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welcome to america or half the nation lives right on the razor's edge
a study new report out of the corporation for enterprise development
finds it forty four percent of americans are just one financial shock away from
complete broad
nearly half the nation
doesn't have enough savings to keep them out of poverty for more than three
months
should they suffer job loss an accident a sickness or other financial setbacks
another recent study out of the consumer
federation of america found that forty percent of all american households with
paycheck to pay check with virtually no savings
this is what's become a of once valued american middle-class after thirty years
of trickle-down reaganomics
and as the main reason why our economy continues to falter
our nation's working people and consumers don't have enough money to
spend
let's roll back the reagan tax cuts
put in place a new wealth tax on everyone making over a billion dollars
and redistribute some of that wealth down to working people
who will actually spend it
voted no billionaires dot com
in scrutiny use one of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer
because state and local governments are taxing the super which at half the rate
the tax the poor
that's the conclusion of a new study
uh... the institute on taxation economic policy which is an in-state local
property in sales taxes around the nation
according to the results the poorest twenty percent of american spain
effective tax rate of eleven percent and the middle twenty percent pay nine point
four percent rate
but guess how much the top one percent pays justin easley five point six
percent half the tax rate of the poor
in some states around the nation like washington texas florida in south dakota
which have no state income tax the poor paying tax rates six times higher
than a top one percent
this disparity has a lot to do with stace moving away from progressive
income taxes it toward progresses sales taxes
mit romney the republican party wants you to believe that half the nation
doesn't pay taxes and that that half the nation is comprised of takers
but that's not the reality
in a country where the top one percent pay half or as little as a six
of the taxes the poor pay
and who are the real takers
in the best of the rest of the is the situation for college students in
america continues to deteriorate
a new report published by cycle labs
finds that this to the load the legal few delinquency rate rose twenty two
percent from two thousand five to two thousand seven
with more than fifteen percent of all students being forced into default on
their worlds
the rapidly increasing price of college tuition
the cut that's
the cutbacks in government assistant for students and the non-existent job market
are all conspiring together
to settle our next generation of leaders with enormous
and norma spirals of debt
as a report notes in two thousand five the average u_s_ student loan debt with
seventeen thousand two hundred thirty three dollars
by two thousand twelve eight ballooned
to more than twenty seven thousand two hundred fifty three dollars
increase of fifty-eight percent in seven years
our american worker suppose to compete with the rest of the world estate and
take risks
when they're so deep in the whole by the time they graduate
we need to be sending our young people to college for free like many advanced
european nations already do
nearly two years after the super she knew when nuclear prices in japan
it's affects continued to be felt around the planet
powerplant operator kapil
has launched a seafood monitoring program
the waters just off the crippled nuclear facility
and they are still pulling up highly contaminated fish
in fact a route of recently caught fish was found to have more than twenty five
hundred times the legal limit of radiation in it
levels of contamination this high
suggests that the fukushima plant still leaking consider all amounts of
radiation
in fact this new fish was found at ten times more radiation
that fish caught last argus suggesting radiation levels around the fukushima
plant are still increasing
despite apko and other government officials sing the nuclear crisis is
completely under control
how much from more evidence to the world beat that nuclear power is a really bad
idea
don't declare the republican party election reading scam
effort over just yet
after a series of the mouse pads and legislative defeats many are saying
republicans will soon completely abandon the plans to change how electoral
college both accounted in blue states in order to put democrats disadvantage
however
in pennsylvania both governor corbett in the state majority leader still support
the plan
in fact in pennsylvania they're working on a new scheme
which will do a lot electoral college boats
proportionally
based on the popular vote in the state a move that will also greatly benefit
republicans
also we can take republicans like rick snyder at their word
when they say they've abandoned uske
snyder said the same thing about right to work for less of legislation last
year and then immediately reversed his position
these guys won't back down at ease
stated
and finally we all know what the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a
first-grader with a gun
lawmakers in the missouri state senate are considering legislation that require
all first-graders
in that state to take a gun safety training course
funding for the course would be proud by great
from the n_r_a_ which is
more here than ever to get new young customers hooked i'm buying guns a set
of actually preventing gun violence and accidents
so kids will be forced to learn how to safely used on the first grade yet
misery doesn't require any sexual education classes
and considering that miseries young people at some of the highest s_t_d_'s
rates of the entire nation
pinnacles lawmakers should focus instead on teach your kids of other body
rather than turning them into gun toting vigilantes
with batman lunch boxes
and that's the way it is today thursday january thirty first
twenty thirty
i'm shane front-end infer time armin on the news