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Cant enter, what we have is the ultimate irony. a plan designed to allow the uninsured to get insurance is, in fact, throwing people with insurance into a state of uninsuran uninsurance. its the exact opposite and something you expect with a central kind of planning. you know, that was tried in the soviet era. it never worked for steel and concrete. its not going to work in obama care. >> now the man whos been charged with fixing the website comes out and says it remains a long way from where it...

>> esther -- >> i say more than that. lets be clear. we had a health system that was broken, everybody -- so many people were a check away from bankruptcy. the challenge that exists is the one hand, the rollout is a problem. you have a president who ran one of the most sophisticated campaigns to win -- not just one but two elections. and because of that kind of technological expertise, to have a website that doesnt work just creates this question of competen competence, which is deeply problemat...

Point for older workers. and it maybe not be something we wish for them, but people have accepted that. i think its really important to understand that people dont -- when you lose your job and youve worked at the same company for 25 or 30 years, the next day you dont go out and say im going to take a pay cut of 25% or 50%. adjustment process. >> takes a while to get there. the voices in the film are critically important. i thank you for that work. thank you to peter goodman, susan siprelle, cla...

Get an interview, i mean, stories are legion, people go months with no callbacks whatsoever. when they do get the callbacks theres a palpable sense of disappointment from the person sit across the table, just an assumption that, you know, well if youre already middle-aged youve probably lost your mojo and thats not something that you can recover from regardless of your skills. >> as opposed to having developed a life-long track record of work and work ethic and experience and knowledge. >> i lov...

And we hear from so many long-term unemployed workers that, you know, the fact of extended unemployment itself just becomes a distinct obstacle to working again. and it really is all about spurring demand, and at least in the short term what we can do is at least make sure that people who are out of work have a strong safety net to get boy bi. >> we talk about discrimination around questions of race, but theres also kind of ageism and an assumption that you dont want a 50-plus worker. >> enormou...

Doesnt work or quite frankly some womens bodies just actually dont work for it. >> im sorry. excuse me. did i hear that right? its womens bodies that dont work? >> for the pants? >> they dont work for some womens bodies. >> so what type of body dont work in lieu lu lemon pants, chip? can you be more specific? >> you know, the rubbing through their thigh, how much pressure is there over a period of time and how much -- >> oh. its for women whose thighs touch. youve already said that lululemon won...

By march of 2014, that number could increase to an additional 850,000 workers who will exhaust their state unemployment insurance and have no access to federal aid. among that population of long-term unemployed are some of the middle-class workers who have been hardest hit by the recession, the 3 million members of the baby boom generation workers over 50 but still far from retirement who suddenly find themselves jobless after a lifetime of employment. the story and struggles of some of those am...

To work? if you do, would with the irs history and track record, you may be insane. let me make plain. i am not suggesting we have no irs. we need to collect money to run our government. and im not pushing any particular tax theme, progressive, value-added income, et cetera, whatever itself im merely pointing out the obvious. what our politicians wont face. the irs as is cant be fixed. times up. we need to start over from scratch. get out the bulldozer, full speed ahead, an thats my "off the rec...

>> thats going to cost more money. congress wont approve it and you need legislative approval for that. do i think the president is talking about it? yes. what is a good idea is to extend the insurances for people to the end of the year that have their plan and like it. but they will change going forward as insurance plans often do to extend the enrollment period to the period of time i believe it takes for the website. end of the month if that happens. but not to delay for one year the individu...

Collect revenue, but have we reached the stupid point, the point where we wont admit the obvious, it doesnt work. and yet we try to fix it, just like the money pit car you may have owned. no matter how much you spend to fix the car, it doesnt work. i mean, face it. thats where we are. thats the irs. unfair, inefficient, incompetent, full of special deals for special people, and in some instance, criminal activity. how many more red flags to the american people and politicians need? irs employees...