detection is everybody did it used to
hear that music is their daniel
merrill's the music it is time for one
of your favorite segments howlett shirdi
how it should be in a in a series of
statements leading up to the united
nation in just a couple weeks
denim as we've made a lot of progress on
social issues some stagnation in terms
of the economic issues
odd take it away from there
wanted it to spend a few of most serious
leading up to this point and i think
that
i clearly and more interested in more
invested in economic policy it's not
because i don't
care about social policy
uh... i want same sex marriage should be
reality for all americans
i want a loyal americans have access to
abortions i know that in some parts the
country that some very easy
i see us moving forward on those issues
i see
it being trendy
it being cool
i see the people that have the most
power in the country
being willing to move the ball forward
on those issues because it does
necessarily threaten their power
alone talking about a song that we
talked about a little bit earlier with
matt store
and that is the idea
the the the scandal
and the shame
their hand full corp
erations
in today's america
can lobby the government
using legal campaign dollars
and influence
massive
multi billion dollar tax corvallis
that literally reduce the tax burden
to less than zero in the case of general
electric
and and many other corporations
at the same time the idea that
medium weight median income in this
country
has gone down significantly in the past
four years
it it it's it's it's the class war
it's the distribution of wealth
whatever you want to call it
it's the fact that
the amount of wealth the were producing
is going to a smaller and smaller number
of people
and the opportunity
to pay for things like education
and health care and provide a comparable
life
for most americans
is disappearing
what do i mean it
that that it's cooler to support social
issues
and not talk about
making rich people pay higher taxes
megan corporations pay more their fair
share making the government to go she
ate more with the drug companies
well let me give you an example of a few
of the democratic rising stars that have
made this a trend
ever bring you back to the president the
n because i think he says that a
crossroads on this very important
philosophical issue
democrats in deep blue's states
have used this recession
as an opportunity to inflict
sometimes terrible austerity
on their constituents
what am i talking about
i'm talking about governor andrew cuomo
of new york
who inherited
a one-percent millionaire's surtax
on on incomes in the civil million
dollars
now new york is home to solarz
concentrations of wealth in the country
wall street
solarz can commercial interests
and andrew cuomo said it
the surtax is gonna expire
he had the majority
in the democrat in the democratic
legislature to do whatever you want it
with that surtax economy raise taxes if
you want to
instead he let expire and cut medicaid
for the poor
avo andrew cuomo
way to go
and and and the thing is is that
he's perceived that that makes him that
makes him a national contenders looking
to move to the sender by outlay
millionaires taxes expire
and screw over poor people
that's only we need to change
i don't know that we really need a place
for that and democratic party
he should be primary
jerry brown in california another g blue
state
refused to sign a domestic workers bill
of rights
because he was too concerned
paying them a decent wage
or or or making sure that time all
finance space to do to do what they
wanted
would somehow that that that that than
but the impact of this would have on the
people there taking care of
need to be studied in measure first
the that the people that the poor
evergreen workers the repair is seven
eight dollars an hour to literally wiped
the that crap
out of our grandparents asses
i kid you not and it's okay for me so
there were other ever use it
it's a
whatever at the point is that
we we care more wheat wheat we we we
don't we we we share so much about the
way the grandparents are traded but not
the people are paying minimum wage off
the books
and without vacations on health care to
do the job
no it's that's a parker sick
and and and then the last thing though
all point out is is mayor bloomberg
uh... in new york city
and and his and is
most likely successor christine quinn
again on bread-and-butter economic
issues all the social issues even undone
and we know is a leader on climate
change on gun control
great we can work on their bloomberg on
that
that that's fantastic and it is also a
democrats is not hurting the brands
when it came time
when when when that when the heavily
liberal
new york city city council
estimator or one of the pessimism
that would require companies that have
multi million-dollar contracts in new
york city
to pay a living wage
and they kept decade narrowing it down
giving more exemptions to companies and
what's a living wage
it would just be slightly higher than
than the minimum wage will be ten
dollars an hour which still is basically
a poverty which
mayor bloomberg thought it would kill
jobs
city contracts
people that are getting money from the
city to do this work any thought it
would kill drops
because the people he hangs out with and
and and circles that he thinks of
are are looking for to squeeze every
drop of the profit margins
and artist salience hochhe
with how just how brutal it is to be
working as a low-wage worker and and the
same thing
uh... with christine quinn
who has held off on our support
for paid sick leave in the city
and city council president and she has
the power
to let the veto override that
women what women activists like gloria
steinem
are gentoo the head of the national
domestic workers alliance
has said have have said that they will
not endorser unless she supports that
one of my wrists is
liberty feels good
freedom feels good
but security
and solitary sometimes have i've got a
little bit loss in our memory
culturally as americans
if we can use this moment and this time
when we have a democratic president
power
or that one of the worst recessions
in in in in american history
when we when we've seen when we have
record equality
and we have a rising tide of young
people in a very very different views on
this
and an increasing number of all people
of color in the country
who route two or more likely to to to to
be in these low wage positions
that then it
that this will have been wasted and so
the way it should be
is that
providing people with a very basic
standard of living
and dignity
dignity retirement
not just looking at all these programs
as if their numbers on a ledger
as i think a fortune in the president's
sometimes has
but moving the ball forward and moving
on slower than out of
what what has really been a relapse the
nineteen twenties
in terms of can talk or see concentrated
wealth
and and narrowed narrower narrower
economic opportunity
that should be as much of a priority as
gay rights
as much of a priority is reproductive
rights
and we need to make
ticket that way
and weeds need to say it's not
acceptable for any democrats whether
they andrew cuomo
or jerry brown in california
or whether president brocco bottle
if they don't do that
that's how i believe it should be
yeah demands you can follow him on
twitter at daniel manson folks
we discovered in a man's first on their
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great things daniel ellsberg greater
great stuff we appreciate it so much
