which is to hear what the american people are saying which is please compromise. please be reasonable. please do not adopt positions that represent a my way or the highway approach. reporter: the retiring secretary of defense leon panetta says if the cuts take effect the u.s. would become a second rate power. shepard: what are you hear interesting republicans, mike? he are in criticizing president obama for saying unless he gets a second tax hike in eight weeks, criminals about le released and meat at the grocery store won t be inspected. eric cantor says after four years of deficits and mountains of debt to our children and grandchildren it is time for smart choices that cut, washington, spending and achieve real balance. today the president called house speaker boehner and senator mcconnell. no details released but gop aides released he should call harry reid from his own party and who coals the senate.
you think that s a shining success? brian: stopped making them. please. why don t we? steve: we got graphics to show some of the big dough that we have this is waste. green energy nonsense. solyndra, beacon power, abound solar, 8123 systems, it s a long list. there are 34 companies on this list. all of whom either are bankrupt, laying people off or near bankrupt and they ve guzzled our tax money. steve: you know what if is this if we were there where it actually worked and in a great way, you know, maybe that would be paying off. but we re just not there scientifically yet. in the meantime, the president of the united states says use less oil when really, when you talk about you want the price to go down, it goes back to basic economics. supply and demand. increase the supply. come on! why don t we go and get the hundreds of billions of barrels of oil that we are sitting on in america? not to mention the untold wealth
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do what the president has done which is to hear what people are saying. please compromise. please be reasonable. please not adopt positions that represent them my way or the highway approach. and there is a white house effort to paint a doomsday scenario here with federal spending and cuts by 2-3 percent. there is food shortages. military readiness and many republicans will agree the cuts will hurt. others say the president insisted on new tax hikes ignores other reductions that could replace these across the board sequestor cuts. if you were to pay federal employees about the same level you pay private employees that saves 32 billion a year. there are other places to cut. you can cut foreign aid in half and save 20 billion. we have a list of savings that we can send to the president if
that s a mixologist. quickly. brian and gretchen, back to you. steve: by the way, if you would like our recipes, go to www.foxandfriends.com and we ll have them after the show. gretchen: all right. fantastic. margarita day. thanks very much. brian: guys, 20 minutes before the top of the hour. coming up, a startling new report, dozens of unnecessary medical procedures are being done and they re actually hurting your health. dr. mark siegle here to break it down. gretchen: hollywood s biggest night two days away. who can we expect to take home that coveted trophy? oscar predictions straight ahead. brian, the aflac trivia question is all yours. brian: born on this day in 1975, this actress became one of hollywood s most recognized child stars for her role in e.t.. who is she? be first, we ll name a winner i have a cold, and i took nyquil,