Already gone over the the fiscal cliff. As president obama goaded Congress Today to make him ake up his offer on higher taxes. A wave of new protests swept through europe. Governments have already failed their people. That is the choice we face tonight. Either our elected officials bring order to our economy, or there wouldnt be any economy to worry about. As the president spoke today, the markets took a dive down 185 points. The dow jones is down nearly 700 points in the last six trading days since president obama was reelected. The nasdaq in a correction of nearly two thirds of the market also and correction teitory. It down more than 10 from recent highs. The markets seem to think that we have had over the fiscal cliff. What did people haveo say to have the pow to stop it . Lets ask republican congressman tim huelskamp. Welcome to the show, congressman. We definitely want to talk to you about the president s speech today. He said he is ready for compromise. Here is the president. I
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Trucks and back breaking work. The whole thing was to get that job and make your union book because these guys get paid very well. What is interesting about this, these are highly unionized jobs. Where theres really strict rules when you work and when you dont work. And they paid pretty well for people that dont have college degrees. Melissa yeah. Why theyre walking off the job . There are other things you can do to protest unfair firing. Melissa is sort of the sentiment in this country right now and dialogue that were having about minimum wage and about wall street and all these things, is it stirring up discontent that could be damaging our recovery or not . Or is it healthy . Veronica . Definitely stirring up discontent. Well see more acts of civil disobedience. This is problem. They knew they were breaking their union contract. They were not covered the moment they walked out the door. Theyre out of a john the and more people out of a job turning to the government for help. I think