And the health secretary, jeremy hunt, are chairing a meeting of the Emergency Response committee, cobra, this morning, to discuss the handling of the cyber attack, which hit parts of the Nhs In England and scotland on friday. Dozens of hospitals in england and scotland have been forced to cancel some operations and appointments today, and some gp surgeries are still experiencing problems as staff begin a new working week. Lincolnshire hospital said all tests, and routine surgeries have been cancelled. Meanwhile microsoft said governments around the world should treat the attacks as a wake up call blaming them for storing data on Software Vulnerabilities which could then be accessed by hackers. Its thought over 200,000 computers have been affected worldwide with russia hardest hit. In the past half hour the National Crime agency has tweeted this saying if youre a victim of ransomware do not pay theres no guarantee that access to your files will be restored. Here, security minister ben
equally as it does the upper class? it is a middle class tax cut. what does that mean? well, here s what it means. i m glad you asked. this is basically like getting a pay raise for many middle class americans, middle income earners, i should say. we are reducing their marginal rate, but we re also reducing the rate on small business owners and entrepreneurs, who are already suffering under the yolk of obamacare, which, of course, was one of the biggest job killers and tax raisers in modern history. in addition to that regulation they ve had to overcome, they are now taxed in a way that hurts their productivity and their ability to retract and retain the american workforce, expand their operations, survive and prosper. there are four major goals here. one is to do exactly that. make our job creators more competitive around the globe. you know other countries saw how low our corporate tax rate and how well we were doing for years and wised up to that and went and lowered our cor
revenue. you would never understand from listening to republicans that over the course of the last four years the president has actually cut much more than he has raised taxes, and when you are looking at a 3-1 ratio, it s actually pretty good, and the deal on the table would be 2-1. you know, i think that the president is willing to make a deal, but there s nobody to make a deal with. there s an impossibility with john boehner. it s not just now. let s say in three weeks the reason i think there hasn t been a lot of deal making or discussion is because the republicans do not have a united front on this. i mean, boehner went from, as we say, $800 billion offered in revenue, tax raisers in the summer of 2011. at the end of last year he was talking about $1 trillion of revenue. now we have the $ 00 billion that the republicans effectively gave up on, and they re saying no more. now, the issue of trying to get them to move on that question and that question alone would seem to be someth
didn t want to be perceived as tax raisers. now, the speaker is at a loss. many of us believe on both sides of the aisle, the tax code will help us get our economy working faster and put more americans back to work and more americans with tax rules. how we get there, god only knows. god only knows? mr. speaker, you re supposed to know. you are supposed to lead your caucus. you clearly cannot. friday, president obama explained it this way. nobody can get 100% of what they want. this is not simply a contest between parties in terms of who looks good and who doesn t. there are real world consequences to what we do here. ahh, but what if the goal is to do nothing? then a certain faction of the republican party is getting 100%