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Market is, and the solutions that are being offered or politically possible. all of those things are great, but you are talking about a massive problems. >> one of the difficulties is that he didn't provide any diagnosis of how we came into this situation. sort of like suddenly something has happened in the last couple years to create this inequality issue. it has been an enduring problem, and very strong over the last 30 years and getting worse. but he didn't talk about, for instance, how our tax structure contributes to this growing inequality. he didn't talk about how the corporate governan...

>> this is natural gas, largely from america's fracking renaissance. >> right. >> and in terms of lower home heating bills, utility, electricity bills, lower prices for goods and service. so those gains have been reached by consumers. and $1,200 in real disposable income added in 2012. >> this is real technological innovation. fracking is a new kind of drilling and you have horizontal drilling, which instead of drilling a hole straight down allows people to drill and go across for hundreds of yards or even farther to find new sources of energy. kim, what's the political consequence of this kin...

I think the president has been focused on the inequality issue a long time, his life-long project but despite their efforts, despite the fact this is his second term of what i think is a pretty progressive democratic president, you look at what's happening to the u.s. middle class, things are getting worse. you look at the structure of employment, there are fewer -- not just a question of unemployment, what are the jobs there. there are fewer high paying jobs and more low paying jobs. i don't see any -- people are still focused on recovering from the financial crisis. they're not saying this i...

Maybe a year, maybe two years from now we stop hearing that and this becomes more stable. >> residual qatarwalling, andrew. is it residual katerwalling. >> i like that you were saying for shame, corporate ceos. >> it's ridiculous. can i make one comment? before you got on to this, we did talk briefly about the profits and the inequality issue, and there's one thing we can't get away from, which is technology. >> right. that's the productivity thing. the productivity doesn't necessarily mean -- >> but you saw american express, champl, get close to 5,000 people this week, and why? because, guess...

Occupy movement, occupy 90210 occupied in l.a., outside or near one of the obama fundraisers, they may be getting the message. >> greg: at least they are being consistent. if you look at jimmy carter, praised the occupy movement and called the u.s. extra stingy. he chose those who pooh over those who do. >> kimberly: my gosh. bathroom humor? >> dana: let me say a couple of things. i agree with jimmy carter on a couple of things. one, they have been able to get media attention on an issue that needed attention. true. but the problem with them is -- >> eric: what media attention on? >> dana: on ...