40 deaths spurring calls to action and calls for the president to take a stand. So where is president obama . Well, today, he sent his presstek Zare Jay Carney to speak on his before. You keep saying and Denis Mcdonough is saying he is mad as hell. Where he is . Ed, im sure you will hear something at some point on this issue soon. Gerri while the president stalls, our nations heroes hang in the balance. We have the executive director for the American Legion who joins me now on what needs to be done. Thanks for being on the show. Great to have you here. What does it say about the white house and the administrations view on this if they wont send the president out to talk about this publicly . I know your organization has asked for the president to speak . Well, gerri, you know the American Legion has also asked for secretary shinseki to get out in front of this. We called for him to separate town step down and he were a Leadership Organization and we want somebody to stand up and take responsibility and say im here to protect you. Seems like the administration had ever option of showing leadership way back in the beginning of 2008 when the reins of power were handed over to president obama. The Washington Times now reporting they were told about this scandal, about the problems of scheduling. What does it tell you about the president and his seriousness about protecting vets that Nothing Happened . Well, you know the president did hear about it in his transition report in 2008 and again in 2010, when secretary shinseki received a report from his undersecretary about gaming system. There is break down in leadership on department of Veterans Affairs. The American Legion called for accountability. It is knot with health care weights, or with records but construction and variety of different issues. We want to absolutely see the administration take charge. Gerri people say money could fix the problem. We need more money for vets. Is that the answer . Money is not the question with the department. Each year the administration asks congress for a specific amount of money and each Year Congress actually increased that amount of money that they have given to the department of Veterans Affairs but if the va has hidden wait lists, that Congress Knows nothing about, congress has no idea that additional money is needed to get people off the wait lists. By hiding the problem youre exacerbating the problem. Gerri interesting im sure if true. Big story of the day. We had at love news breaking over the weekend saying that the va settled with families that had been on the wait list for problems with the health care of those folks, tens of millions of dollars. Is this any way to solve that problem . No. And were just now hear about that as well. So, we dont really know what happened in those instances but if the va is paying families to keep them quiet, that is the not answer either we need to get the problem out on the table f its a capacity issue the va need to come clean and let us know. The American Legion has been a longstanding partner with the department of veteran affairs. We were around in 1930 to get them as an administration to begin with and then 50 years later when, they were elevated to a cabinet level, we have a vested interest in seeing this department succeed and were not going to stop until it is run correctly. Gerri i have to tell you, we all have a vested interest in making sure our vets are taken care of. When our heroes suffer i think the entire country suffers. We heard really awful tale this morning on fox news about how much they are suffering. I want you to listen in as a va psychologist talks about how steep, how deep, how awful these problems really are. Listen to this. I write the order. We returned to clinic, 10 days, two week tops. I check to look for my patient and he is getting booked three weeks, four weeks, got to be months to see these guys on a second visit. How many of your patients committed suicide waiting to come off the waiting list . I was there briefly now, less than two years. There were two. Gerri two suicides in two years. What kind of stress, what kind of anxiety is this problem with coverage, problem with care causing in the Veterans Community . You know its huge and one of the ironic things that by and large our veterans tell us once they get into the va system, they love their doctors. They love their care team. Their Health Care Team much it is getting through the bureaucracy and administration and getting into the system to begin with to get to that doctor. We completely support the department of Veterans Affairs. We support the Health Care Teams. We love the health care that veterans are getting by and large but again it is breaking through that systemic failure of leadership and getting the administration to make sure that these veterans are welltaken care of in a timely manner. Gerri lewis, thanks nor coming on with us tonight. Thank you for having me, gerri. Gerri to the other top i can, colleges and students trying to get jobs. Heres what they see. Youve got your cap, got your gown. Now all you need is a job. While youre at it, why not make it a really cool one like going get, facebook or twitter . To help us crack the code on getting a job at one of these 21st century icons, glass door. Com in san francisco. Great to have you, scott. Thanks, gerri. Gerri totally different world on the west coast with different companies. Theyre looking forings. What are the critical things theyre looking for in new employees . For new employees there are a few things absolutely hot. If you have