NLEX versus San Miguel Beer (PBA Images) MANILA - San Miguel took solo lead in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup after stopping NLEX, 100-92, on Friday at Ynares Center in Antipolo. The Beermen contained the Road Warriors after letting them explode in the first period, where the latter raced to a 33-25 lead. SMB slowly crippled NLEX in the next 36 minutes, outscoring them the rest of the way, 75-59, to eventually prevail. SMB coach Leo Austria admitted that his team underestimated the opponents so he reminded his players to turn to defense for the remainder of the match. "The last time I watched them against Terrafirma, I thought we can beat them because they scored 31 points in the first half, but earlier, they scored 53 points in the first half. That's why I told the team that we have to step up on our defense," Austria said after the game. CJ Perez led the 2-0 Beermen with 19 points, six rebounds, five assists, and three steals, while Marcio La
through democratic circles that they may hang their hats on come the midterms is the minimum wage fight. we ve got 13 different states raising the minimum wage on their own. in your state of vermont, it s going up 13 cents to $8.73 an hour. again, the average being $7.25. is this year going to be the turning point on this? and do you think democrats are going to go all in on wanting to see a federal minimum wage hike to pull republicans out from where they stand on it? expose their position? look, here is the story. the story is that the national minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. i think most people understand that is a starvation wage. individuals can t live on it, families can t live on it. if we raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour which doesn t go as far as it should, that would be a raise for 30 million americans. the vast majority of them are adults and that s not just people making $7.25 an hour,
cash influx of hundred billion dollars. the feds have estimated the troubled asset relief program or tarp will ultimately take a loss of nearly 70 billion. but the watchdog says that number could actually grow and that some parts of the bailout may continue for years, costing an additional 50 billion. adam shapiro from fox business network with with us. this is all about a delay. why is it happening? it has to do with the stock we the taxpayers got when we put that money in there take a look at the numbers. it s plane to plain to see. a.i.g. got the biggest amount roughly $67.8 billion. you own 77% of the company. to get that money back, you would have to sell all the shares. 1.4 billion the treasury has at a price of $28.73 a share. they closed today at 25 bucks. you can see not enough to pay it off. same as g.m., we would have so sell every share of g.m. $58.93 to break even with what the taxpayers gave them.