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later john stossel on a mission to find more jobs. we will be back >> the new book called the magic of reality. i talk to do him earlier this week. now you wrote this book and this book is marketed some what for children adolescents, correct? >> you want them to not only believe in science which i think is a good thing but reject god and religion. >> this is a book about science. it doesn't talk about god. >> it mocks god. come on. i went through that book and you basically are saying that everything can be explained by science. correct? >> well, everything about the natural world. where does it mock god? >> it says these things are s-- myths they are not really true. >> every chapter begins with a myth. egyptian myths. >> you know what you are doing. you are trying to get to the kids and say you are an idiot if you believe in god. >> it has nothing to do with myths. judeo christian myth is one of the myths. >> judeo christian myth , it is myth. >> nothing to do with eighth yichl. >> stalin. >> my hypothesis is religion is a constrain

. >> john stossel. >> you just destroyed all of your credibility. the best of the factor. right now. caution you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. >> i am bill o'reilly riley. thank you for watching "the factor" this evening. great moments from the last year. we start tonight with a memorable barack and a hard place segment. >> as you have said on the broadcast you want more federal spending. >> according to moody's an letic it brought in 2.10 for every dollar spent on the stimulus. moody said it work, bush's office said it worked. to say obama doesn't want to cut spending he had a $4 trillion bargain he is ready to enact. john boehner said no. it isn't fair that say he wants to cut spending. >> if the huge stimulus worked why did unemployment go up? >> the stimulus wasn't just about employment fwfz xeeping the state solvent. you can do a number of things like an infrastructure bank. >> i am not understanding. you are much smarter than i am. you said spending worked unemployment went up. and the federal debt rose to record levels. >> unemplo

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here now is john stossel. you are a drug -- you want to legalize drugs as a libertarian point of view. we debated that we don't want to get into that again. surely you see this as a reuse what these guys are doing out there with the medical marijuana and they themselves tell me they don't want marijuana legalized because it would cut into their 20-million-dollar year operation. >> they actually say it that way? >> bill: yeah. they did. both of them sat there and i don't know whether they were stoned or not. we were trying to give them a drug test. they wouldn't take it but they said we oppose legalized marijuana for recreational use. >> that's too bad. you are right. for many cases it's a reuse. people go to a doctor. sure, i will say that you need medical marijuana. they use it to go get high. so what? >> bill: they have anxiety. >> okay. >> bill: do you have anxiety, stossel. >> i do. >> bill: right before you come on this program. >> and right now. every minute i'm around you. >> bill: you can get as much p

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john stossel who joins us live on the curvey couch. after watching that video, do you have a food tester? >> i'm not eating anything that guy gave me. why is it called the kirby couch? >> curvey. >> it's a semi circle, not curvey. >> the semi circle couch isn't as catchy. >> that's true. >> you can watch john on fox network. what if rick santorum and michele bachmann joined force necessary evangelicals think that is the ticket to the white house and the reverend behind that plan for a shotgun marriage joins us live from iowa next. >> and if the white house won't hold a parade welcoming our heros home from war, we have someone who will, and he's done it before. is it a good idea? we report, you decide. it's the perfect time to find great deals on the 4g lte devices you love. like the droid bionic by motorola for $199.99. or the pantech breakout for $49.99. our lowest price ever. get the technology you love, on the network you deserve. and for a limited time, get twice the data for the same low price. verizon. >> welcome back. quick head

john stossel, you're the host of "stossel" on "fox business" network. thank you for reminding us we have many blessings this season. >> we do. and more coming. >> alisyn: there you go. >> brian: despite modern technology, john stossel still takes his bike to work. walking in a winter wonderland with the girl scouts of nassau county. they are here to perform the holiday hit next. >> alisyn: first, let's check in with martha mccallum for what's on at the top of the hour. >> i'm a big fan of the dishwasher myself. love the dishwasher. thanks. coming up this morning, newt gingrich says it is a real mess. ed rollins tells us why what happens in iowa may surprise everybody, folks. karl rove is here with a solution to the payroll tax mess and part 2 of my sit down with governor chris christie and his wife. they talk for the first time about their marriage, the pivotal weekend they decided not seek the white house this time, and what they really think about the vp buzz, coming up at the top of the hour. bill and i will see you then le. alright, let's do it. let

and now, john stossel. >> john: who creates jobs? somehow many americans believe it is the government. when i ask people outside this office what do they want government to do? some said things like this. >> more jobs. >> more jobs. >> john: why would they think government can create jobs? probably because politicians tell them that. >> my job is to create jobs. >> president obama was a job creator from day one. >> it as plan that will trigger the creation of millions of new jobs for americans. >> john: what is humorous, politicians don't create jobs. government has no money of its own. all government does is take from some people and give it to others and that creates jobs here but money taken from the private sector over here means the private sector now has less to spend on job creation. the only people who create sustainable jobs and real wealth are private businesses. some c.e.o.s are upset that people don't understand that, a and they don't. they just formed a group called the job creator's alliance. the show is made up of c.e.

