Hysterics say is wrong. Its not safe. Violent crime is up. John and the media make it seem like life is getting worse, but away from politics, most of life gets better. We live longer, we live better. The good news is most of life exists outside government. The big picture. Thats our show tonight. Announcer and now, john stossel. John so much has gone the better in america. Our environment keeps getting cleaner, despite what you hear. We live longer than ever, become more prosperous, poor people have. More good things keep happening under President Trump . He promises hell help kids escape horrible Government Schools. We will rescue kids from failing schools by helping their parents send them to a safe school of their choice. John choice could be great. I like the way he said choice but its not really under his control. Education is mostly run by local governments, and many places, in spite of resistance from teachers unions and stuck in their ways bureaucrats, better alternatives have emerged. Charter schools have raised kids test scores. High test scores made these charters so popular, parents line up, hoping to get their kids admitted. This line goes on and on. John whats sad is there is a line, a million kids are on waiting lists to get into charters in america. Governments put limits on the number of charters. On election day, massachusetts rejected a plan to increase the number of Charter Schools. Why would they do that . Well, lets ask the editor of the website, the 74 which covers arguments about education and school choice. Thats campbell brown. Hey there, john. I guess youre right. It doesnt make a lot of sense, and i think if you took politics out of the equation, it would have passed. What do you mean politics out of the equation, what happened in massachusetts, i would think they want more kids to have these good things . Charter schools are not union schools. John spent the most money fighting this thing, telling people in the suburbs this will wreck your kids, take money from your kids school to help poor kids . Thats exactly right. So its been a political fight, but i would say overall, charters have really exploded in growth largely because parents are demanding it. You mentioned the charter wait list in intro. In new york, there are 44,000 people on wait lists. In los angeles over 100,000. So with wait lists like that, its hard to imagine that this is a snowball that theyre going to be able to stop rolling. John but they did stop it in massachusetts, and dont the unions have a point . If theres a pot of money and some goes to the Charter School, the Public School has less. Well, theyre all Public Schools. The Government School has less. Thats true, but not in this case. There was in the way the legislation was written in massachusetts, there was funding that would go to schools that lost students who then moved to a Charter School. So the argument that it was going to take money away from wealthier schools was false, it was false advertising. John but it won. You would see how that would be a very effective argument with voters. In new york, a woman created Charter Schools call success sxh academies. You do this all with the same money the Public Schools get . We do it with less. John the school day here is longer, kids often stay until 5 00 p. M. Charter teachers are asked to work more than the union would allow. They dont mind. You are going to get kicked off. We have our prize with the kids. John these teachers work harder, work longer, the kids do much better, thousands of kids waiting to get in and the bureaucracy opposes it. Full disclosure, i serve on the board of success academies, i think its a special Charter School network. The top five schools in america are Success Academy charters. You would hope that the traditional Public Schools would look at what theyre doing and why theyre achieving these kind of results and learn from it and begin to apply that in the traditional environment. Theyre not doing. I suppose they feel the competition and maybe theyre improving a little too . Thats you hope. There are studies done that, when schools are co located with a highperforming charter, it improves the school colocated with it. John they dont like being shown up. And success academies, the example you gave, they share their lesson plans, and weve had people from all over the world come and tour these schools and visit them. John another reason its fortunate give kids an alternative to the government monopoly is that horrible teachers, teachers who hurt kids dont get fired. This former Police Investigator says it takes years to fire an abusive teacher. Lots of people said he hit kids. The kids said it. Lots of people said he hit them and other teachers said it that were present in the classroom. Took me four years, 283,000. 