there. one kept a tally of the total national debt. the other showed how much it went up while the convention was in session. more than 8 1/2 billion dollars with a b. no sign of any debt clock here at the dnc. the democrats say the gop s proposed budget could ultimately kill millions of jobs. gerri willis is live this evening. it seems the democrats still tonight want to talk attention to the debt, even though congress people on both sides of the aisle had plenty to do with it. listen, $5 trillion of that came on obama s watch. that s one reason they re not looking at the numbers today. as soon as it ticked over to $16 trillion, you better believe that the romney campaign came out swinging, saying that obama left americans worse off than when he took office. now we also discussed it over the weekend, obama advisor david axelrod had this to say. the president s plan would do what the simpson bowles plan would do, cut the deficit by 4 trillion dollars, reduce it to
proposing a five day a week delivery. peter doocy in washington, good morning, peter, how long until the post office actually runs out of money? reporter: september. the postmaster general patrick donahue says in four-months the postal service might run out of cash and actually default on some of their payments to the federal government, and there are many means the usgs has had four straight years of losses, particularly, competition from e-mail and fed-ex and ups. the postoffice lost 8 1/2 billion dollars in 2010, and even though they figured out how to save as much as $1.6 billion this fiscal year, high gas prices might erase all that. experts say now is the time to let others in on the government s letter carrying action. there may be someone out there who has a better idea of how to run the mail, how to deliver the business, how to survive in the electronic communications society. so let mem compete. don t let the postal service be the monopolist of the
bill: heather, we today have a major purchase, microsoft says it will buy the popular internet service skype for 8 1/2 billion dollars. skype is the thing where you can watch yourself and talk to other people while there s a video screen on? yeah, you know t microsoft says skype will become a new business division within the company. meanwhile, markets are responding to that. any time a big move like this happen, sometimes you see an uptick. look what we got! we got 39 points to the upside on the dow, it closed up yesterday 45 points. so the bulls are still running. do you skype? oh yeah. put the kids on the skype with grandparents. they love it. bill: it s a great tool for staying connected. i m not a big fan yet, but i m going to start. someday with kids, you ll change that one. that is true. his approval strike dollars spiked after the death of bin laden and he switched to immigration but a new poll finds americans have a much bigger concern out there. what that is. karl r
look at this. they are burning our flag, that s our flag, in pakistan, even as they re burning through our cash. let s just say that s burning up folks here in america. and happy saturday, i m neil cavuto and after taking bin laden out, calls are growing louder to take our money out, all of it. the account now is over 18 1/2 billion dollars in aid, just to pakistan, just since 9/11. and get this, we re planning to give them another 3 billion dollars next year. all this as pakistan is now giving us grief about the raid that got bin laden. good grief. then, dagen mcdowell, charles payne, adam lashinsky. charlie gasperino. ben stein. what do you think about this. stop the check. i don t get it, stop the check, i understand the strategic location. or let them have the check
kinds of hard decisions the american people want us to make. you know, getting rid of the study on marijuana and malt liquor in combination seems like a small thing, but there are thousands of those. but more importantly, even the president s disingenuous statement that he s freezing federal pay while allowing these automatic step increases, you know, in the private sector you don t get generous pay increases just because another year went by and then cost of living on top of it. guess what? they do. and it represents half a billion dollars per year, plus obviously retirement benefits. you mentioned earlier, when you were talking to stephen moore about the private sector versus the public, well, what they re dealing with in washington, we have to deal with. 8 1/2 billion dollars in loss by the postoffice was all in those deferred benefits, the retirement health care and other plans. we ve got to make sure that we put spending on the books and not simply kick the can down the road with