people is on the occupy wall streeters side. when asked if they support or oppose tougher government regulations of banks and wall street firms, the home of wall street, 73% of new yorkers in the home of wall street, 73% of new yorkers say they support that tougher regulation. even republicans say they support tougher wall street regulations. so this is it. there s this base question about whether there is any countervailing force protecting americans individual human interests from really, really powerful, really, really, really rich sometime bad actors who are preying on us and have really hurt individual americans fortunes badly and who are spending now hand over fist to keep doing that. is there any countervailing force against their interests or isn t there? is there any countervailing force on the part of individual americans? is it possible for politicians to act against the interests of the most powerful corporations when it is in individual americans interest that they do
america can be prepared for events like this to a certain degree. in your estimation as you say the probability factor of figuring out where this may happen is that like trying to find a needle in a haystack? to an extent it is. there have been great strides made in the field of seismology trying to understand why and where earthquakes occur. in fact, some of the great strides have been made by the nuclear program because there has been so much effort taken to understand earthquakes and how they would affect nuclear plants, but it isn t just the nuclear program that has advanced our knowledge of where earthquakes occur. and jim, is there anything, and maybe this is a completely off base question, but when it comes to a tsunami and the force of water that we ve seen through the video that happened in japan and what we saw, you know, happen in phuket, is there anything that can be done, anything that certain buildings
streeters side. when asked if they support or oppose tougher government regulations of banks and wall street firms, the home of wall street, 73% of new yorkers in the home of wall street, 73% of new yorkers say they support that tougher regulation. even republicans say they support tougher wall street regulations. so this is it. there s this base question about whether there is any countervailing force protecting americans individual human interests from really, really powerful, really, really, really rich sometime bad actors who are preying on us and have really hurt individual americans fortunes badly and spending now hand over fist to keep doing that. is there any countervailing force against their interests or isn t there? is there any countervailing force on the part of individual americans? is it possible for politicians to act against the interests of the most powerful corporations when it is in individual americans interest that they do so?
ten people is on the occupy wall streeters side. when asked if they support or oppose tougher government regulations of banks and wall street firms, the home of wall street, 73% of new yorkers in the home of wall street, 73% of new yorkers say they support that tougher regulation. even republicans say they support tougher wall street regulations. so this is it. there s this base question about whether there is any countervailing force protecting americans individual human interests from really, really powerful, really, really, really rich sometime bad actors who are preying on us and have really hurt individual americans fortunes badly and spending now hand over fist to keep doing that. is there any countervailing force against their interests or isn t there? is there any countervailing force on the part of individual americans? is it possible for politicians to act against the interests of the most powerful corporations