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Four decades ago it seemed like nothing we couldnt do and today looking at the fiscal charade in washington, nothing we can do. Welcome, im neil cavuto and 40 years after man left the lunar surface, politicians barely scratching the surface. 20 years after the astronauts made the impossible, possible. Finger pointing spend thrifts who make the possible, impossible. How did we go from reaching for the srs to reaching t the other guys throats. The astronauts who went to the moon and here for yourself, a jaw dropping special, its a rare tv first in which we were granted unprecedented access to never before seen footage and exclusive interviews with the men who got usthere. I dont want to give away the entire special, i do want to give you this little tidbit from it. That i think speaks volumes today. Heroes who didnt see themselves as heroes at all. Oureot thinking about what goes wrong, worry is a wasted emotion, it clouds clear thiing that is abluly needed when something goes wrong. People say, boy, youve got a lotf guts, i didnt have juts, i knew what i wasdoing, i didnt go to the moon and he came back. Did you hear the important part, he didnt have guts not for himself, but for his country. Not personal glory, but for his untry. Sounds like anyone watching right now. A democrat or republican . I donthink so. And charlie payne, dagen mcdonnm mcdowell and gCharlie Gasperino and ben stein. Weve come a long, long way and its interesting, because we look at these men as heroes. And no one in washington deserves any sort of her worship unless you talk about the Small Business owners who gutted it out and the ladies and men who get on the subway train at 4 or five oclock in the morning to clean up the offices so the lobbyists and legislators, anyone in d. C. Is misguided. I know some people get it, why, i dont know. I long for the america that you just talked about. And whats interesting there and putti it together and the difference in the periods here, anything was possible, we didnt know the meaning of the word ent. We found a way to the impossible, it was in our veacular and way of thinking. The irony is today, in todays washington if somebody came up with a crazy idea trying to go to the moon if we never bee there before. People would laugh it off because people dont dream big and dont dreaat a instead. Worried about their own shelves and not for sake of country, but only for the sake of reelected. Two years or six years out or ur years, its shameful and the fact that they procrastinate like no woman ive even ever met in my entire life is just despic despicable . Well, you spend time with great americans. Here i am with you. Yes, and i spent time with great americans every now and then and people that came back from afghanistan and iraq, and you know, these kidand youre blown away, theyre looking for jobs and im trying to help a couple of them. And i wouldnt say that washington is totally devoid of people that we can respect. Theres a guy who came from a broken family, went to good scols, became president. I mean, i dont agree with him. Thats the first nice thing you said about barack obama. I dont agree with him, i dont like his licies, dont like the directions. And the season bringing up. Stop it, the guy came from nothing ands president. How many times have i told you that, hear the love. I dont, i dont hate him. I hate his policies, but i will say this, you know, this is a guy whos committed to that agenda. He believes in it. And you might even consider instead, charlie, saying that you dislike his policies rather than hating i hate his policies. What the point. And, but charlie has made and great human being, although with politics neil, without doing any additional finger pointing, we ought to acknowledge t effect what youre doing with the special and interviewing american heroes is also praisi Public Servants, people whose jobs and careers is to serve us, is to work for us, and charles, for example thats not what i said. And i heard you, you said public service. And many of these people are Public Servants and working for the United States government and celebrate that. Did you got that out of my special then i hope you dont watch it. Ben stein, all kidding aside, i just wonder, s what you will about what happened to our spa program we used to own it and hitch a ride with the russians to sll be a part of it. Were trapped inur own debt and that seems to limit our options and even o thinking abouhow we get out of messes. It was a heart breaking situation, and by the way, to go back to rl life for a second, i g to the army medical center, we used to be called walter reed and now down in bethesda and quite often seeing amazing heroes with their limbs blown off and making aife with themselves and their families and plenty of heroes, and teachers and so forth, and youre right out of washington weve allow our government to create a lead weight of debt that brings us down, down, down, instead of great things and turned over the rush shins and chinese and surrendered our enormous lead in the Space Program because of other indebtedness. Its heart breaking that this whole enormous adventure of outer space has now passed the united stat to other countries. Its just a heartache. Do you think, charles payne, that we could have done what we did in the states and even initiated a race, if we had the debt, if we do now back then . 