Chalk talk to the top story, another independent report finds the debilitatingffects of obamacare extended. This time the negative impact on Small Businesses. The National SmallBusiness Association surveyed nearly 800 Small Business owners and found that 91 of them have seen their heth care costs nearly doule since the implementation of obamacare. All of this in addition to the Duke University school of business study that found, quote, nearly half of u. S. Companies are reluctant to hire full time employees because of the Affordable Care act. One in five firms indicates theyre likely to hire fewer employees. A report that backed up the Congressional Office claims that obamacare will result in reduction of narly 2. 5 million fulltime workers, and that the law also gives americans a disincentive to work. The white house reaction to the cbo report was denial. House minority leader Nancy Pelosis tactic seemed to be memory loss. So what is jon stewarts excuse . Here is the Comedy Central sometimes funnyman taking a shot at our reporting at lou dobbs tonight in his recurring bs mountain segment. The government is effectively incentivizing americans to stop working. You know, like Social Security incentivizes americans to not die at their job. Well, hey its nice to witness the birth of a new talking point. Giving Someone Health care l that it takes to get people to stop showing up to work, i dont know why we dont chip in lou dobbs some health care. Jon stewart once was too intellectually rigorous to ignore the truth or try to avoid it. Hes been living on that bs mountain for far too long apparently and is obviously fallen off one of the slippery slopes or no longer possesses the intellectual integrity to show the Congressional Budget Office director making the exact statement that i was reporting. Lets take a look at douglas he will men door of and listen to his testimony wednesday. By providing heavily Subsidized Health insurance to people with low income, then withdrawing those subsidies as income rises, the act creates disincentive for people to work. Well, he w sing point blank that obamacare is a disincentiveor working. Were going to bring you that bite numerous times over the course of this show. Here are more facts forr consideration and certainly mr. Stewart. The obama economy turning i another mediocre jobs report, 113,000 jobs added in january, far fewer than the nearly 190,000 that economists were expecting. The overall Unemployment Rate edged down from 6. 7 to 6. Last month. Much of the decline resulting from only 63 of working age americans participating in the labor market, creeping up from 62. 8 , the lowest level by the way, since 1978. President obama telling government contracts how much to pay teir employees. The president signed that order, raising minimum wage for contract employees to 10. 10 an hour as of january next year. Even the president s labor secretary has no idea how many works would be effected by the president s rather dramatic signing. What percentage of workers on federal contractors make minimum wage or make less than 10. 10 an hour. Again, we dont have a precise figure because were still finalizing the regulations and preparing the regulations. Again, we estimate that there are hundreds of thousands of workers who will benefit from this. No one in Obama Administration can tell us how the president came up with the estimate and his labor secretary. The administration appears to be making it up as they go along on nearly every major issue, and it is in most cases not working. According to the latest fox polls, the American Public has overwhelmingly rejected president obamas rule. Three in four say using executive orders to bypass congss is not how the government is supposed to work. On top of that, another new fox poll asked them to grade the president on the slightly impring economy. The highest percentage of those folks gave the president a grade of f. The senate today approved an increase in the debt limit, sending the legislation onto the president. Party leaders chose to avoid another standoff over the governments deficit spending, the bill clearrd the upper chamber, 5543 on a party line vote. The first guest doesnt like the debt ceiling deal, says the most important activity in the gop now is getting harry reid to become the Senate Minority leader. Joining us, mike huckabee, former governor, host of huckabee on fox news channel. Great to have you wi us, mike. Les begin thank you very much, lou. Lets begin with that vote, 199 republicans abandon the speakeand said they werent going to go along with that debt ceiling increase. What do you thk of the vote and their motivation . I dont blame them. I mea i think boehr didnt have a lot of choice. He doesnt want to see the government go into efault, even though ankly it is not goin o into default. We have enough money to pay the interestand that would be enough to settle whatt would be considered the true debt. Would it effect the markets . Probably so. Would it be the end of the world . Probably not. But i understand why boehner is feeling he is in a tight spot, doesnt want to create a problem, so the reblicans look like theyre the ones gumming up the works. But i absolutely unrstand why republicans didnt want to vote on this because they got nothing for it, not e stinking thing. No reductions in any of the spending. And thats what they really wanted to do and felt like ey should have held for. You know, governor, weve