they looked at ceos who were either frugal or non-frugal.g those that bought a house that was twice the cost of the average. either a boat more than 25 feet long or a car that cost more than $75,000. they found that the non-frugal ceos had more problems at their companies vis-a-vis financial statements or fraud. >> i want to ask you, how accurate an indicator is this? obviously not every ceo has got like a massive yacht or a lovely new jag or whatever will be committing fraud. >> of course not. they did find that more than a third of the ceos with a big boat or a big house had companies that experienced problems. there is a material difference here between these two groups. >> right. it gets to the culture of the companies. the company culture, especially sales or yemted company, starts at the top. you know, lot of the guys like to live large. one of the great exceptions -- we talked about this. it is and not exception. larry at oracle. they haven't ever -- they have had some restatement issues in the past with aggressive revenue recognition

and we have been very frugal. i could have very easily utilized overtime, even if historically it could not, but i chose not to. i chose to bring in probation aides at the third of the cost of a probation officer with no benefit. i chose to bring back and recruit retirees. i think we have been very frugal, and we do not plan on, on an ongoing basis, having all of these. for example, the mayor's summer program, that will go away after

and we have been very frugal. i could have very easily utilized overtime, even if historically it could not, but i chose not to. i chose to bring in probation aides at the third of the cost of a probation officer with no benefit. i chose to bring back and recruit retirees. i think we have been very frugal, and we do not plan on, on an ongoing basis, having all of these. for example, the mayor's summer program, that will go away after summer. i do plan on continuing to use probation aides. they are critical and save us from not being able to use overtime. the safety, eight women, and policy analysts, i think the safety and equipment will be done with this year, absolutely. the policy analyst, i believe that that could go this year and may be next, depending upon what the laws do in terms of what the state does, whether they continue to change the policy. the education and victim services, the partially-funded position, because the other part of it is paid for by the charter school, and we brought an individual over

come out tomorrow afternoon to the frugal myself darian illinois, frugal muse.t pierre in studio with us who is the executive director of normal. he gets up early every morning. good to come in again alan. >> good to see you. >> did you light up? >> about 4:20 p.m. >> minimum. >>> so i really was glad you cam in today because i want to ask you what's happening in new york city where andrew cuomo. he is a liberal but not a wild liberal said we ought to reduce the penaltities for possession of may juan a? >> the former attorney general, somebody who knows a little bit about law and order. mr. cuomo, lawrence o'donnell is setting the table potentially for a run in 2016. i am thinking we must have had some really strong reform over the last couple of years if this is getting your bon a fides ready ready. new york state had de decriminalized marijuana in 1978. the city from the 1998 went from a 2,000 to 58,000 marijuana arrests. >> no. really? >> yes. >> under bloomberg we assumed wrongly those numbers would go down. there have been around 50,000 making new york numb

stop by the frugal muse on saturday.respondent for politico is here in the studio with us. and, you know, joe the obama administration has been saying a lot of times talking about bain capital, mitt romney's record at bain capital and about a week ago, david axelrod senior political advisor for the campaign showed up in boston and said let's start talking about mitt romney's record at governors of massachusetts as well. >> somebody needs to. romney isn't. >> romney is not. standing there with david axelrod, the former mayor of north adams, massachusetts, he was mayor while mitt romney was governor, mayor john barrett joining us on the news line this morning. mr. mayor, good morning. >> good morning to you. >> good to have you with us. so let's start with mitt romney and how he did on jobs. he is calling himself the job creator. what's his record in massachusetts? >> well, as i have said many times in the past several weeks, he was rather disengaged. i was mayor of really the smallest city in massachusetts but, also, one

frugal muse, they do a great job.here three hours signing books and the crowd, when i walked in, we had a little flap last week about the national anthem because i dared suggest that we might sing god bless america or america the beautiful instead of the star spank he willed banner. was attacked by the right-wing for it. when i walked into the frugal muse saturday, as they spontaneously burst into america the beautiful. >> i love it t great. >> i want it at the top of every hour. >> yes, sir. >> you got it? >> we got it by the way, those gnats. can we brack a little bit. >> are you talking about michelle malkin again? >> she is a gnat. >> a different kind of gnat. >> she is a g-in. the nats, 3 in a row. struck him out in a change-up. the nationals have swept three games from the red sox at fenway park. >> i think this is the first time in national's franchise history have swept them at fenway park. >> i would believe that they are on fire two games up on the atlanta braves they are solid. on fire. >> all right. yeah.

