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7%, less than 7% is there voluntarily. >> i heard you, i heard you, now you hear me. when we find that people hold off going to look for work until the last week of that employment check, that is the physical statistical fact and it actually raises unemployment rates. >> brenda: and now you can-- hold on, you can stay out 99 weeks on the dole and stay out-- that far. hold-- >> let me ask you this question. i dont buy this, lets take this to economics and got done saying that the country is movin...

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That what mr. romney is proposing would be a recipe for massive deficits. really there is no way you can do the things mr. romney says hes going to do without running up massive deficits. instead of making up memorable arguments that made him the more likely and effective of the two debaters president obama instead tried to prove that thing about the math. president obama tried to explain whats so wrong with thinking that mitt romney is a guy who should be taken seriously on the deficit. he was ...

Medicare, obama by 15. the only issue where the president loses is this one. the issue of dealing with the deficit where its mitt romney holding a 3-point lead over president obama. the president leading on every other issue. its because of the thing that lost president obama the first presidential debate two weeks ago which was him trying to explain how mitt romney cant be trusted on the deficit by trying to do the math for everyone live on tv. saying something that sounded in translation like ...

Hes proposing adding $2 trillion extra in spending just on the military and hes proposing bringing in $5 trillion fewer in revenue in order to pay for that. barack obama is right. the math does not work. the math might be boring, but the math doesnt work. if youre living paycheck to paycheck right now and you decide your going to quit your job and buy a new car at the same time. so you have less money coming in and lots more money going out. what does that make you? it makes you psyched because ...

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To carry out, meaning expensive to the people who use medicare, you impose much, much higher costs on the people who use medicare. thats your plan for saving medicare spending, is by making the users of medicare pay much more. and what the president is saying is that the amount of money they need to pay matches the amount of money that will be then given back to top income tax pairs like the president. >> you see, i dont think thats true at all. >> it is true, congressman. >> there are no change...

Can you find some middle ground? theres such a wide gulf on taxes and medicare, anderson, i dont see that being resolved before the 2012 election. >> do you agree with that? >> i wonder. i agree with what david is saying in principle, except for this. on taxes, in the republican party continues to take an absolutely theological position that you simply cannot have any tax increases, and if we mean no elimination of loopholes and deductions, the math doesnt work. were taking in 18% of gdp at taxa...