forbes talking about the whiskey industry for example. eboni: that is an important one. it really is, particularly around the holiday season. and, you know, there are a lot of craft whiskey makers right now who find that because of tariffs that the administration puts on foreign goods coming in, their products see the tariffs going out and so it will be a lot more ex-opinionsive to buy a shot of jack daniels in europe than it would have cost before. and so a lot of craft makers, boutique whiskey makers are concerned that that will impact their business. that is a small little industry example. but, listen, farming industry. people in the steel industry as well. people in the related industries to that. just think about it, when the prices of farming products go up. food. when we cannot sell food over to china, for example, all of these indirect industries relying upon the farming industry, equipment. services. all of them are impacted as well. all of them too could have an impact
great deal of discretion with respect to the environment. this is congress fault. years ago when they created the environmental protection administration in the nixon administration, congress gave the president discretion, how many parts per billion is acceptable in the air? and presidents could raise those parts to make it easier and less ex opinionsive for industry or lower those numbers. this president is using that discretion as he sees fit. here is the kicker. he s also using it in ways that the congress expressly rejected, rejected, which makes it questionable morally, but probably still legal. in other areas, like immigration where he s actually changed the law, obamacare, where 29 changes to the statute, there he s completely and totally frustrated congress will and congress silence is shameful. we ran a sound bite where he said i m gog use this billion
ups is giving free waivers and giving free shipping. corporate america, they make mistakes. but unlike the federal government, they take responsibility for it. let s hope in 2014, we could start seeing some people in washington take responsibility for their decisions just like corporate america does every day. all stated. thank you so much. we wish you all the best for the new year. keep us posted on how we can preserve our future. we appreciate it. will do. thank you. gregg? obamacare is going to bring yet another change in the new year. calorie counts in vending machines. oh, yeah. the f.d.a. expected to release final rules that will require calorie information to be displayed on roughly 5 million vending machines nationwide. the agency says it will help people make healthier choices. a group representing the vendors says complying with the new law will be too ex opinionsive for the mall expensive for the smaller companies. it s bad enough they took away my snowballs out
let s listen to ezekiel emmanuel. no one has launched a big pr campaign to get these people signed up because of the problems with the federal web site. we are about to launch a big pr campaign and that, i think, is going to persuade a lot of people to sign up. good move? no pr campaign is going to work. the product is no good. it s too ex opinionsive. your deductibles are huge and it s not a workable product. just something that is a disaster. you don t have your own doctors anymore. people are going out to their doctor. their doctor is throwing them out of their office. it s all based on lies. so many lies having to do with obamacare. it was fraudulent to bring it in the first place. he said all sorts of things like, you can keep your doctor and so many other things. then they passed it. does anybody bring a lawsuit saying it was passed under false pretense? so many lies. it s like uncle oscar, he said, i don t know uncle oscar action i never met him, but he lived
the insurance company, they don t know who you are. it s a catastrophe. it s a total mess. it is a situation that the world laughs and it s just horrible, except the one big problem. it s affecting negatively so many people. people that had these great plans that they loved. they loved their doctor. they want to go to their doctor. they can t anymore. and the cost are going up double, triple, quadruple and in many cases it doesn t matter what you pay, you re not going to get a plan. i know you go out of your way to do a lot of fund-raisers, charities, underneath the wire, mayo clinic and others. they are ex opinionsive. but they also do innovation. they are going to be severely affected by obamacare because everybody looks at the dollar. in the short run, they re going to be destroyed by this plan because no one can afford to go there anymore. supposedly, according to