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Dramatic will happen really soon that will affect a ton of people who cannot, cannot afford it. four days from now, if washington cannot find a way to get its act together, 2 million people will lose their unemployment benefits. all at once. they will go all go away. unemployment insurance is different from the other parts of the fiscal cliff in that way. there are tricks we can play on, say, the pack side. we can change withholdings so you don't notice it. and on the spending side, instead of laying off people, we can furlough them. there are things we can do in a lot of parts of the fiscal c...

Unemployment insurance is not like that. if no deal is reached by tuesday it, ends. it ends for 30,000 people in tennessee, for 85,000 in michigan. for 119,000 people in florida. these are the people who have been hit hardest by the great recession and who are the worst off right now. these there people who have been 2 million of them across the country. now, there are a lot of dumb things about this fiscal cliff time bomb that washington is about to set off, but this one right here, this may take the cake as the single stupidest thing we could possibly do in this economy. providing unemployme...

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Be vague when it comes to stuff its wish list on the table, that's hard for our side, which is medicare. rallied democrats to its side, >> that's a misperception. we propossessed $600 billion in pushed republicans into the savings. position of having to counter with painful spending cut people can take a careful look proposals. so the ball is in the at them. what we haven't seen from the republicans' court in terms of what pain america has to go republicans is a plan to raise through in terms of spending rates and revenues. cuts. >> i think that's right. they said they are prepared to raise re...

Something that polls well, which is taxing the wealthy. most americans don't realize that the average family in america today pays into medicare throughout their lifetime $119,000 in today's dollars. they take out over their lifetime in today's dollars $357,000. and so the president has laid nothing out there to change that dynamic. >> on medicare, which is so interesting, because what happened the last time there were cuts that were actually enacted as part of medicare, we had a presidential campaign, and here was mitt romney's ad, targeting the president. this is what he did. >> you paid int...