7. 3 billion. Compare that to the i. C. E. Budget, the immigration agency. And they have a 6. 2 billion budget. So i dont think its a money problem. I think theyve got to be better at implementing the technology thats out there. Theres face recognition technology. We need to use what Silicon Valley can do to shorten these lines, not just throw money at the problem. And mercedes, the numbers bear out this way. Over the last couple of years, i believe from 2013 to this year, air travel is up about 15 . Thats quite a few travelers. I think 40 million passengers. In that same period, the budget has at least been stagnant, maybe even lowered a bit over that same period of time. So maybe it is time to give them more money, or should we threaten them with a private Company Coming in and doing their job . It would be interesting to bring up that option about privatization. The reason for that is, when you look at the House Committee reports back in 2012, it was clear that what came out was the fact that the tsa was viewed as bureaucratic, very typical government, mismanagement, and costly. When you dig in deeper, you saw that the General Accountability Office came out and said they were mismanaging money, about 200 million in basically trying to spot terrorism, a program that wasnt working. Add to that the fact that youve had investigations occur where youve had undercover individuals going through with mock explosives and passing through the lines. So its really about not only we dont want to be throwing money at it, but why not take a page from israel, for example, that does use private companies for security, and really make it more competitive. Let me jump in. Im going to go full force. Free market always works better than government. Government cannot spend money properly. They fail at it. Every agency, theres mismanagement, bureaucratic overuse, waste. Why not bring in a private company . This has been talked about for years, bring in a private institution to come in and handle security at airports. No argument about the waste and fat leaking out of government entities. I dont think the fix is automatically assuming that private companies will eliminate all the problems. The threat of privatizing, possibly talking about, hey, if you guys dont step up, holding them more accountable, is the way to go. So you know when the best time to go to the dmv is to get your drivers license . 20 minutes before they close, because all those long lines, those agents want to get out of there and they rush you through and youre done. The point is they can move a lot faster. Theyre great agents, i love them, but they can move faster if theyre motivated. I totally agree with that. Some of the reports talk about people idly standing by. They have to demonstrate theyre squeezing the juice out of every dollar they get. Ric talked about theyre getting 7 billion. Come on. Use what youve got. You cant just throw money at it. The recent push by dig durbin and other democrat senators are saying, hey, airlines, stop charging your baggage fees. They want the airlines to eat into their profits so they can do their own job. The airlines have a responsibility here, especially local airports. If we think all politics is local, lets pressure airports to bring together the airlines to some sort of a pool of money, to look at the latest technologies. Some airports do a good job of shortening the lines. Other airports do a bad job. I think what we have to do is drill down and figure out how to cut down on these lines. Lets be honest, eric. The tsa has done a fairly good job of stopping individuals from getting on a plane that would blow it up or cause harm. So what we need to do is concentrate on the problem, which is the long lines and the tsa agents standing around. By no means, ric, are we suggesting sacrificing safety for quicker lines, i would definitely agree on that. Talk to us about automating. Look whats going on in fast food restaurants. People want health care, they want 16 an hour. The fast food restaurants say it will be much faster without the human interactions so they have robots doing things humans used to do. What about spending a lot of money to have airports fitted for a lot more xray machines . Sure. Richard brought up that point about the technology component. Biometrics, et cetera. If youre able to bring that into the airport. At the same time, think about it. You need these tsa officials to be there and, you know, being able to spot any sort of suspicious behavior. Guess what, canines, dogs, are a part of this problem as well. American Airlines Announced theyre going to provide additional canine support in these airports to help with the long lines. Its interesting that we can talk about automation and technology, but there is still that human component that needs to be there in order to ensure that were able to facilitate the process and keep americans safe. Eboni, what about letting a private company come in and compete with the automation . Then you dont have an outlay, a Government Program with more outlays, just having some companies saying, hey, i want that job, i want that business of these scanners and screeners, so well put the money forward and if it works, you hire us. I dont think theres anything wrong with bringing options to the table. I just dont want to assume that just because tyre private, theyre going to get it right in the way that the current tsa isnt. The other thing, eric, is now weve got a delay around training and implementing a brandnew system, which will take a while. Ric, i have to tell you, tsa is fantastic people, theyre