we should be sacrificing in other areas if we have to to develop our program to go and explore the rest of the universe and getting to the moon was just the first step. and i really feel that we need to, now we laid off 18,000 workers in nasa. clayton: right. i think we should have laid off, we could have laid off in some in the epa, department of education and et cetera and keep the workers busy propelling our country forward and full steam forward on space exploration. clayton: the other side of this of course is private industry. the story this week in the new york times about exceptionalism and wealth generating and private industry finally not getting hands on it. moon express, one company that cheered the end of the shuttle program. they say that american wealth will skyrocket because you re going to have all of these companies vying to take americans to the moon and beyond. what about that side of it, that maybe private enterprise can better handle this than
to get 60 to $70 off every earl ticket you purchased. wait a minute, some airlines say we re not going to pass along the savings to you on taxes, we re going to add it on to the current price of airline tickets. and that would mean 25 million dollars a day for these airlines. juliet: let s give you the good news first. i love virgin america by the way, a great airline, so cool inside, by the way. virgin america, it s all lit up, wild. clayton: purple and they re sharing the savings. they did not, and they actually did a bit of a promotion about this. we re not raising taxes and did an online campaign. juliet: taxes and spirit did not. they re letting you reap the berths of this. dave: who is the scrooge of the airlines. juliet: northwest, air tran and united. dave: southwest? if again, unconfirmed reports that they, some companies say they may, in
to go to these yoo right. clayton: and new story out exactly sort of the mindset behind romantic comedies and how it gets broke undown. dave: the wall street journal, wrote about the concept why we men don t like romantic comedies, although i do like romantic comedies, i knew he was going to throw me under the bus. what they re doing now, trying to take the traditional concept of a romantic comedy and giving guys an excuse to watch it. two movies recently out, one is called no strings attached and the other one is called friends with benefits they re taking a guy-like concept and putting it in a romantic comedy. here is no strings attached . do you want to do it? do what? use each other for sex at all hours of the day and night? nothing else. yeah, i could do that. good.
die-hard, all romantic comedy. not, romantic dramas, yes, they are. that s garbage. the wall street journal claims. juliet: it s true. clayton: that these movies are chick flicks in disguise. juliet: they are. clayton: transformers 3 a chick flick in disguise, see if you buy it. just keep running. it s a beautiful but i don t think it s just the bunny in this session here, it s just a rabid foot that s lucky. no, it s a good luck charm. to help you think positive. that s tran formers three, the only scene that doesn t involve robots blowing up. juliet: the concept of the here is what i buy. die-hard, the hangover. they put in the little nuggets, so the guys get to drive the wives, and women to thank you, it gives guys political cover. juliet: e-mail us and let us know what you think on this
we want to know how it affects our family come august 2nd if we don t get a debt ceiling increase. if even we get a debt ceiling increase, if it s not what the rating agencies want. we could see a downgrade how they view our debt. if that happens, the ripple effect will be tremendous around the world because everything is based off of u.s. interest rates around the world. clayton: i mentioned small businesses there in the intro. what does it mean, they won t be able to borrow as much or spend as much because of interest? it s important to understand this. they ll be able to borrow money, but pay more, and when they pay more, that s less earnings. same thing happens for the stock prices, if in fact they have to pay more to borrow money, as a result of this happening, you re going to start seeing less earnings and because of that, stock prices will start to fall. clayton: some other things, how we can protect ourselves, as you look at your family finances should i move money arou