the elderly have a lot of fixed income investments, it is foolish to have all their money in stocks so they will get less interest on their money market funds and cds as they mature. rob: ordinary folks if you haven t refinance your mortgage yet now is the time to do it. if you have a higher rate. if you are young person looking for a house rates have fallen since june and they are likely to fall further. this is a good time to be looking if you want to get into the housing market for the first time or you want to buy up. we should be seeing better deal on credit cards because their costs of borrowing will go down. the same on auto loans. rob: the way they tried to save it from us, by lowering interest rates. when you can t go over, take away the safety cushion. the fed has other options. it can go back to quantitative easing which isn t that
case. witnesses to the altercation claim jeff orr was yelling racial slurs at the player. this young athlete s public perception and possible professional basketball future in jeopardy by this unfortunate move. michele franzen, abc news, new york. absolutely outrageous behavior. he did express remorse. he did say the right things. quote, i want to apologize to the fan, whose name is jeff orr. i want to apologize to him. i want to apologize to my teammates, my coach, my family, oklahoma state. this is not how i was raised and this is not how the program is run. and i let my emotions get the best of me. to say the least. the fan volunteered not to attend any texas tech games for the rest of the season. it s one of those red lines you can t go over. exactly. coming up, they re the hottest underdogs in the winter olympics. a chat with the jamaican bobsled team making a comeback. ya, mon. just ahead. and ahead in our next half hour game over. why the maker of a popular
the fox news notion of who relies on assistance to get food. here s an interview with one mother who relies on assistance to feed her family. every day you count your money, if you have $307, you re going to spend $200 this week, you can t go over. once you go over, before the month up, if it s three or four days, your kids don t have enough food to eat. so it s very hard, and to cut it, a lot of people are going to suffer. joining me back at the table are congresswoman carolyn maloney of new york, joel berg of the new york city coalition against hunger, maya wiley with the center for social inclusion, and republican strategist, katon dawson. so, joel, you see some of these 47 million faces on a regular basis. what do we need to know? you need to know, first of all, the attack against their food isn t about deficit reduction. the very same people who voted for an orgy of corporate welfare in the last stand-alone farm
cuts to food stamps. their medicine is 5 to ten per prescription. you put that altogether, what is left. so if you can get food, some of it is just a dire need to meet the essentials. but some of it is actually trying to put together a picture that they can survive. i know a lot of people think that people come here for food, a lot of times they hear the word moocher. i have to say it is offensive to me. i want to challenge anybody out there, come here at 3:00 in the morning, stand in this line and wait for food. if house republicans have their way, that line will only get longer. every day you come to get money, if you have $307, you come, you spend 300 this week, you can t go over. once you go over, then before the month is up, it is three or four days sometimes you don t have enough food to eat. so it is very hard.
left. so if you can get food, some of it is just a dire need to meet the essentials. but some of it is actually trying to put together a picture that they can survive. i know a lot of people think that people come here for food, a lot of times they hear the word moocher. i have to say it is offensive to me. i want to challenge anybody out there, come here at 3:00 in the morning, stand in this line and wait for food. if house republicans have their way, that line will only get longer. every day you come to get money, if you have $307, you come, you spend 300 this week, you can t go over. once you go over, then before the month is up, it is three or four days sometimes you don t have enough food to eat. so it is very hard. if they cut it, you know, a lot of people will suffer. what about all the years i paid taxes? and i worked so hard. and when it is time now, i believe that i should get some