curve, those will be the businesses that stand to gain as the nation changes in its food supply in the 21st century. host: let's get one more call from louisville, ky. caller: in schools and any place as far as our tax dollars are going, there should be control over what the food supply is. and it needs to be nutritious. but you cannot really control a person's behavior when they have a choice. in other words, when they send their child to school with their lunch, they can choose to put in their lunch what they want. i worked in schools for 20 years and i saw the things that people were using their food stamps for and they were choosing soft drinks, candy, cookies. the government assist them too big for nutrition, -- nutritious foods, but they chose to do otherwise. and even on the infant and women program, does not tell them exactly what they have to purchase with that. many times when they were supposed to be purchasing one of% for jews, they would bring up these high for those things that have artificial sweeteners in them. they would try to bring up these the sweetened cereals that were not on the list. no matter how much money you spend, ultimately, you cannot control a person's behavior. they have to make their decisions. guest: i would agree and reemphasize that over the last three decades, things change that we did not recognize how damaging and how much a place our children at risk. the food change, the cafeteria's changed and we did not intentionally get to where we are today. it will have to intentionally and do what we -- where we are today. i think our food stamp program is another program that we need to reexamine to build incentives into reinforce and support l.t. behavior's. this will be an opportunity to have democrats a a and republicans to come together. we all want good things for our children and this is a risk that we share. host: dr. thompson works for the sitter to prevent job of obesity. he is also the surgeon general of arkansas. thanks for being with us. that will about doing for washing -- "washington journal" this morning. we will be back at 7:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow. . . capitol hill. here's the scene on capitol hill were copies have arrived. ççóç>> good morning. >> good morning. ç>> go ahead. [cameras flash] >> the federal budget being delivered this morning and send to the budget committee. we have a number of related events. president obama will speak on this proposal. we will have that live for you here on c-span. the budget targets several areas. it freezes spending for a large number of government programs. increases funding for jobs creation. it puts more money into infrastructure. it would be a three-year freeze on a variety of programs. expiration of bush administration tax cuts. it will support job creation and promotion of energy and infrastructure projects. reactions scheduled throughout the day. peter orszag will kick things off at 11:30 this morning. that will be live here as well. the pentagon will talk about their share of the proposal with robert gates and the chair of the joint chiefs of staff. a briefing at 1:00 p.m. eastern. there will be followed by representatives from each of the military branches. the state department will briefed on budget numbers. you can see that on c-span-3. we spoke earlier with a reporter. host: just sort of briefly for us lay out what is ahead. guest: the budget will hit capitol hill. to start with, the president is trying to walk a fine wine. it is a tricky balancing act of creating jobs and addressing concerns about the deficit. it will include a lot of job creation measures including tax incentives to hire new employees. it is aimed at spurring job growth. host: what is the most surprising element in the budget for you? guest: what we have seen that the president laid out the elements last week in the state of the deegan. the biggest most controversial piece maybe the discretionary spending. it is in historical perspective not that big of a deal. he wants to freeze spending in the budget. it will force the democrats to make hard decisions about what wins and loses. if you freeze domestic spending but you want to increase infrastructure spending, that means various programs will have to take a hit. host: where's the money coming from? guest: the president wants to extend the 2001 tax cuts for middle class families. but the tax-cut expire for the two top tax rates. that is something republicans have been against from the start. the democrats sat it is key. much of the heavy lifting is not done in this budget proposal. the white house is leaning on this debt commission president said he would create in order to force a reduction on spending next year. that is what they are looking to to produce the deficit. host: that commission would have to wait well towards near the end of the year. guest: exactly. we may not see a movement on a lot of those pieces through the end of the year. some wonder if the democrats will even move a tax bill before the election. host: we are covering budget releases today. give us a viewer guide on what you think will be the most interesting piece to watch, the defense budget at the white house, state department. guest: omb when peter orszag tells folks exactly how it is supposed to work in terms of deficit reduction later today. you will also be seeing -- he said yesterday that the white house will be voting on about 100,000 spending programs of that can be streamlined. a fincas where you will see some interesting news -- i think that is where you'll sat some interesting things. host: thank you for joining us. >> the president will speak at 10:45 eastern. earlier today we took your calls on the federal budget. host: north carolina. barry. caller:ç if done properly, if none of the specialç interestsç can -- host: go ahead. caller: i am sorry. let's not give away. i do not want to do that either. what we have to do is figure out who needs it so we cannot be giving it to all the corporate people. we cannot give it to all the people on programs and stuff. host: new york. çamy. good morning. you are on the air. qcaller: ok. yes. i would like to know the spending freeze what cuts are coming. it seems like anything is cut with anything that has to do with the welfare of people or humanitarian or expansion of jobs. the defense department is never discussed, never getting cut back from even line item budget checks on them. if we were to cut back some of this money that is being spent on defense, we could, you know, it would -- we -- host: thank you forç your comments. here is the headline from "usa today." a record $3.8 trillion. the deficit would stay above the trillion dollars mark. the bushç tax cuts would end fr household earning above $250,000. businesses would get a tax cut for creating jobs. spending cuts. a freeze on domestic spending would save $250 billion over 10 years. war spending would go up this year. michigan. randy. go ahead. caller: i would like to thank you for c-span. i appreciate it. it is a good show. i think a spending freeze will hurtç at this time with the economy. i think we should jump off a cliff -- do i think we should spend everything we have? no. to make your budget look better, take both wars and medicare off the books. there is a whole lot more money opened up. let's get honest about the budget. it is a fact that it looks bad because he brought sunlight to some of the costs the previous administration kept in the dark. that is my thought. i thank you very much. host: new york on the independents line. caller: too much money, way too much money. he raised the money is so high with the stimulus. last year the put some much money into the budget. it is like -- it was talked about last week in a column. they raise spending up to % and then put the spending freeze in. -- up to 40%. it is a ridiculous thing. he should put the freeze in. fire a couple hundred thousand workers. the government needs to wind down and not get bigger. host: thank you, mario. host: that is the place to start. dan in kansas city. caller: i agree with the last caller. there is nothing else really to sat. the only thing that is authorized by the constitution is the military. that is the only thing that is authorized. that is the reason we have a budget for the military. host: thank you for your call. "defense noosed." -- "defense news." the budget proposal will seek nearly $11 billion for the f-35 joint strike fighter, according to a draft overview. we will cover the defense briefing on their budget coming up this afternoon at 1:00 eastern here on c-span with secretary gates and amro michael mullen. good morning. it is dennis. go ahead. caller: we have a bad situation here. since 1970, we have $one trilli1 trillion in corporate bailouts. we have tax breaks and exemptions, the subsidies, insurance rates. the list is endless. that is less money coming into the government. we have two wars going on simultaneously that their funding in the trillions. on top of all of this, we have massive unemployment permanently unemployed people that will never get their jobs back. we have corporations that are leaving by the hundreds every year to go to china, central america, south america. that is less money coming into the government. we have the corpse federer practically operating tax-free over in china -- we have the corpsçporations practically operating tax free. he is spending more money to prop up this economy. as more money goes out, no money is coming in. not as much money coming in through workers paying taxes. it gets the government deeper into debt. this is not an economic problem. this is turning into a problem of capitalism. the system is failing. if it triesç unregulated capitalism, it is the corp orations running amuck. it will put the government into that. we have a serious problem here. host: thank you for the impact on maps -- thank you for the input on that. this is "the washington post." i will read some from this article. the white house expects the gap to approach their record $1.6 trillion. ohio. independent line. good morning. caller: i do not believe it will hurt or help because it will be a small amounts. i think the president is the ceo of the united states. it makes a big impression on people if they would take a 10% cut from the president down to the low-paying government jobs. i thank you very much. host: detroit next up, republican caller. caller: i wish they would address the cost overruns. these people take out contracts and then they run billions over. they expect them to pick it up. i am military. where are the nuclear weapons? is and that in the energy department bill -- isn't that in the energy department built? they're wasting so much. thank you. host: thank you. here's more from inside "defense news." helicopter manufacturers look to be in good shape for 2011. they talk about the public of what the pentagon will be concurrent with today's release of the budget. the pentagon will unveil their defense review which lays out the strategyç for the pentagon for the next four years. the focus of the budget will call for, $6.3 billion for special operations, ma'am. they would buy new gear and isr assets to improve existing ones. dod plans to call for special operations forces to continue over the next several years. it will also propose adding 2000 new special ops personnel. that is from "defense news." the spending freeze -- will help or hurt the economy? we will be taking your calls. north carolina. this is a bill. caller: good morning. i cannot believe it. china must be -- we are spending three under billion dollars a year on twoç wars on people tht do not have nothing in common. trying to rebuild these nations and roadways. when it comes to $100 billion a year in health care, we cannot do that. the first thing we should do is get out of these wars. it is not doing any good. i think that is why the people are disappointed with obama. we couldn't get out of -- we understand the military complex is very powerful. something needs to be done about it. the american people need to come together. i have a suggestion if you'll let me sat one thing. host: go ahead. caller: ok. you can critique me. host: just keep it brief, bill. caller: thank you. the american people need to come together. early voting. if -- we know who all the voters are. if people understand and vote the incumbents out, you get 80% of the people saying yes. once they sign the contract, all we have to do is make sure we get 80%. once we get 80%, we know what the election will be. as long as people are in there, they sell out to special interests and different nations. we will not get nothing done. it takes too long to get them out. you can only vote every other year. it will take forever. host: thank you for checking in. keeping it focused on the budget this segment. what may be ahead for the president on capitol hill. the budget may be a tough sell with democrats. he has been doing what george bush wouldshave done. john connors has been critical -- john conyers has been critical. marcy ckaptur has been critical and did a double take. caller: thank you. i'm not thinking you for "washington journal." it is so partisan. regarding the