Analicia Stevens
10/12/13
Eng 4/ Daraja
Bill O’reily video response/ analysis
The question that Bill O’reily asks is “are the poor and middle class Americans getting hosed?” Bill gives a statistic of poverty in America provided by white house.gov website. It states 46 % of Americans live below the poverty line which is 15% of the population in America. In 2010, 560 billion dollars was spent on trying to help the poor, which is 16% of the federal budget. which is up 5,400% since 1970. Bill claims that because there are so many people living under the poverty line it is because most of those people are substance abusers. Cornell says that 1% of the populations owns 40% of the wealth and 100% income growth go to the top 10% . Also 1% of the population had 81% of income growth over the past 25 years. The rich have too many loopholes and are somewhat greedy when it comes to their wealth. Not only do the rich not have to pay as much taxes if any but one in four corporation do not pay taxes . While the poor or lower class have to pay taxes that are being increased and are losing a lot of jobs that they need.
Bill agrees with cornel on the fact that we need to tighten up the loopholes but having a flat rate that everyone pays. bill says why would one want to take money from the rich and give it to those we see fit? he calls it socialism and it will not work. Tavis goes on and says that socialism is when one bails out banks which is the textbook definition and that we did this. I noticed that bill is quick to not let Tavis nor Cornell answer the questions or give their opinion on the matters at hand. He is quick to dismiss them and say that they are wrong. Bill also is quick to get defensive and argumentative and he feels that if he is talking no one else can interrupt but he interrupts Tavis and Cornel and will not let them get a word in. Tavis and Cornel try to express their views on things and answer the questions they have been asked but can not get a word in. They have been nothing but respect full to bill and bill has been rude and out of line.
Bill goes on to say that Tavis and Cornel want income redistribution because that is what president Obama wants as well. I felt like that was an attack on their race. the reason being is because bill says it in a rude way like that's is what president Obama wants that's what you guys want. Bill tells Tavis to stop talking and does not let Tavis finish his point nor answer the question that bill asked. Then Tavis tells bill that it was wrong of him to target Stan O'Neil a black CEO and make him the poster child for the negatives that corporations do in America but right to go after him because of what he did. Bill automatically starts to raise his voice and starts to become argumentative saying knock it off with the black businesses and that we treat everyone the same.then bill mutters under his breath I'm not going to talk about this. From the whole conversation if one can even call it that it seemed to be very one sided and the person I heard talk the most was bill. He continued to argue the same point and Tavis and cornel made some very good points but I could not hear them all because of bill’s loudness and talking over people. It seemed like to me that when Tavis and cornel made a valid point and proved bill wrong, he would get defensive and start to talk over or just be completely rude. The video at some points started to defer from the topic at hand sometimes and that was on bill. They kind of acted like children . Anyway this my reaction and analysis of the video.
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