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S, anti-austerity programs. and ben bernanke, saying you guys did this all wrong, if you hurt the sequester and hurt these jobs now it will be harder in the long-term. >> at a time like this, one of the best ways to actually contribute to your revenues is to get the economy growing quicker so more people are back to work paying taxes. when you have ben bernanke, who is no radical, in fact, i think he is a republican. >> appointed by george w. bush. >> making these points, you know were in upside...

And president obama and speaker boehner publicly say they dont want it to happen. this is the first time we actually let one of these happen. what is stopping the sequester from being stopped? there is one thing, one single policy decision that lies at the heart of the washington crises. it is the same thing that made the super committee fail and the grand bargain fail and that led to this debacle that led to this sequester. it is the republicans insistence, combined with the utter refusal to ma...

Idea. jared bernstein, thank you for joining us on friday. sure. >> coming up, what does it mean when republicans say the president is not leading? i actually dont quite know at this point, except it is a funny thing to say from people who then wax poetic about the constitution. that is next. and what does the harlem shake video have to do with the sequester? more than you think. you name it...ive hooked it. but theres one... one thats always eluded me. thought i had it in the blizzard of 93...

Taxes have been about a quarter of our total debt reduction. but this is no more. the tax debate is completely over. they prefer the sequester to replacement that includes even a dollar, even a hint, a shadow of revenue. in 2011, when the sequester was created there were two ideas for keeping it from happening. one, the super committee, which could maybe come to a deficit deal before this sequester hit. the other idea, and this was the big one, was the election would decide the tax issue. the am...

Theyre under the federal governments jurisdiction. often the attorney generals office, and the fbi are many miles away. often they cant enforce a protection order when something happens because it is out of their hands. so it is really important that the new vowa includes the provisions to prosecute those men. and it includes inserted language that when it comes to gender and sexual identity. there are grants called stop grants given by the state. now, some people that claim because of gender an...

Republican the other day. he said the sequester was a problem in the committee because it was not bad enough that it made people want to compromise. it was not swarthy enough. now people can do something without sacrificing for it. but we do have a possible government shutdown coming in a month, and a debt ceiling coming in a month. we have a 10% chance of getting it wrong, lets say, if we do it three times a year for ten years, well get a bunch of them wrong. i mean, there is that, first of all...

Is the american political system. we have stopped knowing how to jump out of the boiling water. the sequester begins tonight. but i dont want the talk to you about the spending cuts or the way theyre made. we get so obsessed with the individual manufacturing crises that we lose sight of the whole issue. we have done it five times in three years. we have created crises that dont need to exist, because the republicans want to use them as leverage, as a hostage, to get policies they couldnt get in ...

Technically, republicans wouldnt compromise on revenues, i would say from the economic perspective, you have made this point before, if you actually line them up from severity. if you talk about -- ill do it in order from worst to best, the breach of security, fiscal cliff, and then sequester. the sequester as you just mentioned, i dont think it takes the economy from growth to recession. i think it takes the economy from current slog to even sloggier slog, and gdp growth is already too slow. so...

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