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Some cuts from what you had, but you still have to be able to live. we wish you very well, christina. thank you. [ applause ] were joined by a couple of small business owners. they want to grow their businesses, would like to hire more employees but cant. we talked to them in the past, both have been on the show. were very happy to have them back. william marst, and gina martin of little rock tours. great to have you both back. gina, ill start with you. when we talked before, when you were on th...

Got? william? >> well, were not looking to hire in this environment. the market -- >> is it the environment? would you be hiring if it was a different climate? >> opportunity for american manufacturing is unbelievable. if you look at natural resources, the growth in the global economy, the innovation history in america, our human capital, american manufacturing has a once in a lifetime opportunity to expand and once again dominate the world, and it breaks my heart that at 40 years old, relativel...

William, when you were here before, you talked about the challenges you face. you have a smaller company, handful of employees. how does the current policies of the government, whether it is obama care or tax policies, how does that keep you from growing? >> well, you hit the nail on the head, governor. you said this the affordable care act was supposed to, quote, bend the cost curve down. my health insurance agent came into my office about a week ago, said in 2014 when obama care is instituted ...

Up. every single aspect of what we do keeps going up and up. >> here is what i find interesting. the affordable care act was supposed to make health care more affordable, supposed to make it more accessible. your employees were already getting health care. now theyre threatened with not getting it at all because the cost of the affordable care is not affordable. did i get that right? >> thats right. >> i think thats pretty -- it kind of goes against what should be happening. william, when you we...

You can separate hard work from success, then a lot of things were dealing with now start to make sense. i dont want to sound like somebodys angry uncle on the porch screaming at kids to get off the lawn, but look, i dont care if you work for mcdonalds or for williams company that was just out here. if you show up early, if you stay late, and if you volunteer for the hard stuff, youre going to run that organization before too long. we just dont talk about that. >> thats such an important piece o...

Businesses. this is about survival, and it gets down to you only have so much money, and you have to allocate what you want to do with that money. if you throw it into health care, you dont have a business. so these are the choices that were faced with. >> in the little time we have, i want both of you to tell me if you anticipate that you will hire new people over the next 12 to 15 months, will you let go some people because you just cant afford them anymore, or are you hoping to just hang on t...

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