costs into the future while its population is shrinking, detroit has left the people least able to pay with the biggest share of the bills. as one consultant put it, detroit is a microcosm of what's happening in america. expect america can still print money and borrow. the united states, we can print it, borrow it, so get ourselves out of debt on a federal level, but detroit doesn't have the liberty to do that. so we'll just send people in, circumvent local elections, take the power away from the local people and we'll just run it the way we want to. is that america? it is now. is it democracy? hell no. let's turn to james hoffa. good to have you with us. what do you make of what's going on? >> it's incredible. the background also is that there was proposition one in november where the people of the state of michigan voted to end
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mismanagement and bad decisions, detroit has a cash crisis on its hands and a staggering long-term debt problem and as "the new york times" reports, by pushing costs into the future while its population is shrinking, detroit has left the people least able to pay with the biggest share of the bills. as one consultant put it, detroit is a microcosm of what's happening in america. expect america can still print money and borrow. the united states, we can print it, borrow it, so get ourselves out of debt on a federal level, but detroit doesn't have the liberty to do that. so we'll just send people in, circumvent local elections, take the power away from the local people and we'll just run it the way we want to. is that america? it is now. is it democracy? hell no. let's turn to james hoffa. good to have you with us. what do you make of what's going on? >> it's incredible. the background also is that there was proposition one in november where the people of the state of michigan voted to end emergency financial officer. it took it off.
people are desperate for. they see the stock market at 14,500 points. yet, it doesn't reflect itself in job growth in this country. people are out of work. they want to know what this government is doing for them to get them back to work. >> congresswoman waters, could the congressional black caucus send a strong message to president obama that he's in dangerous waters dealing with the republicans? >> many of the members have signed on to letters and petitions that basically says to the president do not block medicaid, do not turn medicare into a voucher program. do not mess with social security. we're very clear for the most part. we represents constituencies that have been very clear with us. they have not only petitioned us and urged us to fight for them, but this is what we do. this is why we're here. this is why they sent us here.
bargain unless he chips away at the very things that the american people want him to protect. >> ed, a budget is about not only numbers, a budget is about a vision for america. and the republicans continue to not have a vision. there's not a mention of jobs. maybe outside the preamble of this budget. there's nothing about job growth and that's what the american people are desperate for. they see the stock market at 14,500 points. yet, it doesn't reflect itself in job growth in this country. people are out of work. they want to know what this government is doing for them to get them back to work. >> congresswoman waters, could the congressional black caucus send a strong message to president obama that he's in dangerous waters dealing with the republicans? >> many of the members have signed on to letters and petitions that basically says to the president do not block medicaid, do not turn medicare into a voucher program. do not mess with social security. we're very clear for the most part.
this budget. there's nothing about job growth and that's what the american people are desperate for. they see the stock market at 14,500 points. yet, it doesn't reflect itself in job growth in this country. people are out of work. they want to know what this government is doing for them to get them back to work. >> congresswoman waters, could the congressional black caucus send a strong message to president obama that he's in dangerous waters dealing with the republicans? >> many of the members have signed on to letters and petitions that basically says to the president do not block medicaid, do not turn medicare into a voucher program. do not mess with social security. we're very clear for the most part. we represents constituencies that have been very clear with us. they have not only petitioned us and urged us to fight for them, but this is what we do. this is why we're here. this is why they sent us here.
population is shrinking, detroit has left the people least able to pay with the biggest share of the bills. as one consultant put it, detroit is a microcosm of what's happening in america. expect america can still print money and borrow. the united states, we can print it, borrow it, so get ourselves out of debt on a federal level, but detroit doesn't have the liberty to do that. so we'll just send people in, circumvent local elections, take the power away from the local people and we'll just run it the way we want to. is that america? it is now. is it democracy? hell no. let's turn to james hoffa. good to have you with us. what do you make of what's going on?
idea being that their prescriptions for the country are outdated and would take us back to the bad old days. >> shannon: you did press axlerod on how he plans to balance the budget? >> yeah. well, i kind of was a setup because i said to him, how does he plan to balance the budget? he got animated and started talking about how the ryan plan doesn't balance the budget. but of course he knew why i was asking, that the president, according to the congressional budget office, never balances the budget. never addresses the major structural problems with entitlements like medicare. so -- look, neither of these are perfect candidates. i think the best way to play defense with the obama campaign is to play offense, by attacking the other guys. >> shannon: in tampa, the latino
paul ryan as a big budget extremist, budget slasher. roll tape. >> battle lines have been drawn after mitt romney chose conservative congressman and budget slasher paul ryan. >> ryan, the architect of a polarizing budget plan, to slash trillions in funding, including medicare, has set a clear choice. >> he really slashes into programs across the board in order to get this budget back into bbs. >> sean: safer gave a context -- cuts medicare. the only put who cut medicare is the president. $741 billion. they didn't tell that part of the story. >> no. here's a key thing, with the budget slasher. a key to remember, the ryan plan doesn't balance the budget for 28 years.
where is your righteous-- do you have any shame! any! at all! tell me. >> the single case of-- you didn't answer. answer the question! do you have any shame about supporting a candidate that doesn't have the moral courage to say stop dividing the country?! >> republicans in their attempt to disenfranchise voters is outrageous. i thought that getting more people to vote was what made america great. >> there are way more poor white people in this country than poor black people. so the idea of assigning a racial motive to voter i.d -- is there voter fraud? how do you protect? having an i.d., that's the smartest way to do it. >> no. >> what do you think -- what bill maher said, that black people take the buses, white people don't take buses? how is it racial? how do you assign every negative