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Yes, some of that money will be passed on but in some way we paid in taxes and pay it in -- in program cuts elsewhere. we will have to pay it somehow if we are going to move to the next step for energy. >> it has to be an investment somewhere. we saw the jobs outlook on friday. sense of it, shall we say, and i want to show you the breakdown. as we look at the numbers, positive on one side. 2 4,000 jobs created. unemployment rate went to 9.5%. african-american unemployment rate climbed to 16%. hi...

Welcome back. melissa ray burg ser in the newsroom. nbc news confirms newt gingrich is about to officially throw his name into the race for the gop presidential nomination. the announcement will hit twitter and facebook on wednesday. he will make his first speech as a presidential candidate friday at the georgia gop convention and he will talk with nbcs david gregory on "meet the press" on sunday. in california check out these new billboards bearing the ominous tag line, state of emergency. ...

And these will bankrupt the united states without reform. there ought to be consensus rather than this polarized debate that risks driving the united states into a financial crisis that we have seen in some american kris. that could happen this year. >> that goes beautifully to the next one. unmasking false choice is especially important to progressives for the task off finding balances between the government and market and greater equality and commitment to individual freedom is close to the he...

You cant get that far, $700 billion over 10 years compared to $4 trillion for the entire bush tax cut package. when bo said he wont raise taxes on anybody under $250,000. he took a lot of the table and that made it tough, hard to do anything without deep program cuts. in general, politicians in washington are afraid of taxes than anything in the polling says they should be. >> ezra raises a good point, if youre just going to raise taxes on people making a million or more, you wont get there. lik...

Speaking over each other and we cant hear your points -- >> get rid of the burdensome taxation policies and that is what well do as we focus on the 2012 budget and the goal this week is to pass a continuing resolution, and, to get this spending finished, for the rest of this year, and get it done, with cuts that are responsible to the american people, that sent us to washington, to get the fiscal house in order. and restore fiscal sanity. >> heather: congressman, i give you the last word. >> hea...

The joke writers. there are a few of them in washington. get help with those speeches. any way, next up, the domino effect. republican congressman tom marino has concerns about military intervention in libya. why? he thinks it could spread to africa. thats right. marino told a local paper, quote, the bottom line is i wish the president would have told us, talked to congress about what is the plan, where does it stop. do we go into africa next? i dont want to sound callous or cold, but this cou...

Christie. he wrote a letter to the editor responding to its story with christies program cuts. the boss wrote, quote, the article is one of the few that highlights the contradictions between a policy of large tax cuts on the one hand and cuts in services to those in the most dire conditions. your article shows that the cuts are eating away at the lower edges of the middle class, not just those already classified as in poverty. what makes this even more interesting, chris christie, of course, is ...

Marino has concerns about military intervention in libya. why? he thinks it could spread to africa. thats right. marino told a local paper, quote, the bottom line is i wish the president would have told us, talked to congress about what is the plan, where does it stop. do we go into africa next? i dont want to sound callous or cold, but this could go on indefinitely around the world. well, libya, of course, is in africa. congressman marino sits on the house foreign affairs committee. not so good...

All right thats two cities here on the east coast. lets move west now to san jose. california. where they are talking about laying off 145 firefighters and 349 police officers in that city. they say, look, the budget deficit is huge $110 million. wed love to make it up but the combination of layoffs, concession, program cuts and pension reforms, sounds really familiar. public safety employees, that will be about a quarter of them cut. the door is open they say to talk about shaving off some of t...

Basically anything that any listener to npr liked. >> thats right. >> the united nations renovation. everything. but the real guts of it, though, were the program cuts in the basic programs, health and human services, money for the poor. money for the whole social infrastructure that the federal government helps support because they are only dealing with six or seven months in the year these are really sharp cuts in all these basic programs. they didnt really debate that, but thats the core of w...