up, karen, applies to everything. we re basically stuck in a political debate, a democratic party, the republican party is stuck, the media is stuck, because the rate of change is so high, no one is prepared to deal with what actually exists in terms of both out of liabilities and opportunities in the summer of 2011. i believe it is our mission, actually, to help bring that conversation along, and allow ourselves to be pulled along in the process. i do want to take a little bit of a different look what reality is in 2011 when it comes to money and politics. jimmy, this is for you. take a look. democrats say we ve got to raise america ses 14.3 trillion debt ceiling before august 2nd because if we don t do that ah wait. what happens again? armageddon. armageddon. no, no. that wasn t it. no. that s right. economic system. or actually move the date,
satisfied. all my relationship, an money. my friends use me more money. women you d me more money. i m in my late 30s and need to get out of this before it s past the point of no return and start attracting people who actually care about me for who i am rather than what i can give them. part of me thinks this is a c l culture that breathes these types of relationships and i think i m nuft stuck. it is a culture but it s your responsibility to get out of that. i think it s your responsibility to take the bull by the horns and start leading a more meaningful life, and if that life is is being hurt, by being involved in wall street, being consumeded by money, by equating success with net worth, then you should get out of it and find something more a authentic to do. if your identity is unrich, the way you present yourself to the world is unrich, you shouldn t be surprised when you attract people who want to take if your dentedty is
disservice to people who don t have money in this society. who don t have as much money as a wall street investor or hedge fund manager. these are people that lead very happy lives. throw up the unemployment number, whatever the real number is. whatever it is. the point is, these people are still happy. they still have thing answer them that make them feel good. they still have strong relationships with their family with, their church or their temple and they still have a strong sense of self. and i think that s often ignored i. want to read a come e-mails that you responded to when writing for thestreet.com. indicative of the interaccesses you have with the addiction treatment center of and the work you do each day. this is entitled using me for money from an anonymous aunger in this context and appropriately so who says, he or she, i don t know, says, i thy it s a he, i do not feel
know, job creating and all of that, but at the same time, that you re not essentially giving the big bonus and benefit to the bigger companies. there was a similar issue like this last year with biosimilar, those generic drugs. they sort of found a way, legislation finely passed but they found a way to compromise between making sure the small guy is protected and the large companies also are protected, but not overly advantaged. james? just, claudio i want full disclosure, i did work for senator schumer on the banking subcommittee. i did not lobby him on this issue. perhaps you should have hired me as lobbyist but that s a separate issue. say chuck schumer who represents new york and new york state, my question, chuck schumer represents a majority of all the banks in the country. if you took money out of politics, would you think chuck schumer probably would have still come down on the side of the big banks on this issue? he probably would have i m willing to bet, but i m willing
from comedy central or from bill maher, hbo. and anyone over that, they watch the nightly news, cnn, msnbc or fox. there s a huge divide in this country. it s simple, though. at some point, the mainstream media, not the comedic media, main stream media, has to go out and expose every single night on tv and all day long the hypocrisy and the corruption of money and politics. i m a lobbyist. the most regulated industry in the entire united states of america. every single thing that i do is scrutinized and i have to file it in that building right behind me, but stephen colbert doesn t have to. that s actually not true, jimy. part of the decision today was he actually will have to disclose some of it. some of it. not all of it. the contribution that he does it on the air. that s just what s so funny. guys, you re missing the point. brilliant. the point is, you take money out of politics and then it s