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People going on disability when they shouldnt is an issue. dont attach it to the h 1 b visa issue. >> tucker: im not attacking anyone for being disabled. youre missing the point. what im merely say something we have a huge unemployment problem in america. that also extends to people who graduate from college, 41% who say they are under employed. we have a massive labor pool educated in our system and, yet, they are being turned away in favor of people being educated abroad. that does not help am...

People going on disability when they shouldnt is an issue. dont attach it to the h 1 b visa issue. >> tucker: im not attacking anyone for being disabled. youre missing the point. what im merely say something we have a huge unemployment problem in america. that also extends to people who graduate from college, 41% who say they are under employed. we have a massive labor pool educated in our system and, yet, they are being turned away in favor of people being educated abroad. that does not help am...

Dont attach it to the h 1 b visa issue. >> tucker: im not attacking anyone for being disabled. youre missing the point. what im merely say something we have a huge unemployment problem in america. that also extends to people who graduate from college, 41% who say they are under employed. we have a massive labor pool educated in our system and, yet, they are being turned away in favor of people being educated abroad. that does not help america in any way. >> well, again, part of whats going to ch...

>> i guess i would have to disagree with that because i think people want to work. i think when people do find a job they cant take unemployment benefits any more. i think one of the bad things in this report is that wages are not rising, which also may show that people are taking jobs that are of a lower wage, which proves once again that they want to work. they dont want to be on these benefits. >> there was another negative. the labor pool is just as small as it was before. >> do they help or...

Since 1983. unemployment nationally is down from where it was two years ago. do you think the presidents policies deserve credit? >> i dont think the presidents policies have anything to do with this. and the fact is, the reason these numbers are coming down is that more people are leaving the workforce, leaving the search for a job, and as a result, youve got less people in the labor pool. and so, you asked americans how they feel about the economy, and theyre going to look at you and say, wher...

Unemployment nationally is down from where it was two years ago. do you think the presidents policies deserve credit? >> i dont think the presidents policies have anything to do with this. and the fact is, the reason these numbers are coming down is that more people are leaving the workforce, leaving the search for a job, and as a result, youve got less people in the labor pool. and so you asked americans how they feel about the economy, and theyre going to look at you and say, where are the job...

Extent they are right. some people are called racist and they are called things with an ease that i am uncomfortable with and homophobic and all of those other things. i think that is absolutely something that they have a real right to be angry about and to feel that they have been vilified for those things, and i am guilty of doing those things myself. >> well done. what about stewart telling wallace that his job is harder? >> when did i say to you i am only a comedian? i said i am a comedian f...

The s&p 500 now 46% of the profits come from abroad. what about the doubling of the potential labor pool, the doubling of the potential workforce? was that also -- is that also a huge part of this story, that you can now make anything in the world using skilled labor but at a tenth of the price? >> yes. i mean, i was at american express when this all started to happen, and all of a sudden, you know, you say, gee, are we going to have 100 million, 200 million chinese carrying cards, credit cards?...

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