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General reports. there are no adequate controls, management oversight to make sure that the pay is commensurate to the quality of the work and the results of the work that they are getting. shannon: you mentioned the inspector general. the senate confirmed him to be look at these things. he points out. fannie and freddie have gotten $154 billion of our tax dollars to get control of the housing mark it in the u.s. he mentioned he doesn't think they have the internal controls necessary to keep things above board. senator i issa and grassley wonr whether it's paying off or doing anything for taxp...

In the capital gains if it was just raised to 20%, which i don't think is nearly high enough. if you add all those up, you would save $154 billion the that's what you would have done if you actually cared about balancinging the budget, which i do, but apparently republicans don't care about that at all. when they say they're deficit hawks, not true. when they say they want to balance the budget, not even close to true of the fiscally conservative? please don't make me laugh. one set of numbers more, okay? i want to get even further into this. so the republicans say, hey, you know what? we're g...

The very top bracket in the country. in two years we could raise $91 billion by scrapping the bush tax cut for the top 2%. another $23 billion by raising the estate tax and $40 billion by raising capital gains taxes to 20%. the level they were under president clinton. by the way, that's still a comically low rate, but even that would do the job. that took me two minutes, and i raised $154 billion. now, i know conventional wisdom in washington says raising taxes is political suicide. you can't do it, but that's also not true. look, the holes don't bear it out at all. in a new poll people were a...

Six-point lead. nationally the gallop poll says more voters would prefer a republican instead of a democrat for congress. it has been like that all year. sestak did vote for the bail-out in 2008. $100 billion for detroit. $878 billion for the first stimulus. the president $3.5 trillion budget. cash for clunkers. another $154 billion stimulus. $2 trillion for healthcare and a new $14 trillion debt limit. sestak now sponsoring a new bill in congress for taxpayer to bail out home mortgages. >> it's not fair for those paying their bills and mortgages to tell them by the way you have to pay someone...

Six-point lead. nationally the gallop poll says more voters would prefer a republican instead of a democrat for congress. it has been like that all year. sestak did vote for the bail-out in 2008. $100 billion for detroit. $878 billion for the first stimulus. the president $3.5 trillion budget. cash for clunkers. another $154 billion stimulus. $2 trillion for healthcare and a new $14 trillion debt limit. sestak now sponsoring a new bill in congress for taxpayer to bail out home mortgages. >> it's not fair for those paying their bills and mortgages to tell them by the way you have to pay someone...