clayton: a lot of people paying attention to the tips you have for us this morning. i think in this economy you stand out as a bit after island. how do you actually do this and when everyone else is having to lay individuals off, how are you not laying individuals off and making that a point of bride? we recognize that people are are our most valuable asset and that s the last place we re going to cut. when housing starts fell from 2 million to 500,000, we had to cut expenses. we went to 32 hour weeks when the business was slow. we cut back management salaries, we cut bonuses, 401(k) contribution, tuition reimbursement, travel expenses. absolutely, anything except for those things that would generate revenue. clayton: let s go through those again, i think it s worth repeating and put these on the screen. 32 hour work week, instead of laying them off. knocked hours down a bit. 5% pay cut, taking a little
his wife was found stabbed in the trailer and eye details are emerging about the white house member owe regarding al-awlaki. the white house ordered killing awlaki only if he could not be taken alive and that the hit on him was justified because he was a significant threat to americans and the memo only pertains to the awlaki case and not established a policy on the assassination of american. one juror in the amanda knox trial, he says he never believed that knoxen her boyfriend was involved in the murder. he says he spent a lot of time taking a look at it and convince he had they were telling the truth because they did once. she s at home in seattle
underdog could pay off. clayton: and a patriot on the football field turns patriot on the battlefield. why this man leaving the nfl to answer his country s call. he s going to join us live this hour. fox & friends hour two starts right now. good morning, everybody, thanks so much for joining us, mike jerrick back on the curvy couch. he won our straw poll. mike: yes, what do i get for that. if you win a straw poll. clayton: a straw hat, all we have. mike: throw it into the ring. clayton: nice to see you again. mike: good to see you. clayton: speaking of straw polls, ali was talking about it off the top. ron paul seems to win a lot of the straw polls, but what do they count for, he won the values voters straw poll down there in washington, 37% of the vote and that was a huge trouncing of the rest of the field.
underdog? of course the incumbent can be the underdog. if the polls don t have you up, you re the underdog. alisyn: angela. they re trying to pull everything out of the bag to reelect this guy, besides policy. race baiting and the plan before congress, don t want to vote tn. they polled this and found he s the underdog ap exactly the liberal base that wants to he see him as an underdog so they get out of the house and vote otherwise the liberal base won t go ahead, john. the real underdog in this race is about 99% of the population in the middle class and they re the underdog. the problem a lot of liberals has with president obama he runs and does speeches that support the 99%, but following the bush policy of favoring the upper 1%, is he going to favor the real underdog or the top dog.
nine u.s. presidents died in his home from complications of pancreatic cancer. he was 87 years old. your headlines. clayton: two major figures dying of pancreatic cancer, steve jobs and him. and let s talk to rick reichmuth, autumn leaves and you re getting the facebook messages about autumn leaves. i thought i was trapped in the car with my parents. when that song played. exactly. it doesn t feel like autumn at all. across the eastern half of the country and it s extremely warm and temps very, very nice and a lot of rain across texas. the future cast for the day, continuing to he see the moisture from around the hill country up through dallas and we ve seen an inch and a half of rain, stretches up to oklahoma, nebraska, kansas as well. and a good 24 hours that have and it will begin to die down as he he moves up to the east and unfortunately, none of that moisture would go to