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In order to meet the meat demands of over 24 million Lagosians, which stands at 1.4 million of head of cattle yearly, a total of 1,380,000 head of cattle will be required to bridge the deficit gap in the state.

Are struggling to understand the rationale in terms of the timing of these tax cuts in a time when were almost near full employment where we should be using the money to plug that deficit gap but there is one explanation that some democrats provide and that is that you want to actually force these cuts to touching that third rail to put us in a situation where we have to make these drastic cuts to these entitlement programs. can you please speak to that question? >> look, that is extreme hyperbo...

Youve talked about that many times, weve talked about that. but there are people here who say that the gross is not going to make up for the numbers, that youre going to add to the deficit and debt in this plan. >> i just happen to think they are wrong. weve got a chance here to grow the economy. we talked about this before, the chance to grow an american economy 3%, were already at 3% right now without this tax bill having passed. if we can get about 3%, the amount of money that generates to th...

Lower tax regimes. you do want to stimulate corporate development, you do want to encourage companies to bring money back, you do want to have an enterprise culture. all valid reasons for moving to a low-tax environment. and the philosophical reason -- why should the government take more of my money than i keep for myself? but do not try and conflate that with an economic reason which says youre going to make up the shortfall from lack of economic revenues. youre not. its not going to happen. an...

Afloat while lowering taxes. but romney did eliminate the deficit gap in masses while governor. and does have a lot of experience in economic matters, unlike the president that is, ladies and gentlemen, about as fair as i can make it what i have just told you is beyond dispute. on a personal note, im very disappointed in president obama for dodging the questions about libya, which he continues to do while the national press allowed mr. obama to avoid the libyan subject, a local reporter in denve...

Senate in nebraska told politico, kerrey believes the $250,000 limit is too low but is evaluating how specific proposals would affect the ballot. claire mchaskel said she would look at it to reign in the deficit. by the way, the president made sure to argue that the bush tax cuts never worked. >> we were told that it would lead to more jobs and higher incomes for everybody and prosperity would start at the top and then trickle down. what happened? instead of creating more jobs, we had the slowes...

Hes going to have to make this a choice, not a referendum on his first term. democrats acknowledge that publicly. rick: the speaker in the interview asked about the presidents opposition to the paul ryan budget plan. >> if the president doesnt like that budget where is his budget? his budget failed on the floor of the house, zero to 414. not one democrat or one republican voted for the presidents budget. why? because he wasnt serious about dealing with americas problems. rick: that vote that the...

At the top. not only nationally but in florida and south carolina after the allegations. >>dave: that is very interesting. a "wall street journal" poll asks who do you think is the likely nominee for the republicans and voters say romney overwhelmingly: 45-13 percent for herman cain. but the polls show him right there at the top. has he turned the page from the scandal? >> well, cot is right, it is mit romney and not mitt romney and right now not mitt romney is getting 75 percent of vote and i a...

That 1%. im generally in favor of the idea that the rich should pay somewhat more but to really deal with the deficit gap we are talking about, that alone just numerically is not going to be enough. >> joining us now from washington is ben stein. he is an economist and the author of the new book "what would ben stein do?" so let me ask you that very question, ben stein. you would actually raise taxes on the highest earners, right? >> oh, yes, by quite a lot and then i would raise taxes on the on...

That 1%. im generally in favor of the idea that the rich should pay somewhat more but to really deal with the deficit gap we are talking about, that alone just numerically is not going to be enough. >> joining us now from washington is ben stein. he is an economist and the author of the new book "what would ben stein do?" so let me ask you that very question, ben stein. you would actually raise taxes on the highest earners, right? >> oh, yes, by quite a lot and then i would raise taxes on the on...