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They are not interested because its not profitable. the profit is all that matters. what ends up happening is fedex contracts out to the postal service. one out of five do you means are sent and end up being delivered by the postal service. only the postal service will go to the places that are profitable. we have to make a decision eventually. restructuring and changing the way we think about the postal service. it is a vital service to a huge section of america that wont be served by privatize...

Remember that granny going over the cliff with that republican tossing him, more than hey, id like to show you my restructuring of medicare. how do you dumb it down and win an election? >> so the scare ad, class warfare action so-called war on women, i think we republicans need to reject that. reject that divisiveness and instead appeal toward americans, i think people get it. not every person follows every budget chart or knows every did he say mal point in the budget point, but they know this:...

Next ten years. food stamp spending double. thats discretionary spending. medicaid up 37% in the last three years. out of control spending. the senator is flat-out wrong. >>brian: the focus here, if you watch her show, has always been on entitlement reform and restructuring, not robbing poor people. thats what the discussion has been, not the preaching. >> senator landrieu went on to criticize the republicans on the ground that they want to cut and slash social security, for example. thats never...

Perhaps we need a little restructuring in that department. bill: billion with a b. we are tracking a nation-wide manhunt for this man, 34-year-old rocky marquez. turns out he broke out of jail in nina easton back in may by swiping i.d. wrist bands with another man set for release. he made his way to detroit, michigan. u.su.s. marshals buffed him earlier in the month with an ak-47. now hes on the run again after walking out of the front door of the wayne county jail using the exact same tactic fr...

The money back and, in fact, the government is losing money on that investment. you have to get a market evaluation of twice where g.m. shares are trading today for the government just to break even on their taxpayer dollars on the g.m. invest president so they can talk about whether g.m. is number one or not using taxpayer dollars to get there but what they are not talking about whether this should have been done this way. we have a process for bailing out companies, we have a process for bankr...

Crop but it is enough to keep them afloat. in addition to that we have in the past provided additional cash assistance to livestock producers and dairy producer who may not have the capacity or may not have the opportunity to buy crop insurance because it is not available for livestock or dairy. that disaster assistance basically supplements the crop insurance program. jenna: last question. we talk about the environment we talk about the fiscal environment, and that is very much reality for you ...

Be able to rebuild there. how do we add yetly compensate people for the value of their properties prestorm, not post storm. one of the immediate effects of sap did is she has driven down property values across coastal communities by at least 25% and that could affect the real estate markets in those areas for another 20 years. >> to that point, there are two questions that have to be asked. one, are there areas where its not feasible, based on the probability of extreme weather events continuing...

You have introduced several bills to help military families and veterans. now, as part of this cliff deal, of course, most of the spending cuts are due to hit the pentagon. they were.off for two months. im wonder whatting your thoughts are and how we should address military spending going forward, how much money do you think legitimately could be cut from the pentagons budget? >> thats the concern that everybody had. especially for our military in a haphazard across the board way. is every penny...

Discretionary. would you be okay with the sequester not being part of the deal with that sequester taking place? >> its been very clear that theres too many pieces on the table for them all to get resolved in the next couple of days so i would -- i would expect that there might be a bump in this sequester but i dont think there will be a big restructuring detailed restructuring that will be figured out later on. but ill tell you that unemployment is a huge, immediate impact. in my home state of ...

Closing up loopholes so those over a million pay more taxes. what are the chances thats actually going to happen? >> the way it will work is theyre going to -- if they get this deal done, they agree on a revenue number, 1.2 trillion and agree on how it would happen if they cant find a better way, which is a mix of fax rates going up and cushing deductions on the wealthy and things like that. then they send the tax writing committees off to try to find a more fair way of doing that. i think the c...