these skills you will get noticed. Mobile, if you have skills coming out of college or even early on or anywhere in your career really and you can do mobile design, mobile engineering, mobile Product Management, you will get noticed. Data science is a buzzword right now, definitely getting hired. Also User Experience designers. So if you can be a little artistic, make things look pretty online to make it easy for the user gerri what is User Experience designer . Like youre a graphic artist, or what . Sort of. In this simplest form, this is the person who makes sure if youre user of a website or app you know which buttons to press and you can navigate through it and smoothly and very easy. Gerri you have the importance of linkedin and you say that it is too late by the time you graduate to join. How should graduates, soon to be graduates be using linkedin . It is never too late. And linkedin is one great tool. There are some social media tools out there. This is basically one of them. Completing a profile on them or profile on twitter or social jobs forum you use or even a q a forum what youre doing is putting who you are out there and this is beyond just the classes youre taking, the clubs youre in. To get noticed at these companies you need to show engaging in conversations, making suggestions on the product at hand, even providing links to your own blog, an app or website youre building. At these companies theyre looking for way above just the classes or the regular experience. Gerri so, do you need to go out and mop up anything on the web that is there . Maybe pictures of yourself at undergraduate parties . You do. Gerri these companies probably pay more attention than anybody else. So youre right. These companies, their recruiters are technical recruiters a lot of the tie time. Theyre very technologically savvy. Theyre perusing all the websites and social channels. The pictures of you doing a keg stand or drinking beer or something a little strange, if you want to get hired at one of these companies it is too risky to have it on and remove it. If there is something you dont want your mother to see, think of these companies as the same way. Gerri you had something interest to say about if you have the big degree, mba, law degree, there may be room for you at these companies. How so . Absolutely. In some of these cases increasingly some a lot of them whats been in the news as of late a lot of free speech online, for example, and the rights and changing landscape in free speech online and commenting and revealing things and so if you have a law degree force, the days of going into your local firm, thats one option but also, go in house to a Big Tech Company and help them smooth out the path and the legal way in the legal system. They get legal challenges all the time. We dont always hear about it, but they do. Some are winning, some are losing and some are still pending. As far as mbas, they would go to company like goldman sachs. Still a Great Company but mbasare coming into Tech Companies more and more and leading Product Management roles. What that means theyre being project managers what something will look like, how it will be built and quantify the analytics and success bit and everything has to do with it. Gerri it is funny because a lot of things i learned at mba school just dont apply in the tech world. These days you buy companies that dont even have revenues. Forget earnings, thats a totally different thing, some of the Companies Like pinterest come to market they dont even have sales. Yeah. The rules are different and you tell me, are degrees essential or can you get a job without a degree . Degrees certainly help. Can you get a job without a degree . Absolutely. However, youre going to work a little bit harder and you have to put in that added work and also demonstrate it online. So all depend how youre marketing yourself. Putting yourself out there. Who youre networking with with. The interesting thing we find here on the west coast in particular a lot of people work for the Big Companies they dont have a dream i want to work at facebook i want to work at google. What they have a dream of doing, i want to innovate and create something new the world hasnt seen. I want to push the limits what we know currently exist and they do it on their own and often times these Big Companies see that and snatch them up very early on. Gerri smart to start your own company with a great idea, then get bought out maybe, right . Thanks for coming on. Thank you. Gerri and now we want to know what you think. Heres our question tonight. Has your age worked against you in a job hunt . Log on to gerriwillis. Com. Vote on the righthand side of the screen. I will share results at the end of tonights show. We have more and more to come this hour including your voice. During the show, during the show we want you to facebook me, tweet me, email me. Find me at Gerri Willis Nbn or gerri willis fbn and i want to hear your comments, what you think about what were covering. A look into the nations heartland. The feds say farmland prices are declining. One farmer says it is business as usual on his farm so why the disconnect . Peace of mind is important when youre running a successful business. So we provide it services you can rely on. With centurylink as your trusted it partner, youll experience reliable uptime for the network and services you depend on. Multilayered Security Solutions keep your information safe, and secure. And responsive dedicated support meets your needs, and eases your mind. Centurylink. Your link to whats next. I got more advice than i knew what to do with. 