and then wants to reduce spending. let s hope that s just not words. he s going to come to the tubl and negotiate it on his way and if he does, we can avoid the government shuttown and any more cliffs and put them on the balance where they have to pay for this responsibility. if i look at the last two years, i m not going to hold my breath, it will be a challenge. mike: if you do, you d be turning blue. that s right. the other day, when you were sworn in, speaker boehner was there. you have a lovely family. thank you. mike: and a lovely wife and six children and the speaker he s trying so diligently to talk to one of your daughters, who wants nothing to do with it. i wonder if she been talking to nancy pelosi or something? (laughter) watch this, she just says, no, i don t want any this is just priceless, stop, drop and roll. get away from this guy.
and you walk on by. you turned around, why? why did you turn around? i turned around because what resonated with me, were the words i m hungry. i d never seen a 11-year-old panhandler before and so, i just couldn t believe he said those words. so i went back and i said to him, now what we ll go to mcdonald s, but you know, it s interesting, i think that our lives take us in directions and sometimes there are no accidents. you know, when i was 25 years old, my mother died when she was 47 at a very young age. she was my rock. and what comforted me throughout my entire adult life was the fact that she was this angel that overlooked me and watched over me and i absolutely believe that she knew that i needed something more in my life. and she knew that maurice needed someone to care for him and she brought us together. mike: you know, it s an amazing thing because you re
talking about it from the standpoint of what maurice did for you, even though most of us in reading the story, wow, laura what you did for maurice, had she just given you a couple of bucks and said here kid, get something to eat, things would have been differently. if she d given me a couple of bucks, get something to eat. my life would be different. i grew up with a bunch of drug addicts and drug dealers, i lived two blocks away from her and my whole environment was drug violence, drugs, violence, and chaos. and that s all i knew, but when i met laura, my whole life changed and it changed for the better. mike: did you have a hard time thinking this lady is actually going to take me to eat and she s going to walk in central park with me and take me to a place and buy me the first steak i ve ever had in my life? what were you thinking as a 11-year-old boy in the same sweat pants that you know you where all the time because that s all you had. i thought that she was a
charlie gasperino, good to have you back. [applause]. mike: you have talked about the fiscal cliff deal as basically stunting the growth of the economy. why? i mean, look at it this way and this is just one of the taxes that gets kicked in. president obama considers himself a progressive, particularly on the taxes, the more you make, the more you pay. he just instituted the most regressive tax you could think of. a payroll tax, hits every income category the tame and everybody is paying more taxes because of this deal. just on that basis, this is bad. i can t believe the republicans get him get away with it, i can t believe the press allowed president obama to tax people who make 50,000 a year, that s called regressive taxes. mike: 2% that have is a thousand dollars, uriyou can figure it uchl. and if you got a paycheck this week if you get a weekly program and next week, see if it s different. employees here at fox, they
your urges overpower your best judgment, your reasoning processes, you can make self-sabotaging decisions. and david petraeus or eliot spitzer or any of the people you just mentioned, they did not consider the consequences of their acts. maybe if they had, they would not have done what they did. but they let those urges, their emotions, just sabotage them. mike: this isn t just about people who are celebrities or people in high places. not at all. mike: a lot of just people make foolish decisions based on their impulses and urges. we re a quick fix society and as i talk about in your killer emotions when we re angry, enraged, sad, when we feel hopeless we want a quick fix, something to make us feel better. often times the quick fix decisions are counter to what we really want in our lives and that is really, really destructive. so, what s the key?