And all the International Stage should now for cross full coming up next kevin ill be here with you in the studio next hour to give you the latest news updates from around the world will see about that. Alone we welcome to cross talk were all things are considered im Peter Lavelle as the culture war d rages on and they did the billionaire class is only getting well you know their well iraq percent 184 1000000000. 00 since the start of the pandemic splash how will this back shape the coming recovery and is a permanent underclass the new normal. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Richard Wolffe in new york hes a Professor Emeritus of economics at the university of massachusetts amherst as well as an author of the recent books understanding socialism and understanding marxism and in chicago or which he is a chief marketing strategist bubba trading all right gentleman stop rules in effect that means you can jump in time you want and i was appreciate todd let me go to you as you
A situation where some of them have been accused of misusing their offices in terms of the. Of those offices so and so forth. To trump state a promise to drain the swamp if you will i dont think you drained it i think you moved it into the white house so it ingrain a swamp and does move didnt. I think every politician has probably abused their office. Why dont we totally drain the swamp playing up. Why are we the people more actively involved. Major contributions so far has to completely devalue the idea of regulatory oversight. Department of education or scott pruitt. These people who are essentially trying to dismantle gun. Im an oversight from within the e. P. A. Is regulators people that have jumps on hundreds of thousands and then you add to it smudges live gambits like the tax cut like this recent Bank Lobbyist impartial repeal of the dot frank act theyve been on their wish list for ages the stuff of thousands tens of thousands of lobbyist essentially are writing the legislation
Couch the people built this cut at its the people who are making America Great again. The clintons and the obama was all oh they talked about families and children and justice and so on maintained these rights for corporations promoted the right of their companies to do whatever they want to around the world in a strange way it was those who might oppose trump right now who set the stage for him to be elected it was the very policies that hold out north america i mean we created huge pockets of poverty weve never had in 100 years the same difference between rich and poor the the class differences incredible they set the stage for a savior obama was supposed to be that savior and he wasnt and what happens after a savior fails you you look to something very different they set the table in my opinion for dont. Success do you find this contradictory in any way to the. A cabinet full of millionaires a situation where some of them have been accused of misusing their offices in terms of the u
Theyve got their little click theyve got their thing. They dont care about anything else. And it doesnt matter democrat republican theyre all the same theyre all im sorry to use that language but. Theyre in there for one thing theyre in there to get elected. The reason Donald Trumps in there is because hes a celebrity or he did this or he did that he is in there because he is not one of them and we are so frustrated. We had to vote him in if donald trump goes away well find another trump believe me well find another one the people dreamed this couch the people built this country at its the people who are making America Great again. The clintons and the obamas all all they talked about families and children and justice and so on maintained these rights for corporations promoted the right of their companies to do whatever they want to around the world in a strange way it was those who might oppose trump right now. Who set the stage for him to be elected it was the very policies that hold
Have a great day. Hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered im Peter Lavelle as the culture war rages on a baited the billionaire class is only getting well you know their well has skyrocketed 20 percent or 500 84000000000. 00 since the start of the pandemic splash how will this back shape the coming recovery and is a permanent underclass the new normal. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Richard Wolffe in new yorks hes a Professor Emeritus of economics at the university of massachusetts amherst as well as the author. Of the recent books understanding socialism and understanding marxism and in chicago or which he is a chief marketing strategist bubba trading all right gentleman rules in effect that means you can jump in time you want and i was appreciate todd let me go to you as you just heard in my introduction you know that we have an ongoing deep recession i think as of this morning the i. M. F. Came out with their global projections and a contracti