Funding of our brutal polling, and im totally opposed to funding the police officers. Ok, glad we had that. Talk. Really appreciate it. How about tell us what youll do to address the racist drug laws that you slam through congress now locking up more black people than the number in slaves when the u. S. Had slightly verree. What will you do, joe biden . And im sorry to yell, but i figured you had your hearing a hearing aid turned down because im not getting many answers. Answers i said and no, no, i dont have cancer. Never mind. Number 2, what will you do for the environment . You gave a speech where you said donald trump is a climate arsonist, which is totally tural. So what will you do . Different uncle joe. I guess this means youll sign on to the green new deal. You support . No, i dont support the green. Will you dont. Ok, glad we cleared that up. Well, at the very least, if you care at all for the environment, at least hill and fracking, the whole idea of whether or not were going
You gave a speech where you said donald trump is a climate arsonist, which is totally true. So what will you do . Different uncle joe. I guess this means youll sign on to the green new deal. You support . No, i dont support the green. Ok, glad we cleared that up. Well, at the very least, if you care at all for the environment, at least, bill and fracking, the whole idea of whether or not were going to stop fracking, i would not stop fracking. I gradually move away from fracking. Gradually move away. Yeah, were already gradually moving away from fracking because there wont be any fracking once humans are extinct. Unless the lemurs are going to keep it going and they seem busy eating fleas off each others heads. I feel like steve bannon could use a friend like that anyway. Biden does say hell rejoin the parish climate agreement. Well, lets see how other countries there are doing who have not pulled out of the agreement like we did here is for national geographic. And those countries are
People will sometimes they northerners wanted to waive hearts and minds wasnt there why wasnt there a Marshall Plan well, there was. The friedman zero often gave more to governors than africanamericans, but it was pro trade as sort of agency of subjugation and oppression and tyranny and so on, so there was no link that lost cause types it would go to to distort history and part of their distortion was sweeping under the rug the evidence of dissent in the south, sweeping under the unity, sweeping under the rug the contributions of the southern black Union Victory in their opposition to slavery and so on to create a fiction and again, northerners and others who had hopes and a change to come in the face of a Massive Campaign of a propaganda. I have been thinking about this and im writing a biography of a james long street, a confederate general who almost alone among confederate generals accepted terms offered and through the conclusion that the confederates did have to yielded to the id
You. When i think about this book i see it as having three major parts, after you introduce a situation now, you do a really good job of talking about through stories how workers struggled, they themselves built the middle class in this country to a great extent by organizing, by striking, bargaining through a lot of adversity and demanding more from policy changes and then you go through a lot of the hard times of what i call the reagan era which we are still in Work Companies and starting with the president of the United States really attacked workers a lot and their unions and then you tell a lot of hopeful stories about different creative and innovative ways that workers have been organizing and unions and other forms and make policy recommendations and one thing i have to say, a lot of books like this are criticized because they come up short on the policy recommendation but i hope we really get into that because you made quite a few interesting suggestions on what might be done t
Where companies, starting with the president of the United States really attacked workers and their unions. And then you tell hopeful stories about different creative and innovative ways that workers have been organizing in unions and other forms. And make policy recommendations. One of the things i have to say, a lot of books like this are criticized because they come up short on the policy recommendations but i hope we get into that because you really made quite a few, i thought, interesting suggestions on what might be done to restore the voice and power of workers in this country. Why dont you start by laying out where you see things right now . What is the status ofworking people in this country and their ability to shape their own lives at work . Sure. I covered it at the New York Times for 18 years. One of my concerns and interviewing people all over our nation is so many people have no idea what unions are and what unions do and how they help bring us the 40 hour work week and