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What do you say to that? >> i was fortunate i guess to be part of good fiscal discipline. and came in 2006, 2007, budget i proposed was a balanced budget, can you believe that. a five-year balanced budget. it was hard to put together. it's hard but that is what we ought to be doing in congress. one over time that balances. so the year that i was there, 2007, the deficit was about one-eighth of it was today. it was $161 billion. i would love to have those times again. unemployment was 4.5%. i did leave to go home prior to the financial crisis, that is when frankly revenues went down. spending w...

Part of some good fiscal discipline in the bush administration. i came in in 2006 and 2007 and the budget that i proposed was a balanced budget. can you believe that? a five year balanced budget. it was hard to put it together. as i said, i put together budgets, i know it's hard. that's what we ought to be doing in congress is putting together a budget and one that over time balances. so the year that i was there 2007 the deficit was about one 8th of the deficit today. $161 billion. i would love to have those times again. unemployment was about 4 and a half percent. i did leave to go home prio...

Audience. >> critics in and out of the republican party aren't laughing. charging that the bush administration is definitely not a good approximately of fiscal restraint. >> this is a bush administration that also ballooned the national debt. and some sees it as a negative thing. to be part of the bush administration. to bring up the bush years. in the current environment. what do you say to that? >> i was fortunate, i guess, to be part of, you know, some good fiscal discipline of the bush administration. i came in, as you know, in 2006, 2007. a budget i proposed was a balanced budget. can you...

"cnn saturday morning." it is 11:00 a.m. in the east, 8:00 a.m. in the west. good morning, everyone. i'm randi kaye. here's what's happening now. as rockets pound the city of syria, help is on the way to try to slow down the bloodshed. >> i'm not responsible for this plane crashing. >> a flight attendant threatens crash on an american airlines flight. we'll talk to a passenger who shot this video. and check out this new video showing a tornado striking kentucky. look at that roof blowing right off. it was part of the killer storms that hit the nation last weekend leaving a huge pat...

Douglas was mccain's chief economist. >> these numbers are pretty shocking wouldn't you say? >> yes. >> what is it? $410 million an hour. >> an hour, yes. >> everybody but colmes, maybe the wall street protestors, but everybody else who is not ideological is going to say you have to put a lid on it or we are going to be greased. no matter what spin or excuse you use you have to go back it was 161 billion. they were worried about 161 million in spending. that's how crazy it is. you put this budget reverting back to 2007.