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February 24, 2011
The huge industrial job loss has been overwhelmingly good-paying union jobs that have been outsourced to china, gone to mexico, whatever. there have been very sophisticated, very expensive anti-union campaigns aimed at organizers when we try to organize. i think that almost all surveys show that many, many, many more people who arent in unions would like to join if they get an opportunity to. but the laws dont always work that way in their favor. and we would have a stronger middle class, wed ha...
February 12, 2011
More supportive of our world view of al qaeda than the mubarak government has been. on balance, if this is movement in the direction of democracy, this is a good thing long-term. but at a minimum, the egyptian government is going to be distracted from one of those common goals. >> theyre making the point that he believes economic stress contributed to this evolution as things spread throughout the region. egypt, the average annual income, just over $2,000 a year. that would mean yemen -- saudi a...
February 11, 2011
The demonstrators are there now. this is the instrument of propaganda in their view and they are talking about taking over that building. if they do, that would test the military. thats one site where we have seen the protest. about five miles from tahrir square, follow the red line, a much more affluent neighborhood. this is the presidential palace where president mubarak is believed to still be, where he used the studio to deliver that address. if you were there today, you would see tanks and ...
February 4, 2011
Eating 22 million pounds a year. the problem is in this land-lock state shrimp are often frozen and from far away, but this year, that could change. >> the size of this building is a 36,000 square foot february bra ka fabricated structure. >> reporter: theyre building a plant to grow shrimp in the desert and take on the foreign companies which dominate the american market. scott mcmanus is the ceo. >> 1.4 billion pounds was brought into the u.s. last year, approximately, and 90% of that comes fr...
February 4, 2011
100,000 shrimp and they hope to harvest 500,000 pounds a year. why hasnt this been done before? >> well, the big issue is how you deal with the affluent within the system. >> reporter: the waste. >> exactly. >> reporter: here each tank is an ecosystem unto itself. waste water is naturally recycled in what they say is chemical free and never dumb pd into the environment. they wont say much more about how the system work. thats their secret developed at a remote lap lab in north dakota over the pa...
January 16, 2011
Less affluent. >> yes. >> that is a consideration, maybe something people should take in mind? if its not having -- might happen to you down the road if not now. >> we hope the unemployment figures will come down but they have been stuck, stubbornly stuck and, yes, it is theer teenagers and people in their 20s who have trouble finding their first jobs and those who do have a job and are renting, are buying the luxury goods and buying for themselves. as well. that is an interesting new trend. >> ...
December 21, 2010
Me to task over the poor. >> jesus says we only have to love those who deserve it. >> the president wrote in audacity of hope that he found the bush tax cuts for the wealthy morally troubling. is that his belief. >> its still his belief. >> bill: vice president biden thinks its immoral not to tax the affluent. brit hume will examine that. >> be careful when you challenge him, mr. bill has got an ax. >> bill: larry gatlin has a seasonal song featuring me. ♪ better not lie or bloviate ♪ mr. bi...
December 9, 2010
Believe that the affluent do not have a right to their own assets. that the government has an obligation to spread private property around under the barn of frustration. the far left wants the money to impose, quote, income equality. i mean, sanders wants a death tax to the wealthy that would take about half of a deceased americans estate. even though the assets have already been taxed. sanders does this in the name of social justice. but if you really want to be honest about it, he is a thief. ...
December 9, 2010
Real moral outrage. where republicans are telling us that we have got to give huge tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires in order to get an extension of tax breaks for the middle class and unemployment compensation for two million workers. that is outrageous. we can and must fight for an agreement thats a lot better than that. >> now, i believe mr. sanders could not be elected anywhere but in vermont. he is that far out there. the "new york times," the cable arm of nbc and other far left o...
December 8, 2010
Arrested in england. what will happen to him? is it legal. >> rush limbaugh hats right to say whatever he wants to say. he does not have the right to do it on publicly regulated airwaves. >> bill: al sharpton wants rush limbaugh banned from public radio. are you kidding me? you will hear sharptons explanation. >> the fcc has responsibility to set standards. >> bill: caution, you where to enter the no spin zone the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, im bill oreilly. thanks for watching us toni...