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Wherever they want, listen to whatever music, eat whatever they want, that doesnt mean they are cynically free. That is the emphasis. You have to engage in democracy. My dad used to say, if your user rights, you want to lose your rights. If you had to pick another country in the world, only if you had to, where would you find a country that would maybe do it better than us . On possiblyending holland, scandinavia, canada. I think our democracy is being depleted. It is weaker now. More concentrated power in the hands of few against many, and government snooping, corporations playing with our country, exporting jobs and industry and all the fine print that we have to sign the dotted line, the poverty is increasing. We are not competitive anymore when it comes to justice. We are not the standard. Australia has a minimum wage. If youre over 20, it is 16 and . 90. If youre under 20, disease at 13 an hour or 11 an hour and has a lower unemployment rate. By the way, you have to vote in federal elections in australia. No politician has to spend time and money begging cuba to come out to vote. They see it as a civic duty. Should that be a requirement in this country . I think we should have a referendum and big debate on. In australia, they just accepted. If you have an excuse, its ok,. Ut 97 90 vote if you violated, they fine you ucks. I spoke to the cab driver and told him that you live in a country with a force you to vote. He turned around and looked at me and said why, its a civic duty. Correctly used to be a hitchhiker. You used to be a hitchhiker. Hit the road, whos going to pick you up. You dont follow sleep on the pick you up in the front seat. You talk to them. Everyone picks you up. One guy knows about cutting timber and another guy knows widgets, whatever. I shouted to that. I learned, i learned a lot from the drivers. We often come before the police at the scene of a crash. That really made an impact on me, the blood and the screaming and the silence and the mangled cars. It was got me interested in doing a paper at law school on , youe automobile design know, no seat belts, no padded dash panels, no strong door latches, no head restraints, you name it. Those days, we are bouncing around in a car in a crash like pottery. The dash panel was like a roomful of knives. You to get killed in the 50 mileperhour collision. I lost a lot of my friends, too. Everybody did in those days. Far more serious injuries. I really got angry. The more i learned about how the auto bosses in detroit were suppressing their own engineers. Seat belts, they were in world war i airplanes for heaven sakes to keep the pilot from falling out. I really got angry. How money copies of unsafe at any speed did you sell . Copies, probably close to 100,000. Then it went into paperback. Is still in circulation . Yeah, you can still get it. Something. O show you it goes back to 1960. It features jimmy dean. It is about one minute 20 seconds. Lets latches. Lets watch this. Its fun to see what folks have done for the prizes they have one. Fair, thears state new blueribbon will be going to chevrolet corvair. A car thatss getting all the stairs everywhere goes. There is a reason. More advantages and more appeal than any other compact car on the road today. You take room, for instance. It has room for six adults, this car. And the fiveop kids. Another thing, when you write to the fair in his corvair, known as going to have their knees up under the chain because theres lots of room. The floor is practically flat. And, the engine is in the rear. The chevrolet people put there to give you the best performing compact car on the road today. Is a real for seasoned performer. His corvair can take you practically anywhere. Can have your reaction . I never saw that before. Yeah, there were a few things left out, like you have more Carbon Monoxide and you could tolerate. You cant smell it or see it, the steering column was rammed back into the driver in a left front collision because it was positioned to be very exposed to that. And, of course, danced on you. When turned the corner he could go out of control and rollover. But it wasetty car, a deadly car. Whatitd feel like was your reaction when you found that you were having an impact . I know it is only chapter one of eight. Yeah, the rest of it was safetyhe suppression of Technology Including emission control by the auto companies. There are lots of scientists and engineers who really couldve given a strict Motor Vehicles in every way. Impact at thean beginning, because you couldnt get on tv in those days or radio and mention a car by make and model vertically. , cbc hadgo to toronto a program called this hour has seven days. On with the auto company spokesperson, and then when i came back to washington, i started getting calls to go on tv. This was in 1965. ,he book came out november 30 1965. It is almost the 50th anniversary. Then, the attorney