1030 and under something, four out of ten have a favorable view of socialism. what in the devil is going on may i ask. steve: where does that come from? ainsley: where is that. >> hard to say where it comes from. suffice it to say that i think bernie sanders is now the intellectual, ideological driving force of the democrat party. his people have taken over the party driving them to the left. brian: is he not even in the party. >> no. is he a democrat socialist. people are ar not worried about the word socialist. that's poison to someone like me. to a young generation it's not. sorry, interrupting you. steve: here's the thing. i have get why they are joining this club. they want stuff for free. we all want stuff for free. ainsley: they are not making much money right now. steve: people realize there is a cost to that. >> sounds attractive. the socialists want to make america more like europe. cradle to grave security. forget about the military and tax the rich. everybody can have everything
releases a budget that talks mostly about increasing the debt and increasing the spending, correct? >> treasury secretary geithner, his job is to articulate the president's world view on economics. and that's what he was doing in that soundbite. he is saying, if you -- basically saying, look, tax increases do not hurt the economy as much as spending cuts. he says tax cuts create more poverty. i think the exact opposite. >> let me ask you this -- once you start this kind of spending in handing out more kinds of entitlements. >> you can't stop it. >> you can't stop it. >> you cannot stop it. look what's happening in europe. they've hit the wall. they've got cradle to grave security. they can't afford it. they've got to pull back on these entitlements and you have riots in the streets. you have bankruptcy. we're heading in that same direction. what happens when we in america say sorry, you can't have all that medicare. you can't do this on social security. you can't have a free cell phone and can't have free birth
underlying it all, you are watching the disintegration of europe's financial system. that is a big deal. >> i watched last night and he said part of it, it goes bigger than that. it's the socializing of the economy which is killing the euro and killing these -- and causing these huge deficits. >> look, this is an opinion and i'll express it. in my opinion, you are witnessing the failure of the european model. the european model is socialism today. it's modern, latter day socialism. it is failing. it's characterized by very high taxes, by entitlement programs cradled crad cradle to grave security, and that's modern day socialism and it's visibly failing and falling to pieces in europe as we speak. >> and the problem is, ok, so greece is getting the bailout. and now they've gone on the huge austerity program and that's why there's people rioting in the streets. if you're going to bail out greece, germany is going to come
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