illinois s state senator barack obama speaking at the 2004 democratic convention, expressing a sentiment so stirring, so patriotic that the speech is barely remembered for all of the parts of it that were about john kerry and john edwards. remember those guys? what we remember from that convention is the united states of america. but united is not the same thing as identical. we are not the identical states of america. and today the first business day of the new year, this is one of those days when you might really feel the difference between liberal america and conservative america. as of today, as of this week, people who earn the minimum wage saw their hourly pay go up in ten states. in all those states except for rhode island, the increase happened automatically because the state governments decided at some point that the minimum wage should go up automatically to keep up with inflation. and in those states, the average minimum wage is $8.12 an hour. $8.12 an hour. everywhere els
level down. the summer blend is needed to achieve better air quality. why not go with the cheaper blend now? guest: that is what california is doing. why not nationally? why not just do it? i got a good one, why not lift the blending requirement completely? guest: because if you did lit that blinding requirement you would only achieve a 3 cent a gallon savings. you have . not according to jerry brown, he said it . guest: i already said that, nationally, eric, suspending the air quality standards for gasoline fuel blends will not make a difference. why do you say it is only unique to california? i am looking at gasoline rices in chicago area, chicago alone, $4.304 a gallon. new york city, $4.12. there are a lot of location
this year is going to be a bad one. despite a bank bailout taking shape that could bring his country $125 billion resolution with a rescue from europe. health new calls for federal investigation into west coast oil refineries. democratic senator cantwell from washington state says they may be contributing to the high cost of gas in hero john of her area of the country. the average gas price not united states is right now according to aaa $3.54 but on the west coast, drivers on average pay $4.12 a gallon. what is going on? senior business corporate and anchor of bulls and bears organization joins us with a little bit of insight. so, is this investigation warranted? is this a case of private fixing on behalf of the oil refineries? guest: there are fewer oil refiners in the west coast than
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towards the economy as the issue in the campaign and that s going to be a very important turning point for president obama because his record is now at stake as you heard from charles krauthammer. yeah, but the unemployment rate although it s higher when he took office has come down under his watch, right? that s all he s got to point out is the direction that may be reversed. if a lot of these people who have stopped looking for a job start looking for a job and, you know, their unemployment rate could actually go back up again and look at that on the screen, the real unemployment rate. if you include all those people who just dropped out of the work force because they can t these discouraged and no longer collecting benefits and they re discouraged. you put them back in the work force and your real unemployment rate is just shy of 10%. so you make a very good point. yesterday you were on the couch talking about diesel prices. diesel average, i believe, is $4.12 a gallon. i ha