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Cares to go on to your work anyway at least concepts only arise in a culture where if you criticize state power and when i state i mean. Were generally not just government but state Corporate Power if you criticize concentrated power youre against the society youre against the b its quite strict in that its used in the United States in effect thrown out of the only Democratic Society where the concept isnt just ridicule and its a sign of. Elements of the elite in culture which are the way to the glee. The American Dream mike many ideals was partly symbolic but partly real so in the 1950 s. And sixtys there was a the biggest growth period in. American economic history. Gold paint. It was pretty go at carrion growth so the lowest 5th of the population was improving about as much as the upper 5th. And there were some welfare state measures which improved life for much of the population it was for example possible for a. Black worker to get a decent job in an auto plant. Get a core of children go to school and so on and the same across the board. When the u. S. Was. Primarily a Manufacturing Center it had to be concerned with its own consumers here famously henry ford raised the salary of his workers who would be able to buy cars. When youre moving into an international tunnel me is the max like call it a little small percentage of the worlds population thats a gathering increasing wealth what happens to American Consumers at a much less concern because most of them arent going to be consuming your products anyway at least on a major basis. Your goals are. Profit and next quarter even it if its based on financial manipulation. High salary high bonuses produced overseas if you have to and produce for the it will see classes here and their counterparts abroad what about the rest well theres a term coming into use for them too and theyre called the precariat. Precarious proletariat the working people of the world who live increasingly precarious lives. And its related to the attitude toward the country altogether. During the period of great growth of the economy fiftys and sixtys but in fact earlier taxes on the wealthy were far higher corporate taxes were much higher taxes on dividends are much higher than simply taxes on wealthier much rare the tax system has been redesigned so that the taxes that are paid by the very wealthy are reduced and cursed ponderingly the tax burden on the rest of the populations increased. No the shift is towards trying to keep taxes just done and wages are not consumption which everyone has to do not say and dividends which i go to the rich. The numbers are pretty striking. Now theres a pretext of course theres always a pretext the pretext in this case is well that increases investment in increases jobs but there isnt any evidence for that if you were. Increase investment give money to the poor and the working people they have to keep alive so they spend their incomes that stimulates production and stimulates investment that leads to job growth and job. If youre an ideologist for the masters you have a different line and in fact right now its almost absurd and corporations have money coming out of their pocket. So in fact General Electric are paying 0 taxes and have enormous profits let them take the profits somewhere else or defer it but not pay taxes and this is. The major american corporations shift the burden of sustaining a society on to the rest of the population. Solidarity is quite dangerous from the point of view of the masters youre only supposed to care about yourself and not about other people this is quite different from the people they claim are their heroes like adam smith who based is whole approach to the economy on the principle that sympathy is a fundamental human trait but that has to be driven out of peoples heads gotta be for yourself father while maxon dont care about others which is ok for the rich and powerful but it is devastating for everyone else. And its taken a lot of effort to try to drive these basic Human Emotions out of peoples heads. And we see it today in policy for major for example in the attack on Social Security. Social security is based on a principle its based on a principle of solidarity saw terry it is caring for others. A Social Security means i pay payroll taxes so that the widow across town can get something to live on. For a much of the population thats what they serve iowa. Its of no use to the very rich a so therefore theres a concerted attempt to destroy it. One of the ways is defunding it you want to destroy some system 1st defund it. Then it will work people be angry they want Something Else thats a standard technique for. Privatizing some system. We see it in the attack on public schools. Public schools are based on the principle of solidarity. I no longer have children in school or grown up but the principle of solidarity says i happily pay taxes so that the kid across the street can go to school thats normal Human Emotion that it dries it out of peoples heads i dont have kids in school why should i pay taxes privatized it so on. The Public Education system all the way from kindergarten to Higher Education is under severe attack i mean thats one of the jewels of american society. Go back to the golden age again the great chris period in the fiftys and sixtys a lot of that is based on free Public Education. One of the results of the 2nd world war was the g. I. Bill right which enabled veterans remember thats a large part of the population and to go to college they would have been able to do otherwise with a century good Free Education where a communitys date or nation regularly invest a substantial share of it resources in education the investment invariably it returned and Better Business and a higher standard of living u. S. Was way in the lead in developing extensive mass Public Education at every level. But now more than half the states most of the funding for the colleges comes from 2 issues not from the state thats a radical change and thats a terrible burden on students and it means that students if they dont come from very wealthy families theyre going to leave college with big debts and if you would think that youre trapped i mean maybe you wanted to become a Public Interest lawyer but youre going to have to go into a Corporate Law firm and a tip. Pay off those debts by the time youre part of the culture you know you are going to get out of it again and thats true cross the border. