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Counted his wars in his budget. >> eric: calm down. spending is going up, percentage of gdp going up as well. >> greg: it makes me pessimistic, the fact we can't get along. a junkie only stops using the junk until the junk runs out. if you look at what is happening around the world. people are spending until they can't spend anymore. that is what is going to happen to us. we won't stop spending until we run out. >> andrea: you're right. we are running out of money. >> bob: the "wall street journal" guy, headline. obama spending binge never happened. commentary, government outrage, slowest pace...

Counted his wars in his budget. >> eric: calm down. spending is going up, percentage of gdp going up as well. >> greg: it makes me pessimistic, the fact we can't get along. a junkie only stops using the junk until the junk runs out. if you look at what is happening around the world. people are spending until they can't spend anymore. that is what is going to happen to us. we won't stop spending until we run out. >> andrea: you're right. we are running out of money. >> bob: the "wall street journal" guy, headline. obama spending binge never happened. commentary, government outrage, slowest pace...

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com he's plunging in the polls and in need of a boost. will a new plan help rick perry climb back to the top of the republican race? his rival, herman cain, is leading the pack according to a brand new poll and perry is a distant fifth with cain apparently benefitting from his 9-9-9 tax plan, perry today unveiled his own new tax plan and 20 is the magic number. he proposes a flat tax of 20% for individuals and corporations, but in a twist, perry would let people choose to pay his flat tax rate or fi...

An illinois auction. the federal government is selling a collection of rare $501,000 bills found in the home of chicago mobster frank "the breeze" calabrese. the entire collection adds up to $728,000. all proceeds are expected to go toward the $27 million calabrese owes the government and families connected to his racketeering conviction. and in ohio, a work crew apparently forgot to use spellcheck before installing an interstate sign. look closely there. drivers headed to cincinnati may have done a double take after noticing the word "south" misspelled. officials were notified, and the sign...

For example an average public schoolteacher's salary in the country is $55,350. in wisconsin it's $48,000. how dare they. look at that, privileged elite. now how about the wall street bonuses? this is per employee in 2010. blackstone, $810,717 per employee in bonus. that's not just -- that's not even their salary. green hill & company is $551,000, lazard is 501,000. of course, the overall bonus average across wall street per employee is $128,530. that is, again, their bonus, not even their salary. by the way, you may recall that a couple of those banks also gol bailout money from the