with that, america has now closed the door on space exploration. and started with president john f. kennedy. to go to the moon and this and do the other thing, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies because that challenge is one that we re willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone and one we intend to win. clayton: of course we did. would jfk approved of president obama s current plans for space exploration? a conservative columnist with irish central joins us live from san francisco. nice to see you this morning, ed. nice to see you, too, clayton, good to be here with you. it s always difficult to ascribe modern day feelings to historical figures. given the context of the end of the shuttle program what would you think that jfk s reaction would be?
disastrous record of this administration on turning this economy around. so, whoever the republicans know many nominate. whether it s somebody in their wheel house, romney, had a background in finance and business, as does huntsman, or one of the other candidates, you mentioned perry being able to talk about job creation in texas, every one of these candidates has to remember, this is not just about appealing to the base, it s about going out there and talking to those voters who are hurting right now, because they ve lost a job, a family member s lost a job or they ve lost their home or are in danger of doing so. dave: a huge task whoever it isme it isment ralph reed. thank you for being with us. you ve got it. dave: what s coming up. clayton: police and firefighters in one city told they have to give back half of their pension, a guy breaking
welcome back, a couple of headlines, a fox news alert. armed norwegian police, learned to the attacks, from reuters, has not been confirmed. more information as it comes in. to california now, where fire crews are battling a large wildfire in ventura county, a fire prone area. the fire has burned 15 acres so far and crews are expected to have it under control entirely and that will happen soon, a the least one firefighter was hurt. clayton. thanks, juliet. debt talks stalled. what happens if there is no deal before august 2nd. interest rates could increase and lending to small businesses would be more limited. what does it all mean for our wallet? a wealth manager and financial advisor with chapwood capital investment management. nice to he zoo you nice to see you.
couldn t check anything and it was liberating. juliet: what do you tweet about? i ve seen some of your tweet, you tweet about stuff on the show and i found myself writing about stupid things. dave: we do both. juliet: and shouldn t be writing about. dave: stupidity in both of our tweets. juliet: i felt like i was 16 in my tweets. clayton: i feel that people pressure to update the family. dave: status, updates, why you re not checking in. do you feel that pressure let us know on social media. even if you re on vacation. juliet: we don t, enjoy your vacation. clayton: especially if you re on vacation, send your vacation photos and get yelled at by your spouse. and facebook, they ve actually looked at and we have enough years of facebook to get some interesting statistics how americans are using it. frightening, but also, interesting. take a look at some of the numbers. 50% of all americans are on facebook. but only 37% of americans have
you know, everybody is going to say the money, the money, but this is our future. this is the future of our country and actually of mankind, is space. 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