Morning. Hurricane rita bears down in the caribbean. A category five storm makes landfall in dominica and Virgin Islands for another beating as well. Puerto rico has declared a state of emergency this morning. Global markets on edge. Investors waiting for good twoday meeting today. Central bank expected to detail how it will unwind the fourpart 5 trillion Balance Sheet. We are expecting details tomorrow. Had it all back in futures indicate a higher opening today in the u. S. Dow industrial to open 20 points. European indices right now makes ft 100 up a quarter of a percent. Dax ncsc around breakeven this morning. The nikkei in japan was a standout up almost 2 from a long Holiday Weekend in japan. The nikkei average higher. Other majors nicely lower. Former Trump Campaign manager Paul Manafort wiretapped. Federal authority secured a warrant post during and after the election they were wiretapping him. Another man on a scandal for equifax was hit by a separate hack in march and only disc
Water trip Water Treatment facility is at capacity. The state has helped find the grants to help that facility expand the Water Treatment facility and let the cheese factories expand. Thats the kind of thing the government can help as this is due. Isagain, governments role not to help one business compete against another. Government should only be involved in keeping regulation low, keeping taxes low and fair across the board, keeping taxes predictable, and getting out of the way of letting the free market do its job. Ofone of the main powers idaho governor is the ability to make appointments, which can really drive the agenda of your administration. How would you go about selecting the agenda for your administration . Isi think the good model what they use for appointing judges where they have some lawyers get together and review the applications for those positions and then make those recommendations to the governor, and i think in the case of judges, they recommend three people. I t
Mike, how about us legals . David, america has truly become the land of the free. Thanks to these huge welfare payments. If you look at 2011, the last year for which there are results available, the bottom three quintiles paid no federal income taxes thanks to tremendous welfare payments received, all taxes paid by the top two quintiles. And the way welfare spending increased from 2008 until now. 48 increase in a lot of these new Illegal Immigrants, now will be able to receive some of this welfare. We dont know that thats true yet. We already do know therapy not going to be allowed to participate in obamacare programs, but well see. Well see if you turn out to be rights you could. We can all get behind the idea of cleaning up waste in government no matter where it is. With you all the way. Ya i dont what i dont understand wipe the question only focuses on welfare, it should, where is the issue when it comes to defense where weve got way more waste in spending in defense than we do on t
With us. Steve, is this going to be the year momentum to overturn this thing reached a crescendo . Yes, it will david. The year where the proverbial stuff hits the fan. You mentioned employer mandate kicks in even though its over 100 employees. 50 to 99. Those companies have to do a lot of paperwork. Owners find out even if two Small Businesses the Internal Revenue service will add up the employees and hit them as well. Confusion about what you can and cant duct. The cadillac tax even though it doesnt kick in for another two years. Penalties tripling. Companies will be raising deductibles and copays on that. So youre paying more getting less and that 25 rise in insurance premiums the worst thing, though, is the copays and deductibles, where people are getting hit and they dont know what coverage they really have. Rick i know youve seen these depressing from your point of view. Look at the disapproval rate of obamacare. 59 disapprove. Do you think thats going to change in the new year .
With us. Steve, is this going to be the year momentum to overturn this thing reached a crescendo . Yes, it will david. The year where the proverbial stuff hits the fan. You mentioned employer mandate kicks in even though its over 100 employees. 50 to 99. Those companies have to do a lot of paperwork. Owners find out even if two Small Businesses the Internal Revenue service will add up the employees and hit them as well. Confusion about what you can and cant duct. The cadillac tax even though it doesnt kick in for another two years. Penalties tripling. Companies will be raising deductibles and copays on that. So youre paying more getting less and that 25 rise in insurance premiums the worst thing, though, is the copays and deductibles, where people are getting hit and they dont know what coverage they really have. Rick i know youve seen these depressing from your point of view. Look at the disapproval rate of obamacare. 59 disapprove. Do you think thats going to change in the new year .