The richest country in the world as we have been told many times. The government doesnt have it. Who does have it . Article, thein the anyent administration feels money spent on the middle class or the poor is bad for the economy. I cant believe anybody believes that. Trajectory is like the end of the Great Depression where nobody has any money except rich people. He could not have gotten out of that if it wasnt for the war. Roberto in houston, texas, good morning. Caller i will go ahead and tell the american audience. Book will beext titled the future american middle class. Subtopic should be role in demographics creating a new middle class in america. Harris is a perfect example of immigrant class, professional and she made it. The next book should maybe address this and also the of it in america including drugs. Thank you. Ost thanks for that from the wall street journal mnuchin to offer more relief funds. They write treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin urged congress to appropriate more money to battle the effects of the coronavirus pandemic saying in a hearing on tuesday he was ready to sit down with Democratic Leaders to resume negotiations at any time. For more than a months since key provisions of the landmark cares act expired they have been on the content of another relief package. House democrats propose an additional 3. 5 trillion of relief while republicans rolled out a 1 trillion bill in july. Without a new agreement, jobless workers have gone without a federal supplement and weekly Unemployment Insurance since july 31. A federal Eviction Moratorium expired on july 25 leaving tenants at risk of losing their home. The disagreement is on city and state, is that right . They keep saying they have plenty of money. I want to be careful. It is hard to negotiate in a public agreement in a public way. Conceded, chief meadows and i, we reviewed this with the president. In an effort to get a deal done we agreed to put more money on the table for cities and states. Unfortunately they do not want to sit down at the negotiating table unless we publicly agree on a topline. We should go not only for humanitarian reasons, but if you look at countries like france before the revolution, and russia before its revolution, the discrepancy between the people who had not been and the people who had widest,ng was at its and we are heading in that direction. We have to help for people who have nothing in some fashion or another. Thanks very much. Host to manville, rhode island. Tim, good morning. Go ahead. We lost. Sabrina and gary, New Hampshire. Caller hey. So my question, it was more of an academic venture question for the gym Jim Vanderbilt guy or whoever he was, but my question is for us to have economic mobility everest to be able to spend capitalism itself, dont we first have to have participants in that venture, whether it be public, military, medical, so on and so forth . If that is the case and we are investing in things for the future for a better america, then when does someone start looking at the public corruption in the states . And when do they take on real in the state of New Hampshire . How can they New Hampshire department of labor corruption and are in indiana . Like so many stories like these, with famous, infamous people, that nobody seems to have on like this and it is vacuum that only academia can get involved in, but they cannot give any answers as far as the importance of Quality Control and accountability and how that impacts worthwhile investment on the front end of the ventures that these political people conspire and try to convince us they are up to, but we are redundantly going back for more answers and bureaucracy. Thank you. Host to thomas, calling from maryland. Hi, thomas. Yes, thank you. I am a clinical social worker and retired army officer. They literally deploy people to areas where they are needed. And they say, you are ripping this person out of their environment and this is where they are from even people immigrating to the country, where do we need them and where are they of most use . In our desire to promote the rights of individuals, we kind of violate the rights of laws in some way. My point is i think of models like israel all wrapped appear, and i think of examples where there is an idea that National Service is the great equalizer, and i wish we could return to that. Finally, if there is a global war on terrorism, we should have a global war on deteriorating infrastructure. Host we are talking about the economic strength of the middle class. Pew research has their middleclass income calculator at pew research. Org. About 52 of adults lived in middle income households and 2018, according to a new analysis of government data. Roughly 29 were in lower income households and 19 were in upper income households. We can play along a bit with their calculator, select estate, lets take arkansas, and take the springdale area, and take your annual income, and we can put in 45,000 a year, and people in my household, one, are your that, where education . Lets say you have a bachelors degree, and you are white, and recalculate that, and married, yes, and age 45 to 64, calculate that, and it will show you where you stand. Income, and 57 are upper income. At can find that pewresearch. Org. In spencer, north carolina, go ahead. Caller