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Goes along with it, congress wont change. >> ive said this for years and screaming to the high heavens and raising the roof with my rage, the amount of spending out of washington and lack of action to fix entitlements, medicare and social security. however, we have the united states is now still able to borrow at less than 3% a year over ten years because the yield on the 10-year treasury because the market refuses to come down. until the borrowing and interest rates are under control-- >> and 2...

Medicare for example if we dont do anything by 2023. not in some distant three decades from now. and so it all matters. the truth is this debt limit is one place where we can bring the president to the table and hopefully require him to take a look at the tax reform that can jump-start the economy. take a look at the kind of reforms that would help fix entitlements. those opportunities dont come every day. the debt limit is probably our next opportunity this fall. >> we appreciate it. patriots f...

This weekend on huckabee, lindsay graham erj go president obama with an alternative plan. he is calling a big deal. listen? >> the next time that i would put revenue on the table, flatten the tax code and make it fair and pay down some debt and lower rates for entitlement reform. next time republican should agree to do revenue is when democrats agree to fix entitlements, do the big deal. mr. president, have a legacy worthy of being president. do the big deal. quit playing small ball. >> heather:...

>> goes further to fix the debt crisis. >> the argument is simply, hey, take that issue off the table politically youre letting the president hammer the republicans, if you will, hammer you on looking like youre protecting the top 2% them you can have the real debate you want to have. >> what was the president talking about during the campaign? a balanced approach and that balanced approach to fix this trillion dollar deficit was one way to reduce spending, fix entitlements and raise revenue and...

Medicare. >> that doesnt get us anyone. if paul ryan knows his numbers he is thought allowed to speak about the numbers by the romney campaign. romney campaign distanced themselves from paul ryan and the republican budget. >>shepard: is that true? >> absolutely not. absolutely not. he said we will not be ideologue. the first year paul ryan introduced the budget it was a proposal to save medicare and to fix entitlements and ron wyden, a liberal democrat from oregon, said he wanted to work with us...

Romneys plan. 55% of people making under $50,000, their taxes would increase. where is the benefit in this plan? it goes to the richest 1%. when you break down their policies it will be very clear on one hand governor romney is playing to protect the rich wsht wealthiest, the folks on wall street and president obama laid out a plan where we can both keep entitlements and give a fair share to the people. >> thats a joke, fix entitlements? we have seen the program. we have seen obama-care. does th...

How about 1%? martha: that if you increase the taxes on wealthy it will solve, i guess $15 trillion debt and extend unemployment benefits. ford is that going to work. >> absolutely not. always fix entitlements in tax code, keep taxing rich well be back at same point two years from now because we have spending problem. bottom line the government in washington, congress have no idea how to manage a checkbook. it is time to draw the line in the sand, whatever we want to spend on, whether unemployme...

Opinion, for progressives or liberals or whatever, if you really care about educational spending, infrastructure, you have got to fix entitlements. the president is not addressing these problems -- >> let me play what eric cantor just had to say for folks that missed it. here he is, majority leader cantor. >> the white house refused to take the tough issues on, and thats what chairman ryan and his budget committee are going to do today is -- theyre going to demonstrate that we republicans are se...