with the lowest historical modern day poll numbers. there s a disconnect there in that not enough people are giving them enough credit to give him overwelcoming or a majority, if you will, of approval ratings. so, something is off. i don t know if it s because of the mueller investigation, or mueller investigation or because he hasn t passed one piece of mainly major legislation. we ll see if he can change it to confidence on the economy. david: e-mack, i don t think that they ll ignore that the economy is doing well and goldman sachs says it will do better. 2017, according to goldman sachs, is shaping up to be the first year of the expanse in which growth surprises to the upside. we expect 2018 to deliver more of the same. yeah, so does deutsche bank and credit suisse. the new normal, europe growing faster than the united states.
bothered by somebody calling her a thug, she really should have thought of all of that before she did those actions that she committed. david: great point. and john, the fact is, again, you re big on ownership. we own the irs. they don t own us. therefore, we have a right to look into their papers, right? yeah, what is the washington post say, democracy dies in darkness, we should know everything about what they were doing. my one frustration with this is this is exactly how congress wants us to respond, to blame them. the irs exists to do congress s bidding, to reach into our pockets for congress. we should be directing our anger at congress. david: e-mack, you have spent a lifetime looking into the irs, looking into the way they operate, what they do. did they feel unaccountable to us? you know, it s interesting. i ve been studying them and reporting them since the 80s and testifying before congress about the abuse of taxpayers.
schumer and the democrats, that was their, their deal. they had this, they were going to get rid of this in this legislation and it died in paul ryan s hands. david: well, e-mack, our safety is more important than the blame game, don t you think? yes, this is such fisher price immigration policy. it makes no sense to use a lottery. we don t use a lottery to hire people. we don t use a lottery in the college admission level to take people in. rich is right, we should have a merit-based system. david: john, what do you think? why would we allow the federal government to control who comes in in terms of human capital. we would recoil if the government presumed to say how many computers and what kind, how many cars and what kind, yet the most important source of economic growth as possible, human beings, we allow these people who comes in and out of this, get the federal government out of it. david: but, bill, it s a gift fob a u.s. citizen, to be allowed to live and work here and hope
needed to pass a law to force people to participate in it. amazon doesn t need a law to bring people to its website. david: right. and coke doesn t have a law to force people to buy coca-cola. and of course, a mandate, is coercive and utterly unnecessary. david: and the question about health themselves. a lot of people are paying so much deductibles. the bronze plan for obamacare, 12,000 deductible. a lot of people are skipping checkups, skipping procedures because they can t afford them. well, not having insurance is not going make those more affordable. i think we ought to keep the mandate for the reason that bruce alluded to. if you don t have insurance, then people who are uninsured go into the hospital and run up big costs and the rest of us get stuck with the bills, that s not fair to the rest of us. david: e-mack, there are a lot of people getting stuck for a
-no. -separated at birth much? we should switch name tags, and no one would know who was who. jamie, you seriously think you look like him? uh, i m pretty good with comparisons. like how progressive helps people save money by comparing rates, even if we re not the lowest. even if we re not the lowest. whoa! wow. i mean, the outfit helps, but pretty great. look at us. and we re back with our stock treats. e-mack you ve got a bunch of stocks that have a dividend play. yes, dividend growth fund, it s cheap and has a tweet double digit concern. david: mike. too much money is invested for my taste, auto parts,