Well have been talking about washington. A lot of wrong guys are doing a l of wrong things. Pretty much all the time. Both parties. We have Congress Another fight on spending and signing up on the new debt ceiling. Can e blame our kids for a pass on responsibility . And so much easier to point it when our youngsest can point to all the adults fingers. A president to blame the Health Care Rollout on a news number. Republicans to blame democrats are spending excesses then sign to a trillion dollar farm bill. A former speaker who said the Health Care Law isnt it is liberating them from their jobs. I would love to see anyone admit once i screwed up. I never do. The retail ceo who blames the weather for a bad earnings report, the countless ceos who are blaming the Health Care Law for any future hurtings report. Please, leave to a corporate to sully the issue of denial from ceos to doomsday blame to politicians who refuse to take change. A zero accountability line th marches nowhere. Aye can was right. Its not right. Both republicans and democrats do something right and admit theyre wrong. And constant finger pointing is wrong. Look, this is enough blame to go around. I prefer they all just get to work. So does swiss america trading chairman. They afraid it is spedding up for a wicked day of trading. I feel a feeling youre not talking about snow and ice. Its going to be 80 derees today. Were in good shpe in phoenix. Neil rub it in. I love your intro, neil. I have to grasp on something. I didt think about until y t. I have to grasp on something. And he said, you know, young people tend to finger point. I did not have sex with this monica lewinsky. It was alive. He said that i made a mistake and it was a horrible mistake and it was the seminal moment in americas history where the discussion of this with kids in school changed. And you know what im talking about. Neil we are going back to money issues. I understand. But it lends to the issue of why dont people take responsibility. Lets pull together lets go back to work. Lets work these issues out and lets get this thing back on track. That is what has made America Great in the past. That is what is going to make us great in the future. But in the meantime we continue to blame them. We do. I think what is worrying me is that it has become a political partisan divide what is something that we go back to light after the meltdown of the bank bailouts. And this is sort of like when the pedal hits the metal, you have to own up for your point of view and not pass the buck are to blame. So this is a ramp up against both parties to say, i recognize that you hate each other and i recognize that you blame the other but i think that there is enough blame to go around and what bothers me is they cant get past that. As a result they quickly signed on to another a gut feeling hoping that eventually that they will address the underlying problems as to why there is escalating debt, but they never do. What about the millions of mortgage holders who sign and say that they pay their mortgage but stop paying their mortgage or walked away from their homes . Some people cannot wear them. But plenty of others just walked away and went on the street and bought another home. Instead of in transit and pointing the fingers thing that lets get back to work. He said it when he said lets get back to work. And i guess that we could say that recently we had a little bit of a call maii of the waters in washington and maybe we can Work Together the i am convinced and you might take issue with me but i dont think mr. Obama wants the waters calm but i think he likes stirring the water and he liked having the controversies. That is assuming that the waters are calm. So this goes on and on. Its always a pleasure. Thank you so much. Good to see you. To higher limit. Republicans dont care. Democrats and the president. How many said i dont know i was watching fox news an said it was horrible. I think the opponent seems to be the indifference of the republicans. Republicans decided to sabotage i ope yo are beginning to g the picture here of his responsible for disfunction. They havent been abe to run the ship. Did you hear a single one take responsibility for anything . They say the truth urts but constantly lying hurt more. If memory seres me right american are forgiving people. They forgave a new young president named john kennedy botching something called the bay of pigs. But Ronald Reagan fessed up to to a democrat and republican two each said its time for both to stop pointing fingers and point to solutions. With me now former economic adviser and former house speaker. Dennis, you first. Debt ceiling increase. Were dodge bullets. Absolutely. I go back to the first three years i was speaker. We paid down 6 50,000 of debt. Nobody talk abouts that. Takes you have to sit down and work out a system and name work. And so you to i always said, look, i want to underprompt and overproduce. But you have to set out thre or four thing you want to move forward, move your conference to and get done. And hopefully work with the other body, the senate to agree with that. And try to take it to the senate. Now when i had bill clinton we took some things and he vetoed. We took it him to him. He to make a decision. One of the things whre the crime bill and finally had it on. He signed on. Neil i think we are pennsylvania that now. Whatever said in here the contempt or just hurt feelings or just anger is such that one of my family reunion. Nobody is taing to each other. [laughter] i was thinking when our first kid was just about to be born, my wifes grandpa was 100. And