the first call comes from punta gorda, fla.. caller: i would like to know why businesses are not hiring and why like this grover norquist can have such a hold on the republican party for not raising taxes on the wealthy and stuff like that. i think that -- why are they not checking out some of this? i know that schools down here are holding back their money from spending it. i would like to know why businesses are not hiring. guest: well, i have another article in the forthcoming issue of "business week," that will be out tonight. the article i wrote is already available on the web site. host: we have a copy of it right here and we are showing it. guest: there you go. that article talks about -- it tries to answer the woman's question. when the economy slows down to the point it has -- we had only 4% growth in the first quarter and 1.3% annual growth in the second quarter. businesses start to say to themselves i was investing in some new equipment and hiring people on the expectation that demand was coming back, but maybe i shou

the first call comes from punta gorda, fla.. caller: i would like to know why businesses are not hiring and why like this grover norquist can have such a hold on the republican party for not raising taxes on the wealthy and stuff like that. i think that -- why are they not checking out some of this? i know that schools down here are holding back their money from spending it. i would like to know why businesses are not hiring. guest: well, i have another article in the forthcoming issue of "business week," that will be out tonight. the article i wrote is already available on the web site. host: we have a copy of it right here and we are showing it. guest: there you go. that article talks about -- it tries to answer the woman's question. when the economy slows down to the point it has -- we had only 4% growth in the first quarter and 1.3% annual growth in the second quarter. businesses start to say to themselves i was investing in some new equipment and hiring people on the expectation that demand was coming back, but maybe i shou

andrew, it's going to be the bolivar peninsula after ike or it's going to be hurricane charley in punta gordating out some of the criticism that surfaced was that at some point people will say, they told me it was going to be that serious and next time i won't. >> next time it's forecast for new york city, the way people reacted here, maybe people won't leave because it was hard to get new yorkers to leave anyway, but yeah, there is a sense of that boy who cries wolf, or yelling fire in a crowded theater kind of theory out there. >> to the point where if people know three times out of four nothing is going to happen. >> you'll know. >> people don't know that. >> he's telling us. >> he can tell us all he wants. >> that guy has stood in more hurricanes than anyone i know. whatever john says i'm listening to. thank you for doing that. it's been a question on our minds and appreciate you doing that story. >>> talk about nasa, a move that has nasa talking about evacuating the space station. russia says it's delaying a manned mission to the international space station which was scheduled for next m

the first call comes from punta gorda, fla.. caller: i would like to know why businesses are not hiring and why like this grover norquist can have such a hold on the republican party for not raising taxes on the wealthy and stuff like that. i think that -- why are they not checking out some of this? i know that schools down here are holding back their money from spending it. i would like to know why businesses are not hiring. guest: well, i have another article in the forthcoming issue of "business week," that will be out tonight. the article i wrote is already available on the web site. host: we have a copy of it right here and we are showing it. guest: there you go. that article talks about -- it tries to answer the woman's question. when the economy slows down to the point it has -- we had only 4% growth in the first quarter and 1.3% annual growth in the second quarter. businesses start to say to themselves i was investing in some new equipment and hiring people on the expectation that demand was coming back, but maybe i shou

the first call comes from punta gorda, fla.. caller: i would like to know why businesses are not hiring and why like this grover norquist can have such a hold on the republican party for not raising taxes on the wealthy and stuff like that. i think that -- why are they not checking out some of this? i know that schools down here are holding back their money from spending it. i would like to know why businesses are not hiring. guest: well, i have another article in the forthcoming issue of "business week," that will be out tonight. the article i wrote is already available on the web site. host: we have a copy of it right here and we are showing it. guest: there you go. that article talks about -- it tries to answer the woman's question. when the economy slows down to the point it has -- we had only 4% growth in the first quarter and 1.3% annual growth in the second quarter. businesses start to say to themselves i was investing in some new equipment and hiring people on the expectation that demand was coming back, but maybe i shou