yesterday. guys, this is exactly what the democrats need to have sarah palin out there? this is going to make every single kind of disaffected obama voter go crazy. make them race to the polls and like line up all night. jim, i have a question for you. trying to bring something. while he was saying she sucks up all of this, chris in my ear goes, speaking of sucking. thank you, jim vandehei. pull something out of jim. jim. yes, ma am? on this story, do you, as a journalist as jim vandehei, do you really care? do i care whether palin runs? do you really care whether she will or won t she and do you care some. absolutely care because she would be the number one force inside that race. do you think she will run. i think a big chance she is doing this to enhance her celebrity, to make more money so sort of build the palin brand because i think there s a lot of people who think at the end of
everyone says ges sits are terrible. what do we do in the long-term to do something about it? everybody is concerned right now. the number is climbing. if you want to solve one problem, help somebody who doesn t have a job find a job. right. and harass every politician you can think of to focus their brain and their mind on job creation and on productive investment in this country as a matter of incentives and policies. what does the government do to make that happen? the government creates tax breaks and the government creates incentives. they are tax hordes. hundreds of billions of dollars are not invested in this country because of uncertainty. maybe this is a radical idea but maybe we do give small businesses breaks. you need more than small businesses. to invest okay mid-sized businesses. i need money on the floor. sorry. let me get my point out. i wish i could take what you take every morning to get you going. it would be such a faster three
when do we start cutting? after we start clawing back. i don t know why as a country we refuse to deal with the issue of compensation that is being paid out to individuals who are taking that money predicated on their control of the government and not on their introduction of any value. 75% of what happens in the financial industry a racket, it should be basically outlawed so we can restore capitalism and why we don t deal with the tax dodge that exists at the top. again, barack obama aggressive in his campaign trail but how to take care of the tax loopholes and work for the american people. sounds like a texas congressman there. he didn t do it. when the wall street guys got across the table from him you re going to change our tax code, little boy? i think not because i tell you when you re 75 or 80-year-old billionaire from new york who is looking at any government in this country that is trying to play with the tax code, you know who wins? the 80-year-old billionaire in
program is competition, then you go to the next guy. and as coach john wooden taught a long time ago, the bench is a great ally for the coach. you take away a guy s chance to play. they talk to the agent, they talk to the opener, the owner says they have invested not our owner. not my owner. you are in trouble. you know you are in trouble. dealing with a bunch of ego listen to those guys for a second. seriously? confident, you go to paul allen and say you know what, this superstar paying x-amount of money, he is on the bench? great spore, too. it is over. a little different than being on scholarship in college. yes it s real quick, coach, before you go tell us about the team, seattle down the last couple of years. what do you like about the team? what i like about them is the work ethic. challenge these guys to have the best offseason of their life this year, went about it done everything they can possibly do to set us up for camp. only a couple weeks ago, getting
correct, small badges. that s right. it s looking into t.a.r.p. and how well it worked out. it worked well for the wall street banks but it wasn t worked so well for the smaller financial institutions. and why is that? well, it s for a couple of reasons. the basically model was to put money into these banks really fast, announce that they were stabilized and expect the banks to go to the capital markets and raise money and repay the taxpayer. it worked for the financial institutions 76% have repaid and off making record profits and record bonuses. for small banks, however, it didn t work out that way. where we stand right now is fewer than 10% have repaid, and 15% have already missed a dividend payment, suggesting that they are in trouble. and part of the reason for this is what actually happened when we got t.a.r.p. and that is the investors look, well, you can invest in a small bank, invest