Estimated 280,000 of our residents are going to be 65 and older. You said a couple years ago that the answer to saving medicare was obamacare. Rocky rollout, highly unpopular. The one thing that we have not enforced is the provision of obamacare that is 3601, and that is the statement that says any savings that is generated from medicare shall be reinvested into medicare and shall go to the reduction of premiums for the elderly and also for the provision of service. If you remember the election both mitt romney and president obama agreed to was there was a 700 billion savings attributed to medicare. But what happened to that money . People tend to put it into deficit reduction versus what it was intended to. So on the specific issue of medicare if we can hold peoples feet to the fire and make them follow the law yes the savings will then keep medicare alive. How do we do that . The 700 billion instead of looking at it for deficit reduction, if they followed the law the law says obama c
Dozen countries. We are live on the ground to check the progress and see however some countries still have to go. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. We begin with breaking news out of missouri. Theres been another Fatal Shooting in the st. Louis area involving a Police Officer and teenager. It happened this time in berkeley, less than three miles from the ferguson neighborhood where Michael Brown was shot and killed in august. Police say a suspect pulled a gun on an officer outside a gas station and the officer fired back. Local reports say the suspect was 18 years old. Afterwards, a crowd of people gathered in the scene and many rushed at the police and broke into a Convenience Store across the street. Police fired tear gas to break up the crowd. No word on any arrests. Meanwhile, the new york city skyline went dark in honor of the two Police Officers shot and killed over the weekend. The mayor asked protestors to honor the fallen officers and hold off on more anti Police De
Early numbers from shoppers indicate they did not spend as much as they did last year. Welcome to the show. Just getting some eurozone pmi data out. This the second reading out for november. The wide numbers come in at 50. 1, previous month was 50. 6. The forecast was 50. 4. Its come in below forecast. This follows the individual readings out from france and germany. Germany the headline number coming out at 49. 5, retraction territory. The lowest reading for germany in the last 15 months. The eurozone wide number coming in at 50. 1. The euro dollar at 124. 55. Italys final Third Quarter came in at negative 0. 1 . Contraction in growth for the Third Quarter. Italy has shrunk or stagnated for the last 13 consecutive quarters. Fragile recovery thus far for italy. Joining us know is the chief Investment Officer at tatan investment. The eurozone number below expectations. The german number coming in with retraction. Is that a surprise . That is a bit of a surprise. I would have thought aft
[inaudible conversations] next day here in looking how veterans are transitioning to civilian life. In a washington journal segment on the destruction of chemical weapons and later a discussion about brain injuries and the elderly. A lot of people dont know how difficult it is. I dont know one person may be in this room that can juggle the things me and my husband have to juggle every single day with having three children on medical disabilities going back and forth to work sometimes maybe having too taken under the table job just to bring in extra money. There isnt a lazy bone in my body. There are many people that live in the inner city under the Poverty Level that are not easy. We want to be a part of the conversation. We want to have fulltime jobs and go to school and go to college and things like that and i actually believe that certain people just put the stamp of sleazy on us and to put a smoke screen that could not can not be able to see what is really going on. To point the fi
Mr. Carper mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from delaware. Mr. Carper mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Carper thank you mr. President. Well mr. President Congress Says here we do a lot of oversight, oversight thats focused on what is going right and also what is going wrong in our government. Theres a lot of each actually. That oversight is critically important work. Sometimes overlooked but critically important. I think its also important to stop and recognize where things are going right from time to time and people that are doing the right thing. Following in the footsteps of one of our former colleagues here i dont think the presiding officer had a chance to work with him but ted kaufman served here for two years. He succeeded joe biden and went off to do some other job. I think Vice President maybe thats what he is. And then before senator chris coons was elected two years later,