my opinion, i think it is more than an opinion, organized labor went to a low in the United States and that is when the middle class started to go away. Call the bureau of labor statistics and Union Members may close to 200 a week more than on Union Members. Power andate buying that jogs the economy. I heard a little while ago them talking about solidarity and worker empowerment. It seems like people danced all around. What i think he was trying to say, and nobody mentioned organized labor. I think it would be a big help to younger people in this country if they would become doe aware of what it would to them and it would jog our economy. As far as manufacturing, all these jobs that went away, they went south because they did not want to pay the wages that would create an economy like we used to have. Host have you been or were you a union member . Caller yes, i was a member of the teamsters unions for 29. 5 years. I am 70 years old and i retired with a defined pension plan. Along with that pension plan and my wifes and social security, we enjoy a comfortable life, but the main part of our income is that defined pension plan. Defined Pension Plans are gone now. Young people do not understand what they are about. That was created through organized labor. Host appreciate you calling them. To burnsville, minnesota. Larry, good morning. Caller good morning. Thanks for taking my call. Everybody is making this whole thing way too complicated. The easiest way to increase the amount of demand out there, and therefore stimulating the economy is to raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour. That should be the floor, not the ceiling. Taxpayerscaused the of this country 1 10 to raise the minimum wage. 15 an hour is roughly 30,000 a year. In rural america, you could buy a nice house for around 100,000 or less. Since rule america is nothing but an economic desert, and there are no jobs out there that are paying anything near what leavingth, everybody is rule america and trying to go to cities to find jobs. That puts pressure on cities that they have no control over. By simply raising the minimum wage to 15 an hour, you will save rural america, take the pressure off the cities, and stimulate the economy without costing the taxpayer of this country a single penny. Host a bit of an historical note here from the Washington Post, the 75th anniversary on september 2 of the surrender of japan in world war ii. In an opinion piece, by an author we had here, his new book twilight of the gods, macarthur planted the seeds for the postwar flourishing. By aanese delegation led general and foreign minister aborted the u. S. Battleship missouri in tokyo bay. On the galley deck, dozens of allied generals and admirals stood in ranks, two copies of surrender rested on a table. To japanese general agreed surrender 18 days earlier. Nobody knew what to accept expect in the coming occupation of japan or if the piece would stick. American forces had gone ashore, but none had entered tokyo, hundreds of troops were still in arms. Macarthurthat general received criticism and historians have been hard on him in many ways, but he writes, even the critics applied macarthurs performance from supreme1950 as commander in postworld war ii japan. A vitalthe emperor ally, and guaranteed basic rights to all citizens. He introduced sweeping social, legal and Economic Reforms that benefited workers and small farmers. The japanese came to review macarthur as a 11 and liberator. That is in the Washington Post by ian told. Lets go even tol ian toll. Lets go to one more caller in minnesota. Go ahead. Caller i listen to everybody who called in, and i guess i want to talk about lets get to where the rubber meets the road, and it is the Federal Reserve that is calling all of this. See if you can get ron paul to ore back for an interview, anybody like that that would talk about the Federal Reserve. And one other thing i wanted to say was i think people should check out now that the Monetary System is going to crash, we cannot sustain these kinds of levels of debt, and the un is pushing for digital clarence e, and what i want people to look are used to electronic money and everything, but this whole digital and what it is going to do to our freedoms, so that is all i had to say, thank you. We are live in wilmington, north carolina, where President Trump will be giving remarks. This is live coverage on cspan. This is the reporting locally in the kenosha news on the visit yesterday. President trump in kenosha, this is going to heal very quickly. They write that President Donald Trump met with Law Enforcement tuesday and toured the damage caused by a week of protest following the shooting of jacob blake. With Law Enforcement tuesday, despite concerns that such a visit would exacerbate divisions in this community. During a visit to Bradford Hyde school bradford high school, trump raised the Wisconsin National guards response to protests as part of the orderents call for law to address unrest in cities across the nation. He said this is going to heal very quickly, in regard to the damage caused by protests. Are twople think those terrible words law order. And they are not terrible, they are beautiful. 