>> exactly, brenda. the union is like the federal government in that they get their power from having the biggest base possible so they can issue these unfillble demands. look, here the choice is clear here. would you rather have a mcdonald's 25 jobs at minimum wage or zero jobs at $15 an hour. union doesn't care about what the workers -- if the workers have jobs. they don't present something viable. they just want to have, hey, we're powerful, we got this one mcdonald's out there to give you $15 a wage. everyone join us, pay our dues, pay our -- pay our executives an astronomical amount of money, we'll have clout in washington to get our ways. unions are not helping these workers. >> mark, do you buy that, this is all about union membership? >> of course not. if there are no -- if mcdonald's has zero people working for them, how is that going to help the unions? unions get their strength through numbers. and so what the unions want to do ultimately is increase their roles member rolls in the future beca

>> exactly, brenda. the union is like the federal government in that they get their power from having the biggest base possible so they can issue these unfillble demands. look, here the choice is clear here. would you rather have a mcdonald's 25 jobs at minimum wage or zero jobs at $15 an hour. union doesn't care about what the workers -- if the workers have jobs. they don't present something viable. they just want to have, hey, we're powerful, we got this one mcdonald's out there to give you $15 a wage. everyone join us, pay our dues, pay our -- pay our executives an astronomical amount of money, we'll have clout in washington to getur ways. unions are not helping these workers. >> mark, do you buy that, this is all about union membership? >> of course not. if there are no -- if mcdonald's has zero people working for them, how is that going to help the unions? unions get their strength through numbers. and so what the unions want to do ultimately is increase their roles member rolls in thefuture because

catch brenda on "bulls and bears" saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. right here on the fox newschannel. >>> syria has supposedly broken the chemical weapons deal. fox news contribute tore and pulitzer prize winner judith miller will give us perspective. that's coming up next. >> welcome back, everyone, the deal brokered between the united states is bringing the question, where does this put israel? we will talk about fact that john kerry, in israel, is talking about this deal with netanyahu offering guarded response to this. when we look at words of guarded optimism, what does it mean? >> it means that israel, this sounds nice. we don't trust it for a minute. we don't trust the syrians. to an israeli this is a deal that screams "don't trust," then you won't have to put the emphasis on verification. they are really nervous. on the one hand they are delighted with the prospect of their enemy forever disarming himself of a whole category of weapons. but they don't believe that bashar al-assad is going to give the weapons up any more than they believe that

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i'm brenda buttner. this is "bulls and bears." gary b. smith, tracy byrnes, jonas farris, john layfield, and bernard witman. welcome to everybody. john, the impact on jobs. >> yes. absolutely. i don't know where the administrati administration's head is. no offense to the administration, but people who are proponents of this are ignoring the facts, from investors business daily, there the express employment ceo bob funk who says, our business is booming right now because people are hiring temporary workers to fill full-time slots to get around obama care. the administration has come out and said that health care costs are already coming down. the fact is, i2009, you started to see this trend before obama care ever kicked in. and the kaiser institute just came out and said 77% of lowering health care costs -- of not expanding, not lowering, but not expanding, came to due to an economic slowdown. there is a huge cost to this. this is not free. and it's not just borne by the individual. this is projected to cost the government $1.4 trillion.

i'm brenda buttner. this is "bulls and bears." gary b. smith, tracy byrnes, jonas farris, john layfield, and bernard witman. welcome to everybody. john, the impact on jobs. >> yes. absolutely. i don't know where the administrati administration's head is. no offense to the administration, but people who are proponents of this are ignoring the facts, from investors business daily, there the express employment ceo bob funk who says, our business is booming right now because people are hiring temporary workers to fill full-time slots to get around obama care. the administration has come out and said that health care costs are already coming down. the fact is, in 2009, you started to see this trend before obama care ever kicked in. and the kaiser institute just came out and said 77% of lowering health care costs -- of not expanding, not lowering, but not expanding, came to due to an economic slowdown. there is a huge cost to this. this is not free. and it's not just borne by the individual. this is projected to cost the government $1.4 trillio

i'm talking about brenda. when she laughs, she--she pees. so if i can make her laugh, maybe she'll pee herself. - then what? - well, like there needs to be more? that's the whole thing. - you know, i'd help, but i've got interviews set up for timmy's replacement. - he's really not coming back, huh? - oh, he wants to. came by a couple weeks ago. "hey, can i have my job back?" i'm like, "no." and he's like, "please, sir, i'm begging." - [singsong] jen. we're getting married tonight. - oh, that's such a romantic way to wake me up. - romantic? honey, you know my voice gets all singsong-y when i get nervous. now, now, get up. get up. we have a million things to do. - adam, everything's gonna be fine, okay? it's all under control. - under control? oh, no. we've got to work out the seating chart, then i've got to pick up my suit from the dry cleaner's, and if you think i'm done choreographing our first dance, you're insane. - look, it's all taken care of, okay? we planned a simple, small get-together to avoid all the usual wedding craziness. so jus

