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And the republicans on the hill. >> where is the spending cut? where is the balance. >> hang on, gentlemen. and when you talk about spending cuts, the president is saying we have to cut gradually in order to protect our economy, which is slow and fragilely recovering from the devastation of the past. you can't ignore it and you can't hurt the poor and needy and saying the rich can go off tra la-ling. >> that's what they are doing, tra la-ling? >> you can't get water out of a stone. >> that's a terrible thing. >> we have an increasing class divide in the country and you are saying we need to ge...

Her wife, danielle, was recently honored as part of the root 100 for her work on environmental justice. thank you all for being here. i greatly appreciate it. >> marcia, what do you mean when you say the american family is at a crossroads? >> many things. the american family is at a crossroads in many respects, one of which you identified. we have an increasing rainbow of families, no longer does the typical family look like ozzie and harriet 50s family that you described. what we also see today is an increasing class divide in family formation. >> yep. >> one that we can't celebrate, because ...

At "the atlantic, i serve as a senior editor. efound because housing is so cheap and because warehouses are so cheap, young creative people and even some of them from brooklyn or the bay area are moving there. it's more of a bottom upregeneration. it's not the convention is it centers and ca sin knows. as people go there and build new businesses. >> richard, clearly the creative class and you talk about the service class, working class have to live together, work together, things that they create will be manufactured by the others. but you say the key to dealing with the chronic underemploymen...

Might have a cultural 1% in the making because of this separation that wealth and affluence and good education automatically brings, we might be looking at a generation that has no concept of what the grocery store clerk or gas station -- what their lives are like because of this? >> we moved very inch that direction already. it's not probably 1%. it's 10% or some larger number. but, as donald murray and others have talked about, there is this considerable class divide in a cultural sense. >> walter? >> you know, michael sandal was also at the ideas festival, which is, he has a book called "wh...

Destruction and everything else that has happened here. but god bless them. that's what nancy pelosi said. >> in the clips that you played, sean, both nancy pelosi and president obama were talking about people who were pointing out the unfairness that has become apparent that we have a larger and larger class divide. >> sean: give me an example -- andrew breitbart offered $100,000 for evidence that the congressman that you were talking about to show any video evidence when there were a million cameras around. do you have any evidence to prove that? >> i don't have any evidence. what we were ta...