example, that s quite different than when you re looking at something like this where people have lost their lives. is this more difficult for you in a sense to do this? well in a sense it is but i must tell you, i learned in the bp oil spill that people who confronted acute financial uncertainty because their livelihood ended, they couldn t fish they couldn t shrimp they couldn t their hotels were empty. they didn t know how long this would be permanent or whether they would gradually get the business back. do not underestimate the emotion in all of these cases when people really are innocent victims, they did no harm and now they find themselves confronting a horrible trauma and they have to deal with it. and these funds provide some modest help but i try and you re not going to be able to
maybe they should reconsider this because it s not work. detroit is on the verge of bankruptcy and plenty of opportunity to do business in detroit, but businesses are moving away. neighbor will be an opportunity to bring business back to a struggling city. steve: also it would be interesting a year from now to see where union membership is. if you have the choice between joining and not joining, do you want to spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars each year supporting unions that may not they wind up directing their money to various political functions that you may not support. gretchen: a lot of people may still want to do it. the idea is it s choice. so if you don t want to do it, you don t have to and that s what the judge was just talking about. it s your first amendment right really to be able to have the choice of what you want to do. eric: at some point as soon as this gets signed into law, the people who are currently in the unions can opt out. they can say i m don
have suggested that they are not going to reopen, that they just can t afford to do what is necessary to bring that business back. bill: the homes and businesses along the jersey shore are picking up the pieces, beginning to rebuild, slowly they go. molly line is in new jersey now. what are you seeing out there today, molly? reporter: you know, there are places that certainly are working towards recovery and a lot of others in very difficult spots. this is one of the neighborhoods hit so far, this is sayerville. this is a working community. 40,000 people hit here. every household item you can imagine has been put out on the streets. one of the toughest things that happened here is a lot of the foundation was washed out by the river that came up into this neighborhood all the way up to the telephone lines. we ve seen the masons out today really collecting things from people s basements. bill. bill: we have looked for the bright spot throughout this entire ordeal. you are finding some
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they say well we have a great governor? or do they say, we have a great president? governor huckabee: in arkansas, well, you always have to bear some of the responsibility whether it is real. or whether it is just because someone has to be blamed and you happen to end the happen to be the guy on the job. this is the benefit for mitt romney, rather than give obama credit, you can say nationally things are not going well but in virginia or ohio it is going well not because of obama but because of republican governors who led pro growth policy and put a lid on spending, and invited business back. that is the counter argument. it can be effective. neil: that is what you would do in a debate with president obama? do you fine it curious in the states with this environment, unemployment rate going down and jobs picking up, g.d.p.