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I was able to find a subconstitute for the more expensive item. so thats how the figures are to manipulated. >> to large degree being manipulated. >> a false impression on what is happening to inflation. people pass a gas station and know prices are up. they go grocery shopping. they buy clothes, et cetera, et cetera. so they feel the inflation, and the government is telling them, it aint there. >> theyre telling them it aint there, and certain retirement programs, social security, we know a cou...

Extraordinarily restricted in the kind of services and products that it can provide. if you go in a post office and you say to the clerk, can you notarize this letter for me, post office clerk says its against the law, cant do it. can i get ten copies of my letter? sorry, cant do that. a fishing license? hunting license? cant do that. if i want to christmas time, can you wrap my package with christmas wrapping, cant do that. all over europe with post offices are doing is significantly diversifyi...

Various retirement programs. that will give us short term breathing space in order to get a new business model out there which allows the post office to get involved in a much more entrepreneurial effort and raise the revenue it needs to be self-sufficient. >> all the things brought up about e-mail and the way society changes, goods and services, i understand all that. had the republicans not have done this pre-funding of 75 years in a 10 year window they wouldnt have near the financial problems...

Various retirement programs. that will give us short term breathing space in order to get a new business model out there which allows the post office to get involved in a much more entrepreneurial effort and raise the revenue it needs to be self-sufficient. >> all the things brought up about e-mail and the way society changes, goods and services, i understand all that. had the republicans not have done this pre-funding of 75 years in a 10 year window they wouldnt have near the financial problems...

Have a definition for middle class. there is no actual income number that determines the middle class americans. if that is the case, how do you actually develop policies that target this group if you really dont know exactly who they are? >> i think in general you could probably say that its people who have a job, who are kind of self-supporting, at least for the most part. and will actually need retirement income. the government retirement programs, or something like that. somebody who is not ...

Week that american airlines announces its bankruptcy, talk to american airlines if they think that big labor got in the way of them doing business, but thats not connecting with the american public. >> yeah. thats not connecting with the american public because a lot of those people are members of big labor at this point in time. big labor in california is ill killing california because of our economy out here and the price that we pay for the retirement programs and all of those things. so, aga...

County. >> georgia. >> where i was approximately two weeks ago are doing things at the local level to rebuild infrastructure. here in the state of new york, the governor of new york i know is considering new steps that he can take at the state level to put more people back to work. we need state and local officials not to wait on washington but also to do things that they can do with the powers that they have to rebuild jobs and put people back to work in their communities and we need to say no ...

Includes medicare payments and farm price supports, all included, that means your doctors and insurance companies also would see some cuts and then there are the ripple effects. failing on a deal could lead to another credit downgrade, some are saying and that could lead to a big drop in the stock market that is starving for economic certainty, as we have seen and lead to more voter disgust with congress, whose approval ratings are already in the toilet and government spending on health care and...

We reforming a cultural subsidies, subsidies that a lot of times pay large farms for crops that they dont grow. we make modest adjustments to federal retirement programs. we reduce by tens of billions of dollars the tax money that goes to fannie mae and freddie mac. we also ask the largest fansal firms, companies saved by tax dollars during the financial crisis, to repay the american people for every dime that we spent. and we save an additional one trillion dollars as we end the wars in iraq an...

in spending that weve already cut from the budget, our plan makes additional spending cuts that need to happen if were to solve this problem. we reform agriculture subsidies. subsidies that a lot of times pay large farms for crops that they dont grow. we make modest adjustments to federal retirement programs. we reduce by tens of billions of dollars the tax money that goes to fannie mae and freddie mac. we also ask the largest financial firms, companies saved by tax dollars during fina...