the senate to make the national debt $21 billion worse than it would otherwise be in order to keep paying taxpayer subsidies the most profitable industry the earth has ever known. in a political environment where people are so freaked out about the debt and the deficit that conservatives want to sell utah and burgle ft. knox. you ve only got 11 minutes and 14 seconds exactly. go, go, go. joining us now is ezra klein, columnist for the washington post and newsweek, also an msnbc contributor. great to have you here. thanks for joining us. good evening, rachel. so would liquidating federal buildings and selling off parts of utah and burgling the gold at ft. knox, would be it substantively helpful for bringing down the deficit? i think it s thinking a little small, though, don t you? it s what about utah brought to you by walmart. look at all this federal property that we have that people can sponsor. look. you can certainly bring down the deficit somewhat by selling off everythi
scott brown has tied himself in these pretzely knots over killing medicare. and he has now voted with almost the entire republican caucus in the senate to make the national debt $21 billion worse than it would otherwise be in order to keep paying taxpayer subsidies the most profitable industry the earth has ever known. in a political environment where people are so freaked out about the debt and the deficit that conservatives want to sell utah and burgle ft. knox. you ve only got 11 minutes and 14 seconds exactly. go, go, go. joining us now is ezra klein, columnist for the washington post and newsweek, also an msnbc contributor. great to have you here. thanks for joining us. good evening, rachel. so would liquidating federal buildings and selling off parts of utah and burgling the gold at ft. knox, would be it substantively helpful for bringing down the deficit? i think it s thinking a little small, though, don t you? it s what about utah brought to you by walmart.
killing medicare. and he has now voted with almost the entire republican caucus in the senate to make the national debt $21 billion worse than it would otherwise be in order to keep paying taxpayer subsidies the most profitable industry the earth has ever known. in a political environment where people are so freaked out about the debt and the deficit that conservatives want to sell utah and burgle ft. knox. you ve only got 11 minutes and 14 seconds exactly. go, go, go. joining us now is ezra klein, columnist for the washington post and newsweek, also an msnbc contributor. great to have you here. thanks for joining us. good evening, rachel. so would liquidating federal buildings and selling off parts of utah and burgling the gold at ft. knox, would be it substantively helpful for bringing down the deficit? i think it s thinking a little small, though, don t you? it s what about utah brought to you by walmart. look at all this federal property that we have that people can spons
new york times, said some hedge funds, some banks may have had a sense. let s take a look at the quote from the article. it says, quote, they had to know, mr. madoff said, but attitude was sort of if you re doing something wrong, we don t want to know. now that really doesn t jive with what he said previously. it seems that mr. madoff almost is trying to spread the blame. saying they had to have known, so he says, behind bars. allan chernoff, thank you. finally here, a major airline cancelling flights because of safety issues, but first one of your own local book stores filing bankruptcy papers. next on reporter roulette alison kosik. what happened to borders book store? reporter: kind of a new chapter, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. not liquidating, but about 200 stores will close, about 30% of the retail locations, but if you re a shopper there, they will still honor the gift cards
a compromise, like everything else, jon kyl and blanche lincoln c lincoln, how about 35% and a $5 million elimination, and anything above $5 million, but, again, if nothing is don t you will go to a 55% and in essence the democrats tax plan, going forward on this, dies soon. martha: and the great words of alan grayson, right, the congressman who said, their plan is, die quickly! and it may behoove some people if they are about to go, to do it quickly. how awful is that. on the congress floor he said the health care plan on the republican side is die quickly and the democrats plan is die soon, it is terrible. 55%, forces businesses to shut down, when a family waiting left an estate with a small business they cannot afford the taxes on, they have to sell the business, and shut down the business, or, start liquidating in advance of the death of person who owns the