all of a sudden decide profits are what make you evil? well, absolutely. we want companies to be profitable. i ve said this on the show many times. we don t want unprofitable companies. but the problem with these hearings is that the target is really the same target as those spamers who send you e-mails saying, if you don t buy gas for a day, it s going to affect gas prices. it s not. what i say is that the oil companies have to do a better job of explaining the relationship between what they do and retail gas sales, which they are not in the business of retail gas sales. it s hard for them to argue they need the tax breaks, they could be doing a much better job of helping people understand how all this works. before we tell everyone it s wrong to be mad at the oil companies. what part is legitimate? in chuck schumer and orran hatch found something funny about it. manufacturing a tax break isn t
not broad deficit or deficit targets that punt the questions to the future. and with the exception of tax hikes, which in my opinion will destroy american jobs, everything is on the table. will, what serious conversation about debt reduction begins by absolutely taking the possibility or discussion of tax hikes off the table? not very many serious discussions. i don t know. i remember when i was little, my dad took me to a car dealership and said, this is how you buy a car. i remember they wrote the numbers down on a piece of paper and slid them across the table. my dad s offer was excessively low. that s the only comparison i can make. i look to guys more like tom coburn. you can t question coburn s ideological position. i hope you re right. that s what people around me at the speech were saying. it s an hoping salvo. jean, if we wanted to keep our debt at the level that it s at right now, not reducing it just simply keeping it from growing through spending cut, we d h