202 7488000 for those of you who are joe biden and Kamala Harris supporters. President trump and mike pence supporters, 202 7488001. All others, 202 7488002. The president met with Law Enforcement and other city officials yesterday and took a few questions from reporters. He was asked in that short queuing date if he thought systemic racism was behind the racism the unrest in kenosha and elsewhere. [video clip] we are focusing on violent actions, but there have been countless nonviolent protests here in kenosha, people calling for the end of systemic racism. Do you believe systemic racism is a problem . Mr. Mr. Trump you get back to the kind of violence we have seen in portland, here, and other places. It is tremendous. The fact is we have seen tremendous toilets tremendous violence and we will put it out very quickly if we give it the chance. I keep hearing about peaceful protests. Then they come into an area like this and i see the town is burned it down. You look at minneapolis. They should have acted much quicker. When we got the National Guard in, it took literally half an hour. They formed it, they walked, and it was over, and they have not had a problem of any consequence yet. There police were not allowed to do the job they could do. They do not want to have a police department. They want to get rid of it. It is ridiculous. Host the reporting this morning in the wall street journal trump in kenosha back police. To shooting amounted domestic terrorb where he called for greater support for Law Enforcement. Nice of violence, property destruction, and clashes that led to the shooting of two protesters by a teenager. Thatd expressed concerns reese was an underlying factor in unrest. 202 7488000 four biden and harris. Supporters of for President Trump and Vice President pence. On twitter, it is only democraticsocialist america in the democrat run cities being destroyed. The rest of the u. S. Are normal americans living in the greatest country in history of the world. Trump now says he is for law and order but will not question the actions of a minor Walking Around killing people within ar15. Trump has been and remains an absolute joke. This one says that all trump wanted to do was brag. Nothing has changed. This from President Trump yesterday after his journey to kenosha with video p tweets eat tweets, kenosha, wisconsin, here with you all the way. Lets go to the joe biden supporter. Caller good morning. Host mike, go ahead. Caller i am very supportive of joe biden and harris, and i think they would do this country very good. They would keep us united and not divided. I think donald trump would be a total failure to america. He was bad news. That is all. Thank you. Place in sank angelo, texas. Go ahead. Caller good morning. I mean, it is so simple. I am sitting here in my house talking to everybody this morning, and i have a lovely home. I have a lovely neighbor nextdoor across the street. What if all of a sudden one of those neighbors came and burned my house down . Just came across, set it on fire and burned it down. I think anybody would be petrified, astounded, would not believe it. And you would want who to come . A social worker . No. The police. And what should be done to the person who burned my house down . They should be prosecuted and put in jail immediately. This is not rocket science. This is very simple. Yes, the cities that are having problems, they are democrats who are running it. Look at this mayor out in portland. He doesnt have a clue. And trump has offered time after time after time to give them help, and when he has given them help, like in kenosha, the problem was stopped almost immediately. Yet, they blamed trump, and it is a democrat problem, and now it is backfiring. All biden can do is try to play catcher. Host the caller mentioned portland. Here is a story from the washington times. Orderedy the governor to use sheriffs deputies from surrounding counties to help control portland following the deadly shooting of a right wing trump supporter was criticized by law officials, who said it would not end the city approaching 100 consecutive nights of often violent black lives matter protest. Governor kate brown, a democrat, announced a plan to use deputies from two counties, and Oregon State Police troopers to help Portland Police as the liberal city struggles to regain its footing in the glare of the national spotlight, but sheriffs and both of the county said monday they wouldnt send deputies to portland. To santa monica, california, linda. Good morning morning on the biden line. And this am provided, is a president who had a fake and didwho was fraud, not file federal taxes. A man who was also going to condos in baja, it took money and never built them, and a father who ended up in jail for marching with the kkk, and he is talking about law and order . A man who will not even ask putin about the bounties on our military . And when he talks about by democrats, we have military men who are democrats, too. Released ancampaign ad yesterday on the recent violence in cities. Here is a look. [video clip] america. S trumps he will not bring us together. He does not want to. And never will. Inflames,vides, infuriates, and tears people apart, always making things worse. America, and it is time to turn the page. I am joe biden, and i approve this message. Host to our supporters of President Trump line, spartanburg, south carolina, kristi. Kristi, mute your volume and go ahead