just watched the Republican Party do this twice, 96 and just 95 and 96 and last fall. It is horrible politics. It is worst strategy. And devastating to the partys interest. And this is a year in which you guys have a clear track straight to victory in the mid term elections,f you can just avoid mucking it up. And if the 199 republicans hadnt been bailed out b their colleagues on the other side of the aisle, they would have had justrecisely that, another mucking it up. You know, i understand where theyre coming from. Theyre saying look, this is a principle vote. But principle is having tbe balanced by the realities of the vote totals. And if you dont have the votes to get what it is that you want, you have to work within the context what can be done, not what you want to have done. My gosh, when i was governor, lou, i would love to have had all of the votes. When you have 89 out of 100 senators that are democrats as i did, you learn youre not going to get everything you want. Alot of house members i understand where theyre coming from, i dont like the deal at al but i think what boehner is saying, guys, lets fight the real fight, the fight is not with each other, the fight is with the democrats. If we take the senate, then were in position to really fight. Untithat happens, if we get blamedor messing up the debt and government and messing u the budge then the whole Republican Party is introuble. You cant blow the option to take the senate and gain seats the house. It is, after all, the se leader, speaker of the house, mr. Boehner, who wanted to brace the g8 version of comprehensive Immigration Reform an amnesty, until the conference made it pretty clear to the speaker if he persisted, he would lose his job and also the Republican Party would be devastated. It is hard to sort out the whim in washington, d. C. , whether republican or democrat, the white house orn the house of representatives. I thinkkthe president and harry reid knows that john boehner doesnt want to play hard ball. Heeally doesnt. Because they know that they push him to the limits and theyre going to win. If the speaker drew a line in e sand, sai guys, i want to tell you now, this is what were not going to do, maybe he would have more leverage. But thaas not t way he leads and as a result i think we are where we are. I think i is horrible we didnt get more out of a debt deal. I think barack obama was right back in 2007 whehe said its a crime against future generations to keep borrowg money we cannot afford to payback. Even used the term it is unpatriotic, as a lot other democrats. Now they think it is wonderful to increase the debt limit. I think both parties have a lot of hypocrisy when it comes to the debt ceiling. At some point, this country is going to have to understand it cannot spend money it doesnt have it cannot borrow money it cant afford to payback. That simple. None of us can. And including the government. And as we looked at the other issue thats actually going to be, well, taken up apparently if setor schumer has his ew immediately soe can shape immigration law, but not implemented until 2017 because we cant trust president obama in senator schumers view, he agrees with the republicans on that, thats one of the most outlandish proposals i have heard of. I would think the republicans would be making all kinds of political hay withthat. They certainlyshould, lou, because the fact is this is political posturing. Is not there to solve a problem. It is there to pretend theyre attempting to solve a problem so they can garner votes in the Hispanic Community. I think we dont need to take the Hispanic Community as a bunch of chumps that cant see through tt, they can cut through that fog and understand it is balloon choose. Nothing is being promised to them, nothing at all. I truly believe the republicans have made the smart decision to say were not going to go into some big immigraration reform ts year because were dealing with an administration that we cannot trustbecause time after time this administration has said something that it knew to be untrue, whether it was keeping your doctor,eeping your Health Insurance, we dont know what happened in benghazi, were going toet to the bottom of the irs. Where does it stop. Why would the republicans ever trust this administration. Thank gooess they didnt on this issue. Well, trust as you correctly point out think will be the pivotal issue with obamacare come mid terms. Governor huckabee, as always, great to see you. Thanksor being with us. Prident obama and hamid karzai refusing to negotiate over troops in afghanistan, so it is all up to the taliban now. Ambassador john bolton next. You have time to shop for Car Insurance today . Yeah. I heard about progressives name your price tool . 