Making money. Im Charles Payne. Yes we are invested in you. Now over the next hour our studio audience they get to ask the questions. These questions will reflect the concerns of all americans. Questions that will play a decisive role in the upcoming election in how we tackle the pivotal issues of our time. By the way, allstar fox business lineup. Stuart varney, liz claman, dagen mcdowell. Give them all a round of applause [applause] we are going to tackle the war on the rich, student loan crisis, retirement. The economics of Climate Change. All of this and more, special Live Audience edition of making money. Bring them in. Stuart varney you know him. Host of the top market show on television. Varney company. Hi, everybody. [applause] charles thank you very much stuart. My pleasure. Were going to get right to it. I know that is how you like to do it. Situation son, give us your first question . I am a student, is it responsibility of the government to forgive student debt or cut the co
Listen on the go with this free cspan radio app. Host Grover Norquist serves as the president of americans for tax reform. We hear a lot of debate about the impact of the 2017 tax cuts. What would you say about that . Guest several things. What it did to economic growth, gdp, and it has gotten stronger. Wage growth is up. The last 15 months, about 3 . And that is particularly in the Median Income people, middle income folks Getting Better wages. We are also seeing 7 million job openings with less than 7 Million People looking. More people are leaving their jobs, which is a good sign. I means they know there are other jobs. You want people to leave jobs they are not happy with that are not going somewhere, and they are finding jobs. And the total workforce, the number of people looking for work, under obama, that actually declined. One of the reasons unemployment went down is people were so discouraged they quit looking, they retired early they did not , go to work, they stayed in schoo
More people are leaving their jobs, which is a good sign. You want people to leave jobs they are not happy with that are not going somewhere, and they are finding jobs. And the total workforce, the number of people looking for work, under obama, that actually declined. One of the reasons unemployment went down is people were so discouraged they quit looking, they did not go to work, they stayed in school, they stayed home. They were not working. That was declining during recovery. It was just the weakest recovery in modern history. We never had a recovery like that. But worse, people were leaving the workforce. During recovery. Growth, he blocked entering the workforce. Every once in a while, you see lots of people get jobs, but the unemployment number doesnt move because as many people start looking for work and that is a good sign. People wanting to work and finding work, more people being able to choose their jobs. Voluntary. Not getting fired. Voluntary departures are up. Wages are
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Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not the yeas are 83. The noes are 9. The motion is passed agreed to. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley ive got a couple of issues i want to speak on. One would be trade and section 232 issue. That would be my second one. The first one, i want to speak about commonsense entitlement reform. In the past year weve seen a flurry of drug pricing proposals. Im encouraged by efforts from my colleagues here in the senate, especially Ranking Member wyden, colleagues in the house that agree in the house of representatives who agree with this effort to reduce drug prices and the president of the United States who has already been involved for a year and a half in lowering drug prices. All have made lowering Prescription Drug costs one of the Core Principles of our efforts and particularly a core principle for this administration