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>> what we're doing, brenda -- yes, exactly. we're taking money from the individual and giving it to the government run this obama care thing. let's look at the examples. we're giving the none to the government is an efficient transfer of funds. it's not. i think jonas made the mention this money is -- >> oh, come on. >> jonas says the money isn't going to go poof and vanish. that is what happens when you give it to the government. it's wasteful spending. i can't think of a governmental agency where you say they're efficient. no, we give the money to the government. it's spent less efficiently than if i h it. >> you get better health -- >> i don't want -- most people don't want this more health insurance. >> people don't want want car price to go up when the government mandated clean air. they had to raise the price of cars because they had to add a catalytic converter and -- >> oh, come on. >> every year you buy health is insurance. >> you also have a choice between what kind of program you get and what you get. that's the bron

>> what we're doing, brenda -- yes, exactly. we're taking money from the individual and giving it to the government run this obama care thing. let's look at the examples. we're giving the none to the government is an efficient transfer of funds. it's not. i think jonas made the mention this money is -- >> oh, come on. >> jonas says the money isn't going to go poof and vanish. that is what happens when you give it to the government. it's wasteful spending. i can't think of a governmental agency where you say they're efficient. no, we give the money to the government. it's spent less efficiently than if i had it. >> you get better health -- >> i don't want -- most people don't want this more health insurance. >> people don't want want car price to go up when the government mandated clean air. they had to raise the price of cars because they had to add a catalytic converter and -- >> oh, come on. >> every year you buy health is insurance. >> you also have a choice between what kind of program you get and what you get. that's the br

>> what we're doing, brenda -- yes, exactly. we're taking money from the individual and giving it to the government run this obama care thing. let's look at the examples. we're giving the none to the government is an efficient transfer of funds. it's not. i think jonas made the mention this money is -- >> oh, come on. >> jonas says the money isn't going to go poof and vanish. that is what happens when you give it to the government. it's wasteful spending. i can't think of a governmental agency where you say they're efficient. no, we give the money to the government. it's spent less efficiently than if i had it. >> you get better health -- >> i don'twant -- most people don't want this more health insurance. >> people don't want want car price to go up when the government mandated clean air. they had to raise the price of cars because they had to add a catalytic converter and -- >> oh, come on. >> every year you buy health is insurance. >> you also have a choice between what kind of program you get and what you get. that's the bro

i'm brenda buttner. this is "bulls and bears." tracy byrnes, jonas max ferris, john layfield along with david mercer. welcome to everyone. john, should unions get a pass and no one else? >> absolutely not, why would they? think about what they're saying right now. these are people that backed this law. they didn't read it. surprise, surprise, maybe some of these politicians should have read it. they're asking them to fix something that hasn't gone into effect yet. that's how bad this implementation process is going to happen. this is similar to the corporate tax put in in chicago. you put it in and companies say, we'll move to wisconsin. okay, we'll exempt all of you companies that have political influence. that's exactly what is going on here. if you have political influence, you're getting an exemption and a waiver. there have been 19 different amendments, waivers and exemptions already passed. this is ridiculous, hypocritical. what happens when politicians don't read bills they pass. >> you don't think this is a double standard

i'm brenda button. this is "bulls and bears." let's get ght to it. here they are, the "bulls and bears" this week. we have gary b. and david merce. welcome to everybody. john, the government raising its debt. average americans cutting their debt. what's going on here? >> what alternative univer does the president think that america lives in? look, if you hve a credit card debt, and you have $10,000 limit, you reached your limit, and you turn to your company and say, i'm borrowing money from my neighbor ery month to pay my credit card debt, can you raise it to $20,000? because raising my kracredit ca limit does not increase my debt. it's preposterous. this isn't just president obama. since 2000, republicans and democrats both, $5.6 trillion in debt in 2000. almost three times that right now. we are the richest tion in the world, and we are on a path that is unsustainable by this congress and this administration that we have. >>jonas, the government has a different role than average americans do. does that make a didifference? >> definitely. first of a