great people. However, you remove the human element, in almost every industry, what happens . It becomes more efficient and cheaper and faster. No, youre exactly right. I want to pressure them with competition. Right now we have a lot of tsa agents who are retired, slower, yes, theyre methodical and they may be looking at the details, but i think technology is going to improve the process and competition is always better. I think that the tsa agents absolutely need a little competition. There you go. Well leave it there. Coming, time to stop those pushing socialist policies right here in america. Venezuela on the verge of collapse. Protesters are rioting because they cant afford the basic necessities. Folks are scrambling to get into supermarkets because theyre worried about a food shortage. Mercedes says thats why we should be wary about that guy, Bernie Sanders, on the left. Your thoughts . Democracy and socialism cannot coexist. Clearly what we know is that socialism leads to the fruits of totalitari totalitarianism. My father who came from cuba lost all of his private property and lost his businesses because you had a government who overtook his private property. I think its important to understand that if youre looking at it from a view of the government being your solution, the fact that it can solve all your problems from cradle to grave, it becomes such a false narrative. What is wonderful about america is the fact that our Founding Fathers really had this vision for our republic, for democracy, for free trade, for free markets, for the flourishing of individual ideas, as opposed to this collective mentality which weve seen has been oppression, not only in cuba but in venezuela where you have shortages of basic goods, and the people are really living in poverty. Ric, has there ever been a socialist regime thats worked and been good for the people . They all implode after a little while. Nicholas madoro has implemented all of hugo chavezs policies, massive government subsidies, manipulating the free market so government controls the prices. It is a system that will absolutely not work. Eric, im fearing that our media here are not making the connection. Just this week we saw an atlantic reporter on npr talking about venezuelas problems never mentioned hugo chavez or socialism. Think what we have here in mrsa media thats focused on taking care of the poor but not the manipulation of the market to the point that Bernie Sanders supporters are truly looking at socialism as a positive. And Hillary Clinton is talking about the in a positive tone. When you manipulate the market, you have major problems that are unsustainable. This is a country that should be swimming in wealth, they produce a large amount of oil. But its mismanaged through socialism. Does it blow you away that a selfdescribed socialist is one of the three remaining standing people for the next presidency . It it doesnt blow me away because i think in theory socialism makes a lot of sense for a lot of people, they like the idea of being taken care of and having things at their fingertips. A lot of them dont consider the expense associated with it because we know nothing is really free. Here is the other thing, we talk about venezuela. We cannot talk about simply socialism, which im not a socialist, i dont think it works ever, but also drugs. When you give the government that much control you make yourself vulnerable to this. Two former president s, the right hand men of all these president s huge, huge drug conspirators. In socialism, when you have that dictatorship type mentality, they make all the rules and get all the wealth. They dont redistribute the wealth the way they promise too. Income inequality is at its highest point in socialist and communist regimes. I think eboni is right that the drugs are a problem. Lets not try to change the issue here in venezuela, because they are printing money, because they cant afford to pay for the programs that they have. They literally have massive Government Programs and manipulation of the free market. So their solution is to print the money. Theyre going to have a 2,000 inflation this year. So this is a monetary and fiscal policy that is not sustainable. Our media and americans need to focus on the fact, socialism does not work in the long term. A twopronged problem, though, right, guys . The socialism is an issue, and also the way theyre implementing it is so dishonest and corrupt. There is no fair way to implement socialism. Go ahead, amerimercedes. And you know what really worries me is that seeing these millennials being attracted to Bernie Sanders and his message about free college and free everything, and that is so disconcerting, because i think that they do not understand the historical implications in looking at cases like cuba or venezuela. You go back to the russian revolution. This is the history that they lack in understanding that socialism will destroy our democracy in america and our freedoms in america, so much that our military, thats what theyve been fighting for through these wars and everything else. To see venezuela as an example and really understand that the socialist politics, the idea of having government control, really creates corruption, and it really leads to the disintegration of human rights. A quick answer, ill bring it around very quickly. Are we okay then with cuba opening up the trade lines with america to take that country out of a purely socialist communist regime, maybe expanding it to some form of free market hybrid . I think obama proposed a very weak deal with cuba. Basically the deal was made that you release 50 Political Prisoners and were going to Start Talking and maybe opening up trade. Thats not a significant deal. I think we got the short end of it. Remove the politics from it. Is it a good idea for us to be part of this new free market, cuba, that may happen . There has to be significant change in cuba. Were not seeing that in cuba. Quick thought, ric . The europeans and the canadians have been engaging with cuba for decades and it hasnt worked yet. I went to quell amerimercede concerns. 