 Okay, it just happens to be Saturday afternoon, November the 30th, 2013, and it's hard to believe that November is almost gone. The November to remember is almost gone. December, January, February, March. Yeah, but four months of winter I hate. Well, let's see what the groundhog has to say. The big fat rat. Why, was it Tony Phil, or Staten Island Chuck? Who? Which one has the authority? The Woodchuck that works for the Woodchuck Hard Apple Cider Company because its their products are pretty damn tasty. If you've ever had hard apple cider. Oh yes I have. Apple spider. Okay, let me formally pipe aboard my illustrious co-host and mentor for this show. Oh by the way, welcome to Progressive Discussions. Another week has flown by so quick as usual. I'm your host James P. Madonna of Megalife 21 and I will pipe aboard my co-host. Welcome aboard our Progressive Liberal Starship, the one and only, the Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman. How are you feeling this week, sir? I'm good, good, good. Okay, the very founder in 1977 of Newsletter Sensing. Okay, let me begin by saying, how was your Thanksgiving? Well it was at home and it was minimalist, which you know I prefer. I don't like a big plate, you know, with everything on it. But I had turkey, I had gravy, I had mashed sweet potatoes, and cranberry sauce. But! You had a pork butt? No, after I had eaten all of that, the gentleman across the street, yeah, brought a huge plate of what? Of everything. Freeze it? Most of it is frozen. Some things I don't eat like rice. There was rice, there was mashed potatoes, there was a baked potato, there was... Well why on earth did they make rice if they made mashed potatoes and... True. How much starchy side dishes were in their holiday dinner? I mean, God, I mean, how much do you need? But there was plenty of food. Sweet potatoes or yams are sufficient. You don't need mashed potatoes, you don't need rice. Well it is Thanksgiving, so they had a variety I guess. Yeah. And of course a pumpkin slice of pie and a coconut custard. Yeah, that's pretty decent. Coconut custard, if it's not too sweet, it's great. My sister baked her pumpkin pies like she does every year. She does a sugar-free, mild spiced pumpkin pie. It was pretty damn good. It's very custardy. Was it warm or was it cold? Honestly, I'll eat it both ways. I had it warm and I had it chill, but it doesn't matter, it was greatest. Because you know the supermarket pumpkin pies tend to be overpowering. And overpriced? With the spice, of course, overpriced. Thank you. And they don't use... They usually put a lot of whatever sweetener they choose to use. Yeah. A lot of it. $11 for a pumpkin pie. Come on. Give me a break. So I salute my sister Lisa for another great holiday dinner. She's a fantastic cook and a baker. I had... She made a... It was well over 23 pound turkey, but with the crew we had, which included me... It was gone. How many leftovers? It looked like a flock of vultures got at it. Oh, I had plenty of... They picked a cockas cleat. I had at least three large plates of turkey with gravy on it and all the other items. So it was good. It was good. I mean, look, Thanksgiving in America is when people sit down and give thanks for all the positive things in their life, if you have many of them. And then the next day on Black Friday, they trample people to death to get at those sales. You know, but anyway, I want to start. I don't have really a lot in my monologue. I do have some... A couple items to speak about with William H. Morrill, third, later. I think I have met the world... Yeah, then it's gonna... I apologize for the interruption, because what I should have done was disconnect the phone, but I didn't. Now he tells me. Billy, Billy. Yeah, yeah, you want to do it now? Oh, the lawyer, the lawsuit. Okay. Oh, well, okay, no problem. When do you... When do you anticipate their call? Items to talk about with you? All right, yeah, all right, we'll do it. All right. Oh, for God's sakes. All right, I'll talk to you later, Billy. I wonder if he was really getting a call, or if he was just chasing me off the phone. We'll never know. I don't like... I mean... You'll never know. I have to talk to that young man tomorrow, because I'm gonna do a show with him. He's coming over. I'm making Hellfire Chili in the pressure cooker. Six quart pressure cooker. I presume that means you received a venison? No, I'm using ground beef. I did not receive a venison from... No, I have not, because I just have a not. I was gonna make a snide remark, but I won't. You know, I mean, Billy only calls once a week, man, but he's got a humongous lawsuit worth millions. So, you know... I'm available as a money manager. Financial... a real financial planner. I told him to live off the interest, to lock it up, man. Lock it up, live off the interest. But all right, before I was... Continuing. Before I was interrupted, anything could happen here on progressive discussions, because we're not... We don't rehearse. We have main themes that we talk about, but it's not a rehearse show. It's ad-libbed. Anything can happen. And usually does. And it's not like him. It's not like Billy Moro to call out the last minute. He's very professional. What must happen is the lawyer had something important to discuss with him, but it had to be now. It can't wait until Monday morning. It had to be now on a freaking Saturday, which I'm going to talk to him about, too. I'm gonna say, why does it have to be now on a Saturday? Lawyers don't usually do their... pull their shenanigans on the weekend. Especially Jewish ones. Oh no, it's the Sabbath. Okay. The real Sabbath, by the way. I would hope that he had a Jewish lawyer. Well, he's got one that's going for the jugular vein, as I suggested to him, as I recommended. Now, getting back to what I was talking about, because we'll have extra time later, because Billy's not going to call, unless something happens that he does. I have met, finally, I have met among multitudes of nitwits, numbskulls, morons, and idiots that usually make up tea baggers, the Tea Party, Republicans. I have met the, probably the world's most intelligent, slickest, right-wing conservative troll, Ravel Rouser, a troublemaker, by the name of Seth Sealy, capital S-E-A-L-Y, I call him Seth Sucks Seedy. Seth Seedy. To make a long story short, his, he gives like an economics, he thinks he's giving an economic seminar over at Left Action page on Facebook. And he gets very technical, very, like an economics professor. And what he's trying to say is that we have to kowtow and bend over backwards and give special treatment to the big corporations, because they provide products that Americans need. They are the suppliers of much-needed products that Americans need. Little, and when I told him these products are inferior, usually today, and made in China, but he doesn't really have an intelligent answer for anything. But what do you think? The corporations are the only ones that can provide the products? No. What about worker-owned cooperatives? What about the governments providing the products? Small businesses can be, depending on who works for them, can put out extremely high quality products. It has nothing to do with high quality or anything. He's saying that we have to kowtow to the private sector because they provide the job, no they don't. And they provide the, well he avoided the fact, he avoided the subject of the jobs, because we put a stop to him right away with the truth. But he kept on saying that if it wasn't for the big boys, Americans wouldn't have the the needed products that they enjoy. Yes, they would. That they enjoy today. Somebody else can make them. We are not beholding to the corporation to make the product. This is my hobby horse. You got to leave a message over here. You know? Where has this guy been living? I'm in Oxford. Worker co-ops around the world. In fact, there's a big problem now with Boeing in Washington. Boeing always, once in a while, threatens to move. They're threatening to move to South Carolina. If you don't give me what we want, which is always, you know, no taxes, low wages, you know, all that crap. George Steinbrenner did that to the mayor of New York. Exactly, but what you do, a professional sports teams do that all the