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[ female announcer ] the x1 entertainment operating system, only from xfinity. Tv and internet together like never before. This is video on tand by the washington post, bthe elite delta force. Captured an al qaeda plotter and took him prisoner outsideis home in tripoli, libya. The covert operation as you see here done after he returned from morning prayers last october. Took place in little more than minute, not a single shot fired. And by the way, this is security footage from the buildi from which he was captured. Director of National IntelligenceJames Clapper doesnt think president karzai will sign a Security Agreement with the United States, becoming e first high Ranking Administration Official to say that. It is not the first time we heard it. Former ambassador to united nations, Fox News Contributor john bolton is here and has never been hopeful of the outcome. Good to see you. Karzai himsmself has made it i thought whatever is deficiencies, nsistent in ts statement there will be no bilateral security agrment he will sign, if ever. Rig. I think now theyre in position where clappers statement is simply expressing reality and that the best bet is to hope they can sign something with karzais successor. That may be todays best option bua bad option. Things may get wse after karzai, reflects failure over a couple years for the administration to gsp the reality. Some would argue the failure has run some ten years, the initial deployment, particularly covert forces in afghanistan, resulted in success. We actually controlled afghanistan as you know for a period. We have managed to screw it up fairly well, i think it is fair to say, over the passing decade. Now i hear some rationalization about the signs of force in afghanistan. Can we keep 10,000 special operations forces, would that be adeqte for security, or maybe 15,000 would be ideal, i have no confidence that i amm hearing ay numbers that make any sense because certainly theres strategy attached to the numbers. Thats the biggest problem. If you dont have a strategy, the numbers become relevant, and size of force that is simply there to protect itself is a contradiction in terms. I think where we went wrong in afghanistan was believing that after defeating the taliban we could create an afghan govement centralized power, and overturn about two millennia of tribal practice in the region. Make no mistake, if taliban gets back into power in afghanistan, the most likely result, al qaeda will come back, be right back to where we were before 9 11. Ambassador, sort this out for us. We after 13 years there, we now know forcesn pakistan are working with the taliban negotiating. We now know that karzai himself has been negotiating with the taliban. This administration doing so as well. The reemergence of taliban is stunning and it is a fact, is it not . It is a fact and pakistan has been part of the problem from the get go as one analyssaid. Pakistan is the only country in the world he knows of where it is composedin the leadership of both arsonist and firefighters because in effect, the pakistani government did setp the taban, they financed the jahideen before them, created extremists in cashmere, it is alloming to haunt us. Lets be clear. If taliban takes afghanistan back, it will strengthen pakistani taliban. If that vernment goes, Nuclear Weapons go immediately to the terrorists. Couldnt be a more frightening prospect, unless it is that after 13 years of war that this one super power in the world doesnt still have an articulated, enunciated strategy, with any metric for success or failure that you just outlined for the lives we lost and the treasure we spe. The overthrow of taliban in the first instance was a great victory and was done the right way. But the last decade has not been a pretty one, has it. The mistake which began in the bush administration, i will bipartisa my criticism, was to think you could create an Afghan National government that look like western europe. Was never going to happen. This requires Long Term Strategy for the United States to understand in a way were going to be there for almost forer. Buwere not going to transform afghanistan. What we need to do is pick apart the tribes on the border, divide and rule as the brith did and prevent taliban from having a safe haven. Instead, looks like well be withdrawing outright by end of the year. Were going to give them the whole country. Ambassador, john blt on, thanksor being here. Up next, mr. Obama, his political guru asking fellow democrats to stop donating to Hillary Clintons pential 2016 campaign. Well show you why in the chalk talk next. Stay with us. 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By providing heavily Subsidized Health insurance to people with low incomend withdrawing those subsidies as income rises, the act crees disincentive for people to wk relative to what would have been the case in the absence of that act. That act being, of course, obamacare. Damaging testimony from the Congressional Budget Office director, douglas he will men door of, adding to the president s political toxicity. I hope i hope jon stewart was watcng, thats the statement we were reporting. You should stay comfortable on your b. S. Mountain, mr. Stewart. There were not one, not two, but three damaging reports on obamacare this week, and the president s gall Approval Rating stands at 40 approving, 51 disapproval. It has gotten so bad, the president himself is acknowledging where he is with the American Public. He reportedly told a meeting withsenate democric Conference Wednesday he wouldnt be offended if he is not invited to visit vulnerable democrrts this campaign year. Some democrats are already shunning him. Publican need six seats. Here is what the plls on each race show. Alaska and incumbent, mark begich, leading his republican challeer by just four points. Which is truly remarkable at this stage. Arkansas, democratic incumbent prior pryor, running behind his republican challenger by five points. Democratic incumbent mark udall leads one challenger by three points. Louisiana, democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu