. john: we're talking about the destruction of our society. >> my goodness, things are bad. >> drought. >> climatic changes. >> other global environment changes have emerged as threats to our very survival. >> it always ends in mass debt. >> even if we survive. john: our nation is in decline. >> the problem is unprecedented in our history. >> people will lose their simply put more trouble.r >> may we invent our way out of trouble? >> we have the technology. we have the capability to make the world's first spy eye glass. >> so many good things are happening. >> i can't believe it. i made it. >> this woman heard sound for

the first time. the good new day. that's our show tonight. >> and now, john stossel. >> you worry about the future? it is hard not to be if you watch the news. it is mostly negative. violence, disasters, danger and i suppose that's our job to tell you about problems. if a plane crashes that's news. the fact that thousands of planes will land and take offer safely during the tv program is a miracle. but it is not news. so we soak in disasters and heed warnings about the next one. bird flu is going to kill us, noble warming, best sipesticide

residue. i try to put things in perspective. in england a journalist smarter than i was quick to realize he was focusing on the wrong thingses and it led to this book. he explains why he is an optimist. he went into it assuming things were getting worse. >> back in the 1970s the future was bleak the population exploding was inevitable. bird flu was going to kill us, the ice age was coming back, acid rain was killing the forests. y2k all of these things were going to go wrong that's what everybody said to me about the future. i was surprised when i grew up to find that things would be getting much better for most people most of the time. >> some people call it pessimism porn. >> it sounds wiser to talk about

what might go wrong than to talk about what might go right. it seems foolish to talk about what might go right. there is much more market for bad news than good news. >> you mentioned over population. when i was in college that was the scare that they were selling me the book the population bomb was the best seller. the author warned in the 1980's it would bring mass starvation because populations would have outrun the food supply. the population did double. he said there would be mass starvation by the 80 lz. 80s came and went without a shortage of the food. some of the media shrink about unsustainable population growth. there are now 7 million people on earth. >> if with we do nothing it will go up to nine. at some point there won't be enough stuff for everybody. >> since global warming is the scare of the moment --

>> should mandatory population control be there. >> a government official would forcibly tie our tubes? >> that's roughly what happened in china for the last 30 years. it has been extraordinarily crew with a huge amount of suffering involved. it turns out the population growth rates have been falling all over the world. all you have to do is give people more prosperity and wealth and education and turns out if their kids stop dying they have fewer kids. >> you say media are hyping crime and terrorism and there is a reason to be fearful 3,000 people died september 1st # 1th and there has been mass shootings at the schools. the head of the nra says this is why we need guns. >> there are terrorists, drug

cartels, rapers, haters, campus killers, airport killers. >> he goes on and on. those things have happened. there are good reasons they should have guns. they see the nra hyping this stuff. >> violence is declining all over the world to an extraordinary defense. the number of people killed in warfare globally was the lowest in the last decade. may not feel like it to the west in iraq and afghanistan but it is true globally we are seeing much less violence in the world. >> if you survey people and ask them if that's true, i would think most would not believe

that. >> we are constantly told about the violence happening and not told about the gradual trend for less violence of all kind. >> many people still envy the life royalty to be a king in the good old days. you made a book pointing out even though kings had hundreds of servants. >> the sun king. he choose from 40 dishes every night taking 398 people to prepare each meal. today's average person can go into a supermarket and buy a smoked prepee paired meal made of beef, polk pork, beans, carrots or choose to eat from scores of restaurants italian japanese... each has a team of skilled chefs waiting to serve in less than an hour's notices. as all of this up you havere th

banking call. >> we have thousands of people working for us. >> it is a collaborative system. >> here is another reason the good old days were not as good as today. everything was smaller fatter, dinser, cheaper. that's the problem, what do you mean smaller, faster, lighter and so on? >> i carry a cell phone in my pocket, a smart cone. it as 250,000 times more digital storage capacity thafrn the computer. i bought an ipod nano holds 300 lp's on an efficiency base that's 2,000 times lighter and 6,000 times more efficient than an lp. i am overwhelmed with choice. doesn't make our lives better. >> i don't use most of the stuff

on my cell phones it is too pli indicated. >> let's look at xhauler. all of these have allowed increasing liberty standards from all over the world. >> sure. no politician ever got elected by saying everything is going to be okay. if you have to elect me if you don't elect me they will come. that is something we see all of the time. yet this continuing increase in living standards all over the world has been truly remarkable. >> i am old and all my life i have heard we are going to run out of oil. almost 20-years ago they told me we had to have an unpress sant

