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Doing. i looked over the transcript this morning. guess how many times the word "infrastructure" was mentioned. zero times. abortion, 16 times. obama care, 14 times. they know what they want to repeal. >> what about jobs and investment? >> i didn't check those. they mentioned jobs, but was there anything to get the country on track or create 30 million jobs? absolutely not. >> ari, your thoughts on a presidential debate structure at a time when poverty statistics are the highest in the history of the census, unemployment numbers trending better, thank goodness, are just if you look at the tren...

Facts of inequity that are base to this country. you can see him here, here with us, author, singer, and songwriter, doug levitt. his "the greyhound diaries: a digital memoir," with songs and memories is now available online. you can pick it up. what is the message that's in this piece of art that you've produced? >> i set out in 2004, with i saw -- i was aware of the poverty statistics, but saw a kind of unreflected crisis and thought, what can i do, if anything? so i set out on what i thought would be one six-week tour by gr greyhound, inspired by wpa-era projects that drew a fuller picture ...

Concentrated at the top for two reasons. when so much wealth is concentrated, the middle class doesn't have enough purchasing power. without going deeper and deeper into debt. that's not sustainable as we saw in 2008. it's a problem for an economy because concentrated wealth has a political aspect to it. obviously money corrupts politics and when money is concentrated among a small number of people, the corruption sends to be greater and makes people cynical and a lot of people thinks it's rigged. >> the statistics are mounding up and you have the disparity of wealth. we have poverty statistic...

Conservatism. this doesn't sound compassionate at all. >> it's not. we have been working with many faith leaders around the country to raise the level of awareness as it relates to how immoral this is. on november 16th, the faith communities are conducting a circle of protection around those groups and organizations that could be devastated if the deficit committee does not move forward and do what they should and that is create jobs. if the cuts take place, it's drastic. it's not compassionate at all in terms of what is taking place with the poverty statistics. these are not only numbers. the...

time, since before the stimulus plan, that the stimulus plan would keep unemployment under a certain amount, grow the economy this amount. they have heard a lot of things that didn't happen, whether it was because the economy was worse than what they thought it was, whether it was because it was the wrong remedy or not enough remedy, whatever the reason is the american people are now skeptical that washington, including president obama, can do much to change things. i think that's what's reflected in the polls. everybody wants to see it before they believe it. >> those same polls sho...