with your question or comment. Carolina, onsouth the air. Mute your volume. We will go to gene that, washington, d. C. Next,l go to jean washington, d. C. Caller hello . Host go ahead. Caller people did not have to protest if there were no shootings of black people, but all this stuff that is going on, did you check to see where the other people are coming from . All the people who came out to protest were not going out to fight someone. They had nobody to fight. They cannot fight themselves. The point is, it it is baffling. And our president needs to be examined. Thank you. Host jim is on the trump supporter line. Good morning. President trump i saw one of your persons that tweeted a minor was going around killing people, i believe his name was kyle or mr. Rittenhouse . Host yes. And i saw his lawyer was on another network and also the New York Times has actually been pretty objective about what happened. Kyle is a young kid who went there to make a difference. Its funny when a typical conservative good decent kid goes gets involved. You know, and you hear the portland mayor say hey, trump supporter stay home. If a conservative wants to go in the streets and counterprotest, were supposed to not do that. I would never and that. But kyle was there, cleaning up graffiti with two other people and then he was going to assist where a business was about to be burned down. He had a gun. He had it was legal. And he was hes probably going to be acquitted from this. He should be in a sane world. And he had every right to be out there. And the other thing you want to talk about is systemic racism. Ive often brought this up before. And a lot of people get angry at this. But how do black people get along with other races in the inner cities of this country . How do they get along with asian people . How do they get along with mexicans can and arabs . They often target them in riot like in baltimore when they rned down over 200 asia arab and asian businesses, targeted because they were asian and were hated. I remember in west philly, i grew up outside philly. I remember in west philadelphia, the incidents when the black kids were going from classroom to classroom just pummeling and beat being asian children to the point where the asian parents had to pull them out. These things are documented all over the place but the mainstream news never reports them. Black people have a real problem with other races. And they should stop acting like bunch of angels. Theyre not. And also blackonwhite crime averages about 80 of all interracial violence every year as blackonwhite. Blacks are not the victims. Host do you think theres still systemic racism left over from the postcivil war . The postcivil rights . That still exists in both governments and Civil Society in this country. Caller i dont think in government. I think everythings geared towards resolving that for years now, but i think that racism is what you would call racial consciousness. Every human being has a sense of identity racially. White people are the only people in Human History that has ever literally tried to dismantle it and theyve actually lived up the dream. They teach their children not to see race they dont vote race and i think that, i think its quiet the opposite of whats going on here. Host let me go back to your first point on guns though. Youve talked about the 17yearold young man whos now been arrested on that and charged on that shooting. So the presence of guns you say you wouldnt feel safe on your gun. Imagine the other side on that as well. There are other people supporting the movement, black lives matter, with guns as well. And now you really have two sort of armed camps of people. Is that a healthy place for us to be in this country . Caller no, but i think its a natural reaction. The thing that find funny about the black lives matter and the left and people like biden and the media is that they seem to think that the general middle american white guy like me, by the way the trumps American People go to work every day. Im going to work in a wheat mill. I work every day. I dont have time to protest. And i would never protest. But the natural reaction of all this, you would be denatured and not even a human being if you didnt begin to have natural anger and want to fight back. Thats whats so amazing about this. Black people seem to think that whites are supposed to have this incredible long insuffer sufferance and put up with this. Host well let you go and go to thomas in maryland, for joe biden. Caller i was going to talk about Something Else but the man that just talked was the biggest bigot ive ever heard. Black people have you know, back with after the world war , we built hometowns, like pennsylvania, and blacks couldnt buy in. For years and years, black people could never have, could never move into a good job, good jobs were never opened to black people. And all of a sudden, in were the rudest people in the world. You have time and time again, you know, black people just have never had the chance to get jobs we couldnt move into neighborhoods. And all of a sudden, were the worst people in the world. You know, we just have been and looking shed back at everything, look at peoria. Peoria is 7 black people in the town. There are less black people in peoria. And one of those things, during the republican convention