Are hospitalized in san antonio, texas, where dozens of undocumented immigrants were discovered packed in the back of a sweltering tractortrailer in a san Antonio Walmart parking lot. The youngest victims were just 15 years old. We will get the latest. Then 50 years ago, rebellions broke out t in the cities of newark and detroit. 43 people died in detroit, 26 and newark. Thousands were arrested. In 1967 alone, there were 160 rebellions that made when you have resistance at that level, you cannot call it a riot. It is people rebelling against oppression and against exploitation. Amy all t that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. On capitol hill, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell has scheduled a vote on the republican Healthcare Plan today after multiple previous efforts to put the republican legislation to a vote failed amid dissent within the republicans own party. Arizona republican senator john mccain is se
To be a good economist you look at cause and effect. Many times people dont want to see cause and effect. And economists will always talk about cost, when people talk about a benefit to doing something, someone has to talk about cost. A lot of times people dont like to talk about costs. Host is an economist a coldblooded creatures . Guest i dont think so. I think i am a nice person. One of my issues, to help understand me, my initial premise is the each own ourselves. I am my private property and you are your private property. If you accept the idea of self ownership, certain ask check requests are more lancer nicks are immoral. Race is immoral because it violates private property, murder is immoral, it violates private property and so does that. I think you can get a fairly good vision of how the world should be from a moral point of view because you look at the initial premise. Host what about the concept of the common thing . Guest the common good doesnt make a lot of sense whatsoev
Including race, education, the environment, health care andd m. More. Host Walter Williams inter your most recent book american in contempt for liberty, you write its difficult to be a good economist and simultaneouslyved perceived as compassionate. Mp oo be asasion g od economist one has to deal with three out threey, t audi of the two appear topassionate often one has avoid unpleasant questions. Oid p that is absolutely right tor. Te a good economist, you have to look at the cause and effect and many times people dont want toa see cause and effect and so an economist will also talk about cost that is when people talk about the benefit that they are doing something, someone has to talk about cost and a lot of times people dont like to talk about cost. Host is a coldblooded creature . Guest i think one of my issues is my initial premise we each go to ourselves i and my private property and you are your property. If you accept the self ownership, then certain acts are moral and immoral.
So, given what you have heard today, several phone calls guest let me guest lets hear the question first. [laughter] guest i know where you are going. Amp said that when you have stagnant or contracting economy, what politics consists of is pitting one group against another, fighting over a sinking pie. That is what you are saying now. You are seeing wages flat or falling. And as a result, people are looking for somebody to blame for their own condition. And lots of people have fastened on the Illegal Immigrants as the cause of it all. That is not the cause of it all. The cause of it all is that our economy is not going. There is not opportunity. And what we have to do is create an opportunity society. You can do it by one of two ways. You can do it the Bernie Sanders way, by having the Government Spending and taxing, and that something doesnt work. Look at europe. The Unemployment Rates in europe are skyhigh. They have great social benefits, but they dont have jobs. We need to create
A rally of his own. We will speak about the 2060 president ial race with a man who ran for president in 2012, not as a democrat or as a republican, but a thirdparty candidate, the former mayor of celtics city Rocky Anderson. ,then here at the Sundance Film Festival, audrie daisy. Months apart, two teenage girls in two different american towns are sexually assaulted and bullied audrie pott, in saratoga, california, and Daisy Coleman in maryville, missouri. Both attempt suicide. One survives, the other does not. Both stories make national headlines. Today a democracy now exclusive Daisy Coleman and her mother meet the mother of audrie pott, for the first time at our interview. I feel like audrie would have spoke out if she had saw someone else. Amy do you know how many young women you have saved by speaking out . Yes. Amy that is audrie daisy here on democracy now all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Wor