"Don't they watch our show?"

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

After 20-years of "America's Funniest Home Videos," creator and executive producer, Vin Di Bona, still cannot understand why people buy trampolines. At the donation of "America's Funniest Home Videos" objects to the National Museum of American History today, he said, “I still don’t know why people buy trampolines. It makes no sense. Don’t they watch our show? What the hell are the matter with these people?”
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Schumer: "Something's out of wack with Executive compensation"

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee met for the second time to discuss “Enhancing Investor Protection and the Regulation of Securities Markets.”
At the hearing, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said, “We all believe people should be rewarded for good performance, that’s not the problem, but what we’ve seen in many instances that has enraged Americans is a heads-eye wind tail you lose system. In which executives are rewarded for flashing the pan short term gains, or even worse, rewarded richly when the company does poorly and the shareholders have been hammered.”
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Unemployed and uninsured

Executive Director for Families USA, Ron Pollock, tells Talk Radio News Service, in a telephone conference, that the economic recovery package needs to extend health care coverage to the unemployed.
February 6, 2009
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COBRA coverage catch

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

Executive Director for Families USA, Ron Pollock, tells Talk Radio News Service, in a telephone conference, that the reason that so many unemployed people are uninsured is due to a catch in the COBRA coverage scheme available to them.
February 6, 2009.
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