every windmill is made with what? governor? steel? or fiberglas. how much co2 is generated during the production of those raw materials? >> want to build a foundation for windmill? how tulloch these things getting? do you know how much concrete and reinforcing bar is annette futzing? there is nothing green about the products that go into from the standpoint this young lady was talking about but she had it in her head she had been indoctrinated, and that is the problem we have. we cannot be using phony logic to deal with real-world problems. this is not talking down to windchills and i hope the bill botts of them. we put a lot of steel into them. but there is a lot of problems with every form of energy we have. there is no form of energy i don't care how green you think it is, that doesn't have a significant co2 in print and footprint. nothing. at least none that we know about today. we have got to have an energy policy that creates jobs, number one and give us energy independence number two. i have got to find my q- here. i'm going to jump through

they always have those windmills over there. my feeling is if you can put one of those windmills up for power generation near the acropolis, you can certainly put one up near the kennedy compound, my friend. bill: benefit is miller, everybody. that reference is that the kennedys don't want the windmills inside of their hyannis portman section, although they are for alternative energy. a report out of alabama may be racist. it has to do with -- ready -- l bill: did you see that, where we bring you video you may have missed, video that has some kind of edge to it. with us now, fox news correspondent courtney friehl and jane skinner. let me set this up. in 2006, a mobile, alabama, television station did a report on an alleged leprechaun, which is a small little irish guy that runs around, it's a mythical deal. anyway, it was perceived in some quarters to be racist. and now every two minutes, it's popping up in different forms. let's roll the tape. >> curiosity leads to large crowds in this mobile community. many bring binoculars,

climbing windmills'? replacing broken bearings? >> the republican plan has an interesting and this is on nuclear, something i know you know a lot about. >> nuclear, i believe, is a great asset to the human race. because you can make a lot of electricity from a very small amount of nuclear fuel. a big power plants, you make so much of it, you can make an amazing amount. 1,380 megawatts and the new one would probably be 1,600 megawatts. that is a lot of power. a single wind turbine in the right conditions, a few mega watts. i mean, it is disproportionate. there is something cultural, something social, something a bit unrealistic about this love of alternative power. >> especially in a time when we need more and more electricity. >> the people up there in nantucket and the langland did not think it was such a nice idea when the wind farm -- in new england did not think it was such a nice a dear -- >> i think it was the view. >> that is the point, wind farms are ugly. tens of millions -- you have killed a lot of birds and bats and yet

they always have those windmills over there.feeling is if you can put one of those windmills up for power generation near the acropolis, you can certainly put one up near the kennedy compound, my friend. bill: benefit is miller, everybody. that reference is that the kennedys don't want the windmills inside of their hyannis portman section, although they are for alternative energy. a report out of alabama may be racist. it has to do with -- ready -- ñ bill: did you see that, where we bring you video you may have missed, video that has some kind of edge to it. with us now, fox news correspondent courtney friehl and jane skinner. let me set this up. in 2006, a mobile, alabama, television station did a report on an alleged leprechaun, which is a small little irish guy that runs around, it's a mythical deal. anyway, it was perceived in some quarters to be racist. and now every two minutes, it's popping up in different forms. let's roll the tape. >> curiosity leads to large crowds in this mobile community. many bring binoculars, camc

i favor a solar panel on my roof, a windchmil -- windmill in every yard.e need to go from dirty energy to less dirty energy, especially when our trading partners like china and india threaten to bury us by staying dirty and taking our jobs away. we need a strategy to use less oil and more natural gas. part of my capitalist manifesto was to rule out gas-powered cars. i'm not alone, i got people who are smarter than i am on the team. richard tinder, a guy who understands the energy business than anybody else in this country wrote a piece that caught my eye in the houston chronicle earlier this month advocating natural gas and nuclear power as solutions to climate change. tinder makes the point that accelerated wind and solar power won't do much to curb emissions. they may be as clean as a whist whistle, but right now, it's just 1.6 of our energy needs. natural gas, on the other hand, is the cleanest fossil fuel, much cleaner than oil. it's cheap, and we're sitting on top of enormous amounts of it. it would be much easier to roll out a transition fuel than so