budget, at least we're doingç something. during the bush administration, we heard almost nothing about the budget. he raised the debt ceiling and twice. he has his finger on the button. i am not a republican. i do remember when dick cheney mentioned the deficit was no big deal, so to speak. the producer said c-span have become the place of record for- is some. it is depressing. i have been listening to c-span for years. -- is becoming the place of record for negativism. now people can call end and put everybody down, all the congress people, everything it is just so horrible. i just wanted to remind people you have people calling in skewing a lot of hate about the budget. if the president offered $1 million to more, somebody would complain. one important thing i wanted to sat. host: we appreciate your views and we do try to show all views and all newspapers. this is for the nation, a pretty major start with the release of the budget. we generally cover it every year and trying to give a look from all sides. we thank you for calling. here is "the wall street journal." "deficit to hit all-time high." next to pontiac, michigan. caller: i am for freezing the federal budget and reducing it. you had a previous caller that was talking about pay cuts. there was a report today that the eu was going to force pay cuts on greece. we are not far down on that west along with greece with our debt rating to be reduced. the average pay is $73,000 without benefits. it's 40% higher than the average american. where are they going to go for a job? give them a payç cut and weaked balance the budget a lot easier that way. host: here is the story of the viewer was talking about. they talk about a freeze thr budget. paris pledges public spending curbs. that is in "the financial times ." they will tackle the crippling budget deficit, including a pledge to cut the total spending to less than 1% a year from 20 level. that is from thisçó morningç reporting on the budget issues in france. democrats line. good morning to build. -- good morning to bill. caller: it is nothing but a camouflage for gunrunners and gun producers, web producers. that is the biggest corporations in the world is pushing guns. -- weapons producers. independence said on defense. host: thank you for your call. this is "the washington post." "sunsets on nasa moon missions." an ambitious new chapter in space exploration is about to vanish with hardly a whimper. ççnasa will finally get the marching orders and the one not be anything in there about flying to the moon. theç budget numbers will show e administration plans to kill the constellation program that called for a return to the moon by 2020. in michigan, this is george on our republican line. caller: this has been the biggest spending spree in american history. we had a seventh injured $83 billion stimulus plan. -- we had $783 okbillion stimuls plan. it-non-defense discretionary spending another call% in fiscal year 2010. to freeze that and means nothing. consider this. george bush in his eight years brought the national debt from $3 trillion to $7 join in. obama will double it in five years and triple it in 10 years. look at the strategy and ask yourself why obama will not release any of this thesis or college ridings. he is trying to create a fiscal crisis in this country. çç-- he will not release his college right thing -- writings. caller: i think the caller's -- they have increased the budget, which they had to do. he is finding hard ways to stop the spending. he put a freezew3 on it. unfortunately, he had to raise its last year. at this point, he has his hands tied with the war. he probably wants to get out of there unless he found intelligence that said he should not get outç of there. his plan was to leave, so his hands are tied on up. domestically, there would be a big problem with that. he would have a problem getting reelected. that is the one thing george busht( was able to do. we cannot find ways to get new taxes to bring revenue into the government. we cannot seem to stop spending. thank you very much. host: another of your ways then. we get a tweet from sasha. looking at the white house is released on the budget for this çyear, more spending is in that budget, close to $160 billion for more spending in fiscal year 2011. next up, chicago, margie. caller: good morning. i think the freeze will hurt current usually it goes to the people. but politicians on all sides and i hope mayor daley is up. i am calling from chicago. making the people depressed. last week to put the stimulus about the high-speed rail and how it will help chicago. meanwhile, we get the cta cut and we get transportation the people need desperately. host: and that is your local transit authority? caller: yes, it is like the subway in new york. they are cutting, cutting. they did not have the budget. but they announced a stimulus plan for high-speed rail. that money should start first in the regular people. best what they will start freezing that. this thing with haiti needs to pay attention with the health care about them saying they cannot, because the money. florida and georgia refused kidney dialysis and medicaid patients. why don't we start not freezing that? that is a death sentence. tell them to go to the e.r. we're being nice to haitians because we do not want them here. our health care system is not a whole lot better than what you see down there when you pushed to show. host: thank you for your comments. is the proposed spending freeze good? will it be hurtful for the economy? that caller mentioned haiti. front-page picture on "the washington times." i will pull this off and show you the story this morning in today's "usa today." church members were saving orphans. an adoption scheme. they tried to take haitian children out of the country. 10ç american baptistsç schedud to have a hearingxd today after trying to take 33 children out of haiti. the church members said there were trying to rescue abandoned and traumatized children even though they lacked the proper paperwork to do so. here is washington, d.c. frank, go ahead. caller: i do not think the spending freeze will do anything pretty much. if you have a home budget and you bring in $500 a week and w3spendw3 $1,500, it is a bad t. the needçóç to figure out howo stop the spending. they're not cutting backç enou. thereçt( are a lot of double standards with this president. the media doesn't report everything that is going on. when bushç was president, a number of people wereçq killedn afghanistan and iraq, and what happened to that? we need not to have a double ççóstandard but giveç double e