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Were renewed the patriot act for another four years and passed the 2012 national defense authorization act, a $662 billion bill that codified indefinite military detention for the first time and barred the transfer of prisoners from guantanamo bay to the united states. and last month they passed the defense authorization act that included the same indefinite detention at guantanamo bay provisions as the 2012 version and a new round of iran sanctions mention other things. and last week they revised the wire-tapping act which allows the government to spy on american's e-mail and common communica...

Agreed on a plan. after the wrappingalling, horse trading and bab stabbing, what did they come up with? this graph on the left shows the revenue increases. $62 billion. on the right is how much we add to deficit ever year. i call this a fiscal farce. taxes going up. mandatory sequestration wasn't mandatory after all. we've been told another bottle of d.c. snake oil. in the end, president obama got his way, a deal and moments later he boarded air force one and jetted off to hawaii to enjoy the golf, hawaiian ice cream and the body surfing. i open up with you. give you props here. you said it wo...

The president has to give and go to thenate bill for 20% tax and gain and dividends. the next place and big one is how you deal with deductions then, reforming that. my idea is capping all of them at 28%. let the deductions stay the same. take deductions but you can't lower tax rate below 28%. no matter how many you take. decent idea. top tier. democrats might go for it. >> this isn't an attempt to get more revenue. if you raise top rates back to where they were under clinton you can get $462 billion. if you do what joe suggested top rates you can only deduct 28 cents of each dollar that

$62 billion expected to be spent over the black friday weekend. that goes through sunday. the average american will spend $368 on black friday, today. then throughout the holiday season. again, as the shoppers are here and out and about at macy's, they're looking for deals. we're seeing some super sales. how are you? >> i'm pretty good. >> good morning. so did you come early today? >> no, i got in right now. >> what's your name? >> james. >> what are you looking for today? >> socks. >> that's it? >> just socks. >> you came to macy's on black friday to buy socks? >> i'm gog get a year's worth o...

Worst in the country. and how bad? realty track says one in 298 housing units in illinois were in the process of foreclosing last month. florida has the second worst foreclosure rate. california's got it third. [ music playing ] well, bruno mars sings about $1 billion but we are talking about billions and billions. the companies with the most cash right now, the web site 24/7 wall street says microsoft is the king of cash with slightly more than $62 billion in cash and short term investments. overall corporate america has seen its cash holdings soar to more than $1.25 trillion. that's not in...