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Is a tendency in washington to look at one piece of whats happened, and we have to look at the entirety of it. if you go back and you look, part of the spending cuts we agreed on them, because any budget agreement was going to reduce spending in domestic and defense programs. part of the deficit reduction was from the tax bill that passed at the beginning of this year that raised the top tax rates and repealed the bush tax cuts. the last part of the savings is coming from these automatic across-...

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That word was sequester. it would cut $100 billion from the budget next year, half from domestic programs and half from defense programs. and now as the deadline draws close, experts are look at these cuts from a national security standpoint and warning one final time about their impact on the safety of our service members. >> it is going to affect the operational force that is deployed in terms of its you ability to maintain its equipment and get repair parts. that force is deployed around the ...

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Boehners house let me point out has not passed a single job creation bill or measure since hes had the power. now, nancy pelosi got health care done. she had the gavel and got it done. boehner wants to play golf, and this guys had the gavel in his hand for six months. where the hell are the jobs? i did hear him talking about that. its a little soft out there, although we are adding jobs. just think if the republicans were honest brokers? do you think wed be a little bit better off? this is all a...

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Youre saying. no one wants taxes to go up at the end of the year. is it more important to boost the economy in the short-term or to take steps to reduce deficit in long-term because the deal that the president has made with republicans may not do anything or much to reduce the deficit in the long-term. >> the number one issue to the american people, myself, you, everyone watching this show right now is jobs. how do we get 15 million people without jobs back into the workforce. thats got to be pr...

Spending, medicare, medicare, social security and interest on the debt. while the president has proposed and i would seriously consider supporting a freeze on nondiscretionary spending for three years, i have also identifieded on my website a series of reductions i would support. some are in agriculture price supports, some are in federal office space or hiring and several are in the defense programs. defense acquisitions that the defense department says they dont need, the second engiven for th...

People tend to forget. in terms of looking at defense spending, everything is on the table. reviewing all our defense programs. under george bush, secretary don rumsfeld did try to change the nature of our spending and nature of our forces, more small tactical things. not the large standing armies you saw with world war ii. everybody across the board or at this panel, anyway, can agree we want to cut out waste, fraud and abuse and want effective military. >> we talk about cutting out waste, frau...