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The government started spending more than they were taking in. more than the revenues starting in 2003. >> look at the graph from left to right. this is from 1970, i believe, it almost got to the surplus under president nixon and then got the surplus under clinton in the year 2000 and at the very end of that, you see those two lines split much thats the ugliness were facing now. the revenues went down with the recession. the spending went up so far and now theyre talking about spending more? whe...

What he said is it kind of stabilizes it. and his point is, im the long view guy. im the guy whos going to get this done, but dont expect me to do it tomorrow. and, by the way, lets see what the republicans come up with when they have to do their own budget proposal in the next couple of months. >> sure. of. >> it can be pretty complicated here. lets look at this graph here. its the federal budget as simple as we can make it. 59% is actually locked-in spending on medicare, medicaid, social secur...

Tax dollars. the 3 the $7 trillion budget blueprint is laid out on the table, and its a whole lot of money to divvy up. the bigger the box, the more cash the program gets. health care gets a lions share, 22%. social security right behind at 20%. thats nearly half the budget. just between those two alone. but the further right, youll see as we move on the graph, the faller the portions. education and transportation get just over 2 pat 5% each. and way down in the corner, you can barely see federa...

Up rather than down after this deal. heres a graph to prove it. look at this. two thirds of the people making less than 18,000 a year will pay more in taxes. so the poor paid as a percentage, theyre getting hit the hardest, right? 40% of the people making less than $35,000 will pay more. 20% of the people making less than $64,000 will pay more, 12% of the people making less than $104,000 will pay more, but it gets worse. of the people making more than $564,000 a year, less than 2% of them will s...

Its a good thing we elected a democratic president. now i want to bring it the pulitzer prizewinning journalist behind the graph we showed you. he won a pule hitser price, and he wrote "free lunch." david, first lets talk about that graphic. could that really be right? hinchts theres very, very little coverage of this. the reason i put a column on tax.com about this is journalists missed this as a story. remember, the republicans pledge, we wont raise taxes on anybody. they raised taxes on eve...

Start asking americans if they want to sacrifice. you notice how no one, and well do this story in the coming days, no one ever does a story in the media. no one does a graph out there of just exactly how would our finances be in this country if we were to go back to the old rates? how long would it take us to get our fiscal house in order? i mean, obviously the treasury needs more money if were going to function. but you see the goal for the righties is to starve the beast. now, i know all of y...

Internet service is still down in cairo, but across the globe, the web is fueling the discussion on whats going on in the city streets. richard lui has been looking into that story for us. >> again, chris, this is the big point were all talking about when we see whats happening in egypt. social media is basically the bullhorn or town cryers bell for the poor in egypt. with text messages, theyve been able to organize protests for thousands over last week. and facebook walls have basically been th...

Thats what were seeing right now this evening. >> some of the remarkable reporting, who have been on the scene in egypt all throughout these last several days. the unrst that erupted full force today has been building since monday. we can show you what that looked like yesterday. take a look at this graph. it shows internet traffic to and from egypt. you can see the volume dropping off to a trickle at 5:20 eastern time yesterday. president obama criticized them for restricting access. ben, are c...

Nightfall, clouds on the streets, none seem to heed curfew and the army does not seem to enforce it. heres a graph of what typical traffic looks like on the internet. this is according to google. this is in the past week. lets show you egypt. this is what it was earlier on the week. then on thursday when the internet was shut down, virtual stoppage and since then, the line has been flat up until now. so just goes to show you, internet still not working in egypt but people trying to find a way ar...

Government to reverse the access to the internet. social networks that do so much to connect people in the 21st century. >> now, jamie, this graph from the arbor network gives us an idea how fast internet traffic in egypt fell off a cliff on thursday night to friday. almost no online activity for quite a while, but now some 300 egyptians are using old school technology. dial-up motels and send pictures from the streets of cairo to the rest of the world. even with the total shut down the governme...