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Afforded to people. >> so you're now running for new york city comptroller. one of the duties in that job will be to manage $140 billion in pension assets. that is where a lot of the job's power comes from. you will go from being the sheriff of wall street to one of their largest customers. >> right. >> how do you -- how do you intend to use that? what is your sort of vision for how that will work? >> i've spoken at some length over the years about the capacity of controller, state controllers, municipal controllers. those who control pension funds. those who are the institutional investors to...

34 past the hour. welcome back to "morning joe." joe, economists talk about the great depression, but it may be the real kind of depression that's had a huge impact on the economy. the economic reporter for "the new york times" writes this, and i found this article you wrote fascinating, you write in part, the mentally ill are at a higher risk of poverty than their peers which increases their need for other public safety net services. their use of those services according to one es mass probably costs taxpayers another $140 billion to $160 billion a year. altogether, cumulative mental health i...

About $140 billion that's lost in just crime. you add those two up together, you have an enormous number. so this has got to be, you know, issue number one. you know, the president from early in his first term talked to the chinese about cyber hacking. you know, this year we've seen jack lew, treasury secretary, secretary of state john kerry, chairman of the joint chiefs martin dempsey, all go to beijing to talk about this issue. you know it's number one at the top. >> absolutely. there's been some talk lately about china benefiting most from oil in iraq as you know. >> yeah. >> here's jon ste...

Resolved for more than 125 days according to v.a. statistics. >> you should not have to stand in line for more than a year if you have a disability claim pending with the veterans administration. >> the average wait time 273 days. despite a half a billion-dollar new computer system designed to improve efficiency at the v.a., 97% of all claims are still filed on paper. two veterans affairs offices in virginia and north north carolina are facing structure turley damage to their facilities overbourbonned by the weight of these paper claims. meanwhile the budget for veterans affairs increased more...

Resolved for more than 125 days according to v.a. statistics. >> you should not have to stand in line for more than a year if you have a disability claim pending with the veterans administration. >> the average wait time 273 days. despite a half a billion-dollar new computer system designed to improve efficiency at the v.a., 97% of all claims are still filed on paper. two veterans affairs offices in virginia and north north carolina are facing structure turley damage to their facilities overbourbonned by the weight of these paper claims. meanwhile the budget for veterans affairs increased more...