I yeah okay so many cracked the BI I went off on a rant earlier about
Steve Jobs wasn't so much a rant was just a response to this guy was
say in a you know we need the one percent that the job creators all and
unlike and
you know the that that
you know he said Steve Jobs started with nothing perilously job I did I'm read
the
biography and I so I should the Senate before did arm
so a the are my correspondent here says Steve Jobs's raise and lower middle
class environment
yeah he went to read college sprints at a bar of their life savings to send him
big party is Sat success was because he
he forced his parents to move that's an interesting thing for kid to do
misty becoming friends with the neighbor who eventually introduced him to Steve
Wozniak
a bill gates on the other hand did come from money in his family's wealth and
oblique injury
or it sir I would add up that do not go back to my original point
if if he had been born poor
and a minority I it might be it might have been a very different story
the point is that none of us gets here
just on our own that was the point that I was trying to make and
and and many of these giant monopolies
I whether it's Microsoft or Apple irv or
you know JP Morgan Chase
or general motors are you fill in the blanks
any of these giant companies that that tend to dominate industries
that the they're getting there by virtue of the fact
that we are providing them with the infrastructure necessary we the Pete
with the people we the taxpayers
by providing them with the court system where they can enforce contracts
the vast majority of our court system is used by business
it's not the criminal you know we we we all watch the you know
you watch the cop shows you see the criminal justice system that's a small
part of the cost above the
up the court system most to the court system is used by corporations
who pays for it you and I do paid for with taxes
and and for example I mean just as one example
I mean our our businesses in america use an educated workforce it educated at our
expense
our businesses in america use public utilities that are paid for
you know they at least the sighting of them is paid for by us
and that's not a bad thing it's just
in acknowledgment that nobody got there on their own this idea that
that that somebody is entitled to take a billion dollars in income
that that somehow anybody could be with the
their work could be so valuable that it's worth taking a billion dollars
a year in income like you know some these guys on wall street do
I would say to you the it's a scam i mean there are there are brain surgeons
and heart surgeons and
out you know rocket scientists and high level engineers and people who are just
doing really really difficult
really really brilliant work we spent their lives getting to the point where
they could do that work
and they're making 200 300 400 500 600 thousand dollars a year maybe a million
dollars a year
and they're taking it as ordinary income in their pain a max 139 percent because
they're taking a paycheck on
but
the Mitt Romney's are the world the the guys who figured out how to game the
system and make twenty thirty forty million dollars a year
hundred million dollars a year to earn a million dollars a year the Stephen J
Hensley's in the world with his billion dollars have been come from United
Healthcare
or dollar bill McGuire who preceded him with 1.6 billion dollars in income
for running health insurance company real and so much about coming in the
form of stock options that that date you
when you convert them you pay a maximum I love you know five to 20 percent
income tax on
whereas their brain surgeon is is is pain 39 percent
these people aren't noble
capitalists bought themselves up by the bootstraps
folks the people have figured out how to game the system and in many cases
is not just that they figured out how to game the system because the Supreme
Court this constitutional monarchy that we have here in the United States
the Supreme Court has set as laid out a brand new set a rules for doing business
in the United States
and doing politics in the United States when they discovered
back in in 1971 the buckley versus vallejo decision they discovered
that money is protected by the First Amendment
now I have the constitutional right here in front me
and the first amendment is one sentence long it says Congress shall make no law
respecting
respect in to an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press
where the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to Petition the
government for redress of grievances did you hear the word body in there
listen really carefully cuz the Supreme Court 38 years ago last week said money
is protected by the first-amendment Congress shall make no law books
est respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press
with the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to Petition the
government for redress a grievance
spirit I don't see money in there anywhere but
5 right-wingers on the Supreme Court do
ever since 1803 the Mari case I A although it only happened twice the
first half the
19th the late it didn't happen at all late 18th century
only happened twice in the first half the 19th century marv Levy Madison 1803
Dred Scott 1856
only twice did the Supreme Court say that they had the power to strike down a
law
passed by congress judicial supremacy we are more powerful than the legislature
we are more powerful than the president United States
the for seventy years the other Republican only happened twice
now ever virtually every single case the Supreme Court takes
they are so asserting in those cases that they have the power to strike down
the law
or as in this case finding the word money in the first amendment when it's
not there
to create law they did the same thing in Roe v Wade when they came up with the
idea that there's three different trimesters each trimester should have
different rules
is nothing in the constitution it says that the supreme court to make law
as the job the legislature
so anyhow they they said that that money is protected by the First Amendment and
then they said in the 14th amendment
that corporations are protected by the Fourteenth Amendment
now here section 10 the 14th amendment this is the part in which they found
this
this is ratified in 1868 July 9th 1868
in order to help freed the slaves
right the 13th amendment ban slavery the 14th amendment
establish a civil rights for former slaves
and the 15th amendment gives the absolute right to vote
african-americans these three members passed after the Civil War
and tell me if you hear the word corporation in here somehow because the
Supreme Court also
those two years after Buckley in a case called First National Bank versus bloody
decided the corporations are persons others other cases to where they had
you know implied or suggested that
but not just persons not just actors who have to pay taxes i mean we all agree
that you know they have some sort of status they pay taxes they can only and
things like that
sign contracts but that they were persons protected by the Constitution as
a whole different ball of wax
the 14th amendment section 1 all persons born or naturalized in the United States
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof in
which would include slaves performers led our citizens in the united states
and the state where they reside
no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the Privileges or
Immunities of Citizens of the United States
nor shall any state deprive any Persson of life liberty or property without due
process of law
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the
laws
and that very last phrase that's exit node nor deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection laws
back is what the supreme court said applies to corporations
now I didn't know if the tabling confront the Civil War to free the
corporation's
but our Supreme Court tells us this
and the net-net have all that is that on you know
James back to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
is that because if these two decisions
these giant corporations have enabled by politicians
this is the Thom Hartmann program and they continue to be
now Roy by politicians but intimidate politicians an escape laws passed
that make the rich richer and of course everybody school