corner, below 1%, sweden and denmark started -- the key is that sweden and denmark started with a very low tax rate in the 1980's. you cannot raise taxes much about 40%. you can see that in berkeley. there are natural limits as to how much you can spend on health care. -- you can see it empirically. defeat health care, you have to raise taxes. there is no other way. -- to feed health care, you have to riasaise taxes. there are limits which the u.s. is not comfortable with. the third point, and this is getting back to tom, is that there is lots of inefficiency and health care. i promised a map. this is the dark must referral -- hospital referral regions. they're spending $60,000 per person -- $16,000 per person. there is a lot of money going on. if you count up a lifetime differences between los angeles and minneapolis or miami in minneapolis, you end up with a really nice car. . . >> there are operations that reduce blockage in arteries of the heart. each dollar corresponds to one region in the united states. -- each of the dots corresponds to one region in the united states. there is

look at sweden and the countries that have had the highest equity returns for the last ten years and you will not see a correlation with the tax rates and the performance of the equity markets. >> hold on. >> we're not talking about a country, we're talking about the people doing the work in those countries. >> it is not an apples to apples comparison, ireland emerges, and low corporate tax rate and that is where multinational companies are -- a few of these will hurt our tax base in the country. >> jonathan, last word. >> beyond each the practical implication there is a moral issue, cheryl. big corporation are not servants to the public, they help the public and create value and create profits and to burden them more with taxes and regulations is shooting yourself in the foot. >> absolutely, coming up, guys, why in the world would we be showing you a zimbabwe dollar now? somebody here says washington's making sure what just happened to the worthless piece of paper is about to happen to those bills in your wallet and get the one stock you must own this year so you don't have to worry

and these were taken back when she was living in sweden. she apparently didn't really care about modeling, according to the photographer who discovered her. she would rather be a student. she actually quit modeling after she had taken a few of these pictures, went back to school to study child psychiatry, or child psychology. and this -- she also negotiated a deal. as soon as she became famous, linked to tiger woods, she went back to this photographer who had discovered her, negotiated a deal with him about which photographs he would release to the public. so she's a very smart, shrewd business woman in that account. now, drew, do we know anything about a prenup that elin nordegren may have signed? >> yeah, that's very interesting. apparently there's some clause in the prenup where they would have had to have been together for a certain amount of time. for the payment to be made. but we understand now that that's being renegotiated, i think it was very interesting to adhere that tiger woods is still here in orlando, kind of holed up in his

we're way behind korea let alone australia, sweden, and a whole list of economies. japan is actually the forefront of this. they have 100 meg service to 100% of including world japan with a huge take-up as well. but you know, the universal service fund can provide incentive and can match it and leverage private sector investment. and that $350 billion has to come from the private sector. when you have the cycles for rural and urban america large parts of the city are left out. i think that's the way -- one of the ways we can sort of get ourselves there, using the universal service and for new purposes. >> you mention some specific dollar amounts they are in the mountain universal service fund every year that could potentially be shifted at least on the same level as that 7.2 billion that was then the recovery act earlier this year. and then he mentions the 350 billion that the fcc has said is what we need to get to this really high-speed services throughout the country. and he said leveraging, but what can we do with such a small amount of money that is really going

the key is that sweden and denmark started with a very high tax rate in the 1980's.you can't raise taxes much beyond 42% of the economy. it gets very, very, very inefficient. we can show this theoretically but you can see this. there are natural limits to how much you can spend on health care. it's a very unfortunate way to do it. but it will happen. and i think everybody recognizes in order to basically feed health care, you have to raise taxes, there's really no other way. but i think that sooner or later we're going to start reaching limits which the united states is not comfortable with. do i have time for -- >> you have two more minutes. >> excellent. the third point, and this is something getting back to tom, tom's points, as well, is that there's lots of inefficiency in health care. i promised a map and here's a map of the dartmouth at lass referral regions. miami leads the country in spending. $16,000 per person compared to laces -- places like grand junction which are about $6,500 per person. and so there's a lot of money going on. in fact, if you count up t