16 trillion . I, you know, it uld have been a lotougher to push it through. I do want to get back to what adam was saying. Theres a big differenc between being a Public Servant to your constituents to america, and being this servant to an agenda or an ideology. I appla like Charlie Gasperino Barack Obamas success, John Boehners success, came in hume beginnings, but neither one of us are doing us a favor. Neither one of them are deserving of hero worship in a country falling apart. I didnt think we should be hero worshipping the president , what i said hes an admirable man that did great things. Sure, absolutely. In this country. I dont agree with his agenda. You argue that we havent lost, to dages point we have it in us, but we havent shown it . The lmakers in washington dont, theyre a bunch of gutless weasels who dont that language there. Furthermore its not productive language. Well, theyre not productive, and criticizing me for calling them gutless when thats exactly what they are. Im trying to draw a distinction between come on. The gutle weasels on the one hand and not doing a good enough job on the other nd, lets cheer them on and say we honor your service, now, do a better job. Yeah i got cheered when i didntnloadhe dishwasher when i was a kid instead sent to the corner and sit there r the night. Did anybody want to be an astronaut. Sure. And john boehner is a gutlessweasel . And gaspero, did you ever want to be an astronaut . No. Many wanted you to. I wanted to be a co i wanted to be and at cape that do you think that gutlessness and the notion that they dont have any, you know, our politicians, are they gutless or just working within a system no, theyre gutless. Designed to imperfect. I think a good number of men are gless and they just, they and what does john boehner get out of th. An opportunity to serve his country and thatmy point. A lot of money . Not making a lot. Bottom line, bottom line, weve come a long way from what we have now, needless squabbling. Human beings have always squbled, not havin a civil war, not having the ku klux klan, in many ways it hurts me to hear one of our panel say the country is falling apart. A lot of us do not see a country falling apart, see a couny with a lot of goodwill and wonderful people. Im not taking that away im talking to waington. And the civil period, i dont know if thats the civil war or im kidding. Good points all, everybody. Do you remember this . That was then. This i now. This isnt which is wishes its michigan and unions are seething, as the state is on the verge ofecoming the 24th right to work state in the nation. Should taxpayers across the nati nation im jamie colby, back to cavuto on fox business, only on the fox news channel. Whats the deal with the guy wearing sunglasses and saying nothing . And all over again in michigan, protesting the right to work bill. The scene almost identical to wisconsin last year and that states battle overollective bargaining and then, whats goin on . And i think its always tough for unions to admit theyve lost allure. Im a union man and i know charlie is very fondf unions. We love unions, but we want people to have the right to choose whether or not they belong to a unn. A clothes shop wherehey have to have the union and i dont think thats freedom, if you want to join the union by all means, but to make it mandatory, that seems a bit harsh. Neil but the unions are spinning it the other way in michigan, charles, what do you ke of that . And ben makes the great point. The unions feel like their back has been against the walls and have for a number of years. In michigan, this is the way we can be competitive. Liste everyone talks about the great comeback in detroit in the auto sector, thats a mirage. Michigans in trouble, detroit is in trouble and this is how they compete on the national scale, ultimately, a global scale. Neil dagen . Versignificant that this is happening and by the way, this is just the right to not have toay union dues i you dont want to belong to a union first and foremost. Neil and you got that. Very significant that its happening in the birthplace of the u. A. W. It could spread across the midwest if this Gains Momentum and if you look back. By the way those are not sunglass. Im sorry. And what is he doing . And i think hes a union buster. Hes not nothing, not shouting. Not him. And exactly. Ut if you look back on the last decade at right to work states, you have faster economic growth, faster yroll growth, you have faster population