John is it a mean, mean world . It seems like one when you watch us, were in a war. Terrorist threats to the us us. The ebola outbreak. I am scared. John it is i mean mean world, worse than ever. Starvation is breath taking. Massive flooding. This world is about it go through some disasters. John most people say horrible things are happening, some are, but they have always happened, they used to happen more. Look at this chart, deaths in war in middle east now is terrible. But nothing like what happened in 40s and 50s. Millions were killed in world war ii, more in korean war, and more by chairman mao in china, compare now, violent death more common today terrorism is up. A graph from university of chicago, first spike is World Trade Center attack, worldwide, terrorism deaths have sometimes been higher since then, but few americans are killed by terrorists, of 18,000 terrorism deaths last year, 16 were americans. Every death is terrible, but is the world meaner today than it used ite to
Illegal immigration has ever registered in the poll. The emerging of immigration is the top issue in the minds of americans reported as the government unveiled a plan to turn a cushion texas resort complete with Tennis Courts and olympic size swimming pool, hot tubs, Cable Television and wifi into a juvenile illegal immigrant facility. This at a cost of 50 million to taxpayers. The plan, moments ago scrapped by health and Human Services because of what they claim to be quote a negative backlash caused by information misreported to the public. To be clear, the negative backlash was created by burro burocrats and Juan Hernandez is blaming u. S. Drug policy for the surge of Illegal Immigrants to the u. S. Boarder. Hernandez said quote, the root cause is that the United States and colombia carried out big operations in the fight against drugs. Then mexico did it pushing drug traffickers into honduras, gaut ma guatemala and el salvador. Harry reid says the boarder is fine. The boarder is se
Poverty . Thats our show tonight. And now, john stossel. In this rich country lots of people are poor. So what should we do about that . Spread the wealth, thats the democrats plan. Some americans are plenty rich. We can just tax more and spend the money on the poor. Fifty years ago president johnson said america will end poverty by doing that. This Administration Today here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in america. [applauding] he expanded Social Security to include more people. Expanded the food stamp program. Created the job core and more. And look how its reduced poverty. In the first sten years of the war on poverty, the poverty rate dropped from 17 percent to 12 percent. Thats great success. But wait a second. Look at the years right before the war on poverty began. Americans were already lifting themselves out of poverty without the welfare programs. And now, look at this graph that shows whats happened since the war began, after five, ten years of improvement, a
Is it must have. To of every worker in america to have seven days of paid sick leave and everyone in this congress refuses to raise the minimum wage i say this. If you truly believe you can work fulltime and support a family on less than 15,000 per year, but try it. Kelly and of war on terror. With a combination of Foreign Policy the with the rash decision of years past but has instigated a mention of al qaeda or islamic extremist of. Dell manchin. Despite a whole day of reports of yemen they he said is a successful example of his policy to guide is falling to a terrorist . The president suggested now have the opinion. We are 50 years into this venture. 15 years of terror touching a were shores with new generations by eating too costly wars that sought a vicious recession spread across the nation in the world. It has been and still is a hard time for many. But tonight we turn the page. Tonight for the First Time Since then 11 they combat mission in afghanistan is over. [cheers and appl
Communities that we will no longer stay idle or complicit with israel doing business as usual in our parts. Not in our name, not anywhere on the west coast. 3 billion of our taxpayer dollarers going to support that. I want to stand up and protest that. Im opposed to it, and the state of israel cannot continue to do this to an innocent, unarmed population. Protesters held signs to free gaza and end the bombings. Oakland police had a very strong presence here. They stayed ahead of the protesters while they marched, and linedded up in front of the ports main entrance, and acted as a barrier just in case anyone tried to get interest the actual port. There will no problems and this event end peacefully. Similar protests will be held in ports of seattle and tax tacoma in the coming days. The governor of missouri declared a state of emergency and imposed a onenight curfew after a demonstration turned violent. Protesters were rallying against the killing of 18yearold Michael Brown. One group l