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He got more than the democrats did. he had one advantage, though, which is that in the context of washington, where youve got this government and set of spending programs built up by both parties over a long period of time, he had the advantage of the widespread belief in washington that those guys behind him, they really will build this -- burn this building down and so youve got to make a deal with john boehner and thats what the democrats ultimately did. >> okay. >> it is interesting to see t...

Options for social security. help the economy grow more rapidly. its a comprehensive attempt to take on this nations problems. jenna: he says it will cut $4 trillion over the next ten years. we are on track right now if we keep everything the way that it is to spend $46 trillion over the next ten years. the budget deficit around that would be about $12 trillion. so is $4 trillion enough? >> i think more important than the number is the fact that the plan will change the way medicare and medicaid...

>> you know, weve done $10 billion. after the $61 billion cut wasnt even really debated on the senate floor. and weve not had proposals debated on the senate floor. we gave them the $61 billion. they never really reacted to it. and so i think if you subtract the 10 thats done, that gives us $51 billion and i certainly hope the senate can accept that. >> do you see a government shutdown come midnight april 8th or do you think that there will be comp nice? and would that be a better solution to th...

Measured called for by britains conservative movement. take a look at some of these images. these are the pictures just coming in to us here at cnn. organizers are calling this the march 4th alternative. protesters are protesting against deep cuts in spending programs. we have live pictures. some of the protesters and the unions organizing these were estimating they could get possibly a couple hundred of thousand in the streets to protest. a budget battle going on in this country for some time. ...

Issues and do what the people is necessary. >> neil: the argument from the public workers, as you have heard, they dont believe this is in the peoples interest and this is the case of a governor and party going too far? >> they elected that party. that party is making the decisions. theyll have the opportunity to work during the next election to let them know how they feel. >> neil: it comes at a time where they seem to be making progress progress in ohio and intelligence to get spending under c...

And it is tough to gain the reaction from the politicians that are in power, doug. is it such a difficult problem to solve, the debt, that it cant be done or is it just really, really hard to do it? >> the real news is, it has to be done so doesnt matter how hard it is. we have no choice. if you look what is going on in congress now, were talking about cleaning up a tiny piece of the budget because the democrats didnt pass a budget last year. going forward, the really big issues have to be addre...

Done with the public. >> is there any evidence that anyone is doing that educating, that anyone is talking straight to the american people? >> well, interestingly paul ryan, the republican chairman of the house budget committee is setting out right now to go around the country with stacks of charts saying, heres how bad the problem is. let me tell you. hes doing that because republicans know that even the cuts that they want to propose, first on spending programs like these, and also later on en...

Could not do, which is krea jobs. and they havent done it so far. not enough time on jobs. now the republicans are spending too much time on deficit, not enough on jobs. but theyre going to have a chance to write a new budget this the house. what can we expect? >> they do control the house. we heard from the speaker. we also heard from the budget chairman in the house saying they intend to do something about the automatic spending programs like social security, medicare. they say theyre going to...

Absolutely the senator is correct that we need to confront questions like even title -plts and larger spending programs, that has to be done, but we are not going to be able to do entitlement reform unless the president and the democratic leadership steps up and participates and theyve rejected that. the one thing that we can do and must do is reduce this wildly increasing discretionary spending as i just mentioned, education, transportation, energy are all receiving double-digit increase. jon: ...

Certainly for the next year, so for the next little while, someone is going to have to sacrifice. were either going to pay higher taxes, seek cuts or both. we vote government officials into office to represent our interests, and it seems to at least some americans reducing debt is one of our major interests. so i guess heres my question to you. at what point do voters aloulow the government, allow their elected officials to make the tough choices we elect them to make without threatening to thro...