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports im show business ill see you then. She stressed to. Be surrounded by the ash and the bowl of blotted out that. Was so here she didnt taste the paste fishies every so i pushed. To which she never happened and i know what you mean and i must get your car moment in there for sure. Want to go to the show through my its your bonus for should be. Good to mr. For british interview for you both at least at that its a studio actually of course to revoke or should stop them spinning. Compared to centuries of chinese history 2 years is nothing but a list budgets 2 years of donald trump with yet another round of terrorists being added to the us trade war this last week news chinas strategy of waiting out the enemy likely to work with the current american president. Today there are good terrorists and bad evidence the bad terrorists and those in yemen who the United States deems to be a threat the look to those who are in syria the cia and the u. S. Military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. Where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up the right way military funding and arming death squads theres no any more because theres always a small income for a really good. Profit. In the 1950 s. It was a much poorer society in the news today but nevertheless could easily and will centrally free mass Higher Education and today a much Richer Society claims doesnt have the resources for. That said just whats going on right before our eyes and its the a general attack on the principles that and that i mean not only are they humane theyre the basis of the press parity and health of this society. If you look over the history of regulation say a Railroad Regulation Financial Regulation and so on and you find that quite commonly its its either initiated by the economic. Concentrations that are being regulated or its supported by them and the reason is because they know that sooner or later they can take over the regulators. And it ends up with whats called regulatory capture. The business being regulated is in fact running the regulators. Bank lobbyists are actually writing the laws of Financial Regulation gets to that extreme. And thats been happening through history and again its a pretty natural tendency when you just look at the distribution of power. One of the things that expanded enormously in the 1970 s. Is lobbying as the Business World moved sharply to try to control legislation. Business world was pretty upset by the advances in a Public Welfare in the sixtys and in particular by Richard Nixon and its not too will understand that but he was the last new deal president and they regarded that as class treachery. And nixons administration to get the consumer safety legislation safety and Health Regulations in the workplace the e. P. A. The Environmental Protection agency. Business didnt like it of course they did like that taxes. They didnt like the regulation and they began a coordinated effort to try to overcome a. Lobbying sharply to increase deregulation began with the rule ferocity. There were no financial crashes in the fiftys and the sixtys because the greater the story apparatus of the new deal was still in place. As a pm to be dismantled under business pressure and political pressure. To get more and more crashes. And it goes on through the years. Seventys sort of starts begin. Eightys really takes off congress was asked to approve federal loan guarantees to the Auto Companies about the wan and one half 1000000000. 00 all of this is quite safe as long as you know the governments going to come to your rescue so takes a break and instead of letting them pay the cost break and build out the banks like continental the biggest bail out of American History at the time that she ended his term with so the huge financial crisis the savings and loan crisis and the government moved in to build it out for a family that he handed it in a diary saving a fair lady and 199. 00 regulation worse dismantled to separate commercial banks from investment banks. Then come see bush then obama bill and bear stearns is running to the feds to stay afloat president bush today defended the decision to bail out citi group that in may and freddie macin ask for a total at renewable 1000000. 00 more to sail out could get much bigger than billing even in troubles for the u. S. Economy. And theyre building up the next term. A b. Each time the taxpayer is called on to bail out those who created the crisis increasingly the major financial institutions. In a capitalist economy you would do that in a capitalist system that would worry about the investors who made risky investments but the rich and powerful they dont want a capitalist system they want to be able to run to the nanny state as soon as theyre in trouble and get billed a taxpayer its called the too big to fail. I mean there are no will or its an economics who significantly disagree with the course that were following people looked at Stiglitz Paul Krugman others and none of them were even approached the people picked to fix the crisis were those who created the robert rubin crowd the Goldman Sachs croak they created the crisis are no more powerful than before is that accident well not when you pick those people to create an economic plan and then what do you expect to happen. Meanwhile