This is just over 30 minutes. All rise. Here ye, hear ye, hear, ye. Thank you. You may be seated. Good morning to everyone. Our first case this morning is thompson versus heinemann. Reedman. Iedman good morning. Good morning. Today. Re i would like to reserve three minutes of my time for rebuttal. We are asking this court to reverse the decision for two reasons. T, second lb 1161 does not the exclusive jurisdiction. We stand on those arguments. We will turn now to the merits of our case. Well, just a minute. On your standing, didnt we in cunningham versus x carve out an exception to the standing rule. . . Would you agree that this concerns a matter of great concern . Yes. And that was a standing. And that case did not have a legal extend it through involved, correct . That is correct. Why did exxon control that . In cunningham versus exxon, there was no one to actually challenge the constitutionality of the statute. It is not only that it has to be a matter of important public purpose
Is there anybody in the right mind who believes that as an unforeseen circumstances with the current market is anyone who believes you would utilize the entire 48 billion in the coming fiscal year . Not that i know of. Not that i know of either. So you have 40 billion sitting in the bank, and because of some stupid federal law, you have been required to access taxpayer money. By the way, are you going with h. R. 1028, acted and unnecessary are opening 2013 . You think its a good idea . You dont have to say. Its complicated. I know you do. That act which stops this stupid bark at get us off the treadmill. If you were in trouble i would be happy to jump on you. Hound you pretty good. Because 48 billion in the bank and you dont think you have to use it, and yet we are having another hearing today. I have a friend who just bought a 200,000 condo. It took 50,000 down. Thats pretty good, right . They had to borrow 150,000. They have an auto loan, credit card, they owe about 175,000 have abou
Problems. We will speak with richmonds mayor as chevron agrees to pay 2 million. Then as president obama speaks about housing recovery in phoenix, we will look at the devastating impact of the foreclosure crisis. Trying to convince me the house is foreclosed on, trying to evict me and im trying to keep my home. Is, you took my money all those years. Either work with me and let me keep my home, or give me my money back. We will look at how richmond, california is planning to use Eminent Domain to help fight the foreclosure crisis. We will speak to laura gottesdiener, author of the new book, a dream foreclosed black america and the fight for a place to call home. First, we look at the National Security agency and the u. S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Dea agents are using intelligence gathered by the nsa to investigate americans and then being order to cover it up. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Jef
Problems. We will speak with richmonds mayor as chevron agrees to pay 2 million. Then as president obama speaks about housing recovery in phoenix, we will look at the devastating impact of the foreclosure crisis. Trying to convince me the house is foreclosed on, trying to evict me and im trying to keep my home. Is, you took my money all those years. Either work with me and let me keep my home, or give me my money back. We will look at how richmond, california is planning to use Eminent Domain to help fight the foreclosure crisis. We will speak to laura gottesdiener, author of the new book, a dream foreclosed black america and the fight for a place to call home. First, we look at the National Security agency and the u. S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Dea agents are using intelligence gathered by the nsa to investigate americans and then being order to cover it up. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Jef
Melissa all right, lets start tonight with pure money like how much ceos of Public Companies are making and the drastic difference between that number and what their employees are making. All with this question in mind. Is it even relevant . Should it really matter that someone running a huge company whos responsible for every aspect of how that company is run and profit it can generate for shareholders is probably making many, many, many times what the average employees are making. You cant compare the jobs so why compare the salaries . That is the heart of a battle brewing at thes. Ec, whether or not Public Companies should be force toddies close that ratio. Todays panel on the power of money is steve forbes, chairman of forbes media. We also have James Freeman of the wall street journal we have jonathan hoenig, Hedge Fund Manager and fox news contributor. Steve, let me ask you, who does this help . It helps nobody except the agitators, activist, shareholder activists who want to con