The wind, a phenomena. Back in 1968, simpson was the best player in all of football, he won the trophy and usc won one, as well. Heisman trophy, nine season with bills, two with the 49ers, just a stunning legacy, had he not been charged in the gruesome double murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend ron goldman, in what became known as the trial of the century. In 1995, he was acquitted. I remember my days sitting in my law office and everyone was glued to the tv screen, partners, associates, account is. We were stunned he got off. The press and civil rights activists seized on this. Think about it, oj was one of the most beloved athletes in history and these people tried to convince Black America he was charged because he was black . That happened. No one not guilty had reactions like these. Not guilty. [cheering] he is not guilty. Im just happy. Yes yes that is justice. Laura background for those who werent around at the time. A few years after the l. A. Riots in the beating of
long delays for you. a warning from the irs. expect another frustrating tax filing season marked by processing problems and refund delays. the agency is in crisis, facing a backlog of close to 10 million returns. we re working as hard as we can. now dealing with new staffing problems from covid and wage competition. with nearly 200 job openings posted on their website on top of a long list of other issues like outdated software, tedious paper filings and most notably, a lack of sufficient funding. since 2010, the number of tax returns is up 19%, but the agency s funding and staffing are down close to 20%. i think it boils down to funding. john was irs commissioner under president obama. if you have to call or respond to a notice from the irs, that s when the problems begin. last year, the irs only answered 11% of customer calls. with many waiting hours to get
they take benefits that are ought to rightfully belong to amican citizens. we could also note this. the data on sort of wage competition of the low end of wage scales is pretty muddy about what immigration does and the effect is less than i think a lot of people presume. but bannon also said you have a problem with silicon valley with too many asians, basically. i m paraphrasing but that was the point, a nation is more than a nation more than an economy, it s got to be something other than that and there s too many asians running around silicon valley. that was certainly the way it came off. having talked to miller about in in some detail for the piece, i think a more polite way of putting it is that they have concerns not just about low-skilled immigrants, agricultural workers, that sort of thing but also on h1b visa reform and essentially want to do everything they can, as miller put it, to protect the jobs of american citizens in america. and that means in a lot of cases clo
to face some wage competition. and even if the pie is bigger, they are worse off. maybe it it grows the economy and does these other things, but it it does so by giving money to businesses and to rich people and not to the low-skills workers who we need to help. and number one, when you get $200 billion from this bill, if you want to just hand that over to folks with high school educations and give it to them to get college educations, you would do an enormous amount of good for them. but sessions isn t proposing that. but more to the point, what sessions is doing here, everything else republicans do, and this is a fear. you can have this theory. moving money over to businesses and rich people and saying they will use that money to grow the size of the pie. they will hire people and we ll have this much better economy and all the gains will be shared because the american economy is a working engine of distribution if you re just not screwing with the people who know what they are doing
to face some wage competition. and even if the spie is bigger, they are worse off. maybe it it grows the economy and does these other things, but it it does so by giving money to businesses and to rich people and not to the low-skills workers who we need to help. and number one, when you get $200 billion from this bill, if you want to just hand that over to folks with high school educations and give it to them to get college educations, you would do an enormous amount of good for them. but sessions isn t proposing that. but more to the point, what sessions is doing here, everything else republicans do, and this is a fear. you can have this theory. moving money over to businesses and rich people and saying they will use that money to grow the size of the pie. they will hire people and we ll have this much better economy and all the gains will be shared because the american economy is a working engine of distribution if you re just not screwing with the people who know what they