i'll be at the frugal muse bookstore in darien illinois..com and if you want the exact street address or whatever. we'll be there from 2:00 to 4:00 saturday afternoon. come on by. we'll be talking about -- i'll be signing copies of my new book, "the obama hate machine." and we'll just talk about politics 2012 and have a good town meeting saturday afternoon. frugal muse bookstore darien, illinois. >> can you bring me back some sausages when you go? they have great sausages. >> bill: in darien? >> they should keep in your luggage for a couple of days. is that all right? >> bill: i'm not going to chicago to buy sausage. >> they have good sausage. >> bill: i'm going to chicago to talk politics. again, check out wcpt.com or billpressshow.com. check and watch the press briefings at the white house on c-span which you can do every day, if you look past the big cheese in the front row and in the second row you get back to about the fifth row is where you usually see me sitting alongside of jenn benderey from "huffington post." and she joins us in s

first of all, i do think the chief justice is already taking some steps to be more frugal in the courts. >> greta: meaning justice roberts. chief justice roberts. other circuits are showing some discipline and frugality, and i think the message needs to be delivered to the ninth and any other circuit that when they have a conference, the cost ought to be reduced. we've never been in a situation where our budget committee colleagues, senator grassley and i, faced such a debt crisis. we're in a deep debt crisis. much of our bureaucracy doesn't recognize it. it's still business as usual where i indicated every 40 cents of dollar spent on that conference is borrowed because that's how much in debt we are. >> greta: the other 60 is paid for by the taxpayers, the other 60 cents. does the chief judge have a tenure, or is that unfair? does the chief judge of the ninth circuit have a tenure in terms of recognizing the money spent in this conference? >> well, as i said, i think it's unconcern and unapologetic about it and it's business as usual, and it's an attitude that we don't care about what

the new york times" magazine and did the piece that got a lot of attention and but it rehnquist was frugal with interviews and referred to the peace as the reason he may have decided but john captured something and did not let go of the story. he did not make it easy for anyone to write a biography. he did not organize papers or leave the a memoir. he had to go to a lot of different places to find material, talk to people. the was very interested in who was the as a young man as a goldwater republican? how did he get to the court and what did he do before that? and his career with the jt's he brought a certain partisanship that was the passion of the point* of view but to politicize the poor as that started with the point* of view and his ascent is a picture of how the poor develops. people can say what does it matter? the last argument you can use people are getting some a call -- senate call is that the president's elect the justices as a lifetime appointee. >> i was going to say that would not be our title. [laughter] >> i might read the book but i object to the title because if you are

tech companies are very frugal. part of it is the resentment that they are being taxed for creating jobs. i do not blame the tech community. that is why we're sitting here. >> i think the point is san francisco is small. a 7 mile by 7 miles city and if you could go anywhere around it and not have to pay taxes, that is your duty. you have investors to answer to. that is the point. you can go outside the border and not have it. it was clear was not an empty threat. another mentioned challenges for air travel in sf. please give us some international flights. china is the only place i can fly to directly. that is my plug for the morning. i want to thank our wonderful panel for getting up early. we work 10 hours which is usually working all night and sleeping in tel 10:00 a.m. give them a big hand of applause for being here. [applause] >> ok. let's give our panel another great round of applause. they were great. this is the beginning of the chamber's relationship with the tech community. i want to give special thanks to

