when someone responds with their equivalent, which is a suicide bomb in central park. in a week when the government seems trained on the threat posed by the tsarnaev brothers of the world, here is a stark and vital reminder there is a threat largely being left unaddressed by the demagogues who want to attack the fbi and the obama administration and it s for the screw-ups in the investigation. it s the one that we, the people, can have some effect on. there are people around the world who want desperately to love us and we should be looking for every possibility to take them up on that offer. joining me now from washington, farea al-muslimi, the yemeni writer and youth activist who testified yesterday at the senate judiciary committee on drones. farea, thank you. i want to ask how you came to go to high school in california in the first place, which is kind of the most amazing part of this story, because you are from a relatively remote farming
at the time that was the right policy. different circumstance. government didn t run deficits, but boy was there policies to make sure households ran deficits. if you re talking about that, why is there not more political mobilization for full employment, well, there s a study where the gains from this recovery are coming, and this is the story, a huge percentage of the gains are going to the people at the top and the distributional story here, right, the top 7% are up 30% in what they are getting and all the other bottom 93% are down 4%. the distributional story are part of this. the top folks have effect on what congress cares about, don t you think? i think there s less to this study than meets the eye. it s wealth growth, right. the stock market did better than home prices over this period and that doesn t tell us much about the circumstances of the 93% of americans in the minus 4% bar, because those
telling congress forget about the balanced budget, give us growth. that s what s happening. employers won t do it. this is where i think this is why both these accounts sync up, because there s the part of the business brain that s like i want customers, i want demand, then you go and write your checks to your favorite candidate and read the wall street journal editorial page and you re like austerity, austerity, austerity. they don t fight for their own interests. they don t know what their interests are. that s been the story of small and medium-sized businesses. i think that s what it is, austerity will be good for their businesses, even when it won t. if you look back to the 1990s, businesses certainly don t look back on that as a bad time, they made a ton of money 1990s, but they were also a time of tight budgets, where we ended up running budget surpluses and people look back at that that was the thing that sprung the growth. at the time that was the right policy. dif
have that conversation, then the tsarnaev brothers and their ilk will not be priority number one. while the loner extremist model of terrorism does represent a threat, it is not, it is not, the number one terrorist threat to america right now. the number one terrorist threat to america right now is not when individuals are drawn to support political violence, but when an entire geographical area and segments of societies rally to the cause of a more experienced network of people who risk harm and violence and ill to the united states and its people. that process of radicalization, which is structural and systemic, is very different from the psychological one we ve been focusing on with the tsarnaev brothers, but it s by far a much bigger worry. that s why the story i m telling tonight is not about the tsarnaev brothers. the story of the muslim who came to america and embraced the country and culture here before returning home to his home country before something
thrown from the air into their heads and targeting someone. it ended up being american striker drones that terrified thousands of poor farmers, and more importantly, i think in one shot it raised the whole great public, i have done all i can achieve in the united states in my village. it has been great. i was devastated, as i was already sad, about the boston news, i was, again, sad about the village thing, especially that this is not just terrified poor people. but it also it kills any chance of public relationship of why the village should know about america and america should know about the village. it s killed every chance. probably there will be chance to fix this out, but it killed every story i have told about great america in the last few years. whatever i could not have achieved in many years was achieved in one shot when someone pressed the button thousands of miles away from that place. someone didn t even know