of data. oil has never parked inflation ever in the modern economy. second, we worry about the fed printing up trillion in money. but it didn t go in circulation and it has no velocity. you can t have inflation unless wages are going up. when we more money at the pump we have less mon tow spend elsewhere. inflation like the boogie man . productivity is up and that means less inflation as well rich, those are the reasons why, but it doesn t make it easier to go to the grocery store? dennis is better looking than ben bernanke i am described to find he is a secret brother. this is preposterous. cost of the ipads are sinking and what you really have to buy and live.
we help all americans. i mean, food stamps and helping elderly get on food stamps this ameri corp. you can wrap it in the american flag and we can t do it forever. our nation will be bankrupt and we re borrowing the money to do it. brenda: all right. thank you everybody. u.s. costs in libya topping 600 million dollars. and now, arab league nations calling for us to pay even more to rebuild the oil rich country. what about using all their oil money? .
no, i mean, i think that it s critical that americans take responsibility for wanting to pay for things like roads and bridges, and this is a tax that will help create jobs. i don t know why we re again not looking at root problems and getting into the core of what would actually help the american people and i think we re not asking the americans to get on 300 and whatever billion dollars sucked out of them, but to reinvest in the the infrastructure of america, and to create jobs while doing it. i don t have problem with that. brenda: okay, gary b. you probably have a problem with it. do you think it would hurt the economy at this time to have a gas tax hike? it would definitely hurt the economy and eric pointed out the figures. i agree on one point. we need to fix the infrastructure. here is problem with the national gas tax, basically what it does. the money goes to the federal government and it subsidizes the states for the most part for their highway and bridge
security and lowering the thresholds how you qualify, but the support staff, rather than trick people to get on it. that s not the solution, the solution is move the retirement age up and doesn t fire the people that help you get on it. and also, toby, the people actually signing up more people are encouraged to sign themselves up for food stamps as well. and not only a vicious cycle, but i think we re forgetting that the from our hearts to the people who need most, we need the 1993, to the end of 2000. and we reduced the rules on the dole because we created an environment that helped people get off it. now, we re doing the complete opposite and doing the idea where we re trying to add people as opposed to help them find jobs outside. it worked great both clinton and the republicans did that in the late 90s. the i don t know why we quit doing that. malia? i, again, i think that i think that it s essential that