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You can play with the years and the trends and everything else. worker productivity in this country is absolutely awesome. but you know what? we just have a hard time paying people. get your cell phones out. want to know what you think. tonights question. what is more important to the republican party? text a for corporate profits. text b for people. heres the number. 67622. you can always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com and leave a comment. we encourage you to do that. well bring you the results...

And the public is watching how mad they are. somehow or another they think by acting mad theyre going to -- >> but they dont like obama. they dont want to give him anything. thats what its. >> no, they never have liked him. >> weve got a little footage from an old movie called "the war room." you may recognize this guy. here it is. >> james carville is known as the ragin cajun in the business. >> let me tell you whats at stake in this election. its about george bush and the whole sleazy little c...

The fourth year in a row. this has gotten very little attention. health care experts do not fully understand the causes, but they agree that part of the reason is a change in the health care delivery system, including financial incentives and obama care. what do you make of that? >> it is true. obama care hasnt gone into effect yet for the most part, but this is an odd thing that was never intended by the people who wrote obama care in the legislature who were basically feathering the nest of th...

And thats the last she wants to hear of any sort of disability. >> joining us, mary carillo, nbc news and sports contributor. good to have you on "the ed show" tonight. >> pleasure, ed. but im sorry we have to be talking about this tragedy. >> it is a terrible tragedy. a shocker to south africa, no doubt. and from everything ive read about oscar, its so out of character. what is your read on this story? >> i got to spend days with oscar pistorius in the months before the olympic games. he hadnt ...

Development. and president obama, of course, continually made the case that this law would bend the cost curve, and were seeing it here before any of the experts called it. >> that is true, ed. but i -- you know, they were making that argument based on ipad working or something like that. the real reason is -- and i say this as a guy who wanted a public option very badly. >> sure. >> is that if -- because its in the private sector the private sector is actually figuring out how to -- they unders...

About the military, but yet theyre really showing a lot of pique here. if we dont get what they want out of the administration on a completely separate issue theyre going to penalize. theyre going to penalize the pentagon. and that just to me is really not mature. its not playing grown-ups. its just using political leverage for your own hobbyhorse. and this is an issue that the president and others should try to take to the public -- >> my point in this is it could have been avoided. this is wha...

Combat offshore tax evasion. now, the united states now has reached agreements with eight countries including the united kingdom. the united states plans to forge agreements with 50 countries, count them, five zero. even before today the treasury department was starting to aggressively pursue tax evaders. the united states government has already won about 50 criminal cases and collected more than $5.5 billion by finding undeclared offshore accounts. and you have to wonder, is this just the begin...

Jamie ed schultz good to have you with us tonight. i mean absolutely. this has been memorable to say the least. what is the first thing you are going to do when you get off the ship. >> i dont know. we have beeen talking about wha kind of food you want. >> we have family members meeting us. i might kiss the ground. jamie lamb with us a passenger on the ship. >> it had to offer up a wide range of emotions for you tell

Her. >> lets go back to jany baker. >> i know care row lynn and she is still in her state room. service is in and ow. i do have another friend that would like to speak. her name is cindy and she fell on this boat. >> cindy mccage. >> okay. >> hello cindy? >> hold on one second. >> hello this is cindy. >> ed schultz thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >> well, im anxious to get off the ship. >> did you have a fall? >> i did the first day. i did fall. and i hurt the left thigh and i bu...

Got my first pair of prosthetic legs. in the morning she said to my brother he must put ofrn his shoes and i must put on my legs and thats the last she wants to hear of any sort of disability. >> joining us, mary carillo, nbc news and sports contributor. good to have you on "the ed show" tonight. >> pleasure, ed. but im sorry we have to be talking about this tragedy. >> it is a terrible tragedy. a shocker to south africa, no doubt. and from everything ive read about oscar, its so out of characte...