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Massaged in terms of means testing. with the upper income individuals paying more or sometimes all of their medical expenses. it makes no sense for the government to pay medicare costs for somebody who is earning $700,000 a year. a million dollars a year. so i think we can do some means testing. but by no means am i saying it the means test should be low enough so that our elderly and our poorest americans are going to pay for the deficit. but we want a deal. we want a deal. well deal with medic...

11, 12 trillion in debt. when he is done with this. >> for years, president obama running when he was senator, running for president always said that the bush tax cuts were only for the rich and only benefit the rich. now he says that the republicans are holding hostage for the lower and middle class. the tax cuts will expire. hypocrisy knows no bounds. >> bob: you just keep shooting your mouth off over and over about this stuff. i said if they came up with a deal on inflation adjustment on soci...

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Medicaid for long-term care, that money will go to help pay for another 20% tax cuts for those making well over $1 million a year. the money will not be, you know, maybe some of it will go to wealthier seniors in medicare advantage, which by the way, is not the basic medicare benefit. >> wait a second. hold on. jonathan, you just interrupted me. id love to be able to respond to your general point which is if were going to get into a discussion about whether or not we want to provide services to ...

In his own personal life and his political policy dimensions. he in fact could say that with great confidence. >> i want to open this up to our panel but i do want to ask you in terms of the policy prescriptions, i thought he led off with -- he did give some kind of a list in terms of what he would like to do. the keystone pipeline, having a stronger more aggressive relationship with china over trade, reducing government spending and saying that he would do means testing for social welfare progr...

Plus 1 missourians when it comes to social security and medicare? because part of this is also going to include some very unpopular things on entitlements, our poll has shown that a majority want to see democrats not compromise when it comes to any sort of big cuts into social security and medicare, and, of course, whats the definition? for all of medicare, can you sell that to missourians? >> well, i think its important that i be forth right and candid with missourians about what it will take t...

He refuse today give anything. he semi said he might be in favor of means testing. this was not a helpful step in moving us towards conclusion. as i said in my column today, i think the republicans in the house run the risk of being jammed by senator reid and president obama, unless they build on tuesdays success by continuing to take step to resolve this process in a way that is in conformity with their object, no increase in the debt ceiling unless it is offset by larger real spending cuts. >>...

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And it called for some tax hikes, but through massive tax reform which also would get rid of some tax loopholes but it also called for raising the age on social security, doing some means testing when it came to some of those popular entit entitlement problems like medicare and social security. will there be detail? as you put it, i would be surprised if wed hear detail, but im sure we will here some principles from where he comes from, and the request he is there a road mapç for doing th this...

In the program, or approaching it, nothing changes and young people paying for todays retirees and tomorrows, we want you to have something when you retire and well need a new compact and starts with means testing which is to say we su shouldnt send a pension check to donald trump and concentrate the resources on those who need them the most and in the future, raise the retirement age to catch up to the medical reality of that your times, and i think we should protect the benefits against inflat...