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Doing in terms of safety. we from this comfortable distance look and say, china's got a problem. china's got a problem, they're growing so fast they don't care about the lives of their people. we look at that problem and decide that's a government problem, a problem about government priorities. i feel that way about the mining industry in this country too and i'm not at a comfortable distance from it. what is the best hope for things actually getting better? >> i think that part of what we're seeing is the bush administration spent eight years kind of gutting the mine safety administration, so...

Corruption in this, there's a lot of back slapping and turning it, looking the other way. especially in the case of massey. the obvious question is why wasn't this mine shut down? >> when we look at the zadisasts so frequently, like china, we look at that and think, those chinese coal mine operators, they sure are shady. or those chinese coal miners, they don't know what we're doing. we from this comfortable distance look and say, china's got a problem. china's got a problem, they're growing so fast they don't care about the lives of their people. we look at that problem and decide that's a go...

21% say it stinks but is not a government problem. and 13% say sorry that's the way it worked out. the american dream is dead, we have to get this back. turns out it actually hasn't changed. >> the irony is that it's become actually difficult, much more difficult in the past five years for people to rise from the lower echelons to the upper echelons. there are a ton of reasons for this, but for the president to look in the camera and say inequality is a problem, really? can you find a single economist who says when you have high unemployment and low social econ economics, you bring in more peo...

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I think it's just theoretical, you know, it's this theoretical world that president obama seems to live in and i'm becoming more and more concerned about that and you say? >> it's also a rhetorical world, theory and rhetoric. it's like king knute being urged by his worshipful acolytes to tell the tides to go backwards and at least knute had the self-consciousness to tell them that can't be done. obama thinks that he is repeal reality with rhetoric. i mean, after all, the one thing he can really do well is campaign that's undeniable. he is one of the great campaigners in american history. he tw...