general and i was at hearings, of all places, in des moines. He hauled in the brass from detroit to their. Didnt like it. The New York Times wrote up and my in washington, hes senator from connecticut. He said tuesday, hey, we have to get going on this. Are we being upstaged by an attorney general . So he had hearings. In the meantime, General Motors was following. They hire detectives to get dirt on me. They followed me around the country, even interviewed some of my classmates from law school. His all went public and senatorr, Robert Kennedy and fred harris won the committee of the time. They hauled the heads of gm, unheard of in those days, and the detective that they hired who was out of a damon runyon novel. The outrage resulted in the passage of the Motor Vehicle Highway Safety laws in 1966 signed by lyndon johnson. He invited me to the white house for the signing ceremony. , saved over a million lives. It also had an impact on car imports a broad. He had to meet your standards, which then were higher. In the book, you point out an accidentwill saw outside his house, walked outside and saw that there was somebody deceased from the accident, and then endorsed the airbag heard what relevance does it have twos book . It makes my point. The auto safety law was passed unanimously in the house of representatives, republicans and democrats. We get down to where people live and you talk about stats and injuring classes an injury and clashes and losses of loved ones, those divisions disappear. Saw a woman dead on the street and he came back and said, enough of these u. S. Abstractions of these paid pitiless abstractions. Where to get the idea of the need for seatbelts and airbags and things like that . Well, i did a paper in the harvard law school, a thirdyear paper which i turned into the book unsafe at any speed. It is surprising. The pentagon spent 45 million ording some Harvard School Cornell Medical School to study what happens in the crash. What happens in a crash. Is when younjury are ejected from the windshield. Losing more air force men on the highways in the u. S. Abandoned the korean war. Those studies came to my attention. I was very absorbed by them. Articles andwrite i decided to interview them on the qt. We would go around detroit in a cab. They would give me plain envelopes and i turned it into the book. Got wind of it and hired private detectives. What i learned is when you talk about safety, and who didnt have a story of someone being injured or there being injured or killed in a car crash, the ideology dissipated, he put his focus area isnt a right thing to do to recalled effective when the companies learn yet effective like the gym scandal right now with the Chevrolet Cobalt and other models. That really impressed me. That is the genesis of this book, unstoppable. The merging right lines to dismantle the corporate state. When you get down to specifics, the sense of fair play comes in. The golden rule philosophy comes in. It is not some corporatist. Epublican or democrat ideology word, throughout your book. Onthere is that agreement very important things is being pushed down by the corporatist grip on both the democratic and republican parties and their leaders. We start, for example, with Public Opinion around the country. It does matter, red state, blue state. Theyre upset with the patriot act restrictions on privacy and Civil Liberties and free speech. Theres a big convergence. Subsidies,like handouts, giveaways to corporations on the backs of taxpayers, especially the wall street bailout type. No crooks are prosecuted or put in jail. They want a crackdown on corporate crime very big business gets away with a lot of stuff. It is kind of main street versus wall street nexus. You dont like empire. Right, left, they dont like empire. They dont like us pushing around all over the world and into countries and losing our soldiers. Theyre wasting trillions of dollars. All these people around the country see public works crumbling. America needs repair. We are blowing it up overseas with trillions of dollars, and we are not repairing them. That is a convergence issue. Theyre like these hold down trade agreements. Thats why mr. Obamas not going to get that transpacific agreement through. It is a left right convergence in the house of representatives against fast tracking his trade agreement with limited debate and no amendments. An operating convergence in state legislatures on juvenile justice crime reform. It is already almost 20 legislatures. Donald ross who is leading this fight with the Macarthur Foundation tells that he could not get these bills through without a leftright alliance. The same things begin to happen with these long sentences for possession, say marijuana. You have Newt Gingrich and others starting a group called right on crime. Theres a movement to put solutions on the shelf. We withdraw from Civic Engagement and dont go out and vote and dont try to get more choices on the ballot