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Class. and then there is simpson/bowles, which i think is a total fraud, and we shouldnt be listening to people who have, number one, retirement security and health care security for the rest of their lives. theyre the wrong people to listen to. theyre doing a lot of grandstanding. but they shouldnt get much attention. more commentary coming on simpson/bowles in just a moment. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonights question. will the republicans allow the sequester to ...

>> michael grunwald, good to have you with us tonight. thanks ofor being on "the ed show." erskine bowles and allen simpson introduced a new simpson/bowles deficit reduction plan today, even though nobody asked them to do it. the new simpson/bowles is worse than the old one. there is only $600 billion in tax savings less than what they proposed before. now there are cuts to medicare, medicaid and social security benefits. the ratio of cuts to new tax revenue is three-to-one. who voted for that? ...

Quarter you had the biggest improvement in jobs in 30 years. and he continued to quietly push stimulus throughout the next couple of years while he had a democratic congress. and thats why we avoided the fates that you had in great britain and spain. since then -- >> well, isnt -- >> a stalemate. >> isnt that what simpson/bowles is throwing at us right now? what has pretty much taken place in europe. >> absolutely. >> could we stay out of a recession if we were to adapt simpson/bowles? >> well, ...

Deadlines all detonate the same explosion. they threaten to crash the government if they dont like the way its doing something. if they dont like who the american people have elected as republican. isnt what the republicans did in the old days? if they didnt like a government somewhere, guatemala, iran, chile, they just brought it down. guess what? republicans are now using the same tactic here at home. if they dont like who we have elected as president, they find some way to undermine the presi...

This country. and it is about the middle class. and then there is simpson/bowles, which i think is a total fraud, and we shouldnt be listening to people who have, number one, retirement security and health care security for the rest of their lives. theyre the wrong people to listen to. theyre doing a lot of grandstanding. but they shouldnt get much attention. more commentary coming on simpson/bowles in just a moment. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonights question. wil...

They say, well, there is no problem at all with the deficit, because there is. >> to me its about the priorities of our country. america is not broke. its our priorities that are broke. and its a measure of how out of whack the debate in this country is that the simpson/bowles 2.0 lopsidedly favoring spending cuts is treated as this mythical arbitrary center in washington inside the beltway. do elections matter? do what people have signaled as their priorities? we should be investing in job crea...

They threaten to crash the government if they dont like the way its doing something. if they dont like who the american people have elected as republican. isnt what the republicans did in the old days? if they didnt like a government somewhere, guatemala, iran, chile, they just brought it down. guess what? republicans are now using the same tactic here at home. if they dont like who we have elected as president, they find some way to undermine the president. whatever it takes to destroy it. we a...

And its a hoax because it wont work. >> president obama needs to hear from the public again. this is when people need to connect with their representatives and senators to make sure that the simpson/bowles doesnt even get into the equation. because thats not what we voted for in this country. were a center-left progressive country right now. and the time to move forward is right now and not allow the republican obstructionists to get in the way. jonathan alter, katrina vanden heuvel, great to ha...

Right now our problem is jobs, and there is no question cutting that sort of spending is going to hurt jobs. >> michael grunwald, good to have you with us tonight. thanks for being on "the ed show." erskine bowles and allen simpson introduced a new simpson/bowles deficit reduction plan today, even though nobody asked them to do it. the new simpson/bowles is worse than the old one. there is only $600 billion in tax savings less than what they proposed before. now there are cuts to medicare, medic...

Problem at all with the deficit, because there is. >> to me its about the priorities of our country. america is not broke. its our priorities that are broke. and its a measure of how out of whack the debate in this country is that the simpson/bowles 2.0 lopsidedly favoring spending cuts is treated as this mythical arbitrary center in washington inside the beltway. do elections matter? do what people have signaled as their priorities? we should be investing in job creation as the best means of de...