it's been 20 years since the first ice hotel was built in sweden.eat melts it in the spring. it is rebuilt in a different theme every year. the novelty for this year is high art that's been put in some rooms. despite the sub-zero weather outside, you can sleep toasty warm there as long as you're inside your sleeping bag. >>> a group of former students made good on a promise they made 20 years ago. >> to me they look exactly the same just with beards and gel in their hair and stuff. >> and everybody's pretty much acting like we did. >> a great story.  >>> president obama says the christmas day attack aboard an airliner bound for detroit has been linked to a group with ties to al qaeda. he says the group has carried out previous attacks in other places. >>> this man, a california school official, was killed during a trip to mexico. what police and his family say about the attack. and this -- >>> living in a time of, you know, people reconnecting on facebook and myspace and that sort of thing, but actually coming together physically for something that

is ironic to most americans that we're way behind korea, let alone trail cra -- australia, japan, sweden, as you know, the whole list of oecd economies. >> pan is in front of -- japan is in front of us with a huge take-up as well, but, you know, the universal service fund can provide incentive, and you can match it and leverage the private sector investment. most of that $350 billion that is got to come from the private sector. but when you have 8 billion a year and to set goals for the rural or you urban america, i tk that's the way, we can sort of get ourselves there. use the universal service fund for new purposes. >> host: you've mentioned some specific dollar amounts there, and the amount the universal service fund every year that could potentially be shifted at least on the same level as that 7.2 billion that was in the recovery act earlier this year. >> guest: right. >> host: and then you mentioned the 350 billion that the fcc has said is what we need to get to those really high speed services throughout the country. >> guest: right. >> host: you said leveraging, but what can yo

tiger's plane landed today in her home country of sweden and the boat seems to be moving things, too. >> ellie, yet another woman has decided to go public, and she goes on and on about all the pain she's worried about she's causing the wife of elin nordegren, then why the heck did she go on the today show to announce if she's so worried? take a look, ellie. >> what was he telling you? >> just that his marriage was on the rocks and there was a baby on the way and he had to uphold this image and stick it out for now and things were not good at home. >> and what made you realize then that he wasn't being true to his word that that -- he wasn't going to leave his wife? >> the media. i started seeing them out and the pictures being printed, and i just -- then i didn't believe it and i also would wake up in the night and he would be texting, you know, in the middle of the night, and i would ask who he was texting and he would say checking e-mails, and i just had that feeling that this was something bigger. >> so you started realizing at that point with the texts and everything that perhaps

bill: a zoo in germany has imported four female penguins from sweden who are allegedly gay. they can persuade them to go straight. >> hard to believe the germans are not flexible about this. over the years -- i do not know much about penguins. if a couple of gay 'guins want to swap a little beak in germany, that is ok. bill: how do you know the penguins are gay? do they wear tight t-shirt? how do you know? what is the barometer? >> there sex is very formal, the gaping when -- their sex is very formal, the gay penguin. they wear black and white. when they do have an egg, it is already pre colored. bill: if the penguin is gay, leave it alone. god made the penguin that way. >> ♪ that is doing the penguin ♪ bill: more of "miller time" is# >> here is dennis -- bill: here is dennis miller's take on the airplane controversy and pelosi. >> if they have a plan that can be cross country, i will take that plan. bill: air pelosi. that is interesting. >> the last -- the worst thing about lending pelosi in aircraft is it always comes back with an eye job on the cockpit where the shields

the big five were the crises, sweden, norway, finland spain in 1977 and the biggest of all in the world's second-largest economy, japan which began in 1992. and the date basic -- this is not singled with hindsight at the time it is just we are following the script here. this crises were preceded by a big asset price booms of equity markets and real-estate markets and, lots of indebtedness. we have been running huge account deficits. and we compared the u.s. data to the average for these crises in the run-up and subsequent after the crisis unfolds and the concluding remarks we presented is we will be lucky if this doesn't happen here. what was the response even in 2007. we are not an emerging market. these are not emerging markets we are talking about. these are advanced economies. the perception was the same this does not happen here. we have the world's most sophisticated financial system where the world, we have the world reserve currency. if the run-up in housing prices is predicated on the fact we have discovered how to securitized mortgages and create this wonderful new market called

