and good morning to you. it is tuesday, december 13th. i feel like it s a homecoming. a long time since the three of us have been together. good to see you. as usual a busy, busy news morning. breaking news now. four soldiers are dead after two army choppers went down during a training exercise. it happened a joint base lewis-mcchord in washington state. crash investigators are trying to find out what went wrong right now. pliv on the pholive on the phon crash site. what do we know? i m watching the lights of the recovery teams that have been looking throughout the night to go in the grim task of recovering those bodies of the four aviators that lost their lives. still don t know what went wrong. at about 11:00 p.m. eastern last nim, sometime after 11:00 p.m. two helicopters crashed killing everybody aboard both helicopters. these are small observation helicopters, ali. the eyes and ears of what s on the ground. flying maneuvers over a training area when this crash to
perry doesn t have a clue on how to save whirlpool jobs. but at least he showed up today. i give him credit for that. iowa front-runner herman cain was a no show. the pizza man has a direct connection to whirlpool. herman cain supervised the firing of thousands of iowa workers as a member of the whirlpool board of directors. how inconvenient for him to show up today. so he didn t. the republican candidates who came to pella, really a nightmare waiting to happen for anyone who earns a living in the manufacturing sector. pella, iowa, is famous for one thing. that is making windows and doors. pella windows and doors have been around a long time. they ve been in iowa since 1925. deregulation led to the crash of 2007 and pella lost market share ever since. what have they done? cut 20% of its workforce over
economy into 19 straight months of private sector job growth. perry doesn t have a clue on how to save whirlpool jobs. but at least he showed up today. i give him credit for that. iowa front-runner herman cain was a no show. the pizza man has a direct connection to whirlpool. herman cain supervised the firing of thousands ofç iowa workers as a member of the whirlpool board of directors. how inconvenient for him to show up today. so he didn t. the republican candidates who came to pella, really a nightmare waiting to happen for anyone who earns a living in the manufacturing sector. pella, iowa, is famous for one thing. that is making windows and doors. pella windows and doors have been around a long time. they ve been in iowa since 1925. deregulation led to the crash of 2007 and pella lost market share ever since. what have they done? cut 20% of its workforce over
guy and people understand how budgets work? today s deficits are from decisions made over the last decade. many of them by the republican congress and the iraq war, medicare part d and other decisions. and bush tax cuts. over how to spend the government s money. that s one piece. that s backward looking. the other piece, though, is forward looking. it s what we re going to continue to be talking about in the campaigns as well which is what kind of regulation do you want on wall street? what kind of trading do you want banks to do or not do? was the deregulation led primarily by republicans who say smaller government everywhere, which means smaller government looking out for your money and your deposits in banks. is that a good idea going forward? and so i think you re going to hear, if i were to predict, the president also speak about that. the notion that these are policies that we have to look at for the future. well, i mean, we talk a lot about how mitt romney is and the preside
came to pella, really a nightmare waiting to happen for anyone who earns a living in the manufacturing sector. pella, iowa, is famous for one thing. that is making windows and doors. pella windows and doors have been around a long time. they ve been in iowa since 1925. deregulation led to the crash of 2007 and pella lost market share ever since. what have they done? cut 20% of its workforce over the last five years and the numbers are growing. pella is going to shut down a plant in fairfield, ohio, next year, which will eliminate 160 jobs. last wednesday, pella announced they re shutting down a factory in columbia, south carolina, laying off 147 people by the end of the year. no republican, not one, has any answer for those folks. it s all wall street, washington talk. every republican candidate wants to reward the job eliminators