going to change the course of that without some additional federal transnational pressure, i m excited and think we have seen in the last three, four cycles where the initiatives brought out people of energized people and thinking of the minimum wage initiatives and a few cycles ago, one in florida. but there s you talked about a really odious one, i tight ask what the poll numbers look like in alabama. i m afraid. with all due respect to the good state of alabama. there s progressive initiatives and one in michigan about protect our jobs which is an attempt to restore collective bargaining. one in montana which is to try and overturn the supreme court s overturning of the state ban on corporate contributions. these are interesting ones. this is every election cycle. initialtives on the ballot for turnout. there is a strategy here. with gay marriage, with something like jim crowe.
people. in these discussions, fun yind of thing happened with one of the gentlemen who last monday, he went a little off subject. and was saying about the budget which would not social security and medicare are not about fixing the budget. they are separate, we have a trust fund that will last until 20 years at 100% to paid been pits and after that at 75%. we are trying to fix something ahead of time. it takes time for things to go through congress. in the sense that when you said something so important earlier it is a contract, but it is also social security is too often discussed as an entitlement and an earned right and i think that one of the great things roosevelt did was not simply lift this country out of the greatest depression but provide for economic security. especially for seniors. i fear that there is a bipartisan kind of establishment, austerity class, in washington as we head towards
is this hard? why would this be a burden? i have one. and, you know, it every time i see one of these pieces like if you are elderly, you may not have the birth certificate if you are a woman and may have gotten married since your registration or divorced and your name may have changed or your address may have changed, if you are a transgender individual and you self-present as something different than what your i.d. is and people are using their discretion to decide whether or not you are joe versus jane voter, i mean, in each of these cases, it is not the likelihood of fraud. it is simply your identity, simply who you are, that is then taxed and you are unable to vote. can we, can we finally get bipartisan determination from the folks at the top who are implementing this? you know what, we are there s too much cost to our democracy for doing this. there have been decades of work to make voting easier. i m thinking of francis piven
this person. this personality. but the much bigger issues of governing may be happening at your much more local level. well, you know, one of the things i thought was good for driving that point home was when we focused on women s health and legislation targeting women s reproductive freedoms. the transvaginal ultrasound stuff. scott sbroun a brown is a co-sponsor of the amendment. he pulled back the curtain on what s actually been happening in congress and the kind of laws that the republican congress has been passing while nobody has been paying attention. i thought that was good as far as a wakeup call to the nation. like you have to pay attention to what s going on here. it is not just that the system is broken and cannot get budget passed. there is draconian legislation going on that s being passed by one party. it isn t being made law because you can t get it can t get it past the senate. i think going back to the person matters that democrats have great candidates.
food stamps and food support that benefit the people say they are entitled to food according to governor romney. that there was the great moment that he said people think they are entitled to food. you name it. one of his cars maybe. but i think that s that s the problem. it shows the impact of the ideology and republican party getting in the waif getting things done for the american people. that s what is causing the problem. about corporate power as we see it through the prism of an area of too many don t see. i think that s been the power of farm aid. we have shirley sherrod on last week. how is it in our conversations about poverty in this country, we have very few, when we do have them, they are almost exclusively about urban poverty and not bought nearly enough about what is going on in terms of rural poverty. is there a way the 47% conversation might move us back to a broader conversation about who is truly i think that s that s it. as if mate thing is most of