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Does that hurt? >> yes, it does. because, remember, to pats points, these are large companies and now, we always say that small businesses is a big job creator, but they are, the fact of the matter is two companies in the united states are responsible for about 25% of jobs, so, it absolutely does and to mr. gibsons point, the whole issue of health care being paid at the national level in europe or other countries, hey, our biggest competitor is china. they dont pay squat, all right? so i dont bu...

Negotiated, but no question, the unions have to play their kind of hearts in dealing with the economic situation. its a bit galling, however, if youre a cop or teacher or firefighter to kind of having to step back. what you negotiated for in your last contract was not a pay increase, but more benefits and what now youre being asked to give those away and to have the hedge fund manager who might be making a billion dollars kind of scream bloody murder because their tax break might go up a little ...

Startling report. 36% of tax filers in 2008 ended up paying no income tax at all once the deductions and refunds were factored in. thats a new record of money not coming in. that is before all this massive new spending under this president. gary b., you say something is going to crack sometime soon. >> absolutely, brenda. the premise is are we going to become greece? i think were already there. thats just not just hi hyperbo hyperbole. look at numbers. we have $1.6 trillion deficit. the debt is ...

Most fatty foods available. >> news for gary, the nanny state is already causing the problem. the farm subsidies are what caused high fructose corn syrup. >> im not in favor of farm subsidiaries. >> were on the same page. its cheaper to get calories via junk food than fresh fruits and vegetable. to tobys point, attack it at the end to give them cash but a better idea is get rid of farm subsidiaries. if you want to subsidize anything, subsidize fresh fruit. better yet dont make it cheaper to buy ...

Intervention, by the way, nothing to do with the bad insurance companies. all they do is take the medical cost and add 3%. the medical cost is going up because of all the intervention. cmon! >> we need more government intervention. we need strict regulation of the insurance industry. >> that has got us so far. its done great for flood insurance in florida and great for earthquake insurance in california. lets take a failed system and take it to all 50 states. >> youre right. get rid of it and go...

>> brenda: you got that math, toby? >> there is a lot of bad assumptions. youre dead wrong here. the number one assumption youre making is there is enough rich people to go around to pay for this thing. the fact of the matter is the taxes that we took from rich people in 2007, that was the peak. rich peoples tax payments are down 25, 30%. theyre not coming back to those levels. the initial sin of this whole crazy idea is a small amount of people will continue to pay outrageous rates. aint going ...

America. there is an urge to slap 18% tax on pizza and soda to trim the waistline. toby, you say dont tax them, pay them. >> give them cash! why? instead of behavior incentive, the one sintive that works is cash. weve seen it in the private sector. dont kid ourselves. the average healthcare bill for american is $3600. for obese person its $1,500 more. we would get the money back if they made the goal were setting. it works. why scrutinize it. if they want to get fat and pay the own healthcare, h...

Have put $5,000 down. so what are they going to do when theyre foreclosed? they pick up and go live in an apartment. we dont really want to save the vast majority of people foreclosed upon. they probably should have been foreclosed upon. so what were really doing is putting a false bottom in the housing market. we dont let those homes clear and drop to a price where everyone can benefit. so its just a lose-lose proposition. >> what do you think, julia? >> i think that this is not for the people ...

About 20 million jobs over -- 2 million jobs over the next 20 years. this is a killer. its a tax like anything else. cap and trade, whether you call it epa regulation, this is another burden were placing on the back of the american consumer, all because obama thinks this is the right way to go. >> well, erik, its all going kind of to the back burner, id say. >> gary is 100% right. its a way to raise taxes and garner control. they want control of health care and energy, which is probably the leas...

Sunday" with chris wallace at 6:00 p.m. eastern. thanks for watching. im shannon bream. this is fox news where more captioned by closed captioning services, inc. > with the majority ofamican americans saying focus on jobst the president set to make a major announcement on healthcare within days.ay dem reports are democrats will pocw ahead with their own plan.ne one they are now claiming will take care of jobs. four million jobs to be exact.b will it? hi, im brenda buttner. and this is bulls an...