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The longer you are in it, the longer you are likely to stay it and the benefits are needed you could argue more than anything else and the rate coming down but, you know, if this goes on, i mean, we might see it go back up again. thats a critical thing. >> leigh, its nice to see a woman there. >> absolutely. >> i have to say. but, you know, two other elements of tax changes that have been talked about less than the bush tax cuts and the payroll tax cut are for the wealthy, capital gains set to g...

If one of the eight women the cowed dies the others will ship been to cover the loan because their future loans depend on getting more money. that is with microfinance with the working poor to get access to capital it is our lifeline out of poverty. they know they can get access to future lonesome payback. john: you started it in 2005 already hundreds of millions of dollars. 850,000 lenders. thank you premal. kickstart uses a similar concept to find anything. people post projects, ideas

If one of the eight women the cowed dies the others will ship been to cover the loan because their future loans depend on getting more money. that is with microfinance with the working poor to get access to capital it is our lifeline out of poverty. they know they can get access to future lonesome payback. john: you started it in 2005 already hundreds of millions of dollars. 850,000 lenders. thank you premal. kickstart uses a similar concept to find anything. people post projects, ideas

If one of the eight women the cowed dies the others will ship been to cover the loan because their future loans depend on getting more money. that is with microfinance with the working poor to get access to capital it is our lifeline out of poverty. they know they can get access to future lonesome payback. john: you started it in 2005 already hundreds of millions of dollars. 850,000 lenders. thank you premal. kickstart uses a similar concept to find anything. people post projects, ideas

American people deserve to be treated fairly. now, weve gone along with this madness from the republicans that those at the top need a tax break and a tax cut, and this is just ludicrous. the american people have spoken. the re-election of president obama validates his particular approach here, which is that middle class people should not have a burden placed upon their shoulders. the working classes should not be punished, and god knows the working poor should not be further marginalized in thi...

Favorite governor. >> right. but if you look at the amount of money youre talking about that theyre turning down. for example, texas is talking about turning down $66 billion over ten years for its poor and for its uninsured. florida, $65 billion. georgia $33 billion. louisiana $16 billion for its uninsured and its poor. this is unsustainable. like you said, 95, 97% of all the resources are going to be borne by the federal government. and the important issue also to know is that 83% of the peopl...

Other than the snapshot of the president in swim trunks in hawaii while we go off the fiscal cliff, which is a bad photo op, or if he delays his trip for two days but sends his family off so we are paying for few flights to hawaii, other than that, what do you have going for you in terms of this debate? because it doesnt look like the republicans have a lot going for them right now going into this debate. >> well, first of all, we need to stop talking about tax rates because at then of the day t...

Other than the snapshot of the president in swim trunks in hawaii while we go off the fiscal cliff, which is a bad photo op, or if he delays his trip for two days but sends his family off so we are paying for few flights to hawaii, other than that, what do you have going for you in terms of this debate? because it doesnt look like the republicans have a lot going for them right now going into this debate. >> well, first of all, we need to stop talking about tax rates because at then of the day t...

Of the dollar menu. the environmental costs, and now talking about the human costs of underpaid labor. >> you know, michael, talking about the spokes people for the 1%, the spokes people for the middle class. talking about the working poor, which is what were talking about here. >> absolutely. >> this, i found staggering. walmart is -- one out of every ten american retail employees works at all mart, employs 1.4 million u.s. workers. this is according to a study, if large retailers paid $25,000 ...

>>eric: no talk about responsible democrats to stop spending so were, or cut back the spending, not just cutting back the increase rate in spending but item spending cuts. >>guest: the rate of increase doesnt have anything to do with the spain people are suffering whether they are middle class or poor. we were talking about the so-called fiscal cliff, if that happens, automatically taxes are going to go up for everyone. maybe, then, someone would ask, who was it that said we shouldnt just pass t...