will not go okay let s hire people. not yet. this is good. as i said, this doesn t get in the way. but there are some things out there that could finish this off and make it much more powerful. immigration reform is not yet complete. speaker boehner said he s going to take this up in the house. he s going to lead that effort. that would be a good thing to get done. that s a permanent reform that changes the landscape. tax reform is the same way. permanent change, give stability. allows our corporations to compete around the world. we need to get those things done. that s what i d look for presidential leadership on in 2014. if we do that, we ll have success. the debt limit coming up in the spring, i hope it s a nonevent. with that, i think we may be in for a decent, not a great, but a decent 2014. because the nonfederal sectors of the economy are actually growing north of 3%. if the federal government just kind of gets out of the way, 2014 will be better than 2013 was. so you t
gretchen: we re a generous country. americans give a greater percentage of their income to charity than anywhere else in the world. sounds good, right? brian: here is a controversial take. our next guest says sometimes your money helps others more when you pursue your own self-interest. how have is that so? let s ask the host of stossel, john stossel, author of this book no they can t. what do you mean, we re better off keeping it ourselves? we re not. i give to charity. we ought to. i m talking about the entrepreneurs. they have these lifetime achievement awards and they talk a minute about their business that made them the money and ten about their charity work. in fact, business people create much more wealth pursuing their own interests. they invent things, they create jobs. brian: hire people. spreads wealth far and wide burks they are guilted while charity is considered heroics. bill gates, he s doing good
week for six weeks and bugged them, asking if they needed anybody for after school help. john: they finally hired her. outside a nearby welfare office, i was told there are no jobs. there is nothing out there. no jobs around? really, i asked them to check it out. wayne few blocks of that welfare office. they found lots of businesses that want on hire people. yes, we are hiring. they wish more people would apply. we need two for three people all the time. out of 79 businesses, 40 said they would hire. 24 said they would take people with no experience. owner of this restaurant said he would hire lots of people. how many. about 12-14 people. i would hire more than that, but hardest thing is to get good
week for six weeks and bugged them, asking if they needed anybody for after school help. john: they finally hired her. outside a nearby welfare office, i was told there are no jobs. there is nothing out there. no jobs around? really, i asked them to check it out. wayne few blocks of that welfare office. they found lots of businesses that want on hire people. yes, we are hiring. they wish more people would apply. we need two for three people all the time. out of 79 businesses, 40 said they would hire. 24 said they would take people with no experience. owner of this restaurant said he would hire lots of people. how many. about 12-14 people. i would hire more than that, but hardest thing is to get good
week for six weeks and bugged them, asking if they needed anybody for after school help. john: they finally hired her. outside a nearby welfare office, i told there are no jobs. there is nothing out there. no jobs around? really, i asked them to check it out. wayne few blocks of that welfare office. they found lots of businesses that want on hire people. yes, we are hiring. they wish more people would apply. we need two for three people all the time. out of 79 businesses, 40 said they would hire. 24 said they would take people with no experience. owner of this restaurant said he would hire lots of people. how many. about 12-14 people. i would hire more than that, but hardest thing is to get good