time. They try to blackmail the states. But what you tell those people is, say, bye-bye, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. We can make airplanes too. Call their bluff, so to speak. Exactly. We are not beholding to the corporations to provide us with our products. The government can and workers co-ops can. What is this crap, cow towing to the private sector? This never was. Corporations were supposed to do things in the interest of the public, not in their own interest, or the interest out there. Shareholders. That's the big excuse. And how does we're here to make profits only? And how does social programs of all kinds in the long run hurt the poor? I mean, that's another thing that people like Seth Seely come out. I'll tell you, they do hurt the poor, because they're not enough. There you go. Well, that's obvious. Food stamps, welfare. Right. To keep the poor poor. A single mother who's raising children by herself, she gets a chicken feed to live on. Because they want to keep the poor poor. And then the poor are forced to work off the books. If they are Christians. Forced. They are supposed to give the poor their two coats. That means everything. What is this problem that we cannot think in terms of making the poor rich so that I don't have to be poor anymore? Or having the poor receive a living wage instead of a minimum wage. Yeah. If they get a living wage, they're not poor anymore. And he and Seth Seely was trying to razzle dazzle us, explaining to us that how the minimum wage also hurts the poor. And it doesn't work in the long run. Corporate propaganda. It's all that is. If a person can't survive on minimum wage, how does making less and he agrees that a company should pay less than the minimum wage? Why? It's tax deductible. How could you live? How could anybody, even a husband and wife working full time if they both got minimum wage? There's no way they could live on that money these days. Yeah, but you're looking at it from the worker's point of view and the corporation is not. I don't know what point of view this guy is looking at it from. It sounds like a selfish traditional point of view. It sounds like a very selfish and greedy point of view. And he says I keep on mentioning the word greedy all the time. He says we're he says that we're economically illiterate and we are speaking based on emotion. Yeah, when you're starving, I guess emotion does kick in. Yeah, when you have nothing and you live in a tent, yeah, and you're and you're starving. Emotion does kick in, which it doesn't with the elitist with the 1% with it, you know, or top 20, 30% of you know, like Chris Christie doesn't look like he's missing too many meals. You know, so he's got this fancy intellectual way of trying to explain why we shouldn't have a minimum wage and and how social programs, you know, like the minimum wage, hurt the poor in the long run. So you know what I told him? You sound like a male reincarnation of Iron Rand. So he didn't have a real he didn't really have a come back. He didn't have a comeback. You know, and but he did he did expose himself once. Seth Seeley said, what's wrong with read? So that expose them right away. Exactly. Okay. All right. The next and last um, the top United States Banks reported $64 a billion in profits last year. Okay, it's 2013 now. Without corporate welfare, they would have barely broke even the profits they report are essentially transfers from taxpayers to their shareholders. This came this this statement came from Bloomberg News, February 20, 2013. Also, the Federal Reserve is is giving them money to buy up their craft securities derivatives that are worthless. Worthless. They're trying to clean their balance sheets. Did you get it? Clean balance sheet? No, from the stimulus from the bailout? No, you didn't get nothing. You didn't get nothing, did we? No, but those banks did, didn't they? There's another example. If a bank goes out of business, hey, don't let the door kick you in the ass on the way out. Somebody else will take over. People have to start learning to use a very simple, small word. And oh, no, they have to learn to say no, even to their kids. They have to learn to say no to any lobbying group who have a selfish agenda, which a lot of them do corporate lobbyists, whatever they have to learn to say no. They're going to say no to that money. Republicans don't have any problems saying no to social issues. Anything that helps the masses or the little guy to have no trouble saying no to. They certainly say yes to corporate welfare. Yeah. Okay, I just want to say that beware shoppers. Chisela's Hall of Shame inductee this week are the nutritional companies that were caught selling from amazon.com. What was on the label was definitely not in the bottle fraud guilty of fraud. Name some of the products. They they didn't get into detail. I could research it, but I would suggest to people to buy the the brand name well established nutritional supplements from these companies. I know they they use solar and grapple in the omega three stuff with that. I heard twin labs is cutting corners by lowering the quality of some of their products. I would go with the big companies like nature's way solar a twin lab, you know, they still make few good things. My friend Mario Petrus likes Gerald. What's the country life is an established company. I think I think nature a got a good reason. Swanson. What? Swanson. Swanson. Yes. The only problem I have with them is when I call them to ask where and how are your is your Chlorella spirulina grown because your your Swanson brand really tells very little. It doesn't tell you where it's from. It doesn't tell you what kind of water is grown in. What the conditions are of the finally she came clean and told me, Well, your spirulina comes from Imperial Valley, California, which happens to be where Earthrise spirulina is grown. So they use Colorado River water, which is supposed to be very mineral rich. And Imperial Valley is in the Mojave Desert. So you got maximum radiation from the sun. And you have mineral rich water from the Colorado River, which is good. But you you can't say nothing to the customer because nutritional supplementation. I mean, the people that are very much involved with holistic health are very attuned to and concerned with what exactly they're putting in their body. Eventually you'll get found out. They are the educated consumers. Generally, they're smart. They do a lot of reading. So then they go to size sims and they buy a suit. I went to I went to size sims in the 1980s to get a suit. I think it was a Pierre Cardin and they just rolled it up and threw it in the bag. They didn't even give me a hanger. Nice. Real classy way to sell a suit. But anyway, just be careful when you buy nutritional supplements that are not from major companies. That's all I have to say. Anyway, we're going to sink our teeth into these readings early. And hopefully, the local news publication is providing us with deep subjects like I get on the internet, which I have to say, the internet news and information far surpasses anything in the mainstream media. It looks like they have found that cholesterol makes breast tumors grow. They are leaking now. Yeah, right there. So now they are linking stat with helping to ward off. Of course they are. The drug companies. Yeah. But until now, there was no understanding of the mechanism involved. So it was hard to know how to attack the problem. The researchers wondered how large a role was played by the high cholesterol levels often associated with obesity. Using human tumor cells and mice bred to be especially vulnerable to breast cancer. They found that a molecule called 27 hydroxycholesterol or 27 AC, which is converted from cholesterol in the body, fuels the growth and spread. But if you inhibit the conversion of cholesterol to this molecule, thing bad happens. They also determined that raising cholesterol levels raise the risk that reducing cholesterol had an effect similar to suppressing its dangerous byproduct resulting in tumors that grew at significantly slower rates. Also, the study data suggests that tumors aren't reliant on the presence of 27 AC in the blood. They are capable of producing large amounts of an enzyme that converts cholesterol to 27 AC. That means that the tumors can essentially feed their own growth. The molecule appears to mimic effects of the hormone esprit on the cancers. About 75% of breast cancers are at least partly fueled by estrogen. The startling moment in the research came when the scientists discovered that preventing formation of 27 AC in the special breast cancer mice delayed the appearance of their first tumor by 50 days. And that after the first tumor formed, the mice lived an average of 40% longer than those that could still make the molecule. The next steps include studying data that have already been generated in a large, long term study of humans to see how high cholesterol levels and the use of statins may have affected breast cancer among the women enrolled. Also, the researchers want to know how adding statins to the current therapies for breast cancer patients might affect the outcome of the treatment. Another avenue to explore is potential links between 27 AC and other cancers such as that of the uterus. