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Ontruprunears. the disadvantage is theyre playing on the other side. where are the solutions if i could use a metaphor of the day. is there any pie in the pie box labelled inequality. what you see for example for marco rubio and mike lee, on the top theres a proposal to increase the earned income tax credit to help the working poor. thats good. its superimposed on all the big tax cuts for the rich. were back to the same old policy. i think the champllenge is picking up on an idea the other side ...

Walmart. a multibillion dollar corporation finally seeing the light. what about the families who have been suffering under the pressure of the working poor are among us in this country and we need to do something about it. we have the power and the capacity, both parties have been complicit in this. >> the obama recovery has been very weak compared to other recoveries, particularly the reagan recovery. they came into office and pretty similar circumstances. so republicans are making the point we...

The budget, taxes, that is what i am thinking about right now and potential christmas presents for my friends. bill: we are too. i know you talk about the economy and the way it has worked over the past several years. youre also under siege for expanding under obamacare. for some of your republican colleagues as well. if you are in that race, how will you defend yourself on that front? >> im not much into defending myself, i am into telling people how i feel about things. what we have been able ...

Working class, working poor, even the middle class, their wage is stagnating, not keeping up with where they were a few decades ago. i think if hillary is going to do this, shes going to have to leverage her credibility on the second question and kind of hope that it gets her credibility on the first question. so she does have some standing to talk about working folks and the plight of working folks and clinton administration in the 90s was very good economy for working people. they expanded the...

Shorter lives, dying earlier now than they did a generation ago. but you know what? you dont have to take my word for it. heres how one member of the working poor describes her life on easy street. i get up at 6:00 a.m., go to school, then work. then i get the kids, then i pick up my husband. then i have half an hour to change and go to job two. i get home from that at around 12:30 a.m. then i have the rest of my classes and work to tend to. im in bed by 3:00. i never get a day off from work unl...

Clinton cleaned up the clean up and now hillary is cleaning up the clean up of the clean up. are they handling this the right way? >> of course, when sound bites get more play than substance you str to keep trying to clean it up, but you know what? hillary clintons record in public office and of course, her tremendous record as an advocate for middle-class families, for children and the working poor, that supersedes all of this, but you know what? were in a so-called pre-election season in terms...

Primary where mississippi democrats gave me 74% of the total vote. ill be back asking for them again. chuck, as i travel around the state and listen, listen more than you talk, you know, and you learn a lot of things. a lot of families struggling in our state. president roosevelt spoke about the forgotten man in 1932. its amazing how that speech is still relevant today. i cant tell you how many people across our great state feel like they have just been forgotten. forgotten men, forgotten women ...

To iranian advisers on the ground. the major thing we have to bear in mind here is its not americas job to fix the middle east, its americas job to worry about our own interests. and we have to be guided by two principles. one, we have to stop al qaeda and prevent a sanctuary. and two, we want to minimize iranian influence because it is fundamentally anti-american and seeking throughout the middle east to make trouble for the united states. those are the two things we should go after. and not wo...

Median wage in 2011, which is one of the lowest percentages among the rich countries of the world. a group of more than 600 economists signed a letter imploring the president and congress to pass a wage hike which they contend would, quote, have a small stimulative effect on the economy, end quote. truth be told, small is the operative word. its not clear what kind of effect raising the wage would have on the u.s. economy. the billionaire investor warren buffet has made very clear his positions ...

Percentages among the rich countries of the world. a group of more than 600 economists signed a letter imploring the president and congress to pass a wage hike they contend would have, quote, a small stimulative effect on the economy, unquote. truth be told, small is the operative word. its really not clear what kind of effect raising the wage would have on the u.s. economy. the billionaire investor warren buffett has made very clear his positions on most economic issues, but not this one. buffe...