Right after the stimulus bill passed in 2009, Rick Santelli had a rant on the floor of the chicago stock exchange. He said our Founding Fathers would be turning over in their graves and we needed to have a Tea Party Like they did. We were talking about his rant and we decided to have a Conference Call after his rant, which was on february 20 of 2009 for about 23 people. The following friday, we had 48 tea parties around the country with artie 5000 people in attendance. Where were you living . I was living in atlanta. There were two other people from atlanta on that Conference Call. We knew there would be at least one tea party in atlanta. What was your status . One of the things that Rick Santelli said, he asked the people who were standing behind him, if they wanted to pay for a home that their neighbors could no longer afford. That really is what motivated me to be involved. That part. My husband and i had just moved into a rental home in february of 2009. We had come out of personal
In other words, recruiter type . It was for warehouses and factories. What were you doing when he was in business . Initially, i used to work for do programming. I am a complete and total geek. I like politics and computers and technology. I programmed for home depot and was a project manager. I left Corporate America as we went to fertility treatments. At the time that we were going through bankruptcy, i was a stayathome mom. Fertility treatments . We ran into issues like many couples do when trying to get pregnant. We had to have some assistance. It worked out ok. We have twins now. I have heard this so often, fertility treatments often end up with twins . They increase ovulation so sometimes there is more than one egg. I wanted to have twins so i could not have been more pleased. I found out a week into the pregnancy that i was pregnant with two. When do you remember having your First Political thought . Wow. I think really my First Political thought was when i was nine or 10 years
Hello and welcome. Tropical storm sally has made landfall along the gulf coast in alabama, bringing historic levels of flooding and cutting power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses. Alabama, florida and mississippi have all declared states of emergency. Mark lobel reports. Striking slowly but mercilessly in alabama, some riding out the storm by clinging on. As day came, signs and trees uprooted and power cut for the residents. Got on the first floor and we started hearing the windows pop and part of the roof started coming off any signage was sweeping and we rated out. My kids were so scared and i told them it would be ok. But we will try to survive these. We will try to go through this. We will try to be safe. This is the view from the third floor of my room. Pocket the street roads now rivers in floridas westernmost city. My goodness mac i have never seen anything like this the third worst storm surge ever to hit he, wins reaching 158km h and up to 80 inches of rainfall
Guest unlike the exchanges and subsidies, available to anybody in the United States, the Medicaid Expansion will only be available to those states that have chosen to do so. Host one of our followers on Facebook Says Health Insurance would be as expensive as Car Insurance if it could be sold across state there. Just an opinion how does it work from one state to another . Guest there is a provision in the federal health law that allows for Insurance Plans to be sold across state lines as long as the states sign the contract compactwith one another. That is actually an option. In terms of medicaid, you live in the state you live in and you qualify for your state Medicaid Program or you dont. There is a lot of confusion around medicaid and who actually qualifies for it. I think there is a general sense that if you are poor in the United States to get medicaid, you get medicaid, which is not the case at all right now. You have to be pregnant, you have to have dependent children, you have t
Police have arrested his wife, the childs step america not his biological mother, but on an unrelated charge. What does this all mean . Alexandra field is in detroit with the latest. This has a lot of twists coming us very quickly. Reporter it really does, chris, and police are relying on this 12yearold boy, Charlie Bothuell, to help them understand how he could have possibly wound up in this basement here in detroit. We know that charlies been checked out by a team of child psychologists. Hes also been speaking to investigators. They say they are getting good information from him, but theres a lot more that they still need to know. 12yearold Charlie Bothuell is with his mother this morning after suddenly being found in his fathers home wednesday, 11 days after disappearing. We have not done anything wrong to my son, nothing but to try to help. Reporter on thursday charlies stepmother was taken into custody for a probation violation on unrelated weapons charge as the boys father, charl