address the money we have through my municipal bonds and all the rest. i want to know what you have done with that money. i just want to know what you ve done with that money. because it slipped through a lot of cracks. it s a locked box for which there is no lock apparently or apparently a box. well, first of all, you re right there should be government accountability for every penny we spend. it s 13 bucks to cross the bridge now, not $12. you re working on inflation you re in a stretch limo and you re sitting in the back, it s hard to see. i think more than two axles is usually more and charles usually drives big suvs. to the point charles is making, first, the money you re paying to crossing the george washington bridge is not going to the transportation trust fund, it s going to rebuilding the trade center and airports and port authority, nothing else. you see my point i do, yes. a lot of these funds were originally earmarked, pardon the term, for, you know, ingrab
wal-mart is saying the average fulltime worker makes 13 bucks an hour and get health benefits but the people on the other side of the fence say, there are workers making only eight bucks an hour, but they re folding in parttime workers not fulltime and this is indicate have not just how nasty this fight is getting because we re seeing twitter feeds with the walton family, showing them as being bullies you. sneak photos. but what is in the debate is what do you compare the wal-mart worker wage to? compare it to a grocery store worker who makes maybe 18,000 a year? the wal-mart fulltime worker makes 23,000, $25,000 a year. wal-mart is turns itself interest a grocery store. union activists don t like that bus grocery stores tend to be unionizees. we saw these protests pop up at thanksgiving last year. they re coming again, and again,
shutdown, we saw defense companies now saying they re not able to produce products cause there was no one to approve them. stanley black and decker, they make tools. they actually said the government shutdown is affecting their numbers, which in turn hit home depot and lowe s. there is going to be a little rollover from this. what about the market s reaction to the debt deal? oh, my goodness. i feel like i ve been on a roller coaster for the last couple of weeks. that goes without saying. right now you re just starting to see the markets sell on the news a little bit. yesterday we saw it running up because everybody figured something good was coming. so the other things that we ll be watching, the dow, keep an eye on the dow. it will be very different from the s & p today. the dow has ibm and ibm, terrible revenue numbers. that s down 13 bucks. and that will hit the dow today, maybe 50, 70 points. keep an eye on the s & p instead for a better number. and just the big picture. ibm,
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