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Entitlement program, medicare prescription drug, which was larded with corporate welfare and deregulated wall street. thats what caused the crisis here. i give the democrats a ton of credit for stepping up on medicare. i just dont think that mr. ryan or the republicans have any credibility. they want to end medicare, as they always have, and give the money and tax breaks to the rich and do no good for the deficit or debt. >> we can argue about what happened in the past. >> you have to give them ...

Country does not come from some nation overseas, it comes from our deficits. the congressional budget offices followed up and said what is driving our deficits is the cost of health care. we have to come to grips with the cost of health care. paul is right, we have to deal with the underlying issues driving this. ryan is forcing, just as a bipartisan budget commission came forward, with a $4 trillion plan, ryan comes forward with a multitrillion dollar plan. the white house has not come forward ...

Entitlements and other spending but were going to go after pentagon spending and get rid of the bush tax cuts and go back to where they were under bush and reagan. >> you need a president willing to lead, a president thats ll to put his plan on the table that both democrats and republicans can do so. we dont have a president like that. we have a president that follows. >> youd support raising taxes back to clinton level? >> no. id like to see democrats argue that. >> youd want them to argue it a...

Congress where they mandated a 5% across-the-board reduction in federal spending. they fenced the entitlement program so, that came into 10% reductions of budgets like even the dod budget that had already been scrubbed. i think you could put spending reductions across the board on government programs and ask them to come up with the money. and i think they can come up with the money. >> let me ask you also on the front page of the paper today, most papers, of course, whats going on with the mili...

When house budget chairman paul ryan will present the republicans proposal for spending in 2012. the thrust of the plan is to cut $4 trillion of government spending dramatically changing the way entitlement programs work. so what is an entitlement program, why would changing them be so controversial? carl, hi, good to see you. entitlement programs. what are we talking about and how is it going to impact folks? >> the best way to start is to define really simply what an entitlement program is. th...

Realistic proposals on what needs to be done and everybody on both sides of the aisle completely ignores it and they go on with business as usual. i agree we should be talking about the entitlement program. we arent. if were not going to talk about it lets get past and move on, not shut down the government and the program. >> i want to ask you, gerri, if we use the word radical, extreme arent you causing the debate because youre demonizing the other side. >> youre cutting off the debate and labe...

Return to. >> so the prescription benefit shouldnt have been offered without a way to pay for it. >> it cost a whole lot less than anybody thought but its part, no question part of the biggest problem we face, which isnt even these massive annual deficits were running, its the unaffordable promises we have made to, in what we call the entitlement program. >> lets talk about your record as governor of indiana. i want to put up a basic thing here on jobs. when you took office the unemployment rate...

Gregg: is the political wisdom on social security all wrong? my next guest says yes the entitlement program is considered to be the third rail of american politics. what should lawmakers do to tackle the problem? should they be afraid it? its all part of todays power play. chris stirewalt is fox news digital politics editor. good to see you. i read your terrific column. i think youre absolutely right that the cw, conventional whichm on this is all wrong. it cannot be toxic if you ask the right q...

Spending that can be done. 8.9 is too high for unemployment. when you look at the numbers, you realize its the labor participation rate thats actually decreased. what that means is that there is a lot of americans that arent being counted who simply stopped looking for work. the reason that you have to get this debt and deficit under control is to improve our bond market -- >> rick: lets talk about it. >> yeah. and create -- >> rick: who is talking about it? who is going to do that? >> republica...

Congressman, you are in the buying the savings? you think they are half what she is saying? >>guest: well, i was sitting in front of another member when she made that remark and she said "both," that is telling. you cannot have it both ways. you can nod at to the trust fund and take the money at the same time and create a whole new entitlement program called "papa care." that is my latest pronunciation of obamacare, but, clearly, their own actuary last year said that, no, you are double counting...