economic disobedience nyc lashes out
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persistent high unemployment rising poverty and shrinking state budgets have made insecurity the norm for america039s working class hundreds of low-wage workers survive the horrible economy via quoteconomic disobediencequot - now pervasive in the low-wage sector from a supervisor padding paychecks to a grocer sending food home with his employees the battle for a decent wage rages on

making fortune on poverty: jp morgan039s big food stamp business
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while most americans are struggling hard to overcome the hardships of the recession the profits of national banks continue to rise jp morgan is among those cashing-in and it039s a contract to process food stamp payments that039s helping it on its way rt039s maria portnaya found out how the rich benefit off the back of the poor

nancy pelosi - the daily show with jon stewart - 110911 - video clip comedy central
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nancy pelosi calls for the congressional super committee to reach a debt agreement on public tv airdate - 110911

12812 - sen marco rubio r-fl delivers weekly gop address on the promise of america
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in the weekly republican address florida senator marco rubio explains the failures of the obama administration he contrasts those with the promise of america that he and republicans believe in if the government stops doing the wrong thingssen rubio says quotas you know earlier this week president obama delivered his fourth annual address to congress it was an opportunity for the president to talk about his accomplishments over the last three years and to lay out his plans for the year aheadquotand he missed on both countsquotyou didn039t hear much talk about the success of his administrationand that039s because there isn039t muchquotyes this president inherited a significant national debt but over the last three years he039s made it worse our national debt has grown by nearly 50 percent since he took over and now for the first time since world war ii our national debt is larger than our country039s economyquotyes this president inherited an economy where unemployment was too high but over the last three years he039s made it worse today our unemployment rate is higher than the day he took office in fact since he took over it039s been stuck over 8 percent every single monthquotthis president didn039t talk about his record for one simple reason he doesn039t want you to know about it but you do know about it because you feel the failure of his leadership every single day of your lifequotthe bottom line is this president inherited a country with serious problems he asked the congress to give him the stimulus and obamacare to fix it the democrats in congress gave it to him and not only did it not work it made everything worse quotpresident obama has a year left in the white house so what are his plans now to make things better what does he plan to do now that he didn039t do before well we got our answer tuesday night he plans to divide us against each other to pit americans against other americans in the hopes of generating enough votes to get re-elected quothe tells americans worried about their jobs that the way to help them is to raise their bosses039 taxesquothe tells those who are hurting that the only way they can be better off is for others to be worse offquothe tells all of us that the only way for some of us to climb up the economic ladder is for others to be pulled downquotthis divisive rhetoric this effort to gain political support by convincing some that they will be better off if we punish others this stuff has never worked anywhere it039s been triedquotpeople end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles and more often than not they come herequotthey come here because this is not who we are quotamericans have always believed that all of us can succeedquotthat those who have made it fairly can stay there and those who are trying to make it will have a real chance to join themquotthis is what has made us different this is what has made us prosperous this is what makes us exceptionalquotand now for the first time in my adult life we have a president who039s asking us to abandon our economic heritagequotto become like the countries people come here to get away from quotto become like everybody elsequotyes people are hurting yes there is a growing gap between the rich and the poorquotbut the way to solve it is not to embrace the 039trickle up poverty039 economics of other nationsquotthe way to solve it is to embrace the american free enterprise systemquotno economic system is perfect but the american free enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past i know because i saw it with my own eyes quotmy father was a bartender and i thank god every night that there was someone willing to risk their money to build a hotel on miami beach and later in las vegas where he could workquoti thank god that there was enough prosperity in america so people could go on vacation to miami or las vegas where people felt prosperous enough to have weddings or bar mitzvahs and by the way could leave tips in my dad039s little tip jar because with that money he raised us and he gave me the opportunity to do things he never had a chance to doquotnow we had help along the way i had student loans and grants from the government to help me get my education and i went to our public school system quotthat039s an important role for government to play and so i also thank god that we had an economy prosperous enough to afford to pay for these things as well quotso i039ll just close by saying i hope this year will be the beginning of our work towards a new and prosperous american centuryquotbecause i know that this idea of a nation where anyone from anywhere can accomplish anything it039s not just something i read about in history books i039ve seen it in my own life and there039s no reason why we cannot continue it here if only we do the right thingsquot

welcome to the recovery
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tell the democrats to get their heads out of the sand and fix the economy it039s time for a balanced budget http:wwwnrscorg