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at least you can see what's being said about you. >> brenda, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> okay. >> you can catch brenda as always on "bulls and bears" every saturday morning right here on the fox news channel. >>> still to come, ex-offenders now getting a second lease on life thanks to horticulture. an internship program is giving former inmates the job placement and jobs they need to get back on their feet. live in the new york city newsroom with the story, hi, brian. >> how, heather. for ex-offenders coming out and lookinging for a second chance the odds can be insurmountable. in new york city, the hor horticultural society is helping them quite literally to grow. >> when i was incarcerated, i just felt like, wow, i let myself down. i let my family down. sand and i needed to find a way to pick myself up. >> wendell harrison spent 12 years on rikers island. it starts on rikers, once ex-offenders are leased they end the green team program. maintaining gardens, installing green roofs, landscaping city parks and planting trees. the program offering transiti

you can catch brenda on bulls and airs bears on 10:00 a.m. on fox news. >>> dana and her husband traveling with mercy ships on their mission to provide free surgical care in developing nations. and they brought the camera along to document it all. >> okay, well, getting ready to leave on a trip. one last scratch and a shake. and off we went to africa on a more than 6,000-mile journey to be part of the mercy ship's mission to the congo. we flew first to frankfurt, germany, to libreville to refuel and finally to our destination, the congo. shortly after we arrived, we were greeted by the leaders of the mercyship. they launched it in 1998 to help the forgotten poor. ♪ >> over the past 35 years, mercyships has visited more than 575 ports in 72 nations. but it's the first time to the congo, and they'll be there for the next 10 months. most people there don't have access to basic medical care, and many haven't ever seen a doctor. on board the floating hospital, i met the man who steers the ship, captain tim traithway, and took a tour of the bridg

i'm brenda button. this is "bulls and bears." let's get right to it. here they are, the "bulls and bears" this week. we have gary b. and david merce. welcome to everybody. john, the government raising its debt. average americans cutting their debt. what's going on here? >> what alternative universe does the president think that america lives in? look, if you have a credit card debt, and you have $10,000 limit, you reached your limit, and you turn to your company and say, i'm borrowing money from my neighbor every month to pay my credit card debt, can you raise it to $20,000? because raising my kracredit ca limit does not increase my debt. it's preposterous. this isn't just president obama. since 2000, republicans and democrats both, $5.6 trillion in debt in 2000. almost three times that right now. we are the richest nation in the world, and we are on a path that is unsustainable by this congress and this administration that we have. >> jonas, the government has a different role than average americans do. does that make a difference? >> definitely. firs

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thank you for joining us, brenda. what should we look for in terms of filling up our tank? >> right now national leet average -- nationally the average is $3.56 and many experts say we could see a spike of 10 cents in the next week or so. we have seen crude oil prices rise after the chemical weapons attack in syria and the threat of u.s. action. but we have to keep a couple things in mind. first of all syria is not a major oil producer. it canarely meet its own domestic demands. the worry is if it exacerbates the high tension in the middle east, supply could be cutoff. but first of all this is not april. it is september. that means that demand is going to be cooling down because the holiday travel season is over. so there are some reasons to expect a spike, but it might come down again. >> what about transport through that region? is that an issue? >> that is a main issue. even egypt doesn't produce enough to meet its own domestic demands. but in the middle east in the first three months of the year global -- they produce global oil output of about a third. so that is quite

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you can catch more of brenda on bulls and bears at 10:00 eastern here on the fox newschannel. israel's prime minister arrived at the white house tomorrow for a meeting with president obama and high on the agenda is iran. so how will president obama's conversation with benjamin netanyahu factor into their talks of the we will look at that next. : >> gregg: 24 hours from now theÑi israeli prime minister, netanyahu, will arrive at the white house for a high-level meeting with president obama. on the agenda is iran. it is the one thing that critics say is a source of deep tension between the two leaders. national security advisor rice insisting that protecting israel from a nuclear iran is a top united states priority. take a listen. >> obviously, we are in constant cont doesn't take president obama seriously? they do not fear america will take action? >> that's because the president will hesitate to draw red lines again with netanyahu. that's what it will come down to, another four-letter word and that is time. that's where the gap is going to be. they will say let's give the ir