. >> bill: the bremer haven zoo in germany imported four female penguins from sweden who are supposedlyuse the bremin zoo wants to see if they can persuade them to go straight. what say you? >> hard to believe the germans aren't flexible about this, because over the years you know, they're an open tent over there. i don't know much about penguins, i'll say this, but if a couple of gay ones want to swap beak in germany, i could care less. >> bill: i can't figure out how they know the penguins are gay. how would you come to that conclusion, do they wear tight t-shirts. how do you know? i don't know. what's the barometer here. >> a couple of things, their sex is very formal, the gay penguins. >> there's a mysterious ritual that dates back thousands of years. >> they wear the black and white tuxedos. >> yes, and also when they do have an egg, it's already pre-colored which that sets off an alarm. >> if the penguin is gay, leave it alone. god made the penguin that way and who cares. >> when did you turn into such a reflective pya guy. >> bill: if you can stand it more, miller time is coming

so don, to sweden. we are looking at human rights abuses, human rights performances, all these governments. yes, democratic government get very sensitive when we point out to human rights abuses in their countries, but so do otto terry governments. they don't like is pointing fingers at them either. and so what we say is we're looking to hold governments to account international assignments they have signed up to. so whether you are a sovereign government or a weak one, whether you are a western democracy or an african or asian dictator we are going to hold you to the same standards of human rights that i know president bush that we were holding him too close to the fire, but i don't feel bad about it at all because i think what we're doing is we were expecting the u.s. administration to show the same respect for human rights as we were expecting the government of saddam or the government of sri lanka. so i think amnesty should be proud of applying the same standards of human rights across the world. we

i contrast that, actually, with their operations in sbeeden, for example -- sweden, for example, which they basically have had to walk away from >> think it's an interesting contrast showing the supporting role provided to the corporate sector by the emerging world. >> i'd like to make the point that rapid growth in china needn't be supportive of the united states economy, particularly if it's an export-led growth that leads to a very large current account surplus. that really has been the pattern in china. running current account surfaces means that effective what you're doing is taking demand away from the united states. you're sucking it out of the united states. i think that when you've got a stimulus package that goes in for excess capacity, excess supply, that is not going to be very supportive to the united states going forward. >> boosting aggregate demand in the united states this forgets, what i believe is the most important benefits of the growth of developing countries which has to do with the supply side of the economies. essentially as china grows, as india grows, the num

long time leaders like norway, sweden, denmark, the netherlands, the u.k., japan, and others continue to reach billions through their longstanding work in dozens of countries. multilateral organizations like the world bank, the imf, the undp, the global fund to fight aids, tuberculosis, and malaria have the reach and resources to do what countries working alone cannot, along with valuable expertise in infrastructure, health, and finance initiatives. nonprofits like the gates foundation, care, the clinton foundation, oxfam international, networks of ngos like interaction, as well as smaller organizations like a sea on -- accion and transparency international bring their own resources, deep knowledge, and commitment to humanitarian missions that complement our work in critical ways. some foundations are combining philanthropy and capitalism in a very innovative approach, like the acumen fund. universities are engaging in critical research, but the so- called urgent problems like hundred and disease, and to improve the work of development, like the work of the poverty action lab at mit.

who knows, italy, belgium, sweden. if we do that to me, this is the beginning of the end of our civilluation. so this thing is very much still there. the gill patrick report talks about the world is fast approaching a point of no return in the prospects of preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. if we don't get a real halt to it, there's going to be the massive proliferation. we can read through the rest. let me move on to the next. a guy named willstall, basically saying it will hold. he was wrong in 1965, 1995, but 2005, now he's right. well, we are stilling waiting on that. it's just been very slow. and we've had constantly things like this. about nuclear cascades, tipping points, point of no return, they have basically not taken place. when china got a bomb, everything thought india would have to get one. they did, but it was 35 years later. that's the slowest cascade in the history of the universe. but the kind of stuff is still there. it's all over washington. we're at books about the tipping point. it's still

