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Cut our way to prosperity. >> i want to disagree with those who say we have a spending problem. it is lamb false argument to say we have a spending problem. we have a budget deficit problem we have to address. >> i am not going to keep cutting the discretionary budget, which, by the way, is not out of control, despite what you hear on fox news. >> bill: huhuhu senator landrieu and others are wrong. it is out of control. the debt is approaching $17 trillion. here is how bad it is in 2003 the u.s....

This town whose policy agenda, whose ideology really depends on everyones hair being on fire about the budget deficit. because their ultimate goal is to cut government, to slash government, to get rid of social insurance. and if people actually are aware of the kind of numbers you just showed, the fact that the deficit has fallen by half as a share of gdp. they say we have a spending problem. i just looked at the numbers the other day. between 2009 and 2012, spending was up 0.6%. >> its out of c...

There are a lot of people in this town whose policy agenda, whose ideology really depends on everyones hair being on fire about the budget deficit. because their ultimate goal is to cut government, to slash government, to get rid of social insurance. and if people actually are aware of the kind of numbers you just showed, the fact that the deficit has fallen by half as a share of gdp. they say we have a spending problem. i just looked at the numbers the other day. between 2009 and 2012, spending...

Trying to point there in the other direction. there are a lot of people in this town whose policy agenda, whose ideology really depends on everyones hair being on fire about the budget deficit. because their ultimate goal is to cut government, to slash government, to get rid of social insurance. and if people actually are aware of the kind of numbers you just showed, the fact that the deficit has fallen by half as a share of gdp. they say we have a spending problem. i just looked at the numbers ...

>> bob: you said well spend more money and that is true. entitlements grow with sequestration. the reason this is a big deal it cuts everything across the board. there will be fewer people at tsa and fewer flights handle and there are serious -- >> eric: i got to ask. >> bob: they get done and the cowards dont have the ability to -- >> eric: there arent fewer. even you use 2012 budgets to pay 2013 expenses you will spent more. you have more to spend than 2012. >> bob: in the in cuts that are sub...

>> and we have a debt problem. and we have to pay our bills. >> all right, but were borrowing 46 cents of every dollar. >> the deficit is the symptom, it is spending that is the disease. i mean, over the last ten years, federal spending has almost doubled in the economy and only increased about 15 to 16% and working families, they have the income increase at all. it is a spending problem. and right now, the presidents taking spending from 20% of the economy to about 25 and its on its way to 40. ...

>> and we have a debt problem. and we have to pay our bills. >> all right, but were borrowing 46 cents of every dollar. >> the deficit is the symptom, it is spending that is the disease. i mean, over the last ten years, federal spending has almost doubled in the economy and only increased about 15 to 16% and working families, they have the income increase at all. it is a spending problem. and right now, the presidents taking spending from 20% of the economy to about 25 and its on its way to 40. ...

There is any room for revenue at all. >> this is what you do when there is a mistake in a game. you call time-out. i am sick and tired of hearing the republicans saying that the president got new revenue. that was the expiration of the bush tax cuts. everybody with a brain knows that. thats not new revenue. that doesnt take us beyond the rates that we used to have. but this is the republican strategy. you have to negotiate with them on their terms or youre not going to save jobs in america. john...

Sequester into perspective, its 85 billion dollars. we have spending problem in washington, we borrow more than a trillion. we roughly borrow 85 billion dollars every 28 days. so what were looking to do is cut less than what we borrow in one month. not what we spend, but what we borrow. this is not time for a road show president. this is a time to look for someone who will lead and work with us, cause were willing to work with them to solve americas problem. >> all right, now, congressman mccart...

The administration has every interest in making the skwout come as bad as possible. and if theyre out there crying wolf with their hair on fire and two weeks from now, nobody can tell the difference, then thats a big flop. so every bureaucrat in washington knows, you better not make this easy, we want it to be terrible and everything theyre saying is its going to be terrible, going to be terrible, if it it doesnt turn out to be terrible, itd be politically hurt. that bothers people and that both...