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It does seem to be -- it is more sensitive. as much as everyone wants to talk about taxes and ending in washington, it seems to be more sensitive towards the economy. so if theres job growth and economic growth, well, then, all of a sudden revenues into the government are going to go up, so is basically this deficit problem part of the economic problem? >> the near-term deficit problem is very much an economic problem. they go hand in hand. because last year revenues were at their lowest level s...

Its gotten so difficult. and the president is going to have to be consistent and clear. he cant spend a big part of his state of the union talking about more spending programs and then say that were going to, weve got a serious deficit problem. weve just got to start now. jon: mitch mcconnell can, your leader in the senate, was on television yesterday urging the president to accomplish everything through tax cuts. is that probable given this economic environment? >> what we know is tax cuts do a...

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Either side of the aisle that dont believe in infrastructure. and i dont know a lot of people on either side of the aisle that dont believe in educating the next generation. >> but theres a deficit problem and we cant afford to spend more money. >> if you look at where we are today, were not where we were in 2011. we have actually worked together. its been a messy process, but weve worked together and reduced the deficit considerably. in the budget control act, we reduced the deficit on ae discr...

Security checks and medicare, were still going to have a deficit problem in 25 years. and its not cutting the problems that need to be addressed that were going to take payments in 10, 20, 30 years. the next month, thats not the real problem. >> brenda: toby, last word. >> entitlement is a big issue and people doesnt have the guts to do it. 85 billion, great, thats a start. >> brenda: thanks, guys. from scare tactics to a real scare, find out what seven in ten consumers are doing right now thats...

Lives. this is important for families and the economy. we are helping people stay healthy longer and one of the reasons we have a deficit problem is controlling health care costs. these are controlling some of the costs we care about. >> going back to steves point and the reality of this, how do you convince democrats to both protect the programs that you are talking about and not worry so much about entitlement reform or sort of stick to their idea of entitlement without giving one or the other...

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