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Stossel: We Are Getting Better

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    FBN’s John Stossel on looking beyond the news headlines to find a silver lining.

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Place but Jones also does not see it back way and he is here when it.

Gonna break out into it's a wonderful will allow us what's what's a lot of it is a wonderful world all the think -- -- are true and you're right their horrible what the -- second lawyers and -- good politician.

It is quite horrible -- excellent but in spite of that people work around the politicians and light for its.

I considered my duty this time here to step back and say.

Is life really getting better if it isn't it hands Louis the fourteenth -- 498.

People cooking for him.

And we eat better than he does it because we have free markets and they give us FaceBook even if Zuckerberg sisters ticked off so you want to look at beneath the the -- that the media presents.

Of that cliff the death of this you -- -- bit below that and say that over a period of time.

Al lives on getting better materially.

Better but your point yes and we're living longer.

-- and were healthier seven billion people on earth and for the first time.

Only maybe a billion -- near starvation that sounds awful but that's better than it's ever been before.

-- the suffering there's lot of good but undecided like on the program.

And -- might -- -- more social and editorial decide that the national mood.

Is not optimistic it's not feel good it's not that we getting -- I think the national mood is one of anxiety.

Anxiety that this great experiments of all government all the time is not going well but we know deep down we know it.

So superficially I say the mood is anxious.

Would you disagree with us now and I would say -- -- -- our politicians are gonna bankrupt Medicare and what are the old people gonna do and so there should be some anxiety and maybe -- motivate people to stop thinking we could have all this free stuff.

But with less government we can still have good stuff because free enterprise creates it guy you'd never ever abandon that military position jobs -- please don't do I don't intensive.

One thing that you said I wanna pick up -- Longevity rates we wrong.

Living long we really -- Americans and the rest of the world I think 79 for an American female 77.

For American male.

In Japan I think it's 82 from a female and 88 from man.

That's astonishing.

There's -- -- of it through technology invented in America really vaccines.

Who.

Think this is live with living healthier lives and you -- if you book justice was presented to his in the media.

You think that everything's going wrong and how good these -- the -- thought these poison that was going into the global warming situation and alliance and that the food is poisoned.

You and maybe global warming is a problem I'm skeptical but that stuff that really hurts people what we breather lungs and can -- that's getting better all the time.

You know I'm so glad you're on the showed just before -- and as new yeah -- and the precise moment when on government runs out of money on Monday.

And -- we've got this fiscal cliff disaster looming right now and that along comes John stops and says look it's and who article -- was a disaster of a fiscal cliff with the problem.

If you go far enough back to get all the safety was terrible back then at least right now regular say that they're a little besides that tonight on your show -- that's quarter frozen and that will be 9 o'clock eastern time what a wonderful world on the name of the show is still awful.

Thank you jump -- stuff.

Tonnes of the gold reports where --

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