it still washes up on beaches. i was just on grand isle yesterday in louisiana and picked up tarballs, picked up oil. you can scoop it up on beaches every day, and that toxic mixture is still impacting the sea life that is supposed to be living on the bottom of the ocean. supposed to be living in the ocean. if you kill out parts down the line, or fill them with toxins, the next species that eats the toxic sea life gets impacted by it, and that includes us. so one of the focals of my story this week was about the human health crisis. i want to hear about that. you go into detail. right after a quick break. so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol
everyone grows with miracle-gro. as you know, my dad born in mexico, poor, didn t get a college y.3degree. became head of a car company. i could have stayed in detroit like him. i went off on my own. i didn t inherent money from my parents. what i have, i earned. i worked hard, the american way. that s mitt romney in a public primary debate in detroit asserting his ownç kind of, if not rags to riches sort of median riches to ultra riches story, and i think it s very interesting the way that he has to, and one of the conventions of running for president, is to construct for yourself some kind of meritcratic success story. talked about how he left connecticut and struck out in
supposed to do about growing inequality. the reason you have wage inequality is the different productivity levels and you h e have growing gaps of inequality because the economy is changing in ways such as the returns to labor are getting bigger and bigger for people at the top. a much, much more complicated story. this is a big part of the story. one of the key things the government can do to alleviate this is transfer right. so yes, this is a concern. actually concerned more often voiced on right pap growing class of people living, who are living and requiring government subsidies to be able to support themselves at a level that is deemed by society to be aç level a lot of things to do about inequality. have a more progressive income tax. make access to higher education more affordable. i mean, there are just endless numbers of things that you can do about inequality. in terms of, reaffirm inequality. the income games during the
levon helm who we lost this week here on this saturday morning. i want to bring in antonio juhasz from new orleans, author of black tie: the devastating impact ofç the gulf oil spill. welcome. thanks for having me. you wrote a great piece in the nation this week about what the gulf is like two years later. for people that haven t been paying attention to the story, now coming back to it. you ve been spending the last few years on it. what has been overlooked? what should they know? what do people feel like in the gulf about the effects of this? this is an ongoing tragedy, the most important thing. remember it began with the death of 11 men on the deepwater horizon. the beginning of what unleashed what, if it wasn t for saddam