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Its not calculus. theres tough things that have to be done but a way of doing this that doesnt hurt middle class families, doesnt hurt our seniors, doesnt hurt families with disabled kids. allows us to continue to invest in the things that make us grow like basic research and education, helping young people afford going to college. as weve already heard from some republican commentators, a modest tax increase on the wealthy is not going to break their backs. theyll still be wealthy. and it will ...

>> yeah. but i thought romney was running on ryans program. >> romneys policy on federal spending is equally fuzzy. he promised not to cut defense spending. how you can you make those numbers work? if romney is elected then by his third year in office every single federal program that is not medicare, social security or defense will be cut. on average by 40%. that means medicaid, infrastructure, food safety, road safety, the postal service, basic research, foreign aid, housing,e iing subsidiesub...

>> and i thought romney was on ryans program. >> his spending is equally fuzzy. he promised to cut defense spending, more spending on medicare, social security. how can you make the numbers work? according to ezra klein, smart guy, if romney is elected by third year in office, every federal program thats not medicare, social security or defense will be cut, on average by 40%. that means medicaid, infrastructure, education, food safety, road safety, postal service, basic research, foreign aid, ho...

Safety, road safety, postal service, basic research, foreign aid, housing subsidy, census, pell grant, trademark office, fda, all has to be cut on average 40%. not even remotely plausible. the consequences would be catastrophic. a lot of republicans when they vote say theres nothing in the federal government for me, i dont care how much they cut it. >> thats not true. >> cuts that are significant to me, i am trying to give your politician a break. must be some reason why. >> what republicans gen...

Service, basic research, foreign aid, housing subsidy, census, pell grant, trademark office, fda, all has to be cut on average 40%. not even remotely plausible. the consequences would be catastrophic. a lot of republicans when they vote say theres nothing in the federal government for me, i dont care how much they cut it. >> thats not true. >> cuts that are significant to me, i am trying to give your politician a break. must be some reason why. >> what republicans generally argue is that the gov...

Insurance companies the $716 billion in subsidies and gimmees obama care took. talking about increasing defense spending, zero out cap gains and things that hit big corporations, dropping corporate tax. you do all of that, you put us more than 4 or 5 trillion in the hole. romney wont give you one thing he will do. >> you threw in some of the ryan stuff, zeroing out cap gains. thats a ryan idea. >> and i thought romney was on ryans program. >> his spending is equally fuzzy. he promised to cut def...

Existing resources the u.s. has not tapped. >> what i would do if i were president is take advantage of the energy resources we have and that we can find. im going to open lands for exploration. >> the industry loves it. >> there is a vast amount of oil on federal lands that we could develop. over 100 billion barrels. if we were to produce that over 30 years, it would be 10 million-barrel has day or what we import. >> what are we doing to address rising gas prices? >> here is how the plans compa...

The federal reserve bank of boston says the economy is essentially treading water right now and the fed may need to take more action when it meets again in september to goose this economy. that is what is overhanging this entire election is the state of the economy, but the president at some of these fundraisers is talking more about tax fairness than economic growth because they believe in the obama campaign and inside the white house that that is a better argument for this president, so last n...

And suggest we have to add extra weeks in order to be competitive with other countries. peter you dont look like you agree with that. >> i dont agree with that. first of all in the competitive of other countries many of the countries that store better than we do on the standardized tests if you think that should be the measure of education, actually require less hours of school than we do. on the issue that rick raises, which i think is a very important issue, the fact is we have a serious probl...

You -- by the way, the d.o.e. investigations, there are thousands and thousands of grants out there. they are investigating 300 of them. >> eric: lets talk about what this is. this is a congressional hearing -- >> bob: tell us what this is. >> eric: stay on the subject, shall we? this is congress and how they spend the money. $60 million of travel within the department itself with the contractors. several hundred million dollars is a gross understatement? >> dana: that is the scale, right? that ...