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We're driving down a gravel road in western Scott County on a sunny Friday. I'm not sure where we're headed. In fact, I'm not sure my driver (federal Judge Billy Roy Wilson, a Scott County native) is sure. Few places in Arkansas are more rural than Scott County, established in 1833 when Arkansas was still a territory.
People. those are the same people running the state pension plan, sally, goodness sakes, they can't pass the budget or meet one. it is a pis torical. and saying it is a better idea. the government doesn't run anything well. it is underfunded mention plans. they should have the right. like john hon said if you make the decision, it is your mon yenot theirs. >> john? >> social security eradicated elderly poverty, that is true. but in the 1960s, lyndon johnson and his congress said quote. there is so much money there we'll never spend it and so
Get rid of things that don't work. >> at no cost to the corn fields. >> ethanoyl has less energy and most subsidized fuel and hurting your corn chips >> last to john hon. >> we didn't have an energy department until the carter administration to get us off foreign oil. the guys in washington know the right energy? we should let the market decide . the vhs . thanks to christian dorsey joining us this week. good to have you . coming up. cowers taking the side of government unions instead of lawmakers and voters. how it could end hopes for spending cuts all over the country.
>> we always come back to enron and it is rational and we should. but it is one, i mean there are multitude of companies that do it right . sit in front of a graduating class of young eager people and chemonize corporate america is not the way to motivate them to get out there and do good for our society. >> companies can't break laws, christian and break in your house and take the tv sets and extort money . all they can do is trade with you. that's how they achieve profit unlike the government programs that you champion which amount to government coming in with a gun and taking your mon yedoi...
You in here. you sit there. >> and i am sitting here listenning. yeah, no, i think john is right and the concentration on making quarterly numbers and by corporation is skewed in the wrong way. there are stakeholders out there who are part of the community. it is not necessarily the part of the corporation and their penalty to do so. but the reason that all of this occurred and bill clinton did not talk about it, we have allowed in this country major corporations to get big, big has strangled the competition . competition is what brings the best price and product . as a consequence of ignoring...