what people are missing is that 0 allele is 25% of the profits of all the company's world baud -- worldwide. $50 a barrel is 50% of the profits. when you are building a home you are talking about $50 and will -- a $50 a barrel. i am paying two hundred dollars more a month in fuel, and $200 more month in my car. what obama should do is the same thing clinton should do. george bush blocked 10 billion bar. of oil after we invaded iraq, take the oil reserves -- war reserves, put it out on the open market and sell it. host: next from arkansas. caller: i am very wary about inflation. of all of the bank bail outs and auto bailouts. this president has created the hugest deficit in history, that our children and grandchildren will never be able to pay for. he should return to the bush tax cuts that created jobs, and put money in many american pockets. host: the bush tax cuts are still active. they have not been repealed. caller: great. this president needs to continue them. host: virginia on the independent line. caller: this is worse than inflation. if they don't extend the bills again, they are wo

and that sounds allell and good, but it won't play out that way. the lewin group showed a study if enacted the president's option would displace 119 million happily insured americans. their companies could take the easy route and sign a fine and tell employees to sign up for the washington-run health care even they don't want it. how does that square with the assurance that's people can keep what they have. a may 14th rasmussen poll shows that 70% of americans rated their coverages as excellent. another 23% rated it as fair. so most folks are happy with their current insurance and would not appreciate being pushed into washington's health care bureaucracy with all of its complex rules and hours of waiting on hold and webs of bureaucracy. and then there's the matter of cost. how much will it cost to add 47 million to the health care rolls? who will pay? to not know the answers to these questions is to be fiscally irresponsible. we don't have precise estimates from the congressional budget office whose responsibility it is to tell how much the legisl