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Single payer system would be so bad for this country. i get the notion that we have to sort of get some preventative care out there and things like that but the way that they're talking about doing this, god, it's like taking you back to the kremlin. it's crazy. >> jonas, anybody who has been to the dmv or post office isn't quite sure they want the government to run the entire thing. what do you think? >> well, first of all the problem with the conspiracy theory it doesn't explain the another hundreds of government sites that are just as badly managed and run and if a lot of people tried to vi...

On a lot of the discretionary spending. medicaid is never going to be touched by democrats. the medicare cuts that democrats would accept are more of the variety of the types of centralized cost controls that we saw in obama care which republicans don't want. they want to move toward more of a ryan type system. >> vouchers. >> which democrats would never accept. so i think that's the problem. i think another thing is that we saw in past budget agreements when republicans wouldn't give way on the tax front and they wouldn't agree to increase taxes, what their concession to democrats was cutting...

One of the guests described it as sort of a russian doll type system. a containment vessel inside a containment vessel. the spent fuel poles can be just as radioactive, can often have more fuel rods in them, but they're not necessarily kept in that russian doll style multiple containment system. they don't want to move the fuel rods far from the reactors that they come out of. they are, of course, super hot and radioactive. you don't want to trek them across the country. in the reactors in trouble in japan, where do they move the fuel rods do? they move them to here, just up top. they are esse...

Blast e-mail go to all the important airports and do it instantly. >> what do you think that is? is it technological? >> it's just the bureaucracy makes things too complicated. sometimes it's just a simple e-mail blast to get it out to the right people. then you forward that e-mail. you should be able to get it to the proper desks in seconds with an amber alert type system. >> i'm also going to wonder about literally technologically speaking. you remember in the wake of 9/11 there were all of these dispersed technological grup groupings and they had to bring them all together. have they done t...

The watery vap rate is a greater source of radiation leak than a reactor, simply because there are often more fuel rods in a spent fuel pool than in an active reactor. the stuff has to sit there for eight to ten years. sometimes they may get a lot of stuff in the same pool, which means there is a loss of cooling system to the pool if there is a meltdown, there is more uranium to form a bigger radioactive mass that everybody hopes we don't have to contemplate. the other reason the spent fuel rods are potentially more dangerous than a shut down reactor is because of where the pools are. when a r...