trillions were take ferren the taxpayers. their campaign my campaign i don t take big checks. you re everything. with us now former republican governor from louisiana and presidential candidate buddy roemer. buddy, you re shaking things up with that commercial. are you embracing occupy wall street? i do. i embrace its spirit and its smell. its smell. what does occupy wall street smell like? it smells like a rough crowd. lots of young people. i was there once myself. i m 68. have i faint memories. yeah. i remember the civil rights marches that i was in in the deep south. i remember the antivietnam war stuff that i participated in as a college student. i have memories. what occupy wall street says to me is they get it. they get that somewhere between
tasks that i can perform now. so i ve came a long way. and that s all documented in hell and back. how do you feel about the way he s told your story? there s so many different things. i like that the film gets to show the story. it documents a lot of the war stuff as well as documents everyday struggles. the readjustment. yes, ma am. we thank you. we wish you well. we re so glad to see you healthily here today. thank you. and good luck with the film. and thank you for what you ve done. thank you. it s a powerful story, and we know it s opening in new york and
kept it in storage. the family is trying to give back all his war stuff but he has a bill of $500 to pay. right. because sadly, this 69-year-old veteran, vietnam vet had built up some medical bills apparently during the course of his life, as you can imagine, so he this bill for storage went unpaid and he actually had two purple hearts in there from his service so his family would like him to have those at his funeral, to be buried with him and the storage company that ironically is named two men with big hearts moving and storage, says, you know, a bill is a bill. where s our $500? they need their money before they re going to allow these purple hearts out. right. now, here s where our viewers have gotten involved. and that is we told folks about this story just in the last hour and since then, the e-mail machine has lit up, a whole bunch of people out there want
all right. where are you from? new jersey. new jersey. good. chris christie is going to iowa. what do you think is going on with that? i m afraid to find out. ok. where are you from? tennessee. new jersey. ft. smith, virginia. thanks very much for helping us out today. thank you. it s already warm outside, by the way, brian and ali, but you wouldn t know that because you re in air conditioned comfort right now. right. and steve, those not low information voters. low information vote go for looks. they are a bunch of substantive voters. clearly. you know that you know about that story, you know about the story we re discussing this morning about the about the gentleman that passed away, this veteran, who had a purpose i will heart a purple heart and kept it in storage. the family is trying to give back all his war stuff but he has a bill of $500 to pay. right. because sadly, this 69-year-old veteran, vietnam vet had built
and those who want a freer life are for ron paul. that doesn t surprise me that ron paul is a libertarian and appeals to libertarians to people who want less government period. they don t want wars. they don t believe in wars like iraq. they don t believe in big brother/big sister government. they run close to each other. interesting in those politico numbers is ron paul, a guy who doesn t have nearly the same profile as sarah palin, is running very strongly in there. there are some confused people here. 12% of the people voted for barack obama. it turns out the same number, 12%, actually think they want more government, more government to solve the problems the country is facing and it makes you wonder which party they think they are going to. maybe they are there for the tea. you mean they are confused. that s elitist. maybe they voted for barack obama because they thought bush was an idiot and had enough war