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More. i hate to go back but thats what folks at home are thinking. this will be a tough chapter two. >> no question about it. this will be a tough chapter two. we all have to make sacrifices. thats what the president said and what speaker boehner said. but is it fair for the american middle class or lower middle class, the working poor to have more of the burden than opposed to the rich? thats not the case. >> do you think its a starting point? >> i do. >> part of the problem with the budget rya...

Vort it does. election of one black man in public housing in washington, d.c. cannot deal with the vicious incriminalization of many african-american men, not deal with the fact you have overrepresentation of black people in poverty, the disparity between those who have and those who dont have is growing and those at the bottom, the working poor and poor continue to suffer. so the symbolic representation of obama cannot offset the material and empirically verifiable horrible position ever the ma...

Seeing workers in america go through today? >> well, his case was too much concentrated wealth on one hand and too much war, not enough concern for the working poor. and today we have these high -- more billionaires than ever before. we have three wars. and we have more poor and the middle class. he felt the need to focus on jobs for working class poor people. i have with me two sanitation workers that were there in memphis in 68 who are still fighting for workers to have a place at the table to...

Those sanitation workers and generally speaking what were seeing workers in america go through today? >> well, his case was too much concentrated wealth on one hand and too much war, not enough concern for the working poor. and today we have these high -- more billionaires than ever before. we have three wars. and we have more poor and the middle class. he felt the need to focus on jobs for working class poor people. i have with me two sanitation workers that were there in memphis in 68 who are ...

Just in case anybody even tries to make a case this is all ideological, just about republican opposition to taxes and opposition to spending, consider that in most of these state is not only are republican governors or legislatures trying to cut things like public education and social services they are also overtly ising taxes on poor people. weve got tax hikes on the elderly and on low income residents in michigan. also republicans in kansas and in wisconsin are talking about effectively raisin...

In georgia, looking at cuttin m. pennsylvania is going to propose a more than 50% to the higher education system. in new jersey and south carolina, they want to cut medicate and they would get rid of health care for 100,000 poor people. this is just about republican opposition to taxes and opposition to spending, consider that in in most of these states not only are governors trying to cut things like education and social services, they are overtly raising taxes on poor people. we have tax hikes...

Generosity in the states are the ones facing the cuts. in georgia the legislature looking at cutting funding to the state university system by about $75 million. pennsylvanias republican governor proposing a more than 50% cut to that states higher education system. in new jersey and south carolina republican governors want to drastically cut medicaid benefits. in arizona the republican governors budget would get rid of health care for 100,000 poor people. just in case anybody even tries to make ...

Johnston, pulitzer prize writing columnist, professor at syracuse university and author of the book "free lunch." professor, thank you for your time. >> thank you, rachel. >> please, forgive the puppets. is there something im missing about cutting the irs budget, is that secretly somehow a smart move if you are interested in bringing down the deficit? >> well, if a lot of your campaign contributors arent paying their full load of taxes, it would be very smart, but it is called the internal reven...

University and author of the book "free lunch." professor, thank you for your time. >> thank you, rachel. >> please, forgive the puppets. is there something im missing about cutting the irs budget, is that secretly somehow a smart move if you are interested in bringing down the deficit? >> well, if a lot of your campaign contributors arent paying their full load of taxes, it would be very smart, but it is called the internal revenue service. its functionally the sales department of the federal g...

Johnston, pulitzer prize writing columnist, professor at syracuse university and author of the book "free lunch." professor, thank you for your time. >> thank you, rachel. >> please, forgive the puppets. is there something im missing about cutting the irs budget, is that secretly somehow a smart move if you are interested in bringing down the deficit? >> well, if a lot of your campaign contributors arent paying their full load of taxes, it would be very smart, but it is called the internal reven...