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense. Okay, why would the Department of Defense? You know, they have no unless there's something subterfugee going on. I know there's something subterfugee going on with the with the vaccines. Yeah, to say the least. But cholesterol, I was under the impression that the body needed dietary cholesterol to produce hormones, sex hormones, which estrogen happens to be but there are other hormones too. Yeah, you're talking about when you being a culprit, you're talking about an overabundance of restriction, the ratio. It's mostly the problems with a lot of hormones is the, you know, what each one has their own specific level. And when you start messing with that, it's like taking, it's like taking phallic acid and neglecting the other B complexes. Correct. Eventually, you're going to cause a problem. Well, Adele Davis used to talk about the balance B balance. That's it. And balance B's are important in homeostasis. Balance. Okay. Yeah, that's that's the, the most sought after beloved terminology amongst real physicians is homeostasis. But I was reading a few articles this past week pertaining to depression, being helped a great deal by B complex therapy. Yeah, well, that's the first thing you should do. Because the three vitamins dependent disease, anxiety, anxiety and depression, I'm sorry, is, you know, Palaegra and scurvy. Yeah. And what's the other one? Palaegra scurvy, and you know, the V vitamins, vitamin C, depletion of causing those things. Well, the number one problem involved in those is depression. Yeah, so anxiety and depression is helped tremendously by a high B complex intake, not not not the RDA for B complex. I got the message some time ago, that somebody put out and I don't know where it came from or whatever. And they they listed that nosebleeds can be caused by too many too much B vitamins. Now I don't know the connection. Maybe that's why my mother gets a lot of nosebleeds. No, it's probably when her case is probably she's got too many blood thinners going on. Yeah, she she takes any herb. She's already taking good vitamin E. She takes any herb that is known for increasing the circulation like butchers, broom, horse chest knot, ginkgo biloba. She gets terrible nose bleeds. As soon as she stops taking them. Yeah, but don't they stop when it clots or continues? How long does it take to clots? She bleeds like a stuck pig in the clots. Well, yeah, but I do too. I mean, I got the blood thinners and everything and it take a good at five to seven minutes to clots. No, no, it clots. Eventually clots. So really, there's no she puts calcium to you know, need vitamin K. She puts a cold compress on it, you know, and that helps her nose. You should pinch it. Oh, yeah, you have to, you know, and then it forms clots faster. But I let mine drip. And it's good for a man to have a nosebleed or let blood occasionally because of they build up a lot of iron. Yeah, well, the body good to for a man to go out and give a pint of blood once the body does recycle its iron and and being that men do not menstruate. Yeah. Therefore, they do not lose blood monthly. Mm hmm. So their iron may accumulate and contribute to future heart attacks. Yeah, heart disease. But most of the time, if my nose bleed, and it's not too frequent, is from the dry heat. All right, I don't call it in the house in the winter. If you don't have steam heat, you know, I mean, I miss the old fashioned radiators when I grew up. You know, there we go. He wasn't that a singing group, the radiators steam heat. It was a song, I think, but it's very moist. It's very it's good for your breathing and your skin. And if you can put a nice bucket of water or something. Yes, yes. Yeah, get it, get it and go to a hobby store and get a cheap metallic bucket, small bucket, and keep a bucket of water on top of your radiator. And I know I used to love to dry my socks and underwear in the wintertime on the radiator. We'll leave monitor too long. No. No, because they felt good when you put them on. Nice and warm. Yeah, cozy. Toasty warm. Yeah. Okay. Most water is termed hard, which means that it contains a significant amount of minerals, mostly calcium and magnesium, both of which are essential to the human diet. Other vital minerals and trace elements are also found in hard water. In other words, the substances that make water hard are not contaminants. Instead, they are the naturally helpful components of water. I wonder if it's from limestone pulverized, you know, could be. Overall, water is commonly rated in five categories. Very hard, hard, moderately hard, slightly hard, and soft by how many grains and minerals per gallon it contains. An example of naturally soft water with little or no mineral content is rainwater. This still does so. But when we speak of water softening, we're referring to removing the minerals by artificial means. This process typically makes the water salty. Is that the color the color again, man? To varying degrees and may make it unsuitable for routine drinking or plant watering. Why? The softening process may replace the calcium and magnesium ions with sodium ions. So in general, you want to drink hard water. Consider the desirability of mineral, which is always quite hard. And wash things, your car, your clothes, the dog, in soft water. Many types of inexpensive kits for testing water hardness are available. Well, yeah, and the hard water too is, I mean, for your heart, the calcium magnesium and minerals. You need it. No, limestone, a rich source of calcium magnesium. I wonder if that's the primary source of the water. That's an in-product, you know? So I don't really know. I know dolomite. Remember the dolomite? Yes, the dolomite used to take it. Dolomite, I think, I think limestone was one of the components of dolomite. Magnesium oxide, maybe. Chalk is calcium carbonate. Carbonate. Yeah. I used to chew it. I think that calcium carbonate is in my liquid calcium right now. Absolutely. Well, in a solid form, calcium carbonate is not the easiest to digest and assimilate. But in a liquid form, it is very bioavailable. That's why the calcium carbonate is even though it's the cheaper, less expensive calcium, if it's in a soft gel of liquid form, it's fine. And that's what they use. Once filled as the comet of the century, I saw on apparently was no match for the sun. It disintegrated into the sun? They think so, but they saw something come around the sun and it's there on the photograph. So it may be the comet. We're not sure yet. Scientists said images from NASA spacecraft showed the comet approaching for a slingshot around the sun. And they can go back in time, right? Because that's what Star Trek did. A slingshot around the sun and it went back in time. Faster and faster. Oh, that was Superman. That's why he went back in time. No, he changed the rotation of the earth. Of the earth. He made the present, the past, right? For everybody. Oh my gosh. But just as a trail of dust coming out on the other side. What's that shit? I think that's what you call it, a caterpillar. Oh, a commercial vehicle, yeah. It's been a lot of noise today. It does seem like comet Ison probably hasn't survived this journey. US Navy solar researcher Carl Batam said in a Google Plus