i favor a windmill in every yard, a solar panel on every roof. just mentioned the other day, i would use seven sea salad oil if my car would take it. but the best way is not to focus on wind and solar. it's not about going to sparkling clean energy. that's not feasible any time soon. we need to go from dirty energy to less dirty energy, especially when our trading partners like china and india threaten to bury us alive by becoming more energy efficient. we need more natural gas. my idea was to roll out natural pipelines and subsidize natural gas-powered cars. we juice the economy with new jobs rather than putting a captain jack boot on it. i got people smarter than i am on the team. kinder morgan energy partners, kmp, and a guy who understands the energy business just about better than anyone else in this country wrote an op-ed piece that caught my eye in the houston chronicle earlier this month advocating natural gas as a substitute for oil. they may be clean as a whistle, but right now wind and solar supply .16 of our energy needs. we could qua

from ge, again electric, he would like us to buy more windmills and t. boone pickens, they say climate is terrible. they told us we were going to see eight story high sea level rises which is beyond anything that al gore has been claiming. you want to buy into cap and trade. >> if you talk to some of the ceos they say we have no choice to play ball with the government because if we don't play, we're on the menu. so we have to protect our shareholders and if they are going to tax us or limit what we can do, we have to fight and lobby to get some kind of benefits that we can offset those costs. what is wrong with that? >> you are absolutely right. many businesses want security and they don't know what is it going to happen. therefore they wanted to have something happening. the problem is playing for much higher taxes and much higher cap and trade because they are going to make money. we do need certainty. we should be honest that climate is a problem. we should tax it at the relevant rate and the answer is about $7 a ton. >> congress is thinking of 20 or

they do not really need to develop windmills. is it not odd? >> i think that part of it is one of the things we watch out for from a policy standpoint, this idea that the government's want to -- governments want to impose an ideal on the industry whether or not it what still makes sense. historically, our renewable energy standard is in the southeast. to have a national standard means -- >> explain that to our viewers. southeast, which is really from washington down to florida. there is not much wind in summer. >> that is correct. >> there is a lot of sunlight. a lot of flowers. you have a very large population area on the coast that would not be terribly well served by wind power. or by solar power. >> if you look at what states have adopted renewable standards -- >> which is a government mandate. >> it is a mandate. 29 states have these. if you look at the southeastern states, none have adopted a because they did not have those resources. -- none have adopted it because they did not have those resources. if we go to a national standard, it wi

, they can get the electrical power from the windmill site to the utility company, that's money that's going to make sense. people going to close on buying a home this week that are going to get an $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit that's helping to bring back the residential real estate market. and i think that what you'll begin to see is over time, not soon enough as far as i'm concerned, you will see over time more people go back to work, more companies prosper, and more opportunities for the american people. i think it's going to work. >> congressman campbell, let me ask you about waste. there's been a lot of concern about the size of this project. we have never undertaken something like this before. we know that there's government waste in all kinds of different areas. are you concerned at all about that? >> yes, there's no way, this is almost $1 trillion, and remember, that you hear from the white house and the administration and so forth, we've got to get this out really quick so it stimulates the economy. when you get it out really quick, literally billions at a chunk, te

so if someone builds a windmill, they can get the electricity from the windmill to the utility company. that makes sense. there are people that are closing on buying a home that will get an $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit that's helping to bring back the residential real estate market. and i think what you'll begin to see is that over time -- it's not soon enough as far as i'm concerned. you will see over time people go back to work, more companies prosper and more opportunities for the american people. i think it will work. >> coffin gre >> congressman campbell, let me ask you about waste. the size of this project. we've never undertaken something of this size before. we know there's government waste and abuse in contracting in all kind of different areas. are you concerned at all about that? >> yes. there's no way -- this is almost $1 trillion. and remember you hear from the white house, from the administration, so forth, well, we've got to get the money out real quick so it stimulates the economy. the problem is if you get it out quick, literally billions at a chunk, tens of

