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In health care costs? >> theres so much fraud and waste its disgusting. one other thing, i see with my company and i think probably what happened here more than anything else is lobbyists got involved. if i want to buy health insurance and i have a great health insurance company for my people, i have wonderful health insurance and benefits. but for the people that work for me. if i want to go to different states to buy it and negotiate a better price for myself and maybe get even better benefits...

Days, were going to run out of the borrowing power to keep coming up with that 40 cents for every buck that uncle sam spends. shannon: five or six days. so why is capitol hill on vacation? congress is -- asking not in session. >> the weather is great, you want to get away from washington for a little bit! no, i think the way to look at this is theres a lot of flexibility in this deadline, and the secretary of the treasury, timothy geithner, in charge of getting the money and also in charge of fl...

>>trace: quickly, the paul 89, house passing the paul ryan budget plan. your thoughts? >>chris: well it is not going to pass congress. when it arrived at the democratically controlled senate it will be beat but it stakes out a position, a bargaining position, and, obviously, the obama plan, why necessity if you can call it a budget, but the plan he laid out this week stakes out another position and you have the gang of six, a bipartisan group in the senate that will be in the middle and i dont k...

Could be a strong bargaining position, rather than a place he will move right from. dean baker, its good to have you here tonight. thank you. >> thanks for having me on. debunktion junction coming up later in the show tonight. i can tell you from here, its a dozen zbi, please stay with us. [ doctor ] heres some health information for people over 50. maybe you dont think youre at risk for heart attack or stroke but if youve been diagnosed with p.a.d., or have pain or heaviness in your legs, i w...

You are sort of hard pressed to say are whats been the big explosion in spending here? this is what the republicans jump on, the reality was, there was an increased spending associated with the recession, unemployment benefits and programs like that because of the recession. there hasnt been this crazed rush of spending. there certainly are areas we could cut, and i would highlight the military budget. thats in the area, and president obama did propose some cuts, i would like to see more there. ...

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Majority of the majority. he is worried about his job more than the jobs of so many federal workers and people to run the country. he needs well north of half of his caucus. he can say, as he likes to say today, there is no daylight between him and the tea party. anything south of that looks bad for him. richard wolf makes the piece analogy, which would make boehner and the yasser arafat of tea party practices. the title that you get from been there when the thing starts, when the session starts...

Majority of the majority. he is worried about his job more than the jobs of so many federal workers and people to run the country. he needs well north of half of his caucus. he can say, as he likes to say today, there is no daylight between him and the tea party. anything south of that looks bad for him. richard wolf makes the piece analogy, which would make boehner and the yasser arafat of tea party practices. the title that you get from been there when the thing starts, when the session starts...

Pittance, relatively speaking so the frustration really is growing. jon: these proposals that you go back to 2008 spending levels, for instance, those are going nowhere, and we are just talking about a couple of years ago in terms of real time. >> reporter: well, right. and the central argument is this. many republicans are concerned that if this budget -- if this government shut down does happen on the 8th of april, that it would weaken their bargaining position going forward as they deal with ...