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Held hostage by the sheiks and oil barons overseas. a bit of good news on that front. for the first time in two decades in our country a new report has found we have finally begun to reverse our dependency on foreign oil by producing more energy here at home. remember, we have the technology to free our nation from oil dependence. we simply need to break the greedy bastards hold to make it happen. every recent effort toward energy dependence is being slowed and in many cases completely blocked b...

You healthy, but to get you paying for sickness treatment. its a fee for service system that treats disease rather than health. in trade, the greedy bastard behavior drives a host of unfair tax policies. those policies making it more profitable for u.s. businesses to export our jobs and our investments overseas. because for the shareholders, the bottom line in quarterly profits are all that matter. to sum it up, america has been bought. banks, oil, universities, government, health, and trade. an...

Of the wars we wage to secure our energy interests, not to mention environmental costs. factor those in, and the institute says the cost jumps to $14 a gallon. in universities, its a debt for diploma system. its paid back over decades while crippling our young professionals. americans are collectively $830 billion in student loan debt while the universities simply value their prestige over the actual experimentation necessary for true learning. colleges have the pricing power and are driven by g...

Actually creating value. >> we asked people before the break, whats a greedy bastard. some people said venture capitalists. . how do you define greedy bas tarred? >> its very simply a behavior. its not an identity. so the any human being is capable of exhibiting greedy bastard behavior at any given time. we have to get better at spotting greedy bastard and punishing each other. whoever it is, whatever it might be and greedy bastard is the behavior of me getting money from you without creating va...

Madoff. not everyone would do that. >> but again, but what about the guy who is completely healthy collecting three workmans comp checks. >> okay. thats not everyone. >> but my point is, everybody is capable of greedy bastard behavior. the difference is with the 1%, its one thing if a guy takes a workmans comp check. he cant do that much damage. he cant do that much daniel but if mitt romney or any of the 1 percenters exhibit greedy bastard behavior, the difference is not that the behavior is an...

They too are greedy bastards. the behavior is easy to spot because its in every economic level in our society. we must recognize what greedy bastard behavior is and seize the modern tools to enforce shared visibility, integrity, and choice into every decision we make so that we can align our interests. and then, as they make themselves known, the challenge is to find compassion and align our interests to restore our republic. >> that just a sliver of the story told in the books release today. pe...

As you know if you watch us here, today is book day for us. the official release of "greedy bastards." whats the book about? in a sentence, it identifies the root of our problems and gives us, because it is up to us, in president will save us, we have learned that. its up to us to fix those problems and the path forward is in this book. at least a version of it. as for the title -- >> a greedy bastard is not a person. its a behavior. on any given day on any level of society, aoi of us could exhi...

Where are the handcuffs for those who continue to cheat the system with their greedy bastard behavior at the expense of the american homeowner? joining us is john taylor, president of the national community reinvestment center. and real estate and finance professor susan walker. john, walk us through what you see as the greatest tragedy or harm that is being done as a result of the current situation. >> well, number one, i think youre right, dylan. we are far from out of the woods by any stretch...

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