in sweden, temperatures dropped 40 degrees below zero putting a strain on energy supplies.vy snowfall in the czech republic has prompted the government to ban trucks from its roads. spain reports thick snow in catalonia and heavy rains in italy caused concern over rising water levels. venice is facing exceptionally heavy tides. now meteorologists are predicting the cold weather is set to continue at least through the weekend with more snow expected across much of europe. alex? >> and normally over there, tom, you don't see the sun a lot in winter, but it is one of those just damp, overcast, cold but snow is pretty unusual. >> yeah, you're right about that, alex. what is even more unusual is that it has gone on for so long. we're now in the third week of snowfall and that's something that britain hasn't seen for many, many years. >> yeah. all right, well, tom aspell, hope you got your boots on when you head outside after work. thank you, tom. >>> now to a so-called cell phone brain boost. researchers at the university of south florida say prolonged cell phone use may help re

have to delve into the history of america as opposed to the history of other countries like norway, sweden finland, the philippines to bed and we do. many, many countries do better than we do, but i would say that is probably a mix of many issues, the media, the employment situation. health care is hugely complicated. but it is a lot that it would take me longer to explain that i think we can do here. yes? >> there's a front chairman tony? >> as well as going to say, most deftly. i i think there is that kind of cowboy, and kind of a celebration of the go it alone mentality, a celebration of the man-to-man kind of rigor. that's what i said it would go a long. but i think that also came with reagan, the exultation, individualism. the other things i think you come back to your question, thinking about this now, part of what reagan did was make government be any. and i really think that that's unfortunate legacy, not only for women, but the entire country, because many of these remedies are remedies that really the government has to mandate. but i do think history is immensely important. i'm a

list and that's who the people they have to focus on initially as opposed to 88-year-old women from sweden in wheelchairs. >> all right, steve emaerson, appreciate you coming in always. thanks so much. see you soon. >> sure. >>> police in northwest pakistan say a suicide bomber who killed 96 people at a volleyball tournament apparently was exacting revenge. that new year's day bomb attack took place in a village that was trying to resist infiltration by the taliban. the explosion happened right near a meeting of elders who had set up an anti-taliban militia. pakistan's minister is vowing to abolish taliban trying to deflate the country. >>> rush limbaugh's heart tests so she did not have a heart attack and show nothing wrong. the conservative radio talk show host was released from the hospital after being admitted wednesday from suffering severe chest pains. doctors say they don't know what caused his pain. >> i wish i knew what it was. all people can do is make wild guesses about it. best guess was it might have been a spasm in an artery, but this angiogram showed literally know heart dis

in sweden, temperatures dropped 40 degrees below zero, putting a strain on energy supplies. snowfall in the czech republic has prompted the government to ban trucks from its roads. spain reports thick snow in cat leona, and heavy rains in italy have risen concerns over water levels. venice is facing exceptionally heavy tides. meteorologists predicting the cold weather to continue at least through the weekend with more snow coming across teurope. >> it's the snow that's making the difference in england? >> well, it's the snow and also the fact that it's been going on for three weeks now. i don't think the british have had cold weather lasting this long since the early 1960s, and that's really seemed to have caught the britons unprepared. >> tom aspell in london, thanks. >>> well, a horse takes a stroll and winds up in an icy creek. a look at the rescue coming up. >>> and at the top of the hour, the rise and fall of tiger woods. rd. then let's do more than talk about it. let's turn picturing it into planning it, thinking it over into making it happen. let's say out with the ol

have to delve into the history of america as opposed to the history of other countries like norway, sweden, finland, philippines do better than we do, many m countries do better than we do. but i would say it's probably a mix of many issues, the media, the employment situation, health care. it's hugely complicated. but it is a lot -- it would take me longer to explain than i think we can do here. yes. >> [inaudible] so-called frontier mentality? >> that's what i was going to say, i do think it does, most definitely. i think there is that kind of cowboy ethos and kind of a celebration of the go-it-alone mentality, a celebration of the manly man, that kind of rigor, and that's why i said it would go too long the, but i think that also came with reagan, the exaltation of individualism. and the other thing, i think, just to come back to your question as i was thinking about this now, part of what reagan did was make government the enemy, and i really think that that is an unfortunate legacy not only for women, but the entire country. because many of these remedies are remedies that really the

