it cannot afford to pay the promises they made to the public sector. the crushing debt is not new. it s something that mayor rahm emanuel knew about when he took office. he knew not to deal with it in 2014. listen. you don t balance the budget by promoting recreational smoking of pot. tucker: yeah, you shouldn t get rich off the addictions of your own people. you wouldn t do that to your kids. don t do it to your city. now emanuel has reversed course and decided the best way to balance the budget is to make marijuana legal and open a casino. mark steyn is not an account and the or budget director but a best sell-author a frequent guest here. we re happy to have him tonight. mark, as a philosophical matter, are our leaders supposed to be profiting from our addiction? not in a healthy society.
there, 11 of them on life support. by the time we got to the hospital, the ambulances were lined up to take them out to other hospitals. that s the kind of action we need on the ground. i m going now to northern manhattan for a relief effort and later to the bongs. bronx. the entire city is coming around to support puerto rico. we re doing a better job than the federal administration. that s sad. the people in new york city are doing a better job than the administration. celebrities are being very proactive. where is congress in this? is there going to be a bill to deal with puerto rico s debt? there s talk maybe this crushing debt should be the done away with. congress could help. what is congress doing? i came out with a ten-point plan which includes mediate funding. we didn t do it last week. we have to do it this week. we re going on the third week of this crisis. municipalities have paid close
it s good to get back. later this morning, president obama will give his final speech abroad in a little more than an hour from now. yesterday he held a joint news conference with alexis tip sipp police. it s going to be a busy morning for president obama, who will be giving his final speech on foreign soil. a big picture look at the world, but a very different view than he might have given had donald trump not been elected. now all the questions that are being asked by foreign leaders, including the groeks. president obama has tried to help them deal with a crushing debt. unsalvageable is the way donald trump has looked at it, and so these kinds of questions, these kinds of concerns, he s going to be addressing today in a speech that i m told has kept at least one senior aide up for most of the last three days. now, yesterday he gave a press conference with the greek prime minister and i asked him about
in europe. instead, of course, he finds himself defending donald trump or at the very least trying to calm the fears of many world leaders. greece with its crushing debt. the u.s. has helped them to get toward finding a better path towards solvency. donald trump has called the greek debt problem unsalvageable. so today with the greek prime minister he talked about how he does not believe this election was a referendum either on his tenure as president or on his world view. take a listen. i do believe separate and apart from any particular election or movement that we are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of
give him a hand. let me tell you something, at least that guy s for something. he didn t come here to bad mouth anybody. we ought to give him a hand. in this world, that s rare enough. all right, so look, i want to say these things real quick, then we ll get on with the show. one is, we have gotten all the jobs back we lost in the crash. we got them back two years earlier than the historic average. normally it takes ten years to do that after a financial crash. but we don t have the income growth back. we don t have the job security back. we don t have the ability to educate people and get out of college without a crushing debt back. we don t have affordable childcare. we re one of nine nations in the world without paid family leave. we don t have equal pay for women, and that s why we only rank 20th in the world in a