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But when i mention putting more revenue on the table, i put one condition on it. i want the other side to do something, too. reform entitlements like at this pointiponeill did to reform sol security. its going to swamp us in the future and the program will go bankrupt. why would you just raise revenue and not deal with what got us into $16 trillion in debt to begin with, and that is entitlements programs that are unsustainable. i expect my party to do something hard and uncomfortable only if the...

R&d research, transportation, the military. >> the justice department, the department of agriculture, all that stuff. so whats happening is the entitlements programs are gradually squeezing that stuff out. >> so jeffrey, you guys looked at the same budget and came away with two very different conclusions. can you help -- help bring these two -- >> is there anything that you counter with here? >> the discretionary part of the budget that is going down. its worrisome because we need that to be a c...

My choice? we are our own worst enemy. >>guest: absolutely absurd. >> it is true. >> they have never put us on the plantation with entitlements. entitlements were used to help raise all boats up, white folks fled from the inner cities and white folks took the tax base and the jobs. we have never ben wedded to entitlements programs. white folks decimated the community. >>alisyn: and now the unemployment problem. >>guest: racism is the problem, sir. racism has always been the problem. >>alisyn: an...

Popcorn and friends around for that. both are simultaneously attacking each other over entitlements programs, probably the most important issue on the table for floridas booming retirement population. welcome everybody. brand new hour of "americas newsroom." im martha maccallum. bill: im bill hemmer. insists romney, that he has a plan to reform it by raising the retirement age for all americans and reducing benefits for wealthier americans. martha: texas governor says it should be run by the sta...

Alienation of his base to do it but, it would be a major, major accomplishment and it would have a lot to say about winning the future. >> we all remember what happened to george bush. bush 43, when he tried to take on social security reform in his second term. got shot down. we just heard from senator sessions saying hey, president obama is essentially not touching some of these big entitlements programs, daring republicans to do it and letting them be the fall guy for the voter anger that resu...

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Side, is the left not giving the president permission to do what he needs to do, including compromise and tackling these entitlements programs? >> well i think theres very little public sentiment. if you just noted, ali, for cuts to social security and medicare. and particularly on the democratic side. these are programs that the democrats originated and have always been identified with. and many of us on the progressive part of the democratic party think it would be hugely injurious to the econ...