he's also the founder of the mit age lab, doing research on the impact of aging on automobile design of public policy. you can give us a presentation. >> thank you very much, madam chair. but if the gentleman, thank you for having me. i like to briefly discuss the convergence of the wealthy type allergy and older age and have a think about some design considerations we may want to think about the future of the car as well as the future with the rest of us. if the gatto industry is fast and researchers are asked, this is essentially what are looking for. we'd like to get the driver out of the front seat. .. how these new technologies fork in the car and how it changes how we drive. we have new systems that are going to require us to learn how to drive. if he think about it, the car has been remarkably the same for decades. under the hood it's different but now it is changing dramatically in sight. no one told us he essentially have to drive into a lot of breaks or prepared for safety. so let me talk about three things. load, learning and longevity. these are the three ideas i'd like to

now, researchers have found a way not just to stop, but to reverse the aging process. led a telomeres. we all have them. they're the tips of our chromosomes, seen here in yellow. this is what they look like as an adult. as you age, the telomeres start aging. scientists took mice that were prematurely aged, added an enzyme, and essentially turned their telomeres back on. you can see it aftebefore the enzyme. after. >> their brain function improved. their fertility restored. it was a remarkable reversal of the aging process. >> reporter: look at this picture. the mouse on the right has bad skin, gray hair and is balding. but the one on the left had its telomere >> and you can see that essentially now, you have a dark coat color. that the hair is restored. that the coat has a nice, healthy sheen to it. >> reporter: even more dramatic, the change in brain size. this is before. the mice had 75% of a normal brain, like a patient with severe alzheimer's. after the telomeres were reactivated, the brain returns to normal size. as for humans, while it is just one factor, scientis

this is the driver gender distribution by age. you look at the rice -- a look at the right, you see 40% male -- 15% hour and non are pregnant females. not many are pregnant females. 15% don't even have the gender coated. this reflects the fact that elderly driver fatalities are not done very thoroughly because it's not apparent they're going to die. when a young person dies and gets a lot of investigation and a survey the scene and take a lot of photos, when an older person dies, there are no pictures generally and no investigation. i found cases where the police report had been devoted no injury or minor injury which had been blighted out and they all had been checked. so it's not apparent these guys are going to die, so it's a good question, what is an elderly fatality and when should it. >> [inaudible] >> i have not thought about how much this affects the database or overall trends. i have not thought about that. >> are their after-market design options to address the needs of older drivers and passengers who are under protected

65 versus if it were 70. 65 is the red bars, raising the age of the full benefit age to 70 is the blue bars. so people still have a choice of claiming benefits, did i say a backwards? 67 i mean. so people still have a choice of claiming benefits at any age between 62 and 70. but when we get to the blue bar stage, which is for people born in 1960 and later, we'll be reaching age 62 in 2022, and later. at any age they claim benefits it's going to be roughly 12 to 14% less than it otherwise would've been without this change in the law. >> okay, we have time for another question. all right. we have achieved something rare in washington, a perfect one our briefing. so i want my job is to thank the palace, thank you janice gregory, virginia reno and wendell very much. thank you as well. thank you very much. [applause] >> and if you moment a discussion of the history of the future of the federal budget process. >> a look now at the history and future of the federal budget process, and possible remedies for the deficit. from a symposium hosted by an organization of budget officers, this is an

typical retiree didn't claim social security until age 68. today theerage claiming age is 63 when typically a retiree has another 20 years to live. do you think we have to raise the retirement age? >> i think it's one of the easier things to do to make this thing work. but we shouldn't do it on current seniors. >> reporter: wisconsin republican paul ryan will head the house budget committee in the next congress. >> after the retirement age reaches 67, what i would propose is to have the retirement age pegged to longevity. >> reporter: the increases would be phased in over decades. >> so for my generation the retirement age will be 67, for my kids 68, 69 down. they wouldn't reach 70 until the year 2103. >> reporter: nearly a century from now. the workers who'd have to worry about that have not even been born yet. a government study did raise a red flag last week, warning that raising the retirement age would hurt poorer workers the most and increase disability claims by those elderly unable to work. katie? >> couric: anthony, what about people who have

