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Bill: i have been to that area and there are so many tough memories. he says hes not sure how he feels. martha: he says he felt like a piece of him was back. its been a hard thing for him. i dont think anything happens accidentally in life. good moment. bill: there are flood warnings for the desert? well tell you about the rushing waters going through the mojave. plus remember this? >> everybody in cleveland. obama gave us a phone. i can do more. martha: what more can i say? free phones. courtes...

Out mathematically if so many people are getting subsidies? >> thats part of the problem, greta, when you add that many subsidies into the equation. a new entitlement program, these programs become difficult to stop once they are implemented. thats why we need to stop these because we dont have the money. we need to stop them before they open, before the process starts. our last chance to defund the program before it kicks in january 1st is in connection with the continuing resolution. weve got ...

Not like hispanics and blacks are going to dplok to the republican party. this is part of a longer-term proposition. >> it removes -- >> policy platform. >> remember, alex, the 2014 electorate is not the 2012 electorate, thats a given. however, given the pace of demographic change in the country, the mid ferm electorate is not the same as the mid-term electorate was four years ago or eight years ago. theres the possibility of some pressure being brought to bear on republicans running next year. ...

Reinstated she gets all of her back pay plus interest. >> in 20120.12% of federal employees were fired. >> its more likely you die than get fired. >> the president could demand her resignation. >> his political employee did demand it. he called her and and said we want you to resign. she said no, i want my paycheck. bill: its one thing to say no but to the president? >> thats how powerful federal workers are. martha: there has been agreeing controversy over food stamps. some states like florida ...

New entitlement program -- >> im quite worried that your medical records now will be evaluated by the irs that seems to have the ability and seems to have the penchant to use political -- political persuasion. >> if the federal government is being made to behave as if it is an arm of a political partisan apparatus, we are losing the constraints that the constitution is meant to put on our government. >> thats a legitimate question. are these people that are ready, you know, the cheetahs, if you ...

New entitlement program -- >> im quite worried that your medical records now will be evaluated by the irs that seems to have the ability and seems to have the penchant to use political -- political persuasion. >> if the federal government is being made to behave as if it is an arm of a political partisan apparatus, we are losing the constraints that the constitution is meant to put on our government. >> thats a legitimate question. are these people that are ready, you know, the cheetahs, if you ...

Opportunity. >> would it be -- >> would it be positive or negative if we didnt have those 12 million illegal immigrants? >> gdp would be smaller. >> okay. >> norquist also questioned claims on the cost of reform. >> you take those numbers that heritage puts out on entitlement, its an argument against having children. i mean, children tend to be much younger than immigrants. their english is much more limited. they dont work very often. and theyre going to get a lot more out of the entitlement pr...

People who -- there was no legal opportunity. >> would it be -- >> would it be positive or negative if we didnt have those 12 million illegal immigrants? >> gdp would be smaller. >> okay. >> norquist also questioned claims on the cost of reform. >> you take those numbers that heritage puts out on entitlement, its an argument against having children. i mean, children tend to be much younger than immigrants. their english is much more limited. they dont work very often. and theyre going to get a l...

Social security. it is an olive branch because for the president to even talk about increasing social security at a slower rate is a major change from any democrat president before. and i think that is very constructive and i think it is going to become the bipartisan template to get anything done on the issue of social security going forward and he has angered a lot of liberal democrats by proposing it. the fundamental problem in the presidents budget is it still taxes too much. it spends too m...

Still looking at retirement age on medicare and median age on medicare is a entitlement program. it has more work to do it seems to me to get the right to come around. >> has the meter moved at all in the conversation? >> david outlined it correctly. the republicans appreciate what the president has put into writing what he is talking about in private meetings so that positive step but the balance of revenue he is requesting versus structural change, they dont think its enough. but its important...