over the next century just to keep the same debt to gdp ratio we have today. we can t even the senate can t process a budget right now. how do we shift to surpluses. i think we would get them immediately if we changed our policies. took away the burdensome regulations, if we drop the tax rates, you would see money flooding back into this place if we just gave people the incentives that they used to have. you look what happened in this country. when we didn t have an oppressive government and when we did encourage entrepreneurship. we just skyrocketed. it s all pent up right now, ready to go. look at all the money on wall street. that money would be invested immediately if people felt that there wasn t some nefarious government out there trying to figure out how to get their money. by the way, the money wouldn t be in the caymans which
is at least there is a plan out there to try to have some type of reform and there was a great article in the wall street jurm back on the 15 sth of may that talked about the fact that the financial markets, a lot of these, you know, bond markets are looking to see are we going to have some type of long-term viable solution and plan as we go forward for the entitlements. chris: let me pick up on that. because the knock against the democrats is you don t have a plan. that congressional democrats didn t pass a budget last year. senate democrats aren t offering a budget this year. president obama talks about having an independent panel of medical experts who are going to find $200 billion of cuts some where. at least they have got a plan. i think it is not true that we don t have a plan. in fact, when we passed the affordable care act last year we put in real markers for med did i care that in fact reduced medicare costs. we invested in preventive care for seniors because we know that
is at least there is a plan out there to try to have some type of reform and there was a great article in the wall street jurm back on the 15 sth of may that talked about the fact that the financial markets, a lot of these, you know, bond markets are looking to see are we going to have some type of long-term viable solution and plan as we go forward for the entitlements. chris: let me pick up on that. because the knock against the democrats is you don t have a plan. that congressional democrats didn t pass a budget last year. senate democrats aren t offering a budget this year. president obama talks about having an independent panel of medical experts who are going to find $200 billion of cuts some where. at least they have got a plan. i think it is not true that we don t have a plan. in fact, when we passed the affordable care act last year we put in real markers for med did i care that in fact reduced medicare costs. we invested in preventive care for seniors because we know that
i think the thing that we see is at least there is a plan out there to try to have some type of reform and there was a great article in the wall street jurm back on the 15 sth of may that talked about the fact that the financial markets, a lot of these, you know, bond markets are looking to see are we going to have some type of long-term viable solution and plan as we go forward for the entitlements. chris: let me pick up on that. because the knock against the democrats is you don t have a plan. that congressional democrats didn t pass a budget last year. senate democrats aren t offering a budget this year. president obama talks about having an independent panel of medical experts who are going to find $200 billion of cuts some where. at least they have got a plan. i think it is not true that we don t have a plan. in fact, when we passed the affordable care act last year we put in real markers for med did i care that in fact reduced medicare costs. we invested in preventive care fo
chinese and russians either together or one by one i will support north korea against the united states and our friends and partners. this struck me as particularly poignant, it s so often people refer to kim jong-un as a madman or crazy. in a way he s calculating. this from general bob scales in the wall street jurm. this regime has been in power for almost 70 years and understands the value of the long game. mr. kim wants to play nuclear blackmail. it s evil, it s dangerous, potentially catastrophic. but it isn t unpredictable. in that sense, are we looking at this too much from a western standpoint, of what kim wants his regime, survival, ensure regime survival rather than what kim says he wants, unify the korean peninsula with pors? excellent point. as you say, we look at this and say, well, why do we want our nukes? we want them for deterrents, we re not going to use them in an offensive capability.