one of the great champions here has been senator harkin. he was one of the prime movers in the affordable health care act. he is one of the prime movers in the whole concept of protection and wellness. he has been a great champion for women proving the fact that man of quality never are shy about supporting women who seek equality. let me bring up our good friend senator tom harkin. >> first of all, thank you. thank you for your dynamic leadership at the department of health and human services. again, i can not thank you enough center. we team up together. senator kennedy asked each of us to had certain parts of the reform bill. we worked together closely to put this all together. while we worked hard to put together a strong preventive package that includes everyone, because we wanted to change the sick care system to a health care system, one where people could get early checkups and prevent an analyst from progressing. a lot of that went into effect a couple of years ago under the preventative services task force recommendation. a covere

let me bring up our good friend and our champion, senator tom harkin. [laughter] >> boy, is it tough to follow barbara mikulski. [laughter] first of all, thank you, secretary sebelius, again, for your dynamic leadership at the department of health and human services. and, again, i can't thank enough barbara mikulski, senator mikulski. we teamed up together. senator kennedy asked each of us to head certain parts of the health care reform bill. we worked together very closely to put this all together, and while we worked very hard to put together a strong preventive package that includes everyone -- because we wanted to change the sick care system to a health care system, one where people could get early checkups and prevent an illness from progressing. a lot of that went into effect a couple years ago under the preventive services -- preventive services health task force recommendations, but that covered everyone. what we're talking about that goes into effect tomorrow are the recommendations of the institute of medicine that pertain particularly to wome

these provisions, as senator harkin said so elegantly, will save lives. now, opponents may not want to pay for those, but the reality is that because these provisions are going to go into effect tomorrow, that women are better off, their families are better off, and looking at the overlying cost of health care in the system, we'll be more cost effective with the provisions so it is a great day for women and families. >> i'm proud to follow senator shaheen and stand today with the giants in the senate, and i agree with everything said except, i think, frank lautenberg used the word "surprised" by the tenacity of senator mikulski, and someone who i have come to admire, i'm not surprised, but admiring, and there's two giants who are not with us today who stood strong and tall, senator kennedy and dodd, and i'm honored to follow senator dodd as the senator from connecticut whose citizens, 270,000 of them, will benefit tomorrow. they will see 24 new day and new dawn, and that's a great day for america because it combines equality and quality. it saves lives, a

these provisions as senator harkin said so eloquently will save lives. now opponents may not want to pay for those, but the reality is that because these provisions are going to go into effect tomorrow, that women will be better off, their families will be better off in as they look at the underlying cost of health care and assist them, we will be more cost effective with these provisions. so it is a great day for women and families. >> i am really proud to follow senator shaheen and to stand today with some of the giants in the senate and i agree with everything that has been set except it ain't frank lautenberg use the word surprised by senator mikulski's tenacity and tireless mass and as someone who i've really come to admire i am not surprised, but admiring. there are two giants who are not with us today who stood strong and tall. senator kennedy and senator dodd and i am very honored to follow senator dodd and the senator from connecticut whose citizens 270,000 of them will benefit tomorrow. they will see this new day a new dawn and it would be a gr

these provisions a senator harkin said so eloquently will save lives. now, opponents may not want to pay for those common but the reality is that because these provisions are going to go into effect tomorrow, that women will be better off, their families will be better off. and as we look at the underlying cost of health care and mrs. m., we will be more cost effect to what these provisions. so it is a great day for women and families. >> i am really proud to follow senator shaheen and to stand today with some of the giants in the senate and i agree with everything that has been said except i think frank lautenberg said -- i think he is the worst surprise by senator mikulski's tenacity and tireless men by someone who i have really come to admire, i am not surprised, but admiring. they're a two giants that are not with us today who stood strong and tall. senator kennedy and senator dodd. i'm very honored to follow senator dodd as the senator from connecticut whose 270,000 will benefit tomorrow. they will see this new day and new dawn and it will be a gre

