cook
foundation has run a new t_v_ ad
to let it does not add by
in which they point out that if you are are any more than thirty as i recall
thirty two thousand four hundred will will play the ad you can hear at
yourself a done by may not have the number right
you
you just like charles coke you're in the top one percent
you are one percent
here's the uh...
are you and the one percent
well if you earn over thirty four thousand dollars a year you are one of
the wealthiest one percent
in the world
is the power contact nama prion
people on the most economically free countries or on average over eight times
what the people in the least
the poor earn ten times as much
people in the most three countries better protected civil rights
if you're in thirty four thousand dollars a year
utero one percent or
so
the which diet all dealers in kansas
sat down with him and said uh... let's talk about this
and he said ok cool
he said uh... we needed a better job of raising up a disadvantage in the poorest
in this country rather than saying oh we're just fine now
anything that people can do and it was limited capital can do to raise
themselves up that the poor people and keep throwing obstacles their way and so
we've got to clear those out
or the minimum wage
or anything that reduces the amid mood the mobility of labor
he explained to the eagle
suture lsc oaks
in search of this and he's running this
t_v_ ad
do away with the minimum wage
the
but i mean i was thinking that oh edge
and
let's do away with any laws that limit the wall bility of labor now wat does
that mean the mobility of labor it means the ability of people to move from one
country to another so that they can get a job in other words
unlimited immigration into the united states or unlimited outsourcing as out
of the united states
in other words
as he started out with his ad heyy make thirty four thousand bucks you're you're
in the top one percent
now
top one percent that's that's pretty rare fight territory shouldn't most
people be in the fifty percentile
so running out right now
top one percent thirty four grand a year year
here rich guy
so let's compete instead with the people who are making a dollar a day
which is about a billion people on this planet
or two dollars a day couple billion people let's plan
so let's set it up
so that
six hundred dollars a year
a hundred dollars your niner dollars year while we go back to alabama i mean
they set the benchmark for us
thirteen hundred and thirty two dollars a year
you make more nap you are rich
you're too rich to qualify
for government-subsidized health care
don't know how to respond to that other than just
tracked
amazed
amusement
i guess
what's really tragic action
that we've got somebody worth forty ft plus billion dollars lecturing us on how
rich we are
and how we should do away with the the minimum wage
has hit a shame