no question, itill be a big boost for the stocks, the companies, they can hire, they can, the reason this is happening because the however we have seen over the past couple years i disproportion natalie affected in a positive way, they're well off already. i think most of your panelists will agree with me on this. we seen the stockmarket recover, housing price goes up. we haven't seen wages increase. we haven't seen the mimum wage, discovy distribute and shared by all americans. >> first of all, if we agree with you say, upper class do spend him i'm in the sure everybody agrees with that. john what do you say? is unemplment going to keep climbing bause we have having prob in the economy? >> i think so. look. this has zero to do with the middle wage. look at a company like ttter, they're a $33 billion market cap company, with 2,300 employees. compare that to a company that has $29 billion mark cap but 239,000 employees. 100 times the employees for less market cap. that's how wealth is be close created. the problem we are seeing right here is we still have a net loss in jobs since pres

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band caught of the nation's health care system charging fortune for a routine surgery proving that itill not been set health care cost curve as a result clerk from california had coverage and was charged $55,000 for the appendectomy his story fired of tens of thousands of people. he joins me now. we really appreciate you coming on the show. what happened in october you went to the hospital? >> i will cup october 1st with a sharp pain in my abdomen. they told me it was -ppendicitis so they admitted the with scallions i was out the next day. a few months later i get to a bill in december it is $55,000 daintily my insurance took care of $45,000. melissa: you are stuck with $11,000? what was your reaction? >> was surprised but i was nodding three. i just figured i'd really have to sort this out and pay it off over time. melissa: i am admired that you try to pay it but dive nto this bill of $55,000 bill for the appendectomy $11,119 is what you now owed now they break down the cost of you e asking for a complete recitation but your time in the recovery room ccst $7,500? >> i could not have bee

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he writes in effect, he says and do itill do it all right as long as the popular answer.y are experts in popularity, they know popularity. if they didn't, they would not be where they are. this document gives the same rights to the least popular to the most popular. so we better not give this to a group of people who are really persuaded by what is popular too much of time according to hamilton, to do this job. the judges. why the judges? , nobody great -- grey knows them, it is a legal job, and they will not be persuaded by popularity. the do not have the power of the purse, and the do not have the power of the sword. so they will be careful. that is basically what he says. if we wanted to decide politically we're really flying in the face of what the level that hamilton wants -- in the ,ace of what hamilton wanted the only explanation i have ever seen of that is from a political perspective he would rent a civil war. it probably helped created. judges are terrible politicians. very few of them have been elected to anything. we don't have the capacity, and it is not the

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