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Party in the second bush term, a lot of it was the war in iraq and afghanistan. we spent an enormous amount of money. big entitlement growth with medicare, bush doing that legislation with the democrats. we have to be careful that we do not become deficit doves. mike pence was known as a deficit hawk and it is great to do all these programs, we have to fix these bridges and so forth but there has to be meaningful cuts. not just rely on future growth in order to get some of this done. i have some...

Happened to the republican party in 2006, sean. we had a big spending republican party in the second bush term, a lot of it was the war in iraq and afghanistan. we spent an enormous amount of money. big entitlement growth with medicare, bush doing that legislation with the democrats. we have to be careful that we do not become deficit doves. mike pence was known as a deficit hawk and it is great to do all these programs, we have to fix these bridges and so forth but there has to be meaningful cu...

>> dashing spending when you still have depressed economy is really destructive. its probably even counterproductive even in purely fiscal terms. we should be sustaining government spending until we have a stronger economic recovery. >> this is not a hard call. as long as we have 4 million people who have been unemployed for more than a year, this is not a time to be worrying about reducing the budget deficit. give me something that looks more like a normal employment situation and ill become a ...

Believe barack obama is not dealing with it. this is what republicans are capitalizing on. but even if you were to cut discretionary spending a little smidgen, its only one-eighth of the budget. you have the big problem of entitlement programs, social security, medicare. nobody is out there yet. theyve got a commission working on it but i dont hear republicans republicans saying, okay, were serious about cutting this deficit. lets see how we are going to do it. instead, they are squabbling over ...