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Our budget this year, $3.6 trillion for this year alone amounts to a 3% cut. in spending. 3% cut in spending. meanwhile, we spent $460 billion since the day the super committee was formed. the revenues don't go up. revenues are going up. this is a spending problem. >> bob: i know you agree -- >> greg: bob, i know you agree 100% with eric so i won't go to you. >> bob: i know you won't. on a serious note unlike the unserious statistics, this was an opportunity that is so rare for congress. both sides are to blame. to get this power, to bypass committee of the congress. to go to the floor of the ...

We might give back to the states for the cuts they might experience in medicare, if we do it, we'll do it across the board and that begs the question, if it is built on $500 billion in cuts to medicare, and you give back some to every, single state so it doesn't hurt them so badly, how will you pay for it? >> well, you are right. bret never got a straight answer, it is not just louisiana which he said, oh, yeah, we'll have the special treatment for louisiana and special treatment for hawaii, and. martha: natural disaster -- >> and what about connecticut, and massachusetts and vermont? i mean, ...

Bill scores as reducing the deficit 131 billion dollars over the next ten years. first, a little about cbo. i work with them every single day, very good people, great professionals, they do their jobs well, but their job is to score what is placed in front of them. and what has been placed in front of them is a bill that is full of gimmicks and smoke and mirrors. what do i mean when i say that? well, first off, the bill has ten years of tax increases, about a half a trillion dollars with ten years of medicare cuts, about a half trillion dollars, to pay for six years of spending. and so when yo...

Deficit 131 billion dollars over the next 10 years. first a little about cbo. i work with them everyday. very good people. great professionals, they do their jobs well. but their job is to score what is placed in front of them. what has been placed in front of them is a bill that is full of gimmicks and smoke and mirrors. what do you mean when i say that? the bill has 10 years of tax increases, about half a trillion dollars with 10 years of medicare cuts, about half a trillion dollars to pay for six years of spending. so when you take a look at all of this, strip out of double counting and wha...

Full of smoke and mirror and gimmicks and double costs medicare cost savings and double counts increased taxes for social security and increased premiums for the new class act and if you take this double counting out of the bill which the cbo cannot do because that is the way it is put in front of them it is a $460 billion deficit the first ten years and 1.4 trillion dollar deficit -- >> explain the double counting. you made a big point of that. >> two things the bill looks like it reduces the deficit because they raise taxes a half trillion dollars over ten years and cut medicare a half trill...