0 helpless and unable to function without someone from the government or some man sheparding them through life. silly me. it just never occurred to me that i needed to see women as helpless. i guess that's why the liberals went stark rating linda blair her head spinning circles and pea soup enraged at me. i'm not the one that you ought to be mad at. i was just saying what some of your heros have said. you see, if women aren't getting much more than birth control pills and abortion from this administration, sure not my fault. i don't support taking the life of babies anyway. and i'm okay if you want contraceptives, but since you want me out of your bedroom, i just don't know why i have to pay for what happens in there. that's my view. [ applause ] well, joining me now conservative columnist and founder of the center for urban renewal and education please welcome star parker. [ applause ] >> hi, governor. hello there. how are you? i think most people agree people ought to be appointed on the basis of merit. but the point of what i was saying, there has been a lack of diversity for all the promises made. does that ring a little hollow in some of the things he said? >> well, we know that he conforms to whatever people outside of his circles say, but i think on this one it is his did i strers city plan. the discrimination that has gone on against rich white males last four years of affirmative action maybe he feels sorry for them, i don't know. [ laughter ] what's going on. >> maybe it's a new level. >> it's a new level of quota. >> one thing i want us to talk been a one of the main reasons for you being here. as if jersey shore and honey boo boo weren't bad enough, now the oxygen network is about to debut a show about an atlanta rapper who has fathered 11 children from 10 different women. show called all my baby's mom mass. i want you to see a clip of the father. here he is trying to remember the clips of the names of his children. >> my third child is britney pickens. oh, the fourth is tiana hill. the fifth is laqella turner. [ buzzer ] [tick tock] let me think. little boy. >> mike: amazing. the show shonty responsible. critics call the show offensive and petition to shut down the series before it even airs. that petition has gotten thousands of signatures. star, does it shock you? we have gone from ozzy and harriett and leave it to beaver and then to the cosby show and brady bunch and now stuff like this? >> right. murphy brown and mocked us we wouldn't get to this low. it's not news that the majority of black children now are born outside of marriage. we know 7 a% or close to that number as opposed to 25% in the 60's. it's not news anymore that record numbers of black men today are fathering children by multiple women. this is happening too much. but what is news on this is that oxygen thinks it's funny. when you think about what this means. when we look at what has happened in black america, leading on aids, like on out-of-wedlock birth almost six out of 10 of the babies being aborted in this community this should be an embarrassment to black america it certainly certain solid is a tragedy to our history and legacy and ancestors. it's a blight. an economic blight on our have gotten themselves into they are silent. they are always silent when there is a real crisis. >> mike: that is a crisis in itself. star parker thanks for being here. thanks for being outspoken about an amazing kind of -- [ applause ] >> mike: the president said he raised taxes on the rich to raise taxes on the middle class. why is the middle class being taxed more. coming up country super star john rich and business owners travis perry and william march join me to talk about how taxes are affecting them and their employees. stay with us. i would like to hear from you go to my web site mike huckabee.com and tell me what you think from the lead feedback section. or sign up for facebook page and follow me on twitter. you can find a link to that and more at mike huckabee.com. . can't hurt, right? then i heard this news about a multivitamin study looking at long-term health benefits for men over 50. the one they used in that study... centrum silver. that's what i take. my doctor! he knows his stuff. 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[ laughter ] >> absolutely. difficulty toe to exactly what he said i was on the road most of december. out pushing my product. traveling with it all over the country. i came home and had my managers come to me and said, man, our paychecks are all jacked um. i said what's wrong? and a to be totally honest, i'm working so much, i didn't know. and we use software formula that automatically deducted it. and one of my main employees told me said travis, i have either got to get some overtime to make up for this or i have got to look for another job. >> mike: wow. john, you are one of those evil 1 percenters. >> bad guys. >> i'm awful. >> mike: i don't know if i want to sit this close to you. >> yeah. >> bill: you are in that upper 1%. here is what i want people to know. >> that crawls all over me to hear that by the way. >> mike: you didn't start out 1 percenter maybe 1% in the other end of the spectrum. >> grew up in texas in double wide trailer we were lean and mean. we were fine missing meals. lean and mean to go to that from 20 years in country music and having a great career thanks to all the fans and supreme supporting me all these years. [ applause ] now i hire a lot of people. we have got probably, if you added everybody up, i'm somewhere between 40 and 50 employees. >> mike: you have got a will the of people. >> bus drivers and sound guys and band guys and everything that goes along with