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>> you started from the ground floor from scratch and you have made it a business, although i know in the rough economy you have lost a lot of clients over the last three years or so. you know, somebody from the white house is probably watching right now, tanya. what's your message to the president? >> my message is, mr. president, i very greatly respect the position of the presidency. however, you have not ever run a business, you have not ever started a business, so what right do you have to say that somebody else built our small businesses for us? you've never been there, done that. you hav...

Expenses. but we didn't want to reduce our service by cutting bodies that we need and we really didn't want to put more people out of work. it wasn't good for our local economy. the other casino had laid a lot of people off. we went to all of our employees and everybody across the board from the line level to the executives took pay cuts, 4%, 7 1/2% and 10% for the executives and we rolled that out. to keep everybody working. i had employee meetings and actually, at that time, people applauded, after i told them we were reducing everybody's pay because people wanted to stay working. >> wow. th...

2008, 2009. ridership did decline. but we said we need to hold our pricing, we offer specials. we may end up having to raise prices a little for 2012. but we are still talking about that. >> are you aware of cuts in many places where you had to trim with this bar? >> owner tries to keep everybody working. we are opening later. we usually open at 10 in the morning. we are opening on 12 on certain days there. is a trimming of labor that is going through for sure. >> to stay an threat keep visitors coming and their employees happy businesses have to think create actively. >> in 2008 when the pric...

>> reporter: things were rough 2008, 2009. ridership did decline. but we said we need to hold our pricing, we offer specials. we may end up having to raise prices a little for 2012. but we are still talking about that. >> are you aware of cuts in many places where you had to trim with this bar? >> owner tries to keep everybody working. we are opening later. we usually open at 10 in the morning. we are opening on 12 on certain days there. is a trimming of labor that is going through for sure. >> to stay an threat keep visitors coming and their employees happy businesses have to think create act...

Keep you in business, as n.p.r. does. the thing about this tape, this guy schiller, he is not small potatoes. he was senior vice president at n.p.r. he's saying, we don't need -- n.p.r. would be better off it did not accept federal funding. and you have eric cantor coming out saying, right, so let's not appropriate it. >> there's a huge difference between having a nonprofit and getting government funds in the tens of millions of dollars per year, like n.p.r. does. i will not sit here and say that every 501c3 is getting money from the argument. that's ridiculous, nancy, and you know that. this ...