. >> starting today, ac transit riders at the frugal bart station will find the bus stops at differents. sinuses is posted to direct writers to the bus stops for eight lines. the stops are being moved to nearby streets in order to accommodate a construction project. the changes will be in effect from today until july 25th. stockton faces a decision today to determine whether it will be the largest city in the nation to declare bankruptcy. declining tax revenue and other expenses have them under a mountain of debt. they still hope to reach a deal with creditors to restructure under a new law. the deadline for an agreement is tonight >> the health care for jeopardy host alex per back and doesn't hurt in a roof collapse in a parking lot. why crews need to search, week to search for the victims and we will take a look at tonight's prime time lineup. [ male announcer ] every day, your car takes you to work, school, practice, dance class, shopping, and more. so do something nice for it. to deposit checks at the nearest citibank branch. ♪ like this one. ♪ or this one. ♪ or, maybe this one. ♪

a major part in that we know that germans germany's politicians they're known for being extremely frugal and conservative with taxpayers' money they wouldn't waste cash on projects they thought wouldn't work and something needs to work for us because germany will be affected of all the others. well i don't know why. german politicians are doing what they're doing i think the only thing they try to do is to not to not to be responsible for consequences and doing the other way around saying they do not dare to. put consequences on everybody and so they try to spending germany taxpayers' money to have a fear it and as we all know this cannot work because even germany is not is just not able to pay for all off the debts of europe you could understand what the german taxpayers are for happy and i understand that much of your support of course does come from the public the taxpayers there recently you talked about a million letters being addressed your politicians against the bailouts why isn't the government listening to what appears to be very strong public opposition there in germany. it is

police say they don't have much information about the shooting on east bound 580 at frugal ave. the freeway was closed for about three hours for the investigation >> a key witness in the ross mirkarimi case is recounting his account of domestic violence. their neighbor is telling a different story. lisa washington in san francisco now to explain. >> to very different stories, ivory madison, the neighbor of sheriff ross mirkarimi, tells a different story in her testimony about the new year's eve incident that happened between the suspended sheriff and his wife. late friday madison filed a declaration that recounts what iliana lopez told her about the argument when lopez went to her home on january 1st. that is when she says lopez showed great bruise on her arm that she videotaped. about the arguments she said that during that time mercury meet repeatedly grabbed pushed and pulled her violently slammed her against the wall while grabbing her arm and refusing to let go. " as described 20-30 minutes of abuse that happened in front of their young son. madison contacted police which l

i actually think kate has been quite frugal.s like an awful lot of money, in terms of what she's got to do, it's not. >> reporter: but kate is not exactly at the top of the royal pecking order. there she is courtesying to priscilla. the queen made changes to royal order. she outranks sophie but not so-called princesses of the blood, they of the creative hats. unless with william, kate would precede them, which would all change down the road, of course, when kate becomes queen. royal experts say kate refuses to take freebies from designers and insists on paying what everybody else has to pay and declined the palace's offer to provide her with a stylist or dresser. looks like she doesn't need much help. ann. >> thanks. just ahead "today's" professional tackle hot topics, should your city sell space on manhole covers. >>> jimmy walker on his new book called ". >> dynamite. >> coming up after your local news and weather. good to have you back. not financially. so we switched to the bargain detergent but i found myself using three ti

. >> trust me, i'm not sure there is anybody any cheaper than i am, more frugal. concerned about costs like anyone is. i treat the budget like it's my own, you know, life savings. >> we're in this together. and we are going to keep fighting fires and protecting people's homes and making sure everybody is safe. as hard as we can. we're not wasting any money. >> hickenlooper says there will be a partnership with the federal government with some cost sharing. north of denver, the high park fire is burning near fort collins. 257 homes and 87,000 acres have been destroyed. more than a dozen vacation spots are closed. there is concern over colorado i'lcolorado's $5 billion tourist industry. some of the rafting companies that would normally run trips along the river are helping firefighters get across the inaccessible areas for mop-up operation. on top of this, there is a primary today. some of the people who had to be evacuated had to go get new mail-in ballots because they never received theirs. back to you. >> bret: live in denver. thank you. home prices are up. in ne

at the same time come you have to restore frugality. the federal government is optically much more complex in terms of the severity of the problem. i think you cannot just -- you just cannot have a sturdy -- you have done something that stimulates true growth, not governor and driven growth, but growth in the private sector. >> 30 years ago, the unemployment rate was 10.8%. in november and december of 1982, it was the highest it has been since the depression. it was higher than i was at any point in the last couple of years in the height of the recession. it was 10.8%. once president reagan's economic plan, when it went fully into effect, he had the longest sustained economic peace time in american history. after slashing the marginal cuts by 25%. he put more money back in the hands of the american people and the american consumer and the american entrepreneur to have an impact on growing the economy. >> excuse me, sir. >> [inaudible question] [inaudible question] [inaudible question] just on the surface level, bobby flay, voters feel b