127,000 in legal fees, plus what it cost to have a substitute fill in all while hes sitting home having popcorn. John hes having popcorn, they finally took him out of classroom but had to keep paying him because Union Protection makes it impossible to get rid of a dangerous teacher. Where there are no unions, Civil Service protection makes teachers unifierable. Principals often joke about something called the dance of the lemons, when they transfer bad teachers that they cant fire to other schools. You fire people at your schools. They should be fired. You fired teacher after one day . Shes incompetent thats an American Indian who ran a Charter School in oakland, cal American Indian public Charter School. Here at American Indian, they pay kids to tutor other kids. We hire our students and pay them. Theyre excited. Theyre going to make money. Reporter the kids at American Indian schools have some of the highest test scores in california. You can do that in the same amount the state gives every school. We get less. Thats what so amazes me campbell, the charters get less money, they arent a miracle, but on average doing as well or better. Its less about the money, john, than it is to have the flexibility to try new ideas and figure out what works for different student populations because every kid is not the same. Everythings not going to work for every child. So we need a variety, we need entrepreneurs. If we dont allow the charters to grow and experiment and innovate to teach kids differently and prepare them for the new world, its a massive failure on our part. John and they are growing, but its pathetic, less than 10 of the kids now, right . Absolutely, and i do think you want to give some credit to other ideas that are being tried. Tax credits, scholarship programs in places like florida that has 100,000 kids using tax credits to send their kids to private schools. John so am i just politically naive . Because i thought and take the school that youre associated with, success academies, when mom saw that johnny down the street looks forward to going to school, like learning, was getting top grades, getting into good colleges she would demand it for her child and within a couple years, wed have choice almost everywhere, and its been 15 years. She is demanding it for her child which is why the wait lists are crazy theyre so long. But to use new york as an example where you have a mayor who is very much in sync with the teachers unions for political reasons hes not going to do anything. Its a constant battle given the politics of this issue and why things have moved so slowly. John thank you, campbell brown. Were glad youre fighting for this. Even when governments wont allow a choice of schools, the internet is providing alternatives. Better alternatives. Five years ago Hedge Fund Analyst sal khan created videos to tutor his cousin. That worked out well. I started tutoring her brothers and more cousins and do the same lecture over and over again. I had a friend who said hey, sal, put your lectures on youtube. He did, and was surprised to notice thousands of people watched. Sal is an excellent teacher so students found him. I started getting letters from people, and comments on youtube, and they are not like, hey, i think this might have helped on my math exam, theyre like i failed calculus the first time, started watching the video, now acing the class. Reporter the youtube numbers kept rising and got calls from the middle east, africa. Now khan is funded by bill gates. Not only is it reaching millions of students, god forbid i got hit by a bus, it will be able to reach millions and billions of students. John thats great. No student today has to have a bad teacher. Everyone in the world, through the internet can, have access to the best. For economic students Marginal Revolution University is trying to be the best, alex founded it based on the marginal revolution that he writes with tyler cowen. You offer College Courses . Thats right we want to be the khan academy of economics and teaching millions of students around the world. John how does it work . Kids watch or colleges partner with you . We have videos on all kinds of topics, if a student is have be difficulty in elasticity they can look at the video on that topic. Most University Students take at least one online class . Absolutely, Online Education is the only credible way to reduce the costs of education. John and other advantages you dont think of, when i went to college, the professor stood in front and droned on. Sometimes he repeated himself. You never have to repeat yourself. John thats exactly right. Its a better method of teaching, so when im teaching students at george mason and 20 are not quite getting it, its very natural for me to repeat myself as you said. That means that 08 of the students have to hear something twice. They only need to hear it once in. The online world, you never repeat yourself and the student, theyre in charge. You can pause, they can rewind, they can speed you up so you Start Talking faster than you usually do. Much more individualized method of teaching. Student can read more quickly through the material they understand well and move slowly through the material they need extra help with. John at virginia tech, students take initial math classes online. Math is one of the areas where students proceed at a different pace. Some get it quickly and some not so quickly and the computer john like a video game. The computer, its a fantastic tutor, right . It never gets angry, never gets bored, available 24 hours a day. Its a fantastic, the Artificial Intelligence tutor is going to be the leading teacher in the world. John with thanksgiving coming up, one economic principle thats good to know about is the tragedy of the commons, that almost starved the pilgrims. Plymouth