path have a new tool to keep them safe and it fits right in your hand. consumer reports says cell phone users can usually text more successfully than making phone calls when a network experiences high volume that s because texting uses less data. for more now i m joined by joe brown the editor in chief with gizmoto.com. good to see you. good to see you. the odd thing was we had an earthquake in new york city this week. when everybody s trying to get a signal it imja jams it up. when you have a big event an acute event everybody s going to call you, your mom overseas or your brother or your aunt. all of that traffic, all of that data just crushes the networks. text messages are tiny, they can fit through the cracks. they re easy to get a message through. that s your best be bet.
sales of existing homes dropped. and manufacturers had been expecting a modest increase. and inflation on consumer goods was up. add in collapsing consumer confidence and you get sober advice like this 2012 could be a very difficult year. i m on the camp that we have more chance of being in recession than avoiding it. so, they should be conservative right now. their confidence should be down because there s every reason out there that they shouldn t feel confident. getting us started tonight our chief business correspondent ali velshi takes us behind the numbers. john, when you have days like this, it s hard to get a sense to pull back and take a further view, so i wanted to do that and pull back and take a look at the dow which is, you know, what a lot of people s 401(k)s look like, wanted to take it from the beginning of the year. 11,500 on the dow, went up to 12,500,000 and back down in june and july went back up. middle of july you would have thought everything wa
the holidays they got an earful from their constituents about the paul ryan plan to get rid of medicare and turn it into a voucher program. they don t like that. nobody likes it. i think that boehner is backing away from that. big surprise, medicare is popular. i don t know why their polls didn t tell them that already. the odd thing, lawrence, is that one year ago republicans remember they were claiming that the democrats health care bill was going to wreck medicare and destroy medicare. they were using medicare to clobber the democrats and to think that the americans have such a short attention span. how can they possibly believe that the attention span is that short? they very specifically rose as the defenders of medicare posed as the defenders of medicare in the health care reform debate saying you can t touch it in any way. and here they are. robert riesh, former labor secretary, thank you for joining me tonight. thanks, lawrence.
i think that boehner is backing away from that. big surprise, medicare is popular. i don t know why their polls didn t tell them that already. the odd thing, lawrence, is that one year ago republicans remember they were claiming that the democrats health care bill was going to wreck medicare and destroy medicare. they were using medicare to clobber the democrats and to think that the americans have such a short attention span. how can they possibly believe that the attention span is that short? they very specifically rose as the defenders of medicare posed as the defenders of medicare in the health care reform debate saying you can t touch it in any way. and here they are. robert reich, former labor secretary, thank you for joining me tonight. thanks, lawrence. coming up, why the use of torture made it harder to find bin laden. that s in the rewrite. and, he s taking all week to make an announcement about running for president. senior adviser to john mccain in 2008 joins m
from their constituents about the paul ryan plan to get rid of medicare and turn it into a voucher program. they don t like that. nobody likes it. i think that boehner is backing away from that. big surprise, medicare is popular. i don t know why their polls didn t tell them that already. the odd thing, lawrence, is that one year ago republicans remember they were claiming that the democrats health care bill was going to wreck medicare and destroy medicare. they were using medicare to clobber the democrats and to think that the americans have such a short attention span. how can they possibly believe that the attention span is that short? they very specifically rose as the defenders of medicare posed as the defenders of medicare in the health care reform debate saying you can t touch it in any way. and here they are. robert riesh, former labor secretary, thank you for joining me tonight. thanks, lawrence. coming up, why the use of torture made it harder to find bin laden. th