the world congress of families. if you are unfamiliar with it, the world congress of families calls it an international network of profamily organizations that seek to restore the natural family as the social unit in the seed bed of civil society and when they say natural, what they mean is no homo. as far as they re concerned, natural families do not involve gay people. now, because they fancy themselves a world congress, this group in rockford, illinois, hosts international meetings every few years to do what they do. to promote natural families that definitely are not gay. they met in 1999 in geneva. in 2004 in mexico city. 2009, it was amsterdam, that must have been hilarious. last year, it was madrid. but next year for the big world congress of families 2014, they have gone out of their way to schedule their next world congress of natural families in
and said i am not this. i think the crisis in the republican party today is that there are not people standing up and taking the risks. i want you to think that ted cruz is the problem with the conservatives. well, what he s saying harvard is the seed bed of communism. hold off. i want to play the president making his argument for loyal opposition. the republican party getting its act together to be an effective counterbalancing force that works to govern the country, right? there s this question of sort of purging of the nuts which is a term i don t really love. but about people that we think are extremists or stand in the way of actual functioning, practical politics, right? the exchange. but the thing to me, as someone who is to the left. pretty far to the left of the american mainstream politics, what investment do i have in getting that worked out? the question is, do i want a
small business owners and franchises are heroes. why does he say they re heroes? he joins us. jim, why do you say small business people are heroes? greta, i think small business in general and certainly franchisees in particular are heroes, because these are folks that put their entire life on the line, and certainly often all of their savings. they re pursuing a dream with every bit of fiber and strength that they have. they display tremendous courage in making payrolls and overcoming obstacles, doing things, frankly, that put the seed bed of our society together. as an example, since 1984, every
small business owners and franchises are heroes. why does he say they re heroes? he joins us. jim, why do you say small business people are heroes? greta, i think small business in general and certainly franchisees in particular are heroes, because these are folks that put their entire life on the line, and certainly often all of their savings. they re pursuing a dream with every bit of fiber and strength that they have. they display tremendous courage in making payrolls and overcoming obstacles, doing things, frankly, that put the seed bed of our society together. as an example, since 1984, every
lot more to make poverty a priority but mr. romney, god help us all. paul ryan says that trickle down economics is the christian way. he says that that is theologically the right way to help the poor. the problem is it did not work in the reagan era and it won t work now. i said the other day in a conversation with somebody that it is about trickle down. it is about the poor feeling like they ve been tinkled on. that s exactly the problem. so trickle down didn t work in the reagan era. it won t work now. there is a reason why the budget director has done a 180 on his views. we learned a lot about the reagan era. about trickle down economics and that s not the answer. austerity is not the answer either. is not the real fact that in the case of someone like mitt romney who has $100 million trust fund for his boys. who gives one of his boys $10 million just as a seed bed for a new investment firm that he sets up. isn t the fact that individuals like that have that experience. what w