you vote by leaving. >> and dagen, do you-- >> and the idea that government is a-- dagen, do you he question the idea that government is incredibly complex and difficult that experience is an enormous plus? do you question something that basic? >> i do question that, absolutely. i don't think that you need to have worked deeply in washington for decades and go in and actually make a difference. and how much experience did president obama have in washington? >> not very much, and we're paying for it. >> that's the point. >> and ben, one of the reasons why government is complex is because politicians have made it complex, because you know what? they've tried and put up so many things to hide payoffs, look at solyndra scandal. they've made this thing much more complex than it needs to be. maybe we need a politician to clean it up. >> life is just very complex. do you seriously think that herman cain is going to drastically change the nature of government? i mean, you cannot seriously believe that. i just, it's just boggles the mind. >> i'd love to put him up at the plate and let him swing for i

. >> to ben stein, dagen mcdowell, adam lashinsky and charlie gasperino, is that the right play book? >> closing loopholes and lowering the marginal tax rates is the right economic play book. i'm shaken, kind of like the richard simmons video, barack obama comparing himself to ronald reagan is really an amazing, let's not call it a lie, but a massive stretch of the truth. >> here is the thing though the stakes are big, dagen and the idea is it's okay to go this route because the reagan did it, but we know that reagan didn't do that. we know that reagan was a tax cutter that taxes went down and a few times where taxes went up, but overall the philosophy less taxes and less government intervention and we had a pretty good economy after that. >> president obama wants to get rid of some loopholes for people and groups he does not care for and raise tax rates and that is not tax reform. tax reform is, yes, cutting loopholes and that means that, that means closing them. that means getting rid of tax expenditures and that's going to mean people give up some things they like, even the mortgag

ben stein, charles payne, dagen mcdowell along with adam lashinsky and charlie gasperino. all right, charles payne, i've seen this before, on steroids or in 3-d. >> the vice-president. united states suggesting that republicans are responsible or would be responsible for rape? which by the way is not an economic crime, but somehow they're encouraging more rape of women and then they're going to fourth grade school and talk to these kids? i remember when president obama or senator obama was running for office, he says that wives and kids are off limits. not if you use women in the idea at that they can be raped to push through a jobs bill? this is despicable stuff. >> neil: dagen, and trying to understand the meanings of the remarks, i think he's saying we have increased joblessness and more likely we'll be with these maladies and even that's a stretch, isn't it? >> it's absolutely a stretch. can we say what it is? it's crazy, it's crazy talk, but now what, these stair tactics work. >> i think when you yell it-- >> that's crazy, i was laughing. >> listening to you. >> it's b

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