and now, john stossel. >> john: who creates jobs? somehow many americans believe it is the government. when i ask people outside this office what do they want government to do? some said things like this. >> more jobs. >> more jobs. >> john: why would they think government can create jobs? probably because politicians tell them that. >> my job is to create jobs. >> president obama was a job creator from day one. >> it as plan that will trigger the creation of millions of new jobs for americans. >> john: what is humorous, politicians don't create jobs. government has no money of its own. all government does is take from some people and give it to others and that creates jobs here but money taken from the private sector over here means the private sector now has less to spend on job creation. the only people who create sustainable jobs and real wealth are private businesses. some c.e.o.s are upset that people don't understand that, a and they don't. they just formed a group called the job creator's alliance. the show is made up of c.e.

stossel show on fox news all back you know i don't agree on everything but this is an area that i think he is more right than the other candidates again we've got to understand not only the fact that maybe they do have a nuclear weapons program that they are developing but what are you trying to achieve and if you use military force what are the downsides let's remember we had a huge downside of invading iraq things that people i think all argued after the fact that the intel wasn't there to justify the military action and frankly the benefit of us going in is never been proven to anybody so i think that's ron paul's position i think he's correct in this and this area of his debate may have an elf i want to ask you to kind of take a step back it and beyond iran to take a look at the region tension is mounting not only with iran and afghanistan and pakistan especially after the u.s. accidentally. struck. twenty four twenty four pakistani it's pakistan is now taking action there telling the u.s. to get out to get their drones out of there right now in the region we are seeing this growing

stossel show on fox news all back you know i don't agree on everything but this is an area that i think he is more right than the other candidates again we've got to understand not only the fact that maybe they do have a nuclear weapons program that they are developing but what are you trying to achieve and if you use military force what are the downsides let's remember we had a huge downside of invading iraq things that people i think all argued after the fact that the intel wasn't there to justify the military action and frankly the benefit of us going in has never been proven to anybody so i think that's ron paul's position i think he's correct in this in this area of his debate now but i also want to ask you to kind of take a step back and beyond iran to take a look at the region tension is mounting not only with iran and afghanistan right and pakistan especially after the u.s. accidentally. struck hello twenty four or twenty four pakistani is. pakistan is now taking action they're telling the us to get out to get their drones out of there and now in the region we are seeing this gr

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. >> and now, john stossel. >> president obama supporters call this his biggest accomplishment, this big, fat bill is obamacare. and later in the show we're going to talk to doctors and a senator will how this will affect america, but let's start with some businessmen. the president sold this law as good for business. in fact, right now in the white house website it says this law will lower costs for small business. but will it lower the cost for any business? let's ask three ceo's. brad anderson of best buy. mike whalen of the heart of america group runs hotels and restaurants and john alisyn of bb and t, the 12th biggest bank in america. will it lower the cost? anybody? >> i don't think so. (laughter) >> i bring our people that work with us, with our company health insurance and recently we had our agony pain meeting. >> what you call it? >> annual agony of pain. yes, and said just give me like a ten minute synopsis how this thing is going to impact my company and the three of them kind of looked at each other, we've gone to seminar after seminar and mike, we can't tell you. i thin

. >> and now, john stossel. >> president obama supporters call this his biggest accomplishment, this big, fat bill is obamacare. and later in the show we're going to talk to doctors and a senator will how this will affect america, but let's start with some businessmen. the president sold this law as good for business. in fact, right now in the white house website it says this law will lower costs for small business. but will it lower the cost for any business? let's ask three ceo's. brad anderson of best buy. mike whalen of the heart of america group runs hotels and restaurants and john alisyn of bb and t, the 12th biggest bank in america. will it lower the cost? anybody? >> i don't think so. (laughter) >> i bring our people that work with us, with our company health insurance and recently we had our agony pain meeting. >> what you call it? >> annual agony of pain. yes, and said just give me like a ten minute synopsis how this thing is going to impact my company and the three of them kind of looked at each other, we've gone to seminar after seminar and mike, we can't tell you. i thin