the job reference
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link puts rhett down as a reference on his job application mistakecomment question: favorite linesee you next monday with another new video subscribe - rampampl------------------facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomrhettandlinktwitter: http:twittercomrhettandlink------------------thanks to chris mccaleb for the production and editing:http:bigfantasticcom ------------------background music: royaltyfreemusiclibrarycomhttp:wwwroyaltyfreemusiclibrarycom-----------become a mythical beast for exclusive video creative projects etchttp:rhettandlinkommunitycom tags: quotjob referencequot unemployment unemployed quotjob applicationquot resume quothow to get a jobquot apply rhettandlink economy economic spiderman captain america lincoln logs toys immature psychopath sleeping pills medication marvel toys

markets: exploitation or empowerment
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prof antony davies empirically examines the question of whether or not markets are exploitive in his analysis he finds that trade is positively correlated with wealth creation jobs reductions in child labor and increasing wages markets therefore empower individuals rather than exploit them

tv ad: barack obama039s legacy of failure
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help put this ad on the air: https:securedonationsafecomdbo

grayson w cenk on drug testing public employees in florida
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msnbc host cenk uygur speaks with former florida congressman alan grayson about florida governor rick scott making drug tests mandatory for all public employees in his state scott also wants to test welfare recipients and charge them for it but he is opposed to a database to track prescription drugs does the governor have a vested financial interest motivating him is he just trying to protect rush limbaugh who was infamously addicted to oxycontin

indecision 2012 - herman cain canes the unemployed - the colbert report - 2011-19-10 - video clip comedy central
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according to herman cain the unemployed should be out in front of the white house blaming themselves for not having a job

it039s just not getting better
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under president obama our economy is just not getting better mitt romney has a plan to build a stronger middle class with more jobs and more take-home pay that039s the type of leadership we need

economic freedom amp quality of life
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continue the discussion at http:wwwfacebookcomeconomicfreedomeconomic freedom and the quality of life is a short informative video centered on the ideas of economic freedom and the societal benefits it produces the video helps explain what economic freedom is and why it039s key to improving society

libya libyan protests february 17 2011
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mirror: http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=mgwa5v9fti4credits go to http:wwwenoughgaddaficom http:wwwyoutubecomuserenoughlibya http:wwwfacebookcomibnthabitthis was a personal effort by a son of libya to take part in what is now becoming a change across the entire arab world but in order to protect myself from harm i have remained silent about my identity in order to prevent the regime from taking action against me one day you will know who i am but it won039t matter because maybe one day we don039t have to live like this in libyamuhammad son of libya----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------join us across libyafebruary172011 to call for changesandwiched between tunisia as it surmounts the impossible and egypt as it wakes the sleeping giant libya has been for the last 41 years seemingly acquiescent to gaddafi039s regime despite its remarkable historical struggle for independence against mussolini039s italysince the earliest days of the tunisian uprising many people have speculated as to whether the sidi bouzid contagion would infect the libyan masses when news of unrest over a 039housing situation039 leaked via youtube many scrambled to follow further developmentsjoin us across libyafebruary172011 to call for changecredits go to ibn thabit for his music http:wwwfacebookcomibnthabitand wwwenoughgaddaficom for organizing the rallylibya libia libyan benghazi tripoli protests street demonstrations gaddafi qadafi uprising revolution mobilize police brutality unemployment raise minimum wage housing food inflation corruption freedom of speech living conditions civil unrest government death self-immolation human rights tear gas activists february 17 2011

libya - 20 feb 2011 quotnon-stopquot gunfire in capital protesters raided after seif gaddafi speech
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shortly after seif gaddafi the son of libya039s longtime leader warned in a sunday-night speech that the country would descend into quotcivil warquot if protests continued a libyan american spoke with his brother in tripoli who described intense combat in the capital where anti-government protesters were attacked after taking the main squarelibya libia libyan benghazi tripoli protests street demonstrations gaddafi qadafi uprising revolution mobilize police brutality unemployment raise minimum wage housing food inflation corruption freedom of speech living conditions civil unrest government death self-immolation human rights tear gas activists february 17 2011

mcjobs: fast food career the new american dream
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three ongoing military campaigns that are costing the us a fortune give no comfort for the nearly 14 million unemployed americans with food stamps and a minimum wage the only hope for many a career at mcdonald039s has now become appealing in april the company launched its first ever national hiring day nearly one million americans applied for a job at the fast food chain yet only six out of every 100 applicants were hiredrt on facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomrtnewsrt on twitter: http:twittercomrt_com