the -- cost of fedom continues on the place for business. fox. stick around. next week, arand new cavuto for you and the middle of a budget brouha. your money, we're all over it. ♪ ♪ >> david: folks, check a minute and guess who said the following -- "the fact we're here today to debate raising america's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. it is a sign that the u.s. government cannot pay its own bills. i therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase america's debt limit." well, you think it was conservative senator ted cruz? or marco rubio? no. try barack obama. then senator barack obama in 2006. yet, to what he says now. >> i have heard people say well, in the past, there have been negotiations around raising the debt ceiling. it's always a tough vote, because the average person thinks raising the debt ceiling must mean that we are

running up our debt. >> you have never seen in the history of the united states the debt ceiling or the threat of not raising the debt ceiling being used to extort a president. >> david: extortion? is the president right or wrong? hi, everybody. i'm david asman. welcome to "forbes on fox." in focus with steve forbes, rick unger, morgan brennan, mike osanian and sabrina schaefer. steve, if this is extortion? isn't the president guilty of doing this a couple of years ago? >> sure. guilty of the anti-democracy and arrogance. there is negotiation around raising the debt limit, and budget issue. rammed tough congress healthcare bill that no one likes. it's more up on popular today than three yrs ago when it was passed. becoming unworkable. the americaneople say enough. he says that is arrogance. i think there is another word for it. >> morgan, speaking of it.

extortion is a loaded wd. is the president right to use it? >> it's a loaded word. i see why he uses itwhen you look at the deaf six. this is poor politics and this is worse for business. you have the republican leaning chamber of commerce saying quit tieing this together and get legislation through. in the last couple of years when you look at the econom fiscal policy face-off, the economy, the american economy has been a thing that take a hit. that is without throwing a hot topic issue like obamacare in the mix. look at 2011 when the last debt ceiling face-off happened. we saw the stock markets plunge. >> david: we did. >> rating downgrade. >> david: true. then shortly afterwards the stock market came back up and they ignored the deb rating cut. but extortion? the word "extortion' a strong word. the president seems to forget what he said, which would be called extortion by his finition as well.

extortion is iminal. this president is grasping for straws because he knows that 53% of americans realize obamacare will drive their healthcare costs up. republicans are doing the right thing. this is risky business. they realize obamacare is not ready for the big debut. it will drive up cost and cut jobs. we have lot of work that has to be done to implement this properly. >> david: but rick, on this debt issue. by the way, president obama is not the only one to commit hypocrisy. harry reid and nancy pelosi voted to raise the debt ceiling. >> i'm shocked. who knew the president was a politician? be care waffle you say in the senate. you may be in the white house some day. but david, i am struggling to see ere you draw a comparison to what he said when he was a senator to what he is talking about now? obamacare didn't exist when he was a senator. by the way, i would love one of our panelists, any one of

them, to tell the audience when in our history a piece of legislation, major piece of legislation, a signaturepiece of legislation for any president was held like this and he was -- if he didn't do aw with his own signature legislation, they were going to close the government? >> david: signature legislation, by the way, that was carried through with the nuclear option, something that affected one-sixth of the economy. didn't have a single republican vote. >> by the way, the country esn't want them to defund. >> david: john tandy, look at what has happened to the debt. it exploded in the past four years. it has grown from $10 trillion to about $17 trillion. in just four years. we cannot continue on this course. >> yeah, this is why republicans should be obstructionists. obamacare is bad for our health. big government is bad for the economy. my view is if the republicans aren't defunding one and shutting down the other, what is the point of electing

republicans? we keep hearing about the bad politics of the republicans acting obstructionists this way. much worse policy for republicans is get to 102014 and say obamacare is in full flower and the government is larger. why did we put them in power in 2010 to begin with? >> david: a great point. look at what has happened since 2010. the republicans called obstructionist and the process might look ugly. but let's take a look at what has happened. federal spending as a percent of gdp topped out in 2010. right before the election. at 26.5%. of gdp. it has come down since the republicans were elected dramatically. to 23.5%. >> the person that is got of extortion is president obama. if you look at the last three years. if you look at his record level of spending, the record level of borrowg coupled with the bond buying by the fed. that destabilize the value of