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Our colleagues at landowner newsletter mike is continuing to report record high land prices. Regardless im not sure that something really affects us daytoday. It is like finding out your grandmothers broach is worth more watching antiques road show. Gerri we thought it was important story and decided to put it at top of our show. Here is what the fed had to say. Illinois, indiana, missouri, values down 6 . That is what you say. You say on basis of banker estimates. Kansas and nebraska down 1. 4 . Iowa and michigan down 1 . I do know there was a huge bubble in farmland prices going on from 09 to 2013. Is there a big change there . Yes. Weve seen this though for the last few months. Ive been to sales in my own area and it was obvious that enthusiasm simply wasnt there. But the fact doesnt make it a bubble. We saw remarkably strong farmland market for the last 25 years for the most part since the bottom in 87. Is this coming to, the fact it is not gaining 20 per year and may be losing 1 is hardly, im not taking it lightly. That is not my point but if youre never in the business of selling farmland which most farmers arent, we tend to have a different perspective if it was an asset we were buying and selling. Gerri if you hold on to it your unaffected by the changes. Right. Gerri seems what youre saying. Does it impact families at all . Are there families maybe the farm is changing hands, maybe going between generations . Is it an issue at that point . Oddly enough this may help. What many of us had run into, we had modest farms. We found out suddenly because of this runup, the tripling of land prices in my area, we had an Estate Planning problem. I was talking to a friend of mine at church. We were talking about this topic. He was saying, you know, if land prices back off 20 i can afford, i can find a way to gift more to my children. Suddenly you can solve some Estate Planning problems. There are some Silver Linings oddly enough buried in this. Gerri well, the estate tax issues is a huge one for farmers and ranchers all over the country and it seems to me that is Something Congress should act on, not just wait for the market to get better. Tell me, are farmland prices are they connected to what you make on soybean and corn or not . Absolutely. It is one of the prime drivers is income available off that farm. So crop land prices, interestingly enough, i would point out because cattle prices are so strong, range land prices reported out of Kansas City Fed were up 3 . There are certain types of ground still doing well because the underlying commodity they support are still doing well on prices. Gerri so bright spots out there, depending on what you grow and what youre bringing to market. Right. Gerri one more question before you go, so if you look into your crystal ball, what do you see coming . More of the same quite frankly. I think we preached kind of equalibrium. Chance we will as farmers back out of the market because reluctant because of income that outside investors come in like they did in the 80s. Gerri wow, that would be interesting. John phipps, thanks for coming on to the show. Glad to be here. Gerri coming up later in the show, meet the brainy bunch. A couple shares sent seven of seven of their kids to college by age 12. Im not kidding. Serious story. Youre doing your shopping all wrong. We answer the question, how do you do that . How to shop the right way and get the most bang for your buck. Were looking out for you and your wallet. [ laughter smoke . Nah, im good. [ male announcer ] celebrate every win with nicoderm cq, the unique patch with time release Smartcontrol Technology that helps prevent the urge to smoke all day long. Help prevent your cravings with nicoderm cq. Gerri did you know hitting the mall is more expensive on some days than others . How to save money by picking your shopping days carefully. The story when we come back. Gerri well, if you went shopping over the weekend you may have made a big mistake. Heres katy hill of market watch to tell us why. Katy, welcome to the show. You say wednesday is the magic day . It really is the magic day because retailers, grocers, tend to put out coupon circulars on wednesday. That is sort of the magic day if youre looking for deals. Gerri i like that. You need to know when to shop obviously. Yes. Gerri what is the best day for coupons . Wednesday when they release them. Sometimes these coupons will go through the weekend. Here is the thing, avid couponners go on wednesdays. Inventory run out by then. You are competing with people that love coupons. Gerri you want to change what is crittably important day of the weekday and night, why . Friday nights, saturday nights, are not getting any deals. Restaurants charge the most. Tuesdays are sweet spot. Half bottle of wine, kids eat free, that is slowest day. Cook at home on saturday, go out on tuesday, switch that around to save a lot of money. Gerri where is the best place to get coupons . I like savings. Com. Retail me not. It will ping you with a coupon, some people dont have time to cut coupons. I totally get that. This app will ping you to let coupons. Gerri i like that idea. Embarrassing to walk into a row with envelope full of coupons. Let me fine the thing for broccoli. I dont want to touch that after it has been in your purse. Gerri what about saving money congressries . Saving money on groceries. Go on wednesday for sure. I like vivado as an app. Starts with an f. Really good app. Simple. Connects to local