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Not only patchwork on our roads, but patchwork on our infrastructure. we don't need anymore band-aids this problem. this is an opportunity for us to not only fix our infrastructure and create levels of efficiency by doing infrastructure as well as water and utilities, at the same time, but also, putting middle-class people back to work. we want to have that partnership with the administration and congress, and we think if we don't, that for trillion dollar cost, obviously you're seeing it today with the dams and bridges we are dealing with on a daily basis. >> abby: the cost might look huge no...

Why is it being delayed, what's going on? >> it would be best to talk to the railroads about that. i don't want to apologize for their not implementing. they have literally spent billions of dollars trying to get ptc ready. there have been some technological issues. they're in a situation of not having the time to do it. >> let's be clear here. this mandate applies both to amtrak, which is a public/private partnership, and private freight carriers across the country, right? >> that's correct. >> they have been pushing back a bit. there's been some lobbying about the nature of that mandate, the...

About hidden costs tied to all the promised benefits and giveaways. chief national correspondent jim angle's live in washington with more on that. jim? >> reporter: hello, jon. well, while the health care law promises all sorts of new free benefits, analysts argue nothing is ultimately free. listen. >> p.j. o'rourke famously said if you think health care's expensive now, wait until it's free. once you add on all these additional things, all these extras that insurers must provide, you have to pay for that. >> there's going to be taxes imposed, taxes on insurance, taxes on drugs, taxes on medic...

Have been making more money than if you had bought the broader market. secondly, i will give you a shocking statistic. let's assume you're a mutual fund manager and you put $10,000 a week into purchasing bank of america, one of the worst of all the stocks, correct? of all the bank stocks. if you had bought it every week from the day that bear stearns failed to the present you would be sitting now with a profit of about $300,000, so you didn't lose money in terms of buying these stocks on the dollar cost average willing basis through this period, and if you were buying them, over the past 12 to...

Wealth creation for people holding stocks probably in our lifetimes, right? but at what cost? we lost so many jobs. we lost so many small businesses. it was a really wrenching time. so when you look at new highs in the stock market, a lot of people just kind of grumble and groan and say, look, this economy still is not working for me. there's an investing class that has been rewarded, but there's a working class that has not been. and that is still something that we need to figure out how to address here. that being said people with a 401(k), run of the mill 401(k), you had a good run here if ...