the government t spends every year is codified as mandatory, n meaning there s no review no process, no checks and balancecs ,just a blank check and no the e balancing the checkbook. we live in a society wherend obc laziness and obesity can qualify you for a disabilityfora check from the government paid for by us working americans . u sin fact, nearly two thirds of the money spent by our government last year went to social welfare programs, according to democrats , likeof f congresswoman sheila mccormick of florida, to even mention challenging these programs is to be heartless and void of empathy.void of empathy empathy. when someone chooses but when someone chooses getting high over being a father to his children, what pity is he owed ? when a woman uses a chronic sprained ankle to stay on social security disability, d she an invalid or using discomfort to scam the system? m or when the son of a vice president spends his time and money on and blow, is he an addict in need? o
for months, rail workers have been striking over pay and plans my guest is mick lynch, leader of the biggest rail union, the rmt. the stakes in this fight are high. can the workers win? mick lynch, welcome to hardtalk. you are the leader of a union that s been in a long running dispute now. it goes back to last summer. there have been rolling, sporadic strikes. as it goes on, does it feel harder to find your way to a compromise? well, there s no easy way out for either side. the government has boxed themselves into a corner, to a large extent. and i think that s predicated on the idea of setting precedents for public sector. we ve seen the nurses, ambulance drivers, many civil servants in dispute along similar lines. people aren t being paid enough in this society at the moment and many public sector workers have had long term pay cuts measured against any measure of inflation, so there s some catch up to be done, and that makes it harder because the government wants to be
and emmy nominated journalist caroline modarressy tehrani. in washington, new house speaker kevin mccarthy is about to preside over his first order of business. the new republican led congress will sit in the next hour to vote on the rules package. now that might sound a bit in the weeds but it is the nearest thing to a formal contract, setting out everything the speaker gave away last week, as he fought to secure the support of those on the hard right. it includes a rule change that will meanjust one member can bring a motion to throw him out. there are also concerns among more moderate republicans that mccarthy has agreed to a budget deal that could result in a cut to defence spending. this has a proposed billions of dollars cut to defence, which i think is a horrible idea. when you have aggressive russia and ukraine, you ve got a growing threat of china in the pacific i m going to visit taiwan in a couple of weeks, how will i look our allies in the eyes and say, i nee
general used a rarely invoked article of the un charter. article 99 to bring to the attention of the security council threats to international peace and security. he urged the council to call for a ceasefire because he said there was a risk of the total collapse of the humanitarian system and anticipated a complete breakdown of public order. he laid out in stark terms the desperate situation in gaza, that there was no protection of civilians there, running out of food, risk and starvation, that the health system was collapsing, most of the population displaced and more than 17,000 palestinians have been killed. here we saw the majority of the council supporting that cold by the secretary general but despite that, the united states again cutting an extremely lonely figure in the council, raised its hand to block this draft resolution to veto it. united states said they did not support a ceasefire because thought this resolution was unbalanced and divorced from reality, conclud