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In the emergency room and get these insane bills and its kind of inefficient and deadly for people at every level. what that possibly has to do with flaws in health care reform, health care reform will address that and ive not heard any argument that it exacerbates that. >> clearly this is a major problem. >> by 2024, so, were adding in recently -- >> no, not social security. medicare, medicare absolutely by 2024 is going to have a significant financial strain, partly because, largely because of...

During this long decade of war. we fought more war with a smaller and smaller percentage of the population taking part. theres no draft and military service is increasingly rare in elite circles in a 2010 speech at duke, secretary of defense spoke about this divide. >> whatever their found sentiments for men and women in uniform, for most americans, the wars remain an abstraction. a distant and unpleasant series of news items that do not affect them personally. >> so while the fallen exist as pe...

Spontaneous, thats the famous line where he basically says, i am going to raise the rate, even if it decreases the amount of revenue. this is insane. the purpose of taxation is to raise rev new and to pay for stuff that the government has to do. thats the only reason that the government swipes your money. he is saying i will raise the rates even if it decreases the amount because of this abstraction i have, which means i want to take the money from the rich and distribute it elsewhere and think ...

Spontaneous, thats the famous line where he basically says, i am going to raise the rate, even if it decreases the amount of revenue. this is insane. the purpose of taxation is to raise rev new and to pay for stuff that the government has to do. thats the only reason that the government swipes your money. he is saying i will raise the rates even if it decreases the amount because of this abstraction i have, which means i want to take the money from the rich and distribute it elsewhere and think ...

>> the best part of the romney, the ryan budget is the notion that by 2050, by mid currentry, nonmilitary discretionary spending would be zero. basically the government is doing nothing. >> even talking about discretionary spending, thats budget talk, thats washington talk. and the problem that obama is going to have, in stigmatizing the ryan budget and wringing it around mitt romneys neck is to take an abstraction and make it concrete. >> but that abstraction, getting rid of medicare, thats not...

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As they seek re-election. thats a thought too. i dont think its just for show. its to get it done. the way i look at it. >> a couple things. first of all as a native of pittsburgh, there are 900 bridges about 500 of which need repair, im all for it. number one. number two, barack obama as john indicated probably should have spent for time on the chicago board of aldermen than at the university of chicago, that way he would have understood the specifics of this kind of politics as opposed to the ...

This is not an abstraction. if the united states government for the first time cannot pay its bills, if it defaults, then the consequences for the u.s. economy will be significant. and unpredictable. and that is not a good thing. >> the president insisted that a legislative deal to raise the debt ceiling is necessary by august 2nd and legislation should include both spending cuts and tax revenue increases. he explained that he does not mean raising income tax rates. instead, he wants to reduce o...