read my lips , but there were new taxes and the problems for bush senior, there weren t the promised spending cuts from democrats to go along with t now, we know what happened to him. so, a warning sign to republicans, be careful what deal you sign on to now? ben stein, charles payne, dagen mcdowell. we ve got adam lashinsky and charlie gasperino and back by popular demand, suzie welch. suzie, you know, i guess you go into this more cautiously? well, you re a historian, newt gingrich is a historian. ronald reagan reluctantly agreed to taxes on businesses and wanted everyone to the table and lo and behold the tax hikes and spending cuts never materialize, it s a sucker punch and probably going to happen again. anything the super committee would create would be a frankenstein deal. two different worlds used and ideologies, whatever they put together is going to be sort after monster and we can be sure we ll see tax hikes and little spending cuts. neil: ben stein? i th
like the humane thing to do except for one thing. the poverty rate was declining actually before we started the war on poverty. in fact since we started the war on poverty, since 1966 the poverty rate has actually gone up. there are ohm a few ways to cut poverty, proven ways. keep a job, any job full time stay in high school until you graduate and don t get pregnant outside marriage. you line up all those statistics the poverty rate diminishes dramatically. throwing money as great and as mom and apple pie as it sounds just hasn t proven to be the solution. suzie, where do you fall on the issue? i think we might be talking about the wrong kind of spending. we re talking about the money that s being spent on fighting the war on poverty but the government is spent on a lot of money b began tick regulation machinery in washington.