Transcripts For RT Documentary 20240712

A major state of depression. When the steel mill said dahlia what i took a major part of the city away this was a a wedding a wedding gown davids bridal. This is 720000 steals 3 we have this property from the bottle and county lead bank for 1000. 00 house its pretty but its you know its just a bad you know so its a lot of theres a lot of stuff. That although nothing else so a lot out but it will still have to go. Home you know we just have to clear a lot of the furnishings that was left over whoever was living here they werent here long maybe about a year 18 months max and and then they were god i didnt run across a suicide note that was left i guess either bought a bed or. The father of the house he stated that he you know he was a in a bad position in his life right now and it was sorry for everything he had. And whoever was reading the note if they were actually reading the note they would find him hanging in the garage. For me if i came on the scene a note like that a problem or scare the heck out of me i would he would want to see what was in the garage i would just be getting up out here was seems like thats what the family did because they left everything behind clothing to always bedding furniture you know whatever whatever was here. Was a was left. Mortgage companies you know foreclosed properties areas got bad you know drug infested you know drugs you know just pretty much saturated the city which caused a lot of people to pretty much flee to. The corporate coup detat it was begun in the early 1970 s. Lewis powell in his 971. 00 memo which he wrote when he was an attorney for the chamber of commerce he later became the Supreme Court justice talked about what he called the assault on the Free Enterprise system. And he called on corporations to use their power and in particular their money to build counter institutions and to take over and destroy liberal institutions. Institutions that traditionally gave a voice to the working class and cared about the rights and needs of the citizenry. But i dropped later charges that applied Car Companies with running risks that countered them but do. Quote perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American Business is ralph nader so if they do it to help new york city it will be to help the banks. Who thanks largely to the media has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of americans i hear do excuse im gone are justified in any way are investigating us dont matter i dont want to have a climate in this country where white at the avonex acetic. Exist and steely determination in order to speak truthfully and candidly critically of american industry the coal memoranda it was a combination of delusion and paranoia. He basically said to the Business Community youre going to hire a lot more lobbyist swarming over congress youve got a poor a lot more money into the their campaigns both parties republican democrat youve got to get out on the campuses and get right wing speakers. Progressive speakers he had the whole 180 degree. Constitutional. Do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States. People like reagan in the early form of modern optimism switching everything back to if you like to pretend he rose and i found americans in recent days all of us have been swamped by a sea of Economic Statistics some good some bad and some just plain confusing you see that red line represents the rate of unemployment from the 1968 through the present the congress should act on Regulatory Reform to help make government more economical and efficient and the private sector more productive tax reform and budget control our economy will be free to expand to its full potential thats our Economic Program for the next 4 years were going to turn the bull loose. Thank you very much. What youve done for me is better than. Things were starting to happen in italy and. You could already see the cracks opening up so the gaps between rich and poor began growing. And trying to tell you there is no program or promise that a president can bake the federal government going in come in that you want to do this the only voice you heard was this. Voice of the inevitability of the marketplace i hear you and millions of other men and women like you stand for the values of hard work thrift commitment to family and the love of god that made this country so great and will make us great again. We saw the rise of what i would call the phone liberal class ah spoken the traditional feel your pain language of liberalism and yet deciduous lee carried out an assault against the citizenry on behalf of Corporate Power today as i sat on the north American Free trade agreement into law we are ready to compete and we can win. So its under clinton that you get nafta. Nafta allowed manufacturers particularly auto manufacturers in canada and the United States to move their production to mexico it was deliberate they moved their production their companies there because they had such low wages in mexico which did not help the mexican workers by the way this is false to say that mexico won it was a lose lose lose for the people in a win win win for the corporations down the hall to the white house east room he came with 3 of his predecessors in cairo with a real effort by mr president with the stated doubters that hes prepared to fight but the greedy this is happened all over the world but particularly in the United States that the radical decline of the Labor Movement and unions which were Political Force even more importantly it and they were on the shop floor United States always had weak unions to to come a countervailing against the corporations and the peak there were 34 percent of the labor force but they are now down to 11 percent total and only 6 percent in the private sector so essentially the countervailing power base and institutional power base is gone and part of that was an all out attack by organized corporations and went after them today we are taking