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socioeconomic level in this country to understand its future, its challenges, and its opportunities and why you need to know about india. how important india is to your economic future. christine? >> thanks, ali. health care reform is president obama's signature achievement, and at the heart of the president's health care reform law is the individual mandate, the requirement that most americans either purchase health insurance or face a financial penalty. the vim mandate is designed to lower costs by spreading them across a larger pool of individuals. but after three days of supreme ...

Costs of gasoline. why haven't we been able to sit down and figure out why are these costs being driven up? >> it's an easy answer. because we don't pay. we don't pay. the consumer has no skin in the health care game. as long as the consumer doesn't pay the bills directly, they're not going to get riled up. >> that remains the most vexing thing to me. how do we have a system that allows people to take test after test after test after test and face no consequences? i told the story before. i won't repeat it. remember when i was on vacation, i went to an emergency room. i went in there in -- in ...

Car. >> david: tax that you get from the tax laws is different from a bailout. from a government bailout. >> david, i have an idea how the g.m. volt can return money. have the united states environmental protection agency outlaw all other cars on the road and can only drive the volt. date david quick word, go ahead. >> if you do not start making some electric car, you never make a great electric cadillac. have you got to start somewhere. >> if the consumer doesn't want it, unless the government bales it out, add infinitum. we will see what happened. we wish them the very best. coming up next, ...

Even the last month saw expectations up by some 15 points from the year prior. >> i think there are so many different economic indicators seeing so many different things that the consumer doesn't know what to believe, so even though we all know from an economic standpoint we're out of the recession, i think the consumers still require more proof, knowing that things are going to be secure in the long term, and i think then we'll see sustained consumer spending. >> a bit of trivia now, when did consumer sentiment hit its peak according to this survey? january of 2000, bill clinton's term, a who...

And that was last october. so if you can see this is showing that the companies are feeling this pain, right? you can see that if this means they're not making any better decisions, as far as employment is concerned, is because they don't feel like demand is there for your business. that needs to pick up in order to help the economy. it's a weird thing where you need to consumer to spend but the consumer doesn't have money so they can't do that. as far as jobs are querconcerned companies, unemployment is going to lag in the recovery. i know when things get better you're thinking everything sho...