91 tax rates will tend to do that to you. Coming, taking a big bite out of politics. Please d abortion was necessary to save a mothers life. Ben and jerrys is hoping you have an appetite for political discourse, unveiling a new flavor called empower mint, making a statement to fight big money in politics. Shouldnt an ice cream maker be jumping on a hot political issue . Ben and jerrys are known for being liberal, theyve come out speaking for different policies. They dont endorse candidates or push a particular cause. But here is the deal. Theyve made the bernie limited ice cream. I want to see the donald trump orange sorbet come out because maybe ill buy it. Political activism in corporate america, good idea, bad idea . I think it should be allowed. We all need to lighten up. Were boycott crazy. I like to go to chikfila because its the best chicken. I like ben and jerrys ice cream because its very good. We have to be able to allow people to be active in politics. We want to encourage that. We should also lighten up so that just because someone is a liberal, i think we have to be tolerant enough to allow them to participate in the process. Im concerned with whats happening with the Bernie Sanders supporters and even some of the Hillary Clinton supporters, where theyre shutting down dialogue. Talk about intolerance on the left, thats exactly whats happening. We need to lighten up and allow people to participate. Im going to read this statement from ben and jerrys. Democracy is in your hands. This fudgefilled flavor reflects our belief that voting gives everybody a taste of empowerment and elections should be for by the people and less buy the people. Im totally cool with it. I agree with ric, weve got to lighten up. Whether its starbucks, chikfila, absolutely, i agree, they were on my college campus. Its all good. You dont have to agree with the position to patronize the business. Like ric side, were boycotting everything. Its quite okay. It encourages talking points and maybe smart intellectual exchange. Im antiboycott on this show. How about freedom fudge brownie . How about this one . First amendmint. Im waiting for the eric bolling ice cream. Thats too sweet. I like yours with the orange sorbet. Political activism tends to happen on the left far more than on the right, does it not, ric . I think what happens on the left is that theyre becoming increasingly intolerant. Yesterdays champions of diversity are todays intolerance. They have to remember that if they want diversity, if theyre pushing this message of, gee, we should all be diverse, they have to allow not just Sexual Orientation or, you know, color or any other issue that they try to put into boxes. They have to allow diversity of thought. And the left has never been very good at that. They say at the top that they dont pick a candidate. Then theyre politically active individuals or individual member employees. I think thats what we have to do. It cuts across, because there are some people who are hypersensitive to it who will say im not going to buy ben and jerrys ice cream. Coming up, ive got some interesting news about my upcoming book. banjo ooooh i hope the days come easy and the moments pass slow and each road leads you where you want to go and if youre faced with a choice and you have to choose i hope you choose the one that means the most to you and if one door opens to another door closed i hope you keep on walkin till you find the window if its cold outside, show the world the warmth of your smile but more than anything more than anything my wish for you is that this life becomes all that you want it to your dreams stay big, your worries stay small you never need to carry more than you can hold and while youre out there gettin where youre gettin to i hope you know somebody loves you and wants the same things too yeah, this is my wish may all your dreams stay big i want to say thanks to a great crew this week for joining us. Great show, everyone. Time to wake up america. My upcoming book wake up america got great news. Number nine on the barnes noble bestselling list. Also earned number one bestseller slot on amazon under nationalism and the book is five weeks from launch. This book was inspired by this segment here on our show every saturday morning we wake up america here and light the path to bring this great country back to power and prosperity and your input is invaluable. Were a team. Now we have a bestselling book. Thanks to you, the view crew. Have a great weekend, everybody. Lou dobbs and lets begin with a political earthquake. For the first time donald trump has pulled ahead of Hillary Clinton in the fox news poll. Clinton has led trump in the head to head polling ever since he entered the race on june 16th of last year, but now trump tops her in a general election head to head match up. 45 to 42 . A 10 point swing from last month when clinton was ahead of trump by seven points. Trump has not only pulled ahead of clinton but has done so with higher favorables and lower negatives than hers. 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