If We Are the 99 Percent, Who Is the 47?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2012
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, a video showed Mitt Romney discussing the challenge of winning over an electorate where 47 percent of citizens don't pay taxes.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.2 | If we are the 99%, who is the 47%? |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Mike Peska sitting in for Warren Only, and this is to the point from Public Radio International, |
| 0:21.6 | a daily look at the issues Americans care about most. Mitt Romney caught on tape telling supporters |
| 0:27.4 | he'll never get the vote of the 47% of Americans who don't pay income taxes. His campaign is now |
| 0:33.9 | off message, but are his numbers off? And who are these non-taxpayers? They must walk among us. |
| 0:40.3 | Today, we'll talk about who pays what and the overall issues of economic fairness as raised by the Occupy Wall Street movement. |
| 0:48.8 | On reporter's notebook later on, Salman Rushdie on his life under a fatwa. First, here's the news. |
| 0:56.9 | Support for To the Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio |
| 1:02.1 | International Program Fund. |
| 1:04.3 | I'm Mike Peska, sitting in for Warren only back with To the Point. |
| 1:07.7 | Yesterday was the first anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. |
| 1:11.5 | It was also the day that a leaked video showed Mitt Romney expounding on the challenge of |
| 1:17.0 | winning over an electorate where 47% of citizens don't pay taxes, family incomes and political |
| 1:23.2 | outcomes. |
| 1:24.2 | And on reporter's notebook, author Salman Rushdie talks to Warren only about his new memoir. |
| 1:29.1 | First, this news update. A change of course in Afghanistan. The U.S. is scaling back operations |
| 1:35.0 | after a spate of so-called green on blue violence. Green is the trained Afghan security forces. |
| 1:41.6 | The blue is the military designation for foreign allied forces. |
| 1:45.9 | Joining us now is Deb Reekman. She's the Associated Press correspondent in Kabul. Thanks for |
| 1:50.6 | joining us, Deb. My pleasure. Can you describe how one of these attacks typically occurs? |
| 1:59.9 | The, it's either, uh, Afghan policemen or soldiers themselves, uh, or militants who are disguised in their uniforms. |
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