neil: ben stein, what do you make of this? >> what i'm worried about is the fact this president seems to have very little regard for truth. the fact that he said he would have the plan without affecting the deficit is a lay. the fact that he said he was going to read the budget line by line to cut waste is a lie. neil: you sound like joe wilson. >> this man has very little regard for the truth but i'm worried about his disregard for the constitution. we had a problem with max baucus saying he was going to investigate humana because they dared to criticize the bill. that is an attack on the first amendment. that is very, very, very serious. neil: the so-called gag order they are still pushing that even though we had the c.b.o. report said much of human man that's claims were accurate. where is all of this going. will it seriously disrupt the deal if not jinx it? >> this is far from the final product. there are 500 amendments that i think they are trying to pass in the next few days, which is an impossible task. any employer tha

go ahead ben stein. >> something extremely odd is going on here. the insurance companies were foolish enough to and go out and sign up for this plan. they didn't understand it. they didn't understand that the president is going to double-cross them. the president is going to put in a a new plan with a public option that will provide all the services that insurance companies provide but it will not need to make a profit and therefore will be able to charge lower rates an kill the insurance companies. that's big problem. i'm more concerned about the whooping lie about medicare. he cannot cut any where near that much out of medicare without severe rationing of healthcare for seniorss. that is an outrage to put in this plan to help uninsured people, and it is going to cover uninsured illegal aliens by cutting it out of the hides of the senior citizens who have been paying in for medicare. there is not one word in this bill that says we're not going to cover illegal aliens o.t. take that out of the hides of seniors is not right. >> i want to take it a s

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. >> may i do my ben stein immitation once again even though ben is here.politicians do not cut spending." they don't. they can't say no to anybody. witness medicare. nobody wants it touched. we have a -- at the best estimate, a $37 trillion hole with medicare over 75 years. >> this is what i don't understand. how come they are telling us they will cut this and why should americans believe him? >> because the way the bills are laid out, you need a ph.d. in mathematics to real lir figure them out. you look at the ten-year spending. it's ten years of taxes only covering about 6 and a half, 7 years worth of spending so if you actually look out ten years of the spending that goes on in the baucus bill, it's actually closer to about one and a half trillion, not the numbers that you're seeing. >> i want to go back to you for a minute because here is my bigger question. let's say we don't get these savings. where does the money come from then? well, one of the unpleasant truths is -- let's come to the savings in a moment. we have to get the revenues. that's going

context the doctor is referring to is at the very end of the movie expelled where dawkins is probed by ben stein about the origin of life problem, and he acknowledges that a quote, no one knows how life first beg. of course, he's talking within the framework of a standard evolutionary approach which assumes only matialistic explanations. and then he goes on to say, and i suppose, he said, there could be a signatu of intelligence inside life, and if so, that would point to the need of some kind of intelligent cause. but he said, that would have to be an intelligence somewhere out in space that had itself evolved under directed processes. so some may call that the abg hypothesis, anything but god. [laughter] and i raise that not because intelligent design necessarily proves the existen of god, but rather because it shows that dawkins' whole prom of the new -- program of the new atheist program presupposes that god can't be part of the answer. he would go to such lengths as to propose the space alien hypothesis. it shows that he's got a visceral distaste for considering anything beyond that. so it'

the context that he is referring to is at the end of the mie where richard dawkins is probed by ben steinabout the origin of life probm and acknowledges that no one knows how life first began. ofoue he's lking within the framework of a standard evolionary approach which assumes all the materialistic explanion. then he goes on to say i suppose there could be intelligence inside life and i so that would point to the need of some kin of intligent cause and he says that would have tbe an intelligence someplace out in space that involv bayh and directed process these. some call that the a bg hypophysis, anything but god. [laughter] i raised that not because intelligent design proves existence of god but rather it shs richard dawkins program presupposes go@ can't be part of the answer. he can go to such lengt to propose the space alien id hypophysis it shs he has a visceral disste for cnnsidering anythingeyond that. so it is very curious dawkins first of all acknowledges there isn't an explanation for origin of life( he is an ardent spokes' person. the delusion since there is no evidence of des

ben stein in this week's mind over money. >> my basic philosophy is to make as much as i can make and spend as much as i can spend as fast as i can but along the way because of some residual teaching by my mother and father i save a little bit. i think what people should learn from this is when they finally do get employed, save some money. there are going to be rough patches in life. you should save enough that if you lose your job, you can keep yourself going for a couple years until you find your next one. if you're not saving so much it hurts, you're not saving enough. you have to say to yourself a smaller, lower standard of living when you're young will pay enormous dividends when you're old. diversify, diversify. get yourself into everything. american stocks, earn growth, american value. foreign stocks. developing. get yourself into bobdnds. american bonds. get yourself a little bit of commodities. in 1994 i could buy a speed boat or one share of berkshire hathaway. i got so much pressure out of the boat it's well worth it. i would do it in a second. >>> another case hits the u.

today someone sent me a column by ben stein that i had not seen but was written in 2003. in this column he does a great job of putting us and trivial things into perspective and i thought that today would be a good day to share this column. entitled how can someone who lives an insane luxury be a star in today's world. as i begin to write -- i'm quoting, as i begin to write this, i slug it as we writers say, which means i put a heading on top of the document to identify it, this heading is eo line final, and it gives me a shiver to write it. i have been doing this column for so long that can i not even recall when i started. i loved writing this column so much for so long, i came to believe it would never end. it worked well for a long time, but gradually my changing as a person and the world's change have overtaken it. on a small scale mortgageons while better than ever no longer attracts as many stars as it used to. it's-t still brings in the rich people in droves and definitely some stars. i saw samuel l. jackson there a few days ago and we had a nice visit. right befo