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We re joined by robert reich, former secretary of labor and now professor of economics at uc-berkeley, and the author of beyond outrage. good afternoon. good afternoon. while we re focused on cuts to entitlements rather than corporate tax cheats who relentlessly steal money from this government every year without fail? because the corporate tax cheats among many others, wealthy and powerful interests in this country, have a very, very cunning ability to distract attention from what they are doing and put attention on programs that benefit many middle class people and many poor people and say they have to be cut. medicaid has to be cut. that kind of welfare has got to be cut. we have 47% of americans who are basically takers instead of givers, and by doing that they ....
Tax rates, at least rhetorically. even if the president got the tax rate hike that he wanted, understand that we would continue to see trillion deficits for as far as the eye can see. listen, washington s got a spending problem, not a revenue problem. joining me now are richard wolffe, the executive editor of msnbc.com and an msnbc political analyst, and robert reich, former labor secretary and a professor at the university of california berkeley. he is also the author of beyond outrage. richard, i want to go to you first here. the president talked quite a bit in the election cycle. quite a bit. he did, period, about the fever breaking amongst republicans in congress . yes. it s been quite feverish of late, which is to say a lot of back and forth, a lot of hot air blown from the house caucus. i wonder if you think that fever might be breaking with the suggestion john boehner said, even if the president gets his ....
Conversation to make people think they really have some plan out there. they don t. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question, whose plan is better for the middle class? text a for democrats, text b for republicans to 622639. we ll bring the results later on in the show. joining me tonight is robert riech, former u.s. labor secretary and author of beyond outrage. i have been following your writings on all of this. in a short phrase, you have gone down this road how quickly we can explain who gets hurt. let s take the republican plan for what they are presenting. who gets hurt in this deal? it s reverse robin hood, ed. it s the same plan that paul ryan and mitt romney were touting. it s exactly the same. they want to have limited ....
Civil war. yes, the american civil war, when talking budget cuts. it s not just a bad deal. this is really an insulting deal. what geithner offered, what you showed on the screen, robert e. lee was offered easier terms at appomattox and he losted the civil war. now, now, now, charles, that s not very christmassy of you. we don t mind if you wrap yourself to the flag, just make sure it s the one with 50 stars on it. dr. james peterson is a contributor to thegrio.com and robert reich is former labor secretary a and a professor and the author of beyond outrage, now available in paperback. welcome to both of you. dr. peterson, i could have sworn we had an election earlier this month, but today i saw the president having to go on the road again to fight a republican who points to the ryan budget plan as his compromising answer to the deficit. did i dream that the election ....
Some laxatives like dulcolax can cause cramps. but phillips caplets don t. they have magnesium. for effective relief of occasional constipation. thanks. [ phillips lady ] live the regular life. phillips . the challenge facing republicans in the house is now stark. save face or save the american economy. do they keep their promise to grover norquist to never raise taxes and thereby allow the nation s entire economy to fall off the fiscal cliff or face reality and accept that raising taxes by just 3% on the top 2% will actually go a long way to preventing an economic crisis? you ll remember it was president clinton who enacted that 39% rate back in the 1990s and who can forget the economic devastation that ensued thereafter. joining us is former labor secretary robert reich, the author of beyond outrage and a ....