colony cheered almost everything. Communism no one worked hard, no one protect the groups property and people took more of their share. They almost starved. Marginal Revolution University expands that idea to overfishing oceans. The tuna stock collapses, no more sushi and no more jobs for fishermen. Thats a tragedy. Do you have roommates . They can look at your kitchen. Thats the tragedy of the commons. John so is this a substitute for the 50,000 tuition at george mason . Well, i dont want to tell the george mason president that. But i will tell you at georgia tech, for example, you have an online degree in Computer Science which is 7,000. At other comparable universities its 50, 60, 70,000. So this is going to be a huge trend. Its just as good . Just as good or better. The students find they can interact with the professor and with other students more easily online than they can in the classroom. We can get entertainment on demand, why cant we get education 24 hours a day, whenever we want it in the entire world. John thank you, alex. Next, despite all the doomsday warnings, turns out our environments improving, too. When it comes to healthcare, seconds can mean the difference between life and death. For partners in health, time is life. We have 18,000 people around the world. The microsoft cloud helps our entire staff stay connected and Work Together in real time to help those that need it. The ability to collaborate changes how we work. What we do together changes how we live. Thats my resignation letter. 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You can have a clear air but it can be heating up and the oceans could rise, this is what most of the protesters are terrified about. We simply dont have the evidence to support those claims. John president obama says nothing poses a greater threat to future generations than Climate Change. He says already natural disasters happen more often. Weve seen stronger storms, deeper droughts, longer wildfire seasons. Show me the evidence, the incident of storms is not going up. No evidence to suggest that over 100year period the storms are becoming more frequent or more severe. The only kind of storm theyre seeing more of ironically in the context of Global Warming is winter storms. Were seeing a slight uptick in winter storms, severity and frequency, tornado storms, hail storms, all of that is flat. John president obama talked about jogging in los angeles when he was a teenager. After about five minutes, suddenly i had this weird feeling like i couldnt breathe. Back in 1979, los angeles still was so full of smog. John smog, but smog is actual pollution, not the Carbon Dioxide the alarmists attack now. The air was filthy when obama went jogging. Carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, all the pollutants have dropped because of government action, this is something we need government are. Not necessarily true, not all of that was driven by government action, the Clean Air Act passed early 60s late 70s, it made improvements in air quality but there were improvements happening long before that. When the pollutants peaked in concentrations in the 30s and 40s, roughly 70 of total reduction happened before the Clean Air Act was passed. The epa doesnt like to share that because it erodes the story they fixed this problem. Local governments, state governments, a the love the improvement was done before the federal government got involved in the first place. John the decrease in pollution is more impressive when you consider we drive more now. We have many more polluting machines, this chart from the epa shows while gdp increased, driving increased. Pollution decreased. One reason it decreased is that cars are just better, a car from the 60s thats parked emitted more pollution from leaks than a new car does traveling at full speed. Air gets cleaner every time somebody buys a new car. Indeed, as long as the old cars are taken off the road. The improvements were driven by regulatory requirements and market forces. Drivers demanding more fuel efficiency, motivating Car Companies to deliver more fuelefficient cars. John a lot of people said it wouldnt have happened without government force. The evidence is not for that claim either. Many of the improvements happened long before the federal government got involved in cleans up our air. As we get wealthier as a society, we demand a cleaner environment. Sometimes we used government and the market for that. Oftentimes the market produces better results more cheaply and more quickly than the federal option. John im upset the Climate Change zealots dont seem to be Greenhouse Gases are different from regular pollution. 