one of the great champions here has been senator harkin. he was one of the prime movers in the affordable health care act. he is one of the prime movers in the whole concept of protection and wellness. he has been a great champion for women proving the fact that man of quality never are shy about supporting women who seek equality. let me bring up our good friend senator tom harkin. >> first of all, thank you. thank you for your dynamic leadership at the department of health and human services. again, i can not thank you enough center. we team up together. senator kennedy asked each of us to had certain parts of the reform bill. we worked together closely to put this all together. while we worked hard to put together a strong preventive package that includes everyone because we wanted to change the sick care system to a health care system, one where people could get early checkups and prevent an analyst from progressing. a lot of that went into effect a couple of years ago under the preventative services task force recommendation. a covered

i heard it as well from tom harkin. if a woman needs an abortion after 20 weeks, something has gone very wrong. this is probably a wanted pregnancy. and either her health is in danger and there's no exclusion for women's health either at all. a narrow, narrow exclusion for the life of the woman. so some dire circumstance is at hand that would cause a doctor to prescribe, to order an abortion at that point, but they would take that away. and they could literally cause the death of a woman or sterilization or some other horrible health condition that would last the rest of her life. >> we are having these reports, these anonymous behind-the-scenes reports to the press of some republicans, even conservative republicans, frustrated that these votes are still happening. that people who even if they are anti-abortion themselves, they want to focus on economic issues, but the house can't seem to stop itself. in the house, you're obviously a known combatant on this issue on the pro-choice side. do you see signs of frustration?

guest: i did not want to begrudge senator harkin. he is a friend of mine.he signed on to the report. let's understand it for what it was. the minority party was pretty critical of the outcome, the failure to look at all the challenges in higher education. but look at some of the numbers that you brought up. you talk about 500,000 leaving before they get a degree. the fundamental misunderstanding of how this sector works -- unlike that traditional campus where you go for a semester or four year and you take five -- or for a year and you take five 3-credit courses at a time, you take one course at a time for a month. you may be waiting for the course to start the next month. somebody might say you drop out and did not complete your degree. you finish one course, then you take the second. these are adults with real jobs and real lives. they take these courses on a part-time basis for the most part. it is a fundamental misunderstanding of how we work. to say 63% of the students withdrew -- i do not know where they got that statistic. the department of education

considered that women harkin -- key to the election to vote for the gop ticket. >> a storybook marriage not at all. what we had was a real marriage. >> i thought a very human connection. >> she was awesome. she will blow it away. she has hart. >> the speech comes at a critical time for the romney campaign. a new washington post poll says he has the lowest personal liability of any nominee dating back to 1984. the keynote speech -- speaker chris christie, made a political speech. >> we have an era of purpose and principle in new jersey. we're here to tell you, it is now time to end this era of absentee leadership in the oval office. america needs mid romney and paul ryan. and we need and right now. [applause] >> during yesterday's session, they quickly agreed a conservative platform that calls for tax cuts, not government spending, to stimulate the economy. >> thank you. president obama is making a stop today in virginia. this afternoon he will speak at campaign events at charlotte's fell. you need a ticket -- charlottesville. you need a ticket if you would like to expect -- attend. we w

joining me now is senator tom harkin, iowa democrat who you just heard in that moving clip.enator, thank you for joining us tonight. >> al, thanks for having me on your show. >> it's an important day. give us your thoughts. >> well, again, my thoughts again are reminiscent of the two sisters i lost. and sad to say that's not a unique story in america. there are so many families who have lost a sister, a mother, a wife because they didn't get early checkups, they didn't get preventive health care. and now beginning today they'll be able to get that. so beginning today we really are making another step forward, al, in moving from a sick care system from what we have in america, a sick care system, to a true health care system. where we don't just patch and mend someone who's broken and someone who needs a mastectomy, someone who needs chemotherapy. we will continue to do that, but now women know they can go in early and get that early checkup which is so vitally important. we know if we get these things early we can prevent all these operations and chemos and deaths in the fut