. >> i have had a lifelong love of old-fashioned windmills. i thought they were beautiful things. my father installed a very many of them. and they were great to fill in the cattle trough, you put water up to a tank and you had water pressure. no use of electricity or any other energy source. but they were quite benign. they looked nice, the very few of them. the new ones, and let generating ones, in long rows look like a martian army has landed. there is nothing aesthetically appealing. how are you doing with ameliorating those things? >> i like the way the modern winter and looks. i think it is a sign of progress. especially if you consider what the wind is displacing. perhaps if you drive by a wind farm and then you drive by a very old coal plants, maybe -- >> i am quite with you. i love the idea that c it that coal -- i like the idea that it is not coal, does nothing bad to the air, but how many of these machines will be needed to make a real dent and is there another option? what about nuclear? >> i think nuclear has got to be part of the solution. that is one interesting asp

this is not talking down to the windmills' and i hope there are a lot of them. we put a lot of steel into them. but there are a lot of problems with every form of energy we have here and i don't care how green you think it is a dozen have a significant co2 footprint. none. elyse none that we know about today's. we have got to have an energy policy that creates jobs. number one and gives us energy independence number two. i have to fight to stickier. i'm going to jump to the slides, this is manufacturing jobs since 98 in you is you're the have gone period and lost 5.8 million and navy a third new to productivity and the rest due to a failed trade policy. here is how manufacturing jobs coordinate with trade deficit. the let's talk energy. you want to have an impact on the trade deficit, once you have an impact on on the living dead or a train debt to from a $13 trillion in the world today and. look at this chart here that shows you what percentage of our trade deficit is due to energy. there is no reason that could not be zero in 10 years. and none. but we've got

. >> everything that is going to benefit from the obama administration cap and trade, the windmill stuff, you know, everything that -- healthcare, and electronic medical records glenn: are they into the neckline trimmer? >> the next time you order it, it may be coming from g.e. but you got to say, listen, g.e. is doing what they want. glenn: they are doing what is good for g.e., but not what is good for the country. anybody who had a problem with halliburton, where the heck are you now? >> that's the thing. that's what i can't believe. one of the problems is that msnbc had a big problem with halliburton, but all of the people out there that talked about corporate marriages with the bush administration, these marriages, you look at the top ten donors to the obama administration, and you look at citigroups, the jpmorgans, goldman sachs, they have all gotten so much taxpayer money under the government. glenn: goldman sachs, america, controls the world right now. we'll show you some stuff that will melt your brain, because they're going to come out with their earnings, and surprise, they did

every windmill is made with what? governor? steel? or fiberglas. how much co2 is generated during the production of those raw materials? >> want to build a foundation for windmill? how tulloch these things getting? do you know how much concrete and reinforcing bar is annette futzing? there is nothing green about the products that go into from the standpoint this young lady was talking about but she had it in her head she had been indoctrinated, and that is the problem we have. we cannot be using phony logic to deal with real-world problems. this is not talking down to windchills and i hope the bill botts of them. we put a lot of steel into them. but there is a lot of problems with every form of energy we have. there is no form of energy i don't care how green you think it is, that doesn't have a significant co2 in print and footprint. nothing. at least none that we know about today. we have got to have an energy policy that creates jobs, number one and give us energy independence number two. i have got to find my q- here. i'm going to jump through

these same hydraulics go into windmills. we have a specialty steel company called thomas steel in warren, 300 workers, make decent wage, their specialty steel goes in the solar panels. we have a company called roth brothers in the youngstown area. there is a new wind cube you can put on top of big buildings and downtown areas and it generates wind and you plug it right into the building, right into the grid to generate energy that can turn and face the wind and really harness all of the wind no matter what direction changes. they said if this wind cube takes off, we'll hire 100 people like that. so we have it here. it's not so much new businesses, although there will be a piece of that. but it's also about the business that is we already have that can grow and manufacture and they are good paying jobs and they are steel workers. they are people who can make some money. and revitalize the middle class again. mr. perriello -- mr. boccieri: let's discuss something important to all our states. the use of coal. we have heard a lo

