that shutdown lasted 16 days. government office, national parks closed, 800,000 workers sent home. this isn t some damn game. final cost to the commission around $24 billion. number three healthercare.gov what the president initially called glitches found a political catastrophe. the government called an outside expert. sign ups have picked up but too soon if the site will ever be a success. number two, jpmorgan will pay $30 billion to settle charges it misled investors about the quality of the mortgages it sold leading up to the financial crisis. it is the biggest settlement to date. justice department says it won t be the last. number one, stock market record. the federal reserve pumping so much money into the economy stocks launched to new highs,
work. this isn t some damn game. the disaster they forced on our country. and let the house work its will, i dare you to do that. shh, stop, tone down, actually, shut up. we have all heard enough. from politicians who love to talk and others who insist they re not politicians but seem to talk even more. now, i m not saying there s anything horrible about any of you. i m just saying about now i ve had enough of you, all of you. the chest thumping. the grandstanding. this day of all days, take a cue from some real heroes and just stop talking. because before you wage your next pr battle, learn from some folks who have actually been through battle, our soldiers, our veterans, our bravest, our best. the folks a lot of you praise but apparently take very little time to emulate. you talk a good fight. they fight the good fight.
today we have the most hardcore solution yet. les gold is the star of hardcore pawn. it s part of the time warner family along with cnn. he s also the author of the book for what s it s worth . he not only deals with people every day, he makes deals with them. watch. my shoes are cleaner than this couch. then don t buy it. i ve got cash in my pocket. 800 bucks all together. sounds good. that reminds us of washington s bickering. it can get nasty. you have the wall street journal out. it says we don t care how long this lasts because we re winning. this isn t some damn game. i read that modern day anarchists in the house are celebrating the shutdown. it s pretty unfathomable to me to see the democrats are voting against the veterans. i urge our colleagues to see
i ve got cash in my pocket. 800 bucks all together. sounds good. that reminds us of washington s bickering. it can get nasty. you have the wall street journal out. it says we don t care how long this lasts because we re winning. this isn t some damn game. i read that modern day anarchists in the house are celebrating the shutdown. it s pretty unfathomable to me to see the democrats are voting against the veterans. i urge our colleagues to see this for what it is. it s pathetic. it s not responsible. oh my. one of the most important lessons you learned in the pawn business is close the deal in matter what. how do they get the focus back on closing the deal? i wish i could answer the question. that s something that s going to be in the arena for a long time. there s so many issues with this medical issue.
this isn t some damn game. we begin with week two of the government shutdown and absolutely no clear sign of how it will end. and in a throwback to the protestant work ethic, the house is actually back in session today on a monday, for heavens sake. and right out of the gate, a bullish speaker, john boehner, is pushing back against claims that he is being bullied by right wing rebels. he says he simply can t put a bill on the floor, because he doesn t have the votes to pass a clean continuing resolution. and in his effort to get the president to give in on something, it sounds as though the speaker has already moved on to the next even more cataclysmic fight over the debt limit, while, of course, blaming the president. a senior white house staffer this morning said that the