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Than a rounding error. eight votes still leaves the council one vote short of being able to override vincent gray. he said i strongly urge the council to consider whether this legislation will actually promote strong economic development in the district and expand job opportunities for residents in the district. hes afraid the bill the drive business, walmart out of d.c. walmart pulled the same stunt in chicago seven years ago. walmart threatened to cancel plans to open several new stores in the...

Fund? what fund pays for it? >> i dont know which fund. >> weve got to find that out. weve got to find out where these pinhead cabinet people. ed schaefer, former secretary of agriculture. theres ed, okay? and this -- you know, they go around -- between $20,000 and $45,000, and one more, jim nicholson, the former v.a. chief, theres jim. look at him. he has the same tie on in the portrait that he has looking at the portrait. >> that was worth $10,000. >> all right. so this comes at i think its pr...

The portrait. >> that was worth $10,000. >> all right. so this comes at i think its probably discretionary funds in their organizations, in their government organizations, and they just peel it out, you know. jim, i like jim nickson, but, you know, 40 grand could buy two track chairs for the guys who have no arms or legs in the v.a., you know what im talking about? >> a rounding error. lets eliminate the entire department. we dont need them. >> dont go crazy. >> education, commerce, agriculture....

The portrait. >> that was worth $10,000. >> all right. so this comes at i think its probably discretionary funds in their organizations, in their government organizations, and they just peel it out, you know. jim, i like jim nickson, but, you know, 40 grand could buy two track chairs for the guys who have no arms or legs in the v.a., you know what im talking about? >> a rounding error. lets eliminate the entire department. we dont need them. >> dont go crazy. >> education, commerce, agriculture....

Billion of a million dollars to the american taxpayers. were footing a lot of expensive vacations for the first family and his point is, a little austerity might be in order at the top in a time like this when, you know, the other -- when the people are being shut out of their own house. >> the president put himself in this jam because he lowered the threshold for what an acceptable amount of spending to discuss. government spent 3.6 trillion dollars a year, how would you ever think about increm...

Trillion dollars of loopholes but nobody wants to eliminate the home interest deduction and all of that stuff is off the table. the times had an editorial all of these loopholes. you add up those numbers and its a rounding error. the only way to deal with this is to attack the big stuff. >> conservatives are coming off their annual conference over the weekend but still big signals the party is not on the same page going forward. republican party chair reince priebus is pointing to branding as a ...

Rounding error. $85 billion really, and we have north of $3.6 trillion budget. a 60 plus dribble defendant. if we cant get around to do something like this, well never get around to do anything of the things you outlined. >> well, aagree we should be able to reduce the deficit by this much and a whole lot more. and just yesterday for the third time this year i asked for a vote in the house of representatives on an alternative proposal that i put forward that would achieve the same amount of defe...

To pay himself. >> bell city council miss aprop yated $5 million. >> its a rounding error. >> misappropriate. $5.5 million. who is going to miss it? >> arthur is saying at least maybe this isnt the best legal defense. he may actually get a few sympathy point from jurors? >> he might get sympathy points from jurors if they arent the people he stole from. this isnt a sympathy case he cant say he is too stupid. >> thats what theyre going for. the defense attorney saying basically on the paperwork y...

The issue, 85 billion in a 3.8 trillion budget is not a lot. in the scheme of whats going to be likely 10 years from now at a minimum of $20 trillion debt, rounding error, rounding error, rounding error. if were fighting and g u you -f fawing with this, what are we going to do when we put the pedal to the medal? >> its an educational and evangelical mission to get people to open their eyes to the real crisis here. the message from he these demos over the last couple of weeks has been very coordi...

>> shepard: i feel ya. >> stocks have been on fire. they are a leading indicator. they lead coming out of a recession. they are doing far far better. what are traders trading on. they are trading on expectations what they hope is going to happen. what they might see tomorrow. and jobs continues to lag. a number that i know you will be interested in. we are producing more goods and services today than we were at the beginning of receipt session with 4 million fewer workers. so, remember, that the...