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Chris, please do a Now We Know story on The Third Industrial Revolution and the necessity for broadening private, individual ownership of new productive capital––the non-human factor of production embodied in productive land, structures, machinery, superautomation, robotics, digitally automated factories, sophisticated computerized operations, etc. As the production/manufacturing/delivery of products and services continues to transform exponentially and employ advancing non-human productive capital digitally realized, the necessity will be to recognize that primary distribution through the free market economy, whose distributive principle is “to each according to his production,” delivers progressively more market-sourced income to the capital owners of the non-human factor and progressively less to workers who make their contribution through labor. This means that the GOAL of Full Employment will not and cannot solve our income distribution problems. We can no longer ignore the advances constantly being made in the scientific world or the business world or the industrial world, which embrace the ever-expanding role of the non-human factor of productive capital input. What needs to be adjusted is the opportunity to produce, not the redistribution of income after it is produced.

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Political ads on public television is a very bad idea. See Reuters article Ban on political ads on public television struck down (April 12, 2012).

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The story on student loans caught my eye. Both Obama and Romney want them so where's the controversy. The press wants to report on a controversy that does not exist. Curious about the subsidized loan. Are we subsidizing banks with the lost interest? or are we guaranteeing loan to bad risk customers or both? Sheesh when will it stop?? Sounds like we just went through this and both parties want to go through it again.

http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2012/04/oregon_gov_john_kitzhaber_call.html

Shipping coal to china from western ports. I live near Coos Bay Oregon and they need jobs and we don't use coal anyway. All our power is hydro and emits zero green house gasses (although cap a trade was going to cost us as if we burn carbon) but if the us shouldn't burn coal why sell it to china so they can burn it?

I'd love to see 2 hours devoted to a critique of neo-liberal economics... with all guests being real, reputable economists. A couple weeks ago 60 Minutes did a segment on the disastrous condition of Greece that included a total puff piece about German, ECB neo-lib austerity policies. Deregulation, austerity during a recession, privatization of everything, tax cuts for wealthy, unfair trade policies all have proven to be disastrous policies, devastating for middle-class/working/poor citizens. But all republicans, most Dems and almost all mainstream pundits promote neo-lib policies.

Here are some suggested guests who'd be excellent for such a program: Paul Krugman, Robert Reich, Naomi Klein, Yiannis Varoufakis, Simon Johnson. There are many others of course.

UpWithChris played a pivotal role in stopping SOPA. We need you again to help us assess the new bill CISPA , debate on Thurs, vote on Fri.

Opposed by ACLU and EFF (and lots of others).

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I got an email about how great Libya was doing under Qadhafi. I did a bit googling and found many sites confirming that as well. Here is an example:

I would love to see a discussion on that. Also many people believe that Assad is only defending his country agains Islamist, armed by foreigners. That is another topic of my interest.

How about austerity and Europe. And the French run-off election, what would the implications be of a Hollande victory to the Euro, and Eurozone?

Here's an irony. No source....this thought has just occurred to me and I haven't seen it brought up anywhere else. Republicans are supposedly the debt hawks. But if Romney is elected, is he going to risk his re-election by making us take our medicine to bring down the debt in his first term?? I doubt it. On the other hand, if Obama is re-elected, he won't have re-election to worry about. And if he made himself the lightning rod for most of the political heat of debt-reduction, maybe congress would go along. If the Republicans didn't go along, then they'd be once again hypocrites for obstructing their own agenda because of who it's driven by. Will be interesting to watch play out.

Now we know that there is no effective left in the halls of power at any level of government in the US. We know that corporatization of the United States has been successful and the massive transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top has sped up. When those at the top of the pyramid make peaceful change impossible, they make violent change inevitable. I do not have much hope for nonviolent change in the USA when corporate policies promote racism, sexism, economic slavery and societal irresponsibility. In the name of profit the power elite are endangering the entire species.

The best segments on Up with Chris Hayes come from the sort of subject matter that mainstream television doesn't cover. You've done some of this to your credit. Thanks.

Several comments on your panel on democratic government...one woman stated that our government was not representative of the people, then a politician stated that the government WAS representative of the people...this is the problem. The politicians think or pretend they representatives-they want us to think they are doing their jobs in our interest, but the vast majority of Americans do not feel they have any representation by elected/appointed officials. The big money interests and big corporations are in control of our Supreme Court and our congress, as well as many states.

The ordinary people have been totally lost and ignored in the spin and lies that constitute our government now.

The ordinary people want representation, but we know we don't have it.

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Chris Haye's show is the only news program that really attempts to discuss real issues facing the country. The sad thing is based on the subjects covered to date the great USA is in serious decline. Wingarten is total political fraud. If she was serious about educating all children she would insist that laws and labor agreements protecting ineffective teachers be done away with.