hangout, Phil Plates, an astronomer who runs the bad astronomy blog agreed saying, I don't think the comet made it. Still, he said it would not be all bad news if the 4.5 billion year old space rock broke up into pieces. Because astronomers might be able to study them and learn more about comets. This time, this is a time, capsules, looking back at the birth of the solar system. The comet was two-thirds of a mile wide as it got within one million miles of the sun, which in space terms means grazing it. NASA solar physicist Alex Young said it would take a few hours to confirm Ison's demise. But admitted things were not looking good. He said the comet had been expected to show up in images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft around noon east coast time. But almost four hours later there was no Sinovich whatsoever. Maybe over the last couple of days it's been breaking up. Interesting. Well, there have been many near misses that the the government does not tell the media about. I mean like possibly some of them doomsday asteroids. I think one of them was really Mr. Earth. Hey, we can always send up Bruce Willis. It couldn't happen to a better species of creatures the human race with all the horrible things I hear about every day. You see that video in China of the pulling the fur out of an angora rabbit and the rabbit is screaming. What about the other day? What about the other day the picture up there with all the dead cats and dogs in cans that that's shelters kill every year. You mean there are those nobody adopts them. Did a little too quick to kill them? Well, they have to or else they're gonna have an overflow. This is the fault of the original owners that don't take responsibility for their pets. Well, not only that. If you've got all of these leftovers, so to speak, why you keep breeding new ones with these puffy mills and all this other crap. If they passed the law, which would be in the long run very humane and it would help out the shelters. Anyone who buys or adopts a kitten or a puppy must decide if it's a purebred must decide if they are going to breed it or not. If they are not going to breed it and it is just going to be a family pet then it must be spayed or neutered when after it reaches maturity. It's only fair. Usually the shelters do that but yes then you have this this other industry out there that breeding purebreds and etc. And what do they do with the pups that they don't sell? They kill them because the dogs are very expensive. They eat. That costs money. So if they're not going to bring a profit they're dead. I guess that's how the Republicans feel about the poor. The poor are not meant to survive. They have failed the social Darwinism test. Okay? They are not meant to survive. Oh by the way the new newsletter is at the printer. It's good. And it gets into some of this. Now they're not meant to survive but what about what about all the people all the what about all the people who did not achieve success due to no fault of due due due to all their fault due to circumstances beyond their control. They're all lazy bums. Move chairs. He's playing devil's advocate again. It's always their fault yeah. Right. Well George Carlin once said it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep. To believe it or experience it. Most of it is the American night. Or when you wake up it becomes the American nightmare. Unless of course you're rich and you can't feed your family. And you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Well you don't even have to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth. It's capitalism. You got the capital. Yeah. Go and get the capital. You got your you you're like a running a race and they've given you a ten yard head start. Come on. Yeah that's that's like saying uh that's like a Mitt Romney saying oh I work car for my money. Sure you do. That's why you pay capital gains taxes instead of regular taxes. Yeah. Because your money made money. You've been Reagan and not like the capital gains tax. Who? Reagan wanted to do away with the capital gains tax. Oh yeah they all do. They lowered it now to you know. How rich how rich does the rich want to be man? Well talk to the talk to the world. Talk to the world to see how rich they want to be. What do they make each one of them 25 billion dollars a year? Come on. You couldn't spend that amount of money. These are the. Yeah 18,000 lifetimes. These are the owners of Wal-Mart? Wal-Mart. Yeah. I love them family. I think there's three or four. I mean isn't there a Black Friday strike going on with Wal-Mart workers? Uh yeah there was. They want some more moolah. Naturally. But uh page they're page shit. Well you know but Wal-Mart sent a circular around to its associates saying to collect uh cans and food and stuff so they can feed their poor. Yeah. And when they poor if they pay Henry Ford understood a long time ago that you got to pay your workers good money wages so they can buy your product. Well the CEO of Costco must follow that rule because he's treating his people quite well out here. Yeah I think it's like 20 bucks an hour or so. That's how you stimulate the American economy. That's great because people end up appreciating a love in their job which makes them more productive and they're not in poverty anymore and they become much more self-sufficient because of the average American worker works for a company like Costco or you know another other industries if they're making 20 an hour with benefits that means they don't need any social services. Yeah. Now of course the living in terms of rents inflated. All of it is inflated. As far as I'm concerned it's really like price gouging. That's right. And real estate in general. Among economic economists they're worried they're only all the time worry about inflation. Okay but this inflation is something that holds too much money in the economy inflation but they never talk about price inflation. When you raise prices it's the same as inflation. And what do we have today? Raise prices across the board. So what does that do to your money? Everybody seems less of it. Everybody seems to be price gouging today. But there's no inflation according to the CPA. Oh really? That they're going to only pay social security recipients and other attention 1.5% in general. Big deal. Well I got news for you the CPI and inflation is a hell of a lot more than that. That's like the minimum wage in New Jersey thanks to fact greedy ogre Chris Christie Mr Stingy it's all it's only going up one dollar to like eight dollars and eight twenty five. You can't survive on eight twenty five an hour. But people like Seth Sealy oh the minimum wage they're getting too much already according to him. Does he work for minimum wage? I wonder if he has children do they work for minimum wage? I don't think so. You're going to ask why people like him and the people who are in it. Why are they such ass-kissers? Yeah big war corporations in the world. Yeah why? Why do they pity billion? They're never going to see a billion dollars. That's like feeling sorry for the Koch brothers. Well they do because the Koch brothers support the Tea Party and candidates of that nature. Well I told them. He's ready to get their money. I told Seth that all these jobs are overseas and they're paying those poor office workers in the Philippines 50 cents to a dollar an hour with no benefits. China is like 32 cents an hour. Why does that happen? Like Foxconn, Bangladesh is like what 14 cents an hour 12 cents an hour. Why does that happen? Because we allow because we allow because they can change it could change tomorrow. Anything can happen. We're going to take a break lunch break. We'll see you afterwards with us. Yeah left overs here baby. Yeah now with William Morrill because he's got a big meeting with his lawyers. Little hijinks. Hijinks? How the hell are you? How you doing hijinks? Pretty good. Pretty good. Great. Okay we are back and as the Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman is indulging in his Thanksgiving dinner left overs and he was lucky enough to receive more from a neighbor because I love that toy key. Actually I have I have some left over my sister bought extra drumsticks just in case the 23 pound turkey wasn't going to be enough and of course it wasn't going to be enough. You gotta be kidding. Well we were um one two three four we were six people. Still? Not when I'm included in that group. Oh my god. Still still my ass. 