we will hopefully build the foundations for the windmills, steel mill in northern delaware, a lot ofthe components shipping out from delaware bay through 12 miles off of rohoboth beach. we will run electric cars up and down the east coast, partnering with electricity we harness from the wind off of our coast, that makes sense. the other thing that i learned is solar energy emitted by the sun in one hour is enough to provide the power that we use on this earth for one year. i will say that again. the solar energy emitted by the sun in one hour is enough to meet our power needs for energy needs on this planet for one year. einstein used to say in adversity live opportunity. god knows we have faced plenty of adversity in our lives in this country. there are some terrific opportunities. we have to be smart enough to capture it and make it happen and turn this adversity into not just cleaner air and less dependence on foreign oil and so forth, but we have to turn it into jobs and we have a great opportunity. windmill farms, nuclear power plants, lightweight solar energy panels, building t

they went aggressively into windmills, into turbines, and that business has also dried up, because oil as come down a lot. so trinity is not where you want to be, even though conceptually it might be right. bob in alabama, bob? >> caller: jim bo, how are you, sure? >> not bad, sport. what's up with you? roll crimson? s.e.c. violations? go ahead, bob, you're up. i got your attention, but it's the right s.e.c., not the one in washington, but the one that matters. >> caller: kbr, they've had a high cash per share holding. >> yes, they do. >> caller: but only paying a 1% dividend. they had a big order backlogged, but just lost a contract to flr. given the current economic political turmoil, how do you think their earnings will be from here on out. >> again they're infrastructure, and i am not recommending any infrastructure company es right now, i even got off the fos are wheel irbandwagon. i think oil is headed to 45 or 55, so even though kbr is in a terrific cash position, i won't tell you to buy it. todd in north carolina. >> caller: hey, jim. >> what's up, buddy? >> caller: a two-part

do you think warren buffett -- did you see that warren buffett decided he is getting out of windmillsa waste of time. >> spain, germany and the netherlands that have run the fartherrest with wind power are basically pulling the plug. they are not trying to convert the economies, the power system to make serious use of wind. you need to have redundant backup systems. it is not a magic bull let and he is acknowledging that but also did not want to have to mosque it across the state of texas. >> greg: your book is called don't sell your coat, and it's a long title. >> let's call it don't sell your coat. >> greg: okay. >> basically i'm giving credit to scientists who question the orthodox view of global warming and turns out that there are more of those skeptical scientists than a lot of us know. for instance, they were profiled quite a number of them in the book "the deniers" and i basically continue that work to reveal the fact it is not a bunch of know nothing to question global warning. in many cases it is the best scientists in their field and so it is about the fact that in fact, it

i want michigan to build windmills and wind turbines and solar panels and biofuel plants and energy efficient lightbulbs and weatherized product because, michigan, you know bad weather, so you can be all on top of weatherizing. you need to weatherize. i know about that in chicago, too. but we also have to ensure that we're educating and preparing our people for the new jobs of the 21st century. we've got to prepare our people with the skills they need to compete in this global economy. time and again when we've placed our bet for the future on education, we have prospered as a result by tapping the incredible innovative and generative potential of a skilled american workforce. what's happened when president lincoln signed in law legislation creating the land grant colleges. that's what took place when president roosevelt signed the gi bill, which helped educate a generation and ushered in an era of prosperity. that was the foundation for the american middle class, and that's why at the start of my administration i set a goal for america. by 2020 this nation will once again have the highest pr

andrew: the last time we talked about this, you were telling me i should put a windmill on my farm in new jersey so that we could have wind power, and you were the strong proponent of this out west in oklahoma. what has become of those proposals? >> well, wind has slowed down because -- andrew: you mean the velocity of the wind or wind power? >> we have plenty of wind velocity. andrew: some of it even around here! >> you can put wind in washington and just open the doors and windows. it would take care of the turbines. andrew: there you go. the idea of the turbines, did it pick up? is it still on the front burner or no? >> it is. what happens is that you have to have financing for it. that is in that particular bill that just passed the house. that was the climate bill, but in there, you have the green bank, which is a good idea, and it should be done, but when you have natural gas as cheap as it is, that's good for transportation, but you price wind off natural gas. andrew: why do we need the government to facilitate our use of natural gas? if we have, i think you said, this is a num

they say cap and trade and all the green windmill stuff and all the stuff that they want to do will createore jobs, will help all americans, including african-americans, and you seem to object to their point of view. >> well, we got the charles rivers associates group to do a study for us. they are very reputable group. it shows in the end if this cap and trade hustle were to be delivered to the american people, in the end we would have 2.3 million less jobs than we do now. it does not make sense to have less jobs, higher cost of energy and still the world is in the same predicament carbon emissionwise. bill: your position mirrors my position, it's interesting. you are not an idea group? >> nonpartisan, not for profit. we aspire capitalism and entrepreneurship. bill: ok. you're presenting your objection, which i any is an absolutely valid objection to the cap and trade, you call it a hustle, i call it cap and con. we're pretty much on the same page. and boxer, in order to debate you, puts up the naacp, a liberal group, who thinks that cap and trade and the other green industries is great.

