This is an advertisement . What this is doing is just encouraging people to game the system. When my mother came here, she did not come here to try and get welfare benefits, she came here to be selfsufficient. What this administration is doing is trying to create people not selfsufficient but dependent. Tom jonathan, what happened to the day when immigrants set i want to go to america to have a better life . Are they still doing it . Land of the free is now land of the freebies. We turn the American Dream into the dependency dream. I am vehemently antientitlement. We have had generations of generations of successful immigrants who came here and succeeded prior to the migration of the entitlement state. Were advertising a thing as having a damaging impact not only on the economy, but of the culture overall. Tom what is your take on this . Should the government be advertising all of these . Lets be clear, calm is approved these benefit programs as well as the appropriate budgets to go wi
Critical straitening out of the fiscal disaster, dealing with expenditures. Where the republicans have to give on revenues, they only have to give on revenues if you get really good cuts in expenditures this is a terrible message. Maybe good for the unions, but it is bad for the country and our children because of this does is increase the debt under which they are operating and which is already getting close to historic. Tom the thing about all this, it seems like we are getting into a semantic battle because i was reading through the statement said the Union Leaders , spending a lot of money advertising, especially to republican congressional folks. Right. Right. Tom raise taxes. It think they have somebody, but the semantics are the speaker is echoing mitt romneys comments about raising revenues. But the union folks are saying, we want to raise tax rates. Big difference. I dont know if they can get that through. Eightyseven members of congress reelected two years here with a solemn
Walmart. Unions dont like the facthey havent organized walmart. Rick, these folks are getting paid overtime for working on thursday, right . Yeah. Lets keep in mind what this is about. Its really a one had day convenient. Its probably fair tore characterize it as a row test, a little bit more than a strike. Not about wages or benefits. About work conditions, mostly in inland california area where theyve had big problems with people working in way overheated warehouses, equipment thats not safe. This is what this is about. Theyve got a problem there. What the unions are doing, and again, walmart is not unionized, but the unions want the workers to walk out, theyre focusing on this extra work that they have to do on thanksgiving pay, for which, by the way, theyre paid double time and get all sorts of bonuses. Yeah. Walmart is facing a number of protests across the country. Not just for overtime. There has been a push to unionize walmart the real issue is that walmart hires a lot of peopl
The former chairman of the sec, harvey pitt and doug burns. Welcome to you both. I want to go over a couple of facts in the case as we know it right now, which is not everything, not by a longshot, but heres what we know. A Hedge Fund Manager receives insider information, secret trials. An alzheimers drug. He finds out the results before anybody else and trades on it. He sells his stakes in a couple of Drug Companies and assures them. You have said both wall street has developed a reputation of not caring, which individuals ke of this story . Theefact is terrible Economic Conditions, that is what we have caused some people to try to cut corners or look for advantages. This will not sit well with individual investors, nor should it. This is blatant conduct at least if alleged, and if it is proven, this individualill do a substantial amount of jail time. Gerri of course you would not excuse anybody for doing Something Like this because of Economic Conditions are bad, having said that tho
Drillers. 3. 75 move there. David they have some good news in the homebuilding front today. Lifting a lot of good news for the homebuilders. Although there were some that were down. Lets take a look at the big mover in that sector, which was this one. If you look at the oneweek chart, you realize that we have barely been making up for lost ground. You dont want to underestimate hovnanian. The president has been talking with congressional and Business Leaders giving input on solving the nations fiscal problems. We are going to talk about our own fiscal summit as we have three Small Business owners from three very different businesses who are going to be here to talk about what they need to grow. Everyone saying that Small Business has to grow. It is the heart of the american economy. We are going to ask john oconnor, Kevin Maloney and 7eleven store owner patricia orzano in. Liz the guy on your screen is talking about deals. Coming up come an exclusive look at it exclusive Company Called