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Raise half a trillion in taxes, youre going to cut half a trillion from medicare, and you basically talk about how youre saving money. its sort of like the woman that goes out and buys $15,000 worth of dresses on sale and comes home and says, oh, i could have had $20,000. i actually saved $5,000. this is a big entitlement program. we have no idea how much its going to cost long term. we do know, though, medicare recipients today are going to get much less and theres 72 million baby boomers who a...

The brand new entitlement program and the american people know were broke and the last thing we need to do is add more debt on the back of you our kids and grandkids. >> let me say one thing about the "fix it" bill and are trying to get their members to vote on it based on a second "fix it" bill and if that bill somehow made it out of the senate and if i were the house i wouldnt depend on the senate to solve the problem, it doesnt solve the problem, theyll have voted for the kick back, the purch...

Moments ago, when talking to bill the argument went past substance and now is about the presidency and the success of the obama presidency and that is where hes ashes peeling to people but if the cbo comes under and is troublesome, it could cause problems. is this a troublesome number. >> it is a good number, under a trillion dollars, roughly the same top line number on the senate bill before but the key will be in the details, are they double counting the social security pay payroll tax they so...

Largest tax increase in u.s. history. >> its a huge entitlement program. >> he talks about faxing fillings, taxing. >> if they get to november and people dont think the world has fallen around them, the real price of this isnt going to be felt during this presidency anyway. 2018 well start getting these taxes? if they actually have the tax hike they need to -- >> it sounds like -- >> no, there will be some benefits that come in right away. that will be a net plus to the democrats. >> joe, i spok...

>> if there is money to be saved in medicare, and i believe it is, it ought to be returned to the medicare program to extend the life of the program. not being used to start a new entitlement program. >> they look like they have the numbers to pass this, the democrats? >> really. they have 40 more democrats in the house than republicans. they have 59 -- 19 more democrats in the senate, or 18 than they have republicans. and they can pass this all on their own. the only bipartisanship that is invo...

Positioning themselves as a champion of medicare. and you dont like bush giving a huge entitlement program and prescription drugs and all the rest of it. so i think theyre counter to the official conservatism of the gop. >> i wonder what happens to -- there is a libertarian party in this country. >> right. >> and i wonder what happens to them and the people who have actually been the very small, sort of, rump of the conservative movement who really have been libertarian always if theyre able to ...

Money on medicare, then you dont like the republican party in washington thats now positioning themselves as a champion of medicare. and you dont like bush giving a huge entitlement program and prescription drugs and all the rest of it. so i think theyre counter to the official conservatism of the gop. >> i wonder what happens to -- there is a libertarian party in this country. >> right. >> and i wonder what happens to them and the people who have actually been the very small, sort of, rump of t...

Trillion dollars thats not the worst entitlement program. the worst is a political class that think they have a credit card that just continue to run up these deficits. federal spending, the size of the deficit and the debt. >> thats what barack obama has done, i think is really become the poster child for the debt. thats what hes done in my opinion, to energize the tea party movement and the conservative movement within this country. and why theres tremendous candidates, why theres a kristi, sc...

$1 trillion the worst entitlement program is a political class that think they have a credit card that continues to run up the deaf silts. its federal spending and the size of the deficits. >> thats what barack owe barometer ma has done is become the poster child for the debt. thats what he has done in my opinion to ingu ener guys the t party movement and why theres a christie where theres a scott brown, why theres these folks around the country getting el lekt -- elected that normally dont. >> ...

Jane just want to read for our viewers what robert gibbs tweeted yesterday online, quote, if we dont act, family health care coverage will go from 13,000 per year to 24,000 by the year 2020. how do you explain to constituents that we may end up doing nothing about this on a problem thats spiraling out of control? >> i think people want something done, but they dont want this massive expansion of government, washington, d.c. creating this new entitlement program with lots of higher taxes, lots of...