new born but he has an experience hans the person who'd already having fathered his other son at the age of seventy three. thanks to explore everything about russian bred as modern entries hates the capitals bakeries and i'm going to tame and try moscow out. there's a famous person probably i don't see a full if you haven't tested right of the centuries it's been one of the key finches also of russian diets and from the russian dog ride bred to the popular drink class that's what we'll be exploring on this weeks moscow out the history of friends and russian. ladies if you just head feet for thousands of pieces of agriculture great to see being the foundation of making. music here showcase the history of breadmaking in russia and from serbia percy's a fish into using examples of different person great variety so you can see the implicit well bred plays and still plays in every day life so mr campbell turned in his share of bread has its roots deep in the history of mankind and nowadays tea not a single russian table can be imagined without to buy a fresh sweet scented bread on the snow an

we looked at the middle age group for comparison. u can see for this group in the last couple of years, their fatal crash rate has some down. when you look at the older driver trends, you can see again, especially for the oldest driver, a very dramatic decline. so for drivers 80 and older, the crash rate has come down by half. we had two questions. after the initial study, one was two things could explain this. one is that older drivers might be getting into fewer crashes. and the second thing that might explain is it maybe they are also doing better at surviving crashes when they are in one. so we turn to the best data that we could find to look at nonfatal crashes. we weren't able to do that using the national databases. we went to 13 states database, when looked at the prolicensed crash rate, these are nonfatal. we did see a decline. again, when we look at the older drivers, their decline was larger. when we look at property damage on the crashes, these are the middle age drivers. their crash rate went up a little. we look at older

if we raise the retirement age? mr. vanderhei? >> well, can't give you an exact number on that, but basically that is something that we try to get at in the testimony. we try to look at what would happen in essence if you eliminated social security benefits. we could very easily go back for you and, instead of doing the current status quo versus nothing, do these kinds of comparisons for you and show you exactly the percentage of the population that would be at risk and aura not have any other financial resources, if that is how you want to define being a burden. we could very easily go back and simulate that for you. >> and i would appreciate that and the like to see the statistics but common sense might suggest that already hard-pressed middle class might have even more of a burden trying to take care of parents who are not getting social security when they might need it. with common sense suggest that? >> absolutely. >> okay. >> thank you all very much. this has been very enlightening and as i said, this is the first of our hear

. >> twice as my voters re over the age of 65 in 2010 as there were under the age of 30. it had been the berbers and 2008, when there were more -- it had been the reverse in 2008, where there were more votots under 29. advertising campaign of the republican party to voters over the age of 65 was "democrats want to cut $5.2 billion out of medicare." pradesh and medicare, balance the budget -- pro-medicare, balance the budget -- >> disgraceful demagoguery by the republicans on medicare. >> of course if republicans win is disgraceful. i know that is the axiom on at the show. a brbrliant social scientist in "the new republic" did a brilliant analysis of the election, or he said there was a slight increase in the numbers of the aging, but even if you look out for that, you get a huge sep. there was an 8% change in the ideology of independence. independence were moderates became 8% -- independences who were moderates became a 8% more conservative. democrats had a plus 17 of independents in 2006 and -16 -- >> you are right about the swing of independents. but the republicans wer

so by writing the age of 818 -- 18 u. f two years less work experience compared to somebody who left at 16. for what? a few extra qualifitions? one life experiences more valuable than anything. extend this to the end of the university. you will have six years less work experience than a graduate of the same age. what does the graduate have? eighth two-2-degree in klingon, a 40,000-pound debt and they are unemployed. how does keeping a young person out of the system for six years solve our nation's youth unemployment crisis? the answer, it doesn't. [applause] >> i looking to call people from parts of the country is so far have been slightly underrepresented in the debate and beginning with wales. somebody from wales who wants to speak. the young man there, please. >> josh rom wales. given today's economic climate this country does not have the money to fund qualifications to some people who to be frank don't want them. there are some people who are quite happy to leave school at 16 and go work in a shop. there are some peop

so by writing the age of 818 -- 18 u. f two years less work experience compared to somebody who left at 16. for what? a few extra qualifications? one life experiences more valuable than anything. extend this to the end of the university. you will have six years less work experience than a graduate of the same age. what does the graduate have? eighth two-2-degree in klingon, a 40,000-pound debt and they are unemployed. how does keeping a young person out of the system for six years solve our nation's youth unemployment crisis? the answer, it doesn't. [applause] >> i'm looking to call people from parts of the country is so far have been slightly underrepresented in the debate and beginning with wales. somebody from wales who wants to speak. the young man there, please. >> josh from wales. given today's economic climate this country does not have the money to fund qualifications to some people who to be frank don't want them. there are some people who are quite happy to leave school at 16 and go work in a shop. there are some

