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♪ bill: get ready for this, wow, numbers. concerns about our nation's soaring debt taking on a new sense ever your again system the treasury department reported that the government added astonishing $339 billion in debt on just the first day president obama signed budget deal. that brings the total new debt added from november 2nd until tuesday, nine days later to $452 billion. less than two weeks. liz claman, host of the "countdown to the closing bell" on the fox business network. how are you doing, liz? >> i'm wearing the right color. bill: yes you are. that is a deep, deep cabernet red. w...

So, we're sending the message that democrats had better not vote for this. >> what the president is doing is shifting the inflation adjustments from federal praments programs from broad measurable of consumer price index to a more narrow one called the chained cpi. >> this is a camouflage operation designed to easily -- they think it's going to be easy to cut government expenditures across the board and they hope people won't notice. >> supporters say the chained cpi is based on simple premise that people buy different things depending on the price. >> when the cost of one good goes up by a lo...

They brokered are really starting to break the bank in a lot of places across this country. now this as you well know is a real danger zone to get into for a lot of politicians -- politicians but in this economy some emboldened leaders are girding for this battle. meanwhile in the shocking through true category, heck this out, this is according to the bureau of labor statistics, take a look at this, these days n. total compensation, a government worker makes 1.45 for every $1 that you can make working in the private sector. that's a big switcher ain this -- switcheroo in this country. if it we...

2001, today it's 339 billion. it will increase to about 500 billion in 2027 with obamacare going to 624 billion in 2026. his point is, in washington spending goes up always. it's just a matter of how much. does he have a point? because the gop plan is still dramatically increasing medicaid spending but not as much as it would have under obamacare. is it fair to say, are all those increases in spending needed to get better quality care? >> erin, so much of this program goes for older people. guess what, your viewers know that growing older in america isn't cheap. two out of three seniors have t...

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