talk about the energy crisis. >> this is the energy crisis in my lifetime. >> if we do not act quickly. we are talking about the energy>> our wap if i h >> our rapidly shrinking resources. >> the resources must be shrinking. >> what is happening? >> better drill bits. >> they are at the edge of the drill bit. >> in 2005 they said natural gas production is in america. >> back in 2005 this we are looking at exporting natural gas. >> page 180 of the book in 1914

the u.s. bureau of minds will be bee pleated within 10 years. >> in 20-years the department of interiors says they will be gone in 13 years. in 1946 maybe we have 20-years left says the state department they said they would like a 13 jerry number. >> of course. january of this year, 2014 the u.s. exported 4 million burials a day. the more boil and gas we find the more oil and growe have. >> he looked at prices of industrial commodities over 100 years. they found the overwhelming majority fell in price. >> if that falls in price that

means there is more of it. >> the combination of price and innovation is remarkably powerful combination. that's what we have seen. the effort toward smaller denser cheaper is all around us. >> given we have seen it why can't swe see it? >> there is a tendency to want to be pessimistic as we look forward. >> we have 3 did printing ever faster computers. free education thanks to on-line courses. >> information that is free all over the world. >> cheaper energy which is the foundation of modern society. you add all of these together we are poised for another american century. we have all of these things that other countries lack. >> we will get more into that during the show thank you, robert price brice. you can use the hash tag.

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. john: are you poor? what >> are you poor. what does it mean to be poor in america today? 300 million people struggle to live on a dollar a day or less. 300 million people that is equal to america's entire population. this is a terrible thing. yet it's really good news. it is the good new day because 300 million is a smaller population than ever before. this spoes the percentage of people living on less than a dollar a day. when i graduated college it was 25 percent. millions lifted themselves out of poverty. it is great to read articles like five reasons why 2013 was the best year in human history. fewer people are dying. dying nouning and more live longer. fewer people suffer from extreme

poverty. think progress at the lefty web site. liberals are clueless about economic progress who wrote the sensible articles? who wrote it? jack beach am. not only do you realize life got better but you say it is largely because of free market. >> markets are a big part of the story. the reason they are is they park presearch that led to the development of new remedies for diseases that killed millions of people young earlier. they had the benefits of those for the diseases a large number of people around the world saved millions of lives. >> because somebody wanted to make a prophfit curing people. >> they distributed them to

people who needed them. >> it is obvious to me you got it right. didn't your col lyings say progress. >> modern liberals and conservatives broadly say markets are good. >> on the site nine reasons why to 13 was not the best year in history. >> shutting the doors on college grad students. the gender wage gap. women are being murdered at work. this is different world. >> there are lots of things that are still bad. the fact that it has gotten much better it not about the things that are so terrible. we should celebrate the progress made because it is the great accomplishment in the 200 years of history. >> we shouldn't attack the

markets. >> we should talk about regulating the remarket and make it better and deal with the problems we still have. >> regulating them we don't have enough or too much of that? >> no, i don't think so. the reason we don't is a lot of benefits in growth aren't being distributed appropriately. we are talking about welfare people getting richer. poor people around the world could be doing much better than they are even though they are doing much better than they used to be. governments to help with that process. >> how is that, woulding out in cuba and former soviet union. >> there's space between cuba and sweden. >> they do the best in the world. >> they rate themselves as happy but that is because they are sweet. >> the more they get per capita the helpyer they are, too.

>> they don't invent anything. >> the inventions are part of the global market. >> we invent. >> it is not just us. >> it is a free market country. >> what has sweden done since volvo? >> cash ma in means left for the person. there is no hostility toward market and there's hostility with under regulated markets. >> there are piles of regulation? >> they are oh not giving enough to people who need things. there's a great deal of discrimination against women. global life expectancy was 47 in 1950. tins it has gone up to 70.

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. >> the controversy is over >> the controversy is over injections into the earth that leaks out gas. >> it is called fracking. it might pollute my drinking water. they use dangerous chemicals they might spill them. it is banned in many states including this state, my stays. ann grew up in ireland where she was the beautiful left wing environmentalist. you must be against this dave

dangerous way of sucking gas out of the ground. >> it is marvelous. without energy life ceases to exist. we need more of it not less of it. >> what brought you around? >> the truth brought me around. i discovered a lot of environmentalis environmentalists who are scaring us tol death are finding this out. >> they take good water not filled with good stuff shoot it into the wells to pores out a gas. a tear finds its way into the lining poisonous paper am find a way into your lung and poise news vapors find in their gas. >> the fluid has carsyn genl.