. >> senator harkin. specs before madame chair. according to information i received in the national futures association, the nfa has taken five enforce that actions against peregrine in 1996, 2004, 2008, 2012, and again on july 9th, 2012 to aid in 2004, according to a story that was in "the new york times," peregrine clients said a national to the national futures association and the cftc asking it to intervene to prevent the firm from misusing its customers' money. a copy of the letter was obtained by "the new york times." five years later in 2009 again a tipster wrote nfa asking it to review peregrine's bank account information for accuracy. in 1996 the action involved separate incidents in which peregrine failed to maintain aggrege to the racket funds. again in 2011 in the course of an audit they were informed that peregrine was under segregated by to enter the million. there's two letters one on friday and one on monday that sort of changed those figures. my questions are will delete was the cftc aware of the 2011 incident in w

and recently, senator harkin and representative miller have pu it to $9.80 by 2014 and made every signal that they are not serious about it. no hearings or press conferences a couple weeks ago by congressman george miller. losing it with organized labor and a social koches church group or anti-poverty group. they completely ignore it and put out a one or two page press release. i think this is an issue. the labor day is coming up at some of those 30 million workers should join with in the occupied groups and to surround the local offices back, of the senators and representatives. you can get their addressed by looking in the phone book. that will really get momentum going and it will art pressuring president obama so that his labor day address, coming out, will focus on pumping tens of billions of dollars into a recessionary economy in the form of consumer demand to provide basic necessities for these hard- working people. it comes in the support of over 70% of the people consistently have favored an inflation- adjusted had minimum-wage. that includes a lot of conservatives and self-desc

there has been so much noise surrounding the affordable care act which our own senator tom harkin called one of the most compassionate pieces of legislation in generations. amy and i feel it is our personal and moral obligation to share our story in the hope that by doing so americans will finally be able to put real human names and faces and stories with the law that has already benefited millions of middle-class and struggling americans. separating out the truth of the law from the malicious, heinous and in excusable lies, yes, why is surrounding this law. as amy so eloquently and courageously shared we know the truth about obamacare. a term i use with the utmost private. we know the truth far better than most. amy and i are and have been tremendously fortunate to have excellent health insurance through our employers. however, prior to the signing of obamacare her insurance was capped like that of over 1 hundred five million americans. her is at $1 million. had it not been for the immediate relief on these cats once the president signed this legislation we would almost certainly have n

hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada. giant corporations are rooted. welcome back to spotlight i am our love and just a reminder that my guest on the show today is valerie get the principal conductor of the london symphony orchestra and director of the martin ski theory. which again gives the annual easter festival easter music festival which which is your child your hero one of your beloved children it's opening this weekend so isn't becoming like a world event you hear when you found it you promised you would make it a world world event is the geography increasing first of all it's called moscow is the first of its clearly indicates that it's a russian cultural group but be event starts in moscow traditionally and comes to me and also is a big concert in moscow in between. it's also leading singers some of brilliance always instrumentalists the violinist or pianist cellist. visit many regions o

see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcomes the big picture. but come back to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser time now to go to iceland and talk with jones a member of parliament in iceland who's about to launch the pirate party in iceland brigade to walk on back to the kaiser report thank you for having me again all right brigade you are forming the pirate party in iceland what is it why are you doing it well i had thought he started in two thousand and six and sweden. responds to. that very hard to sneak about tax on the people behind the hard day. as we have asked the party has developed it's actually looks like it is the new way for parties. with a new party in the world sort of taking over the role that the lean tos to have a long time ago where an entirely different kind of politics with. him particularly focused on. online rights. and freedom of information the right prissy and all these things are great concern to us or use the internet on a regular basis and so we in iceland. how are establishing this new par

or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcomes a big picture. view. of the. east. coast. welcome back to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser time now to go to new york and talk with james howard kunstler of consular dot com james welcome back to the kaiser report it's always fun to be with you max all right james howard kunstler you're out with a new book it's called too much magic wishful thinking technology the fate of the nation tell us about the book well the book is really about how we in america are sitting around waiting for santa claus to deliver a goody sack of technological rescue remedies so we can keep on running wal-mart suburbia walt disney world the u.s. army the interstate highway system and the rest of our stuff by other means which isn't going to happen well james thing. myth of america is that fake it til you make it and there's an idea that the keep hoping for the best and that american can do attitude and that the self-help books remember back in the fifty's and sixty's you had how to win friends and inf

see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcomes the big picture. but come back to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser time now to go to iceland and talk with her to get doug jones go to our member of parliament in iceland who's about to launch the pirate party in iceland come back to the kaiser report thank you for having me again all right brigade to you are forming of a pirate party in iceland what is it why are you doing it well that i had gotten started in two thousand and six and sweden now. responds to. that very hard. people behind the pirate bay as we have as the part of you has developed it's actually looks like it is the new way. when the new party in the world sort of taking over the role that the means used to have a long time an. entirely different kind of politics. particularly focused on online rights. and freedom of information right privacy and all these things or of great concern to us use the internet on a regular basis and so we and i spent. our stepless in this new party looking up the german purge party

