host: joe from covington, georgia. are you pessimistic or optimistic? caller: good morning, thank you for taking my call. i am extremely pessimistic about the economy. just this past week a story came out about three hedge fund managers getting paid a -- getting paid $7 billion settlement with the irs, nobody went to jail, they just totally paid the money and that was it, $7 billion settlement with the irs. this has been going on for years. they are not the only people. we have heard stories already about the billionaires who are not paying any income taxes, all they are doing is printing more money, backed by nothing to raise the prices of everything in court. this is how we are being taxed to death. only the poor pay taxes that is why are prices are so much higher than anywhere else in the world, because we are paying all of the money that is taken by these people who have learned how to game the system and stealing billions of dollars while they have us over here fighting with each other over crumbs. host: "the wall street journal" in its story about

host: joe from covington, georgia. are you pessimistic or optimistic? caller: good morning, thank you for taking my call. i am extremely pessimistic about the economy. just this past week a story came out about three hedge fund managers getting paid a -- getting paid $7 billion settlement with the irs, nobody went to jail, they just totally paid the money and that was it, $7 billion settlement with the irs. this has been going on for years. they are not the only people. we have heard stories already about the billionaires who are not paying any income taxes, all they are doing is printing more money, backed by nothing to raise the prices of everything in court. this is how we are being taxed to death. only the poor pay taxes that is why are prices are so much higher than anywhere else in the world, because we are paying all of the money that is taken by these people who have learned how to game the system and stealing billions of dollars while they have us over here fighting with each other over crumbs. host: "the wall street journal" in its story about