why aren't we creating incredible batteries and windmills -- >> is there a market for that?if you build it, they will come. what do you think, robin? >> there's a legislativer of hope that that can recharge the spirits and get people thinking about green economic thinking. going back to this daniel gross story, touting a competitor's piece here, he made a great point in that the clinton administration when it convened the economic task force, the word internet was not mentioned once according to larry summers and other people. it tends to come out of the blue and blind side you. we don't necessarily know how premeditated we want to be. it's going to come out of left field in all likelihood. what we do know is we have silicon valley, so do the chinese and the israelis. >> if you look at the '70s, the green movement was very strong there because there was an oil embargo, gas prices went really high. it made it more lucrative to think about using our resources more efficiently. if we're out there begging the saudis to give us their oil -- >> we're not begging right now. prices

maybe it is fitting that in the energy bill i'm probably doing a don quiote here tilting at a windmill. i have learned during my time in the senate that there are certain things very protected. one of them is the earmarking process. i think most people would acknowledge that we have billions in noncompete contracts through earmarks. and they're not all for exotic research. we have -- yes, we have noncompete contracts a lost places, and we should try to get rid of all of them. every last one ever them. if it's exotic research, then there's probably not going to be very many people that will bid on it. so i don't agree with my friend from north dakota on this issue of carving out earmarks as an area of noncompete. i think there are a lot of things wrong -- mr. dorgan: would the senator yield? ms. mccaskill: yes. mr. dorgan: the senator is not describing my position. i have not suggested carving out eemplets over not heard that this afternoon. mr. dorgan: well, you didn't hear that during the debate. mrs. mccaskill: i heard the senator from oklahoma wants to pass an amendment that would r

you commented that there were tons of steel in each windmill. one not try to refurbish some of the steel mills -- we need to make steel in this country. if we do not make steel to do these green projects, where are we getting the steel from, overseas? guest: i could not agree more. what sense does it make to reduce our carbon footprint if we are outsourcing this production to china? of course, this is all contingent on being u.s. steel. it is going to benefit american workers. host: give us a broader look at your region in pennsylvania. how many towns are there like you in the area? guest: of course, we are unique. i have not come across@@@@@@ there are are regions suffering tremendously. we have hart part of a region that at one point in time produced a significant portion of the world's steel and naturally, as steel left and things became outsourced that part of the cubtry never got the bailout the charlottes and the phoenix areas are getting now with the banking industry, so we were kind of on our own and thrown to the wolves. as i'm fond of

this is when people could--for--for th--be born and never see anything more complicated than a windmill and end up with railroads and steam engines doing everything. so there was--there were dazzling technological changes. there was a sense of being a part of a--of a new country and this american experiment. they--all of them were modest successes. people who are failures don't write autobiographies. so they wrote to tell generat--their family what they had seen, how the times they had a changed and also to register their accomplishments. c-span: did they publish these autobiographies? guest: some of them do, but most of them are published after their deaths. c-span: so they were done for what reason... guest: so it's a mixed bag. c-span: just--just to have on the record for the families? guest: mm-hmm. mm-hmm. i think--i think benjamin franklin had something of a--of an influence. i think that--that was one of the first autobiographies and i think it was sort of a model. here was an american that you would like to emulate, who had put down information about his childhood and what he ha