. -- you have to restore frugality. the federal government is more complex in terms of the severity of the problem, but you cannot just have austerity. you have to have something that stimulates true growth, not governments driven growth. >> 30 years ago, the unemployment rate was 10.8%. in november and december 1982, it was the highest in had been since the depression, higher than any point in the last 10 years. economicident reagan's recovery plan was put into effect, we saw the longest economic boom in peace time in american history. it was after slashing the marginal tax rate 25%. he put more money back and hands of the american consumer and on to ignore. it had a positive impact on growing the economy. >> [unintelligible] >> just on the surface level, obviously boater -- voters feel better if the economy is better. republican governors who have been in place -- put in place aggressive policies that have helped turn the economy around. i was one of the beneficiaries of that. the question that voters have to look at

paul ryan, house budget committee chairman who has rocked the republic world with tales of fiscal frugalityn be brought nationwide. romney in wisconsin in james janesville. i had an opportunity to speak with him. for the first time he took a severe shot at president obama and the obama administration suggesting that the investigation into national security leaks cannot be done fairly and appropriately. [lost audio] >> i do believe a special prosecutor should be looking into them. i believe we should make every effort to understand how those matters that relate to the safety of our men and women in uniform around the world and to our foreign policy plans, those items should not be leaked in such a way that puts america's interests and our people in jeopardy. >> romney also today talked at link about a host of international issues and took issue with the president's executive directive last week on immigration. romney said he wouldn't do it that way. he needs a long-term comprehensive approach not the stop gap that president obama advocates. listen. >> i don't think we go jumping from one sol

. >> there are philosophical reasons that we've ended up fairly -- we are frugal in virginia, this programers. we decided we don't want to expand it any larger. now that we don't have the threat, this hang over the whole medicaid program, i can't imagine our legislature and our governor are going to want to take on another couple hundred million dollars worth of costs into the future for virginia. >> if you do that, if you don't expand your medicaid, let's say someone gets seriously ill who has no insurance, not eligible for medicaid, doesn't have medicaid expansion and ends up in the emergency room, someone will pick up the freight. but it's probably the hospital and the doctors? >> that gets programmed into the costs for the system, as you sort of imply in your question. to reform all of that, we've got to clean this out. it's one of the reasons we were hoping to win today and knock this law out because it really stands in the way of actual reform. we have done one thing for 47 years for every healthcare problem we've had in this country and that's more government. and as dr. phil would

royal trio looking on, duchess of cambridge dazzling in a white dress but showing her flair for frugality at a different event last year. she brought back a more familiar sight, her trademark nude heels, a far cry from weekend wear where she spent time with innocent children. and settling down to a tasty treat around the campfire, kate clearly enjoyed a relaxed couple of hours after weeks of royal pageantry. her focus this week will be on william, who is turning 30 on thursday. kate has promised to throw a party, though it's reportedly going to be a moderate affair. >> i think really this 30th birthday will be low key, because he doesn't want to have some major celebration, a big lavish party while the rest of great britain and all of europe is suffering from austerity measures. it's been a year when royal approval ratings have soared. as the big birthday approaches prince william, who hasn't always been comfortable growing up in the public eye appears to be sellinging into his role and dealing with the growing expectations that are part of life as the king in waiting. whether he's helpin

