by the way, ben stein. >> thank you. >> ben stein. what do you make of this? if you are losing your friend, it's bachltd that is on this healthcare law beginning with waivering democrats, union backers. what is to become of this? >> well, mr. obama does front his backers. what i don't like this idea is income equality has become an obsession with media and the president and with everybody. i'd go back to our brilliant colleague charles payne said early weeks ago, indemnity is not on this thing and obamacare and overtime pay. it's based upon the fact that people don't acquire education, don't acquire human capital, don't acquire work skills and are unable, trevor, to join the middle class. that's the real problem. it's not some little blip in obamacare. obamacare is a further hepp episode of government meddleing. but the real reason people are not in the middle class is by and large. >> i totally disagree with you. >> that is one factor. so are all the other factors. i don't know why you would criticize the president and others for raising such an important iss

ben stein, what do you make of ththe fact it's not been a good week when you look at u.s. influence around the world and maybe this space thing was icing on the cake here. it doesn't make americans feel good. >> power flows from the barrel of a gun. we disarmed ourselves. we let ourselves become weak all over the world. we only have a smattering of troops in all of europe. it's a pathetic situation. our navy has been cut to virtually nil our air force is cut. we did not elect mr. obama to be a unilateral disarmer, but that is what he is doing. >> except that is not true. >> mr. putin does not work on the base of morally superior to me. >> it's interesting what ben says and the metaphor which i agree with, it isn't true. >> he didn't use the metaphor. gary did. ben went away from the metaphor. >> i understand. we have 60,000 troops in europe, account for 3/4 of the budget of nato. we are still a superpower and have chosen for budget reasons not to pursue space the way we used to. we were relatively friendly with russia. while i think the metaphor is right, i agree with ever

to ben stein -- what do you think?ink they've got their hash tag they cooked up out of that. up for climate. so basically twitter is over. it's so uncool. they're going to be tweeting about this. it's classic call to action marketing. get them while supplies last. buy now. they have to have a reason to sell this and their hook is the bad winter, so they're doing this and trying to create a divergence from everything else that's going wrong for the democratic part right now. >> ben stein you strike me has one who never had to do an all-nighter because you're so brilliant. normally when you do an all-nighter you're trying to get something done, be ready for the big test, whatever. i don't mind that. i'm happy to see them moving on something. this is not -- they're studying for the wrong exam. >> well, this climate change thing is such nonsense. i would use another word for it but it's a family oriented -- but it's -- this is a problem that takes generation, maybe millenia to resolve and they think they're going to resolv

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