of taxes. they re getting money back from the government. good year, good year made $693 million in profit last year and it s asking for a 15 is million dollars refund. netflix earned an $845 million profit. it filed for a $22.1 million refund. u.s. steel filed for a $303 million refund. i want to say one thing before you go on. none of what they re doing is illegal. it is completely within the confines of the law. amazon made more than $11.2 billion, with a b, dollars in profit last year and filed for a $129 million refund. general motors made $11.8 billion, and is claiming a $104 million refund. we re going to keep watching stories like this. again, it s not illegal. maybe change the system. you re watching velshi & ruhle.
orleans. and let me ask you about this amanda, the white house did file an appeal yesterday to lift that court order blocking the president s action. what s going on with that? basically the long and short of it is they are arguing the benefits outweigh the costs here. many of the states including texas have come forward saying just issuing driver s license will incur great costs on the states and they will have to really come up above that damage, so basically the administration is saying, hey, you re going to get some $845 million in increased local and state revenue once people come above board and start working legally. so this argument here is really prodding the fifth circuit. we saw them have the oral arguments last month. it was a very unprecedented hearing, and we re still waiting to hear back on this. this is a notoriously, infamously conservative court down in new orleans, so we re still waiting to hear back on exactly what will happen to many of these families who are jus
than 120,000 vets waited far too long for doctors so see them. in addition, the feds have paid out $845 million to settle v.a. malpractice suits. senator coburn of oklahoma, a physician himself has identified $25 billion wasted by the v.a. despite that $100 million given to v.a. administrators in bonus money in 2010 alone. a shocking abuse of taxpayer money. and while all that was happening, president obama did nothing, absolutely nothing add that the border, iraq, putin, the irs and you have an administration that s basically missing in action. in fact, for you history buffs what s happening right now is almost identical to president u.s. grants second term. it all fell apart for the old general because did he not pay attention. so, to be fair, it looks like the conservative radio talk show hosts were correct in their assessment of barack barack obama s ability to
than 120,000 vets waited far too long for doctors so see them. in addition, the feds have paid out $845 million to settle v.a. malpractice suits. senator coburn of oklahoma, a physician himself has identified $25 billion wasted by the v.a. despite that $100 million given to v.a. administrators in bonus money in 2010 alone. a shocking abuse of taxpayer money. and while all that was happening, president obama did nothing, absolutely nothing add that the border, iraq, putin, the irs and you have an administration that s basically missing in action. in fact, for you history buffs what s happening right now is almost identical to president u.s. grants second term. it all fell apart for the old general because did he not pay attention. so, to be fair, it looks like the conservative radio talk show hosts were correct in their assessment of barack barack obama s ability to
with this bill the faa is able to transfer and prioritize money in programs that are in need. what does that mean for you and me? smaller airports will remain open and flight controllers will be able to keep their jobs, keep in mind the faa reported there had been at least 863 flight delays on wednesday alone. senator susan calling said they would have otherwise intolerable delays in the air traffic system and convenience in travelers and hurting the economy. that should prevent the delays that have been occurring and were only going to get worse as the traveling season reached its peak this summer. after the vote white house press secretary jay carney said this does nothing to alleviate the long-term sec ster cuts which is 845 million in spending