the u.s. dollar. it's a form of extortion that has been particularly cruel to the poor, and the elderly who rely on fixed income. so the president committed extortion here. he has hurt the poor and elderly the most. >> david: hold on, steve. this is important. have cut federal spending dramatically since the republicans came to power. obstructionism doesn't look good on the nightly news. but the fact is, it has helped lower the cost of the government dramatically. >> yeah. david, the only good thing that has happened in recent years for economy. less resource are being drawn out. the sequester, the president agreed to it because he never thought the republicans would follow through oit. especially with regard to militarimenthe way the sequester is handled is an atrocity, but the result for the economy is good. that's why we areetting the growth we get this year. more resources in the private sector less than the government. >> morgan, go ahead. >> if we want to do something about the spending, why stop

at obamacare, why not start tying things to tax reforms andentitlemen. you don't see that happening. >> republicans are advoting -- >> yes, but the idea of wrapping obamacare in to this debate is just going to prolong the inevitable. i wi say that quantitative easing is continuing in part according to the federal chairman ben bernanke this week, in part because of the fiscal standoff. >> david: that is a whole other argument. sabrina, is there going to be some kind of compromise between the parties? >> i think there probably will be. but look, right now, the president is on the defensive. we see him starting to go out on a tour to defend big government. and at the same time, strong majority of americans are saying the want to reign in government. i think that the president actually looksbad here. pointing fingers, using words like extortion. going to kansas saying big government is good. >> david: rick, the american people don't lik obamacare. they don't like details of it.

they want to put off and they want to change. can the president continue to go against their wishs? >> let's be clear what the wishes. are while the american people, the jority do not like obamacare at this point, absotely true. the overwhelming majority do not want it happen the way the republicans in congress are trying. they do not want it defunded or revoked. they do see things they think they want -- >> david: hold on, hold on. why do you say these things? >> wait, wait, wait, wait, please. >> david: we can't let you hit and run like that. >> fox news is saying it today. >> david: do they want it defunded or not? steve? >> fox news. >> american people oppose the way getting rid of amacare by defunding. they want direct assault. repealed or changed. >> do they? >> since the president won't do that, defunding is the only tool. >> may i add some data, please? >> david: five seconds, quickly. >> every pool, look at the poll of independents. >> no, ge you the data. >> david: five seconds.

>> i got it on fox news. excuse me. i want my five seconds. i got it on fox news today where they pointed out the pew poll. 44% of the country still favors obamacare match. jurorty does. 26% of those who are against it do not want it defunded. go to the pew poll folks. on google. >> david: the battle will have to happen some other time. thanks, guys. >> that's why i think we fell in love with it. that's why we are all attracted to it. >> it's saucy. >> david: that's right. you know what she says is really saucy? neil cavuto going to d.c., mixing it up as the spending debate heats up with e decision-makers. first on fox news at 4:00 p.m. eastern. then on n at 8:00 p.m. be there. up next here,he new i.r.s. alert that the tax agency now said to have checked if the conservative groups included anti- 'bama language on the literature. more proof that tea party targeting was all about

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see you back here at 00. now have back to the "forbes on fox." >> david: well, this one may rae doubt about the i.r.s. scandal supposedly just being about money. the tax agency looking for groups looking for a tax exemption had anti-obama rhetoric on the literature and website and kept monitoring some groups even after th

go an ception. wonder who the groups were? steve you say this is proof that the i.r.s. scand is about politics, not money. >> in terms of money this is ump change. this is all about politics. the proof is when scandal revealed itself, the i.r.s. agents lied about it. they said it was a few rogue agents. if it wasn't a crime, why did they lie about it? >> david: rick, more than 80% of the organization of the new rget were conservative. is that coincident? >> it's hardo say. >> david: oh, please. [ laughter ] >> guys, there probably weren't many websites that are liberal with the anti-obama rhetoric. it should shock nobody that the i.r.s. would look at the websites to see if they are violating the 501c4c4s. if they unfairly target one side, that i wrong. what you have to show it seems to me that they are not looking at both sides of this to see where the violations

are of 501((c)4s. if they get improper tax exemption that hurts you me. >> david: emac, we had the investigative report of the inspector general for the say, russell george, that sa we did not find evidence that the criteria you identify, progressives, were used to select potential political cases. it's all art targeting one group, that was conservatives. >> listen, there is an ugly history here. yes, i do think that the tea partwas unfairly targeted based on the evidence as it's been presented. the problem is the i.r.s. is abiding by a circus mirror of a tax code is a subjective. it doesn't have bright lines. the groups are doing social welfare, trying to educate the people. what they were doing is at the i.r.s., they were using mia reports for their leads. "washington post" column against the tea party.

