are all these hearings at taxpayer expense worth the taxpayer dollars to get to the bottom of the taxpayer ways? absolutely. i always say the g.s.a. scandal is only the tip of the iceberg. i think i revealed here in october of 2010, i came on this show, this report, the federal government must stop sitting on its assets and who is the biggest who is the biggest offender? it was g.s.a. and it took this kind of scandal to actually show people that that the biggest property holder, landowner and landlord for the government is sitting on 14,000 vacant or partially vacant buildings and properties costing us billions a year, not just millions in waste. now we know so much more about what else is going on at the g.s.a. congressman john mica, keep us posted. good to be with you, thank you. the government cracking down on free speech making it a crime to protest near the secret service. what happened to free speech? judge napolitano said there s
as we ve been discussing this morning, social security on the brink of disaster. earlier than we thought. according to a new report, the program s trust fund will be depleted by 2033. that s three years earlier than first predicted. so what does that mean for all of us? stuart varney of the fox business network joins us live here. stuart, this is bad not only for people approaching retirement but people who are paying in, young people, every day and they re thinking at the end of the road, i m not going to have anything, am i? i ll go further than that. it s really bad for all of us now. the social security organization and medicare are shelling out a lot more than is coming in. in other words, we re running at a huge deficit on a daily basis. more goes out, less comes in. the gap has to be borrowed. we have to borrow that money, hundreds of billions of dollars
another ugly turn in football talking about what s happening off the field. deion sanders divorce. listen to this. his estranged wife who you see right there has been arrested for domestic violence. deion sanders claims she attacked him in front of their two sons. he posted this photo on twitter. you can see him filling out a police report and he showed his sons filling out a report as well. and the hits keep on coming for the saints. now we re hearing that general manager mickey loomis eavesdropped on opposing coaches. reports say that he had an electronic device in his suite at the super dome that let him secretly spy for most of the 2002 season. he denies the allegations and as you know, the saints recently running a having a series of fines and suspensions because of their pay for pain bounty pool. joining us now for instant analysis is super bowl quarterback and hall of famer.
route. they are able to take that route and to some degree, maybe they are encouraged to take that route. it s not good news. 1/4 of all of our debt that we ve accumulated over the last 10 years, 1/4 of it is directly the result of this hemorrhaging of money in social security and medicare. let me ask you one question about it. when we run out of social security money, what happens? we could continue to borrow it. that s it? we re borrowing it now. keep on keeping on. keep on keeping on. you could do that, yes. let s talk about this medicare advantage situation and then eight what s being called an $8 billion trick. what is it? ok, what medicare advantage is going to be phased out under obamacare to phase it out gracefully, the administration came up with an $8 billion bonus pool. this would be awarded to insurance companies that offered quality care as the advantage system was phased out. a report says that $8 billion
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