The start of the u General Assembly meeting. U. N. General assembly meeting. We want to begin with a piece that is the cover story of the the weeklyard standard. Oh two decades of discontent. Suit youes, 20 can also join diane rejigged cash join in on the conversation on our facebook page, or you can send us a tweet, http twitter. Com cspanwj. Miserable decades, then and now, that is the cover story. Nestled within the comfortable battling of keys, growth, and civility, every happy time is unhappy in its own way. That is from the weekly standard, with the picture of Richard Nixon, former president jimmy carter, and the situation i in munich during the sun rejigged summer 1972 olympic games. Inwill get to your calls just a moment. The president last night addressed the Congressional Black Caucus, outlining his agenda as lawmakers began the debate in the senate on whether or not to keep the federal government running. T debbie rejigged two key votes last night. [video clip] we are seeing extreme factions of these folks threatening to shut down the government if we do not shut down the Affordable Care act. Some of them are actually willing to see the United States the fault on its obligations and plunge this country back into a recession if they cannot deny the basic security of health care to millions of americans. That this is an interesting thing to ponder, that your top agenda is making sure that 20 Million People do not have health insurance. Defaultd be willing to for the first time in the andory of the United States you are going to make sure because you do not want to make sure that everyone has Affordable Health care. Let me say it as clearly as i can, it is not going to happen. We have come too far. [applause] overll not negotiate whether or not america will keep its word and meet its obligations. Numeral not allow anyone to inflict pain on millions of people just to make an ideological point. We have been waiting 50 years for the selfcare. The president last night at the Congressional Black Caucus. Weighing eyelready and on our facebook weighing in on our facebook page. We have linked to the piece from the weekly standard. You can get there on www. C span. Org. Host again, we are dividing the phone lines. Yes or no . Good morning. Colorcode there are major reasons to be discontent caller we are discontent because the congress have been bought out, the wealthy on wall street have gotten away with massive fraud without. Onsequence when we have a situation where someone and those people do not follow the wishes of the people, they just follow the wishes of the rich. I recommend that people find out what is really happening in the world today. This message comes from dean. Headline that we want to share with you from quote New York Times from New York Times from the new york , let me read to you from the body of the story. Glenn is joining us from lake land, florida. You are saying that this is not the decade of discontent . Reason i am saying that is because if you look at 2010 as far as the decade if you consider the fact of what happened last decade, the results of what happened last decade are cleaner than the 2000 period. This is the cleanup decade. Decade, the results of what in the worlday that you will clean it to the point where people are going to be satisfied. If you consider the fact that we had nine 11, everything that , everythinger that that was unnecessary in a rack, we are still in it now, then the. Inancial crisis up to 2010 that was the worst. This country, we probably would have been in a depression if things had gone the way they were going. Trying to change the mess up from the last administration and republicans and democrats need to work together. Republicans are purposely not working with the president. It is messed up. You for the call. Kevin, you say that this is not the decade of discontent. Why . Guess . Caller obama has made things completely worse. He has given money to Clean Energy Companies that go bankrupt and bust. People are working hard on main street and watching that money go down the toilet. Him throwne to see out of office and someone in there who can get the economic engine going, unemployment down very low. I want to see folks back to work. I am tired of obamanomics. Host another kevin sent this tweet host i am going to go back to the weekly standard. Which. Was worse . Which period was worse . Host is this the decade of discontent . The question is posed by the weekly standard. Candace, new york. I think that the last 10 decade of the discontent. 12 years after 1929 we will back we were back. Of course, there was world war roman too. Hopefully we are not using afghanistan, iran, syria as that jumping point, but i think that people are now looking at ways to get people back to work and to get the economy going again. You for the call. Jonathan is the author of the piece this morning, this is what it looks like i and the in the print version. Jimmy carter, t dub rejigged two miserable decades. Theuestion is posed by weekly standard. Ramon, corpus christi, texas, what is your answer to this question . Caller we are going to have a very bad series, the government default it because they did not make the rules right. We have companies out of this country making more money and we are paying the tax on them. Making the rules as they go along and they get away with it because no one opposes them. We willget the default, be going deeper into the hole and we will not get out. The government . They are going to do what . Spend the money like they did . That stuff from this time last year . The stock market . Where is our money . Ok, ramon. Thank you very much for the call. There is a piece in the website for the boston globe. It was posted earlier this year by the sentiment continues, is this any way to run a country . How many voters, republicans or democrats, vote along strict ideological lines . If washington is broken, it broke on its own, voters have great power to instill the fear of being fired in those who dare to think about acting against the greater good. If you want to check out the entire essay, it was posted earlier this year and is that the website