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Smarter. over the next decade the cbo forecast the discretionary spending will shrink to 29% of the budget and mandatory to 71 and the sequester is the first. this 85 billion dollars is the first of 1.2 trillion dollars in cuts that are supposed to take place over the next decade and were increasingly cutting them out of the part of the budget that gets voted upon the discretionary part not out of the mandatory put on autopilot and you know, thats just, making it more and more difficult for us t...

Played for the fool here. >> i think the sequester happens and it will be in some ways a yawn because the his tree histrionics coming from the president, the meat standards, is anyone going to call his bluff. >> the things you hear about the skwequester causing recession. >> unless the administration wants them to happen. >> there is no real cut below a baseline of zero, there just isnt, yet, here they come. >> there will be jobs on the line if the sequester take place. >> thousands of teachers,...

After decade. what i say is good leadership would be putting-- wouldnt be putting the policemen behind you and 95% of them paid by local taxes. if we have good leadership in the country weve known the sequester is coming for a year and why didnt we have a freeze where we didnt replace any federal workers, na would have saved 6 billion over the year weve been waiting for the sequester. >> greta: do you have any opposition to the suggestion we go into sequestration and allow the obama administrati...

And the large bulk larger than foreign aid would be paying federal workers the same as you pay private workers, if you brought that into parity, youd save nearly the entire amount that you need for the sequester. >> well, what then to understand this, in all of the discussion about sequestration and where to cut and where not to cut, certain things i dont understand. for instance, the department of labor says that between july 2011, and june 2012, that 4.9 billion in improper unemployment benefi...

Process, yes, youre right. we cut 85 billion dollars this year and no guarantee that people in future years are going to follow through with it. especially as long as this president is in office. remember, this was his idea. he thought it was a great idea. and now, he says its brutal and arbitrary and wants it revoked. he once threatened to veto any bill that came to him that tried to stop or overturn this sequester, but this is the irony, republicans would be smart to give the president the fle...

And the large bulk larger than foreign aid would be paying federal workers the same as you pay private workers, if you brought that into parity, youd save nearly the entire amount that you need for the sequester. >> well, what then to understand this, in all of the discussion about sequestration and where to cut and where not to cut, certain things i dont understand. for instance, the department s july 2011, and june 2012, that 4.9 billion in improper unemployment benefits remain, unemployment f...

Airport security will see cutbacks. >> it just makes me ashamed to have our common sense and intelligence insulted the way its being. it just makes me ashamed. >> what we know with unfortunate certainty is that the impact of sequester would be negative on the economy. >> we just keep spending more money, would he create more dependency. we get more and more irresponsible, one crisis to the next, all of them manufactured, except for the real crisis, which nobody ever addresses and that is we cant...

Cutting that program before we cut other things that are more important. so the republicans have a 1-2 punch. give the president flexibility so the cabinet secretaries can pick and choose, and takes something less important out of the accounts and keep the important parts of the budget into act and oversight to blow the whistle on any phony money kind of pr gimmicks that the cabinet officials or try to blame them for it. >> greta: a picture if you look at it the guy in the bathtub, he didnt have...

Cutting that program before we cut other things that are more important. so the republicans have a 1-2 punch. give the president flexibility so the cabinet secretaries can pick and choose, and takes something less important out of the accounts and keep the important parts of the budget into act and oversight to blow the whistle on any phony money kind of pr gimmicks that the cabinet officials or try to blame them for it. >> greta: a picture if you look at it the guy in the bathtub, he didnt have...

Would stand up and say the ridiculousless. explain that. >> weve said all along the sequester is a cut in the rate of increase and even in one year where a blip goes down in spending departments. there are ways to do this without losing any jobs and for example, not rehiring people. when federal workers retire, you know, if you dont hire new workers to replace them, that saves about 6 billion a year. if you were to pay federal employees about the same level you pay private employees, that saves ...