who won t have the advantage of a three-month training process. there s a reluctance to try to force them that upon them while they re fighting a war. so there may have to be some give-and-take involved in this. they re pretty much determined here now to get this, in fact the repeal enacted by the end of this year, chris. jim miklaszewski. please bleak outlook for the retirement safety net. in a nut shell a study says social security will be bankrupt in 26 years. richard lui is here with a closer look. we re sitting around the conference room this morning, and most of the people probably won t be retiring for 26 years. they were not happy to hear this. yeah, because when we reach that date, we would like to relax and think of a very positive time. we dream of that day all the time. you know, retirement scenes, not like that but like this. you know, white sand beaches, umbrellas, but hold on a second.
it s not going to be like that. according to a new report from the government, we re not going to have all that money in 2037. if you re in your early 40s or younger, that means that your retirement may not be there. the same on disability and receiving survivor benefits. a study says at current levels social security will go bankrupt in 2037. it will have no more money. that is despite this number way over there, $2.5 trillion. that is a big number. that is the cash in the bank that associate security built up since the 1980s. it is a huge surplus. sitting pretty? no. this year the program is spending $45 billion more than its taking in with the new tax cut, the program is $130 billion short. after 26 years of stuff like this, the bank account will go to zero. nobody wants to cut social security. it s a so-called sacred cow, but what would you do if you had to cut it? a new york times poll says that two out of three people,
does the glamour of the awards, it s a recent lawsuit behind the golden globes. tell us about that. so many stars have been shocked. jaws dropped. in a nut shell, two publicists are suing and the foreign press was one of the clients they are suing because of unethical conducts. they were not in line with that and they are filing a suit and demanding $2 million. brooke anderson spoke with phillip burke and he said these claims are baseless. this is just sour grapes from the two former publicists and he said this is all about money. they want their $2 million.
i think i wouldn t be human if i didn t have those moments of doubt and again the honest thing is every day filming at times when i m cold and scared and, you know, thinking what the hell, what the hell am i doing in this place? those are normal emotions up against it in life and i think a big part of survival is acknowledging those and trying to smile through them and come out the other side and the heart of survival is never quitting. that s the meat of it. what would you say are if keys to surviving in a dangerous situation or in a bad situation? i think the whole thing of being cheerful in adversity is a huge one. being able to smile when it s really raining and, you know, when the time is really tough and i think that and a combination of never giving up is actually, you know, that is survival. and, you know, i love that winston churchill quote that says never, ever, ever give up. and when you re going through hell, keep going. that is survival in a nut shell. you have a lis
$750 million out of $1 billion wasted according to the congressman. if true, it s a shocking amount of fraud. but he gets that figure by extrapolating from at most several people. we asked the usda, they gave us this statement. all allegations they say were forwarded to the office of the inspector general who in turn referred them to the fbi. the fbi prosecuted a total of three individuals. with approximately 20,000 claimants, three prosecutions means 0.015% of the claimants were determined by the fbi to be serious enough to merit prosecution. congressman king also says there have been more claims than possible farmers. the usda says in a nut shell that in the 15 years covered by the current bill, farms changed hands. according to the department, the 44,000 african-american farmers in 1996 were not all the same farmers in 1981, hence the additional claims, and that many farmers were driven out of business by discrimination. i spoke with congressman king a moments ago along with john