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So you can tell them -- >> my heart is bleeding. >> on average, government employees make twice as much as those in the private sector. when you include the portions of retirement -- >> weve always had -- i worked 16 years in the private sector, my employer contributed just as yours did. and you made a contribution, as well. >> let me see if you have this straight, you have a 72% subsidy that the rest of america does not have. is that true? >> that is correct? >> and i noticed, for example, the ...

So you can tell them -- >> my heart is bleeding. >> on average, government employees make twice as much as those in the private sector. when you include the portions of retirement -- >> weve always had -- i worked 16 years in the private sector, my employer contributed just as yours did. and you made a contribution, as well. >> let me see if you have this straight, you have a 72% subsidy that the rest of america does not have. is that true? >> that is correct? >> and i noticed, for example, the ...

At social security, said we feel the pressure is on for us to erase the back log by rubber stamping them and moving forward. there is a sense there is a problem because of this back log. and look, bill, there is one other fundamental problem with this. this program was designed in 1973. and at that time if you had a disability, in all likelihood, you wouldnt have the advantage that people have today of both physical therapy and medical devices to help you get back. so it is a lifetime benefit, y...

. the department of veterans affairs is socelebrating what i claims is a back log in claims. paying out tens of thousands of dollars of bonuses for va managers. chafrm chairman of the house committee called for an investigation. >> i dont think he understands that you reward people for poor performance. >> he was the first of five confirmed cases of legionairres

Come january 1, 2014, every individual in the company is mandate to do have health care insurance. if you choose not to have that coverage, you face a penalty of $95 a year. >> elisabeth: just before we go, what should the average american do now? what if we say today, this is the question you should be asking your company and what you should be looking at for your insurance coverage? >> exactly. if youre in one of these states where your insurer dropped out of the individual market, you cant ke...

Medical information that they need to have to file a fully developed claim. and thats a big part of whats taking so long for these claims to get processed. >> jesse: it seems like the back log, at least weve been hearing p it until just recently, has this been going on for a long time? >> there has been a backlog of varying degrees for quite a few years. its only been in the past four or five years where the backlog has increased almost to the tune of 100, 125%. right now there are roughly 650,0...

Agencies to apply for services. once all of that paperwork is submitted it takes federal employees more than 43 million hours a year to process it all. in march 70% of claims have been pending for more than 125 days. the v.a. says it has been making progress on reducing the back log. flying high above the u.s. capitol, an american flag made of hemp. congressman of colorado spear headed efforts to raise this particular flag. industrial hemp is classified by the fda in the same category as heroi...

Head. plus, southwest airlines now working through a back log of flights. the airlines was forced to ground hundreds of planes due to a system wide computer failure yesterday. >> arthel: turning to the irs scandal, new rasmussen polls show 70% of americans believe the calls to target conservative came from washington and of that 70%, 41% believe the call came straight from the white house. this as the house ways and means committee prepare to hold another hearing on restoring confidence in the t...

Sort of getting a toe hold on the middle class life in this country. its just going to be very difficult. i think you get 2 million newcomers to the job market every graduation season and what we have i think is already a back log of young people who feel like ive never had a meaningful job. ive been working at a coffee shop or some other place and living in my moms basement and i would like to get a real job. so its a tremendous source of frustration, especially if you look at minority kids. i ...

Next couple of days tough. but if you cant get out from that back log of it on friday, or friday into saturday, then saturday night and sunday morning. so really big problems for so many people. >> clayton: fun times. thanks. >> gretchen: lets go from weather to some tech help. luckily clayton is on the couch today. hell answer some of your tech tweets that youve sent in. >> clayton: you can twitter them or via e-mail. here is one from lorraine. she writes, a tricky one. im a senior trying to fi...