trails her republican rival by four points. D Jeanne Shaheen in a tie with her republican challenger, and that is not where sh wants to be obviously. In north carolina, democratic incumbent kay hagen trailing her repuican challenger by seven points. As you can tell, this is a very serious moment for the democrats. In montana, the open seat, republican there is ahead by 14 points. How worried are the democrats . Mr. Obamas counselor David Axelrod so worried that democrats are spending their money on Hillary Clintons president ial hopes that he is tweeting. Here is what he had to say. With the senate seriously at risk as you see here and Koch Brothers spending pr ding usually, shouldnt dep funders be focused on 14 and not 16 races . Thats interesting, thats a question i often a of the reblicans. Time for some of your comments. Were giving a copy of my new book to everyone whose tweet or post is us. Right on target withour view on government and president obamas unilateral actions. Since our president believes he can do anything he wishes time to change his title from commander in chief to nars cyst in chief. George on Facebook Says i suggest instead of giving bonuses to worrs, irs should reimburse hundreds of thousands of dollars spe by conservative groups trying to get their applications approved. An interesting idea. We like to hear from you. Email me from lou dobbs. Follow us at lou dobbs news, go to our facebook pe and links to all found at loudobbs. Com. The irs targeting of conservative groups is a scandal thats still far from resolved. Tonight, youll meet katherine engineer he will brekt, talking out her fight with no only Internal Revenue service but with a number of agencies within the Obama Administration next. Our next guest has been running a Family Business nearly two decades, it changed in 2010 after filing for tax empt status for the group true the vote and keen seet patriots. She answered questions before a use committee, detailing her situation last week. In the first 20 years of business, didd they visit your place of business . No, sir. Never once . No, sir. After application. Yes, sir. Did the atf come to your business . No, sir. They came a couple times after you filed the application. Yes. In the first 20 yea of business, did the irs ever audit you . No, sir. After your application d they audit you . Many times. Did the fbi visit . No, sir. After the application did they visit. Six times. Joining us, katherine engelbrecht, great to have you with us tonight. Listening to congressman jordan go through that list, your answers, that is stunning. Did you turn at any point to your congressman or senator and say wait, this has to stop. You know, it is funny. When its happening, you kind of get caught up in the moment, and it really took almost three years to take a look back and thin something is very wrong. Finally i told my attorney and all the pieces started to fll into place. As those pieces fell into place, i mean, that is ju i dont think ive ever i know i have never heard a citizen say what youve sa, responding to thway in which yo were harassed by t government. Did any charge, any allegation found against you . No, you know, irs we got refunds, oshais going to find something, thats kind of what they do. We had nominal fines. We complied fully with everybody that came out. Everyone that came out was cordial and kind. I dont have any issue with the fact they came out. I do question how you can be in business f that long and with no other detail, no other rationale for why this sudden onslaught. 15 plus audits or investigations. Something is ver wrong. Something is very wrong. You had no apology from y one of those agencies, not from any part of the executive branch. No one has sd, you know, something went wrong here. No, not only have the said nothing s gone wrong, they have not asked about it at all, you know. We hear about the investigation into the irs scandal and targeting of organizations, i have not been talked to by anybody from the irs. As far as we know, no onehas be in regard to that investigation. Which in and of itself tells us we have a government, at least parts ofof the government that e out of control. I understand youre saying you could appreciate why people were but i have to tell you, i have to believe nearly every citizen listening to your story has a big problem with that. Thats thats right. In hindsight, you see it clearly, but when youre in thee moment, you dont nt to believe it is happening, you know, thats not america. I want to share with the audience also you have also filed an ethics colaint against congressman elijah cummings,ranking docrat on the House Oversight committee. If we could show this for the audience quickly in his letter to you, at some point an effort to challenge voter registrations by the thousandswithout any legitimate basis may be evidence of illegal voter suppression. If these efforts are intentional, politically motivated and widespread across multiple states could amount to criminal conspiracy to deny legitimate voters their constitutional rights. Wow. This is quite a letter to someone who is simply trying to preserve or perhaps in some cases create integrity on the electol system. Did you ever get an explanation from the Ranking Member . No, no, congressman cummings sent three letters in total. We responded to all three. I offered to meet with him. I offered to try and explain as best as i could his confusion, which