his memory was somewhat gone. He walks in my wife is pregnant and he says who is this . They said this is your granddaughter. And he ses shes pregnant and enfouruated like who is responsible . I am. Were married. He said who is this. Thats your granddaughter. What who is responsible . I feel like were kind repeang grandpa irvings thing. Who is responsible i disagree with you on the issue of the debt ceiling but i agree with you on the sentiment for many of the practical issues. Neil ill Mention Health care to you. And it sums up a lot of democrats and so many others who say you know what is wrong with someone saying we botched it. Even if you ill give the benefit of the doubt nobody was lying but say we did not appreciate the magnitude of the problem. Maybe we should have. I didnt hear that i dont know if i will. I know, the president said some thing to that effect. But it might not probably wasnt as ch as what it should have been. When i was in the government, i tried to follow that mantra. If you mess it up apologize and say here is what i did wrong and try to fix it. Thats why youre not there anymore. Neil thats what happens to people who speak their minds. Youre a fairly straight shooter. You try to work with both sides. Maybe you can say within the publican ranks today its primitive and nastyier. Theres a lot of anger and thehe two sides will never get along. Government needs to be there t o take care of people. I dont know. So that is battle campus rating the day. And you have to start finding how to solve problems across the aisle. They settle it and resolve in the next election. Well resolve it in the election after that. Well see what happens. Thank you. Take a look outside. For much of you nasty weather. What if i told you for the governor and mayor. Tch nastier weatherif they neil even nastier weather if he or she watches it trying to help you. We will have that next. Announcer where can an investor be a name and not a number . Scotade. Ron im never alone with scottrade. I can always call or stop by my local office. Theyre nearby andeady to help. So when i have questions, i can talk to someone who knows exactly how i trade. Because i dont trade like everybody. I trade like me. Thats why im with scottrade. Announcer ranked highest in Investor Satisfaction georgia the governor is facing the second big blast. He better pray he doesnt screw up. Last time they botched response left thousand of drivers stranded on highways. Somstuck in neil thousands of drivers stranded, some are stuck in gymnasiums with no one to pick them up. E been made or unmade by mother nature. Sandy did wonders for christie. Katrina did wonders for about a president named bush. Its not fair or even right. Heart hank said it is. Who is making early marks for you. Or stands out for handling these kind of crisis. Well, christie did a terrific job. Governor cuomo did a terrific job. But snow mayors job is to keep crime low, sweep the street, and make sure people get services. Failure throws the other good ideas out the window. Had a lot of snostorms. Apparently they went the ones by me around here are not working as a snow and pile up. And a lot of people predictably blame the mayor or the governor. John lindsay was mayor of new york. Queens was unhppy. A burrow in the outer burrow. They never let him forget it. Bloomberg was the mayor and it was picked up quickly. It starts to no pun intended pile up. People hav memory about snow and crime. When youre the executive you have a real power to send the impression home. It goes beyond weather but how you handle crisis. Do any people stand out at the stage in term of the way they handle crises to you or is it too early to tell . Too early to tell in the new group. Weve had hange of mayors around the country. Weve had some new people come to office theres an outstanding person. You go back to christie, and cuomo for sandy. No question about that. And that cat did you mention christie handling hurricane and botching it handling the bridge club. The problem becomes that ultimately what people expect is for you not get in to trouble. Deliver Real Services no matter what else you talk about. And to say its fine. You can be aid listic as long as you want. If streets are dirty nobody cares about your ideology. They care about ow angry they are. You reminded us in the past. Whatever initial good gradesan be reversed. With sandy that send a lot of that money that governor christiend cuomo ere urging be sent quickly. A lot of it still a lot of areas still in great disrepair. So the initial blow they got off their panels of the storm isnt panning out or might not. It might not pan out. But people are pretty good in it country. They give People Office tremendous leeway. They say thank you for making the effort. They are bottom line. You can have youre the one stuck in your car. Ideology is great ut get my light on. Get my street clean and mae sure they dont come in my window. You dont get the snow picked up. Youre in deep trouble. 