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It's such a one-sided, extremely selfish attitude that the conservatives take. Like I told Seth Seely, I said, you know, the kind of capitalism that conservatives want is the devil's economics. Because it only helps the people on top. And if you're on the bottom, you perish. And he supports that. You perish. And he supports it. And he said there's nothing wrong with greed. So Mr. Intellectual Economics Professor, Seth Sucks Seely, the brilliant, probably the most brilliant conservative there is because the rest of them sound very stupid on Fox News. He came clean, man. He came clean and said, what's wrong with greed? But there's a lot wrong with the minimum wage. So what does he expect people to do? Work for $2 an hour when their rent is $1,000 a month, not counting utilities, and then there's food. So he must be, what, like an atheist? Car shot. Well, he sure isn't a Christian. That was where I was going. Even if he claims to be a Christian, he's a liar. All Republicans that claim to be a Christian are liars. You know, and I got the news for them. All of them, including a few conservatives in my family, if they picked up the Bible and actually read it, even though God is not political at all, they will see that God is definitely without a doubt, not conservative. And they don't like that. And I think they know it. They know it. That's why they're rewriting the Bible. You mean their Bible? Well, we'll be there after they rewrite it. I want to salute somebody that we usually criticize quite often. And that is the Pope of the Catholic Church. Well, I got something to read. Okay, I'll just salute him. I'll salute it. What's his name, Francis? Pope Francis, I salute you. You are a cool dude. You're a cool cat. This guy sounds like a liberal progressive pope. He cares. He has compassion. So I want to salute him. He's being called a communist and a socialist. Well, you actually, is it possible for you to make that reading the very first reading of the second half? Most likely. Okay. Pope Francis, salute to Pope. Pope. Pope. Preparation A. Preparation A. Pope Francis. We will discuss it in a little while. All right, I've got one more little promo since I have all this time. Since William Morrill was called away, sperm in a moment. This is a product that we are selling from the Megalife 21 hard hitting truth Internet talk radio station. It is a time proven nutritional tonic, two of the most the two of the oldest most well established time proven nutritional products in existence. Red Pan-Ax ginseng extract with royal jelly. Royal jelly that the queen bee eats only. Okay, look it up on Google. Research it, just go to Google and type in red Pan-Ax ginseng extract and then type in royal jelly and you will be amazed at what you read. 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Hey, that's what Republicans like in capitalism. They want to deregulate all companies so they can lie to you, but it's a beautiful box. But it's a real deal. Try it. Okay, my timing is perfect because Dr. Bill seems to be almost done with his lunch. If you happen to hear a funny chewing and lip smacking sound, that is the sound of him eating. It's amazing how the months are and the years of flying buses up. Have you heard anything about the poor people in the Philippines? Have I hit by the typhoon? Is there any information out about them? I don't think so. Not that I have here anyway. Now is Elizabeth Warren thinking of running for anything important? She's a senator right now. I read an article, she won re-election, right? She won re-election, she wasn't running again. Was she before a congresswoman? Senator, she's got six years to go. But I've heard Elizabeth Warren's being mentioned many times in the news before. This was her first time as a senator. She was supposed to be the head of Obama's Consumer Protection Program. That he started, but the Republicans would have never, never allowed her consumer protection. I could think of one person who would be outstanding running that. His name is Ralph Nader. He too will never, never, okay? Because the first thing that she would do, and he would do, would go after the bank. That's what, well yeah, like I face-landed. That's what you're supposed to do. Supposed to go after the crooks. Republicans like the crooks. You see what they're doing with the healthcare? Because the crooks pay them off. Well, I did post a very clever banner on Facebook. It is the actual definition of Obamacare. What is Obamacare? And I posted it, and you'll see it when you go online tonight. And it makes, it gets right to the point. Because a lot of people seem to be very confused and misled by misinformation as to what is Obamacare. And it is not, there's nothing negative about it when I read the definition. Well, if all holds true, the people who are losing their coverage are losing bad policies and they will be getting better policies. Because when they bought their policies from the insurance companies, they sold them junk policies. Hey, insurance companies want to deny every claim if they can get away with it. That's part of the reason why Obamacare was created. You know, pre-existing illnesses cannot be held against you. Obamacare is not a social program. It is privatized to, unfortunately, to pacify the Republican Congress. It is privatized. You know, there goes that need to compromise with the enemy that many Democrats unfortunately have that attitude, that desire there. And it is privatized and it just makes it fair for the little guy, that's all. Are you done, sir? Yeah. Shake the cobwebs loose and we will sink our teeth back into these readings and hopefully the first reading might be about Pope Francis. Well, we're definitely going to go over Pope Francis. Yeah, it will be Pope Francis, but from a different point of view because, you know, as I said, they are calling his latest rant, tirade, whatever you want to call it, against the big boys. He's been, he's socialism, communist. Hey, he's been very outspoken lately and rightfully so. And, you know, if they want to call us socialists for being honest and fair to everyone, then so be it. Oh, okay. So be it, yeah, that's what they do. Whenever you're talking about helping the poor, that's what it is. That's what they want to label it, says they don't want to call us progressives. They want to call us socialists and everybody's taken care of and the poor is compassionately helped and so be it. Yes, but they are starving the beast. He's funding the American government so that it cannot do that and take care of those programs. That's what it's all about. Yeah, like I'm starving the beast. They cut food stands for the needy, but corporate welfare is alive and well. Alive and well, baby. Exxonbo bowl. Even the Koch brothers received corporate welfare quite a bit. The evil banks, the evil banks, like I read before earlier, the beginning of the show. The banks got trillions and they still got trick and borrow from the fed at zero, zero interest. Now, just picture this. The wicked banks get trillions in corporate welfare. How much do you think it would take to... Hold on. How much do you think Reverend Bill eradicate homelessness and poverty in America? My best figure I saw was $135 billion. $135 billion, but trillions were a welfare, a free money were given to the banks. Red, the banks alone, not counting the other companies. Not only the banks, 22,000 industries around the world, around the world. And this is not counting the phony baloney wars. The wars which under Bush were fought off the budget, so no one would know how much they caught. And there were the war, him and Cheney were making money off the war profits here. He's an old man with a real bad ticker and he wants to be even more rich than he is. What the hell is an old geezer with a bad ticker going to do with all that extra fortune money? I mean, come on. It's usually, what's the old saying on the internet that has become a common phrase? The wars of today are started and profited by old rich white men talking about the old farts