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Globalization. there is something that happens when companies start to move into bringing product from all around the world and merely assembling it in one place. quality does seem to go down the tubes, ali. >> and more importantly, the quality that you may engender as a company. so if youre toyota and reliability and quality were your touchstones, but youre getting maybe 1,000 parts in a car made by different suppliers, you can give them the specifications, you can tell them you really want it ...

Renton or at everett. all of a sudden, the 787, its being built in asia, in europe, even in australia. the pieces are being put together. what happened -- what happened to pieces arrived in pieces, they didnt match up. the quality wasnt there. it takes time for an old dog to learn new tricks. now, i think what were seeing the -- particularly if you look at the accelerators and the different manufacturers with toyota, they basically took their eye off the ball and theyre going to pay dearly for y...

Politically? >> its entirely possible they will support some of this. youre right, showpiece is move to cut payroll taxes for employers who hire people who have been unemployed for some pooh period of time. that has bipartisan support. we should say this $15 billion is tiny, tiny bill. last years stimulus was $787 billion, between 787 and $15 billion is a huge amount. most people dont think its going to make a lot of difference. >> gregg: large business groups say its a drop in the bucket. well ...

Toyota and reliability and quality were your touchstones but youre getting a thousand parts in a car made by different suppliers, you can give them the specifications, you can tell them you want it to work, youre negotiating on cost, and ultimately they may not work on the same basic principles of quality and responsibility you do. >> and the biggest example ive got for you of that is boeing. boeing building the 787 dreamliner. the company made a lot of the parts, assembled a lot of the parts, d...

Because there are seniors and those about to retire who are counting on these programs. for people of my generation, they need to be told the truth. there isnt going to be social security or medicare for us if we dont reform those systems now. >> youre asking for a $7 or 70 or 78 bucks or $787, why? >> just symbolic of $787 billion of borrowed money my children will have to pay back thanks to the obama stimulus package that passed which had a massive help rally in fort myers. >> thank you very m...

Will they get republican support for a jobs bill? >> i sure hope so. i think that the unemployment numbers are better and getting better. they are headed in the right directions and i think if the republicans continue to oppose everything, they run the risk of appearing to be obstructionist and run the risk of being against the recovery. so it is a tricky bit of the business here. because the democrats, you know neither side wants to be totally in with the amm. >> it is a good point it is a slip...

Saved or created with the first 787 stimulus bill. are you satisfied with those results? > >> remember, that reporting only applied to a fifth of the recovery act funding. when you scaled it up, youre talking about 1 1/2 to 2 million jobs created or saved as a result of the recovery act so thats, you know, two million people who would be unemployed today were it not for the recovery act. i think thats -- thats good progress. >> so why does the web site recovery"gov only have 1/5 of the jobs out ...

Keep costs down for future space travelers. >> we can see it right there, that pinpoint landing. i mean, anderson -- >> thats incredible. >> a thing of beauty for blue origin. i mean look at that thing. nailed that landing. >> so bezos described this landmark moment as, quote, the best day and talked about his hope to make space travel more accessible for all. >> youve got to do it the same way we did it with commercial airline travel. you know, we are still -- were not even -- were really almos...

>> so if some smart kid in a dorm room right now has a dream for space they cant do it? >> they cant do it. thats exactly right. but if we can lay that infrastructure, then do that hard work then there will be able to be a bunch of entrepreneurs. maybe the young guy, oliver, who flew with us today will be one of them. >> what does that look like? what does this road look like? youve talked about a human presence on the moon. >> yeah. >> obviously, you know, elon musk is talking about mars. what ...

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