and it's never too late that's what a russian man must be thinking after fathering a baby son at the age of eighty nine. from southern. russia's one of the oldest dads ever to a newborn but he's an experienced hand to parenthood already having fathered his other son at the age of seventy two. up next we explore everything about russian bread as martin enters hits the capital's bakeries and our entertainment show must go out. there's a famous person probably i don't see a full if you haven't tested right of the centuries it's the more the key finch is also russian diets and from the russian dog ride bred to the popular drink class that's what we'll be exploring on this weeks moscow out a history of breast and russian. ladies with just a few thousands of years he says agriculture claims to be the foundation of making . music here shake a stick the strip of bread making in russia and from serbia percy's a fish into using examples of different person great variety as you can see the implicit well bred plays and still plays in every day life so mr campbell his job bread has its roots deep in

and the -- aging. d the biomechanics, i think, can help us understand the fragility part and why it is it is easier to injury a person as they age, again, given the individual factors as well. i want to talk about this issue of length scales. this is a way engineers tend to think about things. if we start at the very smallest length scale, we can look at things like material property changes in the human body, and we're all very aware of things like osteopro sis that are correlated strongly with age. also the percent of the bone that is the inorganic compound, so the min call goes down with aging. those are separate and distinct characteristics that both change with age and both tend to reduce what we call the fracture toughness of bone. and, in fact, there are other factors. it seems like every time we learn something new about aging, it turns out to be something that reduces fracture tolerance or toughness in the pone, so even thing -- bone, so even things like cross-linking, all of those things tend

that's a presumption that comes from the dark ages. cost 60 million pounds to keep everybody in education until they are 18. in the top of cuts, that's ludicrous. education is not for everyone. and i appreciate because it's been said already the motion does not just include education, but training and apprenticeships as well. however, it must be said with the loss of the service due to the cuts announced last week, it will be harder than ever to find the placements. the work that connections did to get young people into training is invaluable and will be sorely missed. because of the lack of the support from young people, job opportunities will be loss and youth unemployment will rise. and these people who would have been found a job at 16 will be forced to stay in school and possibly become a disruptive influence in the classroom. there's a boy in my area. nice little plug. his father is a owner of a local sweet shop. the boy helps out with his father in his shop and has done for generations as generations have gone before. when he tur

. >> twice as many voters were over the age of 65 in 2010 as there were under the age of 30. it had been the berbers and 2008, when there were more -- it had been the reverse in 2008, where there were more voters under 29. advertising campaign of the republican party to voters over the age of 65 was "democrats want to cut $5.2 billion out of medicare." pradesh and medicare, balance the budget -- pro-medicare, balance the budget -- >> disgraceful demagoguery by the republicans on medicare. >> of course if republicans win is disgraceful. i know that is the axiom on at the show. a brilliant social scientist in "the new republic" did a brilliant analysis of the election, or he said there was a slight increase in the numbers of the aging, but even if you look out for that, you get a huge sweep. there was an 8% change in the ideology of independence. independence were moderates became 8% -- independences who were moderates became a 8% more conservative. democrats had a plus 17 of independents in 2006 and -16 -- >> you are right about the swing of independents. but the republicans w

about 40% of these workers are over the age of 35, and 25% are over the age of 50. the construction work force is about 1/3 caucasian, a little less than 1/3 asian/pacific island, and 5% african american. only about 3% are when then -- are women. found 51% reported annual earnings of less than $30,000 a year, and it was revealed 2/3 of these workers actually appear to received low wages. in other words, they receive low earnings due to being paid relatively low wages as compared to the third but was under employed or work less than 30 hours a week. >> they you have any idea how the work force is aged in other -- do you have any idea how the work force is aids in other regions in california? are they under -- work force in other regions in california? are they under 35? >> that is not uncommon. >> i always thought this work force made better wages. >> the was something that was -- how did we do that? that is something that is very interesting when we look into this group. this includes people who are on the employed when we look at the data, so we figured -- as you kn

