people working, killing themselves. how many employees did you have? when i sold the company about 1,000. when i joined 20. how much money did you guys make? me, personally or the company? no, the company. we made a lot of money. okay. i m just saying, again, and i m not saying it s right, i m not saying it s wrong, i m just reporting what i say we ve all heard about this 30-hour cutoff and i m concerned moving forward on this especially for small business owners. but i do understand, i do understand what you re saying also, if you own a small business f you love your employees, you want them, obviously, to have health care. and by the way, i think, you know, being a family makes a huge difference in growing a business. what do you know what the average cost is for let s say per employee if obama care? for a small business. right now, be small businesses i know you re focused on this, but i ll tell you, right out there now, for we are seeing momentum in small
they get up and running i expect significant delays out of o hare early today and out of st. louis. rain in the northwest. you re used to it. i-5 should see minor issues. the big story this morning, traveling in illinois, wisconsin or michigan, give yourself a lot of extra time and be prepared for significant delays out of o hare and st. louis airports because of the dense fog. you re watching morning joe. i ll have updates on the forecast during the show. we re brewed by starbucks. .
saturday night live. new jersey. he s got a 90% approval rating and cuomo has an 85%. as far as the absolute numbers. new yorkers, even if they don t like christie, they respect him. i ve turned around on the guy. everybody seems to. you have. turned around on a positive way. yeah. i mean be. snl has. this guy is too much of a bully to ever capture the national heart if you will, but to me he s just turned it around. this guy has the right stuff. you can t argue. it was remarkable to see him sitting here on the show last week with randy winegartner after all they ve been through. him versus unions. there s still a lot of union members that don t like chris christie but to see the head of the major teacher union having a constructive deal with governor christie. also, mark halperin, we were struck by the fact that when we were in charlotte the democratic head of the new jersey senate came running up, letting us know that he had his good buddy chris
christie on the phone. stylistically, donny is a great bellwether here of the fact that he has a way to break through. two big challenges. he has to get re-elected. it s not optional. he has to win re-election in a democratic state. he has to have perform in the state. he s turned the state around in some ways, but the storm doesn t help. still a lot of work to do on education, on some of the cities, on jobs, so if he s if he turns the state around economically in particular, i think he will be formidable. we also have breaking news in israel that we re following for you where a bus in tel aviv exploded this morning with passengers on board. information is still coming in. we have this video that s in to us. initial reports indicate as many as 10 people were injured. three people were taken to the hospital with moderate to severe injurie injuries. the bus was on a busy thoroughfare around noon local time there across from the military headquarters in tel
there you go. what s up? nothing. hanging out. just hanging out. hanging out with the wife. we can talk about campbell bags. want to do that? i overheard the other day, she was planning our trip. great. christmas holidays we re going skiing and i overheard her planning to ship all the kids stuff ahead of time. i said isn t that kind of expensive to ship ahead i bet she said you re going to not as expensive as the stress associated with flying for three and a half hours wondering if our bags will be there. or having to replace everything. exactly. because dan kind of messed that up last christmas. we move on. we have a lot to talk about. what happened? in the election? no. why happened with the blue jays this past year? what happened in the election? what happened? lot of republicans went into election night thinking they were going to win. we heard mitt romney did and ann romney did. paul ryan. paul ryan did.