they will do everything they can to get rid of their smaller competitors. and the smaller competitors have to fight to be better to survive. but the competition authorities have also got to be better and you have situations like you know, in the airline business where ba and american airlines have just been allowed by the department of transportation to you know, create the biggest merger in the world. that can be an interest to the consumer. the big airlines like that should be told, get on and compete. why do you think the competition authorities are so compliant with whether it is aviation, healthcare or energy. well in the competition authorities don t have much say bizarrely over the airline industry. it is much more political. it is the department of transportation that, you know, that has the say on issues like this. the competition authority should, you know, should be
hypocrisy. no one wants it hear the truth. the president has been saying we need we need an energy mix. :ñ why do we always get stuck n fuel source mix debates. because we can t even get past that. but what i m saying is table the fuel source mix debate and be honest about the fact that this america is stuck in 1950. the rest of the world has moved to 2011. they do not burn two thirds of their energy. in china, brazil, germany, japan, singapore, chile. only we do it and we do it interest here in the united states, any time we get anywhere close to it i guess that. but listen, where there there is a portal we have to break the brick wall. a lot of people say we should change regulations to do this or that. i think what we need to start focusing on is perhaps wipe the slate clean. say these are the regulations.
same thing when it comes to the vote. let s change the tax code to get rid of subsidies. but look at everyone. not just where you get headlines from. and if you go down to energy, then fine, let s talk about regulating p but let s not add more regulations. setting standards where hey, if you are an industrial power facility and you belch two thirds of all of the energy that you burn whether from the sun or natural gas we can t have that because we are funding two sides of a terrorist war that is with that money. we should get utility. but we re not going solve this here. we don t get to that conversation. in part because things are so divided in washington, you can t have the conversation about let s clean the slate. because of folks in jimmy s position. oh, yeah it s his fault. $3 trillion of our deficit is because of tax cuts. 3 trillion. 3 trillion of our $14 trillion is tax cuts. but i thought tax cuts spurred
drilling in the gulf, the odds of passing are slim but it is good pro wrestling and we have folks to discuss the realç isss with our mega panel. former ndy communicatees director karen finny. . we call them susan, karen and jimmy around the office. those are our names. can you get susan, karen and jimmy to come over? at least they are names can you use on tv. right. my point on this is very simply we are the most inefficient energy country in the world. we are at a statement that as eisenhower, sure we can drill for more oil, we can do a lot of things, why do they not deal with the fact that japan is at 90% we are at 30% germany is 90%. we are just pumping it to burn it out our windows. it is confusing me.
all right in the monopoly board game, the top hat, thimble, the shoe horn are iconic game pieces. but if real life the pieces are corporate america and they are playing for keeps. whether it is american banking, energy or healthcare monopolies. we as a nation spend more and get less in return while same you will tanusually those with the simultaneously those with the monopoly benefits turn record profits. the government gives trillions if you count the fed and let the lending market has been terrible particularly for small businesses for years. our nation s efficiency rating is only at 34%. thank you, president eisenhower. meanwhile, there are almost no viable alternatives.