for the Boston Boston quote globe. No, it isam saying the decades plural, this has been going on since Ronald Reagan. It has taken over our politicians. To the massachusetts caller, this is why obama has not gotten anything done, because of the tea party and the fighting and resistance that they get. We need to get the average worker back to work again. Thank you. You for the call. If you are just tuning i and tuning in, is this the decade of yes,ntent echo if you say 202 585 3880, if you say 5853881. The likely effect on the larger economy . What happens when so many people income,s, work, and is one of a number of essays we found this morning on the healthcare law. Then there is this piece, reignited battle. A president ial event this week in new york with former president bill clinton with a Health Care Speech by the president in maryland from dave is joining us delaware. Is this the decade of discontent echo caller i do not want to just segue with the other caller , but this has been going on for several years. I think that the symptom here is that the people in power are beginning to dismantle and unravel the role of the federal government. So, i think that is basically a theme that has been going on for 30 years. Thank you for taking my call. You. Thank bill, lagrange, georgia, your thoughts . Caller thank you, i enjoy your program. I do not think the president of the United States is causing this discontent in the world. It is the socalled Tea Party Republicans. If they worked with the president , we could get things done. One, things get continue to go to the rich. The congress has insurance. Why other people cannot have complain echo they because they make 172,000 insurance . They complain because they make 100 72,000 dollars. They treat this president like the worst president in the world and god knows he is a human being. Thank you. Host this tweet coming from jack in texas also a reference to halliburton. From the weekly summary from John Washington examiner, boehner is trapped between the establishment and the tea party. North dakota, you say that this is not the decade of discontent . Personally, i think it is complex and we have the same underlying problems we have had for a long time in this country. Most of it stems from the people in power trying to preserve the status quo. I think that people use a lot of language to try to make people believe that they are going one way or the other, but it is not really the truth. For the call. U this is from cq weekly. Is oureve scalese , on newsmakers, go this morning. He discussed the current debate over the continuing resolution and the president s healthcare law. Here is a portion. [video clip] do you agree with that fundamental principle . That the debt ceiling is something that he needs and you have the leverage echo we have a rejigged leverage . We have a number of leverage points. All of these things are going to be coming up in the next few weeks. A two only looking at week or three week gap during the fiscal year. So, we are going to use every legislative tool available. There should not just be a plan to have this done in one bill. That is not the end of this battle, we are at the beginning and there are a lot of things that we can do to ultimately goal. E our host go host that was the chair of the republican study committee. Writing for the hill newspaper , after running the roller coaster through the debt fight and fiscal cliff, they find themselves in a familiar place again with policymakers throwing up robot roadblocks to the economy, ramping up calls for washington to do something, anything, to help the economy rather than hurt it. Instead businesses are watching washington barreling towards a debt default and wondering why policymakers keep laying politics while the economy teeters. Business groups are wrapping up their efforts to Push Congress toward some kind of resolution, increasingly year it hated by this latest round of deja vu. Naomi is joining us from oklahoma. Asking ourn we are is this the decade of discontent . Your answer . Caller i think that it is. The reason i think that it is is because the healthcare law that ,s dragging the economy down of what is coming down the road, 3000 pages, who knows how many roadblocks there are going to be in that . Tw oh tworking parttime jobs, this is just unheard of. That is our routine. Now they cannot work any hours . Yes, i really fear for this country with this thing going through. Host thank you very much for the call. Five years after the financial meltdown, the front page story of the l. A. Times. The bill class families. After this, this headline killer kills at least 309i and in kenyan mall. Least 39 in kenyan mall. Than 3000 handshakes and a look at me oral politics in the city of boston may oral mayoral politics in the city of boston. And from the sunday star ledger, in new jersey, the. Rbara bohn no you dont know a new poll finds that most view the act unfavorably, but like some of the elements. Common goal standards quietly altering state education man state landscape despite consent. Georgia, is this the decade of discontent . Good morning, carol. Steve, the thing is, that this is a question and it is the kind of question that someone would ask at this time, rightko rejigged gecko i have never seen right . We are fighting against ourselves to listen to people tell us that we do not need health insurance. You have got people funding people who tell us that we do not need health insurance. You only have people who are politicians. People that you feel are important, right gecko right . That their representatives are going, trying to stop health care, because the thing is, they have health insurance. Does that make any sense . That wemake any sense have voted in people that have stopped us from getting jobs . I am from georgia. Out of the whole state of jobs. A, we lost 40,000 think about it. Out of all of these jobs, Centerstate Banks rude, carpet factory, why bc, closed down. What are my people thinking about gecko we should be out in the streets. We let people like the ones that you all cover on the shows talk us out of our own best interests. See, they are fighting in