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I was able to find a subconstitute for the more expensive item. so that's how the figures are to manipulated. >> to large degree being manipulated. >> a false impression on what is happening to inflation. people pass a gas station and know prices are up. they go grocery shopping. they buy clothes, et cetera, et cetera. so they feel the inflation, and the government is telling them, it ain't there. >> they're telling them it ain't there, and certain retirement programs, social security, we know a couple years where people on social security didn't get a cost of living adjustment. now, obviously...

Extraordinarily restricted in the kind of services and products that it can provide. if you go in a post office and you say to the clerk, can you notarize this letter for me, post office clerk says it's against the law, can't do it. can i get ten copies of my letter? sorry, can't do that. a fishing license? hunting license? can't do that. if i want to christmas time, can you wrap my package with christmas wrapping, can't do that. all over europe with post offices are doing is significantly diversifying, they are getting involved in e-telecommunications and making revenue. we've got to do a cou...

Various retirement programs. that will give us short term breathing space in order to get a new business model out there which allows the post office to get involved in a much more entrepreneurial effort and raise the revenue it needs to be self-sufficient. >> all the things brought up about e-mail and the way society changes, goods and services, i understand all that. had the republicans not have done this pre-funding of 75 years in a 10 year window they wouldn't have near the financial problems they have right now, correct? >> absolutely. here's the point, ed. that fund now has $44 billion. ...

Various retirement programs. that will give us short term breathing space in order to get a new business model out there which allows the post office to get involved in a much more entrepreneurial effort and raise the revenue it needs to be self-sufficient. >> all the things brought up about e-mail and the way society changes, goods and services, i understand all that. had the republicans not have done this pre-funding of 75 years in a 10 year window they wouldn't have near the financial problems they have right now, correct? >> absolutely. here's the point, ed. that fund now has $44 billion. ...

Have a definition for middle class. there is no actual income number that determines the middle class americans. if that is the case, how do you actually develop policies that target this group if you really don't know exactly who they are? >> i think in general you could probably say that it's people who have a job, who are kind of self-supporting, at least for the most part. and will actually need retirement income. the government retirement programs, or something like that. somebody who is not in the top couple of percent that is going to be essentially indifferent whether they get social s...