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Money to improve this. its the fear factor and so we have to be prepared for it. >> julian? >> jonas is right on everything he stated about the safety factor and secondly, idea that you would use this for a gas tax, thats silly since we have a gas tax and third thing is the thing you really have to watch out for. collection of the data to mon advertise it, the kinds of things you buy and where you go. the data you have to have strict rules. >> we have that with progressive insurance and the box ...

A disproportionate amount-- >> gary b, you live i maryland, should you and maryland be paying for what detroit or michigan is deciding to do with unions and pensions and how they got themselves in this mess in the first place? >> exactly, brenda. i kind of agree with jonas. im not sure id be so quick bail out cities with national catastrophes. they decided to live there and build there. but jonas it right, a lot of cities like detroit are heavily unionized. they invested heavily in these gold-pl...

Agency that republicans and democrats agree to be the ultimate authority is the congressional budget office. they looked at this question and they found that raising the top, the rates on the top 2% will have virtually no impact on gdp and virtually no impact on job formation, the republicans in congress didnt like that study. so they asked the crs. congressional research service to review the data and come up with conclusions and guess what, they looked at this and said the same thing, almost n...

Mcdonalds in new york city. from mickey ds to wal-mart to one of our nations busiest airports to key shipping ports. big labor is flexing its big muscles after the election and gary b, you say its a big problem for us, the consumers, how so? >> absolutely, brenda, look, everyone should realize what unions are, unions are a little monopoly in the company and exercising the the monopoly powers, raise the rates and this days the wages for their employees through an unsustainable level. so what the ...

Tobin smith. jonas max ferris and larry glazier, welcome to everybody. and larry, you say delay it? >> thats right, thats right, brenda, given the choice between the loss of millions of jobs in a deep and severe recession or delaying a deal in hopes of getting meaningful spending cuts in washington, the kind of spending that would cut the 4 billion dollars worth of additional spending every day, thats the long-term not the short-term to prevent being back in this place a year from now and thats ...

Feds, why should they get off for free. if theyre too block head today run their own exchange, we should charge them the fee and thats something that will be passed along. i think in net-net though, i think youll discover that this is a fee you wont notice. >> brenda: gary b, you agree with na? >> i do not, brenda. i have one overriding principle. when the government is involved, and invariably costs go up. look at any, for example, any construction problem in the federal government domain over ...

Not every job needs to be unionized in america. >> brenda: but, tobin, workers point out its hard to live on $16,000 a year in new york city, which is essentially what theyre making. >> well, its hard to live in new york city on 16,000 a month let me tell you. the bigger issue, this is a new york issue. if you look at the overall economy and overall states were having states move to right to work state. less unionization. and so, this is a new york centric problem. you know, the issue of unions,...

All of this malarky, well get the same thing next year, we know that. the knowns are known. the unknowns, unknowns is what types of she nangans to come up with a gimmick and the market wont like that. >> gary b, will there have to have a gimmick? the president won the election and if it pushed over, blame the republicans? >> well, brenda, i think there will be a gimmick and thats unfortunately the way that washington works these days, larry had a phrase, he said meaningful spending difficulties....

>> if you look, thats not the ca case. >> for the summer? >> ten years ago, look, lets get this microeconomically, gary b, i believe your daughter is going to be fine because shes going to work hard and education, and thats what it takes, and make it happen for yourself. >> i was going to-- quickly, jim, last word on this? >> well, things are different than they were, even 25 years ago, 30 years ago when he graduated from college you could pretty much get a job going out of college and things ar...

On to foxnews.com. >> leave us alone, as the fiscal cliff nears a group representing more than two dozen federal employee unions telling congress not to touch their pay and benefits when it comes to any debt deal they say, quote, no other group has been asked to financially contribute the way they have. gary b, you say what? >> yeah, i dont understand that, brenda. from two perspectives, one, in life for like jobs, including the benefits and wages, government employees make out a lot better than...