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Their sovereignty. cred critics say cut them off. supporters say that would be a mistake. >> redouble in economic assistance and education will be a great thing to fund because thats what the pakistani citizens want. >> the fact is that the pakistanis are treating us like fools because were acting like fools. were giving money to someone who obviously is working against the basic interest and the national security interest of our own country. >> 1.6 billion of our money goes to the pakistani pol...

>> theyve been arming these people to kill our troops, theyve been nuz ling up to -- nuzzling to communist china, building a nuclear arsenal while weve been helping them, and now theyve been giving confident and aid to usama bin laden. >> for your turn in this debate, what do you think? go to the taxpayer calculator, fox news.com news.com/your money. there you can vote. heres what that $3 billion is going to cost you. if you earn 50--- 15- 15-$30,000, 1.39, 50-$99,000, 13 bucks, and 200,000-$250...

-- and you can feel it. when i go to the grocery store it feels like it is bigger, the big every day when you buy the same stuff you have bought and theres the white bread, $1.39 in february of 2011 and is up 2.2%, year-over-year change inbred. >> lo-- in bread. bill: and california, it is in everything you buy, they use it for ethanol and the things you eat, high fructose corn syrup is in almost every snack and soda and every, single cereal you buy, has either corn or corn-based sweetener in it...

The u.s. dollar since the earthquake hit. its up about 3% against the dollar. it was already in the danger zone. and by that i mean dangerously strong against the u.s. dollar. and today it hit 80.9. that means it came off a little bit, but still just about -- a little bit more than one yen outside the record strength against the u.s. dollar. one analyst says that the strength of the yen based on the levels if it gets stronger, is going to have a bigger impact on toyota than the actual earthquake...

And support of public telecommunications are also of appropriate and important concern to the federal government. and, it is necessary and appropriate for the federal government to complement, assist, and support a national policy that will make public telecommunications services available to all citizens of the united states. so thats the backstory. thats how pbs was born. cpb is funded by the federal government. it doesnt produce or distribute programming. it gets some of the federal funding t...

>> reporter: were you up a few flights? >> no, we were on the ground floor. >> reporter: youve walked through the central city. >> just ruptured sewer lines and all the buildings all over the place. and just everythings pretty messed up at the moment. >> and make sure you stay with cnn as our coverage of the disaster in new zealand continues next hour. first, lets take another quick look at the stock markets. and here in europe, shares have pretty much fallen across the board as worries over l...

>> anderson, a day-long conference at the united nations secured major promises of long term aid for haiti. more than three dozen nations pledged more than $3 billion to help the quake battered country recover, the u.s. promising 1$15 billion. two bombs in russias southern republic killed two people, one suicide bomber was involved. a video released online, a chechen rebel leader says he personally ordered mondays deadly bombings on moscows subway. those attacks killed at least 39 people. st...

Least 12 people, one suicide bomber was involved. a video released online, a chechen rebel leader says he personally ordered mondays deadly bombings on moscows subway. those attacks killed at least 39 people. stocks fell today but posted a strong first quarter, it ended the quarter up 1.39%, the best since 1999 and fourth straight quarter of gains. the s&p is up, 4.9% for the quarter, nasdaq, 5.7%. british researchers say they found evidence toads may be able to predict earthquakes. the scie...

Literally create such a handicap on your portfolio that you lose a tremendous amount of money. and people dont really understand this, they think, oh, whats the big deal? 1% on a mutual fund. when the markets are returning and in our example, 7.5% with bonds and stocks, that little 1.39% is a very big part of 7.5%. thats just what happens. >> you read it again also with mutual fund portfolio and an adviser and found that what you say are the losses are even worse. you got by the age of 76, same,...

Math hes done about how much youre paying in fees. mitch, welcome to the program. i want to start, first, with this portfolio you put together, for a person 35 years old, $4,000 a year annual contributions. assuming a 7.5% annual return, by the age of 76, wow, if you have -- walk me through what you see here, a mutual fund portfolio, a little more than $2 million, in an etf, you would have had $3 million. so returns lost to fees more and that a million bucks. why is this happening? >> what peopl...