a mouseketeer. i didn t wear my hat today i m sorry about that. bill: it doesn t matter. you say? it s hard to come up with exact metrics i know you are going to have some about how do you deal with a general theory you have that things were just better back then. bill: i didn t say they were better. did i say anywhere in my talking points memo they were better? you are you not suggesting things are better back then. bill: i don t suggest. say. one by one. 5% out-of-wedlock birth compared to 41%. i don t know that 5% was an accurate number because i don t think people told the truth back then about that stuff. bill: we re going by the u.s. government. people were not. bill: let s assume it was legitimate. people were not talking about that kind of stuff. people would not say. bill: colmes, just b.s. it s just b.s. let s stop the b.s. right now. that s the government number. let s deal with it 5%, 41%. what s the better thing? well, obviously 5% is better but y
i don t know why that number would exist. bill: stay in. come on, this goes back to our original point here. whether you have that government went through the great society. reagan did his best to try to reign that in. barack obama turns it around and puts it on steroids. the incentive is to go away from the self-sufficient society based on individual freedom to one that is bill: i think people just conning. 640%. this didn t start with barack obama what you are talking about. welfare, the welfare program in this country was geared toward building incentives so that women would have more and more children out of wedlock because they would get more money. women have children just to get more money from the government? you are kidding me. bill: i have got to go. let me be clear because colmes thinks i m suggesting. i m not saying that the 1950s and 1960 s are better than today i m saying we are a different country. the reason we are a different country is that people are
$529 million from loans from the energy department. apparently close to 200 million of that has already been paid. fisker makes a luxury electric car the problem is it doesn t work very well. this is consumer reports fisker karma it costs us over $100,000. that s right we bought this car from a dealer. this is not a press car. it s an electric car that also has a gasoline engine much like a chevy volt. and it looks awesome. it is lo. it is sleek. it is sentous. it s also broken. right here in the middle of our driveway. the car doesn t go in gear. it doesn t move. the dealer has to come with a flatbed and take it away. and hopefully they can fix it. bill: i don t know whether the government paid for the tow truck or not. here to explain further is john stossel. this is another in a long line. i have got them all and we are going to read them tonight. government boondoggle. they don t know what they re doing. lend money to anybody if it sounds good and we are getting fleeced. we
corporations which she was very suspicious of or big government bureaucracy. she was a union buster. they didn t like her for that. and for that, you know, her enemies today rejoice. there is no common standing of respect for the dead among these people. that doesn t compute with them. bill: it was it took me aback because i m trying to think back to the death of ronald reagan in america. i don t think we saw that kind of public vitriol. i mean, i m sure there was some private stuff but i don t remember that kind of disrespect. do you remember it back then? no. i was at president reagan s funeral. i worked for president reagan as a young speech writer in the white house for domestic policy at the time. and reagan, you know, transformed the country made a lot of people angry. in the end, most in america kind of gave him a nod. okay, we didn t agree with you maybe on everything. you know we had iran contra and all this stuff, you really helped us get through a difficult time. not p
i don t know why that number would exist. bill: stay in. come on, this goes back to our original point here. whether you have that government went through the great society. reagan did his best to try to reign that in. barack obama turns it around and puts it on steroids. the incentive is to go away from the self-sufficient society based on individual freedom to one that is bill: i think people just conning. 640%. this didn t start with barack obama what you are talking about. welfare, the welfare program in this country was geared toward building incentives so that women would have more and more children out of wedlock because they would get more money. women have children just to get more money from the government? you are kidding me. bill: i have got to go. let me be clear because colmes thinks i m suggesting. i m not saying that the 1950s and 1960 s are better than today i m saying we are a different country. the reason we are a different country is that people are