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Wes moore." i guess the question comes down to numbers. 66,000 troops in country right now. what should it be five years from now? >> i think we're going to initially withdraw to 6,000 troops in 2014. i think a lot of work will be done by contractors, not u.s. troops, but we can't afford to continue spending the kind of money we're spending. you know, we have spent $557 billion up to today, half a trillion dollars, and what have we gotten for it? burma, somalia, and afghanistan are the three most corrupt nations in the world, and now almost 90% of that corruption is coming from american taxpay...

From now. >> i think we're going to initially withdraw to 6,000 troops in 2014. i think a lot of work will be done by contractors, not u.s. troops, but we can't afford to continue spending the kind of money we're spending. you know, we have spent $557 billion up to today, half a trillion dollars, and what have we gotten for it? burma, somalia, and afghanistan are the three most corrupt nations in the world, and now almost 90% of that corruption is coming from american taxpayers' money. you'd be shocked at the amount of american taxpayers' money that's being spent over in dubai because it came ...

If you get $80 billion a year in tax hikes, which is what you get from raising the top two brackets back, that's in one year, that pays for government about eight days, maybe nine. so that doesn't solve any problems. the problems are on the spending side. publicly, at least, the president doesn't want to do anything about spending. his idea of a spending cut is to make the higher income people pay more for their medicare and call that a spending cut. just look at november -- october and november's cbc report, about revenue. revenue was up $30 million. i'm sorry, $30 billion in the first two mo...

Important. now, here is possibly a source of their optimism. 20% of consumers expect more jobs in the next six months and that would be a cause for much optimism. >> shepard: yes, it would. the fears about europe's debt crisis clearly eased a bit 'cause there is another deal to provide aid to greece. >> more money for greece, $57 billion. it took three weeks to come to this conclusion for european and global leaders to say hey, we'll give you the money. it will come in four installments and if they didn't get this, they would be in bankruptcy. as you know, that would be bad for the entire e.u....

>> american airlines cutting 2 percent of the flights over the next month telling workers they could lose their job. that is part of the airline's bankruptcy reconstruction. they notify any one who's position could change. in this case the bark is worse than the bite. the layoffs could come around 4400. notices were sent to mechanics and groundworkers in dallas, chicago and here in new york as well. >> so they may start cancelling the flights. >> yes, less over head bin space. >> apple shares hitting an all-time high. >> the pierced through $700 a pop yesterday closing above $700. that pulls a...