the office, george orwell documented this and tried to look what it took to live in poverty, morgan spurlock, the documenta documentaryian, and nickel and dimed became an international best seller. did any of those examples speak to you, and what s been the hardest financial choice you ve had to make? well, you hit it on the head with the word choice. what i learned is that every day, almost every hour, one has to make choices, are you going to drive, are you going to take public transportation? how much can you spend for breakfast, if you spend too much for breakfast, what sacrifices do you have to make in terms of meals later in the day? so, literally, one has to make can choices all the time and people should never have to make these kinds of choices of basic needs in their lives. representative, my last question for you may be slightly harder, but is part of the point here that you think the premise
would put your money in a sock under the bed because frankly, you would have lost more money with airlines than you would ever have made. richard, mou do you explain the fact that we re all crammed in there at this point. you don t get the blanket, you don t get peanuts. you don t get anything. you re nickel and dimed. how do explain what s happening 0 to us, the passengers? economics. too bad. that s what you re saying what do you want? what do you want, suzanne? i know what you want. i want a back rub. you want a seat. you want a meal. you want a blanket. you want to have extra room around you. you want but you don t want to pay for it. and then somebody comes along, a southwest or a spirit and says, well hang on. you don t need that. we won t charge you for it but somebody else will. you can t have it both ways. this is an industry that was born in the last century. it matured late in the century. and is still losing money at the
of which charge any fee for the first checked bag. so the higher the fees, the higher the satisfaction. gabe, are you buying what that survey is selling? well, nobody is jumping for joy because they have to pay to check a bag. when these fees were put into place, we were feeling as travelers nickel and dimed. the airlines were telling us they were guying us choice and that message is resonating better. we re wrapping our heads around the new normal. the base fare is competitive and then if you really want that aisle seat, you want to check your bag, if you want extra leg room, you just have to pay for it. it s about coming to terms with the new create technology has helped. if you check in online 24 hours before your flight you can avoid hang on, hang on, we re going to get to your recommendations. i want to ask about the new normal. i asked a former shell oil president, are we getting used
raised in 1920s new york. he talks about the gi bill. nickel and dimed. he s clearly going for one piece of his constituency. here is the thing, i m going to gets i m going to get in trouble for saying this, i really i actually think a lot of anthony weiner is politics i really don t like. he voted for the iraq war. his politics on israel i don t like. there s a whole lot substantively i am not in line with his politics but i think when you look at the levels of scandal there are, i think the guy got a raw deal. like, what he did was creepy or weird or whatever, however you want to clarify it and if it was my friend to who came to me and told me they were doing this while married, i would be like get it together, this is messed up, i m really mad at you, but in terms of public life, like i just think there s this crazy mismatch and i think it s because of new york, because huma abedin is close to the clintons. argue against it but i think there s a total mismatch between the leve
most parents but we really have no trust in the bedford high school system. we ll keep jordan out regardless. what do most of your friends say? do they have trust or no trust in the system is the last question. i think there s a mix. we have a lot of people in bedford who just want to kind of keep everything under the rug and trust the teachers and trust the principals. these are the same people that gave us religious bigotry in nickel and dimed and pornography in water for elephants so i really can t say. i m disappointed in my neighbors and i hope they ll wake up with this bill. thank you so much for being here. let us know what happens going forward. sure will and thank you. be well. still ahead, david axelrod says the business leader like mitt romney is not what the economy needs. really? we re going to ask a man who knows how business works. donald trump. joins us next. and michelle obama firing back in the new book about the first