[inaudible] acknowledging my counterpart, congressman walker. Im going to repeat what i said previously because our friend who is injured because he tried to wrestle me. [laughter] she has made the decision to briefly pause his career in Public Service. I dont believe it is the last chapter or by any sense of the word, but to say so definitively on the record, its been one of the greatest honors of my life serving on the subcommittee with mr. Walker and i look forward to serving with you in many capacities in the years to come, sir. Throughout the united state states, 2049 carried out by extremist. Since december 23rd the attacks on jews across new york city and each and every one of these attacks there is some elected official in america that says our thoughts and prayers are with the victim and their families after each and every one of these attacks there is some elected official in america who says we must take action. Today that is exactly what we have got to focus on. Why. Why is
Acknowledging my counterpart, congressman walker. Im going to repeat what i said previously because our friend who is injured because he tried to wrestle me. [laughter] she has made the decision to briefly pause his career in Public Service. I dont believe it is the last chapter or by any sense of the word, but to say so definitively on the record, its been one of the greatest honors of my life serving on the subcommittee with mr. Walker and i look forward to serving with you in many capacities in the years to come, sir. Throughout the united state states, 2049 carried out by extremist. Since december 23rd the attacks on jews across new york city and each and every one of these attacks there is some elected official in america that says our thoughts and prayers are with the victim and their families after each and every one of these attacks there is some elected official in america who says we must take action. Today that is exactly what we have got to focus on. Why. Why is this happen
Live coverage here on cspan 3. Congressman walker, we are on the record so i will repeat what i said previously, because our friend who is injured because he tried to wrestle me, he has made the decision to briefly pause his career in Public Service and i dont believe it is the last chapter by any sense of the word, but to say so definitively on the record has been one of the greatest honors of my life, serving on this subcommittee with m mr. Walker and i look forward to serving with you in many different capacities for many years to come, sir. So this subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony on confronting the rise in antisemitic domestic terrorism. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the subcommittee in recess at any point without objection, members not on the Committee Shall be permitted to sit and question the witnesses. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. And i will make it quick, because im very eager to hear the testimony of the experts b
During the Great Depression which im old enough to remember there was and most of my family were unemployed working class there wasnt it was bed you know much worse objectively than today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. There was a real sense of hopefulness there isnt today. Inequality is really unprecedented im sure that total inequality its like the worst periods in American History. But history find it more closely inequality comes from the extreme wealth in a tiny sector of the population fraction of one percent. There were periods like the gilded age in the twentys the early ninetys and so on when a situation developed by the similar to this. Now this period 6 trillion because if you look at their Wealth Distribution the inequality mostly comes from super wealth. Literally the top 110th of a percent are just super wealthy. Not only is it extremely unjust in itself. Inequality has highly negative consequences on the so it is all. Because the very
In the United States when there are professed to like democracy. In a democracy Public Opinion is going to have some influence on poesy. And then the government carries out actions determined by the population and thats what democracy means. Its important to understand that privileged and powerful sectors have never liked democracy and for very good reasons. Democracy puts power into the hands of the general population and takes it away from them. As kind of the principle of concentration of wealth and power. Concentration of wealth yields concentration of power particularly so as the cost of elections skyrockets which kind of forces the Political Parties into the pockets of major corporations. And this political power. Really translates into legislation that increases the concentration of wealth so fiscal policy like tax policy a deregulation. Rules of Corporate Governance a whole variety of measures political measures designed to increase the concentration of wealth and power which i