7 Million People die because of pollution related illnesses. John the Arnold Schwarzenegger video viewed 15 million times partly because he says provocative things like this. It is too costly to fix. I would like to strap their mouth to exhaust pipe of a truck. John he says 7 Million People died from pollution related illnesses, makes you want to act. No doubt. Most of the deaths are in the developing world. Whats killing the people is not car emissions, its combustion of coal, the wood, animal deng, inside oil or fuel. John they burn wherever they have. Where indoor quality is much more hazardous to your health than outdoor quality. If we want to address the 7 million number, thats an important number. We shouldnt dismiss that. We should think about ways, policies that will improve economic standing, increase economic prosperity. If we adopt policies, renewable fuel standards or emissions standards that will make the countries poor and actually kill more people than it helps. John thank you very much, you work in montana for perc. The property and Environment Research center. John thank you for coming all the way to nasty manhattan to talk about that. Next, why i and a lot of you are not dead . Improvements in health care. Come on, wake up come on, why ya sleepin . Come on what time is it . Its go time. Come on. Lets go, lets go, lets go. Woooo hoooo yeah i feel like i went to bed an hour ago. Ill make the cocoa. Get a great offer on the car of your grownup dreams at the mercedesbenz winter event. Its the look on their faces that make it all worthwhile. Thank you santa now lease the 2017 c300 for 389 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Thats why this control enthusiast rents from national. 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The average Life Expectancy in 1900 was 47. Its increased steadily, now almost 80. It will keeping about it up says dr. Marc siegel, regardless whos in the white house. Really . The big picture is just good . Things get better . Science helped us, john, we have public health. We got rid of the sewage, we had the bubonic plague, we got rid of the fleas and rats so people didnt die from. That people are exercising more. Diets are better. Smart enough to go to a plant based diet. Cutting down on smoking which a huge carcinogen, that caused lung cancer, hopefully well cut down on alcohol. We have statin drugs that lower cholesterol. Antibiotics made a huge difference. We used to die of a scratch, ear infection, now we dont. John vaccines were a big part. Huge. John so successful, many of us forget the diseases they prevent. Some of my neighbors had to live in iron lungs because they had polio. 20,000 people were paralyzed. Then came the vaccine and no one gets polio in america when i was a kid, i got the measles, i looked like this kid. Hundreds of people got the measles and died. Now fewer get measles and theres only one death since 2003. Are we getting to diminishing returns . I dont think so, in the 21st century, guess what were aiming at . Malaria. 200,000 cases of malaria. Its in stage three trials. John think about that, 200 million cases of malaria, and one to two Million Deaths from this disease. And we have a very promising vaccine. Dengue fever, 400 million case ace year, more than malaria and actually a vaccine out called dengue vaxia, its useful and being used and another dengue vaccine is coming out this year. The Drug Companies play a major role for profit. John people say its the nih, Companies Sell the me too drugs. At the beginning nih came up with the innovation, most of it comes from priority industry . And all new medications as well. Some of our best scientists are in private industry. John medical innovation keeps finding new ways to help doctors treat patience. This little girl was born with a severe birth defect. Hometown doctors in oregon had no experience with her condition. Across the country, doctors said we could help. They used a 3d printer to create exact replicas of violets head. They could prepare to operate on her. We could see the changes, the growth, the changes in the bony dimensions. This gives me the ability to see on this model better than the operating room where we have to make certain cuts. Thats never been possible before. John soon we get 3d printed skins and organs. They take scaffolding, if you put a little skin on the scaffolding, you can reproduce an organ, starting to use it for kidney transplants, liver transplants, if you dont have a donor, we may be able to make an organ. John look at the video from microscope. Shows the white blood cell chasing a germ. White blood cells are why youre not dead. They chase down and eat the bacteria that wants to kill us. Get this one. Yes a type of white blood cell will chase and eat cancers but cancer cells disguise themselves and hide from tcells . They are smart. Cancer turns off the immune system and tells the immune system im not, there but now with something called immunotherapy, were able to find those cells and target them and light them up so the immune system comes in and kills them. Stimulating the immune system that before was asleep to cancer. John cancer will be cured by this . When we personalize this, i think well get a cure. John shouldnt matter whos president . Shouldnt matter whos president. The wheels of advancement march on. John thank you dr. Marc siegel, fox news medical analyst. Next, what will donald trump do about this lie . This is a story of the rich getting richer. While the poor are poorer. I have asthma. One of many pieces in my life. 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John most polls show americans believe the poor are getting poorer. I understand why they think that. We hear it all the time. This rich getting richer thing and the poor getting poorer. