greta: now have you seen strange political ads but nothing tops this one, jeffrey wagner is running for mayor, he is relatively unknown but we have a feeling that is about to change. do you know what i want? a minneapolis mayor that represents the people. over a million dollars is going to be spent to become mayor of minneapolis. you re not the ones that are deciding who you vote for. media and money is. i am cool with making $100,000 a year, ill not take money from developers. i will not take money from political angle, i will not go to the strip club anymore! wake up!
greta: now have you seen strange political ads but nothing tops this one, jeffrey wagner is running for mayor, he is relatively unknown but we have a feeling that is about to change. do you know what i want? a minneapolis mayor that represents the people. over a million dollars is going to be spent to become mayor of minneapolis. you re not the ones that are deciding who you vote for. media and money is. i am cool with making $100,000 a year, ill not take money from developers. i will not take money from political angle, i will not go to the strip club anymore! wake up!
upper hand with them when our president can be end run like that in an op-ed in the new york times that essentially humiliates him and addressed the american people. the fact that we got into a position where that can happen, i thought was rather grim. i think the white house handled the reaction to the putin op-ed well. they didn t dwell on it. there was buzz everywhere else with the consensus being that it took a lot of chutzpah and president obama turned the other cheek and focused on the goal. i thought the white house handled that part of things well. that s p.r., but the russian president feels free to go around the president, speak directly to the american people. he knew how to do it and it happened. that s the problem. what s disgusting to me is there is an american p.r. firm that for years has been taking money from russia and representing them and being their p.r. representative in america. i don t believe for a second that vladimir putin wrote that
maybe government is too big. maybe we should get off the back of small business, cut down on regulations, give you more capital to borrow. cut down on regulations. who would be given more capital in that instance. not give, lent. the government, our government gave money to banks so they could lend because they mismanaged the money they had. they haven t lent that money. why aren t the banks lending money to small businesses? i m not a banker. i can t give you a definite. if we can just lay down common sense rules, it s money. everybody wants money. who wants to give away money? if the i m a bank getting free money, why put it out? that s how the bank makes money. by lending money and getting interest payments on it. yeah. but are they going to lend it to me or to a company let s say that already is sitting on $2 billion on their own cash and
need which is roads, schools, bridges, infrastructure in this country. that helps to get the small person working who gets money for small businesses. the average person working spending dollars spend s it on small business which spends it. the dollars roll over. sounds like a stimulus bill that didn t get the economy stimulated when the money was supposed to go out for roads, infrastructure and all that. here we are . two points. okay. one, all the money didn t go out. the money that did go out did keep us from going over well, we did go over the cliff but it padded the landing. it would have been worse without stimulus. a lot of people say, look, since the government didn t do a great job, the fear of what would have happened, the argument isn t always very convincing. the american people were promised more, i think. that was the problem. since it didn t have a success there ought to be another way.