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And republicans on board. barney frank and rand paul, great ten-year plan, bipartisan, to cut the defense budget by $10 trillion and keep this country secure. >> tim, let me turn it back to you. katrina's point is well taken. republicans as well as democrats, left, center, right, everybody looks at the defense budget. secretary gates looked at it and said $178 billion that he saw that could be cut over a couple years. why hasn't that been part of these continuing resolutions as proposed by the republicans to make this bipartisan? let everybody pay a price out of the sector they care most about...

Areas. there are three things a lot of deficit hawks think you have to do to bring the budget into balance. do something dramatic on the spending side, take on spending and take on social security at some point. all three of those things you've left out of this. >> that's not true. >> to the xents i'm wrong about that, explain the ways in which you've tackled those three areas. >> we take $78 billion out of pentagon spending and apply it to deficit reduction. we agree with bob gates. he's taken $178 billion out of waste and efficiency at the pentagon. $100 billion back into defense capabilitie...

Through the roof. the idea that if you really want to shrink the size of government, you exclude the department of defense. the secretary of defense says he can do $178 billion of cuts in mr. ryan's program, he says no, only 78 is enough. this is hundreds of billions of dollars in spending that are there. and further to say you're going to shrink the size of government, he's also giving another giant tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires by eliminating the top tax bracket. this is a phony shell gak, government by ostrich. if you reduce the amount of numbers on a piece of paper, somehow sic...

-- bomb. then you have the state and local government budget bombs. this one i love! deficit of $110 billion in 2010. $178 billion in 2011. on top of the more than $450 billion in underfunded state and municipal employee pension funds. gee, firefighters. who is going to pay for this? who is going to pay for it? the underfunded corporate pension bonds. $405 billion deficit in underfunded pension. consumer debt bond. our tvs. americans are still living beyond their means, even with a downturn. we're still spending more than we have. which leads me to this. this is good news. the personal savings...