economic policy institute. okay, christian. i have like two pages of companies that v.a. announced layoffs. it s a growing list. laura: in the last three days. everyone from boeing, to cat pillar, lock keyed harr continue, boston scientific, these are thousands of jobs if you add them all up. yeah. laura: what s going on here. a lot of them citing obama care because of the implementing cost of that. nothing related to the election of the president should be a reason why anybody is going through layoffs. it s not like it was a surprise that the president could have won re-election on tuesday. that should have been something that people maybe put a part of their first alert forecast for a long time. and anybody who needs to lay off workers right now, they had systemic problems long before tuesday. laura: businesses aren t making legitimate business decisions exside technology, bristol myers. they might be legitimate business decisions but it s not because of the results of
government affairs at the economic policy institute. okay, christian. i have like two pages of companies that v.a. announced layoffs. it s a growing list. laura: in the last three days. everyone from boeing, to cat pillar, lock keyed harr continue, boston scientific, these are thousands of jobs if you add them all up. yeah. laura: what s going on here. a lot of them citing obama care because of the implementing cost of that. nothing related to the election of the president should be a reason why anybody is going through layoffs. it s not like it was a surprise that the president could have won re-election on tuesday. that should have been something that people maybe put a part of their first alert forecast for a long time. and anybody who needs to lay off workers right now, they had systemic problems long before tuesday. laura: businesses aren t making legitimate business decisions exside technology, bristol myers. they might be legitimate business decisions but it s not
she said earlier today that the united states was considering arming the rebels. is that a good idea? well, that s a very worrisome development again, bill, because we don t know who these people are. i m a member of the armed services committee. i have no clue who these rebels are. how can we assume that they re any more humanitarian or any more democratic than qaddafi himself? i think we re pushing ourselves possibly into a terrible stalemate. again, very few battles are ever won just from the air alone, and i think the president is realizing that in trying to backfill this with more ad lib taxes. bill: one thing we re trying to figure out, roll this, we re getting this from viewers, corey writes this, can you explain to me the difference between nato running this war and the u.s. running this war? would there be much of a difference? american commanders in charge now, i understand, a
american platforms with their specific technologies and logistics, to me, is a very worrisome thing, and i honestly don t think the world is going to give us credit for not being in control, anyway. bill: well, what do you make of the delay on nato? does that surprise you? or is that something that you would expect, trying to draw this coalition together in a short period of time? i think this is consistent with what happened with closing down gitmo. it s something the president wants to do, he thinks he can deem it to happen, but not think through what all really has to be done in order to make it happen. bill: i see. so what you re saying is that you were surprised at the handover that the handover announcement came so quickly. well, absolutely. it just doesn t seem to me that the logistics of that, and really i think it s an unwise thing to begin with, but even to make it happen would seem to me to take days if not weeks. bill: susan rice is our ambassador of the united nati
half of its workforce, you know the situation is serious and it needs some attention. given what you see today do you think you can avert this given a four-week deadline. we can avert it if they want to use the taxpayer s money other than for higher executives what we see in the public sectors are not the working people that are causing this crisis it s the high-paid executives. bill: i understand the point we aryouare making. we ll get them on tv. thank you for coming in today. thank you very much. bill: we ll keep and eye on costa mesa, california. it s going on everywhere. martha: why you guys were speaking we had this crossing the fires from huntington beach, california. a southern california was evacuated today after a worker