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. >> hi, my name is brenda, i'm a seiu 1021 member and i work at san francisco general and i've been there over 30 years, so i remember the days when we were going around when the union rep was dragging me to synagogues everywhere else talking to the public to making sure healthy san francisco happened, i see every day the results of it, i see the all the people that we helped that didn't get help before, now we don't have to turn around people that used to get partial care because they didn't have health insurance, we do need that. i think we also need to say is that there's not enough money in the department of public health to meet the goals that we're going to have to meet to nabbing sure every single san franciscan is covered. we do the best we can, the stresses are really strong right now and the workers, the ones doing the work, and we put in all we can because we believe in the mission and we want every single person to be covered but i think also you have to keep in mind that to absorb all of these people in san francisco, the system, it's going to have to grow, and so it's

i'm brenda button. this is "bulls and bears." let's get right to it. here they are, the "bulls and bears" this week. we have gary b. and david merce. welcome to everybody. john, the government raising its debt. average americans cutting their debt. what's going on here? >> what alternate universe does the president think that erica lives in? look, if you have a credit card debt, and you have $10,000 limit, you reached your limit, and you turn to your company and say, i'm borrowing money from my neighbor every month to pay my credit card debt, can you raise it to $20,000? because raising my kracredit ca limit does not increase my debt. it's preposterous. this isn't just president obama. since 2000, republicans and decrats both, $5.6 trillion in debt in 2000. almost three times that right now. we are the richest nation in the world, a we are on a path that is unsustainable by this congress and ts administration that we have. >> jonas, the government has a different role than averag americans do. does that make a difference? >> dinitely. first of all, wha

senior business correspondent brenda buttner here with a market preview now brenda. >> yeah, doug. wall street has been watching syria as the likelihood of u.s. strikes fell the market went up. the dow soaring 3% last week. biggest weekly advance in eight months. s&p 500 and nasdaq gaining two although not as much as the blue chips. now that the threat of u.s. military action in syria is not such a concern for investors, focus is on the central bank for wall street it's not september but september but septaper. ben bernanke and company are expected to signal whether they will taper the bank's bond buying program. even with recent economic data fairly weak, most financial first alert forecasters expect the fed will ease up on easy money policy that might shake the markets. the fed's buying binge has been a big boost for the bulls strong and economic growth is tepid. is the housing market cooling as well? we get a read this week on whether you are buying homes. purchases of existing homes likely fell last month as mortgage rates hit a two year high. rising borrowing cost could shake

and it's my pleasure to announce the recipients in inner leadership brenda wong. please step up and we want to invite our co- chairs to help with the presenting of the awards and also to invite the lady from southwest airlines and they're continuing to give 2 round tickets to each receipt. thank you so much. (clapping). >> wow. this is a huge honor. my families been in san francisco since the 19 hundreds. many of you know that i'm chinese japanese and i didn't know i was asian because i'm mixed but the family has been here and is one of the founder of the town and my grandmother was a leader in the garment district. we went to the restaurantsful through the backdoor and i'll plays with the chickens and fish and grandpa would bargain for the sea weeds. but the thing we also went in the kitchen door and in honor of my grandparents i get to go through the front door. you, you know, we stand on the shoulder of giants and i want to thank all the people here. thank you all the committee and all the judges and everybody else who's here i also want to thank my friends and

so so brenda you were talking about the the certainty in this i'm you know i do a radio talk show also and i have for a decade and so i'm on. the mailing lists of every right wing. fringe group that wants to deny climate change and what i was surprised by the day and all the stuff that i was getting and all the experts that they were offering and they sent a couple talking points along with each one is that there is not be a coherent narrative i mean typically when something happens you see all these different groups coming up with it with a with a narrative where they're basically echoing each other you know all these scientists and saying they are arguing about something therefore you know there's there is some there but do you think that maybe this is finally just like. plug into the science evidence is so clear and the i.p.c.c. said in the most clearest evidence they said greater than ninety five percent likelihood the warming since the one nine hundred fifty one to twenty twelve is due mostly to human activities you can't get more certain than that in science it is virtually certa

report joining me are lester brown and dr brenda of course all mispronouncing that are i. was thank you and i didn't last i mean. first of all. during the break we were just talking about how it sort of like you know the chaos theory model that i think probably everybody is pretty familiar with now of the butterfly flapping its wings in brazil causes a hurricane that takes out you know part of east asia as i mean. that there's a relationship between what's going on in the mountain ranges of alaska or in the arctic and. a subtropical area where they're growing rice i mean for example there's a huge amount of ice in greenland on. if it were all to melt sea level would rise twenty three feet or so but the interesting sort of linkage for me is i mean we know about greenland we know there's a lot of ice there but as that ice melts it threatens not only the well being but the food security of asia because so much of asia has rice harvesters prepared to stay in rice growing river deltas and as sea level rises even a one meter rise as i mentioned earlier in bangladesh takes half t

