making the most profits in their shanghai plant and the executives also the earning nears where they re having problems and when you micromanage a business, this is what you get, three guys in a room think they re smarter than the market, this is what you get. brenda: eric. it s disgusting what s going on at gm. we ve given them 50 billion dollars they ve paid back, i don t know, maybe 20, they still owe 30 billion. we have a given them 45 billion dollars in tax credits going forward. they should be under pay restrictions for the rest of their lives, forget about it. who cares if they lose the top xek tifrs executives their others, what do you think ford says, they re right across the river. brenda: and get gemu, what do you think. it sounds like a bunch of of whining and so much greed from the the gm executives.
a gallup poll finds 42% questioned identify themselves as conservative. 35% say they re moderate while only 20% call themselves liberal. if those figures are maintained for the rest of this year, it would represent a record high level of conservativism in gallop s 18-year history. vice-president joe biden will make his way to the gulf region next tuesday for a firsthand look at the oil spill relief efforts. while xek tifrs at bp say the company is making some progress. james rosen explains there could be more trouble on the horizon. federal officials said they and bp are on course to capture 53,000 barrels of oil a day by next week. a rate nearly equal to that at which the oil is gushing from the destroyed deepwater horizon well. with forecasters warning about a developing tropical storm that could strike the gulf in coming days, the response team s leader