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Secretary gates before he left cut programs and cut back using efficiency as a tool it was toltsly justified. 350 billion. and secretary paneta came in. he was begin a bill of 487 billion to cut out of the defense budget over 10 years and that is cutting in to the bine bone of the military and disporportionately ground forces are cut and the size of those ground forces are going back to pre9/11 standard that makes no sense f. we go to the term used to describe a bill that we would not be able to comp promise on. another 500 billion gets cut out of the defense budget f. that took place, we woul...

Congress? >> doing what you are doing and putting a spot light on it and others as well, that is what absolutely needs to be done and understand what is happening to us. secretary gates before he left cut programs and cut back using efficiency as a tool it was toltsly justified. 350 billion. and secretary paneta came in. he was begin a bill of 487 billion to cut out of the defense budget over 10 years and that is cutting in to the bine bone of the military and disporportionately ground forces are cut and the size of those ground forces are going back to pre9/11 standard that makes no sense f. ...

You say that troops make up 20 percent of our budget but they're going to pay 50 percent of the cuts. now, why would washington want that deal? >> well, a lot of us in washington don't. you know, if you keep trying to solve the decifit problem on the backs of our troops, who's going to have our backs the next time we're attacked? bill: secretary panetta says the house and folks like you are just inviting more gridlock. what do you say to that? >> no. we pass the dollars decifit reduction act which will take us on a glide path to start cutting our overall spending, on top of the $487 billion th...

Kept putting it back there and everybody said we should be cut newt gingrich was persistent in but nobody wants to be cut. >> i have to tell you we did not that. he was the leader. protect the sacred cow. rick worked hard on the same you'll see $487 billion cuts things. rick is a little younger. over the next two years. one of the things that disturbs newt has conceived a political me, we can't continue to look at the military as bill payer for revolution in his lifetime and our fiscal irresponsibility. implemented it. i think that the country is such obama administration says they will cut he...

Life in this country. >> greta: congressman alan west, good evening, sir. nobody wants to be cut. everybody said we should be cut but nobody wants to be cut. >> i have to tell you we did not protect the sacred cow. you'll see $487 billion cuts over the next two years. one of the things that disturbs me, we can't continue to look at the military as bill payer for our fiscal irresponsibility. obama administration says they will cut healthcare benefits to retirees and raise the rates by trip will. until we have leadership to cut the medicare, medicaid, social security, net interest on the debt yo...