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Public is we just ran on gutting medicare, and everything im saying tonight when you look at the details in the approach to our budget and the fiscal health is about under cutting programs, and then telling us your parents were on medicare. that doesnt do anything for us. everybody knows unless your parents are rich, when theyre old they will probably use medicare. >> the real speech started beforehand, regarding the "violence against women act." you can cast those votes, probably more well-orie...

Democrats, but rallying the people who say lets get on with it, lets try to balance the budget, and the difficulty we have here now is the republicans are just talking about cutting programs, and they have targeted social security, medicaid, and medicare, and the president is saying we have to reform these systems, but we still need more revenue, and this is a worry that they just refuse to discuss. i dont see how you can ignore revenues if you talk about a budget. >> sir, if you will, we look a...

Entitlements he would actually reduce? no. what weve got to do is both of us have got to get out of our comfort zone, both sides, and weve got to come together and make the tough decisions it takes to bring down this deficit. we believe it can be done. i think the american people want it done. and nows the time to do it. >> let me ask you specifically about medicare, and ill start with you, mr. bowles, and then get senator simpsons reaction. the president again, when i asked him specifically wha...

Entitlements he would actually reduce? no. what weve got to do is both of us have got to get out of our comfort zone, both sides, and weve got to come together and make the tough decisions it takes to bring down this deficit. we believe it can be done. i think the american people want it done. and nows the time to do it. >> let me ask you specifically about medicare, and ill start with you, mr. bowles, and then get senator simpsons reaction. the president again, when i asked him specifically wha...

You are not only going to cut your way to prosperity. one of the fallacies that has been promoted is this notion that deficit reduction is only a matter of cutting programs that are really important to seniors, students, and so forth. that has to be part of the mix. but what i ran on, and what the american people elected me to do, was to put forward a balanced approach. to make sure that there are shared sacrifices. >> to both of you, mr. bowles, first, what would you call on president to do on ...

Notion that deficit reduction is only a matter of cutting programs that are really important to seniors, students, and so forth. that has to be part of the mix. but what i ran on, and what the american people elected me to do, was to put forward a balanced approach. to make sure that there are shared sacrifices. that everybody is doing a little bit more. and it is very difficult for me to say to a senior citizen, or a student, or a mom with a disabled kid, you are going to have to do with less. ...

One of the fallacies, i think that has been promoted, is this notion that deficit reduction is only a matter of cutting programs that are really important to seniors, students, and so forth. that has to be part of the mix. but what i ran on, and what the american people elected me to do, was to put forward a balanced approach. to make sure that there are shared sacrifices. that everybody is doing a little bit more. and it is very difficult for me to say to a senior citizen, or a student, or a mo...

One of the fallacies, i think, that has been promoted is this notion that deficit reduction is only a matter of cutting programs that are really important to seniors, students and so forth. that has to be part of the mix. but what i ran on and what the american people elected me to do was to put forward a balanced approach. to make sure that theres shared sacrifice, that everybody is doing a little bit more. and it is very difficult for me to say to a senior citizen or a student or a mom with a ...

Grow. those are the things that im not willing to do. and so -- >> did you commit to that first year of your second term, getting significant reform done. telling congress weve got to do it. >> david, i want to be very clear, you are not only going to cut your way to prosperity. one of the fallacies, i think that has been promoted, is this notion that deficit reduction is only a matter of cutting programs that are really important to seniors, students, and so forth. that has to be part of the mi...

Welcome back to "hardball." for weeks mitt romney has faced criticism for running a campaign short on details. he lays out his goals but doesnt explain the dirty details of what it would take to achieve them. the wall street journal page seemed to speak for many when it said there were political risks associated with his attempt to explain the economic moment and perhaps his own policies. he has a tax plan that gives the wealthiest americans big cuts. it would be tax increases for the middle cla...