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Out because of the social security program. even when we talk about the tax break for the middle class and the working class, they insist that we do it for the billionaires. more and more americans are seeing its not the country and its not the fiscal significance and not helping americans out who need it most and through no fault of their own, its really the ideology and they are not going home until they do these things politically no matter what they think. >> earlier this week, we discussed ...

Grecian formula to come up with a way to pay these senators (laughter) >> and thats a personal-- and at any rate, the math is not there and toby is right, and theres no way that you can let somebody work for 30 years and pay them for the rest of their life when theyre living to be 85. the math is not there. they have to stop it there. congress notably who set the rules needs to get on the social security program, and needs to get their kid out of cushy private schools and kquit running away with...

Was concerned. i wasnt willing to go down that road. jon: senator kirk, we saw you nodding in agreement with what your fellow senator had to say. he says lets fix the big problems right now. congress doesnt seem to be able to come to agreement on the little problems? >> thats right. i think this legislation would have made it worse. this is a chart showing the hit that would be taken by social security contributions. seniors would be left out by $250 billion of tax revenue needed to support the ...

assessing the presidential field with republican national committee chairman reince priebus. and americas cities, our first installment today with los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa. >> thats why were here today. because l.a. is not waiting on washington. im candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." on his way out of town friday, president obama called the two chairs of the super committee from air force one to tell them they needed to make a debt deal -- soon. that is...

Recognizing that the best thing that you can do for medicare is make it responsible for being competitive with the kinds of plans that are offered in the private sector. >> governor, youve been in politics, out of politics a little bit, but still in politics for a very long time and very successful. >> 100 years. >> its not that long. you know the politics of this. you mentioned entitlement reform. you mentioned medicare. these are things that democrats have fought tooth and nail and i would say...

Inher tanses and alternative minimum tax which has always been a problem with the federal budget. own entitlement reform he is going to what he referred to as the third rail and what he referred to of to as ponzi scheme. end taxes on social security benefits that would create cash in pockets of seniors. he would create private accounts so younger workers opt out of the social security program and have the ability to manage their own retirement funds. perry says he can balance the budget 2020. ba...

Event. >> thank you, governor scott. and welcome back to orlando, florida and the republican presidential debate. my colleague ma megyn kelly wil take us through the next round of questions on government spending and debt. >> governor, perry, governor romney has been hammering you on your idea of turning social security back to the states repeatedly. can you explain specifically how 50 separate social security systems are supposed to work? >> well, let me just say first for those people on socia...

They being able to go off of the current system on to one that the states would operate themselves. as a matter of fact, in massachusetts, his home state, almost 96% of the people who are on that program retirees and state people are off of the social security program. so having that option out there to have the states, louisiana does it, almost every state has their state employees and the retirees that are options to go off of social security. that makes sense. it is an option that we should h...

They being able to go off of the current system on to one that the states would operate themselves. as a matter of fact, in massachusetts, his home state, almost 96% of the people who are on that program retirees and state people are off of the social security program. so having that option out there to have the states, louisiana does it, almost every state has their state employees and the retirees that are options to go off of social security. that makes sense. it is an option that we should h...

Event. >> thank you, governor scott. and welcome back to orlando, florida and the republican presidential debate. my colleague ma megyn kelly wil take us through the next round of questions on government spending and debt. >> governor, perry, governor romney has been hammering you on your idea of turning social security back to the states repeatedly. can you explain specifically how 50 separate social security systems are supposed to work? >> well, let me just say first for those people on socia...