this is a holier than thou and jon stewart looking down from the great popular mountain of comedy at this little fox anchor and dressing him down. in the soup you swim in. you get this vision after of a of a gnat swirling in the drain. he didn t do a very effective o job, precisely to your point, chris, because it seemed personal, like a vendetta. i think it was a bunch of trash he put together for jon stewart. i disagree with that. okay, go with it. i think jon stewart said, you can t touch me. like watching a ballet dancer and irs tax auditor. there was no competition here. you can t conceive in my world. you don t understand me. you think you know me, but you have no clue. let s try to talk about this poetry. it seems like jon stewart is saying, number one mb my first goal is entertainment. my number two goal is to make a point.
he should have probably shut up that point. young lady, let s go to this whole point here. you use this personal back and forth on television. this is rare to be they were talking to each other, not to principles or cartoons, but people, each of them. this is a holier than thou and jon stewart looking down from the great popular mountain of comedy at this little fox anchor and dressing him down. in the soup you swim in. you get this vision after of a of a gnat swirling in the drain. he didn t do a very effective o job, precisely to your point, chris, because it seemed personal, like a vendetta. i think it was a bunch of trash he put together for jon stewart. i disagree with that. okay, go with it. i think jon stewart said, you can t touch me. like watching a ballet dancer and irs tax auditor. there was no competition here.
every dollar of dead. mayor luke ravenstahl is the mayor. things have to change. reporter: retiring at age 50, ending a pension half of their take-home pay. firefighters can boost their pensions by making more overtime in the last years on duty. a pension called pension spiking. is that fair? it s not. reporter: usually pension spiking does not go on? not in this bureau. i m not sure in other cities. this way, the way the overtime is distributed, it s an even rotating list. reporter: firefighters deny they re engaging in pension spiking. they blame city hall. because of fiscal mismanagement, the cities and governments and thing, the working man shouldn t have to suffer from that. reporter: rob, with the local firefighters union, is open to raising the retirement age, but says this no job for senior citizens. so what am i supposed to do with somebody that reaches the
mayor luke ravenstahl is the mayor. retire at age 50, ending a pension half of their take home pay. firefighters can boost their pensions by morninging more overtime in the last years on duty. a pension called pension spiking. is that fair? it s not. reporter: usually pension spiking does not go on? not in this bureau. i m not sure in other cities. this way, the way the overtime is distributed, it s an even rotating list. reporter: firefighters blame city hall. because of fiscal mismanagement, the cities and governments and thing, the working man shouldn t have to suffer from that. reporter: the local firefighters union is open to raising the retirement age but says this no job for senior citizens? what am i supposed to do with the person who reaches the age
to be what he is alluding to. that is exactly what we ve got, he said, look we ve lost 8.5 million jobs since the recession began. now if you create 150,000, 200,000 jobs every month you still are five years, roughly, five years, away from getting back all of the jobs which we have lost. that is a no-job or very low job growth recovery. and, as that is happening, by the way, you ve got to look at the profitability of the big companies. they are making profit money, hand over fist. intel, the chipmaker made $2.5 billion, profit in 12 weeks. jp morgan, the bank, made $3.25 billion, profit, in 12 weeks. so you ve got a tale of two realities. a jobless recovery, massive profits, for corporate america. stuart varney, the host of varney & company on fox business network. thanks. thank you, jon. details on a heart-warming