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Will write that budget. it it will come out in the next few weeks to a couple of months under the budget timetable under the budget act. but hes writing that budget. we only have one president. one president and he is not leading, and instead, now, he didnt out of fairness to him put the nation on the road to bankruptcy but hes pressing on the accelerator and showing no signs of turning back. everyone knows small businesses, large businesses, that all of this great debt is going to end up in gre...

Willing to address how to slow, that they can shift it all around and can have every commission they want to have. senator simpson and erskine made some commendable things, some things i dont agree with, but hopefully they will take this and somebody will run with some of the things in here. social security is nowhere near, nowhere near a problem. people put social security and medicare or what i would call health care costs in the same breath. its not even close. i believe rising health care co...

Their feeling is, let the voters see what the republican cuts really mean. and the republican voters out there, not the tea partiers necessarily but the independents who voted republican and the republicans, when they see what those cuts mean, theyre going to say hmm, maybe we cant just do it from discretionary. maybe we actually ought to take a look at doing things like say raising the retirement age for social security. so theyre saying all in due time first things first. thats their spin. >> ...

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Budget, we do take $400 billion over the next ten years out of the portion of the budget youre describing which is annual discretionary spending. that would bring spending in that category down to the level it hasnt been at since the eisenhower administration, but we also take on defense. we cut $78 billion from the defense programs as they were outlined just a year ago, and we have savings in mandatory programs where in order to pay for medicare we have $62 billion in savings in health programs...

Is there anything that you would object to in their current spending package, including the elimination of americorps, for example, propose eliminating pbs, anything the president objects to? >> i dont want to pre-judge the outcome either in the house or the senate of what they are doing. were obviously going to need to work together and find the things we can agree on. there will be things we dont agree on. i think we have to work through that. the challenge is going to be have a balanced appro...

Simpson is right. unless you deal with medicare and medicaid, social security and defense, youre not going to get there in terms of trimming this and getting the nations finances under control. >> privately, david, white house administration official would acknowledge we do need to have an dut conversation. are they abdicating the responsibility to lead right now on this issue? >> there is a powerful argumenting inning that -- on the side of where is the leadership. we are accustomed to presiden...