compensate for that. and this is what is being done for this. but what i want to emphasize, it is not really a monetary phenomenon in our case at least. it s quite acute in north africa and this is one factor behind the protests that we have seen over the last two weeks, in some cases double-digit food inflation. that is a danger in the neighborhood, is it snot. food supply chain and the logistics of getting food from the farms to the consumers is a major challenge, especially in heavily populated countries like india, if you will. and therefore, i think the world would be well advised to concentrate on the supply response. rising prices not only a challenge in the middle east. french president sarkozy put it on the agenda here in davos saying we must eliminate the wild swing in prices or face
right now, he got the repeal through. he s going to do what he can to try to challenge some of the funding. but he s not stupid enough to try to shut down the whole government over this. if they really want that health care vote in the senate, is this a bargaining chip they re willinging to play, do you think? that would really be taking that would be real change, would it snot. what they re going to do, as i understand it, in the senate, mitch mcconnell will attach repeal to some other bill when it comes to the floor. so at a certain point there will be a vote on repeal in the senate, it will lose. and you ve have a situation like we have, you know, with the house where they ll be able to say to the tea party folks, all the people who voted, hoping for repeal, we did it, we tried, we put it up, we lost. let s go on to the next election.
then alter the tax code and/or alter the subsidy and/or alter the regulatory structure on my behalf so that i no longer have to compete as a business but now i m able to return billions of dollars to myself for a couple hundred grand given to a democrat or a republican in public or in secret, why is that conservative? i m not going to argue whether it is conservative or liberal. i would argue to you it is not as bad as it seems again because we are going to back to the fact there is a lot of small-dollar donors in there and i would argue for most politician, regardless of political party, democrat or republican, they are not jumping through hoops to do what a campaign contributor wants them to do they have stated public policy positions, they reason on a platform and you tend to find that groups that support them, individuals or pac as they are bringing up or other groups they can sport candidates that support them before they start running. so i would argue with you that it snot as
taking and more votes in their lives. boehner said when pressed, he would cave and vote just for a big hunk of tax cuts for everybody else. if that was his only option. last night when we did the report on the small business owners that the republicans claim are left out of the obama tax cuts, they include multibillionaires, shouldn t even the most conservative democrat, the biggest blue dog love to have this ammunition. it snot just a question of they re a little tentative, they re throwing away some of the best material they ve been handed in 40 years. right. in politics, right, you re looking for this diagram, which is things that are good policy, things that you believe in, right? and things that are popular. a lot of things don t fall in that middle intersection. we should raise energy. we should raise the price of energy a tremendous amount to forestall global warming. that s not popular. i understand not wanting to take a vote on that. but this is popular.
everybody else. if that was his only option. last night when we did the report on the small business owners that the republicans claim are left out of the obama tax cuts, they include multibillionaires, shouldn t even the most conservative democrat, the biggest blue dog love to have this ammunition. it snot just a question of they re a little tentative, they re throwing away some of the best material they ve been handed in 40 years. right. in politics, right, you re looking for this diagram, which is things that are good policy, things that you believe in, right? and things that are popular. a lot of things don t fall in that middle intersection. we should raise energy. we should raise the price of energy a tremendous amount to forestall global warming. that s not popular. i understand not wanting to take a vote on that. but this is popular. what s perverse is they ve already taken a number of unpopular votes. every incumbent voted for a health care bill that is not popular right now