to spend. but, stephan, you say in the 15 trillion dollar economy, this is a drop in the the bucket. well, more than the a drop in the bucket, but amounts to something like 50 million dollar a year and 15 trillion dollar economy that s not a killer number much. but look for a middle class family $50,000, $80 a month, for slightly well off, $160 a month and it s real numbers and unfortunate shall the disgusting thing about how this went down, what congress really blew it, they could have saved the skin and given people more warning. and the fact is walker raises a good point, we need to shore up social security and raise this tax again. what we need is a little more fair warning, quite honestly, and give people a chance to play ahead. three years is not enough. brenda: we were talking about the fiscal cliff quite a long time. jonas, this does raise the cost of hiring, but is that the full story? well, my holidays end, they
new york is now 15 games without rodriguez after beating the red sox. maybe they can sign golfer phil mikaele. he took swings in batting prook tis. russell martin got the lead. yanks held on to win it 4-it 2. they re a half game back. they were swept by the cards. albert pujols is not somebody you want to face. there it goes. cards won it 8-4. if you took a gamble and drafted chris johnson to your fantasy football team, that move paid off. he end the holdout with titans to a four-year 50 million dollar extension. 30 million guaranteed. he s expect today play against the jaguars. panthers and steelers this helped. his first career touchdown to shock i. but not enough. pittsburgh won it 33-17. nfl regular season begins next week and college football started last night. four touchdowns were scored.
considered democrat and five term state attorney general richard blumenthal a shoo-in, but republican linda mcmahon is now threatening to turn the senate seat red after 50 years in the blue. the reason i m not specific as to particular problems and i ve dealt with it in trns of rolling back nondiscretionary, level. i took it as a ceo. you look how you re going to cut costs and expenses and look at a 10% cut across the board. mcmahon is using attack ads highlighting blumenthal s false comments about serving in vietnam and targeting connecticut s job losses. blumenthal says he s not surprise the pro wrestling ceo has cut his 41 point lead in the polls. we ve said from the beginning this would be a tight, tough competitive race. and a 50 million dollar negative attack, she is bound
thing down here in texas and settle them up. we want to wash our hands of it. is that what happened? that s what happened and one other criminal case going on and this is a securities case out of chicago having to do with bro pain trading. what bp was able to do, take all of the criminal cases going on at that time in the united states and wrap them into what nice bundle and the department of justice was more than happy to accommodate. i imagine the folks, survivors and people dealing with the explosion, specifically in texas weren t happy with the settlement agreement that they got. well, of course not. now, i don t know the details of the civil suits that came out of the case, i m only familiar with the criminal case, but in the criminal case we had a bp pled to a felony conviction under the clean air act and agreed to a 50 million dollar fine. now, 50 million dollars sounds like a lot of money to me and you, but to bp, it s nothing and it had no impact in terms of deturing the
made tens of millions and we were set on a course of disaster. as chair of the committee that oversees that sector barney franks should have known he was in the same position that the sound bite suggested that mccain and others were in. he should have known. it is fascinating to me the republicans are more interested in trying to figure out, go back a couple of years and see who is to blame rather than come up with solutions. [ talking over each other ] pro russ thing to say. it is a that s a preposterous thing to say we ve heard it throughout the health care debate republicans don t have plans. the president invites republicans not white house for seven hours he listens to republican plans one after another after another. the same exercise has happened here. republicans have been shut out of the protest process from the beginning. after the conference you had republican ideas like tort reform and selling right. 50 million dollar fund.