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all our lives we've been told a trickle-down economics is the right
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answer that if we just have all the bandages that tax cuts the ritual
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trickle down the rest of us
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and make the rest of us more wealth is well let me show you how
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didn't work
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here's the first chart that shows you product really go sky high from nineteen
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forty seven
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although a three two thousand eight
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fantastic but we didn't get all the fruits of our labor there
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why around nineteen eighty
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adventure or a conversation that we shall we wait
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stagnated flat line
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that men should have gone to the people you or productive
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but he didn't
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it went to the top one percent
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because the rules
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were set in their favor
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and not to help us
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or wages stagnate
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maybe another chart
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profits brought g_d_p_ goes up
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but does that mean the rest of us
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are getting
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the help of that g_a_t_t_
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and that product in the inteligweb our wages stagnate and even falling
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so
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the fact of the g_d_p_ might be going up doesn't mean we're getting a beverage
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guys actually getting paid less
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that we were before
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in fact income inequality has gotten so bad in this country
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that now
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to pressure you know that he wrote for the world
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missing in the u_s_ is in purple
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and income inequality in the u_s_
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is worse than most of the world
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the countries that are red art less equal than we are
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that some parts of latin america
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southern africa some small
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nations
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in issue but the whole rest of the world has better income equality
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what does that mean
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that's equality of opportunity that's supposed to be the american dream and
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the rest of the world list beating us out of life is in our system we believe
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in this nonsense trickle-down economics now let me show you how that works right
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it's supposed to be that hey you give all of the rich editor goes out on you
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in the east
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middle class lol brackets are also so that
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brawl because of that
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but instead of what happened we gave to the rich
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even if you take them at their word that these were a little bit which i just
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showed he they didn't
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the rich dot much richer
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and that was appointed trickle-down economics
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the rest of it was all the track
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and even warren buffet the top investor in the world says hey listen those tax
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cuts
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don't mean that we create more jobs
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now that's nonsense
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if there is a good investment we're gonna make it any way in fact
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let me quote worn by before uses
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i work with investors for sixty years
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and i get the c_ anyone shy away from a sensible invested because of the tax
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rate by the potential day
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people invest to make money and potential taxes have never scare them
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off
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they've been lying near the whole time all give the rich more tax cuts and
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they'll create more jobs
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they havent
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it doesn't work that way the top investor in the world tells you that
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in fact we know look at the numbers
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when we increase taxes under bill clinton
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we wound up getting twenty three million jobs there are other factors but yes he
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also invested in the middle class invested in education opportunity
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twenty three million jobs in the bush years
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we cut taxes on the rich
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we have all the advantages of top one percent what happened in those eight
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years about a million jobs that's it
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twenty three a one
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and of course we lost that million jobs in the recession it was created
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right after he left office
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we're losing jobs at a rate of about seven hundred and fifty thousand
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so when you take a ten years
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that we'd been trickle-down economics under bush as through obama in the
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restrictive recession we had a net loss of jobs
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trickle-down it's not true
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now there are other
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investors like nick an hour who is a successful entrepreneur inventor cap was
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he says book
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helping the middle class isn't just about helping the middle class about
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helping the whole country because it helps the entire economy let me quote
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him
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he says the problem today's severe concentration awhile than isn't that
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it's unfair though it might be
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hillsborough class there man
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lasting growth doesn't trickle-down it emerges
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from the middle out
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and it makes sense
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because seventy percent of our economy
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this consumer spending
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if the middle classes have money to spend well then nobody wins
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present nobody recognizes and ran a campaign
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add about it during this election site irony
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that way you wrote that column in this problem and
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hyperplane in fighting
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metaplasia that background
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uh... la crosse
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and that's what i've heard
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now i wish you believe that a little bit more put more into practice but at least
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he saying the words and we're hoping that it catches on
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this is true now let me show you how middle on economics works
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in this case is that a good all the money to the rich
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and all the advantages to the rich you give it to the middle class but when you
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do
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jumps flow down
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and money also flows up by the way
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because who's gonna get the money
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from all the new
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investments in the economy of course the top is also looking at it
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but if you don't have the middle class the man
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you can have a better economy and nobody wins
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if you're not allowed
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everybody wins this is the reality this is the system that we have to change to
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and policies have to reflect
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middle out economics
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so don't believe the trick in the light of trickle-down anymore what we need to
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do as pursue middle and i cannot