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>> that's why i'm here. i know roseanne would want me to step in and watch over the family. >> no, it would kill her. but she's already dead, so carry on. >> one of the things that i love about the sitcom is that it is necessarily a reflection of the atmosphere in which it's made. and so leaving aside roseanne's repugnant views as an individual person, i think the show that was rebooted by abc is really about how do you make ends meet in the 21st century? ♪ >> i hope everyone is enjoying the movie. i'm having a blast sitting on this hard chair paying bills on a plastic tray stolen from hometown buffet. >> one of the reasons i think that the connors works in like the 2010s is because income disparity is an even bigger deal now than it was in the 1990s. >> i am completely financially unprepared to have a baby. i'm screwed. >> the connors themselves are still dealing with the same issues of a blue collar family
i have known ray on and off for 30 years and an astute thinker in the world of finance and would take that thesis and turn it into an investment strategy and doesn't do in this book but look. history is quite cyclical and there are similarities to period in our past either prior to world war i or world war ii with wide income disparity. polarization of the electorate and led to internal tensions as he describes in the united states. the u.s. intelligence community said that russia may launch an invasion of ukraine by january of next year. a month away. china may some juncture try to retake taiwan. i can see where he's coming from on this. given the political environment of the united states a civil war in the truest sense of a military conflict might be not
>> no, it would kill her. but she's already dead, so carry on. >> one of the things that i love about the sitcom is that it is necessarily a reflection of the atmosphere in which it's made. and so leaving aside roseanne's repugnant views as an individual person, i think the show that was rebooted by abc is really about how do you make ends meet in the 21st century? ♪ >> i hope everyone is enjoying the movie. i'm having a blast sitting on this hard chair paying bills on a plastic tray stolen from hometown buffet. >> one of the reasons i think that the connors works in like the 2010s is because income disparity is an even bigger deal now than it was in the 1990s. >> i am completely financially unprepared to have a baby. i'm screwed. >> the connors themselves are still dealing with the same issues of a blue collar family living smack dab inside the american dream.
unemployment. but let's not forget they also did well in the west at the time, when you could argue that income disparity was not the issue, that racism and xenophobia were. this time around they've dropped. my greatest concern going forward is i don't see a path for the cdu going into power this time around. i don't think that their track record, their performance allows for that. the question is as they essentially politically implode, as they rethink their identity, it is clear that many elements in the cdu are going to want to move towards capturing or recapturing some of the electorate that went to the afd. and even though the issue right now has been moved to the back burner, it is likely that it will be given a new kind of oxygen if that becomes the focus of the cdu/csu. we've seen this happen in britain with brexit. we've seen this happened with the french where the french right and the french far right are increasingly closer, and so many of their ideas and agendas have been mainstreamed. so i think that's something we need to be looking out for.
hometown buffet. >> one of the reasons i think that the connors works in like the 2010s is because income disparity is an even bigger deal now than it was in the 1990s. >> i am completely financially unprepared to have a baby. i'm screwed. >> the connors themselves are still dealing with the same issues of a blue collar family living smack dab inside the american dream. >> look how much money you're saving by not drinking while you're pregnant. what's that? >> they're not cognizant of it, and i think people can appreciate that these characters are being honest about what they're going through. >> this is ridiculous. these people are just trying to have a better life. >> he was here illegally, darling. >> so you don't have a problem with what's happening? >> i have a big problem. i like the guy. my daughter is about to have his baby, and he may be getting dragged out of the country. you think i want that? >> in the 2010s, sitcoms became
family. >> no, it'd kill her. but she's already dead. so, carry on. >> one of the things that i love about the sitcom is that it is necessarily a reflection of the atmosphere, in which it's made. and so, leaving aside roseanne's repugnant views, as an individual person, i think, the show that was rebooted by abc was really about how do you make ends meet in the 21st century? >> i hope everyone is enjoying the movie. i'm having a blast sitting on this hard chair paying bills on a plastic tray stolen from home town buffet. >> one of the reasons i think that the conners works in, like, the 2010s is because income disparity is an even bigger deal, now, than it was in the 1990s. >> i am completely financially unprepared to have a baby. i'm screwed. >> the conners, themselves, are still dealing with the same issues of a blue-collar family living smack dab inside the
on. >> one of the things that i love about the sitcom is that it is necessarily a reflection of the atmosphere in which it's made. and so leaving aside roseanne's repugnant views as an individual person, i think the show that was rebooted by abc is really about how do you make ends meet in the 21st century? ♪ >> i hope everyone is enjoying the movie. i'm having a blast sitting on this hard chair paying bills on a plastic tray stolen from hometown buffet. >> one of the reasons i think that the connors works in like the 2010s is because income disparity is an even bigger deal now than it was in the 1990s. >> i am completely financially unprepared to have a baby. i'm screwed. >> the connors themselves are still dealing with the same issues of a blue collar family living smack dab inside the american dream. >> look how much money you're saving by not drinking while
hey, thanks, we could not have held this without you. >> this is why i am here. >> one of the things i love about sitcom is it is necessarily a reflection of the atmosphere in which it is made. so leaving aside roseanne's repugnant view as an individual person. the show rebooted by abc is about how do you make end's meet in the 21st century. >> i hope everyone is enjoying the movie. i am having a blast sitting on this chair stolen from hometown bu buffet. >> one of the reasons "the con connors" work in 2010 because income disparity is a bigger deal. >> i am unprepared to have a baby. >> i am screwed. >> the connors are dealing with the same issue. >> a blue collar family living
problem. coverage jumps 3% for every 10,000 more many the median household income. what role does the income disparity play for this? >> again you have to think about the fact that folks are working two and three jobs. so how are they going to get to a vaccination site if they're doing two or three shifts. again, some of our amazing physicians opened up covid-19 vaccinations until 12:00 a.m. on monday through friday and also on the weekends. and so we're trying to do things innovatively and forwardly, and really getting on the streets to talk to people. >> i want to get to some of the solutions here. you talked about concern,
payments, even if you are getting the federal unemployment, you are not going to be able to catch up when one month really turns into five. >> how much do you think -- let's go pre-pandemic. how much of eviction is generally connected to people having rent that is too high? like are people having rent that is higher than their salary or income should afford? >> i need my soap box. i think that's a huge problem. i think the income disparity, the fact that we have skyrocketing rents but we don't have wages following in line with them is a huge problem. one of the bigger things that i am seeing around here is if we're looking at rent burden as 30% or more of your take-home pay is what your housing expense is, i would say there is a disproportionate number of people rent burdened in our area. >> if your rent is more than 30% of your income, you are in trouble. >> yeah. and i see clients who are regularly paying more in their