you don't know i'm tom harkin welcomes a big picture. into the only military mechanisms to do the work to bring justice to accountability. i have every right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i pay taxes. i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. i'm laurin the sphere. is screwed news tropical storm isaac grazed the coast of florida yesterday hammering tampa with everywhere and rains and i winds put in a damper on the republicans two thousand and twelve republican convention but undeterred republicans gathered this afternoon to declare an official start to their convention and kick off a week long and strata ganz oval bob i eighty rich guy free market promotion and bashing government working people and poor people. already seen glimpses of what republicans will offer for their vision of america over the next few days there is of course the official republican platform which supports a federal ban on same sex marriage a reinstatement of don't ask don't tell and a call for mo

else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harkin is a big. welcome back to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser time now to go to boston and talk with professor yanira barr yeah founding president of new england complex systems institute professor welcome to the kaiser report max good to be here all right professor i want to get john i read your report and i think it's a stream way important that people take a look at this your report the food crises a quantitative model of food prices including speculators and ethanol kind of version he looked at various possible causes for a food price rises tell us what factors you eliminated as the cause of rises which did your models conclude were the cause in general. there or the idea that supply and demand could fully account for the price increases was a lot which was shown to be possible there are two factors that are or one of them is a supply and demand factor that's increasingly. version of corn. and the other is of the effect of speculation on commodity markets. following the deregulation

or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. for racial to rule the day. blogs are going to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture and the annals of political convention history you'd be hard pressed to find another speech like the one all ryan gave on wednesday night thank you as the speech was incredibly rouse enough passionate or full of inspiration to add so many damn lies in it you'd have to think the guy has spent the last year living on a different planet but maybe there's a strategy behind all those lies i'll tell you what it is just a mob also mitt romney takes the stage tonight at the r. and c. clearly he's hoping people will forget about his numerous offshore tax havens while he's speaking if so why then is a a lot sure a yacht full of romney campaign donors sailing around the convention in the flag of the cayman islands and later the m

i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. welcome back to spotlight i'm al gore knob and just to remind you that my guest on the show today is jon alpert award winning american journalist and documentary filmmaker johnson. so you want me to tell you something i'll tell you something what's interesting is when i go to afghanistan or iraq and i make my reports you know who thanks me the most the soldiers the soldiers because they're the ones because the soldiers they don't want to fight. they didn't care that they were back around a young girl as they want back home to them to the mamas to their wives to their kids or no i don't think you can i mean about a million and so i mean. soldiers want to fight their it want to fight when the enemy is on their. their cities and towns but when they ascend thousand two hundred ten of the thousand miles away they probably they they don't like that idea even if they're doing it for money i mean no for what i would say is that. when they're over there and there's you're asking the question w

or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big. welcome back to the kaiser report imax kaiser time now to go to london and talk with sandeep jaitley basis dot com sundeep lectures throughout the world on austrian economics sandeep welcome back to the kaiser report thanks very much sandeep i want to get your back on because you tweeted recently and i quote if it ain't mangere or as direct student eugene vonn b.b. australian sorry respectively too many mistakes were made now there is no i wanted to comment this is that many americans consider themselves austrian school libertarians but most will be following what are his mistakes i think his mistakes are probably too great to elaborate elaborate sort of almost. but essentially. didn't look back to. original axiom which was the value is not outside of your own consciousness. and he did a. mango observe about market action in the sense that there are always two prices there's a bid and an offer. didn't like to admit that interest was a market phenomenon. he sort of

something else or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harkin is a big. welcome back to the kaiser report imax kaiser we've got somebody in the studio today david smith geneva business insider dot blogspot dot com david as a law degrees qualified chartered accountant has worked as a senior executive for a major swiss and u.s. multinationals and global banks david welcome to the kaiser report pleasure to be in paris and to be with you today all right david smith let's talk about switzerland the legendary safe haven went bonkers a year ago pegged it's good as gold currency the swiss franc to the euro tell us about this act of madness or maybe it is madness why did they do it well the basic reason for doing it is because the main part of this was economy which is eighty five percent of it apart from the banks was suffering very much from having a strong exchange rate the difficulties are for the tourist industry for the experts ation of machine and capital goods and also if you think about it for the companies in switzerland with high rates the rep