at is really bad. but having said such a subjective tax code, david, here is a problem. this is like asking the i.r.s. to behave like cats, herding themselves in to a group. they can'to it without the bright lines. >> david: mike, it is also about who at the i.r.s. was doing it. at first, they were blaming, i.r.s. central was blaming the local folks in cincinnati. now there is a clear line to washington. the washington folks were using the i.r.s. to go after a political movement, the tea party that threatened the democrats' re-election. >> we had the lowest learner e-mail that was discovered from 2-1/2 years ago. after, long before the statements were ever made about cincinnati where learner was clearly concerned and wanted this to go up to the higher levels of the i.r.s. which is what steve touched on earlier. but look, perhaps maybe you could give the obama administration the benefit of the doubt. if you hadn't had the fast and furious for the guns for money do in mexico. if you didn't have the a.p. situation. if you didn't have the lies about benghazi. but this is a pattern with

them, david. they lie about everything. >> sabrina, using the power of government to punish a political opponent is an impeachable offense. it's one of the impeachable offenses against richard nixon. >> right. i'm so glad that report came out. add it to the pile of evidence. don't yo remember last june when the treasury department inspector said look, if they werenvesng prresse oupst waar ssomm, lessnststivand lss obstckti. th is litil anit h sothinto dwithth mplitionof t taxode. is ia govnmen th wantto seheolital opnent t aonseativissu is iabou be >> did: hn, thaall justoincenthat 80% of e grps were conservative? in this case, in other cases over 90% or it just happened before important re-election campaign? >> no, it's not coincidental. it's always going to be the case that entities like this are politicized. but to me the bigger scand is that we live in aountry we

have to prove our income to the federal government. probably the bigger scandal of that is we're guilty until proven innocent in eyes of the i.r.s. reform is naive. only way to fix this is apolish this in favor of national sales tax where we don't prove what we earn. >> david: a great point. there is something about the i.r.s.guilty until proven innocent that is anti-american. i think everybody could agree with that. the navy red shooter set up red ags before the ra rampage. now they want them to start snooping on folks like this instead. that's in "cashin' in." but first, helped make h a billionaire and now green energy projects pulled him down to the lowly millions. did t. boone pickens show us that green investments are a bad bet? we'll debate that next.

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>> david: well, this week, forbes releasing the new richest people in america list. energy tycoon t. boone pickens no longer onhe list. the oil guy fortune falling below $1 billion after seeing investments in winenergy go up in smoke. emac, taxpayers on the hook for a lot of the green investments. you saw it's a proof it's a waste. >> john duer runs kleiner perkins and says green investment doesn't depend on government investing.

it's supply and demand. so we see the venture capitalists bringing back the invest in the the green tech, back to 2009 ls. the resent survey said two-third are saying that they are going to invest less this year versus 2012. because they are seeing that the money, returns on the vinnestment are not coming in. >> david: so why does president obama want to double down on the wind energy that is a bad bet? >> you know how i feel about i'm not surprised that t. boone pickens would lose money off of wind energy because i don't think 's financially viable like other technologies but it is important to remember for every bankrupt fisker you have a tesla which is a success story. that electric car company, and the forbes billionaire, that company paid bac the half-billion dollar government loan this year. nine years early. we have seen that stock surge more than 400% in the last 12 months. >> david: john, even accepting that math figure that we got from morgan, that means 50% of our investments

have gone bad. >> this is a beautiful story. this is a reminder when you get in bed with government, it comes back to haunt you. the airline government and now in this conceptalled green energy. when you pair up with the government on a horrifying idea that could never be funded in the private sector, you are going to lose. hopefully other investors gure it out. >> rk, are you a 12th censure rekind of guy? >> i'm trying to deal with the logic of what you are saying. lehman brothers went broke five years ago this week and the government gave money to investment banks that means we should never invest in invest banks because an energy company didn't do well. >> david: the government shouldn't invest in investment banks. that's for sure. >> wt. no shifting off the point. look at what you are saying in your argument. like the government, don't like it. guess what? everybody is, everybody is

investment bank investments are up right now. >> i don't thinkhe government should invest in investment banks. what about us investing in things like wind mills, when it's a bad investment? t. boone pickens said he lost his butt in the wind business. it looks like the taxpayers will, too. >> yeah, david, the government shouldn't investment capital business because it doesn't have the talent for it. let the ivate investor cease what works o doesn't work. why is t government in the venture capital business anyway? green or housing. let people make theecision not the bureaucrats taking money from them and give it to political friends. >> i wish i could invest in green energy and lose my butt. >> david: informers say name on the list show how to get on a future billionaire's list. the names coming next.

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