mr. republican saying thank god for harry reid. this is a news alert. neil? saying who is at fault, the democrats or republicans is like taking a couple of people who are married to different people, go to a hotel room to do unnatural things and saying one is more at fault than the other. the fact is they re both at fault here. that s the problem. you hang out with neil. we know what the democrats are about. the democrats are about all this spending. the republicans claim that they re not. you have guys like joe wilson, representative who tells obama, you lie, and then goes and takes stimulus money. victoria, you add up the budget of obama compared to the budget of bush, they were both big spenders, but obama was way more of a big spender. obama the question really is that you have republicans like richard sheldon and every who laden a lot of these spending bills with their own pork projects. they re supposed to be the flag wavers for limited government and they re not.
public sector trying to put air in and private sector here is dave out of control spending and borrowing in washington, leading to a chinese takeover of america? this week china threatening to use america s debt as a weapon against us. we spent 3 1/2 trillion dollars since president obama took office and we owe the chinese almost $800 billion. is this reason enough for washington to stop spending now? hi, everybody, welcome to forbes on fox. let s go in focus with bill baldwin. elizabeth mcdonald and neil weinberg and mike, quinten and john. dr. john, let s start with you. you fear a chinese takeover of america? of course there is a risk of being taken over, at least economically. countries that spend too much money get taken over by countries that don t because the stock market fall, the income falls, and inflation goes up, the currency goes down, and basically the power shifts in the other end. by the way, it s $2 trillion of our securities they have. they re very w