better social security, not less. income replacement is already among the lowest in the world in retirement. they want better medicare, not less and not more attacks on their health care. they want better job security. not more offshoring of work. 500,000 customer service and tech jobs have left in the last five years. i do think, though, ed, as you mentioned earlier, we need a clear return to progressivism and populous politics in the democratic party as well. we can t be complacent and say the choice is clear. we need democrats to come out for workers right, for employment security, for retirement for america s workers, for better health care. but it is clear the choice could never be starker. it s also very clear in an interview he s done on right-wing radio he views the progressive movement in the country as a cancer. progressivism and labor unions in the country walk hand in
not going to be around that day because they re not going to want to stand next to a guy when he indicts progressivism, indicts the philosophy that franklin roosevelt said helped to build the new deal. so great to have you with us. it s going to be a very interesting week. remember to answer tonight s question. share your thoughts on twitter and on facebook. we want to know what you think. coming up, the obama/biden team comes out swinging. the democrats deliver a unified message today. you won t believe what paul ryan said in response. stay with us. that s next. . you do what you do. because it matters. at hp we don t just believe in the power of technology. we believe in the power of people when technology works for you. to dream. to create. to work. if you re going to do something.
janesville, wisconsin. the same town russ feingold comes from. they went to the same schools and their dads were both lawyers in janesville. one of the things that is important to understand about paul ryan is he s a son of privilege. he was raised in a very nice house in a very nice street. he didn t come from a blue-collar family, he didn t come from a working class family. he was raised in the embrace of the conservative wing of the republican party of wisconsin, which has always had a problem with progressivism. the thing that you should understand, though, is progressivism came out of the republican party. it didn t come from german philosophers. they came back to wisconsin and said if we can end the sin of slavery, we can change our economics. he wants to indict the entire vision of progressivism. what kind of message does that say about bringing the country together? when president obama was elected, he wanted to be the
is indict the entire idea of progressivism because i see progressivism as the source, the intellectual source for the government problems plaguing us today. so to me, it s really important to flush progressives out into the field of open debate. i love you. so people can actually see what this ideology means and where it s going to lead us and how it attacks the american idea. okay, hang on just a second. did you see my speech at cpac? i read it? i didn t see it, where read a transcript of it. i think we re saying the same thing. we are saying the same thing. it s a cancer. exactly. look, i come from i m calling you from janesville, wisconsin, where i m born and raised, where we raise our family, 35 miles from madison. i grew up hearing about this stuff. this stuff came from these german intellectuals to madison, university of wisconsin, and out from there, the beginning of the last century. this is something we re familiar
remember that statement about progressivism, that came from 2010, a couple years ago. if you listen to the whole interview, glenn beck says i don t really know you. even two years ago, national right wingers weren t that familiar with paul ryan. he s a guy who has been hanging around washington for a long time. but he has inserted himself into the debate over the last two years with, i think, a great deal of ambition, trying to get himself to exactly where he s gotten. who stands on the stump with this man with the radical vision for america? this vision of tearing apart institutions that have helped this country be great and give people an opportunity? who stands with him? is he going to be toxic on the campaign trail? it s got the potential to be this, ed, already, there are republican candidates for the u.s. senate who have been airing ads in states like montana, making a point that they voted against the ryan budget. because they know how unpopular it is. one of the things we r