with third parties, etc. This is what this book is about. It ise may say well, pieinthesky. No, it is not pieinthesky. As i mentioned, the auto safety bill was a convergence victory. In 1983, there was a rightleft convergence to defeat the boom dollar the boondoggle Water Treatment plant. It was considered unstoppable because of that senator howard baker behind it and Ronald Reagan behind it. We beaded 56 to 40. , thehistleblowing bill false claims act of 1986, that was senator grassley, republican. And, of course, the recent government fraud and corporate front of the taxpayer. We tried to find a first appearance on this network. The one we found was that this one . Heres what youre saying back in 1985. People are looking at the current state of consumer issues. The observation can be made, all the big battles have been fought and some lost her theyre all behind us now. What is up next . Finished. S is not safer pharmaceutical products, Drinking Water that is relatively pure. Theres not a lot of progress, but theres a lot left to be done. What would you say today echo this is 28 years later. Is almost 30 years. What is left . Credit card, debit card, economy. It is full of cows Interest Rates and prints and overcharges. People are hooked into this whole system. They cant get out. We have real project called fear of contracts. Org. Pletely change things. Cars are safer, food is better people are eating more nutritious food, for example. The water in many areas is cleaner. Hand, you have a lot of hospital induced infections that are preventable. Americans die every day. Whether it is meg whitman or harvardligence, medical school with maybe a thousand deaths each year. With regulators being forced to sleep on the job, the mice will play. That is what we have seen in this recent gm situation. The other thing that is troubling is that more and more , the corporate mergers munities termination the communication networks. Dear in their dna to solar power are out. That is strategic. It is not good for competition and innovation. Is that a partisan issue, when we see the rebellion some years ago against the fcc loosening the restrictions on how many tv, radio, newspapers can be ordered can be owned by one country, it was leftright. They get the house of representatives to work both tolls for rumor. It was the nra and colin cox. Think the whole realignment in our country is i dont sugarcoat the obstacles. Requires at realization that theres a big majority here that can be put together, left, right, all important directions for our country and reform. How many years did you live i have to like it here. I like the idea there are no skyscrapers, either. Do you have a credit card . No. You dont. No. Dont have credit . No. Of control you give up when you have credit and debit cards. Unfortunately, theyre forcing you to do it. Try renting a car with cash. More and more the coalition is pushing away from cash, even in taxicabs. Do you own a car. No. Have you ever bought a car . Yes. A car . E you own it is a pain in the mac. When youre living in the city and you have Good Transportation and you can walk, i dont want to look for parking space. It is a nuisance. I try to control my time. I dont have email. I dont have direct email. , have a college who has email but between email and everything else, it is noon. We havent gotten anything done. Time thatse a lot of way. Youre been on this earth 80 years. Do you feel it . No. You work everyday . Yeah, of course. It is a joy to work. Within hours to keep . At pretty much work all the time. Once in a while i take in a movie. I used to take in a ballgame, but when you love your work, it is not work. It is fighting for justice as i see it. You live in a country that gives you a chance to do that, and you see some of the doors starting to close, and elsewhere, you have to keep it open for generations to come. Do you own a Television Set . I was given one, but it is not quite working with the right antenna. I do listen to cspan radio. Do ourselves met all, ever . Once in a rare, rare while. If theres a championship game, for example in sports, or 60 minutes. Once in a while i do. You wrote a lot about conservatives in this book. Of all the conservatives you have known and worked with, which when have you worked the most with . On some issuesed with pat buchanan on trade, Grover Norquist on corporate , on probation. On prohibition. I once visited senator grassley, and he said look what your democrats are up to . Said i was at a hearing, my committee. I was against this tax loophole carrying interest for wall street Venture Capital hedge ands, and john Kerry Charles schumer were supporting wall street. Heres the point, there is convergence under the side theres been running the country into the ground. It is called the corporate liberal, represented by the clintons, and the corporate conservatives represented by the people we all know. Theyre the ones who got rid of Bank Regulation and collect and clag egg spiegel. It was a republican vote that helped clinton get those through. Were talking about something new on the people side in terms of convergence. The corruption of both parties and other attractions has been going on for a long time. Back in 1989, here you are testifying on something that is a constant issue. To think Congress Deserves a theyvery increase . Increased their sarah larry 40 since 1981 to the present 89,500 level. Patient a very generous list. Worth of people returning. 