in "the wall street journal," "tilting at windmills jobs." "about the best thing we can say about yesterday's june jobs report is that employment is usually a lagging economic indicator. elisse we hope it is -- at least we hope it is." angeles on the phone from little rock, -- angela is on the phone from little rock, arkansas. caller: good morning. if the republicans or so-called blue dog democrats would quit being selfish and get their hands out of the kajar and think about the american people -- out of the cookie jar and think about the american people. the republicans go to work every day and complain about -- they are not trying to help us. they caused this mess, you know? but, you know, they just need to quit being selfish. that is what they really need to do. host: appreciate your call, angela. a getaway friday for the july 4 holiday weekend. if you're traveling, near record travel is expected in different parts of the country. inside "the wall street journal," "budget woes doom rest stops." many being shut down in virginia as a way to

we have a great opportunity to do that, whether building nuclear power plants, employing windmill farms, employing these new lightweight solar energy panels, building those refrigerators that are so energy efficient. it is a great opportunity, and we appreciate your helping us to find a path to that opportunity. thank you. >> thank you, madam chair to we think all of our guest panelists for being here. what is important is not just that you are listening to all these brilliant speeches. more important -- that was a joke, actually. more important is our presence here together, indicating your understanding that all of these agencies are working together, and that has not always been the case. i think the issue that chairwoman boxer and others are intended to bring us together on is in fact the most board issue facing not only this country but the world. it has everything to do with the war in iraq. we are now whining away out of that war, which evoked -- we are now winding our way out of that war. we're spending $350 billion every single year purchasing oil. do you know we could do with

when you build a windmill farm, that has to be done here. instead of addressing this very important issue, the other side comes up with catchy phrases and certainly one they have done to cap and trade across america i think is very shameful. let's talk about cap and trade for a minute because some people will say, well, this is a new concept, congressman boccieri, how can it be we know whether or not this will work? there are a couple ways to know that. we have already done it in this country. many americans, certainly in the northeast where i come from, remember the concept of acid rain caused by sulfur dioxide. and 23491980's we realized that lakes and rivers were dying across this country because of sulfur dioxide. and we implemented in 1990 a cap and trade system when it comes to sulfur dioxide. what does cap and trade mean? it simply means that you set a standard of how much pollution can be emitted in the country in a given year and that becomes your cap. for what we have done now for the greenhouse gases is the year 2005. same was don

we have a great opportunity to do that, whether building nuclear power plants, employing windmill farmsemploying these new lightweight solar energy panels, building those refrigerators that are so energy efficient. it is a great opportunity, and we appreciate your helping us to find a path to that opportunity. thank you. >> thank you, madam chair to we think all of our guest panelists for being here. what is important is not just that you are listening to all these brilliant speeches. more important -- that was a joke, actually. more important is our presence here together, indicating your understanding that all of these agencies are working together, and that has not always been the case. i think the issue that chairwoman boxer and others are intended to bring us together on is in fact the most board issue facing not only this country but the world. it has everything to do with the war in iraq. we are now whining away out of that war, which evoked -- we are now winding our way out of that war. we're spending $350 billion every single year purchasing oil. do you know we could do with $3

we have a great opportunity to do that, whether building nuclear power plants, employing windmill farms, employing these new lightweight solar energy panels, building those refrigerators that are so energy efficient. it is a great opportunity, and we appreciate your helping us to find a path to that opportunity. thank you. >> thank you, madam chair to we think all of our guest panelists for being here. what is important is not just that you are listening to all these brilliant speeches. more important -- that was a joke, actually. more important is our presence here together, indicating your understanding that all of these agencies are working together, and that has not always been the case. i think the issue that chairwoman boxer and others are intended to bring us together on is in fact the most board issue facing not only this country but the world. it has everything to do with the war in iraq. we are now whining away out of that war, which evoked -- we are now winding our way out of that war. we're spending $350 billion every single year purchasing oil. do you know we could do with

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[applause] >> i want michigan to build windmills and wind turbines and solar panels and biofuel plants, energy efficient light bulbs and weatherize all of 'cause, michigan, you know bad weather. [laughter] >> so you can be all on top of weatherizing. you need to weatherize. [laughter] >> i know about that in chicago, too. but we also have to ensure that we're educating and preparing our people for the new jobs of the 21st century. [applause] >> we've got to prepare our people with the skills they need to compete in this global economy. [applause] >> time and again, when we've placed our bet for the future on education, we have prospered as a result by tapping the incredible, innovative and generative potential of a skilled american work force. that's what happened when president lincoln signed into law legislation creating the land grant colleges, which not only transformed higher education but also our entire economy. that's what took place when president roosevelt signed the g.i. bill which helped educate a generation and ushered in an era of unprecedented prosperity. that was the fo