stemmed from a fundamental misunderstanding of what true the vote is about. His allegation of our sending things to voters, weont have the authority to do at, weve never done anything like that. It was all complete fabrication. T heecided on committee letterhead to announce that he was opening an investigation, so thats the question were asking now with the ethics violation complaint, is it okay for a congressn to single out a private citizen and an organization like true the vote d declare an investigation afoot. And katherine, as we wrap up here, the idea that you now have your tax exempt status, it was given to you last september, is that correct . Yes, i think so. And with that, youre going to move forward with goals and objectives of your organization. And we wish you all the very best. And go get them. Thank ou. You can countn it. It is something. I should think y wont have very much difficulty in finding new members for the organization as you proceed. Katherine, thanks so much. Very impressive, your courage and steadfast resolve to get the right thing done. It is the right thing to do. A teen avoids hard time for killing four people. His defense, too rich to kno right and wrong. Attorneys doug burns and remi spencer on the affluenza defense. Ew when disa evented. announcer scottrade knows our clients trade andnvest their own way. With scottrades smart text, i can quickly understand my charts, and spend more time trading. 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Lou 16yearold ethan couch killed four people a severely jured two others in a drunken driving accident in texas last year. Now after two trials and a much deted socalled affluenza defense, the teenager will not spend a single day behind bars. Here to analyze how the american justice could allow such a result former feder prosecutor, criminal defense attorney, doug burns, trial attorney, former prosecutor, remi spencer. Remi, start with you. This is outrageous on any level the way in which this has proceeded. You certainly dont need to be a lawyer to uderstand this case is tragic, and the outcome is incomehensible. A couple of points that most viewers probly dont realize. This was a juvenile, not adult. It works differently for juveniles. It is about rehabilitation opposed to punishment. The headlines, has been out the affluenza defense, but theres been more to e case than that. Keep in mi, this is a reckless standard, not intentional. Mean, others have said it before me, from the psychiatric and psychological point, it is junk science. From the legal point of view, it is junk l. Forget it. Its never going to be any type of recognized defense. And remi is right, the fact of the matter is the case gets slightly distorted because i am not so sure, i think the headlines kind ofoverran. A judge who may have made a bad decision. But forget the affluenza thing, it is stupid. Sorry to so blunt. I personally prefer direct spoken language. Thank you. The idea that this 16yearold because he or anyone else because of age, he h a drivers license . Thats correct. He is accepted into a highly he should be h responsibl ould he not . I agree. Can law notkeense of ch an eqon . If were an adul the law certainles makesensende would be facing a suntial prison me. In juvenile system, most juveniles dont end up behind bars, even in extreme cases. They shouldnt end up behind the wheel of a car. I agree with you. In this case, keep in mind he didnt get behind the wheel with the intentn to kill four people and hurt two other people and i think that is one of the things the judge said at the time of sentencing, the recklessness of his behavior negated incarceration. Thats going a little too far, in other words. Recklessness becomes defens for irresponsibility. I think viewers want to understand how recklessness, this is abhorrent in and of itself is a defense for responsibility. It is a mitigang factor as sed juveni his using it as a we purposely. I think the distinction, sorry to interrupt, is about juvenile versus adult. That distinction i can live with. This business of recklessness doesnt matter. If you rundown peopl drunk, it is vehicular homicide. Lets turn to another case thats garnering a lot of attention right now, and that is a judge refusing to set bail for curtis reeves, a retired tampa officer who gunne down a man because he threw popcorn. What in the world first of all, bail is supposed to be whether or not you appear in court. Bail also takes into account how strong the proof is. This is defense, self defense seminar 101. Teach you the first week in criminal law. The response has to be commsurate with force presented with. If i throw popcorn at you, lou dobbs, you cant shoot me. This is a slam dunk. He has no chance of winning this case. In a recorded interview played in the bond hearing to t to what dou is talking about, he told the authities, quote, as soon as i pulled the trigger, said oh, shoot. I mean, what in the world. Whats the issue here . Open and shut case. It is a strong case for the prosecution. Keep in mind, thats a statement that the defendant made immediately after theincident. His wife even rebuts his contention he was hit by the victim, which prompted the shooting. He is either going to take a large plea deal or go to trial and lose. Aaron hernandez, a judge ruling, procutors in his case cannot have recordings of his jail house telephone calls. Thas the correct ruling. I disagree. I disagree. First and