getting a handle on this. and off the hook, our hero soldier who killed bin laden, giving out free phones to people who don t need them. can you say disconnected? did he just chain you to higher gas prices at the pump? cashin in, fueling up right now. our cashin in crew this week, wayne rogers, jonathan, trish shah and sandra smith, also joining us, julie. welcome, everybody. okay. so as the national debt continues to soar, unions telling washington they don t want to tolerate spending cuts. we won t allow cuts to social security or medicare or medicaid! we re going forward! this is our country! we built it and we re going to take it back! oh, boy.
phone, pay for the food. i don t care. after a while, you know, before 1984, julie, there were a lot of people who didn t have phones, who couldn t make calls. they made out fine. the country did very well for a couple hundred years and all of a sudden, you want to give everybody something because you think they re entitled to it. we got to leave it there. coming up, think gas prices are high now? these guys just getting started.
look at a cover from april of 1975, time cover that says, how to survive the coming ice age. if you lookdown, there is a story on mash in there. science on global warming has been debunked time and time again, has it not? yes it has. but eric, i m not smart enough to understand it. i m happy i m on the cover of time. i have no idea what i don t think anybody really can scientifically say definitely one way or the other. but that s not the point. i think the point is this oil is going to go somewhere else. it doesn t matter. so for the environment, it s going to hurt the world environment regardless because the chinese are going to shmutz the world just as much as anybody else. we ll leave it there. thank you so sandra smith and julie for joining us this week. thanks. coming up, notice a runup lately in your 401(k)? now some lawmakers are looking to get their greedy little hands
and think about it. we have no money. right. julie, last word. well, i got to ask why you re bashing the unions but not the same wall street interests that you wanted to close the loopholes on why not do something to close the carried interest loophole? what s wrong with that? go ahead. i advocate for flat tax. the president would never go for that. the fact is, the private sector, julie, is actually productive. they create jobs. union jobs they do. they create a mass amount wealth. that s why they should be tax they create profits to themselves and for their investors. government unions create nothing! guys, we got to leave there. coming up, the government dialing up mixed signals as dc shells out 2 million bucks for free phones.
increased over 120,000. that s an enormous number in that period of time. so the bureaucracy continues to grow. the federal government continues to grow. we have big government, big corporations, big labor, and they re demanding what they always have demanded. i don t expect it to change. what about it? we re broke. we can t afford more hiring, yet we re hiring more and more federal workers. couple things, one is federal government actually, the growth in federal government increased at the slowest rate under this president than since the korean war. so first, you got second, it s not just the unions who are opposed to sequestration. other people are all the republicans in the armed services committee who understand that you do this, you re going to plunge the country back into recession. you already have military being cut, civilians being laid off from the military time and time again. tracy, julie points something out. the increase is slowing down burks it s still increasing