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Does lay out a path to the american dream for upward mobility for opportunities for education. so i dont think we need to be cutting at a time when were, one, coming out of the recession, and people are still trying to get on their feet and we have to close the gap on inequality that exists. >> right. gary b. government is that the answer? should we be giving throwing more federal tax dollars at this? >> rarely brenda. as you well know im such a big fan of the government because they spend the m...

Partisanship of americans. and you see it exacerbated here in washington. but the same point in time, you have a vast middle out there in terms of ideology and issues so the partisanship isnt matching up to the ideology and the issues so while washington is the worst example of partisanship, those americans in the middle of the 50%, you know, kind of seem somewhat lost in this. you know, i think they feel like theres chaos in washington and frustration they cant get anything done. >> right. that...

Reagan says government is not the solution but the problem. this is 180 stuff and why its interesting that as you said they were able to find not common ground. but compromise. you give me this. ill give you that. they did that on all the issues you mentioned. >> chris, the thing is strikes me to be able to do that you can have to some degree of trust with the person youre negotiating with and strikes me we have seen so little of that from the two sides in washington these days. >> yeah. like, y...

Someone give away the little private conversation? >> right. >> i mean, there ought to be some trust and confidence to call up reagan called tip in the afternoon and say, whens your watch say? 3:00? change it to 6:00. youve said were friends after 6:00 and now we can talk. i think its about being able to private -- nobody wants to hear this. private conversations when you say, you know what? im going to push it as far as i can but well make a deal the day before. corporate tax reform, theres an ...

Security. people now after the shutdown recognize, hey, government maybe isnt such a bad thing and does some good things and i think the challenge here, though, going into this is you have senator reid basically saying he, you know, you got to get revenue on the table. republicans are saying, no way. you have president obama who has said in the past hes willing to look at entitlement reform and made democrats on the hill very nervous. are democrats able to stay unified with protecting the entitl...

How we want to cut less of it, we should really be talking about the part of the big picture that theyre very conspicuously ignoring and have been doing so for a long time and thats this little matter of the economy. >> how about that? jobs. >> go along with that. >> remember that? its still out there. the unemployment rate is still highly elevated. growth is still slow and half a percent slower now because of the shutdown and what i would like to hear is a couple of politicians stand up and say...