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>> cash is king. >> right. >> john? >> i'm putting money in africa and the middle east. i'm having success in egypt. the middle east is a metion but i think you can make some money with that mess. m.e.s., a fund that holds middle eastern stocks. >> high risk, high reward. you guys were great this week. that's it for "cost of freedom" block. thank you for joining us. but before we go, for the third time this week i heard the president claim he cut the deficit in half. listen. >> since i took office we cut the deficit in half. >> that claim is as disingenuous as they come. even in a town chocked...

Of resonated in my brain a few times. it's just so disingenuous for you to do this, sir. he said i've cut the deficit. i've cut the deficit in half. he said that. he said it a few times the last couple of weeks. here's what he's done. here's the real numbers. the last year of president bu bush's term, the deficit was $459 billion. we were spending $459 billion less than we were taking in. president obama brought the deficit up to an annual deficit of $1.4 trillion. now it's coming back down to about $750 billion, okay? bush/obama. but it's so disingenuous to say i cut it from the high, which i...

The food stamps. they only have to check in once a year. i have given anecdotes in the city, i stood behind people using an ebt card. it is a woman, the card is for a man, it is not her card. they encourage you to buy organic salmon and things i can't afford in the city. bob, listen, i see your point. food stamps is a necessary program but it is being abused, and the bigger it gets, the more it will be abused. >> get these guys in here. dana, 59 billion in '09, slated to be 80 billion. >> that's a special bret baier hosted, i watched it this weekend, wasn't just about the abuse, it was about g...

The food stamps. they only have to check in once a year. i have given anecdotes in the city, i stood behind people using an ebt card. it is a woman, the card is for a man, it is not her card. they encourage you to buy organic salmon and things i can't afford in the city. bob, listen, i see your point. food stamps is a necessary program but it is being abused, and the bigger it gets, the more it will be abused. >> get these guys in here. dana, 59 billion in '09, slated to be 80 billion. >> that's a special bret baier hosted, i watched it this weekend, wasn't just about the abuse, it was about g...

Back, but i'm so tired. i just want to fall, by can't fall. >> which is the opposite of what bill clinton used to do, which was much more of a rope-a-dope. hit me as hard as you can over the sex, then move forward. >> which i think he thought he was doing, though. >> even sarah palin, for all her faults, she had a way of laughing at herself. remember after she wrote the notes on her hand. they said like, taxes, family, whatever. she got made fun of. afterwards, she made a point of when she'd be at public events, she would write notes on her hand to show she was in on the joke. it worked really...