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Welcome to everybody. gary b., everybody is focusing on who is running it but should the focus be let the employers and not the government get america covered? >> i think so brenda. we have obamacare and the majority of the country doesnt want it, and they voted they dont like it and would want it to go away or at least at a minimum make dramatic changes. what do they like? as you showed in the numbers, they like employer-based health care, because they have a vested interest in making sure thei...

More or rewards those with a fuel efficient vehicle. >> its like a big brother, if anyone is making a pit stop. >> what kind of pit stop? >> no, we only talk about that on commercial break. gary b., you werent too worried about this ez structure. >> theyre already attracting people by the miles they drive. do you drive on a turnpike? theyre showing theyre not pulling over to have a beer or two at the bar. look. the government you think they will go through that data? they cant figure out who car...

Row. >> okay. >> all right. tracy. >> all in unemployment number is actually up this month. so it actually is getting woors. all in, it is still bad out there. all in, people dont want to work part time and all in, we are not seeing companies come to the forefront of the. we talk to them all the time. theyre not looking to hire. so i dont know what were talking about here. great we got some jobs back. but we are not seeing a thriving economy. ill tell you, it is tax hikes that kills the small bu...

Okay. gary b., dont we want the best and the brightest in d.c.? isnt pay a part of that? >> well, exactly, brenda, and i hate to take the other side from john in this one. >> dont do it, gary. >> the fact is in 1970, the average pay of a congressman was inflation adjusted a dollar $250 thousand. now they get $174,000. theyve taken a 30% pay cut in the last 40 years or. so if you say they were overpaid now, they were dramatically overpaid in 1970. the other thing you mentioned, john said, yes, th...

. >> talk about a road warrior. try a mileage tax on top of a gas tax to fix roads and bridges and not just for fuel efficient cars. every car north carolina is putting the wheels in motion right now the fear is other states will follow. gary b., you want to know where all the tax is going. >> exactly. im all in favor of a fileage tax, easy enough to do. most of us have those readers when we go through the e-zpass. on top of a gas tax? the money is wasted. we go to build like bicycle paths and t...

Get ruined. tuitions go up in almost every school because of the athletic department. you cant say this will raise tuition, but it will raise ticket prices like in pro ball. >> john was a student athlete, gary b., weigh in here. >> i think i agree with tracy. i dont like this at all. how is this different than mark getting a scholarship to study whatever he is studying at usc? one of the stipulations was the amount of hours they put in. i bet mark is putting in 50 hours a week. substitute the wo...

Problems. >> gary b., how many of this is waste by the government? they spent $5 million on this get groove video to help us get healthy. >> you look across the board, there is fraud in medicare, there is fraud in social security. we talked a number of times in the fraud in food stamps, you add that up across the board, there is trillions of dollars in waste there that we can lop. but i think you hit on an important point. we paid it on the panel a few minutes ago. unless the congress is willing...

>> ouch. okay. gary b, some people arc you we can spend as much as we want because we can print as much money as we want. it comes down to, we have to pay the debt the interest on that debt. >> union pointed out the size of the debt, its the highest since world war ii. its doubled since 2007. you are right. we got a debt thats 100% of the gdp. that itself the not the biggest problem. the interest payments are increasing. we spend 2.5% of gdp on interest payments. if interest rates incress, that ...

. >> predictions, gary b., you are up. >> brenda, facebook recognition they tell you is as good as human. maybe this human right here. i still like the stock. its up 20% at the end of the year. >> john, do you like it? >> no one is better than you. >> jonas, your prediction. >> new york citys bike sharing program, city bike, just like the benefactor citigroup before them is in financial problems, good for the tire makers over at goodyear because tourists dont want to ride on the snow. >> gary b....

Do it. he should. that doesnt cost the revenue. tax a guy to mix fix new jerseys problems. >> the problem sheer not how we get the money to the government t. problem is the government, itself, it is a net. you want to go state by state? how about all 50 states and one freg federal government. lotteries were sold in the southern states, they were to fund education. it went into the slush fund just like gary b. said. i am for using tax completely. i think if you fly you should pay for the tsa, i t...