coffee thaz this is everything. i know this is hard to accept. big doses in broccoli and coffee there are carcinogens. >> correct. >> we are scared of these chemicals? >> wer scared of everything. one of the poshest hotels says there's car sin no agains in here. it is a matter of the quantity of whatever the carcinogen is. it is minuscule the amount of chemicals. it's complete nonsense. >> anti fracking movie won an oscar nomination telling viewers saying your tap water may catch fire. but as i recorded before there were many places in america where no fracking is done. water still watches fire. this is a lake in alaska. this man lives in new york where

fracking is banned. >> why does the water catch fire? >> lucky people. check and see if your water is flammable. if it is lucky you. if your water is flammable you can make money off of it. >> why in america have people figured this out but not in another son krees. nest what -- >> this is an extraordinary country but something absolutely unique. individuals own minuterable rights. wouldn't she can so happy, dird. going to give you a coil check. when you have heyed droe carbon on your building it will come

from 30, 40, 50 years. >> it is a deed to my property. in ireland the government would own it. >> there is a queen that owns it. >> why should they bother. i am with them. why should they bother? they are not going to benefit. you see that no more so why he says how much they neen to him. >> put the slide up of the woman in africa. this is what it has been like forever. >> the washington liberated them more. this woman should be having a cocktail or finding a cure for cancer. instead of that slhe is doing this back breaking mientdless jobs. fib w anybody who traveled see women wasting their life where they could be finding a cure for a terrible disease or just having a nice time.

energy matters. that's the least of it. >> when they say more regulation let's be safe rather than sorry. the regulations already in existence are at state level to probe dit. i geese this idea that we would stop. >> it is an appalling thing to do. >> coming up more reasons why interest he's sheing southerned for the first time. . >> november, september. did you hear those?

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him. we have the technology. we have the capability to make the world's first bionic man, better, stronger, faster mentd>> fiction again and the actor lee majors did actual ladies and gentlemen. here he is more recently. >> most of you remember me as the $6 million man. they were enhanced bionic technology. the lee major bionic hearing aid. >> hearing aids. dr. kevin campbell grew up watching the $6 million man. says the world caught up to the tv show. really? >> absolutely. it is amazing the time we live in now is one of the most exciting times in history for technology and science and medicine. we are able to provide things for patients that wouldn't be true. >> one of the things is a 3-d

printer, how they can make a gun or other nonliving things, but the next thing is replacing organs. printing organs. >> it is the same technology instead of an ink-jet printer. there are other organic compounds and a computer generate the three-dimensional image. this has been accomplished already in children woborn witht a windpipe. three dim me thinknal tracheas implanted in these children. these children are doing as well now. we will be able to serve patients who normally may die waiting on a transplant list. >> which is about 18 people today most waiting for kidneys.

>> make forest they learned how to print new skin cells using 3-d printers. instead of different ki-- you he to have enough to him there would be skin dwrafts so then you have multiple wounds. i think plastic surgery and burn type medicine will not leap force. >> this woman does not expand beyond her elbow. it is an artificial alarm rand surprised him p ladies and gentlemen i would like to give you a do i nation.

wee always wanted give up. >> it was hir father's thinking. these artificial bulbs, keep getting better. >> they really do. the technology is amazing. now we can cloel those parts are thought just like when you think i want to move my arm it happens the way the surgeons did this is the servnerves in the shoulder l exist. they have the muscle groups that allow the sches russells to respond. it goes from the chest to the mechanical parts in the arm. there's a picture of folks holding the egg and not praeking it. it is wonderful for folks like this young woman whofdzable to receive this.

>> one last example, erickcek nolg keeps approving for diagnosis. i would holding a ordinary ifshg phone. the case allows me to press my fingers to get an ekg send it via e-mail and you can treat me? >> absolutely. i used it ott a flight in san francisco last week. there was a gentlemen in respiratory distress. he wasn't having a heart attack. i was able to communicate with the pilot. amazing technology that puts so much information at your finger tips. allows me to do better for that prasht because i have the data to use. >> you have it will be used for

