We are back with greg collie of the American Vaping Association, and we will talk about the recent Health Concerns related to vaping and ecigarettes, and greg, good morning. Thank you for having me. And lets start out with who does the American Vaping Association represent . Which company . We dont represent any company, and we are a 501 c nonprofit. I began vaping and became an advocate and we are advocating for sensible regulation for vaping product, and we vive the funding from the small and the mediumsized vaping in the industry, and as well as consumers. When you are talking small and mediumsized, the people who make the cigarettes or the vaping products manufacturers, retailers and concerned consumers. Okay. So what is the intended purpose of ecigarettes . Why do they even exist . Sure. The vaping products exist because in 1986 dr. Michael russell said that smokers smoke for the nicotine, but they die from the tar, and die from the smoke. So until these products came out there wa
movement, the really interesting thing is that a guy named saul olinsky, a leftist organizer out of chicago, passed away in the 1970s, but he wrote this book called rules for radicals. he dedicated it to lucifer. basically that the ends justify a means. now it s conservatives, not liberals, who are holding this book up and emulating it. and of course, the danger, joe, is that you have people who sort of get this is insidious, that you get involved in politics for all the right reasons, for virtuous reasons and you slowly get sucked in, and the next thing you know, it s matt, let me bring one other thing up, and then i want to pass around the table. this is very important, too. there also is a conflict with massive cuts for the poor. and matthew 25. there just is.
can afford it from the heritage foundation. this was blown from the very beginning. they gave the message on health care to the republicans when they were in the middle of getting it passed. they win the legislation and lose the message war. you know, ultimately that s why you hear, boy that s one thing that romney and gingrich, they bring up every day and every hour on the campaign trail is that he he had a response almost for everything in that state of the union except health care which i find, i guess their own polling has told them, i just don t have the fight. do you think they have a debate this fall and the president has to face romney or gingrich, that gingrich would actually say foodstamps to the president s face? would he say saul olinsky and talk to him like that? yes, i think newt would. would he get that direct and personal with these charges? if he was the nominee i think he would. i would say, chris, i m stunned and chuck and i have talked about this but i a
that he can use a teleprompter if he wants to. after all, if you had to defend obama care wouldn t you want to be able to use a teleprompter? now, there are a number of key issues that we have to talk about with the president. i m going to get there in a second. i believe this campaign comes down to economics including jobs, economic growth, balancing the budget, the value of money, comes down to national security, what threatens us and what we have to do about it. but the centerpiece of this campaign i believe is american exceptionalism versus the radicalism of saul olinsky. and usa!