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. John the last man was the head of the nra, we hear this myth from the left and the right. But whats the truth . Whats the big picture. Economics professor abby blanco keeps track of the data. Whats the proof . We look relatively flat. If you look at the bureau of labor statistics. John we have a graph of that. If you look at the data they collected since 1964 wages look relatively flat. John not for the rich. Not the top 1 . What are the poorest people in the u. S. Able to consume today . So we can look at Airline Travel or cell phones, computers, cars, even things like living space, and what we see is that the poor today spend much less of income on these items than they did before and theyre much more accessible to people today even though they were once exclusively reserved for the wealthiest americans. John why doesnt that show up on the graphs from the government . And you say relatively flat but to be exact, the poorest people and middle income people have gained also. The rich got absurdly rich, and the poor did a little better. Not true at all, we can think about the economy or wealth like a pizza. People operate under the assumption if i get a bigger piece of pizza, you have to get a smaller one. If the economy is growing and getting larger and larger, though the piece of wealth that an individual is getting is smaller, it could be bigger overall. We see the poor and americans in the middle income bracket are doing much better. John one reason people think the poor are doing worse, they think its a zerosum game. Hollywood tells them that all the time. Its a zerosum game, somebody wins, somebody loses, money itself isnt lost or made, its simply transferred. John thats gordon gekko from the movie wall street. But it is made. Its not like bill gates took a big piece of the pie so we have less, he baked a million new pies . Right, we create all kinds of wealth all the time. Its not just sunny side of the street but relatively sunny for the poorest americans as well. John but donald trump says its a zerosum game. If we trade, if china wins, we lose. The trade argument is not just wrong, its spectacularly wrong. Nafta created 34 million jobs in the united states, and 6 million jobs tied directly to mexican industry alone. John how . How does it create jobs . Creates jobs in ways theyre hard to see. We see things creating new businesses, people demanding new kinds of items in innovation, things which werent there before which are available. Econ101 tells us when countries can trade those things that theyre good at making that it increases wealth overall. What economists refer to as comparative advantage. Comparative advantage says we should make things thats cheap for us to make and buy from other people the things its expensive for us to make. We see that in the u. S. , were really good at making service products. Were good at making automobiles, good at making medicines and things like that. Its relatively expensive to produce clothing and other textiles. John some people lose from trade. Some people lose jobs . Some are knocked out of the jobs theyre currently in and certainly we can talk about and be concerned about the people losing their jobs as a result of trade. Talk about different ways we might make the transitions easier, but trade overall is a remarkably positive game for all parties involved. John and the u. N. Says a billion people are no longer miserably poor largely because of this trade that trump condemns. Trade has lifted millions out of poverty, particularly over the last 30 years. We now see the lowest number of People Living in absolute poverty under 2 a day. The lowest its ever been in recorded human history. And that is directly related to trade. John so the much vilified trade and globalization. Thank you, abby blanco. Next, the bad news. The real bad news. The big picture is not all good. Democrats and republicans have been driving america off a cliff. Thats one thing donald trump and the republicans can do something about, but will they . Next. When heartburn hits, fight back fast with tums smoothies. It starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue. And neutralizes stomach acid at the source. 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But there are a few areas where we are in trouble. This is a more accurate picture, if you consider americas debt. A tidal wave is about to hit us. This cartoon, and were about to show you more, was drawn by micha michael ramirez. A new book by historian alan axelrod. Alan, how is debt like a tidal wave . Debt is allengulfing. Weve allowed it to become this by paying no attention to it. A baby born today comes into the world owing 61,000, and we know that child did not incur that debt in utero, not fair he comes into the world with the 61,000 debt but so he does, and it acts the same way an unexpected 61,000 debt would act on any of us. Its a kind of drag and a kind of anchor. John i like the cartoons in his book, when i talk to people, eyes glaze over, carrying debt is like carrying life with a giant weight tied to your feet. The cartoon points out everything that bloats it, college loans, regulations drag us further down. Correct, its the debt, the taxation that is not efficient. No matter what you do to stimulate the economy, the structural problems are going to outweigh that. John look at this next cartoon from ramirez. This one shows a guy looking