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Celebrating its fourth birthday over the weekend. anybody bake a cake for it? with six days to go before the obamacare deadline, the study that they wish didnt happen. a lot of families and business, you have to do a cost-benefit analysis. new study out that basically says the costs outweigh the benefit. >> in a gigantic way, take a look at this. the american action forum estimates that the regulatory cost to the united states since the affordable care act was signed is $27 billion. what that bo...

Question about resources and preparation, and you had something to say about new orleans and the -- >> well, lets take new orleans. katrina cost roughly $100 billion. the u.s. army corps of engineers spent i think on the order of $15 billion after the storm to fix the problem. it would have taken maybe $8 billion to $10 billion or something like that to fix it before the problem. so, for every $1 that you spend ahead of disaster protecting against disaster has been on average nationwide shown to...

new york. im wolf blitzer. thanks for watching. the news continues next on cnn. good evening, everyone. it is testing time in american politics. one leading republican presidential contender, texas governor rick perry, is about to make his debate debut and is drawing a political spotlight as his state deals with punishing wildfires. >> at this point were urging people to avoid any outdoor activity which could conceivably start a fire. >> another top-tier gop contender the former mc...

>> neil: is this why your running away to las vegas? >> were going to have a heck of a show a week from saturday. were taking the show to vegas to talk about the impact of this economy on tourism. while there, if we have fun, forgives us. no gambling for me. >> neil: governor huckabee. thank you very much. were getting more outs of governor schwarzenegger, outlining the tax code as it stand and the tax rates. theyre among the more onerous. theyll stay as they are, as the governor huckabee pointe...