alzheimer s affects more than just the person with the disease. millions of family members suddenly find themselves as caregivers, having to drop everything to deal with the illness. according to the alzheimer s association, some 15 million people, family members and friends, provided 17 billion hours or $202 billion of unpaid care to those with alzheimer s disease last year. leeza gibbons has made caring for the caregiver her cause after losing her grandmother and mother to the disease. no matter how smart you think you are, how educated you might be, how much money you might have, there is nothing more helpless and nothing more alone than knowing that someone you love has this diagnosis. my mom started showing symptoms in her late 50s. by the time she was 63, larry,
pressure. it would send floodwaters pouring across thousands of acres of missouri farmland. missouri has already lost one court case to stop that demolition and now asking the u.s. supreme court to step in. those are your headlines this hour. unthinkable: the alzheimer s epidemic continues right now. than just the person with the disease. ls of family members suddenly find themselves as caregivers, having to drop everything to deal with the illen. according to the alzheimer s association, some 15 million people, family members and friends, provided 17 billion hours or $202 billion of unpaid care to those with alzheimer s disease last year. leeza gibbons has made caring fort caregive her cause after
you know, my friend uses this great example. salt was a strategic commodity for thousands of years, the only way to preserve food, the only way to preserve meat. it was a really big deal. countries went to war over salt mines. and with the coming of the electricity grid, that ended in a few years. frozen meat was not only cheaper but tasted better. so refrigeration destroyed salt s strategic role. we still use it, we put it on the sidewalks in the winter, eat it on corn on the cob, but nobody looks at the salt shaker when they go to the table and wonder if we re salt independent. let s just look at some of the numbers. forget libya. cost of u.s. operations in iraq, $802 billion. cost of u.s. operations in afghanistan $455 billion. if oil didn t have the strategic importance that it does have,
different ideas about what should go, they re using the same confusing math. republicans say the total of their cuts would be $102 billion. democrats say there s would add up to $51 billion. the president says they re making concessions. my administration has put forward specific cuts that need congressional republicans halfway. i m prepared to do more. we ll own only finish the job together sitting at the table, working out differences. because $41 billion of both party totals is savings based on this year s budget which never passed, have democrats met republicans halfway? when you include the $4 billion cut in the current two-week budget extension, republicans want to chop off $61 billion total, democrats one sixth of that. 10 1/2 billion.
calculations be about $30 billion more in cuts, not 6.5. so is the president s math fuzzy at best? i think everybody is playing with the math right now. here is what we know, we have $50 billion difference between the democrats and republicans. that is large divide. i think everybody is going to have to give up something. the $61 billion in cuts is not going to past pass the senate and democrats counter with $10.5 billion cut, that is not going to go with the republicans. somebody has to give. you are are seeing the president engaging. democrats are saying, where are you? you have to show leadership. he seems to be stepping it up but we re not that much closer to a deal. gregg: to be fair, republicans are using some tricky math. they claim the total of proposed spending cuts is $102 billion but actually based on this