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Its going to get. its going to be the next big self-imposed crisis here. and i was on the lawrence odonnell show with alex wagner hosting and governor alex dean was making the case we should have gone over the fiscal cliff. his basic argument is its so hard to bring the defense budget to heal ever that this is this one-shot opportunity. heres a look at how the projected spending according to the congressional budget office looks. social security will rise from 5% to 5 president 5% of gdp. defens...

>> the trust fund getting worse. the number of applications doubled in the last ten years to more than $2.8 mall year in 2012. unlike previous president, mr. obama has done nothing to fix finances. >> president clinton talked about mend it, dont end it. to judge by the presidents remark there is nothing that needs mending. >> the president did take steps to make it easier for people to apply for disability. he has done nothing to help them pay bigger bills. in three year mrs. obama will face a p...

Quick enough and he got me off at the wrong side. >> 2.8 seconds after the gate opens, michael is thrown to the ground breaking a rib, but things quickly go from bad to worse. >> i saw him coming, rolled over, tried to get up to get some air and ended up getting more air than i bargained for. >> not content with just getting the rider off his back viking throws michael into the air. >> the throw in the air didnt hurt at all. he hooked me between my legs and on the other side of my ribs and he ju...

Among their family . to give you ence is of how quickly it is spreading wide. here is it a graphic. in the gingof december 2.8 percent patients had ili. influenza-like illnesses and that jumped 5 and half percent by the end of december . at the peak of flu season last year. 2.2 percent of the patients were going to the doctor for influenza like illnesses. fair warning . coming up. thank you so much. well look closer and everything that you need to know about this particular flu strain. we can do...

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Payroll tax. its collected under the auspices of medicare, but it doesnt spend any time in the medicare trust fund. it goes to fund subsidies in the federal exchanges. the other tax, medical device tax, 2.8%, gross receipts tax on medical devices. that means whether the company makes money or not, it is still taxed at that 2.8% rate. and then finally, there is the 3.8% unearned income tax. they will get hit with that on capital gains and dividends. so these are major changes in tax policy that c...

Theyre coming to some agreement. >> i didnt mean to cut you off there. you mentioned the payroll tax and we mentioned the payroll tax holiday that was supposed to be temporary. it appears as if thats going away as part of any plan. is that safe to say? >> i think that may very well be part of it. it hits the middle class, but the bottom line is that moneys supposed to be going to social security and were paying it by other means. so eventually weve got to come back to that. if you just did that,...

Tracking into the weekend suggests its beginning to look a lot like christmas 2007, says craig johnson of customer growth partners. he tells me sales have decelerated all through december. he now expects only 2.8% sales growth for the holiday. that is the slowest since the end of the recession, and they had a take on this weekend. >> in general people were a little bit flat, a little bit tepid, nervous because theres sti still. >> some are already starting the blame game. they say if this turns ...

Everybodys face. i dont think hell see the light of day. if he played here, rex ryan would look like a real -- yeah. okay. lets go to the markets. >> yes, that. this is before the bell. >> the stock market looks to be slightly positive for the open. a couple interesting data points. jobless claims ticked up 17,000 to 361,000. but the big number that might be talked about a fair amount today, final reading on third quarter gdp, 3.1%. over 3%. it was expected to be 2.7% or 2.8%. so thats a much st...

Part of the constitutional design for the senate. if are you going to stabbed in the way, you are going to make your case before the colleagues and the american people. that whole ethic -- that whole social contract is gone, and so you have this silent filibuster, as you mentioned, almost 400 times. its been used in the last six years. each one of those objections takes a week of the senates time, and so since theyre already 400 weeks in six years, you can start to see how this is completely par...