Monday, March 11, 2013
Hour 1
Segment 1
Ana, John Iadarola, and Desi Doyen hosting. The Senate has proposed their immigration agreement. The leaked details aren’t very good, including the minimum wait time of 15 years. GE’s profits being held overseas for the past few years is astronomically ridiculous, costing the U.S. tons of money in unpaid taxes. Their effective tax rate was 1.8% between ‘02-’11. According to a survey, more than ⅔ of Bankers are unhappy with their salary when the average is $363,000. 33% say their job is too high stress for too little pay.
Segment 2
Ana reads some TYTLive comments from Twitter. Former Senator Scott Brown has taken the job with Nixon Peabody, which is connected to Goldman Sachs, to lean heavily on politicians to get more money for the company. Despite this, he claims he will not be lobbying. While in office, Brown received a bunch of money from Sachs, so this relationship was in the works for a while. Joe Lieberman will be working the Conservative AEI. Sen Ted Cruz’ thoughts about reaching out to the 47% that lost Romney the election in 2012. Videos of Jeb Bush angrily answering questions about his potential presidential candidacy on the Sunday shows. Video of Rep Peter King boxing a champion kickboxer for charity.
Segment 3
Regions of the tundra have thawed out due to global warming and are growing huge forests.