down a giant sinkhole that swallowed the white house and congress, he says tell me again how you guys are more qualified to run private business . John your point . If you do not pay any attention to the national debt, year after year after year, the debt becomes not just a hole but a sinkhole, it gets bigger and bigger and bigger and swallows everything up. John its about to get bigger than our defense spending . Correct. The debt service on an annual basis is going to become in the next five years larger than our defense spending, unless of course we decide to spend more on defense which will create a bigger debt. John finally politicians like to say reducing our debt is a complicated problem. This cartoon shows a congressional hearing, the congressman explained reducing the debts very difficult, very complicated. But the baby has a simpler answer. John cut spending. Politically, its very hard to do these things because politicians are in the business of giving people things, not asking people to sacrifice these things. John nobody wants to talk about that. Whats remarkable is we could grow our way out of problem. They dont have to cut spending if they just limited the growth 2 a year, we would eventually grow out of problem. They cant stop themselves from spending 4. 5 more every year, much more than inflation and the growth of population. Correct and, in fact, you dont have to eliminate all debt. Incident not a bad thing. John just stop it from growing and eating us. Thank you, alan, author of full faith and credit. Another area where the big picture is not so rosy is war. This election, it got much coverage than sex and lies about emails, this is wrong. This is now our 15th year in afghanistan. Year 13 in iraq. These are americas longest wars ever. Longer than vietnam. We bomb people in all these countries. Sometimes we make mistakes. 73yearold american aid worker Warren Weinstein who was accidentally killed in cia drone strike in pakistan. John one remote bombing took out a wedding procession. When we do that we create new enemies. I was encouraged when candidate donald trump said he will reduce our interventions abroad but other times he says things like this i would bomb the [ bleep ] out of them. Id blow up the pipes. Id blow up the refineries. Id blow up every single inch. There would be nothing left. John doesnt sound like a guy who wants to reduce interventions abroad. Another thing thats gotten worse is crime. Violent crime is up in the united states. The fbi released the crime numbers from 2015 and shows a marked rise from the year before. John and lately trump haters rioted. 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Shes just one of many celebrities who promised to leave if trump were elected. Fox news adam housley reports. Reporter hollywood heavyweights plan to follow suit, raven simone, and Keegan Michael key have pledged to make the move north should trump win the election. John but they havent, neither have the other celebrities who promised to leave. Samuel l. Jackson, robert de niro, miley cyrus. Amy schumer. I will move to spain or somewhere. John they promise but they never go. Chelsea handler sounded like she was serious . Another country just in case. That threatened to leave the country and dont, i will leave that country. John but now she says her voice is needed in america. Theyre such hypocrites, makes me respect president kennedys press secretary, pierre salinger, he said if bush wins, im going to spend the rest of my life in france. He did he moved to france. But the rest of the celebrities all talk. Maybe their broken promises make a larger point. No matter how much you hate trump or any politician, theyre probably not going to wreck your life. At election time people fight as if the president has unlimited power, as if life will be great if your guy wins but destroyed if the other guy wins. Youre only defending him because hes your guy. Please, iont have a guy in the election. If the other guy did what your guy did, you would be all over him, shouting disgrace democrats are throwing tantrums saying trump will spread hatred and take away peoples rights. Eight years ago Rush Limbaugh said if obama wins were doomed. Going to be ugly, gutwrenching, the countrys economy is going to collapse. The economy struggled and theres more debt but it didnt collapse. Its good the election is over now, well have less screaming and fortunately the big picture is mostly good, good not because of who is president , but because most of life, the best of life occurs outside government. Thr free people make things better, regardless who the president is. Thats our show. See you next week. Grateful on thanksgiving. Grateful on thank you for being here. Log on for the after the oreilly factor. Its great to be here. President elect trump ramping up his team and plan for the white house and putting taxes at the top of his agenda to ramp up our economy. Some here say that should mean slashing individual and corporate taxes at the same time to get the biggest bang for his cuts. Hi everybody. Im in for brenda butner. This is bulls and bears. They are back. Gary, john along with Hadley Heath Manning and jessica, welcome to everybody. Actually missed you guys. Gary b. , should the president elect slash both corporate and individual