they may be building windmills' instead. >> the three of you guys, and myself to a certain extent, wereid that affect the way you thought about things, and as you came into this great world of technology, it was quite a trek from where you guys started to wear you ended up. >> i feel very, very fortunate. of course, i was born in 1928. that was just before the depression lifted. we did not have very much money. i lost my father at a very early age. i could not go to college, i did not have the money to go to college until i got into a naval aviation program, an rotc program that eventually led me to the academy. so that is how i got my education. i did things that i always dreamed about but never thought i would get there. i was always interested in rockets, and i was unable aviator. it was something i wanted to do, and the two things came together in the space program. i was in the original selection back in 1958 for the original mercury people. there were 32 of us. pete conrad and i were in there. we did not make it, was very much disappointed, and then when jim and i came around, i w

you commented that there were tons of steel in each windmill.one not try to refurbish some of the steel mills -- we need to make steel in this country. if we do not make steel to do these green projects, where are we getting the steel from, overseas? guest: i could not agree more. what sense does it make to reduce our carbon footprint if we are outsourcing this production to china? of course, this is all contingent on being u.s. steel. it is going to benefit american workers. host: give us a broader look at your region in pennsylvania. how many towns are there like you in the area? guest: of course, we are unique. i have not come across another community that has lost 90% of their population, but certainly, 30, 40%. we are in any area and that produced a significant portion of the world's steel. naturally, when steel production got outsourced, we never really got the help that other areas received. we are not asking for the proverbial handout. we are asking for the handup that can bring some manufacturing jobs to the region. host: how many jobs

. >> you talk about rural development, you talked about windmills and construction. can you talk about firetrucks and those kinds of items? i know that we have a small community, and if we can put something into these fire trucks, we have to pay for those also. >> the usda has many programs in rural development. i thought you're going to ask me what the definition of this was, because there are 12 different definitions. there is no single definition. we have a community facility grant program, the community facilities grant and loan program. if i am a mayor, and i have a challenge because i need a library, and i want to attract a business or a fire truck to keep the fire insurance premiums, this is important. if you have a good fire department, home insurance is lower. if we can have a dead leaf -- a better fire department, we can have a better library or health care clinic. that is what this is for. this comes from the grants or loans. if the government can get their money for next to nothing, these loans will allow you to get this for next to nothing. >> commission

. ♪ ♪ foot loose ♪ kick off your sunday shoes ♪ please louise ♪ >> the windmills are cranking over. 83 with strong, strong thunderstorms. so be aware of that if you have a weather radio, make sure you have it on. who knows what might happen. >>> checking news across the nation. it's apparently -- the reason we're playing "footloose," illegal to dance in public after 2:00 in the morning if you live in des moines or just visiting like the movie "foot loose" all over again. a late night dance and they were told, no way. city officials are working to have that law repealed. >> nasa is hoping that the sixth time will be a charm. the launch of shuttle endeavour rescheduled yet again. tomorrow is the fifth delay. endeavour is trying to deliver the last part of a clr 1 billion space lab to the international space station as well as food and supplies. >> they're trying to put the front pornl out there with the shotgun and the rocking chair. >>> on the southern end of the las vegas strip, tourists found red graffiti across the "weg come to fabulous las vegas" sign. the mayor said, this deserv

president obama's windmills are not going to solve the oil problem. we need a real clunker subsidy to get the big cars off of the road. replace the tahoes with the traverses. big car but gets twice the gas mileage. >> the other thing you talked about is the private sector shedding 66 million jobs, half being shed in manufacturing and construction. we know the housing market is struggling. what's the solution if you use that stimulus money to get the people back to work and beef up manufacturing here in our country? >> well,e s essentially, you ha to recalibrate trade with china. unhinge the currency and manipulate the currency. it's buying $400 billion a year with yuan it prints and giving it to us. keeps the currency cheap and makes it products artificially cheap in our markets. with regard to construction -- we have built too much houses, we're overhoused right now. an excess supply. move the construction workers as i said earlier to infrastructure. rehabilitating schools. the same guy can put a roof on a house can put a roof on a school. >> a lot o

