Mr Moyers, you still have it!!

OK, so where is the video?

Bravo!

......It's great to have you back, Bill Moyers. Thank you for coming back to educate the populace in a time of great need.

What a relief and a breath of fresh air to have you back. Great first show.

Bill Moyers: the only program worth watching.

Welcome back Mr Moyers, but lets not forget why. If the capitalist system was not abusing the vast majority of the population at such accelerated pace you probably would be out there enjoying retirement!

Had to watch this online. Our "public" TV station, you know the one that says it belongs to the listeners at pledge time, You know the system that Moyers himself defends--will not carry the program. My cable doesn't carry Current, FreespeachTV, on Link TV. I still manage to find it on the internet--for now.

Great job, Mr Moyers. I suspected that you wouldn't be able to stay out of the fight for long. Thank you, sir!

We desperately need the truthtellers like Bill Moyers.

KCET in LA who declared independence in Jan. 2011, aired Moyers last night at 8:00PM Pacific time. The other PBS station KOCE will air it Sunday night at 6:00PM Pacific time. Maybe both stations received enough emails voicing their concerns that they decided to put Bill back on the air. As to retirement, people like Mr. Moyers never retire since bringing issues into the public space is part of who they are. So if not in a studio they would be writing a book or an article for anyone that wants to read it.

"climbing the economic ladder" of a country that still sucks in 25% of the world's resources for 5% of its population...i read somewhere that the average depth of topsoil in the great plains in the early 18th century was 100 feet.-now it's an inch or two...g. washington started the war against tecumseh so he could sell that land to continental army veterans...there are deep roots to the so called american dream that are at play that must be dug out...
the statement by henry miller i think made in the thirties, that the american dream was an "air conditioned nightmare" has been proven true, nightmare is the word...

I am so glad to see Bill Moyers back. That first show was a knockout. Can't wait until Friday when the next part of this subject series comes on my local Seattle, WA PBS channel.

Regardless, 98% of the criminals, who have violated their oath of office, will get re-elected. Sorry folks, if you are that stupid to vote for these people, who don't give a rats' as* about you, then you probably deserve severe hardship.

"We have a better chance of being an organ donor than seeing any retirement money."

Says it all doesn't it? While the Gordon Gecco's of the world shopped Tiffany's this last Christmas the rest of us scrapped over "Black Friday" bargains or supped on Ramen Noodles. We need to refind our "capacity at outrage". It's not that our kids are uneducated in the world market, it's that our kids are being consciously prevented from entering the world market.

Kudos to Bill who must definitely be part of the top ten or twenty percent for reentering the discussion for the benefit of the rest of us. I value his voice, and I am glad he had the courage to still make it heard. He's one of the few remaining heros in my book.

All right, then...........what are the alternatives? Not just getting money out of politics, which is just a band-aid, after all.

Ideas on how to get to a more egalitarian society are what we need. We all know the piggy, disgusting greedheads will fight whatever reforms we propose, but we need to propose them.

More ideas on what people can do, please!

I began writing this poem before Mr. Moyer's insightful program, finished it after the broadcast, and would like to share some ideas from the point of view of an artist:

"Obfuscation"

Bankers, politicians
You don't exactly lie
With half truths, evasive answers
You are dancers with words
Technique looks easy but is well honed
A few simple syllables on the cell phone
And millions of dollars reside in your stock account
While millions of working poor
Can never mount
The ladder of success

Confess...
Working poor are more, not less today
Mayor Bloomberg wants to increase the minimum pay
Is cost of living in the mix?
$10.00 per hour is where City Council member Annabel Palma of the Bronx
Would like to fix the bottom in NYC
For workers in city-subsidized developments, hiring you and me
Sounds bad if you want labor almost free
Abate taxes is what many wealthy say
Then play with off shore bank accounts, keep dissent at bay

Obfuscation does not take vacation
In newspaper or TV
Me, I pick up my paintbrush
Trying to find truth can feel like mush in the brain
Easy to feel insane living a broken democratic dream
USA is not what it seems
Smart kids work hard on Wall Street
Making the 1% even richer
While the 99% pour their lives
From a cracked, broken pitcher
Obfuscation, the name of the game…

My paintbrush makes the 1% visible
We, the 99% are quizzical, we see a problem with the system
Please separate politics, which is free speech, ecology and human rights
From big business, which is lobbyists who fight
In Washington for the super wealthy and erode basic freedom for us all
Please don't let democracy fall
Listen to the voice of paintbrush, music, poetry,
When the media fail us, art is the only key
To awaken us to sustainability, ecology, human rights
This is our voice, our light…

Thank you for posting this video, CD!

Well it is important to understand how shares(in business corporations) work. We know how Americans love business- it is often touted that the country needs to be run like a business--well it is.

America Inc. means one share one vote- you get shares not by citizenship but based on dollars, you purchase them. It is that simple.

It was very difficult to find specific information about the airing of this program on PBS or any other carrier. But by chance we found out and watched it NYC from 6-7 PM Sunday on Channel 13. I wrote to PBS thanking them for having Moyers back. I hope others will do the same. People who do not have computers or cable TV have so few sources of pro-99% information and analysis.

Thank you very much to CD for making this series available. I really appreciate it.

Here's one way it's done:

"The supremely interesting chapter of the superlobbyist's life goes conspicuously unmentioned in "Capitol Punishment." Still, the episode appears to have left its traces. Abramoff's Washington is a place where everyone is a pawn of someone else: a bought man or even an 'asset' of some lobbyist or all-powerful interest. When he would dangle a lucrative lobbying job before a Capitol Hill staffer, Abramoff tells us, 'I would own him...His paycheck may have been signed by the Congress, but he was already working for me, influencing his office for my client' best interests.'"

Thomas Frank in Harper's Magazine, February 2012

http://ralphdeeds.hubpages.com/hub/Casino-Jack-a-Movie-Without-a-Single-Hero-Review

The book came out in 2010, thanks Bill for featuring it. I've drawn many of the same conclusions. I've worked and traveled abroad and compare America to South American and Middle Eastern countries. Many friends have relocated to Canada and Europe, where there quality of life is far better. My Grandmother warned me years ago, when people stopped paying cash and used plastic, afraid of real work and instant gratification became the norm, "A Great Depression will happen again". Middle class became victims of social engineering, dumbed down, kept fat and happy, while the foxes took over the hen house. No one questioned but went along, even when industries left the country. It's good to see folks organizing, but many sadly don't have a clear understanding, with misinformation that stirs negative emotion, especially fear that pits working man against working man, race against race, religion against religion, when the ones to blame are the 1% and corrupt politicians, loyal only to their wallets! Bill thanks for the education and hopefully more real journalists will step up to the plate and continue to help Americans connect the dots. I pray the silver lining of the Great American Recession will be real change. And we elect ethical civil servants, like our grand Teddy Roosevelt, who will clean this big ole mess up and to quote the great poet Langston Hughes, "Let America be America again".

Welcome back, Bill Moyers! You have been sorely missed.

This is exactly what we need. This is the exact message that needs to be heard. Thank you.