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>> know this. uncle sam spent roughly 1 million dollars last year so kids could learn about the environment by dancing, im not kidding. it helped had theers become environmental stewards and taught land loads about safer ways to kill beg bugs. i cant make this up! gary b, you say using tax dollars for bed bugs is outrageous and the epa using our money to promote the agenda is unacceptable? >> absolutely. i agree theres a role for the epa. certainly, someone has to be a landlord, if you will, for...

Which have the highest unionized rate of the work force, pretty much. right? its obviously not that big of a problem that this-- >> made my point, jonas. >> no, the point is theres firing going on in government workers and more representation than private sector workers and my point is that this agency isnt that effective nor are unions stopping hiring? >> gary b, will the appointments help or hurt the jobs recovery? >> well, brenda, its got to hurt. you know, jonas may be right. that to date. t...

Environment now where we need to cut spending and since labor is 70% of the cost of government is just like business, any business sense would be that we would cut it. thats the sensible thing to do and thats the right thing to do. and it has nothing to do with economics. >> brenda: steve, what do you think? >> two year freeze, 1/2 a percent increase, i think thats fine. you know, the private sector has been creating jobs at a very decent clip now, for the last six months, but its been all set f...

Of cash on hand. so, its the green sprouts. i think we can finally start using that in reality are there for really a terrific 2012. >> todd. are you in such a celebrity tri mood? >> definitely not, brenda. look, if all of those things were actually true that gary b was talking about, the market would have been up 5,000 points this month and that definitely wasnt the case. look, you have to look at just history alone and thats what economists are going to be focusing on going into 2012. first of...

Scoreboard. best call first and toby, youre going to kick things off. talk about a strong call. digital realty trust was at play in september and since then, its built up 26%, do you like it? >> i still like it, brenda. you know, last year, or 11 was about not losing money, and 2012 the same way, dividends and growth, i love it. >> all right, on to number two, gary b, in april you said master card charged of serious gains and you were right. take the profits and cash out or keep buying. >> i sti...

In july. should viewers keep it on buy bhp. >> i do not like about. hp, in mining, due for a slowdown and. >> thanks, guys. we do the bad and good on bulls and bears, the worst for last and starting with the best of the worst or something like that. toby, youre up first, you said micron technology was the name to own in 2011, but more like the name to miss and its down 22%, what happened? >> well, it had, we had a bad, bad numbers because of issues that had nothing to do with micr micron, but th...

Saying, well, they dont expect to hire, you know, a lot of people in 2012 because everyone seems and always makes the default reaction saying, well, whats happened in the past, well, surely that trend will continue in the future. thats how we got the bubble for crying out loud in 2000. everyone thought the internet bubble would go up and up and up. and you cant dismiss todd, have a lot of debt on hand? they have a lot of debt. thats erroneous, first of all, the least amount of the debt na the la...

After black friday and by people who came home and said, what was i anything? were living on a very low growth economy which is going to be with us a very long time and if you dont believe that, youre kidding yourself. >> and more big banks laying off and morn stanley, latest and the production numbers are falling. >> no question. >> got the retail sales number. >> 2% growth is what were going to be happy with and people who think 4% arent doing the math. >> gary b, are you as cautious as toby. ...

Toby, i mean, if every single dollar of spending is bothersome to you, sure, this is a terrible thing, but its a small amount of money and not every pork barrel project is a terrible project. >> 32 billion? >> and i dont really have a-- >> thats exactly right. you cut out the bush tax cuts cost a lot more than pork does and again, i dont really im sorry be the defender of pork, sure, theres a bridge to nowhere here and there, some of those are excellent. >> lets take a look at some of the specia...

That weve seen. i think theyd be better off lowering the minimum wage and allowing employers to drag some more people into the work force, but, its, again, its not as bad as some of the other ideas that have been thrown out there. >> gary b youve heard both sides here, what do you say? >> well, first of all, i havent changed my mind. 24 hours a week is not a lot. when theyre-- you know, contrast to what mike thinks, it was a survey, actually done. theyre watching tv three hours a day. as far as ...