9 00 a. M. Percent of the people earn less. When you look at the deficit in washington, if you look at the scandals that arent corrected involving the executive branch as well, if you look at all program cutbacks in head start and health and safety and education and low Income Housing and the rest, this is not the fellowsraise these income. Therell always need money to get campaign contributions. Personally, i think they get about 170,000 now plus benefits. That should be enough to live on. A lot of people would like that. Did you ever stop to pay increase . Using pop radio, yet using talk radio, yes. You cant believe how hung up they are on this. In one area, speaker of the house, jim wright, and his counterpart, the congressman michael from illinois, held a press conference. They said, anybody who is ryanair ticket who is running who is running on our ticket for whos making a case negatively, we will cut off. Rates he raised the pay grab issue. They cut him off. He didnt have money for a single tv ad. Gingrich was reelected, came back, dumped jim wright as a speaker, took over the house of representatives in 1994. What youre saying is the parties are going to cut the money off anybody was going to the first one is brought up a lot. Get the department of defense to audit its beautiful budget. Department had to audit its budget . It would be too embarrassing. They would have to explain why 9 billion in the first few months in the invasion of iraq by bush cheney, disappeared, unaccounted for. Just recently, 6 billion in the first term of the obama state department. That they cant account for. Here is the biggest business in the united states, the pentagon. 800 billion. Half of the federal government discretionary budget, and we have no more soviet union. It is still humming along. Audited. Even been one accountant would ever, ever operate that way. What business would ever be able to operate . Year, they put the report to congress on the pentagon. Every year they say sorry, we dont have the daily dusty Data Available from the pentagon to have an audit. So i think once you are the pentagon, you know where the money is and you know where it is going and where it is misspent. Obama and Hillary Clinton is in. It is even ask for money from congress. They got a billion and a half dollars somewhere in the pentagon budget. Rights a real big left, alliance. Control, the political heights in congress. You have john boehner, he just wanted areas you let mcconnell, he wants it. What is my secretary of defense want to audit the . Wind that been easy way to do it . Youre all promising. The secretary of defense says we are working on an audit. The latest offense deadline is 2017, just after the election. What you do other than mention them here . Did anything publicly to try to . Et rid of the pack i read about it and talk about on capitol hill. I talk about it with conservatives who want the audit. As i say, eisenhower warned about this militaryindustrial complex. Waste anhe enormous enormous giveaway contracts kbr, halliburton, all those pentagon and Lockheed Martin and boeing and raytheon. People think there is waste, that an idea was going on with their tax dollars. Theres a great convergence of leftright on back that has to emerge. As president done anything about this . Lit service issue. The gao of congress investigated. Theyre now been told by pentagon that they will have data for an audit at 2017. We have heard that song before. Or billions of spare parts are sometimes. After by anyone. Dev stuff all over the world. This is why ron paul and barney frank formed the congress formed a conga formed a caucus to cut the pentagon why has a big meeting not covered this. They have, havent they. Coverage of the military Foreign Policy in this country, other than the independent media, is to go coverage. Once in a while theres really investigative work. Large, this could occur if the media was on it after day. We have to public hearings, for example. In 2013 you showed a side of yourself that we dont often see. This has something to do with the 19th annual funniest celebrity contest. Here you are. People think i dont laugh. [laughter] one person said i cited on saturday night live five times, and i did live. So i have chosen three different labs and am going to audition them. I hope, by your reaction, that i pick one. If youre going to be a leader juergen have to learn how to laugh through the cruelty of it all. The