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The Problem Now

I don’t watch a lot of PBS, but from time to time I do catch Bill Moyers’s show.  For Bill’s final show on PBS (Bill Moyers Journal) he interviewed Jim Hightower about what is happening in public life and government.  I don’t make time to catch Hightower’s radio show, but moving to Tulsa may motivate me to find Hightower on the web.  Here is a question and answer from Moyers to Hightower.  Click on Truthout to read the entire transcript.  Click Bill’s name to learn more about his show.

Transcript from Bill Moyers Journal: Interview with Jim Hightower | PBS | May 1, 2010 | Truthout

JIM HIGHTOWER: If you’re too big to fail, you’re too big period. And now they’ve become not only too big to fail, but too big to care.

BILL MOYERS: So when you identify yourself as a populist, what are you saying?

JIM HIGHTOWER: I’m saying pretty clearly that I see the central issue in politics to be the rise of corporate power. Overwhelming, overweening corporate power that is running roughshod over the workaday people of the country. They think they’re the top dogs, and we’re a bunch of fire hydrants, you know? Out here in the countryside. And they can do what they want to with us. What’s been missing is what can we do about it? And those people in Iowa, by the way, are not alone. There are people in Minnesota doing that, people in Oregon that I know. People in Texas. All across the country.

It’s about the long haul. And the target is not government, it’s those who are pulling the strings of government, which are those corporate lobbyists and the money that the corporate executives and now corporations directly can put into our campaigns.