they have reversed the aging process in mice. but what will it mean for people? something called tellamere. they're the tops of your chromosomes seen here in yellow. scientists took mice premature aging added the enzyme and essentially turned back their tele years. >> it was a remarkable reversal of the aging process. >> you can see it in this picture, the mouse on right has bad skin, gray hair and is balding. the one on its left had its telemere switched back on and his coat is restored. they measure it but they still have a long way to go before tinkering with turning back our aging processing. could it be? >> need volunteers? i'm ready to go. >> mike, 4:57 now. next at 5:00, law and order. the special announcement san francisco d.a. carmella harris is expected to make today. >> i'm terry mcsweeney live at san quentin. today the supreme court gets involved in the prison overcrowding issue and could send tens of thousands of inmates back on the streets. the story in a live report. >> and vandals strike at schools across the bay area. how hundreds of f f f f f f

>> keep the promises for people near the age of retirement. i've said many times i believe personally we ought to draw the line at the age of 40. anyone over the age of 40, we'll keep you in the same deal you've been promised in social security and medicare all of your life, but for americans under the age of 40, i believe it's absolutely imperative in addition to taking strong steps to put our fiscal house in order on the domestic side, it's absolutely imperative that we -- >> give me example of the reform in social security for people under 40? would you raise the retirement age? >> i think-i'm an all of the above guy. we need to look at everything on the menu for people under the age of 40. it's not about giving younger americans less of a deal in the new deal. it's about giving them a better deal. it's about saying to younger american, if you will accept changes in the system, whether it's retirement age or whether it's the structure or the benefits, that we will create new vehicles for you to engage in private savings and begin to create t

lady of the age of 567, has a freedom of owning a car. safety net of the life savings and plus, she's entitled to free, not subsidized free public transport. my fellow members of the parliament we're in a recession. we do not want free public transport but what we need is subsidized fare for all those in full-time education. cheaper transport will enhance the prospect of all young people. such as those as potential athletes to go to local tracks to break records or scientists going to medical school to cure cancers or lawyers to go to college to break the chains of in justice. it's a three pound and 68 to get to the nearest college and back. there's 726 pounds. 726 pounds wasted. 626 pounds that could have been spent on books and equipment in the back pocket of thes but company. that's why we need cheaper transport. if we together on this friday afternoon fight and an achieve this simple objective of subsidizing public transport for all young people we surely have a better chance to increase education levels and job opportunities and life

but now researchers have found a way not just to stop but reverse the aging process. the key is something called a telomere. we all have them. they're the tips or caps of your chromo sowns, seen here in yellow. this is what it looks like in a young adult. as you grow older, the telomeres become damaged and frayed. as they stop working, we start aging and experiencing things like hearing and memory loss. scientist took mice who were prematurely aged, added an enzyme and essentially turned their telomeres back on. you can see it. before the enzyme. after. >> their brain function improved. their fertility was restored. it was a remarkable reversal of the aging process. >> reporter: look at this picture. the mouse on the right has bad skin, gray hair and is balding. but the one on the left had its telomeres flipped back on. >> and you can see that essentially you now have a dark coat color, that the hair is restored, and that the coat has a nice, healthy sheen to it. >> reporter: even more dramatic, the change in brain size. this is before. the mice had 75% of a normal bra

there is no precise way to define the term aging driver. justice note to 18-year-old have the same set of skills, neither do older drivers. driver performance varies widely in every age group, and age alone is not a good predictor of how well one would perform behind the wheel. factors like cognition, motor skills, medical conditions, and injury tolerance are also predicted. when we talk about the aging driver, the mean age in relation to one's capabilities, not age as an old or senior. older drivers tend to be conscientious and safety- oriented. they wear their seat belts. they make use of driving when it is dark. they are not likely to drive intoxicated in the drive fewer miles than other age groups. the good news is that drivers age 70 and over involved in fatal crashes had decreased in the past decade by 20%. even though the number of licensed drivers in this age group and the miles logged has increased. despite these encouraging numbers, we know that when there is an accident, it is the older driver who is more likely to be killed or se