i want michigan to build windmills and wind turbines and solar panels and biofuel plants and energy efficientt bulbs and weatherize all the buildings because michigan, you know bad weather. so you can be all on top be weatherizing. you need to weatherize. i know about that in chicago too. but we also have to ensure that we're educating and preparing our people for the new jobs of the 21st century. we've got to prepare our people with the skills they need to compete in this global economy. time and again, when we've placed our bets for the future on education, we have prospered as a result. by tapping the incredible innovative and general erative -- generative potential of a skilled workforce. that's what happened when president lincoln signed the legislation creating the land grant colleges, which not only transformed education but our entire economy. . we have begun to take steps to achieve this goal. already we have increased pell grants by $500. we have created a $2,500 tax credit for four years of college tuition we have simplified applications and make sure aid is not based on an income

becky, your windmill car is not ready. gm will sell more cars. >> but if you're talking about 10% of the nation is unemployed right now, it's looking for a job, actively looking out there, how much does that caught into every other aspect? why did general mills and oracle hike their dividend, right? >> how can we go from thinking that we've conquered the business cycle and the world was find and india is always going to be growing and, you know, we don't have to worry about it so thinking that we're never going to have any -- >> did you see mohammed el-eri n el-erian's column that said most of the time the jobless numbers are lagging indicators although he says there are sometimes it's not, where it's the leading indicator because it's gotten to the point where it's so out of whack with what people are expecting. >> maybe this is what an elephant feels like. joe biden, the vice president is making the rounds over the weekend. he says the obama add mip administration, in his words, misread how bad it was. but speaking on ab

until the president becomes as interested in 100 nuclear power plants as use in building windmills, it think secretary chu will be permitted to have a very aggressive nuclear policy. but that is one reason for our agenda. sometimes our advocacy, we can change the minds of another people, and we have a bipartisan it and my goal would be that the president would adopt this and say we have to do this if we want to deal with global warming in this generation without running all of our jobs overseas. >> have you been approached by senator boxer and senator kerry who are trying to push the climate bill? would you vote against the bill even if it does everything you want along with having a catch? would that be enough? >> i just said yesterday, an economy wide cap and trade is a disaster for the country, it is a job killing, $100 billion year tax. add to that the renewable mandates which require the southeast to put up a huge winter, like requiring a state that has as its to build electricity from hydroelectric dams and rivers that they don't have. they don't have the rivers, we don't have t

we have all these little tables and we got a lot of the attractive young women that windmill who worked at the white house -- attractive young women that we knew to come and sit and talk. some of the men who could got at and we danced. then i said why don't we give some of the man who could got up and dance. i wanted to give them a tour and that gave everybody, those who were in wheelchairs and those who needed extra help to get around made everybody feel good about taking the elevator. i gave them 84. it was a wonderful opportunity for me. -- a gave them a tour. it made me so proud to be an american to have these young people. it was all men, but to see them there enjoying themselves, and something that i could do for them. and later on, before i left i was part of something called the waiting wives. that time i was very pregnant. when i told the chef i was going to have a tea party for the waiting wives, they said 400 pregnant women? i said no, not all of them are waiting like that. [laughter] but i had joined this group and it was the waiting wives that were the ones waiting for thei

i'd like for him to be half as interested in 100 new nuclear power plants as he already is in windmills. i think he would get further with a plan that included 100 new nuclear power plans. all this needs is presidential leadership. it doesn't need a lot of money. the financing systems that we need to help get the first six or eight nuclear plants up and going are designed so the taxpayer doesn't lose a cent. the first 100 nuclear power plants built in 20 years were built by the utilities with ratepayer money, not government money. as far as safety, as far as what do you do with the waste -- we've come a long way in the last 30 years. our plants are safely operated. dr. chu, the energy secretary, said that to me in a hearing this week. we've operated safely our nuclear reactors and our nuclear submarines since the 1950's. we sometimes forget about that. france and japan and jerl any angermany andchina want clear ap energy for good jobs they have to use nuclear power. we need to do that. and the waste? call it used nuclear fuel and scientists assure us that used nuclear fuel can be safely