With all due deference to David Frum, the deregulation he lauds was the initial shot at busting the unions and thus the middle class, and it was quite successful to the detriment of all of us, not the benefit that he asserts.

--Mike Barkley, Progressive Democrat, Candidate for Congress new CA-10 District, Platform: mjbarkl.com/run.htm - CA-10: 1 progressive (me) versus 4 conservatives

Is the staff allowed to podcast the audio or video? I think you can reach a greater audience if you do. Great show today!

I asked myself whether this discussion was before or after the financial crisis. There was some evidence that it was after the crisis but not much. This conversation could have been had prior to the crisis and it would have been just as irrelevant. There was some kind of a problem here. Perhaps, it was the guests or the fact that the whole discussion started off on a soft back pedal on whether things are moving along fast enough. The whole conversation was very vegetarian and the lady from the Times was a nice spectator. The OWS lady was by far the most animated and for her that was really something to see. I had hoped that she would have gotten up on the table at one point and asked, "What is the matter with you people? You should be out raged." There was no shouting and Mr. Frum made sure that the discussion never staid on topic. Get some meat eaters in there next time and lets have a conversation.

4,000 Foreclosures. Per. Day. It's easy to say "Be Patient" when you're not in foreclosure. I wonder how many heart attacks and strokes have resulted from this debacle over the past 4 years?

Why is there no Moratorium on foreclosures? I hope people are just staying in their homes. Foreclosure due to criminal bank practices is simply an additional crime committed by the banks and lenders.

I don't watch the show for conflict and Jerry Springer drama. I watch it to hear broader views, updates on issues, and a wider approach to resolution. I'm glad no one is screaming and screeching. It distracts from the work which needs to be done. I am very favorably impressed when you all listen to each other. That hate radio type stuff; save it for some sporting event or protest where it's needed and wanted.

Young Mr. Hays took the time to make clear that he is impatient with climate deniers. I am too (and I'm old). Here is my opinion: A New-Republican, an old-style Republican and a Democrat are in a bar after it has become clear to all that humans have destroyed life on earth. The New-Republican says to the Democrat; "It's your fault, everything is your fault." The old-style Republican says to the Democrat; "Why didn't you stop us when you knew that the New-Republicans were wrong:" The Democrat says; "There is enough blame to go around." The lesson is; Get some gumption. There is no compromise. Time is short. Save the earth for my grandchildren, and their grandchildren.

I found it exasperating to listen to Catherine Rampell of the New York Effing Times whining about how hard it is for the public to understand the intricacies of financial deregulation. Gee, if only there was some kind of publication that could educate the public about these sorts of things...

I think some commenters here believe that the general public is like your viewers. The average voter never spends a minute on financial issues beyond bills and paycheck. Beyond that how can any of us know what is in a large bill like Dodd - Frank? Your show does enlighten on that.
I don't believe there is any hope for us, the Republicans use the lie early and often philosophy. Here is part of a recent email I got from them (of course to raise money) and the insult is calling me a conservative. The GOP makes me puke.

From David Horowitz (GOPUSA):
"May Day is a red letter day on the calendar of communists, socialists and revolutionaries everywhere. Once a day to celebrate workers' rights, it now belongs to nihilists like those who make up the Occupy movement and are right at this moment creating chaos on the streets of our country. That's why I was not surprised when Occupy protests emerged all of the country last week.

Who are these people hiding behind their foolish masks and living in squalid encampments that are themselves the sites of rape, theft and mayhem? Who are these people who threaten the rest of us with violence on this May Day? They are not the downtrodden or left behind, as they claim; they are not a spontaneous grass roots movement of the oppressed. They are a privileged 1 percent of professional agitators who despise democracy and free enterprise and are trying to make things worse while working men and women, the 99 percent who don't want to tear America down, are trying to make things better for themselves and their country.

The Obama administration and its allies in the mainstream media may tell us that the Occupy movement is composed of idealists who want to make America better. But we know better. We have seen these people before. They want to grind business to a halt. They want America to go dark. They want to destroy the initiative and innovation that has made this country great and bring about the long night of centralized control. They seek to substitute government power for people power. They come to destroy a political system and an engine of economic power that have been the envy of the world. In short, these occupiers are the communist movement all over again. Who would have imagined that after Ronald Reagan killed communism in the Soviet Union a generation ago, another U.S. president would allow it to be reborn on the streets of America over twenty years later?

The worst thing about the Occupy movement that is trashing our cities today is that it has been given the tacit go ahead by the White House. Barack Obama has winked at the occupiers and let them know he's with them. His administration and the Democratic Party own the Occupy movement. The occupiers are moving the President's agenda in the streets with their calls for class warfare and a transformation of America, as the hardcore left has always said, by any means necessary. This is why my colleague John Perazzo and I wrote Occupy Wall Street: The Communist Movement Reborn -- to reveal how the occupiers who are running wild in New York and other cities today share the twisted DNA of the communist organizers of the 1930s and the apologists for communism that attacked America so viciously in the 1960s. These are the people who used to be on the outside, properly the objects of suspicion and contempt. But in the 1970s, using the McGovern movement as their Trojan Horse, they were able to occupy the Democratic Party and take it over. That is why today the agenda of the Occupy Movement is indistinguishable from that of the Democrats (and vice versa.) That is why the President can't bring himself to condemn the nihilists right at this moment bringing chaos to our cities. "

An audio podcast would be great if it's available. Please add this feature!

Ever since you stopped having the first hour second hour videos, I have had trouble figuring out the order of the segments. Could you indicate somehow the order they are supposed to be in. It's very disconcerting to hear you talking about something that was discussed in a previous segment, without knowing where to go to see the original discussion. It may be fine for you to just assume that if you watch all the segments you eventually get everything that was said, but I find it very difficult to watch a segment and then discover that it was from the end of the show and I haven't seen the beginning yet. How hard is it to be more clear about that? Maybe you can put something somewhere that says the first segment on the playlist is the last segment of the show and they are consecutive backwards today. (They don't seem to be consistent).

Hi Chris,

While your topics are germane and elicit comprehensive discussions
from you panel, I think you need to take it up a notch. We know for many talk
shows what the issues and speculations are and I highly recommend focusing on what threatens mankind. You touched on climate change in the context of
religion and regulations. However, just as Hansen's Op-Ed (NYT) explained, we are in trouble if we fail to act, again. Since James is a civil servant he has to be careful with his language. But I think the "Game IS Over", since we cannot stop the fossil fuel gravy train with all its momentum and riches. You, as the lone ranger, need to up the "Up" if your corporate executives permit
it to focus on the real threat facing mankind. The pentagon is preparing for
it, why are not the collective we? The empirical data fits all models from
decades ago and the visual evidence confirms our projected future. Are we
nihilists, as helpless as to unable to decide and act, unhinged by complacency
and ineptness? I would like to think not, as Europe demonstrate what action can be taken. Please bring in some heavy hitters like James Hansen, Lester Brown, Robert Kennedy, Bill McKibben, etc. and, and out of the extraordinary, an "ordinary citizen". There is not time to lose, or we all lose.

The iceberg is in view and we sit on the Titanic arguing over lifeboat quotas, but no one is reaching for the wheel.

Cordially,

Werner Loell