st. augustine, lord, make me chaste, but not just yet. >> jon: what would you do?> we ought to save the safety net. you start by saying the people who rely on social security and medicare today, don't worry about a thing. nothing should change for you or even for those people approaching the system. you are good to go. a deal is a deal. now, please help us create a social security 2.0 starting in the future so that younger people who are paying for your retirement now have a chance to be protected, too. that system should not... the president's obsession with wealthy people, fine, but i think he's looking in the wrong place, everybody should contribute. they should start with the benefits. why are we sending warren buffett a pension check. >> jon: go back for a second. the president's obsession with wealthy people. does he have an obsession? >> i'm glad to see... >> jon: with raising the tax rate to the clinton era, is that an obsession in do you really consider that this president has been bad for rich people in this country? or wall street or anything? >> that's

south st augustine's ahead european energy majors signed up to the second project to get russian gas directly to europe but some still want to keep their supply so when we'll explain later in the program. the u.k. and russia move to patch things up between them with a visit to the kremlin by british prime minister david cameron this week well the leaders of both countries agree that they're on resolved issues shouldn't get in the way of progress it was the first official visit to russia by a british prime minister in six years relations between the two soured over the murder of former f.s.b. officer didn't go in london in two thousand and six but david cameron and dmitri medvedev agreed the case should not hold back their partnership for proper policeman's worked extensively in sides of technology projects between the u.k. and russia sees potential ahead. russia has taken the first steps in establishing the new business center at skolkovo establishing what is going to be i suppose a kind of silicon valley there and british involvement in that is going to be absolutely key in terms of

st. augustine who talks about how human beings are essentially wicked. machiavelli is much more accepting. he said it is impossible to go against what nature compels you to do. he is kind of an early door whenist, saying that -- he is in a early darwinist, saying that humans compete. he said it is not natural for humans not to exist like this. he was skeptical of human nature but also accepting. >> he took pleasure in scandalizing his readers, standing traditional nostrum's on their head and following the -- in single following conventional moralist's could lead to disaster. what would be the reaction if he came back today and saw that his book was everywhere? >> i think he would get a kick out of it. he was very ambitious. he was not falsely modest. one thing that drove him was a sense of his own marginality in society. he always had to work at the behest of some rich, stupid man he had to court like lorenzo demedici and irritated him that they treated him with such sustained. i think he would've gotten a kick out of -- who remembers the lorenzo to a ro

st. augustine for instance who talks about human beings are essentially wicked. machiavelli was much more accepting saying it is impossible to go against what nature is compelling you to do. we're basically animals competing for resources, competing for power. and it is, what is unnatural is to expect people not to live like this. so he had a very sort of, on one hand skeptical but also sympathetic with that. >> you write this too. what do you think his reaction would be if he came back today 500 years later and he saw that his book was everywhere? >> i think he would get a kick out of it. he was very ambitious. he was not focusing on it. he was have -- i think one of the things that drove him was the sense of his own marge nalt in society. he was always had to work, but had some rich stupid man that he had to cort like lornso da men chi and i think it irritated him that they treated him with such disdain and eng he would gotten a kick the longo to which he dedicated the book? nobody remembers him except that he dedicated the prince to hill. >> did he ever get a

st. augustine, for instance, who talks about how -- you know, from human beings as essentially wicked. machiavelli, when he said they were wicked, is much more accepting. he said it is impossible to go against what nature compels you to do. in a way he's sort of an early darwinnist saying we're basically animals competing for power, and what is unnatural is to expect people not to live like this. so he had a very sort of -- skeptical of human nature, but also sympathetic with it. host: you write this, too -- "he took pleasure in scandalizing his readers, standing traditional no, sir trums on their head and how following the recommendations could lead to disaster." what do you think his reaction would be if he came back today 500 years later and he saw that his book was everywhere? guest: i think he'd get a kick out of it. he was very ambitious. he was not modest. not falsely modest. i think one of the things that drove him was a sense of his own sort of marginal tee in florentine society. he always had to work at the behest of some rich, stupid man that he had to court, like lorenzo de

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st. augustine earlier this when a six-foot shark bit him on the leg. it felt like someone punched him.lancaster, who is a surfer looked down, his leg was covered in blood. that's when he says he saw the shark. >> i said hey, listen, don't freak out all right. ? but i gotta tacked by a shark. it was like somebody took pins and poked them in my leg like asymmetrical formation. i knew it was a shark. >> i don't like when somebody says don't freak out, but. he doesn't mind the bite too much now that he's healing. no big deal. what's the big deal? when we come back, a field of green as far as the eye can see. how the new mexico park service found the largest marijuana farm ever seen. casey anthony is out of jail, but may soon be out of a lot of cash as well. $560,000 to be precise. we'll be right back. >>> keeping an eye is always here on the stock market as we're about half an hour away from the closing bell. today's weak government report on jobs rattled investors. the job market was essentially flat in the mont of august. the number of new jobs added equal to the number of jobs eliminate

st. augustine, florida. caller: thank you for taking my call. two things. the woman that said the government should be giving more to the poor people, that that is what god said -- no, god said that man is the keeper. god did not want -- christ did not want money coming from the government. priced wanted the money to be coming from individuals who could show their love that way. and for the candidates, if they want to announce their christianity, but do it in a way that demonstrates how they have loved according to price to's planned -- christ's plan, -- i am sure some of them have, i have not paid attention. some have even mentioned christianity, but definitely, that it is in that person's life. thank you for taking my call. host: the conversation continues on on washington journal twitter paid. you can also join the conversation on facebook. if he did not herein yesterday, ruth bader ginsburg was one of those that was -- had to slide down an emergency chute after an evacuation flight. she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer two years ago. the justice con