foremost, someone is listening in on those calls. We know that. Those phone calls of an inmate to someone onheutside are monitored forsafety concerns, for prf issues, for a number of considerations. When the prosecution can put forth a proffer of something that will help the case, they get it. Prosecutors prove they killed somebodyyou pre they killed them. When they cant, often were going to show he told aunt sadie in a coded conversation. The allegation is that Aaron Hernandez used code t communicate with those folks. It is kind of weak. The judge inted prosecutors to come back at a later date when they had more evidence. We have a few seconds. Do you believe the prosecutors have a strong case in the hernandez i think they lost a lot of ground when one of the main witnesses, tyre not using him, ortiz. It is maybe a tough case. This is not as much a slam dunk as prosecutors would like it to be. Thank you very much. Thank you. Up next, the new book, unleashing the second American Century. Making a convincing case that despite all that is wrong with our government and all that we hear from europe and china, americas best days remain ahead of us. Of us. Author joel are you o . Yes. Is this the thing you gave my husband . Well, yeah, yes. The name your price tool. You tell us the price you want to pay, and we give you a range of options to choose from. Careful, though that kind of power can go to your head. That explains a lot. Yo, buddy i got this. Gimme one, gimme one gimme one the power of the name your price tool. Only from progressive. Chinese exports surging more than. 5 last month. Took asian markets higher, kept cha on track to overtake the u. S. Conomy by 2023. Some saying perhaps a little soon. But a new book says chinas assent is not assured andnd the 21st century is indeed an American Century. Joel hurtzman, senior fellow at the millikeninstitute. The new book. Available of course everywhere come february 25th. Great to he you with us. Thanks. Great to be here. Joel and i have known each other for many years. It is a delight to see you and delight, i want to congratulate you on the book. It is terric. Nk you. As a book can, invalidates what most of us hope, that this is another American Century. You talk about creativity, ergy, talk about capital, manufacturing, all that stu we got. Dot seem to be driving anywhere. You know, if you take a walk around cambridge, massachusetts, arou mit, a you have, wn you nt to school, you walk around that rea, yo see the forefront of World History taking place. It is the world leader in biotech, world leader in computing, in brain research, medil research. No place in the world has anything like that. And we have cambridge but we also havesan francisco and we have san dieg we have ten centers like that. China would love to have one. We have ten. So thatour window on the future and it is workingeally well. Itsalways been a place where knowledge was absolutely the ultimate currency. And you can get good coffee now. Always had a great coffee, by the way, i wasnt there for myself, i was there visiting my kids. You say that companies, american companies, are producing a quarter of the worlds gdp. Yeah. Most people dont realize that. Whats happened is that the positive trends that are going on in the u. S. Have been lost in all of the noise, paparticularl in washington as we squabble and try to com to either no agreement or hash over old agreements. But the facts are that the United States rporations, that manufacturing is alive and well and getting bigger in the United States andt stopped growing in china. And w should be clear, that great news, the fact is that american u. S. Mui national sent millions of middle class jobs to china, to romania, to all over the world. Absolutely. The trend is reversing. But the madness of that business practice and being allowed in the first place by both Political Parties is i think a mark of shame in american story. Not only a mark of shame, turned out to be bad business position. Productivity in the United Statess so far above any other country that it makes more sense to make things here than anywhere els thats why apple is going to be making computers for the first time again in either xas or calirnia. They havent chosen. Thats another 700,000 jobs to bring home. Exactly. And its why dow chemical is bringing back plants from the middle east. It is why other countries are locating manufacturing here. What i think is wonderful is that suddenly america, yoknow, people argue about god and providence, but i will tell you, if anyone doubted that this country is bless and that we are a nation of profits, think about fracking for a little while, think about the prospect th suddenly this country that jimmy carter said would b out of energy within a few decades is now the Energy Capital of the world. Absolutely. And you know whats remarkable about that story is it was all private money, private initiative that made it happen. And fighng government all the while. Exactly. But we have something other countries dont have which is unique tothe United States. Individuals can own whats under the ground. They cant do that anywhere else. That means that we can prospect for oil or natural gas and make money it. The incentives are there. The incentives, so long as we have the guts to fig to keep it. It is always a fight. It is indeed. We have the right folks for it, including you, joel hurtzman. 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