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>> its not a business. >> it is a business. >> its not a business. >> americans every day separates their line of operation. they can identify their funds. it is great for the accountants. im talking to both of you, im talking about accountability and transparency. matt, transparency, the solution? >> absolutely. lets look at what she just said. she said everything planned parenthood is legal. they just settled a case for medicare fraud. medicaid fraud in tex for over $4 million. the reason why ...

>> its not a business. >> it is a business. >> its not a business. >> americans every day separates their line of operation. they can identify their funds. it is great for the accountants. im talking to both of you, im talking about accountability and transparency. matt, transparency, the solution? >> absolutely. lets look at what she just said. she said everything planned parenthood is legal. they just settled a case for medicare fraud. medicaid fraud in tex for over $4 million. the reason why ...

It about the children because people dont want to hear about the compensation plans of teachers and a lot of americans think theyre overpaid anyway. my problem with it, if you wanted to raise the pay of teachers who make better programs, incentive pay, whatever it is for the students benefit. you can make a case for that. just pay them more than the free market wage, doesnt do anything for kids. higher wages can make sense, but the way the unions go about it doesnt make a difference for our kids...

This factory in norwell, massachusetts, still does. the company makes symbols. he has been testing them more than half a century. >> you are not going to find would of these that are the same. >> reporter: mark is confident the 70 workers on the production line will always have good paying jobs. >> i have been here 26 years in june. i have never seen a layoff here ever. >> reporter: because no one competes with a machine. when a it is a is automated, the employee is taught another one. george ha...

Or the quasi unionized workers should look at hostess and say the whole place could shout down if they do this. >> andrea: what should wal-mart as they prepare for busiest day in shopping say? they cant say get the heck out and bring new people in. i guess they could. >> dana: timing wise from workers porous perspective, perfect timing. everyone is talking about black friday. america needs strong retail season to help financially. i dont understand why there couldnt discussion about the incentiv...

Created by the p.c. to ensure were not nation guardful for anything. if you are thankful for anything, its highe a higher p. >> bob: what is lucutoin mean? >> greg: a word. there is a higher power and its bill oreilly. >> bob: what is it? >> andrea: the strikes are coming at an interesting time. people are travelling. >> dana: they learned from france. this happened in france when they strike in france, they do it around a holiday. i dont think they strike at any other time. it gets people like ...

Organizational dynamics. think i think is an important point, when we talk about incentives, were undertaking a huge massive experiment -- we think of it has naturally a good thing. but we do look at the cost, the kind of costs you talk about. heres mitt romney sighing he supports incentive pay for government workers. >> i do believe in linking my incentives and my commitment to the -- people recognize that anear gotting to get rewarded in substantial ways unless theyre able to achieve the objec...

Minds of the shareholders. is that a fair thing to say? >> look, you can have regulation do the job and you can have markets do the job. i prefer marketing doing the job and thats whats happening here. if you dont have either you will have more protest. >> if you were a shareholder how much would you give them. >> i would say if you have earnings that are only one third of where they were in the past couple years, you should not qualify for incentive pay and thats the way it is written right now...

How do we incentivize the right kinds of behaviors or regulate to get those kind of stewardship behaviors like youre talking about. because it seems like no matter what happens, theres always the desire, well just figure out another way to cheat the system and make more money. >> karen, youre so right. my solution is it starts from the top. so lets have the ceos not take their incentive pay until two years after they retire. because we all know how you can dress up the results of company. now, m...

Teachers and only got rid of five and jimmy carter tried to do this and had a pay for performance bill that passed and the legislators watered it down with outlawing favoratism and put in more reviews for the workers. >> bill, when you allow the union rules that go in effect and allow seniority trump performance teachers of the year get fired over teachers who did nothing for years. thats no good. >> you want to be pulled over by a cop who gets a bonus for writing more tickets or kids getting ex...