>> yeah. >> senator harkin? the other women's health issue in the capitol today is the house bill to ban abortions after the 20th week in the district of columbia. what are your, a, reactions on that and, b, given the gulf between the to chambers chambere two parties on the issues, is that something that's going to have to be resolved after the election? >> a long time ago -- i guess not that long ago -- i chaired the committee on the district of columbia. p i said then, i believed then and i have believed ever since that the congress of the united states should not interfere in the government of the district of columbia. regardless of banning abortions after 20 weeks or whatever that is, this is no business of the u.s. congress, period. >> [inaudible] >> yes. >> the catholic bishops have unanimously declared this this regulation to be an illegal and unjust mandate. a judge on friday issued an ip ip -- injunction -- >> [inaudible] >> yeah, in colorado, enforcing a cap on if you're a business owner. >> preliminar

. >> senator harkin. specs before madame chair. according to information i received in the national futures association, the nfa has taken five enforce that actions against peregrine in 1996, 2004, 2008, 2012, and again on july 9th, 2012 to aid in 2004, according to a story that was in "the new york times," peregrine clients said a national to the national futures association and the cftc asking it to intervene to prevent the firm from misusing its customers' money. a copy of the letter was obtained by "the new york times." five years later in 2009 again a tipster wrote nfa asking it to review peregrine's bank account information for accuracy. in 1996 the action involved separate incidents in which peregrine failed to maintain aggregate to the racket funds. again in 2011 in the course of an audit they were informed that peregrine was under segregated by to enter the million. there's two letters one on friday and one on monday that sort of changed those figures. my questions are will delete was the cftc aware of the 2011 incident in

when you hear an eyewitness say someone was shooting insdr indiscriminately at people, it harkins backlent event here in this country. up to possibly eight -- but we can report that the area is secure and they believe there was a sole shooter and that person is in fact deceased now. >>> let's go back to lester hold, who is on the scene for us. lester, give me just another sense of the surrounding area. are people having a sense of calm now? is there still a level of nervousness? many people are worried about getting to work, and they have a brief conversation with cops. mostly what you see now are tourists. most new yorkers frankly need to be at work right now, but tourists are -- i live very close to here. typically there are control bars down in front of the empire state building, because it is a high-profile potential terrorist target, so on any given day you see a pblue-and-white, and you will see the atlas teams, teams who will appear at high-profile places, and they'll be in full helmet, black vest, automatic weapons, look like they are armed for battle. it's a terrorist deterren

i always joked you and senator harkin are the longest serving "junior" senators. >> i love being in thenate. >> it is an interesting class that's leaving the senate. first of all, you're all known as sort of legislators that would be willing to sign on to bipartisan things. is this just sort of an accident in irony or is it harder to be in the u.s. senate today? >> it's different. i like to compare it to the time i came here, i really enjoyed the relationships that we had. both sides of the aisle at that time. partisanships were strong, but friendship was also strong. >> defend earmarks. i've never met a lawmaker from hawaii nor a lawmaker from alaska who will sit here and say earmarks are a bad thing. >> i think earmarks are necessary. because who knows better about the state that they represent than those who come from the state? and we know what that state means. >> was the system being abused? i mean did you ever go to senator mccain and say, hey, there's a way to make you happy and keep the earmarks? >> well, we represent different interests and that's all right, but there comes a

. >> the top three currently in office or senator tom harkin, a republican from huntington beach that has received the equivalent of $2,200 in tickets. coming in second it is a republican from modesto, with $800. and third, cameron smith from santa clarita with about 1400 in disney freebies and making the top 15, two former bay area legislators, including a democrat who reportedly received 1400 in free tickets. and former senate president from alicante, don perata, getting $1,200. we spoke up to those on the list, the former center said by phone that he did take the free tickets, but he did not use them personally. he said that he is beyond the age before the matter and says instead he gave them to his staff. mickey mouse is a drawl for a lot of kids, for families that can often not afford it. a move that may not be so popular on main street. >> i certainly understand why people out there who can afford to take their families to disney land feel like they're legislators are letting them down. >> and with the legislature killing a bill that would have prohibited them from taking ticket