syria and these other places for their freedom, right . Freedom,pposed to have but you see the people lining up to buy a telephone . Not in line to vote . We have a problem, right . Forum ist is what this all about, we are hearing from all voices. We continue to listen to your comments on our facebook page. Thank you for doing so. This is what the story looks like inside the weekly standard. Tw oh miserable decades to miserable decades. Gowo miserable decades here miserable decades. Whether or not you think this is a decade of discontent, decade is joining us debbie is joining us from bristol, connecticut. Caller calm i heart goes out to that woman who just called from georgia, it is so true. I believe it has been a mess for long time and things are coming to a head. One of the major problems is we need to rethink how we do business in washington. When the government came to be, our representatives represented the people, but they do not anymore, now they represent the business and the decisions that are made are for big is this and not for us anymore. We need to take a stand. First of all, we need to make congress accountable. When they are not doing their job, we get we give them three warnings and then they are out. They are fired. Things have becoming worse for the middleclass. I retired from a job and went on health care. Our wages are decreasing. Since the 1970s they have been going down. If you are in health care, by now you make less than minimum wage because of the laws here. I can legally make four dollars per hour legally. Try living on that standard of today on four dollars per hour. A keep finding loopholes whereby the normal person does not get their fair wages or insurance. I think that obama is wonderful. He has really made effort to try to represent the people, but the rest of the politicians are sabotaging him. It is going to hurt people because of business loopholes, insurance providers are now providing less work per person. So, again we pay. The efforts are there, but he keeps getting sabotaged. I could go on and on, i will not, but we the people need to take our country back again, get rid of the politicians, get rid of the lobbyists, because whatever they want its voted in. Host thank you for the call from rizal, connecticut. John will be joining us for our bristol,undtable connecticut. John will be joining us for our sunday, roundtable sunday roundtable. The debte discussing limit. Some of you are weighing in on our facebook page. Let me share some of those comments. This is from danny host clifton will join us next. Agree with the last few callers who have called him, it is just one of the points, that the question was subjective because it seems itsy decade, every time has own discontent or even its worst time. I remember my 60s, into the 70s, 80s, you would have the same articles, pictures on the front page of the papers. I was an army brat. I was all over the world area there were terrorist attacks. I think the question is probably subjective in that they depend on the time frame of the person. My grandfather died on my mothers side i and world war i. An one world war his generation went through world war roman one, world war world war i, world the korean war, the vietnam war, perspectives are different from generation to generation. It is tough. You vote the right people in the tax laws have to be changed, even we the people do not want the tax changes, we have our own loopholes. It depends on the person who is living when and at what time. Out of thesere next two wars, you know . Host john has this point, from north carolina. If the tea party is responsible from joy in philadelphia. Next call is robert from jonesboro, arkansas. I agree with the last several callers including the two from connecticut and georgia. Also with john as well. All of them make a couple of excellent points there in what they are saying. Seriousthis has been a decade of discontent. We have a number of problems we need to resolve. In my view, the tea party is the problem. We need to start working to ,esolve those as soon as we can especially to avert a shutdown of the government. Pressfrom the associated , rand paul. Milton is joining us from san jose california. I disagree with the discontent thing. I am younger and 28, so maybe i am naive. I think we have had a wonderful decade. I think our music has been incredible. A lot of our cultural statements have been great. We have had a lot of coming over obamarecisely and sometimes in opposition to obama. I think it is great that people who are involved in the tea party are reading the constitution and feeling inspired to get involved in politics and vote and think for a critically about what they want the government to do. I disagree with them, but it is not like i am disagreeing in whole. I think it is a wonderful thing. This notion of discontent seems to me a waste of our time. There are a lot of things to be optimistic and positive about. If we want to sit around and gripe and listen to our political leaders tell us how we are supposed to be upset, it seems like a waste of our time. Thanks for the call. One of our regulatory years and this is the autumn of our discontent. Discontent is a product of the conditions when they will of the minority is temporarily imposed on the majority. Our next call is andrew joining us from new jersey. You say yes this is a decade of discontent . Caller yes, good morning steve. First of all, to coin a phrase decade of discontent, this has been going on for a long time. We have to hold our leaders accountable. The betrayal of american democracy. I work for the federal government and i got caught up in a Government Shutdown. This is nothing new. Isnt it interesting that members of Congress Keep their health care, keep their paychecks and continue enjoying lavish parties in georgetown when most people by trying to pay their bills lose their jobs, have high credit card debts that they are using just to make ends and they arecases beholden to the Credit Card Companies who lavish millions of dollars on members of congress. The tea party goes, this is nothing but a wolf in sheeps clothing. Of the tea party says it will never t