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Employers from getting new people. arent those more serious problems than the sequester? >> well, certain live the end of the payroll tax cut is hurting americans because it means there is less money in their pockets and less money to spend in small businesses. less money to pend while they are shopping. that does have an impact on the economy no question about that look at the overall picture on the economy. we have made a lot of progress. the housing market is coming back, manufacturing is com...

A lot people will have trouble with that because some of the slowing is attributable to the increase in the payroll tax. taxes have an impact. to add more, that seems to be going in the wrong direction. >>chris: while the white house was blaming the sequester and republicans for pushing the sequester, a lost independent people, and you heard the concession from dan file -- pfiffer on this, and obamacare will kick in and a company with 50 employees you fall to the mandates but at 49 you dont so y...

Standpoi standpoint, it does mean a lot. amy may say $1,600 is not a lot. a middle class family who is struggling, it is a lot. thats what this moves underscores, the fact this democrats and this president want to do something to fix our budget woes and focus on the fact that right now the people who are -- who are suffering the most on their backs are middle class families and working class families whose programs are being cut by the sequester. >> not getting any mileage out of this. >> republ...

>> greta: more than a month after the sequester took effect some members of congress pledging to give back portions of their salaries like senator lindsey graham. he tweets we should lead by example. im cutting my pay for 20% to empathize with those furloughed due to the sequestration. >> greta: you voted against the sequester. >> i did vote against it was stupid then and it is stupid now the across the board cuts but you it is what we are living with. >> greta: you are making a cut, you andor y...

Not hitting their target, but the sequester, the man mandatory cuts are cutting into sales? >> point the finger at yourself. the sun is in your eyes, your shoes are untied, im certainly its not your fault that youve lost money collectively since orville and wilber wright flew at kittyhawk. theyre losing money left and right. our government is just as inept and-- >> they dont all lose money, contractors are scared, not flying as much. does it have much impact? >> the point about the airlines bein...

>> greta: more than a month after the sequester took effect some members of congress pledging to give back portions of their salaries like senator lindsey graham. he tweets we should lead by example. im cutting my pay for 20% to empathize with those furloughed due to the sequestration. >> greta: you voted against the sequester. >> i did vote against it was stupid then and it is stupid now the across the board cuts but you it is what we are living with. >> greta: you are making a cut, you andor y...

Complicated economy. the jobless rate is a function of all sorts of things. in washington you have two big forces that are acting in opposite directions. youve got the federal reserve priming the pump and trying to keep interest rates as low as possible. at the same time you have got a pretty big austerity push in congress. even president obamas talking about cutting spending even more than were already seeing in the sequester. so youve got these two things acting against each other and i think ...

Compromise plan. what if the republicans take it as a starting point for negotiations, not the final plan? thats a risk, but i think the white house has calculated that the only prospect for getting a kind of grand bargain that would include entitlement changes and some of the tax hikes they want is if they appeal to these more moderate republican senators. the president puts out his budget on wednesday. that night he meets with a dozen of these republican senators over dinner. if theres going t...

Economy. if the economy starts to really get bad, if we see the job numbers that were so disappointed yesterday, i think at the end of the day its the president, whoever he is, that ends up paying the price. >> andy, your latest article is about the faa delaying the planned closure of the air-traffic control towers at the regional airports. this all stems, of course, from the sequester. whats the latest there? why the delay and how long do you think it will last? >> well, i think the faa was put...

Has in the post to suggest this was a routine visit or this was something that was not serious. but, again, word has been trickling out in recent days that his condition was improving. that he was released was not a big surprise. still, hes receiving a lot of medical care at his home. his home, there are doctors here, we believe. theres a lot of advanced care possible here for him. so, again, were not saying that he is -- we dont know a lot about his medical condition is the bottom line. this is...