challenge to his tenure a short time ago, he obviously now a republican champion when it comes to frugality labor unions. and paul ryan who is often talked about a potential vice presidental running mate for mitt romney. we'll hear mitt romney talking in jamesville which is paul ryan's hometown. all this comes con them appraiser just with a new web account, slamming president obama, from three years when he proclaimed the economy his own. >> i welcome the job. i want the responsibility. give it to me. >> reporter: and romney comes back at the end of that web attack video where essentially he says, now it's our time, referring to republicans who have promised to bring fiscal discipline to the budget, curb the debt and straighten out foreign policy problems that they are blaming on president obama throughout the world. bill: he was doing cbs on sunday morning but he would not say he would undue the president's order executive order from last friday. what more could you add about that. >> reporter: he claimed the president's decision to make this executive order on friday, the day after a fair

we continue with fridays with frugal sang.or that. they won't go to commercial break for that. >> oh, look it's the [ censor bleep ] cam. hello. >> announcer: if you turn her on, she'll turn you on. >> oh, god. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ until the truth reveals itself. and there's only one place you'll find us. >> we're not through just yet, mr. vice president. >> they're swimming against the tides. ♪ ♪ reach out and touch -- >> announcer: stephanie miller -- >> yeah. 50 minutes after the hour. john fugelsang live all three hours. what a tweet. >> johnny cash covered this song. >> yeah. the justice department in texas, but i'm not sure i mentioned florida. the justice department sent a thwart florida secretary of state demanding the voter purging has not been cleared under the voter's right act. [ screaming ] >> we were saying yesterday -- because we use the bull horn, call the white house and tell the justice department, so they did. >> yeah, they heard you. i think i said texas because i did that as we

in the new york times magazine, and did a piece that ran and got attention, and they said he was frugalwith the media interviews and referred to the piece that john did as the reason he may have decided to beat down on the media interviews, but he captured something about him not letting go of the stories and the desire to tell the full story, and he did not make it easy for nip to write a biography. he didn't argue his papers in a way that would have been, oh, just go here and spend time with the papers. you know, he went to a lot of different places to find the material, to talk to people, and he talks to a lot of people very much who are interested in who was bill rehnquist? a goldwater republican with his time in arizona, and what brought him to washington? how did he get to the courts? what did he do in the courts before becoming chief justice? then his career as the most overtly conservative chief justice, and this idea that he brought a sort of partisanship to the court, which may as some say, reflect a certain passion in his point of view, but it's also seen by some people as re

. >> is this a reflection of his frugalness? an annual benefit for glide, a foundation that serves meals in san francisco. >> i'll have to sit this one out. i don't think i can afford it. >> you don't have to. you have had a close encounter with him. >> yes, indeed. >>> the latest in genetic breakthroughs. all you need is saliva from the dad and a blood sample from the pregnant mom to get a blueprint of the baby. [ male announcer ] imagine facing the day with less chronic osteoarthritis pain. imagine living your life with less chronic low back pain. imagine you, with less pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one non-narcotic pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your doctor right away if your mood worsens, you have unusual changes in mood or behavior or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. cymbalta is not approved for children under 18. people taking maois or thioridazine or with uncontrolled glaucoma sh

surprising they get along so well when you consider these are three very independent, strong, practical, frugalth a grace, even naughty it's been described, sense of humor. they seem to realize that they just strengthen each other. matt and meredith? >> thanks, michelle. she makes a very good point about sense of humor because the queen -- most people don't realize it in her private life she's very, very funny and a great mimic. >> you've been around when she's cracking jokes? >> occasionally. yeah, in my dreams. >> a different kind of relationship. we are waiting -- go ahead. >> waiting for the queen and members of the royal family to leave their lunches to proceed to the palace. we'll have that for you live with much more of our coverage of the queen's diamond jubilee. >>> still ahead much more from the queen's diamond jubilee in london. >> that's right after your local news. e it? well, it's not gonna clean itself. want me to get dad? no thank you. viva's all i need. look at that! still in one piece. yeah, so's the towel. [ female announcer ] grab a roll and try it on your toughest mess. who

