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solutions, many of them, lie with congress. but there are causes and there are many of them. a simple answer would be the cleanest, the most convenient, out of control deficits or stimulus. its barack obama or george w. bush, but its not that simple, not that satisfying. one cause however does stand out amongst many. cheap and ample credit. for years the ability of almost every working american to access more credit than they should have been able to, masked the underlying fact that lo...

solutions and right now, those solutions, many of them, lie with congress. but there are causes and there are many of them. a simple answer would be the cleanest, the most convenient, out of control deficits or stimulus. its barack obama or george w. bush, but its not that simple, not that satisfying. one cause however does stand out amongst many. cheap and ample credit. for years the ability of almost every working american to access more credit than they should have been able to, mas...

I got to ask this. alan, what do you make the fact critics say mr. obama is trying to push ahead class war far and thats a cornerstone of what he does on the stump? >> class warfare is waged by the other side. class warfare is what the republicans are doing. you know, doing everything they can to protect the rich and when you have mitt romney saying i dont care about the poor, if they have a problem, i can fix that easily. this is not a man who connects with anybody other than the top 1%. >> mon...

Slings and arrows to keep this going until election day but they will try. the president did run on hope and change. he governed on fear and crisis, now hes running for reelection on divide and conquer. gallup has a poll that shows this president is the most polarizing president we have ever had. they have nothing to run on. so they must attack a decent man who had never eaten a house pet. >> he had him on top of his car. >> but he didnt eat it. chris, there is race wars, class war, gender war. ...

The buffett rule is goingto a vote in the senate on monday and president obama used his weekly address this morning as a final push to gather support. take a listen. >> this trickle-down experiment before, it doesnt work. and middle-class families have seen too much of their security eroded over the past few decades for us to tell them theyre going to have to do more because the wealthiest americans are going to doless. we cant stop investing in things to grow our economy and create jobs, things...

Cracked down on the unions which can be law enforcement and you see the recall happening in june with the governor of wisconsin, is it a wise political move for the vice president to be saying this? >> i hate to say it but it may be. who wants to see class war come to america. i know that from europe. we engaged in class warfare and got us nowhere. i hate to see it come to america. i agree with you, brian, it might be in some circumstances a politically attractive move. and i think that presiden...

Administration. clinging to life support after three dismal days inside the u.s. supreme court, the president is looking to change the narrative in washington, d.c. so today, he took to the podium to do what he does best and that means use class war foreand demonizing big, bad oil companies and rascally republicans, straight ahead. watch this. >> today, members of congress have a simple choice to make. they can stand with the big oil companies or they can stand with the american people. on top o...

Policy achievement in his administration. clinging to life support after three dismal days inside the u.s. supreme court, the president is looking to change the narrative in washington, d.c. so today, he took to the podium to do what he does best and that means use class war foreand demonizing big, bad oil companies and rascally republicans, straight ahead. watch this. >> today, members of congress have a simple choice to make. they can stand with the big oil companies or they can stand with the...

>> okay. >> but seriously, though, thats the big revelation of this op-ed is that they werent just ripping off the average joe with his mortgage or the teachers union pension fund. they are ripping off the 1%. and it is sort of epiening a new front in the class war. you have the .1% goldman sachs, stealing from the 1%. it is -- i would like to welcome any 1 percenters out there to joan occupy wall street. our arms will be open to you and you can come and fight these evil doers. >> i imagine when...

The big revelation of this op-ed is that they werent just ripping off the average joe with his mortgage or the teachers union pension fund. they are ripping off the 1%. and it is sort of epiening a new front in the class war. you have the .1% goldman sachs, stealing from the 1%. it is -- i would like to welcome any 1 percenters out there to joan occupy wall street. our arms will be open to you and you can come and fight these evil doers. >> i imagine when you read this today, there wasnt a secon...