to certify the signatures. there s plenty of examples of people who signed multiple times but in the end, as i predicted about four or five months ago, i said there will be a recall election. we anticipated this. in the end, we earned the trust of the majority of people in the state of wisconsin. it s our chance to earn them again. you went in and said i can t balance the budget without reeling in the unions. you said we re going to get rid of collective bargaining rights and we re going to do it right away. you did it. you passed it and your program is in place but a lot of people are upset. yeah, you know, it s interesting, you look at all the other states that had budget deficits and ours is one of the largest in the country per capita and we said we re not going to cut into services like medicaid and we added more money into medicaid and not going to use budget givings. those are things that all states did in the past. illinois and connecticut did pieces of those things and the
this is the l.l. bean boot mobile and it is a symbol of the quality and craftmanship that l.l. bean has been known for for 100 years. we re celebrating our 100th anniversary. l.l. bean, the man himself, the first product he developed was the l.l. bean hunting shoe and this boot has not changed very much over 100 years. what s inside the boot mobile? we ll be carrying gear, l.l. bean gear. can we take a look? sure, let s take a look. this is going to be in times square later on today, right? that s right. it will be in times square later on today and touring the country this year and it really again is a symbol of our commitment to getting outdoors and getting outdoors is never been more important than it is now where people find it harder and harder to get outdoors and we did a national survey with the national parks foundation and found out that 60% of kids are spending less than an hour a day outdoors. we want to be a part of solving that problem. the way we ll do that
work. now, what should we all learn from this? people around the country wondering from their community should be the next modesto where the government comes in, pays and revamps. the city s idea of coming in and buying vacant property and improving them is a good idea. but in this market, the cities around the country should hold on to those properties and rent them until the market recovers and then sell them out on the open market. but to buy and renovate and sell is not a good idea at this time. a painful, a painful lesson. rich, thanks so much. you re welcome. all right. 11 minutes before the top of the hourment we move on. should unemployed americans be trained while they collect a check. the authors of a new biography here to reveal all about the
billion keystone pipeline. he thought it would get done and now he s getting upset about the delays and the distractions. all he wanted to do was employ american workers across the country to install a pipeline that goes 1700 miles and that would give us 900,000 barrels of crude oil a day. sure. you got to figure if he s going to go to china and talk to the chinese about how would you like to buy canadian oil? you know, we ll have to ship it over to china. on the first one out, they re probably not going to close the deal. clearly, this is to light a fire under the president of the united states. hey, come on, you re sitting on this good deal. act now before it s too late. i mean, do we really want to wind up buying canadian oil that has gone to the great country of china and then we wind up buying it on the spot market here in the united states? that absolutely could happen. yeah, but right now, the big thing is about nebraska and the
share a moment an outdoor moment with a photo or a story and for every one of those moments, we ll donate a dollar to the national parks foundation. up to a million dollars to help kids get into the outdoors. if you see the boot mobile, upload the pictures to facebook and twitter and you ll do all sorts of things. that s right. that will count as a moment and every one of those moments, a million dollars to help kids get outdoors. all right. you should be wearing some l.l. bean gloves right about now. a little chilly here. great to be here. thanks so much. thank you. if you see the bootmobile, just wave, you ll be driving, right? sometimes, you bet. let s real quickly take a look at the day ahead weather wise and as you can see, we ve got a little bit of rain in portions of l.l. bean country and snow in new england as well. the main storm is in the panhandle of florida up through the mid atlantic. heavy storms and also we were telling you earlier today one of the bigges