this is important. wow, you re pretty good at that. whose card was that? mika, you want to talk about engender gap, all of us holding this? it, like, brings back a flood of memories. is there a piece of gum in there? yes. i ll take the gum. i like that part. there was a time where i could tell you what every world series what the hell, is this like 80 years old? 1903 to 1981. do you remember those cartoon cards in the world series? yeah. i still have those somewhere, but it helped me memorize every world series. those things were great. how old is this gum? vintage. it s not about the gum. this is where young men get introduced to currency, seriously. this was money to us. jack clark hit an enormous number of home runs. jack clark was a vicious right-handed hitter. you would not want to be playing third base. the ball sounded differently off his bat. really quickly, bobby valentine out, about as
because of europe. europe s not our fault. i m not counting those in the question. mika, your question assumes that men and women that own businesses are looking for an excuse not to hire people? i have never met a business owner that didn t want to make more money, that didn t want to grow. and they are. that didn t want to hire. mika, let me finish, that didn t want to hire more people. you know what happens when you hire more people? you make more money. and that s why dooi and we ve heard it. the president will walk into a meeting with all of these business owners. and he ll say to them, this is his advice, hire more people. hire more team. i want to do a real estate game. i m trying to buy property. but they won t because they prefer their profits. i m trying to buy property. mika, that s just dead wrong. that is just dead wrong. if you want to expand restaurant, small real estate business, you need loans, okay. but all you want to do, if you have one building i
political fighting. that s why the uncertainty scares people, not just the fiscal cliff but dealing with the fiscal cliff. mika, i think you re right. i think you re right. whatever you said was right. mm-hmm. jim cramer, thank you very much. blank check. she gets a blank check. not great number. i m afraid. not great number. we ll see you on mad money. thank you. weeknights at 6:00 and 11 on cnbc. it s an amazing show. our conversation with ed asner. first a story of courage and survival in nazi-occupied poland. look at this, it s a family reunion, mika! author matthew brzezinski joins us next. come here. i didn t see you standing over there. how are you doing? it s great to see you.
use, obama and biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. guess what? yes, we do, in one regard. we want to let that trillion-dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super wealthy. that s not a tax raise. that s called fairness where i come from. mike, we love him. okay. i m just wondering, because i m not sure, it didn t work for mondale in 84 in san francisco, but should joe biden, our dear friend, be promising a trillion-dollar tax increase? well, you know, the sound bite is not going to work. yes, we will raise taxes. yes, we will. you wonder what people hear after he says that. a trillion-dollar tax hike. warren buffett will pay more in taxes. that sort of works but he never really got there.
they re scaring the hell out of millions of small business owners, and it all comes down to uncertainty. we hear it every day wherever we go. we re afraid to hire. if you look at the 18 different breaks that the president gave small business, almost entirely a lot of them require you to be profitable. come on. we know when you start a business, you re not making money. but we at least know where to go if we know whether government s going to say this is all we care about. they seem to care about everything. so jim, is it possible that for some of these businesses that are flush with cash, that are making profits, that they re using uncertainty as an excuse? is there an argument there? why aren t they hiring? i think everyone wants to beat the numbers so to speak, and you want to do it through growth not just through bottom line. money is tantalizing. this is billions of dollars. there s some industries that aren t growing clearly, technology is in entrenchment