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That? cliffs, always by freakout, thats whats happening with sequester, 700,000 children dropped from head start, meat wont be inspected, tsa workers laid off. mr. obama hit on his own version of national unity, everyone gets scared together. >> no one turns a phrase like peggy noonan. look, this is not of the presidents creation. you know this president didnt campaign and hasnt wanted to govern by constantly being in conflict with congressional republicans. but from the very beginning, remember...

About growth from the presidents perspective and ought to be about growth from the american peoples perspective and all of our point of view. government has a role to play in that. the president understands that. ive listened to my good friend here, governor jindal, who has talked about these issues as if they are budget issues alone. they have actually seen some $2.5 trillion in budget cuts from this president. and the only plan on the table right now to avoid sequester is the presidents plan. ...

Dropped from head start, meat wont be inspected, tsa workers laid off. mr. obama hit on his own version of national unity, everyone gets scared together. >> no one turns a phrase like peggy noonan. look, this is not of the presidents creation. you know this president didnt campaign and hasnt wanted to govern by constantly being in conflict with congressional republicans. but from the very beginning, remember, it was a leadership of the republicans and senate who say their number one agenda was t...

It included more revenues, some of which came as a result of the fiscal cliff fight. now hes talking about closing additional loopholes. john boehner himself, the speaker of the house, said this would hurt national security to let the sequester go forward. why not agree to additional revenues for cuts. >> were agreeing to government economy. the greed of washington, d.c. theres never enough revenue, never enough taxes for this administrati administration. i agree with my friend, we should be abo...

Made at the department of transportation, $600 million from the faa, 47,000 faa employees will need to be furloughed at least one day per pay period. is it still going to be safe for the american public to fly if this sequester goes forward. >> one thing we never compromise on is safety. we will never take a back seat to safety. safety will not be compromised. but we will have twork with the airlines in slowing planes down. but there will be enough controllers to make sure planes are guided in a...

>> good morning. >> you talked friday about a calamity in our air service system in america, a billion dollars in cuts that have to be made at the department of transportation, $600 million from the faa, 47,000 faa employees will need to be furloughed at least one day per pay period. is it still going to be safe for the american public to fly if this sequester goes forward. >> one thing we never compromise on is safety. we will never take a back seat to safety. safety will not be compromised. bu...

Time as we live from cliff to cliff, we do need leadership in terms of bringing the two sides together. i think thats what the public wants. from economic standpoint $85 billion is not much for impacts. i think wall street is seeing this as scare tactics. if the market really believed the economy was going to be paralyzed on march 21st, we would not be trading near record highs. thats exactly where we are right now. nobody likes a sequester. to me its more of a national security issue. they are ...

Responsible for growing our massachusetts faster than growth rate, coming out of recession faster than other states. its a winning formula for the nation. we cant slow that down. >> one thing for the record, i think the white house stipulates it was the presidents idea sequester, 174 agreeing to it. let me move on to a couple of other areas. big issues states are debating, of course, washington is debating. i want to start on the issue of obama care. governor jindal, you seem to be bucking the t...

Department of defense and non-department of defense in your state alone, job losses because of sequestration. >> this is about growth, always about growth from the presidents perspective and ought to be about growth from the american peoples perspective and all of our point of view. government has a role to play in that. the president understands that. ive listened to my good friend here, governor jindal, who has talked about these issues as if they are budget issues alone. they have actually se...

Is real disruption because they have to cut a billion dollars. >> the president, you heard right, compared the president to lincoln. we need real leadership here. the president has to stand up to the plight. if he really thinks this will devastate the military, air traffic control, really devastate meat inspection, they rolled out great political theater, cutting 3% of the budget can cause all these consequences, here is a chance to say here is how we can do it better. the reality is the federal...