embarrassed as a democrat that this administration has done so little. i ve tried to talk inside the fence, inside the tent, as it were, and i have not been listened to at all. so, they re going to pay a huge price because they didn t listen, they didn t do. from 2007 onward i ve been saying the very same thing. we have got to have more domestic production. if he woo we don t we re at the mercy of opec, shame on us, we have all of this oil we are in the ground, we re not touching it. neil: and a maybe on president obama, and john hofmeister, it may be not a name proving for the president s big night, but it will be a number, a very big number. cholesterol? and it tastes good? sure does! wow. it s the honey, it makes it taste so. well, would you look at the time. what s the rush? be happy. be healthy. trouble with a car insurance claim.
neil: you re talking about unfunded liabilities and the whole nine yards, right? what i m talking about, you take the debt, the unfunded civilian and military pensions and unfunded social security, under funded medicare, according to official government documents, 7 trillion 400, going up 10 million a minute and find out and track it at 10 million minute.com. and that s the number people should be talking about, know the 16 trillion dollar number. neil: you know, ron paul, rand paul s father, had said we re beyond the stage of cutting it. we re almost beyond the stage of thinking we can boom our way out of it. so what do we do about it? well, i spoke to ron paul yesterday at length on the phone, you know, the truth is, is that we shouldn t be focused on cutting the debt. we have to get debt to gdp to a reasonable and sustainable level and debt as a percentage of the economy. we need to get it to 60% by
and so, when senator reid said that, it was disingenuous on his part. neil: you ve got to wonder, i never find it constructive to make political hack statements from either party for the republicans to d disparadi disparadi disparage when he goes to the hurricane hit areas or mitt romney. a good gesture is a good gesture is a good gesture. done with it, shut up. it is and it was a good gesture and i agree with you. here is what senator reid is forgetting. some people died. some other people are still suffering. some people lost everything that they have. and to make a politically charged statement like that based upon nothing, but his perception and his intent to try and attack romney and ryan, i think that that is disrespectful to all the people that suffered in this particular hurricane. neil: and go to the campaign now and post this convention and this bounce
neil? yikes, yikes. jonathan, thank you very much. jonathan serry. it s slamming drivers on this busy holiday weekend and gas prices at a record level for a labor day weekend. and jumping 30 cents just last month. could it have voters jumping away from the president, come november. who better to ask than john hofmeister, the president of shell oil. that s a staggering run-up, what s going on here? americans are going to pay more for gasoline this year than ever in our history, neil. that s a very serious issue, but the question, will they lay blame where blame should be laid? the president will do a very good job of bad-mouthing the out companies and blaming them for the problems and opec for the prices, but the reality is, we have wasted four years in not aggressively drilling our way to more energy security because of the anti-hydrocarbon view of this administration and only talked
use the flame though maybe a smaller one, not that big gas guzzler when you re going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that. and you re an ecological man. why would you want to drive that truck around? president obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans. and to heal the planet. my promise is to help you and your family. neil: well, between the two of them the bottom line you argue, you pursue a coherent energy policy you ll get votes. if you have a coherent energy policy. we ve only heard a coherent message in the last really eight months since january. the reality here is i m