setothe key is that sweden and denmark started with a very high tax rate in the 1980's. you cannot raise taxes much beyond 42% of the economy. it gets very inefficient. there are natural limits on how much you can spend on health care. it is an unfortunate way to do it. i think everybody recognizes that, in order to feed health care, you have to raise taxes. there's really no other way. sooner or later, we will reach limits, which the united states is not comfortable with. the third point is that there's a lot of inefficiency on health care. here is a map of the dartmouth at less referral regions. there is a lot of money going on. if you count out the last time differences in medicare expenditures between los angeles and minneapolis, you end up with a really nice car. [laughter] it is on the order of $80,000. it is yellow. the talents would never drive a yellow ferrari. -- the italians would never drive a yellow ferrari. parts of this money could go back to the citizens of los angeles or it could go back to the government. you can see that each got corresponds to one of

new zealand and sweden had tighter monetary policy, yet their home prices rose a more."line. welcome. caller: good morning. i wanted to comment on the people instead of the politicians this morning. the fighting that we do between the democrats and republicans are whether the system works off of our attitude. the country has got a bad attitude. we can change that. we can change the direction we are going just by get along and quitting our fighting, cussing, and arguing, like them -- like politicians do. any comment on that? hosed though i do not have any comment, but thank you for yours -- host: i do not have any comment, but thank you for yours. eureka, california. good morning. caller: good morning. i do not understand why they put restrictions on spending. i do not agree with china, but the bankers over there, i believe that they shot five of @ @ @ Å7 . caller: look at what happened with that muslim on the airplane. who did the work to catch him? not someone from the government. the government does not make any money and believe me -- i was born in 1930. i know what i

or we're going to have 20 or 30 countries with nuclear weapons, italy, belgium, norway, who knows, sweden. and if we do that, to me this is the beginning of the end of our civilization. so this thing is very much still there. the gillpatrick report in 1965 talked about the world is fast approaching a point of no return. in the prospects of preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. if they don't stop now and get a real halt to it there will be a massive proliferation. you can read the rest. a guy who's now in the obama administration in 2005 basically saying that 40 years later this assessment still holds. in other words, gilpatrick was wrong in 1965. he was wrong in 1975, 1985, 1995 but in 2005 he's now right. we're still waiting on that. it's just been very slow. and we've had constantly things like this about nuclear cascades, tipping points, avalanches, waves, chains, dominos, points of no return, they have not taken back. when china got the bomb they thought india would have to get one. that's 35 years later. but this kind of still is still there. it's all over washington. we write bo

the question is why sweden? why denmark likes why germany?he netherlands as opposed to the u.s.? are some hints that this is a scatter diagram and shows as before the change over time in gdp on health care spending and again you can find u.s. in the upper left-hand corner which is 7%. and you notice the sweden and denmark on the lower right-hand corner down below, 1%,. the key is that sweden and denmark started with a high tax rates in the 1980's. you can't raise taxes much beyond 42% of the economy. it gets very, very, very inefficient. you can show this theoretically but you can see this empirically. their natural limits of how much you can spend on health care. it's a very unfortunate way to do it, but it will happen. and i think everybody recognizes in order to basically feed health care you have to raise taxes. there's really no other way. i think that sooner or later you're going to start reaching limits that the united states is not comfortable with. >> u.s. two more minutes. >> okay, the third point and this is something getting back

the big five for the famous nordic crises, sweden, norway, finland in 1991, spain in 1977 and the biggest of all, in the world's second-largest economy, japan which began in 1992. and, the basic-- and this is not saying it with hindsight. at the time we said we really are following the script here. these crises were preceded by a big asset price balloons, the equity markets and the real estate markets, lots of indebtedness of. we have been running huge current account deficits, and we compared the u.s. data to the average for these crises. in the run-up and the subsequent after the crisis unfolds in their concluding remarks-- the concluding remarks be presented were we will be lucky if this doesn't happen again. what was the response, even in 2007? we are not an emerging market so these are not emerging markets we are talking about. these are advanced economies but the perception was the same, this does not happen here. we have the world's most sophisticated financial system. we have the world reserve currency. doron up in housing prices is predicated on the fact that we have a new-- we h

as mark stein writes sweden can be sweden because america is america. if we become more like europe, if entitlement programs begin to swallow our whole budget, will we still be able to afford the burdens of global military leadership? i submit that military decline is not an option for the united states. as former secretary of state madeleine albright put it, we are the indispensable nation. that's what american exceptionalism means. it means that because of our unique history, our unique power and the unique appeal of our founding principles, america plays a very special role in global affairs. i fear that many of the policies adopted over the past year will make it harder for america to continue playing this special role. and i hope that during the year ahead the administration will pursue a more sensible and responsible course, as the american people have said time and time again that they want it to do. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. burris: the presiding officer: the senator from illinois is recognized. mr. burris:are we in morning business?

