The Ed Show | November 05, 2012
>>> and in the big finish , if you have watched this program, you know this is what we call the vulture chart. it represents the massive income inequality in this kocountry that has been growing over the last 30 years and separating. it's called the vulture part because the people on the top are on top of it. they are the vultures. they practice vulture capitalism, which has no regard for american workers or the middle class . this chart is what "the ed show" is all about and it is what "the ed show" is about moving forward. for three years on this program, we have talked about the american middle class and the pressures on the middle class . it's the backbone of the economy. you see the middle class on the blue line . that's their income. this is it. tomorrow is your last chance to make that blue line go up and level the playing field a little bit for all americans in our economy. mitt romney sees that red line that you're looking at at the top, he believes that's not steep enough. he wants it to go off the chart. he wants a national right to work law to take away your voice in the workplace. he doesn't believe in equal pay for equal work . he wants to apolish minimum wage . what did those folks do wrong? this is radical. and this is radical to the american middle class in this country. people who are on minimum wage , they are not in the middle class , but they want to get there. mitt romney wants to cut taxes for the wealthiest americans . see the people at the top of that chart, they are the ones that have benefitted and will benefit no matter what happens tomorrow. for 30 years, they have gotten all the breaks, all the tax cuts , trade deals they have wanted, they have kept the middle class from growing. they have kept the working man down. that's what mitt romney wants to continue to do. he's the chief of outsourcing. mitt romney wants to go back to failed policies of the bush administration . this is what got us in this mess in the first place. every economic indicator , every single one, and to some conservative friends i have, this is what i say. every economic indicator is up. since the day president obama took office. gdp, the stock market , jobs, consumer confidence , housing starts , corporate profits, they ought to be loving this guy. manufacturing is up, unemployment is down. we're better off today than four years ago. tomorrow we're going to have a chance to make sure that the great american middle class of this country will have a chance to recover and grow. nobody is claiming that we are where we are because of just one person. we are a great country. we're going to recover. but policies make a difference. president obama is not satisfied. he declares that often. liberals, progressives, nobody is satisfied with the pace of the recovery. however, mitt romney that ran us right into the ditch in the first place. tax cuts for the wealthiest americans have not created the jobs that we were going to create. they have done no good for this country except for very few because 98% of americans did not benefit from the bush tax cuts . this country needs investment in education, in teachers and schools in science and math and reading, the basics. we have to be brilliant on the basics. we have to build roads, bridges, and we have to believe in people. the cops and firefighters and emts. mitt romney , he thinks that's just all big government . it's not. it's america. we need to reinvest in our country. we have already done all that nation building in baghdad and kandahar. we have enough for the top 1%. it's time to invest in the middle class . this show has been all around the country in recent years. we have spoken to people in madison, wisconsin, columbus, ohio, freeport, illinois, newton, iowa, denver, colorado, miami, florida, we have been every of where. americans everywhere feel the pulse of this country, we can do better. this is an election about the hard working people that i have e met all over this country. so tomorrow we can take a right turn and go back to the policies that hurt the middle class or continue down the path of progress with president obama . i ask you to do one thing tomorrow. get out and vote. that's