ball-drop ceremony. another california city is on the brink of collapse. the reason? bloated police pensions. the city is desert hot spring. its 2013 budget revealing about $7 million in the city s $10.6 million annual payroll goes to the 39-member police force. that s more than 66% of their budget. are other countries cities across the country at risk? the host of varney and company staoufrt stuart varney is here to explain this. i was reading police officers as young as 50 can retire. how can that formula work? that very powerful police force that has pushed for these kind of very strong, lavish pay and pension benefits. they have been pushing for them for years and years. now they ve got to be paid. in many cities across the country it is the police and fire fighters pay and pensions which are breaking the back of cities
how about this for really interesting. a show i have never seen once in my entire life. apparently broke records because the duck dynasty made ratings history. here is why this is the most watched nonfiction series telecast in cable tv history raking in 11.8 million viewer at 10:00 p.m., a & e, docu-style sitcom. beat out the jersey shore and if you can believe it, my heart is sinking and tlc s jon & kate plus eight held the record 10.6 million. somebody said today move over, honey boo-boo. no space. we have duck dynasty. coming on in. new pictures of kim kardashian. the first pictures since she gave birth to north west in june. she apparently looks very happy. kind of gave us a peek at her post pregnancy body. yeah, she still need to lose some weight. come on it s true.
that s besides the point. how about this for really interesting. a show i have never seen once in my entire life. apparently broke records because the duck dynasty made ratings history. here is why this is the most watched nonfiction series telecast in cable tv history raking in 11.8 million viewer at 10:00 p.m., a & e, docu-style sitcom. beat out the jersey shore and if you can believe it, my heart is sinking and tlc s jon & kate plus eight held the record 10.6 million. somebody said today move over, honey boo-boo. no space for you anymore. we have duck dynasty. coming on in. new pictures of kim kardashian. the first pictures since she gave birth to north west in june. she apparently looks very happy. kind of gave us a peek at her post pregnancy body. yeah, she still need to lose some weight. come on it s true.
young people have no opportunities. that s the future will will have if we don t get this situation under control. bill: that from iowa. joe biden heads to the same state today. paul ryan will head to new hampshire and virginia later. iowa has six electoral votes and they re getting all kinds of attention and lets you know how every single vote counts in the election. martha: crowd in iowa. many states will enjoy that kind of attention as we go through the process. bombshell senate report highlighting serious abuses we want to tell you. errors in how the social security administration doles out disability benefits that report, found more than a quarter of those benefits should never have been awarded. according to one estimate the average lifetime disability award gets sent out, $300,000. and this is why this report matters. last year some 10.6 million people received more than $128 billion in disability insurance payments. everybody wants them to go
cost big tax payer money here. according to one estimate the average lifetime disability award is 100,000 dollars. tom covert who led the investigations said it found social security disability insurance and supplemental insurance company program are teetering on financial bankruptcy. the agency added 5.9 million americans to the roles since january 2009. and 10.6 million people were receiving 128 billion in disability payments. he shuttings benefits may be going to people who aren t suppose to do get them saying the purpose of the program are saying all americans have a safety net. it should remember this law means being unable to work any job in the national economy. social security administration weapon told foxnews.com quote we share the subcommittee s concern a small amount of judges have