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>> chris chang after the show quit his job k. he works for the nra he makes speeches about guns and gun culture. it would not have happened in the good old days. why? >> someone like me who is a gay asian guy. >> you are a two-fer. asians were left partially discriminated against. you had relatives locked up during world war ii. some of my tamlys. thanks are much better for american asians now you are being gay. on this show you didn't say what i -- >> they knew. they knew. the history channel never outed me bautz it never became an issue. that for me was a cool moment

where my own stereotypes were shattered. >> life has come a long way from 17 years ago when ellen degeneres said this on the sitcom. >> why can't i say the truth? i am 35 years old. i am still afraid to tell people. i am gay. (cheers) >> studio audience applauded but america did not. advertising agent reports chrysler, j.c. penney dropped commercials from her show. her ratings took a dive. the show was canceled. ellen was unemployed for several years and reportedly came close to bankruptcy. just 15 years later she is hired as j.c. penney's spokeswoman. hosted the adcademy awards twic. this is so quick. >> it has been amazing to see the tide shift in american culture and the change of

opinion that nowadays there is so much more support for day rights, same-sex marriage and equality. >> same-sex marriage is yet a different point and let's look at how quickly attitudes change there. found gay marriage opposed by 59 percent of americans. 10 years later supported by 59 percent. >> it has been amazing to see so many proud and gay americans like ellen and anderson cooper and neil patrick harris and michael sam being the first openly gay envelope player. one football player tweeted man, you got little kids looking at the draft. >> it is okay sewing

heterosexual couples>> let's rule from sexual oren gages wore fem. when she gabecame the first feme speaker of the house. >> it is a moment for which we have waited over 200 years. >> today we have broken the marble ceiling. >> great. but somehow just a few years later liberal woman are screaming about how terrible life is for women. >> too many women are shut out and silent. >> right up until now she had a reexisting medical condition. >> we are so far in equality in this industry. >> women are not making it at the top of any pro infection. >> they are not making it at the top of professions? you worked at silicone valley.

as we look at the chief operating officer of facebook and the mayor ceo of yahoo. things continue to change very quickly. this culture is still out there among women achieving woman? oo the whole victim technology to me is a choice to be made. when someone has anti gay what do i do with this information? is how do i translate that into something positive. >> asian americans and the leadership there are not many asian americans in ceo. >> there were other culture

factors that are affecting asian american's ability to rise through the things are different. little more>> we tend to forget how difficult it was recently. women weren't allowed to vote 40 years ago women couldn't get a credit card without her husband's permission. the good old days were not so good for women or blacks. when i was born black people couldn't legally marry a white person or attend the same schools or eat at the same lunch counter. now we have the black president. he is still my president even though he is wrong about most everything. >> this is the moment when the rise in the social ban to slow. >> if you have a business, you

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almost all fronts these are the good new days. tonight's show highlights why life should keep getting better except for one big problem. politicians. politicians who have the power to spend other people's money. they can destroy our future and they are on the road to doing that. started low less than 5 percent of the economy. here is world war i. here is world war ii. used to go down after wars but now even in peace time it only goes up. pretty soon we are up here. how are we going to pay for that? >> we can't. even if we troubled them or prip pelled them they couldn't even though politicians promised them. i made fun of media fear mongers it was probably unfair to

include sound bytes like these. >> we are talking about the destruction of society. >> everything comes to a grinding halt. programs lose funding, social security checks go unplayed employers can't meet payrolls. >> one day the system breaks. >> they were talking about our debt. that's a real problem unlike most of the others we talked about tonight. >> we are going broke. the response is not to cut anything. this includeless ex-con gres man once bragged he was responsible for allowing them to get back home as they put a $1,000 down payment. is he an outcast? no. now they avoided the head from the finance agency. this month he announced fanny and fred dee will have a few

were you dent rules they will guarantee the mortgage if you put down a small down payment. it creates what economists call moral hazards invite us to behave badly when they do they award us with tax payer money. our politicians are the biggest threat to our future. let's not add them to our note despite our irresponsible politicians life has gotten better. silicone valley invents things faster than government can crush them. google will inform us about most anything within seconds and it is free. it is free all around the world. piement in the poorest countries have more information than the rich used to have. oober and lift let us share our cars. facebook allows us to share all

kinds of things. so does e-mail. skype is free. it let's you chat with any one in the world. those students in brazil chat with old people in america. >> our students are returning home. >> hello. hello. >> students learn english and the elderly are left lonely. >> again it is all three. >> these innovations happen because they happened before politicians could crush them. they are part of what he calls permissionless innovation. we didn't have to get approval from washington to do the profiles great apps for apple. if we did they probably wouldn't happen. if they could go faster than

politicians and regulators. they would be the good new day. that's our show see you next week. starts right now. >> tonight on huckabee. >> we have a humanitarian crisis on the border. >> tens of thousands of immigrant children crossing in america. >> i don't put the blame on the president. >> who is to blame? >> and how does the u.s. stop the immigration crisis? and epa regulations and hanging farmers out to driveway. one farming family is fed up. ♪ that's enough. ♪ you can't take away anymore. >> and jessica lynch on the case in iraq. >> i hope we