Rich karlgaard, sabrina schaefer, john tandy and bruce jackson. Welcome, bruce. Thank you for coming on. Steve, were the protesters right . Absolutely right in terms of choice. Government gives you very little choice. We are ending up as a people paying more for less. No reason a 60yearold man should pay for maternity benefits. So the whole thing is collapsing. Both in cost in terms of joyce and in terms of the rollout. Against the whole grain of american individualism and free markets that is turning caris city to abundance. This has gone the opposite direction of the soviet union. Berlin wall fell in 1989 the last i checked. Bruce, going back to listen to the protesters before obamacare was rolled out, you realize how right some of their concerns were, dont you . Well, certainly there are people who are, whose costs will go up but it is because they get a better plan, they get essentially Health Benefits they havent had before. For most part they will get more choices. We have to rem
Because there is not a mandate to do it. You set the stage for it; such as, having accounts for younger people in Social Security, change the delivery of healthcare, do it in a positive way. You set the ground work. You wont make headway with the congress. Shoot for 2014 and 2016. Rick, should entitlements be off the table entirely . I dont think they should im not one of those liberals. I would love to see the focus shift to where they are look at entitlements in terms of cleaning it up. It should be a constant reform all the time. Weed out the people who may take advantage, so we havehe money for the people who legitimately need the help. Lets talk about people taking advantage. Federal disability programs arjust totally out of control. We have all kind of abuse and fraud. 25of the cases are called, inappropriately dcide isnt that a place to start . Yeah, that would be a place to start. I just dont want the republicans to do it in their typical ro canal way where th talk about defici
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Off the top and wed still run very well. Thats something that needs to t done. Unfortunately, it never gts done. Probably people are at home saying that 15 sounds small. I ver knew there were 800,000, quotonessential rkers in the government. Wel more tan 80 of the outlays are still in effect even with the shutdown. You know, social security, the military, and the like. So we but i do think that this gives us a chance to prioriti what we want out of government. And to analyze what these bureaucrats really do. The wall stet journal had a great editorial abo the federal register of new rules made byhe government, looking back in september on any given day. You would have 500 pages, 400 pages of new rules. A day. Yeah. In the federal register that came out. And ifyou look after the shutdown, u had like 12 pages or six pages of new rules. S. So i thi that lack of government burden is relief and refreshing. I know at sous like relief to the businesess community. Enyou actually work in govern
Off the top and wed still run very well. Thats something that needs to get done. Unfortunately, it never gets done. Probably people are at home saying that 15 sounds small. I never knew there were 800,000, quote, nonessential workers the government. Well, more than 80 of the outlays are still in effect even with the shutdown. You kn, social security, the military, and the like. So we but i do think that this gives us a chance to prioritize what we want out of government. And to analyze what these bureaucrats really do. The wall street journal had a great editorial about the federal register of new rules made by the government, looking back in september on any given day. Yowould have 500 pages, 400 pages of new rules. A day. Yeah. In the federal register that came out. And if you look after the shutdown, u had like 12 pages or six pages of new rules. So i think that lack of gornment burden is reli and refreshing. I know that sounds like relief to the business community. Ben, you actuall