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the golden gate. theres these views that you get suddenly out of nowhere of valleys have in fog. there are beautiful radio towers up on twin peaks in san francisco, in the fog sometimes looks like there are sailboats suspended in midair. the same view at night. san francisco is a visually dramatic place. as a kid grows up, leaving san francisco and driving home to the east bay was always sort of a visual letdown. right? the suburbs are lovely, but its just not the same. on the drive fr...

bridge looking north or the bay bridge looking east which frankly is just as beautiful as the golden gate. theres these views that you get suddenly out of nowhere of valleys have in fog. there are beautiful radio towers up on twin peaks in san francisco, in the fog sometimes looks like there are sailboats suspended in midair. the same view at night. san francisco is a visually dramatic place. as a kid grows up, leaving san francisco and driving home to the east bay was always sort of a...

Manufacturing jobs? lets say that america got really competitive and said, you know what, were going to beat other countries and we are going to really, really go after the manufacturing sector, were going to add jobs. were got going to lose jobs, were going to add manufacturing jobs. if we hadnt have lost the 5.5 million manufacturing jobs, what would the unemployment rate look like? >> the unemployment rate would be about 5% which would seem pretty good compared to what it is right now. we wou...

Scott paul. they have the numbers. professor, good to have you with us tonight. scott, thank you so much. >> good evening, ed. >> i want to start with you, professor. how have the deregulatory policies the republicans put if place killed manufacturing in his country? it is all about deregulation, is it not? >> a big part of it is deregulation, ed. they deregulated wall street which means essentially every major american company is designed now for only one purpose, that is to increase the value ...

Sand and let the democrats know youre going to be vulnerable, too. this is about people. not party. this is about whats right for america. and there are no polls out there supporting any cuts to social security, medicare or medicaid. all this washington speech these guys are going out on the road making these speeches saying you know, i know and president obama knows. what about the people? did you notice how john boehner in the sound bite never mentioned, its the american people. we have to mat...

Secretary of labor, now a policy professor at uc berkeley and author of the book "aftershock." scott paul. they have the numbers. professor, good to have you with us tonight. scott, thank you so much. >> good evening, ed. >> i want to start with you, professor. how have the deregulatory policies the republicans put if place killed manufacturing in his country? it is all about deregulation, is it not? >> a big part of it is deregulation, ed. they deregulated wall street which means essentially ev...

>> he went to the anthony weiner school of crisis. he knew ten days. he had to have known this was out there even before that. they should have gotten their story straight from the start, come clean, answered every question. and you know what, ed, i dont think we have the whole story. not even close to it now. this thing is going to continue. >> im sure the republicans will like to hear that. i asked politicos ken vogel this question last night. here it is. can you emphatically state tonight tha...

Do? we have a congress that wont even talk to one another. in the meantime, we have people in the middle of the country who are seeing their jobs go overseas. whats the remedy? i mean, these people are in the streets protesting right now. whats the remedy. >> ed, number one, right now, we dont cut the federal budget. we create jobs and we get better wages. thats the number one objective. and anybody who says that we have to cut the budget before we get jobs and wages back doesnt really know thei...

Everything, their whole personal lives, everything theyve ever done or said is going to be scrutinized. theyre going to be drug through the mud. you can already see this happening from the way that the right has responded. theyve already gone to blaming the women saying theyre too uptight, theyre too politically correct. >> krystal, why is herman still talking about this? isnt it a one-day story? he said what he said. although its all over the board. isnt it time for him to move on and decline i...

Communities. housing prices declining in value because the people dont have jobs and you have major closures. severance payments, every profitable company, whirlpool, if its going to lay off 5,000 people, it has to give people a lot of money back. >> and also, scott, can american-made compete with a chinese product when it comes to the ticket price? i mean, people, consumers out there, they want low prices. theyre not getting the better products. i mean, the jobs that were seeing outsourced have...