on this. Story chance to make welfare what it was meant to be a 2nd chance not a way of life its under clinton and you get the destruction of welfare and originally 70 percent of the recipients of our Welfare Program were children. Its under clinton that you get the 1904 army was crime bill crime has been a hot political issue years too often to divide us while the system makes excuses for not punishing criminals and doing the job because the democrats were taking back the issue of law and order from the republicans. Laws to incarcerate a double double triple sentences 3 strikes youre out laws so that people could go to prison for life for nonviolent crimes. So there was an explosion in the prison industry. Which of course is a form of social control for de industrialized pockets they are often the kinds of kids that are called super predatory has no conscience no empathy and they used all the coded words super predators law in order. As the pillage was being carried out the white majority was being indoctrinated with this idea that marginal usually poor people of color were responsible for the destruction of the country the assault on their national identity. Or. John youre also. Ok 321 twice over the past 8 months i traveled to the midwest to a city thats become a metaphor for many for jobs lost factories closed. And the disappearance of the 9. 00 to 5. 00 middle class 40 year the down the coming candidate marks the beginning of the end of the scale dominate youngstown area economy there are no longer smoke stacks and much of it is covered by vegetation act ok. Are you doing that its depressing again down here to be honest with you you cant talk about the bonding valley and not talk about the steel and manufacturing. Them small regional like the arms of. I used to wake up in the morning to the noise of the Blast Furnace rumbling now i wake up to them tearing the facility down. But its put to rest and not just get up but the style of speech that. First you. Want to. Be pushed too much to thomas more so. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond short and ill be speaking to. Politics sports business im show business ill see a. Town districts more just steel mills would be shut down by friday. Trying to recover from that they passed nafta in new york is great wall street good stuff nafta and on the west coast nafta is great because you got out of los angeles you have an ocean there and thats coming from china and mexico and all that stuff so all those free traders are making millions but the people here theyre hurting their jobs are gone these new jobs are. We. Will again be hard to go by that plant now we know that bells and used to work they are g. M. Employees learned friday afternoon that up to 1500 of them would be laid off when the 2nd shift is eliminated in the county says year old American Finance network the property the county Treasurers Office has been trying to collect taxes for 5 years and is in the foreclosure process. This is truly a metaphor or wrong with both Americas Health care system which through mergers and corporate ization take the community away from their own health care and from their own facility they did not need. This this is another example of being able to walk away. From your responsibility and then putting it back on the community thats already desperate. Its here in the youngstown area where i found though i must say i dont like to live in a trailer park i mean its not that its a bad park but its not who i am it is not just me theres 1100 still workers not to mention all the other facilities of 100 it supported the mill and a lot of people lost their livelihood what role do you think politicians play at all but. I think theyve been bought by Corporate America and their puppets every single one doesnt matter if youre a democrat or republican theyre all corporate dont i dont think they can think for themselves i think they just do as theyre told so you wonder who was it who are the people who voted for donald trump quite a few were people who voted twice for barack obama and quoted from Bernie Sanders that was even more astounding that made me say theres no way i can simply sit here and guess what folks are thinking i need to understand whats going on in peoples minds why this situation is far more complex than what we give it credit. And they actually brought up workers from mexico and the workers here had to train those workers that they knew were going to take their shops and then they had the workers. Back up the machines and shipped them down to mexico. Not anymore. This valley has a very rich democratic tradition. They voted democrat almost always until President Trump came along. And upset the applecart when i saw Hillary Clinton really struggling with trade issues and nafta and i sent a 4 page memo. I predicted in that memo that shes bleeding badly blue collar voters. And those are the voters in pennsylvania michigan wisconsin that could have turned the election and her standing on a stage in columbus i mean i dont mean to beat her up because i really do love the woman and i work for her but she stood on a stage in Columbus Ohio and looked out and said were going to put a lot of call miners and Call Companies out of business you got a blue collar job you thats what they heard her say he never came around and said hey were going to put people out of work he said hey im going to put you back to work. When people are thirsty theyre going to drink any water they dont care the water is dirty d ringback. If it. You are. There you know you got to say. As you go out oh yeah. I dont surf so there i heard about you or your you know we got snow that yeah thats good thats. Why i asked him i saw you. Which you know the weather was a lot better of course and theres been this this tax cut most of course which want to corporations but some which went to middle class working class people are you seeing any difference in your own feature about 20. 00. Went right out and what do you do with those 12 of those 20. 