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What i think is transformational change by passing the affordable care act, but not like he decided to do nothing. >> we shouldnt lose sight. to the extent that labor plays a unique role in american politics as a "interest group" it is the fact the interest and it will work very hard, i will say this about the labor group. despite the fact that, actually, from the very narrow self-interest perspective, the people who have health care in america are organized, unionized workers. they had the leas...

Industrialized country in the world because the banks are stable. thats a good thing. we should not move away from that. >> can we just go on this issue of success for a second and the presidents rhetoric. if you listened to the republicans last week there was a lot of argument that somehow the president is attacking success. and i think whats really happened here is if you look at what happened in 2008 in wall street and housing and a whole variety of areas, you know, there was a crisis and peo...

Reason, you know. in north carolina in 1957 when the taft act was passed and also in 59 when right to work was established, there were no blacks in the legislature. black people couldnt even vote. so when wed think about the emergence of right to work, particularly throughout the south, it comes out of a particular history that had a system of jim crowe which had already shaped the relationship between workers and the employers. in north carolina, we call right to work a jim crowe law. the last ...

Story that you see, how the titans of finance feel. nothing makes me love president obama more than these stories because if he, if the people, if jamie dimons of the world are mad, he must be doing something. >> is that your feeling? >> i left ubs august first. >> im curious to get, im going to get some insight. when you look at the dow jones industrial average, profits on wall street, the banks are incredibly healthy and people that make a lot of money are making a lot of money. is it really j...

He was part of it, it just showed he was part of that culture in washington. this whole tea party movement went in there to change washington and they ended up becoming part of the problem. you xwknow hes still taking taxpayer trips overseas and not taxpayer, not just taxpayer funded trips and paid by lobbyists and special interests and he has become part of the problem. what voters are concerned about, status quo doesnt mean that fairness pays off in this country. there isnt fairness in this co...

This is very straight forward. we could pass right now tax relief for 98, the extension for 98% of this country. lets do it. then lets have the argument on the last 2% and see which way it goes. but lets bring clarity to 98% of this country. >> i agree. if you look at the polling, right, thats where the polling is. the problem that we face is that the 2% there has a lot of money on the table. i mean, youre talking about tens, hundreds of millions of dollars. >> this is the fundamental disconnect...