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Just trimmed or cut a little bit, its slashed into the bone by the ryan plan, which romney supports. so were going to have a real debate on what people want from their government and thats not -- it might not cover a lot of other issues that are important, but its on something real, which is more than can be said for a lot of prior presidential debates. >> from your mouth to the debate stage, i hope. thank you for being was through this primary season. i look forward to learning through your rep...

Next decade because of where they have gotten to. we are not greece or spain or the united kingdom. we can handle this in a much more gradual, reasonable and responsible manner, and we shouldnt do spending cuts as proposed by congressman paul ryan. >> peter, go ahead. >> i think that cutting the budget back a bit would be useful. spending money, you should do it responsibly and deficit spending has its place. however, that permits governments to be irresponsible. look how the stimulus money was ...

Enthusiastic. its a different model from the traditional model and i think were going to be seeing more and more of that moving forward. >> what do you think of sort of the culture of compensation, peter? >> ive lived it. this is the way academia works. for the last 30 years ive observed in several universities what happens is about 55% to 60% of the faculty figures out how to rig the rules so they get paid and the other 40% dont. we have extraordinary anomalies in pay at the university of maryl...

>> president obama at this mornings white house prayer breakfast, tying the story of easter to the story of americas rebirth. but the idea of any economic resurrection is proving to be a tough sell, with nearly 1 in 5 americans either unemployed or underemployed with gas prices at record levels for this time of the year, its only helping to fuel frustration among voters. here to talk economics is our panel. peter, weve been doing this for years now on this network. can you possibly have a functi...