every branch of american, blue collar, white dollar, blaccolla branch, getting the short end of the stickto get elected pitting one group against another. taking something from one group and landing it to another. at the end of the day, nobody's happy. >> right. emac, that's the point. frankly related to the elections we just had. >> a real wake-up call to the people in d.c. walking around in a nimbus cloud of narcissim down there. >> hold on. a nimbus cloud of narcissism? deserved repeating. >> when they feel big government can do it. the government is get bigger and people are more unhappy. >> and a time when even democrats understood that it was bill clinton after all who said the era of big government is over. i wish he was right apparently he wasn't. >> not so, but you know, economies are just individuals, and the so when they're free they do well. this survey just proves what we've long known. the economy is performing on a subpar level because freedom's gone down. ta simple. >> steve, can we get back to a consensus like with bill clinton that the era of big government should be ove