according to the wall street journal veteran workers at the three automakers make upwards of $33 an hour, new hires half that. the lower wages are one reason factory jobs are coming back in the u.s. with 200,000 positions added in the past year. unlikely the manufacturing sector will ever be what it was a few decades ago. in 1979 at the peak, there were 19.6 million manufacturing positions and now there are a little less than 12 million. the erosion of manufacturing jobs has led to the decline of once booming urban areas across the country. baltimore lost about 30% of its population from 1970 to 2010, cleveland lost nearly 50% during the same time period, pittsburgh s population stands at about 306,000, down about 41% since 1970 and more than half of the people living in youngstown, ohio, packed up and left over the last four decades. wes, i want to go to you first. i don t know if america knows but you have moved back to baltimore which is one of the great american cities but a city
bill: let s talk about her. well, okay. great. look, i m the last guy to ask about popular culture. if you had me on your popular culture segment, i d be looing every time. she s a texan. she s popular. she s in a lot of movies. i wonder if she s been doing any movies where they ve been shooting on foreign locations and outsourcing u.s. jobs to foreign countries. how many of these movies did she have that had a nonu.s. location? i don t know. it s an interesting question. bill: but if you were advising barak obama, would you say a prime time, six minute exposition by eva longoria yes. bill: yes, you would. here is why. i wrote about this actually if a way today in my wall street journal column. he s worried about declining support among young voters. they turned out in record numbers last time around. 18% of the electorate was from essentially 18 to 29. they gave him 7 million plus votes. he won by 9.6 million.
i mean, the estimates of up to 9.6 million dollars, that s a lot of money, but even you have said as much money as it is, it s more than the money for you. how could it be, even more important to win the battle, not just for the financial issue, but for the moral issue? well, that s a great question, governor, and absolutely, we have two issues, and one financial and anyone in our business knows that you know, several or many, many millions of dollars would be crippling to our business and it would be harmful to our business and harmful to our employees and benefits that we currently provide, which are generous. so, yeah, that s the economic factor, which is scary, to say the least. and the moral issue is deeper than that, and we really haven t done the math to see what the economic impact would be at this point because the moral issue of religious freedom to us is a greater issue and really, the freedom
pass on and live the values and faith that our parents gave us and hope to give our children. to say that we are shocked is putting it mildly . i think america is it shocked that the government tells people what the conscience should be and limitation of their faith can be. as a attorney representing hercules. you won an injunction for now. describe to us why it is so important whether we are part of his company or not. why does this case matter? the reason it is all important is that the administration is taking the position that the people must choose between earning a living and living out their faith. americans don t want politicians to decide what faith is and who the faithful are and how we are allow tod live out that faith. paul, this could affect you in the financial level. i mean, estimates of 9.6
company and a devout cath rick and challenged the man date. if might cost him 9.6 million in fines and paul and his attorney join us now. welcome to the mike huckabee show. good to have you here. paul, this was offensive to you, because of your personal convictions that this was a violation of your conscience making you pay for abortion indusing druggings. when you first found out about this were you shocked that the government was going to insist this on you. yeah, completely shocked and really it is not me, it is our whole family . it goes beyond that. our business has been in business 50 years and over three generation and i speak on behalf of my brothers and sisters and bill, and sisters christie and carol. and we are proud to really