in the parlance of suspected terrorists being brought here from guantanamo to face charges that he allegedly bought the materials to blow up our embassies in kenya and tanzania. host: indianapolis. independent caller. hello, there. caller: good morning. i was studying a doctorate in military history and i am dealing with academics in europe. when president bush was in office, they said that president bush was terrible because he would say -- he was a wild cowboy. eds now they say that obama is a groveling apologist. there are some people who are never going to be happy with this. other than style, what are the major differences between the current administration and the previous one? guest: in the foreign-policy i focus on, there is remarkable continuity between the last the destruction and this one on every issue except iraq -- the last administration and this one on every issue except iraq. the bush administration was moving toward a phased withdrawal, and that is where obama is now. there is a radical difference in style, and style does matter between these two. i think that if you're goi

in missouri, this is the parlance. i learned that reading a biography of jesse james. it goes back somewhere, but to us it has a more positive connotation. >> i heard someone say that indiana is only one of three states with a surplus. >> they are not too many. we still have 10% of a year in reserve, only because we have been extraordinarily careful about spending all the way. revenues dropped 8% last year. we cannot take too many years like that and still have a savings account, but we do. >> you say in your message that you are going to decrease 2.5% but still increase education? >> that is our suggestion. i hope we can get the legislature to go along with it. elsewhere in that speech i put up maps that show how many states, more than two-thirds, that have cut education, sometimes very drastically. we have not had to do that. i showed how many states have raised taxes. it is getting close to 40, and we have not had to do that. i have said to my fellow hoosiers, that in business, the strongest businesses tend to improve their position in tough times. weaker managers t

it's not part of the parlance, but it tacked right into wall street. this is a guy, if you remember back in the fall, that debate about how many houses he had, remember that number as well, but he was going on to that. lastly there was the specific about taxes. and almost health care proposal you can test. whether it is in focus, getting a group of eight or 10 people together, or doing a statisticcally valid way or doing these quick polls on the internet, but the one proposal people don't like is the idea of taxing benefits. i'm not speaking to the policy of it, it's the idea of what looms largest for them. the potential gains, the potential loss yesms you say we're going to cut costs, they say that's something i like. they say they are going to tax benefits, and they say, i understand you are taxing something on bifts and it is going to help overall on the deficit, or help with new government plans. awe they know is the losses appear very immediate, the gains harder to understand. so health care was used as a big issue with the obama campaign, and eve

even now i wonder how many people and has become the parlance in washington i don't know how many people who have an idea what that is akin to realize something for the government takes care of but the idea of being with the critics would call a government run health care, something they may not have even thought about let alone have a strong opinion on. >> so what i am seeing here is an advertisement of someone with a mental health problem standing up and looking into the camera and saying you can spend $1,400 to keep me healthy for the next year we cannot spend that money in cost to $15,000 in two weeks in the hospital. >> that is a bummer. [laughter] >> i'm trying to get to the person side and the cost side. >> what i would do is obviously, the end of the spot is i'm back to work and paying taxes and taking care of my family because what you want to pay at the end is not just the choice, you want to pay its choices says what to do with it is even talking to in doing this research with patience because what they say is i am not cured. and there are not cured so i am dealing with a life

it is not part of the parlance but it hacked into wall street. there was a guy back in the fall, the big debate about how many houses the hatem bill might remember that number as well but he was going on to that and lastly there was a specific about taxes. almost every healthcare reform proposal, you can test whether it is in focus groups just looking at getting a group of eight or ten people together, hearing how they react toward doing it a statistically valid way or some of these couples on the internet, and not always so statistically valid but the one proposal people don't like is taxing benefits. it is because a lot of the healthcare debate, and that will put this says that the mikan pick up later, the idea of what looms large as of the potential gains, the potential losses. if you say we are going to cut costs, they say that is something i like. i understand you are taxing something i'm getting and you say it is going to help overall on healthcare costs lord is going to help the overall on the deficit or help overall in a new government pl