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Take the public schools. the whole point of the public school movement, if you go back to its founding, was not only tç provide everyone with an education, it was to bring people together in a common space that would cultivate a shared, democratic citizenship. if we disinvest in the civic infrastructure of public life, we create a way for the affluent to leigh public life. those are not only unfair for those left with shoddy surfaces, it's also a -- and the 1% in this actually ends up feeling more alien ated. and you have a resentment for those who live in the skyboxes as opposed to a forced

Affluent ask ceos can be in sky boxes and never encounter the people in the bleachers. i call this the skybox communication of american life. this happened throughout our society. you mentioned going first class. to get through the airport security line, if you buy an expensive ticket or even if you pay extra, the airlines will sell you the right to jump to the head of the line, even for the security check. >> which çseems, karen, one of those things for one individual on an impulse is always attractive. a culture that is dictated by that would seem to be remarkably dangerous in its ability ...

Extravagance that is going on, big money people behind the scenes. appointment of this guy by the administration. how can they say they can make this argument anymore? >> it's really rich, isn't it? i mean really rich. you got the dnc, host committee down in charlotte drumming of 37 millions dollars to put this big coronation celebration together. what the white house and what team obama is counting on is that people will not compare their rhetoric to their record. you've got first lady michelle obama, dnc debbie wasserman schultz with their populist rhetoric calling it the people's convention...

Extravagance that is going on, big money people behind the scenes. appointment of this guy by the administration. how can they say they can make this argument anymore? >> it's really rich, isn't it? i mean really rich. you got the dnc, host committee down in charlotte drumming of 37 millions dollars to put this big coronation celebration together. what the white house and what team obama is counting on is that people will not compare their rhetoric to their record. you've got first lady michelle obama, dnc debbie wasserman schultz with their populist rhetoric calling it the people's convention...

Committee responded by saying attacks from the pulpit seek to divide the country. >> it's official. president obama will accept his party's nomination on the last day of the democratic national convention at the bank of america stadium in charlotte, north carolina. bloomberg reported last week that convention planners were struggling to meet the $37 million fund raising goal. the new venue would allow for incentive, such as luxury exciboxes to attract -- sky boxes to attract wealthy donors. occupy wall street weighed in saying it's part of a broader problem and says it "reflects the tendency o...