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Its a poor choice of word theres some real frustration here. I know, jerry. He lives his district is adjacent so the one i live in. Good guy. Good champion for the community. Neil does he hink want republicans want to starve hungry families. I dont think so. Theres a lotof hard feelings there because, you know, there a lot of folks in his district. I know, his district well. There are people struggling. I think democratare seeing now republicans arent doing anything to try to help some of the most disadvantaged among us. And these are reports from the census today that says that at least onen three americans are dipping in and out of poverty at multiple cycles. And this is isnt the kind of language to get stuff done. And my fear is that the congressman look at the half empty glass. Look at the governmentdoing more they signed off on a farm bill that has crap in. He selects and chooses you know what is going on. Right. Its an easy punch line basically. Its easy to say the other party will starve the people. In fact the democrats want to have a status quo. Lets not do anything t the program. Keep growing it the cost of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is at the alltime high, i mean, lets get to a point where we have some sort of reform to the program. Which is what the republicans. Neil republicans counter . They wrap they [inaudible] take feud and afraid to take on the challenge about Unemployment Benefits and lot of stuff. They sign to the farm bill. They spoke a good game but dont walk it. I think it becomes a situation where obviously you have to democrats and republicans coming together. You have a lot f republicans in mid western states. Gleam right. Theyre basically supporting their constituents. Sinned it. Hy is it all the time that any republican who just wants to sa now were getting up to one in five americans on food stamp. One out three getting some sort of food assistance. Its such that we are now mozambique we have those. In a timefor us to curve a little bit and starving kids. Think about what happened. The sequester lowered food stamp a lotment. The president signed a food bill. Neil one in three getting food assistance. We were world a third world country. You think. And you cant say the economy is doing great. I dot think that at all. One in three americans getting food stamp. The economy is not doing great. The president said it is fired up. We didnt go down as far as we could have. Bu i dont think we have come up as nearly as much as we should have. And what is concerning to a lot of fols you have the sort of job market. So you have jos never use big work. Sorry. An s. A. T. Word. We have a lot of folks making a lot of income. High income earners. Those are Jobs Available for thm. Most of the other jbs are lowincome earning jobs. Neil what do you think about that . I think governor christie said it right. Just today where he said its not shouldnt about income inequality. It should be about income opportunity for americans. Not everybody about having the same income or getting to the point. Its hoping for more and creating jobs ad opportunity. President obama where is his job agenda . Its raising the minimum wage. Melissa just cool it in the language. Another party is intent on making people starve . Im not talking about income inequality here. The Jobs Available. Thereso a loof Jobs Available for, you know, the average republicans arent trying to starve themselves. I dont think they are [inaudible] you have to do more. So you to [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] neil i wish wead more time. [inaudible conversations] very good. When we come back, the they have a new man to repace him. It is ronald mcdonald. See whats new at projectluna. Com you are gonna need a wingman. And my cash back keeps the party going. But my Airline Miles taket worldwide. [ male announcer ] it shouldnt be this hard. With creditcards. Com, its easy to search hundreds of cards and apply online. Creditcards. Com. Neil fat chance of enterprising lawyers. It turns out that no fewer than 16 state attorneys general have been contaed by class action lawyers with dollar signs in their eyes and the golden arches in their sights. They want to make fast food this tobacco takedown and their argument goes Something Like this. All of those quarter pounder is and bacon eaters, they have all made it with a lot of medicaid costs soaring. Is any of this even legal . And the packard said yes. Kelly says no. I think it is ridiculous. People should be accountable for what theyput in their own mouths. To say that these companies force people to eat theifood and gain weight and become ill and become dependent on state systemsfor health care is a preposterous stretch. Neil the difference is there was a known and clear Health Hazard and there is a very big distinction. Is there not . There certainly is. Yes, it is a well known factor. Neil absolutely. Go ahead. Of the brilliant slogan and it is true. Not everyone can stop that one potato chip or follow the advice on alcohol bottle to drink in moderation. Neil what about a potato chip or a drnk . The problem is that these companies have a level of corporate and social responsibility that are knowingly marketing a product that they know is going to be harmful and theres no getting around it. Neil where do you draw the line . I would say to you have to draw the line on apple because they make products that people love. That is ridiculous. Apple makes products that people love and it could be an addiction of sorts. It doesnt stand to reason. Its people not taking accountability for their own actions and looking for someone else to foot the bill. Looking at something that is knowingly unhealthy and causing a lot of healthrelated concerns that are causing people to be cost a lot of money. Neil anything this will make you obese and make a coly because the medications especially as to the health effects. The next thing that i worry about is that they will hrm your big mas wrapper and it will be five or more of these that will make you fat. And that is the disclosure th people are looking for. Neil the money run, the states will come up short. Coming up next, busy bending