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Whatever utility it is to illegal immigrants, saying cutting off utilities to illegal immigrants protects rate payers from price hikes. ed, is this a good idea for your party? >> it's not a good idea for our party. what a good idea for our party is to make sure illegals don't come across the border, and when you find them, put them back where they belong. but i think if they're here and you start penalizing them and getting into things like this, i think it backfires. the key thing is have a federal law, enforce the federal law, and that is that people can't come into this country illegally. >...

We're spending the $7.2 billion on the program already for the stimulus package. i forgot. an entirely separate new fund to do exactly the same thing which is going to be filled up by what they call the rate-payers. it had to look that up. it found out who it is. you? yes. my only complaint here is what happens if little suzie here, she may have an oh, a hor but doesn't have a laptop? may i propose a universal laptop program? then again, how is she going to charge the laptops? universal electricity also. you know, if you look at this mortgage delinquency chart -- do we have it here? the number...

That's it. we're spending the $7.2 billion on the program already for the stimulus package. i forgot. an entirely separate new fund to do exactly the same thing which is going to be filled up by what they call the rate-payers. it had to look that up. it found out who it is. you? yes. my only complaint here is what happens if little suzie here, she may have an oh, a hor but doesn't have a laptop? may i propose a universal laptop program? then again, how is she going to charge the laptops? universal electricity also. you know, if you look at this mortgage delinquency chart -- do we have it here?...

Section of the line was more than six decades old. and just today we've learned this, that pg&e, the local utility, knew for three years that the pipeline itself was dangerous. so dangerous they committed to repair a portion of it just a couple miles north of the explosion site, but they did not fix it. and to add insult to injury, pg&e was already getting millions of dollars from utility customers. those millions were meant to be spent doing the work they said they'd do, but they didn't. millions from rate payers who some of them, the same people whose homes are now gone. dan simon did the rp...

We have a fireball still coming out. >> of course they didn't know it wasn't a plane, they didn't know at first. it was a gas line. later we would learn a broken section of the line was more than six decades old. and just today we've learned this, that pg&e, the local utility, knew for three years that the pipeline itself was dangerous. so dangerous they committed to repair a portion of it just a couple miles north of the explosion site, but they did not fix it. and to add insult to injury, pg&e was already getting millions of dollars from utility customers, those millions were meant to be spe...