tax refuns going to a single address in lithuania that tipped them off. by the time the irs did connect the dots, u.s. taxpayers were out 4 billion bucks. false refunds to, get this, i.d. thieves. get this, just last year. gretchen says this is what you get we the government keeps on getting bigger. i don t know what was the first light bulb that went off that they finally concluded wait a minute. at 600, i would say, this lithuania address strikes me as odd. these are the people who were put in charge of health care, gretchen. these are people being put in charge of health care. there are people who runp numerous programs we rely on. what was the red flag here? 600 tax returns going to an address in lithuania or an address in shanghai? the same thing can happen here
look at the money we gained going after the good stuff and try not to pay attention to the money we ve wasted acting like fools going after the questionable stuff. you ve got to wonder. all right, thank you very much. gretchen hamill. in the meantime, the white house is listening to this message, what that means for you.
0 respect it will keep us healthy or we ll be healthier because this stuff is bad. they say 7,000 downs, 20,000 heart ailments. that s the argument for it. if we re not going to learn, maybe they can force feed this on us. what do you think? i think the same guy that has a problem with trans-fat is the same guy that is going to mcdonald s and eatings ten quarter pounders a week. when you got bad eating habits you have bad eating hadn ts. what s amazing to me, federal government? oh, trans-fats are bad but we re going to keep selling alcohol and tobacco. if we had a $3 a can federal tax on crisco? i think that they would probably be crisco would be fine because there s money coming in. it s just more government run amok. save us from the good people. who knows how i should live better than i do. we have all been fools because we have been buying bad insurance policy. now they re going to show us how the doc is in the house. meanwhile, no reason to get medical attention for this.
denial that he s ready for a bailout. we now have the latest numbers crossing for the eurozone services pmi. the september final services read coming in at 46.1. an improvement that we have seen from the 46 number. this is still the lowest level we re seeing since 2009. the forward indication 49.4. in terms of what we re seeing on the final comp sit pmi, this is above the 45.9 read that we have, but just a fraction below what we saw in august, the rate was 46.3 then. this is the lowest read since may 2009. in terms of new business number for the composite september rate, 43.8. we re still right back at some of these 2009 lows. elsewhere, the numbers are not that much better. lisa has more on these numbers out of china. official data showed china services sector fell sharply in september to its lowest level in almost two years. it shows the rest of the economy has started to feel the effect from the sluggish manufacturing sector. if you look at the breakdown of the servi
government, and a former chief of justice for joe manchin, a democrat. gretchen, the president provided congress with a to-do list. wants congress to help returning veterans back looking for work, businesses that promise not to ship their jobs overseas. he says that these are common-sense ways that we can help the economy and help people looking for work. how do you think it sounds? it s a to-do list too late. i mean everyone knows that congress wasn t going to be able to do anything this year in an election year. we should be wondering where this to-do list was years before. we haven t seen it at all. it s something the president has been doing lately, calling on congress to take action, knowing full well they won t take action, so he has someone to blame. chris, governor romney says that getting rid of obamacare and getting started on the keystone pipeline are two ways that we could absolutely start