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>> neil: to ben steins comment about being a smooth you know what, i mean, thats a pretty good answer. but gary k, i was at the democratic convention where the president was bragging about our dependence on foreign oil, at an all time low and getting lower. something doesnt mix. >> i think the saudi royal family probably has box seats to all the washington redskins games this year at this point in time. look, im a cynic, i believe bernanke 50-some odd days before the election printing money to g...

Replace ben bernanke with ben bernanke. he wants someone else. and he said this throughout the primary campaign. the president has been very supportive of bernanke. and im just wondering whether its bernankes way of saying, i remember what you said, governor, and remember what youve done, mr. president. >> i would just say this to dagen and people who think its political. have you seen the recent economic statistics and-- >> its not political ands responding to-- >> the census data, the middle c...

Acknowledgment that theres a political process. let me just finish, charlie. theres a political process going on and acknowledging right, we get that. we dont have to wait long to get this, but lets wait until after the general election. >> and obviously, thats what they were thinking, gary, that you know the ends will justify the means, but i always discover, you never get to the end. >> and its never going to get done. look, spending for whatever reason just continues to go higher and higher a...

Taxpayers for that and why are we paying for this, especially when we dont have the money to pay for this, gary? >> neil, its a darn good question. it comes down to three words, enough is enough. we should get some sort of return on our investment. hundreds of millions of dollars going that way. and by the way, a lot of that money we dont know where it went and a lot of its been lost and been picked up by who knows what. it really has to stop and we need it take it all back and make them earn ou...

Else? okay. you think about that (laughter) >> stop me, stop me. >> charlie graasperino, and gary, what do you think about that? you think about the republican side, six months to keep it going so the government doesnt shut down. in so doing that, you increase spending. >> i dont blame the freshmen, i blame the leadership, it comes from the top down and neil, theres no grape fruits in washington d.c. i go back to one simple number. in 08, 2.8 trillion federal spending, 3.7 trillion next year, th...

The can will always get kicked down the road. its a plausible argument. >> yeah, because its proof of-- >> do you have any proof of otherwise, adam. are you kidding? >> and they will to address this in some way in january. we know that. because of the fiscal cliff. maybe theyd kick the can down the road again, but where i also agree with charlie, with unemployment as high as it is, this is no time to have-- >> why, why. >> and by the way, you want to start doing stuff, make a-- >> unemployment a...

>> the fight over student loans rates moving on. and to stop those from doubling and now the white house is issuing a veto warning and it wants the low rates and it doesnt like how this legislation pays from. but jonas, you say stop the nonsense because its only going to drive tuitions higher? >> theyre not dealing with a co-issue, when you make loans available at a low rate. its great because you can go to school. thats what happens to housing i prices, you could afford more home and they could...

People respond to that. first of all, gary k. >> well, first off you mention the auto workers toss the auto workers toss that point. its the unions na basically destroyed gm with the costs and legacy costs out there. the big issue when these things become blobbish, a new word i made up, thats when trouble comes. i dont worry about these things on a smaller scale, but once they get into a larger scale, thats where destruction happens and mandates from unions to the business, id rather business co...

>> i think this is a classic overreaction, they hear unions and automatically assume that anything unionized is bad for the economy and bad for job growth. >> it is. >> if you look at historic levels of unionization, union membership is at an all time low. jonas is right. when you look at private sector, 6.9% and were in single digits and more than half of union members right now are in government jobs. are you concerned were not creating enough government jobs, gary? >> gary, perhaps theres a r...

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