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Websites at once, one of which just flat out told the people there they should pledge to not get insurance. another ended up giving the same advice, dont do it under any circumstance. yesterday, the l.a. times reported on the same kind of trick being reported in california. in california it is not the same type of random group, in california it is the state republican party. california republicans are a bit of an endangered species right now, but when they learned that the health insurance websi...

Gear.com. never imagining hed still be paying the price five years later. the palmers say the items they ordered never arrived. the transaction was canceled. >> after 30 days or so, pay pal said theres no activity here and they turned around and gave the money back to my husbands account and effectively canceled the sale. >> reporter: after repeated calls to clear gear to find out what happened, jen palmer posted this review of the company on rip-off report.com saying, in part, there is absolute...

Brilliant michael jackson commercial, the secret inside industry was that it was a big joke because the sale of both companies rose when they attacked each other. thats why i thought the ad agency that came up with this idea of selling broccoli, when they attacked kale, thats what the food giants know that when they spar with each other, its a bloodless sparring on their part and we are the ones that eat more. it generates buzz for the whole industry. >> you mean you and i right now have fallen ...

Insurance you can keep it. theres a trust issue here. the people that hhs in charge of developing that website rolled it out with all of the flaws in it. these are the same people that are going to really manage health care going forward and how can we trust them? >> how do you answer that, congressman welch? into theres a difference between a defective website. we had that when george bush passed medicare part d. there was a lot of problems there. the republicans were defending it then. theres ...

Its going to be too expensive. its a big problem. thats why bob is diverting, distracting. because he knows its really bad. thats why bad doesnt want to eat it. if bob doesnt want to eat it, it must be a stinker, let me tell you. >> okay, i dont want to get eric mad. so ill just say i said this, i think we ought to delay it until we get it right. i disagree with you guys that i believe insurance exchanges make sense. the medical insurance industry has ripped this country off and doctors charge t...

Its not going to work. its going to be too expensive. its a big problem. thats why bob is diverting, distracting. because he knows its really bad. thats why bad doesnt want to eat it. if bob doesnt want to eat it, it must be a stinker, let me tell you. >> okay, i dont want to get eric mad. so ill just say i said this, i think we ought to delay it until we get it right. i disagree with you guys that i believe insurance exchanges make sense. the medical insurance industry has ripped this country o...

It has now been more than three and a half years since the ipad came out. and i think what were looking for is not just can we make the iphone 5 a little bit better, can we make another one a little bit cheaper? but can we do something totally different, or steve would have said, think different. >> this seems to be the spark that is missing. is something brand-new that just knocks your socks off. you know, steve job would stand there and it would be like wow! and we have not had that moment rea...

And i think what were looking for is not just can we make the iphone 5 a little bit better, can we make another one a little bit cheaper? but can we do something totally different, or steve would have said, think different. >> this seems to be the spark that is missing. is something brand-new that just knocks your socks off. you know, steve job would stand there and it would be like wow! and we have not had that moment really, since he died, i dont think. >> and what happens is, if apple doesnt ...

Pretty good copy or ripoff as steve would put it. so what apple has to be is more creative. there will be possibly a watch better than the one samsung did. i hope eventually they will come up with a tv set in which the content, the software and the product, and an easy user interface is easily integrated. i just hope they will think like steve, which means think different. >> the trouble is, you probably have to be steve jobs to think like steve jobs. and that is a problem when you have such a b...

Textbooks. look for used textbooks, download things online. lots of ways to start budgeting, thinking about what is the financial behavior i want to set up now so i do not start racking up credit card debt. >> those books are a rip-off. you pay $80 then turn them in and they give you $5 for them. we used to do that. thats ridiculous. >> youre going to buy them, take advantage, thats a mistake. >> freshman 15, dont make that mistake. >> im not going to say, dont drink, dont eat poorly, lets face ...