a tour. >> mike: you have been hit not only with the tax increases that these guys have talked about. because you are one of those evil guys in that upper crust. something has got to go. what's going to happen to you and the people that you hire on the road as a result of the increase in tax, probably 7%, 8% all tolled you will be paying more? >> it's big. you are running a business. you know, you want to run a successful business. you don't want to run it in the red. you want to run it in the black. >> mike: yeah. >> you are looking at big chop like 6%, 7% in 2013 that you weren't paying in 2012. that's a lot. you are looking at well, can we get by with one less bus or can die with a five piece band instead of six piece band and on and on and on it goes. i can't believe americans didn't get their head wrapped around that hey, if your boss get dinged, you are going to get dinged. that's the way it goes to. be an evil rich guy? give me a break. that's crazy talk. [ applause ] >> mike: william, you are running a manufacturing business which is very tough because you are competing with people all over the world. your employees are they demoralized? does it make it tougher for you to get them to be motivated to work as hard? >> sure it does. with an employee makes less every week he is not as inclined to work. we see product coming in from europe. our company has a big opportunity to make a new product class. the second call that i received on coming back from the new year was my accountant. her message was-to-me was we need to talk about tax. already i'm being scheduled to make tax payments. if i'm paying taxes to the program government for increased taxes on my business, i'm not able to buy new equipment. i'm not able to put more men to work. and my men's future is less certain because it's the money that i invest in equipment which gives them their job security, the productivity and the wages they enjoy. >> mike: so capital expenses go down. [ applause ] bill. >> mike: because you don't have the capital to expand the business. >> equipment that american manufacturers rely on to compete in a low wage global environment go away. mike mipg travis, what happens in your business in this coming year? >> we had two huge rollouts the left model for chord buddy 20% of people are left handed the classical model for chord buddy will not happen. we will not get the breaks that we needed to write off that money, you know, tax wise. >> let it's not there anymore new product somebody has got it to build if it and ship it and sell it it's several jobs down the line that went happen because you don't have the money to make that work. >> right. >> all right. and, john, you talked about there may be fewer folks out on the road with you. >> yeah. that means what happens to those people? where do they go? what can they do? >> it's that effect of people losing jobs. and, you know, it's -- i mean, it's a painful thing to let somebody go that you have been working with for years and years. especially in music and what i do. that's part of what you do. it's part of your sound. at the end of the day you are looking at your paper and looking at your numbers. and i'm not going to run a business in the red. i'm not going to do it niece not how i got where i'm at running in the red. if i have to make a hard call i will have to. >> mike: have a lot of people on the left demonized you. >> i take it personal. people occupy wall street and guys camping out on ipads that their daddy bought for them no doubt. out there being a bunch of ♪ nosed brats in my opinion. i'm here working my way up the chain and they're going to protest me? really really. you sit out there and just wipe your ♪y nose and stay on your ipad and protest me all day long i will be out there playing a concert working. >> mike: what i'm always troubled by you can't say what you really think that's always a problem. >> how do you feel about it, john? i'm actually being nice about it if you want to hear the truth. >> i have heard you back stage. thanks for not saying that on air. >> i was looking to get bleeped. i won't do it. >> mike: thank you for not doing it great to talk to you. john and travis are going to be back later in the show he to talk about innovative way of helping aspiring musicians learn the guitar, that nice little device we were talking about. and we are going to be joined by the little rockers for one of john's big hits. next i will talk to retired four star general stanley mcchrystal how we can make sure that the men and women of our military are properly equipped for battle. we'll be right back. ♪ using cloud computing and mobile technology, verizon innovators have developed a projective display for firefighters. allowing them to see through anything. because the world's biggest challenges deserve even bigger solutions. powerful answers. verizon. is a better car than camry. to argue would be rude. nissan altima. with moving-object detection. lease now. just $199 per month. visit choosenissan.com. road and track called sentra an economy car minus the look and feel of an economy car. wonder how civic and corolla look and feel about that. the all-new nissan sentra, with best-in-class mpg. lease for $169 per month. visit choosenissan.com. your mouth has sipped, snacked, ...yellowed... lived, loved, ...yellowed... chatted, chewed, ...yellowed. and over all those years, your teeth...have yellowed. fact is, if you're not whitening, you're yellowing. crest 3d white whitestrips remove over ten years of stains by going below the enamel surface. and, they whiten 25 times better than a leading whitening toothpaste. crest whitestrips. life opens up when you do.