becomes the sixth state to legalize gay marriage. the state economy and businesses are first to toast the newlyweds. weddings are an $84 billion industry, and they now have the potential to see 66,000 same sex couples marry in the sex three years. new york city tourism is developing a campaign to attract out of state couples to come to new york as a destination wedding spot. standard wedding-related businesses are seeing an influx of gay couples preparing for the big day and they re creating promotions to this new customer base. since this same-sex marriage law passed it s unbelievable how many calls we ve gotten. it s equal to what we were getting for mixed gender marriages. reporter: throughout the duration of gay marriages, these couples will employ legal help when it comes merging assets and
2020. it will raise the elec ris rates in this country $184 billion. through 2020. 1.4 million jobs. $184 billion increase in elec rick rates which is a staple of life. to me, sir, that is national issue. it s bad enough. it s also a human issue to me. i live with our miners. these jobs i created from scratch there is only 3,100 of them but the universities say the mining jobs yield 37,000 jobs nationally due to the secondary jobs created for the goods and benefits. sir, these people want to work in honor and dignity. they re being denied that by
normally seen. but much of this city of millions of people is have much in the dark. upper floors of build versus been shut down. they are trying to conserve as much power as possible as they begin the process of rolling blackouts. the plants you mentioned in the northeast, the nuclear power supplies 30% to 35% of all energy for this country. so blackout.are coming and expected to last through the end of next month. in the meantime they are asking people to conserve and so far they have been able to conserve in a big way. we ll be heading up the coast after our shift is over here. one of the big concerns is the tokyo stock exchange. the nikkei down 6% as the bank of japan pulled $184 billion, buying up risky assets. they are worried about the possibility of it all collapsing on top of itself.
ceiling is $3.7 trillion. deficit $1.1 trillion. many economists saying that is far too high. also rather embarrassing that the president s own debt commission says he is not doing nearly enough to solve the financial crisis in america. tonight talking points hits a very simple strategy. the u.s. government must go back to 2008 and spend the same amount of money that it did before the recession hit. the budget in 2008 of the $2.9 trillion. $2.9 trillion. almost a trillion dollars less than the 2012 proposal. the deficit in 08 was $458 billion, 60% lower than the projected deficit in 12. let s go back to 2008. that would mean the defense department would get $612 billion instead of $884 billion. department of energy would get $21 billion instead of $30 billion and the department of education would get 66 billion instead of 77. now, the department of
bill: 2008 levels. 2008 levels. that was their spending target and budgetary target because it is a prebailout level. a prestimulus level and also the preinflated budgetary baseline level. remember, the last two, two plus years this administration and the democratic congress so inflated federal spending by 25%, bill, that what the democrats and the president have been talking about is locking those levels in. okay, well, free spending but the spending levels are so inflated. fact, a lot of bureaucracies the last two years, bill, have seen increases of 30, 40 and even in some cases 100%. bill: this is what i m saying about my head blowing off. we have to simplify this thing. what do you think, holmes, about the debt commission? they want to do incredible cuts on things like medicare and medicaid. bill: you don t like that? i don t like that at all. the $184 billion added to the deficit rather because they don t want to give tax breaks to billionaires.