proposeed, a solar reserve, supposed to be the biggest solar site in the world. you want to know how many homes it would power? 45,000. is that all you get for the biggest solar facility in the world? it is wildly inefficient and until somehow that inefficiency is corrected and why think it can be, it is going to be a money loser all the time. neil: there is no one to stop them on this? or go slow? and says first of all, whether we fund any futures solyndras or pushing, you know, more federal tax dollars after albatross, nothing at all. guest: it is hard to stop perceived virtue out of the washington, dc especially when there is a strong lobby. the energy and solar and windenergy are extremely powerful much more so through politics than the generators and they have a lot of pull in town.
egypt doesn t have an anti- anti-sodomy law other laws have been used to target gays and lesbians. and the rising influence of the muslim brotherhood could signal a new era of repression for gays and lesbian. let s not forget those there and elsewhere in the middle east and here struggling to live their lives freely. true democracy can only exist when there s equality for all. aren t you more optimistic and inexpired than you were a week ago considering the events coming out of cairo. gender role, implications for treatment of women, or am optimistic. i hate to be a debbie downer but it s important to keep things in context. there are women involved and gays and lesbians involved in
country. 80%! joining us now dean baker co-director for the center of economic and policy research in washington. put the cuts that are proposeed into context of the new spending? well, there are cuts there that are going to hit people. i mean we re cutting this broad area of domestic discretion jackers about 15% of the budget and that s being held in line with, i mean it s not being raised over five years and we ll see roughly 10%, 15% inflation. you ll see real cuts. home heating oil for low-income people. there s some other problems that are going hit people. actually i m not concerned about the spending right now because right now we really need spending in this economy. before we get to that, here s my concern. maybe i m lcompletely wrong. am i wrong that we re adding
no we re going the budget. even more fascinating. now that s a ratings grabber. bare chested congressman. the white house, first of all let s put this in context. we talked about this. largest budget deficit ever, $1.6 trillion. each trillion is 1,000 billion dollars. 2012, 1.1 trillion under the proposal, the best looking cut you get out of the white house that affects discretionary, the most vulnerable, least able to defend themselves, $33 billion which represent as 2% cut. good politics. walk the walk tough guy. doing nothing. gop, little better. 61 billion. comes out the 4%. we ll give them points for that other than the fact it s also irrelevant because we re dealing with trillions of dollars.
they want to shame property owners putting up signs 4 by 8 with the owner s name and numbers on the property for all to see. will this work? western massachusetts town administrator supports the idea which was proposeed by mark. thank you, gentleman. sir, you are the town select man. john, why are you resorting to this tactic? well, interestingly, for me, i supported it because i like the idea of the property owners getting a fraction of the phone calls that we get. we get decimated with calls on the properties. they are a plight in many neighborhoods. mark, these are more than just an eyesore in the neighborhood. they actually cost your town $9,000 a year. why? that is correct. well, each day our fire department and police department