walt disney, that s unfortunate, nike, great american brands and fruit of the loom, do you define the bad guys, do you categorize them? dial answer, you can actually see the scores at our website, politicalspending.org and when we put together the coalition for accountability and political spending, we said we need to do something about citizens united at the state level. when you go on the website mastercard gets a zero, literally the lowest conceivable score and u.s. bank corp get a good score for transparency. can you get a product like xbox because microsoft has been good about disclosure. you can feel good about victoria s secret. it s obvious their products are revealing but their policies on political spending are revealing, too, and we like
out in 2011 and secretary gates rather tensely saying in interviews on sunday that that decision hadn t been made, demonstrates just how much tension there is over this issue. understood. listen, appreciate the comments from both of you. thank you very much. again, lieutenant general robert gar d & c ori schake. i want to turn to the serving politicians in this country. we re joined by george lemieux, a member of the senate armed services committee and met with general mcchrystal late last year. if you don t mind, i d love for you to jump in right where we left off which is the apparent tension or lack thereof. it seems to be a little bit in the eye of the beholder between those who would argue for an aggressive withdrawal next summer and those who argue that that s not what is going to happen so you have a civilian political agenda and a strategic military agenda that may not mix. well, dial answer, i think you ve hit on something that s very important as really the key going forw
no question, dial answer, yeah. for a majority of these business owners that s absolutely the case and they don t have that supply in reserve because this time of year, these three, four, five smunts when th five months is when they make the money for the year. business is down 40%, sometimes more. it s just a bad equation for business, and they are very worried about surviving through next year. and, look, they also are very quick to point out on the other side of this, dylan, if they don t stop the oil from leaking, none of it matters. i m going to leave it there, jay, because you are right, and we appreciate your journalism and reporting today. we ll talk to you seen rather than later. jay gray on the gulf. thank you, jay. finally, a quick look at what you may be able to do yourself to help with the gulf coast oil disaster. we talked about adopting a pelican. we ve talked about offering volunteer services and another option that is out there is submitting your own vessel, a