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Down the road. >> gregg: the remaining unspent stimulus money includes funding for among other things, major high-speed rail, which the president said we really need so we can catch up with europe, japan and china and here's what the "washington post" editorial said about that. of all of the reasons to build high speed rail in the u.s., keeping up with the international joneses may be one of the the worst, in fact experience abroad has repeatedly raised questions about the cost-effectiveness of high-speed rail. in your judgment, would that end up being another taxpayer funded black hole? >> mo...

>> i work with people who can't get health care in canada, can't get health care in england. can't even get injections nupton which can save their life and i don't want free health care because i will sell everything i own to pay for my children because this is america. >> a mother of two sick children unloading on democrat senator kay hagan in north carolina over the health care law and says it limits her choices so you can keep it. gary k. what do you make of that? >> two new words we are going to hear about on health care in the future, neil, cost effectiveness, instead of worrying about ho...

Front property. everybody would love to go to the best doctor and be the first in line, but you have to have some mechanism that controls how you distribute resources. >> but who runs it? who runs it, do you let the individual make the decision how they're treated and how their health care dollars are spent or do you put the hands of the government around that decision making and that's what that health care law does? >> the problem is-- >> yes, but the government-- >> go ahead, gary. >> the government, we're going to a government centric decision making process, you have a new guy who's runni...

Productivity and turning the passengers over as quickly as possible. >> yeah, my assumption is this is about cost effectiveness for the airlines as well. we have an example of what this would look like with luftsana airlines and essentially they would do away with the agents there before they board the plane. let me ask you, the implication here being these agents are merely robotic in what they do, they take your boarding pass and shove it in. are they doing more than that? does this pose a safety risk? >> they actually have a huge level of responsibility in terms of identifying people who ar...

Off-shore rigs dun, it's about 1.7 million barrels a day. eric knows we consume a lot more than that. >> really, the-- >> hold on a second, hold on a second. >> you know the point is whether drilling policy going forward will limit all the off-shore exploration. >> yes, yes, let me answer. there's a couple of different questions here, one is shutting down shutting down the rigs causing the oil to go to $5. maybe if they cut them off permanently and closed every rig, yes, then that's going to have an affect, but that's not going to be the case. now, on the flip side, as tara pointed out. the tr...