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Looks like, we need confidence. if we can get some corporate confidence, theres another money there to drive this thing and were not headed into a recession. its a confidence issue theres not a-- >> theres a lot of tax out there, toby. >> remember, as bob well knows, 1.3 trillion of that is overseas and theyre not going to bringack because of taxes and the second part is the demand side of this. when you go into recession, thats not the time that you come back and start building business busines...

America. >> exactly, brenda. look, i dont understand the problem with n weve historically, weve had to spend extra money on disasters and fema and such. weve historically taken that from another side of of the balance sheet so it balances out. now, all of a sudden. were supposed to be, you know, daddy war bucks with the money when weve gone through this debt crisis. look, all anyone is saying, yes, look, pay the disaster relief bill and take it from many of the other areas that we have extra mon...

Refinance, cause their houses are underwater? >> exactly. the markets are highly volatile right now and trending down, because they are primarily concerned about debt. not the economic stimulus that a lot of us think is necessary to create jobs and to get things moving again. and the biggest debt, the european debt problem, theres a federal government debt problem and states are in terrible shape in terms of their debt. and mostly on the pension side, but the middle class is upside down on their...

Republicans. >> and john, why are we seeing a downturn and certainly not with wall street and the markets. they are up right now as we watch what is happening, but why arent we seeing a reaction at least now? >> i think that so far, still, wall street looked at the situation as one where the damsel is tied to the railroad tracks and the locomotive is coming, but at the last minute the politicians will stand up and stop the locomotive and that is the likeliest scenario, too, i believe. and the wh...

>>guest: it is like throwing good money after bad, like the europeans giving another bailout to greece. when you are in a hole, what is the rule we are taught? stop digging. and, yet the president compulsively cannot resist throwing more money at anything that seems like it might have a special interest group behind it or, maybe, it has a good focus group behind it but that is exactly how we got in this mess. >>neil: im told studying this shrimp study would be beneficial to the gulf region and t...

Same benefits. im not going to have at 48, the same benefits my parents have. >> why should you, joe scarborough, or me, my first job, i was a bus boy at jones beach. >> god bless you. >> ive been paying into medicare every paycheck since then. now, im being told youre going to lose that guaranteed medicare benefit. you just said you will get reduced benefits. i think there are better options. the options are, why do -- if youre making over a million dollar why do you continue to get $100,000 ta...

And how about making millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share so? we can do all that and not december decimate medicare. yes, were all future senior, arent we. and if i had my way, and i hope i do, we will keep the promises that we made to our seniors who spent their entire lives paying into a medicare system so it

Because of politically savvy companies like koch industry and others. in 2000 they teamed up with enron and wrote the enron loophole for the derivatives. they used tea party allies to try to kill dodd-frank last year. the tea party that ep head elect the koch brothers, they will -- >> how do you argue they are not -- >> we have to leave it there for now. >> that makes no sense, lee. >> lee, thanks. at least we settled everything for now. >> thanks to lee. thanks to our mega panel. tim karny who ...

Specific rules charged to the cftc, regulatory body that governs all this to write an excessive speculation. >> speaking of someone who is not paid by anybody sadly -- >> i agree with christian on that. the future markets are important to maintain, price stability. but arent we in the era now where the amount of speculation by players who are actually trying to maintain price stability is far outweighed by profit eers like the koch brothers or any number of speculators? >> yes, absolutely. we ha...

>> jeanine: let me move on. the presidents said he was willing to forgive egypt $1 billion that they owe us. all right? and can we even afford to forgive a billion dollars in debt that egypt owes us? and arent we -- >> bingo. thats the $14 trillion question right there, judge y. is it that were borrowing money from foreign countries to give and loan money to foreign countries, no, we dont have these dollars, these billion bucks to be forgiving egypt. egypt of course is a whole other story here w...