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Waste, fraud, abuse, but much less of it. >> let me push back, john. when you left it up to the states to decide, the federal reform under clinton left it to states to decide, then you have job requirements were weakened at the state level, they let the states decide. thats when you had weight watcher classes qualifying for food stamps, anti-smoking classes qualifying. i dont think thats the way to go. >> they should be laboratories of ideas. some will make them weak, some will make them strong,...

>> i dont think it is politically feasible to get rid of the pgc. we have to be a safety net or entitlement. getting rid of it gets rid of a safety net when what we want is keep the safety net, not make it entitlement. >> john, keep the safety net? go ahead. >> i dont see why we are on the hook for company errors. thats the problem, it made us into a safety net society, keep propping up failures of others. >> michael? >> if you allow them to charge the proper rate, you wont have to bail it out. ...

Transform how you watch college football. let them do it. get the government out of the way, let them work their magic. >> at what cost are these mistakes? how costly could they be? go ahead. >> the school of economics to which i usually subscribe, let it fly until it doesnt work out. that works until delivering a pizza runs into a jet engine causing a catastrophe. my thing is no drones within 20 miles of an airport. >> rick, what do you think? >> i want to know why you were concerned about carr...

>> absolutely. none of us begrudge people that fall on hard times, all of us imagine what that might be like. but the safety net is terribly broken. supplemental assistance program has doubled in size since 2007. it is now helping 47 million americans. theres someing wrong if one in seven americans depend on food stamps. >> good point. michael, this debate often is derailed by people that think we dont want to help widows, orphans, children. thats not where the debate sits. we added th...

The -- the more the economy will recover on its own. >> im not so sure about that. >> the figures seem to indicate that. >> it is going to recover on its own but i think it will recover a lot quicker. >> john said david is right. go ahead. >> thats two times in two weeks that tammy has agreed with me. the negativity that the government and the citizens have displayed is a big part of what has kept this economy down. >> let washington state go.

Internet huge job destroyers created better jobs. i think robotics and automation will make businesses more profitable which means they can expand and create more jobs down the line. >> sabrina? >> only one hardware store left where i live i think because of big box stores. i like being able to get affordable goods. the fact is they do push out mall businesses. they are able to absorb the costs differently. and to johns point i am all for progress. if the government gets in the way and pushes up...

if you made me dictator i would zero out the capital gains tax. there are no companies and no jobs without investment first. i cut the corporate tax. there is no reason to rob corporations of the successful future. i free up trade to specialize in the work we do best. good money is the path to major investment and trade and that is the path to prosperity. >> look at all of the capital in this country that is frozen. i mean, this country relies on capital to get things started. all of t...

Okay? our economy is built around consumer. i. in terms of being self-indulgent hypocrites, there is no question that hollywood is pretty bad. but its not as bad as politicians or media types. >> john, where do you stand on this? is dicaprio right or wrong? >> he has a point. i am a libertarian and my view is people should live as they want so long as they dont make others pay for their lifestyles. for me, far more corrosive to society is when a man is living well is when people live off of othe...

Filing for bankruptcy. let me explain. when governments bail out businesses they rob the economy of recovery, because basically they are perpetuating failed business practices at the expense of good ones. the realities of g.m. had been allowed to go bankrupt, it wouldnt have been been banishe. let them go. >> if theyre selling cars like gangbusters now shouldnt they give us the profits? we lent it to them. >> if we follow johns path, i similar not these with the argument wed be -- sympathize wit...

Macdonald, john tandy and rick unger. tame to get rid of the navigators? >> of course. this is something the insurance companies do every day and they should have their employees do it. the bigger picture in defense is they are a symptom of the much-bigger problem which is the obama administrations obnoxious conceit it can create healthcare market out of thin air. the better answer is to repeal it. >> rick, john is fur getting rid of them. but he is defending them. >> i heard that. >> i heard th...