sweden defeated switzerland. al koken talks about the prospects. all doing well.hey seem to be all play both ends. ice. >> joe: mike green giving ground away from travis moen. >> craig: ud would have to say the canadiens team a star- studded team, holds the u.s. team are more mutt and jeff. they are winders. there are some draft picks but not as high as a lot of canadiens players are. >> joe: united states lost a heart breaker new year's eve. they had a 3rd period lead. >> craig: a couple goals and chris bourque's brother playing for that squad. >> joe: brendan morrison all tied up. canadiens 3 on 3. washington fans wanting a call from the referee. green on the delay. on the head man to brooks laich. drop its. one more. scores. eric fehr. >> craig: tomas fleischmann deflects it. now it's their defenseman that deflects this one past a surprised netminder. here's eric fehr to the net. and that it hal gill. he's a big rig with a big foot. that's the old-fashioned redirect. off his skate boot. he knew it right away. that puck goes by. >> joe: eric fehr has a thing for

new zealand and sweden had tighter monetary policy, yet their home prices rose a more." marion, illinois. good morning. republican line. welcome. caller: good morning. i wanted to comment on the people instead of the politicians this morning. the fighting that we do between the democrats and republicans are whether the system works off of our attitude. the country has got a bad attitude. we can change that. we can change the direction we are going just by get along and quitting our fighting, cussing, and arguing, like them -- like politicians do. any comment on that? hosed though i do not have any comment, but thank you for yours -- host: i do not have any comment, but thank you for yours. eureka, california. good morning. caller: good morning. i do not understand why they put restrictions on spending. i do not agree with china, but the bankers over there, i believe that they shot five of them. i do not know why we have not prosecuted any of these people for the crimes they have committed. i will take my comment of the air. host: thank you for your input. pittsfield, new

and i can contrast that with their operations in sweden, for example, which they basically have had tok away from. it is an interesting contrast, sharing the supporting role been provided to the corporate sector by the emerging world. >> i would like to make the point that brought the growth in china needed to be supportive of -- need not be supportive of the united states economy, particularly if it is an export- led growth of these to a large surplus. that really has been the path that -- the pattern in china. running surpluses means that you are effectively taking demand away from the u.s., sucking it out of the united states. i think when you have got a stimulus package that goes in for excess capacity, excess supply, that is not often going to be very supportive to the united states going forward. >> we're going to leave the last few minutes of this live program. the u.s. house is coming in, beginning their second session of the 111th congress today. the constitution requires the house to meet the first tuesday of january. no legislative work is planned. that begins next tuesday.

long time leaders like norway, sweden, denmark, the netherlands, the u.k., japan, and others continueto reach billions through their longstanding work in dozens of countries. multilateral organizations like the world bank, the imf, the undp, the global fund to fight aids, tuberculosis, and malaria have the reach and resources to do what countries working alone cannot, along with valuable expertise in infrastructure, health, and finance initiatives. nonprofits like the gates foundation, care, the clinton foundation, oxfam international, networks of ngos like interaction, as well as smaller organizations like a sea on -- accion and transparency international bring their own resources, deep knowledge, and commitment to humanitarian missions that complement our work in critical ways. some foundations are combining philanthropy and capitalism in a very innovative approach, like the acumen fund. universities are engaging in critical research, but the so- called urgent problems like hundred and disease, and to improve the work of development, like the work of the poverty action lab at mit. e

why don't these anti-hate campaigns sweden these liberals who are obviously so in tolerant of you, ann>> guest: the idea of a college campus with their always bragging about explaining why they only need to work two hours a week is that it would be the freedom to investigate different areas and they don't want their freedom of speech and the freedom to engage in research and it would be wide open, free challenging debate, so the fact college tuition has way outpaced inflation and they are paid more and more to teach two hours a week and then get every other year off entirely would be a little more justifiable at college campuses were exactly the reverse of that. bear the most intolerant. there's a least freedom to research. they are close minded. they are angry that any dissent from the prevailing. you have more open debate on a subway platform then on a college campus. >> host: they almost try to convince people not to even listen even though you never 107 "new york times" bestsellers but there are other parts of gear like that i suspect some of our audience does not know about like t