that are in the Capitol building. The neocons. The neocons. The Vatican on Sunday unveiled a handful of bone fragments, purportedly belonging to Saint Peter. Oh really? That's all that's left of Peter? Reviving the scientific debates and tantalizing mystery over whether the relics found in a shoebox truly belonged to the First Pope? I didn't know. Skeletal bone can decompose it over time. What are you saying about decomposing? Was it a full skeleton? No, it's only bones. It's in a shoebox. Human bones. Human bones. But I can tell you, since we haven't read the thing yet, but I can tell you that the bones that do not belong to Saint Peter, that is the pita, the apostle, since the Catholic Church was not founded upon Peter, the apostle. It was founded on Simon Magus, whose name Simon also means Peter, Peter, Father. Thank you for the lesson. The nine pieces of bone sat nestled like rings in a shoebox inside a bronze display case on the side of the altar during a mass commemorating the end of the Vatican's year-long celebration of the Christians. It was the first time they had ever been exhibited. Pope Francis prayed before the fragments at the start of Sunday's service, and then clutched the case in his arms for several minutes after his home. No Pope has ever definitively declared the fragments to belong to the apostle Peter. But Pope Paul VI in 1968 said, fragments found in the necropolis under Saint Peter's Basilica were identified in a way that we can consider conveying some archaeologists dispute the fact. But last week, a top Vatican official, Archbishop of Reino, said it almost did not matter whether archaeologists one day definitively determined that the bones were not Peter's. Saint Christians have prayed at Peter's tomb for two millennia, and will continue to. It's not as if pilgrims who go to the altar of Peter's tomb think that in that moment in which they profess their faith, that the local them are the relics of Peter. Or another. Or another stew. They go there to profess. This reading is about Catholic Church history in terms of the apostle that was named after him. This is not about Pope Francis. The relics were discovered during the excavations. The gun under Saint Peter's Basilica in the year after the 1939 death of Pope Pius XI, who had asked to be buried in the grotto where dozens of popes are buried, according to the 2020 World Book by veteran Vatican correspondent Bruno Bartolomoni. Pope Pius XI, by the way, helped the Nazis to escape. Okay? After the World War II. It's a funny name for a pope that did that. Pius? Pius. Well, you know, they got to make themselves into something or not. The excavations are, you know, just discovered a funerary monument with a casket built in honor of Peter. And an engraving in Greek that read, Petros Emile. Or Peter. The Pope Francis. His estate comes. Because he wants to help the poor. And he wants to curtail the powers of corporations and the wealth. He's simply telling the truth. Yeah. Pope Francis. Yeah. That's why he's getting knowledge. So if you tell the absolute truth, you're automatically a controversial person. That's correct. And eventually demonized. That's correct. That's... Eventually you could be killed too. That's probably why not to change the subject. People like Gary Know, Howard Stern got fired from some of the mainstream stations. Well, that is true because you can only go so far on mainstream stations. But they have sponsors. They have corporate sponsors. And it's like glorified snake oil salesmen. You know, they say something against them and you're in trouble. Because they... I was telling you on set silly that also. Well, what about all the underhanded tactics used by corporations to make their money? They've gotten gains. They've gotten gains. I guess you approve of that too, right? He never really answered me. I mean, directly answered. We can't do anything about it. That's the way it is. That's the way he wants to live his life. I guess his conscious stuff doesn't bother him. And ask his super big business. He's a little corporate whore. That's right. He's a psycho. I call people a little in American media. And we call them the Congress corporate whores. Yeah. Look how much good it does. They continue being corporate whores. He doesn't shame them. They have no shame in them. Not like they... They take the bribe. They just take the bribe. It doesn't bother them. They call it a campaign. Okay? Change the name? Change the game. A subsidy instead of welfare. Welfare. Instead of corporate welfare they call it a bailout. A subsidy. Or a tax. Or a tax. Which the cost of labor is a tax write-off. Even though they complain about... Yes, it costs them nothing. Even though people... Even though Republicans complain about the minimum wage and complain about unionized workers. It's a write-off. Here's something I want to know. Everybody has the answer. Let them contact us to let me know. Because all pensions and fringe benefits and wages are all tax deductible. But is the half FICA payment also tax deductible? That the corporation pays on your behalf. It matches your social security deduction. Is that also tax deductible? Because if it is, it costs them nothing. All of this is bullshit about saving money by outsourcing and etc. If it isn't tax deductible that's why the corporations want to privatize social security today because they won't have to pay that on your behalf anymore. So it will be nice to let people know that. They want to shrink government except the military because there's big money to be made by these corporate whores in Washington. Well, it's also because then if they shrink the government they have nothing to fight them. We are then impotent totally. They are assured of never ever to be regulated again. Correct. And that's what that's all about. That's what they want. The Cokie Brothers don't want any kind of regulations, my friend. Okay? Mr. Charles and David Cook. So people like this that have no remorse or conscience would you consider them being pathological? They are sociopaths. God considers them incorrigible. Sociopaths. They are not changeable. They will not repent. They will end up in the lake of fire because of their stubbornness and stupidity. But that would be an accurate psychological term for them. They are sociopaths. If you do not have empathy you are a sociopath. That is one of the roots of a sociopath. The inability to feel for the other person. Like a serial killer. This is regarding what occurred the other day with the Senate and the nuclear option. Okay? This was bound to happen. According to the nonpartisan congressional research service there have been 168 filibusters in the history of the United States and 82 of them have been during the Obama administration. Over half. Well, they just don't want the black man in a white house. That's almost 49% more than under any other president. Many of these filibusters have had nothing to do with qualifications but involved petty politics driven by ideology and an outright hatred of the president. To illustrate, look at the nomination of Richard Taranto. To the U.S. Court of Appeals, Taranto has been a law clerk for conservative judges but his confirmation was held up for 17 months for no reason. When the vote came up in the Senate it was 91 years and zero days. Why 17 months of delay? A minority party. The Republican seems to despise the president. Whether you voted for him or not, he is still the president and has a right to pick his team. A minority has a right to be heard but not to govern. The obstruction in the Senate by the Republican minority brought about this sad day. The Democrats are no different from Republicans because they acted the same way in 2005. When the GOP was in the majority, I fear, oh this is a good fear, for the two-party system. The two-party system is the problem. It's always been the problem. This is especially for the Republicans. The latest tactic of the GOP is to not show up for committee meetings. Children act that way. The Republican Party will go all the way with the Whigs if it doesn't grow up. The two-party system is corrupt. They're under the taking. Taking, taking, taking, taking, When it comes to historical memory, the old saying that you can't choose your relatives is just plain