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Even to the point that if you use some of that to go out and buy some tylenol or adville orioo advil or cane or ankle support, you have to get a prescription, so that raises the cost of care, if you have to go to the doctor to get a prescription for something you know is right for you or a member of your family and now the government says no, were smarter than you that -- than you are, thats how the government is behaving, you need to go to a doctor to find out if you need aspirin or tylenol. bi...

Obviously an irresponsible statement. clearly, that puts the leader reid on -- in opposition to statements made by the president, and members of his party, on this side of the capital, and, again, i think it also brings us to a point, we have got to, you know, stop the criticisms and accusations and act in a responsible way, to cut spending and to show the american people that we are going to take this country responsibly into the future but, first things first. we have got to cut spending becau...

The biggest part of our savings is going to 2006 spending levels and holding that in the out years, where you really accrue savings and begin to turn the ship around, and put it on a sustainable fiscal path and that is the key because that will send a positive message to the markets and the one thing you have to have, to deal with the numbers we are talking about, you have to have economic growth. eric talked about this. you have to keep tax rates low and regulation that is reasonable, not exces...

Washington going to spend more before it cuts? >> well, i would say it depends on what kind of spending youre talking about. i think we need to create millions of new jobs. we need another wpa, put america back to work, get more taxpayers actively contributing, where more americans are productive. bill: wasnt that what the stimulus was about in large part two years ago? >> the stimuluses -- the stimulus, as your report pointed out, provided money for states but the kind of stimulus we needed, we...

With a story that found residents with voters in his northwest st. louis district. >> if you could tell the president in the state of the union, which is -- this is what i want to hear about jobs, what would you tell him? >> id like to see more dollars going to worker training. a serious discussion about this is what we need to do. >> retraining programs like this green centering course run by the united auto workers union had been a life boat for some workers. michael moore who retrained in hea...

Increase hiring and sustain jobs. >> youre not happy with what this government has done so far with job creation? >> no. no, im not. im living proof. bill: even if michael moore does manage to find himself a job it likely wont pay him anywhere near what he was making at chrysler. we talked to a couple of auto workers e.1 of whom who has taken a job as hotel maintenance perpbg, the other working as a car salesman and both making well less than 50 percent of what they made on the assembly line. bi...

With some details so we can have a discussion about what our priorities should be. bill: when it comes to spending and investment in america, from a business standpoint, not a political standpoint, it is said that american companies are sitting on $2 trillion in cash. just imagine that pile. and the reason theyre sitting on it, not spending, so theyre not quite sure what congress is going to do next. you can understand their confusion. >> well, i think its very important that we get the economy ...

Scalpel, it is take machete and we have to be sure were being smart about the budget cuts and smart about deficit reduction and not slashing and burning... martha: yeah, all right. i wonder when well see it. we have little patience for more hearings an discussion and people say, look, what do we need to do, get it out and cross off the travel badgudget... >> lets not review whether we are reviewing smart they, cut for the sake of cutting. martha: that is not what im saying. >> that will hurt peo...

And offer his or her prescriptions or how we cut spending and reduce the size of government. and, that will take place on the week of march 14th. im sorry, february 14th. that is, a couple weeks from now. the other thing of note around here is, this morning, we have seen many begin to attack somehow the republican plan for how we take the country forward, in particular, leader reid and senator schumer have been out hurling criticisms paul ryan and his being the individual giving the republican r...