retraining for long term unemployed? the georgia plan sounds interesting that s something we are looking at an unemployment reform. temporary tax rebates like i said, i m all for letting people keep more of their own money. this particular idea was tried in the bush administration, early in the obama administration and hasn t worked. when you are taking temporary rebates and paying for them with permanent tax increases defeating. we don t want to go with ideas that have already proven to fail. we want to advance solutions that are proven to work these don t do that. we think business tax reforms are helpful he didn t put any ideas in the bill he sent us. chris: president obama has been going around the country over the last couple weeks. he says, if your party blocks his plan, he will blame the gop for the continued unemployment. let s look at the president. the president: it is time for the people you sent to washington to put country
now exists. i don t think anybody agrees it is sustainable as it now exists. he used ponzi scheme, i don t that i is going to hurt him that badly and he can correct his silly statement on afghanistan. it is more of a question when voters step back and look at him, do they think he s up to being president? i don t think any one of these issues is particularly damaging. i think in the debates, he s new to it, he hasn t been planning to run until a couple months ago. he has to show improvement over the next couple of debates. you would have to favor him in the current field. i still he has a slightly better chance than romney hard to see anyone else in the current field coming up. this still may not be the whole field. i think governor christie could get in. i ve given up on paul ryan. but i gotta think if you are christie, you think maybe i
spending cut we could get something done. we should hold our expectations down on the commit. there s so much spending that needs to be cut. we propose 6.2 trillion in cuts in our budget. clearly, democrats could work with us and get 1.5. chris: what do you think the chances are the country is headed for a double dip recession? economists tell me it is about 50/50. because of uncertainty. you ve got 219 new expensive regulations on the take, coming from the obama administration to the economy in year. a massive tax increase coming in 2013. now permanent tax of stimulus and this new proposal for more tax increases helps shutdown our economy. and then you have all these european problems. i do not think the president is doing what we need to grow this economy.
include 600 billion dollars in an automatic in automatic cuts to the pentagon. chris, the president proposed 13 trillion in new debt in his budget. clearly, we can cut 1.2 trillion. the president s planning on spending 46 trillion over the next 10 years. can t we cut 1.5 or 1.2 from that? that shouldn t be that tough. we see the super committee as an opportunity get another down payment on debt through spending cuts. where i thought we had a shot at bipartisanship was business tax reform. president says get rid of the loopholes. simple system that helps us compete. that s what i was hoping we could get. i thought the super committee might have been a good vehicle to do that. if we are going to do class warfare and try to get tax increases out of this, i don t think much can come of it. if we can get a 1.5 trillion
choice and more competition. they choose among competing plans just like in medicare advantage or the part d benefit. we have a strengthened program like the one in congress. we make medicare solvent and don t do it by restricting access to drugs, restricting access to senior care like doctors and hospitals. the problem is what the president has said he is going to do and what his new law does is puts 15 bureaucrats in charge of rationing prices to providers for current seniors. we are seeing more price controls and rationing, no plan to save it from bankruptcy. we preserve it for current seniors and have a new system that works like what we have in congress that prevents the program from going bankrupt in the first place. we think that is a better idea. i m glad he is actually wading into the discussion. now, let s talk about what ideas work the best. chris: let s turn to taxes and there is a lot to talk