guy, but i have serious concerns, and i m opposed to tar sands because those are environmentally dangerous. well, the company that he s invested in, the pipeline they re proposing still uses tar sands, they just use a different process than conventional crude. they have more stuff on their web site about it today where they adamantly oppose that because they say it is more dangerous to the environment than conventional crude oil because it potentially corrodes the pipe more likely, and if there s a spill, it s thicker and denser and more difficult to clean up than the conventional methods. so i think we rightfully can call into question why he was opposed to this from the beginning, particularly since he cited tar sands as the opposition. but he s clearly invested in a company that does stuff where it count stop tar sands, so it doesn t make sense. martha: tell me whether or not we think the keystone pipeline is getting any closer to some of
experience with the other stuff, but i do have that concern about the gateway issue. your thoughts? so, first, chris, you hit the nail on the head. most of us know about this issue anecdotally. so what we need, chris, is we need to know what the science tells us. the science of public health. so, i think the president needs to speak to his nih director in charge of drug abuse, nora volcow. because she would tell the president that, in fact, today s modern, genetically modified marijuana, so it s much higher thc levels, far surpass the marijuana that the president acknowledges smoking when he was a young person, so that he is wrong when he says that it isn t very harmful, because the new marijuana is not the old marijuana, and, of course, the president is making this decision based upon his anecdotal experience. we need to have presidential decisions made, based upon public health and the sound science that the federal government s invested in, which shows that this is very harmful. i
your thoughts? so, first, chris, you hit the nail on the head. most of us know about this issue anecdotally. so what we need, chris, is we need to know what the science tells us. the science of public health. so, i think the president needs to speak to his nih director in charge of drug abuse, nora volcow. because she would tell the president that, in fact, today s modern, genetically modified marijuana, so it s much higher thc levels, far surpass the marijuana that the president acknowledges smoking when he was a young person, so that he is wrong when he says that it isn t very harmful, because the new marijuana is not the old marijuana, and, of course, the president is making this decision based upon his anecdotal experience. we need to have presidential decisions made, based upon public health and the sound science that the federal government s invested in, which
but not if no one talks about it. i m glad we are talking about it here. i am so glad we are talking about this. delphi was bought by a hedge fund. which means that $15 million back in 2009, we really don t know, but about $50 million in this trust fund that mitt romney invested in, what delphi did was essentially say that we are not paying these obligations. we are moving every single unit dropped out of ohio and moving into china overseas. as a result, they re about 100,000 people working for delphi overseas. and only about 5000 or so working here in the states. that is the result of these hedge funds that mitt romney invested in. he did not want to pay and his friends did not want to pay these people their pensions. that is when the government has to step in. i am very glad to hear my
while he was at bain, no question about this, was making massive investments, tens of millions of dollars in a couple of different companies that was part of this expansion of the outsourcing in offshoring of jobs. this was 100% owned by mitt romney? the fund itself is 100% owned by mitt romney. it s managed by other partners and people. but he created this, he put the people in charge. you know, it s his name as the owner of the fund. there are at least three companies that total over 1/10 of the value of the fund. the whole fund was worth half a billion dollars. but there are companies which at the late 90s were pioneers going to high-tech offshoring. csi stream. we have it on the screen to see all the companies you talk about. that bain invested in. at that point in the late 90s, it was new for high-tech