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So government agencies actually disbursed $136 billion on prepaid cards. card issuers collected $190 million in fees. 6 0% of card holder fees came from the atms. when i found out we were doing it too, i was like what is happening here? >> and we did not fix that in regulatory -- financial regulatory reform. >> yeah. >> i think its outrageous. first of all, what we are doing is institutionalizing another mechanism thats going to continue to create the structural inequality. were creating two soc...

Flying business community, but kids with cancer s. youre going to screw them. cmon. they asked for cuts, they got them. the president signed the sequester bill into law, but theyre saying not for this one, maybe not for that coffee cup, maybe not for alex witt or tony fratto, but for -- >> get your head inside the -- interpreting -- >> i have a pox on all their houses view of it. we have a broken budget system, right? the only way -- i would love to say, yeah, we shouldnt be doing piecemeal. obv...

That even the pentagon budget has a little bit of fat. >> nicole, thats what democrats have been saying for decades. theres something -- whats interesting, though, is that in the senate and to this point that you were making, alex, about let the senate do it, there were three -- in the sequester bill that tried to come to the floor mitch mcconnell literally filibustered all three. two were a republican bill. there was a kelly ayotte bill. there was a republican bill that would have given more di...

Out our philosophies. i was talking to a senior senate republican aide yesterday who said what you can expect to see from us next week is a caricature of democrats, republicans feel like democrats successfully charactered mitt romney who favors the rich over the middle class, played him as a greedy republican. so theyre going to flip the script a bit on democrats and say, hey, these are the guys who love big g. they love big spending, they cant get new, they cant find anything to cut in a trilli...

Substantive and sincere process for which spending is going to be on the table. because so far, weve had a commission. weve had a task force. weve had a fiscal cliff. nothing has put spending on the table. >> and i appreciate ejs support here. but i want to make a point that he may not be as enthusiastic about. they have two vehicles. they have a continuing resolution which is at the end of march, and they have the sequester bill. now these are legitimate government spending bills. the debt ceil...

Substantive and sincere process for which spending is going to be on the table. because so far, weve had a commission. weve had a task force. weve had a fiscal cliff. nothing has put spending on the table. >> and i appreciate ejs support here. but i want to make a point that he may not be as enthusiastic about. they have two vehicles. they have a continuing resolution which is at the end of march, and they have the sequester bill. now these are legitimate government spending bills. the debt ceil...

Progress on solving these fundamental problems that erskine and bowles spoke of, moodys will still downgrade our credit. so i would argue that if the president is serious about not wanting an argument about the debt ceiling, then what he should put forward is a substantive and sincere process for which spending is going to be on the table. because so far, weve had a commission. weve had a task force. weve had a fiscal cliff. nothing has put spending on the table. >> and i appreciate ejs support ...

Categorized as blinking. >>neil: but you just contributed saying you better not talk the entitlements or talk about social security or medicare and i know you may have your reasons but the republicans are saying, we have to give our pound of flesh and raise taxes and we are fine with it. we will do it. never mine the fact that you democrats have doubled the amount of revenues you talked about before the election, so be it. but there is nothing coming from you guys. >>guest: here is one of the th...

Said our debt makes us not a great country, thats a frightening thing. we need to have as well a strong military. our military is second to none in the world. but unfortunately in no where in the world is americas influence greater today than it was four years ago. >> and mitt romney really hit the president on, you know, mr. president, you cant really go through with those sequester cuss. they will be gigantic and they will gut our military. this is what really shocked officials in washington l...