get a real job training. rick, could you live with that? actually i think steve is on to something. you know who else came up with an idea not completely dissimilar? his name is president barak obama, also came up with a training program at community colleges and do you know what happened to that? the gop in the house blew it away. morgan, the point is what about job retraining fort president? oh! all right. that s a whole nother segment that we ll deal with perhaps next week. morgan, the fact is, don t we need to consolidate that? even the president, by the way, says it s a confusing maze of training programs. i give that a resounding yes. we need to recon solid eight that. that doesn t mean we should scrap the money. the federal government is already putting money into community colleges for some of the training programs. in places like georgia, do you have private sector companies that are coming in and being part of this jobs training as well. we need more of that.
issue that could choose to do this. what we re talking about is socializing the losses from really bad behavior, from social activities. so not just smoking. i would say drinking, too. if you don t like it, if you work for that company, work elsewhere or don t smoke or drink. rick, i was surprised to hear you were against this because isn t this the same rationale that obamacare uses for the insurance mandate? if you cause the general public more money, you should pay a premium for it? you ll be less surprised when i tell you why. by the way, steve and i must have gone to counseling this week. we keep agreeing. [ laughter ] very disturbing. i am against it, but here is why. there is actually some research out on this. here is what we re finding. if you go at it a different way, if you give discounts for attending wellness programs, we re seeing benefits. but if you penalize because you smoke, it s not only stopping anybody from smoking, it s not bringing down costs. so mike, rick
because it carries in return, we want you to cut a deal with the i fm. we know the international monetary fund w its high tax, getting rid of subsidies when the economy is in a free fall and devaluating the economy, a huge wave of making the government totally unpopular. otherwise it s a huge waste of money. we shouldn t do it. rick, on the face of it, at a time when the white house is complaining that it has to give out furloughs and cut white house tours, spending $250 million on a government that s run by the muslim brotherhood, does that make sense? actually, i love steve theories. i have to rethink everything i m going to say now. you have to be careful now. for starters, keep in mind that the condoleddated foreign aid act puts strings on this money. we can t give money to egypt unless they agree to continue their peace treaty with israel. in a sense, there is some good news in the fact we are giving the money, there must be some assurances. other things that are really impo
to do the job instead of having the government do it itself. steve forbes with a plan that even rick agreed with. so maybe we re on to something here. pay 50 grand and illegals can move to the front of the line. this is a new plan to sell the rights to u.s. citizenship and it is fueling a heated debate. our cashin in crew is on it. but first, right here, if you want to light up, you better pony up. a growing number of companies are making smokers pay more for health care premiums. why nonsmokers should be very worried about this, coming next [ male announcer ] at his current pace, bob will retire when he s 153, which would be fine if bob were a vampire.
john, do these programs work or not? if they do, maybe we should spend some money there. if we don t, we shouldn t? let s think about this. the very federal government that gave us the tsa, u.s. customs and the post office wants to train the next generation of american workers. [ laughter ] you put it very well. i must say, john. if the federal government, if people in the federal government knew how to train this next generation of workers, they d be make billions in the private sector. instead, they work for entities that act like the post office, scrap every cent of this program. rick, john has a very good point. look at the track record of things like the post office. do we really want those guys training folks for the private sector? it s also the same government that trained our astronauts, our military. come on, man. i can point to as many incredible people that have been trained by government programs as the things that john is pointing out. it s a mcgun. it doesn t