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12.7%. these are people who are out of work and people who are working pardon time and would like to work full time. people have not been able to get back. that number is falling a bit and still too high. you look at the trend and you can see hiring picked up a little bit from december, but when you compare this month's report, january with the average for last year, on average we were creating 193,000 jobs a month. this year 113 thousand thousand jobs created and not enough to even absorb new entrants into the workforce. the bottom line is i think it shows you this. the long-term unemployed a...

Be sustained the way it's going. fewer workers paying in for those who are retiring and taking money out isn't sustainable math. even the president has now acknowledged that by offering this alternative or this fix. why is that so bad? to sustained a program. >> neil: a number of us have a perfect alternative. raise the cap. >> neil: raise taxes? >> raise taxes. you hate when i say that. when we talk about folks making over 113 thousand dollars a year, it only affects those folks. i hit the cap a couple times in my life. it's not money that you count on. it's not part of your budget. it comes ...

Or if you are a small business owner and you decide to put your employees on the public exchange. but if you get, you say, i am going to get insurance, tell pay for this problem i have. then i am going to dump it and go back to the $95. the whole system, the theory behind the system doesn't work. that's why the obama administration prankly promised health insurance costs to go down $2500 a year. we have seen it in fact, go up $3 thousand. we are really at the beginning of the premium increases we are about to see. this law in a lot of theories and i am believing it -- this law was built to fai...

Health care that they, their families and kids need. that's the fear we are going forward with into '13. all the hidden agendas that have been held back on obama health care, we feel are going to start to surface so we will get a better understanding. but the fear is that if the costs continue to rise, we are not going to be able to provide health care to our employees and take care of them the way we have so many years. and the rising costs will then force us to really consider whether you maintain, retract or grow your business, going forward. that's the fear we have. >> greta: let me ask yo...

Families and kids need. that's the fear we are going forward with into '13. all the hidden agendas that have been held back on obama health care, we feel are going to start to surface so we will get a better understanding. but the fear is that if the costs continue to rise, we are not going to be able to provide health care to our employees and take care of them the way we have so many years. and the rising costs will then force us to really consider whether you maintain, retract or grow your business, going forward. that's the fear we have. >> greta: let me ask you two questions. if you repor...