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For a hamburger today. youre asking for control of congress today on the promise, promissory note that you will come up with actual program cuts. now, i keep throwing out -- you know the biggest cause of the deficit. youre more rel read on this than i am. social security, medicare, medicate, you put all the federal receipts and taxes and they could be gone right there, exhausted in those three programs. we got defense systems you could name. but nobody wants to name what they want to cut by name...

Trade group is putting the cost at $1.7 billion this year. according to "the new york times," school districts across the country have been hit hard by the recession, leaving the upcoming school year with the tightest budgets theyve seen in some 50 years. now, thanks to dwindling funds, teachers who arent being laid off are bracing for drastic program cuts over credit classes and shorter school days. thats a quick look at the news. well be right back with senator durbin and thomas friedman nex...

Criticizes the decision to scrap nasas constellation program to send americans back to the moon, writing: without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operations provide, the u.s.a. is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity. and tomorrow well be joined by gene sirnin, the cosigner of the letter to the president and well ask his take on the future of the space program and what may be lost if we dont invest heavily in that. bill: a great guest. martha: he is a great...

What is going on and people think you are the worst thing to come along and others think the best thing to come along and you are cutting $820 million in state aid and the place where it gets the most attention is in the schools, where the heat of the discussion is. talk to me... you seriously ticked off the teachers union and well show a quote from them in a moment, and, what is your response to them when they say, you are cutting teachers and language programs... >> my response is, that none o...

Layoffs and no program cuts in the schools. and they refuse to do it. only 11 locals have agreed to the pay freeze, because the unions saying no. martha: is it the union bosses, if i asked the individual teachers in my school, you said it is an average of $750 per person and, if the teachers said ill give back $750 and not take any pay raise this year you say there would be no cuts. >> right. martha: teachers feel that way or is it a union head decision. >> a union problem. a union boss problem,...

Jon? jon: i thought the worst of it was over for california? i thought they kind of fixed their budget problems? >> reporter: yeah, dont you wish. no, not at all. we have a $#21 bill deficit that -- billion deficit, and right now lawmakers only averted problems last year by using gimmicks. this year that is not an option. everyone expects big fights over deep cuts. here is a worst-case scenario laid out by several economists here. number one, the governor is hoping for an $8 billion federal bail...

Already, sales, personal and corporate tax receipts are up, providing enough money to cover the bond payments, the state goes back to the debt market without a problem, ious and the revenue anticipation notes, well, those cover the shortfalls and the legislature would accept the cuts. now, there is another scenario, that says the state defaults. lets look at that: right now, the governor is expected to close the budget with $8 billion from the federal government. what if washington says no? he a...

Program cuts, and they will object to the fact that president obama as he promised in the campaign is going to let the bush tax cuts for those making $250,000 and over lapse as of the end of this year. so you will have large arguments. budgets, after all, its kind of like they always say in a marriage one of the main things that couples fight about is money? well, thats what parties fight about, too. because thats where their philosophy comes out. so you will hear the republicans pushing for mor...

President who didnt seem to understand how to move the levers of government. >> bill clinton came into office with some bad news. turned out the deficit was much worse than they thought. he had to figure out a way to get us out of a recession. the 1993 budget was an attempt to do that. >> i had hoped to invest in your future by creating jobs, expanding education, reforming healthcare and reducing the debt without asking more of you, but i cant. >> when we finally put out a budget, it was somethi...

A show the alleged attacker running away from the scene for being shot under arrested by police hes been identified as a twenty nine year old was back national who entered the country illegally also on the program cuts about use dismissed later refuses to return to spain for questioning over his regions declaration of independence. im phil gayle welcome to the program police have named the man suspected of killing eight people and injuring at least elefant in a truck attack in new york so i foll...