guarantee, anything like what they ve proposed in their budget. how important to your conversations what s going on inside that debt room is the report in the wall street journal today that aarp is sort of lifting its long-time objections to even touching social security. well, with respect to social security, both sides, republicans an democrats, have said that s an issue we need to take outside the context of the deficit reduction talks. you re not having these talks on that. and be part of a discussion on strengthening social security. that s not part of the current republican budget, wasn t a part of our budget. so we ve said, just like tip o neill and ronald reagan did it, that should be done that way. although i would say that one of the members of the house republican leadership just introduced a bill that would privatize social security just like they want to privatize medicare. they ve now got bills into both privatized medicare and social security. let s talk abou
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later today, the hot ipo seeking to raise millions will be china s top online dating site. with the u.s. expected to hit the deficit limit within weeks from now, the time for lawmakers to come to an agreement on the issue is quickly running out. so what is holding up the deficit reduction talks on capitol hill? a democrat on the house budget committee representative chris van hollen explained yesterday on the last word. we ve been looking for the areas of common ground. but it s, of course, going to get a lot more difficult when we begin engaging on the more controversial issues. and you put your finger on the issue in the lead in here which is you can t be serious about deficit reduction and at the same time say you refuse to get rid of subsidies for the big oil companies. that just doesn t compute. and that s what we heard from the speaker the other day in new york with a very serious face saying, yes, i want to reduce the deficit. and on the other hand, saying, well, let s jus