excess profits, recently in 2008 $110 million. this is aboutlet s talk about being good stewards of the american taxpayer dollar. that s what i m toexing on, just to say with npr. i am not looking to take away any women s health services. i really feel that offensive because i ve been married for 21 years and i have two teenage daughters. and congresswoman bass, i want to turn the tables a little bit. i completely respect everybody s right in the system to argue their position. to push their position and sometimes on both sides i would say it s almost equal playing, at least by my count. it goes beyond. let me flip the table. imagine that you were coming in the democrats had just won the majority, and a republican congress had defunded planned parenthood. last time. you had an opportunity right now as a supporter of that funding to put it back in. wouldn t you be arguing to put it back in just like the republicans are arguing to take it out? absolutely i would be arguing to put i
with christians i think we need to be smart with other faiths as well. jon: what about that, can you equate some of the islamic terrorism figures that we mentioned earlier, major nadal hasan with other groups out there. there may be groups committing terrorism in the name of their vision of christianity. all mainstream christian groups denounce them unequivocally and this is not the major threat we have in the world today, which is from the movements thap describe themselves also as jihaddists fighting a holy what are. major nadal hasan was an american soldier, he went through medical school on the u.s. taxpayer dollar. he became radicalized in this country and we believe thanks to an imam who was the head of a mosque in suburban washington d.c. most people thought this mosque was a moderate mosque, and that
housing and small business next hour. okay. christine romans, thank you. be sure to tune in each saturday morning 9:30 a.m. eastern time. on the weekend, three opportunities to get smarter about how to make more money and how to be more prosperous. after the break, i m going to show you how the whole federal government may have to get by on eight cents out of every taxpayer dollar. you really can t afford to miss it.
joining me with more from the daily caller, and the founder of the movement vision lab. i don t know what that is. sally is here. good to see you. thank you for being here. we re broke, the country is headed for bankruptcy. why a network allowing one commentator to wish that jesse helms and his grandchildren get aids. they didn t fire her. why should we pay one taxpayer dollar for npr? this isn t about the juan williams firing. i think that firing was a mistake, and stupid, but it wasn t censorship. but saying to npr or public broadcasting we re going to pull your funding because we don t like one thing you did here or there sean: that is one issue, one argument. explain why the taxpayer dollars should go to radio when george soros is donating money and they raise, they
the mystery is why we re talking about this. every time this is brought up, it fails. 67% of american get the news from npr or pbs and according to the polls, the most trusted source in news. according to polls, fox news is the most right. in 2005 it won award for being trusted name in news. i don t know if that is a viable proof. talking about the influence now [ overtalk ] do you believe in freedom and free enterprise? families struck to pay the mortgage. they can t send kids to college and they can t make the car payment. real unemployment is 17%. why should any taxpayer dollar go to that and we could pay down the debt or help poor people? trying to rope me in. talking about $440 million,