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In a particular school, a very special school. so are jurisdictions beginning to blame this on the sequester? is this really the sequester kicking in? >> well, look, theres no free lunch at the end of the day. the reality is, we can and should make cuts wherever possible. if theres waste in the budget, it should be eliminated, we should find efficiencies. but as i indicated, two years ago we cut over $1.2 trillion from this whole portion of the budget. that goes to things like head start. that g...

>> you know, i have no idea about, about the timing of this event. and just, just appalls me that its got to go to portugal and not stay here where we need the jobs. >> and did you hear that south korea is developing their own sequester? >> i feel like its just-- i dont know what that is, sure, let them do it. >> and my parents were killed by a sequester. >> okay. >> im sorry. (laughter) so like a terrorist, theyre building like a robot terrorist? is that what? no, thats not good, yeah. >> and w...

Taxpayer dollars, they have-- they owe 912,000 unpaid taxes. >> yeah, i mean, so bad that its funny. >> i will say that on behalf of federal employees theyre not as bad as the rest of us. the delinquency rate among federal workers is 3.2% and irs says 8.2% and the general population, we think that theres about 350 billion dollars in unpaid taxes every year, which would, you know, cover years of sequestration. >> greta: and yes, the percentage might be greater outside the federal government. for ...

>> okay, brace yourself for this one. youre not going to be able to take a deep breath. federal workers owe 3.5 billion dollars in unpaid taxes. and how do you like that one? not much says our guest. we pay the federal salaries and some skip out on their tax to the tune of 3.5 billion dollars? according to the latest irs report 312,000 federal employees owe back taxes for 2011. some of the biggest offenders, postal workers and washington staffers. and byron york joins us, how does this happen? 3...

You said flailing? >> thats what i said in my washington examiner column on sunday. look, he was telling us a couple of weeks ago, even just a week ago, that the sequester was going to result in all sorts of head start kids thrown out in the snow, the, you know, the national park system was going to go, you know, out of business or something, and then suddenly on wednesday night last week, hes having dinner with 12 republican senators, hes having lunch with paul ryan, the house budget chairman a...

And there was such outrage. >> you know, i have no idea about, about the timing of this event. and just, appalls me that its got to go to portugal and not stay here where we need the jobs. >> and did you hear that south korea is developing their own sequester? >> i feel like its just-- i dont know what that is, sure, let them do it. >> and my parents were killed by a sequester. >> okay. >> im sorry. (laughter) so like a terrorist, theyre building like a robot terrorist? is that what? no, thats n...

>> okay, brace yourself for this one. youre not going to be able to take a deep breath. federal workers owe 3.5 billion dollars in unpaid taxes. and how do you like that one? not much says our guest. we pay the federal salaries and some skip out on their tax to the tune of 3.5 billion dollars? according to the latest irs report 312,000 federal employees owe back taxes for 2011. some of the biggest offenders, postal workers and washington staffers. and byron york joins us, how does this happen? 3...

Black community overall, if you look at unemployment, if you look at teenage unemployment, and they simply dont want to talk about the elephant in the room, so theyre trying to put pressure on him relative to something thats visible called cabinet selection. lets look at the facts, thats really what theyre frustrated about, but because hes black and theyre black, they dont want to talk about the elephant in the room and the unemployment rate in the black community and all of these other metrics ...

Taxpayer dollars, they have-- they owe 912,000 unpaid taxes. >> yeah, i mean, so bad that its funny. >> i will say that on behalf of federal employees theyre not as bad as the rest of us. the delinquency rate among federal workers is 3.2% and irs says 8.2% and the general population, we think that theres about 350 billion dollars in unpaid taxes every year, which would, you know, cover years of sequestration. >> greta: and yes, the percentage might be greater outside the federal government. for ...

Black community overall, if you look at unemployment, if you look at teenage unemployment, and they simply dont want to talk about the elephant in the room, so theyre trying to put pressure on him relative to something thats visible called cabinet selection. lets look at the facts, thats really what theyre frustrated about, but because hes black and theyre black, they dont want to talk about the elephant in the room and the unemployment rate in the black community and all of these other metrics ...