the latest dose of bad news comes as we learned nearly $2 out of every $10 that went into america s poshgts came not from production or collaboration but from the government. that, according to an analysis by moody s by the end of this year that is threatened to the turned off to a degree. $37 billion in benefits set to xpooir so expire soon. real money at a time when every penny counts and so few americans have access to the most basic of necessities. and the mega panel returns, and jonathan, this seems a simple situation. you have a ton of people who don t have jobs. right. 20% of the country, got no jobs. or don t have the job they want or whatever it is. then a long list of problems. you got whether it s infrastructure crumbling, the health ca health care system screwed up. a lot of problem, a lot of
ask, why keep pivieding the jobs? why aren t we operating there? and it comes back to, and this is probably the point where you and i would most disagree, because your argument, as well articulated and you could be right. obviously, in your mind for sure. in in my mind i m sure. but you re big versus small government. make is smaller, gets easier i say a small government is just as bad as a big government, and that the issue is bought verse not bought, not in size. the problem is, what is the power of these lobbyists? they re holding a lever. the size of the lever is proportionate from the size of the government. okay. in a free market you don t have a i have never given my money to free market in the business no. we re not talking republicans versus democrat. free market versus big government. i have never given my money to goldman sachs of my oh volition. i ve given lots of money to goldman sachs because of what
prove what s a bunch of cowards so many of our leaders are revealing themselves to be. senator what, if anything, do you feel you could use help with to fight some of this? look, dylan, the issue is not whether it s a big deal or a smaller deal. the issue is whether it is a fair deal, and equitable deal. the middle class today is disappearing. poverty is increasing. people on top are doing phenomenally well and their tax rates are the lowest in 50 years. corporations are making huge profits and many of them are paying nothing in taxes. so what you want to do is say, yeah. let s do deficit reduction, but at least half of that reduction has got to come from the people on top who are doing very, very well. we ve got to take a hard look at military spending. people in this country appropriately, sick and tired of two wars, which continue to go on and on. we ve tripled military spending since 1997. and then let s also take a look at every agency of government and see where we get rid of t
you ve lost some hair and have the gray ones you do, sir. maybe. thank you very much. listen, talk to you next time. bernie sanders with us out of washington. up next here, politics versus progress. how can we ever truly deal with our debt when we have leaders who spend more time fighting with each other and fighting to raise money than they do fighting for any real debate about fairness or investment in america. plus, uncle sam. he s your sugar daddy. wait until you hear how much of american s hard-earned cash is coming directsly from the government and why that now is in jeopardy, and, anyway, i could do a whole speech about that but i won t. and paying for equality. bypassing washington. local government stepping in where the federal government simply can t or won t. for dentists, the choice is clear. fact is, more dental professionals brush
confidence fairy magically believing things will get better when it s clear we need a jolt, programs and new ideas to boost the economy. we need restructured. absolutely. i saw $2 out of $10 coming from the government, that must be for ordinary american. the multi-nationals, probably $5 out of $10 comes from the government. now, you know by way of tax incentives and direct payment. so when you look at money sitting on the sidelines it s people saying, all right. today obama went after energy. tomorrow maybe he ll go after exports. the next day after whatever. as long as government policy, politicians, that is, are picking winners and losers, businessmen aren t looking for what s promising. what are people going to want? businessmen are looking for, what s the next thing to get a subsidy. so i don t buy into the argument. what s the best yield offshore based on the screwed up tax bill. it s already there s also been the government, that if we just got government out of t