country. 80%! joining us now dean baker co-director for the center of economic and policy research in washington. put the cuts that are proposeed into context of the new spending? >> well, there are cuts there that are going to hit people. i mean we're cutting this broad area of domestic discretion jackers about 15% of the budget and that's being held in line with, i mean it's not being raised over five years and we'll see roughly 10%, 15% inflation. you'll see real cuts. home heating oil for low-income people. there's some other problems that are going hit people. actually i'm not concerned about the spending right now because right now we really need spending in this economy. >> before we get to that, here's my concern. maybe i'm lcompletely wrong. am i wrong that we're adding