not to do, you know, we talked about the government is saying better to own a home than not own a home. better to be married with kids than not be married with kids and all this might be true and they might be good things, but it s not for the government to decide. i think steve forbes had it right a few years ago. if the whole, your irs form was on the back of a post card, god bless, if obama could ever get that done i would turn around and say he s the greatest president since abraham lincoln, this would be his moon landing, if he did that, i had he say joy to the world, greatest thing possible, do it tomorrow, come right now, get rid of the special interests and the 34 billion dollars we re spending, preparing taxes, get rid of all of those lobbies, let s cut to the chase. so, is the flat tax the way to do it? a lot of states, essentially have a flat tax and they re more, until recently, than the federal government. so just having the flat tax doesn t magically, in fact,
american was reportedly killed by pirates last year and you probably remember this couple, david hartley and his wife tiffany, jet skiing back in september 2010 when they were alleged attacked and she says her husband was shot in the back of the head and couldn t pull him to safety and had to leave his body there in the water. the u.s. securing another deal to build up its missile defense in the middle east and the concerns about iran s nuclear ambitions. the white house announced that it s selling 96 missiles, plus, supporting and training technology to the united arab emirates and it s worth 3.5 billion dollars and the u.s. made a deal with saudi arabia to sell 84 fighter jets worth 34 billion dollars. yesterday, we told you that kelly clarkson was getting backlash of criticism after tweeting support nor ron paul and it seemed that boosted her quite a bit. look at amazon.com.
i m going to be 85 years old and weigh 85 pounds. claiming the tsa agents at jfk airport pulled down her pants and strip searched her. now she s talking about taking action on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com all right. good morning, everyone. it is monday, december 5th. ali and carol are both off this monday morning. i m christine romans along with alina cho on this american morning. nice to see you. good morning. nice to see you. a highly classified u.s. stealth drone may be in the hands of iran. iranian officials are claiming that they shot down the drone after it invaded its airspace. american military officials confirming one of their drones is missing. now iran is vowing an aggressive response. here is pentagon correspondent barbara starr with more. reporter: christine, alina, iranian authorities say they shot down a highly classified u.s. unmanned spy plane over their territory along the eastern border with afghanistan. iran sa
congress authorizes money to be spent. then it has to appropriate the money. while an authorization bill may have been passed in years past, appropriators if the current here and now can say we are not going to fund it. a lot of presidential a lot of legislation that comes to the president s desk republican or democrat has provisions that either explicitly forbid monies or remove the source of funding for a particular program. greta: what happens? is it possible that even though this repeal bill in the house doesn t get signed meanwhile they can do this they can do the appropriation they can put s up in terms of appropriateing important functions of the bill by throwing that thwart the enforcement of the bill? right. there are two big cost drivers in the bill. one, expansion of medicaid by 1/3 this costs 434 billion
be spent. then it has to appropriate the money. while an authorization bill may have been passed in years past, appropriators if the current here and now can say we are not going to fund it. a lot of presidential a lot of legislation that comes to the president s desk republican or democrat has provisions that either explicitly forbid monies or remove the source of funding for a particular program. greta: what happens? is it possible that even though this repeal bill in the house doesn t get signed meanwhile they can do this they can do the appropriation they can put s up in terms of appropriateing important functions of the bill by throwing that thwart the enforcement of the bill? right. there are two big cost drivers in the bill. one, expansion of medicaid by 1/3 this costs 434 billion