the u.s. will be age 65 or over. rks from the opening day of a conference looking at aging drivers and safety. we're going to show that to you now. in this portion, an overview of the issues the board is looking into regarding aging drivers. colleagues, member and earl. very good. i know we'll have some breaks. i encourage you to interact. welcome to the nts board room. we begin on safety, mobility, and aging drivers. many of you are familiar with the safety board for it's role in investigating transportation accidents and determining the probable cause of those accident. however, we also have the opportunity to bring leading experts together with the safety risk and identifying solutions, even when they activity is not tied to a specific accident. today, we meet for that purpose. we are convening the public forum to explore the safety issues related to the aging drive and to discuss possible strategies to prevent and reduce accidents, injuries, and fatalities within this growing population. america is aging. baby boo

the story of dr. q, a fellow neurosurgeon with an unforgettable story. at aged this chain-linked fence to work as a farm laborer. he eventually became a world class brain surgeon. we heard from a lot of you wanting to hear more. >> the details are fascinating. you hopped the fence. you don't have a plan. >> that's right. >> what do you do? do you go to a farm? do you ask around? >> that's right. when people come to the united states, the very first place you can get a potential job are the jobs which you have to get your hands, you know, dirty and your hands bleed of pulling weeds in the fields. it was a place where a lot of immigrants have traditionally come to the united states. for me, it was the san joaquin valley. >> how much did you get paid? >> my first check was $162. i always tell people that i realize, at that pace, working from sunset to sundown in the summer, seven days a week, it was going to be a lot of hard work. i remember, i tell you, dr. gupta, my hands, the very same hands that now do brain surgery, around that time, they had scars everywhere

and, you know, i remember -- and if you'll forgive me, it started in the age of ronald reagan. s to bumper stickers. things came from, you ain't seen nothing yet. very effective. but he had a lyrical way and the president wrote from an assist of a loyal aid who remained anonymous. >> the other thing is that president kennedy during the letter of the missile cuban crisis. he was really behind so critical moments. >> stay a part of the kennedy family. he was always in ted kennedy's universe. see him from time to time. he always would be let me wrap it up, programming notes, i'll of course be here tomorrow with the entire

today the defense attorney pleaded for leniency given the defendants age. he is now 17. but judge laurel brady handed down the stiffest penalty possible. 50 years to life behind bars. hugging outside the courthouse, the victim's father and the prosecutor said justice was served. >> you take a life, your life needs to be taken. because if you was in my shoes, you would expect the same result. he acted like a grown man and he killed like a grown man. and he is not a child. chronologically age wise he may be young. but his maturity level and getting a gun and gunning down a person is not the act of a child. >> reporter: kelly was killed just days before he was supposed to leave for the university of oregon on a football scholarship. what would have been his university jersey was on display at his funeral. after seeing his son's life cut short, the elderly kelly started a foundation in his slain son's name, trying to help troubled youth stay off the streets. >> but i just ask the people in the community, we got to do something to save these kids. form programs, form togethern

richard passed away at the age of 90. e launched the prize in 19 yin to reward grass roots environmental activity all around the world. it's dubbed the green novel and those who take personal risk in order to safe guard the environment. >>> more government secret exposed today once again wikileak published on line hundreds of internal documents and quarter million more to come. jonathan karl tonight on what is dangerous for the u.s. some believe and what is merely embarrassing others claim. >>reporter: once secret u.s. document dominate headlines around the the world, secretary of state clinton today lashed out at wikileak. >> it puts people lives in danger. threatens our national security and undermines our effort to work with other countries to solve shared problems. >>reporter: latest documents released today shed more light on the administration effort to close the guantanamo prison camp. saudi arabia king is quoted suggesting that computer chips be implanted in released prisoners to be tracked as he point out sometime

so by writing the age of 818 -- 18 u. f two years less work experience compared to somebody who left at 16. for what? a few extra qualifications? one life experiences more valuable than anything. extend this to the end f the university. you will have six years less work experience than a graduate of the same age. what does the graduate have? eighth two-2-degree in klingon, a 40,000-pound debt and they are unemployed. how does keeping a young person out of the system for six years solve our nation's youth unemployment crisis? the swer, it doesn't. [applause] >> i'm looking to call people from parts of the country is so far have been slightly underrepresented in the debate and beginning with wales. somebody from wales who wants to speak. the young man there, please. >> josh from wales. given today's economic climate this country does not have the money to fund qualifications to some people who to be frank don't want them. there are some people who are quite happy to leave school at 16 and go work in a shop. there are some pe

