vaccine for the dogs. someone wrote in we think it s some kind of army testing, military testing. and people of depression and they re kind of masquerading as lyme disease no, that s ridiculous. willie geist, you know people affected by this. it ain t depression. no, i had it ten years ago. lucky i caught it early because we saw the bull s eye bite. it s become part of the routine. i have two little kids, every day they come in from the yard, you have to check every inch of their body. you see them on the side of their heads sometimes and pluck them out. you know what i think is cute? you are calling hamptons long island. i don t go what s wrong with the hamptons? a lot of hard-working people in the hamptons? a lot of people avoiding paying taxes out there.
issue about romney care, and you write about that in the huffington post. it was a policy so poisonous for republican voters that he d have to abandon it in order to win their support. but months into the run, mitt romney has been surprisingly unhindered by the health care policy he passed as governor of massachusetts leaving some political observers utterly befuddled. it s not hurting him. that was just beautifully written. i m still getting over that. actually, this is something that surprised me a lot because obviously heading into the primary was considered to be the biggest liability for his campaign. the fact that, you know, let s be honest, his plan in massachusetts was the philosophical foundation for obama care. but nobody seems to be caring that much. and part of it has to do that it s tough to explain the specifics of the policy,
no, it s not capitalism, it s globalism. we always have made more money, americans have been better off in other countries. it used to be we had our own protected market, the greatest market in the world. and you charge if a company moved abroad, it would pay a price to get back in this market. now we let them in free to undercut the wages of american workers. obviously big corporations, our own ge, are going to move their plants where they can produce cheapest, get rid of their american workers and keep consumers. and 11 million jobs today, and the concerning thing is, what changes it? when you look at the macro trends to pat s point about globalization, there s almost no fix to this. but again, it s a mixed message because part of that is technology, right? technology is eliminating a lot of jobs that s my point. but people want the convenience of technology, they don t want the unemployment that often
which really signified the explosion of the middle class in 1945. look at it now, down to 7% in private, in the private sector. and part of jeff s thesis is, in fact, the sad truth is we re not competitive in a lot of manufacturing industries anymore. it s not so much that the companies are exporting jobs, they re going to places where they can manufacture higher quality more cheaply. that s capitalism. so part of it is those jobs in the 1950s, 1960s, in the 1970s, and wages, by the way, are stagnant for working people in america back to 1973, those jobs have left. in part because we re not competitive. pat buchanan, a lot of those jobs have left. some of them are coming back in volkswagen, mercedes, and exporting jobs to america. but i wonder if that is bad news in a sense.
don t know, what made this more like a movie, think about it, 162 games, this started back in february when the pitchers and catchers reported here we are now september 28th last night and it all ended in one minute. minute. literally one minute the red sox lose, one minute later, the ball goes over the left field fence. let me say something because people criticize baseball as a sport a lot of time. but no other sport has this type of dramatic arch. and we follow this game throughout the course of the summer, follow the teams, get to like them, get to know them. we develop this narrative that comes in there. september, like yesterday was one of the greatest days of sport watching that anyone could ever have. amen. of course, all my teams lost, but and for the red sox, what a horrific season. it started horribly, ended horribly, in the middle you thought they were the best team in baseball for four months. and that s the thing about baseball. and they were for about four