first thing i asked when i walked into that big crowd at the frugal muse bookstore was where's joey! a lot of people there. i said joey, i want to see you. raise your hand. >> caller: bill, bill, i'm so upset. that's my volunteer day. by the time i got out i said i will be there next time guaranteed. >> bill: another promise. another broken promise. >> caller: i tell you something in common with republicans on that one. >> bill: all right. i wanted to bust you joey. >> caller: bill, you did. i was dreading this phone call. i really was. how much money do you need, bill to lose your manners? republicans, their grandparents would be so ashamed of them, the way they act. just because you have money doesn't mean you don't have to have manners. every one of you people should take your money and go take a finishing class and learn how to act civilized. i swear to god this is going to backfire on them greedy sons of bs. i swear to god bill. i will see you next time. >> bill: all right joey, good to hear from you. you're still my buddy in chicago. it does say a lot. i think joey is right. th

around here framed a bit differently talking about he is uncomfortable with his wealth, and he's very frugalwould ask you, i love "the times." you know that. you worked there. what do you make of conservatives and some media people saying that come election year, they skew left? is that unfair? take us behind the curtain there and explain to us why that's not the case because we want to believe that. >> i think that's probably pretty unfair. i think a lot of people felt that in 2000, "the times" coverage of george w. bush was much, of more sympathetic than its coverage of al gore. i think masters the-- they ha writers on the bush campaign. but that piece from 2004 about john kerry where bob worth went to france to look at his grand parents' house and talked about their two-story kitchen, i don't think it was a particularly sympathetic tone. i think it was sort of, you know, a fairly jaundiced tone. it all depends on whose ox is going gored. and the truth is, journalists and americans more broadly seem to resent wealth. i don't think that was so true -- no one seemed to resent franklin roosev

i actually think kate has been quite frugal.s like an awful lot of money, in terms of what she's got to do, it's not. >> reporter: but kate is not exactly at the top of the royal pecking order. there she is courtesying to priscilla. the queen made changes to royal order. she outranks sophie but not so-called princesses of the blood, they of the creative hats. unless with william, kate would precede them, which would all change down the road, of course, when kate becomes queen. royal experts say kate refuses to take freebies from designers and insists on paying what everybody else has to pay and declined the palace's offer to provide her with a . >> just ahead, our panel discusses current topics. >> not financially. so we switched to the bargain detergent but i found myself using three times more than you're supposed to and the clothes still weren't as clean as with tide. so we're back to tide. they're cuter in clean clothes. thanks, honey. yeah. you suck at folding. [ laughs ] [ female announcer ] just one dose of tide original

signing copies of my new book, "the obama hate machine" at the frugal muse bookstore in darien, illinoisy and say hello. fun to see you out in the chicago area. we're so happy and proud to welcome to our studio at this time -- i have to tell you, i don't tell everybody this. you know that. my favorite united states senator. senator bernie sanders from vermont. because he's such a fighter for all of us and for working families across this country. senator sanders, great to see you. >> great to be with you, bill. >> bill: at one time when i was rejected, rejected by the congressional press corps for a credential at the united states cap tool, senator sanders adopted me as his intern. >> i want to tell your listening audience and viewing audience, he was a pretty good intern. he was a little weak on the coffee. but otherwise, did he pretty well. i'm glad to see you've made something of yourself since then. >> bill: we were a great team. >> yeah. >> bill: senator, i read this morning in "the new york times" that jamie diamond, head of jpmorgan is coming to capitol hill this week to finally t

if you want to look -- if you weren't lucky enough to be at the frugal muse bookstore last saturday andgned copy of my new book, "the obama hate machine." you can pick one up, tell us how you want it signed at billpressshow.com. while you're there, check out my column, latest column nuns on the run and on the bus. and sister simone campbell, one of the nuns at the vatican is trying to crack down on -- is going to be in studio with us tomorrow. also want you to know a big big new announcement from current tv. very, very excited. you know joy behar, one of our favorite people. i love being on her show and on headline news. she's joining current tv. will have her own show on current tv starting in the fall. but next week, she'll be filling in every night at 8:00 p.m. for eliot spitzer on "viewpoint." joy behar. what a great person and a great talent. very, very funny. outrageous. she's going to bring a lot of new life to current tv. very excited about having her as part of our ever-expanding team! the "full court press" and joy behar. what a combination. >> announcer: this is the "bill pre