i guess you need a noble prize to figure it out. i was watching that live. he went from $845 billion to $420 billion and where did it go? greg: i thought matrix was an alternate universe. but what is it with nancy pelosi and krugman, this iser crazy eyed. that drug is our money. anybody that can think they can have 850 on whatever is the deficit is like telling a junkie well done for doing one less speed ball. it s still an addiction. dirty secret. they are saying deficits don t matter. why do we have taxes? bob: i want to know what drug you are taking to get yourself oh soe depressed. first of all the president is right. budget deficit has been cut.
i personally agree with. this is one of them. six reasons to snooze on national napping day. napping now, people. all right. it boosts you alertness and improving learning and memory. that could go a long way. increases your creativity. productivity. lifts your spirit. it zaps stress. bob, do you nap? bob: that is why i m always in good spirits. it snap all the time. kimberly: you nap outside on the chair. bob: my turn? eric: yeah. go around the table. kimberly: and it s good for disease and obesity. [ laughter ] bob: what was that? dana: that was added things in the study. bob: excuse me. kimberly: it s helpful to people bob: excuse me. on a seriousness, since kimberly is not being very serious, nelson mandela who is president of south africa
she had had some of the worst congressional relations of anyone that i have seen. she has some repair work. i have no doubt the president has full confidence in her because he had to say saw because when she was up important secretary of state. do you feel she would be a good choice, a good fit for this position what you have told us. dana: i think the president needs somebody he can trust and he trusts her. that is his judgment call. bob: let me make one other pointed why this is so important. under the law that was passed 20 some years ago the hill created the intelligence act to committees both the senate and house. every day, i used to have the job, you had to carry this stuff up to the chairman and ranking member had a chance to review it all. its critically important john. donilan has been doing most of it. but it s really sensitive stuff, believe me. it s not an inconsequential job
brought a company forward, which is what you have to do with ipo. maximize the potential profits going forward and sell the public on the fact it s a company that will continue to make money. you don t say i want to make sure it s the right percentage i m one, white, black, gay, straight, white dana: green. eric: fine, too. if you make the green. dana: let me ask about maureen dowd. maureen dowd said she has a plan to become the pied piper in prad ankle boots. she thinks she can remedy social paradigms with a new club dana: what do you think of that? bob: maureen is the last to talk about it. successful on her own but has riz on the a position very few move to. 4% of the ceos in fortune 500 are women.
handle that. basically what krugman is saying it is okay. 75% of g.d.p. is fine and if you look at u.k. or japan, they are basically saying those countries are doing great. i lived there. i have family there. it s not great. you have much less disposable income, much less job growth and all the things that are happening with government and regulations putting clamp on people is hurting america. they are not motivated to reduce the debt because they don t have a fundamental problem with carrying a deficit. they don t soldier kr eight substantial crisis. bob: as from england and other places and compare it to the united states. you point out something, krugman is okay with 75% of our economy in the form of debt.