Hi im Steve Clements i have a question is there a connection between the shooting of jacob blake and can osha wall street capitalism and Excessive Military spending my guest today says there is lets get to the bottom line. When a policeman shot jacob blake 7 times in the back in front of his kids in wisconsin last month it was a painful reminder that real change is not coming fast enough to these United States the shooting reignited passions across the country especially after an armed white 17 year old counter protester came to wisconsin from a nearby state until 2 other people protesting the shooting so whats going on in the United States are we heading down a healthy road will race continue to be used cynically to get votes while the poor and disadvantaged continue to suffer endlessly joining us today is someone who has been thinking of preaching about these issues for decades he is professor cornell west one of the most prominent intellectuals alive professor west teaches at harvar
Decisionmaking power back to the individuals. Individuals can make the best decisions for themselves, and they can spend their money better than bureaucrats and lobbyists in washington. Host now, tell us a little bit about the Libertarian Party. What is your platform, and how would you govern as a libertarian . Guest our platform is basically, we are on your side. Not the lobbyists, special interest groups, or the professional politicians in washington. With the environment, what we would do is we would look at it as pollution. If you look around the world, wherever there is bigger government, there is more pollution. Wherever there is less government, theres less pollution. In fact, i was on a debate stage with a socialist candidate, who, in her closing, said, you know, the u. S. Department of defense is the largest polluter on earth, and then she went on to say how horrible corporations were. Well, what i would say is you do not go to the people who are causing the problem. The feder
If you say no, the twoparty system is not working, your line is going to be 202 7488001. If you are unsure what you still want to talk about this issue, your number is going to be 202 7488002. You can alwaysd text us your opinion at 202 7488003. Keep in mind, we are always reading on social media, on. Witter, and cspan we are going to have live on the two current thirdParty Candidates running for president. Coming up at 8 00 we are going to hear from Green Party Candidate Howie Hawkins. Coming up at 9 15, the jorgensenn nominee jo will discuss her platform and strategy for this years election. If you want to hear directly from those candidates, keep watching the show. First, we want to hear from you about the twoparty system in the United States. Do you think the political system is working . There is a story from cnn that talked about this earlier this year. Even if they are down on the independent candidates being presented, nearly 40 of americans think a third local party is needed
Claims. 1. 3 million last week, and that is the 15th weekly decline, so the downtrend continues. However, 17 million are still unemployed and still collecting benefits. Ive got two big tech stories for you. First off, the twitter hack. Fake messages appeared from big name celebrities. It was a bitcoin scam. The important point is the hackers took over the platform and could have sent out messages to disrupt the market or the election or anything. They showed they could do it and that is a huge problem. Stocks way down. Second tech problem, the top court in europe will restrict the transfer of the personal data of europeans to american companies. They are worried about our surveillance of them. This could severely disrupt big tech operations and big tech stocks are down. While stocks generally are moving lower, especially those technology issues, the dow, we are looking at a minus 180 at the opening bell, down 21 for the s p and really, the nasdaq taking it on the chin. Again, technolog
Libertarian Party President ial nominee. She is with us this morning to talk about the Libertarian Party and her run for president. Ms. Jorgensen, thank you very much for being with us today. Guest glad to be here. Thank you very much. Host give us your picture president. Viewersld our cspan consider you and vote for you for president of the United States . Guest because government is too big, too nosy, too intrusive, and the worst part is they often hurt the very people that they try to help. We need to put the decisionmaking power back to the individuals. Individuals can make the best decisions for themselves, and they can spend their money better than vera katz and lobbyist in washington. Lobbyists ins and washington. Host tell us about your platform and how would you govern as a libertarian . Our platform is basically, we are on your side. With the environment, what we would do is we would look at it as a solution, if you look around the world, wherever there is bigger governments,