first lap is from senator al franken. Heh hehe this hehhhh. The next one is desmond tutu. He hee heee this hee heeee. Thats what you get that . Who talked into doing that . Grover norquist. The tax cutter, now turned into antiunion. Hes also against corporate welfare. Thats a tough thing to break through. In the book, i shot a breakthrough year. The free revolution committees of correspondence . That started with people you know in your community and your neighborhood, leftright. You joke about it, get together, and make your needs known to him members of congress a state legislature. In the media starts saying, hey, this is bubbling up, we have to pull it. , what mightl it happen is the media starts covering it. The think tanks in the academic world start putting out reports, and it bubbles up on the election scene. The problem with all these 25 areas and more of left, right, convergence and alliance, is there off the table. When theyre not on the table, you cant get to first base. Bottomup that i just described, and plus maybe a billionaire or two who might port it on a bigger still, once it is on the table, theres. Stopping it very four is link the minimum wage with inflation. 80 support ast restoration of minimum wage to 1968 levels adjusted for inflation. That would be just under 11 an insteadd of seven of 7. 25. It has moved into the clinical arena or the left during a because the banks own this place. Redirect conjugations to charity. Spoke, asident obama i urged him to, to citizen groups, charitable groups, religious charities, labor groups, environment, consumer did,s, as jimmy carter urging people to give more money to them, it would create more jobs. Sector, if theic say 10,t got behind it, 15 billion more a year, you would get hundreds of thousands of new jobs working to help Young Children in need or to clean up the environment. All these expand into nonprofit groups. How big is the nader compared these days . To when youre doing the most . You know, i spin off groups. I am not a control freak. You have probably created close to a hundred group strictly all over the country. The student Public Interest research groups, which i hope foundational right up someday. Theyre big on Citizen Engagement area and we have a big pension rights center, the center for auto safety. Dont believe in controlling when i help people do our nader raider reports. It is a Ripple Effect when he asked that question. At an older monsoon terms of budget, maybe 40 or 50 million a year. Most of it is small contributions, foundation grants. Some publication sales. Most of it is the usual traditional giving. Will you have to do to be the next ralph nader . You have to have a very gratifying life. Go for, because justice is a great work of human beings on earth. You cant have liberty or freedom without justice. Then, i would get down to yourfics, apropos of question. One is, you have to share the credit. You cant have legal control freak. You just minimize yourself. You cant so a lot of seeds. Second, you have to have what i call a civic personality. That is, you cant be discouraged and burnout. Youre going to lose a lot of battles. Human to win some, but you will lose some. You have to have a builtin resiliency. When the doctor goes to hospital every day, he doesnt expect only help the people there. He expects people who need the doctors help. You have to have a resiliency. That is very important. The third thing is, you have to keep uptodate. You dont want to sound like a tired tyrant. You have to keep uptodate, you have to sell new yourself as john gardner wrote. What you read that we wouldnt think about to stay up with what is going on inside the government . Good to leave through the congressional record and various congressional reports. It is for important to read the business press. I read often parents financial weekly and wall street journal, washington post, New York Times. Sometimes i look at what the patents are being issued and then say oh solar energy patent. Another finger, court depositions. Sometimes we get good material that comes out of litigation, tort litigation. We saw that in the asbestos area and tobacco area. That is what really got 60 matters 60 minutes and the media interested. You pay any attention to the internet . To have a computer on your desk . No. I havent underwood typewriter. When the lights go out to turn electrical storm, i am still working. Youre not on the internet. No, but i have people who are on the internet. They give me reams of material, sometimes too much. Information retrieval problem here. Is putting information on a , to knowledge, to judgment, to experience, and then to wisdom. A lot of people never get past the information. They overwhelmed by bits of information. You think it was worse when you you think it is worse than when you started on this . I think so. Than 20,less history 30, 40 years ago. They dont know prominent people. You have people who dont even know who phil