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Or they could have reached out to congress and the airlines to have a plan in place ahead of time. >> schuster says house republicans have passed two bills that would replace the sequester cuts, but they havent gone anywhere in the senate. but president obama says his budget would replace the, quote, dumb sequester cuts with smarter cuts. but cant get republicans to agree to it. and he called the alleviate the flight delays a, quote, temporary fix because there are other sequester cuts pending. ...

Thoughtful and responsible and rational way. harry reid killed both of those bills in the senate. obama threatened to veto them, but somehow they got through the senate. and then the sequester got closer to actually kicking in, republicans offered to give president obama the authority and the discretion to carry out the sequester cuts and he refused. so here we are in this position where the president is not just responsible for this sequester, because it was his idea in the first place, but hes...

Thoughtful and responsible and rational way. harry reid killed both of those bills in the senate. obama threatened to veto them, but somehow they got through the senate. and then the sequester got closer to actually kicking in, republicans offered to give president obama the authority and the discretion to carry out the sequester cuts and he refused. so here we are in this position where the president is not just responsible for this sequester, because it was his idea in the first place, but hes...

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Probably untold. nobody knows what the real number is. >> greta: im suspicious also impact on morale and morale matters because when the country is feeling low the economy has a harder time getting revved up. the consumer confidence goes down. the fact when we see our politicians inflicting this pane on us and see the president not show the leadership to rise above it and get the house and senate to come up with a solution i think is a dammenning effect on the nations morale and that happens. ag...

Untold. nobody knows what the real number is. >> im a little suspicious that it has impact on morale. when the country is feeling low, the economy has a harder time getting revved up. i think the fact that when we see our politicians inflicting this pain on us, and you see the president not showing the leadership to somehow rise above it and get the house and senate to come up with a solution, i think theres a huge dampening effect on our nations morale. agree or not? >> i totally agree. in term...

Real idea to do something when people are feeling the need and theyre getting calls from constituents. meanwhile, i dont know if well be able to see moving forward if there will be this loud outcry like this was the airports. >> have you been able to determine whether the faa with this sequester cuts needed to furlough employees or was this kind of a sequester grandstanding to make a point which clearly they did. >> they did. they announced early on they were going to have to shut down control t...

Meals on wheels and the others, are you getting any sense that if -- piecemeal if people start opposing those as vociferously as people did the air-traffic controller furloughs, might congress have to then come back and do these sort of band-aid fixes? >> well, you know, one of the reasons that a lot of the house democrats were upset with the legislation on friday was they say this is a band-aid and we should be doing big sweeping bills. i feel like the momentum will run out to keep doing each o...

Solutions? they do. people who in the meantime have only had their dwindling savings fall even further and are relying on you to strengthen the social safety net programs that they rely on for their own survival. since flight delays have you all hot and bothered about the sequester, how about the sequester cuts that slashed unemployment insurance by 10%? rb last year talking about what you would do to restore the economy and create jobs, well, now is the time to do it. the absence of long-term u...

But wants it fixed for defense. quote, it is shameful for us to make allowances for the faa while doing nothing to stop the draconian cuts that are decimating our military today and putting our nations security in danger. at the white house, jay carney called this a temporary solution that doesnt address the rest of the sequester cuts, but said president obama will sign it. >> the president believes its good news to eliminate this problem, but as ive said and he believes, this is a band-aid cove...