brown was california's youngest governor when i look leaked in 1974 by the age of 36. he is the oldest candidate to lead at the age of 72. >> all i can tell you is that i didn't create this mess and i will be straight and do everything can to make it world. >> he will take office on monday, january 3rd. meg whitman made a cheerful concession speech. the billionaire spent $141 million of her own money and received just more than 3 million votes. that means that meg whitman spent about $46 for each vote. no word on whether she plans on continuing a public career. >>> senator barbara boxter will be rushing to washington for a 4th term. we was away from the cameras and press today. she spoke with her supporters in hollywood. her opponent waited to today to make her concession speech. >> i have spoken to senator box ter and congratulated her and wished her well. the arena thanked her supporters and said she would try to make sure that government works for the people and not the other way around. an official report shows boxster with 52% of the vote compared to fair rino with

going to see more patients coming through. >> starting next year, every day 10,000 people will hit the age of 60 until 2020. . >> the needs of the patients that we see at kerr senior center often have to do with the consequences of long standing substance abuse and mental illness, linked to their chronic diseases. heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, stroke, those kinds of chronic illnesses. when you get them in your 30's and 40's and you have them into your aging process, you are not going to have a comfortable old age. you are also seeing in terms of epidemics, an increase in alzheimer's and it is going to increase as the population increases. there are quite a few seniors who have mental health problems but they are also, the majority of seniors, who are hard-working, who had minimum wage jobs their whole lives, who paid social security. think about living on $889 a month in the city of san francisco needing to buy medication, one meal a day, hopefully, and health care. if we could provide health care early on we might prevent (inaudible) and people would be less likely to end

think it's never too late that sort of russian money thinking after fathering a baby son at the age of eighty nine amazin of the heart from southern russia is one of the oldest dons ever to a newborn even explained to the parent the parents of the lady having thought that he's oldest son at the age of seventy two. to explore everything about russian bred as andres hates the capitals bakeries and how entertaining. there's a famous person probably i don't see a full if you haven't tested right of the centuries it being one of the key finches also of russian diets and from the russian dog ride bred to the popular drink class that's what we'll be exploring on this weeks moscow out the history of france and russia. ladies are that you just can't feed for thousands of years he says agriculture you see being the foundation of making. music here shake a stick the strip of bread making in russia and from serbia percy's a fish into using examples of different person great bronte's you can see the implicit well bred played and still plays in every day life so mr campbell the history of bread has

i think adjusting the age, the retirement age, i think changing the cola benefits and i think means testing would make some sense. this is the easy problem to fix. soarm security isocial securityy entitlement to fix. the tough entitlement to fix is medicaid and medicare. if we can't get them to fix the easy problem, it will be tougher to get the will to fix a tougher problem. >> if it's so easy to fix, julian, then how do we say reraise the retirement age to 69 in 2075. dear god? my brilliant little children will invent some little pill that makes us live to 200 by then. we're going to be living so much longer. to say 69, it's a woosy way out. you're not approaching the problem at all. >> charlie, julie makes an interesting -- julian makes an interesting point. a lot of elderly depend on this. 40% of their income comes from social security. if we at least meter it out and squeeze it down moment by moment, would that at least help? >> the problem, though, is we don't know exactly how big the cost is going to be in the future because as tracy said, people are living longer. this could be an e

of the responsibility is giving way to an age of austerity. n our peacetime history. the deepest recession since the war. labor are spent, the money has run out. >> joining us now is our london-based correspondent richard quest. you hear prime minister cameron saying the money has run out. but as you see here in the united states and perhaps on the other side of the pond, when a leader makes these proposals, one of the big questions is are his people with him? >> and at the moment, the polls seem to suggest in the uk, yes, they are with the prime minister. everybody knows something must be done. the austerity measures that were introduced by cameron's coalition certainly raised eyebrows, they were very deep and very severe. and the truth, john, is that we haven't really seen them implemented. it's as we go into the winter months that the child benefit -- it's only the implementation that will really be as you would say, whether the rubber meets the road. if we have had indications from france embarrassed, it's been very, very aggressive opposit

