in the private sector, if you don t change your view when the facts change, you ll get fired for being stubborn and stupid. winston churchill said, when the facts change, i change too, what do you do, madame? rick perry unwisely tried to prove that he is smarter than someone. well, smarter than anyone isn t a good thing for him to try to prove. in this case, he tried to tell cnbc viewers that he, rick perry, is smarter than warren buffett. i m curious about your thoughts on the buffett rule and goes to the class warfare issue. well, i think it gets right down to the real problem that we ve got in washington, d.c. is an administration that is listening to people who really don t have an understanding about what s going on there in the real world. you think warren buffett doesn t . i think mr. i think mr. buffett is a really intelligent
very simple. do it on a single sheet of paper. i think it will come to pass. martha: sounds like a very simple, great idea. there is a lot of groundswell for it. we ll see, we ll see if it comes up in the debate on thursday night and if anybody jumps on that bandwagon in a meaningful way. want to talk about the class warfare issue with regard to corporations for a moment. reading through the plan, corporate jet owners will be taxed. oil companies will be taxed. why is it okay to isolate certain corporations that are doing legal business in this country? they re not doing anything illegal we know of. that would be a whole another issue. why is it okay to point a finger at certain issues to say you re bad, you need to pay more taxes? the oil industry especially when prices have gone up is unpopular industry. it is easy for politicians looking for votes in a cheap way to attack them. say take away their privileges. well, instead of just attacking industry industry, how about getting rid
revenue razor in this bill by any stretch of the imagination. it is a class warfare issue but important on both sides, deeply felt and that is what we see. shepard: i wondered what you thought as a side, you use the word compromise, but what did you think of the game being played, john boehner over the weekend on 60 minutes, trying not to use the word compromise, because it is a dirty word. guest: a strange change. the guy whose could do the deals who could figure out the magic compromise making everyone happy were the respected deal makers and now it is, as you suggest, a dirty word. and it is an admission you are not getting what you want. president obama has been dealing with that for ten days, the liberal base is unhappy he is compromising the principles. john boehner is worried about the same thing, compromise to people on both sides thinks that makes letting go of principles or not having principles opposed
campaign have decided on three areas of attack. they are going to smear the words, quote, kill romney, is their strategy. smear romney. they are going to use class warfare. and the president also has now decided he wants this to be about taxes and it s joined with the class warfare issue. when you do you think the president has a chance, every democratic president that has won in the modern era bill clinton for example and president obama hid his radicalism in 2008. they didn t run hard left. do you think the president can win using class warfare? well, the more people that he has feeding out of his hands, the better it is for him, of course. and when you consider that 49-50% of americans are not paying taxes and they are reliant on the government for their income and for benefits, that bodes well for the extreme left, who wants to grow government and take awipeople s
don t change your view when the facts change, you ll get fired for bei ining stubborn and stup. winston churchill said, when the facts change, i change too, what do you do, madame? rick perry unwisely tried to prove that he is smarter than someone. well, smarter than anyone isn t a good thing for him to try to prove. in this case, he tried to tell cnbc viewers that he, rick perry, is smarter than warren buffett. i m curious about your thoughts on the buffett rule and goes to the class warfare issue. well, i think it gets right down to the real problem that we ve got in washington, d.c. is an administration that is listening to people who really don t have an understanding about what s going on there in the real world. you think warren buffett doesn t . i think mr. i think mr. buffett is a really intelligent individual, but i can promise you, doesn t know what s going on in places