growth. It works for those states. And dagen, its no fantasy, inevada a right to work state, they have extremely high unemployment for reasons nothing to do with because of housing. It may or may not help and look, this is a Public Policy issue, do you want to support that unions will exist or not because in las ves, by the way, organized, las vegas at the heart. The casinos. Thats a big part of it. So, its not a good example. laughter what about South Carolina, whats the unemployment rat in South Carolina . Its very high and thats a right to work state. Neil so ur point, like your liberal colleague is that unions have had a point. Well, i would say this, i dont think its going to spad across t the country. Oh i think it will, i think it will. I think that michigan has a specific the unions are pouncing off what happened in november and ruining with it. Lets see. But theres a specific example here, which is the fact that michigan is doing very badly and i would say this, the problem that unions have. My dad was in a trade that you could get hurt and die if you dont have certain he was a construction worker and wt up, many stories. He fell a bunch of timemes,ot hurt. And coal miners, were talking about unionizing people at walmart and thats where theyve gone to work and and mcdonals. You might cut your finger. How about a journalist union, oh, a paper cut. And its not the onl reason why workers need protection fm the emplers. Do you think that walmart needs protection . They dont and my problem with this, they got this president reelected andgot out the vote and sayhat you will of the declining influence, they did influence the outcome of this electionnd i think that theyre certainly trying t leverage off of that since the election. Well, they that was one of many, many, many factors. Absolutely. And after the election and the fact is, as we all agree, the private sector union is a dying animal and that they only can survive if they can thoroughly control the Public Sector and this is just another example of their slow, painful death. On that upbeat note. I want you to look at this. T Parent Company of red lobster, filing a fight for the president S Health Care law, not because of the actual law, bse it criticized the law. The gang from forbes is going to explain the top of the hour, up next, did any of you see this . Oh oh apparently these guys just found out that they could get fined for eating while driving. Is nothing sacred . Driving and eating, hey, the a city i south dakota fine people eating behind the wheel. Charles, you say it has to go . Pretty soon well be fined for driving while driving. And its a way to get money, ridiculs. Neil this is one town that wontee cavuto passing through soon. Thank you. Ben, what do you thinof it . Cooking while driving. laughter and i think setting the table while driving. But eating potato chips, pop corner, peanuts . Thats illegal . Thats insane. Neil i was trying to reason this out, dagen, becaus just seemed like you cant use your cell phone in a lot of states now because its a huge distracting. And texting. So, maybe thas the next step. I dont have a problem with this, actually, if they need to raise money get skinny. And you show up and you dont have and fat people have a problem with it. And you dont have potato chip crus on your lap, ben, when you arrive to see who youre seeing and dont have a sticky Steering Wheel, im done. Neil im not going to touch that. The sticky Steering Wheel . Gasperino . laughter a sticky Steering Wheel . I dont know, i dont know. And ill just say this, by the way, we have my nonsticky Steering Wheel. Listen, ifou take off your eye off theoad for a period of time you get pulled over, who care why yre doing it. We can joke around, a joke about this, but getting distracted while driving is a serious problem and kills people. Ben, by the way, i know this isnt a concern forou because in the back seat you are allowed t continue eating. I dont alwaysave a drive laughter always, thats how it is, the view is from the back seat. Neil by the way my thanks to charlie and dagen, very, very much up next we already told you about our fox news special fly me tohe moon to commemorate the anniversary of the last man on the moon and now the gang is blasting off with their own money mission, out of the world stocks. Any other way t t t 8 well, we thought our chances were 10 percent. Apollo 13 commander thinking one out of 10 chances of surviving that. Isnt that out of this world . And you know what else is stock picks from our shooting stars. None ofhem heroes, but they are all good friends. The Space Program, for america. Liquiify natnal gas is huge the company will do extraordinary well because of itheniere. I agree with you about natural gas in general. But i rather have companies that areaking money what is making money. I think boring is it better. Hey i built a crire on it. It is it a tree percent dividend yield as walgreen is, it is a good idea. Ben