. >> someone might be smoking something funny on the show today, mr. wayne >> well, as soon as juan adopts me, i'm going to be okay. the ice in the north, in the arctic is up by 60% over last year. it shows you how much the guys know. nobody really knows. you know, whether patterns are so diverse. they can't -- weather patterns are so diverse, they can't do it with a computer model and they are guessing at best. ice up % from last year. this is all -- >> so, john -- go ahead, john. >> all the greens have is emotion. every prediction they have made about humans' impending demise has been wrong since the environmental movement was called the ecology move in the the 1950s. reality, the more fossil fuels we have used the better man's life, all man's life has become. and in reality, this bleak impoverished dystopia is the green adjustive. they talk about earth hour. everybody turns out the light. don't eat meat. don't run gas. don't use electricity. this is their objective. everything we love about christmas is the decation, the light, and the food. that requires

mr. romasco. i had a couple of questions repaired. the wayning statement, , sometimeslized it the kind of testimony we do not hear too often in this room. yourw this is somewhat, answer is dependent on so me bit of extrapolation. if you could project to the present the scenario you described that your mom was facing. how do you compare what your mom was facing in terms of the dependency on social security and the effectiveness of it with what a 33-year-old mother would face today who lives with her husband and has one child and one on the way. >> it is hard to do that. i can tell you that if we look at the circumstances, if that were happening today, i would suspect she would have twice as much difficulty finding and keeping a job and paying the rent. it was a working house suburb of boston. the economic forces in the late 1940's and the late 1950's were not lavish but they are more severe now. all the costs have increased tremendously. i would suspect they would be even more challenging, particularly with what has happened with wages over time.

mr. romasco. i had a couple of questions repaired. the wayning statement, , sometimeslized it the kind of testimony we do not hear too often in this room. yourw this is somewhat, answer is dependent on so me bit of extrapolation. if you could project to the present the scenario you described that your mom was facing. how do you compare what your mom was facing in terms of the dependency on social security and the effectiveness of it with what a 33-year-old mother would face today who lives with her husband and has one child and one on the way. >> it is hard to do that. i can tell you that if we look at the circumstances, if that were happening today, i would suspect she would have twice as much difficulty finding and keeping a job and paying the rent. it was a working house suburb of boston. the economic forces in the late 1940's and the late 1950's were not lavish but they are more severe now. all the costs have increased tremendously. i would suspect they would be even more challenging, particularly with what has happened with wages over time.