0 knowledge given advances in technology and the fact that so much of our information flows today through the internet, through wireless, that the risks of abuse are greater than they have been in the past. with respect to sweden, i haven t had a chance to wander around stockholm as much as i would like. it s a gorgeous country. what i know about sweden, i think, offers us some good lessons, number one the work you have done on energy i think is something the united states can and will learn in because every country in the world right now has to recognize if we are going to continue to grow and improve our standard of living while maintaining a sustainable planet, we are going to have to change our patterns of energy use. and sweden i think is far ahead of many other countries. sweden also has been able to have a robust market economy while recognizing there is some investments in education or infrastructure or research that are important. and there is no contradiction between making p
asking them, telling them, get a plan together in case you go over that cliff. president obama wants that plan to proceed. he does not want to see europe crash. bill: how dire is this? because it is not just greece, right? it is spain too? let me give you a example. in greece over the last few days they have been stocking up on emergency food and fuel is up price. they have been taking money out of the banks. this is greece, a country of 11 million people. they re taking $800 million euro as day out of their banks. they don t like the banks. the spaniards are doing the same thing. that is an indicator of crisis that is right there, right now. bill: what you re watching on your screen is protests from earlier in the year. there is a vote on sunday in athens, throughout the country of greece. that decides whether they re in or out of the euro. bill: okay. if that is the case, depending on the outcome, can all of this be avoided yes or no? if there is massive bailout, a hu
they had these meetings on saturdays every week or so and they come up with this plan, and the plan is basically to do a short term deal on the deficit because democrats hadn t passed a budget previous fall and it was lingering so they would need to pass, reach a short-term deal with republicans purchase the 2011 budget. and then after that they were hoping that would create momentum for a much bigger deal for cutting the deficit by trillions of dollars over 10 years. and so they start to go down that path, and they do this deficit deal basically by just accommodating republicans. republicans are demanding basically $100 billion in cuts from obama s proposal, a lot of money for budget for a given year. and the obama folks basically give them three quarters of that. so right off this engagement, you know, liberals so they do that and then they begin to embark on this much longer, much harder negotiations over the long-term deficit. $4 trillion, obama wants 4 t
cars in the house you are planning in la jolla. are you too rich to relate? we don t divide america based upon success and wealth and other dimensions of that nature. we are one nation under god. we come together. people with different backgrounds and different experiences come together. do you think the fairness question is about envy? is it about envy? i think it s unfair this president has been in office for three years and 93% of the people that lost their jobs have been women. all righty. good morning, it s tuesday, april 17th. of course, that s diane sawyer asking if romney is too rich. he lives in cherry hill, new jersey. welcome to morning joe. we have finance on our show, steve rattner. ceo of deutsche company, donny deutsche. time magazine is taking too long. senior political analyst mark halperin. hi, halperin. along with the great willie geist. pinstripes. they like mine more than yours otherwise they would have brought yours up, not mine.
to frame those policies well. i think that he feels as though and i don t want to say. it s trivializing to say they had communications failures but that s a big part of it. i think he believes they did not fight for those things in the right way in some cases, did not make the argument in the proper way, consistently and compellingly enough. i think he feels as though they failed in some respects politically as they achieved a great deal substantively. rose: also columbia university professor tim we looks at technology companies. his book is called the master switch. radio in the 20s, it was. anyone could have radio stations very normal. anymore the 1910s. so these industries, once there s this new invention tend to go through these incredible exciting open periods. this internet had the same thing this the last 20 years. we ve had 20 years of anyone starts a company, becomes a megamillionaire. but what history shows is over time eventually what was once the young, e