there s a way of closing loopholes, lowering tax rates and getting the economy going. people forget, we ve been i grew up in the 1970 s. do you remember stagflation? they were comparing the u.s. to the fall of the roman empire in the 1970 s. i remember that vividly. obviously we didn t go that way. the problem here is policy, it s not about that the country is about to fall apart and no longer a triple a nation. we may not be 20 years from now. maybe that s what he meant, he was speaking for the average american citizen fed up with the way it s really dangerous when you go out and saying the country is lost, we re done, you know, we re going to drag down the world economy. we re not going to drag down the world economy. at some point, listen, there is a serious policy difference in washington. it is hurting us. it s caused a downgrade. it s caused massive fluctuation in the stock mark. people are buying our bonds for a reason. investors are rational. a gang of siblings who
no. you know what? i don t even have an opinion on what they did, you know, we were acting childish. i m sure they had their reasons but they did it and it was a total embarrassment to the united states and especially because it was mostly because of politicians. what s the reaction been, lucy? oh, i ve gotten a million calls from just individual peoples and newspapers to nbc to you guys, i mean, i m like ahhh, i did not really think that it would go this crazy. i understand that you re raising two teenage daughters. and in the article, i read, it said that you claim you re not the type of person to actively protest or wave banners at any kind of event but you thought you would be a good example for your daughters. i did. in what way? well, because i felt really strongly about it and i was ranting and raving all weekend and i was, you know, i don t know. i just really thought maybe i could make a difference. sure. so you spent to rent one of
groups of thugs. i m clear that they are in no way representative of the vast majority of young people in our country who despise them frankly, as much as the rest of us do but there are pockets of our society that are not just broken but frankly sick. when we see children as young as 12 and 13 looting and laughing, when we see the disgusting sight of an injured young man with people pretending to help him while they are robbing him, it is clear there are things that are badly wrong in our society. for me, the root cause of this mindless selfishness is the same thing that i have spoken about for years. it is a complete lack of responsibility in parts of our society. people allowed to feel that the world owes them something, that their rights outweigh their responsibilities and that they have their actions do not have consequences. well, they do have consequences. we need to have a clearer code of values and standards that we expect people to live by and
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the united states still gets the safe haven money but underlying that, the united states is not the safe haven but, perhaps, the most dangerous place of all. the united states can drag down the entire western economy. this is not i m sorry, but this is not a triple a nation. so should america be held accountable to the rest of the world? fox business senior correspondent charlie gasparino is here. i m starting to agree with obama, i can t believe it. where are you going to put your money? which nation has a debate about the debt cap? what nation is going to make the decision in the couple of months or next year and decide we re going to go either way. we re going to raise taxes to pay this off or cut stuff. it s either going to be republican or democrat and we ll have a clear direction and you look at the alternatives, there ain t much there and you know the president is right. when you think of safe havens and think of one place in the