00 what can you do with 20. 00 its gas you know it might help build it what about the tariffs i dont know i dont see you or your you cross the border to to work into weapons of a you know search and because that had any impact so far to your knowledge well i mean 1st of all i want to applaud the president for still cares we need to do years ago but ironically now this company that a man you know most of the mills like the 2 mills i put down you just cant find slabs made america our company has to go to russia to get. Donald trump its basically use the issue of steel and the conditions of Steel Workers those whove been laid off the us from austin jobs. And some talking point 0 and now he. Says and seems to have many people believe. Then he is leading the charge to bring steel back to the United States and to youngstown in order to bring steel back to this area you have to have somebody thats willing to invest in building new Blast Furnace as new electric are cornices that melt down and put it in. Youll never see 11500 people working in a facility and a skilled. Radio. Good afternoon 3 o 7 this week get underway here today all right i think it takes courage to do what President Trump is doing i think it takes courage as i said he is a president s that doesnt us as a marketplace as a nation not speculating on whats going to happen im looking at whats taking place right here and right now when it when it comes to trying and im looking at whats happening in this community you know once thats thats where im at on it was is what i want to say about him is his policies contrary to what you believe have not benefited Middle America thats what i want to talk to the voters about lets look at as opposed to david i just said these guys we have people getting bonuses and raises noting locally as a result of that tax cut it has benefit members of this community hold that thought well come on what ever happened to you worried about the deficit always said its not to be more than happy to talk about that because its as if we can get 4 to 5 percent growth guess what a lot of novels are soft fighting broke out overnight between Companies Really called product in the are reversed is not a regulation thats going to create jobs ok it is a regulation designed to take care of billionaire but. That when i come back in a minute news radio. 85 percent over the last 8 years as george bush took office. Its been 16 years. There is it should say we should give more and more to millionaires and billionaires and prosperity trickles. In response to president obamas 2008 election there was a counterrevolution billionaires and powerful corporate interests were terrified that obama and democrats in congress would tax the wealthy that they would redistribute wealth in this country but they would overreaching Health Care Reform and in response to that the corporate interests and billionaires they funded hate groups and front groups to oppose the obama agenda and to whip up hate in society to divide americans on race and class and religion. Centrists muslims build mosques where they won military victors we want to build a mosque at ground 0 or islamic terrorists killed 3000 americans just like the japanese pearl harbor. They placed advertisements on television scapegoating muslims claiming that promote Justice Reform will put dangerous criminals on the streets showing pictures of africanamericans and and conjuring racial fear maybe we have a case of. Jesus i think. It was. This was not because billionaires and major corporations necessarily believes in these messages. But they wanted to undermine Political Support for economic reform. The Supreme Court today handed down a landmark ruling on Campaign Finance laws in a 5 to 4 decision the court overturned. Corporations from using their funds to. Advocate for a specific candidate the majority opinion affirms corporations have 1st amendment rights and that the government cant limit their political speech. They have done things like allowed unlimited infusions of Corporate Cash as the right to petition the government or a form of free speech its a complete inversion so youre a Constitutional Rights are still exist on paper but have been reinterpreted to essentially bolster Corporate Power and that has left us utterly defenseless as a person youre worried all that theres too much money in politics if you believe that we ought to go back to murder key that the people are such sheep but they just swallow whatever whatever they see on television or reading the newspapers shafted us misfires. How much is enough for. The richest one percent of this country owns half our countrys wealth 5 trillion dollars i create nothing. I. You make the rules. A new war piece band of evil tries to pay for clips weve picked out a rabbit out of a hat wire but its out there want to know how the hell we did it. Youre not naive enough to think were living in a democracy are you buddy. I would argue that. In the arc of cutting our own ardor. Whether its. For the wrists. Its largely because weve allowed ourselves to be convinced by our own elites as a democratic system is a product of the free market. And even the people in the youngstown who voted for obama thought that there was a real turning point that we could get a. Black president and that would set everything in motion that we didnt recognize that a change in the soul happening in spectacles in the white house those. Were always there anything obama knew how to play them very well but he was also playing to an audience. And i think that once that audience started to catch on bet their lives werent changing then we were dating back to not only what does he know year but what is almost a year and that its been the fierce were back to the right. But. In this connection to moment last chance to ask for the last company and seeing and on the day today for the match. Commission. Branson just shoot on disk in the. Kitchen. 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