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We know there is evidence that would prove it is exactly the opposite. >> it is the opposite. the president echoed the same kind of words of the democratic party convention in his speech to the convention when he was renominated in a week later or 10 days later one of our ambassadors is murdered in and ozzie. all he was was a symbol of al qaeda, significant and of himself because of his involvement in the 9/11 attack a symbol of al qaeda and what they were trying to suggest was because he is dea...

Answer, is your health care going up, and how much? >> mondays are tough, when i got into the office i found it was 18.2% exactly. >> okay, 18.2, can you pay that? do you have the extra cash hanging around? >> oh, i have it right in my pocket, everybody, we want to spend more money on health care, so we have been budgeting for it. i wish i could raise my fees 18% on a letter. >> who -- are the employees going to pick up some of this? the people who use your product? i mean, how do you shift the ...

Going up, and how much? >> mondays are tough, when i got into the office i found it was 18.2% exactly. >> okay, 18.2, can you pay that? do you have the extra cash hanging around? >> oh, i have it right in my pocket, everybody, we want to spend more money on health care, so we have been budgeting for it. i wish i could raise my fees 18% on a letter. >> who -- are the employees going to pick up some of this? the people who use your product? i mean, how do you shift the cost around? it cant just co...

Compressions on his chest, and his back. bill: wow, it worked. five minutes later the little boy started making gasping noises and breathing on his own. doctors say the seizure was probably brought on by a fever that that little guy had been fighting. hes okay, though. martha: so financially-strapped detroit, michigan is now one step closer to being taken over by the state after the governor declared a national emergency in the motor city. latest unemployment rate in detroit, look at that, 18.2%...

you might think that hispanics are the fastest growing immigrant group in the country but youd be wrong. a new pew studies shows that asians have surpassed them. 31% for hispanics. 10 years ago asians made up 19% of new immigrants. the number has almost doubled in just a decade. let me bring in deborah faye err rick. a lot of people are talking in our morning meeting about what this means politically, what it means economically. asian immigration way up. it still only makes up 5% of th...

Safe to go back in the water, the sharks come out again. and once again, we are heading for a new fight about debt. we could be looking at government shutdowns, government debt ceilings and stuff. its nasty. >> but in order to address debt, address deficit, do you have to make cuts, correct? >> you do. and you also have to raise revenue. >> and you have to agree on them. >> and start talking about entitlement programs. >> just checking. so theres nothing there. what i just read meant nothing in ...

Percentage of gross domestic product, a percentage of the size of the economy. if your economy produces ten bucks worth of stuff and tax five dollars, taxes are 50% of gdp. in 2011, tax revenues were 15.4% of gdp. to give you an idea how low it is before the financial crisis you had to go back to 1950 to find a year when taxes were that low. in 1950, there was no medicare, there was no medicaid, there wasnt a hawaii as one of the 50 states of the united states. for comparison sake, taxes under r...

Exposure of the government in the last year and a half. if you factor in whats going to happen sf the health care bill goes on line, were watching it going to 26% of g.d.p. those arent sustainable numbers. revenues have historically between 18.2% of g.d.p. its projected theyre going to grow to 20% of g.d.p. in the next two or three years. if we can get our spending back down to its historic levels, then we can close this gap. and we can start to reduce the deficits and reduce the debt. but this ...

That will raise the dividend tax and raise the income tax. all taxes are negative as far as creating jobs in the economy; particularly, during a recession. why in the world they would allow the tax cuts to expire is beyond me. this is idiotic economics. this is not -- when you say most economies, in all due respect, youre wrong. you dont even recognize chicago school of economic friedman. you think every guy following keynses was a genius and most were morons. >> actually, most economists do agr...

Like the energy efficient l.e.d. lighting maker mr. obama visited today created two-third of new jobs in the last 15 years. the white house says the two recent small business stimulus proposals should appeal to republicans and are a test of whether theyre interested in bipartisanship. republicans say the presidents budget calls for spending hikes, long after the congressional budget office feels the xy could have recovered. >> revenues will get back above their historic norm, which is 18.2%. tha...