now with several of walker s own neighborhoods pitching in, allowing folks to sign recall petitions right on their lawn. that s the packer way of doing things. a spokeswoman for united wisconsin tells the associated press they ve already gathered 50,000 signatures in just 48 hours. in support for the governor and his union busing efforts is collapsing statewide. 58% of wisconsin voters want to see this guy out of a job. with numbers like that no wonder walker sought to hannitize the situation. you balanced the $3.6 billion deficit and you were able to do it without raising taxes on the people of wisconsin and create 40,000 new jobs in just the first six months, right? hold on, hannity. you re glossing over a few facts here. as the associated press reported back in february, wisconsin s budget shortfall had nothing to do with collective bargaining but rather other financial obligations. walker s tax cuts in fact made
i wouldn t be a bit surprised if it was not blood on the occupier on msnbc but rather ketchup or stage blood. we are dealing with part of now, part of the global socialist movement. what are we seeing here? violence, rape, arson, destruction of property, sex in public, masturbation in public, naked people, drugs, drug paraphernalia. you know, anti-americanism. anti-semitism. anti-capitalism. let s bring in filmmaker robert greenwald, founder and president of brave new films. mr. greenwald, good to have you with us tonight. you know who these people are. without fox you did that, what, ten years ago. they haven t changed a bit. they are not even consistent, are they? o reilly says the movement is dead. the righties say it s part of a socialist movement. what s your take on how they re playing this? well, it s pretty clear what s going on, ed, which is the right attacks in an organized fashion if not a
show where we need infrastructure investment in america. i got a call when i was with mary kay henry today from a friend of mine who was in milwaukee, wisconsin, where he said there were 400 people on a bridge there. in a way, this movement has stepped out of the parks and on to the bridges and to say, you know, we re going to show congress where it needs to start investing money. laura flanders, john nichols. thank you for your time tonight. appreciate you being here with us. remember to answer tonight s question at the bottom of the screen and share your thoughts on twitter@ed show coming up the president of one of the larmgest labor unions joins occupy wall street protest and gets arrested. later it ain t looking good for governor walker in wisconsin. it is so bad he is asking sean hannity for help. you don t want to miss it. stay tuned.
mentioned here? hell, this is nothing but the democratic platform that the party adopted in 2008 at the national convention. that s all it is. you go right down the list. now, citizens united obviously happened after the 2008 convention. but you look at what they are talking about, what they re protesting about. we ve been there with the party. it s called the democratic party. and so it s par for the course for republicans like peter king to call them losers and druggies and filthy and they don t know what they want. hell, we ve heard all that before. the fact of the matter is this movement is not over and this movement isn t going to subside anytime soon and when these folks go home at night, when they disband, they may not be able to tent out anymore where they want to, but believe me, these protests are only going to grow in number and they re going to be a hell of a lot more often. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question, is the 99%
that 1% is stepping on the backs. they re taking advantage. and they re gaming the system. and what these wonderful folks have done, have called attention to it in a way that everybody can understand and participate. robert greenwald, brave new films. always a pleasure. great work. thank you. thank you, ed. a new study shows just how bad the income inequality is in this country and where it s all going. the author of the study that will tell us what it really means for america. he s with me tonight. stay with us.