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Down this economy with a sequester that will cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and uncertainty about our fiscal future and uncertainty created by manufactured crisis because we dont have the ability in washington right now to compromise. now the president put forward today not his ideal budget. he put forward a compromise offer that he had done given to speaker boehner and it included some very tough things, but it asked for sensible entitlement reforms that strengthen those core benefit progra...

Hundreds of thousands of jobs. and uncertainty about our fiscal future. and uncertainty created by manufactured crisis because we dont have the ability in washington right now to compromise. now, the president put forward today not his ideal budget. he put forward a compromise offer that he had done, given to speaker boehner, and it included some very tough things but it asked for sensible entitlement reforms that strengthen those core benefit programs. medicare, social security. it asks for rev...

Offer that he had done, given to speaker boehner, and it included some very tough things but it asked for sensible entitlement reforms that strengthen those core benefit programs. medicare, social security. it asks for revenue savings in the very way that speaker boehner had asked for it just months ago. not by raising rates more. by tax reform that would close loopholes and tax expenditures and apply it to deficit reduction. >> i think youre right. >> we can do this while we still invest in the...