versus $800 million on this deal. why didn t they take the deal? a lot of people thinking about that. good point. yeah. also, we have the average arena worker making about $48,000. richard, many of those people are part-timers and people who come out of retirement because their 401(k)s didn t do well. so, there is a lot of impact here, not only for the big paychecks of the players but average people as well. i have heard, talk about this, darn, hundreds of millions of dollars that the sneaker or the tennis shoe industry could lose because of this. does this also affect other people along the way? well, yeah. i mean, we are wondering about this. they are saying analysts are saying because the fact that jordan shoes actually make up more than 70% of sales and michael jordan hasn t played since 2001, it is a little bit different from 1999 when this last happened. but right now, adidas tells me that their shoe sales, basketball shoe sales are up 25%. you got to think that there s
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park until all of that is straightened out. it should be a few more hours before we know if and when they will be allowed back in and under what circumstances, to just come and congregate or set up shop the way they have been the last two months n terms of what they are doing now, several hundred occupy wall street protesters set up shop here are marching not so far away, to gather together to come up with a plan to figure out what they want to do at this point. this place was full of tents, food, people s personal belongings, people who didn t take those things with them, they were taken by the sanitation department. people have to figure out what they want to do moving forward. they do have an event already planned thursday to mark the two-month anniversary of the occupy wall street movement here in man hat-presumably, go forward with that as planned. richard? nabs s mara key is ya vo campo in new york. protesters have not gone away in san francisco in front of city hall. today,
does it bother you they re using this to make political hay everything you do is going to be for political purposes. i spent years pursuing wall street, taking some real hits for people who disagreed with us. people always imputed you would tier carry motives. you just have to disregard that. i m not worried about the motives. people will impute them to everything you do. i think the issue now is how do we get the best bill that does the most to restore capitalism as we need it to survive. what we had before was some crazy notion of libertarianism swirling through the halls with alan greenspan and even bob ruben and certainly chris cox, the prior chair of the sec, people who didn t understand where the rules needed to be enforced. i m afraid that tim geithner and larry summers also. what we need are rules that are clear that restore capitalism. before we take a break, given the connections, as you said,
getting health care, people who didn t have it before, under the republican plans, versus the 30 million who would get it under the democratic plans. well, i would say this to you. we re going to have some number of people in the united states who are uninsured. and if you can knock 3 million off that total to start with on your way up, great. 30 million people knocked off that all at once still leaves about 16 million people who are not covered. so, there are going to be people not covered either way. the question is, do you think it has to be all or nothing now and forever more, no turn back? most americans do not like many of the things that are in this bill. they don t like the way it s going to cut medicare spending. in fact, a lot of them believe that s phony. they don t believe medicare spending will actually get cut that much. the idea that president obama says if you like what you ve got, you can keep it, we know right off the top medicare