Country as to whether we are going to change as a country because of this massacre and because of the national heartbreak it has caused, to try to get at that very big question, there is a very narrow discussion to be had about a piece of new technology. This is something called a 3d printer. Anybody can become a smallscale manufacturer of anything. All you have to do is down load a computer file or create a computer file that has the specifications for the shape of a thing that you would like to build. You do have a limited range of the material that your 3d printer can make something out of, that you have programmed it to make. But you can create a physical, three dimensional object that with something that is the equivalent of a printer. These things cost a few thousand bucks, but it is a relatively straight forward thing. These exists. There are a bunch of different brands of them out there. Its neat. Its also interesting and complicated and maybe quandary inducing when you conside
This is something called a 3d printer. Anybody can become a smallscale manufacturer of anything. All you have to do is down load a computer file or create a computer file that has the specifications for the shape of a thing that you would like to build. You do have a limited range of the material that your 3d printer can make something out of, that you have programmed it to make. But you can create a physical, three dimensional object that with something that is the equivalent of a printer. These things cost a few thousand bucks, but it is a relatively straight forward thing. These exists. There are a bunch of different brands of them out there. Its neat. Its also interesting and complicated and maybe quandary inducing when you consider people are starting to build things with 3d printers. One of the things people are already starting to make is a gun. If you think about a gun as being a car, then the engine and the drive train, the part that makes it go, the equivalent of that in the
Imus in the morning the gun industry, in full retreat on all fronts. Good morning, everyone, a leading internet gun seller suspends all sales. The california Teachers Pension Fund thinks about getting out of gun stops. The bush master gun maker has been put up for sale. And friday marked a sea change. Richard trumka has taxes and spending. A dead ringer for big labors plans delivered to the white house. Facebook makes a pr push, mark zuckerberg, a half billion to charity and you are getting out of General Motors and you lost. Wednesday, december 19th, Varney Company about to begin. Good morning, everyone, General Motors, its about you the taxpayer. You are getting out. And they will sell 300 shares by a prearranged written trading agreement. Dont know the price. Plus, gm will buy 200 million shares from the treasury, that means is taxpayer loss is being locked in. How much . Were not sure. Taxpayers, by the way, put in 49 1 2 billion into General Motors. The bidask shows gm up today. N
Spell it out for us. A new report about what may have gone on at the phoenix va hospital this initial report will be so disturbing to people. They say what they did find was multiple list of veterans awaiting medical care. There were 1700 veterans needing medical care. 1700 that were on no waiting list at all. These veterans were and continue to be at risk of being forgotten or lost. Low wait list, if you have low wait time statistics in your records, that means more salary increases, more bonuses, more awards. Did people know that this was going on. They cannot make the link yet between the death of veterans and this failure in care. They need to find out if veterans indeed died. On top of the fake lists it was Something Like 26 facilities under investigation. That number is up to 42, correct . Basically the secretary of the department of Veterans Affairs is going have to look at everything. He has promised to have a top to bottom look at all of it. They are under unprecedented pressu
Circumstance of this attack. This is a major Training Base for afghan officers of the Afghan National security forces, camp gargha, this is a Training Afghan forces so they can take over responsibility thats been born by u. S. And coalition forces. You have an attacker who turned his gun on American Forces out there. Carried out this attack. Its unclear whether it was a member of the Afghan Security force or it was a terrorist or a member of the taliban dressed up in the uniform. Both of those have occurred before. Im told by the pentagon, one american soldier killed. 15 wounded. They are still assessing the conditions of those wounded. Were going to keep you up to date on the number there. Had this is a very severe attack. Today, a bad death toll, a bad injury toll for americans there but also bigger picture, an alarming problem because remember, carol, you and i have talked about this a number of times, Afghan Security Going Forward depends on the trustworthiness and the effectivenes