year and not $70 billion could delay the time at which we face a debt limit. greta: why wouldn t the detroit school system use the mon? i don t recall the details incompetency. greta: anybody have a good reason not that we have heard of. greta: do they know the money s sitting there? yes. greta: how about the agencies that are sending it out? do they have a reason to force it to be used? not unless neigh are oversighted and held accountability, which requires work and try to find out where this is. we have an earmark for a train from nevada to california, $46 million. it s been siting there it is not ever going to go anywhere. because it s not politically right to bring it back, it is not ever going to come back. so we have it sitting there, doing nothing. now it has competition from a private train running between las vegas and california. tell me when we are going to get it back?
says. so you look and say, we are relying on a summary, congress didn t said, you shall be accountable for a summary. you are accountable for the documents. that means the system is broken from an approval standpoint. this isn t the first time we have seen robo-signing in government. but you know greta: but the problem is, okay, i give it to you that it s broken. we have a border agent murdered and a family who wants information and we have we have a series of people who have that information and have the ability to get it. we have the justice department, which has the information and you have congress which provides oversights to get the information from justice. every time there is a hearings, it is exclusive, time, everything. the family doesn t get the information and if there is somebody who is incompetent in the justice department making these decisions and the justice department admits it s a flawed investigation, that person could be there, making other flawed ones. so th
government and go off the fiscal cliff with the republicans saying, cut taxes and cut spending we are a divided government now. greta: now what do we do? we need leader who is are willing to put up ideas. what we thought we dolled when we passed the budget, we would pass our plan and show the senate, here s how we want to fix the problem. let s see your ideas and let s compromise. we have yet to see that. they have decided not to put their ideas on the table so you can t get to the table. greta: i am assuming worst-case scenario. if we keep the same leaders in place, i don t how do i know we will see anything different from that? so what we re saying is that we need to go to the country with a referendum tell people in washington, fix this mess before it gets out of control. we are offering solutions. the other side s offering demagoguery, distortion and no solutions.
him last night. that s significant this is a situation where obama is hurting financially. greta: thank you very much. coming up, powell paul ryan is warn that this united states is on the verge of a debt crisis like europe s. how soon in congressman ryan is here to tell you. and a story that will light your hair on fire. we will let senator tom coburn tell you all about it. he s here to go on the record. follow the wings.
down. if we raise income tax rates, which president obama is proposing, it is going to slow down the economy. we are proposing to form a lower tax rate. you don t cost revenues doing that. the key for the economy. and also they are telling us, they can t even measure the economy past the 2030s because of the debt burden. they only have confidence that the economy can survive the american american economy in the 20s and 30s. greta: we have the fiscal cliff we are about to go over and the republicans say cut taxes and rev up the economy. the democrats say the way is to increase the taxes. you both have solutions, but you can both agree that we are really headed in the wrong direction. we are headed in the wrong direct. we want growth. tax rate increases, taxing small businesses at much higher rates than competitors will hurt the