martha: no, haven t heard anything like that. 600 calls in fact. the loud noises prompted a special meeting last night in the town of clintonville. town managers say they re doing everything they can to figure out where these booms are coming from. look at that sign, clintonville is booming. people want to know what is keeping them awake, bill. what happen, if we don t have any warning. there may be something reason that the warm spring could be shifting granite rock under your community. as much as i thought obviously we don t know what is going on. there is no sinkholes. there is no explosions. somebody mentioned maybe some dynamite from the old mines may be going off. i don t know what it is. but whatever it is it is kind of nerve-racking. hopefully experts can figure this out, the mystery in the town here. everybody is trying to figure this out. booming in clintonville. martha: bring in the experts,
union thugs are sucking the life from america. some say america s wealth is like a pot. are you getting your fair share? reporting from fox headquarters in new york john stossel. where is america heading? the political left and right have two different visions for our future. who doesn t work? who doesn t work? labor unions demand what they call our fair share of the pie. others have pushed back saying unions are the problem? unions put my father s business out of business. some say too much government is the problem. you use our money for what? people of bell, california discovered their town managers paid themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars.
i need a drink. now, reporting from fox headquarters in new york, john stossel. where is america headed? the political left and right have two different visions for our future. the left wants more government and the right says we should have less. used our money for what? you heard the cries of outrage of people in california who discovered that these town managers paid themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars. shame on you! shame on you! you were a crook yesterday, you are a crook today and you will be a crook tomorrow. maybe. this week they were arrested. they used the tax dollars collected from the hard working citizens of bell as their own piggy bank. but much of what they did is what lots of taxpayers do, vote to spend money on what they think is important, themselves. they want to do whatever the hell they want. exactly.
idea what those town managers make. i live next to your town where you have no idea how much your town manager makes. you look at the anger of the faces of those people in the soundbite that we just ran, we are approaching howard biel moment where americans are sick and tired and not take it anymore. mad as hell. look at that. that s a grassroots angry movement. and it s been provoked by the extraordinary indebtedness of california and other states. that s what s provoked this. people have to go to their phones in a civil, reasonable way and call their city manager and say, listen, i need a list of what people are making because in bell, california, police chief making half a million dollars. it took the l.a. times to find these numbers. it was. it was the l.a. times that dug in and got these numbers. a lot of municipalities hide this information. it s a start.
take down close to $800,000 a year. normally town managers get $100,000. now they want him fired. wait until you see what that is going to cost them. new reports today suggesting that from the moment john mccain introduced sarah palin for the first time, a group of liberal journalists, many of whom were supposed to be objective, started plotting about how to discredit palin, mccain and their white house run. we ll talk live with one of the folks who found these emails. we ll show you the emails in writing what they said just ahead. governor sarah palin of the great state of alaska. but to eat on the run and to eat whatever happens to be around. heavy greasy food that s hard on my diet and my digestive system. so i eat activia light every day.