screening test to determine who exactly is at risk. there s good news about smoking in the u.s. this morning. it s at its lowest level on record. less than 18% of adult americans were smoking last year. compare that to 1965 when more than 42% did. that s where the government began keeping track. however the cdc says 17.8% season isn t good enough. not if we re going to get smoking below 12% by 2020. okay. well this happens every year. turkey s get pardonened by the president. but this time, this time, the president found an especially good reason to make his move. let s face it, if you re a turkey, and you re named after a side dish, your chances of escaping thanksgiving dinner are pretty low. so if these guys are well ahead of the curve. they really beat the odds. yeah. so maybe next year they ll be named sweet potato pie.
screening test to determine who exactly is at risk. good news about smoking in the u.s. this morning, it s at the lowest level on record. 18% were smoking last year. compare that to 1965 when more than 42% dead. the government began keeping track. the cdc says 17.8% isn t good enough, below 12% by 2020. okay. well this happens every year, turkeys get pardoned by the president, but this time, this time, the president found an especially good reason to make his move. let s face it, if you re a turkey, and you re named after a side dish, your chances of escaping thanksgiving dinner are pretty low. so these guys are well ahead of the curve, they really beat the odds. maybe next year they ll be named sweet potato pie. mac and cheese.
need to embrace and not walk away from. here is bill clinton on jimmy kimmel. i was delighted we had over 7 million people sign up on that health exchange. now we have 14 million, 15 million we have 14 million, 15 million people with insurance who never had it before. it happened while the percentage of our income going to health care dropped from 17.8% down to 17.2% which is a big deal. one of the reasons no americans got pay raises for a decade is health care costs were going up at three times the rate of inflation. a lot of employers had nothing left to give their employees a pay raise this will have huge, positive economic benefits if we stay with it and keep working it. bob, you got the obamacare coattails. should they ride on them? well, you know, don t you love when he goes into his wonkish mode. there were so many statistics involved there. but part of the charm with bill
policies that la knee toes and african-americans find cruel because you hope they won t show up to the polls in big numbers, you end up with barack obama, two-term president. republicans tried to cross reality and reality won. the demographics of the country are changing. we re facing another set of realities. the federal government has taken in taxes that equals 18% of the overall economy. it s 17.8% to be exact. that s become something of a magic number in politics. you tell orrin hatch loves the 18%. if we keep all the bush tax cuts, we stick at that magic number. that means taxes would still be high enough compared to recent history. across the political spectrum, consider warren buffett and higher taxes for the rich. he wrote our government s goal should be to bring in 18.5% revenue. he doesn t say.
policies that latinos and african-americans find cruel because you hope they won t show up to the polls in big numbers, you end up with barack obama, two-term president. republicans tried to cross reality and reality won. the demographics of the country are changing. we re facing another set of realities. the federal government has taken in taxes that equals 18% of the overall economy. it s 17.8% to be exact. that s become something of a magic number in politics. you tell orrin hatch loves the 18%. if we keep all the bush tax cuts, we stick at that magic number. that means taxes would still be high enough compared to recent history. across the political spectrum, consider warren buffett and higher taxes for the rich. he wrote our government s goal should be to bring in 18.5% revenue.