wrong. Oh, you could. Americans have chosen the pilgrims as honorary ancestors. Yeah, sure. The very first welfare recipients, the pilgrims that screwed over the Indians with all the other European settlers. And we tend to see their story as inseparable from the story of our nation. Land of the pilgrims' pride. You see the banner, the Native American banner that says if we knew all the things you were going to, if we knew all the things that were going to happen to us, we would have never fed you in the first place. Let's just start. We imagine these honorary founders as model immigrants, pacifists, and pioneers in the democratic experiments. Oh, yeah, like the Salem Witch trials, the Puritans. We have burdened them with values they wouldn't have recognized and shrouded their story with myth. Here are five myths about the pilgrims. Number one, the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. If you visit Plymouth today, you'll find a distinctive rock about the size of your living room sofa embedded in the sandy beach, sheltered by a classical Greek portico and labeled with a sign erected by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts proclaiming Plymouth Rock. You mean the landing place of the pilgrim? The size is approximately of what? The living room sofa. That's it? It's not hard to picture simple English folk huddled on that rock, functioning through eyes of faith and a great nation that would spring from their humble beginning. Except that's probably not what happened. I heard a turkey. Did you hear a turkey? Nah, I think that was a kid or a dog, I'd say. Sounded like a turkey. We know that the location of the pilgrims landing because in 1741, 121 years after they arrived, a young boy overheard 95-year-old Thomas Fontz relate that his father, who came to Plymouth three years after the Mayflower, told him that he'd heard from unnamed persons that the landing occurred there. Curiously, William Bradford never mentioned Plymouth Rock in his history of the Plymouth Pallet Plantation. And if the exposition landed there, he seems not to have noticed. William Bradford was a governor. The Plymouth Pallet Plantation. The first governor? A Plymouth Plantation. So I guess the first governor. The first governor of the New World, maybe. Myth number two. The pilgrims came to America to search for religious freedom. Yeah, they were persecutors, supposedly. It's fair to say that the pilgrims left England mainly to find religious freedom, but that wasn't the primary motive that propelled them to North America. Maybe in England they thought there were nuts wearing those stupid hats with a buckle on it. Remember that the pilgrims went first to Holland, settling eventually in the city of Leiden. There they encountered a religious tolerance, almost unheard of in that day and age. And Bradford and Edward Winslow both wrote glowingly of their experience. In Leiden, God had allowed them, in Bradford's estimation, to come as near the primitive pattern of the first churches as any other church of these later times. God had blessed them with much peace and liberty. If they longed for religious freedom, they'd compelled them. They probably never would have left, but while they cherished the freedom of conscience, they enjoyed in Leiden. The pilgrims had two major complaints. They founded a hard place to maintain their English identity, and an even harder place to make a living. In America, they hoped to live by themselves. They enjoyed the same degree of religious liberty and earned a better and easier living. Sounds a little lacy to me. You mean on your own? Sounds a little lacy. You wanted a better and easier living. Easier. How much more easier can you get about living in a big city like Leiden compared to going to the new world? And having to start from scratch. And start from scratch, yeah. And build your homes from a log cabin. Yeah. Myth number three. The pilgrims' autumn celebration in 1621 was the first American Thanksgiving. The pilgrims were hardly the first people to stop and thank their creator for a bountiful harvest. Native Americans had a long tradition of Thanksgiving celebrations. The Algonquin people, for example, participated in regular ceremonies linked to the crop cycle. While the nearby Wampano annually celebrated. I think that's where they got the name Wampam from. It would be the first harvest of the new season with strawberry Thanksgiving. Really? Europeans who arrived in North America before the pilgrims also engaged in such observances. There is evidence of a Thanksgiving service held in 1564. Near the present-day Jacksonville, Florida by French, the next year's Spanish documents refer to Thanksgiving Mass celebrated at St. Augustine by the Conquistadors. The oldest city in the United States in St. Augustine, Florida. The Conquistadors soon slaughtered the Huguenot. Nice guys. Yeah, they didn't do such a they didn't show any kindness to Native Americans either. Texanist historians say Spanish colonists celebrated Thanksgiving with the Manzo Indians near present-day El Paso in 1598. Not early enough to beat out Florida but still a generation before the celebration in Massachusetts. Among English settlers there is evidence of a Thanksgiving celebration in 1600 Senate at a short-lived colony on the coast of Maine. And of two others among the Virginia colonies. 1610 and 16... More importantly, 1621 celebration wasn't a Thanksgiving at all from the Pilgrims' perspective. Thanksgiving was a solemn observance. A holy day devoted to worship and acknowledgment of a specific extraordinary blessing from the Lord. The fourth myth the Pilgrims were humorless with a fondness for black with more wits than historical accuracy H. L. Mankin famously defined puritanism as a hunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy. That's the fear of the censor he who would censor afraid that somewhere somewhere to misery-liking company. I guess so. Why would they be concerned with the lives and the thinking of others? Don't they have enough problems? Well, your modern day Republican conservative that is what he's concerned with. That's what he wants to use the government for to spine your pendulum. But they're not for bid you regulate the corporation. Yeah, they should but they're blaming Barack Obama Obama for all the spot. Modern Americans are bought into the stereotype we picture the Pilgrims as they were headed to a funeral. Their solemn behavior matched by a somber wardrobe. When we read Winslow's description of the 1621 harvest festival we are transported to a scene of beer and barbecue shooting and sports and forget about the ubiquitous black outfits. In fact the Pilgrims had a taste for a wide range of bright colors. Really? The state in the stories in Plymouth colony contained abundant references to red, blue, green yellow and orange so they're liars portrayed the Pilgrims to be very different from what they actually were. Carpenter will write upon his death let the blue coat and two vests one white the other red William Bradford's estate inventory showed that the long-term governor did in fact own a black hat and a dark suit he also sported a colored hat a red suit and a violet cloak gay the fifth myth of the Pilgrims the Pilgrims' mayflower compact was an early and noteworthy example of American I don't believe they actually sat down at a huge dining room table with the Indians gay and gay Americans have loaded this document with far more significance than it's worthy of we read it selectively zeroing in on the parts where the signers committed to form civil body policy and agree to formulate just and equal laws for the general good of the economy but it's no accident that the compact begins with the description of the signatories as the loyal subjects of our dreaded sovereign lord King James having been blown off course on route to America the Pilgrims were about to settle some 200 miles north the northern most jurisdiction of the Virginia conflict which was authorized by King James I to coordinate colonial ventures along the Atlantic sea it was quite possible that they were committing an illegal act in the eyes of the crowd so they made a point of assuring King James of their own push in loyalty they also identified King James as their king not by virtue of