this past month tom harkin and the senate released a report on the industry, the product of a two-year investigation. the report was not good. >> for-profit colleges charge tuition and often provide an inferior education by experiencing sky high dropout rates, how are they able to recruit a steady stream of new students? the answer is that for-profit colleges are what i would call a marketing machine. >> whether or not you graduate, whether or not your degree is worth anything in terms of getting you a new job, perhaps in the field of video games, whether or not you are able to repay the loans that you took out to be able to pay for these expensive programs, the business model of the for-profit school industry is to market to you aggressively and get you to sign up, to then get you to take out loans to pay your tuition to the school and cash the loan checks. they get paid and you owe the money to whoever gave you the loan. more often than not, the entity ask the federal government. the 2009 school year, for profit schools got paid $32 billion in federal money. one out of every $4 the d

a lot of people who don't agree, tom harkin made a statement that birth control mandated because womenle menstrual cramps, a brilliant statement by your fellow democrat. here's the point. look america in the eye -- why should people that have their religious views pay the $9 a month for birth control or pay for abortion-inducing drugs? they didn't have the sex? why should they be forced by the government to do something contrary to their deeply held religious belief? explain. >> number 1 is because the employers are not churches and religious organizations as much as they are employers-- >>> this is catholic institutions -- hospitals, charities. >> churches that employ thousands and thousands of people-- >>> why should they be forced to go against their belief. >> birth control is not just -- it's contraceptive. it is used for many other reasons. >> sean: abortion-inducing drugs? [overlapping dialogue] >> the last one to make -- >> homosexuality, birth control, those are the key issues. >> sean: you keep interrupting, you don't worry the question. >> tam tamara, this is not birth contr

and it all harkins back to a much darker period in south africa's history.ok at this, and really the images of this look so much like the images during apartheid in south africa, where mine strikes were frequently violently put town by the police. a lot of soul searching is going on here in south africa. at this point, suzanne, no real sense there's any resolution to this violent strike. >> david, you say that the president, president zuma, is actually calling for some sort of investigation or inquiry. is there a feeling among the people that you talk to there that somebody will be held accountability for what happened? >> reporter: at this point, no. they're very skeptical of president zuma's calls which is interesting in itself. i think we're seeing a sea change in some of the attitudes amongst south africans, particularly poor south africans who feel democracy hasn't brought them the gains they had hoped for. people i spoke to on the mines were very skeptical of what the government could offer. some of them even calling for an independent international in

harkining to the monte python days. that was awesome. i liked mr. bean, too, in the opening ceremony. >> yeah. >> that was the good closer. >> very cute. >> well, if you get some time now that you've worked, what, 100 days in a row, come visit. >> i will. i promise. >> good to see you, zain vergee. as always, my dear, thank you so much. >>> i want to move on to other news out of europe right now. this is a case that really rocked the vatican. rocked that place for months, in fact. judge has ordered the pope's butler, former butler, is going to stand trial on charges of leaking hundreds of secret papers that were stolen from the pope's personal apartment. it happened, believe it or not. palo gabriele is highlighted in this video. the vatican says he acted because he saw, quote, evil and corruption everywhere in the church. a second man, a vatican computer expert, is being charged with aiding gabriele in this effort. >>> in egypt, a key military shake up that caught just about everybody by surprise. one bold move to regain total civilian power. presid

it almost harkins back to hillary clinton's it takes a village. i thought about that when the president first said that. how is this going to play out? how are they going to put lipstick on this bpig? >> first, you don't understand that if a republican says business is doing fine, that's a pro capitalist stamp, and if obama says business is doing fine, that's a socialist statement. isn't that perfectly clear? i find this whole argument very strange. whenever i run into somebody who says i'm self-made, my first instinct is to say, you had parents, didn't you? i mean that not only in the biological sense but in other senses. you had teachers, didn't you? you had coaches, didn't you? you had people who gave you help along the way, and in the case of a lot of businesses in america, they do a lot of business with government. we have a small business administration. we have all kinds of benefits the government gives to business. i love senator fritz haulings who used to thel the story of a business guy who went to college on the gi bill, bought a house