brenda but neither talks about what it all means. hi, brenda. >> so far no deal in washington has been no big deal on wall street. yes, the s&p 500 which is probably a part of your retirement plan fell six of the last seven sessions as did the dow. and last week was a losing one for those markets for the first time since august. but the wall street is certainly watching washington. investors think this is a movie they have seen before, and they are pretty sure they know the ending. at at the last minute a deal will be done. even if the deal does stop, we have had 17 shutdowns since 1976 and none caused a market melt down. if this fiscal crisis doesn't spook investor there's is another important one around the corner that definitely could. sometime around mid-october washington might fail to raise the debt ceiling. the last time the government hit our borrowing limit, the summer of 2011, the nation's credit rating was down graded for the first time ever and the dow lost more than 600 points in one day suffering triple digit swings for

brenda yann. jenny my. nicole >> do we have interpretation available? >> 2 minutes time but we'll double it because of interpretation per speaker. >> good evening everybody. i'm a new parent from the elementary school. we came to voice our serious question about the school and the principal. we share our complaint to assistant who promise to get back to our -- we have not hear from them since so we have send -- last school year the bilingual teachers was -- the principal to transport to another school. teaches with no bcld certificate. one of them can handle speak chinese. we are not happy about this replacement. our student has to get the best teacher. the second one is the principal support this in constantly we are professional no experience teacher. a part-time in how can the student learn in this kind of setting. three, it's the project was located to having inside of the schools. that's why we come back to talk. >> currentary -- currently there is no help. the principal the priority especially for the asian students. giving asian parents. we would

this is in memoriam for one of the bay views most beloved leader a woman by the name of brenda. she was one of the most beloved members she passed away thursday. most knew her from the library where she served for nearly 15 years and worked there go for thirty years and so she began work from the civic center where she was promoted as district manager. her commitment to the baby branch was unwavering. despite her family's moving her involvement in the bay view life was also deep. she co- founded the archive of materials about the african-american migration to the area. and my deepest sympathies to linda husband and three children and please know that the entire city families grief with you for this loss. and madam clerk i submit the rest. supervisor cowen. i wanted to let my colleagues and the public know that this week on september 2nd of one of the san francisco icons in golden gate park which was part of the park is celebrating it's 90 accounting birthday so if you haven't come over to district one the night life parties and events at the academy of sciences it's every thursd

fox's brenda button has all the details. >>> it seems like every year, the holiday shopping push from retailers gets earlier and earlier, and according to a neww report, that may be because retailers are anticipating low sales due to the weak economy.em >>> consumers really not feelinn well, if you are one of the 1%, you're flush, you are feelinge e great, you are spending money, but if you are a member of the t middle-class or the declininging middle-class, it's worse thanwoe you think out there. >>shopper trap measures store traffic in 60,000 locations worldwide and crunches otherher data to come up with the th forecast. this year it's looking at spending rise at 2.4% in in november and december, that is compared with 3% last year and 4% in 2011. >> it's a nice little snapshot, it's a data newin date a nugget. that said, online shopping, it's only 9% of total retail spending. >> reporter: what does this mean for you, the>> rep consume? lots of great holiday dealsy rolling out early, especially in apparel. is as technology becomesmes the new fashion statement. >> so what is happening

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brenda hole sis is the special prosecutor and joins us live from the hague. taylor's lawyers argued there were legal errors made during the original trial. clearly, you're satisfied that isn't the case, and his conviction is sound? >> that's correct. i think the appeals judges very carefully considered the arguments of both parties and carefully reviewed what the trial chamber had done. today's judgment, of course, is the culmination of the judicial proceedings in this case, and i believe it was a fair outcome and supported by the record of trial. >> this case has extremely high profile. some are calling this a watershed moment for human rights law. do you agree? >> i hope so. not because of charles taylor as a person, but what i hope is it's a watershed because i hope that what the appeals chamber today made clear was what the trial chamber made clear, and that is, people in positions of leadership have not only power and authority, but they have responsibility and accountability. if we can move that message forward and expand its application, i think that i