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I mean, the other thing i think thats important here is that we talk about competitive schools. talking about harvard, right? the vast majority of americans going to colleges are going to two-year schools or four-year schools that accept more than they reject. right? i mean, there is a very elite conversation about people stressing about the s.a.t. and stressing to get into harvard, but thats a tiny sliver. >> it is, although its increasing. the flagship universities in every state, university o...

>> jimmy? >> so we fill things, that period you talked about, 30s and 70s, we made a lot of stuff in this country. we made tube socks, we made tanks, we made it all here, right? >> uh-huh. >> all of a sudden, we dont make any of that stuff anymore here, right? >> true. >> is there a correlation? should we begin to make more here? should the government incentivize international and american corporations to come and build things here, to give people jobs, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah? is there a c...

>> karen? >> you were just talking about too much inequality. i guess is the change partly a change in mindset that -- because it feels like in the political debate, the policy debate, there is this idea that somehow prosperity or equality is this finite concept rather than, you know, there is no reason to have these kinds of d disparities because we can all do well. one group doesnt have to do well at the expense of the other, but it seems like there has been a shift in the way we talk about po...

Going to cause a little bit of risk in our culture. >> i agree with what she says, karen. i see you nodding on camera. it sounds like you agree pretty much with a lot of what you heard here. where do you go with this, and is there room for the court to win the confidence of the people by a non-political but a more vested in the premise of equality thats articulated in the constitution in the first place? >> i think a lot of that will depend on, in a lot of these cases, because if this goes to th...

On civil rights. equality is morality. morality is equality. i dont distinguish between the two of those things. and the court says equal justice under the law. to me thats a moral statement. i try to be a moral person. thats a moral statement. when you say to someone that they are lesser, that they should get in the back of the gay bus, that they should not have a special right, an equal right. thats a moral right. >> ill tell you why i disagree with you, because ive watched in my years in this...

What is going on here and what can we do about it? >> well, for 30 years incomes have been growing more unequal and thats a reversal of what we experienced in the united states from 1934 to 1979. a long period when incomes were growing more equal or at least were remaining stable with respect to one another. that included the great depression and world war ii but it also included the fantastic post-war economy where we saw more prosp see today. that trend reversed itself after 1979, incomes star...

On lobbying is more meaningful than the money spent on elections because there you got a lot of bang for your buck when you spend money on actual lobbying. youve got people actually telling members of congress how they should write the laws. now, in the 1960s, what happened was, the history is in the 1960s, corporations were having a rough time in washington with the rise of the regulatory state, the rise of the consumer movement, and you had a few lobbyists here in washington, really just a han...

That equality is morality, and i wouldnt necessarily dispute that in a kitchen table environment, but for me its important to distinguish morality and equality because morality suggests its at the discretion of the morals of the individual. for me equality suggests that we made a deal when we got off a boat a few hundred years ago, which was, were going to make a place for the first time in the history of the world where everybody is treated equally as an experiment to joe costellos point. i did...

Ideological questions of policy and progress that characterize a campaign. snowplows and salt dont sound as sexy in a stump speech as justice and e equality. but for a city turning a new page on the government that serves the needs of its most vulnerable, they tear tools to take the earliest measures of mayors ability to deliver on those high ideals. this was photo that became symbolic of mayor bloombergs perception as an out of touch elitest when a storm poumded new york city 2010. much of the ...