there are some losers, not just the ones you talked about, but the ones cenk talked about as well. but before we get into the winners and losers, or as a side note, isn t it impossible to solve a giant problem by doing little things? here s what i mean. as i see it we have five multitrillion dollar problems in this country. a multitrillion defense budget. the health care system, they did a wonderful job of expanding coverage in the obama administration, and a terrible job of addressing the underlying costs of that is a trillion dollar problem for our country. our trade deficit, they tax our imports to their country at 25%, we tax their imports to our country at 2.5%. they discount their currency 50% to every u.s. dollar, so every time an american goes to sell
anybody s food money, rich or more and you guys gave us the answer, but i think the three of us, if we understand it s a trillion dollar problem, have a voice in this and can not only play the ping-pong lefty/righty game, but force their hand on the trillion dollar problems. and a long list of other things, jimy williams, before your kids go to college, and cenk, same to you. thank you for the thoughts. thank you, james. coming up on hardball, crist matthews on haley barbour s confederacy problem in the 2012 race, but first the worldwide web, changing the world and the way people share and change information, giving us a chance to deal with the $5 trillion vampires perhaps once and for all. talk with a friend of the google executive, who became the face of the revolution in egypt. wael ghonim, his buddy joins us. can technology spread that
multinational corporations, that cut a 1.154 xwil onover the next four years. why are we paying large corporations to investment overseas? those are tiny numbers, with all due respect. ethanol subsidies. we have a multibillion dollar problem, people. ethanol subsidies $35 billion. agribusiness, $35 billion. $22 billion to ethanol subsidies going to the oil companies. and even grover nor quist said we can t pay for the war in afghanistan anymore. these are the bold cuts we need to start making in the fat corporate contracts that don t actually help people in any way. that s what we should be talking about, even if we re talking about the culture of d.c. i thought the republicans were against spending, but it sounds, doug they were against certain types of spending. that s not what i can said at all. i ll make my point, otherwise
you may have applied twice if you were hit greta: how is that a mistake to apply twice? let s say you applied after hurricane katrina and rita, because your property was hit. but they only allow to you apply once. you may have double dimmed when you weren t supposed to. fema is trying to figure out does that person owe us? greta: any idea how many may have been accidental double-dipping? that s why there s been a delay. fema is trying to figure out which are fraudulent or improper and which aren t. once they determine, they are going to the people and say here s a new way. we now need to come at you and get that money back. greta: when did they realize they had this 160,000 bad claims and 640 million dollar problem? it has been sitting there for two years.
you may have applied twice if you were hit greta: how is that a mistake to apply twice? let s say you applied after hurricane katrina and rita, because your property was hit. but they only allow to you apply once. you may have double dimmed when you weren t supposed to. fema is trying to figure out does that person owe us? greta: any idea how many may have been accidental double-dipping? that s why there s been a delay. fema is trying to figure out which are fraudulent or improper and which aren t. once they determine, they are going to the people and say here s a new way. we now need to come at you and get that money back. greta: when did they realize they had this 160,000 bad claims and 640 million dollar problem? it has been sitting there