people are scared of change and with good reason. changing herring is terrifying. i guess i m not quite convinced, the idea that you need to meet him with some alternative. when people are in a defensive crouch about this frontal assault on what they have. i don t quite agree with you. i think there is profound disgust in a health care system which is by far the most expensive in the world. double what other countries are paying. where we have 34 million people without any health insurance. even more underinsured. where the pharmaceutical industry is ripping us off every day. charging us by far. the highest prices in the world. where you have insurance companies and drug companies making billions and billions of dollars in profit. paying their ceos outrageous compensation packages. i think the american people want something that s stable. yes. medicare for all is the most popular health care, health insurance program in the country.
people is beyond belief i m guitar involved in this. and you saw here in trade where compensation packages look like these people did not live and work in germany . but we ve got to see this through so that the victims can get the help they need them it. was the from home because i believe that things have changed only when they see concrete proof i don t believe in their promises anymore thoughts often often tishri. mishmash. what does then this little think about all this. article for the world the talks were encouraging. i was actually pretty nervous when i got audience. members a lot of pressure. also offered a lot of fields we re not used to meeting with politicians. but i feel good about these meetings and i ve developed
bleak? well, because the foundation of the american economy is no longer manufacturing. our economy has been seized by wall street speculators. you think the economy is behind it all? yeah, sure. i mean, there was an article in today s new york times about the fracking industry being the next bubble. we have student debt. we have got the economy is extremely weak. and you saw with the tax cuts, these major corporations went and bought back their own stock. so because their compensation packages are tied to stock or hoarded it. they didn t invest in the country, and this is what karl marx calls fictitious capital, and we know where it s going to end. there is no plan b. they can t lower interest rates any more. chris hedges, thank you for your time and perspective. now to the florida governor s race. democratic nominee andrew gillum is responding to reports of a
benefits? medical expenses for each labor, or force another country to raise them? the arguments that it s not fair, that argument can you make whenever there is liberty, whenever there is capitalism. that, is the whole notion is to spread opportunity and spread wealth, right? yeah. mark: so people can benefit from it? in some cases, wages in the united states are not marked to determine wages, higher wages like in the auto industry, you think of the uaw, where their wages and compensation packages were way out of whack based on the rest of the world. that exposed that industry because their labor costs were so high. mark: it came more in line in the 70s and really the 80s and 90s. ladies and gentlemen, we re going to come right back. before we do. don t forget you can join us on levin tv by going to crtv.com or give us a call at 844-levin tv. we d love you to join us over there.
salaries? benefits? medical expenses for each labor, or force another country to raise them? the arguments that it s not fair, that argument can you make whenever there is liberty, whenever there is capitalism. that, is the whole notion is to spread opportunity and spread wealth, right? yeah. mark: so people can benefit from it? in some cases, wages in the united states are not marked to determine wages, higher wages like in the auto industry, you think of the uaw, where their wages and compensation packages were way out of whack based on the rest of the world. that exposed that industry because their labor costs were so high. mark: it came more in line in the 70s and really the 80s and 90s. ladies and gentlemen, we re going to come right back. before we do. don t forget you can join us on levin tv by going to crtv.com or give us a call at 844-levin tv. we d love you to join us over there.