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I mean, if you are going to cover them, cover both the same amount of time. would you not agree? i would agree with that, laura. i just want to say hi. before you start disagree you me.. laura: 24 times as much. not 40. laura, the story about ellison broke just over the weekend. the victim has basically said she s not going to release this alleged tape. now monica, i don t know why she wanted to go to the race card, but she s talking about keith ellison, the democratic party, not addressing this. my goodness, it s only been 72 hours.li there s been no mention of a guy, you and laura know, callede roy moore. my point is very simple. rush to judgment over a 72 hour story in which a woman who will not give a tape, are we giving this and hate same amount of time, laura, as the republicans gave roy moore, and the information regarding the hope hicks tape? all that laura: i m trying to make a point leo, i m trying to make the point about media i ll explain it again. ....
Workers cooperatives, sometimes it has been through direct worker ownership of the means of production, and sometimes it is just been through democratic control over how the state uses the economic resources. laura: what are you advocateing for is a more, what, generous redistribution of wealth in combination of partial state ownership of industries? combination of that? what you would be looking at a something that is a mixed economy, like what you have in norway. but i would advocate for, first off, but i think sanders is advocating for, is people, the united states, the american citizens, having more control over how the country s wealth, its enormous wealth, is used. s instead of its enormous wealth being concentrated in the hands laura: how would you rate obama? not well. laura: not a socialist? not close to socialism that you like? not close, right. laura: where s socialism working well? norway is a good example. ....
Further out of the american mainstream. right to socialism. a new gallup poll confirms that more democrats prefer socialism to capitalism. 57% view it favorably while just 47% have a favorable view of capitalism. just two years ago, those numbers were flipped. 56% then favored capitalism. of course, it could be that socialism s attractive new poster gal is changing minds. do you think that the future of the democratic party is socialism? well, first of all, there s a huge difference between socialism and democratic socialism. democratic socialism, really what that boils down to me, is the basic belief that i believe in a moral and wealthy america, in a moral and modern america, no person should be too poor to live in this country. w [ applause ] laura: trump believes that, too, that s why he s growing the economy so fast. or maybe as the indoctrination ....
laura: ok, how much have we spent on the war on poverty, do you think? how much is the war on poverty spent? about $7 trillion? i would like to spend more on the war on poverty and less on real wars that we don t have to fight anymore laura: we can agree on the real wars part. it s a major failure economically. china is not going to be a threat to us immediately. so i think we can reallocate more of our money laura: ok. they re planning for the long term, yeah. without adopting any authoritarianism, republicans have their problem, too. a recent poll show that 40 something percent of republicans want to give the president the power to censor the media. that is a terrible idea. t laura: let s stay on point here. i get you. i know, anytime we criticize the democrats, stay on one point. i have to criticize the republicans. absolutely. laura: i know you do. that s your thing. we are focused on one issue, because we ve a limited amount of time. elizabeth, i want to give ....
laura: norway? how big is norway s military do you think? norway s military is not the size laura: pretty small. we carry a big burden in our country for our military to protect world peace, global harmony, at least we hope to do that. hold on a second, we want to get back to you. andre, your family from venezuela, you wrote a very compelling piece as well on the perils of socialism. you heard what elizabeth just said. with all due respect, i completely disagree and i would hope that senator sanders and ms. ocasio-cortez quite frankly drop these failed attempts at propping up a system that just doesn t work. when you look at what happened in venezuela, a country that quite frankly has all the riches of the world, has all the resources of the world to be a superpower, and is feeling under and is failing under its crippling thuggery of shoppers and maduro, who is forced not just my family to leave, but countless others, that is not a system that has worked, and to have an act ....