but skyrocketing inequality and republican attempts to tear apart the social safety net have slowed the progress made in the 60s and 70s. since 1979, income for the top 1% has increased over 200%. while the bottom 80% has made only the most modest gains. before going home in december, congress allowed long term uninsurance benefits to expire. senate democrats plan to hold a vote to extend the benefits this evening, but if republicans will not listen to their colleagues on the other side of the aisle, perhaps they should listen to jim cramer. is this bad for the economy, to extend this? no. don t you want to help people to keep spending money? have to do it. not even an issue. with the disparity between rich and poor and republicans in congress stonewalling any effort to address that crisis, how long can the millions of americans
do you support extending unemployment benefits or would you let 1.3 million americans lose those benefits before the end of the year? i do support unemployment benefits for the 26 weeks that they re paid for. if you extend it beyond that, you do a disservice to these workers. there was a study that came out a few months ago, it said, if you have a worker unemployed for four weeks on unemployment insurance and one on 99 weeks, which would you hire? every employer, nearly 100% said they will always hoo irthe person out of work four weeks. when you allow people to be on uninsurance for 99 weeks, are you causing them to be a part of this perpetual unemployed group in our economy. while it seems good, it does a disservice to the people are you trying to help. susan. what do you want to say? the first thing that jumps out to me about that comment he made a couple weeks ago. no one is asking for 99 weeks of
web site is not working, what we have is a plan that is designed to let uninsured to get insurance is throwing people with insurance into a state of uninsurance. it s what you d expect with a central kind of planning. that was tried in soviet era. it never worked for steel and concrete. it s not going to work for obamacare. now, there are doubts about whether it will be fully functional by the end of the month. charles, thank you for being here. it s a plea sure, thank you. coming up, terrorists murdered four americans in benghazi more than 14 months ago, monday, congressional investigators get a chance to speak to the only men who know what happened that night. that means only krichlt a operatives
decided they would no longer check to make sure texas voter laws were nondiscriminatory, abbott pushed forward with a voter i.d. law will disenfranchise minorities, young people and the poor but in the texas twilight zone will protect integrity and voter fraud that happens in abbott s mind. it s not the only problem he has worked hard to combat. he has also taken a star trek approach, bold he standing against an imagined u.n. conspiracy to take away our guns and use taxpayer money to investigate a school curriculum, because conspiracy theory wackos worried it was being used toin doctrine ate children with muslim propaganda, marxism and nazi mind control oh. in the we ll record, texans face the highest rate of uninsurance in the country, and the worst health care delivery system. surely, greg abbott would be relieved to partner with the federal government to try to address this situation. maybe. if you consider filing lawsuit after lawsuit against obama care, partnering and supporting
my wife for the last six years has volunteered at the barry medical mission, one of the oldest in new york, a nurse and mid wife. she doesn t get paid for any of her service, one of my children actually helps makes pies for thanksgiving to raise funds as well. when you go to the mission and you see 200 men ordinary looking people, they re not disshovelled scumbags, these are responsible people to some extent whose lives have been in some ways made very difficult and see the need, it makes what mitt romney says so profoundly offensive to anybody who s ever had any experience of this kind of situation. what is totally weird to me and which i don t understand, you look at the states that are opting out of expanding the medicaid roles, the states with governors who have vilified basically the american social safety net and they are the same states where people have the highest rates of uninsurance. the states with higher food insecurity rates than the u.s. average to say mississippi has