you are john stossel and they trust you and they sign your thing. stossel with a mustache. >> every time this has been tried 80% of the people ban water. >> bill: they ban water because they don't know what they are banning and you are mocking them. >> well, and what are we doing with our global warming legislation saying the drilling -- republican junk science in anwr energy independence. >> bill: if you see this guy come up to you, you be careful. he is not looking out for you like i am. >> yes, i am. >> bill: john stossel, there he is, thursday night, everybody. when we come right back, busy night for is it legal. bullying case results in nine school kids being arrested. then, charles krauthammer on why government-funded health care is not working in massachusetts. moments away. >> bill: thanks for staying with us, i'm bill o'reilly in the is it legal segment tonight. lots of stuff in the air. suicide of 15-year-old phoebe prince. came to the boston area from ireland last year. apparently she was bullied and taunted constantly and the school that

here now with his assessment, fox business anchor john stossel.et's take memphis, tennessee first, home of the blues, great ribs. great hotel peabody. what's not to like? >> i agree. all of these places have something about them not to like. forbes picked memphis because of high crime and less opportunity. lots of corruption. 80 public officials have been accused or convicted of corruption. >> bill: sounds like atlantic city. >> sounds worst than atlantic city. >> bill: when you say lack of opportunity, what does that mean? >> well, most -- all three of these cities have something in common. they have too much government. they have government planning life and that means there is less opportunity in the private sector. >> bill: when we have too much government the upside is you have more corrupt guys getting arrested. we will load them up and have more bad guys. all right. so memphis is victimized by corruption. >> and crime. >> bill: and crime. and they have a big government that stifles opportunity, would you say? >> i would. as do stock don and

john stossel is coming for your toys! you don't like it? get used to it. because while it's john today, it's the federal government tomorrow. and washington is after a whole lot more than just stuffed animals. here to explain, the man himself, john stossel, the host of stossel on the fox business network. stossel, what are you doing, you're literally robbing children of their toys now? >> i want to illustrate what a scam this much loved program, social security and medicare, are. i mean, it is a ponzi scheme. we are stealing from children. it made sense in the 1930s when they passed social security, because most people didn't even live to 65. people my age rudely insist on living longer, the numbers don't make sense but the politicians won't cut anything. there were five people to support old people when they created it. now there are three, when your son nears retirement age, only two people will be there to try to pay for his retirement and it won't work. megyn: how can you take it away now that everybody has paid in? you have been paying in for years, wo

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gut but john stossel looked into it and found that is not necessarily the case. >> president barack obamaou can go shopping. you are stuck. >> the concentration has gotten even more serious. >> my home state of alabama, blue cross/blue shield, has roughly 89% of the private health insurance market. okay? >> the president called that one and raised it. >> president barack obama: in alabama almost 90% is controlled by just one company. >> reporter: blue cross is the company. and, this does look like a near monopoly. but, the 89% claim is wrong. blue cross itself says the correct number is 75%. and, that is only if you leave out employers that act as their own insurers an add those companies in and the alabama market looks like this. blue cross does have a third of the business, but it is hardly a monopoly. but the monopoly myth is everywhere. >> there's only two or one insurance company allowed to sell in most states, but in every state, there is some competition. if one -- we will not pay people, they'll lose their -- >> here's what happens, stossel like the oil cabal. >> there is no oil c

john stossel is the anchor of stossel *. what is this? junk science meaning what? >> a lot of things. we covered some republican junk signs and democratic junk signs. global warning is just that. all the errors in al gore's movie. even the ippc had 20 inches on the high end. megyn: you don't require us to just take your record -- your word for it. you decided to prove how gullible americans can be. >> i'm at times square to see if i can fool people into signing a petition to ban water. ban ox month. within ban dihydrogen monoxide. >> i never knew. it caused you more and severe burns. >> the printout said it had been found in tumors. these football players signed, too. almost every one we asked signed. >> it's odorless, tasteless. >> we support a ban on that. you took chemistry, right. what is dihydrogen monoxide? >> water. >> we are talking about water here. >> urbanning water? >> it's h20. >> do not ban water. >> let's not. but think about the dumb things we do in the name science. congress got me this golf cart totally free. >> free for me. you taxpayers paid for