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The whole package. >> given that that is your view, which has been the hallmark of all of your time in public service the whole time i have known you, what did you make of the sustainability of the beltway cynicism? this whole idea that nothing can be done. it was all president makes the statement. it will never happen. someway or another, that was the sbeer reaction from the beltway. when i look at the polls, i feel, like, whoa, america really wants this to happen. thats some of the people that...

Because i think this is important to put this, this is homicides in elementary and high schools over the years. what you see is that, you know, there are not a lot of people killed in schools in america. every time someone is killed in a school in america it is a horrific tragedy, but in terms of what are our social problems, schools themselves as sites of violence are not the thing that we, is not really the problem in terms of what the data is saying. and i felt like it, in focusing on the sch...

Because at least in our country, there was for some period of time a sense that the retribution nature of adult corrections was different than what was meant to be the rehabilitative nature of juvenile corrections. that seems to be gone. >> that changed in the 80s and 90s. the idea of rehabilitation changed and it became punitive. there was so much crime that the public wanted answers. we were angry. in 1988 george h.w. bush brought out the willie horton ads. since that time, no politician can a...

Wearing red squares, and pointing to bigger social problems, the privatization of all sorts of social services. so strike debt has come out of that. >> why do you think it has the emotional resonance it does? why was that the thing? i remember in the i am the 99%, that website, right, people were writing down their story. a lot of them were around debt, revolved around debt. why do you think debt has the emotional resonance it does? >> because debt is isolating, individualizing, and we are livin...

The way that can impact health. i have a great deal of love for chicago, and watching this kin of violence, i mean, this has an impact it feels to me, obviously on the people being shot but the mental health care crisis this creates. the anxiety. i feel sort of at a loss from that response. what is your reaction, mayor, to mayor emanuel on this response? >> well, hes right. we have gun laws, or, lack of gun laws. so many weapons on the streets, its almost impossible to put enough cops on the str...

President obama believes that the federal government should give money to the poor. hand it right to them in a variety of ways. the problem with that is that many of the poor will use the money irresponsibly. high rate of alcohol and drug addiction and other social problems assure a massive amount of waste in the entitlement arena. americans are the most generous people on earth. but the truth is that income redistribution doesnt work. for what the feds spend now on entitlements, every single po...

Case, certainly one of the most important cases of our lifetimes. because it will determine the relationship between government and the individual. first of all, if government can force all of us to purchase health insurance, government could force us to purchase cars to prop up detroit or stocks and bonds to prop up wall street. theres no limiting principle, no way to stop the federal government from forcing us to do things or buy things to solve many other social problems. and secondly, this b...

The teachers unions. the prison guard unions. just about every union here in california. its very union oriented its not business oriented. big business is considered the devil here in california. we drive them out and we replace them with more federal jobs and more unions and thats why we are bankrupt. but thats where the votes are coming from. >> bill: okay. so the unionized workforce. got to get a stat on that. the big population centers like los angeles, san francisco, not so much san diego....

The teachers unions. the prison guard unions. just about every union here in california. its very union oriented its not business oriented. big business is considered the devil here in california. we drive them out and we replace them with more federal jobs and more unions and thats why we are bankrupt. but thats where the votes are coming from. >> bill: okay. so the unionized workforce. got to get a stat on that. the big population centers like los angeles, san francisco, not so much san diego....

Whether its the conspiracy theories about the president not being born here, whether social problems -- fiscal policies. this the not a policy thinking toward the future, their future or the countrys future. they are ignoring hispanic, lat latinos and hispanic, young people, black people, brown people. >> women. >> dont forget the gays. >> people that have higher education. >> john, do you agree with alex that this is party rooted in a period, i guess, not the last, but the last century, i guess...