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That an american president should say about gas prices is that he promises to release as much u.s. oil into the population as he possibly can as we can possibly sustain to keep demand low and supply high? >> well, as i say, the strategic reserve a finite amount and you can artificially depress oil prices temporarily. >> right. >> but youre going to have to rebuild that. lets hear what the market a telling us. brent today is $110 a barrel. thats telling us that oil is getting scarce and dear. the...

Tax code and get the incentives back in, that will help small businesses, particularly go out, build their businesses, and hire more people. >> i think thats absolutely true. business owners, small and large, are holding back. theyre fearful that theyre going to have higher taxes down the road on their own profits and also just on the cost of hiring a new person. theyre fearful those costs will go up in the forms of taxes and regulations. so, mark, i agree with you that its a demand problem, but...

Edward lazear whos a conservative economist came out with a paper at the jackson hole conference last week. he pointed out the simple fact, the industry that lost hardest during the down turn have gained jobs the fastest back during the upturn. theres other research that shows in the counties where theres the most household debt going into the crisis, theyve had the worst economic come backs. lack of demand, over indenlded, household sector. not some idea how we need to completely retool it. >> ...

And-- >> and with the clean response. rather than these platitudes, rather than the platitudes, can we refer to some facts here. >> jewel yin, hojulian, youre one-- well get on, finish your sentence. >> saying it hurts the middle class, its regress seive and the worst of all kinds of taxes and if we had an about thor business environment and a favorable business environment. we can handle this potentially, we may not like it, but we can handle it. >> toby, thats the issue right now, were in atte...

Government and they, fight it the wrong way with low rates too long. >>neil: inflation is not a problem. we are going to keep interest rates where they are, and by extension, here, average developments that are not what we make them out to be. >>guest: what is going up, you can tell it is not just an inflationary problem. it is a demand problem. we started to ex-spot our goods and services abroad and our dollar has been unchanged but these are up 10 percent and 12 percent so that says there is a...

Join us in finally putting himself behind the bill to help the middle class. >> the republicans never talk about the middle class. joining me tonight, leo gerard, of the united steelworkers. tonight theyre trying to hoodwink the american people as if they did something for the middle class. are republicans really looking out for the middle class, as cantor claims there? >> absolutely not. its another one of their show games. you know, hide the pea and pulling the stick. what the real reality is ...

Join us in finally putting himself behind the bill to help the middle class. >> the republicans never talk about the middle class. joining me tonight, leo gerard, of the united steelworkers. tonight theyre trying to hoodwink the american people as if they did something for the middle class. are republicans really looking out for the middle class, as cantor claims there? >> absolutely not. its another one of their show games. you know, hide the pea and pulling the stick. what the real reality is ...

A total disaster from the point of view of most americans and that almost has to be true of anything perry proposes as well, right? a flat tax almost by definition will be a big tax increase for the poor and middle class. >> in terms of pulling ourselves out of the economic hole that were in, stemming a second recession, as far as i understand it, we really have a demand problem. we desperately need to put some more demand into the economy so businesses have a reason to hire people because they ...

A total disaster from the point of view of most americans and that almost has to be true of anything perry proposes as well, right? a flat tax almost by definition will be a big tax increase for the poor and middle class. >> in terms of pulling ourselves out of the economic hole that were in, stemming a second recession, as far as i understand it, we really have a demand problem. we desperately need to put some more demand into the economy so businesses have a reason to hire people because they ...

I mean, the cain plan looks like a total disaster from the point of view of most americans and that almost has to be true of anything perry proposes as well, right? a flat tax almost by definition will be a big tax increase for the poor and middle class. >> in terms of pulling ourselves out of the economic hole that were in, stemming a second recession, as far as i understand it, we really have a demand problem. we desperately need to put some more demand into the economy so businesses have a re...