f.a.a. is also planning to close towers like spokane international from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. starting september 1st. does that have commercial flights going into it? yes. larry, thank you very much for joining us, and i hope the f.a.a. takes a good close look at this. we ve got an awful lot of planes and passengers up in the air. thank you, sir. thank you, greta. and the sequester is supposed to though hit across the board. no one is posed to be immune to the cut. well, almost no one. who is in the exclusive group whose salaries can t be touched? you ve got president and congress, the very people who got us into the sequester mess in the first place, still getting paid and salary. and he had in chief, steve forbes with us. hi, greta. thank you. what an irony, the people who got us into the sequester mess, tried to scare us and shut down f.a.a. towers and whatever, the very ones that
quagmire like a bad nightmare. you want to move, but you can t get your foot moving. steve, as always, thank you, nice to see you. hope you ll come back soon. thank you, greta, appreciate it. a new law making gun ownership mandatory. where will u.s. citizens be forced to buy guns? find out next. and also, you will not believe this one. didn t the obama administration learn anything from the solyndra mess? what did they just do that is costing you millions and millions and millions and more, and what is going belly up right now? that s coming up. plus, jay leno and jimmy fallon, in the middle of late night drama. get ready for this, is conan crashing the party? stay tuned. of a better future, a confident retirement. those dreams have taken a beating lately. but no way we re going to let them die. ameriprise advisors can help keep your dreams alive like they helped millions of others. by listening. planning. working one on one. that s what ameriprise financial does.
are totally protected. they don t have a lick of problems, is that right? that s right. this whole sequestration came about because the debt ceiling crisis in 2011 and that is like a nuclear bomb, we re not going to default on our debt and shut the government down. what should be done, greta, talking about salaries is to tie salaries to doing something and that is have the government spending tied to the state of the economy. you know, traditionally we d spend about 18, 20% of gdp in government spending. so have a figure like 18, 19% and if it goes above that, then congress s pay is docked and the president s pay is docked and since he has so many perks, perhaps fewer round on the golf course, but have real consequences, personal consequences where you don t hold up your responsibilities. we do it in every other sphere of life. it s interesting that we have to put this sort of of draconian real consequences, we want to, over their heads for one simple reason, because they don t do
says the stock market is doing well, for those that can put it in the stock market. but a the lot of americans don t have that luxury. i ll take the last word on that. congressman, i ve got to go. always a pleasure, greta. the sequestration ax is about to fall on the airports. closed 149 air traffic control towers, a washington state airport ceo calling it lethal decision. he s stepping into the fight and his airport is one of those suing the f.a.a. and larry krouter. thank you for having me on the show tonight, gret. one of the airports closed and it s the one in spokane, washington. i m curious, is that a safety risk to flyers or is the tower not necessary at that airport? we believe that the tower is necessary to provide an impressive level of safety particularly related to the complexity of the air space in our region. if that does that tower also, do you have commercial flights coming
you want to move, but you can t get your foot moving. steve, as always, thank you, nice to see you. hope you ll come back soon. thank you, greta, appreciate it. a new law making gun ownership mandatory. where will u.s. citizens be forced to buy guns? find out next. and also, you will not believe this one. didn t the obama administration learn anything from the solyndra mess? what did they just do that is costing you millions and millions and millions and more, and what is going belly up right now? that s coming up. plus, jay leno and jimmy fallon, in the middle of late night drama. get ready for this, is conan crashing the party? crashing the party? stay tuned. suddenly, she does something unexpected