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smart people that say here is how the court should understand something, you shoulcould file a brief periogument on why obamacare will destroy the united states economically -- i do think health care will be very expensive. the democrats got into this because the cost of health care was going up. it appears it will continue to go up. this law, over time, is supposed to put some restraints on them. i do think down the road, whether the law is upheld or not upheld, the overall cost of health care will continue to be a big problem for the federal government down the road, just because more and more people are retiring and costs keep going up. host: david savage saying outside groups cannot lobby the court, however outside groups have spent $262 million on tv ads to try to influence the debate over this health care law. many of those interest groups coordinating their efforts today on capitol hill outside the court and around that area. many people trying to get a ticket inside the court. there are about 50 seats reserved for the public. guest: that is right. i thought it was 60. in any case,

one introduction stands out as the most recent perio. [laughter] we have a challenge here today.economists on the podium and they come from across the spectrum. they come from at various occupations. when you sample all of the professional talent in this room right now, we have collected many many years of academic learning to draw upon. you would think that ought to account for something. it keeps coming to my mind that all of this collection of wisdom available, how did we ever get into this economic mess? even more is how do we get out of it? i am told that at the end of this program, larry summers will be here. he has the responsibility to clarify all of the analysis -- what we should do and what we should not do -- and then go out and do it. my assignment is a little different. i am here to be a little provocative. i do want to emphasize a longer- term perspective. i have some idea about how we can approach that longer-term perspective. what we all know is that the world of political economists has lost the sense of self- confidence that it once had. i entered the united sta

economy, we need to look at small business and big business and say let's get your rates the same periohost: john mccconnell says there is no perfect candidate. this is the most recent gallup poll among republican leader s. what does this tell you? guest: there was a poll but showed a reversal of the enthusiasm of parties is about even. there is no enthusiasm for mitt romney and that is not what will get republican voters enthusiastic and some will vote for obama. -- against obama, i mean cu. in 2010, it was quite the reverse. guest: some of the enthusiasm got dropped. one need to get on the example of the tax debate. you cannot be a white house legislatively on a debate. we have to get onto having a nominee taking the campaign to obama. you are looking at the campaign at the worst period of time. the incumbent can be strong on messaging. it will be much different campaign in may and june. host: mitt romney also appeared on the mike huckabee program. this exchange generated some headlines. [video clip] >> we need to recognize that those who served this country and are uniform have a spe

but the objectives, goals, and values, i think, are the same perio.ur businesses, our workers, our system of higher education, we are both countries that are incredibly well positioned to succeed in this knowledge? -- knowledge-based economy. >> there are differences because we're not a reserve currency. we have to take a different path. i think it would be wrong to taint -- to think that britain is just taking measures to reduce its deficit. we're taking serious measures to grow. before coming here, we took measures to try to grow our housing market. we cut corporate housing taxes. we are investing in apprentice ship. back.rentice sheship we're both try to head in the same direction of growth. if you look at the u.s. plans for reducing the deficit over coming years, it is steeper than what we're doing in the uk. different starting points. different measures, on occasion, but the same destination. and a share of understanding. i have joey jones from sky news. >> can i ask you both to get any information this afternoon? and on the general, why do you t

the compensation is that i will be very short perio. yesterday i was reading a leading newspaper here. i was a bit surprised that the article started like one year later nothing is solved. iwow. with the big picture of a young lady with the little boy. i think i do not share that view. i am not saying that everything has been solved. it is not at all true, because it was a huge disaster, as you know. we cannot recover in only a year's time, but what we can say is we're on recovery road. i will give you a chart of paper that illustrates what it was and where we are. on the general damage and the nuclear issue. the number one is human loss. as you can see, that is close to 19,000 people still either missing or found dead. this is 10 times that of katrina. damage to building, infrastructure. katrina was reported up $5.5 billion. on top of that, there were equipment and housing. altogether it adds up to $212 billion. you can see how huge this disaster was. as for it the effect to gdp, the 2012 estimate was 1.6 before 311. it is not only bec