for the poor let market principles prevail dont expect any help from the government the government the problem not the solution and so on thats essentially neo liberalism and its has this dual character which goes right back in economic history one set of rules for the rich opposite set of rules for the poor. And nothing surprising about this exactly the dynamics you expect if the population allows it to proceed just going to go on and on like this until the next crash which is so much expected that credit agencies which kind of evaluate the. Status of firms are now counting into their calculations the taxpayer bailout that they expect to come in after the next crash which means that the beneficiaries of these Credit Ratings like the big banks they can borrow money more cheaply they can push out smaller competitors and you get more and more concentration everywhere you look policies are done this way which should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone thats what happens when you put power into the hands of a narrow sector of will which will is dedicated to increasing power for itself just as youd expect. Be. A. Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. Particularly so as the cost of elections skyrockets which kind of forces the Political Parties into the pockets of major corporations. The Citizens United this was january 2009 i guess thats a very important decisions prim Court Decision but it has a history and you got to think about the history. Of 14th amendment has a provision that says no persons rights can be infringed without due process of law. And the intent clearly was to protect freed slaves said ok they have got the protection of the law i dont think its ever been used for freed slaves if ever marginally almost immediately it was used for businesses corporations their rights cant be infringed without due process of law so they gradually became persons under the law. Corporations or state created legal fictions. Maybe theyre good maybe theyre bed but to call them persons is kind of rages so they get got personal rights back about a century ago and that extended through the 20th century. As they give corporations rights way beyond what persons have so if say General Motors invests in mexico they get National Rights the rights of the mexican business well the notion of person was expanded to include corporations it was also restricted if you take the 14th amendment literally that no undocumented alien can be deprived of rights if theyre persons. Undocumented aliens who are living here and building your buildings clear lawns and so on theyre not persons. But General Electric is a person. An immortal a super powerful person this perversion of the young elementary morality and the obvious meaning of the law is quite incredible. In the 1970 s. The courts decided that money is a form of speech. But the 1st well and the new one through the years to Citizens United which says that the right of free speech of corporations members spend as much money they want cant be curtailed. Take a look what that means it means that corporations which anyway have been pretty much buying elections are now free to do it with virtually no constraint as tremendous attack on the residue of democracy. Very interesting to read the rulings like Justice Kennedys swing vote his ruling said well look after all the c. B. S. Is given freedom of speech there are corp why shouldnt General Electric be free to spend as much when is they want. I mean its true that c. B. S. Has given treat of speech but theyre supposed to be performing a Public Service thats why thats what the press is supposed to be a general electorate is just trying to make money for the chief executive some of the shareholders. Sitting critical decisions and it puts the country in a position where business power is greatly extended beyond what it always was this is part of that vicious cycle the Supreme Court justices are put in by reactionary president s who get in there because theyre funded by business and thats the way the cycle works. You know world of big partisans who lives and conspiracy its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks ready ready ready ready ready. I am sure the need to stop it for continuing to grow. I just never felt very. Good about the idea of bringing children into the world because i didnt feel like things were in very good shape that a life was just going to be a lot of software program. But. 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And the big pain years and across started 10 years i think its time to shake things up maybe change the branding maybe the format heres what ive been thinking about next season related episodes filmed on an island 10 experts fight it out for a trophy what do you think ok a more affordable option 25. 00 text birds. And one red rose another suggestion geopolitical jeopardy parity no political cookout where we will literally. Believe its. Late night show its a rare format these days and its chief all you need is an old microphone in a printed banner but to leave me with one of my guests i can do this campbell after politics gone why. I dont like music. Ok cross talk is not about hype about meaning 10 years of talk and still going strong. Peter if you want to change something why dont we get rid of the gotye you know that is too much. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking together for the world of politics or business im show business ill see you there. In the weeks big stories the United States could potentially be smuggling weapons and ammunition which ends up with militants in the middle east thats according to leaked documents obtained an investigative journalist. I have a right and a very fine. If i dont think they are. Prime minister turbulent week as well suffering defeat after the fits over his new deal. On. Climate simply follow his convictions on resign. Theres only one