their consent but by the grace of God this puts the Mayflower complex closer to an affirmation of the divine right of kings than the right of self rule wow the real story thanksgiving the real unfortunately I don't think we have time to go into Mr. Brady oh the homeless man yes it's that big yeah what time do we got now so four about four is there another article that's smaller considerably smaller we can save make sure you stay Brady for next week New York State's highest appeals court struck down on Tuesday excuse me a city plan to impose strict new requirements on people trying to enter homeless shelters but if you're trying to enter a homeless shelter during winter it means that you're homeless and it means that you're freezing what do you mean requirements you're already poor not to go ahead in the article Mr. Mayor Bloomberg a new Republican a new guard once you did go to your family first and you're out of it all the Republicans say before they give you welfare go to your family and go to your relatives and your friends and then go to your local church say fat chance Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration aimed to require that the homeless adults prove they had no other housing options prove it in order to gain admittance how do you prove a city-run shelter how do you prove you have no other options I guess you get some affidavits from your relatives that say no, we don't want the jury to look here so you have to hope hope that they're going to comply with your relatives with acquiring an affidavit whatever and sign it just to stay in a damn shelter and you see what I mean about how they make you jump through flaming hoops just to get a few crumbs to stay in a shell night in your own apartment on a cold freezing winter a shelter with other wackos crackheads whatever Court of Appeals ruled against that policy affirming your lower court decision in a lawsuit brought by the city council and its speaker Christine Quinn we are extremely pleased with today's decision which prevents the department of homeless services from implementing a policy that would have got thousands of homeless men and women out of shelter the rule requiring proof of homelessness has long been applied to homeless families but the department of homeless services tried to expand it to individuals in 2011 that plan never went into effect I think the new mayor Bill de Blasio is going to make that right when he takes us let's hope so but you know what he's got a lot on his plate he's got a fix a lot of crap from the republican mayor Bloomberg because of the city council's lawsuit the shelter population has surged under Mayor Bloomberg's tenure to more than 50,000 well look how expensive it is to live in New York City for normal people let alone homeless yeah for people that have a job we're lucky we're lucky to still have a job from renting a store over there forget about it I think a taxi cab in medallion is like 100,000 no I heard it maybe more 250 yes 250 I think I hear it's extra normal it is it is hey to have a store in Bergen County New Jersey is very high 7th grade the month for a small store look how many customers you need just to make rent hmm hmm I don't know man it's a racket and who's been a thing there only to people on top that's great more money you move on top the less there is on the bottom yeah the American dream is only for the the top 1% or the top 20% I would extend it to 20 yeah there's about 20% of our population doing well doing well you know Sony has 80% down at the bottom we're doing nothing's trickling down it's all siphoning up the American dream is siphoning up I deliberate system is rigged remember that that's what people don't understand it's not something that came out of nowhere or was God ordained no it was deliberate policy just like Obama ever since he got everything he wanted was attempted to be sabotage or sabotage in reality it's all planned yeah so why on earth would any Democrat nowadays talk about compromise and by partisanship it's beyond me you're dealing with wickedness you're dealing with the enemy you're going to watch the traitors they're going to be talking about cutting social security but social security is way behind the cost of living as it is and it has nothing to do with the deficit is that interesting? no it has nothing to do with the deficit and yet they wish to cut it to save the government money no government money so these Democrats are basically selling out their voters selling out mainstream selling out the middle class and the poor yes I guess they want a revolution on their hands I don't know what they want but they should get their facts straight before they even open their mouths they don't have any social security is a separate trust fund it's paid for which has bought over the years treasury bonds it is invested in treasury bonds something like $2.7 trillion it could pay as it does right now for the next 75 years or so without any changes to it but all you need to do if you wanted to improve the system not that it has anything to do with the deficit to improve the system you don't stop collecting social security taxes at $113 thousand dollars from the rich let them keep paying okay the cutoff point is $113 thousand after you do that you don't pay any more social security taxes that's not fair nope not fair and that would keep it from now until doomsday or whatever but the point of it is what they're doing is it's invested in treasury bonds so when they go talking they try to go in broke and all this stuff what they're doing is they're saying treasury bonds are no good you can't do that and hope that your economy and people are going to invest in your economy and that's what global bushy did he said that the treasury bonds were just a bunch of piece of paper in a file cabinet worthless well the day when treasury bonds are worthless the United States is down to two but right now it's the best investment in the world treasury bonds Chinese in treasury bonds okay so it's all a bunch of propaganda shit which I'm tired of because it's even like Al Gore you want a lock box to keep social security in it's already in a lock box just don't touch it don't touch it that's what happened during Reagan and etc they allowed the general government to take the money from the social security trust and gave them treasure for the money okay otherwise social security would have had a cash fund of 2.7 trillion dollars today cash on the bowel head but anyway that's a bunch of bologna social security because of the deficit has nothing to do with the deficit sorry I was reading some items about the truth of the Federal Reserve Americans are kept in the dark the truth of the Federal Reserve is why and it was it's privatization that's why excuse me why do we have to go to the Federal Reserve to borrow the money that we produce as a country we don't the institution says that we can make our own money but they privatize see we have to borrow money as a country from the Federal Reserve which is like 12 banks put together privatization that's what it is we don't have to do that we can get rid of the interest payment on that stuff issuing our own money coins and paper we do that we don't need those stinking Federal Reserve but that's what they do they privatize everything and then you the government the taxpayer has to pay these things fiasco it's always a fiasco privatization exactly never really worked in the past oh it has worked because it gives the money to people in the private sector well for them it works doesn't work for the masses never was meant to work for us for the general welfare anything that siphons up to the top works but not enough for the general public so you're pretty much done with that reading right I am done thank you thank you for joining us for progressive discussions the post thanksgiving for progressive discussions and December is upon us Sunday I believe tomorrow is December the 1st and I guess all you people that are living on a fixed income should be replenished but not for long because you know it just it flies out just as soon as it flies flies in so anyway thank you we'll see you next time on progressive discussions I still love Easter yeah I still love Easter I say I still love Easter I just say I still love Easter