CNNW CNN Newsroom September 19, 2011
in spending that we've already cut from the budget, our plan makes additional spending cuts that need to happen if we're to solve this problem. we reform agriculture subsidies. subsidies that a lot of times pay large farms for crops that they don't grow. we make modest adjustments to federal retirement programs. we reduce by tens of billions of dollars the tax money that goes to fannie mae and freddie mac. we also ask the largest financial firms, companies saved by tax dollars during financial crisis, to repay the american people for every dime that we've spent. and we save an additi...