to whether or not republicans in general compromise with democrats or the white house. is compromise acceptable where you come from? well, it depends on how you define it. for example i think we could compromise in the sense that i think we ned to sut federal spending cut federal spending. and to me the conservatives have often said, well we ll cut domestic spending but we won t cut anything out of military. some liberals who were honest on the idea of the debt said we ll cut military spending but we won t cut jon: bill: hang with us one moment. maybe we ll get him back. martha: that is one of the big issues here. you have a lot of folks saying they will cut defense spending and the department of education. a lot of things discussed on the campaign trail are pretty dramatic, and rand paul said they would have the guts and courage to go with these those things. bill: he says he s got a message
journal columnist who worked for an npr affiliate. in college. so you have experience. and now the taxpayer dollars they are getting. not a tremendous amount, around 2.2 percent of their operating budget. should it be cut off when we are trying to pinch pennies? there is more government money. affiliates, 5 percent of the money comes from state and local governments and the government money serves as leverage to get foundation other money, a good housekeeping seal of approval. funders feel good about this, it is endorsed by the government. senator demint and senator coburn calling for the money to be cut off. does it stand a chance of doing so? a republican congress in 1995 could not accomplish that? remember, we are borrowing 37 cents of each dollar. the debt is exploding. if we can t cut back npr, where
these same republicans turned a record surplus into a record deficit. when i walked in, wrapped in a nice bow was a $1.3 trillion deficit. sitting right there on my doorstep. a welcoming present. just the same year, they voted against a bipartisan fiscal commission that they themselves had proposed. once i decided i was for it, they were against it. and when you ask them what programs they would actually t cut, they don t have an answer. that s not fiscal responsibility, that s not a serious plan to govern.รง
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walls, one of my many bosses and in washington, karen finney. richard, i have to put this to you. romney says he will create 12 million jobs by cutting taxes across the board by 20% he s not going to cut taxes. hang on, which economists said cal cates to about $5 trillion but romney now says he won t cut taxes at 20% across the board and it won t accumulate $5 trillion in that sense. so is romney a presidential candidate or a ventriloquist? well, he s certainly a great debater with himself, right? because that would be a very interesting argument, the guy who promises tax cuts but says there are no tax cuts. a guy who says we shouldn t be having mission creep in libya but wants mission creep in syria. he s been on all sides of the