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October 12, 2011
Sorry ill clean this up. shouldnt have made it rain. >> bill: personal stories segment tonight, talking points memo, the real reason the occupy wall street protest is taking place. earlier this morning, 100 people arrested here in boston. members of the so-called occupy wall street group. these anti-capitalist people getting a lot of attention usually with a question -- what do they want? well, "the factor" has found out. number one, the group wants income equality. that is the feds taking money...
October 10, 2011
Going to reform the banking system, its going to be impossible for a democrat to do it. it seems to me, you need a tiara type character. the guy that came from the most affluent part of new york society, but yet somebody that busted up -- a democrat couldve never -- williams jennings bryant couldve never busted up the trust, but t.r. did bust them up. are we at a stage now where too big to fail continues to get bigger by the day? and there are three or four banks that are going to completely dom...
October 9, 2011
That ive helped her? >> i actually did. i thought shed be relieved, shed be happy and that the whole family could rally around this incident to draw really close together and we could all become very tight-knit group like we used to be. but yet she said that he was innocent, that all of it was false accusations, lies. >> but the lies were actually those of david carson, aka, gordon weaver. so how had weaver turned into carson? well, hed had some help from his parents. remember theyre affluent, r...
October 9, 2011
zandi and veteran political journalist ron brownstein of the "national journal" and peter baker of the "new york times." im candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." herman cain and michele bachmann were on this show the day after the iowa straw poll in august. she won, he was fifth, but unbowed. >> this campaign has encouraged and our momentum continues to grow. >> reporter: in an august quinnipiac poll, bachmann ranked third among republicans with 12%. cain just 5%. now in...
October 9, 2011
analytics chief economist mark zandi and veteran political journalist ron brownstein of the "national journal" and peter baker of the "new york times." im candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." herman cain and michele bachmann were on this show the day after the iowa straw poll in august. she won, he was fifth but unbowed. >> this campaign has encouraged and our momentum continues to grow. >> in an august quinnipiac poll, bachmann ranked third among republicans with 12%. ca...
October 6, 2011
But again, what do these people want? the common thread seems to be income equality. groups like the working families party. and the strong economy for all coalition are basically socialistic outfits. they want the government to take money away from the affluent and give it to them. nice deal if you can get it and you can get it in places like cuba and zimbabwe. soros doesnt want socialism. he is the biggest capitalist on the planet. he wants power and the groups are using the far left zealots t...
October 6, 2011
Capitalism, they dont. but again, what do these people want? the common thread seems to be income equality. groups like the working families party. and the strong economy for all coalition are basically socialistic outfits. they want the government to take money away from the affluent and give it to them. nice deal if you can get it and you can get it in places like cuba and zimbabwe. soros doesnt want socialism. he is the biggest capitalist on the planet. he wants power and the groups are using...
October 1, 2011
Retrenching in the 10 states and pumping everything in there and having to win every single one of them. he will have more money than the republican nominee for a lot of reasons. you have the republicans having this donnybrook. they are going to spend themselves down to nothing by the time they get to the convention. he doesnt have to do that. he has no primary. he will hoard his funds and push this out into other states. >> i have the strategy. he has a billion dollars. but heres the problem --...
September 30, 2011
Say, but people here at this school who are able to sort of jump over the boundaries that hold us back. but there are reasons. this is a charter. the public school system as a whole crumbling. how do we even begin to deal with these issues? >> i think the debate got seriously off track by focusing so much on the unions, actually. there are a lot of great unionized schools. i happen to go to one myself, the public school where the teachers were unionized. thats true all over the country. in more ...
September 28, 2011
Of hate speech. talking points said if the election of 2012 will largely be a referendum on the president. yes, the republican challenger will be important, but at this point, all the polls say the same thing. more americans want the president out than want him to continue. the class warfare strategy of promoting tax cuts for working americans and tax increases for the affluent has some potential for barak obama, but only if the republicans fail and make a good economic case. one vivid example, ...