out. forget heading for the exits, they re heading for the yachts. earlier this week, tom perkins, a businessman worth $8 billion wrote a letter to the wall street journal comparing the treatment of the rich to the holocaust, calling, quote, attention to parallels of fascist nazi germany to progressive war on the american 1%. he later apologized for his choice of words, but he also said this the 1% are not causing the unequality. they are the job creators. let the rich do what the rich do, which is get richer, but along the way they bring everybody else with them. you have owned fancy yachts, fancy cars and underwater submersible. airplane. underwater airplane. i saw it. it s basically an airplane that flies underwater.
the minimum wage support 66%, oppose 31%. i m assuming people at the white house have seen that poll and have other polling perhaps that we haven t seen that shows similar findings and that this might have something to do with it. but ob top of that, you also have the issue of unemployment benefits. this extension of emergency unemployment benefits affecting about 1.3 million people. do we think that s going to get sorted out? the white house did not insist on this being part of the budget agreement the president signed at the end of this year. but perhaps we ll see a new fight on this front. certainly you re start offing to see the progressive groups are starting up a progressive war. certainly they re viewing this as a winning message in january going into the debt limit fight at the end of this month or at the end of next month rather. but in terms of can they actually get thing through, can they get the three months and find the pay forces that will
compassionate. the logic goes out the window, who did it, is there anything we can do about it almost doesn t matter. so i think with cable tv there will be a push to war. let me put up a tweet on the screen. the person wrote are progressive war critics, the folks that were right about iraq, are they right about the war again? do you feel like both progressive and conservative libertarian anti-war voices are getting a fair shake? absolutely. you have alan grayston on one side and rand paul on the other. you have more prominent anti-war voices. rand paul is now in the u.s. senate. didn t happen a decade ago. but i hate to beat a dead horse about beating drums but it almost doesn t matter. the talking heads can be saying that war is bad, but you ve got the graphics. crisis in syria. you ve got the theme music and you ve got the b roll footage of people suffering. the words that are said almost go out the window. i think that twitter is playing a big role here.