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Wisconsin. marine one couldnt play. so the presidential motorcade, there it is, stuck in storm traffic. nobody immune from this. rick leventhal was saying the northeast airports shut down. its caused big time delays at chicago ohare, san francisco, l.a.x., even in atlanta. so this storm, yes, focused on the east, but impacting the country. martha: secret service doesnt like that situation when you are with the president and stuck in traffic. they dont usually find themselves in that. trace, than...

By, pay into the system, and realize you wont get it. >> wait for the crisis. remember when dan rostenkowski tried to put forth a bill in 1989, people chased them through the parking lot. martha: thats where were headed, i think. thank you for weighing in. >> thanks, martha. martha: we have to figure it out, folks. log on to foxnews.com, answer todays you decide question. which department of the federal government do you think is the most bloated or wasteful? rich just said everybody agreed on c...

Remind us how we got start with this in the first place, catherine. >> reporter: i think people have forgotten the atmosphere in 01 and 02. people in washington and among the bush administration really felt that the other shoe was going to drop, another operation or attack on the united states was in the pipeline. when we look back on this system, certainly when it was created, in that time period, the intent on a national level, we can see now with that nine or 10 years of hindsight and be crit...

Imminent and elevated. were going to hear about intelligence information when the red lights are blinking here in washington at homeland security. i think when you look at the administrations pattern, when there is an event, theres usually a news conference. its not always made things clear. when you look at the underwear bombing, the young man that wore the explosives in his underwear and tried to bring down that flight over detroit on christmas day, 2009, homeland security said at the time tha...

As a prevention. >> there is a lot of fear going on so there are doctors who right at the end of the year drop medicare. but you also look at the cant system we had. those people cant keep their doctor. if you go back to insurance companies running it, they are not charities. they are for profit. who do you want -- we have done better when we had tax-based systems. in terms of providing care. and this actuary did not give any credence to an underval eud, some of the changes in this reform that w...

Something out. why are we closer to that now than before? why is this problem getting worse now? >> reporter: $1.4 trillion worth of deficit this year -- that was a shock to the system. it wasnt widely expected. it was so much more than the deficit forecast a couple months ago. it was a shock to the system. theres a realization that were borrowing more and more and more. were spending more and more and more. that deficit is expanding. it seems like its out of control. thats why it seems like wer...