there are reports of republicans from the huffington post saying that the house servers, they re crashing. congressional websites are crashing tonight, they re getting hit so hard by the american people. i thought tonight was a great night for america. can t we do this every night? i mean, i love the debate. in fact, i think round two should be president obama and speaker boehner going at it on live tv. hell, let s just negotiate out in public. joining me tonight is former labor secretary, robert reich, he s also professor of public policy at the university of california at berkeley and the author of aftershock: the next economy and america s future. i hope we have a future. they can t decide anything in washington. mr. reich, good to have you with us tonight. well, good evening. you know, both of these plans, if you take that kind of money out of the economy, what s the effect going to be in your opinion? if you take the money out of the economy, there is less money for peop
asked the american people tone gauge tonight. there are reports of republicans saying that the house servers, they re crashing. congressional websites are crashing tonight, they re getting hit so hard by the american people. i thought tonight was a great night for america. isn t every night? i mean, i love the debate. in fact, i think round two should be president obama and speaker boehner going at it on live tv. hell, let s just negotiate out in public. joining me tonight is former labor secretary, robert reich, also professor of public policy and author of aftershock: the next economy and america s future. i hope we have a future. they can t decide anything in washington. mr. reich, good to have you with us tonight. well, good evening. you know, both of these plans, if you take that kind of money out of the economy, what s the affect going to be, in your opinion? if you take the money out of the economy, there is less money for people to spend and that means fewer jobs. i mea
there are reports of republicans saying that the house servers, they re crashing. congressional websites are crashing tonight, they re getting hit so hard by the american people. i thought tonight was a great night for america. isn t every night? i mean, i love the debate. in fact, i think round two should be president obama and speaker boehner going at it on live tv. hell, let s just negotiate out in public. joining me tonight is former labor secretary, robert reich, also professor of public policy and author of aftershock: the next economy and america s future. i hope we have a future. they can t decide anything in washington. mr. reich, good to have you with us tonight. well, good evening. you know, both of these plans, if you take that kind of money out of the economy, what s the affect going to be, in your opinion? if you take the money out of the economy, there is less money for people to spend and that means fewer jobs. i mean, one thing that is not being said, there is
read about the celebrities or read about the royals when you re standing in line at the grocery store. but the fact is, that if those are the profit-drivers, if that s what actually makes the money, then there is this constant amping up to get more and more details, more and more intimate facts that can t otherwise be found. and nobody is letting them off the hook here. i m not trying to let them off the hook. but i am saying that our appetites as consumers are also implicated in this. it all needs to be reviewed. melissa harris perry, great to see you, thanks. congressional leaders and white house officials are sending a similar message that the u.s. will not default. but until a deal is actually reached, the fear of what will happen if we don t raise the debt ceiling lingers for every american. robert is a professor of public policy at the university of california at berkeley, the former labor secretary for the clinton administration and the author of aftershock, the next econom
american. robert is a professor of public policy at the university of california at berkeley, the former labor secretary for the clinton administration and the author of aftershock, the next economy and america s future. it s great to have you on this morning. so there are immediate problems if we default. they show $23 billion in social security benefits and only takes in $12 billion in revenue. so explain to all of us for people watching who get social security, also the vets out there that are expecting their checks and for their family members, how worried should they be? this is much more serious than a government shutdown. this essentially means the government has no money. it cannot make payments on social security, on medicare, on veterans benefits. it cannot pay government workers. it can t even pay the troops.