donahue was. He is one of the bestknown people in the country. Was your Campaign Manager in oh no. The he wasnt on your side . Phil donahue is a greatest. Xponent he had me on 32 times. On 32 reverend fallow times. He had people on. He deftly disagreed with. He give them air time and the biggest talk show in america. That is when you know he believes in the first amendment. Here you are, in the 2000 i hope that those of you are talking with others that are wavering on the least of the worst or lesser of two evils syndrome, will remind them of what Franklin Delano roosevelt said each when he citizen is equal to each other citizen in the ballot booth, where privacy reigns. They can only answer to their conscience. A vote for conscience, vote for your hopes and dreams, a vote for a higher expectation level of what our country can become come of what it could mean to the world. Those are the votes that you need to register, not a lesser of two evils were that the end of the day youre still left with evil. Would you get out of the three times he ran for president . We demonstrated it is a twoparty tyranny. It doesnt tolerate competition, doesnt like more voices and choices for the voters him even though the voters told that they want more voices and choices. We got some victories in the courts on ballot access, for example. I also learned that people are very demoralized. Their worst enemy is giving up on themselves. You know, the old model, you cant fight city hall. You cant fight exxon mobil. That is a big problem today. Thatople realize that constitution starts with we the people, not we the corporation, it is never mentioned, the corporation. If they only realized the power that they have, that is what this book is all about. One areaalliance of after another. Things are couldve stopped in the things he couldve started. They wouldnt recognize our country in a lot of the world. Are people so mad at you in the Democratic Party . Yeah, they have a residual. There were dozens of if they did steal it in florida, it wouldve one. If you got clintons arkansas, he wouldve one. He hasnt blamed the green party. The tea party. Me because, they feel a little guilty that they could be a bumbling governor from texas who had an awful record, that was not paraded around the country by the Democratic Party during the campaign. Why did you keep running the last time . I ran three times officially to fightost impossible the two parties, squeezing your debates. A more Georgia People wanted me on the president ial debates. Does matter, it was created and controlled by the republican democratics. They squeeze out the ballot and to try to get you back on. It is labor day. Where you get back on or off you are exhausted, you have no money, you have any we campaign, the media is ignoring you because you cant win. Arent you glad the liberty 1940 . Theyince put on the table. Redirections would eventually he picked up one or two of the major parties. To have any hope that that can be changed, where the two parties have loosened their control over the system . Yes, i put out a letter, 220 billionaires who have some enlightened activity in their background, urging them to throw their hat into the ring. Even as a primary or an independent, just to break up the twoparty tyranny that is turning 70 voters off that theyre not going to vote. If it is a tedious comer all kinds ofas issues on the table. I kept my website in 2008, open. It has 18 issues that were taken of the table. Ot even discussable on my website, vote nader. Org. Is included things like Mcgeorge Terry and support for medicare. And humane. Ficient living wage, cracking down on corporate crime. ,ulling back from empire getting rid of the corporate indentured tax code and putting in something much better and equitable and productive. Public works investments. On and on and on. Didnt want to talk about it. You end up with two or three or four repetitive issues where they assail each other. The press is so bored, that i in order toffe break the tedium. This is what we deserve in this country. It is absurd. Were better than that. We have to think of each other as individuals blocked in arms. Conservatives or liberals might find it interesting that at the end of your book, you have some acknowledgments. Use a special thanks to institutes e you can get all these old books. Why are you throwing them a bone in this . They were authors, poets,. Ctivist who owns america . To call themselves decentralist. Onres a chapter in the book decentralist. They could be full by wall street and the two parties. They couldnt be fooled by even the new deal. That is how basic they were in terms of connecting freedom and decentralization of property ownership, including share ownership. Heres the thing, it is always and most of them are corporatists masquerading as conservatives who refer to adam smith and so on. And read his philosophers. Adam smith was hated. He wanted public works, he wanted a living wage. He was fearful of government ridge regulation. The big guru for president paul ryan, he was against medicare and medicaid. Why . Because it was universal. He had a safety net for the impoverished. He was very much against socialist planning. They are distorting these conservative icons for their own purpose. Baksheesh in the book, only 10 of the voters change your mind. They will simply vote republican or democrat based on other grandparents and parents voted. Election is really only for 10 of the vote . 