compare this to two times before, under boris yeltsin, which the ruble is integrated overnight.the collapse of oil under gorbachev come in the 1980s, admitted he had no shop absorber. he had to weather the storm of his own economic reform. putin come under contrast, most adult russians know that. very well, they know this. chaos and collapse very well. they credit putin to a very large extent. they credit him and they credit him with presiding over russia with relative prosperity. if you putin by comparison with the situation inherited in 1999, when russia was a failed state. the economy had just suffered depression, twice as deep of that of which the united states suffered in the 1930s. a new stage in world succession had threatened the territorial structure of russia. this is why putin was appointed prime minister, to deal with that. nato expansion was proceeding on all fronts with no limits on space and time. russia was virtually a failed state. putin was able to restore an element of order out of chaos and an element out of prosperity out of misery, and it meant internationa

for his health care and soviet union was good enough for great masses but not good enough for boris yeltsin. >> they are asking to be exempted because they realize they can't afford it. as much as obamacare is a problem, everybody is concerned about 2700 pages in the bill, if it goes away tomorrow the problem doesn't go away tomorrow. the problem started in 1965 when the advent of medicare and medicaid that have grown into monstrous vampire programs that suck the life blood out of american people. >> john: people like health care. >> until it collapses but seniors are find out it's harder and to find a physician that takes medicare. ultimately government medicine fails and when it fails it fails spectacularly. i talked to people around the world and i look at the data. there is a difference between feel good medicine and good medicine. i believe medicine is between a doctor and a patient not between a government and a bureaucrat and a patient. if you look at, for example, almost any marker you want. survival cancer rates, they are significantly better in the united states. they may feel goo

for his health care and soviet union was good enough for great masses but not good enough for boris yeltsine asking to be exempted because they realize they can't afford it. as much as obamacare is a problem, everybody is concerned about 2700 pages in the bill, if it goes away tomorrow the problem doesn't go away tomorrow. the problem started in 1965 when the advent of medicare and medicaid that have grown into monstrous vampire programs that suck the life blood out of american people. >> john: people like health care. >> until it collapses but seniors are find out it's harder and to find a physician that takes medicare. ultimately government medicine fails and when it fails it fails spectacularly. i talked to people around the world and i look at the data. there is a difference between feel good medicine and good medicine. i believe medicine is between a doctor and a patient not between a government and a bureaucrat and a patient. if you look at, for example, almost any marker you want. survival cancer rates, they are significantly better in the united states. they may feel good in finland