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, almost 21 percentage points of tse over the age of 65 voting for republicans. guest: we have seen all year in the polls that all americans 65 and older have spent the most rigidly support of obama -- the obama presidency. they are big part of the tea party movement and they turned out larger numbers and get a big share of their boat to the reblicans. it is also interesting that young people continue to be the democratic party's best age group. this has its roots not in the obama election but all it back to 2004 when voters 18-29 war k johnerry's best age group. it was exaggerated to some degree in 2006 and 2008. more young people but a republican this time than had been the case two or four years ago. a majority of them still when republican. a majority of them went for democrats. the democrats looking ahead a few years, the fact that young people seem be sticking with them even though they have been hurt by the recession is a positive sign. host: this is courtesy of" mother jones." non-voters into as an aide swung 56% in favor of the republicans, ands dependent

gradually raising the retirement age to 68. rein in health care spending. make medicare recipients pay more and cut $200 billion from a broad array of government programs, half coming from defense. last week voters went to the polls, told lawmakers they're fed up with government spending. today in south korea president obama signaled he's willing to make those tough choices. >> i'm prepared to make some tough decisions. i can't make them alone. i'm going to need congress to work with me. >> on the tax side, the plan calls for scaling back home mortgage deduction and other popular write-offs. the tax increases would be partially offset by lower simplified taxes. for drivers there's a 15 cent a gallon increase in the gasoline tax to fund highway spending. the plan is still in the proposal stage and anything that's approved would be fazed in gradually. with the very side demanding the end to out of control spending is outraged. the rights denounce the proposals as an excuse to raise net taxes on the american people. from the left -- >> the chairman of the defic

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and that's project lead to increased sevenfold with the aging of the baby boomer population.o there may be segments of the baby boomer population that will be safer to drive as we move through senior years, but there's increasingly going to be segments of population that would be at risk. >> do you have anymore questions? >> no, we don't. thank you very much. >> excuse me, just one quick question. would any of you care to comment on the current or future way of doing things like shopping for my drugs online or by telephone or my groceries in that way? things that can actually meet your daily needs without causing the driver to get out on the roadway? >> i just saw a study that said that online shopping encourages in-store shopping. that is not a substitute. it was a compliment for that that you troll online and look at various things and you've got to go out to a story and look at them, too. it's a really interesting question that a lot of people are addressing, the extent to which online shopping and those sorts of things will substitute for travel or almost all improvements

living adjustment, the way we calculate it, that would affect current beneficiaries and does raise the age of retirement and affect future beneficiaries as well. that's a nonstarter. that's just not going to happen. in terms of medicare, which takes an increasing bite out of social security, we see that the proposal includes increased cost sharing for seniors who are already spending about 30% of our income on health care. so you're going to see absolutely a firestorm of opposition from older and near older americans against this proposal. >> why did they release these recommendations publicly today

we looked at the middle age group for comparison. u can see for this group in the last couple of years, their fatal crash rate has some down. when you look at the older driver trends, you can see again, especially for the oldest driver, a very dramatic decline. so for drivers 80 and older, the crash rate has come down by half. we had two questions. after the initial study, one was two things could explain this. one is that older drivers might be getting into fewer crashes. and the second thing that might explain is it maybe they are also doing better at surviving crashes when they are in one. so we turn to the best data that we could find to look at nonfatal crashes. we weren't able to do that using the national databases. we went to 13 states database, when looked at the prolicensed crash rate, these are nonfatal. we did see a decline. again, when we look at the older drivers, their decline was larger. when we look at property damage on the crashes, these are the middle age drivers. their crash rate went up a little. we look at older

the plan was described as a road map for the stone age. >> demonstrators took to the streets of dublin to protest spending cuts in -- and tax hikes. meanwhile, the prime minister held a press conference to outline the government's new strategy for ireland's struggling economy, concerning what many in the country had expected. dublin needs to save 15 billion euros, and plans to achieve that through cutting spending and raising taxes. new levies on property and drinking water are also in the pipeline as well as cuts to social welfare and the minimum- wage. >> and of course, central to all of this is not just the cuts in spending or the increase in taxes, but it is about growing the economies, identifying those sectors of our economy which are proving to be competitive, which are insuring that we are learning our way in the world as we move to a balance of payments next year. >> but confidence in the ability to leave ireland through its economic woes has plummeted. >> the present government has proven itself to be totally incompetent. >> meanwhile, many irish are loath to see their countr