10 terryld swing lundgren getaway, and you get a huge landslide. This is what we have to focus on , it is within our hands locally to bubble up these leftright s forced the campaigns to put these issues on the table. Once,ted Ronald Reagan and he agreed with me against corporate welfare. I told my business friends not to put their hand in the washington trough. I debated Milton Friedman once. He said people will figure it out. Then am i got him on pollution. He said, you have to have either taxi pollution regulation of pollution. I like the fight in bob follett. Eugene debs once told reporters there at the end of his career, 20 must figure in your regret said undereer . He our constitution American People and have almost anything they want. It just seems to want that much at all. The way to control people is to keep the expectation levels down. What about a conservative . Automatically admitted burke is a runaway. He was only one in congress against roosevelt. Wage. Was for a living used for public housing. They believed in public works. Againstd tafthartley working people. Choose later he realized he tipped the balance too much and wanted to reform it. Huge breeding ground for justice and forwardlooking. That is why wrote the book. It is a short book. It is like 215 pages. What happens if all the sudden, wealth nader cannot do it he does anymore . What happens to your old movement . Theyre running away. Always follow the principle of leadership to reduce more leaders, not more followers. Ive gotten young people being authors of books, start their own groups. You can call me johnny appleseed. If you are doing what you have done, what would have been . A satirist, humorous. A humorist. There are so many grievances and injustices in horrors, it is tough to go and do humor. I did get a saturn at live five times, but not since a 2000 campaign. Itll let me on anymore. Charge,tell whos in democrats, of course. If you name something you want to accomplish before you quit all this, if you ever do, what would that be . Number ones onesere are two number they will emerge from high school and college as stalwart Civic Leaders and civic activists. Building civic institutions, which is what our democracy has to. You have a hypothetical theor billionaire, why . Abolitionists were supported by rich bostonians. The womens suffrage bill was supported by rich widows or spouses. Carterey came from the from the courier family. Needseftright alliance money. We have a lot of billionaires. All we need are one or two to iy im in my 70s and 80s, dont like where our country and the world is going. I want to help this effort to revive our country. Who saw the name of this book . I did. Those two together, and i have a lot of example of lands, is unstoppable. Is unstoppable in congress. With together Public Opinion moving into the political and electoral arena, it is unstoppable. Huge majorities. Even though the militaryindustrial complex did want it. That is what this book is all about. It puts the tools your hands, folks. It takes away your excuses. Rauf nader, the emerging left right alliance to dismantle the corporate state. The name of the book is unstoppable. Thank you very much. For free transcripts or to do with your comments about this program, visit us at q and a. Org. Next, live, your calls and comments on washington journal. Live at noon, legislative business begins at 2 00 eastern. Nutrition policy had not been reformed since 1934. Theres really a compelling need in 1995 to begin a process of massive telecommunication reform. At that time, you basically had boxes. He had a box for broadcasters, a box for telephone companies, a box for longdistance, cable, satellite. Our view was we had to come in and try to eliminate the lines of demarcation and promote competition, believing that with competition there would be innovation, investment, more consumer choice, more freaks. More features. Reallyprimary focus was just what we call plain old Telephone Service. Is fundamentally different. If fcc has managed as well as a can without clear direction from congress. About how the transition from the air of Telephone Service to the time when everything is delivered over the internet should take lace. Fcc has done a good job. Evaluating the 1996 telik medications act with two of the house members who helped write it. Tonight on the communicators at eight eastern on cspan2. 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