thank you, buddy. i think. cbo, the congressional budget office is throwing in the towel on measuring the effect of obamacare. but guess who is not? that s right, me. and yes in case that s built to scale. charles paine is here. what do you make of this? it s outrageous. it really is. i can vouch for anyone that s watching at home it s spot on. any other distortion it s all about tv. but i will tell you what was funny in the article it said it was surprise to some fiscal experts in washington and drawing concern. concern? it s been doing a lot more than drawing concern. i mean it s a beast. it s a monster. it s like the old blob movie.
in the senate. first at this hour the acting va secretary is in phoenix at the very location where this veterans affairs scandal first broke. sloan gibson has been meeting with staff at the medical center. gibson says va officials have reached out to veterans affected by the scandal and he said just moments ago they need to work to get back the trust of our veterans. meanwhile a bipartisan deal has been struck in the senate on va legislation. it would build 26 major veterans medical facilities in 18 states. it would give more authority to fire va officials, but would allow for due process for those fired and would give veterans more choices about care. if you are 40 miles or further away from a va health care facility, a medical center or whatever it may be, you will be able to go to the doctor of your choice. under the strict supervision of the va. none of this that we re saying in any way denigrates or does anything that s uncomplimentary to the outstanding men and wome
drug addict and would support his daughter s execution if she is found guilty. federal investigators releasing new documents revealing the pilot of a u.p.s. cargo yet told a co-worker his work schedule was, quote, killing him, a day before he and his co-pilot were killed in a crash in alabama last august. fox news alert now. the president set to drop social security reforms from his latest budget request. the white house saying his proposal won t include his past offer to accept lowered cost of living increases in social security and other benefit programs, which had been seen as an olive branch to republicans. joining me now, charles paine, fox business network contributor. this is a total about-face. this was an extension to the republicans of, hey, i understand there s a huge debt out there. right. i understand that we re spending trillions of dollars. now what? this is an extension of the tone that we saw in the state of the union address.
do charles paine is smiling. you talk about probably the most ungrateful person on the planet? are you kidding me? it s not dan per se but you want to talk about a company by the way, you and i differ in the sense i thought this was a traditional bailout. i didn t like the government intervention in the whole thing. traditional bankruptcy. bankruptcy, rather, yeah. but the point is, this was more than a lifeline, my man. come on now. show some gratitude and be grateful. i will say from dan s point of view, gm is finally taken market share. general motors seems to be firing on all cylinders, and for the government to sell now and take this $10 billion hit, tells you that we have a government, particularly this administration, that is so money hungry they can t wait for the stock to come back, can t let the stock go up. they need the cash now. but you can say that the bailout ended up with general
0 be fuming because it s their money and it s spent like this. one more, facebook, what is this? facebook has a tax refund? they did. they made over a billion dollars last year, but because they gave stock options to their workers they got a tax refund of $300 million according to the waste book. you have to repeat that for me. they made money, profit, massive market, but they government a $259 million tax refund you you heard right. that s enough is all i can stand. that s the waste become for you. thank you. the president,le huddling with tech ceos in an attempt to turn over obamacare webs around. a new poll putting the president s approval rating at 43%, down from 54% in december last year. to ed henry at the white house who is keeping track of it all. reporter: the problem for the president we already knew in the ultimate web site. might be busy getting packages out. all these tech guys, worried about the nsa snooping on their users? or what about saving their open