committed two million euros, germany has committed two million euros, china will donate one million, sweden, six million cloners. venezuela has sent doctors, firefighters and rescue workers. mexico will send doctors and search and rescue dogs. britain has sent 64 firefighters and by the way that is a component that we believe does not exist, firefighters. my plea to our brave firefighters across america, i believe we should facilitate your going if you desire and i certainly will look forward to reaching out to my firefighters in houston for opportunities. taiwan, israel and of course the united states state department is in full force of which we hope they will be coordinating off of us. lastly, cuba will be sending doctors. they have been especially supportive in crisis and i'm in advance thanking them for their medical team. congresswoman lee, chairwoman lee, i am touched by this devastation in ways that can be expressed, as all of us are and the reason is because we've worked with haitian americans in our constituency. we have been to haiti, we have worked it get on its feet. we have vi

long time leaders like norway, sweden, denmark, the netherlands, the u.k., japan, and others continue to reach billions through their longstanding work in dozens of countries. multilateral organizations like the world bank, the imf, the undp, the global fund to fight aids, tuberculosis, and malaria have the reach and resources to do what countries working alone cannot, along with valuable expertise in infrastructure, health, and finance initiatives. nonprofits like the gates foundation, care, the clinton foundation, oxfam international, networks of ngos like interaction, as well as smaller organizations like a sea on -- accion and transparency international bring their own resources, deep knowledge, and commitment to humanitarian missions that complement our work in critical ways. some foundations are combining philanthropy and capitalism in a very innovative approach, like the acumen fund. universities are engaging in critical research, but the so- called urgent problems like hundred and disease, and to improve the work of development, like the work of the poverty action lab at mit.

and i contrast that actually with their operations in sweden, for example, which they basically walkeday from. so i think. so i think it's an adjusting contrast showing the support and role being provided to the corporate dirt by the emerging world. >> yeah? >> i just like to make the point that growth in china and he didn't be supportive of the united states economy, particularly if it's an export growth that leads to very large current account surface and not really has been the pattern in china. running current account surplus it means that effectively what you're doing is you're taking the market away from the united states. you are it of the united states. and i think that's when you've got a stimulus package that goes in for access capacity, excess supply, but it's not going to be very supportive to the united states going forward. >> uri wacs >> one more point. all the points so far i think i've related to short-term consideration meeting boosting aggregate demand in the united states. this forgets what i believe is the most important benefit of the growth of developing countrie

such countries as britain, new zealand and sweden had tighter monetary policy. yet their home prices rose more, and monetary policy explained only 5 percent of the variation in home prices in those country. to maryellen a. good morning on our republican line. welcome. >> caller: good morning. i would like to comment on the people, the politicians this morning, that we are fighting, like with republicans and democrats. and whether our citizen works off of our attitude. and the country has got a bad attitude that if we just change that, we could change the direction we're going and the destruction we face just by getting along and quit are fighting and fussing and arguing, like our politicians do. any comment on that? >> host: i don't have any comment, but thanks for yours. to mark in eureka california, independent car, go ahead. >> caller: happy new year. >> host: and happy new year to you, you know, what i can't understand is why they haven't put more restrictions on already it's been a year now, and you know, i don't agree with china, but their bankers over the

having said that, having looked at thing that sweden brought in. and perhaps the one that we're bringing in, illegal downloading went down dramatically. there was an increase in illegal loading of the something like 50 to 100%. by telling people it's illegal it is very, very difficult to explain. especially to children. that what they are doing is illegal. and we're not trying to criminalize everybody, but there are people who see it as a money-making exercise and these are the kind of people that this will -- it was put in place to try to stop from doing it. it's not big though. but it does shall we say take the communications bill which i saw in a life time. and it takes it back a step further to introduce new technology. we have to remember the government does legislation in hindsight. and we never really think ahead. and some ways it is contagious. it is given the secretary of state, certain so enabling powers which means you can bring in lawyers and happen a to go through the bringing the bill to try and tweak the bill about to rectify it. hav