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And i dont think we should be trying to figure out how to compensate for it. first of all, it would be pretty hard to figure out who to compensate. >> you addressed that directly yesterday. >> i think thats a specific notion of citizenship. we obviously have ties and debts and credits that we acknowledge that go in fact far back beyond the time in the last enslaved person. you can just look at the building in which these people work. you work in a capitol that was built by enslaved people. you a...

>> right now were still paying pensions from the spanish american war, things that happened long before i was alive and you were alive, yet we dont have any problem with that. >> one of the points that struck me about the georgetown story, and i think georgetown is fascinating. this isnt the whole country. its one university. its a little pilot program. >> right. >> but in that case, there are records of this stuff. >> oh, sure. its not hard. >> they have the 272 names. they have the amount of m...

Built by enslaved people. you are enthere enjoying the benefits of their labor. if we dont want to acknowledge our ties, how be you go work out on the anacostia river somewhere or some place like that. im being flip about that, but i was doing a research for that testimony. as late as 2017, we were pegging pensions to the last heir of a civil war veteran. >> wow. >> right now were still paying pensions from the spanish american war, things that happened long before i was alive and you were alive...

Earned pensions. romney became fantastically rich doing this. meanwhile, a remarkable number of the companies are now bankrupt or extinct. this is the private equity model, the ruling class is nothing wrong with it. its how they run the country. mitt romney refers to unwavering support for a finance-based economy and an internationalist foreign policy as the mainstream republican view. hes right about that. for generations, republicans have considered it their duty to make the world safe for ban...

A divisive leader. thats true, of course. beneath the personal slights, romney has a policy critique of trump. romney sounds angry that trump might pull troops from the syrian civil war. he doesnt explain how staying in syria benefits america, doesnt consider that a relevant question. more policing in the middle east is better, we know that. virtually everyone in washington agrees. tax cuts are also popular in washington and romney is strongly on board with that too. his piece there is rare comp...

Raising taxes on the people of illinois. >> we are going to drive more people out of this state. we have a tax massacre here in illinois. we have a governor who is committed to raising taxes. just double the gas tax. increase the income tax. illinois state house i have been the leader fighting tax increases. what we need is public employee pension reform. we need medicaid reform. we need to cut spending what the democrats in the state are focused on is raising taxes. and raising taxes will just ...

Should maybe go through our program and then realize we have got an overall problem program which is basically having solutions for different kinds of issues for almost all the issues so the political science you sue said that you will have little in the way poses a road political scientist to kill university for instance yes sums it up when he said people are just concerned about immigration or crime or security theyre also concerned about pensions and climate change legislation and you know if...

Into democracy it insincere republic of moldova the democratic partys undertook while undertaking the mandate in the governance in 2016 a lot in social and economical performances being for example the seller is increased in the public area by 70 percent there are a salary still in the pensions of the other year last year you were sure in the world that the democratic party was implementing european standards at home thats what you said in september yes here europe was telling a completely diffe...

This was on night two. you took part in the first debate. in the state you represent, ohio, critical to winning any election. do you worry these moments are the type that signal your party is not focused on the working class? >> no. you know, talking about taking peoples private health insurance away is not a good way to connect to people who maybe the only real benefit they have is private health insurance. talking about the other issues. we have to talk about wages. we have to talk about pensi...

Roosevelt created social security he didnt make private pensions illegal. why didnt he do that? because it would have been a dumb idea and he never would have got it done politically. if we want to give everyone in this country health care, and i do, my plan gives health care to every american as a behaving right for fre-- behavinasic rig. youre right, these are currents -- >> go ahead. i hear you. congressman, you know, on health care, why dont you guys just focus on costs? you know, the abilit...